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Jason Shawhan

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Media Prophet. Film Critic (GALECA, MCFCA, Rotten Tomatoes, SEFCA). Co-host of @jjlpod.bsky.social . DJ (http://mixcloud.com/DJNomi). Catsitter. 16 insecurities in a leather jacket. Patricia Coma stan. Painter. Very gay. BLM. (He/Him)

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Jason Shawhan @jshawhan.bsky.social · Dec 17

My 2024 Best of Film Extravaganza

www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture...

Our Senior Film Critic’s Favorite Films and Performances of 2024

From ‘No Other Land’ and ‘The Brutalist’ to outstanding restorations, here’s the best cinema this year had to offer

www.nashvillescene.com

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 1h

FBI made up entirely of podcasters trying to figure out how to do an investigation: getting podcast vibes from this

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1h

We’re seeing the federal government turn its full weight into promoting white supremacy.

news.bloombergtax.com/daily-tax-re...

Trump Tax Law Erases Economic, Racial Progress in the Tax Code

Opinion: President Donald Trump’s massive tax-and-spending package will leave a costly hole in the federal budget for future multiracial generations.

news.bloombergtax.com

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Gallimaufries @gallimaufries.bsky.social · 3h

Let’s not sugarcoat this with euphemistic language: the U.S. government is led by white supremacists and eugenicists who want non-white people to die, especially Black people.

The shit is plain as day.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 4h

The tiny African nation of Lesotho had victories in its HIV fight. Then, the US aid cuts came. Now Lesotho’s care system is crumbling. Clinics shut down, workers were let go, and patients stopped treatment. Experts are sounding alarms.

In Lesotho, US aid cuts leave people living with HIV in limbo

Lesotho, once with the world’s second-highest HIV rate, faces a health crisis as U.S. aid cuts dismantle vital HIV treatment programs, leaving patients without care.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 3h

I think that is the plan. Don't think they'll ever seat her. Why would they? Trump has done an end run around Congress and just does whatever he wants, why would they ever reconvene if the ultimate goal is to keep him in power

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 3h

Is the plan for Congress not to reconvene … ever? You can’t stop the Epstein thing unless that is the plan.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva on Mike Johnson refusing to swear her in: "The excuses depending on the day keep changing ... the timing is the fact that I am the 218th signer to the discharge petition for the Epstein files"

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Jason Shawhan @jshawhan.bsky.social · 3h

Maria McKee's 1994 masterpiece You Gotta Sin To Get Saved.

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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 5h

We're seeing relentless attacks on freedom of speech in America today, and they reveal the ideology that's driving the Republican Party

I talked to @adamserwer.bsky.social and @maryannefranks.bsky.social about that for my newsletter

Republicans want to protect free speech for themselves and no one else

The Trump administration and Republicans in Congress continue to attack free speech in numerous ways.

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Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 7h

In my latest piece for The Unpopulist, I wrote about the convolutions of the Epstein story and how the throughline is MAGA using children to achieve their political ends.

For MAGA, what's supposed to be about the children is never about the children.

MAGA’s Epstein Fixation Isn’t About Justice, It’s About Revenge

House Republicans care less about delivering justice to this sexual predator's underage victims and more about punishing their political enemies

www.theunpopulist.net

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 19h

my main takeaways from listening to the Supreme Court oral argument today are

-the writing is on the wall for the Voting Rights Act
-the Republican justices are now throwing racist spaghetti at that wall; they'll pass of whatever sticks as the opinion's rationale
ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/calla...

The Conservative Justices Have So Many Ideas For How to Kill the Voting Rights Act

The Republican justices already know where they’re going. They just have to figure out which route they’re going to take to get there.

ballsandstrikes.org

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 12h

There’s 1,000 times more chatter about the Maine senate race in a year than about Maine’s ballot measure in 3 weeks that’d bring voter ID and crack down on mail voting… maybe let’s start there??? boltsmag.org/maine-questi...

A Ballot Measure Targets Mail Voting in Maine - Bolts

Question 1, on the November ballot, would set up a barrage of new restrictions on absentee ballots that would considerably affect older voters and people with disabilities.

boltsmag.org

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geoffrey, 💀 mode @parsnip.bsky.social · 11h

it probably comes off like chest-thumping partisan-posting when i say things like "every republican is a traitor to the united states" but it is true, it is a reasoned read on the actions of the party viz the constitution

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Jake: Drinks with no ice @brehlol.bsky.social · 12h

They are gonna push this narrative so hard when the time comes that they realize it's human rights trial time, and I need America to be serious for once in their life

Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 14h

Promise me that yall aren't going to platform the eventual "repentent ICE agent" stories that will come out...

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John Leavitt @leavittalone.bsky.social · Nov 11

Hello new followers, here is a sadly still relevant presentation I gave about What Is To Be Done www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6GH...

John Leavitt talks ethical consumption under capitalism @ Drunk Educate

YouTube video by jleavitt

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 14h

White people have a kind of intra-white respectability politics about the level of racism that's considered permissible in polite company and I think a lot of polite racists are mad the gutter racists are tarnishing their good name.

I don't care for any kinda racist but I love myself, so. 🤷🏽‍♀️

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little lamb @puddleofbrain.bsky.social · 1d

Charlie Browns mom: Waaah wah wah wah waaah waaah waaah wah

Charlie Brown: oh, you mean pigpen

Charlie browns mom: Wah way. Waaaah wahwahwah wah wah waaah waaaah wahwhawah wah wah

Charlie Brown: yeah I get that. It’s pretty bad over there but I don’t think they hit him

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Micah @rincewind.run · 21h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

a real question for the roberts majority is what in their view distinguishes jim crow disenfranchisement from majority-minority districts? a related question is what in their view made the typical jim crow law — which was facially neutral — unconstitutional?

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 20h

incredible

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 21h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 21h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

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Jason Shawhan @jshawhan.bsky.social · 21h

Tuesday, October 28th at the @belcourttheatre.bsky.social at 930PM. Be there...

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

‼️ this was a striking moment, to me

Louisiana was basically like 'here come these Black people always asking for more' and Justice Jackson was like, 'that's not what the fuck they're asking for, they're saying: stop discriminating against us'

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 1d

Louisiana: "The plaintiffs came in and said 'we want a second majority-minority district."
KBJ: "NO THEY DID NOT. They said our votes are being dilluted."
Louisiana: "That's the same thing."
KBJ: "No it's not. ... trust me on this."
:)

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 6d

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

What Is Really Going on With All This Radioactive Shrimp? - Consumer Reports

Here’s the latest on how shrimp and spices got contaminated with cesium-137, how the FDA has responded, and why consumers should not panic.

www.consumerreports.org

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Harms Committed @harmscommitted.com · 1d

Israeli "troops shot dead at least nine unarmed Palestinians trying to return to their homes in northern Gaza City and southern Khan Younis."

"During the last Gaza ceasefire [..] Israel violated the agreement more than 1,000 times before scrapping the deal."
#Gaza #Palestine #Israel #USA #Genocide

'You Cease, I Fire': Israel Kills at Least 9 in Gaza, Says It Will Break Truce Aid Terms | Common Dreams

"Israel is working extremely hard to blow up this ceasefire," said one observer after IDF troops shot dead Palestinians trying to return to their homes in the largely flattened strip.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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