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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 11h

$20 BILLION.

Remember that we’re being lied to whenever we’re told that we can’t afford something that helps American families.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 12h

The Trump administration confirmed that the U.S. bailed out Argentina.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he had directly bought Argentine pesos in global currency markets in a bid to relieve pressure on the nation’s embattled President Javier Milei, a supporter of President Trump.

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, Treasury Secretary confirms

The US Treasury has finalized a $20 billion financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country's central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 12h

No money flowing to USAID and hardly any to PEPFAR despite their duly enacted funding; well north of twenty billion dollars being deployed for other weird hair autocrats. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The U.S. just bailed out Argentina, treasury secretary confirms

The U.S. Treasury has finalized a financial rescue of Argentina, including a currency swap arrangement with the country’s central bank.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jesse Duquette @jesseduquette.bsky.social · 12h

The leather upholstery in a meth dealer’s Kia Sport has big thoughts about public health

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james lucas @jameslucasjones.bsky.social · 12h

never forget that they made jimmy carter sell his peanut farm

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump Watches commercials are now running regularly on Newsmax

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 16h

World's going to hell. Find some solace in the male duck taking another big fat L.

I'm hoping he picks a fight with Bad Bunny next so I can enjoy the Super Bowl no matter who's representing the NFC.

Erik Uebelacker @uebey.bsky.social · 18h

NEW: Drake loses his defamation case against Kendrick Lamar over the “Not Like Us” lyrics.

More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social

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Matt Negrin still host of Hardball on MSNBC @mattnegrin.bsky.social · 19h

That (NPR!) journalists think AI is a creative engine that can finesse iconic productions is not just context for the crap quality of writing in media but alarmingly the inability among a class of supposedly professional scrutinizers to distinguish between art and slop, good and bad, truth and lie

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 20h

Some really good people on this list. As in good human beings, not just good at what they do. Those I know personally are legit fans of the medium and the genre, and treat collaborators like peers, not underlings. Lift 'em up!

I don't know many of them, though, so maybe those folks are assclowns.

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 20h

Honored to be named alongside these amazing folks on Variety’s Horror Impact Report 🖤 variety.com/lists/horror...

Horror Impact Report: From Ryan Coogler to Lisa Dreyer to Osgood Perkins, Variety Stakes Out the Top in Genre Films and TV

Horror Impact Report: From Ryan Coogler to Lisa Dreyer to Zach Creeger, Variety Stakes Out the Top in Genre Films and TV.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 21h

It's too perfect that the MAGA hero in the NFL is a placekicker. The least football position on the planet. Punter has to kick by himself and has to make tackles. Has to play football. This guy doesn't.

ProFootballTalk @profootballtalk.bsky.social · 21h

Andy Reid: Harrison Butker will keep swinging, I'm not really worried about him.
www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootb...

Andy Reid: Harrison Butker will keep swinging, I'm not really worried about him

Throughout the Chiefs' dynastic run, kicker Harrison Butker has been a key, reliable piece of the team.

www.nbcsports.com

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ben schwartz @benschwartz.bsky.social · 7d

My new piece, up now @thenation.com: "If only trans activists had known what size check to cut for Chappelle, they could have shut him up years ago and saved themselves all the picketing at Netflix." www.thenation.com/article/cult...

The Sad Spectacle of American Comedians Selling Out in Saudi Arabia

It turns out that edgy free-speech warriors will scuttle their principles for a check from a brutal autocratic regime.

www.thenation.com

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

31 Nights of Horror, continuing to rewatch Anthony Hickox movies while the wife's out of town. No poster for this one--it aired on HBO, not theaters--so here's some DVD box art instead. Seek it out if you haven't seen it, it's a ton of fun. Think POINT BREAK but with werewolves instead of surfers.

Box art for FULL ECLIPSE, featuring Mario Van Peebles holing a big-ass gun, and, underneath him, half-werewolf Van Peebles with another gun.

