Monk Fyre
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Travel. Books. Movies. The Underdog. Those are my main interests.
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Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
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Marjane Satrapi, Author of ‘Persepolis,’ Dies at 56
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/world/europe/marjane-satrapi-persepolis-death.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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MeidasTouch
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BREAKING: CBS News has terminated 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley's contract following his vocal disagreements with the new leadership under Bari Weiss.
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Peabo Bryson, Soul Singer Known as the Voice of Love, Dies at 75
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Peabo Bryson, Soul Singer Known as the Voice of Love, Dies at 75
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@jlizak.bsky.social
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Sarah Weinman
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Barry Meier really is one of the best to ever do it, as his latest, for
@atavist.com
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The Fugitive Childhood of a Cocaine Smuggler's Daughters
When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would ...
https://magazine.atavist.com/2026/mccann-cocaine-fugitives
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Raymond Berry, Hall of Fame Receiver for Champion Colts, Dies at 93
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Raymond Berry, Hall of Fame Receiver for Champion Colts, Dies at 93
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Carl Quintanilla
3 days ago
“.. You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."
@axios.com
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Raymond Berry, Hall of Fame Receiver for Champion Colts, Dies at 93
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Raymond Berry, Hall of Fame Receiver for Champion Colts, Dies at 93
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Shipwreck
4 days ago
Trump to CNBC: Not worried about oil prices if Iran blocks the Strait of Hormuz.
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Carl Quintanilla
4 days ago
“.. Inflation-adjusted disposable personal income growth fell by 1.1% y/y in April. Rarely have we seen that kind of a decline outside of recessions.” - Schwab
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Carl Quintanilla
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Disco Barrington 🏳️⚧️ Author (he/they)
5 days ago
Recovering from yesterday’s big gay festival with coffee and a brilliant verse novel about a Dominican-American teenager who joins a slam poetry club and learns to stand up for herself. This is brilliant so far. 📚💙
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Rónán Hession
5 days ago
Now reading Snow Country by Yasunari Kawabata, tr Edward G Seidensticker. My fourth or fifth time reading this. I think it might have been the first Japanese novel I ever read, though I didn't connect with it at all first time around. And look at me now!
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Olga Nesterova
5 days ago
Our enemies are pooping in their pantaloons seeing this greatness personified.
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The Tennessee Holler
5 days ago
Massie reacts to the push to “integrate” 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱 militaries
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Andrea Chalupa
6 days ago
Getting off US tech: a guide
disconnect.blog/getting-off-...
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Getting off US tech: a guide
I’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider.
https://disconnect.blog/getting-off-us-tech-a-guide/?fbclid=IwY2xjawSHkAZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEe7pDGt5-_2b9lP9zJqwWDOgQ1pf_pvfiTdDvxP5qp1w2BR1ExCgFESacKtlo_aem_YWdncwAzG7jMpf8dCHSHNYMPQGzT&brid=YWdncwE9WadgzlIsSRjFLyxeIalt
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Bloom County Outland
6 days ago
A little too orderly
#bloomcounty
#billthecat
#opus
#goodmorning
#comics
#oliver
#outland
#SteveDallas
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Shipwreck
6 days ago
An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base within the past 24 hours caused minor injuries to several Americans and seriously damaged two MQ-9 Reaper strike drones
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Americans Injured in Iranian Missile Strike on Kuwaiti Air Base
An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base within the past 24 hours caused minor injuries to several Americans and seriously damaged two MQ-9 Reaper strike drones, even as US President ...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-30/americans-injured-in-iranian-missile-strike-on-kuwaiti-air-base?taid=6a1a6c184b8aea00017f96af&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_content=business&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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San Francisco Chronicle
6 days ago
Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” — has died.
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‘Star Wars’ editor Marcia Lucas, former wife of George Lucas, dies at 80
Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” — has died.
https://bit.ly/4e90Uqd
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Lora Kolodny
7 days ago
No comment from Mercedes-Benz, which has two large assembly plants and reports employing more than 11,000 people in the U.S... --
www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/m...
by Michael Wayland and Luke Fountain
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Mercedes-Benz may be shut out of U.S. market under bill aimed at Chinese automaker ownership
Mercedes-Benz's largest individual shareholder is BAIC, a Chinese state-owned automaker. Sources told CNBC that exemptions in the legislation would not apply.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/29/mercedes-benz-ban-congressional-bill-china-ownership.html
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Mohamed A. El-Erian
7 days ago
Also from
@wsj.com
"Worker compensation—wages and benefits—grew 0.8% in the first quarter from the fourth, while domestic corporate profits jumped 2.7%. As a result, labor’s share of gross domestic income (conceptually similar to GDP) sank to 51%, the lowest since records began in 1947. "
#economy
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Carl Quintanilla
7 days ago
ROSENBERG, on that downward GDP revision to 1.6%: “.. Strip out the swing from the federal government reopening and the contribution from non-farm inventories, and that headline GDP number would have only been +0.8% QoQ annualized.”
