TBH I really don't like "no one is illegal on stolen land" as a slogan. It mixes up a bunch of distinct issues and thus overcomplicates an already good position—no one is illegal—while simultaneously reifying blood and soil nationalism on land that isn't "stolen."

got around to watching it last night and landed pretty close to where you did as mostly sub-tar... immediately noticed the woody allen titles and when roberts started monologuing on foucault i said to the wife i bet she ends up in a blue turtleneck and then the final scene arrived

was in this earlier and happy to see it was in fact as big and sprawling as it seemed while in the middle of it.

Bloomington Illinois representing at today’s No Kings!

There's a word for this

New Delhi r/brutalism

Israel/US is rampaging into the weekend. They've hit Iran's steel factories, its universities. They killed 26 civilians in just 1 strike on the city of Esfahan. This war is illegal. This makes everything happening in this war effectively illegal, creating double illegality in many cases like these

Some images from the anarchist bloc on March 24th at the demonstration in Buenos Aires on the 50th anniversary of the start of military dictatorship in Argentina. Ni Victimas, Ni Olvidadxs Combatientes Images via: periodico.gato.negro (IG)

oof. 66-70 for europe, 36-40 or 41-45 for hollywood, or 91-96 (for nostalgia) all seem utterly necessary. but european cinema is my first true cinephilic love, so 66-70.

Completely new dynamic developing in real time where journalists at traditionally extremely deferential news outlets like CNN are learning how to say basic facts about Israel without equivocation or obfuscation

some added context: boltsmag.org/massachusett...

Platner’s got a real “middling Earl’s third son” vibe. Sent to elite schools, ended up in the army and then the imperial mercenary corps, play acts as a gentleman farmer, picked to run for Parliament from a rotten borough. Jack Aubrey probably slept with his wife.

My latest:

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

also sad that my home state of massachusetts is not on the list.

@governor.ny.gov what the fuck? get new york on this list.

The beauty of Sora to me is I just feel vindicated in never taking the time to really understand what it was.

“no innocent children”

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

The divide is actually pretty stark! www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...

Campuses brutally crushed protests in 2023 and 2024. They embraced the arrest and deportation of their own students, adopted unsparing policies of expulsion and made clear that the First Amendment was inapplicable. It is not an inscrutable mystery why unarmed, powerless teenagers aren't protesting.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

This is what Idi Amin’s government did to Ugandan Asians applying for passports in the period preceding the expulsion. Amin then argued that they deserved to be expelled because so few had taken up Ugandan citizenship.

We can't solve housing without more housing. That people might want to live in walkable places with corner shops is intuitive unless you've spent 50 very nervous years driving, wondering why everything stays far away and your social world is shrinking. We can't escape housing shortages without homes

"The upzoning would allow existing homes to be converted into retail establishments known as “bodegas,” ignoring the risk that they would be magnets for crime." This is an embarrasing thing to say and type and publish. If you're afraid of bodegas in 2026 you should have your keys taken away.

I have the stomach to say one more thing: as meaningful as what students saw in response to their protests (repression) is what they didn't (US shifting away from support for genocide). describing this as *their* failure as opposed to the supposed adults in the room is a joke and not the funny kind

Five House Democrats joined Republicans in voting to treat DC like a colony and give sweeping authority to an unelected, unaccountable, reactionary Trump-created commission: Cuellar Davis Golden Gray Perez

it's like fucking heisenberg's war.

There is a new key decision-maker in Tehran, Mohammed Bagher Zolqadr, chosen to replace Ali Larijani as secretary of the Supreme Natl Security Council who Israel assassinated last week. The US/Israel main achievement so far is creating a more rigid, hardline govt than has ever existed in Iran

Please consider using the link below to tell your two senators to support the forthcoming Joint Resolutions of Disapproval against the transfer of over 27,000 bombs to Israel, and to vote for the WPRs that are brought up for a vote.

are we not required to pay them then?

I think - and we saw this with Bezos at WaPo - these billionaires are badly misjudging how much of the public agrees with them and their reactionary politics. They can also afford to weather catastrophic mistakes.

right, exactly. they see fox news etc. are successful and they think they're smarter than everyone else. of course they thought they were going to create a super successful propaganda machine.

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

top 3 jarmusch film and all-time top 3 vampire film. I would run not walk if this were playing near me.

people saying that the ellisons / weiss / the right wing machine generally don't care about cbs news tanking are seriously underestimating how high on their supply all these fuckers are. this won't meaningfully _hurt_ them, but I have no doubt they are not at all happy about it.

when I tell you this t-shirt I just found in a thrift store was the best six dollars I've ever spent

Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

was rewatching SINNERS recently and two thoughts: 1. this is a super well put together film, assured filmmaking in the mold of old hollywood entertainment that you rarely see anymore.

Why is this an immigration failure? This could have just as easily involved a citizen. Why not look at all the other systemic failures here, like housing, physical & mental health, any social safety net? That’s how you try to prevent this—immigration has nothing to do with real solutions.

ICE doesn’t belong at our airports. Our Office of Immigrant Affairs has updated guidance and you can call their legal hotline at 800-354-0365.

In the early seventies, BBC Records And Tapes released a series of children's albums that are full of some of the wildest psych, funk, folk, early electronics and spoken word weirdness you've never heard. Find out what to find - and where - here! timworthington.org/2019/01/16/l...

I am struggling to understand the extremely muted international response to this. whatever you think of the regime, it is not the regime that is suffering. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This person is reportedly an Iranian govt insider. While US media and markets fall all over themselves thinking Trump’s claims of negotiations are real, not one person in the Iranian govt buys this - they are all denying any direct negotiations are happening. This is how they read the situation 👇🏽

having just listened to all four sides of London Callling for the first time in a while yestrrday, I am really feeling these tweets.

Added to which, of course, having gone through a long cycle of “Ah, sure, The Clash, sure, I mean - yeah,” you come back to, “no they actually ARE one of the best bands of all time.”

I’m assuming this is a non-controversial opinion here, but sometimes, after a long gap since you’ve last listened to it, “Train in Vain” comes on, and you’re just, like, “oh yeah - music - it’s really good.”

If this had happened under the Biden administration, Republicans wouldn't have waited for the smoke to clear before calling for Secretary Pete Buttigieg to resign or be fired. Among other demands, Democrats need to make it clear that Sean Duffy has got to go.