frances lyn james

Lesbian film witch. Leftist wonk by day, amateur Oliver Stone scholar by night. Proudly blocked by Glenn Greenwald since 2021.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

My white whale of Oliver Stone content is a 1992 Showtime documentary called "Inside/Out" which my library network only has on VHS. If anyone has a digital copy, hit me up.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@ChipFranks @caitoz "He's appointing a bunch of warhawks to positions solely to make war, but he's going to tell them 'no wars this time, you guys, I mean it!'"

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@caitoz He didn't Mike Pompeo, just one of Pompeo's closest friends. Great "pressure campaign"!

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@caitoz Jeez @caitoz don't you know that Trump badmouthing Lynne Cheney is enough? Trump may have mildly annoyed Dick with a bit of theater on his rush to staff a bunch of old Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Reagan neocons.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@SwoleKyloRen @caitoz "Hurr durr, he made fun of Dick Cheney's daughter! That makes me feel better, because when Trump once again surrounds himself with a bunch of Cheney's warhawk proteges to further the neocon agenda, I bet Dick looks all :( while he counts his millions in blood money."

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@caitoz But according to the folks in your replies, you just have to give Trump a chance and the deep bench of Bush-Cheney neocons he'll appoint again this time around will bring us peace! Plus he made fun of Lynne Cheney once so we can ignore his staff of her dad's protege warhawks.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@TheOliverStone My mind is reeling from the knowledge that @TheOliverStone watched and appreciated Pam & Tommy. He's also correct. Despite the Emmy noms, Pam & Tommy was underappreciated - an excellent miniseries based on terrific reporting from Rolling Stone.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@Acyn People are really shocked that Anderson Cooper, wealthy celebrity scion of one of America's original oligarchs and professional Golden Age nostalgist, would be favorable to Trump.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@NewsWire_US When I read that the PAC is offering "bonus" money to knock on doors, I immediately thought, "Oh, a bunch of folks are going to sign up and fake the stats just to get the money."

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@DougJBalloon @nytimes ain't you tired?

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@CheebaJones @thedailybeast Lol was just about the reply with the same thing. I'm sure Musk working closely with the Trump campaign to censor info won't raise an eyebrow with him though.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@TheMovies_Pod @mattzollerseitz @TexasTheatre Watched the q&A's online-excellent! Related to what you said: sad that @TheOliverStone has to explain his combat induced hearing loss each time. Audience, if you don't have a mic, he can't hear you, please stop.

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

I visited Dealey Plaza with Oliver Stone.

[MZS @mattzollerseitz]

Tonight I watched JFK at @TexasTheatre , where Oswald was arrested, sitting next to Oliver Stone, and we we were behind the seat that Oswald sat in. When Oswald stood up in the movie, the 1963 cops seemed to be yelling at us. Number one moviegoing experience of my life.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@politico Politico crowed that Trump only needed GA, PA and NC to win. Now that he's down in all 3 of those states it's somehow bad news for Harris: https://t.co/kYPs9T5pxm

[COMBATE |🇵🇷 @upholdreality]

MASS WALKOUT at UN General Assembly as Netanyahu takes the podium

[Secrets and Laws @secretsandlaws]

Found the source for this blockbuster story about RFK Jr.’s affair.

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@RonFilipkowski Low on the list of press fails re: Trump is the way the media turns a blind eye to Melania & Ivanka's disappearance from the campaign/Trump's life. Seems like news that the former First Lady and Trump's favorite kid/chief adviser refuse to support his candidacy.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Truly extraordinarily powerful interview of Dominique de Villepin, former Prime Minister of France, on Gaza.

I can't stress enough how rare it is to hear a former French PM speak like this.

He says France "no longer has a voice on the international scene", because (among other things) of its "double-standards" and lack of action with regards to Gaza.

He calls France's internal silencing of what's happening in Gaza a "real scandal in terms of democracy", making France live in "absurdity" and resulting in it "fading away". He says that we (France and the West in general) would have many levers to stop the war - in terms of armament or economic sanctions - "but we refuse to use these levers with arguments which are absolutely unreal culturally or intellectually speaking. Saying 'we need to let Israel fight its war to the end': but what end? What is the end?".

As a consequence he says that France and the West will "foot the bill" for what's happening in terms of loss of credibility and legitimacy.

On Gaza specifically he calls it "undoubtedly the biggest historical scandal since... I don't even dare to find a reference", calling it a war "not like the others since it is civilian populations that die". He also rebukes the journalist for using the usual term "according to the Hamas-run Ministry of Health" with regards to the number of death: "There's not only the Ministry of Health from Hamas which says that there are 40,000 dead. And there are probably many more, MANY more! So from this basis let's not give the feeling that it would be a number like that, unreliable. No!"

Probably the most powerful quote of the interview, literally gave me shivers: "In Gaza bodies are torn into pieces, Hearts are in pieces! Souls are in pieces! Heads are in pieces!" ("À Gaza les corps sont en morceaux! Les coeurs sont en morceaux! Les âmes sont en morceaux! Les têtes sont en morceaux!")

He says that ""Israel has no political objective and when you have no political objective the only thing you can do is war... There is a security objective, there is an identity objective, there is a messianic madness and that explains the catastrophe that we're witnessing."

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@Steviesword @caitoz My job (social worker for adults w/disabilities) has nothing to do w/the way yet I still use part of my pay to donate to a Gaza org. Caitlin's money comes directly from readers wanting her to write about their fave subject. How is that not profiting off others' misery?

[frances lyn james @FrancesLJames]

@Steviesword @caitoz Caitlin, an Australian, writes a lot about Americans like me should feel. But what part is her genuine feelings vs using misery/rage porn to drive views to her site? How much of her reader support does she donate to Gaza relief orgs?