James Aponte
@jamesaponte.bsky.social
Filmmaker. Writer/Director of DREAM RUNNER (on @primevideo), VEJIGANTE, & lots of shorts. Just a simple man trying to make my way in the universe. 🇵🇷
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James Aponte
@jamesaponte.bsky.social
· Feb 19
Exciting news everyone: I finally have a website!
Take a break from doomscrolling and explore something that I put a lot of love and creativity into instead - and maybe watch a few of my movies while you’re there.
Explore and enjoy!
jamesaponte.com
Take a break from doomscrolling and explore something that I put a lot of love and creativity into instead - and maybe watch a few of my movies while you’re there.
Explore and enjoy!
jamesaponte.com
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Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
January 7, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Human brains feed off of negativity. Negative thoughts are easily digested and play in a loop in your mind all of the time. The reality, however, is that there is also A LOT OF GOOD happening every single minute. You have to do more work to pay attention to the good but it's worth it.
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Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
January 7, 2026 at 6:20 PM
Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.
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Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.
January 7, 2026 at 7:20 PM
Do not let the failures of prosecution post January 6th happen again. Every second you do not charge this person is a second the massive propaganda apparatus around the federal government will use to create a fog of lies to get him off. Arrest him immediately for killing an American citizen.
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please stop engaging with "we should take greenland" like its a position that requires asserting history or facts.
"thats fucking stupid, shut the fuck up. taking greenland? sit your dumb ass down" - the response we should be giving
"thats fucking stupid, shut the fuck up. taking greenland? sit your dumb ass down" - the response we should be giving
January 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
please stop engaging with "we should take greenland" like its a position that requires asserting history or facts.
"thats fucking stupid, shut the fuck up. taking greenland? sit your dumb ass down" - the response we should be giving
"thats fucking stupid, shut the fuck up. taking greenland? sit your dumb ass down" - the response we should be giving
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if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult
apnews.com/article/fake...
apnews.com/article/fake...
Finnish children learn media literacy at 3 years old. It's protection against Russian propaganda
Finland has been fighting fake news by teaching media literacy to children as young as 3. The Nordic nation includes this in its national curriculum to help citizens recognize disinformation, especial...
apnews.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
if you tried to do this in the us, you'd have a billion dollar conservative moms group lobbying against it 12 hours later and credulous news articles taking their claims seriously in 24 bsky.app/profile/davi...
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faced with hitler's propaganda machine the allied governments went to work on propaganda to rally their people to the cause. this is how you get people to unite for freedom. the playbook is obvious. you just have to use it.
January 6, 2026 at 8:41 PM
faced with hitler's propaganda machine the allied governments went to work on propaganda to rally their people to the cause. this is how you get people to unite for freedom. the playbook is obvious. you just have to use it.
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there are people who said in 2011 that 9/11 happened under obama. we can lament the public being ill informed until the cows come home, it wont change. or we can focus on informing the public with our narrative so we dont get fucked.
If folks can't remember five years ago better than this bullshit, we're in serious trouble.
the white house site attempting to rewrite january 6 is some dictator shit (link via fox, who got the "exclusive")
www.foxnews.com/politics/whi...
www.foxnews.com/politics/whi...
January 6, 2026 at 5:54 PM
there are people who said in 2011 that 9/11 happened under obama. we can lament the public being ill informed until the cows come home, it wont change. or we can focus on informing the public with our narrative so we dont get fucked.
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A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
January 6, 2026 at 12:40 PM
A reminder - before Trump, MAGA, Musk and Fox rewrote history - that this is what the entire country agreed had happened five years ago today:
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IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
if you want the Senate to do something, Senate Republicans must do something.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
People are dunking on this but I'm not really sure what plays Schumer has other than to try to peel off Rs.
Schumer: "Republicans must -- if there was ever a time, they must step up to the plate. This is the time. And if they don't, they're gonna feel the heat from their constituents."
January 6, 2026 at 1:24 AM
IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.
