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there are some good movies in the 21st century. i'd probably put Before Sunset (2004) on mine. won't bother thinking of 9 other movies, thanks

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

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This is why all the polling about mass deportations was useless. When people witness this not as a political slogan, but as actual physical violence perpetrated against their neighbors, they are rightly horrified. apnews.com/article/immi...

One of our earliest civil rights statutes was designed to protect us against masked gangs who violate our constitutional rights. This particular history makes the masked ICE gangs uniquely repugnant. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

A pregnant woman lost her baby after ICE refused to give her prenatal care. She begged for help and was denied. She was fed food full of cockroaches. She was forced to sleep on the floor. This is absolutely disgusting and we should all be outraged. nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/27/i...

These are two very similar stories of Mississippi families torn apart by ICE. But Kerlin Moreno-Orellana's story has gotten way less attention on social media than Kasper Eriksen's did, and thus his family's GoFundMe is getting WAY less support. It's a big disparity.

128 Democrats vote against impeaching Trump.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

Masked ICE agents spotted swapping out license plates this morning in Bell Gardens, CA

There was a survey a few weeks ago that found half of Americans thought ICE was just hunting criminals. The institutional press have failed to make clear ICE’s primary strategy today is capturing people through the use of compliance traps, and shipping them off to substandard prisons in the South.

Late to ‘Grand Theft Hamlet,’ but it really is spectacular. And for all its oddities and innovations as ‘video game theatre,’ it’s thoroughly driven by the conventions & rhythms of classic backstage narrative. Like a ‘Guffman, ‘Theater Camp’ or even ‘42nd Street’ of violent Shakespearean Machinima.

for people who are never going to play a game but are interested to understand a bit about what games culture is like, I can highly recommend the film Grand Theft Hamlet, about two out-of-work actors during the lockdowns trying to stage a production of Hamlet inside the game Grand Theft Auto

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I used to think fart noises made with the mouth were so funny. Now I only laugh at the fart noises from a butt

And without due process this Georgia-born American citizen spends the rest of his life disappeared in a jail in Jamaica. Do you get it yet?

America is when you know more about the weapons than the people they target.

Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Delicately feeding crispy onions into my laptop's air vent. Eat up little one

The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now.

I remember being convinced, when Obama was elected and I was sixteen, that torture had been comprehensively rejected by the American people and the people responsible would be prosecuted. Instead they got jobs at Harvard and Yale.

Juneteenth is the perfect moment to remind everyone of two facts: 1. Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. 2. Those who prevent history from being taught are plotting to repeat it. Read this out loud. Read it again. Then teach it to your kids.

should have been a green background instead of blue

A striking thing in @citizenlab.ca's recount of a complex social-engineering attack carried out to persuade a target to create app-specific passwords for his Google account: the "unhurried pace of the conversation," with no attempt to make the target act out of panic. (h/t @jsrailton.bsky.social)

An active duty service member has been sent to a mental health facility against his will after speaking out about ICE’s legal and humanitarian abuses. TikTokers took action, including writing @governor.ca.gov /

This photo. ICE is a gang.

The claims that McIver, Padilla, and Lander were committing assault should make you question every other time LEOs claim assault or resisting arrest, if you weren’t already.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Aisling Walsh's next film Lucia will feature Maya Hawke as Lucia Joyce, Rhys Ifans as her father James Joyce and Eileen Walsh as Nora Barnacle. The psychological drama biopic is written by Michael Kinirons. deadline.com/2025/05/maya...

As it is Bloomsday, seems an appropriate time to reshare this piece about my extraordinary pal John Kidd. Full disclosure: he hates this article. I love the guy and hope to be able to complete the project we're doing together on Joyce. www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/m...

Spitting FIRE holy shit 🔥

"ICE is not too big to fail. It is too dangerous to continue. We don’t need a gentler deportation force. We need a government that refuses to criminalize protest, weaponize immigration or suppress dissent," writes Omar Suleiman. religionnews.com/2025/06/10/a...