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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1h

Letting them own the issue does not help. You can't dodge salience when they're sending armies to occupy our cities and harass our citizenry-- the constant barrage of video guarantees it.

Sometimes you have to hit them where they're strong and make their former strengths into liabilities.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 4h

To be fair, they could have made any emergency declaration automatically terminate without positive congressional affirmation within, say 30 days.

But it’s definitely a case where the Court has far more jealously guarded Presidential power than Congressional, and now here we are.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 13h

That’s not the claim; Debs very famously did in 1920. But being incarcerated limits the liberty of prisoners. This makes it difficult to do rallies, speeches, fundraising and interviews— communication in general. It’s not feasible to run a modern campaign under those circumstances.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 23h

Halloween Movie 30:
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

Some point in the 2010s Detroit became a sort of cinematic symbol for decay. Not entirely fair, but it did make for a number of solid horror movies... if something this elegiac counts as horror?

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A ★★★★ review of Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

So does this mean you’re going to ditch advocacy for construction of more multifamily housing because it polls at -20%?

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

Your argument is that they are!

Additionally— incarceration is *physically* very limiting to running a Presidential campaign.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

As long as he’s walking around free, the public reads whatever happened as no big deal.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, a guilty verdict would have prevented his election.

The absence of punishment creates the impression of innocence.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

Definitely selection bias. A shockingly wide swath of American horror is low budget— it’s one of the secrets to the genre’s success! The ones that look cheap to you are mostly just the ones you noticed, often the ones that went all in on extreme lo fi aesthetics.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 1d

Halloween movie 29
It follows (2014, second viewing)

About as Freudian a horror movie as you can get without actually invoking Oedipus.

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A ★★★ review of It Follows (2014)

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

Halloween Movie 28:
Oddity (2024, first viewing)

Well-shot low-budget Irish horror film that pulls in more directions at once than it can sustain.

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A ★★ review of Oddity (2024)

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 2d

I think it may be. But you need something that lets you sac food tokens cheaply to really exploit it. And some way to get 2+ tokens. At that point you’re looking at a 3+ card combo to get land into play to do something else— feels like that might be the sweet spot for a good Johnny card.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

Well, sure. One faction is frogs. But the expansion better add adorable bats.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

What is the state of the art for live-streaming movies with a group? Watch Party? Teleparty? W2G? Twitch? Youtube?

Hypothetically, if I wanted to end my Halloween movie marathon streaming a shared viewing of the Exorcist, at midnight on Halloween, what would be the best way to do that?

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

Halloween Movie 27:
Ghostbusters (1984)

Four decades on, I still ain't afraid of no ghost-- but much more concerned with repetition.

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A ★★★★½ review of Ghostbusters (1984)

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

Why could this not be enforced?

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 3d

They wrote a killer pitch on two levels (survivalism, divided crew), with a side of ‘were so far out things can get really weird’ — but someone up the chain basically wanted them to aim at seven more years of TNG.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 4d

Congress is a non-entity and the SCOTUS has neutered the entire judicial branch’s ability to do this.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 4d

Host (2020) is a scary low-budget hour about a haunted Zoom call.

Weapons just hit HBO and it’s fantastic.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 5d

Halloween Movie 26:
Weapons (2025, first viewing)

This movie rips. It's a nonlinear series of vignettes where the mystery is clearly supernatural nonsense, but it takes a little while to identify which set of weirdness would add up to this set of facts.

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A ★★★★½ review of Weapons (2025)

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 5d

Man. I can’t read that headline without shaking my head about how far Doctor Who has fallen.

Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 5d

Or a glaive, pike, lance or halberd? I get aesthetics but the spear stats are pretty clearly for some non-fighter version of that form factor.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 5d

I was also really impressed with Julia Garner, who I have spent perhaps too long thinking of as ‘that kid from The Americans’.

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 5d

It’s so great! Every performance in that movie is dialed to eleven.

I imagine Coppola standing right off camera, screaming “more! Give me more! More, damn you!”

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Anthony Damiani @adamiani.bsky.social · 6d

Halloween Movie 25:
Wicker Man (1973, First viewing)

Iconic folk-horror masterpiece best watched unspoiled if possible (unlikely) as it has a lot of fun subverting the cop thriller genre. Lee is always great.

Could maybe use more bees?

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A ★★★★ review of The Wicker Man (1973)

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