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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3h

Re-watching Shoot the Moon in honor of Diane Keaton. Holy hell, what a great movie. And so intense. Really captures that feeling of being in the pressure cooker of a failing relationship. As divorce dramas go, Marriage Story is Pee-wee's Big Adventure compared to this.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 4h

theonion.com/ice-raids-my...

MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 5h

It’s pronounced cyclist.

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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 3h

My 2yo just informed me that her favorite food is gummy bears wrapped in salami. Then she held eye contact while wrapping a gummy bear in salami and eating it.

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kat, ghost of helenruthsghost @chaoskat.bsky.social · 4h

Salvation Army seen feeding ICE today. For anyone who doesn't already know about their bigotry, here is more, No need to give them your money this Christmas, or ever.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 5h

It’s dinner time for the police. Appears to be pizza from a Salvation Army van.

Broadview’s “free speech” curfew starts soon, at 6pm.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 5h

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 5h

It still bugs me that Steinfeld was nominated for Best Supporting Actress when she’s clearly the lead, and holds her own against fucking Jeff Bridges. One of my biggest, “a serious talent has just arrived” movies.

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Andrew Perfors @perfors.net · 1d

Heartbreaking reading, but this Reddit thread gives a sense of the relentlessness of the horror inflicted by ICE, and the damage being done to so many innocent people that doesn't make the news.

From the AskReddit community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the AskReddit community

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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 1d

can you imagine half-assing a last-minute ceasefire that won't last a week and still not getting the Nobel Peace Prize

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 5h

My sister-in-law was born in a town in Ireland with a castle that was built in 1100. She now lives in New Zealand, which no human has set foot on in 1100.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 5h

CNN once did an Election Day profile of a woman whose father had been born a slave; she was voting to elect the first black president.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 4d

Stravinsky saw Charlie Parker play at Birdland

club of all time by performing for Igor Stravinsky at Birdland. Alfred Appel tells it definitively in his book Jazz Modernism: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce:
The house was almost full, even before the opening set - Billy Taylor's piano trio - except for the conspicuous empty table to my right, which bore a RESERVED sign, unusual for Birdland.
After the pianist finished his forty-five-minute set, a party of four men and a woman settled in at the table, rather clamorously, three waiters swooping in quickly to take their orders as a ripple of whispers and exclamations ran through Birdland at the sight of one of the men, Igor Stravinsky. He was a celebrity, and an icon to jazz fans because he sanctified modern jazz by composing Ebony Concerto for Woody Herman and his Orchestra (1946) - a Covarrubias
"Impossible Interview" come true.
As Parker's quintet walked onto the bandstand, trumpeter Red Rodney recognized Stravinsky, front and almost center. Rodney leaned over and told Parker, who did not look at Stravinsky.
Parker immediately called the first number for his band, and, forgoing the customary greeting to the crowd, was off like a shot. At the sound of the opening notes, played in unison by trumpet and alto, a chill went up and down the back of my neck.
They were playing "Koko, which, because of its epochal breakneck tempo
- over three hundred beats per minute on the metronome - Parker never assayed before his second set, when he was sufficiently warmed up. Parker's phrases were flying as fluently as ever on this particular daunting "Koko." At the beginning of his second chorus he interpolated the opening of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite as though it had always been there, a perfect fit, and then sailed on with the rest of the number. Stravinsky roared with delight, pounding his glass on the table, the upward arc of the glass sending its liquor and ice cubes onto the people behind him, who threw up their hands or ducked.
Parker didn't just happen to…

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 5h

That’s no way to talk about Napoleon!

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 5h

The felon put a 150% tariff on his bathroom scale.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 5h

The book makes it clearer that this is something China wants and views as important - and ultimately what they want is to be central to an international team effort, in exchange for being central in a different way. Pretty good stuff all around.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

Many historians of Rome identify Roman generals becoming the personal sources of payment for their armies as a key step in the downfall of the Republic, since it personalized military authority and freed armies to fight for their immediate leader, who paid them, instead of for the Republic

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Blake Leyh @earlofedgecombe.bsky.social · 12h

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink

A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

www.pbs.org

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 9h

Trump - bribe-taking, constitution-violating, felony-committing, election-denying, power-abusing, child-raping Trump is everything Republicans want, and everything they’ve been tirelessly worked towards for the last 50 years.

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Thanks I Hate It @mikevago.bsky.social · 9h

I actually don’t think there’s any scenario where Republicans impeach. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to have Pence in there appointing judges, or replacing Kavanaugh with a less toxic choice.

That’s not what they want. They *want* corrupt authoritarians.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 14h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22h

Top of the 15th Inning

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 19h

SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”