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Rebecca I. Allen
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"If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Writer, former journalist, wife, mom, ASU alum, Gen X. Likes: words, TV, movies, equity, democracy, and Disneyland
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Happy Salem's Lot day to all who celebrate 😃🍂🧛‍♂️
Chapter One Ben (I) By the time he had passed Portland going north on the turnpike, Ben Mears had begun to feel a not unpleasurable tingle of excitement in his belly. It was September 5, 1975, and summer was enjoying her final grand fling. The trees were bursting with green, the sky was a high, soft blue, and just over the Falmouth town line he saw two boys walking a road parallel to the expressway with fishing rods settled on their shoulders like carbines.
September 5, 2026 at 2:59 PM
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"Grogu. Roku. Roku. Grogu.
...I feel much better" 😄
Photo of Roku City screensaver new item: likening a scene from The Mandalorian and Grogu: Mando and Grogu stand in front of the Hutt twins palace on Nal Hutta
September 5, 2026 at 4:49 AM
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Tributes to Dolly and Tim Curry
Thx, Roku City 🕯🫶 🕯
Roku City screensaver tribute to Dolly Parton- screens filled with a giant pink/purple guitar and butterflies Roku City screensaver tribute to Tim Curry- the theater marquee quote changed to the "Don't dream it, be it" a song from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And the movie posters changed from Star Trek and Star Wars to the RHPS lips and a magnifying glass to rep Clue
August 28, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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🎈🕯🫶
Screenshot of Stephen King Threads post: stephenking 1d Tim Curry, the original Pennywise. RIP ☹️
August 27, 2026 at 7:06 PM
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Lawsuit Over Sexual Assault Aboard Navy Transport Ship Dismissed as Worker’s Comp Issue

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Screenshot: photo of USNS Carson City, an expeditionary fast transport ship, in 2016. (Haley Nace/U.S. Navy) By ROSE L. THAYER STARS AND STRIPES Published 5 hours ago · Updated 21 minutes ago A judge dismissed a lawsuit from a civilian engineer in the Military Sealift Command after it was determined that her report of being raped in her own bed aboard a Navy transport ship was within her duties and must be treated as a worker’s comp claim. The order handed down this month closed a multiyear attempt by Elsie Dominguez to get justice for an assault she said threw her personal and professional lives into shambles. She eventually took an unpaid year away from work to recover, as her perpetrator continued to receive pay while being investigated, she said. “I’ve lost a lot of sleep, I’ve lost a lot of friends who didn’t agree with what I was doing in coming forward,” said Dominguez, 35. “I learned that I had to set a precedent legally so that this could be used in the future.”
August 27, 2026 at 12:52 AM
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🎶"...If they do it to them
They'll do it to you
If they do it to them
They're gonna do it to you..."🎶
~Serena Joy, by Olivia Rodrigo

#TheHandmaidsTale
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Screenshot of Olivia Rodrigo instagram post, caption: surprise!!! serena joy out on streaming platforms now. A portion of all net proceeds go to daisy chain fields fund ... Photo is a pink square with black text of lyrics to new song Serena Joy [named for character in The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood] Yeah, it's all for the cause For the good of us all And if you close your eyes Then it can't be your fault Yeah, it's all for the cause For the good of us all Here's a tower we built Painted gold on the walls And we'll never be beat No, we never will fall While they're out on the streets Man, we're having a ball Come in close, come in close Come a little bit closer Sing along, sing along What they tell you to do Comin' 'round, comin' 'round Comin' around the corner If they do it to them They'll do it to you If they do it to them They're gonna do it to you Have a Coke and a smile In the hot summer bliss Now go bother your neighbors While we do what we wish Have a Coke and a smile Let me show you a trick If you can't throw a punch You can learn how to spit And we'll never give up And we'll never submit Look, the life of your dreams Is beyond that cliff Come in close, come in close Come a little bit closer Sing along, sing along What they tell you to do Comin' 'round, comin' 'round Comin' around the corner If they do it to them They'll do it to you If they do it to them They're gonna do it to you That's what you That's what you What you get, what you get It's automatic Go ahead, go ahead Don't think about it What you get, what you get, what you get Rotting in the sunshine What you get, what you get It's automatic Go ahead, go ahead Don't think about it What you get, what you get, what you get Everything is just fine Everything is just fine Everything is just fine
August 26, 2026 at 2:04 AM
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"Hi, I'm Kurt Loder with an MTV news brief..." 😆🐝🙌👏

