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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: A MAGA X account often shared by Senator Mike Lee and House Republicans like Nancy Mace--that often alleges Democrats encourage voting fraud-- is run by a man who not only has never stepped foot in the US, he also illegally donated to an American campaign.

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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1d

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is made up of men who have failed the human test and have nothing of value to offer this nation.

Adults with decency and options and possibilities don’t do this shit.

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 2d

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Are Self-Driving Delivery Robots the Future of Food Delivery?

YouTube video by ASME American Society of Mechanical Engineers

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 3d

He was definitely a chip off the ol’ block. R.I.P. Jim Mitchum. Now go watch him in TRACKDOWN (1976). Your jaw will drop when you get to the elevator shaft scene…

Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 4d

My condolences.

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 4d

Cinema’s preeminent forensic pathologist @oneblakeminute.bsky.social & I talk Michael Mann’s much maligned 2nd feature film THE KEEP, the doco I produced about its making, & the mind-boggling special edition @imprintfilms.bsky.social has just released. Listen now wherever podcasts are casting…

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 5d

@letterboxd.social reviews for the documentary I produced A WORLD WAR II FAIRY TALE are starting to arrive… 🎥 📽️

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 5d

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 5d

Sell all your Apple stock. They’ve bent the knee to trumpy too many times now.

Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 5d

Time to get rid of this iPhone then and go from something else.

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 6d

This country is heading into a dystopian future that’s so much worse than everyone is imagining atm.

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 7d

This shutdown happened by design.

title : This government shutdown didn't happen by accident. it happened by design.
4 frame comic. we see Russell Vought, Curtis Yarvin, Russell Vought again, and the White House. Text reads :
russell vought is the director
of the u.s. office of management
and budget and the key architect
of project 2025. the nyt called
him "the man behind trump's push
for an all-powerful presidency."
project 2025 includes a roadmap
to achieve curtis yarvin's butter-
fly revolution, in which the
neo-reactionary leader advocates
for replacing non-partisan gov't
employees with loyalists, seizing
control of public assets and
centralizing power in a small
group of elites.
what vought aimed to do
was create the conditions
in which he could strip bare
what he calls the "unelected
fourth branch of government".
back in february, he instructed
agencies to prepare for mass
layoffs on sept. 30th.
this shutdown will give Trump
the power to bypass Congressional
oversight: Trump can just declare
which areas are considered
essential services, and ignore the
1974 law that prevents presidents
from withholding federal dollars.

this shutdown was the goal
all along.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 7d

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940.

The money is going to be used *against* you.

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Alex Guerin @billbruns2k24.bsky.social · 7d

Unboxing of Michael Mann’s The Keep (1983) Limited Edition by Imprint Films @imprintfilms.bsky.social

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 7d

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Black Eyed Susan (2024) [Vinegar Syndrome Pictures Blu-ray Promo Trailer]

YouTube video by Vinegar Syndrome

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Jacob Graveison @jacobdavison.bsky.social · 7d

No government, just Halloween.

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Chris Morran @themorrancave.bsky.social · 7d

NEW: Now that Tom Homan is border czar, his former business associate is continuing to work with companies actively seeking to land a chunk of the $45 billion Congress approved to spend on Trump's mass detention and deportation plans.

Trading on Tom Homan: Inside the Push to Cash in on the Trump Administration’s Deportation Campaign

A Pennsylvania businessman who had Tom Homan on his payroll led companies to believe his connections to the future border czar could help advance their bids for government work, industry executives sa...

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 7d

RIP renowned Italian film poster artist Renato Casaro.

Considered one of the most influential Italian poster designers, Casaro leaves behind a legacy of hand-painted artwork for thousands of films, including such classics as Conan the Barbarian, Octopussy, and A Fistful of Dollars.

He was 89.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 8d

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers.

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AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 8d

My September watches, y’all… 🎥 📽️

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoy it, and thank you for your never-ending support for our project!!!

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Jay Gunn/Wilson @gunnwriter.bsky.social · 9d

Hurrah! Got back my lunch break earlier to find this package waiting for me on my doorstep… the documentary film on the (un)making of Michael Mann’s ill fated but fascinating “The Keep.”

It’s been such a long wait that I feel that I was entombed in The Keep for all this time! 😅

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JazzReads📚 @jazzreads.bsky.social · 10d

So exhausting..

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Avram Grumer @avramg.bsky.social · 10d

I just tried doing this (with “Yakety Sax”), but can’t figure out how to upload it so the sound works.

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Alex Kuciw @koochew.bsky.social · 10d

“What year is this?!!?”