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Film and TV thoughts from inside the industry beast. Also: culture, politics, and history. Hollywood, CA.

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“No Viet Cong ever called me a DIGGER.”

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For Merritt Wever

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Just put the Oscar in the bag bro

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@ingelramdecoucy RIP Alec Guinness. You would have loved Disney Adults.

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@shadihamid @mehdirhasan The poor Palestinians might have gotten hurt while they were celebrating the hostage corpses they dragged through the streets.

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@mehdirhasan Your pet savages tried to genocide a music festival. Gaza is a war.

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@CraigAbalos @jacobin The Palestinian militants which serve their elected government of Hamas could unconditionally surrender. Which is supposed to happen when you lose a war that you started.

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@steady_drumbeat If anyone was going to blow themselves up, it’d be Mamdani.

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@ArynneWexler People who celebrated assassination attempts are very upset at roast jokes targeting a politician.

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@elgindy_ It’s not masquerading as comedy. It is comedy.

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THE FURTHER MIS-ADVENTURES OF PHONE BOOTH, starring Colin Farrell

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Not that it will matter, but below is the full passage in which Houellebecq uses the term "great replacement." @MarkLandler @nytimes @LibrairieRCamus @mhouellebecq

“At first, I was very shocked that this was called a theory. It’s not a theory, it’s a fact. I’d not read Renaud Camus. I’d wanted to read him for a long time, because I have a great deal of respect for Emmanuel Carrère and he’s written on several occasions that “it’s really a shame Renaud Camus defends these positions. He’s such a good writer!” Anyway, I eventually read him, and it’s true, Renaud Camus is a good writer, there’s no doubt about it. So, he’s observed a great replacement or, to be more precise, the modification of the ethnic and religious composition of the European population. As a matter of statistics, it’s undeniable. But, contrary to what I believed, there are traces of conspiracy theorizing in him. I was surprised that an obviously intelligent man should put forward the idea that there was a conspiracy orchestrated by what he calls the “Davocrats,” a sort of group emerging from the Davos forum. For me, it’s obvious there’s no conspiracy. Where immigration is concerned, no one controls anything, and that’s the whole problem.”

The original French:

« D’abord, j’ai été très choqué qu’on appelle ça une théorie. Ce n’est pas une théorie, c’est un fait. Je n’avais pas lu Renaud Camus. Je voulais le lire depuis longtemps, parce que j’estime Emmanuel Carrère et qu’il a écrit a plusieurs reprises que « c’est vraiment dommage que Renaud Camus défende ces positions, c’est un si bon écrivain ! » Bon, j’ai fini par le lire, et c’est vrai, Renaud Camus est un bon écrivain, ça ne fait pas de doute. Donc, il a constaté un grand remplacement ou, pour être plus précis, la modification de la composition ethnique et religieuse de la population européenne. C’est une évidence statistique. Mais contrairement à ce que je croyais, il y a quelques traces de complotisme en lui. J’ai été surpris qu’un homme à l’évidence intelligent émette l’idée qu’il y aurait un complot orchestré par ce qu’il appelle les « davocrates », une espèce de groupe issu du forum de Davos. Pour moi, il est évident qu’il n’y a aucun complot. En matière d’immigration, personne ne contrôle rien, c’est bien là tout le problème. »

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@TheWrap There aren't a lot of roles for men pretending to be women and vice versa. That's a very specific type of character.

[Zack @zackomondijr]

My sister married a Muslim man who presented himself as deeply devoted to Islam. Before their wedding, he spoke constantly about religious discipline, modesty, family values, and the importance of having a wife who respected Islamic teachings.

At first, our family believed she had married a man with strong principles. But shortly after the wedding, we began noticing a disturbing change.

He started controlling what she wore, where she went, whom she spoke to, and whether she could visit our mother without his permission. He discouraged her from working and gradually isolated her from friends and family.

Whenever she questioned him, he had the same response:

“You’re my wife. Your duty is to obey me. I’m only protecting your faith.”

One afternoon, she called me crying…..

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@jacobin IDF to Gaza: we are here, we are going nowhere, and you must accept and adapt to that fact.

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How is EDDINGTON "prophetic" when it's a 2025 movie about the COVID era?

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Free each other's hearts. Ari Aster’s prophetic masterwork Eddington joins the A24 Screenplay Book collection, alongside Midsommar and Hereditary. https://t.co/b3Y55nSkgv

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@Palestine_UN You don't have an eternal right to conquer Israel just because you lost a civil war 80 years ago.

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@Variety Everyone mad about Skydance is going to protest this, right?

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I’m sure Midlife Mark Ruffalo and Bonehead Bob Bonta will be tripping over themselves to block this dangerous merger, right?

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@Variety @ByClaytonDavis Academy voters should vote for whom they think deserves an award, not to satisfy Clayton Davis’s racial resentments.

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Immigration is an economic issue.

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ICE enforcement in San Antonio is crashing apartment rents.

Apartment rents are falling and delinquency is rising dramatically in most of SA metro.

According to CoStar the San Antonio market is ranked dead last in the Country for vacancy. Parts up SA are 16% delinquent.