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Brandon D. Wilson

@geniusbastard.bsky.social

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Cinéaste maudit. Educator. Dad of 2. Quinquagenarian. Man of Appetites. Film writer. UCLA '94, M.F.A. '99. 2nd gen native Angeleno. Pro-union. Anti-fascist. Clearly not the actor from NICKEL BOYS. He/Him.

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · Nov 10

This is my second feature: SEPULVEDA.
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SEPULVEDA

Three friends (Kristina Elena Amaya, Karla Jovel, Leslie Reyes) decide on a whim to drive the entirety of Southern California's longest street but end up learning…

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 52m

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Andrew Blum @ablum.bsky.social · 4h

We had Angela Davis speak at my university a couple of years back. One of the many insightful things she said - protest in the way that aligns with your passion. If that’s poetry do poetry or music etc. Because then you will be able to sustain it. If naked bike rides are your passion, 100% do that.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Someone in my mentions is upset because these people haven’t suffered the worst at ICE’s hands and therefore they shouldn’t be praised for being out on the streets?

Yeah, no. To push back on these people we need everyone — especially those with relative privilege — to get up and get involved.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6h

Portland, you magnificent weirdos

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2h

Here's Diane Keaton at Warren Beatty's AFI tribute, talking about a perfect (no exaggeration) scene in Reds--taking the mystique out of filmmaking and then putting it right back in, in just two minutes. She was exquisite. www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_RS...

Diane Keaton on making REDS with Warren Beatty

YouTube video by American Film Institute

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Hobby Drifter in Tokyo @hobbydrifter.bsky.social · 7d

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

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Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @kamlager-dove.house.gov · 7h

She’s been MIA for nine months and then shows up and says THIS??

What could go wrong?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Melania Trump: "President Putin and I have had an open channel of communication."

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 2h

I have not.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 4h

Every mono dude dating a married poly woman.

Bright Wall/Dark Room @bwdr.bsky.social · 23h

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think they realize how much this resonates with Black folks with any self-knowledge on a genetic level.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

one thing perhaps worth emphasizing is that under federal law an escaped enslaved person was a criminal. an "illegal," you might say.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5h

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 7h

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d

Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman, who was thrown to the ground & handcuffed by ICE, has been released without charges

DHS said she assaulted an officer, but eye witnesses claim she didn’t

The lack of charges makes it clear that ICE is lying to try and cover up the fact that they attack the press

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

im rewatching The Shining for the millionth time and while i think the book does some things better (getting us into Jack's head) the book is a story about a good man swallowed by ghosts and Kubrick's story is about a family annihilator, and thus much, much scarier

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Look, maybe not *all* ICE and CBP agents are bloodthirsty psychopaths, but there are plenty of stories like this one and the rest of them sure as shit don't seem to mind, so ...

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 9h

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 8h

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

For weeks, Mr. Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran national who is married to a U.S. citizen, has made clear that he would not challenge his deportation if he were sent to Costa Rica, which has promised him legal residency and guaranteed that he would not be sent back to El Salvador.

But the Trump administration has refused to deport him to Costa Rica, and in an earlier hearing this week, Judge Xinis pressed the administration to consider the option or clarify why it was unacceptable.

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scarylawyerguy.bsky.social @scarylawyerguy.bsky.social · 7h

If Joe Biden was unable to close an umbrella there would have been +/- 1,000 think pieces in the newspapers of America questioning whether he was capable of discharging the duties of the office of President of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 8h

At least 5 of the Democrats running for that Congressional seat—including a school board member, a mayor, & 2 state senators—have been on the neighborhood streets doing rapid response, and/or have been assaulted by ICE at Broadview

Uninformed cynicism is a toxin. Please don’t spread it.

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 10h

If you are buying silly costumes and whistles to help stop our country from sliding into fascism: congratulations on doing more than our elected Democratic congresspeople!

Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11h

Whistling when ICE is about to kidnap someone for no reason is incredibly effective. They know what they are doing is wrong and will scatter in the wind when too many witnesses gather.

