Jacob Bearchum

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Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the State of the Union:

Rep. Al Green was holding a sign that reads "Black People Aren't Apes" at the #SOTU:

Paulie. Primetime. Delivers. 👏

Paul Rothrock is your Toyota Man of the Match from #SEAvCOL!

Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala

havent watched anything in a week (obvs)

People in Gaza break their Ramadan fast among the ruins of their former homes, as little reconstruction has been possible since a ceasefire agreement was reached in the fall.

The impact of Frederick Wiseman on nonfiction filmmaking was seismic beyond measure and beyond compare. Like how do you even begin to consider his influence on documentary technique or his decades of insight into how institutions (and artistic spaces) operate? What a treasure. R.I.P.

Frederick Wiseman in the editing bay

And the hits just keep on coming: RIP Frederick Wiseman, another legend of American cinema

At 93, Frederick Wiseman delivers a late-career masterpiece with this four-hour film about a restaurant in France that’s rated among the best in the world. Working in his usual quietly observational style, Wiseman immerses the audience in long scenes with no contextual narration or on-screen titles, urging us to watch patiently and raptly as a family of great chefs and their staff shop for ingredients, debate recipes, prep elements, arrange plates, and guide their guests through a one-of-a-kind dining experience. Viewers can draw their own conclusions about the meaning of all this, though one chef’s offhand comment about the ongoing refinement of dishes offers one interpretation. Even an old master like Wiseman has to keep tinkering, finding a sense of purpose in the hundred tiny details that go into an act of creation.

Unless Frederick Wiseman was working on another film when he died, his final work will be Menus-Plaisirs: Les Troisgros, my favorite documentary of 2023 (and in my overall Top 5 of all movies that year). Making masterpieces all the way to the end. We were blessed to have him for so long.

Auspicious Omens and Excellent Insubordination I started this out as a letter to a friend who's feeling down about where we as a nation are at in this moment, and I am still learning how this newsletter thing works so thought I could use the newsl...

In Dublin last year, an annoying interviewer demanded of me: “Your country has been overtaken by fascists. Why are you smiling?” I was too jetlagged to have a sensible answer so I said, “I’m smiling because I have a knife between my teeth.” The knife might look like this:

The Oceti Sakowin (Dakota and Lakota people) have just established a tipi camp at Mni Owe Sni/Coldwater Spring, directly across from the Whipple Building.

The Oceti Sakowin (Dakota and Lakota people) have just established a tipi camp at Mni Owe Sni/Coldwater Spring, directly across from the Whipple Building.

ugh, this is my favorite theater in town, hopefully things continue as usual when it reopens

Page 1 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Colorful doodles of a rainbow and hearts are found throughout the page. Translation: “I am Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya and I have been 113 days in detention I miss my friends and I feel they are going to forget me. I am bored here. I already miss my country and my house, I came on vacation for 10 Days and they took me into an ice office an officer interrogated me 2 hours without my mom, I was traveling with flight attendant because my mom lives in new york, they only wanted to arrest my mom, because my mom didn’t have documents to live in U.S.A., I always traveled with my tourist visa but ice used me to catch my mom and now I am in a jail and I am sad and I have fainted 2 times here inside. When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

Page 2 of a child’s handwritten letter, written in pencil in Spanish. Translation: “They don’t give me my diet I am vegetarian, I don’t eat well, there is no good education and I miss my best friend julieta and my grandmother and my school I already want to get to my house. Me in dilei [Dilley] am not happy please get me out of here to colombia.” Below the text is a drawing of the girl and her mother in the government-issued gray sweatsuits of the detention center.

6/ “When I arrived every night I cried and now I don’t sleep well, I felt that being here was my fault and I only wanted to be on vacation like a normal family.”

9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya, detained on her way to Disney World, spent 113+ days at Dilley.

If this is the Coach of the Year game, then one side is winning right now and it ain't the guy who actually got the award ijs

When he gave the Grammy to that young boy who made everyone think of Liam…even if that wasn’t actually Liam, it was just the perfect way of cutting through all the bullshit.

Every kid impacted by this administration’s cruelty is another Liam.

Jake Paul currently lives in Puerto Rico so he can avoid paying federal income tax.

Ti Lung’s Brother Ho in A Better Tomorrow in the center of the frame, sitting in profile facing right on the dock, smoking, against the backdrop of the sea at dusk

Chow Yun-fat’s Ah Jong in The Killer sitting down and smoking, seen in profile facing left, against a solid blue sea backdrop - slightly off-center on the right side of the frame

Yolinda Yam’s Sally and Tony Leung’s Ben in Bullet in the Head sitting next to each other on the dock in daylight with the sea as backdrop, seen from behind, dressed in all white

Tony Leung’s Alan in Hard Boiled, seen from behind wearing a flowing pink shirt, sailing in his boat Mad Max, the sea on the horizon at an angle, dissolving into the sky

water-gazers in John Woo movies

Land Invaders Makes Berlin International Film Festival History as Forum Expanded’s First-Ever Video Game Selection Land Invaders, a groundbreaking experimental 8-bit video game by Anishinaabe Algonquin creator Cass Gardiner and designer Juan Mateo Menendez, will make its world premiere as an Official Selection of ...

Land Invaders, a groundbreaking experimental 8-bit video game by Anishinaabe Algonquin creator Cass Gardiner and designer Juan Mateo Menendez, will make its world premiere as an Official Selection of Berlinale Forum Expanded 2026.

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Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

Minnesota girl, 10, released from ICE custody after a month in detention Elizabeth Zuna Caisaguano and her mother released from Texas facility to head back to Minnesota to reunite with her father

Elizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom.

Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe reclaims sovereignty through solar energy and buffalo restoration - ICT In Southeastern Montana, an indigenous buffalo herd restoration program finds sustainability in solar energy

The Northern Cheyenne Tribe is reclaiming their sovereignty through buffalo restoration, and they’re using solar energy to expand the operation.

ICE is afraid of children protesting “Next time, I’ll be back with a gas mask.”

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

In the wake of the horrific ICE killings in Minnesota, many prominent Democrats have called for ICE to wear body cameras. Yesterday, @equalityalec.bsky.social talked to @democracynow.org about how important it is that we don't get distracted by meaningless & counterproductive reforms.

All bodycams are going to do is facilitate a surge in prosecutions for “assaulting agents” and improve data collection about protesters so good work everyone who pushed for that big reform.

Opinion | Liam Ramos Was Just One of Hundreds of Children at This Detention Center. Release Them All.

"A 2-year-old boy was breastfeeding in detention. One 6-year-old boy had leukemia. An 8-year-old girl began wetting the bed. A 14-year-old girl engaged in self-harm...None of these children or their parents had a criminal history anywhere in the world."
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