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Photographers At Work
8 days ago
RIP. According to David Kennerly, "Phuoc was known for walking point on combat patrols, exposing himself to grave danger in pursuit of the best photos."
#Photojournalism
#Photography
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Dang Van Phuoc, AP combat photographer who lost an eye in the Vietnam War, dies at 91
Former Associated Press photographer Dang Van Phuoc has died at age 91. Phuoc was freelancing in Saigon in 1965 when AP’s photo chief hired him.
https://apnews.com/article/dang-van-phuoc-vietnam-war-photographer-death-a0437a3e4e09b32c482ae24ee3bdf2b8
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Carl Quintanilla
7 days ago
EPB: “.. Real personal income per capita is falling apart. .. It's now $3,842 below the 2009-2020 trend and accelerating lower.”
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Carl Quintanilla
8 days ago
US GDP: 2023: 2.9% 2024: 2.8% 2025: 2.1% 2026 YTD: 1.6%
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Olga Nesterova
7 days ago
Don Lemon just shared that the DOJ filed for a search warrant and demanded the list of his paid YouTube subscribers. For now, the judge denied the request. When I was telling you why I got off Substack and moved ONEST to EU servers, I wasn’t kidding. Pay attention. Pls.
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Dana Delany
10 days ago
Jeffrey directed me in my first play at Wesleyan, The Real Inspector Hound. A lovely, talented, modest man who really knew his old Hollywood history. And his Bway Women on the Verge should have gotten more love! They're calling our class.
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Jeffrey Lane Dead: 'Mad About You', 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels' Writer Was 71
Jeffrey Lane, a writer and producer with TV credits including Mad About You and Broadway projects including Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, died May 20.
https://deadline.com/2026/05/jeffrey-lane-dead-1236919176/
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Jennifer Lizak
10 days ago
We are 25 days away from my 25th year Relaying for the
@americancancersoc.bsky.social
! Help me reach my goal of raising $3,000 personally and help our Shamrock Angels team raise our $10K goal! Donate at
main.acsevents.org/goto/jlizak
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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...
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Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95
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Stars and Stripes
11 days ago
An estimated 1,011,027 troops have been killed between the “shot heard ‘round the world” fired in Lexington, 1775. An estimated 82,000 service members remain unaccounted for from conflicts dating back to World War II; bout 41,000 are presumed lost at sea. Memorial Day honors them all.
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Memorial Day salutes those killed from Lexington Green to Operation Epic Fury
Memorial Day honors Americans who died serving the U.S. over 250 years, from the Revolutionary War to modern conflicts.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2026-05-25/memorial-day-military-sacrifice-remembrance-21776125.html
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Al Jazeera English
13 days ago
Video shows Israeli soldiers forcing two siblings to sit on the ground with their hands behind their heads beside a military jeep, before blindfolding one of them and arresting both children during a raid on al-Mughayyir village in the occupied West Bank.
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Bloom County Outland
14 days ago
Herring Burger
#bloomcounty
#billthecat
#opus
#goodmorning
#comics
#oliver
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Phil Lewis
13 days ago
Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died. He was 59
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Rob Base, ‘It Takes Two’ Rapper, Dies at 59
Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock and best known for the hit 'It Takes Two,' has died. He was 59.
https://variety.com/2026/music/news/rob-base-dead-rapper-it-takes-two-dj-ez-rock-1236757432/
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Robin Yassin-Kassab
15 days ago
book cover with new font
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Bloom County Outland
15 days ago
Wrong Porch
#bloomcounty
#billthecat
#opus
#goodmorning
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#oliver
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🦋 kris🌻⋆⋆⋆
16 days ago
Barney Frank, former Massachusetts congressman and gay rights advocate, dies at 86 Frank was a leading co-sponsor of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act.
