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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · Nov 18

Here we go. Gonna hashtag these #MyCriterionList. Up first, Bertrand Bonello’s THE BEAST (2023). Sometimes impenetrable, always compelling, the constant gnawing dread of the shadow of The Beast hangs over everything from the first scene. It’s like a lucid dream, or a waking nightmare. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 11h

There are currently 21 people ahead of me in the hold line at my library 😭

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

Lena Sun @lenasun.bsky.social · 16h

NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

*65 year old cat

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says reut.rs/4mZNZbu

Trump, 79, has "cardiac age" of 65-year-old, doctor says

Donald Trump was found to be in "exceptional health" in a medical evaluation, the U.S. president's doctor said in a memo released by the White House on Friday, with his "cardiac age" 14 years younger than in "chronological age."

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

My most uncontroversial take is that there are almost no good prequels.

Forbes @forbes.com · 2d

The franchise, which started with Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack in the 1960s, has gone on to be one of Hollywood’s most successful.

Bradley Cooper, Margot Robbie To Star In ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ Prequel

The franchise, which started with Frank Sinatra’s Rat Pack in the 1960s, has gone on to be one of Hollywood’s most successful.

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

This is an interview that needs to be heard by as many people as possible, especially those who think this doesn’t affect them. You could just be on your way to work and end up in hell for days because of these unaccountable thugs. The law is gone as long as ICE exists. youtu.be/Fykx6FsuGJ0?...

DHS Lied About a Veteran They Wrongfully Arrested (w/ George Retes)

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the POTUS shave 1000 points off the Dow with a Truth Social post makes it feel like spring again!

Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

Half of the videos on Instagram have a Sora watermark on them now. We are so fucked.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 1d

Lord give us the Democrats that Republicans warn us about.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

This is who the National Guard was sent to protect

Jim Daley @jimdaleywrites.bsky.social · 1d

I'm at the scene where ICE abducted multiple people from Lincoln and Foster this morning.

A WGN producer was among the people taken, allegedly because she was among a group of bystanders who tried to intervene. ICE agents hit this car while making their getaway.

Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

If “you should smile more” was a video

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

“Hold on I just need to rewind this throne room scene because that was the sickest choreography ever”

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

When the Yoda scene comes up I’d go “Pretty disappointed they didn’t keep the CGI one from the prequels.”

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

Feeling bored might start a YouTube reaction channel where I pretend to watch the Star Wars movies for the first time and then say TLJ is easily the best one and disable comments

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

Straight line from this kind of shortsightedness to the tech bubble going 💥

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 1d

Donald trump can still win the Nobel Peace prize if Mike Pence has the courage

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Dr. Damien P. Williams Wants A Better Sociotechnical Paradigm @wolvendamien.bsky.social · 2d

*Lil Jon Voice* States' Rights to What

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 1d

As near as I can figure, this is a bunch of people pissed off that the wrong colonizer language is being spoken at a sport whose name was appropriated from a sport which the rest of the world prefers to our version. RFK levels of dumb.

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · 2d

Just announced: Turning Point USA will present an alternative “All-American” halftime show (performers TBA) for those who don’t want to watch that Puerto Rican.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

THE ALL-AMERICAN HALFTIME SHOW

Yes, the rumors are true... Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show. Performers and event details coming soon.

www.americanhalftimeshow.com

Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 2d

I listen to at least five new albums per week. Most of them are pretty good to great, and I could never have done that when I was a teenager. Nothing about that is boring.

Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 2d

I heard someone on a podcast say that music is boring now and, look, I am saying this as kindly as I can…skill issue.

Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 2d

I sometimes wonder if Trump knows anyone normal, and then I realize that no normal person would do business with him so suddenly it makes a lot more sense.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 2d

Someone Else’s Shoes is the title FYI

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 2d

GIGO, I believe they call that.

Truthout @truthout.org · 2d

RFK Jr. admitted on Thursday that the studies he’s cited to justify his baseless and dangerous claims about Tylenol use and autism are “not proof.” “This is not dispositive, this is not proof. We are doing the studies to make the proof.”

RFK Jr. Says Trump Admin Will “Make the Proof” on Bogus Tylenol Claims

“We are doing the studies to make the proof,” the health secretary said.

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 2d

Most of my favorite ones have multiple narrators for different POV. Probably my favorite single narrator book was the Jojo Moyes novel that Daisy did, for reasons which I expect you might appreciate.

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Mike G @goedharted.bsky.social · 2d

You lost me at Audible exclusive

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