Dolores Huerta had two babies with Cesar Chavez, after unwanted sexual encounters, that she’s just revealing now. They were raised by others. I’m flabbergasted by the secrets she had to carry.

Unsurprisingly, the director of this sounds like a narcissistic self-justifying self-serving cunt, and every single quote will make you want to reach through your screen to punch him

just plainly evil.

Evening free in London so I went to the theatre to see “OH, MARY!”. I can’t remember the last time I laughed so much.

7. THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD: A surprisingly even-keeled look at Coppola, Lucas, and Spielberg that isn't afraid to talk about their flaws as much as their genius (and at least 2 of these guys don't come off looking great). Gets in A LOT OF info, including how women factored into their lives.

I wrote about a new book that covers the tumultuous period that the movie industry experienced during the 1970s. It’s pretty great reading. The Last Kings of Hollywood: Some are more regal than others open.substack.com/pub/matthewb...

An Excellent Excerpt from "The Last Kings Of Hollywood" www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I'm currently in the early chapters of THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD, and I already have a greater appreciation for George Lucas. He was always an unassuming innovator, consistently pushing for technical advancement, often facing opposition, even if, as he admitted, "I can't write!" #booksky #moviesky

Even though the #Oscars are over you can celebrate movie magic with @pfischer.bsky.social's The Last Kings of Hollywood; the book is out now. Perfect timing too since George Lucas began principal photography on something called #StarWars on March 22, 1976. Like that movie was gonna do anything.

Not to reopen the Blake Lively Pandora's box, but this is further proof that the people she exposed for mounting a smear campaign against her do this regularly and deliberately. www.thecut.com/article/did-...

New & recent non-fiction. I am currently reading Elemental by @snellarthur.bsky.social, as expected an excellent, absorbing book. Pictures with the new Antony Beevor book on Rasputin, and The Last Kings of Hollywood. Plus recent paperbacks for a range of interests. #booksky

Pete Hegseth's "Department of War" spent $7.4 million on lobster tails, more than $15 million on ribeye steaks, and hundreds of thousands on doughnuts...in September. openthebooks.substack.com/p/pentagon-s...

Tomorrow in beautiful Lewes!

“Tehran is burning. And smoke has filled the streets. It’s impossible to drive out of the city right now and even with the windows closed, heavy smoke is making its way inside." Read every word.

Claude's a fancy Predictive Text machine, yet the framing of the technology allows people who commit atrocities to transfer blame onto it. It's like an accountant blaming Excel for fucking up your tax return.

Every time I see one of his posts now, my brain imagines Harrison Ford growling “Donald, you can type this shit, but you sure can’t say it”

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

Breanna Stewart’s package of finishing moves at the rim is unreal.

A brilliant student up here in Canada was getting ahead in a poetry competition, reading a poem about sexual assault — until her principal and superintendent decided to ban her from reading it. Please take a moment to sign this petition in Josephine’s support. c.org/CXqj48qZG7

🚨 It looks like the UK government is gearing up to upend copyright law in favour of AI companies, legalising the theft of their work. This is despite creatives' huge protests, and despite previous proposals being roundly rejected by the public. Please spread the word. 🧵 1/4

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For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

This is an insane thing to say. Insane. “If the Final Solution is in the news / under discussion at the highest levels, the op ed page at a national newspaper should be publishing pieces that make the case for the Final Solution. Even if it’s the Final Solution!” …Insane.

Seems like a thing more people should be mad about

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

There are several ways a dictatorship can transition to a democracy. A foreign power assassinating the dictator in an unprovoked war isn't one of them.

The US/Israeli illegal attack on Iran should be understood to be a clear violation of the Olympic Truce (much as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was which led to its suspension by the IOC) and result in bans for 2028 and the stripping of those Games from LA. apnews.com/article/olym...

If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.

Quite the headline change on this piece

“man bad, we killed man, that makes us good” is real baby-brained stuff

Child rapists are dropping bombs on little girls and the best the Dems can do is ask them to file the proper paperwork.

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

WOW. 19 people, all who were imprisoned and mistreated in a foreign prison at the direct command of the United States, are brave enough to say “We are innocent, and we will endure more time imprisoned to prove that.” I can only admire the enormous courage such a move takes.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

the fecklessness of establishment Dems comes from the fact that they agree with much of what Trump is doing. they want aggressive immigration enforcement. they want to blow shit up in Iran. for them, Trump is a sin eater who's brashly doing what they've been trying to do politely for a generation

This is amazing. www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Worth noting that Japan using peace talks with Washington as cover for their sneak attack on Pearl Harbor is one of the reasons we were so fucking furious at them on December 8, 1941. It's WHY FDR called it a Day of Infamy

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

A significant part of this whole fascist coup thing America is currently doing is simply about the fact that, for a hot minute more than a decade ago, it became ever so slightly difficult for mediocre wealthy white male failuppers to be completely immune from criticism for being sexual predators.

lol it's built into the warner bros deal that ellison has to pay the breakup fee — so he's literally handing netflix $2.8 billion just to walk away. (what would be REALLY funny is for like the EU to kill the deal and put him on the hook for another $7B.)

The only thing perhaps more depressing than the state of US politics is watching every other western country, including the UK, tripping over itself trying to become the same thing

the entire pitch of Cuomo was that sure he's a loathsome sex pest but he has what it takes to stand up to Trump, and then the hot leftist starts every phone call with "what's up big dog" and gets Trump to do whatever he wants.

If you aren’t Jewish and don’t get how this is antisemitic, I’ll do a short TLDR; Jews sometimes refer to gentiles as goy or goyim. That’s not a slur, even if it’s derogatory. If you’re a gentile saying it, specifically self-deferentially or defiantly , it’s a guaranteed Nazi dogwhistle.

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot" HELL. YES.

This fascist enough for people?

This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice

A lot of Americans seem very offended by this, even though we all know sometimes the better team loses. That's how sports works. It is, indeed, one of the great lessons of sports. And the better team loses sometimes *especially* when a game is decided by something like 3-on-3 overtime. It happens!

Well, the bad guys won the hockey, but the Arsenal won, Celtic and Rangers dropped points, and there's a full day of women's basketball still ahead of us, so this sporting Sunday is still shaping up pretty nicely.