Mark W.

@marwalt74.bsky.social

Married to my soulmate. Father to a terrific daughter. Dog dad and adventurer. I listen to audio books at 2.5 speed.

Hi @retroist.com New pop flavors and packaging I’ve seen or tried. Have you seen them on shelves yet? Tried the crush and Mountain Dew. Very similar color. Liked crush the best but both were good. Will try and find ghost face in a bottle

Ghostface Fanta punch flavorMountain Dew mango pineapple and 90’s crush Jack o lantern on Fanta orange box

How one man's Kafkaesque plight explains the growing hunger strikes at immigration lockups and the nightly unrest in Newark Izzy Aly says he'll die soon unless an ICE camp in rural Pa. stops neglecting his advanced kidney failure My column on the fight to save Izzy www.inquirer.com/opinion/izzy...

They’re fighting to stop Izzy Aly from dying in a Pennsylvania gulag | Will Bunch

A potentially fatal case of neglect for a Pa. immigrant detainee spotlights a nationwide humanitarian crisis.

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BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

BREAKING: I’m Suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to stop the $1.8B Slush Fund

In establishing the “anti-weaponization” fund, the government failed to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), so I'm suing to set the fund aside.

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THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Greetings, new friends! You may know me as an author, a prolific Bluesky poster and 4th place finisher on So You Call That Dancing? But you might not know that my partner Judith (@mzpress) and I have an online arts bookstore that's growing every day. Full inventory here: mzs.press/EVERYTHING-W...

The covers of three books. Left to right: Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the life of a legend, about the late Sopranos actor. The cover shows Gandolfini looking shy, peering offscreen with one unobstructed eye and another that peeks out between the fingers of his right hand.
CENTER: The cover of Cinema Her Way, a coffee table book by Marya E. Gates about female directors. On the cover is actress Michelle Rodriguez as the boxer heroine of Karyn Kusama's sports drama Girlfight, about a woman boxer. 
RIGHT David Hockney's painting collection The Arrival of Spring in Normandy, showing a painting of a verdant field. In the background of the field is green grass. in the upper foreground are the branches of a tree sprouting white, cottony buds.

wow. didn’t realize how fatphobic ppl are. at least online publicly online. honestly so heartbreaking. you try to bring up inclusivity for t-shirts and the shit ppl say is so disgusting :(

Prices will go up. There will be shortages. National parks will be a mess. Air travel, based on what we're seeing in Newark, could go sideways. Measles will spread and fall COVID shots could get delayed. And the president might throw himself a big birthday parade! Widespread anger is coming.

NEWS: 70% of congressional Republicans could be enriched by Trump’s tax cuts for the wealthy, according to federal data. Nearly ONE THIRD of Senate Republicans would benefit from a specific tax cut for the rich that less than 1% of America qualifies for. www.levernews.com/thanks-to-tr...

Thanks To Trump’s Tax Scam, Death Isn’t The End For GOP Lawmakers’ Riches

A new report finds Republican lawmakers stand to massively financially benefit from Trump’s renewed push to end the “death tax.”

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Proud to file an amicus brief in support of the Institute of Peace, an independent nonprofit created by Congress that DOGE lawlessly commandeered. The 113 military & foreign policy officials who signed the brief have seen the "blood and treasure" saved by the Institute's work, and know its worth.

Big Cases Bot@bigcases.bots.law · 2y ago

New filing: "US Institute of Peace v. DOGE (non-profit sues over DOGE takeover)" Doc #31: Amicus Brief Download PDF | View Full Case #CL69754533

One of my all time favorite birthdays was at a Chuckie Cheese and one of our families favorite stories happened that day. It involved some overly aggressive party goers, a not so forgiving person in a rat suit and a broom

Retroist@retroist.com · 2y ago

On an all new Retroist Podcast I discuss how a pizza chain with a cigar smoking rat from New Jersey as a mascot, Chuck E. Cheese, became a success again and again. I loved this place. www.retroist.com/p/retroist-c...

Chuck E. Cheese

RFK Jr. shrugs his shoulders at deadly Texas measles outbreak as he goes about kneecapping flu and COVID vaccines. That’s what happens when you put a raging lunatic in charge of America’s health. My column: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

RFK Jr. shrugs shoulders at deadly Texas measles outbreak. What'd you expect? | Opinion

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the noted vaccine skeptic, will get right on the deadly measles outbreak in Texas after he kneecaps a few vaccines.

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At some point very soon, republicans in Congress will have to choose between pleasing Trump to avoid being primaried, and helping their constituents to avoid being primaried.

A new North Dakota bill would require stores to pull any book with any "material harmful to minors" from the shelves. For those in the cheap seats, that effectively means ANY mention of sex, sexuality or gender. A bookseller could be arrested for displaying 1984. www.inforum.com/opinion/colu...

Port: It's not just about kids, and it's not just libraries

Legislation under consideration in Bismarck wouldn't just restrict access to books in schools and libraries. The language of the bill also applies to private book stores.

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