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Stephen Purvis

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Environmental and Social Justice Filmmaker. Save the World of the Future Today!

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Stephen Purvis @stephenpurvisfilms.bsky.social · Dec 11

Romania fixed their Rigged Election. How the GOP has Rigged the USA elections with Electronic Voting Machines! harpers.org/archive/2012...

How to Rig an Election, by Victoria Collier

The G.O.P. aims to paint the country red

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Stephen Purvis @stephenpurvisfilms.bsky.social · 47m

“Our clients expect to be protected.” OpenAI’s cavalier approach to intellectual property rights in Hollywood has been consistent: Ask forgiveness, not permission. It’s the path of least resistance to monetize Sora. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

How Sam Altman Played Hollywood

OpenAI’s CEO brazenly regurgitated major studios’ characters to allow video app Sora 2 to spit out clips tailor-made for users. Insiders at the major agencies are alarmed — and some wonder whether the...

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How '2' Fight The Dictatorship...
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Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2h

Maybe Mike meant "stood on" Capitol Police?

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JeffTrnka @jefftrnka.bsky.social · 1d

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d

David Brooks is not wrong www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Craig Pittman @craigtimes.bsky.social · 21h

Environmental & Native American groups already suing to shut down #Florida Gov. Ron DeSastrous' Everglades concentration camp file new lawsuit pointing out he hid their federal reimbursement request, violating Sunshine Law. www.tampabay.com/news/florida... via @tampabaytimes.bsky.social

Florida officials didn’t disclose funding request for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facility, lawsuit says

A public records lawsuit was filed in state court in Tallahassee by the Friends of the Everglades.

www.tampabay.com

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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 8h

America Would Be So Much Better
Off Without RepubliKKKans of Any
Age.......

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Stephen Purvis @stephenpurvisfilms.bsky.social · 1h

@amcinematheque.bsky.social Halloween Cinema Treats From @realgdt.bsky.social

American Cinematheque @amcinematheque.bsky.social · 1h

Just added! Guillermo del Toro In-Person for FRANKENSTEIN in 35mm + 'Monster Movie Maestro Guillermo del Toro Presents Halloween Week' 🖤⚰️🧡

10/26 - 11/8:
www.americancinematheque.com/series/the-m...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

“Swear her in! Swear her in!”

#TrumpEpsteinCoverup

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Jordan Collver @jordancollver.bsky.social · 10h

Nice comic about why there's so much symmetry in nature by Laura Jeanty & Page Biersdorff on @crucialcomix.bsky.social #sciart

Full comic: www.crucialcomix.com/comic/symmet...

Comic page showing examples of symmetry in nature e.g. honeycombs, bilateral symmetry in beetles, rotational symmetry of galaxies. Does this exist at the scale of the universe, atoms or fundamental particles?

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 18h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 15h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 1h

Amazon Fires Software Engineer Who Criticized Cloud Computing Project with Israel

Amazon has fired a software engineer who had criticized the company's work with Israel. Ahmed Shahrour had publicly opposed Project Nimbus, Amazon's $1.2 billion cloud computing project that Israel has used to store surveillance information on Gaza's population.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 7h

There are lots of people concerned about Ed Markey's age who wanted him to get primaried. Yet the universal reaction this morning to Seth Moulton running seems to be, "Yeah, I'll stick with Markey."

That's how much Moulton sucks.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 2h

“All of them are throwing the ball amazing, but we kind of knew that,” Kershaw said, describing this starting staff as the best he’s ever seen in his 18 years with the Dodgers. www.latimes.com/sports/dodge...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto's stellar complete game helps lift Dodgers over Brewers in Game 2

Yoshinobu Yamamoto throws a complete-game gem, giving up just three hits as the Dodgers confidently beat the Brewers 5-1 in Game 2 of the NLCS to take a 2-0 lead.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2h

DOJ officials viewed the U.S. attorney in the Western District of Virginia, a veteran prosecutor, as a holdover from the Biden administration, even though he’d been hired during the Bush administration. trib.al/VYCgPzq

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Manderley Press @manderleypress.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty much the exact view Mary Shelley would have had of Jacob's Ladder on the facade of Bath Abbey from her window as she wrote chapter 4 of #Frankenstein in 1816. Note the stone angels ascending and descending... @realgdt.bsky.social we can’t wait to see this played out on screen too! 💙📚#booksky

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Ghoulian Singleton 🎃 @juliansingleton.bsky.social · 1d

On @cinapse.bsky.social is my rapturous rave of @realgdt.bsky.social's NIGHTMARE ALLEY, presented in a new black-and-white Extended Cut that finally makes it feel like an unearthed noir classic, unbound from the Hays Code morality of previous adaptations.

Out from @criterion.bsky.social 10/28!

Cinapse @cinapse.bsky.social · 1d

Criterion Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) [4K UHD]

Guillermo Del Toro’s captivating carnival thriller transforms into a dazzling new noir experience with a brand-new, definitive black-and-white Extended Cut Guillermo Del Toro’s Nightmare Alley remains a tantalizingly unique departure from the rest of the auteur’s filmography. While his adaptation of William Lindsay Gresham’s 1946 novel is a bewitching journey into the labyrinthine schemes of […] The post Criterion Review: NIGHTMARE ALLEY (2021) [4K UHD] first appeared on Cinapse.

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Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social · 23h

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Andrew 🐻 @awd.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in Peace, Drew Struzan

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Jane Fonda Climate PAC (JanePAC) @janeclimatepac.bsky.social · 23h

Here are more climate champions that we're fired up to elect in #Colorado!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the position of the administration it seems is that it is illegal discrimination and divisive racism for historically excluded groups to organize on that basis to improve their position. it’s basically just a genteel version of david duke’s complaint that there wasn’t a NAACP for white people

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 1d

I know it is beside the point because this administration simply wants resegregation but conferences for Black professional associations have always been open to everyone. Typically, the started as a response to white exclusion, and did not replicate that.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 1d

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

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Stephen Purvis @stephenpurvisfilms.bsky.social · 1d

Newsom Fails California's Water Environment...
www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.