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For me, New Year’s has always been better suited to rekindling old habits than imagining new ones.

@SugarButtactual Give it a break, fruitcake

@brianstelter @AP If only the AP didn't spew propaganda, they wouldn't have to do this....

Layoffs taking place at @AP today, part of the restructuring that was announced last month

Amazing. No words to describe this tune. Emotional and to the point. New Iranian LEGO movie : We Share the Same Pain 💔 😭🥹 via Brick Beat Battalion

In Scarface, when Tony comments on a news broadcast about legalizing drugs, screenwriter Oliver Stone used this moment to slip in his own political views on the war on drugs. Stone explains… "Three or four grams of coke [went] for $12 in Ecuador: it was so pure you’d fall asleep it was so good, [although] they’d cut it and cut it and cut it by the time it got here. It was a big business, and the DEA made it bigger by making it more [so] by getting more involved and raising their own budgets, by passing the RICO Act. The RICO Act was just crap; the [government] used it politically, I mention it in the script: I have Tony say they ought to legalize drugs if they had any brains. The RICO Act is one of the precursors to the Patriot Act; that was the mentality—you turn drugs into a monster, et cetera. So, for me there was a political motive." 1/2 Quote comes from Ken Tucker's book Scarface Nation

@ZinaWilson3 ru high?

@CalltoActivism This is a stupid post. President Trump never greets leaders at the airport when they land, why would anyone expect leaders to greet Trump at the airport? They greet each other someplace like the White House. 🙄

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Donald Trump has arrived in China to find that President XI did NOT greet him at the airport. MAGA is in spin mode heralding the “red carpet treatment,” but the visit is already at a rocky start. Instead of a presidential welcome, Trump was greeted by US Ambassador to China David Perdue; Xi’s vice president, Han Zheng; China’s Ambassador to Washington Xie Feng; and Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Ma Zhaoxu. I’m sure Trump would hate if you shared this and rubbed it in all day long.

It’s the 1970s again, minus the cheap rents and a lower-stress environment

@MAGAA_BIGLY @BraddrofliT @str_xs Give it break, fruitcake

@BraddrofliT @str_xs It's blacks retard

The U.S. states with the most criminals. 5.Arkansas 4. Mississippi 3. Oklahoma 2. Texas 1. Louisiana The common denominator? Poverty, underfunded education, weak healthcare access, and decades of failed governance dressed up as ‘law and order.’

@johnrobb77 Awesome. May it scandalize the right people, vindicate the wronged, and rattle the rest.

It's publication day for my memoirs! It’s in the shops and if you want signed copies mail order from here… membranes.bandcamp.com/merch/john-rob…

@tcm @OZUsCamera

Considered by some critics to be Japanese master Yasujiro Ozu's most perfect film, LATE SPRING ('49) tells the story of a widowed father who feels compelled to marry off his beloved only daughter. See it tonight at 8pm ET as we continue our showcase of Ozu's work.

@boysadear Honestly modern classical music is a lot like modern everything else – after some point in the 1960s, it all becomes self-aware pastiche, Philip Glass, or the sound of a Pentagon contract for a networked computer system. And I am fucking WEARY of Philip Glass

@RnaudBertrand @Farz_Zaad "Checkmate" in Persian is Shah Mat (Persian: شاه مات), which translates to "the King is helpless," "the King is defeated," or "the King is astonished/stunned". It signifies the end of a chess game when the king is under attack and has no safe move.

@Resist_CBDC give it a break, fruitcake

Advanced stage Capitalism vs. Advanced stage Socialism

More people lived in Manhattan when this photo was taken than live there today. Island population peaked in the 1910s.

