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Sinners was just a much better film. One Battle had its moments but was flawed.

SINNERS stats:

• 4 Oscars
• 3 BAFTAs
• 2 Grammys
• 2 Actor Awards
• 2 Golden Globes
• A on CinemaScore
• $370M+ worldwide
• 4 Critics Choice Awards
• 97% on Rotten Tomatoes
• One of the best reviewed wide-release films of the decade

Michael B. Jordan has won Best Actor for ‘SINNERS’ at the Oscars.

See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

The BBC reports that 200,000 Ukrainians in the United States are at risk of deportation. Even people with valid documents are reportedly being held by ICE for months.
www.bbc.com/ukrainian/ar...

Laughing ICE Goons Seize Dad Who Fled Ukraine War at Walmart Dmytro Kulyk is facing deportation as refugees become the Trump administration’s latest target.

Dmytro Kulyk, a father and Ukrainian refugee, was grabbed by..ICE..in Minneapolis.

“I hoped I would find peace in America. I’ve done everything the government required, I don’t understand why I am behind bars.”

www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-ice...

The story at this point is why folks of color in Maine, who are quite familiar with our current governor and Senate candidate, Janet Mills, aren't feeling her. Why are so many of us still leaning towards Platner?

There's some real interesting observations as a Mainer about who we support.

This post is one of the many reasons I haven't written part 2 of my piece on Graham Platner. People are more interested in clinging to their beliefs than listening to someone who isn't a traditional journalist who isn't white but lives in Maine. I'm so tired of people outside of Maine.

PFAs (people from away) all mad at us for not supporting Mills don't know she vetoed or sat on every progressive bill put in front of her for 8 years.

She refused to sign the bill stopping PDs from cooperating with ICE, just a few weeks before the ICE surge began in ME.

She's Collins lite.

This is absolutely the truth about Mills and Maine politics. That woman isn't progressive. I'll stand on that. Some of my closest friends worked with her in the legislature, and let's just say, no, she won't have my vote in the primary.

That's my take. It's also the stuff that's not captured in the media and on these platforms. The national media isn't capturing these moments, but folks in BIPOC and organizing communities in Maine are seeing that.

Graham has been out on the street actively standing up for immigrants communities. Whether or not people think he is sincere, he picked the right side.

I understand that SURJ National just endorsed Graham Platner. I'm familiar with SURJ quite well, I started the Boston chapter back in 2016 and still work with organizers from Boston and Maine chapters.

Lot of thoughts on this, but until I unpack it with some colleagues, I'll mostly be quiet.

41 years old, evacuated here legally, asylum case pending, kidnapped while driving his six children (one a US citizen) to school. Dead within 24 hours.

Betrayed and murdered by the United States government.

42nd confirmed and reported death in ICE custody under Trump.

Afghan who fought for US forces dies in ICE custody as Trump on track for grim record Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal served with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and legally evacuated the country, then died within a day of being taken into ICE custody, according to his family

Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal, 41, served alongside U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan since 2005. He was somehow fortunate enough to have his family evacuated with him in 2021 when the U.S. abandoned most Afghan allies’ families.

ICE grabbed him on Friday and he was dead in under 24 hours.

New solar co-op program launches in northcentral MN as bulwark against energy utilities Solar United Neighbors has helped launch nearly 30 solar co-ops throughout Minnesota since 2018. Now, the national nonprofit announced it has extended that, to include the first-ever solar co-op progr...

A new solar co‑op program launched in north‑central Minnesota to help households and small businesses transition to solar energy more affordably.

Revolution Wind, a key offshore wind project and object of scorn for Trump admin, to come online The project, off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island, will ultimately generate up to 704 megawatts of electricity for New England's power grid — the equivalent of powering 350,000 homes.

The project, off the coast of Connecticut and Rhode Island, will ultimately generate up to 704 megawatts of electricity for New England's power grid — the equivalent of powering 350,000 homes.
https://www.vermontpublic.org/2026-03-13/revolution-wind-comes-online-new-england-power-grid

Elon Musk's xAI wins permit to build power plant in Mississippi despite pollution concerns Mississippi regulators authorized xAI to build a power plant with 41 natural gas-burning turbines in Southaven to power its nearby data centers.

You'd be hard pressed to find a worse climate villain when it comes to data centres than Elon Musk.

www.cnbc.com/2026/03/10/e...

By my own calculations, Musk's carbon bomb slop factories are undoing nearly half to all of the emissions cuts from Tesla products ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/02/m...

“History echoes. I was born in Ireland where peaceful protesters were brutalized and murdered at the hands of British forces. Watching images of ICE and police in Vermont these past few days, the parallels are hard to ignore. Sunday bloody Sunday is painfully relevant again.“ by Maxine Linehan

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

All the world’s scum is in Dubai.

McGregor must be desperate to take part in the Dubai whitewashing social media campaign

Let us hope that they will never get the chance. It the UK electorate is stupid enough to vote in a Reform government, we are lost.

"The reorientation of the Gulf away from a reckless and dishonest US is going to be a lasting consequence of this war."
-Ben Rhodes, former obama's speechwriter

Emiratis, Qataris will have a different view than Saudi. This is also existential for their business models, both oil & future diversified

Emiratis, Qataris want to end the war quickly. Oil and gas production is being shut in. Their data centres are being bombed
To deliver pain to Trump via the AI tech lords, they’re indicating they will start pulling back their vast foreign overseas investments. Saudi is big ?
bsky.app/profile/70sb...

This is.....a PhD in political economy

Probably worth remembering that countries like Saudi Arabia are holding up our sham bullshit tech economy and that something like a war that puts pressure on them and disrupts their operations could set off a chain of dominoes that a lot of people aren't really discussing.

Inside the Dirty, Dystopian World of AI Data Centers The race to power AI is already remaking the physical world.

“Since ChatGPT’s launch, in November 2022, the capital expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and Google have exceeded $600 billion, and much of that spending has gone toward data centers...”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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Forget easing Russian sanctions. Europe should be boarding Russian tankers. - Euromaidan Press With Hormuz closed and oil past $100, Europe should confiscate shadow fleet cargo—not ease Russian sanctions to plug the supply gap.

Russian intelligence operatives and Wagner veterans are reportedly on Russia’s shadow fleet tankers in NATO waters. As @olehsavytskyi.bsky.social writes for @euromaidanpress.bsky.social, these ships are part of Russia’s hybrid warfare system.

Europe must intercept them now. Stop the shadow fleet.