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Eric D. Snider

@ericdsnider.bsky.social

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Writer, emeritus film critic (1999-2020), gay, LDS. BLM. ACAB. Free Palestine. He/him. SoCal native, then Provo, then Portland, now Provo again. All tweets are about you specifically and should be taken personally. Fix your hearts or die.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · Jul 25

I may not agree with what you say. But I will defend to the death my right to make fun of you for saying it.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 45m

I agree! But they have no leader and cannot be stopped, and even if they did, I bet stopping them would require getting up early.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 48m

Looking for the "leaders" of Antifa — a philosophy, not an organization — is so stupid. You might as well look for the leaders of Optimism, or Being a Morning Person, or Virgos.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1h

Whoa! I just watched this a week or so ago! The real yearling was the friends we made along the way.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1h

Another thing the A.I. people have in common with MAGA is assuming everyone agrees with them.

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 15h

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

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.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 2h

He has "annual checkups" the way some places have "going out of business" sales.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 3h

He's so healthy he gets TWO annual checkups.

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 3h

President Trump is going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning for what the White House says is his "routine yearly checkup," just six months after undergoing what the White House at the time described as his "annual physical examination" at the same facility.

Trump to visit Walter Reed for "routine yearly checkup" 6 months after annual physical exam

President Trump's annual physical examination in April showed his vital statistics were all within normal limits.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 3h

Oh, I get it.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 3h

It was great to see, a few weeks ago, when ICE was recruiting at the Provo Convention Center and there were protesters trying to talk people out of it like evangelicals outside an abortion clinic.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 20h

It’s so funny to see unserious goofballs in silly costumes facing off against a frog.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 2d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 5h

When local news KATU posted this on Instagram, they had to clarify that the music was coming from the protesters and hadn't been added as editorial comment. 😂

StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15h

Portland is so good at trolling these fascists.

I ❤️ Portland

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 5h

Hooray!

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 20h

It’s so funny to see unserious goofballs in silly costumes facing off against a frog.

Peter Thal Larsen @petertl.bsky.social · 2d

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 23h

It's infuriating how conservatives were the Chuds Who Cried Wolf for years, saying "America is being destroyed!" over things like trying to make healthcare affordable, so now that America IS being destroyed, people don't listen. They're like, "LOL, we used to say that too, but we were always lying."

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 23h

You know who's been pretty quiet about all this? Charlie Kirk.

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 23h

Look, I'm not gonna claim he's the worst president ever – we've had some bad ones – but he's certainly the one who lied the most outrageously

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

STFU Vince

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

Mine has a dinosaur!

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

I think when the libraries are gone that will really be the end of us.

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

You know what's a great, free way to watch movies and listen to audiobooks in our declining empire? Your local public library (if still open)! I quit Audible when I quit Amazon, and I listen to more books now, through Libby, than I did before. Libraries have DVDs, too! Maybe even DVD players!

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

This is missing my favorite horror movie role: GUY AT THE GAS STATION WHO TELLS THE TEENS THEY'RE DOOMED

Zesty Rico 🖕🧊 @juicyricoxxl.bsky.social · 1d

What is your horror movie role this Halloween? 🎃 👻 🔪

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

Important to remember that "Blum" rhymes with dumb.

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

Jason Blum's take on AI sucks. an AI takeover isn't inevitable, and treating it as such (while also referring to filmmaking as "content creation," smdh) helps AI companies promote the lie that their deeply unprofitable, destructive tech is more powerful and useful than it actually is.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

I agree that it (and other films) should be taught in school, but in reality I doubt more than 10% of people under the age of 40 have seen it. I'm surprised when someone that age HAS seen it.

Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

JENNY DYE DO SOMETHING BESIDES GO TO NYC AND WATCH GUSTER CHALLENGE!!

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Eric D. Snider @ericdsnider.bsky.social · 1d

Earlier this year, when Bezos ruined the Washington Post (I don't remember what the last straw was), I quit Amazon. Canceled my Prime membership, stopped ordering things. To my astonishment, I am still alive, and buying things from local businesses more often, and doing more pirating. You can do it!

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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 1d

Folks, if ICE shot a pastor in the head with a pepper ball on camera, what do you think they do to people behind closed doors?

Kurt @flglchicago.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s video of the incident

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