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Daniel Miller @danielnmiller.bsky.social · 8h

Goodbye cafeteria corn dogs? Goodbye pepperoni pizza? Gov. Newsom has signed a law that will ban some ultra-processed foods in California schools starting in 2035. In a first, the law also defines what exactly an ultra-processed food is. Our deep dive: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Goodbye pepperoni pizza? New state law to ban some ultra-processed foods from school meals

A new California law will define, for the first time, ultra-processed foods — and ban ones "of concern" in K-12 schools in the state starting in 2032.

www.latimes.com

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Tyler Parker @tylerparker.bsky.social · 2d

NAME RANK

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century

What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

www.theringer.com

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James Queally @jqwritesstuff.bsky.social · 2d

The Bunker was supposed to be the "ultimate man cave," an exclusive club for super car enthusiasts.

My investigation suggests it was a "mirage" used by the son of America's wealthiest real estate baron to take investors for millions.

Meet David Bren:

www.latimes.com/california/s...

A billionaire's son sold investors on the 'ultimate man cave.' Was any of it real?

David Bren — the estranged son of Irvine Co. founder Donald Bren — spent years pitching wealthy investors on his idea for a high-end car club in Beverly Hills. Now, lawsuits allege the younger Bren mi...

www.latimes.com

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 5d

I wonder if Dwayne Johnson might have channeled the guileless, open-faced Kerr better without the fake eyebrows, if he’d trusted his own inner glow instead of immediately going for the dramatic kill?

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 5d

THE SMASHING MACHINE.

Two high-intensity talents with something to prove egg each other on to be exhaustingly photorealistic.

What's the point?

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: Dwayne Johnson's MMA biopic 'The Smashing Machine' is a nostalgia headache

The first solo project by Safdie brother Benny ("Uncut Gems"), this too-loyal adaptation of a 2002 HBO doc on fighter Mark Kerr stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt.

www.latimes.com

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Hank & Townes’s Mom @katehascats.bsky.social · 6d

Kaleb’s memorial will be Thursday, October 9th at 2pm at Silver Lake Community Church in LA. We will have a private service in Bakersfield to inter him next to his grandparents, date TBD. If you can attend, it would be very meaningful to his loved ones.

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 6d

Doesn't the score dramatically shift to mark the change in POV?

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 6d

Who's up for a lil pre-crime?

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 6d

Zing!

Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 6d

I love Indy the dog to death, and liked his horror movie more on second watch when I knew not to expect Jamie Lee Curtis on all fours. The ending is great and the build up to it, though draggy, gives you space to think about the interdependence between our species.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: Sit, stay, scare! An adorable dog stars in mild haunted house horror 'Good Boy'

Shot over three years, this experimental debut by Ben Leonberg stars the director's own dog as a lovable pet sniffing out what's wrong with a creepy house.

www.latimes.com

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 9d

🚨emergency ep🚨

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renan @renano.bsky.social · 9d

RIP to the great Kaleb Horton, who was such a funny, thoughtful writer. he wrote some fantastic things during our brief stint at MTV News together that have been wiped from the internet, but here was one of the few i was able to save: medium.com/mtvnews/a-jo...

A Journalist Takes Trump’s Media-Bias Survey

Here are his candid responses in full

medium.com

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 11d

Dan!!! I'd forgotten about this tweet!! Thank you!!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 11d

Is there any Wayback hack that will turn up the broken images on Kaleb's fake Sully script? That one was an all-timer.

For the cost of one Pepsi ad on a Road Rules rerun, MTV could have afforded to keep its archive online. Unforgivable.

Ned Raggett @nedraggett.bsky.social · 11d

Some important info on Kaleb Horton and his writing for MTV: as I learned, he'd reupped the Merle piece on his site earlier this year, but otherwise his 2016-2017 work there was scrubbed and long unavailable. Happily, I was able to find a Wayback link with them all. Share, read, and remember.

News - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Celebrity

The ultimate news source for music, celebrity, entertainment, movies, and current events on the web. It&#039;s pop culture on steroids.

web.archive.org

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11d

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

2025, So Far

I wish I had a time machine so I could go back in time and talk to my dad in 1988, just before I was born, and tell him what it’s like to live in the future. I’d tell him all the amazing things that a...

kalebhorton.ghost.io

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 11d

Love you, buddy.

I'm so grateful we got to cross paths in this life from a cat circus in North Hollywood to the Bass Pro Shop pyramid in Memphis as you criss-crossed the country writing more forever-pieces that people of the future will read to make sense of right now.

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 11d

That offhand line about the convention's food -- "the customary catering platters of almost-fruit and not enough plates" -- has rattled through my head ever since.

How does someone come up with that?!

Kaleb's talent was next level.

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 11d

This is the Kaleb Horton piece that deserved to make him the defining voice of today. He was an poet, a comic, and a cultural anthropologist who understood America on a soul-deep level.

It's his 2016 road trip to the Constitution Party's election convention in Utah.

web.archive.org/web/20160918...

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 12d

"To Catch a Predator" was a TV phenomenon. Now it faces its turn in the hot seat.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: 'Predators' examines the tactics of a reality TV phenomenon that may have gone too far

Dateline NBC's 'To Catch a Predator' and host Chris Hansen were cheered for taking down sexual abusers of children. But this powerful doc has some follow-up questions.

www.latimes.com

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 13d

Oh no. That's worse than when I taught my cat to ring a desk clerk bell for a little treat. (The cursed thing is now hidden on a shelf.)

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 13d

This tough guy right here

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 13d

Happy 50th birthday to DOG DAY AFTERNOON.

It's a good time to rewatch.

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Joshua Rothkopf @joshuarothkopf.bsky.social · 14d

Spinning off from Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland," Paul Thomas Anderson’s "fun and fizzy adaptation views its Molotov cocktail as half-full," says our @theamynicholson.bsky.social in her review, a beautiful piece of writing. Make time for this one. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: The revolution gets energized in Paul Thomas Anderson's dynamite 'One Battle After Another'

Paul Thomas Anderson's brutally hilarious political thriller brings together Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and newcomer Chase Infiniti.

www.latimes.com

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 14d

Paul Thomas Anderson’s fun and fizzy adaptation views its Molotov cocktail as half-full. Yes, it says, the struggle for liberation continues. But isn’t it inspiring that there are still people willing to fight?

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Review: The revolution gets energized in Paul Thomas Anderson's dynamite 'One Battle After Another'

Paul Thomas Anderson's brutally hilarious political thriller brings together Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Teyana Taylor, Benicio del Toro and newcomer Chase Infiniti.

www.latimes.com

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Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 14d

This doc is incredible.

An intimate portrait of Kanye's grand scale self-immolation. Tragic and mesmerizing.

And it's barely playing -- try to see before it's gone.

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