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The brilliance of THE PROWLER for me is the way it uses sex to fake out the censors. While the Breen Office was in a tizzy about infidelity, Joseph Losey and Dalton Trumbo were telling a story about the corruption of law enforcement and its power to ruin lives. #TCMParty #NoirAlley #TheProwler

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There is no due process that can result in the deportation of an American citizen. First, you can’t “deport” a citizen. It makes no sense legally or logically. What you’re talking about is exile. Second, there is no statute by which a citizen can be exiled for any cause. It’s just kidnapping.

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NFTs from a couple of years ago are starting to succumb to link rot. Someday the final server holding the last NFT image will go under, then truly all my apes will be gone

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This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.

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ICE is now asserting it's a federal crime for bystanders to request that masked people in plain clothes show identification as they're handcuffing folks and stuffing them into unmarked vans.

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This in a real story posted by NBC and blasted out to their email lists. The mainstream media is, without exaggeration, gonna kill us all.

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I feel like I’m losing my mind with the lack of wall to wall coverage on disappearing children with cancer i keep saying this, but it’s not 5% of the uproar that came from Biden’s debate. “kids peeing in litter boxes”, a thing that never happened, got orders of magnitude more coverage.

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Simone Weil in Federación Anarquista uniform during the Spanish Civil War, 1936. theconversation.com/simone-de-be...

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“Deporting” someone is sending them back to their country where they are free to live as citizens. What that asshole is doing is NOT deportation. It’s kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s illegally sending people to USA-funded off shore concentration camps.

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“‘They want to smash up the 14th Amendment,’ Mr. Zeskind said, addressing Democratic officials, ‘and I think you guys should scream about it.’”

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The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach. Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

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It’s worth following Lee for his tracking of this (and generally). If you don’t spend a lot of time flicking through physical papers it may astonish you just how many anti-trans stories they print, and how weak the spin on many of them is. It’s a relentless moral panic.

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If deporting US citizen children with cancer isn’t your redline, it’s time to reassess your priorities.

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

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This sounds post-apocalyptic, but aspiring filmmakers and writers really should find and collect DVD commentaries. So much applicable advice you’d never get in film school because it was discovered in the circumstances of making that movie. Big cultural step backward to lose easy access to these.

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Also if nothing else you can infer some insane gossip from the ones where they thought no one was going to listen to it

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Sad news from Vancouver vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/04/26/m...

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Before they exiled the kids, they used them as hostages. I hate this so much. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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The default Dem position should be that nothing under Trump is valid. Trump didn't honor his predecessors' agreements. He didn't even honor his own trade agreements. He didn't honor Congressional appropriations. He doesn't follow laws. Clean slate. If you rely on him, your loss.

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“Demolición” by Los Saicos. Peruvian pre-Punk from 1964. youtu.be/haVaaDLwWvI?...

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It's here, it's here! Cheers to the wonderful contributors and the team at ALA Editions! www.ala.org/news/2025/04...

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Biden, 52%: “low end approval” Trump, 39%: proceeding “as expected”

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birthday girl Anita Loos embraces Audrey Hepburn after a performance of Gigi (adapted by Loos from Colette's novel), late 1951 📸: Milton Greene

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The top priority of the next functional government has to be reforming the Privacy Act to prevent the use of personal data for reasons other than originally prescribed & to effectively ban database matching all but entirely.

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hey fellow movie freaks - I looked into the address, it's an old film vault on 1+ acres - don't get arrested, but when films that haven't been archived are gone they're gone forever. the property is at 936 seward. if you find the lost Liza Minelli Evita screen test please call.

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hey LA pirate people, if you have a way to get to 936 seward and can save some of this stuff from getting destroyed via weather exposure there are film nerds all over the world who would love you forever

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why must these people make their broken repressed brains everyone else's problem

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I think a big factor in choosing a new pope should be willingness to dunk on JD Vance.

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Wow. Naval Academy prof to their 3-star Admiral in his letter of resignation: "your legacy will be that of a careerist who banned Maya Angelou but retained Mein Kampf"

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I miss the DEI planes, which held themselves together

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My god, Trump admin has altered Hatch Act rules so that it is OK for federal employees to display campaign paraphenalia on the job -- but ONLY for the current President/VP, not for any challengers. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

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NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

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Americanism in one perfect paragraph.

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If you’re attending the White House Correspondents Association dinner tonight, be sure to come prepared with a joke about the toddler cancer patient they just disappeared despite her being a citizen. Otherwise it’s going to be awkward when you’re mugging for photos with Stephen Miller.

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Now watching

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CUNY, represent! Signatories to AAC&U public statement and declaration of academic independence. So far! [Thanks @ejgoldstick.bsky.social @jfallows.bsky.social!]

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Vance's Easter visit to Rome clogged its streets with a 40-vehicle entourage. He also demanded the Coliseum be closed so he and his family could tour it alone. Tourists who properly booked slots in advance got screwed. He's apparently the first to make that demand. Then he didn't bother to show up.

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“Some FAA personnel have been implicitly threatened with having their lives ruined by potential criminal charges from the Trump Justice Department if they blab about Project Lift, according to a person familiar with the situation…

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Truly apropos of nothing, one of the most inexplicable parts of Trump Era media coverage has been the total lack of interest in his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. They were very close friends! Ghislane recruited girls AT MAR-A-LAGO. There's video of them giggling as they watch young girls dance!

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Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein and his enablers. Other Epstein abuse survivors later credited her with giving them the courage to speak out. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

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Hegseth: (entering Pentagon) Yo check out what I found in the parking lot. Free USB stick!

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Any moderately competent historian could have told you this is always where it was going to lead

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People sometimes ask "what are the crimes" and let me tell y'all, as a lawyer, that intentionally copying, altering, destroying, or disrupting government computer systems is super-duper illegal if you don't have a spotless paper trail authorizing it, which none of these DOGE people do.

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A mob of Hasidic men in Brooklyn chase down a woman who came to protest Ben-Gvir. This sort of reaction has become normalized in NYC and LA, where violence against protestors has spiked enormously since October 7th. This largely isn't covered or addressed by media, despite how widespread it is.

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