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๐๏ธ ๐ ๐ฌ 'Novak decides that she has lived โa big, beautiful circle,โ - the approach Philippe has embarked on, taking no small inspiration from Vertigoโs unforgettable title sequence and the hypnotic, almost psychedelic spirals devised by graphic designer Saul Bass.' deadline.com/2025/09/kim-...
Donโt tidy up these plants in your garden. They make the perfect snacks for wild songbirds. #naturelady #MasterGardener
Citizen Gary ๐ฌ
Shit. I was hoping we could save at least one corner of the republic from #MurdochMedia. Fox and Google reach a deal: Fox channels to remain on YouTube TV www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2... via @usatoday
The people of Gaza face starvation under the joint U.S.-Israeli food distribution system run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
Last week I told students no devices, just paper, ink, graphite -- only analog. They seemed fine. Most had notebooks and some had them out, ready to write. Some took notes. Some had even read. My two years of hell with students hiding, hating, and hissing may be over. This could be ok!
Cormac McCarthy's tweed jackets. Very good taste in fabrics.
when they stop being funded by billionaires
Such and incredible talent and grace in having to represent for so many.
Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically.
VICTIMS OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND GHISLAINE MAXWELL will be speaking to the public at a press conference on Wednesday, Sept 3rd at 10:30 AM EST at the House Triangle in Washington, DC. They will be calling for legislation to force Trump to release the #Epstein files in full.
โ ๏ธ Reminder. youtube.com/shorts/ipGn3...
Tremendous.
All looking great. ๐
โHitchcock was so inventive, and so well prepared, and knew exactly what he wanted to get in a scene.โ โ Jimmy Stewart REAR WINDOW debuted on this day in 1954. #FilmSky #OTD
Renowned Irish actor Liam Cunningham said on Sunday, Aug. 31, that as an Irishman, he sees similarities in the suffering of Palestinians, which is shorter in duration than Ireland's under British occupation, but the current killing is far more efficient.
Chatham House experts and researchers are available to follow on Bluesky. Connect with our experts here and follow them for their analysis on key international events and global trends. โฌ๏ธ go.bsky.app/UKHXrog
Facts? NO! - It's about how you FEEL. - And how we make you feel ๐คจ - #R4TODAY #JOURNALISM
Some work here @stopfundinghate.bsky.social ๐๏ธ
๐๏ธ Chekhov's gun...
This weekend's round-up of toxic media and advertisers include a barrage of anti-migrant hate pieces in The Express (all were published in just one day). Supported by ads from #Specsavers, #MarellaCruises (by #TuiUK), #BritishGas, #Asda, #Tesco, #OakFurniture #RyobiTools, and #Yimbly.
A reminder on this Labor Day: Slavery still exists in the form of incarcerated labor. Itโs long overdue to end forced labor in prisons.
"All of my kids are vaccinated" ๐ youtube.com/shorts/ipGn3...
I hope you understand that private industries have, for years, worked to limit scientific credibility. They don't want to be accountable if they cause cancer, if they poison you by dumping in your neighborhood's water.
๐๏ธ It sends the victory message to the base - SEE!!! I brought TREMENDOUS peace and beauty!!! - to this ravaged land. Love ya! โณ
The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
In short - I refuse to get dumbed down to reporting on truth social posts and tweets. Tweets and X are the main sources of news. You saw yesterday how quickly the misinformation spread about DJT โgoing to Parisโ. We need real sources, we need data. We need to stay curious and smart
Salamanca Public Library! (Casa de las Conchas, c.1493-1517).
Weโre only a few years removed from creatjng a vaccine to protect against a deadly airborne virus in a matter of months. Now, we have a scion fail son running the CDC into the ground not because it failed, but because its success conflicts with RFK Jrโs eugenicist ideology.
Buster is still one of my all time favorite rescues. He spent his life living on a short chain on cold concrete because he was too "vicious". His love affair with his mum Kitty is a thing of pure beauty
The worldโs leading genocide scholarsโ association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president says. There was no immediate response from the Israeli foreign ministry.
โณ Meanwhile ...that same weekend.
