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Conservative Watchdog Parents TV Council Files for Bankruptcy: Famed for ‘Family Guy’ Feud Seth MacFarlane once famously called the PTC "like getting hate mail from Hitler." Now they've filed for Chapter 11.

Somewhere, Seth MacFarlane is smiling.

Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played. Here’s what you should do to actually get a good deal on Amazon.

Our personal tech columnist @geoffreyfowler.bsky.social tracked the prices of a bunch of items on Amazon ahead of the latest Prime Day sale.

Turns out only a few prices went down, many stayed the same... and several went significantly *up.* www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

For 1,250 days, Alan has given out free water at a busy Brightwood intersection He’s built a community that stood up for him when the threat of eviction loomed.

If you've ever driven through the intersection at Georgia and Missouri Avenues NW, you've gone through Alan's Oasis, where a homeless man has been giving out free bottles of water for more than three years. This is a such a great profile of Alan: 51st.news/dc-alans-oas...

Detail from the poster for A Minecraft Movie, showing a grassy cube with block cutouts resembling eyes and a frowny/scared mouth.

Warner Bros. announces AN UNTITLED MINECRAFT SEQUEL will be released July 23, 2027 in IMAX. Jared Hess is back to direct, co-writing with Chris Galletta; "plot details remain deep in the mine for now."

BAD FAIRIES, which had been scheduled for that date, moves up to May 21, 2027.

American citizen, read this. www.koin.com/news/portlan...

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min Also, we proposed a idea how to do a end run on vote by mail. Concept is based on what Trump proposed. When you vote, you check everyone's citizenship as well as voter ID. In a vote by mail state, you might be able to check citizenship during voter registration. You can send copies of your passport and your birth certificate in. How in the world are you going to check our voters? Voter ID, right? Vote by mail. So that creates a problem for Oregon. But if federal government new requirement is to check both, and if Oregon can comply with the requirements, what would happen to our election result? I'm talking about the entire federal delegation. For federal elections, we're talking about only federal elections. COMMON SENSE Vascluar

Ep. 18: September to Remember October 6 • S1 E18 • 44 min So entire federal delegation, congressmen and senators could be challenged, could be unseated because you didn't follow federal requirements to elect them. So I said the trade-off is worth it. You know why? Democrats control two Senate seats out of six congressional seats. We only control one. They control five. You talk about trade-off, right? COMMON SENSE Sanctuany

Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.

YouTube video by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Finding Your Roots Season 12 Trailer

Wow: Delroy Lindo, America Ferrera, Kristin Chenoweth, Spike Lee, Sanaa Lathan, Rhiannon Giddens, Flea, Hasan Minhaj, Lizzo, Darren Criss, Danielle Deadwyler, Lizzy Caplan and more in season 12 of FINDING YOUR ROOTS, debuting January 6, 2026 on PBS.

The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.

from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
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How Kevin Costner Lost Hollywood On-set brawls. Courtroom battles. Epic bombs. Why the world's most bankable cowboy is suddenly shooting blanks.

I wouldn't count Kevin Costner out -- he's made too many comebacks before -- but this piece illustrates how his Hollywood options may be narrowing.

Full disclosure: I've interviewed Costner several times, most recently for "Horizon" Part 1, and I hope we get Parts 2, 3, and 4 eventually.

YouTube video by Storyful News & Weather ICE Agents Shoot Pastor With Pepper Ball Outside Broadview Detention Center

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I'd say they matter equally -- part of the same process forward.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

Pentagon charges ahead with press restrictions ‘designed to stifle a free press,’ media orgs say | CNN Business Military officials are pushing forward with new restrictions on the Pentagon press corps despite objections from news organizations and watchdog groups.

