Alan Mattli
@alanmattli.bsky.social
Film critic for Filmbulletin. By-lines in Maximum Cinema, Swissinfo, Filmexplorer, MUBI Notebook, and Filmmaker Magazine. University of Zurich American literature post-doc. Loves cats. Will rate your Werner Herzog impression. Any pronouns.
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We're doing pogroms in America now
Officials prepare immigration operation in Minnesota that would focus on Somali immigrants, source tells AP, as Trump says he doesn't want Somalis in U.S.
Federal authorities plan operation in Minnesota focusing on Somali immigrants, AP source says
Federal authorities are preparing an immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota, focusing on Somali immigrants living unlawfully in the U.S.
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December 3, 2025 at 4:50 AM
We're doing pogroms in America now
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Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Feels like "missing" is inaccurate. This child was kidnapped by the secret police and is now either a political prisoner or a trafficking victim.
Truly an icon of American 80s/90s/00s pop cinephilia. Emphatically "edgy" demeanour masking safe, middle-of-the-road tastes. You could have told me this is the Nostalgia Critic's list and I would probably have believed you.
I'm not going to pretend these are bad films (I don't even mind the Woody film) but this doesn't exactly scream "voracious cinephile with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of genre and world cinema" so much as "dad who watches a lot of TNT."
December 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Truly an icon of American 80s/90s/00s pop cinephilia. Emphatically "edgy" demeanour masking safe, middle-of-the-road tastes. You could have told me this is the Nostalgia Critic's list and I would probably have believed you.
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This this this
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This this this
À propos of no movie currently in US theatres, here is one of my favourite poems, "Anne Hathaway" by Carol Ann Duffy.
December 2, 2025 at 2:29 PM
À propos of no movie currently in US theatres, here is one of my favourite poems, "Anne Hathaway" by Carol Ann Duffy.
Remember when Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for THE SOCIAL NETWORK and took time out of his thank-you speech to apologise to Mark Zuckerberg for having a character call him an asshole in the final scene? Feels like an emblematic moment in the history of coddling US technofascism.
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Remember when Aaron Sorkin won an Oscar for THE SOCIAL NETWORK and took time out of his thank-you speech to apologise to Mark Zuckerberg for having a character call him an asshole in the final scene? Feels like an emblematic moment in the history of coddling US technofascism.
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Fascism doesn't rise to power, power lowers itself to accommodate fascism until its in the gutter
December 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Fascism doesn't rise to power, power lowers itself to accommodate fascism until its in the gutter
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[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
December 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
[trans people fired from all federal jobs]
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
[trans people fired from all military jobs]
[trans people fired from jobs everywhere]
[cis people fired for being accused of being trans]
[cis professors fired for mentioning trans people exist]
[trans teacher fired for giving a bad grade to Nazi]
liberal:
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you can now get trans people fired from academia by just turning in unambiguously garbage work for them to grade, getting a bad grade, and then having the conservative propaganda apparatus take it from there
December 1, 2025 at 7:55 PM
you can now get trans people fired from academia by just turning in unambiguously garbage work for them to grade, getting a bad grade, and then having the conservative propaganda apparatus take it from there
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we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 7:40 PM
we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying
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every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
December 1, 2025 at 12:04 AM
every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades
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A girl in a science class at OU got a bad grade for a paper she turned in on gender that only cited her interpretation of the bible. She complained to the university and now the university is punishing the professor of the course.
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
December 1, 2025 at 1:43 AM
A girl in a science class at OU got a bad grade for a paper she turned in on gender that only cited her interpretation of the bible. She complained to the university and now the university is punishing the professor of the course.
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November 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
November 30, 2025 at 6:43 AM
They're not hiding it, folks—straight up neo-Nazi advertising, from the font to the language to the 11 stars for the Confederacy. Then you have the DHS openly using white nationalist language of "remigrate", which means ethnic cleansing.
This is who MAGA is now.
This is who MAGA is now.
Soooo… Pixar's ELIO is actually quite good, eh.
November 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Soooo… Pixar's ELIO is actually quite good, eh.
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this man has an approval rating in the mid-30s and dropping, everything he does turns to shit, you do not have to do this
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 AM
this man has an approval rating in the mid-30s and dropping, everything he does turns to shit, you do not have to do this
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The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
November 28, 2025 at 10:17 PM
The effortless shift in discourse from people insisting that anything that isn't a white statue of a dead roman dude isn't art like 3 years ago to demanding that they be treated as visionary artists for typing" x-men mystique big boobs she's my girlfriend" into a prompt window
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America has gone full Nazi and it’s time to call out those accountable: Democrats not getting on board purging around a dozen trans athletes from the NCAA
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
America has gone full Nazi and it’s time to call out those accountable: Democrats not getting on board purging around a dozen trans athletes from the NCAA
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
—Tomorrow in The NY Times from some tedious twat
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This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 6:02 AM
This is unhinged, unadulterated white nationalism that is so off-the-charts fascist not even David Duke would have said that in public.
I'm only one episode into season five of STRANGER THINGS, so this may well be intentional, but I'm confused as to what age they're going for with Nell Fisher's character.
November 28, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I'm only one episode into season five of STRANGER THINGS, so this may well be intentional, but I'm confused as to what age they're going for with Nell Fisher's character.
Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart, "How to Read Donald Duck"
November 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Ariel Dorfman & Armand Mattelart, "How to Read Donald Duck"
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Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."
November 27, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Translation: "If you don't use AI then the guys using our chips can't pretend to make money and can't pay the loans they took out to pay for the original loans they took out for all the money they're not making and it all falls apart and we can't sell chips to fuel the money they're not making."
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
"Don't call your soul your own" – what a fucking line.
1900s America even
November 26, 2025 at 8:32 AM
"Don't call your soul your own" – what a fucking line.
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Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.