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the ethereal andie diane @andiediane.bsky.social · 7h

Pasolini and Watkins together on any list is terrific but this is truly inspired.

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 14h

my Kitschfork podcast co-host Max is in a rough spot financially and could use your help right now

West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 20h

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier

gofund.me/55321f9d3

Donate to Rent Help For Max, organized by Lila Wolfe

If you’ve spent time in Chicago’s DIY music scene, you probably know Max — a warm, welcoming and fundamen… Lila Wolfe needs your support for Rent Help For Max

gofund.me

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Jenny Exuma @jennyllello.bsky.social · 1d

...when you're such an awful person Eli Valley draws you representationally.

Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 1d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

they’re illegally sending troops from more and more states to occupy my fucking city because a bunch of shitass ICE chumps can’t tolerate a person in an inflatable frog costume legally gyrating at them in front of a single building they lease from us, keep it fucking shut down, fuck these people

James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 3d

Okay. Well, if Trump is going to attempt legal end-arounds like federalizing the NG of GOP states to send them to Dem states over the objections of governors and courts, I think the Democrats should just keep the federal government shut down indefinitely.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3d

there’s always a big stupid discourse on this website about how southern states are full of good people and but for the interference of the politicians, they’d all vote the right way, but abbott won by more than ten points in the last election, maybe texas just fucking sucks

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mother dysnomia 🌚 @mamatried.bsky.social · 1d

lol it’s this guy

Tweet from 11/2/24 showing Harry Sisson and his 4 friends in a car that reads “we’re Gen Z voters and we all PROUDLY voted for Kamala Harris! Real men support Harris”

Robert J O’Neill quotes it with

“You're not men. You're boys. If there was no social media, you would be my concubines.”

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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 1d

guy who john brown would have shot:

Derson @dersonhendorion.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for being a single issue voter. You guys swung the 2024 election for Trump in service of the one thing that mattered to you most. And the result is that you now have the literal worst option for the Palestinians. Like I said, you’re part of the problem.

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Willow Catelyn Maclay @willowcatelyn.bsky.social · 2d

I'm too fucking tired to debunk every stupid thing that Ryan Murphy said about Christine Jorgensen or how the public response to Ed Gein was catastrophic to the the perception of trans people so I'll just point to my book. We covered all of it.

bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

The History and Future of Transness in Cinema

bookshop.org

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quaithe of the shadow asshai @clarkconquers.bsky.social · 6d

I wasn’t even around during this time but even I know Prince started this

NPR @npr.org · 7d

Taylor Swift turned masters ownership from a behind-the-scenes conversation into a mainstream debate about artist autonomy. But how has that fight influenced other artists in the music industry?

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Jacob Oller @jacoboller.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle After Another is great but it is missing so many beavers compared to the best movie of the decade

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6d

One Battle After Another has been getting a lot of “best movie of the decade” talk, and I’m inclined to agree but I’m curious — what’s the competition?

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juan barquin @woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 1d

Love to open @reverseshot.bsky.social every morning this week and see new pieces from the Kojima mini-symposium we've been working on this year. Hope everyone enjoys us diving into the work and themes of @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp through our writing.

reverseshot.org/series/12/to...

Museum of the Moving Image's Reverse Shot header page, for Touching the Screen (the site's games section). Two pieces from our Kojima symposium are highlighted: Cole on Metal Gear & Snatcher, Forrest on Metal Gear Solid 1 & 2.

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RogerEbert.com @ebertvoices.bsky.social · 1d

“STILLER AND MEARA is a fascinating window into not only the history of this famous family but also the beautiful and punishing nature of performance itself,” writes @judysquirrels.bsky.social out of the film’s NYFF premiere.

Stiller & Meara: Nothing is Lost movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert

As we learn more about three generations of Stillers, the film takes the shape of a family therapy session that just happens to be lovingly crafted into a feature documentary.

www.rogerebert.com

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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 1d

This is awful but the constant leaks and eventual fall will be extremely funny.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss introduced herself to CBS News staff today on the network's 9AM call, saying she wants to "win," which requires restoring trust to CBS. She also said she was excited for staff to get to know the Free Press, and ended her remarks by saying: "Let's do the fucking news."

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 2d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 4d

Israel is piling crime on top of crime on top of crime.

No wonder it is determined to bring down the entire edifice of international humanitarian law - it's the only hope of protecting itself from consequences.

Btw: the allegations are significantly worse than bedbugs.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Greta Thunberg says she is being detained by Israel in cell ‘infested with bedbugs’

Exclusive: Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water Environmental campaigner Greta Thunberg has told Swedish officials she is being subjected to harsh treatment in Israeli custody after her detention and removal from a flotilla carrying aid to Gaza, according to correspondence seen by the Guardian. According to the correspondence, Israeli forces are also reported by another detainee to have taken photographs where Thunberg was allegedly forced to hold flags. The identity of the flags are unknown. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Grierson @timgrierson.bsky.social · 5d

THE ALABAMA SOLUTION was the final film I saw at Sundance this year. Directed by Andrew Jarecki and Charlotte Kaufman, the documentary incorporates smuggled footage shot by incarcerated men in an Alabama prison wanting to tell the world about the mistreatment they were facing. The film is out today.

