Joachim Trier, Danish-Norwegian filmmaker, who won an Oscar,
"The world is at a moment where we are getting more information ever about the wrongdoings made towards children, with several wars going on at the moment"
"I have two small kids, and to be personal for a moment"
"Me and most of the people around me have been crying a lot, weekly, daily, feeling incapable of doing stuff"
"Because we're seeing Palestinian children suffer"
"We're seeing people in Ukraine suffer"
"People in Sudan suffer"
"There doesn't seem to be any accountability at the moment"
"I can mention many other conflicts"
"Any child that dies at war is a responsibility for all adults that elect politicians"
"Dictatorships. We're in a time of strong men. What happened during the Holocaust during WWII"
"My grandfather was a resistance fighter during the war"
"When you're young, you think these things are far away in time, but actually, they happened quite recently and it happens again and again"
"As an artist, I'm not a politician, but I do believe that we need to be more collaborative about how we protect children in conflict situations and in society in general"
Javier Bardem on his "Free Palestine" remark at the #Oscars: "It's important to understand that you can be part of the movie-making community and also be a citizen who uses this huge speaker to denounce injustice."
Making a film about black revolutionaries and the militarization of ICE, but not having anything of political substance to say after you win is so fucking cowardly. All integrity is lost when you try to distance your art from politics during the rise of fascism in this country.
Oscar-winning director Paul Thomas Anderson playfully scoffs after a reporter asks him how #OneBattleAfterAnother reflects where society is headed:
“I thought we were supposed to be partying?”
#Oscars
Happy international women’s day to the brave and resilient women of Afghanistan. It’s been over 1,610 days since they have been denied access to education and basic human rights. As they are being silenced, we must step up and be their voice to bring an end to gender apartheid.
Bombing Iran in the middle of negotiations, while starving Cuba, while genociding Palestinians, while threatening to invade Greenland… the US and Israel are the single greatest threat to humanity and it’s not even close. We are all forced to live in the nightmare they create.
Today, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza. https://t.co/x5yu0SWtHG
Much love to Alex Pretti and Renee Good—but remember—ICE has killed 9 people in 2026. You know the names of the 2 white people they've killed.
ICE has also killed a Black man named Keith Porter, a Cambodian named Parady La, and five Latinos named Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.
ICE is on pace to kill more than 100 people this year. Abolish ICE. Impeach Noem. Prosecute those who committed these crimes.
Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor of NYC is the pendulum swing the country needed. Love and unity will always win when you put the working class at the heart of your campaign, not greedy corporations and immoral billionaires.