One day.
One day I'll be invited to Bleak House.

Ray Harryhausen passed away on this day eleven years ago. Let’s take a moment to remember this great man, and reflect on the incredible legacy that he left behind.

#RayHarryhausen

“The students don’t know what they’re talking about”

The students:

a truly impressive feat of Orwellian narrative shift, thousands of college students arrested, clubbed, kicked out of school for protesting mass killing in Gaza and our biggest media brains insist these students are Actually The Real Authoritarians because their tone is strident

So to be clear, the US offered Hamas a ceasefire that included an Israeli withdrawal from the entire Gaza Strip in exchange for releasing all the Israeli POWs, which Hamas accepted, but Israel then rejected.

Can absolutely guarantee US media will not report it this way.

The kids are demonstrating incredible levels of media literacy, message discipline, and self-awareness, and it is driving professional journalists up the wall.

Australian Netflix watchers-

Sorry To Bother You is available now.

Thousands gather outside the UCLA student encampment to protect the protestors but also in solidarity with Gaza 🇵🇸 and against genocide.

Across the world, youth are saying ‘not in our name’.

95% of Writers Guild of Canada members have voted to authorize a strike as per my writer friend because CMPA won't give the same AI protections that WGA got in 2023 and other matters. Canadian workers are not pushovers.

In 1986 we occupied the Dean’s office & built a shantytown in Harvard University Yard to force the university to divest from companies profiting from apartheid S. Africa. They threatened us with expulsion. We said, “F*uck you, we won’t do what you tell us.” Students! Thanks for keeping…

Only 15 days left to watch Boots Riley ’s magnificent, deliriously funny, satire “Sorry To Bother You” on #BBC iPlayer.

It’s easily one of the best films of the new century.

To be clear,
I wrote the song/story for that video (and picked some locations) but I did not direct the video.

That was Andrei Rozen

Congrats to Boots Riley. 'I'm a Virgo' is another brilliant film project from him. This is no surprise from someone who made one of the best Hip-Hop music videos ever: Fat Cats Bigga Fish.

Twitter has suspended Nelson Mandela's grandson, as he's about to set off on the Freedom Flotilla to take aid to Gaza.

Let’s say we found evidence of any gov executing men ,women and children with hands zip tied behind them - being discovered in mass graves .
Would it matter who they were ? What religion they said excused such atrocities - or what their ideological rationale was ?
Of course…

I'm a Jew, a faculty member at northeastern, and I visited the Gaza solidarity camp each day. Many student protesters there were also Jews. Northeastern admin is justifying arresting their own students by claiming they were chanting 'kill the Jews,' which is a blatant lie.

The destruction of Gaza, by USA weapons.

Meaning that journalists seeking a modicum of truthfulness might've used these terms-

had they not been instructed otherwise.

Leaked NYT Gaza Memo Tells Journalists to Avoid Words “Genocide,” “Ethnic Cleansing,” and “Occupied Territory”
theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt…

This is the horror that the US is funding

We HAVE to build a mvmnt that has the power to shut industries down thru strikes & work stoppages to stop things like this in the future

As of now- the most we can do is scream about it. Even then, many fear their livelihoods if they do