Sean Masterson
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Reminder: AOL bought WB for $182 billion in 2000 ($342b in today’s dollars).
$80b in today’s $$ is $42b in yr 2k $$ and a 75% drop in value since yr 2k. 😬
TCM should be spun off and controlled by folks aligned with Scorsese/Lee/Spielberg/del Toro/Cameron ethics about film preservation and access.
$80b in today’s $$ is $42b in yr 2k $$ and a 75% drop in value since yr 2k. 😬
TCM should be spun off and controlled by folks aligned with Scorsese/Lee/Spielberg/del Toro/Cameron ethics about film preservation and access.
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Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
December 7, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Ann Lowe was the Black genius behind Jackie Kennedy’s iconic wedding gown.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
Before the fashion world was ready to credit a Black woman’s talent, Lowe was already designing for America’s most powerful families. Brilliant. Bold. Innovative. Undervalued. And nearly erased from history.
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📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Bookshop.org: Buy books online. Support local bookstores.
A better way to buy books online. Every purchase financially supports local independent bookstores.
Bookshop.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:22 PM
📚🎁 Reminders for everyone looking for specific books to purchase online as gifts:
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
1. If you haven't called your local independently-owned book shop, try there first. (If you don't have one, try Bookshop.org)
2. Don't put it off - shipping time for Media Mail can be 12 days. Priority is 5 📦
Too Illegit To Quit 😡
(Apologies to MC Hammer)
(Apologies to MC Hammer)
December 6, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Too Illegit To Quit 😡
(Apologies to MC Hammer)
(Apologies to MC Hammer)
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Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
December 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Prime Minister of Poland. 🇵🇱
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For those who thankfully have left Twitter, just know the site under Musk now fully belongs to Nazis and white nationalists.
This the present and future of the GOP btw. White supremacy, misogyny, cruelty & a delight in violence.
It's going to be an ugly rough road ahead but we have the majority.
This the present and future of the GOP btw. White supremacy, misogyny, cruelty & a delight in violence.
It's going to be an ugly rough road ahead but we have the majority.
December 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For those who thankfully have left Twitter, just know the site under Musk now fully belongs to Nazis and white nationalists.
This the present and future of the GOP btw. White supremacy, misogyny, cruelty & a delight in violence.
It's going to be an ugly rough road ahead but we have the majority.
This the present and future of the GOP btw. White supremacy, misogyny, cruelty & a delight in violence.
It's going to be an ugly rough road ahead but we have the majority.
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Reminder: AOL bought WB for $182 billion in 2000 ($342b in today’s dollars).
$80b in today’s $$ is $42b in yr 2k $$ and a 75% drop in value since yr 2k. 😬
TCM should be spun off and controlled by folks aligned with Scorsese/Lee/Spielberg/del Toro/Cameron ethics about film preservation and access.
$80b in today’s $$ is $42b in yr 2k $$ and a 75% drop in value since yr 2k. 😬
TCM should be spun off and controlled by folks aligned with Scorsese/Lee/Spielberg/del Toro/Cameron ethics about film preservation and access.
December 6, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Reminder: AOL bought WB for $182 billion in 2000 ($342b in today’s dollars).
$80b in today’s $$ is $42b in yr 2k $$ and a 75% drop in value since yr 2k. 😬
TCM should be spun off and controlled by folks aligned with Scorsese/Lee/Spielberg/del Toro/Cameron ethics about film preservation and access.
$80b in today’s $$ is $42b in yr 2k $$ and a 75% drop in value since yr 2k. 😬
TCM should be spun off and controlled by folks aligned with Scorsese/Lee/Spielberg/del Toro/Cameron ethics about film preservation and access.
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
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"If you do a Google search for 'ICE raid this is what I voted for' you will get a quick sense of how MAGA supporters are celebrating the cruelty of Trump’s deportation regime."
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
The Derangement of the Conservative Mind (Cont'd)
Plus: MAGA embraces the bloodlust
charliesykes.substack.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:09 PM
"If you do a Google search for 'ICE raid this is what I voted for' you will get a quick sense of how MAGA supporters are celebrating the cruelty of Trump’s deportation regime."
