Brian Marks

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No comment on the films, most of which I haven’t seen, but it always seemed laughable that whenever they have filmmaker-curated collections on Shudder they mostly pick Shudder originals. Do they think we’re stupid?

This is great. I only saw it once as soon as it hit DVD and was mildly traumatized, but it seems ripe for a rewatch now

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

Roberts has always felt that the suggestion that white people might discriminate on the basis of race is a profound moral injustice, much greater than black people being denied the right to vote bsky.app/profile/jayw...

Inflatable frog costume package Violent Antifa Terrorist Includes: - inflatable frog suit - cape - pepper spray filter - a thirst for the blood of the innocent - air pump *batteries and Molotov cocktails not included ADULT Size Costume ONE SIZE FITS MOST

☑️ Halloween costume all sorted

I saw two coyotes on my late-night walk. This one was following behind a bigger one that I didn’t catch in time

flashback to how americans acted the last time federal agents started kidnapping their neighbors

Holy shit

As Trump’s Sweeping Tariffs Kick in, Officials Signal Openness to Talks President Trump’s next round of tariffs on major trading partners went into effect just after midnight, bringing levies on China to at least 104 percent.

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u... Oh cool, now Trump’s gonna raise taxes on medicine too

Tweet from @TheStalwart 10-year just keeps surging (image of 10yr treasury bond yields up 0.1%pt to 4.4%

I am actually scared now

The dollar amount of the embezzlement crime Le Pen’s party committed, for which she is responsible, over 12 years is roughly the same as what Elon Musk illegally spent on a single state Supreme Court election just yesterday

if the democratic party had a functional propaganda arm it could make a lot of hay of the fact that a non-trivial number of MAGA personalities and politicians are child sex offenders

4/ who they are, whether they’re even American citizens. They all seem to be Thiel and Musk protégés. And I’ve had multiple references to their refusing to identify themselves by anything but first name. The rationale given is that they could be doxed.

3/ different pieces fit together. There also seems to be a significant amount of downloading government data onto private servers, etc, totally outside any cybersecurity regime. Additionally it’s unclear to the people inside whether the people doing these things actually work for the US govt…

2/ they already have over key computer systems, payment systems, etc. and with the press picture it’s not that things aren’t getting out. The stuff abt the Treasury payments systems and control over certain computer networks has been reported. It’s more putting together the big picture abt how …

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

It’s subtitled Tex Avery Directs the Marquis de Sade, which gives a pretty good impression of how it sounds

Screenshot of Dead Man being streamed from JACK Quartets recording of John Zorn’s Complete String Quartets

Excited to see John Zorn has a new complete string quartets recording with the JACK Quartet, one of the best modern music ensembles out there. Fantastic performances of some of the most challenging — but fun — music around. Looney Tunes fans need to listen to Cat O’ Nine Tails

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The corollary to "don't obey in advance" is "don't obey more than you have to" - do the minimum legally required, and make them fight you for everything else

It's bad, T. He's firin' all the Inspector Gadgets.

Person wrote "clown car" in chalk on sidewalk next to a CyberTruck.

Note on car windshield: "You willingly gave your money to a Nazi for this ugly ass car?? Fucking nerd."

People are registering displeasure with Cybertruck owners.

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

Federal agencies are issuing directives to scrub websites by 5:00pm ET today, wrt executive order: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Targeted terms: diversity, equity, inclusion, minority-serving institution, Indigenous people, environmental justice, underrepresented groups & women-focused

It’s cool that Trump and Republicans are just saying openly that they don’t like the concept of civil rights. Anyone who’s not an idiot already knew that, but maybe a few idiots will also realize that

Charlotte’s Place: Living with the Ghost of a Vérité Pioneer For the filmmaker Charlotte Zwerin, being known as the “third Maysles” was both a calling card and a curse.

In this week's New Yorker, a labor of love. The woman who used to live in my apartment—and died there—was named Charlotte Zwerin. She was a jazz buff, a chain-smoker, and a vérité pioneer, whose work on "Salesman" and "Gimme Shelter" made her the "third Maysles." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The White House website translated into Spanish has been taken offline, and the home button replaced with the words “go home.“

I saw this on TikTok but I had to go see it for myself.

The White House website, translated into Spanish—gone. And they’ve replaced the Home button with the words “Go Home.”

www.whitehouse.gov/es/