A. Torch

A. Torch

@torcho.bsky.social

Activist, Surrealist artist, vintage shopkeeper, anti-racist. Music is life-giving. #Jazz #Punk #CraftBeer ☂️ ⚔️ 🥪 #surrealism #yourbackseat #twinpeaks #STL

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All eyes on the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington today — its operations contract with GEO Group is set to expire today. No new contract or extension has been awarded yet. ICE has also expressed interest in purchasing the facility.

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Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

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We should remember that Cheesecake Factory was the chef’s kiss setting for this perfect story just a few weeks ago. You could pull off history’s coolest diamond heist, but if you were arrested in a CF parking lot, you’d instantly be a punchline.

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#31DaysofHalloween American photographer Clarence John Laughlin, best known for his surrealist photographs of the American South. #ClarenceJohnLaughlin #Photography #Surrealism

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Eric Bauza wasn't just a VA for the Looney Tunes he was a fan like us;He spoke & became an ambassador for the Looney Tunes,The closest one to Mel Blanc voicing all LT characters,I'm devestated & heartbroken that he's gone. It really hurts that he left us too soon...Thank You Eric. RIP

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Replying to @torcho.bsky.social

He also led the maddening bill that will divert increased property taxes from schools etc to downtown policing/surveillance (if the Mayor adopts a “Innovation Zone). Innovative ways to screw our kiddos.

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Simon & Shuster has responded to Jared Kushner's threats by accelerating the release of Matt Cole’s Princes and Thieves, with the book now available for purchase two days early (today). Buy your copy immediately. www.status.news/p/jared-kush...

status.newsVanity Fair's Kushner ConundrumSimon & Schuster quietly released Matthew Cole’s book two days early, Status has learned, as an excerpt in Vanity Fair prompts threats from Kushner’s legal team.

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Replying to @rodger.bsky.social

we need this series to go 7, we can't have a team celebrating the championship at 4 p.m. on a weekday and trying to wrap it up in time for them to change over the locker room for the guys

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big failure from the NBA to not get two of its teams to move one (1) regular season game. the NBA owns 42% of the WNBA (functionally more, since a lot of NBA owners own teams) and should be invested in wanting the league to grow, even at minor expense to its more popular product

Alexa Philippou@alexaphilippou.bsky.social

BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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BREAKING: Game 6 of the WNBA Finals will be held Thursday at 12:30pm ET at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. It will be a double-header with the Atlanta Hawks’ game, which will be moved to 8pm.

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Any tips or info you'd like to share? Feel free to text me on Signal premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected

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NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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The City of St. Louis has paused a $110,000 raise for Police Chief Robert Tracy, citing an investigation by the Missouri attorney general into whether a last-minute meeting to approve his new contract violated the state’s Sunshine Law. www.stlpr.org/news-briefs/...

stlpr.orgSt. Louis mayor pauses police chief’s raise due to Sunshine Law investigationThe five-member board pushed through a $110,000 raise for Police Chief Robert Tracy at an emergency meeting on Oct. 17.

FFS, this young tech service person on Ch 2 just recommended Google for everything, calling it the “most secure” of any. I would avoid: Grandsons Tech Service Co. ☠️

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"Schumer and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), who chairs the DSCC, have both maxed out to Turek through their leadership PACs"- from June Dem leader shouldn't interfere in local primaries in any case- but doing so on behalf of Turek should cost Schumer his job. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

politico.comChuck Schumer’s Iowa problemA new POLITICO Poll shows waning Democratic confidence in Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer — just as the Senate primary in Iowa turns into a referendum on his power.

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French surrealist photographer, sculptor and writer Claude Cahun Assemblage Surréaliste, 1936 (Gelatin silver print) #ClaudeCahun #BOTD #Surrealism #Photography

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Protesters take Summit Ave in front of the Minnesota Governor's Mansion demanding justice for Kohen Wiley and all lives stolen at the hands of racist police terror.

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Here's some of "Mason Row", a collection of acquisitions of former BSB multi-families. Rents here after upgrades don't seem outlandish but are much higher than before. My guess is most of BSB's units were well below 60% of AMI. Unsubsidized "Naturally Occuring Affordable Housing," if you will.

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if voting didn't matter they wouldn't be working so hard to stop you

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

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Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted

Rafa Sales Ross@rafiews.com

We are watching a coup d’état attempt unfold in real time in Brazil. I’m consumed by desperation.

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Thank god they shut down the local printing press and moved it down to fuckass Iowa because if it were still local they woulda caught this before sending it out and we couldn’t get a laugh.

Chris Steller@chrissteller.bsky.social

“p is worst in Minn.”

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wow -- a squirming Mike Rogers gets flustered as Kristen Welker points out that while he attacks El-Sayed over the Muslim Brotherhood, *Rogers himself* defended the Muslim Brotherhood during the same period of time that El-Sayed did!

Ah, so the extra long line for Skald Bakery is the Jennifer Garcia-Barrs Filipino popup collaboration! #stl #shoplocal

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“since taking office again, Mr. Trump exempted 202 facilities in 39 states and Puerto Rico from clean-air regulations that were going into effect. … About 3.3 million people live within three miles of at least one affected facility.”

nytimes.comHow Trump Gave the Worst Polluters a Free Pass (Gift Article)The president temporarily waived clean-air rules for industrial facilities that spew cancer-causing gases. Then his appointees worked to gut the regulations altogether.

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I was there in Paris in 1968, the protests brought down the old WW2 government. Now we have a middle of the road government getting called out for messing up education and not really fighting against Russia. France - was once a power way back when, now they are milk toast! Waterloo!