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Picture maker. Currently painting/writing a book about the hidden history of Aphrodite https://www.stevecleff.com https://www.patreon.com/cleff

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The chat reporting holds up! The chat scooped all the national guys today

11.03.2026 19:16 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

They’re one of the only places someone with Celiac can get good cheesesteaks and hoagies

10.03.2026 03:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEWS

Trump DOJ offers a deferred prosecution agreement to Halkbank, the Turkish state-run bank charged with laundering billions in Iranian oil money.

Trump repeatedly tried to end this case in his first termβ€”per John Bolton, as a favor to one of the "dictators he liked" (i.e. Erdogan).

09.03.2026 14:08 πŸ‘ 685 πŸ” 393 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 35
Suffragettes protesting

Suffragettes protesting

International Women’s Day did not begin as a celebration. It began as unrest. Women striking in factories, suffragists beaten in the streets, workers demanding dignity and the vote. History keeps trying to polish it into something more comfortable. Its origins were anything but.

09.03.2026 03:48 πŸ‘ 60 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

that the Trump administration is trying to shut down a leading AI company because it’s unwilling to develop autonomous murder systems is terrifying, and should be of grave concern to everyone in the world

08.03.2026 18:14 πŸ‘ 5762 πŸ” 1677 πŸ’¬ 121 πŸ“Œ 69
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Eyeing Voting Rights, Liberals Aim to Secure Wisconsin’s Supreme Court through 2030 In the April election, Wisconsin liberals are hoping to expand their majority on a body that could be a critical backstop for voting rights during the next presidential race.

The upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court election could be critical for voting rights, but it has had a lower profile compared to previous races. A recent poll found that 93 percent of voters in the state have heard β€œlittle” or β€œnothing” about it.

07.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 325 πŸ” 181 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 20

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

08.03.2026 02:12 πŸ‘ 17833 πŸ” 4808 πŸ’¬ 619 πŸ“Œ 250

So your logic is that we can assign properties to anything if we don’t understand how those properties work?

That’s the opposite of rational thought.

07.03.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I don’t see an obvious path to improving the team by trading him. Certainly not for this year.

06.03.2026 18:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m old enough to remember that it really helped Obama to defeat Clinton in the primary when he could say he voted against the war (and she had voted for it). He was a longshot candidate at the time.

05.03.2026 23:55 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months.

Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

04.03.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 1746 πŸ” 396 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 40

Thanks for the thoughtful answer as always.

04.03.2026 14:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

How can anyone root for this team knowing the ownership isn’t going to try and make it better? This is it. This is as good as they’ll get.

04.03.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I hear people say Dead Cap money is never a problem for the Eagles, but this year they’ll have $36M in Dead Cap for Huff, Slay, and Bradberry & likely can’t afford to sign 3 of their top free agents. Or are those unrelated because they’re not re-signing them because of cap space but to not overpay?

03.03.2026 17:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Probably. It’s pretty easy to set up AI agents to take a topic, write an outline, turn that into an article, then write a headline, and post it. It’s not easy for them to do any of that in a high quality or interesting way, but it’s fast and cheap.

01.03.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

@jimmykempski.bsky.social maybe this is a mailbag question not Bluesky, but: I hear people say Dead Cap money is never a problem for the Eagles, but this year they’ll have $36M in Dead Cap for Huff, Slay, and Bradberry & likely can’t afford to sign 3 of their top free agents. Or are those unrelated?

01.03.2026 19:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If I bump into you at the local supermarket again, don’t freak out if someone (quietly and respectfully) calls you that.

01.03.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Finally someone I can talk to about this! First syllable with five choices right?
1. Just the first syllable - β€œToc, Rex”
2. Add a β€œy” or β€œie” - β€œJonesy”
3. Add β€œer” - β€œSimmer”
4. Add β€œs” - β€œProngs”
5. Add β€œsy” - β€œCartsy”
Any missing?
Aside from creative ones (The Hammer)

Would you be β€œBows?”

01.03.2026 14:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Get the word out!

28.02.2026 17:35 πŸ‘ 477 πŸ” 326 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 2
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So sad to share that legendary colorist Tatjana Wood has passed away at the age of 99. Her pioneering painterly touch graced scores of DC & Vertigo series. She was truly one of a kind and a special friend. May her memory be a blessing.

27.02.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 1545 πŸ” 427 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 79
Block The Merger | Protect Independent Film Block the WBD Merger. Protect independent film, local cinemas, and public-interest storytelling.

By the way, if you're in TV or film, have pitched Warner or Paramount or really any studio, & believe that the Warner-Paramount deal will harm your ability to work or diminish your pay, go to this website and share your story. That's the evidence needed for a state AG case:
blockthemerger.com

27.02.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 204 πŸ” 144 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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The Handbasket 100% independent journalism by Marisa Kabas

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media.

Off the top of my head:

www.thehandbasket.co
404media.co
www.garbageday.email

Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

26.02.2026 23:46 πŸ‘ 9579 πŸ” 3148 πŸ’¬ 524 πŸ“Œ 115

Someone’s been playing Risk

26.02.2026 14:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

lakota ppl were and native women more generally were in the 80+% range voting for harris. the op to divide idle no more activism in canada (anti me too, depp trial, etc etc) is about suppressing indigenous voting here also. it's huge bc indigenous ppl have been weaponizing the vote

26.02.2026 14:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thank you for always being a voice of reason. I know it’s not the biggest click generator, but know that you have helped at least one person maintain his sanity today.

25.02.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

there's a discworld humble bundle to get 35 of the books with a $16 minimum contribution

21.02.2026 22:00 πŸ‘ 241 πŸ” 89 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 5

Better than any of the AI movies posted this past week. Drama > Effects. (I know it’s a parody, but you want to see more don’t you? I didn’t care to see another frame of the Spidey or Brad Pitt vs Tom Cruise AI)

19.02.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

People who want power but have no values or integrity imitate others they perceive as powerful. When a reality show entertainer is the one in power these people imitate entertainers. The problem is without any humanity, they have no idea what is entertaining.

19.02.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You know that thing is never getting finished, right?

18.02.2026 22:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m feeling safer for the mid-terms

18.02.2026 15:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0