David Bates

‘The Singers,’ about a sing-off in a dive bar, wins Grand Jury Prize at McMinnville Short Film Festival • Oregon ArtsWatch Other winners include stories about the timber industry’s herbicide spraying, an unsettling mermaid, and Oregon’s famous exploding whale.

My latest at Oregon ArtsWatch on the McMinnville Short Film Festival. #Film #Oregon

Watched press conference footage of Pete Hegseth a couple days ago and the mind just reels: What a monumentally stupid, astoundingly insecure and immature piece of excrement he is. Makes Rumsfeld and Cheney look like enlightened intellectuals. Every fucking day, I'm like 🤯 🤯 🤯 WTAF?

Oh my god yes.

I'm guessing Elon will shut that down soon.

Reagan killing the Fairness Doctrine in his second term was also a tectonic shift that gave us Fox News. And here we are.

MSFF Notes, No. 1: Talking with Portland Filmmaker Adam Patrick Sweeney In which I expand on my ArtsWatch story's reference to 'If Tears Were Gold'

Here's my latest on Substack, an interview with a Portland filmmaker about his semi-autobiographical film. #Music #Film

On Some Films, some Art, and Writer's Block In which I refer readers to two pieces I published elsewhere while preparing to reboot the 'ol Substack and explaining what's going on with 'Renaissance Watch'

I've resumed writing on Substack, here's my latest. Please like, share, subscribe ... it's free and simple, no password bullshit. I ain't selling anything (although paid subscribers obviously are always welcome).

The Trump administration can shuffle HHS personnel all they want. Until this administration is over and RFK Jr. is removed from office, the process of rebuilding science and public health in the United States cannot begin.

I guess "mass deportations" actually meant "mass detention in prison camps." Deportation and imprisonment are not the same thing. But I guess imprisonment has way bigger profits.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Jesus Christ. 🤯

Trump's America. If you're okay with this, I'm not okay with you.

If you refuse to vaccinate and your child becomes seriously ill with a vaccine-preventable disease, I can assure you that all of your anti-vax “friends” that you met on social media will be nowhere to be found.

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened.

So here’s a quick thread to help.

What to Do When They Arrest Your Governor Options exist, let's explore them.

This needs to be read as widely as possible, it's likely the next play -- possibly attractive to the fascist perpetrators because it's less optically repugnant than simply shooting American citizens in the street. Heads up, Minnesota, show the country how to fight this shit.

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now.

#AccountabilityIsComing

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It surely sounds cynical, but I can't help but wonder if they demoted him because he wasn't perceived (by S. Miller, etc.) as "tough *enough.*"

No, ICE, you don't get to override the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution with a fucking internal memo. #AmericanFascists

Vance doesn't appear to fully grasp that he's going to be handing Baby #4 over to Trump at some point. Grinning as he does it.

Boston to Lisbon ... so ICE is concerned that "illegal aliens" might try to ... leave the country? And wants to stop this from happening? 🤔

Like, Hannibal-level dark? 😬

You may have heard that there’s a measles outbreak in Arizona. You may not have heard that 97% of the cases were unvaccinated, and that measles continues to spread in the state.

Rogan is now blasting the "Gestapo." What the fuck did he think was going to happen? Did he think "mass deportations" was going to be friendly, polite and orderly?

National Review article excerpt. It reads: "On the other hand, when I hear some people accuse immigrants of destroying the American economy and culture and stealing jobs from American citizens, it stirs my anger, too. I can’t stand to hear immigrants described in terms more appropriate to a plague of locusts than human beings. And although I believe they are a small minority, I begin to wonder if some of the people who speak so disparagingly about immigrants would be just as worked up if most of them were coming from Canada."

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

Seems like every day there are more and more people looking at ICE and saying “I didn’t vote for this”.

You did. You voted for a man who handed out MASS DEPORTATION NOW signs to crowds at his rallies.

Did you think that mass deportation was going to be gentle and thoughtful and peaceful?

"POLICE" wear uniforms with no masks, not army fatigues with masks. That's not police, but it sure as fucking hell is a police state.

ICE agents are stalking the streets of Minneapolis demanding that random brown people provide proof of citizenship.

We good with that, America?

I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.

If he steals the next election and lives that long, we could very well still be listening to the President of the United States bitch about 'Sleepy' Joe Biden until 2033.