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

Out of Darkness is great. Very high concept, but I think it works. I’d like to see it again and think with it.

Bone Tomahawk is really well made and very unsettling. But the racial overtones of the core conceit make it hard to enjoy. Still not sure what to do with that one, really.

Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 7h

The thing about it in the United States is that there’s a huge constituency of people, mostly aligned with the current regime, who would be thrilled and would see it as a sort of fan service until it hit home…

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 7h

What are your thoughts on Bone Tomahawk (2015) and Out of Darkness (2022)?

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 7h

a man is talking into a microphone while a woman looks on .

Alt: SKA DEFINES WHO I AM AS A PERSON AND I WILL NEVER TURN MY BACK ON SKA

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 16h

In late September, Black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman.

Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from the racist U.S. empire and all that it entails.

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Assata Is Welcome Here • Protean Magazine

In late September, black revolutionary Assata Shakur died in Cuba a free woman. Orisanmi Burton celebrates her life and her unceasing dedication to the revolutionary struggle for liberation from U.S. ...

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 15h

It’s also important to flood social media with this jury nullification toolkit so that potential jurors (You?) read it before they become actual jurors.

beyondcourts.org/sites/defaul...

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 7h

And they shot a second person 5 times! Out of frustration!

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 7h

a young boy is laughing with his mouth open in a striped shirt .

Alt: A child screams from the very depths of their being

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 7h

Couldry and Mejias’ book “The Costs of Connection: How Data is Colonizing Human Life and Appropriating it for Capitalism” is great for this

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

These flitted through my mind

Bo Burnham inexplicably holds a knife while saying boilerplate youtube nonsense as if he has no earthly volition or soul

Still from tv show “Community” depicting bland white guy in khakis and a button up hired to build a biographical footprint for the corporate personhood of Subway (the sandwich chain) by attending classes and getting a transcript

Still from tv show “Community” depicting the Greendale Community College mascot, The Human Being - a gray suited androgynous person with a drawn on smiley face who looks like a sentient, malevolent drawing from a horror movie

The famous medieval painting of Jesus after attempted fixes by a stunningly inept amateur restorationist

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

It’s like a gordian knot of ouroboroses

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 17h

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 19h

Pritzker is full of shit. He asked Illinois residents to take out their phones and record ICE…then his gestapo beat up and arrested people doing just that, including my friend.

Jerry Boyle @jecboyle.bsky.social · 1d

I was Pritzker’s biggest fanboy, so I realize it’s hard to accept his betrayal. It was hard for me, but I saw it with my own eyes.
Please stop gaslighting me about Pritzker. You weren’t there. I was. These are Pritzker’s brown shirts, working fist-in-glove with ICE/CBP.

Pritzker’s brown shirts attacking protesters.

Pritzker’s brown shirts. Dude in military gear is also Pritzker’s.

Note the Illinois State Police patch on the dude in military gear.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 18h

when the dog catches the car

Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 1d

please read my memo www.theverge.com/business/793...

Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

Bari Weiss has sold her company, The Free Press, to manage the decline of broadcast news at CBS. How many ways can it go wrong?

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flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 23h

“Conversion therapy” is a euphemism for child abuse, and every mainstream medical and mental health organization has rejected this practice for decades. There is no evidence that it does anything besides harm children. It is one of the few subjects where there is an overwhelming medical consensus.

Conversion therapy is universally opposed as harmful by major medical organizations, including (but not limited to) the American Academy of Child Adolescent Psychiatry, American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy, American Medical Association(AMA), American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association (APA), and the American School Health Association.
Links: https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/medical-experts-lgbtq-people-agree-conversion-therapy-is-no-replacement-for-health-care

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 20h

Worth noting that this is the experience of so many diligent people of good conscience across so many social sectors in the US, especially politics and education

Asher Hellbein @asherelbein.bsky.social · 22h

No shit I'm furious. I spent eleven years learning to write well about complex topics in ethical ways, often for criminally low rates, because I believe that work's important. It's deeply insulting to see a total dipshit get fabulously wealthy for telling the rich what they want to hear!

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 20h

Ideological and factual contradictions aside, Hegseth publicly admiring and collaborating with Hortman and then completely ignoring her murder at the hands of his own political movement is something out of 1930s Germany. Truly chilling stuff.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 20h

Ideological and factual contradictions aside, Hegseth publicly admiring and collaborating with Hortman and then completely ignoring her murder at the hands of his own political movement is something out of 1930s Germany. Truly chilling stuff.

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Sam Menefee-Libey @sml47.bsky.social · 20h

Another wild piece of reporting in the Boston Globe today: in 2013, Pete Hegseth did his master's thesis at the Kennedy School (lol) and advocated for diversity, equity, and inclusion in education and bi-partisan partnership with recently-assassinated senator Melissa Hortman.

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

Solidarity to comrades in UK, Italy, Madagascar, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, and all the other hot spots. We in the US know we’re not the only ones in the shit and our hearts are with you as you fight back against kleptocracy and ecocide.

And Palestine, always.

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

Thanks for this!!

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

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

Plaintitff attys concede this language will cause hesitancy in the govt and among federal agents, but say this is a good thing.

"We would like them to hesitate before shooting priests and journalists," plaintiff atty says.

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

Remember that this is what the US attorney argued in the J20 cases and secured zero convictions during the trials. Jurors went on record afterwards saying “it was not a close call.”

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

I’m glad I caught up on this excellent coverage of the Chicago use of force suit hearing.

Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 1d

She adds that violations of ICE agents' rights can't be addressed if they won't identify themselves.

She concedes it can be "scary" to be followed home or harassed, but adds,

"That doesn't mean you get to do this job and be anonymous."