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Documentaries thrive because viewers know/believe they present the truth. There have been a lot of alarm bells within the documentary world about how AI threatens that at its core. Good piece here from @alissawilkinson.bsky.social getting at the core of the issue.

guy looked like a make a wish kid meeting Mamdani

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

It’s pedophiles all the way down.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

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Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Epstein built an empire of abuse and a whole lot of people just sat in silence and didn’t say anything.

The epidemic of violence against women is constructed on a foundation of enabling and turning a blind eye.

This post is about the reporters who said nothing when their peer was called ‘Piggy’

Poster showing two rows - the top row is "what a woman may be and yet not have the vote" and shows women in the following roles: mayor, nurse, mother, doctor, teacher, factory hand. The second row is "what a man may have been and yet not lose the vote" and shows: convict, lunatic, proprietor of white slaves, unfit for service and drunkard.

We recently found another Suffragette poster that we hadn't seen before. Just working on it now, and will be on our website soon.

Originally block printed by the 'Suffrage Atelier', which was formed in 1909, specifically to create art promoting women's rights.

I wanna know your thoughts on the confessional scene. Were you kicking your feet? ☺️

When the devil himself says, "But no, seriously, this is a *bad* guy."

No one should feel scared to speak out against the government in a democracy.

Victor wuz just mad the monster got further in 5 mins than he ever got with Elizabeth

He was a pure manipulator; his brain, if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers.

For some reason I always thought the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck happened in the olden times. Gordon Lightfoot’s song is too haunting for an event that occurred in the same year as Laverne and Shirley.

Can you say more?

Maybe important to note it was the disruption in air travel that Democrats couldn't stand and not, you know, 40+ million people not knowing where their next meal was coming from.

Dogs in old movies are like stars from other galaxies that died long ago but still twinkle to us ✨

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

As Elon Musk wins trillion dollar payday. The greed is biblical.

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison.

So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

US Army Tells Soldiers to Go to German Food Bank, Then Deletes It The initial 'Shutdown Guidance' for the US Army Garrison Bavaria included instructions to go to German food banks.

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown.

The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

The question to ask is ‘what work does this lie do.’

@realgdt.bsky.social that confessional scene in Frankenstein with Victor and Elizabeth had me kicking my feet! ☺️ also are period pieces contractually obligated to cast Burn Gorman?

Spending Halloween night at Amherst Cinema for a double feature: Frankenstein (2025) and Halloween (1978).

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.

I hope someday we defeat fascism and in the far future, No Kings Day is celebrated as a federal holiday, and little children leave out dance mixtapes and cookies for the Resistance Frog, who leaves pocket Constitutions in their shoes.

i like that we know the ICE fitness standards now because now we all know exactly how fast we need to be able to run to be just slightly faster than any given ICE agent. a useable training goal