First I’m hearing that the DNC has resources, volunteers, and infrastructure

SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley

Anyone out there know anything about Odeon Films, Inc.? Documentary/educational distributor in the 1970s, distributed JANIE'S JANIE, Tsuchimoto's MINAMATA, among others. Seems like they were in the milieu of Tricontinental, New Day Films, etc.

Witnessing southern states rush to dismantle black voting power is truly truly some heartbreaking shit to behold

Chicago folks May 19th-22nd I'll be in town presenting some special films: 5/20: Robina Rose's NIGHTSHIFT (1981) at Doc Films/ 5/21: rare 16mm Kodachrome print of WANDA (1970) at Northwestern's Block Museum Cinema / 5/22: Barbara Loden & Joan Micklin Silver's educational 16mm shorts, Block. Links ⬇️

Slightly diminish a book Life: A User Review

OpenAI’s CFO has a backstory that radiates with evil www.wsj.com/business/ope...

“California is preparing to share with an outside organization detailed information about driver’s license holders, including immigrants who do not have legal authorization to live in the U.S. That breaks a promise the state made a decade ago…”

So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

what kind of "-pilled" is it to think war in Iran is Actually Good* b/c it will hasten an AI bubble pop, which will be Actually Good** b/c it will bankrupt Oracle, which will be Actually Good b/c Trump's ability to retain power against popular backlash hinges on Oracle's mass surveillance program***

i love ebay

Sam Altman looking like Temu Paddy McAloon lipsynching “Appetite” at Sanremo in 1986

I agree with this and it's something for which community groups should already be developing concrete plans. I think reparations are already due.

rogue states led by war criminals

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

The Homosexuals, Hearts in Exile [UK, Art Punk] (1978) https://redd.it/u1zdq6 https://youtu.be/vgPoHUajcY4

Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance. And you know why? Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.

did you know robert wyatt and tracey thorn duet on a latin jazz/sophisti-pop anthem written in solidarity with the victims of the pinochet regime? didn’t think so m.youtube.com/watch?v=cNTd...

drop an album that was important to you when you were 19

Family Fodder, Film Music [UK, Art Pop] (1981) https://redd.it/u1fzo7 https://youtu.be/jDNs6wOvK7E

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

screening on 16mm for free this friday at block cinema at northwestern! www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/cinema/2026/...

People are right to be incensed, but there are more names to uplift. ICE killed an immigrant man named Silverio Villegas González in Chicagoland. He had children. Victor Manuel Diaz was kidnapped in Minneapolis and died in ICE custody on January 14. Their names deserve to be repeated, too.

Imagine what’s happening in the camps.

Indeed. prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...

Abolish ICE is now the moderate minimum position, Prosecute ICE is where Dems should be at next.

I feel resentful of these governors like Walz and Pritzker when they ask citizens to do this risky work against federal agents but then let their own state police and municipal cops arrest, beat and jail their citizens while doing this risky work they’ve been asked to do

pretty incendiary stuff, kinda surprised it’s just sitting there on Tubi. I’d say something banal like how this is a ‘movie for our moment’ but it’s from 2018 so it’s more about how nothing has changed in our post-Patriot Act police state

Back in September, we screened Amos Poe's THE FOREIGNER, and Amos and I recorded a conversation to preface the film. Amos and partner Claudia Summers sent tons of amazing stills to edit into 8-minute introduction to the film, one of my all-time faves. RIP to an original. vimeo.com/1149513348/b...

No document will protect you. All they have to do is take it from you and "lose" it; take it from you and say you never gave it to them; claim it's fake ⬇️; make a new rule that you need ANOTHER document. Citizenship is a made-up status that governments decide the rules for. No one is free until all.

The Transgender Media Portal (TMP): an award-winning, trans-made film database is in the final stretch of its fundraiser. Lehman-Stamm Family Fund is matching donations and TMP seeks your help to raise final 25% to fight trans invisibility and sustain this resource. Scan the QR code to donate!

The US Administration has banned Americans from *adopting babies* from much of the African continent. Adopting. Babies. What trait do those babies have that, when they grow up as fully American adults, would make them a threat to our country in any form?

paralyzed by normal life

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Sunday President diarrheas on the country, Monday President bulldozes White House, Tuesday President steals $230 million, Wednesday President... fucks a horse? Let's see if he fucks a horse.

me, to my daughter: hey kiddo, do you want to hear a happy song? the song: m.youtube.com/watch?v=vBFi...

BREAKING: The Gaza Civil Defence says a number of Israeli air attacks have killed at least 11 Palestinians across the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/inwiaq

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

Mamdani talking lucidly and passionately about trans rights and history in a video that should frankly shame every politician who has hemmed and hawed and triangulated and said, "Well, but sports..." It's not that hard to tell the truth and stand for what's right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEvV...

Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) A great artist, a wonderful teacher, & speaking personally, a close friend for over 50 years. Linking to a piece I wrote to mark his 80th birthday. www.nytimes.com/2013/05/19/m...

the two greatest jangly records of all time are painfully out of print