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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 2h

"People who are my audience are those that say, “Well, that made me uncomfortable. Why?” It’s really about thinking about yourself. What did I see in that work, or that I saw of myself in it that made me uncomfortable?"

I spoke to Mary Bronstein for @letterboxd.social

Discomfort Watch: If I Had Legs I’d Kick You writer-director Mary Bronstein on existential breakdowns and hamster horror shows • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As her psychological dramedy If I Had Legs I’d Kick You hits theaters, writer-director Mary Bronstein chats with Marya E. Gates about embracing chaos, rejecting comfort and the resilience of rodents (...

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 13h

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 22h

I just caught up with THE LUCKIEST MAN IN AMERICA and I’m sorta taken aback by how down my mutuals are on it. I agree with @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social: it’s a well-acted, well-made character study.

The Luckiest Man in America movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert

An example of how to make a low-budget movie that immerses you in a long-gone world and the minds of people who lived in it.

www.rogerebert.com

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

Yessssssss

Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 1d

My next book will be a biography of Jack Nicholson, written as an epic story of the transformation of the movie industry and modern masculinity from the 1950s to the present, with Nicholson as the main character. The title: Leading Man.

New York Times bestselling author and film & TV critic at New York Magazine Matt Zoller Seitz's LEADING MAN, the definitive biography of Jack Nicholson, casting Nicholson as the complex main character in an era of American culture spanning six decades, while shining a light on the actor’s crucial role in shaping modern masculinity, both on and off the screen, based on new interviews and original reporting, to Amar Deol at Grand Central, in an exclusive submission, by Ethan Bassoff at WME.

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 1d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 1d

If you want to see Regina Hall at her absolute best, watch HONK FOR JESUS, SAVE HER SOUL. Her range is immense in it as the wife of a disgraced mega church preacher.

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Grant @gdubbstl.bsky.social · 1d

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 1d

ye see this shits not inevitable never give up in advance

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

Microsoft has withdrawn its proposal for a data center in a Milwaukee suburbs after community pushback.

After opposition from area residents and elected officials the 244 acre Caledonia project will not proceed.

Microsoft drops Caledonia data center after facing opposition. Company looking for new site

Outcry from residents and elected officials caused Microsoft to drop the Caledonia plan. But the company is seeking an alternative site.

www.jsonline.com

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 2d

The Free Press reporter who wrote the piece about how Gazan kids aren’t actually starving that badly because some of them had preexisting conditions was hired directly from Matt Yglesias, fwiw

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 3d

As one of the countless people *actually* cancelled by Bari Weiss, via her vast favor-trading networks of fellow nepotistic gatekeepers in media and publishing, I think both of these asinine dipshits should go fuck themselves.

Matt Yglesias QT'ing Corey Walker

I didn’t rejoice at her cancellation and got cancelled myself at roughly the same time, but I am sincerely jealous that no regime-aligned billionaire has even fit to curry favor with the Trump administration by giving me a huge sum of money.
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The vitriol against Bari Weiss is just thinly-veiled jealousy by people who rejoiced at "cancelling" her in 2020 and are furious she managed to get fabulously wealthy in an infamously brutal and low-paying industry.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

if the democratic party starts stepping away trans people they might as well sign this country away to the far right forever

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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emily moonlight @threnody.bsky.social · 2d

hi, cis folks in california!

this headline leaves out that newsom has another 5 days to sign these bills into law. if you’d like to tell him he should do that to protect trans californians, you should to reach out.

he also has a phone: (916) 445-2841

want to know what to say? next post! 🧵

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 2d

What a thrill to finally share my piece on two of my favorite games: Snake Eater & Guns of the Patriots. I interrogate how Kojima shows us cyclical violent worlds but still attempts to guide us toward non-violence (in sometimes questionable ways).

Hideo Kojima: Metal Gear Solid 3 & 4

The world of video gaming

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 2d

I had an absolute blast speaking to michael sheen about TRON: LEGACY. garrett hedlund's costume burning him! daft punk being french as hell! sheen describing castor as being a little "fash-y" with all those cabaret-inspired high kicks! a good time. at @vulture.com:

www.vulture.com/article/mich...

