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Saturday night is my last West Coast event! Come to the @amcinematheque.bsky.social Los Feliz 3 to buy a book and see a GANDOLFINI DOUBLE FEATURE! 7pm: KILLING THEM SOFTLY (www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...)  10pm: THE MAN WHO WASN’T THERE (www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...)

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Well this is absurd. America first seafood strategy! Kill them all, eat them now! The future doesn’t matter! Oh, and we are cutting staffing and budget for our National Fish Hatcheries and National Marine Fisheries Service (Dept of Commerce) too. Stable genius- right.

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Vulture Cinematrix No. 388: Apr 18, 2025 I got 9/9 Correct Score: 2645 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩 Play at: vulture.com/vulturecinem...

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Any piece of anti-authoritarian art will read as "woke" to regime stooges now, even if it was boilerplate egalitarian or pro-democracy stuff at the time. Andor featuring people sent to gulags as a way to illustrate the evil of the Empire wasn't intended to be a dig at Trump. bsky.app/profile/owil...

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Tonight’s the night! Me! @timgrierson.bsky.social! Vroman’s Bookstore! Padadena! Talking GANDOLFINI! The fun starts at 7pm; be there or be square:

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Claude Lelouch's LES MISERABLES DU VINGTIEME SIECLE is a stunner, and you should drop everything you have on 4/26 to go and see it. I don't know if this screening portends a new US availability for it, but why take that risk? Not to mention if the house sells out, that will send a big message.

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Automation has come for the COINTELPRO agents. Good luck finding jobs screwing in those tiny screws.

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“only the state can decide what a woman is” is prima facie such a nasty political development, nearly dystopian in its implications. it shocks me that so many get duped into thinking it protects anyone but men

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NEW: The Fourth Circuit REJECTS the Trump admin's appeal of Judge Xinis's orders to "facilitate" Kilmar Abrego Garcia's release: "We shall not micromanage the efforts of a fine district judge attempting to implement the Supreme Court's recent decision." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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See the movies or don't, read your kids whatever you want, but this self-portrait of a gloating hatemonger is the identity she has chosen.

submitted 22 hours ago • 155 comments

now you know why the laziest Democrats we’ve got call the destruction of due process a “distraction”—they view polls like this as instructions on what to agree with to win the next election It doesn’t actually work, because people like representatives more than slugs. But it’s easy

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This is why Elon Musk is helping Trump. He doesn't care about cutting government expenses. Quite the contrary, he wants his greedy snout first in the trough when the government doles out billions in "no bid" (the use of "frontrunner" is a hilarious lie) contracts.

submitted 22 hours ago • 62 comments

the "it's a distraction" shit is emblematic of the "polling is fixed and exogenous" shit that has ruined so many Dems brains. even from a pure realpolitik perspective Abrego Garcia isn't a "distraction", he's an opportunity to flip one of your opponent's best issues!

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Here’s the story behind this outrageous demand. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

submitted 23 hours ago • 436 comments

Just reviewed the demands letter the government sent to Harvard. Strong McCarthy vibes with this administration. Here are just a few of the most insane. Full letter here: s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

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Please repeat over and over: “Bending to the whims of a bully will not end his cruelty. It will only embolden him. The response to authoritarianism isn’t acquiescence. Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face.” —Gov. JB Pritzker

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Nothing says teaching critical thinking like state-level bans on what topics can be taught

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This. Do what you can. Don’t feel like you have to do so much that it’s overwhelming. Pace yourself. This is an ultra marathon.

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"The researchers from Oxford University and elsewhere found that half a million additional children will die of AIDS in the next 5 years in sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 3 million more African children will be orphaned by AIDS." www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Here's some helpful resources to share to help any trans folks living in the UK. • www.transunite.co.uk • mermaidsuk.org.uk • transactual.org.uk/transorgs/ • www.stonewall.org.uk/resources/lg...

