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Media Prophet. Film Critic (GALECA, MCFCA, Rotten Tomatoes, SEFCA). Co-host of @jjlpod.bsky.social . DJ (http://mixcloud.com/DJNomi). Catsitter. 16 insecurities in a leather jacket. Patricia Coma stan. Painter. Very gay. BLM. (He/Him)

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Jason Shawhan @jshawhan.bsky.social · Dec 17

My 2024 Best of Film Extravaganza

www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

Our Senior Film Critic’s Favorite Films and Performances of 2024

From ‘No Other Land’ and ‘The Brutalist’ to outstanding restorations, here’s the best cinema this year had to offer

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”

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onion person @junlper.beer · 30m

even when far rightwingers are having an extremely positive experience on all fronts they’re still able to hallucinate a situation where they’re the victim

Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 9h

"at the transgender coffee shop"

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 31m

Brett Kavanaugh's behavior during today's second oral arguments has been incredibly obnoxious and rude. He is so eager to kill a service member's lawsuit against a negligent government contractor that he keeps interrupting other justices, raising his voice, and getting emotional. Weird and erratic.

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Garnet Henderson @garnethenderson.com · 4h

In addition to the fact that Cuomo is a creep, he devised a system to keep Republicans in control of the NYS legislature for years. He constantly fucked over New York City as governor, even though we are 45% of the state’s population, because he was so preoccupied with upstate conservatives.

NPR @npr.org · 6h

Former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a long list of accomplishments, many of them progressive. In the race for New York City mayor, that experience hasn't given him the boost he wanted. n.pr/49uczOs

Andrew Cuomo fights for his political life and his version of the Democratic Party

Former N.Y. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has a long list of accomplishments, many of them progressive. In the race for New York City mayor, that experience hasn't given him the boost he wanted.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4h

They only have time and resources for threats.

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22h

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

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Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 2h

Also, people who aren't used to calling out Islamophobia need to get comfortable reiterating this basic point: Islamophobia more or less DICTATES that the primary frame being used to talk about Mamdani is "fear"

Sam Brody @samuelhayimbrody.bsky.social · 3h

Yes. You START by understanding this.

On Day One of the Mamdani administration it will suddenly “turn out” that crime is out of control, city agencies lack faith in their inexperienced leader, and the state is ill-disposed to help him keep his promises.

These narratives are pre-baked; disregard!

David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 18h

This is also how they’ll cover him if he wins. Mamdani - all democrats who actually want to govern and fix things - need to understand the NYT politics team as a partisan force arrayed against them.

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 2h

The New York Post really can't exist on social media without breaking TOS with how they tend to roll with publishing outright inflammatory lies.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 3h

Something that jumped out to me about ProPublica's exposé on Paul Newby, chief justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court, was not just the extremes Republicans go to in order to capture the courts but the extremes to *keep the media from talking about it!*

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Republicans Really Don’t Want Journalists Talking About How They’ve Captured the Courts

Conservative judges love talking to friendly media outlets. They don’t like talking to anyone who might actually try and hold them accountable.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Aaron Cynic @aaroncynic.bsky.social · 2h

This may have somewhat tracked at one time, but that was a very long time ago. What's a "real" newspaper now? One owned by a hedgefund that mostly publishes wire content and op-eds? One that rewrites press releases from officials? One that won't write about certain things the ownership doesn't want?

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4h

I feel one million years old here, but we do actually have a pretty reliable way of knowing what news is true. Did a real newspaper publish it? Then probably yes. Can’t find it in a real newspaper? Maybe not.

Pew Research Center @pewresearch.org · 4h

A large majority of U.S. adults now get news digitally, but nondigital news consumers are less likely to say they extremely often or often encounter inaccurate news.

Read more on Americans’ views of information accuracy and distinguishing truth from fiction:

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Jason Shawhan @jshawhan.bsky.social · 2h

My first CD: Prince and The Revolution/Parade. What an incredible record; all the vibes, and such a journey of sounds. "Mountains" is the greatest song of 1986.

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Purity Tester (Nazis Bad?) @anem0ne.net · 2h

there is no such thing as a good Nazi, and there is no such thing as a good ice agent.

anyway, every single person working for and with ice gets a single unlit and piss-damp cigarette butt before they face the wall

that is the m̶o̶d̶e̶r̶a̶t̶e̶ merciful, *generous* position

Gregory Pratt @royalpratt.bsky.social · 4h

NEWS: Federal agents crashed with woman’s car, pointed guns at her, dragged her out by legs, tossed her in a minivan, held her and (eventually) let her go without charges. This as Chicagoans say the immigration blitz is out of control. (DHS blames her.)
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/03/c...

Chicago woman dragged out of her car after colliding with ICE demands accountability

The arrest of Dayanne Figueroa highlights growing concerns about the use of force against U.S. citizens and due process. She was released after a few hours without charges.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 3h

the extrajudicial boat murders have become so prevalent they meet the official definition of serial killing

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

Not enough people are talking about how Trump and the Republicans are trying to privatize the Tennessee Valley Authority, and how Right-wing megadonor Lee Beaman is a Trump nominee for one of the vacant board seats. www.bizjournals.com/nashville/ne...

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h

Some people waited in line up for 14 hours to receive a food box from a church giveaway.

500 people volunteered to help and they still ran out of food.

Remember for every one person a food bank feeds, SNAP feeds 9.

