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Larry O. Dean

@larryodean.bsky.social

Flint-born, former San Franciscan, Chicago-based poet, educator, singer-songwriter, and kitchen sink sardonicist https://www.larryodean.com

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Patience star: 'It's common for dramas to infantilise autistic women' Ella Maisy Purvis and Laura Fraser speak to Radio Times about their Channel 4 drama.
07.08.2025 05:03 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
07.08.2025 03:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The delightfully nasty Weapons spirals in the wake of unimaginable loss A town loses its children, then its cool in Zach Cregger's bold, funny, and endlessly scary follow-up to Barbarian: Weapons.
06.08.2025 23:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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UCLA says Trump administration has suspended $584 million in grants “If these funds remain suspended, it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation,” Chancellor Julio Frenk said.
06.08.2025 21:55 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Republican popularity falls to lowest level in years According to a new poll, the proportion of people who intend to vote for the Republican Party has declined.
06.08.2025 21:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Situation: A Ghost Grand Jury and a Ponzi Scheme I'm still skeptical

"These are dishonest people who are investigating honest ones. And they are projecting upon them the way that they might behave themselves if the walls were closing in on them."
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org discusses the Trump administration's investigation of "Russiagate" in The Situation.

06.08.2025 21:49 — 👍 120    🔁 47    💬 4    📌 2
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JD Vance’s team had water level of Ohio river raised for family’s boating trip Exclusive: Incident raises questions of exploitation of public services, but Secret Service said it was requested for ‘safe navigation’
06.08.2025 21:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Venezuelan men and their families share experiences after CECOT release For months, the families of Venezuelan men sent to CECOT by the Trump administration awaited news about their loved ones. Now that the families have been reunited, they open up about the harm they exp...
06.08.2025 21:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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What If Social Media Filtered Abuse Like It Filters Spam? A report from PEN America and Consumer Reports urges tech companies to treat online abuse like spam, filtering harm before it reaches users.
06.08.2025 21:39 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Why ban books about cats and dogs? t’s not exactly clear what put these petcare tomes on the removal list, except that they were part of a sweep that pulled more than 574 books off its library shelves, ostensibly to comply with recent ...
06.08.2025 21:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why PEN America is Doubling Down on Florida - PEN America Two years ago, we partnered with a group of bestselling authors to establish a PEN America Florida office, aiming to combat censorship at its source.
06.08.2025 21:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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WEAPONS Review: BARBARIAN Director Zach Cregger Returns With Another Gory, Twisty Winner Barbarian director, Zack Cregger, returns to cinemas this week with Weapons, another unpredictable horror rollercoaster that proves his debut feature was no fluke. The small town of Maybrook, Pennsylv...
06.08.2025 21:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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'Dangerous Anti-Vaccine Fanatic' RFK Jr. Shredded by Medical Experts After Pulling Support for mRNA Research | Common Dreams Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces backlash for cutting funding for mRNA vaccine research.
06.08.2025 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Democrats Rebuked for Backing GOP War on Public Schools, Trump Voucher Expansion | Common Dreams School vouchers are harming public schools and not benefiting students academically as claimed. Why are Democratic governors split on this issue, with some backing vouchers? Public schools are a winni...
06.08.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Is Launching an AI Search Engine Powered by Perplexity America’s scandalous president is teaming up with its most disreputable AI company to make a search engine.
06.08.2025 20:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Opinion | These College Professors Will Not Bow Down to A.I.
06.08.2025 20:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Weighs Getting Involved in New York City Mayor’s Race
06.08.2025 20:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Doctors Horrified After Google's Healthcare AI Makes Up a Body Part That Does Not Exist in Humans In Google's May 2024 research paper introducing healthcare AI model, Med-Gemini, the AI made up a body part that doesn't exist.
06.08.2025 19:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The College That’s Thriving Under Trump Federal scrutiny has been a rare sap on Grand Canyon University’s growth. Until now.
06.08.2025 19:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Company advised by Trump sons said it hoped to benefit from fed money, then took it back A public document filed by a company that just hired President Donald Trump’s two oldest sons as advisers included a sentence early Monday that said it hoped to benefit from grants and other incentive...
06.08.2025 19:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Enola Gay (Remastered 2019)
YouTube video by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Topic Enola Gay (Remastered 2019)
06.08.2025 19:36 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know them And justices don’t want you to notice.
06.08.2025 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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These U.S. regions are blanketed in wildfire smoke. Here's what to know Breathing wildfire smoke has long-lasting health ramifications.
06.08.2025 19:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Proud Boys are in denial about not being the Proud Boys anymore: suit Exclusive details: A historic Black congregation in Washington, D.C., continues to outplay the Proud Boys, who owe the Metropolitan AME Church more than $3 million after losing the trademark to their ...
06.08.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Former 'Alligator Alcatraz' worker describes 'inhumane' conditions inside In an exclusive report, NBC6 spoke with a former corrections officer who says she saw hundreds held in cages with no sunlight, backed up toilets and little access to showers.
06.08.2025 19:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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ICE Agent Gets Wounded Veteran License Plates After His Feelings Are Hurt Local ICE agent Tony Stockton added wounded veteran plates to his Ford F150 after getting his feelings hurt in what he referred to as “the Battle of San Bernadino.”
06.08.2025 19:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Unprecedented Big Money Surge for Super PAC Tied to Trump Million-dollar donors fuel a nearly $200 million war chest to support a president who can’t run again.
06.08.2025 19:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers | Stanford HAI Don’t put faith in detectors that are “unreliable and easily gamed,” says scholar.
06.08.2025 18:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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MAGA Rep. Gets Brutally Booed At Nebraska Town Hall After Making Absurd 'Working Class' Claim He can't be serious.
06.08.2025 18:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The case that saved the press — and why Trump wants it gone The president isn’t just upset about reporting on him that he thinks is unfair. He wants to redefine what counts as libel and make it easier for public officials to sue for damages.
06.08.2025 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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