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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 7h

Man Slow Horses really puts Ho through a sad ringer this season but adds empathetic layers to the pathetic in episode 3.

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 9h

Pretty hard to keep a team as talented and good this season as the Phillies down for a whole series, lots of stuff coming due.
(Similar in all the other division series.)

A little sadder seeing Kershaw looking ready for retirement after all, but relief is hard for starting pitchers.

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 9h

As sin!

✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 9h

This made me lol more than I expected. (That statue was an eyesore but more importantly there’s like a while indigenous genocide angle. But on the other hand, archbishop is mad so that’s important too!)

SFist @sfist.bsky.social · 14h

The statue of Junipero Serra along I-280 was removed by Caltrans two months ago, and nobody really noticed. Now its removal is suddenly a big controversy, with SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone calling it anti-Catholic persecution. buff.ly/2rxUkpZ

Caltrans Removes I-280 Junipero Serra Statue In Hillsborough, and Boy Is SF’s Nutty Archbishop Mad

The statue of Junipero Serra along I-280 was removed by Caltrans two months ago, and nobody really noticed. Now its removal is suddenly a big controversy, with SF Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone…

buff.ly

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Walter Chaw @mangiotto.bsky.social · 15h

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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 16h

The Emperor's new war. A complete fantasy presented in a room full of nodding sycophants who don't question a thing he says.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 19h

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact: the old house we are temporarily staying in has a storage full of props from the original Godfather.

Horse’s head from the movie!!
(No this is not a serious post, made you read alt text tho.)
Actually pictured: an old kid’s toy of a horse’s head on a stick which is in some ways creepier!

✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 19h

Saw a sight in SF I’ve seen many time before and it never made me feel as anxious as it did today: a pod of about 10 cops on motorbikes, felt like a phalanx of fascism even if I found myself hoping maybe they’re at least not pro ice but

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Jennifer Smith Richards @jsmithrichards.bsky.social · 22h

Education Secretary Linda McMahon says she's leading the department's "final mission" to shut down. But @megomatz.bsky.social and I found it's more than that: Political appointees from ultraconservative groups are in power at ED now, and they hope to dismantle public schools.

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

www.propublica.org

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

Please don’t take this absolute legend and living angel while a devil coated in Teflon outlives everything

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 1d

Dolly Parton’s sister, Freida Parton, is asking for people to pray for her sister’s health.

Verified Facebook post by Freida Parton. The caption reads:

“Last night, I was up all night praying for my sister, Dolly. Many of you know she hasn’t been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer, and I have been lead to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She’s strong, she’s loved, and with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she’s going to be just fine. Godspeed, my sissy Dolly. We all love you! ❤️”

Below the caption is a photo of Dolly Parton standing outdoors in front of lush green ivy, hands clasped in prayer, wearing a shiny silver outfit with lace-trimmed sleeves, her signature blonde hair styled in soft curls, looking upward serenely.

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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 1d

Minimum demands from here on:
- Abolish ICE immediately
- Prosecute and jail all ICE leaders nationwide, and any ICE goon who can be proven to have violated the Constitution
- Prosecute and jail all Trump administration officials responsible, inc. Cabinet level
- Abolish Dept of Homeland Security

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

Wow so a lot of people apparently are down for 8(!) episodes about Ed Gein huh? I’m sure it’s good and all but that’s a lot of psychokiller* Ed Gein’s life for my taste right now

*qu'est-ce que c'est?

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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 1d

love that we had a whole national reckoning over the media's coverage of Biden's advanced age and none of the scolds who High Horsed us can be bothered to spend even a minute reflecting on the fact that Trump has basically become Mr. Burns in the "Spruce Moose" episode of THE SIMPSONS

CNN @cnn.com · 1d

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a law enforcement source told CNN.

FBI employees ordered to immediately search for records related to Amelia Earhart, source says | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has ordered FBI employees in Washington, DC, to immediately search their workstations and digital media for any records pertaining to the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, a la...

www.cnn.com

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

I wouldn’t advise anyone in Portland to walk your dog near this building.

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

I’m doing an experiment to see how long it takes my cats new instagram account to pass my personal IG follower numbers.
So feel free to add to it if interested

www.instagram.com/catscakeandc...

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

Wow you guys weren’t kidding, it was down like 4-5 mins after 7et ha
Oh well!

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

This is great coverage of this very important gerrymandering trial here and almost NO ONE ELSE in the media is covering this hugely important case. Read and give $ to DD since US legacy media sucks.

Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 1d

SCOOP: Top GOP mapmaker Adam Kincaid testified for the first time about his role in Texas' gerrymandered congressional map, revealing that the RNC hired him to draw it. During his testimony, the state repeatedly shielded him from disclosing details about how the map was created.

RNC-Hired Mapmaker Denies Using Racial Data in Texas Gerrymander, Sparks Debate

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 1d

RE: Republicans making false claims about Portland violence? Are there no tourism-affected business in OR who'd like to make a very big stink about the GOP attack on Oregon businesses?

@wyden.senate.gov

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

I keep wanting to articulate a review of One Battle but keep reading other reviews that say it all well. So I may just write a stream of consciousness thing about it.

✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 3d

Still trying to articulate a better review of One Battle After Another than “holy shit” but perhaps I’ll put some words together on Letterboxd tomorrow.

✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 1d

Even tho I’m currently unemployed I still try to tip well. The other day I tipped barista/cashier 20% right after a very wealthy looking couple had left before even clicking the tip thing at all.
Since it was still on screen I hit the 20% button for them too.
Symbolic of how the 1% are $ hoarders.

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 1d

A woman at a wedding turning to talk to another woman
-[whispers] So embarrassing for her.
[whispers] I know, right?

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ArtButMakeItSports @artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social · 2d

The Prisoner of Chillon (flipped), by Eugène Delacroix, 1834

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

R.I.P the TiVo DVR (1999-2025)

The pioneer in digital video recording has officially ceased selling its DVR.

TiVo changed my life, and cloud DVRs will never match its precision and user-friendliness. It's the best piece of consumer electronics I've ever used.

www.mediaplaynews.com/tivo-exiting...

TiVo Exiting Legacy DVR Business - Media Play News

TiVo, the digital video recording pioneer, has moved on from its legacy DVR technology, focusing instead on its branded operating system software promoting third-party content searches, recommendation...

www.mediaplaynews.com

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✍️ Craig Gary Phillips ✍️ @craigary.bsky.social · 2d

Oh yeah I hate him off field. And this year he just hasn’t looked right as a pitcher. Meanwhile I do love Dave and respect his evolution as a manager, and I’m hopeful he just says “never mind” to using him again other than low leverage (or they make up an injury like “suckitis” or Covid and IL him)

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