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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 8h

Ugh.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 17h

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 9h

Menswear guy has posted through thousands of low stakes forum disputes about plaid shirts that nevertheless resulted in ad Hitlerums and death threats — political posting is well below his level

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Stoller being very Matt Stoller, calling someone else a "classic left poseur snob"

Matt Stoller being eviscerated by @dieworkwear.bsky.social

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 6h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 7h

Christopher Columbus himself was a monster, but Columbus Day was instituted in 1892 to combat rising anti-immigrant, anti-Catholic bigotry after the lynching of eleven Italian-Americans. The same revanchists defending Columbus Day as "part of our US heritage" in 2025 would have opposed it in 1892.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 7h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Programming Insider @programminginsider.bsky.social · 8h

📺 October 13, 2014: Comedic telenovela "Jane the Virgin" starring Gina Rodriguez debuted on The CW.

Loosely based on the Venezuelan soap "Juana la virgen", it was a critical favorite throughout its five-season run.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 8h

ANNIE HALL (1977) and SOMETHING'S GOTTA GIVE (2003) are returning to theaters in memory of Diane Keaton.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie... #FilmSky #DianeKeaton

Diane Keaton Tribute: AMC Theatres Rereleasing ‘Annie Hall,’ ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ (Exclusive)

The country's largest exhibitor is honoring the late actress by bringing back two of her signature films to 100 cinemas across the U.S.

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 12h

Just realized I haven’t eaten today 🥴

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 12h

It wasn’t much, so I’m not worried. I was going to toss most of it anyway because it would’ve sat in the hot moving truck.

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 13h

And I just realized that I never emptied out my freezer 🥴

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Comics Covers @comicscovers.bsky.social · 14h

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 14h

I thought they were going to tie them more into the canvas with that Hayley stuff but nope.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

For Taylor Swift's “The Life of a Showgirl,” the question was how high its opening-week sales would go. We now know the answer: really, really high — with the equivalent of 4,002,000 sales in the U.S., including 1.3 million vinyl LPs. nyti.ms/4n1FeO4

Taylor Swift Smashes Another Record With ‘Showgirl’

The pop superstar sold four million copies of her latest album, topping a decade-old milestone by Adele. The tally included 1.3 million vinyl LPs.

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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 14h

‘The Life Of A Showgirl’ by Taylor Swift becomes the first album in history to earn over 4 million units in a single week in the US.

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 14h

I can’t wait to get it all put together.

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 15h

That’s what I was thinking about.

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 15h

It was actually one of the things that sold me on it (besides being bigger than my old apartment & ending up being $200 cheaper & downtown. I’m literally a sneeze from campus & can walk to the bars in less than 10 minutes & it’s only 5 minutes longer of a walk to work)

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Matthew Smith @ky71matt.bsky.social · 15h

Ornamental lol

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