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Joan Amenn
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Editor in chief of InTheirOwnLeague.com. We believe in “Diverse Voices, Powerful Stories” #womeninfilm member GALECA, OAFFC, AWFJ, contributor to @Filmotomy, SFCS
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R.I.P. Udo Kier (1944—2025)
November 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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The time has come to share my favorite films, soundtracks and performances of 2024. This was an eclectic, exciting year for personal moviewatching and I look forward for what’s ahead in 2025. #Movies #FilmSky

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2024 at the Movies – A Retrospective : Sonic Cinema
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December 31, 2024 at 8:39 PM
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The newest episode in our “Fascism in Cinema” series is out today. Here, @jmamenn.bsky.social and I look at the press’s responsibility in speaking truth to power, and how it’s threatened now. #Movies #Films #FilmSky @bingemovies.bsky.social @dwlundberg.bsky.social

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Episode 175: “Fascism in Cinema – The Fourth Estate” : Sonic Cinema
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November 22, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Another episode of Sonic Cinema’s “Fascism in Cinema” series is in the can. It was great to talk to @jmamenn.bsky.social for the first time on the pod about holding power accountable in journalism. Look for the episode at the start of November. #Movies #Films #FilmSky
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October 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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for active military or if you know someone in the military:

“The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may not be legal.”
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Orders Project
The Orders Project is a non-partisan program created by the National Institute for Military Justice to assist military personnel in understanding their options when faced with orders they believe may....
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October 12, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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Seems relevant. Don’t let them erase us.
October 10, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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The Dude has spoken:

"ICE? Let's get ICE off our streets and into our beverages. This aggression will not stand. Let's just abide together"
October 8, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Here's my 🧵of #LFF2025 📽️ reviews starting with the movies I have covered elsewhere. My strongest recommendation is for ROMERÍA, an enormous act of love with an all-time dance scene done by filthy gutter punks movieswetextedabout.com/romeria-film...
'Romería' Film Review: An Extraordinary Act Of Love
Romería is the movie above all others I have been recommending from this year’s Cannes Film Festival. That is because this is such a powerful story, told with such an incredible amount of love, that i...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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ALPHA #LFF2025 📽️ has another extraordinary scene set in a punk club with some unusual (and repulsive) body horror, but somehow even with Tahar Rahim's brutally beautiful performance Julia Ducournau didn't quite bring it all together intheirownleague.com/2025/05/26/c...
Cannes Film Festival 2025 review: Alpha
Year: 2025 Runtime: 128 minutes Writer/Director: Julia Ducournau Actors: Mélissa Boros, Golshifteh Farahani, Finnegan Oldfield, Tahar Rahim By Sarah Manvel What makes Julia Ducournau such a high-pr…
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October 8, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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As for the others I've already covered at #LFF2025 📽️ let's go alphabetically (more or less). AFTER THE HUNT holds a woman responsible for a sexual assault committed by a man and I loathe this is how our culture addresses these crimes movieswetextedabout.com/after-the-hu...
'After the Hunt' Review: A Reactionary Film from Luca Guadagnino
No deer longs for the hunter’s arrow, and no art designed to maintain the status quo is ever as good as it thinks it is. Say what you will about Luca Guadagnino, he has made three solid movies in the ...
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October 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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JUST IN: Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
Jane Goodall, legendary primatologist, has died at age 91
Jane Goodall, primatologist who transformed our understanding of the lives of apes, has died, according to an announcement from the Jane Goodall Institute.
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October 1, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Canceling a streaming service?

How about watching FREE silent films instead? I have the links!
moviessilently.bsky.social Movies Silently @moviessilently.bsky.social · Sep 16
Bringing my FREE STUFF thread over.

Lots of archives, national film institutes, nonprofits and others have made collections of silent films available for free, no signup needed.

I have the links
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September 18, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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If the planet continues to warm at its current rate, exposure to wildfire smoke will kill an estimated 70,000 Americans each year by 2050, according to new research. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...
A firefighter, shown from behind, looking out toward smoldering trees in a mountain valley. A headline reads: "Wildfire Smoke Will Kill Thousands More by 2050, Study Finds." Photo by Loren Elliott for The New York Times
September 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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OK EVERYONE!!! You know the assignment.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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A six year investigation by NYT reporters found the nation’s largest bank enabled Epstein for years.

🎁 article
How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein
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September 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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PENELOPE IS MISSING UPTOWN: Last seen between 119th and 120th St and Park Ave heading toward Lexington and Third. She's 28 pounds and chipped: 616099000072018. If you've seen or found her please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT PENELOPE!
May 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Well done.
joshuajfriedman.com Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · Jun 24
NEW: Judge Murphy says the 8 men in Djibouti on their way to South Sudan WILL GET THE DUE PROCESS he previously ordered, saying that his remedial order remains in effect despite the Supreme Court's unreasoned order lifting the stay on his class-wide injunction.
June 24, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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All links now live! Happy reading everybody
June 17, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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BREAKING: Judge Breyer declines California request for immediate restraining order but sets a Thursday hearing:
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June 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Animal Care Services (ACS)
4710 TX-151
San Antonio, TX 78227

