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Craig Duffy

@pinkcowduffy.bsky.social

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Cinephile. Jazz-Head. Dad. 1/2 of This Cinematic Life. Board Member of @thefridacinema.org. Now with the power to post! blog: https://cinemanerds.blogspot.com/ letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/cduffy/

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Craig Duffy @pinkcowduffy.bsky.social · Jul 29

“Over the course of three decades of making movies, The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson has changed a lot, but his fascination with how people and things do or do not change, has remained amazingly consistent.”

Magonia: Mediations on Liminality in the Films of Paul Thomas Anderson

FIRST THING In the December 12th edition of the Los Angeles Daily News , in the year 1999, director Paul Thomas Anderson attempted to expl...

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Dr. Tara L. Conley @taralconley.com · 5h

for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
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Orders Project

The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 17h

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 15h

“The Biden FBI”

Who was President on January 6?

Donald J. Trump * © @reaDonaldTrump • 1m
THE BIDEN FBI PLACED 274 AGENTS INTO THE CROWD ON JANUARY 6. If this is so, which it is, a lot of very good people will be owed big apologies. What a SCAM - DO SOMETHING!!! President DJT

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 16h

damn tonight’s episode of fear itself had two back to back jump scares in the credits

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 15h

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 14h

Every demographic wants places to hang out IRL and their own culture to discuss there. We had this once and we can have it again.

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 21h

There's so little for teens at the box office that Netflix released a movie that had been streaming for two months already and it still made $18M in just one weekend. KPOP DEMON HUNTERS is a great example of doing it right in 2025.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 1d

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Until It's Done: Sylvia Rivera

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 20h

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MYTH: ICE agents lack proper training.

FACT: Most have been racists their entire lives.

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 20h

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 23h

Along with directing an episode of TWIN PEAKS, Diane Keaton also directed four movies (one doc, three features).

I’ve only seen two: HANGING UP and WILDFLOWER. They’re both flawed but interesting and make me wish she’s directed more films. I gotta track down the other two.

Diane Keaton, Meg Ryan, and Lisa Kudrow in Keaton’s HANGING UP

Patricia Arquette in Keaton’s WILDFLOWER

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The Frida Cinema @thefridacinema.org · 1d

RIP to the woman who could do it ALL. The pride of Orange County, Ms. Diane Hall.

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Adam B. Vary @adambvary.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I was surprised that Deadline claims it asked questions that were actually asked by me and other journalists at this James Gunn press conference. No one from Deadline even *submitted questions* for it (and I know, because I moderated). This is just brazen and sad.

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Stereogum @stereogum.bsky.social · 3d

Watch Hayley Williams perform a stirring "True Believer" on @fallontonight.bsky.social

Hayley Williams Performs A Stirring "True Believer" On 'The Tonight Show': Watch

Last week, Paramore leader Hayley Williams released Ego Death At The Bachelorette Party, a new solo album that started off as a bunch of disconnected singles. She still hasn’t played any of her own sh...

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · Aug 29

{yakov smirnoff voice} In Fascist America, Robert F. Kennedy commit grisly public murder of YOU!

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Craig Duffy @pinkcowduffy.bsky.social · 1d

My wife is thinking of dressing as a mime for Halloween so she doesn’t have to talk to anyone at work. I told her, “mime culture is not your costume.” She replied in true mime fashion: 🖕🏼

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Vaxxed?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 2d

the administration is laser-focused on making sure Americans don't get clean energy, so Saudi Arabia (Trump's paymaster) has someone to sell their oil to in 10 years when the rest of the world has moved on to solar+batteries

Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

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The Frida Cinema @thefridacinema.org · 2d

🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOGAN🎉

Everyone, please join us in wishing the happiest birthday to our Executive Director, founder, resident David Lynch disciple, and overall wearer of many hats: the one and only Logan Crow🥂

Logan in place of ET in the bike basket

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[UNOFFICIAL] Now Playing on Criterion 24/7 @upnextcriterion.bsky.social · 2d

Now playing (09:55 PM PST):
"State of Siege" (1972)
By Costa-Gavras
Runtime: 122 min.

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Will McKinley @willmckinley.bsky.social · 2d

Life is very funny, if you take the time to watch it.”
— Jacques Tati (1907-1982) #BOTD #FilmSky

Jacques Tati, laughing, in his familiar trench coat and hat with pipe

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Larry Karaszewski @larrythek.bsky.social · 2d

“A whole festival of movies in one movie” is how @thenyff described today’s screening of the 4K restoration of “SHOLAY” the three and a half hour classic Hindi musical western extravaganza from 1975.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 3d

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

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Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 3d

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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