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I work in TV whatever that means now. Cinephile. News junkie. Treehugger. Brooklyn NY. Hating on fascists and authoritarians. I follow tons of folks to grow a great news/culture feed for myself to read, so there.
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“What ultimately transpired is the closest thing to a personal episode of Black Mirror I hope to experience in this lifetime.”

Alex Jones, who spent years ranting about shadowy government mass surveillance technology, is now stanning for Palantir

From directors including Kristen Stewart, Joachim Trier and Jafar Panahi, traversing Australia, Nigeria, Iran, Brazil and more, our crew selects fifteen highlights from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival for your watchlists. Read the full story on Journal: boxd.it/2z6

#BoycottAvelo

Please do not fly Avelo ever. Just spoke with a belligerent Nazi at the airline who insists that there is nobody responsible and "nothing" anyone at their company can do about the human trafficking currently underway. I'm not kidding. ☎️ AVELO (346) 616-9500 #BoycottAvelo #NAZIS #POS #AVELO

Long time customer stopped by 😉 so excited to show him our new home!

Glad to say I finally caught the IFC Films movie Ghostlight, it is so good. Now playing on AMC+.

Steven Soderbergh talks turning a difficult dinner table scene into a riveting 'Black Bag' set piece and explains why he cast a James Bond.

Leopard ate her face. Wait, in point of fact, leopard IS her face. Read This: "Marjorie Taylor Greene Admits She Didn’t Read Trump Mega Bill She Voted For" www.thedailybeast.com//marjorie-ta...

If you were wondering why Trump’s war on Harvard matters, here is The Times of London detailing the costs: cancelling a planned TB vaccine, ending a clinical trial for severely allergic children, killing a new generation of air purifiers, curtailing research on ALS. www.thetimes.com/us/american-...

It’s a dictatorship cult. www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

Putin screaming at Trump (prolly) "You had ONE job!"

Now even someone on ketamine, mushrooms and Ecstasy can see it.

Scarecrow Video executive leadership and staff take IndieWire on a tour of the video rental store, one year since its $1 million fundraising campaign.

Harvey Milk served his country honorably — first in uniform, then in public office. Taking his name off this Navy ship sends a clear message, and it’s one of disrespect and cruelty.

Let’s talk for a moment about some of the more subtle ways that the press acts as a mouthpiece for law enforcement. Actor Jonathan Joss was shot to death on Sunday. I don’t know what happened; I wasn’t there. But his husband said a homophobic neighbor shot him as part of an explicit hate crime. /1

excited for everyone to find out if hurricanes and pandemics actually go away if we shut down the agencies that track them

“Your reminder that Trump has 5 kids with 3 women he cheated on & Elon Musk has 14 kids with 4 women he cheated on & Pete Hegseth has 7 kids with 3 women he cheated on & Linda McMahon is being sued for enabling child sexual abuse. Family values my ass.”

COLORADO… My Pillow Guy Mike Lindell admitting in court he has no evidence the 2020 election was rigged…

Writer @davidcorn.bsky.social describes the media's coverage of DOGE as bolstering the phony narrative that Musk worked to ferret out supposed fraud, waste & abuse infecting the federal government. It's actually an assault on government services, including those essential to millions of Americans.

Are we great yet?

“We do not know, for instance, just how much data Musk’s gang of pimple-faced coders stole while they were ransacking federal departments or how much of that data related to Musk’s businesses”

"Federal law enforcement officers on the scene declined to say what the purpose of the raid was...Some declined to identify which agency they were with. Most wore masks." It's almost like the police are trying to be...secret.

I think I could jump to the top of a lot of people’s ranked choice voting slate if I entered the mayoral race on a platform of banning leaf blowers.

under the Trump administration, it has become nearly impossible for undocumented people to sponsor unaccompanied migrant children — as a result kids are trapped in government shelters, despite having parents and siblings desperate to care for them at home www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The scabs running the show at DOL don't give a shit about workers. More proof every. single. day.

Matricidal, homicidal ghoul.

Quite enamored of this sports road coming of age comedy. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

It’s what this country fundamentally is and has been from the start - an apocalyptic pyramid scheme based on getting rich without having to do anything

Y’all they are not stopping in red states apnews.com/article/abor... Trump administration revokes guidance requiring hospitals to provide emergency abortions

IMPORTANT: Axios' analysis found local law enforcement in TX, FL, GA, NC & VA have been most cooperative with ICE in rounding up immigrants through deals known as 287 (g) agreements. There are 629 such agreements now in place across the US. www.axios.com/2025/06/03/i...

Breaking: Marjorie Taylor Greene would have voted against GOP spending bill if she had read it, she says per the Guardian. Musk threatens to 'fire' any politician who supports the GOP megabill per NBC News.

The militarisation of American Law Enforcement is kind of insane.

I worry that not enough of a big deal is being made about how long-term the devastation of these budget cuts to our scientific and health agencies will be, beyond the absolute ruin they will cause in the acute period.

"Bitcoin is an argument for itself, an ouroboric entity whose contradictions are transmuted into mystic truths by what is essentially a series of acts of faith." Articles like this are why I will always subscribe to @defector.com.

HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents

These Colors Don't Run 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ Go ahead, erase Harvey Milk's name from a Navy oiler, play games declaring June Title IX Month An attack on one is an attack on all It just makes LGBTQ more determined, stronger The LGBTQ community will be around long after little men like Hegseth & Trump are dust

Their goal is to eliminate public education and indoctrinate kids, free from democratic oversight

Texas took hurricane recovery money from the parts of Houston that were badly damaged by Hurricane Harvey and gave it instead to Republican areas that saw far less damage. Sending FEMA resources to states is intended to put more money into state corruption rings. It's just crime.

Big news: The Trump administration has essentially proposed shutting down tribal colleges and universities, displacing more than 20,000 students. My latest for ProPublica:

ICE dressed up like utility workers who offer "free estimates" if invited inside. Neighbor recorded the ICE goons and intervened, just before a young boy let them into his home. Tucson Electric Power was not told ICE agents would be impersonating their utility workers as part of the ICE raid.

@ashishkjha.bsky.social

Pete Hegseth moving into the lead [not for the first time] on my ever-changing "People I Want To Live Long Enough to See Smushed Like an Ant" schadenfreude list for the decision to remove the name of a martyred gay rights icon AND NAVAL VETERAN from a ship in the first week of Pride.

If you haven't aleady, make sure to check out my colleague @lanebrown.bsky.social's excellent look at how tax credits have zapped so much life out of Hollywood, making it incredibly difficult to make TV shows and movies in the City of Dreams. www.vulture.com/article/holl...

Luca Guadagnino is attached to direct 'Artificial,' a comedy set in the world of AI, for Amazon MGM.