Disney's Black Hole

What is the movie you have seen the most times that you would say you do NOT like?

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Keep that shit off my phone. Thanks!

Fascism has no equilibrium. Its reliance on escalation as proof of legitimacy requires continual acceleration. This process produces contradictions and instabilities that can and must be exploited.

They nearly killed this woman. Then they went on national TV and tried to smear her.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention. The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

This link works! Sorry for my cut and paste error! Scroll down for the story on the updates page!

Woman Seen Pulled from Car Speaks Out: 'Lucky to be alive' Aliya Rahman "said she was driving to an appointment at the Traumatic Brain Injury Center when the incident occurred." She asked for a doctor and was taken to a detention center where she lost consciousness. abcnews.go.com/US/live-upda...

The freaking TBI center is where she was going. Seems rather important!!!

...OBSERVATIONALLY false, this was the only way I ever saw movies for the first seventeen years of my life.

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Same with DOGE — it’s so weird when people are Iike “gosh it failed to meet its goal of government efficiency” rather than “looks like its real goal was to steal data while breaking federal agencies and ending support for black and brown people abroad”

It took decades of not only violence but--and here I want to put most of my emphasis--*widespread moderate complacency and acceptance* for the violence and fraud to start tipping elections

At its height in the 1868 and 1870 elections, I cannot find evidence of Klan participation exceeding 10% of the white male population of any county in the South. This still led to huge numbers of violence and corresponding electoral fraud and corruption

I've seen some folks giving into doomerism by citing the US's history of paramilitary violence shutting down fair elections in the South, and I want to add some historical context to support Jamelle here (as an historian of Reconstruction paramilitary violence)

people will call you an ideological purist for saying this guy shouldn't be the next democratic presidential candidate

A clear majority of Americans believe that ICE officer Jonathan Ross must face criminal charges for the death of Renee Nicole Good.

Related: when Shackleton and his crew spent 20 months stranded on pack ice, he kept them to a strict schedule of chores (and play!) to maintain morale. In times of extreme challenge and uncertainty, there's still value to our everyday work - even as we fight to improve our conditions.

What is this whole administration but a fulfillment of Buckley’s vow to sock the smug condescending liberal in the face until he stays plastered

William F Buckley on the table huh

Buckley’s response to being called a fascist is to drop a slur, threaten to beat Vidal senseless, and call his art degenerate, which does somewhat make Vidal’s point for him

Take Al Jazeera or leave it, but the daily Gaza roundups they do give a good sense of the surreal situation - it’s a mix of ‘Tony Blair is officially on the Board of Peace’ and ‘Another ten people are killed in Gaza”

“Just gotta get to stage 2” seems to be the thinking when stage 1 is incomplete at best

Thinking about the contrast to how they covered Bill Clinton having a brief conversation with Loretta Lynch between flights.

Be the c̶h̶ange you want to see in the world! 𝐬𝐭𝐫

So Mr beast considers banning gay marriage while supporting pedophiles to be “philanthropy” Got it.

Two white friends tail me home if it's outside the hours when people are out and about. I'm damn near third generation Minnesotan. It's not just "you're a citizen you'll be fine." I'm a black woman alone. Who knows what they will do.

He knows what he’s talking about, guys. His son is an editor (who works for Netflix) who watched Lawrence of Arabia on his phone! Checkmate!

This is the flipside of all those Film Twitter nerds declaring that if you were serious about seeing arthouse fare, you would move to the city. Prepare yourselves, sit down, don’t take any sips of coffee but… People in small towns can be film nerds too.

Anyway, if you can’t trust his nepo baby hire son, who can you trust? Peasants in the sticks get no theatrical experiences. They don’t deserve them. This is en to make me want to start an anarcho-syndicalist commune

Minnesota Public Radio has been doing tremendously good work, and I’m proud to be under a big umbrella with them.

Oh hell yes, Gov. Spanberger! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/16/u... [gift link]

“some top Virginia Republicans were shocked” 🧐

Newsom literally repeating Republican talking points (lies) about the last Democratic presidental nominee in a convo with Ben Shapiro... #NeverNewsom

Pete Hoekstra saying the United States doesn't need Canada. Meanwhile our PM is signing trade deals in China. The world is shifting. nationalnewswatch.com/2026/01/16/c...

OMG. Haidt just said that regulators have never ever even tried to protect kids on the Internet until his book came out, which ignores basically every other internet regulation fight from 1995 onward. Why does anyone listen to this man?

This killer is coming from Criterion in April--a hugely influential, visually extraordinary 1967 LA noir. For those who've read Pictures at a Revolution: I originally had a much longer (wisely abandoned) concept that would have included this film. I'm so happy to have done a video for this release!

This week's Flytrap x Bitch reprint is Vanessa Willoughby's piece on how good white people can be racist too: www.theflytrapmedia.com/good-white-p...

"Good white people have refused to admit this, as it means they would have to acknowledge their complicity. It seems that bruised egos matter more than confronting the ugly state of the nation’s cultural divide." Nothing but fucking truth here.

“Criticizing Newsom” and “campaigning against him” are not mutually exclusive concepts and it’s very weird to act like they are

I've increasingly come to view cynicism as the seedbed of totalitarianism, both because it can paralyze the opposition and because it implicitly validates the might-makes-right ethic of the authoritarian.

Sunday night’s forecast loses a few more degrees every time I check it. This game will be cinema.

Not a single shred of evidence that these views are widely shared on the American left. It's true that the Iranian uprising hasn't gotten a lot of attention but that's mostly because the Minneapolis ICE shit is so enraging, not because we support the regime. Come the fuck on.

I very much support the people of Iran in their fight against their vile government, but unfortunately, humans only have so much bandwidth

we do in fact have our own violent state oppression to deal with right now

Popularism is dead; long live popularism!