Pentagon Press Association statement:

"Limiting the media's ability to report on the U.S. military fails to honor the American families who have entrusted their sons and daughters to serve in it, or the taxpayers responsible for giving the department hundreds of billions of dollars a year."

section of text from South Side Weekly's coverage, which says: "The building was purchased by Wisconsin-based investor Trinity Flood in January 2020, according to Cook County records. On October 1, the day after the raid, a judge reviewed an emergency motion from Wells Fargo seeking to appoint Matthew Tarshis of Frontline Real Estate Partners as the property’s receiver. Flood purchased three multifamily properties in South Shore in 2020. The neighborhood, which had the highest number of eviction filings in Chicago from 2015-2019 according to the Law Center for Better Housing, has seen a rise in outside real estate investors since the 2017 announcement of the Obama Presidential Center’s construction in the neighboring Jackson Park. Wells Fargo Bank foreclosed on the building in mid-2024, bringing a $27 million lawsuit against Flood for missed loan payments. In late 2024, the City began closing its largest migrant shelters and, through state funding assistance distributed via Catholic Charities and moving support from New Life Church, relocated many families to buildings such as this one."

We know more about the massive military-style raid on a Chicago housing complex thanks to the reporting of @southsideweekly.bsky.social, @blockclubchi.bsky.social, and neighborhood resident Eboni Watson who chronicled the event. Among the emerging questions: what's real estate's role in this?

Geothermal energy has huge potential to generate clean power – including from used oil and gas wells The Earth’s own heat can be brought up from underground and used as a source of energy that emits almost no greenhouse gases and can operate 24/7 almost anywhere on the planet.

Good stuff from @us.theconversation.com: New geothermal engineering techniques hold the promise of clean energy "without the ups and downs of solar or wind – and with little contribution to climate change."

Plus, using old oil wells? Sounds like the clean energy version of swords into plowshares.

Federal shutdown deals blow to already hobbled cybersecurity agency The triple whammy of deep staff cuts, shutdown furloughs and the expiration of an information-sharing law leaves national cybersecurity in a perilous state.

From @us.theconversation.com: "The cyberdefense agency is being hobbled at a time when the need for its services has never been greater, from the ongoing China-led Salt Typhoon attack on U.S. telecommunications networks to ransomware, data breaches and threats to infrastructure."

Something extraordinary just happened But of course there's a but. Or two.

It's not all positive (this IS 2025), but there's a tremendous amount of good news and useful information in @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest post.

Words of War (2025) ⭐ 5.8 | Biography, Drama, History 1h 57m | R

Maxine Peake played Politkovskaya in the recent film “Words of War,” which I wish more people had seen.

It’s probably asking too much for Murphy, Mielants, and Emily Watson to make it official, form a repertory company, and continue turning out one novella adaptation a year, but I certainly wouldn’t mind.

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes." -- Mark Twain (maybe)

The great @hcrichardson.bsky.social ties the 2020s to the 1920s: the anti-intellectual Pres. Harding, his corrupt appointees, Congressmen better at obstruction than governing, and policies that led to the Great Depression.

Here's video of ICE shooting Rev David Black, a minister with the Presbytarian Church (USA) in the head with a pepper ball for exercising his First Amendment rights.

The government is shooting priests in the head with pepper balls. I feel like this is a kitchen table issue.

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago (RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

NPPA Raises First Amendment Concerns Over Largest Drone Flight Ban Ever Issued in U.S.* The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) today raised serious First Amendment concerns over the Department of Homeland Security’s request and the Federal Aviation Administration’s issuance ...

The Trump administration has banned drone photography over 935 square miles of Chicago, preventing journalists from using the tool to document the administration's use of force in the city.

Tweet from @laura_n_rod Text: A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them. Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area. Photo: shows a federal agent in a truck pointing a gun

Another incident of federal agents pointing guns at Chicago area residents.

Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings.

You can own some happy little Bob Ross trees and help public television!

"This auction ensures his legacy continues to support the very medium that brought his joy and creativity into American homes for decades."

Conservatives Take Aim at ‘One Battle After Another’: “Year’s Most Irresponsible Movie” While Paul Thomas Anderson's film is being heralded as a masterpiece by many, some conservatives accuse it of potentially inspiring left-wing violence.

It's... a... movie. 🙄

Looks more and more like the raid in Chicago was more than just a fascist terror raid but the use of federal violence to help a bank empty a building they held in receivership.

Keri Russell’s Emotional Transparency Has Anchored Three Decades of TV But, offscreen, she’s not even sure that she wants to be an actress.

My profile of the delightful Keri Russell, the darkly funny, surprisingly introverted former New Mickey Mouse Club member who—even after Felicity, The Americans and The Diplomat!—has never fully embraced the idea of herself as an actress: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...