the renaissance happened in italy why do people at ren faires always talk in a british accent instead of like tony soprano lol

I like some of the FIFA soccer matches but what the fuck does she know about peace 🤧

WGA says the Netflix & Warner Bros merger 'must be blocked' “The world’s largest streaming company swallowing one of its biggest competitors is what antitrust laws were designed to prevent"

The reason Netflix is attempting to brand the Warner Bros. acquisition as “consumer friendly” is because they need regulatory approval from the federal government Do NOT allow them to manufacture consent for this or it will have consequences for the future of filmmaking

Nobody wanted this. The average person knows this means their subscription costs will go up at a challenging time for them financially and moviegoers are already bracing ourselves for less theatrical releases It’s truly these rich executives ruining our quality of life each day

oh lawd he comin’ 🚨

at the function notifying everybody whenever the snoopy float comes up on the TV

i hate gay halloween what do you mean you’re brendan fraser in the mummy 🕸️

Militaries cannot lawfully target the civilians of another country who pose no imminent threat. Petro has a responsibility to protect Colombian citizens from extrajudicial murder and Trump would rather cut aid than take accountability because he does not value civilian life

just went to the PTA meeting. that shit had nothing to do with paul thomas anderson

I’m pleased to report: One Battle After Another has the sauce 🏆 boxd.it/bdFdF9

Meanwhile in the US, there’s nothing barring someone from seeking a second term after they were already impeached and have attempted to overturn the previous election Instead, they’re rewarded with presidential immunity and a supermajority to impose their will as they please 😇

There’s a contingent of people insisting that he was a father and a human being and today my thoughts are with the parents Charlie Kirk actively dehumanized during his debates to argue that their kids were “worth” dying to protect the 2nd Amendment Those parents didn’t deserve that

The hubris of Charlie Kirk is that he spent a significant portion of his career justifying the cruelty of these shootings as if he was somehow immune from them or could merely place the blame on other groups of people he deemed undesirable or uniquely violent but this affects us all

if everything is becoming performative then nothing can be authentic and frankly i’d rather people assume i’m fake than live in perpetual fear of enjoying what i genuinely like

this is gonna be nathan at the nine inch nails show

the plot of sonic adventure 2 is now real

While NPR and PBS only minimally rely on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, I don’t think you guys understand how much this will affect our local stations that are often more likely to cover local advocacy from community leaders and organizations They want to silence us

At first during Superman I was like “this can’t be about Palestine” until it was revealed the invading country is a US ally receiving billions in weapons sales from Lex Luthor and the ending resembles the 2018 Gaza border protests Go see this movie. It is SO good 🙂‍↕️

And Trump accomplished this by convincing millions of people who didn’t even know they were on Medicaid that their true enemies are immigrants, not the billionaires who just secured the largest tax cut in American history by cutting you off of your own healthcare

"This is war is being waged by two nuclear powers against a country that does not have nuclear weapons or a nuclear weapons program, according to the overwhelming consensus of the US intelligence community," per @sarahlazare.bsky.social and @ahjohnson.bsky.social. www.columnblog.com/p/lawmakers-...

A federal judge says he’ll order Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil released from immigration detention.

Leading economists argue that Zohran Mamdani's mayoral platform is a bold yet practical blueprint to tackle some of New York City’s most urgent challenges—above all, the cost of living.

I truly do believe if you fought tooth and nail to get here, you have even more of a right to call this place your home. Citizenship isn't just legal status, it's actively participating in the world around you. Everything I learned about community came from immigrants

Brian Wilson's music meant the world to me. I spent my entire adolescence listening to Pet Sounds and continue to binge The Beach Boys discography every summer, making new memories through his songs God only knows what I’d be without him

While military deploying to Los Angeles has stoked tensions, it’s LAPD officers who have been most violent toward protesters at anti-ICE demonstrations in LA. We spoke with 5 people who were injured by LAPD and CHP while protesting Sunday. @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/06/10/l...

LA’s sanctuary laws ban cops from helping ICE in most cases. But the LAPD was out in full force repressing protests against the raids.

