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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 47m

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 14h

LIBERATION, now playing at the James Earl Jones, is so fucking good!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 21h

Christmas came early this year.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 1d

Unbelievable story of Afghan refugee, a highly vetted fluent English speaker who helped the US against the Taliban and now lives here with his US citizen kids, declared “illegal” and perhaps about to be shipped home by the Trump admin to his likely death

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1d

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S.

Then ICE arrested him.

If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

America saved him from the Taliban. Trump wants to send him back.

He supported America’s war, escaped Afghanistan and started a family in the U.S. Then ICE arrested him. If he is deported, he expects the Taliban to kill him.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 1d

Why would a billionaire want a functioning paper? Functioning papers cover shit like “did you know this billionaire makes his workers pee into bottles instead of taking a break” and “you pay way more tax than a guy with ten yachts”

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Also did they cut this season’s budget? It’s green screen city!

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

LIke… who wants a season based on Ho?

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure it’s due to fealty to the novels but it is frankly bizarre that slow horses keeps sidelining River and Louisa, who are played by the two most charismatic and interesting actors of the younger characters

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Noooooo it’s so baaaaaaad

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

this is even worse than the Geraldo pic.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

EDDINGTON (2024, dir: Ari Aster)

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

This guy has, inadvertently, identified the exact process that has driven our nation insane, which is that you’re increasingly allowed and encouraged to make up whichever facts make you angriest, and then insist they be treated as true, in the face of any evidence to the contrary.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

Also the harder task is to rank the eleventy u watchable movies he’s made

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

No but seriously how recently have you watched it? I was shocked at how bad it is.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

I will say it’s good “nightmare” isn’t on this list since (a) Tim Burton didn’t direct it and (b) it sucks.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

When was the last time you watched sleepy hollow ’cause I watched it on Friday and it suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuucks

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 1d

This is so bonkers… and I say this as a mars attacks apologist!

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

1. Mars Attacks
2. Ed Wood
3. Batman Returns
4. Beetlejuice
5. Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
6. Batman
7. Edward Scissorhands
8. Sleepy Hollow
9. Frankenweenie
10. The other ones

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Indeed. The issue is not "Jews are white and Palestinians are brown" the issue is the state of Israel, defined constitutionally as a Jewish state in its political, legal, and social character is as a result explicitly exclusionary and creates 2nd and 3rd tiers of life. It is racial, just arbitrary.

Drow Paweł Włodkowic 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 2d

What it means is quite literally that you can, in fact, find people of physical traits you wouldn't expect in almost every ethnic group in the world. There are Saudis who are natural blondes and Finns whose grandparents were all born there who are remarkably swarthy. It just happens.

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 2d

Old CBS would’ve probably spelled the guy’s name right, too.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

I really need to finally get off substack so i can write the post that explains this in very clear short terms and just link to it whenever this comes up.

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 2d

Narrator voice: this is not Method acting.

Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 2d

Finding out that Jared Leto kept doing his method acting shit and insisted on staying in character on the set of Tron Ares and would only answer to the name of Ares is so funny, like making a big ass douche of yourself for the third Tron movie where you play “computer program that gains feelings”

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 2d

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

www.youtube.com

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 3d

The movie theater was the work of an art collective that tries to reinvigorate historic spaces. One of its members now makes his living overseeing a giant clock that they restored without government permission

the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 3d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll never forgive him for cat on a hot tin roof.

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