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🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
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December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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You are infinitely closer to struggling than you ever will be to billionaires
James Van Der Beek Auctioning Off Dawson’s Creek Items Amid Cancer Journey
James Van Der Beek has put several Dawson’s Creek and Varsity Blues items up for auction as he continues to battle stage 3 colon cancer.
www.eonline.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Time to close out #Noirvember with my annual rewatch of L.A CONFIDENTIAL. Hush-hush.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway.

Gift link:

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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this is quite the detail
November 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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November 30th / December 1st
November 30, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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I got my signed copy of @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social's gorgeous CINEMA HER WAY from here and highly recommend both the book and the shop. mzs.press/SIGNED-Cinem...
November 30, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
cnn.it/48f32sc
College freshman is deported flying home for Thanksgiving surprise, despite court order | CNN
A college freshman trying to fly from Boston to Texas to surprise her family for Thanksgiving was instead deported to Honduras in violation of a court order, according to her attorney.
cnn.it
November 29, 2025 at 6:33 PM
high profits without a labor force is just shuffling money away from the working class to people in ivory towers. we’re in a class war and have been for a long time.
The markets are staying afloat right now on the hope that AI will destroy American workers. What a bleak thing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/b...
November 30, 2025 at 4:00 AM
This is clearly the reference photo.
November 30, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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The number one thing you can do on Black Friday is. . .buy my book

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November 30, 2025 at 2:39 AM
time for my annual #Noirvember rewatches of LAURA and SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS.

I need to know what possessed Fox Home Video to airbrush Gene Tierney’s face to the point of being practically unrecognizable though.
November 30, 2025 at 2:20 AM
I still have this doc taped off of TV in 1995 on two VHS tapes, complete with commercials for things like APOLLO 13 on home video for $19.95! They’ll take those VHS tapes from my cold, dead hands.
Jesus Christ, the "remastered" Beatles Anthology documentary they re-released is filled with AI slop. Look at John and Paul's faces, and the "T" on Beatles.
November 30, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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How it started / How it’s going
November 30, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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What is this mess
November 30, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
apparently it's fascist now to point out colonial gaze in art

(this is in response to a review (boxd.it/9V7Fnf) I linked to on my review of Sirāt (boxd.it/bSCXSL) that does a deep dive on the colonial gaze of the film).
November 30, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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In my latest Al Bustan Seeds of Culture column, I explore why an Arab-American cinema never materialized and examine the dominant Sunni–Muslim–heterosexual–male gaze that continues to shape the works made by diasporic Arabs in the U.S.

www.albustanseeds.org/news/whereis...
Cinema, Etcetera | Where is the Arab American Film Wave? — Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
By Joseph Fahim The cornerstone of works by diaspora filmmakers is identity and alienation, and intricate community dynamics in relation to diverse American environments. In the scant body of work...
www.albustanseeds.org
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
still thinking about this beautiful soul
November 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This always makes me sad because we get copyrighted apple cultivars, while heritage apples are slowly no longer being grown, the knowledge of how to grow them becoming lost, along with the memory of their taste.
November 29, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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November 29, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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“The city of Tallinn, Estonia, embraces this darkness as a virtue,” writes @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social. Read her reflections on the festival where she was able to "see the festival’s dark charms in all their glory with my own eyes.”
Reflections on the 2025 Tailinn Black Nights Film Festival | Festivals & Awards | Roger Ebert
A recounting of time spent at the Estonian film festival.
www.rogerebert.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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All hail the curators!
Before you start your holiday shopping, check out my Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide with curated recommendations of books, Blu-rays, posters, and more suggestions to spread the love of women-directed cinema!
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide
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November 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Support small and local businesses if you’re out shopping today!
Before you start your holiday shopping, check out my Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide with curated recommendations of books, Blu-rays, posters, and more suggestions to spread the love of women-directed cinema!
Sleigh bells ring, are you listening?
Directed By Women Holiday Gift Guide
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November 29, 2025 at 4:39 PM