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

lost two hours of critical syllabus prep time tonight while running down several mild-to-egregious cases of plagiarism by a widely published curator/critic

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?

Newest memo demonstrating the claims of financial exigency can‘t be taken seriously drive.google.com/file/u/1/d/1...

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

Incredible that the Bell Riots, DS9's grim vision of 2024 broadcast in 1995, remains way way way more optimistic than what is actually happening in San Francisco

Democrats can demand a rollback of the Supreme Court ICE racial profiling case. It’s a trivial legislative fix. It poses virtually no political risk for them. It protects 68 million people from open government persecution. It protects basic constitutional values. No government funding without this.

good morning! ice is creeping around chicago and the city is evicting unhoused people from a public park

this goes to my long-standing thesis that trump is the id of the united states (a liar, a scammer, a rapist, racist as fuck, only interested in himself and how much people are paying attention to him)

electric fuckin' nebraska never thought i'd live to see the day 😭

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

If you listen to Palestinians, you don’t need to wait for the Israeli intelligence data.

If you are okay with this, if you think this is justified, if you think people living on the street have brought this upon themselves, if you think this is good leadership, you may be able to fool yourself that you care about others but you don’t fool me

Tuca - Drácula, I Love You [Brazil, MPB/Psychedelic] (1974) https://redd.it/5eoe5y https://youtu.be/Mol7vixCKYU

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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On mediaburn's site you'll also find a large collection of Sykes' films, and yes all available to watch for free, if you're into Video Art and Experimental Cinema you need to check out this site, it's truly great. Make sure to spread the word and support! mediaburn.org/watch-videos...

in celebration of successfully getting empty bottle tickets today (and of the cat o’nine tails release), here’s a clip of cindy lee doing “i don’t want to fall in love again” at lincoln hall in 2022

Paul Weller marching for Gaza

once you come to terms with the fact that people genuinely can’t tell the difference between motion smoothing and 24fps, it’s hard to be surprised by anything about where we are as a society

If anyone in your life is looking for an educational resource to better understand Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, I have archived ~700 articles – written largely by Palestinians – under #Palestine in the last three months. The feed is updated every day. 1/2 🧵

I’m going to cry

Brown just sold out every trans student at the university to preserve some STEM funding. These universities will not live down the shame of their capitulation.

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NON-NEGOTIABLE

Newly digitized 16mm outtakes from DeWitt Beall's portrait of the Conservative Vice Lords, LORD THING (1970), showing young people dancing, kissing, and hanging out.

I hate everything.

You should be deeply angry at House leadership for not fighting. Axios lays out what we’ve been saying for months: some in the House want to fight but leadership wants to tell us — the base — to F off so they can capitulate and don’t have to change their lives.

just daily massacres of the starving fully funded by the United States

“More than 670 Palestinians have been killed since May near sites built under a new Israel-backed aid system.” and yet people are still demanding US politicians enthusiastically support this regime. fuck that.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

Just as a practical matter, consider how unheard of it is to expand an already significant federal agency by 1,000% in two or three years. WW2 mobilization or the early 60s Moon race are the right sort of analogies

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

We are dismantling American higher education & scientific research & health care & all the other things to fund concentration camps