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As DOJ argues that federal courts have no authority to order "any particular acts of diplomacy," I want to remind everyone that SCOTUS let Matthew Kacsmaryk seize control of Biden's border policy for 10 months and micromanage diplomatic negotiations with Mexican officials. slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Yes, indeed, the store is sending signed copies of the Gandolfini book out a week before the street date! Praise as always to Judith, who makes good things possible! You can get your copy here: mzs.press/PRE_ORDER-SI...

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3 things autistic kids will actually never do: 1. Pick up a roadkill bear from the side of the road and put it in their van to eat 2. Realize they could get in trouble for eating the bear 3. Leave it in Central Park to frame a cyclist for its murder

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Critics say

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This is as loathsome an expression of ablism as I have ever seen: RFK Jr. is a child of great privilege and he's using his good fortune to spurn an entire group of people as untermensch, "life unworthy of life"

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This Plaque at the Closed Red Canyon Visitor Center Yesterday “The Mission of the USDA for service to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the nations forest and grasslands to meet the needs of present in future generations.” #NPS #RedCanyon

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Watching the Daredevil: Born Again season finale was not quite the alternative-to-the-news that I thought it would be. #tvsky 📺

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It's never about the science. It's always about having a legal basis for your fear and hatred of other people.

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Every now and then it hits me that this isn’t just about 1 inhuman act or another, but a bigger picture. That the entire democratic experiment in America is falling apart in front of our eyes. It’s historic in that sense. Which then makes me wonder why all media stories aren’t framed this way.

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Just discussed this last night. Stop using their framing which is an established legal immigration control method. Call it what it is, rendition. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraor...

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Pennies are essentially worthless. But if I stole 7 billion of them from Mark Zuckerberg, I think he’d call that theft. If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, you’re not in busiess — you’re in organized crime.

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remember, stranger danger as a concept was introduced shortly after some 70s studies came out and determined nearly all child abuse was from adults close to the family. it was literally a nationwide "fuck no that can't be right"

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So all 9 members of the Supreme Court, then?

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“The Post spoke with 10 employees across the Weather Service …. Concerned with leaks to the media, the administration is installing monitoring software on NOAA employees’ devices to track their communications, two current employees said.” Reporting by Scott Dance… wapo.st/44sg8lC

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Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

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4/16/25: "Trump administration plans to end the IRS Direct File program for free tax filing, AP sources say" wtop.com/national/202... 1/20/2024: Intuit, maker of Turbo Tax, donates $1 million to Trump Vance inaugural committee: lda.senate.gov/filings/publ...

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This has been more widely circulated than any edited comments on television in quite some time Perhaps it should be circulated further still ?

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My mom was a Head Start teacher when I was growing up. Her experiences with children and families from that job did so much to influence my family's values and view of government assistance. Anyone who's been witness to those who benefit from Head Start knows what a cruel thing this is.

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A body blow. The best hope of learning the mechanics of why ultraprocessed foods are associated with so many bad health outcomes. An original mind and brilliant communicator. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/w...

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Wow this Garcia guy is pretty scary, he's rising in the ranks of MS-13 while he's in custody. Next week he will be the leader of the whole organization.

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Honor of a lifetime -- I got to write an episode of POKER FACE this year! Thank you to @rianjohnson and Natasha Lyonne for letting me be a part of this incredible show and don't tell me whodunnit if you watch my episode, I haven't seen it yet

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boston globe editorial board: harvard is making the right decision, and universities should band together to fight. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/16/o...

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My first use of this ubiquitous meme Did I do it right? 😝

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Every day that Abrego Garcia isn’t returned or accounted for a deep dread grows in me that we’re approaching a moment where we’re going to learn the President of the United States has set up a system of death camps.

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NEW: El Salvador has denied a request from Sen. Chris Van Hollen to see or speak to his Maryland constituent Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to the country, Van Hollen said during a visit to El Salvador. www.axios.com/2025/04/16/e...

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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

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Part of the reason supply chains collapsed during the pandemic was because Trump had already started his first super dumb trade war with China and the freight market was hanging on by a thread.

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