jaime wodell

"The primary reason is that Hollywood is making less stuff." THIS. I've seen so many people lazily (xenophobically) claim 'outsource is stealing all the work', but MOST countries are in the same boat rn. Never let the suits skimming more and more off the top convince you a fellow worker is to blame.

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

Some good fuckin reporting on extremely likely institutional cowardice and capitulation to fascism by the National Geographic Society.

defector.com/why-did-nati...

Opioid pills discovered in US-backed food aid, Gaza authorities say US-Israeli aid distributor the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has been widely condemned for possible complicity in war crimes

I'm sorry the food aid contained what now

www.middleeasteye.net/news/opioid-...

33.1 Million. That's the "cost savings" this administration will get out of cutting lifesaving services to queer youth. Let me remind everyone that taxpayers just spend 45 million on a birthday parade.

Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit

I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will. I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent criminals are pouring across the border, carrying machetes and drugs, looking to harm Americans. Certainly, while some people fall into that category, the vast majority of undocumented immigrants don't. My family escaped Vietnam after the Tet Offensive and went through an arduous journey that eventually landed them in the Canada. My father worked there for a time as a janitor; my mother, a secretary. When work fell through, my dad was offered to work with his sister in the United States, so he went, as our family needed money. He ended up staying in the US longer than he was supposed to — not knowing immigration laws — and asked my mom to come be with him. Of course, she went and carried me over the border while I was still a baby. I'm still unsure whether we technically broke an immigration law. The border between Canada and the United States was pretty porous (as it is today, for the most part). But either way, since I came here without legal documentation, I eventually fell into the category of being an undocumented immigrant. Yet, I've been in the United States since I was a baby. My identity and roots are very much based in this country, no different from anyone else. The lack of legal immigration has totally shaped my life. It has made every interaction with the law much scarier. It has shaped which opportunities I could or could not get. It has taken an emotional toll, as this legal issue hangs over your head like a black cloud.

There are millions of people in my situation — people who were brought here as children, some babies, and were unable to raise their hand during this process and say "maybe we should hire a lawyer." Parents may have crossed the border not knowing about the law, as the law can be pretty confusing and lawyers are expensive. Perhaps, in the end, they should have hired a lawyer; but sometimes life is messy. In the end, they crossed for the same reason many people rise every day: to support their families. I think it's unreasonable to deport millions of people who have contributed positively to society. It's simply not true that the majority of these people are violent criminals carrying drugs. Many own small businesses; many work as skilled laborers (including garment workers!). The vast majority are good, honest people. For those of us who grew up in the United States, sending us "back" to our "home" country would mean sending someone to a foreign land, as they grew up in the United States. Tearing families apart based on immigration status seems inhumane. About twenty years ago, I watched with some small measure of hope that the Dream ACT would pass and help a portion of undocumented immigrants. I saw people march angrily in the streets (something I supported). But I was dismayed to see nothing really come about. In fact, when Obama passed DACA, I was skeptical that it would be sensible to give your information to the federal government without a guaranteed path to citizenship. It seems that the Trump administration may use those lists to hunt down immigrants. I think the ICE sweeps are inhumane. I support and admire the protestors who are putting their bodies on the line for non-violent resistance. Ultimately, I think we need to solve this issue on a systemic level. It's unreasonable to me to expect that the government will deport some 10-20 million people. Even deporting 1 million will cause an insane amount of chaos, not to mention an incredible amount of wastef…

I have seen people march on this issue, only for it to be dropped later and dissolve into quiet grumbles. In the end, nothing is done for immigrants. Time passes until decades later, we have another political crisis like the one we have today. This cycle seems unsustainable. I hope people sustain this energy to solve the immigration issue and put undocumented immigrants — most who are peaceful, skilled, and hard-working citizens — on a path to citizenship. As time continues to go by, many undocumented immigrants are seeing their lives wasted away. If you care about this issue, I hope you get involved on the long haul: volunteer for pro-immigrant groups, donate to mutual aid, and perhaps pursue career paths that help people in this situation. I was moved to read someone on here say that, when they found their employee was undocumented, they helped them get a green card. The path was difficult, as our immigration system is broken (it took them 11 years). But I can tell you that this is like pulling someone drowning in raging waters. Ultimately, I hope me sharing this story helps push back against the idea that all undocumented immigrants are MS-13 members. I know many people in my position and they are all like your neighbors.

