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Film critic. Pronouns: he/him. UDL Russian assets are running our government. It's the Gulf of Mexico. Make America Democratic Again. Love is love. 🏳️‍🌈 BLM. Slava Ukraini! https://linktr.ee/chrisreedfilm

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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · Jul 25

The video version of CINEMANIAX 105—on summer movies—with guest @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social and an interview with THE QUEEN OF MY DREAMS director Fawzia Mirza, is now out. Give it a watch! chrisreedfilm.com/2025/07/25/c... #filmsky

Cinemaniax Episode 105 Now Available in Video, As Well!

I posted last week that the audio version of Episode #105 of the Cinemaniax podcast—the final one of the year—was out. Now comes the video version. Again, Vulture and New York magazine TV critic Ro…

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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · 1h

My final review out of the 2025 @newnextfilmfest.bsky.social is of Ian Bell's WTO/99, over at @hammertonail.bsky.social #filmsky

Hammer to Nail @hammertonail.bsky.social · 6h

Filmmaker Ian Bell takes viewers on a trip back to 1999, the quaint time when protests against the World Trade Organization were dominating the news cycle, in his doc WTO/99. Chris Reed has his review fresh from the NEW/NEXT Film Fest
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WTO/99

(The New/Next Film Festival took place October 2-5 in Baltimore, MD which just happens to be home base for our Lead Critic, Chris Reed. Check out his WTO/99movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation...

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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · 5h

This is my new favorite liberal podcast. @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

I've Had It

Society & Culture Podcast · Updated Weekly · Join Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan and their special guests on “I’ve Had It” and let this comedic, feel-good podcast expose you to all the thin...

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Tina Smith @smith.senate.gov · 7h

If ICE thinks it's okay to assault a pastor in broad daylight, imagine what they're doing in the dark.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

Merrick Garland green-lit the search of Mar-a-Lago. It happened in August 2022 three months before Jack Smith was appointed. Jack Smith was in the Netherlands at the Hauge prosecuting Kosovo war crimes when Mar-a-Lago was searched. Eric should have listened to my podcast.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Eric Trump accuses Jack Smith of "planting classified documents at Mar-a-Lago"

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 11h

there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 10h

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 9h

This administration is flooding the zone so furiously that people have largely lost track of the lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean, the gov’t shutdown, the economy, failed release of the Epstein files & so much else. It’s a tactic of would-be strongmen.

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 17h

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

really can’t say enough about how mike johnson is a sniveling little coward of a man. a bayou-bred pushover with a dignity deficit that would embarrass renfield

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 14h

On this day in 1953, a Birmingham police commissioner banned an interracial All-Star baseball game organized by Jackie Robinson since it was a "mixed athletic event."

Oct. 8, 1953 | Jackie Robinson and Others Banned From Playing Interracial Baseball in AL

Learn more about our history of racial injustice.

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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · 11h

The people who did this, including Musk and his pathetic minions, should be made pariahs for these actions alone, yet they have done so much other damage, too. So sad and so horrible.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12h

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Chris Reed @chrisreedfilm.bsky.social · 11h

Is it OK to call what is happening fascism yet? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump calls for jailing of Chicago mayor and Illinois governor as national guard arrives in city

President accused Brandon Johnson and JB Pritzker of failing to protect Ice officers as troops deploy to Chicago

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 14h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

When people are hired, not for their honesty or competency, but for their ability to be snarling trolls on TV for the delight of their immature and unpleasant boss, you get an AG like Pamela Jo Bondi.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump on pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell: Haven't heard the name in so long. I’ll take a look at it. I’ll speak to the DOJ. A lot of people have asked me for pardons.

Reporter: But she’s convicted of sex trafficking

Trump: I’ll have to take a look at it.

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J. Michael Mull @jmichaelmull.bsky.social · 2d

it was all over for tv journalism when Fox News was allowed to call themselves Fair & Balanced

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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 2d

It really is staggering to see so many people willing to abandon our 249 year experiment in democracy for an increasingly unstable criminally convicted reality show charlatan.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

There it is

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 2d

Oh look the party that screams “family values” every five minutes is silent when one of their megachurch darlings pleads guilty to child sex abuse. But they’ll trip over themselves to ban books and attack drag shows. Tells you everything you need to know.

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

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 2d

Pro-tip: the people zip-tying kids or shoving the elderly down stairs are never the good guys.

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