We're getting ready for tour and rehearsing the setlist with Helen O'Hara, Midori Jager, and Marc Pell - couldn't resist doing a little acoustic take of Good Tradition โ๏ธ Who's ready to sing along even if I fluff the words? โบ๏ธ
Film makers should be forced to watch 1940s musicals so that they can replicate the lighting and colors.... I'm tired of not being able to see shit.
โBut our march had done its work. We had drawn the attention of the nation to the crime of child laborโฆThe Pennsylvania legislature passed a child labor law that sent children home from the mills, and kept others from entering the factory until they were fourteen.โ www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
It has come to this. ๐บ๐ฒโ ๏ธ๐ #r4today
โ๏ธThe plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
September 1โMarch 1: Roman contract length for winter pasturage, as suggested by Cato the Elder (De Ag. 149.1). While the fields lay largely fallow (except asparagus), landowners rented them out to herdsmen for oxen, sheep, and other animals to graze upon (and fertilize).
๐Monday motivation ๐
โThere are those who would try to refuse the worker any effective power to bargain collectively, to earn a decent livelihood and to acquire security. It is those shortsighted ones who threaten this country with class dissensionโฆโ โ Franklin Roosevelt, Sep. 6, 1936 www.thebulwark.com/p/labor-day-...
Urban walls, sidewalks, and even utility meters are the unlikely canvases behind this clever collection of genius street art. From an illusion of a zebra being striped to a sidewalk creature with a real rock for a head, these eight works turn... ๐
Foucault points out that routine large-scale criminal incarceration was a relatively late development as it is very expensive and only affordable at a certain level of material resource. And this is how the US has chosen to flaunt its wealth.
Go teachers!!! Organizers in #Chicago shift Labor Day rally to protest looming federal takeover. The focus of a rally against billionaires, led by the Chicago Teachers Union, has pivoted toward protesting the possible militarization of the city. www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Here's a bigger mirror!
#TechCoupDaily coffee โ๏ธ: AI fueled search algorithms for search term #Chicago bring up nothing but dozens of shooting stories on the eve of Trumpโs invasion of Chicago. Why is Tech-driven propaganda & psyops being used on U.S. soil? Whatโs next folks? Justification for war in Venezuela propaganda?
Facts? NO! - It's about how you FEEL. - And how we make you feel ๐คจ - #R4TODAY #JOURNALISM
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
In these striking colour linocuts, Sybil Andrews, a longtime associate of Cyril Power, brings gritty drama and dynamism to country life (1930s)
New episode of Fascism on Film Podcast! Lubitsch's 1942 film 'To Be or Not to Be' expertly navigates between noir intrigue, comedy, and melodrama. It mocks the Nazi mythology of competence, depicting the whole wretched regime as a bad performance. #fascismonfilm
In the early hours of 1 September 1939, Germany's Luftwaffe started bombarding the Polish town of Wieluล. The attack is considered to be the first war crime committed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Bombs destroyed ca. 70 percent of the town's buildings. Video: https://www.wielun.pl
Politics today is less driven by ideological conviction and more by parties chasing votes based on a distorted picture of public opinion, one filtered through algorithms that amplify emotionally engaging content. This incentivises performance over substance and erodes democratic deliberation.
"The Guardian is printing the names of all Palestinian journalists listed by the CPJ as having died as a result of Israeli military action since Oct 2023 as part of a day of action in condemnation of the killings & in solidarity with those journalists who remain." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
God Bless the Irish & their everlasting loyalty! www.irishstar.com/news/us-news...
Pope Leo gets it. Pope Francis made SURE his successor would get it!
It has come to this. ๐บ๐ฒโ ๏ธ๐ #r4today
Yes. But facts aside. There's a deeper more insidious data set that emerges with the question "...how do you FEEL about...? ๐
Happy Birthday to the late, great James Coburn, born James Harrison Coburn III 97 years ago today
โ During his visit to Paris, Roberts met with a range of figures on Europeโs far-right. Not all of them were French. As a matter of fact, Project 2025 is coming for all of Europe โ and beyond.โ
๐ Leads to a great sequence of examples. #medialiteracy ROCKS!
Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaignโs outsize stakes.
Trump looks and sounds awful, keeps showing up with new IV bruises, and mutters about wanting to go to heaven. I imagine that at least a handful of journalists know what's really going on (and don't intend to tell us until the eventual book tour.)
