I had a great lil chat with @ninawest.bsky.social for @matternews.bsky.social about QUEENS OF THE DEAD & monsters that lurk in power ahead of the @shudder.com film’s OH premiere Sunday. Check it out & support local journalism!

“Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.“

I’m beyond excited to share that A Historic Cinematic Night at the Movies is coming to Columbus, featuring the world premiere of a new short doc about Jeffrey Epstein. Two shows Thurs night at 7:30 & 10, with live music, a sneak peek at the new WitchLab space & free popcorn!

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

“We are just protecting you is the way they justified it,” said Embi, who will now host the teach-in portion of her project at the Dublin CML branch on Thursday, May 15. “But if they were really protecting me, they would let me talk about these issues as one of the few trans girls at my school.”

val kilmer’s turn in TOP SECRET is one of the single best comedy performances ever committed to film, both in terms of comic precision and mechanical virtuosity. just watch this whole clip in its entirety; it’s stunning

Being a historian, people ask me if I think the US is living through Germany 1933. I answer no, analogies are always imperfect but to me it feels more like Russia 1999: a blatant theft of state assets and liberals in a fugue state, refusing to believe the arc of progress is bending against them.

Congratulations to Basel, Hamdan, Rachel, and Yuval on winning the Oscar for Best Documentary!! We are so proud of you and the massive success of your film. We hope a distributor will bring this important story about Palestinian resilience to ethnic cleansing to a larger audience.

Just saw a thread about a guy calling into cspan saying his diabetic supplies increased from 5 dollars to 80 dollars and somebody in the comments, probably multiple people but I stopped reading, replied “FAFO” and I can’t stress enough how much you need to stop doing that shit

I apologize that I don’t have time to add the alt text for this right now, but Hanif Abdurraqib with an important call out to everyone

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

BlueSkiers from Ohio here’s your information for Wednesdays protest 👇

There's some artists doing amaizing work in Ohio to help raise awareness about the United States criminal legal system and the people impacted by it. I wrote about their work and current exhibitions for @colsunderground.bsky.social Check it out. columbusunderground.com/art-activism...

Practical advice from Local Politics columnist Rachel Wenning on the small things community members can do to push back against the policies being rolled out by the incoming Trump administration. matternews.org/voices/local...

A gentle reminder that your attention is a form of currency. Spend it wisely.

What does arts and culture have to do with identity? Pretty much everything. This is the first in a series of four columns from @scottwoods.bsky.social focused on the local arts scene and running every other week through February. matternews.org/voices/the-o...

Congratulations to all our Columbus Film Critics Association award winners!

Our next Community Conversation takes place at @twodollarradiohq.bsky.social at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 16. Facebook event link: www.facebook.com/events/12456...

The nominees are in & winners list coming Thursday!

Support your local art galleries! Here’s 10 great places to start: columbusunderground.com/the-top-10-c...

More and more local Columbus users on bsky every day! Here’s 5 to follow if you don’t already! @wcbe905columbus.bsky.social @maddwolfcolumbus.bsky.social @dougb399.bsky.social @elizarecords.bsky.social @melstarker.bsky.social Who else should we be following? 😎👍

President-elect Trump won on Nov. 5 after a campaign that demonized immigrants and promised mass deportations, and that has stoked fears among many in the immigrant community. If you want to help them, there’s quite a bit you can do, advocates said. https://buff.ly/4gbFuaM

“I think [comedy] became a survival technique, maybe. And now, my work is very fulfilling. I have a great relationship with my fiancé. I think other parts of my life are leveling out, and I don’t need what I got from comedy anymore.” matternews.org/culture/its-...

Putting up fake candidates is a tactic recommended by Russian political theorists to trick people into voting away their democracy.

No shade intended for the transcendent performance by Chalamet that'll be hitting theaters soon, but just feel the need to say that I'M NOT THERE is still the definitive Dylan biopic.

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

I have long had zero patience with Americans who furiously post about how cool and fun a bloody leftist revolution would be, because that is the stupid shit you say when you don’t know very much about how those revolutions tend to go for people who aren’t rich and powerful

Oh fck me. I have subs to the major US papers too (for work) but for weeks @theguardian.com has been the only national outlet I actually want to read.

Over the last three weeks, we’ve looked at how various local groups are approaching the incoming administration, including : abortion advocates matternews.org/community/ab... the trans community matternews.org/community/el... and immigration services matternews.org/community/co...

Finally caught up to Gladiator 2

We launched our annual fundraising campaign on Nov. 1. Through the end of December, all one-time donations are doubled, while new monthly memberships are matched 12x. This a publication that will only grow and sustain based on folks believing it is a place worth supporting. matternews.org/donate/

From SEMAFOR (below): The Chinese Communist Party has now admitted that it was using the Musk Algorithm to spread disinformation—and that the rise of Bluesky is a major threat to it. This tells us everything we need to know about what Twitter was and is—and who the new co-POTUS Elon Musk was and is.

Hi guys. Please spread this in info if you're willing. These accounts @standwithdemocracy.bsky.social & @uniteforamericausa.bsky.social Are ✨farming you✨ by creating follow for follow accounts that appear to be progressive. These are bots, farming you to build large, credible accounts.

If you’re in Columbus, mark your calendars for Wednesday, Dec. 4 at Streetlight Guild. We’re hosting a silent auction with work from 60+ local artists, all benefitting Matter News. It’s your chance to score rad art while also supporting local journalism. facebook.com/events/s/mat...

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Life is short. Write that novel. Paint that painting. Try new recipes. Learn black magic. Go into the forest at night. Summon a demon. Earn that demon's trust. Become best friends with it. Brag to everyone else about your new cool demon best friend. Knit that sweater.

A not fun thing is when your husband texts you that he and a friend (they’re fine) had to duck into an alley to avoid a dozen Nazis marching up the street