"Avatar: Fire and Ash" is the movie "Avatar" fans were hoping for. @rottentomatoes.com @democracyatwork.bsky.social #AvatarFireAndAsh #Avatar3 #Avatar democracyatwork.substack.com/p/avatar-fir...

I break down the feminist, pro-environment and anti-racist politics of "Avatar: Fire and Ash," which are a welcome contrast with the misogyny, science denial and white supremacy that defines the MAGA movement. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/avatar-fir...

You don't have to agree with Joe Lieberman about politics. God knows, I often did not. But every time Jews are persecuted, I'm reminded of our conversations about the rise of anti-Semitism. He was right during his lifetime. He remains right in death. www.salon.com/2024/03/29/r...

Dick Van Dyke just turned 100 — and his philosophy may be exactly the tonic despairing liberals need to hear. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/dick-van-d...

Anti-Semitism is linked to climate change denial. That’s not a coincidence. One cannot separate the illogic of anti-Semitism from other forms of illogic. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/jew-haters...

I'm a Jew and mad as hell! Dagestan. Berlin. Boulder. Now Bondi. Call out Jew-hatred. That's what I'm doing right now. @democracyatwork.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jthS... #Bondi #bondiattack #bondibeachsydney #bondibeachattack #BondiBeachTerrorAttack

I'm a Jew who accepts climate science and wants to stop climate change. According to Trump and his ilk, science-minded Jews are the enemy. They're lying. Only through science can we save Earth. @democracyatwork.bsky.social @michaelemann.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=jthS...

The world needs more movies like "The Day After Tomorrow." That is to say, we need more smart, entertaining movies that raise awareness about climate change. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/its-the-da...

Roland Emmerich is the only big Hollywood director to directly tackle global warming through a blockbuster. He did so in 2004. @salon.com www.salon.com/2024/06/22/t...

I owe my career as a climate change journalist to a 2004 sci-fi movie, "The Day After Tomorrow." In 2023, I paid tribute to this film with a @salon.com review. www.salon.com/2023/05/23/t...

"A sow with two cubs had been passing through... when a noise... startled one of the cubs, sending it up a tree for refuge. The sow and other cub soon left the scene." Hence why I don't romanticize bears. "Mama bears" can suck as much as "mama humans." www.electric.coop/new-jersey-c...

"Captain America 4" is underrated as political commentary. The fictional President Ross (Harrison Ford) shows more integrity than America's recent real-life presidents, Trump and Biden. @reason.com reason.com/2025/02/14/t...

Y'all in MAGA called me "fake news" when I covered Trump's connection to Epstein for @salon.com. www.salon.com/2019/07/17/n... www.salon.com/2019/08/14/t... www.salon.com/2019/08/18/j... Awfully quiet now....

"Barry Lyndon" is a brilliant Marxist interpretation of a boldly feminist Victorian novel. Thackeray via Kubrick ftw! @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/barry-lynd...

“Lolita” is like “Filmworker” an effective exploration of exploitation... albeit sexual and involuntary — despite Nabokov/Kubrick’s admittedly problematic ambiguity — rather than economic and ambiguous. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/from-jeffr...

"I laughed out loud at the suggestion that John Kramer is a democrat, that was too funny. But YES, Kevin, John Kramer is absolutely a libertarian" Love the "Saw" Reddit fan page. Check out the full Back Seat Socialism interview! www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFo... www.reddit.com/r/saw/commen...

My favorite "Avatar" character is Tsu'tey. He was jealous of Jake Sully for betraying the Omatikaya (and turning him into a cuckold). Yet he set aside his pride when he realized Sully was a worthy Toruk Makto. matthewrozsa.com/avatar-deser...

“Language is almost a prison, almost a straitjacket. It determines how you’re going to look at the world and what kind of thoughts you can have... The Department of Defense is now the Department of War, things like that." @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/does-langu...

In 2019, I wrote that "presidential candidate Jay Inslee fears the climate crisis will kill us all." In 2025, I should be writing "President Inslee announces drastic global improvement in carbon emissions." Alas... @salon.com www.salon.com/2019/05/31/p...

Climate change proves Karl Marx correct. It demonstrates that we need centralized control of major industries, lest their unaccountability cause existential crises like ecocide. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/climate-ch...

Does language determine reality? I pose this question in my interview with linguist Dr. Paul Frommer, who created the Na'vi language heard in the new "Avatar" movie. #AvatarFireAndAsh @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/does-langu...

"Repossessed," Leslie Nielsen's spoof of "The Exorcist," always makes me laugh. @dreadcentral.bsky.social www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/5...

"'Lolita' [is] my least-favorite Kubrick movie because the director — despite brilliantly capturing the zeitgeist of late ‘50s/early ‘60s America — does not sufficiently condemn Humbert’s behavior." PS: Lots of Humberts in MAGA world... @democracyatwrk democracyatwork.substack.com/p/from-jeffr...

I believe this senior editor used AI to write an article. If I'm correct, this is disgusting! Thousands of journalists are losing their jobs. Pikora may have laid off a few herself. I guarantee she knows victims. Hire a journalist! @DailyVoicePA dailyvoice.com/pa/manheim-t...

Heaven, for Matt Rozsa, is a double feature including both the films and his reviews for "The Killing" and "The Shining." "The Killing" (Democracy at Work): democracyatwork.substack.com/p/the-killin... "The Shining" (Salon): www.salon.com/2024/10/07/t... @democracyatwork.bsky.social @salon.com

"The Killing" proves the lie when Trump and the rest of MAGA decry so-called "wokeness." Stanley Kubrick's 1956 heist thriller is pro-LGBTQ and pro-racial equality. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/the-killin...

