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Brian Grubb @briancgrubb.bsky.social · 14h

RIP Diane Keaton

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

Meryl Streep, honoring Keaton at AFI:

“She’s given us all so. Much. Happiness.”

#RIP 🙏🏼

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Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · 6h

Sources: WBD has rejected Paramount's ~$20 per share takeover bid for being too low; WBD shares closed at $17.1 on October 10, giving WBD a market cap of $42.3B (Bloomberg)

Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

Trump take everything.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15h

The trope of the shadowy Jewish puppet master is not just about Jews, but about telling a story that discredits all movements for progressive change as inauthentic and inorganic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 16h

RIP

Jeremy O. Harris @jeremyoharris • 30m
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RIP to one of America's most graceful, elegant, and fiercely talented muses Diane Keaton who maintained a sense of self throughout her many roles that was a reminder to me as a young performer that the most interesting person you can mine are the many aspects of yourself.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

Terribly sad news about one of the greats. Diane Keaton has died at 79.
people.com/diane-keaton...

Diane Keaton, Famed for Roles in 'Father of the Bride,' 'First Wives Club' and More, Dies at 79 (Exclusive)

Diane Keaton has died at age 79. Keaton was best known for roles in movies like 'Annie Hall,' 'The First Wives Club,' 'Something's Gotta Give' and 'The Godfather.'

people.com

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 1d

Wtf

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 1d

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d

The tech billionaire and Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel says the antichrist is ... Greta Thunberg www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

By contrast, JB Pritzker told me that people should flood the No Kings protests precisely in order to let the American people know that something is deeply amiss.

More Dems should be doing this, to send the message widely that we are in real trouble right now.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller just said that Chicago ICE raid was one of the most successful law enforcement operations ever. I asked Pritzker to respond.

"If this was Pinochet’s Chile, if this was Argentina under authoritarian rule, maybe you’d call it successful," he said. 2/

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 1d

Bravo

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 2d

First teaser for Aidan Zamiri’s ‘THE MOMENT,’ based on an original idea by Charli xcx.

The cast includes Charli xcx, Rachel Sennott, Alexander Skarsgård, Kylie Jenner, Jamie Demetriou, Kate Berlant, Isaac Powell, Rish Shah, Shygirl, A. G. Cook & more.

jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 1d

Can someone explain the brilliance of this to me please?

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump proposing 100% tariffs on China

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

“Is this the start of a Liberation Day Two?”

@nytimes.com $SPX
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/b...

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 1d

Wow — SB79 is law. More dense housing around transit hubs in CA. Massive massive massive deal. Kudos @scottwiener.bsky.social and thank you @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

Newsom signs historic housing bill to bring density to transit hubs

Newsom signed Senate Bill 79 into law on Friday. The historic bill, which looks to add density to transit hubs across California, is one of the most ambitious state-imposed housing efforts in recent m...

www.latimes.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 2d

Would love for a MAGA to explain to me why this is good for anyone but oil cos

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 2d

Task delivering exactly as it should #goodtv

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 2d

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on.
So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.😎🤣💙☺️

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

These watches appear to be ripoffs of famous designs. Likely from some factory that normally produces "homage" watches and they just swapped out the branding.

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Patek Philippe

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex

Comparison of Trump watches to similar looking models from Rolex and Hublot

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jonathan friedman @jonathanfriedman.com · 2d

Took a minute, but live sports finally coming to Vision Pro: Spectrum will broadcast some Lakers games captured on the fancy “immersive” Blackmagic cameras

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump admin reportedly plans to deploy the FBI, DHS, DOJ, IRS and the Treasury Dept. against left-wing groups it accuses of 'funding and organizing political violence'

INSIGHT-Trump’s War On The Left: Inside The Plan To Investigate Liberal Groups

The Trump admin plans to deploy America's counter-terrorism apparatus against left-wing groups it accuses of funding and organizing political violence, the officials said.

www.huffpost.com

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