J.P.
@jpturcotte.bsky.social
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Healthcare worker // B.A. in International Studies // Film Studies dropout (Japanese animation history) // Also, international news and Canada-Québec politics. Je publie en français et en anglais, surtout sur Mastodon : https://mastodon.social/@jpturcotte
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normcharlatan.bsky.social
Looks like the Qatari Emir has obtained His Own Private Idaho.
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Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."
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junoryleejournalism.com
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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mikestabile.bsky.social
Buried in Michigan's antiporn bill is a provision to effectively outlaw "circumvention tools," such as VPNs.

Mark my words: legislators will increasingly leverage porn panic to restrict or ban VPNs, and to limit internet privacy far beyond adult sites.
Experts raise privacy concerns over Michigan bill targeting pornography and VPNs
Rep. Josh Schriver, the bill’s sponsor, says the law is designed to target only producers and distributors of pornography, not everyday internet users.
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gtconway.bsky.social
Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials.

I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.
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thetnholler.bsky.social
“None of these statements are true.”

MEMPHIS DA Steve Mulroy FACT-CHECKS @AGPamBondi’s sworn testimony before Congress.

His post (with Spandau Ballet soundtrack 🎵): www.instagram.com/p/DPmv-WKEil...
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democracyactionnet.bsky.social
The Trump Regime is going after Indivisible and ActBlue
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pbsnews.org
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and private sector players, U.S. officials said Thursday. https://to.pbs.org/4obaQlh
U.S. sending troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal, officials say
The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...
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emptywheel.bsky.social
NYT adds to @juddlegum.bsky.social's reporting about the billionaires that Scott Bessent is bailing out by propping up Javier Milei.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Those efforts have been complicated by the fact that major hedge funds, including those led by friends of Mr. Bessent, stand to benefit financially from an Argentina economic lifeline. Funds at investment firms including BlackRock, Fidelity and Pimco are heavily invested in Argentina, as are investors such as Stanley Druckenmiller and Robert Citrone, both of whom worked with Mr. Bessent when he was an investor for George Soros.
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cynthiapelayo.bsky.social
László 👏🏼✨

“László Krasznahorkai, who won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature today, is not the easiest writer to read. His sentences can go on for hundreds of pages; his plots don’t resolve, they dissolve; and his persistent mood is existential dread.”

www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
Why the Latest Nobel Prize Winner Makes Perfect Sense
László Krasznahorkai is unusually experimental for a Nobel Prize winner, but in an unstable world, his selection feels perfectly timely.
www.theatlantic.com
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maddow.msnbc.com
"...including while she was praying with her eyes closed and hands lifted, wearing a clerical collar and stole."

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jdcmedlock.bsky.social
“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit
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collinswatch.bsky.social
A total abdication. Pathetic and indefensible. tinyurl.com/ac6bpha6 #MEpolitics
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thetnholler.bsky.social
WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

(This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
The federal investigation into the death of convicted sex-trafficker Jeffrey Epstein was marred by significant lapses, experts told CBS News, including the failure by investigators to interview potential witnesses, properly preserve certain evidence and run basic forensic tests.
In cell where Jeffrey Epstein died, a scene of disarray that never underwent thorough inspection, experts said
Photos of Jeffrey Epstein's cell show a scene of disarray that never underwent a proper inspection, according to experts.
www.cbsnews.com
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popcrave.com
Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.
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endcitizensunited.bsky.social
The targeting of Attorney General James is a deliberate act of vengeance from a corrupt regime. Look no further for their hypocrisy than their refusal to answer questions about border czar Tom Homan, who was caught ON CAMERA taking a $50k bribe.
AG Bondi deflects questions about Tom Homan, Epstein files in Senate hearing
Attorney General Pam Bondi is testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee today. MSNBC Senior Investigative Correspondent Carol Leonnig, former Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Catherine Chr...
www.msnbc.com
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moryan.bsky.social
Worth noting in part due to the prevalence of assault & abuse in the highest realms of power right now: I will never, ever forget James is one of the few to *ever* hold anyone to account in the wake of #MeToo. From my book Burn It Down, what AG James & her office did regarding CBS & Les Moonves:
From Maureen Ryan's book Burn It Down: More fodder for that argument came in late 2022 from New York Attorney
General Letitia James, whose office announced a $30.5 million
settlement in relation to a series of #MeToo-related
cover-ups
emanating
from the highest levels of CBS. After being tipped off by a Los Angeles
Police Department captain about sexual assault allegations filed
against then-CEO
Leslie Moonves, the network’s executives, including
Moonves, worked in 2017 and 2018 “to prevent the complaint from
becoming public,” the AG’s office noted. This is infuriatingly ironic,
given that CBS made a fortune from crime procedurals that tended to
condemn, if not vilify, anyone who broke the law. But we’ve all seen
enough to know that the rule of law and the imperatives of commonsense
decency are frequently disregarded when it comes to powerful
industry figures.
“CBS and its senior leadership knew about multiple allegations of sexual assault made against Mr. Moonves and intentionally concealed
those allegations from regulators, shareholders, and the public
for months,” James said in a statement, adding that “CBS and Leslie
Moonves’ attempts to silence victims, lie to the public, and mislead
investors can only be described as reprehensible.” According to the settlement
agreement, at an industry event in November 2017—the day
Matt Lauer was fired from NBC, in fact—Moonves
declared, “There’s
a lot we didn’t know.” I thought I detected a note of lawyerly fury in
the next sentences of the legal document James’s office made public
November 2, 2022: “That statement was misleading as it implied that
Moonves and CBS were just learning of problems with workplace harassment
at CBS, when, in truth, Moonves and other top CBS executives
were actively seeking to conceal and suppress allegations” about
Moonves himself.
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thedailyshow.com
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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tusk81.bsky.social
And as that bitter old man is targeting his perceived enemies bc he’s a bitter old man, he’s letting child predators and other criminals get away.

“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online.”
Mass Deportations Do Not Make Us Safer
“FBI agents reassigned to round up immigrants have had to walk away from investigations into violent predators who target and exploit children online,” a new report reveals.
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Democrats should just start insisting that they saw very real videos of people rioting at Mar-a-Lago -- overturning golf carts, setting fire to the brunch buffet, stabbing busboys with carving knives, whatever -- and calling on Trump to send the Illinois National Guard there to restore order.