Kristen Wagner

Maya Angelou Is Out but 'Mein Kampf' Stays at the Naval Academy Library An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power. 6 MIN READ

What more is there to say?

I’m just going to list the #1 film I’d like to see added to the Criterion Collection #filmsky

The Crowd (1928)

"Historians have a word for Germans who joined the Nazi party, not because they hated Jews, but out of a hope for restored patriotism, or a sense of economic anxiety, or a hope to preserve their religious values, or dislike of their opponents, or raw political opportunism, or convenience, or ignorance, or greed. That word is "Nazi." Nobody cares about their motives anymore. They joined what they joined. They lent their support and their moral approval. And, in so doing, they bound themselves to everything that came after. Who cares any more what particular knot they used in the binding?" A.R. Moxon

saw this circulating on Instagram the other day and I can’t stop thinking about it. “Who cares anymore what particular knot they used in the binding?” is such a perfectly expressed repudiation of the “economic anxiety” framing

Screenshot from "Letter from our correspondent" in "Papua New Guinea Courier"

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

YouTube video by Witnify "Have you no sense of decency, Sir?" Joseph Welch to Joe McCarthy

Serious question.

Who will take up this mantle today?

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Woman calmly removing man’s head with knife

“So Really, If You Think About It, If Women Wanted To Be Directors They Should Have Worked Harder and--- aaaaaa..... (gurgle)" by Caravaggio

One of the more curious reading selections I’ve seen:

There needs to be a Bechdel Test but for whether a wheelchair character can exist in a movie without every conversation involving him/her revolving around their disability. (WICKED would not pass this.)

“But the eggs were just so expensive.”

I’ve written about 69 Palestinian films directed by women in my newsletter over the last year. This list collects them all with links where you can watch most of them.

🔗 boxd.it/xlziu/detail

What’s a movie that felt like a fever dream?

youtu.be/wP0JDiaCpWA?...

There’s a reason so many academics are dismissive of the Trump/Musk/Vivek types and it’s that we’re all very aware of the Overconfident Bro Who Hasn’t Done the Reading But Still Wants to Lead the Discussion

The arc of justice is long, and it sucks, it sucks how long it is, but I swear to god it bends towards comedy

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This is a great list!