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January 5, 2026 at 4:03 AM
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I mean, this is nothing
A decade earlier Cap made Richard Nixon commit suicide
A decade earlier Cap made Richard Nixon commit suicide
January 5, 2026 at 4:03 PM
I mean, this is nothing
A decade earlier Cap made Richard Nixon commit suicide
A decade earlier Cap made Richard Nixon commit suicide
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this is pathetic shit. this is exactly how we ended up in iraq and lost thousands of americans and iraqis. this shit. weak, fucking, pathetic, shit.
www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
January 5, 2026 at 2:54 PM
this is pathetic shit. this is exactly how we ended up in iraq and lost thousands of americans and iraqis. this shit. weak, fucking, pathetic, shit.
www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
www.axios.com/2026/01/04/m...
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Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
Instead of whatever this is, we should have a government getting lots of new homes and apartments built, lots of clean energy built, lots of high speed rail and transit and bike lanes built, human rights for everyone, economic & healthcare opportunities for all, & innovation that leads the world.
January 4, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.
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It still boggles my fucking mind that we watched Republicans recover from the biggest electoral defeat in decades by overtly acting as an opposition party (remember why you can't filibuster Supreme Court nominations?) & today's Democrats just fucking refuse to be an opposition party!
Republicans voted over 70 times (!) to repeal Obamacare even though they knew they didn’t have the numbers, but it pleased the base, kept them energized, and showed that the party is still fighting despite being in the minority.
January 4, 2026 at 4:07 AM
It still boggles my fucking mind that we watched Republicans recover from the biggest electoral defeat in decades by overtly acting as an opposition party (remember why you can't filibuster Supreme Court nominations?) & today's Democrats just fucking refuse to be an opposition party!
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Back in 2001-3 you had to question your sanity when thinking about opposing the invasion of Iraq. “Everybody” seemed to support it after 9/11. Those of us who opposed the war were right and the mob was wrong.
Don’t think you have to go along with the mob this time.
Don’t think you have to go along with the mob this time.
January 4, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Back in 2001-3 you had to question your sanity when thinking about opposing the invasion of Iraq. “Everybody” seemed to support it after 9/11. Those of us who opposed the war were right and the mob was wrong.
Don’t think you have to go along with the mob this time.
Don’t think you have to go along with the mob this time.
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My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
January 4, 2026 at 2:02 AM
My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.
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Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
January 3, 2026 at 10:36 PM
Unconstitutional force. Civilians dead. Congress bypassed. Oil interests front and center.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
We’ve seen this movie before and it ends in blood. But we don’t have to do it again.
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Trump and MAGA are a criminal gang. Democrats should keep impeaching the head of that gang to make it clear that Republicans are an active part of the criminal gang. Not impeaching simply makes it easier for him.
January 3, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Trump and MAGA are a criminal gang. Democrats should keep impeaching the head of that gang to make it clear that Republicans are an active part of the criminal gang. Not impeaching simply makes it easier for him.
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Other countries have uninformed voters too. What we lack is an opposition party.
January 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Other countries have uninformed voters too. What we lack is an opposition party.
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based on the most recent tweet visible on screen, this photo was taken in the hour that passed between these two posts... during which time the strikes were taking place. the most important thing in the room was tweets. they wanted to make sure people were posting about it.
January 3, 2026 at 7:31 PM
based on the most recent tweet visible on screen, this photo was taken in the hour that passed between these two posts... during which time the strikes were taking place. the most important thing in the room was tweets. they wanted to make sure people were posting about it.
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And this is why vote blue no matter who is a problem. Because that includes fascist collaborators.
My statement on the capture of the brutal, illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and need for a transition to democracy:
January 3, 2026 at 7:06 PM
And this is why vote blue no matter who is a problem. Because that includes fascist collaborators.
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We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
January 3, 2026 at 3:36 PM
We are a rogue state, run by a dictator, and the international community should treat us as such including all appropriate economic and diplomatic sanctions
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Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.
January 3, 2026 at 4:39 PM
Bombing another country and kidnapping its leader would also be wrong with Congressional approval. The outrage, and call for impeachment, should be over the evil and illegal outcome not merely the failure to follow the prescribed process.
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so we invaded, overthrew and are running a foreign country for no real reason
Trump on Venezuela: "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and judicious transition"
January 3, 2026 at 5:03 PM
so we invaded, overthrew and are running a foreign country for no real reason