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I work in TV whatever that means now. Cinephile. News junkie. Feminist. 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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This breaks me — because I can see my wife and daughter living through this. I don’t trust DHS, and you shouldn’t either because it could happen to anyone. They’re on a mission, and it feels lawless as hell.

I'm able to make this animation of how the ocean breathes in and out CO₂ because of data collected by NOAA scientists, data served at NOAA websites, and tools provided by NASA. All are under threat of being dismantled by the Trump administration.

All activity on X helps Musk, I wrote this to explain how. Please repost and share everywhere with people that are still using X, we need to educate them about how harmful it is. #HandsOff #TakeDownX

I do think that we are 100% dealing with people who DO have sinister evil overarching plans and are ALSO incredibly stupid and incompetent.

@warren.senate.gov: "This is the Trump administration. Fabulous, fabulous, fabulous for the billionaires. Billionaires win and everybody else loses. And they laugh about it."

Will just leave this clip here of Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings talking about what’s wrong with America from a 1991 interview and it’s still all very true today

"Bob Fosse's ALL THAT JAZZ is at once a confession, a self-promotion, a showbiz love letter, an apology, and a middle finger."

Reminder: Medication abortion is safe and effective regardless of what Republican politicians say. Science doesn’t give a sh*t about MAGA lies. Learn more here. 👇

Never watched Farscape. Now watching the pilot with @mzspress.bsky.social. Playful, sincere entertainment with vivid characters. Incredible that there was once a media ecosystem that could finance a weekly creative sandbox of such prodigious invention: 22 episodes a season, 88 in four years!

Can you believe this? 🤔

I’m not kidding; this is DOGE at work; multiple US citizens getting notices that they just leave the country because USCIS is revoking their humanitarian parole. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

Just naked, breathtaking corruption

NYT: "Maya Angelou Is Out but ‘Mein Kampf’ Stays at the Naval Academy Library" "An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

I didn’t change my name when I got married for some very practical reasons but I never thought “so I can keep voting” would be among them

NYC SAVE THE DATE ✊

Typical bad boss behavior: treat workers terribly, realize they don’t like you, then spy on them and punish them after they start talking about you. Pathetic.

I gotta admit, when I look at that giant tarrifs chart, I think of the suitcase-value board on Deal or No Deal Island.

If you want affordable long-term rental housing in NYC, Airbnb and similar services should be completely banned here.

Amid growing concerns over Big Tech firms aligning with Trump administration policies, people are starting to move their digital lives to services based overseas. Here's what you need to know.

Fascinating. Historian Nicole Hemmer says that while Trump has consolidated immense power, and Fox News has become like authoritarian state TV, the media and civil society remain strong and independent in important ways. Check out this exchange in four screen caps: newrepublic.com/article/1938...

Did President Trump tip off big donors or family to cash in on his tariff chaos? Today with @schumer.senate.gov and Senate Democrats, I officially called for an SEC investigation to find out. Presidents are not kings.

Jason Ning and Ronald D. Moore are developing Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as a television series for Sony and Amazon's Prime Video. / #CrouchingTigerHiddenDragon

One thing 'The Pitt' understands is that the E.R. is where people end up when something goes wrong, either with the individual or with *gestures at everything* www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/a...

NYC SAVE THE DATE ✊

Republicans are trying to gut Medicaid and SNAP programs in order to fund tax cuts for billionaires. Unfortunately for the GOP, another congressional recess starts in two days. Our goal is to organize hundreds of rallies to keep turning up the heat on Republicans. Join us: indivisible.org/muskorus

The deadline to submit a comment and help stop the Trump Administration (or build the record to fight it in court) is just over 24 hours away. 👇

I have news for you. We can do this. This regime will not last forever. It may not last four years. They think they have all the power. They don't understand that WE HAVE POWER. What happens next is partly in our hands. @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.meditationsinanemergency.com/millions-sto...

Spent today sick on my couch, but emotionally buoyed by watching all of the spectacular miniseries #DyingForSex. One of those rare series that nails a huge emotional range in a totally coherent & earned way. Fabulous performances throughout, but final episode brought out an all-time surprise guest!

every iPhone software update begins with the question “how can we make cut and paste worse this time?”

In 2016, I snuck into the world's largest iPhone factory and spoke to workers. The place was bleak, their stories tragic. So I was surprised to hear Harold Lutnick try to sell Trump's tariff policy by promising all that would come to the US. On Trump's trade war, automation + iPhones in America:

Why Is ‘The Pitt’ So Great? Let Its Star and Creators Count the Ways Interview ⬇️

i feel like if past life regression was real most people would be like, a farmer who died at 27 of an infected toenail. a serf. a sailor who fell off a boat and drowned. not like, joan of arc

I'm as big a USA booster as you'll find. But why would people from anyplace else *risk* coming to the US right now? What if Customs/Border people at the airport find something about you they don't like? Good luck to US travel/tourism industry h/t @beijingpalmer.bsky.social @swiftonsecurity.com

What

the love boat exciting and new norovirus aboard it’s expecting you www.cnn.com/2025/01/03/t...

Gov Janet Mills: On Trump, "I have spent the better part of my career listening to loud men talk tough to disguise their weakness." Mills has stood firm not backing down from Trump's threat of funding cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/10/u...

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

the four democrats who voted yes on the SAVE Act: Jared Golden Marie Gluesenkamp Perez Henry Cuellar Ed Case

How could a slavery scandal involving the President of the United States be worse than we thought? This extremely long, extremely detailed, and fully sourced PROOF report explains. This—not the tariff war—is the most important story in America right now. I hope you will consider checking it out.

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

I ❤️ NY

The fear among academics and lawyers now talking on the record on just about any topic that involves the federal government or the White House is really extraordinary and worrisome, and getting worse, it seems to me, every week. Dissent by an establishment figures becoming verboten in the US