Costco is the closest thing the US has to Xi Jinping capitalism & it is one of 2 things every race, creed & culture loves about this country The other being national parks

This is a hard article to read, but I hope you'll do so. I've spent some time reporting on widespread rape and other sexual violence of Palestinian male and female prisoners by Israeli authorities, and the article is now published. The assault victims were warned not to give speak of what they endured -- they were sometimes told they would be killed or raped if they gave interviews -- but they found the courage to do so. One man described being raped three times in a single day in Israeli prison, the third time after he tried to protest. A young woman said the guards would come in at the beginning of each shift and strip her naked and abuse her. Another reported that she was shown photos of herself being raped and warned they would be released unless she cooperated with Israeli intelligence. Even three children who had been detained told me they had been sexually abused. Look, whatever our position on the Middle East, we should be able to agree on being anti-rape. Sexual assaults were horrific when Israeli women were targeted on Oct. 7, and they're equally horrific when Israeli authorities use them against Palestinians day after day after day. We should be able to find common ground in opposing rape. Here's a gift link to the article: nytimes.com/2026/05/11/opi…

@PapiChuloPee @easton_3k "everyone"

@easton_3k The folks ain't with it..... everyone wants you at LSU!

Austin is the ultimate Conservative Discourse City because when something good happens there it’s a red state success story but when something bad happens it’s a “blue city.”

John Cassavetes on why he is against movies like Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" (1971): "There’s a difference between being violent and having violent emotions. There’s a difference between anger and the act of shooting somebody in the face. I’ve never known anyone in my life that ever shot anyone in the face. And I’ve seen it on the screen too many times. There’s no morality there, no feeling of anything for anyone. It’s a lie to say that people are violent. There are more good people than there are bad people. To see constant terror builds a nation, builds moviegoers that can only love constant terror. We become used to it, inured to it like doctors knowing they have to be tough. They can’t think of that person with tenderness, but must be dispassionate. There’s a lot of violence in 'Minnie and Moskowitz' (1971) but violence that I can understand. Violent feelings, but nobody ki!!s anybody or shoots anyone or knifes anybody. Without having seen 'A Clockwork Orange' (1971), I know, because I know the story. I really couldn’t go to see it, because I don’t want to see people ki!! each other. I don’t want to see any more hostility toward one another. I just don’t want to see that reflected any more. I’m tired of violence and dehumanization. I think the artist has a tremendous obligation to bring trust to people. Because the only thing we don’t have time for is ourselves. We can’t live with ourselves if we have no respect for our life and the human condition and the foibles that exist in all of us – then we have no tolerance, we’re all Nazis. We can’t survive with people being that inhuman. It’s impossible. I look at 'A Clockwork Orange' and ask, why did Stanley make it? Did he make it for anyone in particular? Why did he choose a story like that, in this day and age? For what: to incite a revolution, to stop everything? Maybe that would be OK, if he really believed that, but I don’t believe it. I don’t know why he made it. The more films are made about insanity, the more fashionable it will become. And, eventually, as we become more and more dehumanized, there will be no answers for anyone. You can’t get any pleasure out of being an animal. There should be a Kubrick who can make that film and show that life can be violent and harsh. But, on the other hand, where are the equalizing forces of happiness? Art films, in stressing the weakness of society, have lost their balance. The majority of people would rather be filled with illusion than disillusion. And we just have to find some way to reflect that. Not just to constantly say, ‘Oh, God, things are wrong and all, and I don’t know what to do about it.’" ('Cassavetes on Cassavetes', edited by Ray Carney, 2001)

The massive Utah data center, called the Stratos Project, will be as big as 2,000 Walmarts, will need 9GW of electricity to run, and will generate the heat equivalent of 23 atom bombs detonating every single day in Hansel Valley. The expected impact of wildlife is catastrophic. sltrib.com/news/environme…

Incredible that this story in the Israeli press by Ronen Bergman and Nahum Barnea isn't getting way more attention in US media. They report that the Mossad had a multi-year project in Iran aimed at fomenting protests, played a key role in the December protests (coinciding with Netanyahu's visit to Mar-A-Lago where he pushed Trump to go to war in Iran) and while it all succeeded in convincing Trump the war would be a cakewalk regime change effort, in reality it turn out to be a failure that stuck the US with a strategic catastrophe. ynet.co.il/news/article/y…

You Can’t Be Born Here. You Can Only Die. "According to a 2024 report on maternity care deserts from the March of Dimes, “In 1,104 U.S. counties, there is not a single birthing facility or obstetric clinician.”" nytimes.com/2026/05/06/opi…