At this past Fantasia Film Festival, I spoke with filmmaker Kenichi Ugana and actress Ui Mihara about the funny and chaotic rom-com I FELL IN LOVE WITH A Z-GRADE DIRECTOR IN BROOKLYN, in which U's character Shina, finds love and falls back in love acting. youtu.be/ZjDGC7HQnWU?si… via @YouTube

At @FantasiaFest, I spoke with filmmaker @KenichiUgana and actress Ui Mihara about the funny and chaotic rom-com I FELL IN LOVE WITH A Z-GRADE DIRECTOR IN BROOKLYN, in which U's character Shina, finds love and falls back in love acting. youtu.be/ZjDGC7HQnWU?si… via @YouTube

Those people have never read the Bible with any depth. It's just a tool of supremacy for them the same way their ancestors used it to oppress enslaved Africans and Indigenous people across the world. They talk about Jihad, but no one has done more damage in the name of religion than white people.

So this is in a new book coming out this week and I’ve never seen an entire graf devoted to extolling the virtues of respecting copyright Is this new … and a response to AI? Or have publishers been doing this for a while and I just didn’t notice?

@chanda.blacksky.app is there any newd on Eman? Has she been released?

No One Was Helping Black Transgender Youth. So These Parents Stepped In. capitalbnews.org/black-parent...

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road. "Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!" source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

I was on another call and so have just been able to join, but here is a thread on the Oregon military deployment TRO hearing —>

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov owns every arrest and act of violence against protesters this morning. He is aiding and abetting Operation Midway Blitz by allowing state cops to do this. He tells us to film ICE. His cops have shoved me around for filming this morning.

This is what the state of Illinois sent to greet protesters at Broadview.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

I cannot express enough how this is what has been happening for some time in Broadview. Federal agents assault, shoot chemical munitions at, and arrest protesters completely unprovoked. And state police are now helping border patrol to combat and arrest protesters. Great work everyone.

Indigenous filmmakers Shane Belcourt and Tanya Talaga joined me to discuss their documentary NI-NAADAMAADIZ: RED POWER RISING, chronicling the life of Ojibway Warriors Society leader Louis Cameron and Anishinabeg youth in the 1970s. #CarolynTalks youtu.be/IhU7Cm62GhY?si… via @YouTube

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

“Cruz was the sole objecting senator, who claimed without evidence that Wyden’s bill could disrupt law enforcement, “such as knowing where sexual predators are living.”” the White House?

COVID affects the sense of smell and taste. Food tastes weird of flat and unapppetising. But yuh, keep up with the denial that even a "mild" infection doesn't have some form of chronic and permanent repercussions. I lost my sense of taste and smell for 2 years, and no thongs smell and taste off.

Also thanks for using this pic from 2021 the same year I wrote for them about how ignoring Black women was gonna get us and Jeffries and AOC ignored warnings about him even as he was protesting .

BREAKING: 11 West Africans deported by U.S. to Ghana were sent to their home countries despite safety concerns, their lawyer says.

Pay attention to the extraordinary work of my colleague Hasan Jaber, whose reporting from Gaza has graced our front pages for the past two years. Despite having lost dozens of family and being trapped himself, his work is a beacon of impartial professionalism www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

"Hongkongers sought refuge in Britain after China punished the city for standing up for values that were inculcated by its former colonial master. They are owed a debt of loyalty. Many exist under the threat of the CCP's transnational repression; they don’t need further reasons to fear the future."

Yeah, this framing that the entire country is backtracking is bullshit. Canadians haven't gotten complacent, the government we explicitly elected to deal with the massive problem to the south has spent their entire time in office breaking their election promises and pretending there's no problem.

Never stop talking about slavery.

Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C. The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.

Impeach RFK Jr. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨 The CDC as we know it is being severely altered tonight. In addition to the CDC director being ousted, the Post is reporting that several senior leaders are leaving as well. Here are from two of the resignations:

I have hired Kinsey for her editing expertise and she's terrific — highly recommend her talents if you have a need!

I'm desperately trying to make rent this month, so if anyone wants to hire me for micro projects this week (writing, editing, scheduling, emailing, website management, calling up someone you dislike and cursing them out) I will do it! DM me your request and I'll do it. I am serious.

I hope they do it and ao should staff from any other publication that attempts this. There has to be a line people aren't willing to cross and stand firm.

In my interview with writer, actor, and action choreographer Ken Ho-Ming Law for JoySauce, he spoke about integrating the world of e-sports, comedy, and discussions on dimentia in the new Hong Kong action-comedy GOOD GAME which premiered at #Fantasia2025. joysauce.com/ken-ho-ming-...

They didn't tell me when I was a girl that when I grew up I'd be walking down the street & my neighbor would stop to ask me if ICE left yet & a hippie dude with a long grey beard would be on a skateboard on the sidewalk shouting "Checkpoint ahead! Checkpoint ahead!" from a megaphone.

I've just been accredited to cover the New York Film Festival again. I'm also still very much available for work/a new job.

When will people be ready to admit that America has been turned into a fascist police state?

not only is it plausible, it's normal. landlords will try to raise the rent on stabilized apartments and force the tenants to challenge the increase. many won't realize they are being ripped off. when you move in someplace new, ask the neighbor who has been there a while.

Martial Law and fascim in action.

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Guy Confronts ICE ✊🏽

Noticing a pattern here.

Thousands of pagers exploded in an Israeli attack against Hezbollah last year. Now some of the survivors, including children, are speaking about their recovery.

Also hard for foreigners to understand: how quick the clean up can be. A serious salute to Hong Kong's street cleaners. They are amazing, and amazingly under-appreciated and under-paid.

Is it a shell game? Is that what these companies are doing? Shifting money around by shuffling the platforms through repeatedly merging and separating them?

In my @fantasiafestival.com KCrush America Mag interview with filmmaker Kim Soo-jin, we chat about him casting actresses Lee Sun-bin and Han Soo-a, depicting deafness as a benefit and how sound can be isolating in his debut horror feature NOISE. #Fantasia2025 #KCrush www.kcrush.com/fantasia-iff...

I don’t think we know enough just yet to understand how this will affect NPR and PBS but both received a very small percentage of their budgets from the CPB. This will however have an immediate effect on local public radio and TV affiliates, esp in rural & Indigenous areas More info here (gift 🔗)

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