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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye

@sazeracla.bsky.social

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I enjoy cocktails, French fries, and science fiction. Queer. 🏳️‍🌈 He/him. Trekkie. 🖖🏻 Former KCRW & KCSN radio host & music programmer, Angeleno from New Orleans. Growing luminous by eating light. Retired. http://mixcloud.com/safeathome

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · Aug 31

Finally, a new show! Lots has been happening, and the last week has been very difficult. The loss of an old friend. The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the Federal Flood. Lots of emotions to process. (1/3)

Safe at Home: August 30, 2025

Finally, a new show! Sorry to let a whole month go by. Lots has been happening, and the last week has been very difficult. The loss of an old friend. The 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the ...

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Jon Hance @jhance.bsky.social · 1d

Ok, this is just funny.

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Is Portland Burning?

No. See real-time Portland cameras, PulsePoint incidents, and sourced fact checks.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 2d

If you live in California, today is an excellent day to call @gavinnewsom.bsky.social at (916) 445-2841 and ask him to sign SB 79. publiccomment.blog/p/newsom-s-f...

Newsom's Fateful Choice

Why the governor needs to sign SB 79

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1h

Husband Unit rightly says that if my 20-year-old Prius has another 4-figure repair bill we should scrap it for an EV. Man, I don't want another car payment now though.

And we can't really go down to just one car until we're both retired. Hoping his 15-year-old Fit holds up.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1h

The author is not a journalist. The author is a hack.

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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 2h

Much professional. Very journalism. Wow

Patrick Hruby @patrickhruby.bsky.social · 2h

This piece is about how the author thinks Bari is a brilliant journalist, and how people who think otherwise simply have derangement syndrome. About halfway through, the author mentions that Bari, her wife, and her sister are close personal friends.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1h

DHS is lying and must be dismantled. Moreover, ICE must be destroyed.

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 9h

It's out at the Dispatch:

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 19h

My piece on the right to videotape ICE should be out tomorrow.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h

What's it like living in Chicago today? This image gives us a strong sense of the fear that Chicagoans fear from Trump's secret police.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 1h

And I walk 3-5 miles every day anyway! And we're running out of room for books! 😅

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 19h

“Tel Aviv” is marketed as a gay friendly city but in reality, it’s all just pinkwashing, making people think it’s safe for queer people to become settlers there.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 19h

From speaking to people who left it seems to only be “Tel Aviv” that is vaguely safe. And even in so called Tel Aviv queer people aren’t safe if they don’t subscribe to ethnonationalist ideology. And even then you can’t get married if you’re queer. Israel is conservative, religious and queerphobic.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 2h

I've had people ask me why I don't support the genocide of Palestinians since "Hamas kills queer people" and I always ask if they think Israeli bombs and starvation are avoiding queer Palestinians or what.

I am a lot of fun at parties.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 20h

Just thinking for no reason about the time years ago I was asked by a Rabbi not to return to a synagogue because they were having an Israeli speaker and having a trans person there made the Israelis "uncomfortable."

Since Israel is so welcoming to queer people and all

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fromthedeskof.bsky.social @fromthedeskof.bsky.social · 2h

If you only have time for one longer read today. Make it this one. Qasim has his finger on the biggest hurdles Dem candidates need to overcome. Starting with media messaging. Our job needs to be to crack this message & get the right platform out there. With the right candidates behind it (& funded)

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 2h

This week The Atlantic & Johnathan Chait published a hit piece on me. It’s replete with disinformation, so I’m compelled to write this rebuttal.

Such pundits have caused incalculable harm to our public discourse, & its long past time to call out their hypocrisy.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/journalism...

Journalism Without Justice: Jonathan Chait & the Collapse of Media Integrity

From Iraq to Trump to Gaza, America’s pundit class has perfected the art of being wrong and profiting from it. It’s long past time we hold them accountable.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2h

This is the first I’ve heard of any of it.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks! I thought I fit into a power user category but apparently I’m old and need my hand held. 😅

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WHAT

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

The suspect accused of igniting the fire that destroyed LA's Pacific Palisades neighborhood allegedly used a ChatGPT prompt to show "a burning forest and a crowd fleeing from it," months prior, officials say

Man arrested, faces federal charge in connection with Palisades Fire: DOJ

The fire caused widespread destruction in Los Angeles County and killed a dozen people earlier this year.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 5h

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2h

I’m reading his new collection now and they’re all good!

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 4h

just read “Window Boy” by @thomasha.bsky.social for the first time and I’m absolutely livid about how good it is clarkesworldmagazine.com/ha_08_23/

Window Boy by Thomas Ha

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

In Gaza, another humanitarian crisis has emerged: the soaring displacement expenses — or, as many people in Gaza bitterly describe it, “The fees you pay to become homeless in the south.” Tents cost $1,000 and securing a patch of land to pitch it on can be almost as costly.

Israel’s “Safe Zones” in Gaza Offer No Safety. Many Can’t Afford to Flee Anyway.

Displacement costs, which many call “the fees you pay to become homeless in the south,” have reached nearly $5,000.

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Watermark Out News @watermarkoutnews.bsky.social · 3h

Workers began tearing up the rainbow-colored pavers Oct. 5, two days after the city learned it had lost its appeal against the Florida Department of Transportation's removal order. The crosswalk, installed in 2018, was intended to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community.

Florida removes Miami Beach rainbow crosswalk after city loses appeal - Watermark Out News

The Florida Department of Transportation has removed a rainbow-colored crosswalk in Miami Beach after a statewide ban on asphalt art.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 3h

Marco Rubio is going to hell.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2h

Alaska is a Republican stronghold. Maybe we can start saying “was?”

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 6h

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat.

Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

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Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2h

Houston being the westmost point of what they called “The Crawfish Circuit!”

Oh, the fash will never look at their own nests, and would rather just attack ours.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 2h

Thanks. No, not that there’s anything wrong with that, but it likely wouldn’t even be my kind of porn. 🙃

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 3h

What was it he campaigned on 9 years ago?

"Lock Her Up!"

We tried to warn you. Three times.

Chuck Taggart, Private Eye @sazeracla.bsky.social · 3h

If someone told me a year ago this would be a headline in 2025, I would have screamed at them “I KNOW IT WILL, HE’S FUCKING SAYING RIGHT NOW THAT THAT’S WHAT HE’S GOING TO DO!”

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