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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 1h
Ken Paxton skipped 730 workdays as Attorney General, often traveling to luxury resorts. He left a combined two years empty on his calendar.
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Remember Some Guys @remembersomeguys.bsky.social · 1h
Oscar Gamble DH-RF Debut: 1969 - Retired: 1985 PHI - SDP - CHC - CLE - CHW - TEX - NYY
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Oscar Gamble at baseball-reference.com
Career stats of Oscar Gamble
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1h
NEW: The US theft of Venezuelan oil resources appears to bring the Pentagon its own source of money — something that should be understood as another milestone in the collapse of constitutional government.
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The Dawn Of The Self-Funding Pentagon
It's not like the military is cash-starved from Congress. But it looks a lot like it's going to make money off Venezuelan oil
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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 1h
"I'm a pro-choice Republican," Minnesota GOP Senate nominee Michele Tafoya claims in a new ad... ...except she's hailed the demise of Roe v. Wade, vowed to confirm conservative judges, routinely backed a 12-week abortion ban and gaslighting anyone, what? www.huffpost.com/entry/michel...
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'I’m A Pro-Choice Republican,' Says Minnesota Senate Nominee Who Backs Abortion Bans
Michele Tafoya, who called herself a “first trimester gal” and hailed Roe v. Wade’s demise, seems to be gaslighting voters on her abortion stance.
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Brishti Basu @brishti.bsky.social · 1h
NEW: We got consent from 7 unhoused people sheltering along Pandora Ave to hide Apple AirTags in their possessions. This is after years of City of Victoria denying allegations from unhoused ppl & witnesses who said bylaw don't follow their own policies. Now we have proof. Part 1 of 2 stories ⬇️
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h
1/ If you’re in D.C. for AUSA’s conference, we want to hear from you. We’ve been reporting on the $1 trillion dollar black hole of the U.S. military budget, and we’re looking for insiders to help us find out: Is all of that money really making our country safer?
A D.C. bus stop advertisement reads: The defense budget is $1,000,000,000,000. Is all that money getting soldiers what they need? If you have a tip about defense spending, you can contact ProPublica securely: propublica dot org slash tips. Write us on Signal: 917-512-0201. The illustration on the ad shows a huge stack of coins rising out of the Pentagon.
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Ronan Farrow @ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 2h
Grindr is training its AI on your photos, your age, and your taps by default, without asking. This video shows where the app buried the off switch. The stakes are high on an app like Grindr. Numerous countries criminalize same-sex relations, so being outed through your data can be dangerous.
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Scarred For Life Books @scarredforlife.bsky.social · 2h
When public information films were telling you that everything - EVERYTHING - was a danger to your kids, being a parent in the 70s and 80s must have been anxiety-inducing.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h
Q: You said Zacharia is an attorney. Where did she pass the bar exam? What state? ZACHARIA: When I moved to China
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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 2h
Key pt for those who want to cut transit funding because agencies are "inefficient." A big growth in transit costs since 2020 has been security, partly due to pressure from some of the same people who now want that to be evidence of inefficiency. By @idothethinking.bsky.social. Link in 1st reply.
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 4h
Images from thrillers and noirs starring Cornel Wilde - BOTD in 1912 Leave Her to Heaven (1945) Road House (1948) Storm Fear (1955 - Wilde also directed) The Big Combo (1955)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)Road House (1948)Storm Fear (1955)The Big Combo (1955)
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 4h
David Cronenberg, Jeremy Irons and John Lone during the making of M. BUTTERFLY (1993) Lone was BOTD in 1952
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 3h
If you’re wondering why I don’t have much patience for crowing about how stupid the free speech movement which has become so hegemonic this shit is happening now really is www.statesman.com/news/educati...
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After UT debate invokes slurs, students say the university failed them
UT students, parents and Black student organizations are questioning the decision to allow a far-right speaker on campus amid concerns about racist speech at UT.
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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com · 3h
Yessssss
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Hungary removes anti-LGBTQ provisions from 'child protection' law, batting back Orban legacy
The vote was praised by rights groups, who add that 'there is still a lot to do' on LGBTQ rights.