#Yellowjackets final season premieres November 20
August 20, 2026 at 5:23 PM
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That's our Final Girl! Look who Kate O'Flynn beat!! 🙌😆👏👏
Apple TV’s horror comedy Widow’s Bay took home a leading three awards from the Television Critics Association 🏆 #widowsbay
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Individual Achievement in Comedy (Photo of Kate O'Flynn as Patricia) Hannah Einbinder, Hacks Elle Fanning Margo's Got Money Troubles Harrison Ford, Shrinking Lisa Kudrow, The Comeback Kate O'Flynn, Widow's Bay-WINNER Matthew Rhys, Widow's Bay Jean Smart, Hacks Tim Robinson, The Chair Company
August 20, 2026 at 2:42 PM
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Jimothy has a new fren! 😊
A Roku City cat spotted sharing spaghetti with Seattle's most famous raccoon. 🦝🍝🐈‍⬛️
Photo of part of the Roku City screensaver, Jimothy and a cat are at a table eating spaghetti at the Italian cafe
August 18, 2026 at 4:10 AM
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It's that time of year again! 😃
Spooky season returns 🎃🍂👻✨️
Color photo, Disneyland, Downtown Disney, large King Mickey and Queen Minnie statues, dressed in royal orange/purple/green harvest robes, surrounded by green grass and pumpkins, and backed by a large arch decorated with leaves, blooms, pumpkins, and purple lights. Mickey bows as he offers his gloved hand to Minnie who looks very happy with one hand to her cheek and the other reaching out toward him
August 17, 2026 at 5:18 PM
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😄 total princess! ✨️🦄🫶
August 14, 2026 at 5:57 PM
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First Jimothy joined Roku City, now Momota the traffic-cone-wearing polar bear cub! 😄

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Photo of Roku City screensaver, instead of Jimothy the racoon being outside the TMNT factory, its the viral polar cub with a traffic cone on its head
August 14, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work
"ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain."
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Screenshot Wired 8/13/26: The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Work ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain. Image may contain Clothing Glove Footwear Shoe Child Person and Sneaker Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty Images With the revelation that ICE will spend up to $20 million by March on gloves that can deliver painful electric shocks to subdue an individual, according to a notice published earlier this week by the Department of Homeland Security, it's worth looking at how this apparel, designated as a non-lethal tool for law enforcement, actually works.
August 14, 2026 at 2:11 PM
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"Hello, and welcome to Moviefone!
If you know the name of the movie
you'd like to see, press one."
Seinfeld, Micheal Richards as Kramer stillshot from The Pool Guy episode: interior, '80s NYC apartment, Kramer talking on a cordless landline while looking up movie times in a newspaper
August 10, 2026 at 8:31 PM
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So many movies, only four slots 😃
Graphic of my Criterion Collection DVD cover picks arranged in a white Polaroid picture frame: The Princess Bride, Thelma & Louise, Election, Last Days of Disco
August 10, 2026 at 1:47 AM
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LAPD officer who complained about racism at work charged with making secret recordings

... in recruiting and employment, "the office where people applying for jobs as police officers were being evaluated for their character, suitability and qualifications"

