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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 8h

Jonathan Rosenbaum’s book “Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia” is really good on this

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 8h

Did you ever write anything about the movie Excision (2012)? If you haven’t yet, would you, please?

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Remora House DC 🎃 @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 9h

If you are employed & doing pretty fine right now, set aside some money from each paycheck to dedicate to mutual aid asks. Even just $20.

Shit is really bad, the social safety net is being shredded, & truly TRULY all we have is each other right now.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 9h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 12h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 9h

I mean, some of them are. A lot of us aren’t struggling epistemically or morally, just materially and politically. The stakes are very clear right now! Unfortunately, many of those who are lack moral clarity seem to have large platforms…

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 9h

I’m still mad about the interview in NLR

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 9h

(I think it’s important to also situate this as about the aftermath of the “global war on terror” and the constant and outrageous excesses of criminalization over the past century of counterrevolution)

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 9h

This is how I think about it

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 13h

Now is a great time to learn more about histories of protest and tactically effective resistance to militarized policing. One lesson that’s being spontaneously rediscovered and reworked for digital capitalism in Portland has been called Tactical Frivolity by past observers

Screenshots of videos of Portland cartoon bloc

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 9h

Two-factor authentication was spread beyond core security infrastructure to break our spirits and implicate us in our own quiescence

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 10h

@pixelatedboat

The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 16h

They are not planning "a violent crackdown" on 10.18. What they are doing is sending a signal to their shock troops to try to cause havoc. But those shock troops will be vastly outnumbered. Go out and protest freely. Do not be cowed.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 11h

For years, I have wanted to know what the fuck happened to Kathryn Bigelow that she went from NYC feminist collectives and staffing Semiotext(e) and making films like The Loveless (1981) and Near Dark (1987) to being the most artistically skilled propagandist of US Empire

NPR @npr.org · 14h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 11h

(It’s like that scene of “shave and a haircut” from Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

Screenshot of viral tweet by @pixelatedboat from June 12, 2016

“The whole internet loves Milkshake Duck, a lovely duck that drinks milkshakes! *5 seconds later* We regret to inform you the duck is racist”

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 12h

The cold, seething rage here is impressive.

New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 19h

In Broadview this morning, just outside of Chicago, where you can get a police surveillance pod, a drone, and a helicopter in a single shot.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 13h

I heard it was TEMU. Better topple both, just to be sure.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 13h

Now is a great time to learn more about histories of protest and tactically effective resistance to militarized policing. One lesson that’s being spontaneously rediscovered and reworked for digital capitalism in Portland has been called Tactical Frivolity by past observers

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 13h

Here’s a fun video archive.org/details/tact...

And a short text artactivism.members.gn.apc.org/allpdfs/290-...

TACTICAL FRIVOLITY + RHYTHMS OF RESISTANCE : Nuria Vila + Marcelo Expósito : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Spanish translation: http://www.archive.org/details/frivolidad_tactica In September, 2000, several thousands of people gathered in Prague to counter the...

archive.org

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 13h

I think I first learned about this in TV Reed’s “The Art of Protest” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactica...

Tactical frivolity - Wikipedia

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 13h

“I thought you were the party of peace!” whined the nazi knowyourmeme.com/memes/events...

University of Washington Psych 210 Class Confronting Nazi Video | Know Your Meme

University of Washington Psych 210 Class Confronting Nazi Video refers to a series of viral public freakout videos showing a Psych 210 class at the Univers

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/2VH2edfkZfM

Parks & Rec: Bobby Newport

YouTube video by Elisabeth McBee

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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 1d

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news

Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says

It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.

heatmap.news

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Victoria Snellgrove, killed in 2004 by a pepperball, exactly what this guy was shot with. www.aclum.org/sites/defaul...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

“professional”

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 1d

The first time I saw this I thought it was Ben Shapiro

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