😮 ...🤔 💡 Disney might could maybe still please cancel Avatar Land at Disney California Adventure! 🤞😆🤞

Polygon@polygon.com · 11h ago

A new Avatar movie isn't a given, as the series' creator said he may be working on other projects.

📢 Paging Emmy dress designers! —especially Christian Siriano! 😃🫶 "I need a dress," national treasure Dale Dickey told THR. Her first Emmy nomination and no designer has offered to dress her. "Somebody design me!" #WidowsBay #Emmys

Dale Dickey Is Finally an Emmy Nominee. Now She Needs a Dress.

The veteran character actor discusses her first Emmy nomination for 'Widow's Bay,' the audition that launched her career and why she's still waiting for a designer to call.

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Finally

The Independent@the-independent.com · 18h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

Fascism is here and this is the weak AF mainstream media coverage of it.

NPR@npr.org · 3d ago

The Justice Department is using federal conspiracy charges to sweep up ICE protesters. Some legal experts worry the agency is casting too wide a net to prosecute political activists who oppose the Trump administration's deportation agenda. n.pr/3TyDYsK

Super useful. I figure a lot of us here in the Sky know this stuff already, but it might be handy to hand to parents, grandparents and pals who are less technically minded. www.librarian.net/NoToAI/

My pinned tweet, 8/14/17: "In this country, we have no 'other' people. We are American people—us." ✊🇺🇸 RT of Al Jazeera: In 1947, the US War Department released this video to tell Americans not to fall for fascist rhetoric. #Charlottesville

"Don't Be a Sucker" (1947) Reel America Preview

YouTube video by C-SPAN

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I love a good historical re-enactment.

Nicki Washington, Ph.D.@drnickiw.bsky.social · 14h ago

Happy August 5 to all who celebrate.

if you are bigoted against trans folks you will not stop there and I know it you are either already racist, sexist, or homophobic or you are on your way there and I will not join you for your journey

So, let me get this right: We get threatened with legal action from our ISP for downloading a copyrighted film or TV show illegally. But AI companies are given free passes to steal copyrighted content from billions of people. Do I have that right?

Distraction DuJour

Happy Wednesday!

Wednesday Addams' Iconic Smile and Nod

Alt: Addams Family Values, Christina Ricci GIF: exterior, outside the camp's Harmony Hut, Wednesday Addams cracks what may be her first smile—li'l creepy, all gorgeous

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Punk on Bus Lives!🚍📻@punkonbuslives.bsky.social · 13h ago

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Capt. Kai Proce gave the Army 11 years, but a closed-door board discharged him anyway – solely because he is transgender. This is what the transgender military ban actually looks like: distinguished service records, erased by a process built to guarantee one outcome. https://nyti.ms/4cgopMA

Just unfathomable humiliation and cruelty. Please read this piece and understand what our government is doing to trans troops.

Greg Jaffe@gregjaffe.bsky.social · 3d ago

"The Pentagon has treated the trans separation board hearings with levels of security and silence usually reserved for state secrets... In some cases, service members’ spouses and even the service members themselves are kept out." w/ Dave Philipps www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

On-air talent laid off by the station include 42-year station veteran Daryl Norsell, plus Patrick Tish, Nikki Preston and John DeSantis. More here: https://mrf.lu/25FM1

KCAL-FM opts for all music station and lays off all on-air staff

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#ImWithFlores “If the D.A. truly believes that exposing bigotry is a personal agenda rather than the duty of every sworn peace officer, we have a profound crisis of leadership,” Mr. Jackson said. “It’s not just terrifying, it is a clear and calculated message.” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

Officer Charged With Violating Privacy for Recording Colleagues’ Racism (Gift Article)

The charges stem from recordings that Daniel Flores made over the course of 2024, when he was working in a Los Angeles police unit that recruited new officers.

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If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?

A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

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Republicans in Congress: you can stop it all anytime. Any. Time.

Julia Carrie Wong@joolia.bsky.social · 11mo ago

It’s important to know in advance that you will regret going along with it, but it’s also important to say to those who made the wrong decision that you can always stop going along with it, in fact it’s the best thing you could do

I've been asking reporters in Spokane how we can help and everyone says subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. The Spokesman-Review has been doing unreal coverage of the fires: www.spokesman.com

Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 4d ago

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

I was on the scene that day and watched people flag police down to talk to someone walking away from the fire. My law enforcement sources confirmed to me this evening my description of the person I saw was consistent with the suspect. Here’s the story so far: www.spokesman.com/stories/2026...

Sheriff: Man, 37, arrested on suspicion of setting Old Trails fire

A 37-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree arson for allegedly setting the Old Trails fire, Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels announced Monday night.

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Alexandra (Alex) Duggan@alexdugganreports.bsky.social · 2d ago

BREAKING: Investigators have arrested 37-year-old Aaron Farinacci, a former Arizona resident with a manslaughter conviction, in connection to the start of the Old Trails Fire in Spokane.

The front page of this morning’s Spokesman-Review, Aug. 2, 2026, the day after one of the worst wildfires in Washington state history. More than 600 structures, mostly homes, have been lost in the #OldTrailsFire. Read local news.

"Did you know that after WWII Eisenhower made nearby townspeople tour Nazi camps—to see what was done in their name?" www.minnpost.com/opinion/sack... By @stevesack.bsky.social

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‘Disturbing’ footage shared by a California ICE detainee surfaced amid wider complaints about conditions in detention centers. See the video here

ICE detainee reveals video of drinking water apparently contaminated with worm-like creatures

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Edwin Lopez-Cornejo, 41, was arrested in New Jersey in June, and died after a ‘medical emergency’, agency said

Immigrant being held at Delaney Hall dies, marking 22nd death in ICE custody

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Washington state voters will decide whether to require sex-verification exams — including potential genital exams — for every girl who wants to play school sports. There are roughly 10 transgender athletes among the state's 200,000 students.

Kindergarten girls targeted for invasive exams by new GOP-led ballot measure

Washington State voters will decide the fate of a ballot initiative that would require girls from kindergarten through high school to undergo sex-verification testing before playing school sports — a measure critics call the most extreme of its kind in the country.IL26-638 would bar transgender athl...

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ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to monitor its online critics. Is it threat mitigation or an infringement of free speech?

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

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“DHS sent administrative subpoenas to Reddit for…11 accounts that had posted “content critical of federal actions”…last year. Reddit determined that these users were engaged in protected activity under the 1st Amendment and objected to each…and DHS eventually withdrew the requests.” GIFT

How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against Its Critics

The agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.

wsj.com

🤣 I rewatched this scene 3 times👏 I love Sam as Lestat! 🫶🔥 #IWTV

Sara Ghaleb@saraghaleb.bsky.social · last mo.

The Vampire Lestat trying to say Worcester, MA in the greatest moment of television in history

There should be a global tax on billionaires.