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“[W]e’re also seeing…the favoring not of Christians per se, but of a CERTAiN KIND of Christianity. Trump & his people are aiming not to just work w/ the movement, but to shape the movement itself, to make it more faux-populist, demagogic & frankly authoritarian.” - @katherinestewart.bsky.social 1/

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Walter Benjamin writing about fascism in 1936 "Fascism attempts to organize the newly proletarianized masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves."

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Free University Brussels is opening 12 postdoc fellowships focusing specifically on attracting censored American researchers www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1490...

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Meta doesn't want you to know about Sarah Wynn-Williams book Careless People. So much so they got the courts involved so she can't promote herself. Would be a shame if a bunch of people not tied up in court promoted it for her…

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This is going to kill many public libraries, especially in rural areas. If you use a public library, you will be impacted. #imls is a dust mote in the federal budget. It also provides things like internet at your local library so people can apply for jobs and kids can do homework.

submitted 59 days ago • 39 comments

The idea being that it's easier to control people who do not have access to knowledge, which is why universities/schools, museums, and libraries are facing some of the first waves of attack. First you cut off access to knowledge. Then you replace with highly controlled and revised knowledge.

submitted 59 days ago • 2 comments

whether they’re retiring or not this should be the last term for each of them

submitted 60 days ago • 367 comments

So this is now out, wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814342794/

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Renowned Palestinian artist Laila Shawa (1940–2022) is known for her use of bold colours and illustrative designs to tackle structural violence, political turmoil, the plight of children and resistance. Her art illustrates the beauty and harshness of life for Palestinians living in Gaza.

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Senate Democratic leadership essentially played dead today and greenlit the Trump-Musk-Vance coup. What is the point of the Democratic Party if it doesn't actually act like an opposition party? Hello?

submitted 60 days ago • 537 comments

It is one thing to watch a dictator grab power. It is another to hand it to him. I’m headed to the Senate floor now. To cast an emphatic “no.”

submitted 60 days ago • 3082 comments

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

submitted 60 days ago • 4152 comments

Watch an Avant-Garde Bauhaus Ballet in Brilliant Color, First Staged in 1922

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We're hosting the conference "Real & Imagined Spaces in Film" at the University of Zaragoza's newly renovated Faculty of Arts on May 29-30, 2025. Submit your paper by February 3rd! CFP: eventos.unizar.es/126084/detai...

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This attachment to a fixed self generates suffering, for it is the basis of our fears, desires, and conflicts. As long as we see ourselves as separate, we are bound by the duality of subject and object, self and other, inside and outside. Night night everyone.

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There is a story that the Buddha, in a previous life, gave his body to a tiger so she could feed her starving cubs. buddhismnow.com/2014/03/08/t...

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RFK often talks about how Americans have worse life expectancies than European countries like France & Italy. He often leaves out the fact that those countries have universal healthcare, free college and federally mandated PTO for every working person. It's not just our food, buddy.

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Are you a film & media scholar who wants to learn how to make video essays? Applications for the two-week June 2025 workshop Scholarship in Sound & Image at Middlebury College in Vermont are now open. Come be a videocamper and spread the word!

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Join the party!!! go.bsky.app/497Tp3t

submitted 183 days ago • 9 comments

Women and the Silent Screen XII is on "Form and Feeling in Silent Cinema” -- June 11-14, 2025 in Brussels/Antwerp!! 🎞️🧡 Proposals due on Dec 2nd. www.wfhi.org/2025-brussel...

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My good friend @ckjsweeney.bsky.social and I are launching a film history podcast called The CineHistorians. Here is a teaser trailer! Our introductory episode launches Nov 12 and our first season launches Nov 19. Make sure you subscribe to the YouTube channel! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odp6...

submitted 187 days ago • 3 comments

As a half-blind person, alt-text is especially helpful to be able to read people’s screenshot text images when the thing is in small print. As an artist, I’d rather share & see the work of people able to describe their stuff visually. #NEISvoid #disability 😑

submitted 221 days ago • 6 comments

Beautiful scene in Scotland. By Mary Ethel Muir Donaldson, ca. 1920s. www.anart4life.com/mesmerising-...

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Not only is borrowing books from the library something you can do, it's something you should do. Supporting libraries is good for authors and it's good for libraries. Go get a card, walk inside, take out some books, read the books, books are great, libraries are great, life is amazing.

submitted 410 days ago • 52 comments

Make way for Super Tit! 😀❤️🐦 linktr.ee/carlbovis

submitted 475 days ago • 7 comments

Tiny Goldcrest having a bath in a puddle. 😍 Taken yesterday at RSPB Swell Wood in Somerset. 😊🐦 linktr.ee/carlbovis

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Are you a graduate student working in Documentary Studies or do you know one? Check out the Jonathan Kahana Graduate Student Writing Award: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Just reading comments on Twitter to LATimes employees who lost their jobs today is just one of most depressing things ever. So little compassion.

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New issue of Film-Philosophy/@filmphiljournal: A special collection of work on Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Film, edited by Robert Sinnerbrink and Ludo de Roo: www.euppublishing.com/toc/film/28/1

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This is incredible dedication and vision www.theguardian.com/music/2024/j...

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A reminder that I have compiled this list of online and open access collections of radical, left-wing, labour and anti-colonial historical documents. There are over 500 collections from around the world now listed.

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Godzilla free library Spokane, WA

submitted 583 days ago • 47 comments

this is the week I either catch up on everything I am behind on or the week I relax, which shall I choose?🤔

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wow! thanks for posting!

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Wonderful shot of Marlon Brando writing with his cat. noirbooks.blogspot.com #caturday film cinema

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In "Silver Dollar Road," filmmaker Raoul Peck tells the story of Black landowners losing their property www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2... It centers on the Reels, a NC family who had their land taken from them even though several family members live on the property.

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A major conference ahead on the legacies of #LaurenBerlant: BERLANT’S AMERICA at Northwestern U., 26-27 October. @dukepress.bsky.social Details & registration ➡️ cgcc.soc.northwestern.edu/berlants-ame...

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Update on Larry # 10 cat says he is “happy and healthy” after reports on ill health. I am relieved - Larry is beacon of light and joy on that other site. www.itv.com/news/2023-09...

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