One of the saddest parts of the Trump-ification of America is people saying “Mamdani’s speech was AI,” because they’ve forgotten what a competent, articulate speaker is. This is the modern version of calling someone “a witch” for knowing how to start a fire. & it’s just as dumb.
Re-watching 'The Silence Of The Lambs', I'm struck that basically every interaction Clarice has with a male colleague is some combination of leering, lecturing and intimidation. Demme's direction implies that by the time she encounters Lecter, he scarcely registers as an anomaly.
Horrifying story of how Jeffrey Epstein obtained "work-release" from his Florida jail to go to his office each day and sexually exploited women there, while he was nominally incarcerated. Another reminder that we don't take sex trafficking seriously. https://t.co/1s14DI7FMB
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.
“You are not numbers or case files.
“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV