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Martin Tsai

@martintsai.bsky.social

critique de cinéma. 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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I guess people had short memories.

22.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 6540    🔁 2192    💬 217    📌 54
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to save you from clicking, the four words are:

“no notes from daddy”

22.10.2025 17:20 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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i have been wasting so much time here i am not getting anything done

22.10.2025 17:14 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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how did i do?

22.10.2025 17:06 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Des Moines City Council votes to fine homelessness: Joe Gatto runs away.

21.10.2025 00:50 — 👍 64    🔁 31    💬 8    📌 2

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness (if you feel like)

22.10.2025 02:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

22.10.2025 00:55 — 👍 13871    🔁 4503    💬 325    📌 152
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The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):

The Imperial Propaganda Machine Is Failing In Unprecedented Ways

They’re on the back foot. This has never happened before.
We’ve got a real shot at winning this thing.

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/the-imperi...

21.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 346    🔁 120    💬 14    📌 7
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Anti-science bills hit statehouses, stripping away public health protections built over a century More than 420 anti-science bills attacking longstanding public health protections – vaccines, milk safety and fluoride – have been introduced in statehouses across the U.S. this year.

apnews.com/article/vacc...

22.10.2025 02:22 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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Earlier on Canal Street, as agents attempted to disperse, one who I recognize from the courts pulled out a taser and threatened protester with it. @thecity.nyc

21.10.2025 21:06 — 👍 1289    🔁 495    💬 120    📌 90

The strangulation is something he will do again. Everyone involved in the deal has the next girl‘s blood on their filthy hands. They were all willing to risk the next victim‘s life for this man’s convenience.

21.10.2025 00:16 — 👍 15    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0

Jesse Mack Butler is 18. Why was he granted youthful offender status? This is a total miscarriage of justice. The people who were instrumental in getting this criminal rapist off and back on the streets will live to regret it when he finally does kill a girl.

21.10.2025 02:10 — 👍 27    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 0
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The Case of Rapist Jesse Mack Butler Has Opened The Floodgates of Corruption and Leniency For Predators in the Stillwater, OK Judicial System STILLWATER’S OPEN SECRET: HOW THE SYSTEM PROTECTS PREDATORS

“Judge Susan Worthington,… has gained a reputation among locals for her leniency in sexual offense and domestic violence cases, repeatedly lowering bail, issuing suspended sentences, and reducing penalties for repeat offenders.”

justinthenickofcrime.substack.com/p/the-case-o...

21.10.2025 03:24 — 👍 25    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 4

Because, white.

21.10.2025 00:04 — 👍 19    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Brock Turner 2.0. This country just keeps getting more and more depraved. People should share his photo and info all over social media.

20.10.2025 23:47 — 👍 48    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0

This is why the argument that men are dressing as women so they can go into women’s bathrooms/locker rooms to r*pe them is a stupid argument. Men aren’t wasting their time trying to do it in costume when they know they won’t face any consequences doing it being themselves

20.10.2025 23:50 — 👍 102    🔁 16    💬 1    📌 0

After Butler’s conviction and sentencing, the D.A. & judge granted him “youthful offender status.”

Now his punishment is no jail, no social media, 150 hours of community service, 1 year probation, & no sex offender registry.

You can’t even find his mug shot.

This is America.

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20.10.2025 23:37 — 👍 444    🔁 147    💬 29    📌 11
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This is Jesse Mack Butler from Oklahoma. Butler r*ped two teen girls over a period of 9 months, nearly killed them by strangulation, which was recorded on video. Butler was convicted of 11 counts of r*pe and sexual assault and was sentenced to 78 years in prison.

But he will serve 0 jail time

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Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

Emma Stone stars as Michelle in director Yorgos Lanthimos’ BUGONIA, a Focus Features release. Credit: Atsushi Nishijima/Focus Features © 2025 All Rights Reserved.

“The film challenges the superhero genre narrative that is so deeply ingrained in us and the latent sexist feelings toward successful woman go-getters, all while reenforcing and reaffirming these tropes.”
@martintsai.bsky.social reviews #BUGONIA. bit.ly/3Wd9pHd

#filmsky @focusfeatures.bsky.social

20.10.2025 23:52 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

they destroyed the white house both figuratively AND literally

20.10.2025 22:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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My fellow music lovers, here’s some revelations about #Spotfy . The company is embracing ICE and the maga administration by pushing ICE recruitment ads and HHS spots. Even after much outcry, they doubled down on maga propaganda. My household has cut all ties with Spotify.

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Yeah. So The White House
is designated a National Historic Landmark.

That means:

It’s formally recognized as having exceptional national historical significance.

Any substantial changes, demolitions, or new construction affecting it are tightly restricted.

It’s not his house! WTF.

20.10.2025 20:01 — 👍 7499    🔁 2555    💬 419    📌 126

While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isn’t just another hallway, it’s where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the People’s House. Erasing it is rewriting history.

20.10.2025 19:58 — 👍 9543    🔁 3595    💬 530    📌 180

kind of?

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“.. They are the asylum seekers, the rule followers. They go into the federal building holding papers .. hoping for a measure of due process. Some leave the courthouse with a hearing date set months or years from now. Others disappear into ICE’s prison system.”

@nymag.com
nymag.com/intelligence...

20.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 5320    🔁 2622    💬 129    📌 141
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ICE Agents Can Now Be Arrested in Chicago Judge says agents are not allowed to arrest migrants trying to do the right thing by showing up to their immigration court appointments.

“A FEDERAL JUDGE IN CHICAGO RULED last Wednesday that starting this week ICE agents can now face arrest and contempt proceedings if they conduct unlawful, warrantless arrests, marking a dramatic shift in immigration enforcement oversight in the city.”

migrantinsider.com/p/ice-agents...

20.10.2025 18:09 — 👍 449    🔁 136    💬 25    📌 13
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KENNY LOGGINS, on the Feces Fighter Jet:

“.. I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us. Too many people are trying to tear us apart .. We’re all Americans ..”

kennyloggins.com/response-to-...

20.10.2025 16:56 — 👍 5260    🔁 1444    💬 140    📌 73
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omg!

"Demolition crews have begun tearing down part of the White House...

"Construction teams Monday were demolishing a portion of the East Wing, with a backhoe ripping through the structure..."

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

20.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 13826    🔁 5794    💬 3803    📌 1698
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Judge Set to Question Federal Officials About Use of Tear Gas During Immigration Raids U.S. District Judge Sarah Ellis said Thursday she was “not happy” that immigration agents appear to have violated her order not to use tear gas and other weapons against journalists, protesters and an...

A federal judge is set to question top federal officials about whether they violated her order by continuing to use tear gas during a series of increasingly aggressive raids across Chicago and the suburbs.

bit.ly/4nanjVn

20.10.2025 16:02 — 👍 13    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Nothing makes me question my faith more than watching guys like Mike Johnson and Chip Roy give a press conference without being struck by lightning.

20.10.2025 18:07 — 👍 17    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

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