By turning off food assistance the regime is starving Americans.

Woman sits in car for 14 hours to get food during New Birth Baptist church food giveaway

More than 2,000 people waited in their cars in line Saturday morning in order to receive food.

www.11alive.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 16h

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And actually 60 Minutes paid me a lotta money. And you don't have to
put this on, because I don't wanna embarrass you, and I'm sure you're
not- you have a great- I think you have a great, new leader, frankly,
who's the young woman that's leading your whole enterprise is a great-
- from what I know.
I don't know her, but I hear she's a great person. But 60 Minutes was
forced to pay me- a lot of money because they took her answer out
that was so bad, it was election-changing, two nights before the
election. And they put a new answer in. And they paid me a lot of
money for that. You can't have fake news. You've gotta have legit news.
And I think that it's happening. I see-
NORAH O'DONNELL: Mr. President-
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: -I see good things happening in the
news. I really do. And I think one of the best things to happen is this
show and new ownership, CBS and new ownership. I think it's the
greatest thing that's happened in a long time to a free and open and
good press.

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 20h

Among the many amazing things about Adams pleading his case here is that he openly supports and now is asking for help from… people who cancelled funding for cancer research.

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 23h

Healthcare but only for my friends

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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! @wolvendamien.bsky.social · Nov 8

I'm not a Christian, and haven't been one for a long time, but i've always found these words and what they're supposed to mean to be the fundamental core of Christianity, even over and above the Sermon on the Mount, and I truly don't understand people who miss this.

"He will say to those on his right, 'Come: take your inheritance. For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited me in; I needed clothes and you clothed me; I was sick and you looked after me; I was in prison and you came to visit me.'

“And the righteous will answer him, 'When did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink? When were you a stranger to us yet we invited you in, or in need of clothes and we clothed you? When were you sick or in prison and we cared for you?'

"He will reply, 'Truly I tell you, whatsoever you did for any of my siblings in need, you also did for me.'

“Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me. For I was hungry and you told me to starve; I was thirsty and you poisoned my water; I was a stranger and you drove me into the desert and death; I needed clothes and you refused to clothe me; I was sick and in prison and you did not care for me.’

"They also will answer, 'When were you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and yet we did not care for you?'

"He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatsoever you refused to do for any of my siblings in need, you refused to do for me.'"

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

Here in Atlanta yesterday, more than 2,000 people waited in their cars—one woman for 14 hours—for a box of food. The giveaway ended early; there wasn't enough to go around.

Multiply this scene by countless others across the country, and you get a sense of how crushing the desperation is right now.

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 1d

Between this and the terrorism against Latinos who are mainly Catholic, the US has become the leading persecutor of Christians.

Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 1d

Trump deported Iranian Christians with open asylum claims for religious persecution four weeks ago.

He expelled other Iranian Christians, including children, to Panama in February.

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

Trump threatens US military action in Nigeria over treatment of Christians reut.rs/4qBrVXy

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bjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 1d

Wondering what was going on with the headline I keep seeing about "Halloween terror plot that Kash Patel described never existed."

Now, thanks to @ursa58.bsky.social, I get it!

This is a hell of a story. Shout out to Kyle Seraphin. (Remember competent FBI people?)

marygeddry.com/p/wag-the-do...

Wag the Dog, Fetch the Jet

How Kash Patel turned a taxpayer-funded love story into a national-security press stunt—and proved Kyle Seraphin right in record time.

marygeddry.com

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🇳🇬Mobutt | Mr.Mobius | Glitchwood High🇳🇬 @mobutt.bsky.social · 1d

Nigerian here! The only thing worse than the current political strife in Nigeria is the idea of DJT trying to fix it. Counter-terrorism operations by the U.S. more often than not just decimate the nations they were trying to help.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, the idea that Trump will stop Boko Haram types by ending aid to the Nigerian federal government is as confused as the idea that he is actually interested in the welfare of the same Nigerian Christians he put on a categorical travel ban 5 years ago

news-archive.hds.harvard.edu/news/2020/03...

Faculty Insight: What Trump’s Nigeria Travel Ban Means | HDS News Archive

news-archive.hds.harvard.edu

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 1d

I can’t wait for the ADL to declare that Satmar Hasids are confused & don’t understand their Jewish identity.

But on a serious note: a significant number of Hasidic Jews are anti-Zionist and want a holy land where Jews Christians and Muslims live side by side in peace. And look who they chose.

Jacob Kornbluh @jacobkornbluh.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 BIG 🚨Satmar Ahronim sect is endorsing Mamdani for mayor, two sources familiar confirmed.

Mamdani is expected to meet with Satmar leaders in Williamsburg this afternoon.

Here is more background ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...

Why Satmar Hasidic leaders endorsed Zohran Mamdani as mayor, stunning many Jewish voters

The Satmar Hasidic community’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani for NYC mayor shows the broad coalition built by the democratic socialist and Muslim.

forward.com

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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 1d

The eyes. Haunting.

Evil penguin from Wallace and Grommit. Beady little dead shark eyes.

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 1d

“Oh no the girls are rapping about pleasurable sexual experiences and gucci bags”

The boys are rapping about serial killing and the lack of mental health services

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Chris “Chance!” Brown @chancesecond.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani got on the Bodega Cats insta and honestly, better endorsement than Schumer at this point

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