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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 3h

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Diane Keaton, Oscar-winning star of Annie Hall and The Godfather, dies aged 79

The legendary actor best known for her many collaborations with Woody Allen, as well as films including Reds, The First Wives Club and Book Club, has died

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5h

Cartoon by John Deering.

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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 4h

It was @sarahjeong.bsky.social and we’ve been pounding this drum for years - especially since all the promises of metadata to prove images are real have gone nowhere www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 8h

Imagine that

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jon rosenburger @jonrosenberg.bsky.social · 8h

They're spinning this as a marketing fail but I think the real story is just that people are stupid as fucking rocks now fortune.com/2025/10/10/p...

Lay's drastically rebrands after disturbing finding: 42% of consumers didn't know their chips were made out of potatoes | Fortune

New bags—matte-ified and designed to look like wood planks (like a potato crate)—will hold the chips with revamped ingredient lists.

fortune.com

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 9h

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 11h

Trump cites a murderous war criminal to attack the Nobel Peace Prize committee’s decision. Truly absurd and disturbing. And narcissism of a pathological degree.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 1d

looks like it’s working as expected

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

The Big Con: It's still billions in phony money for Trump.

Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 1d

📉Trump's WLFI crypto token—which is not backed by any underlying assets and does not convey ownership in anything other than the token itself—hit an all-time low today of $0.146156 amidst an overall market downturn.

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Thomas Pynchon @tompynchon.bsky.social · 1d

featurefirst.net/films-refere...

Films Referenced in Thomas Pynchon's 'Shadow Ticket'

Here is every film referenced in Thomas Pynchon's much anticipated latest book, Shadow Ticket; his first in 12 years

featurefirst.net

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 1d

Qatar gave Trump the luxury 747 that he wanted and now we are LETTING THEM BUILD A MILITARY BASE ON US SOIL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Jacob Bogage @jacobbogage.bsky.social · 1d

We're doing what now?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Jeff Goodell @jeffgoodell.bsky.social · 1d

When tennis becomes a metaphor for all life on Earth.
www.wsj.com/sports/tenni...

‘Do You Want a Player to Die?’ Tennis Feels the Heat Over Extreme Conditions

Sweltering temperatures in China have pushed the sport’s stars to the limit, leaving them cramping, throwing up on court and sweating through four pairs of sneakers

www.wsj.com

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 1d

Obama got it in his first year, just for not being George Bush.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This is disastrous.

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

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 · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

this really is all just about resentment over obama being given the prize

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

BARTIROMO: On your point about the Nobel Peace Prize, do you think maybe the reason Trump won't get it is because you had to get the application in before Jan. 31, and that was only 11 days into his term?

SCALISE: Look, they can play technicalities. They gave it to Obama for just getting elected.

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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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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

It's even worse than this. The subhed will leave the casual reader with the vague impression that he actually has a legitimate claim to it.

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 2d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 1d

I saw the first Star Wars movie in the summer of 1977 several times in movie theaters. I have literally no memory of any kind of toys or anyone ever talking about toys back in the day. Maybe I was a bit old, but this was certainly not something that was massively popular.

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 2d

Ouch.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry Jews

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 2d

How much did it cost?

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Kirk McElhearn @kirkville.com · 2d

I mean, what did you expect?

The Verge @theverge.com · 2d

Amazon’s giant ads have ruined the Echo Show

Alexa, stop the ads.

www.theverge.com