Eleanor is good at what she does. So if you know of someone who needs help.

Watching twin peaks always has me craving jelly donuts

#LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched

Gene Wilder just randomly popped up in Bonnie and Clyde

The reporting of this did the rounds a week or so ago but I think it’s nice to hear it from the horse’s mouth if you will. What a great and warm thing for him to have done. I hope people who might not have ever considered the importance of learning about others take something from it.

A brothers karamazov adaptation with Yul Brynner and William Shatner. With Lee Cobb as Fyodor. I am so on board.

Tech companies and policy-makers are currently rolling out online safety mechanisms for protecting children that directly conflict with all of the copious research and expert opinion on what they should be doing instead to prevent child harms. No one cares about the research.

Nobody wants to know how to make platforms that work in ways that aren’t harmful to their users. They just don’t. They just want to put a fig leaf over the ways their business models directly correlate to those harms.

Among the reasons I’m burned out and inimical to tech now is in my last job I watched social media companies fund meaningful outside research into halting the use of their platforms by terrorists and violent extremists at a platform design level and then ignore it all or do the exact opposite.

Starts watching Dog Day Afternoon for the nth time. Immediately swoons over 70s Al Pacino. I absolutely get Diane Keaton.

Over the past 6 months, i have been watching movies regularly in the theaters and it is insane how much good stuff is out there.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Favourite watch of the week is not here - Castle in the Sky but man this was a good week. #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched

I feel this way about pretty much all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases. You shouldn't be allowed to dump cyanide into municipal drinking water and you shouldn't be allowed to recreationally spread viruses around shared public spaces.

related to the view among the professional commentariat that only students at ivys and boutique liberal arts colleges actually matter

like, you just don't want the guy who has allowed and enabled PG&E to PG&E *this hard* in charge of the federal government. www.coyotemedia.org/in-the-dark-... You just do not!

all the media being stenographers for the feds and just repeating the drawdown nonsense should go to the whipple building today so they can see the same amount of masked men leaving in convoys of vehicles, and whatever this is too, and report accurately what’s happening on the ground in minnesota

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Epstein-Barr, herpes, and shingles vaccines shelved should get people hounded out of society. That’s beyond anti-vaccine or anti-intellectualism. It’s reactionary know-nothingism. If there’s such a thing as technological solutionism, this is tech problematicizing.

really interesting to me how many professional political commentators have basically retconned the draconian immigration enforcement policies of Obama and Biden out of existence and have completely swallowed the right wing narrative of immigration enforcement

So good chance Epstein finally brings down Starmer while we can't do anything because our Epstein class captured all the power levers.

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The end of this game is absolutely hilarious

This is exactly what the Harper’s Letter signers want

Great thread

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

The others are known but everyone should watch testament of ann lee too. #Letterboxd #LastFourWatched

Striking: GOP Senator Roger Wicker just came out strongly against new ICE detention center in Mississippi. The story of the moment is brewing opposition in red areas (see piece and thread below)

I don't think Bezos is one of your visionary secret man-behind-the-curtain lever-pullers among the oligarch class. I think he bought the Post out of vanity and is gutting it mostly to placate Trump. But gutting the Post to placate Trump is still a way to prosecute the larger class agenda

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

I need people to understand that it’s not just Epstein, it’s the entire rape culture that existed before and after him at every socioeconomic level. That’s why Epstein, who I’ve never thought was particularly smart or interesting, was able to pull this all off—he recognized how abuse functions

I can’t fully articulate how big this feels to me but what people are doing now to pay people’s rents directly is ASTOUNDING and radical to see. Minnesota has one of the most robust nonprofit industrial complexes in the country & Minneapolis has a HUGE nonprofit social service ecosystem.

The australian open semi final results are so blah.

They do it all the time. And did it consistently in his first term. If he appeared in public without saying some wild shit, they presented it as a shift and him becoming “presidential”. The media has a love for him that goes beyond sane-washing.

Mary Jo's voice is so sore. They really should have given her the day off

Many mainstream Dems - Obama included - helped establish and reinforce the fascist system we are seeing in full flourish today. The point is not to excoriate the Democratic Party but to understand that handing them another election won't be enough to "save democracy". The party must (be) change(d).

There is a difference between people who see the goal as electing Democratic politicians and people who see the goal as trying to stop the violence against our neighbors and friends. There is, we hope, significant overlap between the two goals.

that was fun

Do not say anything here you don't want read back to you in court.

My first Cassavetes today. Gena Rowlands is magnificent in Opening Night.

This. Like every Indian I talk to knows exactly who Usha is.

I love that the AO starts on a long weekend here.

Love this angle of Bryan Mbeumo's goal

Injecting some whimsical fantasy vibes into your Friday 💫

100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."

They have no job other than to terrorize citizens and now murder them. It isn't a real job. Other departments already did the "job" they're supposedly doing. And they are purposefully choosing untrained violent people because this is the job! Abolish is median position. Has to be. It's a layup!

myrna loy and william powell in thin man is such exquisite chemistry

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The first time I ever knew about Minneapolis or the state of Minnesota was the night in 1984 where they were the sole state that rejected Reagan. I appreciate MN, as well as the Black Belt of the South, Appalachia, & every single Indigenous sovereign land and nation. We’ll only get free together.