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Matthew
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Video Editor and Producer | Posts mostly about movies, music, and the Birds.

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His best!
January 23, 2026 at 1:29 AM
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Below is our story about the skyrocketing number of kids detained by ICE.

We cover the facility where Liam is now being held-- parents said food had worms and mold, and kids were so distressed they hit themselves in the face and wet themselves.

www.themarshallproject.org/2025/12/17/c...
ICE Threw Thousands of Kids in Detention, Many For Longer Than Court-Prescribed Limit
Former immigration staffers argue ICE is choosing to detain families for prolonged periods to speed deportations and compel them to leave.
www.themarshallproject.org
January 22, 2026 at 9:53 PM
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brandonleegowton.bsky.social
Eagles reportedly lose Christian Parker to the Cowboys

www.bleedinggreennation.com/news/169466/...
Eagles reportedly lose Christian Parker to the Cowboys
Bad news for Philly.
www.bleedinggreennation.com
January 22, 2026 at 6:19 PM
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nateknowsmovies.bsky.social
5. Marty Supreme
January 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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landonpalmer.bsky.social
Diane Warren getting an Oscar nomination for a song she wrote for a documentary about Diane Warren is really funny
January 22, 2026 at 2:40 PM
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LOVE the two Sinners acting noms so far - Delroy Lindo FINALLY!
January 22, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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Finally started up season 2 of The Pitt last night, man there’s nothing quite as weirdly comforting as this show.
January 22, 2026 at 11:54 AM
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An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
Several agents hold a person down and sprays them with pepper spray.
January 21, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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thefilmstage.com
Kiyoshi Kurosawa is back. Watch the first teaser for his new feudal mystery:
Kiyoshi Kurosawa Spins a Feudal Mystery In First Teaser for Kokurojo
While Kiyoshi Kurosawa hardly leaves us wanting for new work—2024 saw the premiere of three projects, one of which landed high on our best-of-2025 list and another that's still lacking U.S. distributi...
thefilmstage.com
January 21, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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tvaziri.com
Otto from A Fish Called Wanda
January 21, 2026 at 2:45 PM
matthewsimmons.bsky.social
McDaniel and Harbaugh…man.
diannarussini.bsky.social Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 3d
NEWS: The Chargers are expected to hire former Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel as their next OC, sources tell me and Daniel Popper.

McDaniel has been a hot commodity this cycle, interviewing for both head coach and offensive coordinator roles. In the end, he opts for L.A.
January 21, 2026 at 1:55 AM
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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025

A Video Countdown

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THE 25 BEST FILMS OF 2025: A Video Countdown
to watch previous video countdowns please visit: https://www.videocountdowns.com/ this year's video is once again in support of the Palestine Children's…
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January 20, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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via the article for the album "a thousand suns"
January 20, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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fantasynflnews.bsky.social
Indiana season records since 2021:

'21: 2-10
'22: 4-8
'23: 3-9
'24: 11-2
'25: 16-0
January 20, 2026 at 4:20 AM
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66 You may be 38 years old, as I happen to be. And one day, some great opportunity stands before you and calls you to stand up for some great principle, some great issue, some great cause. And you refuse to do it because you are afraid.... You refuse to do it because you want to live longer.... You're afraid that you will lose your job, or you are afraid that you will be criticized or that you will lose your popularity, or you're afraid that somebody will stab you, or shoot at you or bomb your house; so you refuse to take the stand. Well, you may go on and live until you are 90, but you're just as dead at 38 as you would be at 90. And the cessation of breathing in your life is but the belated announcement of an earlier death of the spirit. Martin Luther King Jr.
January 19, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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Not to rub salt in the wound but … it is wild that Philly couldn’t run on this defense 😬
January 18, 2026 at 3:33 AM
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Yall not only is BOYZ N THE HOOD in the Criterion Collection but so are BABY BOY and POETIC JUSTICE too!! This is amazing news.
January 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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I wrote about Renee Good, Venezuela, Greenland, and what it means to be a human being. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
America, JD Vance tells us, is merely a nation like many others ⁠– a “homeland”, he said upon accepting his nomination to the vice-presidency, for “people with a shared history and a common future”. That’s a vision of American identity that would have described bands of cavepeople in skins just as well or better. Stephen Miller’s proleptic defense of seizing Greenland last week suggests the Trumpists themselves know this. “We live in a world, in the real world ... that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he declared. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.” Miller’s laws are the laws of animals. It is true, obviously, that high ideals have long been deployed to obscure or justify predation, here and elsewhere. But Miller’s stance and the stance of the administration is that there aren’t, actually, any high ideals worth pursuing or even pretending to – that the human being, in itself, is nothing so much ⁠and that we are, fundamentally and forever, primitives. Against the demands and best aspirations of civilization – western or any kind – they tell us the human being is a creature that yearns for nothing more than blood and soil, which is, of course, just mud. The lust for mud has taken up many guises in our history and has been many given names of late – neo-reaction, post-liberalism, fascism. But the name familiar to most is evil. It was evil – the standpoint that only might matters, that human morality, and our sense of reality itself, must yield to the turfism of the primates with the biggest clubs – that ginned up the propaganda that provoked an act of terrorism against our legislature and the policemen defending it five years ago. It is evil that undergirds pronouncements from the same voices responsible for that attack, in defense of the man who shot Renee Nicole Good, that those who disobey the commands of law enforcement, however unsound or unjust, deserve summary execution – that implies, as Fox’s Jesse Watters and others have, that Good’s killing was of trivial significance because she was a lesbian “with pronouns in her bio”. It is evil that sends innocent men to foreign gulags, evil that condemns hundreds of thousands of destitute people abroad to death without a moment’s discussion or debate about what the country they had depended on might owe them, or the furnishing of alternative arrangements for their wellbeing. The gutting of USAID remains this administration’s worst and least surprising offense against the human conscience – a president who rejects the idea that we might have obligations to all within our society can’t be expected to wonder or worry about whether we have obligations to those outside of it. This is also why, after all the noise and nonsense about the need to depose the Maduro regime, the Venezuelan people are now being told that regime will be left in mostly in place for as long as it takes to secure and extract the country’s resources on our terms – that Venezuela will not see democracy unless and until it is profitable for the United States. Democracy has always been a useless abstraction to those who deny we have basic human entitlements – for those who believe, instead, that the idea of human liberty is a luxury for those wealthy and powerful enough to consider themselves our betters rather than the birthright of all. As many who’ve taken to the streets in protest have noted, the Trump administration’s assaults on liberty here at home are the kinds of abuses that spurred the revolution we will commemorate this year. But no grand revolution is in the offing this time around. The only just and plausible recourse for our situation is politics – understood not merely as the contest to win any given set of elections but as the broader fight to forge a republic that honors and strengthens our humanity. The American project must and will succeed. Its enemies stand for too little. Our lives are worth too much.
January 14, 2026 at 3:26 PM
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Only a few months behind, but am finally getting around to Wednesday’s excellent latest album, Bleeds. So many ear worms!!

music.apple.com/us/album/tow...
Townies by Wednesday on Apple Music
Song · 2025 · Duration 3:15
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January 14, 2026 at 1:10 PM
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January 13, 2026 at 8:32 PM
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. Some observations from four days on the ground in Minneapolis.
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ICE agents are, simply put, fucking clowns. According to The Atlantic, they receive 47 days of training — in honor of Trump, the 47th president, naturally. Many of them, also, can barely read or write, apparently. The ones I spent the weekend following around didn’t even have proper uniforms, with some wearing sneakers. In Minnesota. In January. These dipshits are also wearing camo in the snow. They clearly do not have any training when it comes to their own weapons either. Multiple times over the last few days, I watched officers fire pepper spray balls at the feet of protestors barely a few inches away from them. These weapons are basically paintball guns full of concentrated pepper spray. So when they hit a target, they explode into the air. Which meant ICE agents regularly ended up poisoning themselves with their own weapons. I also watched two agents ask each other if a canister they were about to fire at the crowd was tear gas or a stun grenade. (It ended up being a stun grenade that then ignited the tear gas they had already shot at us, which started a fire in the street that a protestor had to help them put out.)
January 12, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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They should all stay in the same conference just for the heck of it
diannarussini.bsky.social Dianna Russini @diannarussini.bsky.social · 10d
AFC North head coaches:

Kevin Stefanski — Fired
John Harbaugh — Fired
Mike Tomlin — Stepping down

A new era.
January 13, 2026 at 7:15 PM
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nytimes.com
Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota resigned over the Justice Department’s push to investigate the widow of Renee Good, the woman killed by an ICE agent, and the department’s reluctance to investigate the shooter, according those with knowledge of their decision. nyti.ms/4qUl36Z
January 13, 2026 at 6:50 PM
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The good news is I never have to watch the 2025 Eagles offense ever again.
January 12, 2026 at 2:28 PM