Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
Matt Young
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TV Writer/Producer: CW's KUNG FU, NBC's BLINDSPOT; Some RPG stuff; Banjo/Guitar/Bass; Minneapolis (sometimes LA)
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
Just got back from a screening of The Muppet Movie ('79) in 4K and, yeah - it was pretty fantastic.
If you are an expert on air quality and have 10-15 minutes to talk to me today or tomorrow about important things journalists should know while reporting on wildfires and smoke, my DMs are open, or you can email me at karen at OpenNews dot org.
Fascinating and eye-opening conversation.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 3d agoNew from 404 Media: Jonathan Paz’s job was to convince cities to buy Flock cameras. After initially being enthusiastic about the company, he became disillusioned. I spoke to Paz about how he first joined Flock, what he was lied to about, and why he had to get out www.404media.co/why-a-flock-...
New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo
She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.
Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.
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In happier news, it turns out that blueberries grown beneath solar panels turn out sweeter! 🫐 (via @billmckibben.bsky.social)
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and tastes
In Massachusetts, a solar farm was raised nine feet above some blueberry fields, and its shade is changing how the fruit grows and even how it tastes.
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This movie is a lot of fun and you should watch it! Be sure to listen for a song by yours truly.
Ben Rock@benrock.com · 4d agoHey hey: my movie “Alien Raiders” appears to be free with ads on YouTube! Check it out! youtu.be/giciik1AeNw?...
Everyone who promoted that lie should be thrown out of DC, including Trump. Everyone who went on the air defending it should publicly apologize. But we’ll just move on to the next way Trump targets innocent people to avoid saying he fucked up.
Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray”@ryanjreilly.com · 5d agoBREAKING: The Trump administration has moved to drop its felony Reflecting Pool case against a former Olympic canoeist, admitting their allegations against David "Davey" Hearn don't hold water.
Can we please *not* nominate this guy? Please?
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 5d agoYou're not going to believe this but Gavin Newsom is taking the side of capital over workers. In this case it's tricky because he's backing the very MAGA allies his cosplaying X account claims he's fighting. www.wsj.com/business/med...
This is VERY bad. Congressional investigation immediately. They’re trying to use Palantir to figure out who you voted for. 0% chance this ends well. Stop it ASAP.
Exclusive: FBI gets voter's IP address in new fraud probe tactic
The move offers a glimpse into how authorities are now digging into voter rolls and registration practices.
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Yeah, pay attention to that “15/18” on this post. Long thread of many publishers’ games at the IPR booth — handy for assembling your future shopping-list, perhaps! (Or is that just me?)
Indie Press Revolution@ipr.bsky.social · 6d ago15/18 And we reach the end of our tour with Evil Hat Productions including Blades in the Dark: Deep Cuts, Girl by Moonlight, and Stewpot by Takuma Okada, author of Alone on a Journey.
It’s fun watching voices who attacked anyone who even expressed difficulty voting because they didn’t want to support genocide turn around and encourage people not to vote because they might lose a primary. Hopefully this vote blue no matter who nonsense has been exposed at this point.
it's the long-awaited merger of "concerning" and "concerned"
Joe Sudbay@joesudbay.bsky.social · 5d agoVia @pressherald.com (gift link) Elon Musk planning to throw financial support behind Susan Collins’ U.S. Senate bid Collins "had friendly meetings with Musk in the past while also saying last year she was “very concerned” about some of DOGE’s moves" www.pressherald.com?p=7697086&uu...
AI flagging opponents as "terrorists" and the state cracking down. Straight-up dystopian.
Jessica Kant@jessdkant.bsky.social · 6d ago“The FBI has signaled that its new effort to brand political opponents of the president as terrorists has only just begun, and that soon the power of large language models will be brought to bear on the effort to flag and tag political dissidents en masse.”
Exactly. Fauci did not set school policy. He did not make vaccine policy. He did not set masking policy. He gave his best answer he could when asked- usually correct, sometimes not. But somehow he became the bogeyman 🤷🏻♂️
Andy Craig@andycraig.bsky.social · last wk.Aside from its many other problems, the idea Fauci was America's power-abusing covid dictator is somewhat complicated by the fact that he never had the power to do the things they're mad about. His recommendations bound nobody and were not particularly rigorously followed by the actual policymakers.
“but doing it this way doesn’t adhere to the right economic theory”- ok what we’ve been doing isn’t fucking working so maybe give something else a chance so people can literally feed themselves and their families. if this is theoretical for you, you probably don’t need to weigh in.
Here is a full list of every state that DOJ had sued and lost for access to their voter file: Arizona California Connecticut Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin
SEATTLE! Joseph's bone-chilling, rib-tickling thriller DEAD MEDIA is coming to our fair city next week! I heard Jimothy might be there? filmcenter.tasveer.org/movie/dead-m...
Dead Media (USA, English)
One day only! Catch this special screening of Dead Media, the campy story of a troubled young woman, her lonely Gen X uncle, a haunted DVD, and a movie night that just won’t die. Starring Sammi...
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JosephScrimshaw@josephscrimshaw.bsky.social · 2w agoROADSHOW! Updated dates for DEAD MEDIA: THE BONUS FEATURES TOUR. I'll be at every screening doing an intro, a post-film Q&A, giving away a weird DVD, and more. Join us and spread the (terrifying) word! Info & tix here: www.antennareleasing.com/films/deadme...
Dylan Mulvaney's response to Trump's recent attacks on her at the WHCD is worth watching. www.readtpa.com/p/the-punchl...
The Punchline
Dylan Mulvaney did nothing wrong. That's the point.
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Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
Ben Rock@benrock.com · last wk.Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice In Chains
The anti-data center movement is like "I don't want to pay more money for a thing that will not benefit me at all and will actively make my life measurably worse in a bunch of ways" and the pro-data center movement is like "We want it to be illegal for you to not like us."
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last wk.😬
“I have a somewhat different approach.” - Ray Parker Jr.
Sean Thomason@seanthomason.bsky.social · 2w agoA story that crazy just has to be true.
a cabinet of billionaires thinks that its a good idea to set up a pipeline for a servant underclass. they also have strong beliefs that your genetic makeup predetermines where you should be placed in life. if you wrote all this in a work of dystopian fiction, you'd sound like you were nuts.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoLinda McMahon says some elementary school students should be put on a "pathway" to become plumbers