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I wrote that book about 'Josie and the Pussycats.’ Husband to Cali, Dad to Daniel, Sammy and Charlie. Publisher - ECV Analog • News Editor - The Beat https://emeraldcityvideo.net https://ko-fi.com/russburlingame

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 12d

My buddy @zdroberts.bsky.social is making an important documentary, and he needs preorders to get it over the finish line. Please support his work if you can!

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This is How It Ends* - If You Let It.

Nazis march in the streets. Billionaires run the gov't. Constitution shredded. This is how it ends. | Check out 'This is How It Ends* - If You Let It.' on Indiegogo.

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Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier @smittermeier.bsky.social · 7h

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WGA Urges CBS News Staffers Not Respond to Bari Weiss Memo Until Company Provides More Info on Purpose of Email (EXCLUSIVE)

The Writers Guild of America, which represents employees at CBS News, told members at the company to not respond to an email sent to staff by Bari Weiss, The Free Press founder who this week was appoi...

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 7h

Well when I see Guggenheim tomorrow, I'll ask if his wife has it!

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Dean Devlin @electricentertainment.com · 8h

Thanks Variety! What an honor!

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How ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Star Wars’ Fandom Inspired Dean Devlin to Become a Billion Dollar Producer

How 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' Fandom Inspired Dean Devlin to Become a Billion Dollar Producer

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Everything that's happening is because a majority of white Americans would rather oversee a country on fire than be a smidgen less racist

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h

A new report reveals that an upcoming Supreme Court case could eliminate:

❌ 27 blue congressional districts
❌ 30% of Congressional Black Caucus seats
❌ 11% of Hispanic Caucus seats

And the effects could ripple for over a generation.

GOP Could Lock in House Control for a Generation if SCOTUS Ends Key VRA Protection, Report Warns

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 9h

It's what their base wants. Always has been.

Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 11h

Personally I find it concerning that the MAGA wing is very explicitly laying out the rhetorical groundwork for mass roundups / opening fire on protesters. Seems bad!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

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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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Exist in public? They can arrest you.

Sitting quietly in your home. They can arrest you, and take all your stuff

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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ECV Podcast/Analog @ecvpodcast.bsky.social · 10h

Zach and @russburlingame.com spoke with Michael Dennis of @reelblack.bsky.social and Exec Producer Valerie Vance about Riverbend an incredible (now restored) film that stars Steve James and Margaret Avery fighting back against a racist white sheriff in 60's Georgia.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 10h

Spoke with Michael Dennis of @reelblack.bsky.social and Exec Producer Valerie Vance about the incredible story behind Sam Firstenberg's RIVERBEND. Michael worked hard to save this film from obscurity and it'll soon be released on blu-ray and theaters. open.substack.com/pub/russburl...

ECV - The Riverbend Restoration

Sam Firstenberg's Cult Favorite Will Be Seen in High Resolution for the First Time Since 1989

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 16h

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 12h

Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Alisha Grauso (She/Her) @alishagrauso.bsky.social · 13h

The indignity of getting an email like this from Bari fucking Weiss.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 14h

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Dicks By Richard @dicksbyrichard.bsky.social · 13h

Aah! A scary skeleton!

Day 10 of #cocktober

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 3d

Administration pulled "Ponies" by Kij Johnson from curriculum at Otsego Public Schools (MI). They gave no reason why the story that's been used for years and years was suddenly pulled...but given it's a story about authoritarianism, we know damn well why.

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Parents, teachers upset after school district removes dystopian book from curriculum

Parents and teachers voiced concerns at Monday's school board meeting about the removal of "Ponies," a 2010 Nebula Award-winning story about authoritarianism.

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Fitzbattleaxe @fitzbattleaxe.bsky.social · 1d

On one hand, if you're overly genre/media-savvy you could point to very early superheroes killing their adversaries which (as I understand it) was partly curtailed because creators didn't want to have to reinvent the wheel for a baddie every issue. But on a moral/ethical level, it's a good question.