The theatre collective I’m a part of that recently put on the play I co-directed “Younger Us” just got nominated for Best of Orlando 2025 🍊 If you’d like to support us, please vote for Bacchus Theatre Collective for Best Theater Company: vote.orlandoweekly.com/arts-and-ent...

We just got nominated for Best of Orlando 2025 🥹💕

A difference between the first Trump administration and the second is that the US has now socially accepted the conditions of fascism and corporations like Disney are responding by dulling the edge of their diverse properties and making them align with conservative ideology

This might seem like common sense but it’s intentionally communicated like this to conceal the junk science intended to shift our focus away from fighting for universal healthcare and walkable communities, which will do far more for our health, than fear-mongering food

Earlier this year, @ddayfilms.bsky.social and I co-directed a play together called “Younger Us” 🎭 I got Jeremy flowers for the premiere of his first stage production so he decided to gift me my own for my directorial debut

HBO is literally their flagship brand. We were all saying this from the beginning but I suppose it’s a hard pill for David Zaslav to swallow if that would mean accepting that most of us don’t view Discovery Channel programming as quality content worth paying for lol

Nobody actually believes PBS Kids is “woke propaganda” this is just the opportunity they’ve seized to divert funding away from programming that actually nourishes working families toward their conservative inner-circle and channels of religious indoctrination

In light of Warner Bros. plan to demolish the historic Looney Tunes building, I wrote about how Looney Tunes should’ve been a flagship franchise, and how an indie distributor is stepping up to rescue its cultural legacy 🎞️ Read it on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/slimjosa...

For #WorldAutismAwarenessDay, I’m highlighting the experiences of one of my favorite artists, David Byrne, frontman of the new wave band, Talking Heads 🎸 Here I discuss how Byrne navigated specific challenges through the act of performance:

‘COYOTE VS ACME’ has been officially saved by Ketchup Entertainment, who bought the film for $50M They plan to give the film a worldwide theatrical release in 2026.

twitter is fun again i just ratio’d a transphobe with one of my selfies LOL

NEW: ICE is hunting for Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who attended pro-Palestine protests. Chung came to the US from Korea with her family at age 7, and was her high school's valedictorian. She's a lawful permanent resident. Here's what we know so far. 🧵

BREAKING: Yuval Abraham, co-director of Oscar-winning documentary "No Other Land," says Israeli settlers beat his co-director Hamdan Ballal, injuring his head and stomach — and then Israeli soldiers invaded the ambulance he was in and seized him. Ballal's whereabouts are now unknown.

Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank on Monday, and he was then detained by the Israeli military, activists on the scene said.

Yup and it’s frightening how Trump has been able to re-define what it means to be a domestic terrorist. From 2015 to 2019 the Global Terrorism Index reported a 320% increase in domestic terror from the far-right, but Trump has weaponized this against pro-Palestinian organizers

For St. Patrick’s Day, I wrote about assimilation and the roots we attempt to bury, through the backdrop of Disney Channel Original Movie “The Luck of the Irish” ☘️ Read it on my Substack: open.substack.com/pub/slimjosa...

A national public TV show like Sesame Street should’ve never been purchased by a private corporation to begin with. The objective of Sesame Street is to provide quality educational programming to children across the US not adhere to bogus corporate viewership metrics

There’s an informal version of this in many places called Free Blockbuster: Volunteer-run, repurposed newspaper boxes where people can both offload and acquire movies, a concept borrowed from the Little Free Library organization, but for VHS tapes and DVDs Wrote about it here. Gift link

The Pacific Rim engineers that spent weeks building a 30-foot bowie knife for a mech suit to draw from its ankle sheath must have been muttering “Hell yeah” the whole time

ahh yes notable people & pets: my girlfriend’s cat, my childhood dog, and kendall roy 🙂‍↕️

there has never been a clearer recession indicator than lady gaga releasing an album where most of the songs sound like 2008 club bangers

Women workers deserve safe workplaces. Add your name now.

some ppl can only bring themselves up by putting others down