Shaz Bennett

Stop the Gondola LA Metro is letting a billionaire build an aerial gondola over our neighborhood. We need your help to stop this scam.

#StopTheGondola

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Journey well sir.

Terence Stamp in Red Planet

Terence Stamp in The Phantom Menace

Terence Stamp in Priscilla

Terence Stamp as Général Zod

RIP Terence Stamp. Goodbye General Zod, Chancellor Valorum, Jor-El in Smallville, and Prophet of Truth in Halo 3.

Terence Stamp was also in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, Red Planet, Last Night in Soho, Miss Peregrine, Big Eyes, Alien Nation, Wall Street, and many more movies.

He was 87.

I heart Piper!!

Basil Smikle: "What is happening in Texas amounts to a political apartheid, because it's not just the congressional seats that are being gerrymandered."

Nicolle Wallace: "Democrats should find a new word for it. It's not gerrymandering. It's racist disenfranchisement of American voters."

Republican Racist Gerrymandering Coming To Your State

If Gerrymandering fails in Texas, Trump will try it in your state.

The unions. DGA. WGA. SAG. IATSE. We need to stand up for the jobs of those in the adjacent unions. No AI to replace actors. No AI to replace crew. No AI writing in scripts. No AI to replace VFX artists. AI tools only and only tools that facilitate jobs, not replace them. Together we can do this.

This is my ministry

Hulk Hogan and the unraveling of worker solidarity Pro wrestling’s failed unionization effort – and Hogan’s alleged role in undermining that campaign – is part of a broader story about the erosion of labor’s power since the 1980s.

According to Jesse “The Body” Ventura, #HulkHogan helped kill a pro wrestlers’ union before it even started.

Today’s #WWE stars are still gig workers with no benefits and no safety net. buff.ly/2rXVDZo By Brian Jansen @umaine.bsky.social

Trump Finds a Brilliant New Way to Wreck the Tourism Industry Donald Trump wants to charge people for the privilege of visiting the U.S.

From the guy who bankrupted a Casino!

Trump Finds a Brilliant New Way to Wreck the Tourism Industry newrepublic.com/post/198795/... via @newrepublic.com

A Mother and Her Trans Teen Decide to Leave the U.S. After President Trump issued an executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, one family made the difficult choice to relocate to Mexico City.

A mother and her trans teen were living in Maine. After Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at restricting access to gender-affirming care for minors, the family made the difficult decision to leave the U.S.

Renegades | Thomas Pa'a Sibbett on Bringing CHIEF OF WAR to Life The Co-Creator of Chief of War reflects on working with Jason Momoa, telling authentic stories, and the village it took to create this series.

Beautiful show!

Renegades | Thomas Pa'a Sibbett on Bringing CHIEF OF WAR to Life open.substack.com/pub/goldhous...

Sickening!

Attorney General Bondi orders prosecutors to start grand jury probe into Obama officials over Russia investigation | CNN Politics Attorney General Pam Bondi directed federal prosecutors to launch a grand jury investigation into accusations that members of the Obama administration manufactured intelligence about Russia’s 2016 ele...

this lawyer barbie is the worst doll.

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National parks are key conservation areas for wildlife and natural resources The National Park Service is not just focused on helping people enjoy the outdoors, but also on conserving wild places.

The reintroduction of gray wolves to Yellowstone triggered a "trophic cascade," leading to increased vegetation, beaver populations, and the return of songbirds, according to scholars of national parks. buff.ly/W85sSqJ By Sarah Diaz and Linda Lane, Coastal Carolina University

Rep. Ayanna Pressley is presented with the Champion Award by the Intersection of Our Lives, reproductive justice advocacy group.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley poses for a photo in her office with members of Intersection of Our Lives, a reproductive justice advocacy group.

Rep. Ayanna Pressley meets in her office with members of Intersection of Our Lives, a reproductive justice advocacy group.

Abortion care is essential healthcare.

Thank you to the folks at Intersections of Our Lives for sharing their deeply personal stories and for honoring me with their Champion Award.

I'm so grateful for your partnership in the movement for reproductive justice.

Here's an awesome photo of James Baldwin, shown here with his sister, Paula. His first novel, Go Tell It On the Mountain, was dedicated to her.

A row of AI-generated covers for bootleg SHE RIDES SHOTGUN novels for sale on Amazon.

If you search for "She Rides Shotgun" on Amazon right now, instead of my novel you get a row of AI-generated bootlegs. Man you just can't win in hellworld. (Don't buy my book from Amazon anyway, but also fuck these slop-peddlers to the moon).

The Two-Pronged Attack on a Muslim Judicial Nominee How the smearing of Adeel Mangi became a bipartisan exercise.

This is why the Bove seat was vacant, and there’s a real throughline from the forces that defeated the previous Democratic nominee to where we are today.

www.newyorker.com/news/the-pol...

US labor activist Chris Smalls assaulted by IDF during Gaza aid trip, group says Freedom Flotilla Coalition says Smalls was ‘choked and kicked’ after aid ship trying to reach Gaza was intercepted

Chris Smalls is a hero. Release Chris and the other human rights activists who have been illegally detained.

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Inside Colorado’s famous resort for Black Americans Colorado was once a beacon for members of the Harlem Renaissance and Black families from all over the country.

Black families from all over the country flocked to Colorado’s Lincoln Hills during Jim Crow, a safe place for them to gather and relax

Figures like Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, W.E.B DuBois & more would hold literary salons there during visits

Whistleblower evidence suggests Trump judicial nominee Emil Bove misled Senate A third whistleblower has new information about a Justice Department official the president has nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.

Another whistleblower has come forward with documentary evidence that Bove lied to Congress. Gift link: wapo.st/45asNIS

desertification?.... you mean the american southwest? lmao

I was on this flight. Still a little shellshocked! Also reading that military and commercial airplanes don’t communicate is not cool… seems like that would be helpful. Always WTF some weird old British military plane flying in Burbank?!

Butterfly ranunculus.

Some small beauty in the midst. Butterfly ranunculus.

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Southwest jet dives to avoid midair crash with passengers launched from seats A Southwest Airlines flight from Burbank, California, to Las Vegas, Nevada, was forced to perform an evasive maneuver to avoid the deaths of hundreds of passengers in a midair collision just after tak...

Not how I thought our weekend trip to see Beyoncé was gonna start! I’m driving back!

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Lord Miller to Produce Film About America’s First Women Astronauts for Universal (EXCLUSIVE) Lord Miller is producing a film about America's first women astronauts for Universal, based on Loren Grush's 'The Six.' Rachel Lee Goldenberg will direct.

Yay Rachel Goldenberg! Great team with Lord and Miller too! Can’t wait to watch this!

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I know they always say, "the cover up is worse than the crime."

But in the case of Trump-Epstein-Pedophilia, the crime is probably pretty fucking awful, too.