Dan Membiela @danmembiela.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve heard the question, “why do some superheroes have a no-kill rule,” a lot.

I don’t think I’ve heard very much about, “why should any superhero have to kill?”

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Pam🫘🧶💙🏳️‍🌈 #NoKings🚫👑 @pmmcdaniel.bsky.social · 1d

@schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@repmcgovern.bsky.social @markey.senate.gov @warren.senate.gov

Let's up the ante....

Every day that Republicans keep the government shut down, add another demand.

Stuff like, demand Congress take back power of the purse & tariffs & 👇

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 1d

"We are facing a clear and present authoritarian danger.

Don’t Democrats need to demand that provisions curbing the administration’s authoritarian moves need to be attached to legislation funding the government?"

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-rule-o...

The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of Trump

A crisis moment in the defining debate of our time.

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D.J. Kirkbride @djkirkbride.bsky.social · 1d

If you’re at #NYCC2025, stop by @valentinebarker.com’s table to say hi and buy some great art and comics!

Valentine Barker | NYCC D-45 @valentinebarker.com · 1d

All set up and ready for NYCC 2025!

Come say "hi" and maybe bring caffeine? Table D-45 in Artist Alley!

A photograph of a table set in a comic convention's artist alley! It features an array of color full prints and a standing banner that reads "Valentine Barker".

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 1d

I mean, he was a failure in his first administration and it did very little to impact the rise of right-wing extremism.

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🎶🤘🏻Heavy Metal June Cleaver 🎶🤘🏻 @juneclever.bsky.social · 2d

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

actually we would be better off as a country if the obama administration had prosecuted the bush administration. ditto biden to trump. we're in a mess in large part because democrats were too chickenshit to do the right thing.

Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d

“What we don’t want to become the norm is where people think, ‘OK, there’s a new administration, now everyone in the old administration gets prosecuted. That’s an incredibly dangerous cycle where nobody wins.”

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Experts fear impact of deepening polarization and perceived political prosecutions

Reforms enacted after Watergate to bolster public confidence in the impartiality of prosecutions are proving dated and ineffective, legal experts warn.

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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫ @vegetablegremlin.bsky.social · 1d

at least when deputy director gordon cole was in fatuated with a 20-year-old shelly johnson he left it at learning to speak a little bit of french

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Zac Thompson @zacthompson.bsky.social · 3d

I’m so damn proud of this series. I really think it occupies a unique space on the shelf. I hope now that it’s all collected more folks give it a shot.

My mean mug holding a copy of INTO THE UNBEING PART TWO.

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Ben Siemon @benjaminjs.bsky.social · 1d

This is kinda stupid to do, isn't it? She's already lied and lied. She's not going to tell the truth about Trump. She has no incentive to, and every reason not to.

Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

ALERT: House Oversight Committee Democrats ask panel's chairman to "immediately schedule" deposition with Ghislaine Maxwell

Now that Supreme Court has rejected Maxwell's appeal in her criminal case

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Ban this anti-human tech from your life.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”

Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students

A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.

www.edweek.org

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Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 1d

I definitely see that value for some people. For me, it's kind of like when I didn't watch the presidential debates or the State of the Union and people couldn't understand why. It boils down to: why would I watch him when I know absolutely everything that comes out of his gourd is unhinged lies?

Russ Burlingame @russburlingame.com · 1d

I don't follow Aaron Rupar. I don't necessarily WANT to block him, but it seems like everyone on this platform constantly reposts his shit into my feed.

I get it -- he's prolific, and it's perfect for quote-dunking. Still, I feel like Rupar offers context-free clips, basically reposting propaganda.

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 2d

Hegseth is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision.

Hegseth’s Hatred of Americans Makes Him Unfit for Office but a Perfect Fit for Trump

The secretary is a Christian nationalist who wants to eliminate those who don’t agree with his totalitarian vision

www.theunpopulist.net

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