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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 21h

Local cops are not on the side of Democratic politicians or under their actual control. People refuse to understand this too even though we've been making this point for decades.

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wormbuxx @wormbuxx.bsky.social · 19h

I am having the SHITTIEST week. My insulin pump broke on Sunday, I fell at work on Monday and today I’m at the emergency dentist for what is likely a root canal.
If you have any extra dollars, I hate to ask but my Venmo is @Kayte-Terry. Thanks!

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 19h

they solved a problem that doesn't exist by creating a new, even worse problem :o)

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 19h

they're going with PhAM

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

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

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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 3d

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government....

On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames

time.com/7323442/sout...

House of South Carolina Judge Criticized by Trump Administration Set Ablaze

Authorities are investigating a fire at the home of a South Carolina judge who had reportedly received death threats in what could be the latest incident of political violence across the country.

time.com

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 3d

They played a trailer for Hard Boiled before this, the scenes from that so iconic that memories of them flooded back though I haven't seen it in, like, a long time

matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 3d

when you're about to have the most fun it's possible to have in a movie theater with your clothes on

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lorem ipsum 🇧🇷🇺🇸 @whiskeynachos.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you to the Alaska Raptor Center for telling the truth that birders already knew: every bald eagle cry you hear in an advertisement is a red-tailed hawk.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 4d

Sometimes when I’m on a plane I get sad there’s no SkyMall catalogue anymore but I guess the entire internet is SkyMall now

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Ben Fritz @benfritz.bsky.social · 6d

The most important human story in the entertainment industry right now is the severe downturn in film and TV production in LA and how it's affecting middle-class crew workers. I spoke to dozens of them for this story about the depressed Hollywood economy. 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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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 5d

We Like To Party! (The Vengabus)

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 5d

I also grind my axe about the uses and abuses of small town life and "upstate New York" here, stuff like details being wrong—"40 miles east of Rochester" puts Cranberry, NY closer to Syracuse—that show a lack of interest in the realities of these towns

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 5d

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 5d

NEW YORK (AP) — Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs sentenced to 4 years and 2 months in prison in case involving sex workers, violence and ‘freak-offs’.

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 5d

what a joy to hear @themountaingoats.bsky.social interpolating Philly on the radio. "the Broad Street Bombers" is a great name for a band, and also for a baseball team

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Out-Spoken Press @outspokenpress.bsky.social · 8d

DEADLINE EXTENDED
If you’re a poet of Arab heritage, writing in English anywhere in the world, with a poetry manuscript - you now have until 15 October to enter the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize!

> $2000
> US publication with Noemi Press
> UK publication with Out-Spoken Press

noemipress.submittable.com

Are you a writer of Arab heritage with a poetry manuscript?
DEADLINE EXTENDED - ENTER BY 15 OCTOBER
$2000 PRIZE
plus
US PUBLICATION
with Noemi Press
and
UK PUBLICATION with Out-Spoken Press
NOEMI
GUEST JUDGE:
Farid Matuk
SERIES EDITORS:
Fady Joudah, Hayan Charara
OUT SPOKEN PRESS
Etel Adnan Poetry Prize
For a first or second book by a writer of Arab heritage
NOEMIPRESS.SUBMITTABLE.COM

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Bryce Maschino @bmaschino.bsky.social · 5d

It's only going to get worse

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 5d

that's right

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 6d

new PTA is a hit, new Benny Safdie/The Rock film is out tomorrow, Avatar 2 is back in theaters and Hard Boiled and A Better Tomorrow are screening for the first time in over a decade. The movies are the most back they've ever been!!

matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 6d

Memoria belongs in this conversation but everyone is a coward and also hasn't seen it

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 6d

In forty years I will still be talking about how hard I laughed at the reading from the Bhagavad Gita

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 6d

The Zone of Interest, Tár, Perfect Days, Drive My Car

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matthew sekellick @sekellick.bsky.social · 6d

I wrote about the Philadelphia Theatre Company production of Primary Trust, which is not very good. And by being not very good, it makes the weaknesses of the text easier to see playsunpleasant.substack.com/p/primary-tr...

Primary Trust at PTC

A dull production that highlights the text's flaws, rather than its strengths

playsunpleasant.substack.com

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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 6d

Why would we steal national relics like Eisenhower's West Point sabre from our museums and archives to gift to foreign leaders?

The sacking of America from within?

Tony Clark @anthonyclark.bsky.social · 7d

BREAKING: sources say NARA has forced out Dr. Todd Arrington, the federal director of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, after he declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a sword from the library for a gift to King Charles

lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: NARA Ousts Eisenhower Library Director Over Proposed Trump Gift to King Charles

The director, a historian and Army veteran, declined to allow the Trump administration to remove a priceless artifact from the library's permanent collection

lastcampaign.substack.com

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