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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

@sazeracla.bsky.social

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I enjoy cocktails, French fries, and science fiction. Queer. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Trekkie. 🖖🏻 Former KCRW & KCSN radio host & music programmer, Angeleno from New Orleans. Growing luminous by eating light. Retired. http://mixcloud.com/safeathome

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · Aug 31

Finally, a new show! Lots has been happening, and the last week has been very difficult. The loss of an old friend. The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the Federal Flood. Lots of emotions to process. (1/3)

Safe at Home: August 30, 2025

Finally, a new show! Sorry to let a whole month go by. Lots has been happening, and the last week has been very difficult. The loss of an old friend. The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the ...

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 6h

I had never seen the original Tron. We watched it on Blu-ray tonight. I really enjoyed it! It must have been so trippy to see it in the theatre in 1982.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 6h

They have them at Galco’s in my neighborhood!

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 7h

Movie Night. #TRON

A poster for the 1982 film TRON, featuring two characters in computer-generated armor and the text

“Journey now into a startling new dimension where energy lives and breathes. A world inside the computer where man has never been.
Never before now.”

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12h

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 13h

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Tom Fowler @tomfowler.bsky.social · 14h

Perhaps my greatest work?

My version of the predator meme but with Kermit and Fozzy’s arms clasped.

“Fozzy, you son of a bitch!”

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 8h

*glaq*

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 8h

Smarties > M&Ms.

(Not those SweeTarts rip offs that are among the most hated Halloween candies – I mean Canadian & UK Smarties.)

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 8h

I’m from Louisiana (I should clarify New Orleans, because most of the rest of Louisiana can fuck off these days). What in the holy hell is Sweet Smiles Candy?

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 8h

Thai coconut-ginger candy is in my candy dish.

(But yes, as candy bars go, Snickers is superior.)

Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 9h

I know I shouldn't be surprised by the bad taste of my fellow Americans, but here we are. Only three states understand that Snickers is the superior candy bar! www.allrecipes.com/most-popular...

Graph from Door Dash displaying the top candy purchases in America for the month of October.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 8h

That’s it, pretty much.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 10h

You do not, in fact, have to hand it to Alex Jones.

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Nnc @merrysunshine13.bsky.social · 10h

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Scott Gable @scottgable.bsky.social · 10h

WTAFF!! We’re in Russia?!!!

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12h

ICE spent $800K on vans with stingray tech that collects data from all nearby phones, even yours. These devices mimic cell towers to track locations and intercept communications. Oversight and transparency are needed now.

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Bonnie Schwertner @schfinkes.bsky.social · 12d

This is what Texas has lined up for No Kings. 71 locations!!

Cities where No Kings rallies are planned in Texas.

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 10h

gotta burn this motherfucker down folks

Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 11h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 10h

I was just talking with some friends in my age group (early 60s and adjacent) about how when we were growing up “apple” meant Red Delicious. (Only the first word in that name is true.) consequently I wasn’t a big fan of apples.

The first time I had a Macintosh apple & a Winesap, oh my stars. 😍

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Angry Donkey News @angrydonkeynews.bsky.social · 10h

GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter

dailyboulder.com/gop-silent-a...

GOP Silent as Mormon Church Gunman Identified as ‘Ultra MAGA’ Trump Supporter

The man who stormed a Mormon church with an assault rifle and left four people dead was a self-described "Ultra MAGA" Trump supporter, a former Marine, and a father of one.

dailyboulder.com

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 10h

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

This Is Fascism

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 1d

Happy pride, Atlanta!

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“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.” – Dan Savage

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stingleword @stingleword.bsky.social · 13h

Be on the lookout for false flag plants on the 18th. Shame them, call them out, do not allow instigators to disrupt the peace.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 13h

ICE GOONS are undercover at a protest in Elgin.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17h

And people tell me the libs have no knack for messaging.

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Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social · 1d

"The message is clear: Texas A&M does not permit teaching LGBT topics. Politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in Texas classrooms. Anyone who crosses this line may be fired on flimsy pretext"

www.chronicle.com/article/why-...

Why I Withdrew From My Dream Job

At Texas A&M, politicians, not professors, decide what is taught in classrooms.

www.chronicle.com

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