Foz Meadows

new book!

matt damon looks like a child, it’s insane!

it is with a heavy heart that I must report that the original Bourne Identity is now twenty-four years old

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Like with using children as bait and eating at a restaurant then kidnapping the people who prepared it, ICE is routinely breaking taboos that have been part of human civilization since before recorded history.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h BREAKING NEWS: U.S. District Court Judge Laura Provinzino has just found a government atty in CIVIL CONTEMPT of COURT for violations of her orders in a habeas case. Attorney cited is Matthew Isihara, a JAG atty from Dept. of War assisting in local US Attorney office @FOX9 (1/) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 1h Judge Provinzino had ordered a detained immigrant held by ICE in El Paso, TX be released in Minnesota with all of his identification papers. ICE released the man in TX with none of his papers, forcing his attorney to find him a shelter for the night & flight back to MN (2/)

Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 57m Judge said she is imposing CIVIL CONTEMPT "to force the government to comply with her court order" to immediately return immigrant's papers. Gov't attorney Matthew Isihara is responsible for $500 daily fine, every day the man does not have his papers starting tomorrow. (3/3) Paul Blume @PaulBlume_FOX9 · 47m CONTEMPT FINDING: Matthew Isihara apologized for allowing the order in this habeas case to "fall through the cracks." Blamed situation on case overload & significant understaffing in US Attorney's office. Says he has picked up nearly 130 habeas cases in just last month. @FOX9

1. DHS surges 3,000 officers to Minneapolis without doing anywhere near enough prep first.
2. Hundreds of habeas cases overwhelm local courts.
3. Dozens of DOJ lawyers quit in disgust/anger.
4. The DOJ brings in JAGs to cover.
5. A JAG was just held in contempt and fined $500/day for ICE's failures.

Fair point!

I fear that prolonged exposure to JD Vance’s anti-pope rays has rendered Trump immune to Liz Truss’s queenkiller energy.

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Sadly, ICE learned what not to do in Minnesota… they have not left… but are spreading out in disguise tricking and nabbing people before we can respond. We need a new plan….

new book!

like the obvious analogue here would’ve been for the WASPy white socialite daughter of a Rockerfella-level family to elope with an aspiring Black R&B artist, with the title role played by a biracial actor

but the US very much does do race, which would’ve been the obvious thing to explore in terms of modernising the theme

Hah!

seldom before have I experienced such a strong urge to hurl a rotten tomato at a cinema screen

if you want to watch a modern film that has the same vibe as KHaC while still being very much its own thing (and which is also a cross-cultural adaptation of a book that was itself partially informed by KHaC) go watch No Other Choice (2025) by Park Chan Wook!!

AGREED

like I’m not saying there was no way to do it but THIS PROFOUNDLY ISN’T IT

ALSO THE ORIGINAL HAD SIR ALEC GUINESS PLAYING ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE ARISTO FAMILY THE LEAD HAD TO KILL IN ORDER TO INHERIT, THIS VERSION COULD *NEVER*

I AM AN OLD MAN YELLING AT CLOUDS

[shouting at the masses thru my cupped hands] ALL BY ITSELF THE DECISION TO CAST GLEN POWELL IN THE LEAD ROLE BETRAYS A FAILURE TO UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE MATERIAL AS IT COMPLETELY SIDESTEPS THE IMPLICIT RACIAL/CULTURAL TENSION OF LOUIS’S WHITE ARISTO MOTHER MARRYING A POOR ITALIAN IN THE 40S

seeing the trailer in the cinema yesterday activated me like a fucking sleeper agent, I was SO MAD

I need everyone to know that the forthcoming Glen Powell movie, How to Make a Killing, is a modern American remake of one of my all-time favourite films, the classic British black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), and I am *seething,* because there’s zero chance it does the original justice.

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like if charlie kirk had ever been diagnosed with cancer erika would’ve for sure fed him ivermectin

hot take but I’m beginning to think that encouraging “alternative” cancer treatments is the new poisoning your husband for unhappy conservative women who don’t believe in divorce

Every ICE officer who has broken the law should be arrested, tried, and imprisoned for their crimes.