Phone: (210) 207-4738

ACS will only place holds on animals for approved rescues and fosters that have emailed the request to the monitored email:

ACS Rescue/Foster: acsrescue-foster@sanantonio.gov (no third parties)

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TAZ - ID. hashtag#A757334 (M) Estimated Age 5 YEARS, BLACK/WHITE, LABRADOR RETRIEVER/BLEND DOG. Weight LARGE LBS Heartworm Test: NO TEST Heartworm Smear: NO TEST Days At Shelter: 6 Evaluation Notes: 5/23/25 Dog is laying down upon approach and sits up for offered treats with a tense body, wide eyes and a tucked tail. He retreats away from me as I enter kennel with a tense, trembling body, wide eyes and a tucked tail. He continued to take treats offered to him on ground and by hand with same body language. He allows me to pet him as I offer him treats with same body language. He is able to be leashed and walked outside by walking behind him. Once outside he freezes outside of building where he is hyper-vigilant and sniff the air with a tense, trembling body, wide eyes and a tucked tail. After a few moments, he turns around and stands at the door seemingly interested to return to kennel. He is easy to return to kennel. Behavior due to environment and/or under-socialization. Play Group: 5/25/25 Dog was fearful upon approach with tucked ears and tense body. He was able to be leashed and carried outside into the yard. He laid down in the yard near handlers with a tense body and tucked tail and allowed other dogs to greet him. He was most interested in staying near handlers watching the other dogs play. Behavior possibly due to undersocialization. Vet Exam Notes: 5/22/25 Pt on vet exam list for pale gums and ticks QAR, very nervous and cowering in corner of kennel, some fleas and ticks observed, light pink mm, ambulatory. Provecta to be applied for flea & tick treatment and prevention during work-up, continue monitoring Placement requests submitted after these times, to different emails or by rescues, and fosters not currently approved to work with ACS provide no guarantee a pet will not be euthanized (killed). Animal Care Services (ACS) 4710 TX-151 San Antonio, TX 78227 Phone: (210) 207-4738 ACS will only place holds on animals for approved rescues and foste…
May 28, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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I really liked LEFT-HANDED GIRL #Cannes about the way two very different sisters suddenly grow up in Taipei. There wasn't room in the review but there's also a pet meerkat in the movie movieswetextedabout.com/left-handed-...
'Left-Handed Girl' Movie Review: Shih-Ching Tsou's and Sean Baker's Taipei Story
For his next trick – not his follow-up to Anora, since he did not direct – Sean Baker has co-written, edited and co-produced this Taiwanese movie about a family of three women trying to make it in Tai...
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May 26, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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Seeing claims about the judge "hiding" the defendant. Read the complaint, folks (written by DOJ). The guy was literally in the public area where the agents were. I guess he got on an elevator before they could get to him. The complaint says after letting the defendant exit she came back to the bench
April 25, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Hoopla Digital — free with a library card — now has comic strips.

More than 100 newspaper strips are available digitally + the complete PEANUTS.

They also have manga, comics, and graphic novels — all free to "borrow." A treasure trove.

www.hoopladigital.com/bingepass/co... #Comics #Manga #BookSky
April 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Justin Wolfers explains the REAL reason why Trump & Bessent said today that their first deal will likely be with South Korea - because that country has had zero tariffs on virtually everything from the US for 20 years already.
April 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Hey, John Roberts? The White House liaison to DHS is saying that you have no understanding of law and its proper function and role.
Paul Ingrassia & GP @PaulIngrassia Subscribe Generations of lawyers and judges, on both sides of the aisle, have been infected with a parasitical ideology that denies reason and common sense, causing irreparable damage to our judicial system. This is why a putatively "conservative" Supreme Court so often fails to uphold the most basic principles of constitutional governance. Nations require borders in order to preserve national sovereignty, define citizenship, and allocate rights. That 7 members, including 3 appointed by President Trump in his last administration no less, would choose to willfully ignore that most basic precept of national sovereignty, demonstrates that the Supreme Court would rather actively participate in America's ruination, rather than work alongside the duly elected president to help reestablish the RULE OF LAW. This is why the ongoing efforts to hold elite universities, law firms, and law schools accountable by the Trump administration is so vitally important. The calluel mour fuulelat oyotell beg ho wil the poison taught by these institutions, which has infected even so-called conservative lawyers and judges with the same anti-Constitutional, anti-American, immoral ideologies over decades and decades. Law must be moderated by the virtues, including individual responsibility and wisdom. Its practitioners must have mastery over these virtues in order to properly execute the laws for a free and self governing people. That imperative was long ago abandoned by our educat onal institutions. The judges in law courts today, including the majority in the nation's Highest Court, telegraph with these decisions that they have no understanding of law and its proper function and role. President Trump is the first leader who has actually meaningfully attempted to reverse this destructive trajectory, and done so with the gravitas of executive power that will be sure to have a lasting impact for years to come. * johnny maga @ @ _johnnymaga • 1h As usual, Alito and Thomas are the only two Justices you can count on to uphold the integrity of our vaniahlia
April 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM