I was just discussing films I saw too young on cable with my folks. One I singled out was The Thing — a favorite of mine, as well. I believe part of the reason the horror in it still works so well for me is partially residual trauma from being completely unprepared for it back then, in a good way.
If you’ve ever worried whether art matters. It does.
Sometimes you just have to bite your thumb at the haters and tell them to tend to country matters
“Labatt!!! That last right Hamm blow just knocked the Riddler clear back to Cream City!”
There is a moment in every Godzilla movie, after our heroes have launched their so-crazy-it-just-might-work plan, when the whole world holds its breath and waits to see if the monster is actually dead
Nature is healing
"This ought to frighten every American." "No, *this* ought to frighten every American." "No, THIS ought to frighten every American." Guys, it's cool. I'm frightened. OK?
Here, fixed it.
This tattoo, by InkedMongoose on IG, is perfect. No notes.
What GIF pops up when you type your name?
My daughter just sent me this. She was in traffic just now and the lighted sign said “Venice Blvd. will be closed on 8/19 for construction.” Then the lights started blinking… and switched to this...🤪
What if the new Taylor Swift album IS the Jeffrey Epstein list
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People thought dems and Kamala were overreacting. Smh This country got raisins in it 🙄
Man Who Thought He'd Lost All Hope Loses Last Additional Bit Of Hope He Didn't Even Know He Still Had theonion.com/man-who...
@amiberger.bsky.social
They quietly erased Sections 9 & 10 of the Constitution from Congress’s own website. They didn’t repeal habeas corpus. They just deleted it from the website. That’s how pathetic they are, trying to memory-hole the Constitution. This is authoritarian clown work. Archived version from May: 👇
The “alley cat that does vaudeville” is one of those tropes that dies with Gen X.
If u see this post a sword
Don’t worry. It’s quietly tucked away, folded up and stuffed inside my Thelma & Louise Criterion Collection case. 🤣
No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
I’m really interested! In fact, I subscribe to their substack so I never miss any of their writing. You can too. It’s easy. Just go online and search: Sub John Ruh.
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” – Thomas Pynchon
Every Dad: (smacks newspaper and points to headline) “See, now that’s real news!”
a hundred kinds of fucked
Glorious! I believe I have (and still do) owned about a third of these! #filmsky #booksky
"He's in the process of establishing a dictatorship." It's a simple 8-word sentence. News media could tell the public that. They know it's true. They report on the various steps toward autocracy every day. But they're afraid to utter that 8-word sentence. Which is more evidence of how true it is.
Dystopian as fuck.
An all timer.
Physical media forever 📼
FIFA is considering moving the World Cup games to Canada in response to escalating fascism in the US. Good. They should. And the Olympics should follow suit. Refuse to normalize or reward fascism. The US is not a safe place to visit & we should all vote with our dollar and go elsewhere.
It really is wild that the government pays people more to kidnap kids than to educate them
i feel like it cannot be stressed enough that the US govt people want back is just never coming back. never. never. *never.* decades of organization, expertise, culture, knowledge, and procedure have been destroyed across almost every department. it's over.
Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is dictatorship.
If you’re buying Alligator Alcatraz merch like it’s a joke, spend that money on books instead. If history makes you uncomfortable, good. That means you’re still human. If you can’t stomach what governments did to civilians in the past, maybe stop cheering while it’s happening in the here and now.
A genocide of Palestinians is happening. A genocide of trans ppl is happening. The gov is sending militarized goons to terrorize our communities. Everyone’s stressed the fuck out. We’re all handling it badly as best we can. Our hearts weren’t made to hold this. Let’s give each other more grace.
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I’ll say it again: STOP ANTHROPOMORPHIZING MACHINES
How imma start dealing with Superman haters
How to be an Alpha Male (per silent movies) - Cross-dress regularly - Climb up the sides of buildings - Kick cops in the backside - Befriend cute dogs - Possibly become an anarchist or Bolshevik - Wear spats - Punch the crowns out of hats - Fake it with a player piano - Date Phyllis Haver
Other nations need to implement sanctions on U.S. officials in order to halt the accelerating human rights abuses here.
Gee whiz, Wally. I guess I never thought about it that way.
Domestic terrorists…
“Blue state attorneys general should also take note: The physical abuses by ICE agents, which are now well-documented, are not immune from state-level prosecution...if an illegal assault occurs at the hands of an ICE agent, it should be charged by state authorities as a crime.” Call your AG’s!
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Umm actually
One of the most fascinating and unexplored aspects of Donner's Superman and Donner/Lester's Superman II is how it works as a companion piece to The Godfather trilogy, with Mario Puzo's exploration of the American immigrant as the connective tissue.
I respect that a lot
On Monday, heavily armed federal officers, flanked by National Guard troops, fanned out across MacArthur Park in Los Angeles reportedly as a “show of presence.” This is unacceptable and unnecessary. Everyone should be able to gather in public places free from intimidation and harassment.
I’d be fired if that were my job
This is who runs this account
praises they sing shake my hand as I drown #allshookdown
keep the nightlight on inside the birdhouse on your soul #littleglowingfriend
So frustrating! Why rob others of the joy of sitting in the theater and discovering for themselves that Clark Kent is actually [REDACTED]?
On my planet it means hope
Life imitating art like
Almost sent you this today. Facts.
Dissent is patriotic. We have a right to disagree and dissent with those in power and demand a better world.
Take advantage of your 4th of July BBQ to talk to your friends and neighbors about constructive tactics to counter fascism and keep community members safe.
Yes - This new agency is not going to be like what ICE has been until now. It’s going to be a Department of Homeland Cleansing, it’s what you get if you give the masked kidnapper thugs more money than the Marine Corps, give them a holy mission to cleanse the land, and put Stephen Miller in charge
The fiscal conservatives in the GOP just added $4 trillion to the deficit to give the wealthiest people on earth a tax cut. The pro-family party just took healthcare away from 17 million Americans to give ICE a bigger budget than Brazil’s military. The single most inhumane bill ever passed.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
My attempt to distract from the harsh reality of what's happening to our country with a fist-bumping chimp. #sad
This is Radio Rwanda-level shit. They’re riling up the base for mass violence.
Underneath Los Angeles lurks an amazing new horror comic. Literally.
"What I can't get my head around, is why would a bear that only eats marmalade sandwiches, take 7 picnic baskets that don't have any marmalade sandwiches? It bothers me."
With the gigantic budget increases for ICE, the militarization of our city streets, the new high-capacity for-profit concentration camps, the SCOTUS-blessed legal protections for violent right-wing criminals, and the criminalization of free thought, we are now a totalitarian police state.
It shouldn't get lost that just today, Senate Republicans have voted to close nursing homes, close rural hospitals, and cut food stamp benefits for children and veterans.
100% — It’s kind of “what if Simon & Simon were both The Equalizer?” or “what if The Odd Couple were brothers and also both The Equalizer?”
Andrew Roth survived the Nazi concentration camp Buchenwald. Jack Moran helped liberate the camp while serving in the U.S. Army. Decades after liberation, the two met and shared their stories. https://n.pr/3ZUKlXC
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Someone tell this dumbfuck you either embrace naked power in the service of fascism and shrug off the criticism, OR you get to whine about "harsh words" targeting judges. You don't get to do both, dipshit, and you made your choice. apnews.com/article/supr...
#FreeLuigi
This is so wholesome 😭 Accepting and loving grandparents ftw! 💜
Do love hitting refresh over and over again to learn what my rights are
Just like all those Renaissance masterpiece works of art allegedly done by turtles. #TeenageMutantNinja
“Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.” ~ Stephen Covey (1932-2012) #Painting by Margaret Dyer.
I’m just so relieved knowing that other people can hear this too and it isn’t just me. Phew
62% of Democrats think their party's leaders should be replaced
Almost forgot to post. Brand new street art in Pilsen just dropped: 18th & Western #Chicago
Local law enforcement shouldn't act as federal immigration agents. @nyclu.org will see Nassau County in court.
That’s impressive! But, I thought the conclusions presented in “The Core” had been disproven by Dr, Hans Zarkov’s “Hot Hail” discovery?
WTF?!
Tiamut emergence? Or do you subscribe to the “Hollow Earth” theory?
Some rare good news: The Senate Parliamentarian has struck the sale of public lands to private interests from the GOP megabill. She also ruled against language that would have dramatically accelerated the approval of offshore oil and gas projects.
Undecided late ‘80s voter: “He’s a 10 but, he mildly s***-shames sitcom characters for their fictional out-of-wedlock pregnancies and can’t spell ‘potato.’”
I used a ball point pen for my first draft list. Worked fine. No issues.
I'm still not over yesterday's obscene SCOTUS decision that our government can deport people to prisons in countries they're not from. How is anyone walking around going about their day?
This came up in my reels a few days ago & I haven't been able to stop thinking about it