jamsheed

[getting some moldy blueberries and 2 month old milk out of the fridge:]

I'm ready with my snacks!

it's on the lunar calendar.

I think it's a little simpler in stancil's case. every opinionated, politically engaged account attracts trolls and contrarians. most choose to ignore most of them. if you never ignore and always engage, you end up like stancil.

I know there's a movie called Scott Pilgrim vs. etc. but it is not one I have scene. (maybe a comic / graphic novel too?) anyway, I can't do much with that unfortunately.

1. he doesn't know when to stop.

2. more or less as a corollary, he has a habit of starting with reasonable-ish positions and then digging into increasingly unreasonable ones.

and I say this as someone who thinks he is entirely right about this opsec nonsense.

A member of the Israeli bobsled team is a reservist in the 188th Armored Brigade, a brigade that carried out the triple-tap attack on journalists at Nasser Hospital.

There is simply no moral argument for allowing war criminals to compete at the Olympics.

with you, Ty. one of my all-time favorites. for sheer enjoyment, I would pick it over every other screwball / comedy of remarriage. (The Awful Truth comes close.)

MAJOR FUCKING SPOILER FOR SIRAT —

also, as soon as that kid showed up on screen, I was like, that is a dead kid. same with the dog. absolutely zero chance they were going to survive the movie.

the Jade blow-up scene is much more effective I think.

SIRAT: I will say this about the movie: it is a very exciting watch. I was never bored. but to the extent that the movie wants to say something about the world today, I really don't think it's successful. it's all too insular for the last scene to feel anything other than perfunctory or unearned.

We need reconstruction, not restoration—as FDR knew. Eric Rauchway responds in a forum on “How Not to Defeat Authoritarianism.”

“Returning to where we were means going back to a state of affairs that was manifestly unsustainable. To borrow from the architect of the Democratic Party’s most enduring platform, any recovery that simply restores things will see us all right back where we are now.” @rauchway.bsky.social

How far we have fallen

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alberto Castañeda Mondragón says his memory was so jumbled after a beating by immigration officers that he initially could not remember he had a daughter and still struggles to recall treasured moments like the night he taught her to dance. But the violence he endured last month in Minnesota while being detained is seared into his battered brain. He remembers Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents pulling him from a friend’s car on Jan. 8 outside a St. Paul shopping center and throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, then punching him and striking his head with a steel baton. He remembers being dragged into an SUV and taken to a detention facility, where he said he was beaten again. He also remembers the emergency room and the intense pain from eight skull fractures and five life-threatening brain hemorrhages.

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

RIP to one of the greatest Fred Smiths (and all the ones I know are pretty great)

Matt Bennett, the co-founder of the center-left think tank Third Way, called their efforts “one of the greatest own-goals in American political history,” and warned that “It hurt everybody in the moderate movement” as they head into a competitive primary season. Even steadfast allies are frustrated. Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.), a longtime AIPAC supporter, said its moves in the New Jersey primary, held Thursday, “raised eyebrows this morning.” “There’s a chance that it’s not going to be a New Dem that’s in that seat,” Schneider said, referring to the New Democrat Coalition, the centrist caucus he leads in the House. “As we do the analysis, a lot of factors play into that, but certainly any group spending against a candidate that would’ve been a New Dem and instead electing a far-left candidate … Come on, guys, this is not what we were hoping for here.

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*ahem*

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oh yay this is high on my to-watch list!

inshallah!

This is exactly correct. Biden (out of genuine ideological extremism) and Harris (out of generic cowardice) both were extremely pro-Israel, to the displeasure of their party's voting base, and pro-Israel groups didn't credit them at all. 100% factually true.

But Liam was scared and frequently asked what they had done wrong, where they were and what happened to the little blue knit hat he wore the day he was detained, Conejo said. There wasn’t much he could say to his son, “except hug him and tell him everything would be OK,” Conejo said. Worried about further upsetting his son, Conejo said, he was forced to bite back his own tears.

Liam has since been reunited with his hat and continues to wear it, even inside the house, his dad said Thursday. Asked how he might one day explain to Liam everything that has happened, Conejo said he would tell his son that he had become the face of hope and change. "He was the global figure who did all this so that the voices of the people demanding freedom would be heard, especially those of the children who are still locked up," Conejo said. “I would tell him he was very brave and that I am very proud of him.”

welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up

They are a right-wing organization that undermines democracy. They have zero tolerance for any diversity of thought from their line, and pressure elected officials to increasingly-

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.

They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

Death Culture Club

A ★★★★½ review of Bitter Rice (1949) This is glorious. It's got strong leftist politics (if sometimes a bit bluntly portrayed), a neorealist working class focus and extensive location shooting, impressively intricate camerawork (a near 3...

watched BITTER RICE @filmforumnyc.bsky.social and it is glorious. neorealist working class politics meet sweaty oversexed melodrama. some very nice camerawork too. playing for another week, highly recommended. boxd.it/d0AhT9

The Dark Knight still sucks ass though.

all is forgiven. I love christopher nolan now.

You have to understand that these are fundamentally bad people with hatred in their hearts.

it's the worst! there are so many old bookmarks I have that don't work anymore because of this.

couldn't have happened to a nicer lobby group.

every time the dems try to do some 'we're trying to be hip with the kids, get influencers in on all this, rock the vote' deal i think about the votes to defund ACORN in 2009, while dems still had strong majorities in both house and senate, and what the vote tallies were

I went to an absolutely packed anti-ICE training in Austin over the weekend and it was 99% women, most of them white women. I don't think Austin is a bellwether (I wasn't surprised to see mostly women at the training) but the ones who give a fuck are activated as hell right now.