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Jared Skolnick
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I make movies. I am nice.

www.skolnickfilms.com
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January 19, 2026 at 5:22 AM
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January 19, 2026 at 2:40 AM
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January 17, 2026 at 10:35 PM
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I've been quoting this woman my whole life but didn't learn her name until today.
January 17, 2026 at 3:24 AM
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After David Lynch passed away last year, I decided to take a lot of my feelings, dreams, and nightmares and make a short film. This is that short, THE VIEW FROM THE TOP.

youtu.be/2d4CVzE37WE?...
The View From The Top | Horror Short Film
YouTube video by Matinee 5 Productions
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January 17, 2026 at 2:09 AM
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every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s
January 16, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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danlehner.bsky.social
extremely cool info environment to tweet something and a half hour later once it’s riled everyone up to be like “no haha jk it’s the opposite actually”
January 16, 2026 at 8:27 PM
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January 16, 2026 at 7:47 PM
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good pictures to use
January 16, 2026 at 5:35 PM
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didn’t watch with the sound on, I assume it sounds like the campfire scene in Blazing Saddles
unicornriot.bsky.social Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 3d
Today at the Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota while federal agents rushed the protest crowd, one agent is filmed pushing a protester and slipping on ICE. Another agent has his pepperball gun broken and he slips on the cartridge holder while dropping pepperballs all over.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 AM
jaredskolnick.bsky.social
At the moment all hope seems lost, the clouds part. Fighters from both sides turn to see. Looking up, we see a figure silhouetted by the rising sun. It is Chuck Schumer, a strongly worded letter in hand. The MAGAs flinch and recoil, hissing. They are diminished, and the day is won.
January 15, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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But Jared, you ask, prosecuting every last ICE officer is impractical. Can you truly jail 20,000 people?
You fool, you naïf, I respond. Is this not America. Is imprisoning large amounts of people at a moments notice not our greatest skill
January 8, 2026 at 5:53 PM
jaredskolnick.bsky.social
ah see but that would violate the sacred “don’t make daddy mad” ethos of modern journalism
ndrew.bsky.social Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5d
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
January 14, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Heads up hearing from a lot of people that ICE is back in Little Tokyo
January 14, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 8:17 PM
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This is what Frodo, delirious after being stabbed on Weathertop, saw as Arwen approached
danmynrd.bsky.social 𝔻𝕒𝕟 🏀🍻💀 @danmynrd.bsky.social · 4d
I'd like to imagine that as he became one with The Anti-Monitor's anti-matter cannon, thus saving the universe and instantly de-atomizing, this is the series of images Barry Allen saw flashing across his mind's eye at the moment oh his demise.
January 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 5:58 PM
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January 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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unicornriot.bsky.social
Happening Now: Hundreds of protesters are holding a noise demo outside of the Graduate by Hilton Hotel in Minneapolis where ICE agents are reportedly staying. Drums, guitars, pots and pans are in-tune to "fuck ICE" and "ICE out" chants. Riot police are currently in the lobby.
January 14, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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January 13, 2026 at 9:46 PM
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the TMZ watermark adds so much
bnonews.com BNO News @bnonews.com · 5d
WATCH: Trump shows his middle finger and appears to say "fuck you" after Ford worker yells "pedophile protector" - TMZ
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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Jim Davis:
a man with a bandage on his nose is talking on a cell phone and saying `` i won '' .
ALT: a man with a bandage on his nose is talking on a cell phone and saying `` i won '' .
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January 13, 2026 at 4:05 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM
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Point Break
aelkus.bsky.social ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 6d
we often talk about “what anime would you adapt into a movie” but here is a reverse: what movies would you adapt into an anime?
January 13, 2026 at 5:59 AM