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Mike Bonin @mikebonin.bsky.social · Sep 1

How did LA go from being a notorious anti-worker city to a stronghold of labor power?

Listen to this re-air of my interview with Kent Wong of UCLA Labor Ctr on What’s Next, Los Angeles. Brought to you in partnership with @laforward.bsky.social . whatsnextlosangeles.buzzsprout.com

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So glad to see you got this, Mike

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algorithm fed me Helpless this morning and I got all the endorphins

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@amandafortini.bsky.social I'll never forget

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 11h

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Kristi Noem's endgame with the girlfriend of the founder of antifa

informant Shardene and detective Lester together at the end of The Wire

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22h

#WarRavagedPortland

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with a side of

a black and white drawing of stick figures with one saying nope just regular type

Alt: teenage girl squad from homestar runner. "y'all are so wack. "nope just regular type."

media.tenor.com

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I'm 45% convinced I need those sheets

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Model Anna Nicole Smith dances with contestant, Sylvia Krappstein,...

Model Anna Nicole Smith dances with contestant, Sylvia Krappstein, during the 2nd Annual Queen of Silverlake Pageant on July 13, 2002 in Los Angeles, California.

www.gettyimages.com

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A Trump megadonor is obsessed with Amelia Earhart

Leilani (she/her) @glittergremlei.bsky.social · 12d

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/t...

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Ender's Game Nation

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

We’re going to have a lot of work to do identifying and punishing every single one of these criminal thugs with the full force of the law.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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James O'Hara @nextyeardc.com · 1d

A pretty good list which has me thinking of the opposite. What are the worst movies that are improved through a good franchise? I'd have to think The Fast and the Furious is near the top of the list.

Matt Singer @mattsinger.bsky.social · 1d

Food for thought: What is the worst franchise made from the best movie?

15 Great Movies That Were Ruined By Becoming Franchises

These classic films should never have gotten sequels.

screencrush.com

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scrolled the quotes looking for this, and that was my first guess too.

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Sadly, the Getty images from my one and only drag performance do not feature pictures of me prancing around on my hobby horse. This is partially made up for by the pictures of me dancing with Anna Nicole Smith.

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James Poniewozik @poniewozik.bsky.social · 1d

This is not just savagely well written but also just a freaking good point about managing declining media

Also I am already pre-dreading the Morning Show season about this

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

www.theverge.com

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Vintage Funk Kit 3 @ 90bpm ☔️ @joshksky.bsky.social · 2d

my dad has been making leather goods in his retirement & that's more or less his model. It's fun to sell something you made for a high price at a boutique, even if it's not frequent.

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A shop that takes consignments might help you set a price. If you're not in a hurry to find a sustainable business model, price them as luxury art objects and give them away to people you want to have them.

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A friend of a friend somehow ended up hosting George Clooney in St. Louis for a night, and was surprised when he wanted to go out in public. Took him to the neighborhood gay bar, where everyone whispered about how his new buddy kind of looked like a chubby George Clooney.

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Not if they have that good Teamsters health insurance. That’s how Larry Fortensky wound up in the same rehab as Elizabeth Taylor.

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Remember when these guys ran a completely fabricated story about trans kids sourced to a single bigot who worked at St Louis Children’s Hospital and it got so much traction that they ended a bunch of programs for trans kids because of all the bomb threats

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press

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My friend who has been a steadily employed animation writer for years is now training to be an electrician. (He calls it future-proofing against AI. Grim forecast either way.)

Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 5d

The Los Angeles economy going through a legacy Hollywood Rust Belt downturn feels surprisingly undercovered, good to see this WSJ article on it: www.wsj.com/business/med...

L.A.’s Entertainment Economy Is Looking Like a Disaster Movie

Work is evaporating, businesses are closing, longtime residents are leaving, and Los Angeles’s creative middle class is hanging on by a thread.

www.wsj.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 3d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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We did Get Out with our 12yo this weekend—not that big a push but very well received. Her teacher assigned a modified Hooptober challenge (including expanding it to thrillers/scifi/fantasy so it doesn't have to be all horror). Next few up: Nosferatu, Heathers, Dracula

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Senator Schatz is performing a valuable public service by arguing his position both in good faith and clearly enough that it can be definitively owned. An even more valuable service would be having bog-standard dialogue-free comms, but not funding ICE in the first place.

Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, recalling my political history, and in a time of strife. Not a good look

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