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Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 22h

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 23h

pam bondi originated the character who, after she leaves the room, somebody says "well she seems nice"

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 1d

the dodgers are single-handedly changing the meaning of "reliever"

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 2d

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 2d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 2d

it’s a pretty simple strategy, we get all the players, then get half of them injured, then bring them all back for the playoffs

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

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Eric Reinhart @eric-reinhart.com · 5d

ICE just blatantly violated the law and arrested sitting Chicago Alderperson Jessie Fuentes while seeking to illegally arrest a patient in a hospital. Fuck these fascists.

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 4d

extremely educational www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | What It Would Look Like to Pay W.N.B.A. Players What They Deserve (Gift Article)

Other professional sports leagues give their players roughly 50 percent of the revenue, but the W.N.B.A. players get less than 10 percent.

www.nytimes.com

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

see that's just good storytelling

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

the stress, no more I beg

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

I watched this and now I want the dictionary to run for president

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 7d

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

A few days after this cartoon was published, my syndicate received a very indignant letter from someone representing the Jane Goodall Institute.
Not only did my syndicate and I both get read the Riot Act, there was a vague implication that litigation over this cartoon might be around the corner.
I was horrified. Not so much from a fear of being sued (I just couldn't see how this cartoon could be construed as anything but silly, but because of my deep respect for Jane Goodall and her well-known contributions to pri-matology. The last thing in the world I would have intentionally done was offend Dr. Goodall in any way.
Before I had a chance to write my apology, another complication arose.
The National Geographic Society contacted my syndicate and expressed a

desire to reprint the cartoon in a special centennial issue of their magazine. My editor, aware of what had just occurred, declined, explaining why.
Apparently, whoever it was that sent the inquiry from National Geographic was shocked. They told my editor that "that doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know." They did some checking themselves, and an interesting fact was eventually discovered: Jane Goodall loved the cartoon. Furthermore, she was totally unaware that any of this "stuff" was going on. Some phone calls were made, and the cartoon was not only reprinted in the centennial issue of National Geographic, but was also used by her Institute on a T-shirt for fund-raising purposes.
I've since had an opportunity to visit Dr. Goodall at her research facility in Gombe. It's a wonderful place (sort of like right out of National Geographic).
"To refer to Dr. Goodall as a tramp is inexcusable even by a self-described 'loony' as Larson. The cartoon was incredibly offensive and in such poor taste that readers might well question the editorial judgment of running such an atrocity in a newspaper that reputes to be supplying news to persons with a better than average intelligence. The cartoon and its message were absolutely stupid." —Excerpt from the above-mentioned letter that started the ruckus

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

hack shit

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

if a writer pitched "50 thousand dollars in a paper bag" you'd go "right, that's the area, obviously not that but something like that"

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

always gotta end on ♾️

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

extremely skillful emojiing

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 6d

I've seen enough: it's time to ban the eighth inning

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 7d

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 7d

It's how I presented my ideas, this is a photo of me

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 7d

this took me 3 hours to make

Brock pierce as the guy in the norman Rockwell thing but really it's just a mess

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 9d

when your town is hit by a hurricane and there’s no disaster response, remember the FEMA peeps been fired or are helping ICE add more secret police.

“With ICE looking to expand its immigration enforcement operations significantly, DHS is using 100s of FEMA staffers to help w/ background checks”

Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 10d

Trump’s FEMA Is Paralyzed. Disaster-Torn Communities Are Paying the Price.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

FEMA Is Paralyzed. Disaster-Torn Communities Are Paying the Price.

St. Louis’s tornado was months ago, but it’s still waiting for hundreds of millions in federal recovery funds to arrive. It’s part of Trump’s plan to shift responsibility to the states and shrink the ...

www.wsj.com

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Will Royce @willroyce.bsky.social · 9d

The "insured unemployment rate" is a strange metric to use for automatically extending unemployment benefits. But that's exactly what we do. I wrote about it. Lots of charts, if you're into that sort of thing.

The Weird Way We Automatically Extend Unemployment Benefits

The “insured unemployment rate” plays an important role in our unemployment insurance system. Should it?

willroyce.substack.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9d

Am I reading this correctly?

A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza?

What the hell?

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 9d

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

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WIRED @wired.com · 9d

So yeah... Trump has once again posted about imposing tariffs on the film industry. "I will be imposing a 100% Tariff on any and all movies made outside the United States."

Let's revisit our piece on how that won't exactly make Hollywood great again...

Trump’s Tariffs Won’t Make Hollywood Great Again, but There’s a Plan That Can

President Donald Trump says US movie production is “dying.” There’s something that could help, but it isn’t a 100 percent tariff on foreign-produced films.

www.wired.com

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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 10d

loved the dylan movie and can't wait for its sequel “springsteen” - looking forward to the other MCU (musician cinematic universe) movies and the final endgame battle against spotify

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