Art predicts life. When Pete Hegseth gave that macho BS speech at the Pentagon, it was the rhetorical equivalent of Slim Pickens riding that phallic bomb to all of our end in "Dr. Strangelove." @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/dr-strange...

"Dr. Strangelove" predicted the future. Frankly, I wonder if Pete Hegseth is intentionally channeling Slim Pickens and Sterling Hayden as he leads the "War Department." democracyatwork.substack.com/p/dr-strange... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

"Dr. Strangelove" is relevant. The anti-fluoride nuts of the '60s begat the anti-vaxxers and climate deniers of the '20s. On "Dr. Strangelove": democracyatwork.substack.com/p/dr-strange... On fluoride nuts: www.salon.com/2022/09/13/w... @democracyatwork.bsky.social @salon.com

"Dr. Strangelove" predicted the future. In Trump's America, every powerful person in America is General Jack D. Ripper. @democracyatwork.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGqy...

Wikipedia editors don't care what Elon Musk thinks of "X-Men." They don't care what any alt right chud thinks of "X-Men." But they quoted my @salon.com retrospective on the all-time greatest superhero franchise. www.salon.com/2019/06/05/t...

Rev. Jesse Jackson, who I interviewed for @salon.com in 2018, says we must think of the hungry on Thanksgiving. President Trump and his supporters oppose food stamps. As they gorge, do the only right thing: Shame them for opposing food stamps! www.salon.com/2018/11/22/j...

"People who are farsighted are frequently mocked. Copernicus and Galileo went through it, And I think Ocasio-Cortez has a better understanding of science by 10,000 miles than the fella in the White House right now." - Jay Inslee to Matthew Rozsa (2019) www.salon.com/2019/05/31/p...

"Hollidaysburg" is a smart, socially-conscious Thanksgiving movie. In 2014, it lost a filmmaking contest to the cinematic equivalent of Trump-Epstein. "Hollidaysburg" lost a popularity contest, but it wins my heart. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/an-early-c... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

I need Leslie Nielsen spoof comedy in my life right now. www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/5... @dreadcentral.bsky.social

Really important to hold the hard-won gains that autistics & advocates have made toward improved access & accommodations that facilitate our inclusion in society. Individual support needs may change w/ age & environment, but they don't just disappear. Adult autists' voices are crucial to keep going

"Can Nonprofits Restrain Trump’s Autism Agenda?" I wrote this headline for @npquarterly.bsky.social because, bluntly, we in the autism community need the nonprofit sector. Without your support, pseudoscience will ruin our lives. nonprofitquarterly.org/can-nonprofi...

Is Mamdani anti-Semitic? I debated this important subject with my good friend and fellow Jew, communications strategist and lawyer Richard Greene. We disagreed without being disagreeable. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN0M... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

When I wrote that Mamdani is not anti-Semitic, communications strategist and lawyer Richard Greene disagreed. I'm including my original article and our subsequent debate. Article: democracyatwork.substack.com/p/stop-sayin... Debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOtI... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

Does Zohran Mamdani hate Jews? I debated esteemed lawyer Richard Greene based on my recent Back Seat Socialism op-ed (democracyatwork.substack.com/p/stop-sayin...). If not for the sushi guy interrupting us, I believe this would have been a perfect debate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOtI...

Jew-haters are on the rise. Greene and I disagree on if Mamdani is anti-Semitic, but we agree in opposing the vile rise of anti-Jew bigotry. Hence I discussed this Jew-hating troll in our upcoming interview. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/stop-sayin... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

One of my best friends committed suicide last month. In honor of the great comedian Nate Marks, I reviewed one of his favorite movies: "Society" It's a grotesque horror comedy skewering the world's Epstein-esque elites. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/society-is... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

One of my best friends committed suicide last month. In honor of the great comedian Nate Marks, I reviewed one of his favorite movies: "Society" It's a grotesque horror comedy skewering the world's Epstein-esque elites. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/society-is... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

Kubrick predicted Trump and Epstein in his 1999 movie "Eyes Wide Shut." Oligarchs unleash their perverted fantasies on the rest of us because of capitalism, as I explained in my @democracyatwork.bsky.social review. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/trump-epst...

Interested in Avatar: Fire and Ash? Check out my interview with Dr. Paul Frommer, the linguist who created the Na'vi tongue! democracyatwork.substack.com/p/does-langu... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

"Hollidaysburg" is a 2014 indie film about work and love among four teenagers in a PA town on Thanksgiving weekend. I love this small, smart movie, and am thrilled to interview director A. M. Lukas for Back Seat Socialism. @democracyatwork.bsky.social democracyatwork.substack.com/p/an-early-c...

"Hollidaysburg" is a Thanksgiving movie about careers, families and romance among a quartet of Pennsylvania teenagers. I'm honored to have interviewed director/co-writer A. M. Lukas about this masterpiece. democracyatwork.substack.com/p/an-early-c... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

"Hollidaysburg" is a 2014 indie movie about four Pennsylvania teenagers on Thanksgiving break. They grapple with careers, love and the meaning of life. If you watch one movie to celebrate Thanksgiving, make it "Hollidaysburg"! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aer5... @democracyatwork.bsky.social

How'd they do it? How'd they do it? How'd they break my unbreakable heart? (If you see "Hollidaysburg," you'll get that joke.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=aer5...

"Hollidaysburg" is a 2014 indie movie that you love. You haven't seen it yet, but trust me, you'll love it! I interviewed A. M. Lukas (Anna Martemucci) on her masterpiece! Shout out to @nickdiramio, who Lukas/Martemucci also praised! @democracyatwork.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=aer5...