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Barney Frank, former Massachusetts congressman and gay rights advocate, dies at 86
The Democratic lawmaker served as chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee from 2007 to 2011.
https://abcnews.com/Politics/barney-frank-former-massachusetts-congressman-gay-rights-advocate/story?id=133150494
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@GottaLaff
17 days ago
NBC-- "Mark Fuhrman, the former Los Angeles Police detective who became infamous as one of the leads investigating O.J. Simpson after the deaths of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ron Goldman, has died. He was 76."
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NPR
18 days ago
Dohrn's parents, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, helped found the the Weather Underground. "I knew that the FBI was chasing us," he says. His memoir is Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young.
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Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn details a childhood underground and on the run
Dohrn's parents, Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, helped found the the Weather Underground. "I knew that the FBI was chasing us," he says. His memoir is Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young.
https://n.pr/4ny5jGg
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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول
19 days ago
The International Criminal Court issued secret arrest warrants for five Israeli officials, including three politicians and two military officers. Source: Haaretz
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Jack Douglas, Producer for Aerosmith and Lennon, Dies at 80
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Jack Douglas, Producer for Aerosmith and Lennon, Dies at 80
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Claudine Longet, Entertainer Who Shot Olympian Boyfriend, Dies at 84
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Claudine Longet, Entertainer Who Shot Olympian Boyfriend, Dies at 84
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/us/claudine-longet-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Johanna
20 days ago
End of an era!
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Sam 'Cheezborger' Sianis, legendary owner of the Billy Goat Tavern, dies at 91
Mr. Sianis was happy to see the "Curse of the Billy Goat" his uncle placed on the Cubs broken when the team won the World Series in 2016.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/obituaries/2026/05/15/sam-cheezborger-sianis-legendary-owner-of-the-billy-goat-tavern-dies-at-91
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Jennifer Lizak
20 days ago
It's here and it's amazing! Check out the new website and update or download our new app!
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Mrs. 🩵✨
21 days ago
A third of the way through this book and I’m already calling it a must read. A tradwife influencer wakes up in 1855 and has to live the life she cosplays online. SO freaking good so far.
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kelly jensen
21 days ago
When the state is disenfranchising its Black voters, there's zero question why ROOTS was just banned in Knox County, Tennessee, schools. "Age-Appropriate" my ass.
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Knox County Schools adds Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Roots' to list of banned books
Knox County Schools recently took Alex Haley's influential novel, "Roots," off library shelves under the Age-Appropriate Materials Act.
https://www.wbir.com/article/news/education/roots-added-knox-co-schools-list-banned-books/51-517cba33-2b63-4479-b269-5457c3a546fe
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The Tennessee Holler
22 days ago
This is amazing - @kevinolearytv 🤡 is fearmongering about Chinese agents opposing his giant Utah data center… but it’s 2 young local girls in Utah who hilariously call him (and his “dumbass hat”) out👇🏽 Full:
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Olga Nesterova
23 days ago
Read/Watch: A Sunken Russian Ship, Nuclear Reactor Questions, and North Korea VIDEO INSIDE
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Read/Watch: A Sunken Russian Ship, Nuclear Reactor Questions, and North Korea
CNN reports a Russian cargo ship that sank off Spain may have carried submarine nuclear reactor components possibly bound for North Korea, raising new questions about Russia–North Korea military coope...
https://www.onestnetwork.com/read-watch-a-sunken-russian-ship-nuclear-reactor-questions-and-north-korea/
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BladeoftheSun
23 days ago
The USA has blocked 5 players from Iraq's team from coming to the World Cup. Including one who plays in the English Football League. Boycott the World Cup.
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Sarah Weinman
24 days ago
RIP Rex Reed, who was certainly never dull.
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Rex Reed, Sharp-Witted Critic and Journalist Who Often Courted Controversy, Dies at 87
Rex Reed, a stylish critic and journalist who courted controversy and profiled Hollywood legends, has died at 87.
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/rex-reed-razor-critic-journalist-dies-obituary-1236745682/
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NPR
24 days ago
Craig Morton, who spent 18 years in the NFL and became the first quarterback to start the Super Bowl for two franchises — the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos — has died. He was 83.
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Craig Morton, former quarterback for Cowboys and Broncos, dies at 83
Craig Morton, who spent 18 years in the NFL and became the first quarterback to start the Super Bowl for two franchises — the Dallas Cowboys and Denver Broncos — has died. He was 83.
https://n.pr/4d1aE5q
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