Ang Lee’s lavish tribute to the wuxia film, CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON stars Chow Yun-fat +Michelle Yeoh as Qing Dynasty warriors torn between romance & duty. See it tonight & tomorrow in our series midnight Waverly Midnights: And the Oscar Goes To...

can you believe they’re trying to evict me for having this angel

People can say it’s utopian or dreamy but it’s a fact that you have to believe new things are possible, fundamentally, in order to make them real. You have to make the choice to believe that more than this is possible & not be resigned to this being the way things have to be because it’s not at all.

did a full 10 hours of work today fueled by pure rage and spite 🥰

I feel so powerful when I’m printing out documents and putting them in folders

I can do a lot in a post, but I cannot begin to do justice to Jesse Jackson, what he meant to this country, and what he did for it. I'm looking forward to reading the work of writers who can give him the farewell he deserves.

hmm is this the year i actually go to cannes if anyone is going and interested in rooming together please let me know!!!

btw I’m available for festival juries & q&a moderation!

has anyone written about SINNERS and its thematic connections to oscar micheaux films

got up this morning and applied for the job literally everyone has sent me lol

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

dealing with the state of things by switching between THE X-FILES and THE OUTER LIMITS (90s-00s) till i’m out of episodes

Also, a good chunk of their content is screenshotting Black people for their own little five minute hate session…

“Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR is so rigorously, comprehensively excessive, its excesses eclipse any baseline against which excess is typically judged.”

hello

I introduced the Freeze ICE Act to stop hiring of new ICE agents with @repfletcher.bsky.social. We should not expand ICE while serious questions about conduct and training remain unanswered. Who are the people behind the masks? Are they Jan. 6 insurrectionists?

it’s unethical to be a billionaire. it’s also brain-rotting. it’s the source of like Everything Wrong With This Country (and The World)

was really overwhelmed with a desire to draw this. sorry

one thing’s for sure: washington post readership will only decrease from here

I miss hearing bernie mac say people’s names

this is probably a losing battle but like, the articles you read are written by people, not the website. people can write good things for websites you don’t like and bad things for websites you enjoy.

beautiful woman update: i had a vegan grilled cheese that actually tasted good!

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

started using mozilla firefox again this year, underrated browser!

i haven't done this since twitter but at the request of 1 (one) person, OSCAR NOMINEES AS SIMPSONS SCREENCAPS THREAD

since I can’t see well it’s harder for me to spot AI videos on sight, but they do give me this intense feeling of dread that eventually clues me in to their aura of evil lol

If the Democrats approve the unprecedented DHS and ICE funding package (3x 2024’s already record budget!) based on these meaningless and, in any event, unenforceable “reforms,” it will be among the greatest moral betrayals and strategic failures of the modern era.

cannot express how much I hate chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

joe biden was a bad president who made way for a worse president. but they both suck and have always sucked.

the deep masculine insecurity behind this shit is so wild and like... way too on the nose

“you didn’t care when obama was doing it!!!” I was in school for both terms. high school, college and grad school. trump got elected the year I finished school and I was still a lib then who had no concept of ICE. i’m an informed adult now and ICE serves no positive purpose.

"A unique and impressive musical drama from the makers of THE BRUTALIST" -- Midwest Film Journal Rejoice! THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE is playing all week, presented in 70mm! Showtimes & Ticket Info: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

LA people: ICE IS IN KTOWN

TCM will become the “ongoing home” of the LOONEY TUNES library. A six-year licensing deal for more than 750 shorts starts in Feb. "We’re able to present these cartoons with the care they deserve alongside the classic films they helped influence." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/t... #FilmSky

neera tanden 👎🏾👎🏾👎🏾

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

I wish everyone who spent over a week debating the phrasing of “abolish ICE” on this app never spoke on politics again. but I’m sure they’re posting up a storm of useless bullshit as I angrily type this. stop listening to these people. they are heartless cowards.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

a great new thing happening on gmail is that they can no longer tell what’s spam and what isn’t and keep marking regular emails I get for work as spam. good job AI! changing the world!

tim walz winning The Coward Awards, with chuck schumer and hakeem jeffries tying for second.

a film that makes you appreciate the subtlety of sean baker and andrea arnold

Anti-Somali smear artist Nick Shirley has been sniffing around Baltimore. Starve his lie machine.

covering sundance remotely this year. will be reviewing 3 films for thr and whatever else comes up!

I remain in love with Fucktoys, one of the best films of last/this year, and had a great (and very long) conversation with Annapurna Sriram over Zoom after meeting her at a film festival screening. We talk queerness, corniness, and what it means to be "American" nowadays.