Fantastic ๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป๐๐ป
This is Manchis. She's the dog of Alberto Mesรญas Zรกrate, a journalist in Peru. When her human was targeted this week by criminals who threw an explosive device at their home, she barked at the perpetrators and successfully extinguished the dynamite before it detonated. 14/10 good girl, Manchis
๐ณ๏ธ Adios August...
โข๏ธ EXXON'S shareholders are grabbing their popcorn. โ ๏ธ #fossilfuels
Murdoch wins again ๐ซ #foxnews
You won't see this on the news. In fact, you may not see this anywhere. Residents of Washington D.C. march up 14th Street on Saturday August 30, 2025 chanting "Troops Go Home".
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And. Appointee by a convicted felon ๐
The George Lucas version. ๐คจ
Our feelings & experiences are valid. It's not fair that we have to work this hard to be safe & stable, let alone happy. And, also: we won't let the unfairness of this bullsh*t keep us from doing what we need to do to understand & influence our nervous & endocrine systems today.
It's been 21 years since I lost my (grand)papa, but he was probably the most influential person in my life. He was a proto-geek, a space nerd, a tinkerer and a child at heart. He was my own personal Carl Sagan. 1/2
If you get COVID in NYC, good luck trying to get Paxlovid. Capsule is sold out Walgreens discontinued it And CVS is charging $120 co-pay (and I have GOOD insurance) Of course, I had to drive to different locations to find this out because nobody answers the phones at pharmacies anymore.
But why assume ignorance - and not plain evil?
๐๏ธ He accepts her nonsense that crime has suddenly been cut.
The President of Portugal Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa called the orange felon a Russian asset in a live televised speech. Well done, this is how you do it. ๐
โข๏ธ EXXON'S shareholders are grabbing their popcorn. โ ๏ธ #fossilfuels
๐ณ๏ธ Adios August...
If Trump is so healthy, why are MAGA influencers posting old photos of their Fรผhrer as proof of his health? ๐ณ๐
Next stop: voting booths โข๏ธโ ๏ธ๐บ๐ฒ
Again. Guy on his usual short fuse on gun control. ๐
Literally could not do my job without the amazing UMN libraries
๐ฌ A great film on the dangers of corporate mergers. Esp. in broadcast news. Yet made by Touchstone/Disney - owner of ABC news & competitor to CBS. So Disney using Hollywood star power in a rhetorical swipe in market wars. (Plus - see the earlier ABC national apology to Philip Morris.) ๐
If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. Macbeth 1.3 #ShakespeareSunday
โ ๏ธ Ownership is right THERE in #medialiteracy. ๐ฏ #journalism ๐
"Living for the City" by Stevie Wonder (1973): This song tells the story of a young Black man who leaves the hardship of a rural town for the urban jungle, only to be framed and jailed.
If only he knew ...what was in that water ๐คจ
โ ๏ธ Wait for it...
JD Vance: โI donโt believe Trumpโ will improve the lives of his voters. { ht: @patriottakes.bsky.social }
Israeli soldiers have filmed themselves tormenting a Palestinian boy who they arrested in the occupied West Bank, accusing him of throwing stones.
โ ๏ธ And securing control over mainline stations ๐
Jemand, der ein eigenes, privates Flugzeug besitzt erzรคhlt Menschen, die sich kaum etwas zu Essen leisten kรถnnen, dass sie รผber ihre Verhรคltnisse leben. Einfach mal kurz sacken lassen.
There are no sacrifices that will keep any right-wingers happy. They're not going to say "okay, we got rid of trans rights, gay marriages are OK" or "we stopped small boats, people with leave to remain can stay". They'll want another target. Appeasement is pointless. Don't give them an inch.
โIn the late 1960s, Dr. Rossiter was working on her Ph.D. at Yale, when a comment from one of her male professors puzzled her. Who, she had asked, were the women in science? There were none, he said. Another professor mumbled something about Marie Curie being the exception.โ๐
6/7 Putinism is the blueprint. Trumpism is the knockoff. Surkov wrote the script. America just adapted it for Fox News. And unless we recognize the playbook, weโll keep falling for the show