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 3h
A beautiful body of work that challenges us to consider not just what is lost but what remains: 50 years ago, photographer Dee Azadian and hundreds of researchers spent months interviewing and recording the senior residents of Caldwell County.
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‘Earth Has No Sorrow’: Visions of a Caldwell County Long Gone
The Observer resurfaces a 50-year-old collection of fine arts photography and unique oral history.
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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 3h
Yves Montand was born today in 1921 #botd
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 16h
They’re deploying a national snitch network to keep Black books out of libraries
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h
Wall Street Journal reported on a 2024 New Year’s Eve celebration where Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives and a woman who wasn’t his wife www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
"As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.

Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted."
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 17h
UNEARTHED: Ken Paxton caught on video partying with fugitives in Dubai. The fugitives were charged with healthcare fraud and helped bankroll Paxton’s campaign.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 21h
After plaintiffs noted that ads continued running last night — storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... — DOJ, in its status report, says the gov't is now in compliance. As to last night, they say, essentially, "We tried, but DHS didn't check their email." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
As Your Honor is aware, the Court emailed the TRO to the parties yesterday at 6:46 p.m.
Counsel for the Government emailed the TRO to agency counsel at 7:58 p.m. Agency counsel did not become aware of Government counsel's email until this morning. The undersigned apologizes to the Court and the plaintiffs. As required, DHS provided the TRO to the vendor, Lepugh, Inc. doing business as LMD Agency, Inc. ("LMD"), this morning.
The Government is in compliance with the TRO. In addition to the above, the purchase order entered into on or about September 20, 2026 between U.S. Customs Border Protection ("СВ") and LMD (the "September 20, 2026 purchase order") is stayed, including all future payments made thereunder; the Office of Management and Budget's apportionment of $20 million to fund the development, creation, and/or airing of the advertisements covered by the September 20, 2026 purchase order, including but not limited to The Country He Loves, Celebrating the Enduring Spirit, Final Battle, To the Great Proud People of Iran, and Maduro (collectively, "the challenged advertisements") is stayed; Defendants understand that they are enjoined from using, disbursing, or transferring funds appropriated to the Department of Homeland Security to develop, create, disseminate, place, distribute, publish, or air the challenged advertisements; Defendants understand that they shall cancel or cause to be cancelled any slot, placement, reservation, or arrangement for the airing or dissemination of the challenged advertisements; Defendants understand that they shall not enter into, renew, or expand any agreement authorizing the development, creation, dissemination, placement, or airing of the challenged advertisements; and Defendants provided a copy of the TRO to LMD and LMD has been notified that it is enjoined from continuing to run or place the challenged advertisements.
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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 21h
I couldn't tell you much about John McGuire's political career, really. he hasn't done much for me as my congressman. as a state delegate, he attended a bunch of stop the steal rallies, including the big one in DC on J6 & as a state senator, he was the ONLY no vote on a bill to end child marriage!
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Jeremy Goldkorn @goldkorn.bsky.social · 21h
'“He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”'
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Controversial vaccine trial touted by RFK Jr gets go-ahead in Guinea-Bissau
Recommended dose of hepatitis B vaccine will be withheld from thousands of newborns by Danish researchers
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hiroyuki Sanada in "The Twilight Samurai" - BOTD
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/10/2026
wrote on saturday that trump was not going to let democrats avoid the question of impeachment and here we are with an offense that would have had a president impeached, removed and *at least* exiled if it had happened at any point prior to now.
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Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social · 23h
Pop Surf Culture by Brian Chidester + Domenic Priore is the definitive guide to the infiltration of underground surf culture into 20th century popular entertainment and yes, there is a chapter devoted to Brian Wilson--out 10/27! ow.ly/a0cw50ZWXnz
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23h
This is a form of retaliation against someone for speaking out. He knew he would be punished, buy that punishment does not include unnecessarily strict confinement (which is barred by military law). www.military.com/air-force-ma...