‘The Alabama Solution’: Sundance Review

Smuggled smartphones provide a shocking insider's perspective on Alabama's prison system

www.screendaily.com

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🎥 Kathy 📼 Fennessy 📽️ @kcfennessy.bsky.social · 4d

Lucile Hadžihalilović's fourth feature, The Ice Tower, is now playing some US cities, but not Seattle (I don't recall an opening for Earwig either, which I caught up with via screener). In some ways, the new work plays like a sequel or companion to Innocence, her first. @seattlecritics.bsky.social

Hans Christian Andersen Meets the Brothers Grimm in Lucile Hadžihalilović's <i>The Ice Tower</i>

THE ICE TOWER / La Tour de Glace (Lucile Hadžihalilović, France/Germany/Italy, 2025, 117 minutes) How beautiful she was. So perfect! --...

siffblog2.blogspot.com

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Citizen Screen @citizenscreen.bsky.social · 3d

Gloria Grahame and Joseph Cotton in “Tales of the Unexpected,” 1980 episode, “Depart in Peace.”

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Sarah Welch-Larson @dodgyboffin.com · 1d

If you’re in the Seattle/Tacoma area, go see this doc. Vital piece of history and one of my favorite films of the year

Chase 'Hutch' Hutchinson 📽️ @eclectichutch.bsky.social · 1d

Hello Tacoma! Got some good news for you: the Tacoma Film Festival kicks off this week @thegrandcinema.bsky.social with the essential WTO/99 and I'm moderating a Q&A with director Ian following the 7 p.m. Thursday showing. Be there to see then talk one of 2025’s most vital documentaries 📽️

A poster for Ian's Bell documentary film WTO/99 with a group of peaceful protestors sitting opposite armored police in Seattle 1999.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 6d

just learning now that "waffles" is about Jəsse Singəl, so I will re-up this piece that chronicles his long history of harassing primarily trans women (+ other trans ppl & allies) online... juliaserano.blogspot.com/2017/12/my-j...

screenshot from linked to article that reads (in part):
Jun 18, 2018 – Katherine Cross on Singal sending her an email “swearing a storm at me because I tweeted something he disliked that he felt was untrue.”
Jun 18, 2018 – Cat Fitzpatrick mentions Singal threatened to sue her for politely disagreeing with him.
Jan 15, 2019 – Singal levies legal threats against two writers who mention that they personally know trans women who’ve had bad interactions with him.
Jul 7, 2020 – the day the Harper’s Letter (which Singal was a signatory) was released, Singal instigated pile-ons of multiple people. I captured him initiating the pile-on of Jennifer Finney Boylan as it was occurring in this thread (both up & down from linked-to tweet). Emily VanDerWerff reacts to Singal’s pile-on of her here and, two days later, discusses the aftermath of that pile-on (which included “Death threats, rape threats, invitations to commit suicide, constant misgendering, etc”). Ari Drennen took screenshots of Singal targeting Aja Romano.
Because Singal’s attack on Emily VanDerWerff was premised on his false presumption that she was trying to get one of her employers fired (which she has denied), lots of other writers began coming forward with stories of Singal contacting their employers and editors because he disliked what they wrote. Here are some of those instances:
Jul 7, 2020 – Katelyn Burns on Singal “repeatedly emailing my employer until they fired me” is found here. A week later a co-worker corroborated that story.
Jul 7, 2020 – Noah Berlatsky shares: “also Jesse emailed me to demand I save DMs from Katelyn and others and investigate them for him, implying he would sue me otherwise.”
Jul 7, 2020 – Katerine Cross shares: “Back when I wrote for Feministing, he repeatedly badgered the editors trying to get a critical post that mentioned him briefly changed or taken down.”
Jul 9, 2020 – Harron Walker shares how Singal “emailed my editor many times after this was published seeking correction....o…

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

as the cultural tide is shifting further and further against the wealthy and the broader base of support for Trump's political project gradually diminishes, it's just going to be a minoritarian coalition of rich people & the unhinged far-right soldiers they have carrying out their will on the ground

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d

the fascist appeals don't work on most people but they think it'll be enough people to be useful pawns to keep their project going. no way forward without confronting wealth inequality as a foundational issue.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

Important to note ICE tends to drop off detainees before 9 a.m. and after 6 p.m., which is why people were protesting at 5 a.m. to begin with. It's not because waking up at 4 a.m. was a convenient time for protesters!

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 2d

New: Broadview, IL Mayor Katrina Thompson issued an executive order today - her first this year - limiting protest outside the Broadview ICE facility to between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

The order cites "recent escalation of violence by ICE" at the facility as reason to restrict protest there.

An executive order restricting protest at the Broadview ICE facility. Full order can be found here:

https://broadview-il.gov/reference/latest-news/village-of-broadview-executive-order-no-2025-01/

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 1d

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi to Blumenthal: "You lied. How dare you? I'm a career prosecutor. Don't you ever challenge my integrity. Do not question my ability to be fair and impartial."

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