Tyler Barnum (He/Him)
@phinneas8052.bsky.social
I teach college English focusing on race and gender representation in media.
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Black Lives Matter. Love is Love. Trans Lives Matter.
My profile on Letterboxd https://boxd.it/3tOL
Black Lives Matter. Love is Love. Trans Lives Matter.
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Starting a new thread of movies I'm watching this year. Starting off pretty mid, but many more to come.
#1
#1
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“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
December 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻
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Firing over 100 immigration judges.
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
December 9, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Firing over 100 immigration judges.
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
Arresting immigrants outside of their immigration hearings.
Pausing asylum decisions.
And now? Cancelling citizenship ceremonies, the final step to becoming a U.S. citizen.
Just remember that Trump never cared about "legal immigration."
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They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz
Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison
www.forever-wars.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.
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Who did this?
December 8, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Who did this?
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Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
December 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.
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It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!
December 7, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It's just insane that no pilot thought of this route before AI brilliantly came up with it!!!!!!!!
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Pack it up, folks that’s it for the construction industry
December 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Pack it up, folks that’s it for the construction industry
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Everyone stop, this is important
July 7, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Everyone stop, this is important
I was okay just enjoying both of their bodies of work, but if QT is gonna make me choose I'm choosing Lillard in a heartbeat.
Lillard was on stage at GalaxyCon in Ohio when he brought up Tarantino's recent attack on his career, calling it "humbling."
www.avclub.com/matthew-lill...
www.avclub.com/matthew-lill...
Matthew Lillard responds to Quentin Tarantino tearing him down: "It hurts"
Matthew Lillard responds to Quentin Tarantino tearing him down: "It hurts"
www.avclub.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:06 AM
I was okay just enjoying both of their bodies of work, but if QT is gonna make me choose I'm choosing Lillard in a heartbeat.
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One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.”
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
🚨Pam Bondi is ordering the FBI to “compile a list" of Americans who may be extremists, per signed memo leaked to me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-fbi-l...
LEAK: FBI List of “Extremists” Is Coming, Memo Reveals
Are you on Trump's naughty list?
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:52 AM
One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.”
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
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ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
ICE detained a US citizen who was originally from Somalia.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
They grabbed her because they didn’t like her hijab.
She says they sexually assaulted her and said things like “what are you hiding under your hijab”
She was held for 24 hours.
A US citizen. No one is safe.
Tarantino attacking the nicest people in Hollywood seems like a bad plan.
Go buy some stuff from Beadle and Grimm to support Lillard.
Go buy some stuff from Beadle and Grimm to support Lillard.
Matthew Lillard has responded to Quentin Tarantino’s comments, where the director said he didn’t like him. ‘It’s humbling, and it hurts,” Lillard shared.
Matthew Lillard Felt ‘Hurt’ by Quentin Tarantino’s Criticism
Matthew Lillard has responded to Quentin Tarantino’s comments, where the director said he didn’t like him. ‘It’s humbling, and it hurts,” Lillard shared.
www.vulture.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Tarantino attacking the nicest people in Hollywood seems like a bad plan.
Go buy some stuff from Beadle and Grimm to support Lillard.
Go buy some stuff from Beadle and Grimm to support Lillard.
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@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:10 PM
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
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If you’re mad at trans athletes in women’s sports you’re mad about the wrong thing entirely.
Investigators say former coach Sean Gardner created videos showing close-up images of at least 10 minors naked or undressing, which they recovered from his computers last year while investigating reports of sexual abuse.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Gardner has pleaded not guilty and has been jailed pending trial.
Olympics Sports Watchdog Failed to Stop Mississippi Coach's Sexual Abuse, Women Allege
Two gymnasts who say they were sexually abused at an elite academy in Iowa filed lawsuits Monday against the sport’s oversight bodies.
www.mississippifreepress.org
December 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
If you’re mad at trans athletes in women’s sports you’re mad about the wrong thing entirely.
Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
NYC Hands Off Training
1,000 people attended!
No ICE in NYC!
Join us at HandsOffNYC.com.
December 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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In Elgin, ICE agents have been in a standoff with the community as they’re trying to arrest a man. Here’s an altercation between the feds and residents ending with arrest and pepper spray. Video from Sophia Peterson
December 6, 2025 at 9:10 PM
In Elgin, ICE agents have been in a standoff with the community as they’re trying to arrest a man. Here’s an altercation between the feds and residents ending with arrest and pepper spray. Video from Sophia Peterson
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Nope. Not listening to clankers pretend to be people.
REVIEW: "Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan” uses an AI recreation of his voice in the film, which I think is the wrong decision
But otherwise it is a worthwhile documentary (on Netflix) exploring his commitment to featuring Black talent on the show when segregation was the norm
Gift 🔗
But otherwise it is a worthwhile documentary (on Netflix) exploring his commitment to featuring Black talent on the show when segregation was the norm
Gift 🔗
‘Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan’ review: How the TV variety show boosted Black talent when segregation was the norm
Watching his talents more closely here, I have a real appreciation for what he was doing — and how he did it — during a period of profound social change.
www.chicagotribune.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Nope. Not listening to clankers pretend to be people.
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Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
bit.ly
December 5, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
Word police clankers
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Word police clankers
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"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
Chinese Hospital Ship Visits Jamaica as US Gunboats Ply Caribbean
A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission ...
www.bloomberg.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."
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Freddie Freeman traumatizes sick children. #SMH www.instagram.com/p/DR4lwk1Dr6u/
December 5, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Freddie Freeman traumatizes sick children. #SMH www.instagram.com/p/DR4lwk1Dr6u/
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"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:10 AM
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
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Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, prolific actor known for his roles in “Mortal Kombat,” “Last Emperor” and “Man In The High Castle,” has died at 75
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Dies: ‘Mortal Kombat, ‘Last Emperor’ & ‘Man In The High Castle’ Actor Was 75
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, the actor best known for his roles in the Mortal Kombat films, The Last Emperor and The Man in the High Castle, has died.
deadline.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, prolific actor known for his roles in “Mortal Kombat,” “Last Emperor” and “Man In The High Castle,” has died at 75
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BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 4, 2025 at 11:30 PM
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.