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Pop Heist @popheist.com · 1m

In an age when too many sci-fi stories are explained to death, Gore Verbinski's time-travel comedy revels in a deliberate, freewheeling murkiness.

Fantastic Fest 2025: 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die' Review

Sam Rockwell gives a career-best performance as a madman from the future in Gore Verbinski's madcap, thought-provoking sci-fi/comedy romp.

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 17h

You would not fire these people—including the staff of the hugely, HUGELY important 'Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report'—if you cared at all about public health, if you wanted people to live.

And you would not let your thuggish henchmen fire people like this if you were a responsible president.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 18h

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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Jarrett Walker @humantransit.bsky.social · 1d

California legalizes life near public transit! Governor Newsom has signed SB 79. My thoughts: humantransit.org/2025/10/cali...

California Legalizes Life Near Public Transit — Human Transit

OK, the headline is a little exaggerated, but California’s Senate Bill 79, authored by Senator Scott Wiener and just signed by Governor Newsom, is a game-changer. It prohibits most cities from forbid...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24m

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Texas Krusty @texaskrusty.bsky.social · 2m

Slave power brutalizing all opposition is ingrained in this country. Part of the conservative DNA.

We are fighting the same bad people we have always had to fight. The rich looking to get more and the racist assholes they use to do it.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 2h

Whatever else is going on. The local, state? Police understand what ICE does not. Aggressive violence towards nuns and priests doesn’t get you very far.

In some ways this feels like a narrative from 150 years ago, or even 300.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 2h

Request denied/unanswered.

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Iza All Kinds of Banged Up @izabelakaramia.bsky.social · 20h

@catsofyore.bsky.social While browsing through scanned archives of the magazine Chess Review, which was published from 1933 to 1969, I found a cat! People who have watched Netflix's The Queen's Gambit will recognize that Chess Review was the magazine shoplifted by Beth Harmon.

On the October 1957 cover of Chess Review, a black cat is seemingly playing chess. It is looking intently at the white king on the board. The cover is captioned, "A CT CAN NIP AT A KING." The photo is a black and white photo.

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LaResistance47 @laresistance47.bsky.social · 7m

Even on Gilligan's Island, they trusted the scientist, not the rich guy

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Gilligan - Short — LaResistance 47

Saying • Front: Even on Gilligan's Island, they trusted the scientist, not the rich guy • Back: blank LaResistance47 Logo on left arm. This t-shirt is everything you've dreamed of an...

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 3h

We have a judicial crisis in the US.

Federal Judges, Warning of ‘Judicial Crisis,’ Fault Supreme Court’s Emergency Orders

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Jamal abu hashem🇵🇸 @jamalzuhir.bsky.social · 12h

Honestly, it’s exhausting that people think Gazans should only ask for help to survive to eat, to stay alive but not to dream, to study, or to rebuild their lives. Wanting education, safety, and a future isn’t greed. It’s being human.

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Texas Krusty @texaskrusty.bsky.social · 8m

youtu.be/cS06eprlj2I

Randy Newman - It's Money That Matters (Official Video)

YouTube video by Randy Newman

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10m

I feel like there’s a lot of historical events that everyone used to wonder how people let them happen and now we’re finding out.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 26m

When was the last time a rich white billionaire was truly shunned for their behavior?

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 28m

When people wonder how Epstein continued to have powerful friends even after everybody knew, consider that a Nazi salute followed by blithely starving children and cutting off their life sustaining medicines wasn’t a deal breaker for anyone in power positions.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

Literally the Russ Vought impoundment thing has completely removed the GOP's ability to negotiate. There is no reason to negotiate.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 26m

Always amazed by people who come on here with hot takes in which every sentence is confidently wrong

Teles Santos @telesjr.bsky.social · 49m

The US never fought to end fascism anywhere. They joined the war because Japan forced their hand, and they saw a great way to make money. After the USSR pretty much had pushed Germany out of eastern Europe and they knew the nazis were going to lose, they jumped in.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

chat is it a good idea to try and use the military to crush dissent while not paying them and also making them food insecure?

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 3h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Searching for Jackie Merlos: What happened when the Trump administration disappeared an immigrant mother and her four U.S. citizen kids

Her Kids Are U.S. Citizens. Trump's Admin Disappeared Them Anyway

Donald Trump's Customs and Border Protection (CBP) disappeared an immigrant mom living in Portland and her four U.S. citizen children.

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Jody Rosen @jodyrosen.bsky.social · 1h

I know we're not supposed to talk about Woody Allen, but ANNIE HALL is one of the supreme American movies & Diane Keaton's wild charisma is 90% of the reason why. And btw her performance of "Seems Like Old Times" is pure magic—up there with the greatest musical scenes in cinema, zero doubt

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 1h

Estonia has urgently closed part of its border with Russia following the appearance of armed "little green men," ERR reports‼️

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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19m

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_...

The coffee drinker outlived the experiment itself.

^ Experiment
The king ordered the experiment to be conducted using a pair of identical twins. Both of the twins had been tried for the crimes they had committed and condemned to death. Their sentences were commuted to life imprisonment
on the condition that one of the twins drink three pots of coffee, and the other drink the
same amount of tea, every day for the rest of their lives. 7]
The tea drinking twin died first at the age of 83, long after the death of Gustav Ill, who was assassinated in 1792. The age of the coffee-drinking twin at his death is unknown, as both doctors assigned by the king to monitor this study predeceased him. 7][51[81[9]

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 2h

they're looking to sell them to private vendors, which is just as stupid.

Auntie Beak @auntie-beak.bsky.social · 2h

I thot they were also looking into closing all base commissaries, also? How would this work again?

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 24m

My grandfather was a Flying Tiger who voted Republican his whole life, except for his last election in ‘08 when he voted for Obama because he was mad about how badly Bush screwed up the country

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Texas Krusty @texaskrusty.bsky.social · 20m

Yeah, when was Stalingrad again?

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 23m

even if you take the most wildly generous interpretation of 'jumped in' as meaning June 1944, and not say, September 1943 (invasion of Italy), or November 1942 (North African landings), let alone December 1941 (entrance into the war), the Soviets were still fighting hard battles in Eastern Europe.

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