Aaron Gerow

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

世界各国の監督の声を届けたい　山形映画祭がCFでインタビュー集：朝日新聞 山形市で9日に開幕する山形国際ドキュメンタリー映画祭で、世界各国から訪れる映画監督のインタビュー集を作る資金をクラウドファンディング（CF）で募っている。インタビュー集編集長の小野聖子さんは「様々な…

My partner appears in the Asahi newspaper, describing the collection of interviews she is putting together of filmmakers attending this year's Yamagata Film Festival.. Please support the crowd funding if you can.

www.asahi.com/articles/AST...

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

Larry Ellison predicts rise of the modern surveillance state where ‘citizens will be on their best behavior’ | Fortune Oracle's Larry Ellison believes citizens and police alike will be under constant surveillance of each other.

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

U.S. Education Dept. unites conservative groups to create 'patriotic' civics content The group of more than 40 conservative organizations met for the first time on Wednesday. The initiative is aimed at celebrations of the nation's founding next summer.

The DOE will partner with
40 conservative orgs to create K-12 programs led by the America First Policy Institute, a conservative group, with Turning Point USA, the Heritage Foundation, and other conservative state and nat’l organizations. Let the indoctrination begin! 😳
www.npr.org/2025/09/17/n...

‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human to make it work

No, we don't need AI translated subtitles.

‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI

Artificial intelligence is making steady advances into subtitling but, say its practitioners, it’s a vital service that needs a human.

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

Opinion | The Billionaire Trump Supporter Who Will Soon Own the News

🧵For those who missed it, Larry Ellison is on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful media & entertainment moguls America has ever seen

If you fear Brendan Carr, fear Ellison more

He's already a major stakeholder in CBS & Paramount.

Now CNN, HBO & major share of TikTok are in his sights

Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan is caught on tape accepting a bag containing $50,000 in cash from undercover FBI agents-and the Trump administration quashes the investigation…

…so he can summarily detain immigrants who have lived in the US peacefully for decades-without committing crimes

The early polling on the FCC going after Kimmel is decisively anti-Trump/pro-free speech www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-trump-...

TPM:

"If I were a Democratic official, (I'd taunt) every journalist ... from ABC, CBS and every other news and media organization that is now owned by the White House.... “Yes, I will happily answer your question, but first, how can we trust your company, since it is owned by Donald Trump?”"

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments

One more critical voice being suppressed?

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Off Air for Charlie Kirk Comments www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/b...

Wow, first time I've seen him underwater in this poll with white people. He has negative disapproval across every possible cohort.

Film Director Atsushi Funahashi in Conversation with Asato Ikeda: Company Retreat (2022), Sexual Violence, and the Unconscious of the Time - Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus […]

Film Director Atsushi Funahashi in Conversation with Asato Ikeda: Company Retreat (2022), Sexual Violence, and the Unconscious of the Time
apjjf.org/2025/9/ikeda

Sorry to hear of the passing of one of my professors at Iowa.

Why the Spike in Black Unemployment Is an Alarming Sign of What’s to Come Troubling and unusual unemployment numbers for Black Americans are signaling that the...

DOGE and anti-DEI would of course lead to increases in Black unemployment—that was the point. But Black unemployment is also a harbinger of a full economic downturn.

Why the Spike in Black Unemployment Is an Alarming Sign of What’s to Come talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-u...

CBS News hires Trump loyalist to review news coverage CBS News has hired Kenneth R.

1. CBS has hired Ken Weinstein as an ombudsman to review its news coverage for "bias"

Weinstein has no experience overseeing or producing news

A comprehensive review of his public statements, however, shows he has another qualification: undying loyalty to Trump

【告発】大島渚監督の映画『絞死刑』のシナリオ盗作疑惑に迫る - 集英社新書プラス ８月２日公開のドキュメンタリー映画『よみがえる声』（朴壽南監督・朴麻衣監督）が、連日大...

Filmmaker Yang Yonghi analyzes the charges of plagiarism against Oshima Nagisa's Death by Hanging. As covered in the film Yomogaeru Koe, Oshima used numerous sections of Park Soo-nam's book of correspondences with Ri Chin-u without attribution.
shinsho-plus.shueisha.co.jp/news/31810

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense “Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

"Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time rather than his current ability to kill by the thousands."

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense

Federal Grants for Area Studies and Foreign Language at Risk Expected funding for National Resource Centers, which are dedicated to language and area studies education, never came through this summer. Experts worry this could spell disaster for the already-stru...

“Within a generation, US citizens will be ill-equipped to live, work and lead in a global world. They will be outmatched by those from other countries, who speak multiple languages, understand diverse cultures and have built relationships across borders.”

Good news from my old state of Iowa.

Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants | Robert Reich Leaders who value loyalty above all else have a symbiotic relationship with those unable to succeed on their own merits

Robert Reich:
Why Trump built a staff of incompetent sycophants: Leaders who value loyalty above all else have a symbiotic relationship with those unable to succeed on their own merits

The last witnesses: Preserving the history of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Historian M.G. Sheftall shares the stories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s last survivors and reveals why their testimony must endure.

Bucky Sheftall talks about his two books on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

"It’s the moral responsibility of every human being to know what happened on the ground in Hiroshima and Nagasaki."

bigthink.com/books/hirosh...

Trump Says Smithsonian Focuses Too Much on ‘How Bad Slavery Was’

The headline says it all. So the Smithsonian is supposed to spend more time explaining how good slavery was?

Miyake Sho's Two Seasons, Two Strangers became the first Japanese film in 18 years to win the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival.

www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script It’s not the first time we and others at Religion Dispatches have had to point out that Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is firehosing the internet with white supremacist propaganda. And it wil...

Latest ICE Recruitment Materials Include Overt Neo-Nazi Reference and Nazi-Nazi Script religiondispatches.org/latest-ice-r...

Newsmax settles for voting machine defamation lawsuit for $67 million - Salon.com The $67 million settlement comes after Newsmax spread debunked claims about Dominion Voting Systems.

Newsmax agreed to pay Dominion $67M to settle a defamation suit over 2020 election conspiracy theories — the same day Trump posted on Truth Social about eliminating mail-in ballots and voting machines.

Trump pledges effort to eliminate mail-in voting The president has for years railed against the system, arguing it led to election fraud in 2020.

Mail-in voting is vital to ensuring people can exercise their right to vote, especially those with disabilities and transportation challenges.

President Trump's attempts to discredit mail-in voting and voting machines are designed to undermine elections where he doesn't like the results.

Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.

Trump cuts off medical visas from Gaza after Laura Loomer freaked out over a video showing several children being permitted to come to the U.S. for medical care www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

New executive order puts all grants under political control All new funding on hold until Trump administration can cancel any previously funded grants.

Science in the USA will now only proceed with the approval of some political apparatchik. And as we have already seen, Trump/GOP appointees have the brains to spot Nobel level research when they see it.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...