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Excerpt 7/31/26 NBC4LA: Defense attorney Alan Jackson, who is representing Flores, expressed shock that the officers making the alleged racist comments weren't the target of the DA's case, rather only the officer who reported them. "Daniel Flores did not leak this material. He did not sell it, post it or hand it to a reporter. He walked it into Internal Affairs and gave it to his own department, in an official complaint, because he believed the Department would do something about it," Jackson wrote. "The Department’s answer was to investigate him. The District Attorney’s answer is to prosecute him."
August 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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"When Anthony Fauci arrives on Capitol Hill tomorrow to testify before Congress, he will be trailed by a security detail he’s paying for himself."
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Excerpt 7/28/26 The Atlantic: But ever since President Trump retook office in 2025, his administration has engaged in a systematic effort to obliterate Fauci’s legacy. One of Trump’s first actions in office—just days after Biden issued his pardon—was to strip away Fauci’s government-funded security detail. Fauci’s image was cut out from a mural on the NIH campus around the same time. By the end of spring, the administration had rerouted government webpages once dedicated to information on COVID resources to a new site, alleging that Fauci had tried to hide the “true origins” of COVID. Trump officials went on to largely dismantle PEPFAR, imperiling many of the 20 million people the program has supplied with lifesaving therapies. They ousted most of NIAID’s long-standing leadership, including several officials who served under Fauci for years, as well as Jeanne Marrazzo, the director who succeeded him; they forced out Fauci’s wife, Christine Grady, once a bioethicist at the NIH, and arrested David Morens, one of Fauci’s longtime advisers. (Morens has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to hide and destroy government records.) “Anything that he had his name on, or that was under his accomplishments, is being destroyed,” Judith Currier, an infectious-disease expert at UCLA, told me. (The White House and the Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to requests for comment.)
July 29, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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"Epstein survivors spoke to Vanity Fair about how they met the predator, his horrifying grooming methods, and their ongoing fights for justice"

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“I Was the Perfect Victim”: A Narrative History of Surviving Epstein Donald Trump returned to the White House vowing to release the so-called Epstein files. Millions of pages of documents later, little action has been taken, and the women who were subjected to his abuse were left feeling retraumatized and let down. Vanity Fair speaks to five Epstein survivors about how they met the predator, his horrifying grooming methods, and their ongoing fights for justice. By Abby Ellin and Stacy Schneider Photographer Miranda Barnes July 27, 2026
July 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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🚨🎬 We're back! Severance began filming season 3!! 😆👏👏
(Dear @benstiller.redhour.com, found this on the Nazi site; please post here, too! 😃 Thank you 🫶)
Screenshot of 7/27/26 Ben Stiller post on the Nazi bar site formerly known as Twitter: “To return to work is to return home," Kier Eagan With a blurry, red-tinged photo of Helly (Britt Lower) and Mark (Adam Scott) running through the halls of Lumon
July 27, 2026 at 3:29 PM
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😄 A+ lede
Excerpt The Guardian 22-7-26: Name: The human fridge. Age: Brand new. Appearance: A 2.1 metre-high (7ft) stainless-steel fridge for humans. Aren’t all fridges for humans? I guess that’s right, but this one is to put humans into. Oh, like a refrigerated mortuary cabinet? Yes, just like that, except you don’t have to be declared dead to use it.
July 26, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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Meta’s New Feel-Good AI Ad Uses a Song About the World Ending
"The clip features the David Bowie track Five Years, which includes lyrics such as 'Earth was really dying (dying).'"
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Excerpt Wired 7/23/26: BowieBible.com also quotes from a 2018 interview with drummer Mick Woodmansey: “Well, we chatted about it, and we knew it was about the end of the world and pretty depressing,” Woodmansey said of the song. “I remember when we recorded it, he was actually in tears. He was doing the vocal and he was actually crying.”
July 24, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Vance Boelter sentenced to two life terms plus 40 years for assassinating former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and killing her husband, Mark, and shooting state Sen. John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette

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Excerpt 7/23/26 Wisconsin Examiner: Melissa and Mark Hortman were killed in less than 30 seconds on June 14, 2025, in a shocking act of political violence. But their quick deaths are of no comfort to their son, Colin Hortman, who on Thursday told a federal judge that he falls asleep every night picturing a waterfall of blood flowing down the stairs of his childhood home in Brooklyn Park. It’s the same image he awakens to. And his parents’ quick demise is of no comfort, he said, because the last thing his mother saw before she was killed was her husband and beloved dog shot multiple times.
July 24, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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"Get in, losers—we’re reclaiming the em dash." ✊️😃
July 24, 2026 at 12:40 AM
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Yep, there she goes 😄🫶
July 23, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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July 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM