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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

That's some unbelievable supervillain shit. If Lex Luthor did that to Superman, we'd all be clear who the bad guy is. Yet somehow there are people who still support the state of Israel.

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🔻agitprop & absurdity🔻 @agtprpnabsrdty.bsky.social · 1d

In prison, Israeli guards told him again and again they had killed his entire family as psychological torture meant to break him. When he walked up the stairs of his home today, his wife rushed into his arms, with his children and parents beside her - alive, waiting, delirious with joy and relief.

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't "cover" NY Comic Con, per se. I attended very much as a civilian. But I wrote about it anyway. You can take the writer out of the press lounge, but you can't take the press lounge out of the writer. #nycc #comiccon #nycc2025 #nycc25

Stories we tell: My first NY Comic Con since the pandemic

It was bittersweet buying tickets for 2025’s New York Comic Con.

open.substack.com

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't "cover" NY Comic Con, per se. I attended very much as a civilian. But I wrote about it anyway. You can take the writer out of the press lounge, but you can't take the press lounge out of the writer. #nycc #comiccon #nycc2025 #nycc25

Stories we tell: My first NY Comic Con since the pandemic

It was bittersweet buying tickets for 2025’s New York Comic Con.

open.substack.com

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 2d

"Oscar winner Green Book"

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 3d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 3d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that people who dislike Bari Weiss are "thought police" but not the actual people who are arresting and imprisoning immigrants for their thoughts is pure brain rot

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

#BootsNetflix: What start as clear hierarchies of power, ability, and fortitude start to break down over the course of the season. “Strong” and “weak” are clear distinctions at the beginning. Far from it later on --> danielmontgomery3.substack.com/p/boots-revi... #TVSky #TV #television #Boots

a young man is sitting on a plane with his mouth open and a surprised look on his face .

ALT: a young man is sitting on a plane with his mouth open and a surprised look on his face .

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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 3d

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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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

The Christian nationalist crowd will be outraged! ... Unless, that is, their ideological project is something else entirely.

skippyoz @skippyoz.bsky.social · 3d

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Religious leaders denied request to deliver Communion to detainees at Broadview facility

Meanwhile, two days after a judge ordered the removal of a fence erected by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, barricades were being put up in front of the fence on Saturday.

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sure I'm not the only millennial gay for whom this film was a formative experience

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Tomris Laffly @tomilaffly.bsky.social · 3d

David Lynch
Gene Hackman
Robert Redford
Diane Keaton
Michael Madsen
Val Kilmer
Graham Greene
Claudia Cardinale
And more….

This is a massive slice of cinema history right here. Can 2025 just fuck off already please?!

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 3d

When a legend dies, I often find myself wishing I were better acquainted with their work. I have gaps in my Diane Keaton scholarship, for sure, but I've seen quite a bit of her work. What a loss 😞

a woman wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is smiling and holding a glass of wine .

ALT: a woman wearing glasses and a black turtleneck is smiling and holding a glass of wine .

media.tenor.com

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 3d

They like what Trump is doing, this really isn't hard. It's not both-sideism, it's running cover for the regime by choice in order to reach a desired outcome. Can we please stop cutting this institution slack it does not deserve?

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 3d

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

www.youtube.com

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jaypea but spooky @jpstarling.bsky.social · 3d

The Imperial Boomerang, summarized:

Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 3d

Listen—it's all connected. If you oppose $50B of our taxes to ICE to abuse people in the USA—but support $38B of our taxes to fund Israel's military occupation of Palestine as they abuse Palestinians far worse than how ICE abuses Americans—then you don't actually oppose ICE abusing people in the USA

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 6d

I really liked #Boots, which premiered today on #Netflix. I hope we get more of it. #TV #television #tvsky

'Boots' review: Netflix's gay military drama and the performance of masculinity

As a character drama, I found it richly rewarding.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 5d

There will be those who will once again council empty reconciliation with Republicans, on the grounds that “we need to be better than them.”

But here’s the thing: we ARE better than them. Much better than them. Everyone is far far far better than them. That’s why they all need to go to prison.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 5d

Everybody who pushed Democrats to be more aggressive after the insurrection was right. Listen to them next time (if there is a next time).

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

www.theguardian.com

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 6d

I really liked #Boots, which premiered today on #Netflix. I hope we get more of it. #TV #television #tvsky

'Boots' review: Netflix's gay military drama and the performance of masculinity

As a character drama, I found it richly rewarding.

danielmontgomery3.substack.com

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 6d

I liked this a lot.

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 6d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 6d

He's so cognitively garbled that I can't guess what he means at the end, when he says freedom of speech "is always something I felt strongly about, but it never passed the courts."

At this point, it's important for Democratic politicians to raise questions about his brain function every single day.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 6d

"Some House Democrats have a new worry as concerns about lawmakers’ safety continue: That they won’t be able to rely on local law enforcement for help if they need it." -- welcome to the world everyone else lives in

Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 24d

When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...

Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection

“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.

www.notus.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 6d

Interesting choice, and probably smart not to clog up Best Supporting Actress with three viable candidates. Maybe Teyana and Regina can both get in?

Daniel Montgomery 🍉 @danielmontgomery.bsky.social · 6d

As the technology gets more and more advanced, I think it's unfair to expect individual viewers to be able to clock AI, especially in silly possum videos that I wouldn't think too much about anyway. Frankly, I think the technology needs to be banned. There seem to be only risks, no benefits.

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