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max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 10h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 8h

That's right.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 8h

Queer people are the working class. Arab and Muslim people are the working class.

The working class is intersectionality personified. It's not three cis straight white men in an Ohio diner.

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 12h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 9h

This is my dance about how much transphobes suck. (bonus points to any who can identify the dancer.)

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 9h

i'm outta my head when you're not around

columbo out of touch thursday @ootcolumbo.bsky.social · 16h

it’s here

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 10h

The Lowdown, ep. 4

Ethan Hawke, disheveled and with a bandage across the bridge of his nose in a bar. The subtitle reads,

[sighs] Everybody’s heart’s broken.

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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 10h

This is why.

Palestinian boy defiantly waves the Palestinian flag out the window of a heavily shelled concrete building.

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 10h

i wrote a whole thing about this once as a joke, and it just keeps happening

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 11h

Emmy-award winner Hannah Einbinder: "I have trouble with the term 'liberal Zionism' because I think it absolves the identifier of reckoning with the necessary elements for the ideology to thrive."

Watch it all in Zeteo's new podcast, Beyond Israelism with Simone Zimmerman:
zeteo.com/p/beyond-isr...

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 12h

I stand with Attorney General Letitia James. This attack won’t silence the truth.

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Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett @crockett.house.gov · 12h

They’re targeting New York Attorney General Letitia James for one reason: she had the courage to hold Donald Trump accountable.

This is political weaponization of our courts, plain and simple—and proof that when you stand up to corruption, they come for you.

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 1d

what legal recourse do artists and museums have against international militaries stealing and using our work to commit warcrimes, since apparently that's a conversation we need to have now.

The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 1d

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

julia roberts was always an amazing guest on letterman and the two had a pretty amazing rapport. there's now a youtube video collecting many of these great moments if you're in the mood for some screwball entertainment: youtu.be/AKDVXPNr2c0?...

The Best Of Julia Roberts, Part 1 | David Letterman

YouTube video by Letterman

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 12h

watched this on the criterion channel some months back and found it absolutely electrifying

Joshua Dysart @joshuadysart.bsky.social · 15h

The Keep (1983) Dir- Michael Mann

Epic Prog Synth Opera movie done a disservice by viewers who expect cohesion from their entertainment. This is a glowing, mesmerizing, ambient talisman of a flick. Absolutely legendary, and a must see if you believe that the divine can exist in the nonsensical.

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 17h

very happy to have this review of battlefield 6 from @reidmccarter.bsky.social up on kotaku today: kotaku.com/battlefield-...

Battlefield 6 Review: A Grimly Enjoyable Spectacle Of War

Don’t expect much from the AI enemies in Battlefield 6’s campaign, but there’s plenty of grim war spectacle to enjoy otherwise

kotaku.com

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Nick Capozzoli @nickcapozzoli.bsky.social · 16h

New blog post up. It's about a few things—chiefly, the impulse to jettison literary criticism as if it were ballast. www.arcadence.com/abundance-re...

Abundance Reigns!

The Reminder is a watchword: though it may ascribe a problem to us, the offenders are assuredly others.

www.arcadence.com

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

If this stuff would end up on the news it would absolutely motivate voters. Plenty of people who don't give a shit about politics would absolutely give af about this.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 14h

Great review. Especially love this line, referring to Julia Roberts' Yale philosophy professor Alma: "Her generation was inculcated to cozy up to men in power and treat younger women like competition or pets; she keeps her conscience as compartmentalized as a box of fishing tackle."

Amy Nicholson @theamynicholson.bsky.social · 14h

The Julia Roberts v. Andrew Garfield v. Ayo Edebiri college cancel culture drama AFTER THE HUNT attacks academia as a rat’s nest of egomaniacs and cowards and insular, faux-radical thinking.

It's a mystery with no curiosity, a cautionary tale with no good advice.

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Review: Luca Guadagnino's college cancel culture drama 'After the Hunt' flunks out

Luca Guadagnino follows up hot-blooded 'Challengers' and 'Queer' with a chilly Yale-set campus mystery that stars Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri.

www.latimes.com

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Seyward Darby @seywarddarby.bsky.social · 14h

a thing i've been thinking about a lot is how, when i started researching my book (2016), "antifa" was the bogeyman of neo-nazis. now it's the bogeyman of the white house. the math here isn't hard to do.

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aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 17h

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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dead domain 🐐🏳️‍⚧️ @domaindead.bsky.social · 16h

I’ve received a report from anonymous active duty personnel in Texas that the Texas National Guard will be moving out nationwide to ICE Protest sites, possibly in civilian gear, and changing their unit patches to hide origins.

Full report here:

youtu.be/jtpXI-6PxaU?...

BREAKING: Trump's Plan To Use Texas National Guard Nationwide, UNDERCOVER At Protests, And More

YouTube video by Dead Domain

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 16h

From the great novelist Sherwood Anderson, a letter to his son.

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Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 23h

'Gaming is the new oil:' How the EA buyout 'diverges from the traditional playbook'

Analysts explain how the high-risk leveraged buyout will impact Electronic Arts and the video game industry.

www.gamedeveloper.com

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

Like we really need to internalize that the response to fascism is to reject any equivalence between violent, supremacist, or exceptionalist ideologies & other ideologies that are defensive, communal, or constructive. Even when the former masquerade as the latter. You just have to reject that.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

To be clear, it's not that bitter online dorks assumed it was about them. It -is- about them. They just don't like that it is calling them out for what they are.

Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 17h

It’s kind of crazy that Nazis and the KKK have recently become controversial bad guys because a bunch of bitter online dorks assumed it was about them

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Ubisoft canceled an ‘ASSASSINS CREED’ game set in the post-Civil War era

• Featured a Black Assassin who was formerly a slave

• Players would fight the emerging KKK

• Leadership canceled it after concerns with U.S. political climate & Yasuke backlash

(Source: www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...)

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