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Air Force Maj. Jason Watson is in Solitary 24 Hours Daily After Publicly Calling For Trump’s Impeachment
Maj. Jason Watson has been jailed since August after publicly opining on the president and his administration, drawing a big legal battle.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 12/10/2026
hey ben. the guy in the picture here is an actual person, my friend’s dad, and a spiritual leader of Lakota people, Chief Arvol Looking Horse. not only does he support Indigenous People’s Day, he’s the founder of World Peace and Prayer Day. feels weird to use his image and not his name.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hmmmm, wonder why Katie Miller deleted this tweet?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026
As I predicted a while ago, the media response to this is blaming the "fractious debate" and putting all responsibility on the community's tone, rather than the design choices and priorities of the corporation designing invasively, creepy products mostly used for abusive behaviours
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P.M.Bryant @pmbryant.com · 12/10/2026
Ida Lupino and Howard Duff guest star in “The Entrancing Dr. Cassandra” episode of “Batman” — aired Mar. 7, 1968
Lupino and Duff in very-‘60s style costume for “Batman.”
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Some of the escalations we're seeing, including the attack on Ilhan Omar's home (I will not pretend this act was "investigatory"), are desperate acts. But we must remember that desperate people can be very dangerous. A domestic abuse victim, for example, is in the most danger when trying to leave.
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Skip Bolden 💙🎬🎞️ @skipbolden.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) directed and scored by John Carpenter starring Sam Neill, Julie Carmen, Jürgen Prochnow, David Warner and Charlton Heston.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If this is true he would immediately fire his agent and management, so let's see if that happens or not
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
This is a criminal violation of civil rights under color of law, and the people who made it happen must be indicted, prosecuted, convicted, and imprisoned. apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Just thinking about this as the state harasses Ilhan Omar over 40 year old paperwork.
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Elon Musk, enemy of ‘open borders,’ launched his career working illegally
Investors in Musk’s first company worried about “our founder being deported” and gave him a deadline for obtaining a work visa.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.
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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid
Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Reminder that HSI should be wholly abolished and none of its staff kept. Their mission is to investigate "the illegal movement of people, goods, money, contraband, weapons and sensitive technology." They're just letting that happen, too busy doing this and guarding the reflecting pool Trump ruined.
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Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say
Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That’s according to people familiar with the matter.
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Film Noir Foundation @noirfoundation.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The list of films discussed in the ASK EDDIE October 8, 2026, including our Halloween picks, is available on Anne’s Letterbxed account: letterboxd.com/AudieDan/ Her French Film Noir Recommendations list is also there. letterboxd.com/audiedan/lis... #askeddie @eddiemuller.bsky.social
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ASK EDDIE October 8 , 2026 films discussed/mentioned
All the films that we discussed on the ASK EDDIE broadcasted on October 8, 2026 including our Halloween picks. You can watch the episode on our YouTube channel, @noircity.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
The French firm is reinventing the classic model as carmakers come under pressure from Chinese rivals.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I think that people who explicitly sign up to DO politics as a JOB should be told at every turn by the people who they represent when they suck at their job.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
my point here is not that David Brooks is a hypocrite. My point is that David Brooks is a shitty, prissy little scold who just wants to lash out at Democrats and doesn't care whether he has a real reason to or not and is too fucking stupid to consider for a moment how dumb his position is.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026
Lula supporter raising the trans flag at Avenida Paulista in Sao Paulo, Brazil today.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
After almost a decade, I am raising prices for my Patreon a little bit. All existing members, your benefits and price are locked in and won't change. New pricing only applies to new subscribers. Nine years of film crit, fiction, and cultural writing! www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
An eagle fishing in a lake in western Massachusetts this morning.
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Gaijin "Jiangshi" Rando @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Japanese poster for Jean-Pierre Melville's LE CERCLE ROUGE (1970)
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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‘I just wasn’t going to give up’: the fight to free the longest-serving political prisoner in the US
Leonard Peltier was imprisoned for 49 years before his sentence was commuted. A new Netflix documentary exposes the ‘corrupt’ system that allowed it to happen
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J.A.Tallon @tallon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Amitabh Bachchan in "Sholay" - BOTD
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