AJ Schnack

Beautiful apartment building in NE Portland, Oregon that is not a war zone.

Awesome movie theatre in NE Portland, Oregon that shows indie documentaries and acclaimed horror films in an area that is definitely not a war zone

Hundreds of people biking on the interstate, which is closed to traffic because it’s good to close roads for lots of people to cycle and is definitely not a war zone.

The most dangerous thing I saw in Portland were these completely adorable bears at at Oregon Zoo which is absolutely safe and not a war zone.

Portland, Oregon is one of my favorite US cities. It is safe and beautiful and filled with amazing people. Loved being there last month and taking long walks all about.

I was in the courtroom when a DHS lawyer tried to argue that filming ICE equals encouraging incitement of violence.

A) Press didn't do that.

B) He denied DHS did things we caught on video. Which ... proves why press needs to film police/ICE/DHS.

Thanks for making our point for us, DHS lawyer!

Recording police is ‘violence’? Absolutely not. Now the Trump administration is trying to destroy the right to document police by labeling it as an attack

It was bad enough when government officials claimed that journalists incite violence by reporting. But now, they’re accusing reporters of actually committing violence.

The supposed violence by reporters? Recording videos.

I absolutely wrote “speed it up a notch” on a large handmade art piece that hung on my college wall.

California skies were really putting on a show tonight.

Was working with Norwood Cheek when he made Scrawl’s Your Mother Wants to Know and Tsunami’s In a Name music videos in all their Super 8 glory. What a time.

I’ll assume the person who runs the @democracynow.org social account doesn’t know…

…that “and others” are Academy Award winning filmmakers Ezra Edelman and Marshall Curry.

I’ll assume the person who runs the @democracynow.org social account doesn’t know…

…that Steal This Story, Please actually premiered at @dcdoxfest.bsky.social as the Opening Night film back in June.

Smiling photo of former Lt. Gov. of NY Betsy McCaughey wearing a red suit. The photo uses the same background color as the body of the email, making it seem like her upper body is floating in space.

Text from unsolicited email: Dear Fellow New Yorker, Zohran Mamdani wants to become mayor of New York City, and we're not going to stand by and just let it happen. We have to take action NOW! We've launched the SaveNYC campaign, founded by former Lt. Governor Betsy McCaughey and former Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, to stop Mamdani. Overseeing and piloting our effort is the legendary political advisor Hank Sheinkopf, Ph.D. Instead of donating to a candidate who may or may not be in the race in November, donating to SaveNYC Independent Expenditure Committee is designed to do one thing - damage Mamdani"s chances to get elected.

Not sure how I got on this woman’s email list to “stop Mamdani”, but they are really barking up the wrong tree.

É Tudo Verdade/It’s All True - International Documentary Film Festival is open for film submissions to its 31st edition (São Paulo and Rio, Brazil, April 9th ​​to 19th, 2026)! Deadline: November 30th. Regulations and submissions at www.etudoverdade.com.br or www.itsalltrue.com.br.

Tonight, in the second largest city in America, I had dinner outside for several hours, and then, after 10pm, I went for a mile+ walk by myself. I didn’t see a single police officer nor a single thing that caused a moment of concern or fear. This is life in urban America in 2025.

Wild and bad that Spike Lee’s Colin Kaepernick won’t be released, particularly after Ezra Edelman’s Prince epic was shelved.

One of my absolute favorite clips we licensed for Gigantic. The Carson folks were so easy to deal with. We tried to get some of their early Late Night with David Letterman peformances (including their network tv debut), but those were impossible to get (at the time).

For my money, @patmullen.bsky.social is one of the very best writers about the documentary “trade” today and this is an insightful account of what has been unfolding re: #TIFF50 and its invitation/un-invitation of The Road Between Us.

John Slattery really closing the deal on that 30 ROCK ending.

Retweet if you agree.

It’s gonna get messy in Arlington Heights.

Cult Leader Warns Followers Things Need To Get Way More Deranged To Be Made Into HBO Documentary Series

Cult Leader Warns Followers Things Need To Get Way More Deranged To Be Made Into HBO Documentary Series theonion.com/cult-le...

Luca Guadagnino's 'After The Hunt,' Benny Safdie's 'The Smashing Machine,' Guillermo Del Toro's 'Frankenstein,' Among 2025 Venice Film Festival Official Slate New films from Luca Guadagnino, Yorgos Lanthimos, Benny Safdie, and Guillermo del Toro are coming to the 2025 Venice Film Festival

New nonfiction from Oscar/Golden Lion winner Laura Poitras, +Werner Herzog and Ross McElwee. And, in competition, Golden Lion winner Gianfranco Rosi & Cannes L'Œil d'or winner Kaouther Ben Hania. + a Marianne Faithfull doc from Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth! Venice!

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Can we get a new Kenneth Lonergan movie? Please?

Truly makes the whole enterprise suspect.

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Amazing headline. No notes.

This is an escalation of the ongoing effort to criminalize and punish efforts to record, document and hold power accountable. Note that it equates live-streaming to “doxxing”.

JUST IN: Judge restrains LAPD from using nonlethal munitions against journalists, detaining or assaulting journalists covering protests or restricting their movements under most circumstances..

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JUST IN: Federal judge in Calif. granted a temporary restraining order in LA Press Club's suit against the City of Los Angeles over treatment of journalists in protests.

Among other things LAPD is barred from using less-lethal munitions against journalists. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Email header from newly-rebranded HBO Max includes two different presentations of HBO Max (one without a space) and the previous max logo that is being phased out.

Almost got it.

Despite some public criticism and internal grumbling, the paper's leadership has continued to back the piece. One person familiar with the editorial process noted that the Times' senior editors were aligned on whether to publish the piece, which was read and greenlit by multiple top editors before its' publication. Others on staff that spoke with Semafor on the condition of anonymity said the reaction to the piece showed why it was important to tackle it. "The fact that this story engendered all the conversation and debate that it has feels like all the evidence you need that this was a legit line of reporting," one senior reporter told Semafor.

This anon statement from a sr. reporter at the @nytimes.com (about the Mamdani admission “story”) captures everything wrong with journalism today - “people are talking/angry, so it was obviously legit for us to publish.”

Story: @maxtani.bsky.social @semafor.com www.semafor.com/article/07/0...

Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's.

And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today.

Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill