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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 11h

Yes! Pylon reference! I’m into it.

Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 11h

I want to be one of those people and I will do the necessary research to become one.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 12h

Speaking of "fired," this guy is going to lose his job over this remark, right? Given the standard that's been set?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Guy Lodge @guylodge.bsky.social · 21h

Just saw ROOFMAN: there was a time when you could go to the multiplex any weekend and see something straightforwardly grownup with this much comfy storytelling nous and easy-breezy star power, but now it feels like something rare, which gets it sized up as a prestige item, which isn’t quite right.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 20h

Very well put.

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Roxana Hadadi @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social · 21h

from me -- a profile of Jafar Panahi, a filmmaker whose work has perfectly met our age of surveillance and interrogation and asks the imperative question of: Who are we, and what comes next? IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT = masterpiece, imo.

Vulture @vulture.com · 1d

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

Jafar Panahi’s Cinematic Rebellions

Since his 2010 imprisonment, the director has been in an endless game of chicken with the Iranian regime. In his defiant new film, ‘It Was Just an Accident,’ a group of Iranians consider killing the man who tortured them in prison.

www.vulture.com

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

This is like a more light-hearted version of the time Christopher Hitchens filmed himself getting waterboarded. Delightful.

Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 4d

I'm sorry, I just had to grab that clip of @pablo.show and @minakimes.bsky.social doing smelling salts for the first time:

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

Seems relevant, too, that he was among the rare ICE agents to be filmed without a face covering.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

A satisfying takedown of all things Bari, but I especially enjoyed the description of Skydance failson David Ellison as having "resting checking-into-the-White-Lotus face."

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 1d

It begins. And by misspelling the name of the guy they're smearing, no less.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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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.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

Hey, I just wrote about that one! thereveal.film/the-enduring...

The Enduring Beauty of ‘Dick Tracy,’ Hollywood's Least-Cool Blockbuster

Disney considered 'Dick Tracy' a disappointment in the summer of 1990, but 35 years later, it looks uniquely ravishing.

thereveal.film

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

Looks like I’m all mixed up about Bari Weiss!

“We’ll pick one then! First you say she decries ‘cancel culture’ then you say she perpetuates it”

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

“Restore objectivity.” No. CBS has been gutted at the behest of the Trump administration and the Ellisons. She is there to purge real journalists and turn the network into another organ of right-wing, Zionist, billionaire-friendly propaganda .

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

Yes, she’s a hypocrite!

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t disagree! I’m just saying that TFP is not exactly going off-brand in writing that.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

Either you legitimately don’t know what you’re talking about or you’re gaslighting me.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

THAT’S WHAT SHE’S FAMOUS FOR DOING! Ask her professors at Columbia.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

That is not what she is there to do. Don’t insult my intelligence.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

I’m not defending Maduro! But she’s most definitely not a progressive ffs.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

An article hailing a far-right Nobel winner is proof of TFP’s centrism? Maybe dig deeper!

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

If The Free Press is “centrist,” god help us all.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

What in the world makes her a centrist? And what makes her qualified to be an *editor*? She rose to power by decrying “cancel culture” while targeting academics and “woke” progressives with contrary views. Now she kowtows to arch-conservative billionaires like the ones taking over Paramount/CBS.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 2d

You’re amazed? Why? It’s not amazing when you spend any time at all scrutinizing her politics and her ethics. A truly awful, opportunistic person who’s also woefully unqualified to be EIC.

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 3d

“Yeah, story looks great. But we still need a name for the guy who grabs kids with his grabbing hands.”

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Scott Tobias @scotttobias.bsky.social · 3d

Craig Counsell? As a player, he did not have mad hits like he was Rod Carew.

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