Here's the menswear guy's post on being undocumented.

HOW TO SPOT A KETTLE Police may try to surround the march on all sides in a "kettle." If you're kettled, they might hold you there for hours... They otten lie about when they're gonna let you go. ...or even arrest everyone. Look out for a prisoner transport bus. If you see a kettle coming, the safest exit is usually back the way you came. TURN AROUND!

stay safe! avoid kettles!!

an earthsea-inspired 3d render

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I feel like most of my followers know this but because I see a lot of cis folks who have a specific blind spot for it:

This includes the theme park. I don't care if you want Butterbeer or want to get a wand or are already there so why not just walk in. It's all Her. Everything with the name is Her.

this is excellent work & contains call/email templates at the end with callouts for the specific legislative mechanisms democratic senators could use to kill this part of the bill.

read the piece. make the calls. there’s no earthly reason any senator’s phone should stop ringing in the near future.

Folks, the House advanced the disastrous reconciliation bill, with the destructive 10-year State Ban against regulations for AI intact!

We now MUST mobilize our calls to the Senate! Call today!

If you need a script the post below offers a fantastic alternative!

We only have one chance! Lets go!

It bears repeating that 5calls.org makes it incredibly easy to contact your reps. They give you the phone numbers, a script to read, and a run down of what is happening with each issue. I just called my senators in my pjs half awake and I'll probably do it some more later

BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."

It's cruel. It's an incredible escalation of their anti-trans culture war. And there is still a chance to stop the provision in the Senate, so if you have a trans person in your life you care about, I implore you - make your voice heard with your Senators. Both of them. Republican OR Democrat.

Graphic Novels by BIPOC creators Graphic novels and comics made by BIPOC creators! 

For ✨ no particular reason ✨ nothing to do w comics discourse ✨

Here are some booklists I compiled of really great comics, made by creators of color:

BIPOC 🌟 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

AAPI & SWANA 💫 bookshop.org/lists/graphi...

Makes sense since Satoshi Kon died 15 years ago and he’s gotta get new ideas from somewhere

On April 16, 2025 the US federal gov proposed changing the interpretation of the Endangered Species Act so it no longer protects habitat. Species and their habitats are deeply intertwined: harming one harms both.

Public comment is open through May 19th.

#science #ecology #conservation #environment

People in Gaza are posting final messages.

AB 1468 Withdrawn After Public Outcry, AB 715 Emerges as New Threat to Civil Rights | CAIR California The California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-CA), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, and JVP Action today welcomed reports that Assembly B...

A victory in California: AB 1468 was withdrawn because so many people were outraged by this racist bill!

But this new bill AB 715 was a last minute attempt to keep targeting teachers who teach about the gen0cide in Palestine. Click on the link to learn more and spread the word!

Hey @schiff.senate.gov , this is in direct contention with your LGBTQ+ plus affirming voting history. What gives?

Please share & give to help Omer and his baby brother Mohammed's family care for them & survive Israel's genocide in Gaza. They're being starved, & donations are slow & few (none in 2 days):

Republicans Try to Cram Ban on AI Regulation Into Budget Reconciliation Bill Republicans try to use the Budget Reconciliation bill to stop states from regulating AI entirely for 10 years.

Good lord just what the hell is up today. A potential ban on any regulation for AI for the next 10 years? This includes good bills like AB 412 of legislation protecting folks from Deepfakes! Wtf?! Call your congressmen and women asap to tell them to take this down!

www.404media.co/republicans-...

It was exactly what happened in the game but it was pretty awkward then as well. and it went on for a bit longer in game :/

Israeli soldiers held a “gender reveal party” by blowing up residential buildings in Gaza and using the explosion’s color to reveal the gender of a newborn Israeli baby.

www.instagram.com/p/DJQ-auGqACn

I've been out of work since February 2024, but before that, I was known to be incredibly skilled, efficient, and a great asset to the shows I worked on!

If you're looking for solid revisions, or someone with a clever eye for fun storyboarding, truly and sincerely: I'm your guy!

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

I see people are still annoyed about the Gaza fundraisers. Let me make you more annoyed, maybe it will move you to say or do something: There are 116,000 tons of food (more but that's just WFP) positioned outside of the gates of Gaza. If Israel would let all the aid in, nobody would need to beg

Generative AI steals from artists and is killing our planet. I do not care about what circumstances you think justify it. Do. Not. Use. It.