RIP to one of the greatest Fred Smiths (and all the ones I know are pretty great)

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *ahem* hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

oh yay this is high on my to-watch list!

This is exactly correct. Biden (out of genuine ideological extremism) and Harris (out of generic cowardice) both were extremely pro-Israel, to the displeasure of their party's voting base, and pro-Israel groups didn't credit them at all. 100% factually true.

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

They are a right-wing organization that undermines democracy. They have zero tolerance for any diversity of thought from their line, and pressure elected officials to increasingly-

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend. They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

watched BITTER RICE @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and it is glorious. neorealist working class politics meet sweaty oversexed melodrama. some very nice camerawork too. playing for another week, highly recommended. boxd.it/d0AhT9

all is forgiven. I love christopher nolan now.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

every time the dems try to do some 'we're trying to be hip with the kids, get influencers in on all this, rock the vote' deal i think about the votes to defund ACORN in 2009, while dems still had strong majorities in both house and senate, and what the vote tallies were

I went to an absolutely packed anti-ICE training in Austin over the weekend and it was 99% women, most of them white women. I don't think Austin is a bellwether (I wasn't surprised to see mostly women at the training) but the ones who give a fuck are activated as hell right now.

🧟‍♂️🧟‍♀️🧟 Remembering George A. Romero (1940-2017) today on his birthday.

if you don’t have institutional or formal power, make a spectacle. dramatize. educate. draw attention to what you want people to see and the tell them what would help fix it. these aren’t novel tools and schumer could use them!

apologies if this list gives lovers of traditional westerns the hives. Once Upon a Time in the West The Wild Bunch Rio Bravo Johnny Guitar The Man from the West TGhe Great Silence The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence The Shooting Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

Burning Airlines Give You So Much More Down in the Tube Station at Midnight I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night

TOKYO STORY

so I finally got around to this old @tyburr.bsky.social post and decided to take advantage of the arctic freeze listening and relistening to one of the greatest pieces of music in the history of humanity and it is FUCKING AMAZING. www.tyburrswatchlist.com/50-ways-of-h...

I want a commonsense reform for chuck schumer's life: fucking retire and go hang out with your grandkids in westchester. turn over your job to someone who can meet the moment.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

seriously cannot believe I had people arguing with me on here that the democrats had won a major victory by continuing to fund DHS while asking for—not getting just asking for—body cams and a code of conduct.

was listening to Lush's SPLIT on youtube music and autoplay threw on siouxsie and the banshees' cover of dear prudence right after, and I'm just going to give it to youtube here: that is a solid algorithmic choice. music.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0g...

“My administration will keep opening up public spaces like this because New Yorkers deserve to see their city…” This is such a small thing but also such a big thing?!

The photos from a UN fact finding mission to northern Gaza which were part of a diplomatic cable suppressed by the US Ambassador to Israel, Jack Lew, have been released by Drop Site News. These are the genocidal conditions in Gaza that Lew specifically tried to hide from the White House and public.

hell yeah! futurism.com/future-socie...

honestly think on this point, will is 100% right and people disagreeing with him are 100% wrong.

Muslim university students were arrested and expelled for protesting genocide. Let's see if college Republicans get even a slap on the wrist for advocating extrajudicial killings.

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Doesn't seem like this should be his job

Video of his remarks where he says, verbatim, that one of his jobs as leader is to funnel more aid to Israel 75% of Democratic voters oppose sending Israel more military aid, as do 66% of independents and 60% of Americans overall according to recent polling

Whenever you see a story about how liberals aren't making their conservative peers feel welcome enough, this is who they're talking about.

no need to worry! @schumer.senate.gov is working on a code of conduct that should take care of this.

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

Libs and mods need to argue and fight on political substance and stop smugly assuming that everything they don’t like is a consequence of improper procedure and faulty constitutionalism. It doesn’t work particularly well as politics and it isn’t true!

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

many people are going to be tempted to say this proves the weakness of peaceful protest. this is incorrect because it assumes this happening is a failure of peaceful protest rather than the mechanism by which it succeeds

The problem is that blue states are fully committed to “return on investment” analysis and are fully committed to undergrad business degrees and whatever the latest tech trend is. There is no theory of holistic education supported by democratic leadership.

this movie is absolutely incredible. it had a crazy old-school 3-month plus run @filmforumnyc.bsky.social the summer after covid. I watched it in a packed movie theater and it was one of the greatest theatrical experiences of the decade.

Today, I made historic appointments who will lead key agencies and create a city where everyone can thrive. I appointed Stanley Richards as Commissioner of DOC. Decades after he served time in our city’s jails, Commissioner Richards will now be the first formerly incarcerated person to lead them.

Incredible things are happening in the NJ-11 Congressional race, one example: Tom Malinowski, a pro Israel candidate running to re-enter Congress, is accusing AIPAC of using India-based call centers to run scripted ad calls against Malinowski.

I think it's bad to be rich or to want to be rich. I think people who work in finance should feel bad about that. I think they should feel ashamed. I think if you were born rich, or if you get rich, you should feel ashamed. And if you take money from rich people, you should feel bad about that.

I think there’s an important positive value to not getting paid. I think an important part of old-fashioned middle-class PMC values, is you do your work without a thought to monetary benefit. I don’t think it’s possible to get paid some of the time without thinking about getting paid all the time.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

we said all along that they wanted Gawker dead not because we embarrassed a pro wrestler but because the Epstein story is one Gawker was covering a decade before most other people caught up & was just one of many stories exposing powerful people and their misdeeds

if you've turned local police into the good guys, you have unlocked some special level of evil.

how are those negotiations going, chuck?

this letterboxd review is an all-timer.

once again ran across a story about liam ramos and once again want to put my head through a window.