And how do you respond to this?! mamdanitimes.com

just watched this netflix documentary on the oklahoma city bombing and once again i'm struck by how so many of the popular media takes on this event just avoid entirely the connection to organized white supremacism

Protesters instigating violence in Boston, March 5, 1770.

while you were out fighting fascists in the street, i studied the brunch. while you were opposing genocide, i told you to enjoy the camps. and now that the world is on fire and the barbarians are at the gate you have the audacity to come to me for help?

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

The App Which Will Not Be Named decided to mark every single post I made today as "Hateful Conduct," rendering the app completely useless to me.

So it looks like I'll be spending more time here. What have I been missing?

Annabelle's Serpentine Dance made the National Film Registry!

It's the earliest projected film I have found with a positive printed review: the journalist was impressed by how closely the hand-applied color captured the ginger locks of the IRL Annabelle.

OK. I'm gonna try the Bluesky thing in earnest now. See if this place got any better than the last time I was here. Already looks better than Threads, so there's that.

me coming back to bluesky after my tweets flop

Hughes Van Ellis, one of three known remaining survivors of the massacre in which a white mob killed hundreds of Black residents in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, died on Monday. He was 102.

John Lithgow has played 2 of these three characters in his career. Someone needs to cast him as Stalin before he retires.

Happy Columbo’s Day

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