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documentary making left-wing radical pragmatist

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Cool, just started following her

13.03.2026 18:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Somehow i totally missed or Forgot about this 1988 attempt at a Facts of Life spinoff. If i'd had a tv in '88-'89, and not being full-on in-life in NYC, then yeah, i prob woulda tried watching it. www.instagram.com/p/DVv3DfZEWF...

13.03.2026 18:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away One of the hottest tickets in Rome these days is for a four-lecture series on the Antichrist being given by Silicon Valley tech billionaire Peter Thiel.

Read here: Thiel brings his Antichrist lectures to the Vatican’s doorstep, and Catholic institutions back away

apnews.com/article/ital...

13.03.2026 16:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lately, I find it hard not to think that the Rump admin isn't intentionally trying to trigger Armageddon in the Middle East.

Link below.

(Bannon, Miller, Hegseth , state dept etc)

13.03.2026 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Laid-off Scientists and Lawyers Training AI to Steal Their Careers Experienced white-collar workers are now part of a miserable gig economy.

Ugh. As expected, even reality show writing and editing jobs being relaxed by AI. This is a depressing read, but rob essential?
nymag.com/intelligence...

10.03.2026 16:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

50 degrees out, much snow-ice-sludge gone, and the dogs of nyc are palpably happier.

04.03.2026 20:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: Read the draft executive emergency order for Trump to take control of elections Lawyers and legal experts explicitly said that such an order is blatantly unconstitutional.

I so wish this wasn't a real thing we have to think about or deal with. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

28.02.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Mamdani pitches Trump on housing with mock newspaper in latest White House visit President Donald Trump has met with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani at the White House to talk about big federal housing investments.

This Mamdani team is GENIUS : TRUMP TO CITY: LET'S BUILD apnews.com/article/dona...

26.02.2026 21:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why Trump Put a Clown in Charge of the FBI Kash Patel’s beer-soaked ineptitude shows how a lack of standards for top law enforcement has insidious consequences.

Know you prob know all this, but seeing it summed-up here, editorially, is really something. These summation documents will one day be great historical evidence, should humans get past this time. nymag.com/intelligence...

26.02.2026 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone got digital screeners for Hamnet or The Testament of Ann Lee? i've been a little cash broke, so haven't been to the movie theater enough the last couple months.

25.02.2026 02:00 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

8. Briefly relevant to my thrift-vintage tv show work.
Will never stop missing the corporeal. the smell of ink. The different sounds made by touching or crinkling paper. The timeless things (that physical deteriorate over time, every mark or wrinkle a permanent addition). Personal mass ephemera.

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

7. ... metaphorical weight. Anyhow. Almost everywhere you could go - shabby beach-town arcades, to every small town with a college, to Paris, to everywhere, posters were a kind of token / totem. Presumably those stores are gone now. Magic screens being the all-encompassing addiction of choice.

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

6: As were newspapers. And the invention of the printing press gave rise to democracy, and the concept of literacy, and the way we arrange our brains and ideas and memories. So the poster was a kind of - mark of quality by printers. The actual physical press having both concrete and metaphorical

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

5: Art album adjacent. Of the smell and care around a good, important hardcover book. But also of the flavor-texture and care of a good coffee-table art book. Do aliens have posters? Were these qualities specific to Western-culture? obviously, all these things were derived from the printers.

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

4: ...they'd look through file drawers to pull it out, by matching the code. Or they might phone downstairs, so you could be doubly disappointed when it wasn't there... And you'd treat like this precious delicate commodity. Posters were amazing _ And almost in a category of their own.

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

3: And they were important. Related to identity and space. Are they still like that? Do kids and homes with kids have frames? We used to go down to the giant Harvard Coop, which sold albums and tons of stuff... but it had a huge, amazing, poster department. This way where there was display, then...

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

2: ... Maybe you were lucky enough to save-up or be gifted a one from your favorite movie; or giant art-poster of some band ... they met at this juncture-mixture of hi and lo art. Like you might tear-out a magazine page and add to same wall. Or your parents had awesome Klee prints in wood frames

24.02.2026 06:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Had a small flash-memory epiphanyte last night: POSTERS were this non-attention-seeking part of our culture for so long. In every city or town you went to, there were poster stores: Rock-Poster stores. And art poster stores. And it was kind of a neat big deal to get your sports team poster.

24.02.2026 05:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anyone wanna work-trade to give me a lesson in DaVinci Resolve? Many years back i learned basic Avid, more basic after effects, some final cut, etc etc... But could use a DaVinci Tutorial. I can offer something that is equivalent amount of time.

23.02.2026 23:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'd like to see a super-cut of Harry Dean Stanton as-broken-dad figure in bathrobe, flannel, old sweats? His character in Pretty in Pink and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me is pretty much almost a straight line.

23.02.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Paramount Has a Secret Plan to Buy Hollywood Before the Cops Arrive Paramount consigliere Makan Delrahim has plans to close the Paramount-Warner deal and do mass layoffs before antitrust enforcers can even file a case.

open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...

23.02.2026 02:19 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Everything about this 'Board of Peace' just reads super-scam, real estate development, replace the UN and NATO with this twisted corp.

Donald Trump’s Pantomime United Nations

23.02.2026 00:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Actor Shia LaBeouf accused of using homophobic slurs while assaulting New Orleans bar patrons Actor Shia LaBeouf has been charged with battery and is accused of repeatedly using homophobic slurs while hitting multiple people at a New Orleans bar during Mardi Gras.

At this rate, wouldn't be surprised if the Rump admin made crazy Shia LB a dike or ambassador or assistant Secretary of State or something. apnews.com/video/actor-...

20.02.2026 16:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Big AI Isn’t Waiting for the Backlash Meta and other AI companies are ramping up their lobbying before politicians figure out how unpopular the data centers are about to be.

This is brief, but seems important: nymag.com/intelligence...

20.02.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

#lowdownbrilliant

20.02.2026 04:53 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
THE STRANGER | Official UK & IRE Trailer - In Cinemas 10 April
THE STRANGER | Official UK & IRE Trailer - In Cinemas 10 April YouTube video by Curzon

Every now and then you see a trailer and your like: I am gonna watch the fk out of that movie!
youtu.be/nLoFzIoLpQA?...

17.02.2026 06:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is such a wild thing to say to someone who just shot an unarmed person bsky.app/profile/jmet...

11.02.2026 01:13 πŸ‘ 4317 πŸ” 1049 πŸ’¬ 122 πŸ“Œ 27

Bovino sent this email at 3:11 p.m. on Oct. 4.

This is what the scene looked like at 2:48 p.m. when the first group of feds made their exit. They gassed people again at 3:27 p.m.

So during this attack, Bovino congratulated his guy who kicked everything off by shooting a woman five times.

11.02.2026 00:10 πŸ‘ 1330 πŸ” 599 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 23

Saw two stories of protagonists in detective procedural death-of-the-week dramas for major networks getting locked into death-trap type rooms, believing that they can't get out and are about to die. ... BWhen the locked doors open our heroes do NOT rush out, choosing to linger. Weird direction.

10.02.2026 05:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜They Couldn’t Break Me’: A Protester, the White House and a Doctored Photo

As much as we've all read our Zinn, and all give proper shit to the U.S. and it's history - I do wish more friends had studied the Agit-prop of the Soviets and the Chinese and more. How else do you categorize this? www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/u...

03.02.2026 15:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0