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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 7h

I’ve run out of clever angry bitter never forget never forgive things to say about these arsonists

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Schlock & Awe Podcast @schlockandawe1.bsky.social · 8h

Triple Feature

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Behemoth & Leviathan, LP 🎃 @harkov311.bsky.social · 1d

As I was saying...

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 14h

Furious that I don’t know French, their memes must be INCROYABLE right now

NYT Breaking News
President Emmanuel Macron of France reappointed Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister days after Lecornu resigned.

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Dr. William Horne @wihorne.bsky.social · 19h

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

Red Summer of 1919

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 8h

Look. I realized it certainly came up during WW2 and during the Cold War but I’d really like to make a what is even happening to the world “defending Greenland” hasn’t been a thing since Vikings were doing it joke right now.

Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 9h

Denmark to boost Greenland defence with new ships, jets and HQ

Denmark will buy US F-35 fighter jets and new ships to defend Greenland - a resource-rich Danish territory that President Trump wants to control.

www.bbc.com

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hellresidentNY 🖤 @hellresidentny.blacksky.app · 9h

As if I needed another reason for wanting 2025 to end.

Because this show cannot get here on our television screens soon enough. #TheVampireLestat #TVSky 📺

Extended First Look at The Vampire Lestat ft. Sam Reid | Premieres 2026 | AMC+

YouTube video by amc+

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 9h

So have you ever had to explain film bro slash aughts hipster culture to someone who lived through it but wasn’t involved?

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Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 9h

Kamala Harris is doing more for my Gubernatorial race & 2026 than some elected officials are since there’s a split donation fundraising email out for Sherrill & KDH For The People. Her email list is helpful.

Exhibit A: She did this for Jon Ossoff recently & he just raised $12 million in 3 months.

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 9h

When this ad was posted, these characters were 49, 38, and 29 years old.

Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 21h

Don't worry, American culture was also threatened by the ninja turtles based on nothing but "New is bad, old is good"

An ad with classic cartoon characters Fred Flintstone, Dennis the Menace, and Woody Woodpecker with the caption "Turtles Come And Turtles Go, But We Go On Forever"

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 9h

You couldn’t really slot him into stuff meant for the existing stars at the time and that’s how things were developed back then so he never really had enough to do. Same thing happened to actresses they couldn’t cast in the the stuff the que behind Meg Ryan didn’t do

William Bruce West @williambwest.bsky.social · 9h

For a guy who featured prominently in some big things, Cary Elwes never really became what you'd call a "star".

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 9h

Honestly not sure Matt Yglesias has done anything as wantonly infuriating and offensive as when he used a photo of a statue of Gould-Shaw as his Twitter AVI and he’s said and done several metric tons of such shit

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MB Brown @mbbrownsf.bsky.social · 11h

History thread:

Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 14h

#ResistanceRoots

Robert Gould Shaw was born on this day in 1837 in Dartmouth, Mass. Shaw commanded the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, one of the North’s first Black regiments. He died leading his troops in an ill-fated assault on Fort Wagner and was buried in a mass grave with the black soldiers. /1

Robert Gould Shaw. Photo credit: Library of Congress.

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Renée in L.A. @reneepatrice.bsky.social · 11h

I hope she gets hazard pay!

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 10h

Is there a sub sky submarine?

Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 10h

Look. I’m not sure why anything so obvious would ever need to adults, but a) self righteousness and righteousness are different fucking things and b) people who cannot act like good allies to have shouldn’t expect to be treated like they’re good allies.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 10h

Just nothing but bad tv news today

Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 10h

‘YELLOWJACKETS’ to end with Season 4 on Showtime.

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Deborah Lynn @mrsdeborahlynn.bsky.social · 12h

www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
A bubbling measles outbreak in the upstate of South Carolina has forced 153 unvaccinated children out of the classroom and into quarantine for a minimum of 21 days.

In Minnesota, 118 students are also under quarantine in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.

Hundreds of U.S. students quarantined amid measles outbreaks

At least 270 unvaccinated kids are staying home from school as measles continues to spread nationwide. "Expect more," one expert said.

www.nbcnews.com

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Bunny Shelton @bunnyshelton.bsky.social · 11h

I hope she wipes the floor with Collins.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 20h

BREAKING: Democratic Maine Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins, AP sources say.

Maine Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 11h

Galactus has spoken! ✊🏾

IGN @ign.com · 17h

Marvel actor Ralph Ineson, who played Galactus in this year's The Fantastic Four: First Steps, has weighed in on Ubisoft's decision to reportedly cancel a post-Civil War Assassin's Creed game starring a former Black slave as its star.

'Once Again, F*** Off': Fantastic Four and Assassin's Creed Star Ralph Ineson Reacts to Report Ubisoft Cancelled Post-Civil War Game Featuring Former Slave Fighting Ku Klux Klan

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 11h

a cartoon character singing happy birthday to someone

ALT: a cartoon character singing happy birthday to someone

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 15h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Dirk Lester 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 ✌🏾 @dirk2112.bsky.social · 12h

Look. If you’re a grump who’ll get hung up on if that guys leg just grew back or why the 9 Soul Witch's Bloody Ghoul Clan wants whatever a "1,000 Year Ganoderma" is or re whether Shu Pei-Pei is pouting pouting or pre murderous rampage miffed THE DEVIL'S MIRROR won’t be your thing but if you aren't🎥

A ★★★½ review of The Devil's Mirror (1972)

"With the two mirrors in hand, I can open the gates to Emperor Wu's tomb and take the Fish Intestines Sword and the Thousand Years Ganoderma." You have to make a couple of firm decisions the minute an...

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Film Updates @thefilmupdates.bsky.social · 1d

Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE’ is now playing in select theaters before releasing on Netflix starting October 24.

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