Zohran Mamdani spoke at a Rikers Island graduation ceremony honoring 57 incarcerated people who earned their high school diplomas.
One graduate, Elijah Smith, said he didn’t expect the mayor to show up, but his presence meant something: “It helped. Someone cares about the incarcerated individuals in this jail.”
Sometimes dignity starts with simply showing up.
one thing that irks me about modern cinema is that everyone looks like they live in an airbnb or hotel none of that shit feels like a lived in home but throw on the most random 90s movie and you won't have any doubt that a character has spent most of their life in that apartment
The new phones policy is honestly insane and so dangerous what if I’m at the concert and there’s a genuine emergency??? like what if THE BUTCHER shows up at my show like he did at the Lady Raven concert in 2024!!!???
In Man on Fire, when he gives a corrupt police chief a C4 suppository on a timer, gets the information he wants out of him, then tells him "I wish... I wish you had more time" and walks away blowing up his ass and part of Mexico City
“Don’t drink out of the colored fountain” - Cranston says his mom warned him as a kid before a trip to Texas. So he lived through the Jim Crow era. Because — as so many of us keep saying — it wasn’t that long ago!!!!!
It’s probably fine that vast swathes zoomers and younger millennials exist in a kind of permanent internalized panopticon in which all actions are assumed to be (and interpreted as) performances for a viewer
US professional sports are really useful because they constitute one of the most "vulgar" capitalist scenarios imaginable: workers very transparently create *all* the value in these leagues where ownership very transparently does *nothing* but control the means of production