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‼️‼️ Still a lot TBD, but Rehmet is leading early vote count by **13 POINTS** in a district that Trump won by 17 points. I'll be updating in this thread throughout the night.

I know this is technically legal because we're within 100 miles of the coast, but fuck the fuck off and out of here with that. I used to live in the neighborhood above the wall.

‘We Gave Tax Cuts to the Rich and Made Life Sh*t for the Poor.’ Texas Just Passed 17 New Constitutional Amendments. All told, these new breaks (along with other recent efforts to reduce property taxes), will cost Texas around $50 billion next budget cycle.

Fewer than 3 million Texans bothered to vote this week, but that didn’t stop them from rewriting the state’s constitution — again — mostly in ways that make life easier for property owners, business interests, and the already comfortable. ⬇️

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike.

Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%.

Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Gena Rowlands in A Woman Under the Influence making an X with her fingers.

A scene from Melancholia. In it you can see a giant rogue planet in the background that is headed for a collision for the main characters planet.

A scene from Breaking the Waves with Stellan Skarsgård and Emily Watson.

Mary Bronstein and Greta Gerwig wearing Burger King crown from the film Yeast.

There are 600 VOTING LOCATIONS. I don't know why people put themselves through the West Gray nightmare.

On the ballot today:

-NYC: Mayor
-Minneapolis: Mayor
-VA: Governor, Lt. Governor, AG, and state House
-NJ: Governor
-PA: State Supreme Court
-GA: Public Service Commission
-TX: TX-18 U.S. House
-CA: Prop 50

This is a reminder of how crucial it is to vote up AND down the ballot.

It’s Election Day, y’all! Polls are open 7 AM to 7 PM statewide. Grab your ID, head to your local polling place, and go vote. Find your polling place at VoteTexas.gov. 
 
Visit our link in bio for resources on the 17 proposed constitutional amendments.

#VoteTexas

photos from Houston Pride 2000, including the houston trans community float, photos courtesy of Houston LGBT History www.houstonlgbthistory.org/houston-prid...

The best noir movies to stream this #Noirvember Join the Noirvember project, streaming noir picks from Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock to hidden gems and modern neo-noirs.

My favorite part of curating an annual #Noirvember recs list from the Polygon staff is learning about noir movies I've never seen. There are some bangers in the "deep cuts" section here.

Los Angeles, CA -

LAPD has commanded The Douglas, the nearest bar to Dodger Stadium to turn off the televisions. They are now calling unlawful assembly, though as far as I can tell the only signs of anything are people on the sidewalk. It is the 9th inning.

On November 17 and 24, @willowcatelyn.bsky.social and I will be on TCM talking about films featured in our book. More details to come.

It's Trans Awareness Month, and I want you to be aware that you are always "Trans enough"

Early planning documents reviewed by WIRED describe a statewide transport grid designed for steady detainee transfers across Texas, with ICE estimating each trip to average 100 miles. Every county would have its own small, around-the-clock team of contractors collecting immigrants from local authorities deputized by ICE. It is a subtle transfer of the physical custody process into the hands of a private security firm—authorized to carry firearms and perform transport duties “in any and all local, county, state, and ICE locations.”

NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...

You should care about Jamaica and Sudan even if you don't know anyone there and the news isn't covering it. The anti-Blackness embedded in folks' lack of empathy is gross.

Melissa is now a top 5 storm all-time, and it is about to make landfall in Jamaica Jamaica is experiencing impacts that few places have ever experienced from a hurricane

Melissa is the worst Atlantic storm you could imagine, and it’s making landfall in Jamaica as I write this. Very few places on the planet have experienced conditions like some portions of Jamaica will in the coming hours. Our thoughts are with the Caribbean. Details below or at theeyewall.com.

First in Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium The Complete History of Horror from the Pages of the #1 Horror Magazine

I'm filled with butterflies and beaming with pride to announce FIRST IN FRIGHT: THE FANGORIA COMPENDIUM, a hard-cover, full-color book that details the history of Fango, the publication I've loved all my life. www.kickstarter.com/projects/fan...

Texas Is a Lot More Queer Than You Think. I Am Too. There are 1.8 million of us, and we’re not going anywhere.

I wrote the first version of this draft almost exactly a year ago, but I wasn’t ready.

I am now.

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ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital.

"I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!"

The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck.

Houston, Texas.

Aye.

If someone builds a CSV of all the people and orgs giving away food, I’ll buy a domain, build and host a searchable database for it.

Holla at me.

Hurricane Melissa enters the elite club of the 20 most powerful Atlantic hurricanes in the satellite era And it may not be entirely done strengthening yet

A sinking feeling as we look at Melissa this evening. Here’s an evening update and reaction to what it has done today. Link below or at theeyewall.com

Daniel Pemberton’s scores for the Spiderverse films.

Best movie score that is rarely mentioned when great movie scores are discussed, maybe because it's unconventional?

I think my number one is Neil Young's score for Jim Jarmusch's Western Dead Man.

Jon Brion’s run of Punch Drunk Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and I Heart Huckabees.

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.