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Jeremy Smith @mrbeaks.bsky.social · 1d

TRON: ARES would've been a blockbuster if they let Lee Greenwood do the score.

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Wear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 11h

The beloved Saleh Al-Jafarawi has been murdered. We are absolutely devastated. For 2 years he reported on the genocide of his people, just for him to be murdered during the ‘ceasefire’

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 7h

Re number 5: no I never asked what had happened. But I knew it was grown folks’ stuff and knew a man was involved. I was literally on the living room floor next to my sleeping cousin pretending to be asleep while my cousin consoled her friend. I remember them commenting on how sweet we looked.

Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 7h

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Star Wars
2. The Wiz
3. The assassination of John Lennon
4. The death of my great-grandmother
5. Sleeping over at my adult cousins’, and in the middle of a Saturday night one of her girlfriends came over distraught about something that had just happened.

Elana Levin @levin.bsky.social · 10h

5 events that defined your childhood?
- HIV & queerphobia & public health response
- Clinton & childhood insight that he was shitty
- MTV's influence on music access (especially things like Headbanger's Ball, Yo Mtv Raps & Nirvana)
- "end" of the Soviet Union
- home computers (internet was later)

Travels With Brindle Takes Manhattan 11/9 @travelswithbrindle.bsky.social · 1d

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. My parents’ divorce
2. Stranger Danger (I had nightmares about Adam Walsh)
3. Satanic Panic
4. Michael Jackson’s popularity (and not in a good way)
5. The Gardner robbery

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Ghoul-jin Rondo @gaijinrando.bsky.social · 1d

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Constant nuclear war anxiety
2. Star Wars mania
3. The MOVE bombing in Philly
4. Reagan
5. The debut of Scrappy Doo--This is when it dawned on me that adults sometimes despise kids and are not to be trusted

Jèf Uphoff @juphoff.bsky.social · 1d

What 5 events defined your childhood?

1. Nixon
2. Apollo (I remember 13!)
3. The Bicentennial
4. The Energy Crisis
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis

__________ @jenbren.bsky.social · 1d

What 5 events defined your childhood:

1. Italia 90
2. Live Aid
3. Charlie Haughey telling us all to tighten our belts while buying his mistress couture in Paris
4. The Troubles
5. 35-40 classrooms in school & teacher strikes

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Crip Dyke @cripdyke.bsky.social · 9h

To add to this, the US professoriate was overwhelmingly, relentlessly white and male before 1960, and it was overwhelmingly a well-paid white collar job.

1964 CRA prevents ed discrimination. It takes 5 years to complete a PhD. 1969 begins a trend towards adjuncts and lower pay.

Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 10h

"an occupation’s general prestige and perceived potency (but not its moral standing) declines when it becomes increasingly stereotyped as female" journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The Cultural Devaluation of Feminized Work: The Evolution of U.S. Occupational Prestige and Gender Typing in Linguistic Representations, 1900 to 2019 - Wenhao Jiang, 2025

Previous research on occupational devaluation typically evaluates the potential wage declines associated with a significant inflow of women into an occupation; ...

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely horrible news - Saleh was killed today

www.middleeasteye.net/news/saleh-a...

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Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · 10h

Bunchy Carter was born 83 years ago today.

Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.social · Jan 17

1/17/1969: Los Angeles chapter Black Panther members Alprentice “Bunchy” Carter and John Huggins are shot to death during a summit between the BPP and their rival US Organization in Campbell Hall on UCLA’s campus. Carter was 26, Huggins was 23.

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Matteo Persivale @mpersivale.bsky.social · 11h

There’s an interview where Allen points out that Keaton’s loopy genius was such that she couldn’t deliver a joke — she’d fuck up the line reading, shift the emphasis & it fell apart. So he moved all the jokes to Alvy’s lines—“and she ended getting all the laughs”. Hope she’s studied for a long time

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