Carter Moon
@cartermoon.bsky.social
Writer, filmmaker, and general shit-stirrer in LA.
Socialist, prison abolitionist.
Our side has to win.
https://carter719.substack.com?r=2iehk&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
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Socialist, prison abolitionist.
Our side has to win.
https://carter719.substack.com?r=2iehk&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
He/him
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Carter Moon
@cartermoon.bsky.social
· Nov 17
Rae for LA
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Rev. Rae’s launch video announcing her mayoral campaign is live!!!
It represents a month of fantastic work by some very gifted filmmakers, and is written by yours truly.
youtu.be/wmzGTof_PnA?...
It represents a month of fantastic work by some very gifted filmmakers, and is written by yours truly.
youtu.be/wmzGTof_PnA?...
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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
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ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
February 10, 2026 at 3:42 AM
ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.
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cars may kill a lot of people everyday but at least they are also very expensive and insanely inefficient means of getting around
February 9, 2026 at 10:10 PM
cars may kill a lot of people everyday but at least they are also very expensive and insanely inefficient means of getting around
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This is the definitive point by Chris Hedges, re: Noam Chomsky and Epstein. Chomsky's entire value as a public intellectual is to know what people like Epstein are up to and why. Him feigning ignorance is absurd, and if it were true it would undermine the rest of his career.
February 10, 2026 at 2:37 AM
This is the definitive point by Chris Hedges, re: Noam Chomsky and Epstein. Chomsky's entire value as a public intellectual is to know what people like Epstein are up to and why. Him feigning ignorance is absurd, and if it were true it would undermine the rest of his career.
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Generative AI cannot compete with human creativity, no matter how loudly its supporters claim that it can. We're fighting for a Los Angeles that nurtures and supports art and the people who make it.
February 10, 2026 at 3:13 AM
Generative AI cannot compete with human creativity, no matter how loudly its supporters claim that it can. We're fighting for a Los Angeles that nurtures and supports art and the people who make it.
If you are as hyper online as Matt is and credulously reposting Libs of TikTok, you might just be a right winger yourself!
today matt yglesias said dems need to talk more about the problem of white genocide before realizing he fell right wing outrage bait
February 9, 2026 at 9:24 PM
If you are as hyper online as Matt is and credulously reposting Libs of TikTok, you might just be a right winger yourself!
Prominent Epstein associate Steven Pinker comes to mind!
Not to be relentlessly negative, but let’s enjoy ourselves a bit.
Who is the Dumbest Guy That Has A Reputation For Being Smart?
Musk seems the clear winner, so let’s say: who else might be in the Top 10?
I’ll start the proceedings with Ezra Klein, the Abundance boy. Not impressive!
Who is the Dumbest Guy That Has A Reputation For Being Smart?
Musk seems the clear winner, so let’s say: who else might be in the Top 10?
I’ll start the proceedings with Ezra Klein, the Abundance boy. Not impressive!
February 9, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Prominent Epstein associate Steven Pinker comes to mind!
There’s a great bit in Adam Curtis’ latest doc where he shows an elderly woman in the Tatcher era, shut in and alone in her house, who is utterly obsessed with the new CCTV cameras she just installed.
We’ve all become that woman.
We’ve all become that woman.
why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this
February 9, 2026 at 5:19 PM
There’s a great bit in Adam Curtis’ latest doc where he shows an elderly woman in the Tatcher era, shut in and alone in her house, who is utterly obsessed with the new CCTV cameras she just installed.
We’ve all become that woman.
We’ve all become that woman.
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99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off
why do you need to observe your house if you're not in it. you are giving yourself an opt-in mental illness. no one has to live like this
February 9, 2026 at 6:08 AM
99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off
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For years, when conservatives see things they don't like on TV, they have told themselves that this is New York and Hollywood pushing the "liberal agenda." So seeing Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl alongside military jet flyovers and ads for dystopic ai is very frustrating for them
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
For years, when conservatives see things they don't like on TV, they have told themselves that this is New York and Hollywood pushing the "liberal agenda." So seeing Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl alongside military jet flyovers and ads for dystopic ai is very frustrating for them
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Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
www.propublica.org/article/life...
The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center
ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...
www.propublica.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:54 PM
Every study shows that being in a jail or prison, no matter how "nice" or whatever, shortens your lifespan. It does. So the government is taking years off the lives of people, including children, when it opts to put them in jail.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
www.propublica.org/article/life...
The thing I love so much about metal is that I’ll listen to a band, fall in love with the music purely based on the feeling without understanding the lyrics, buy the vinyl and finally read the lyrics and they’re usually really poetic and beautiful. Sunrot have great lyrics!
