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BEIRUT! NOT ENOUGH DEATH TO GO ROUND (Tahani Rached, 1983

What is her problem

Twas ever thus

Faggots are all the rage in theater this season, as per usual.

Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy It's bad and you should be alarmed.

The extent to which the American economy is being transformed into a machine for scams and outright bribery should be spoken about more directly.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/scams-and-...

AI filmmaking and storytelling is punk rock. It’s hip hop. It’s counterculture. It’s a new type of creativity. It’s a new medium. It’s hated by the mainstream film and art establishment. It resists ideology. It ignores gate keeping. It’s uncomfortable. It’s scary. It’s viral. It’s accessible. It’s refreshing. It’s welcoming. It’s here.

AI filmmaking is peeing. It’s pooping. It’s throwing up. It’s a new kind of liquid coming out. It’s hated by the establishment. It’s what goes in the toilet. It’s wet. It’s what’s in the bathroom.

Zero Tolerance Five years after the George Floyd protests, many liberals blame “wokeness” for stifling open debate. So why can’t they handle being disagreed with?

"Editorial indulgence has resulted in such a sludge of footnotes and block quotes that the eye must often dismount and continue on foot."

Yes. Both are about a professor whose life is turned upside down when they are no longer able to control everything, including their own body.

Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980) | D: Marie-Claude Treilhou

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Morgan Spector, socialist king

This is insane

This is a brilliant, simple explanation of how the Current Fuckery will hurt everyday people delivered by a trusted local figure and we need 2000% more of this

Democrats should probably start acting as if a fascist regime was sending agents of the state to arrest them without warrants for political crimes—because that’s exactly what is happening.

The $150 billion to DHS, which includes over $71 billion for ICE, will transform the agency into something new in U.S. history; the tendrils of federal law enforcement extending into every community in the country on a daily basis, simultaneously more visible and less accountable than ever.

THREAD. A lot of attention is rightly going to Medicaid cuts and other very bad things in Trump's bill passed by the House, but there's something else that isn't getting enough attention, that is very difficult to find in any news coverage, but that will fundamentally alter life for all of us.

Getting all my entertainment news from Sybil Danning's twitter

Getting all my entertainment news from Sybil Danning's twitter

The patriotic response to today’s threat is to oppose Mr. Trump. But it is to do so soberly and strategically, not reflexively or performatively. It is to build a coalition of Americans who disagree about many other subjects — who span conservative and progressive, internationalist and isolationist, religious and secular, business-friendly and labor-friendly, pro-immigration and restrictionist, laissez-faire and pro-government, pro-life and pro-choice — yet who believe that these subjects must be decided through democratic debate and constitutional processes rather than the dictates of a single man. The building of this coalition should start with an acknowledgment that Mr. Trump is the legitimate president and many of his actions are legal. Some may even prove effective. He won the presidency fairly last year, by a narrow margin in the popular vote and a comfortable margin in the Electoral College. On several key issues, his views were closer to public opinion than those of Democrats.

Why on earth would a protest movement against the worst president in US history begin by acknowledging that he's not so bad
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/o...

goddammit that's supposed to be a gif

Everybody's talking about "abundance" but nobody wants to make a bun dance

Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” is teaming up with Trump’s DC prosecutor to go after Wikipedia’s nonprofit status to pressure it to be more pro-Israel.

Bari could not have chosen a more Orwellian term for her authoritarian news outlet taking a wrecking ball to Western institutions on behalf of Israel

Care about marginalized people at least as much as you do inanimate objects challenge. Difficulty level: impossible.

You can judge him about, say, tweeting happily about people being sent to a horrific prison in El Salvador, right? Look, there’s no reason . . . Look, when you take someone off the street who’s not supposed to be taken off the street, and you deport them, you make a mistake. I come from a tradition and a personal belief that when you make a mistake, you say, I made a mistake, and we’re gonna fix it. And that’s disturbing. They may not care that they made a mistake. That’s the issue. Off the record and not for quotation: [Goes off record.] Is there a reason you don’t want to say that on the record? Yeah, I don’t, because I’m still, you know . . . I don’t want to give people the chance. You know, there’s some people I know, including good friends of mine, who suffer from what the Republicans would call, what is it, “Trump Derangement Syndrome”? You know, anything he does is bad. Look, he moved the Embassy to Jerusalem. So I give him credit for that. I do give him credit for that. I’m not gonna say just because it’s the Trump Administration it’s bad. I wasn’t asking you to say just because it was the Trump Administration that it was bad. I was just pointing out that they’re sending people without any sort of due process to a horrible prison in El Salvador. You know, that is something that I find disturbing and I would hope that, you know, that they would, they would recognize that, because that’s not what this country is all about.

Jesus Christ. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Exploring the Westboro Baptist Church's Discography A theological thought exercise

I haven't been in the greatest place mentally lately, so I decided to be productive and make it everyone else's problem by going deep on a private obsession of mine: The wacky, absurd world of the Westboro Baptist Church's (rather extensive) discography johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/exploring-...