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last piece of the year: dug into the origins of “6-7” &what the co-opting says about america

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yes!

I found the crossbody thing Lestat's wearing! #TVL
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I would accept Interview With Thee Hot Ass Vampire as an alternative

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

The creature carrying Elizabeth from Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein

Let us be monsters together 🍁

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Capitalism wants us productive. Art reminds us to be present. Capitalism wants content. Art wants meaning. Capitalism isolates. Art connects. Even when made in private, even when it never leaves your notebook, art is still a way back to yourself. Above all, art connects us to the spirit of creation.

How a team of artisans brought Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life Guillermo del Toro’s new adaptation of Mary Shelley’s gothic novel is a feast of filmmaking arts.

How a team of artisans brought Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ to life @realgdt.bsky.social www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Bad Bunny responds to his Super Bowl critics in Spanish, and then English: “And, if you didn’t understand know what I just said, you have four months to learn!”

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

As the man who made All the President’s Men, how did you feel when Nixon died? I had no remorse. I did not think he deserved the kudos he got in death — there was this weird revisionism that went on. You feel for the family. There’s some sympathy for that. But for me it was not the passing of a great man. He was a man who dealt us some pretty undignified blows. He did not symbolize the better part of ourselves at all.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

Hannah Oliver Depp: "For the month of Aug., we were down about 60% year over year... People are in pain, they’re suffering, they’re scared... Not-for-profits who might be aligned with us...fear repercussions if they were seen to support a Black, queer, Asian, disability-owned independent bookstore."

Official Defies GOP Governor's Order To Fly Flags At Half Staff For Charlie Kirk He said he did not want to honor a man "who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic."

An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"

Trump’s trillions transfer has passed.

Tax cuts for the rich, health care and program cuts for everyone else, adding Trillions in debt, while making Trump’s Gestapo one of the most expensive armies in the world.

A dark day. 🇺🇸

This level of chaos and cruelty is not sustainable. Something is gonna give. It literally has to.

Group suing over Trump’s birthright order seeks to convert case to a class action lawsuit It’s among several of the workarounds that Trump adversaries are poised to seize on after the justices’ Friday ruling.

Breaking:

An organization representing immigrants fighting Trump's birthright citizenship order just recalibrated its legal strategy.

CASA Inc. is asking a federal judge for an emergency block on Trump's policy and says it has refiled its broader lawsuit as a class action case.

The 22 states with preliminary injunctions:

www.gtlaw-insidebusinessimmigration.com/supreme-cour...

"Executive Order 14160 is now set to take effect in 28 states within 30 days. The children it targets may be born into silence, their identities trapped in paperwork purgatory."

Heartbreaking. Really good piece.

The Republican Justices Are Simply Doing What the Republican President Asks The position of the Roberts Court is that presidents are sometimes allowed to break the law, but only if they are Republicans.

Hard to overstate how insane it makes you feel to read a Supreme Court decision that very seriously concludes that there is not a sufficient “history and tradition” to allow judges to stop the president from ignoring the Constitution ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

they’ll ask for a quorum to create a fact finding committee to get answers…

Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees — Jim Himes and Mark Warner, both members of Gang of Eight — were not briefed before the attacks on Iranian nuclear sites, per sources.

Per CNN’s @mkraju.bsky.social: Top Dems on House and Senate Intel Committees were not briefed on Iran attack

The Tyrant Test A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.

Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I just went there to try and find the NYT coverage of the largest protests in modern American history and just kept on scrolling and scrolling and scrolling …

Arturo Obrego, a 77-year-old army veteran who hitchiked from Huntington Beach is going viral for getting hit with wooden baton by officers on horses and knocked down during today’s peaceful “No Kings” protest in DTLA. @TheGlutster ran into him at Union Station a couple of hours after the incident.

Trump's EPA plans to repeal climate pollution limits on fossil fuel power plants The Trump administration plans to get rid of all limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel interests hailed the proposal, which likely faces legal challenges from environmental groups.

The Trump administration plans to get rid of all limits on climate-warming pollution from the nation's fossil fuel power plants. Fossil fuel interests hailed the proposal, which likely faces legal challenges from environmental groups.

A reminder to reporters, when historians look back on this moment with the president throwing himself a military parade and the people throwing No Kings rallies across America, the media sources raving about the former and sneering at the latter are going to be quoted by name.

This is your legacy!