Brent Simon

This looks great. I picked up a copy of Lucky I’ve been meaning to get to for a while, and this might be the nudge I need.

That sounds great Damian! I think you’ll really enjoy LUCKY, it’s just a beautiful film. Let me know what you think when you watch.

And I interviewed more than 70 folks for the book, including John Carroll Lynch and Ron Livingston for LUCKY, each of whom shared wonderful perspective and stories.

Congrats Kristen, so great! 👏🏼

The Dreamer's Path: Twin Peaks and David Lynch the Actor|Paperback Devour the first book ever that covers director David Lynch as an actor in Twin Peaks, Lucky, The Fabelmans, and more.Much has been written about David Lynch and his films, but The Dreamer’s Pat...

Nine years ago today, November 18, 2016, David Lynch threatened Laura Dern with cooking lasagna in the Make a Film Foundation short THE BLACK GHIANDOLA, one of many projects other than TWIN PEAKS in which he acted. My book THE DREAMER'S PATH unpacks them all. www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-dreame...

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...

Don't be evil?

"Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while simultaneously removing apps designed to warn local communities about the presence of ICE officers..."

www.404media.co/google-has-c...

I want a government that doesn’t sound like a deeply damaged, bratty boy when it communicates with citizens exercising their First Amendment rights.

“I Don’t Feel Safe”: Black Memphis Residents Report Harassment by Trump’s Police Task Force A pastor was pulled over for looking lost. A 72-year-old was marched out in his bathrobe due to mistaken identity. Memphis’ mayor welcomed the federal law enforcement surge, but some residents say the...

Phillip Lewis, a 72-year-old cancer patient, said he was woken up and marched outside his home in his robe and underwear before federal officers even checked his ID.

He was not, it turned out, the man they were looking for.

By @wendicthomas.bsky.social & @kathsburgess.bsky.social

OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week.

@wired.com #ICE
www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

The only truly devestating interview you could do with Trump is a series of factual questions asked by someone with no affect: “How does a bill become a law?” “Name three countries where American troops are stationed.” “Will you be raising tariffs on Wakanda?”

The USDA sent an email to grocery stores telling them they are prohibited from offering special discounts to customers affected by the SNAP funding lapse.
I'm aware of at least 2 stores that had offered struggling customers a discount, then withdrew it after receiving this email

I would like for national political reporters to place a moratorium on “But what will voters in the rest of America think about New York City’s socialist mayor?” We don’t care! Red states are notably full of psycho politicians yet rarely do you see pundits asking Brooklyn people about them.

Brutal. Just… brutal.

Wild when they mix it up and stand in a rectangle.

If you haven't pulled the trigger yet on GANDOLFINI, this is far and away the lowest price I've seen for it (and, bonus, SIGNED by MEEEE) mzs.press/SIGNED-Gando...

Bono's unvarnished earnestness makes his Stories Of Surrender worth hearing The U2 frontman continues opening up in the engaging, moving filmed stage memoir Bono: Stories Of Surrender.

BONO: STORIES OF SURRENDER, which I reviewed for @avclub.com, captures the inner conflict of a man who's never stopped trying to throw his arms around the world, even as he grapples with the roots, personal cost of that zealotry. www.avclub.com/bono-stories... #Cannes #FilmSky #Cannes2025 #Cannes78

15 million people could be kicked off health care, thousands of federal workers are working without pay, and working-class folks are at risk of losing critical food assistance.

But the ballroom is the President's top priority.

“From a producer of SNAKES ON A PLANE, and the acclaimed director of DEEP BLUE SEA…”

Feeding America has a page where you can input your zip code and it'll show you all of the food banks near you overlaid on a map. If you need it, it's there. If you don't need it, think about donating money if you have it and your time if you don't.

www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo...

I feel seen.

That very much looks like a reaction to being *asked* to help, haha.

Fresh graffiti on a parking deck garage wall, inclusive of a stylized bottle of liquor, reads “Fireball Whiskey — Yay or Nay?” with five votes tallied in the affirmative and none in the other column.

Poll-based graffiti really feels like trenchant social commentary, and a referendum on our time.

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

When I was a child, reading about the past in history books, it never occurred to me that I would, or even possibly could, grow up to live in a time this incredibly stupid and wantonly cruel.

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

The entire perspective of the Trump admin, and it’s supporters, is that if you back your opposition into a corner where the choices are violence or complete submission, you can always paint the violence as antisocial, radical, and an offense to national security.

The press has aided that goal.

ICE is hiring!

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