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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

“Best regards”

A letter from STANLEY KUBRICK
August 27, 1970
James T. Aubrey, Jr.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer
245N Beverly Drive
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Dear James,
It has come to my attention that you and your
studio are considering producing a sequel to "2001:
A Space Odyssey" over my objections. My attorney informs me that you hold the option and, legally. there is little I can do to stop you.
However, I'd like you to know that I own the tapir bone prop from 2001 - the one "Moonwatcher" throws into the sky. If you attempt to make a sequel, I will cram that temur up your ass so far, it will take an as yet undiscovered alien super-intelligence to figure out how to dislodge it. Seriously, don't fuck with me.
Best regards,
Stanley Kubrick

Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 14h

"about 12% of residents living below the poverty line,"

This is directly adjacent to the neighborhood where I lived for more than two decades.

Trevor Metcalfe @trevoremetcalfe.bsky.social · 1d

This two-story home on a residential street near Lafayette Boulevard in Norfolk is central to a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought at President Donald Trump’s urging against a prosecutor who sued him dozens of times. www.pilotonline.com/2025/10/10/n...

Here’s the Norfolk house at center of mortgage fraud case DOJ brought against Letitia James

An unassuming house in Norfolk’s Fairmount Park neighborhood is at the center of a mortgage fraud case the Justice Department brought against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

www.pilotonline.com

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 20h

#BREAKING

🇪🇪🇷🇺Tensions are escalating even further on the Estonia–Russia border.

🔹️The so-called “little green men” have already appeared — they are clearly not border guards, have no identifiable markings or insignia, and most importantly, they are armed.

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Brad Simpson @bradleyrsimpson.bsky.social · 18h

The Trump administrations attempt to destroy US solar and renewable energy capacity is one of the great geopolitical own goals in world history. Like abandoning computers and the internet in favor of typewriters in the 1980s-1990s.

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20h

America's collapse in one swath of the NYT homepage

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Colorado Newsline @coloradonewsline.com · 1d

Commentary: This is the Ditch Principle: Your ditch neighbor may disagree with you about everything except keeping the water running — so you start there. These are rural lessons for resisting authoritarianism.

Rural lessons for resisting authoritarianism | Colorado Newsline

“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster himself. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.” After 20 years of organizin...

coloradonewsline.com

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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 1d

sic semper tyrannis

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

The Virginia Senate just told UVA it’s not getting state funding if it accepts the compact since UVA exists to serve Virginia, its residents, & their interests—not be a tool of the federal govt. Scoop from our student newspaper, who’ve been doing vital reporting www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 1d

Whoa, Judge Perry says the Feds’ declarations about unrest at ICE facilities are not credible because some of the incidents they cite in their declarations were separately no-billed by grand juries

The Court therefore must make a credibility assessment as to which version of the facts
should be believed. While the Court does not doubt that there have been acts of vandalism, civil
disobedience, and even assaults on federal agents, the Court cannot conclude that Defendants' declarations are reliable. Two of Defendants' declarations refer to arrests made on September 27,
2025 of individuals who were carrying weapons and assaulting federal agents. See Doc. 62-2 at
19; Doc. 62-4 at 5. But neither declaration discloses that federal grand juries have refused to
return an indictment against at least three of those individuals, which equates to a finding of a lack of probable cause that any crime occurred. See United States v. Ray Collins and Jocelyne Robledo, 25-cr-608, Doc. 26 (N.D. Ill. Oct. 7, 2025); United States v. Paul Ivery, 25-cr-609

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Berny Belvedere @bernybelvedere.bsky.social · 2d

"Miller plainly believes there’s a latent majority out in the country that can be sleepwalked into authoritarianism."

What comes across in this excellent @gregsargent.bsky.social profile of the infinitely loathsome Stephen Miller is that his is a very deliberate strategy. Must-read.

Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

newrepublic.com

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 2d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 2d

With $75 billion from Congress and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

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Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2d

I'd no more want to get an LLM to do my writing for me than I'd want to get a machine to outsource all that boring "going to gigs" or "eating chocolate" or "having sex" and save me the bother.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

there’s this weird idea a lot of people seem to have about how all of us writers and artists must secretly want to use AI and are merely resisting temptation for ethical reasons, and like, no, it’s not hard for me to resist drinking the bowl of Piss With Glass In It actually

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 3d

DAILY MEMO: ICE Raids The Streets of San Pedro, Long Beach, and More, Kidnapping at Least 30 People
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Jon Seidel @jonseidel.bsky.social · 4d

Federal prosecutors are dropping charges against the Chicago couple who lawfully carried guns outside Broadview's ICE facility last month.

A defense attorney tells @chicago.suntimes.com a grand jury refused to indict: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Feds dropping charges against couple who lawfully carried guns outside ICE facility

A defense attorney says a grand jury refused to indict in the high-profile case.

chicago.suntimes.com

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Dan Margolies @danmargolies.bsky.social · 4d

JHC

Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 4d

Mentions of "god" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 4d

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.

American citizens are being detained & brutalized.

This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d

With all the caveats about anonymous posters, this is still staggering, a revelation of what a sliver we see reported across mainstream & alt media combined; and this itself is obviously just a sliver. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

www.reddit.com

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 4d

DAILY MEMO: ICE Agent Claims To Be A Florencia Gang Member While Trying To Detain a Minor 🧵2 parts

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 5d

DAILY MEMO: The Kidnapping of Latino Workers Continues From California to Chicago

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 7d

Meme of three girls in a classroom sitting at desks, with the girl in the middle cheating on a quiz by copying the paper of the girl in front, and the girl in the back cheating by copying the girl in the middle. The front girl is labeled "Cops, lying". The girl behind her is labeled "local media". The girl in the back is labeled "national media".

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 7d

from @dhnexon.bsky.social

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/10/the-...

The State of the Republic is Grim - Lawyers, Guns & Money

If you’re on Bluesky and follow me, you’ve probably seen that I’m writing threads that really should be the basis for posts at LGM. You’ve also likely gotten a bead on where I am these days. Here’s a ...

www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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L.A. TACO @lataco.bsky.social · 9d

DAILY MEMO: At least 43 People Abducted in Southern California in One of The Largest ICE Raids in Recent Memory

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Rural Indexing Project @ruralindexing.bsky.social · 10d

City hall
Ohio, IL

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

President Pritzker is going to get record ratings when he takes a wrecking ball to that ballroom on prime time TV.

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