Sunrot are dear friends from Jersey who definitely perform in English but I couldn’t tell you a single thing they say on this jawn, and bless ‘em for that sunrot.bandcamp.com/album/passages
Passages, by Sunrot
5 track album
sunrot.bandcamp.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:40 AM
The thing I love so much about metal is that I’ll listen to a band, fall in love with the music purely based on the feeling without understanding the lyrics, buy the vinyl and finally read the lyrics and they’re usually really poetic and beautiful. Sunrot have great lyrics!
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“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
February 9, 2026 at 5:46 AM
“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist
It’s funny because to me the two movies of this decade are from 2019, Parasite and Uncut Gems. Parasite is about the inequality that’s become impossible to justify. And Gems is the best movie about how insane it is to be ensnared with a shameless gambling addict, whether it’s Howie or Trump
What 2020s movie has the greatest cultural footprint?
Note: This is not necessarily about box office, Oscars, critical acclaim, though all of those can count. It's more... pieces of it have so completely permeated our cultural groundwater that it will always be there.
Note: This is not necessarily about box office, Oscars, critical acclaim, though all of those can count. It's more... pieces of it have so completely permeated our cultural groundwater that it will always be there.
February 9, 2026 at 6:34 AM
It’s funny because to me the two movies of this decade are from 2019, Parasite and Uncut Gems. Parasite is about the inequality that’s become impossible to justify. And Gems is the best movie about how insane it is to be ensnared with a shameless gambling addict, whether it’s Howie or Trump
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I hate being an art critic in an inherently conservative culture. And I mean all of American culture, including liberal spaces, is conservative in that people just want to reefy old stories and are so hostile to new perspectives and ideas in the US, generally speaking. It’s so tedious.
February 8, 2026 at 7:54 PM
I hate being an art critic in an inherently conservative culture. And I mean all of American culture, including liberal spaces, is conservative in that people just want to reefy old stories and are so hostile to new perspectives and ideas in the US, generally speaking. It’s so tedious.
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Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
February 9, 2026 at 4:13 AM
Yeah I’m looking for my dog (girlfriend who has a restraining order against me and she has a dog) and here’s the picture of the dog (she walks this dog and I can use it to figure out her schedule) thanks for sending all footage my way
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jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
![YOUR RING CAMERA IS AN ICE AGENT
[a drawing of a ring camera with an ice agent dragging a person away in its field of vision]
"In October of 2025, Amazon's Ring announced its partnership with FLOCK, an A.I. surveillance group that freely shares its footage with ICE, the secret service, and the navy. Flock customers can use A.I. tools to sift through footage to assist in all manner of operations (like raids and deportations) without a warrant. Unplug Ring! Melt ICE! Protect your neighbors!
See: https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-expands-community-requests-to-additional-community-safety-partners/
https://www.404media.co/ice-secret-service-navy-all-had-access-to-flocks-nationwide-network-of-cameras/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ
https://www.aclum.org/campaigns-initiatives/get-the-flock-out-resource-guide/](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:p2aefnvhb3zmkrazk67dppxw/bafkreic7teyeocg7k5qcqxnc666k7clyiislh2zfi6iopcz6fs3e3lt6xy@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 8:15 PM
jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
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fellow engineers,
you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something:
1. how will the police use what i'm making?
2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against?
3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?
you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something:
1. how will the police use what i'm making?
2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against?
3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?
January 19, 2024 at 9:25 PM
fellow engineers,
you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something:
1. how will the police use what i'm making?
2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against?
3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?
you really need to start asking yourself some questions when building something:
1. how will the police use what i'm making?
2. what kinds of people are the police going to use it against?
3. how many people will be harmed in silence before we find out?
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i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
February 9, 2026 at 4:40 AM
i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you
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What a shoutout to Highland Park’s own Villa’s Tacos! An outpouring of love, unity and what it truly means to be American 💙
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
What a shoutout to Highland Park’s own Villa’s Tacos! An outpouring of love, unity and what it truly means to be American 💙
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No Kings includes Draft Kings
February 8, 2026 at 11:49 PM
No Kings includes Draft Kings
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good time to bring back this all timer:
February 9, 2026 at 12:36 AM
good time to bring back this all timer:
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Through solidarity, we can fight for a city that is more affordable for ordinary people! Learn more about the movement we’re building together here! ⬇️
February 8, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Through solidarity, we can fight for a city that is more affordable for ordinary people! Learn more about the movement we’re building together here! ⬇️
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the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style
MY KIDS: so why are there muppets in the AUDIENCE
ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
ME: THE CONCEIT!! IS THAT THEY'RE PUTTING ON A VARIETY SHOW!!! IN A WORLD WHERE MUPPET AND HUMAN COEXIST!!! YOU ARE WATCHING A DOCUMENTARY!! FILMED!! IN REAL TIME!!!
February 8, 2026 at 6:22 AM
the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style