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
Good @sykescharlie.bsky.social roundup on MAGA sadism here (includes our pod):
charliesykes.substack.com/p/the-derang...
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Every American who wore the uniform from Valley Forge to now took an oath against tyranny, making them textbook antifascists. The military's entire purpose is defending democracy from authoritarianism. Declaring antifa "domestic terrorism" means our founding principle is now a prosecutable offense.
December 6, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Every American who wore the uniform from Valley Forge to now took an oath against tyranny, making them textbook antifascists. The military's entire purpose is defending democracy from authoritarianism. Declaring antifa "domestic terrorism" means our founding principle is now a prosecutable offense.
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Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle!
Help us move the needle!
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 6, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle!
Help us move the needle!
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#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
December 4, 2025 at 8:26 PM
#Trump pardoned Tim Leiweke — who his own DOJ indicted in July for rigging a public university’s arena bid—
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
It’s all a grift — Saudis to crypto to pardon seekers — everything gets turned into a revenue stream. With 1,500+ pardons already, clemency is a monetized market
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Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
December 5, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Pastor Black: While I was in the middle of using the words of Jesus, they opened fire on me. It was so clear that they had been so poorly trained, or — the alternative — that they had been deliberately told to escalate violence against peaceful protesters.
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Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
December 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Well done! A Massachusetts church displayed an “ICE was here” sign in its Nativity scene.
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This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone company that President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., joined as an advisor in Novemb...
popular.info
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is a million times worse than anything Hunter Biden was accused of doing in even the most fevered right-wing conspiracy dream
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Someone asked me a good question on here. How do we stop ICE from violating our constitutional rights. We don't. Our local elected officials do that job. Our Governor, or Sheriffs our mayors, Police. They stop ICE. With force if necessary. That's how you stop ICE from pulling us out of our homes.
December 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Someone asked me a good question on here. How do we stop ICE from violating our constitutional rights. We don't. Our local elected officials do that job. Our Governor, or Sheriffs our mayors, Police. They stop ICE. With force if necessary. That's how you stop ICE from pulling us out of our homes.
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Newsom’s comms team still going hard
December 4, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Newsom’s comms team still going hard
He’s made a life of breaking the rules and getting away with it by paying bribes, fines or settlements while slowly pissing away his family fortune. Now he’s pissing away our future. 😡
Trump/Hegseth instruction manual:
1. Invent a war where none exists.
2. Kill people by blowing up boats that aren’t attacking you.
3. Violate your own rules of war.
4. Call in the lawyers to explain why the clear violations are not really violations.
5. Blame it on “the fog of war.”
1. Invent a war where none exists.
2. Kill people by blowing up boats that aren’t attacking you.
3. Violate your own rules of war.
4. Call in the lawyers to explain why the clear violations are not really violations.
5. Blame it on “the fog of war.”
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
He’s made a life of breaking the rules and getting away with it by paying bribes, fines or settlements while slowly pissing away his family fortune. Now he’s pissing away our future. 😡
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Whoops bsky.app/profile/carl...
Real wages (after inflation) were growing at 2.0% last year. Now it’s 0.8% — “clearly playing into what the majority of American households would define as an affordability crisis.”
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
@joebrusuelas.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Whoops bsky.app/profile/carl...
Gross Incompetence = 4D Chess when you’re MAGA.
"Does this feel like or look like a well-run competent administration? It took them 10 months to discover that the United States doesn't grow bananas and that therefore if we tariff bananas that that's not going to bring banana factories on shore."
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Gross Incompetence = 4D Chess when you’re MAGA.
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Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
December 4, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.
You know that thing SNL does when it peppers the audience w/ recognizable faces to ask the host pre-screened questions during the monologue?
WH just stole their bit. 🙄😬
WH just stole their bit. 🙄😬
December 4, 2025 at 12:50 AM
You know that thing SNL does when it peppers the audience w/ recognizable faces to ask the host pre-screened questions during the monologue?
WH just stole their bit. 🙄😬
WH just stole their bit. 🙄😬