Daniel Jeffery

We can’t believe it but our 48-hour @rngfest film, Pacino’s Closet Picks, has been picked up by @criterioncollection with this newly remastered and extended edition. Enjoy. youtu.be/2snXVba_2_Q

@andrewcuomo zohranfornyc.com/donate

Merry Christmas from Megasteakman! Last night on Twitch, chat and I made this jolly short film, and it turns out NOTHING I ever do can turn out normal. I hope you enjoy!

Reminder that this is the reason for criminalizing homelessness. Why pay people enough to live when you can price them out of living and then lock them up for slave labor instead?

@bsfarrington @UHC I reposted this the other day, I don't know if it will help though.

the fact the US used the full force of the federal government to eliminate the Black Panthers while the KKK is still running around tells you a lot about this country

Beautiful image of the police’s true function

@Karaszewski @EvilMenPod

Holy shit- last night TCM showed a documentary on the making of the legendary lost Jerry Lewis film "The Day The Clown Cried" - This is probably as close to a finished version any of us will ever see. Here’s a few clips for those who dare to watch. It's as crazy as its reputation

@Snow_Blacck FWANK

Can anybody SPELL the sound this makes?? 😭😭

"The ages most represented among the dead were five to nine-year-olds."

brat summer is over, welcome to first reformed forever

All the takes are correct and yet they also miss the point. Yes, it was insane for the Democrats to think they could win by running a soulless candidate, without a shred of progressive policy vision, pursuing endorsements from neocon war-hawks everybody hates, while arming and funding a genocide, and belittling and crushing those who have enough morality to protest it.  It is enraging that the Democrats are so smug and blind to this. But these are all just symptoms.  The deeper reality is that liberalism has failed, liberalism is dead, and people urgently need to wake up to this fact and respond accordingly. It is a defunct ideology that cannot offer any meaningful solutions to our social and ecological crises and it must be abandoned. Democrats have proven over and over again that they cannot accept even *basic* steps like public healthcare, affordable housing, and a public job guarantee - things that would dramatically improve the material, social and political conditions of the working classes. And they cannot accept a public finance strategy that would steer production away from fossil fuels and toward green transition to give us a shot at a liveable future. Why? Because these things run against the objectives of capital accumulation. And for liberals capital is sacrosanct. They will do whatever it takes to ensure elite accumulation, it is their only consistent commitment.  At home, they suppress and demonize progressive and socialist tendencies. Abroad, they engage in endless wars and violence to suppress input prices in the global South and prevent any possibility of sovereign economic development. The Democrats have done all this purposefully and knowingly, for my whole life, not as some kind of "mistake" but in full consciousness that it is in the interests of capital. And because liberalism cannot address our crises, and because it crushes socialist alternatives, it inevitably paves the way for right-wing populism.  They know this pattern, and yet they risk it every time - this election being only the most recent example. They did it in 2016, when they actively crushed the Sanders campaign and sent Trump to the White House. They do it because ultimately they (and I mean the liberal ruling class here) don't really mind if fascists take power, so long as the latter too ensure the conditions for capital accumulation. They 100% prefer this to the possibility of a socialist alternative. So, progressives have to face reality. The dream of "converting" the Democratic party is dead. This is now a fact and it must be accepted. The only option is to build a mass-based movement that can reclaim the working classes and mobilize a political vehicle that can integrate disparate progressive struggles into a unified and formidable political force and achieve substantive transformation. This will take real work, actual organizing, but it must be done and that process must begin now.

Let me help you understand it, it's what happens, historically, in societies that have astronomical levels of economic inequality.

Israel is systematically dismantling the health system in Gaza because they know this will drive mortality rates up. Palestinians, who are already starving and immuno-compromised, are dying of preventable diseases and treatable conditions and these deaths will accelerate. And every time people are forced to evacuate and move again, they are weaker and more vulnerable. These are effectively death marches. This is how the genocide is being conducted. The Israeli government is taking this route --starvation, disease, repeated displacement -- because they know that directly massacring more than a few hundred people a day would put the US under enough pressure that they might withdraw support. It is a purposeful strategy. They are trying to do genocide in a way that's just within what is politically acceptable for the ruling classes and media outlets of the US and EU.

British Columbians wading through flood waters to vote for a climate change denier — 10/10, no notes.

@DiscussingFilm It’s absolutely true youtu.be/2snXVba_2_Q?fe…

Al Pacino shows off his Shrek phone case. “My youngest daughter gave me this & said ‘it’s Shrek dad!’, I said ‘Shrek? Wow… okay I’ll hold onto it”

@whotfisjovana youtu.be/2snXVba_2_Q?fe… He’s a good man

something about Al Pacino having a shrek phone case is so wholesome to me

Exactly 10 years since we went to Sad Hill Cemetery to recreate the ending to THE GOOD, THE BAD, and the UGLY. One day we'll do it better. youtube.com/watch?v=8rfGSB…