Back of the DVD box, with a bunch of werewolf cops and this text: In Los Angeles, the criminals are one step away from taking over the city. Drugs and guns are all over the streets. It'll take a special kind of cop to put an end to it all. Max Dire (Mario Van Peebles) is a special kind of cop, which is why he's invited to join an elite squad - a secret police unit - authorized to do whatever it takes to put an end to crime. Their leader, Adam Garou (Bruce Payne) has a secret method for dealing with crooks, a serum which when injected into his gang of rogue cops, gives them an extraordinary strength and speed. A drug that gives them the power of wolves, and a detely appetite for crime. Max is suspicious of Garou's renegade police force, but is soon seduced into joining them by their most beautiful member, Casey Spencer (Patsy Kensit). As Max soon discovers, there's a dark side to Garou's detective work and he must decide if he's going to run with the pack or stand against them.
Either way, by the full eclipse, the streets will run with blood.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 1d

Was completely on purpose

Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 1d

Threw on the new Criterion of NIGHTMARE ALLEY 2021 and forgot that the reappearance of Richard Jenkins and Mary Steenburgen makes this the Catalina Wine Mixer of Guillermo Del Toro's oeuvre.

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

You know that's way too "ethnic" for her, Parker.

Not to mention her aversion to nice blonde butter that's been "browned."

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 2d

Every major city in Texas has a higher murder rate than Chicago

Schrödinger's Sneetch Belly @rtodkelly.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly slimy and dishonest, but also... yes?

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

31 Nights of Horror is a two-fer tonight, trying to get caught up for the couple missed nights so far. And doing it with one of Wes Craven’s most unfairly maligned films. Figure since I can’t make NYCC this week, this will have to do.

Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

yep!

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 3d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

31 Nights of Horror. Watched #1 last night, kinda had to watch the sequel. I believe this will send me down an Anthony Hickox rabbit hole. Both WAXWORKS, SUNDOWN, and MARIO VAN PEEBLES: WEREWOLF COP.

Poster for WARLOCK: THE ARMAGEDDON. The sequel to WARLOCK. No Richard E. Grant in this one.

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

Man, @pranadms.bsky.social put a great team together on this. comicsthemagazine.com

COMICS! The Magazine - The Website | Sometimes you need to do something just because it's cool.

comicsthemagazine.com

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

New @whoisrico.bsky.social project just dropped. And some other talented people, too, but I'm there for the design. comicsthemagazine.com

COMICS! The Magazine - The Website | Sometimes you need to do something just because it's cool.

comicsthemagazine.com

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Snitty 🎃👻 @clofsnitville.bsky.social · 2d

It's surreal that we're watching the Attorney General, the head of the FBI, and the Speaker of the House running a cover-up in plain view but at this point I don't know how else you interpret things like this.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Mike Johnson ignores a question about when he'll swear in Rep.-elect Grijalva and walks away

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2d

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest

Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors)

Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 2d

And that’s the way it is.

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Señor Cinco（他妈/他妈的） @tenletters.bsky.social · 2d

“I’m not officially 100 until December. 2 months. 2 months. It’d be funny if I didn’t make it… I brag sometimes about how I made it to 100, & the truth is, if I had known I was going to live this long, I would’ve taken better care of myself… It is frustrating, because I don’t know what I did right.”

Dick Van Dyke Jokes ‘It’d Be Funny if I Didn’t Make It’ to 100 Years Old: ‘If I Had Known I Was Going to Live This Long, I Would’ve Taken Better Care of Myself’

Dick Van Dyke will celebrate his 100th birthday on Dec. 13.

variety.com

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Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

Best coach in NFL history? Maybe if you don’t include guys who coached in San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Dallas, Green Bay, Oakland, Miami, Philadelphia, Kansas City, D.C., New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle. And probably some cities I’m forgetting.

Ford Gilmore @fordgilmore.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate Bill giving us so many clear answers to the whole “who deserves more credit for the Pats’ dynasty: Brady or Belichick?” question since he shipped Tom out. www.wral.com/sports/belic...

Divided locker room, disastrous results: Players, parents blame Belichick culture for UNC problems

Multiple sources with knowledge of the inner workings of Bill Belichick's program say that UNC football's losses are a product of a divided locker room, a disorganized coaching staff and a failure to ...

www.wral.com

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