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Angelica Jade Bastién

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Critic and Essayist, New York Magazine. Southern broad. https://linktr.ee/angelicabastien

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · Jul 3

I wrote about how Brad Pitt has effectively albeit transparently used F1: The Movie and its press tour to rehabilitate his image, in order to obscure the violent allegations about abuse toward Angelina Jolie & his current estrangement from his six kids, @vulture.com. www.vulture.com/article/brad...

Brad Pitt Is Fooling You

The F1 press tour has been a carefully attuned charm offensive meant to obscure Pitt’s alleged violent behavior toward ex-wife Angelina Jolie.

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 3d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 7d

"she recounts anecdotes about long-dead colleagues as if they happened yesterday. There’s the one about Marlon Brando, who called her, out of the blue, to ask where she’d got her chin done"

omg, love her always and forever

Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 7d

Loved this piece www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Carol Burnett Plays On

The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.

www.newyorker.com

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 7d

Loved this piece www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Carol Burnett Plays On

The ninety-two-year-old comedy legend has influenced generations of performers. In a string of recent TV roles, she has been co-starring with some of her closest comedic heirs.

www.newyorker.com

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Jane Goodall. I feel like it's shortchanging her legacy to focus only on her work with chimpanzees when her compassion extended to ALL animals. One of the best ways you can honor & continue her legacy is to incorporate more plant based meals into your life. ❤️ news.janegoodall.org/2017/04/28/w...

Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)

Dr. Goodall went plant-based after confronting what that meat represents: pain. Since, she learned more reasons why the work to #eatmeatless is important.

news.janegoodall.org

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 9d

thanks for subscribing 😌

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yep yep you’re right. i just double checked with my editor.

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 9d

Related. I helped create a Cinematrix this week linked to who I am covering in the newsletter. 🤓 www.vulture.com/article/dail...

Night School Cinematrix: October 1, 2025

Can you name an Elizabeth Taylor movie based on a book or play?

www.vulture.com

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 9d

Your girl has a limited edition newsletter about stardom, through history and beyond just Hollywood, @nymag.com. I’m getting into the art, the gossip, and just how a star becomes legend. Here’s the announcement, subscribe today! www.vulture.com/article/new-...

Introducing New York Night School: Performance Studies

A five-week course with critic Angelica Jade Bastién examining stardom throughout film history — in and outside of Hollywood.

www.vulture.com

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12d

the authoritarian techbro cult wishes to subjugate humanity - the good news is that these are pathetic creeps and we can beat them

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 13d

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune

Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

fortune.com

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 22d

I'll be moderating this Brooklyn Bookfest panel with novelists @jasondiamond.bsky.social, Denne Michele Norris and @katiekitamura.bsky.social. I hope you can join us.

Book Post @bookpostusa.bsky.social · 23d

Alexander Chee will be part of
"Family, Unraveled" on Sept 21 at 4:30 PM.

"All families are complicated, with legacy, personal choices, and societal expectations shaping or breaking the bonds that hold them together."

@alexanderchee.bsky.social

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Alexander Chee - Brooklyn Book Festival

Discover the literary work of Alexander Chee.

brooklynbookfestival.org

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 23d

If you have opportunities to get out and do things with others, jump at the opportunity: meetings, classes, social events, etc... Get out and be with other people. It's essential. If virtual is more convenient, then take advantage of those opportunities to be with other people.

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Alan Sepinwall @sepinwall.bsky.social · 23d

In case you missed it, Monday was my last day at Rolling Stone, and for the time being, I'll be doing all of my reviewing, recapping, and other TV analysis at my newsletter. I hope you'll consider subscribing:

Don't stop believing

Some news, as they say

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 23d

sooooo fine

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 23d

Would anyone ever explain to him he’s wasting six hours a day of his life and he’ll never get back?

New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23d

Tech millionaire turned longevity pioneer Bryan Johnson devotes more than 6 hours a day to trialling different methods to turn back the clock. Can the rest of us learn anything from his radical approach?

The real scientific insights from Bryan Johnson’s immortality quest

www.newscientist.com

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 23d

Watching Paul Newman and Robert Redford act together is one of the most supreme cinematic delights. I wish they made more (and even better) movies together. What amazing, kind, politically astute dudes.

a man wearing a cowboy hat and a bow tie

ALT: a man wearing a cowboy hat and a bow tie

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 23d

Y'all are sweet!

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 24d

Chicago is a major frontline, both in terms of what's happening on the ground, right now, and what's permanently happening in the right-wing imagination.

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 24d

My "Movies That Fuck" column is finally live!! The first essay is about Juraj Herz's sensual and macabre take on Beauty and the Beast. It is an unmatched adaptation of the fairytale. I love writing about the body and sensuality in cinema. open.substack.com/pub/angelica...

Movies That Fuck No.1: Juraj Herz's Beauty and the Beast (1978)

Sometimes the hottest moments in the film rest at the level of suggestion.

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 24d

I've been thinking a lot about the body in film as a site of cultural ideals and sensuality. Also been thinking a lot about what it means to write embodied criticism as people seem more and more disconnected from their own bodies and each other. These ideas run through my Movies That Fuck column

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Angelica Jade Bastién @angelicabastien.bsky.social · 29d

My latest is an interview with director Bing Liu about his film “Preparation for the Next Life” www.vulture.com/article/prep...

‘There’s a Spiritual Cost to the Immigrant Narrative’

With his feature debut, Preparation for the Next Life, director Bing Liu probes the perils and illusory qualities of the American Dream.

www.vulture.com

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · 29d

I’m on crazy pills, apparently.

Hats off to Ezra Klein for virtue signaling with his whole pimply ass out without any shame.

Let’s be clear, Kirk was not our era’s most effective practitioner of persuasion, he was an activator for the bigotry and hate that was already thriving in people’s hearts.

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maya cade @mayascade.bsky.social · Sep 8

without daily, impassioned criticism, stan-driven ephemera on decaying platforms will be how we will remember today’s artistry and times, if we are lucky. good criticism considers the long arc of history whereas standom praises without reflection…

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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤 @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Right is about to have field day of self-victimizing as targets of political violence so they can create cover for the fact that they actually instigate most of the political violence in this country.

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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · Sep 10

Is denying people healthcare, kidnapping people from their jobs to be sent to detention camps, targeting minorities with legislation and hate speech campaigns not political violence?

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Sep 10

The Charlie Kirk shooting happened essentially as another school shooting happened a state away

Matt Sebastian @mattsebastian.com · Sep 10

NEW: At least 2 people were being transported to a Denver-area hospital after a shooting involving an “active assailant” at Evergreen High School in Jefferson County, officials said Wednesday afternoon // Story by @katielang.bsky.social

Shooting, ‘active assailant’ reported at Evergreen High School

Jefferson County law enforcement are responding to an “active assailant” and shooting at Evergreen High School, officials said Wednesday afternoon.

www.denverpost.com

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