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Martin Tsai πŸ”œ #Venezia82

@martintsai.bsky.social

critique de cinΓ©ma. mots dans los angeles times, a.v. club, the wrap, awards watch, sight and sound etc. camarade de national critics institute et power of diverse voices. membre de galeca, aaja et nlgja. il/le ouvert au travail: martin.tsai@nyu.edu

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"The BBC World Service has compiled material on over 160 cases where children have been shot in Gaza, and found that in 95 cases the child was shot in the head or the chest. In most of these cases the victim was under 12 years old"

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School has a whole walk out for a classmate who got deported by ICE ✊🏽

03.08.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3032    πŸ” 1059    πŸ’¬ 106    πŸ“Œ 82
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The United States is torturing immigrants. Do you care?

Because if you're American, this is being done in your name.

I'm a daughter, granddaughter, great-granddaughter of immigrants. What if they did this to my family? What if they did it to yours?

#OnYourSide

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SHERO

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The Root of All Cruelty? Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.

Perpetrators of violence, we’re told, dehumanize their victims. The truth is worse.

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More than 10 years later, Flint declares its water safe after replacing lead pipes, but health issues and doubts persist β€” CNN Eleven years after Flint’s historic water crisis, lead pipes have been replaced, but many residents still refuse to drink or bathe in the water without a filter.

u.s.a. is a third world country

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couldn’t have happened to a better, more deserving person πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ

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Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land' consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler Awdah Hathaleen, a Palestinian activist and consultant on the Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land,' died Monday after he was shot dead by an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank.

Oscar-winning documentary 'No Other Land' consultant Awdah Hathaleen killed by Israeli settler

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i am sure it’s A LOT worse in the u.s.

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nazis gonna nazi

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The Horniest Movie Reviews on Letterboxd These movie reviews are wild.

I love reading Letterboxd reviews. And one of the things I love about it is the increasingly prevalent subcategory of extremely horny reviews. So I made this list honoring some of my favorite examples.

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San Angelo town hall heated up over immigration and "Alligator Alcatraz." A 91-year-old woman told Rep. Pfluger,
"You're here to listen."
Crowd applauded, then tensions soared.
Walkouts and tough questions left
unanswered.

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Living with the permanent, legitimate fear that on any given day you could be slaughtered with an assault weapon isn’t freedom. It’s madness.

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Five dead in NYC shooting, including gunman: Reports The attacker was armed with an AR-style rifle when he opened fire inside a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, Manhattan.

The attacker was armed with an AR-style rifle when he opened fire inside a skyscraper at 345 Park Avenue, Manhattan.

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The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming Tens of billions of new dollars plus a rush to hire 10,000 new agents equals a disaster in the making.

Experts warn that whenever the priority becomes hiring law enforcement agents quickly, standards immediately collapse and misconduct follows.

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Border agent charged with child sex trafficking, fraud in Cochise County A Tucson Sector Border Patrol agent has been indicted on 24 felony charges, the latest in a series of sexual-misconduct convictions or charges against CBP employees in Arizona.

tucson.com/news/local/b...

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The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Justice department drops cases against LA protesters after officers caught making false claims

Immigration officers made false and misleading statements in their reports about several LA protesters they arrested, according to federal law enforcement files obtained by the Guardian.

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β€˜Kicked a hornet’s nest’: Missouri GOP repeal of voter-approved laws inspires backlash β€’ Missouri Independent After years of Missouri GOP lawmakers repealing voter-approved laws, a coalition is pushing an initiative to make it nearly impossible.

GOP lawmakers overturned a voter-approved expansion of paid sick leave benefits for Missouri workers.

It’s not the first time the GOP-dominated legislature overturned voter-approved laws. But this time, the backlash could have long-lasting consequences.
missouriindependent.com/2025/07/28/k...

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MAGA Influencer And Fox News Guest Indicted On Child Sex Abuse Charges The right-wing personality known as Raw Ricci built his following by filming homeless people in San Francisco.

A MAGA influencer known for posting sensationalized videos of homeless people in San Francisco was indicted on federal charges of producing child sex abuse material.

Ricci Wynne, known as Raw Ricci to his more than 100,000 Instagram followers, was charged with pimping and pandering by procuring.

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Texas Lawmaker Behind State Abortion Ban Accused of Funding Alleged Abortions During Secret Affair Anti-abortion Texas lawmaker Giovanni Capriglione now faces accusations of personal hypocrisy and secret abortion payments

🚨Texas GOP Rep. Giovanni Capriglione, who wrote the law banning abortion and built his brand on moral clarity, now faces scandal over a 17-year affair and allegations he funded abortions. He admits the affair but denies ever paying for the procedures.

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This is what you voted for⁉️

Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.

Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.

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His name is Mohammad Al-Motawaq. He is 18 months old. And he is starving in Gaza Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

Hidaya Al-Motawaq's son is a year and a half old and weighs less than 10 pounds. Doctors warn of permanent damage to children's health due to chronic malnutrition from Israel's earlier blockade.

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The Real Reason for Zohran’s Success Should Rattle National Democrats Exclusive internal campaign data on the reach of Mamdani’s viral videos illustrates that he gets modern messaging in ways other Democrats just don’t.

Remarkable: Zohran Mamdani's video about returning to Uganda racked up 4.5 million views on Instagram, 56% among non-followers, per data given to me.

He is forging a new answer to Dems' digital woes. I talked to his advisers in depth about it. Fascinating. 1/

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newrepublic.com/article/1984...

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So these white supremacists building a whites-only β€œReturn to the Land” town in the Ozarksβ€”what’s their source of income while living in complete isolation from society?

Please tell me they’re not collecting welfare benefits.

Anyone normalizing Hitler as a product of propaganda isn’t just wrong…
🧡

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Immigrants to Canada have long found their qualifications questioned and careers crushed. Things were supposed to have changed β€” but barriers persist Despite major shifts in the system, it still underutilizes skilled immigrants, leaving many in precarious work, due to β€œlack of Canadian experience.”

Mathis is what we do to DOCUMENTED immigrants: undermining their qualifications and robbing them of opportunities they deserve

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton Is Outsourcing More of His Office’s Work to Costly Private Lawyers Despite having an office of hundreds of attorneys, Ken Paxton is frequently opting for private lawyers β€” many to whom he has personal or political ties β€” to argue on behalf of Texas. One attorney cost...

Texas AG Ken Paxton hired a former staffer to work on a recent case. As a state employee, her labor would have cost taxpayers $641.

As a private attorney, Paxton allowed her to bill $3,780 an hour, so that day of work cost taxpayers $24,570.

With @texastribune.org

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His Former Company Got Caught Employing Undocumented Workers. Now He’s Profiting Off an Immigrant Detention Camp. Disaster Management Group is one contractor behind the nation’s largest detention camp, to be built at Fort Bliss. It’s run by Nathan Albers, who previously co-owned a company that pleaded guilty to a...

NEW: Nathan Albers once co-owned a company that schemed to hire and conceal undocumented workers.

Now his company could make hundreds of millions from work on the nation's largest detention camp.

β€œThe irony is thick,” said a former DHS official.

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