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Dennis Tafoya

@dennistafoya.bsky.social

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Crime writer. Author of DOPE THIEF, coming to Apple TV+ in 2025. www.dennistafoya.com

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · Apr 2

Dope Thief now on Apple TV+

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Two lifelong friends (Brian Tyree Henry and Wagner Moura) in Philadelphia pose as DEA agents to rob small-time drug dealers. It’s a perfect grift—unti…

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 8h

@wstroby.bsky.social turned me on to that and Romanzo Criminale a few years back. All of Sollima’s output is so much fun, especially the stuff with Marco D’Amore and Salvatore Esposito.

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 1d

And some are very fine people.

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 1d

I thought of a great business idea. It involves stealing all your work and reselling it, and I keep the money.

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 1d

FanTASTIC news let’s get this done

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 1d

This is a fascinating take. In Dope Thief (the book), I tried to chart a way out for one of the doomed characters. Don’t know that it worked, but I think a lot of us from around here experience a kind of hopelessness as context - you break out of it, or not, but it’s always there.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 2d

The health insurance industry doesn't care who you voted for — only how much money they can extract from you.

Insurance premiums are set to double, and Republicans shut down the government to make sure it happens.

Now is the time to demand universal healthcare with Medicare for All.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 2d

Can we agree now not to read the inevitable articles (or buy the inevitable books) by people who took the money and then found themselves doing ‘unconscionable things they now regret?’ Can we agree in advance you should have fucking known better?

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 2d

I’m an atheist with hard left political views and no fan of the LDS church, but in this case, supporting the innocent family of someone who horrifically attacked their own is actually folks acting with the best intentions. Mormons have supported other families in the same circumstances before.

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 4d

Thanks to @penguinpress and Victoria Laboz for early access to David Nasaw’s brilliant THE WOUNDED GENERATION, a comprehensive reexamination of how America dealt with returning veterans and the persistence of trauma. Especially excellent on how black veterans were sold out and gay veterans purged.

The cover of David Nasaw’s The Wounded Generation, Coming Home After World War II.

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Malcolm Nance, Leading Resister @malcolmnance.bsky.social · 4d

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE:

This statement is a clear example of what is known as “State Terrorism”: When the dictatorship will order all instruments of its state security & intelligence apparatus against its own citizens to terrorize the population.

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M. Kabir @mkabir.bsky.social · 12d

“For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.”

— Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855)

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 12d

‘Looks like we’ll finally find out what happened to Amelia Earhart, dad’
‘Shut up, son’

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 12d

Incredible. It was obvious the prosecutions were problematic, but I never thought there’d be definitive proof.

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 13d

Reaffirming that so far the right has stirred themselves to action for exactly one of the more than 200 school shootings of the last ten years.

Ed Coonce @edeasthell.bsky.social · 14d

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 13d

I spend a distressing number of hours doing the same.

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Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 15d

I enjoy the fact that every product Reese’s makes tastes completely different from every other one. ONLY TWO ELEMENTS. Somehow there are endless permutations of peanut butter and chocolate combined

What hath God wrought

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 15d

Congrats!

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 15d

Stephens and Brooks have the same shtick of responding to the current authoritarian horror show with, “Well, the left…”

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 15d

I know how much my wife is inspired by my morning routine of getting out the megaphone and stepping out onto the balcony for our morning harangue.

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 18d

The best! Plus Clint Eastwood for two seconds at the end.

Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 19d

Awesome to think it’ll be just like when you fill up at one of those insane TV gas pumps featuring ads for the thing you’re literally already buying.

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Philip Eil @phileil.bsky.social · 21d

Semi-regular reminder that your local public librarian has more of a spine and a stronger moral compass than an executive at ABC or CBS.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 21d

I hope this moment strengthens non-corporate ways of accessing news, entertainment and art. Nobody who makes zines ever got fired for calling fascists on their shit.

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 24d

I feel attacked. Or rather, I feel attacked!

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 28d

Brian DePalma is 85
Bob Hoskins on losing Al Capone in The Untouchables to DeNiro:
‘I got a $200,000 cheque in the post & a note: ‘Thanks for your time, love Brian DePalma’.
I rang him & said:
‘Brian, listen, if you got any other films you don’t want me to be in, babe, I’m there for you!’

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Dennis Tafoya @dennistafoya.bsky.social · 29d

Thanks, pal!

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