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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.

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🇨🇦 Janet Somerville @janetsomerville.bsky.social · 15h

It’s been 48 hours that have felt like 48 days, but he’s finally snoozing.

black lab wearing a large plastic cone on his head curls up in a brown corduroy dog bed

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benjbrantley.bsky.social @benjbrantley.bsky.social · 15h

Farewell to Diane Keaton, who brought a new. awakening rhythm to every performance she gave, with cadences, inflections and reactions that hadn't been seen in American film. Her charm and her style were original; her emotions ran deep. This will feel personal to many people.

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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 14h

#RIP Diane Keaton
With Al Pacino on the set of The Godfather
📷 Steve Schapiro, 1972

“If you want to talk about acting, look again at that early scene when Michael tells her about the way in which Johnny Fontane got his freedom from the bandleader who had him under contract.”
- David Thomson

Keaton as Kay, with Pacino as Michael, relaxing between shots.

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Damnèd Screamvens @thehighsign.bsky.social · 14h

What would the ending of The Godfather be without her face?

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 14h

“In fact, let me put it a little simpler: all of those data center deals you’ve seen announced are basically bullshit. Even if they get the permits and the money, there are massive physical challenges that cannot be resolved by simply throwing money at them.”

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Premium: The AI Bubble's promises are impossible. NVIDIA's customers are running out of money, GPUs die in 3-5 years, most 1GW data centers will never get built, and OpenAI's Abilene data center doesn't won't have the power it needs before 2028 - if it ever does.
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The AI Bubble's Impossible Promises

Readers: I’ve done a very generous “free” portion of this newsletter, but I do recommend paying for premium to get the in-depth analysis underpinning the intro. That being said, I want as many people ...

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 16h

Trump thinks firing 4,000 federal employees is owning the libs — when in fact it's just showing how cruel, inhumane, and sadistic he is.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19h

Everything about this is bonkers. The arrest, the charge, the possible sentence, the **$2 million bail.**

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Tennessee man arrested, gets $2 million bond for posting Facebook meme

Larry Bushart posted a meme on a local Facebook page about Charlie Kirk. He now faces years in prison.

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 22h

“In a time of darkness, New York must be the light.”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

CNN reporting that 4,000 federal employees were fired on Friday, in HHS, Education, Energy, HUD, Homeland Security, Patent and Trademark Office, EPA.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/p...

Trump administration lays off thousands of federal workers during government shutdown | CNN Politics

More than 4,000 federal employees received layoff notices Friday as part of the Trump administration’s broad effort to reshape the government while it remains shutdown, according to a court filing Fri...

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Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 22h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 22h

happy bday Eleanor Roosevelt, b.1884, NYC.

“I believe that democracy is based on the ability to make democracy serve the good of the majority of the people. If it can’t do that, then it should not survive.”

“If silence seems to give approval, then remaining silent is cowardly.”

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John Thorn @johnthorn.bsky.social · 1d

What a game! Despite heavy eyelids, I have watched every pitch of the ALDS from Seattle.

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 1d

My goodness. They got out of it. That’s baseball, Suzyn.

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City Nolan @ndhapple.bsky.social · 1d

MMWR was the early alert system that told doctors to be on the lookout for Gay-Related Immune Deficiency (and just about every other pandemic/epidemic since the 70s

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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JaneSlainLane @nyjanelane.bsky.social · 1d

wow!

marcorasi.bsky.social @marcorasi.bsky.social · 1d

October sky over Bourbon street, New Orleans

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Walker Bragman @walkerbragman.bsky.social · 1d

If I were actively trying to destroy the United States from within, going after and dismantling its public health would be like the first thing I’d do.

Just pointing that out.

This is beyond dangerous. It’s leaving us vulnerable in a way we can’t really fathom until it’s too late.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

The Democratic Attorneys General Association established a Legal Defense Fund for exactly this moment: when its members — including AG Tish James—are targeted by the Trump administration for political prosecution.

Donate here.

Donate to DAGA's Legal Defense Fund

The Democratic Attorneys General Association has launched a defense fund to help defend Democratic attorneys general and their staff who are targeted for political retribution by the Trump administrat...

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 1d

Ella has seasonal decor and a new toy, not exactly Dr. Pepper. 🐶🧡

Brown/brindle dog looks at camera with “Dr. Pooper” plush can toy in front, plush pumpkin on side.

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 1d

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Opinion | The Tom Homan Affair Has More Red Flags Than a May Day Parade

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 1d

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Baseball Will Break Your Heart

But, even though it doesn't always feel that way, its real design is to make you believe again.

www.joeposnanski.com

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1d

the president of the united states who has access to unprecedented levels of intel and up to the minute daily briefings is instead making statements based on fox news broadcasts from 2020 that his staff has convinced him is happening right now

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Hudsonette @hudsonette.bsky.social · 1d

Never started it. Seemed too tense.

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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