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Shelley Stamp @shelleystamp.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

Every name on a list compiled by health authorities in Gaza of the child victims of Israel’s offensive

www.theguardian.com

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tnyfrontrow.bsky.social @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social · 2d

Spectacular, intricate, disconnected, profound: One Battle After Another is an immense experience that's best experienced twice:
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

The Real Battle of “One Battle After Another”

Paul Thomas Anderson’s spectacular, exquisitely detailed fantasy of revolution and resistance, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, looks to history for visions of hope.

www.newyorker.com

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 2d

Especially after he made his political career as a supposed ally. It’s clear now when he championed gay marriage in SF twenty years ago, that was pure opportunism

K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom is a NON-VIABLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. None of the quippy clapback posts mean a goddamn thing if he is willing to throw the queer community under the bus at any opportunity he gets to do so.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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K8 Häxan 🦇 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 2d

Newsom is a NON-VIABLE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE. None of the quippy clapback posts mean a goddamn thing if he is willing to throw the queer community under the bus at any opportunity he gets to do so.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 2d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 2d

new John Gilbert restoration just dropped god bless

A ★★★★½ review of The White Heather (1919)

It's always a celebration when a lost silent film is found, but in my house it's extra special when that lost silent film stars a young John Gilbert (still credited as Jack!). I wasn't able to attend ...

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 2d

The White Heather, 1919 (dir. Maurice Tourneur)

Lady in a bonnet holding a child next to a lady pulling something out of a wool coat with man man standing near them. A tinted film still from The White Heather, 1919 (dir. Maurice Tourneur) starring John Gilbert.

A lady in a black dress with a white lace color and a black hat sitting in a bench next to a man in a wool coat with us arm around a boy. A tinted film still from The White Heather, 1919 (dir. Maurice Tourneur) starring John Gilbert.

A man taking a swig from a glass next to another man wearing a hat with stubble holding his own glass. A tinted film still from The White Heather, 1919 (dir. Maurice Tourneur) starring John Gilbert.

A wooden table with a candle in a bottle covered with melting wax and a nan in a wild coat leaning on it, grinning. A tinted film still from The White Heather, 1919 (dir. Maurice Tourneur) starring John Gilbert.

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 2d

for the night crowd

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 3d

“Goodall lived her life with a purpose, not just rooted in her work with chimpanzees, but also in her mission to conserve our natural world before it’s too late."

I wrote about the life and legacy of Jane Goodall for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

Your Life Matters: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert

An ode to the acclaimed primatologist and conservationist, whose lifelong work was captured beautifully on film for decades.

www.rogerebert.com

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Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 2d

ICYMI

Robert Daniels @812filmreviews.com · 2d

The more I thought about A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, the less I gravitated toward it, to the point that I barely remember anything about it.

Here are my thoughts on Kathryn Bigelow's latest film.

'A House of Dynamite' Review

A TNT thriller that feels below Bigelow

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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social · 3d

“Goodall lived her life with a purpose, not just rooted in her work with chimpanzees, but also in her mission to conserve our natural world before it’s too late."

I wrote about the life and legacy of Jane Goodall for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

Your Life Matters: Jane Goodall (1934-2025) | Tributes | Roger Ebert

An ode to the acclaimed primatologist and conservationist, whose lifelong work was captured beautifully on film for decades.

www.rogerebert.com

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 3d

What could go wrong

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 3d

Thousands of federal agents once tasked with investigating drug smuggling, sexual exploitation and organized crime have been redirected to immigration enforcement. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4mRqotu

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Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve updated the Gofundme’s goal following Sandwiches’s last trip to the vet & this past weekend’s visit from a very helpful and kind at-home euthanasia specialist. At the moment we’ve raised $2,500 of our $3,500 goal. Thanks to everyone who’s helped so far; we appreciate your overwhelming support.

Simon Abrams @simonsaybrams.bsky.social · 24d

After some discussion with Jene, I'm finally posting a Gofundme to help us with Sandwiches' vet bills. Our baby has been having more bad days lately so we have to start thinking about at-home euthanasia. Any help would be greatly appreciated: www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-pa...

Donate to Help Us Pay for Sandwiches' Vet Bills, organized by Simon Abrams

Hello My name is Simon Abrams and this GoFundMe is for me and my partner Jene's… Simon Abrams needs your support for Help Us Pay for Sandwiches' Vet Bills

www.gofundme.com

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