Ridge

[Save Your Cinema @SaveYourCinema]

I am pleased to share the news that Sony Pictures will be reopening and restoring the historic Cinerama Dome. I was briefed by them on their reopening plans and can’t reveal any details, but I was invited to join the Los Angeles Historic Theatre Foundation so I look forward to working with them to ensure that the restoration honors and preserves the Dome and keeps it exactly as it was in 1963. The Sony people have been extremely generous with me and kind. Getting it to reopen has been a six year odyssey for me. I’ve made many new friends along the way and I am grateful for many people supporting me. I started the petition to save the Cinerama Dome within minutes of finding out it was shutting down and it received over 30 thousand signatures. I was able to reveal the 2023 reopening plans and then break the sad news about it being officially cancelled. Many people told me to give up. Industry figures that I deeply admire told me it would be impossible to convince the family ownership to reoepen it or have it leased to another exhibitor considering their other abandoned cinemas and lack of communication to me. I was called delusional. People made fun of me. Instead, I held protests, spoke with city leaders, provided updates from public records, updated the media, continuously pressed the owners. I had conversations with filmmakers ranging from Wes Anderson to Quentin Tarantino about it. A few months ago I projected the images of the owners faces onto the Dome asking them to reopen and they called the police on me. That was actually a miracle in disguise. I received attention from all around the world and the Cinerama Dome became a topic of conversation again. The general public wasn’t aware that the Dome was abandoned & neglected for 6 years. At the time I had thought nobody would care and it was widely accepted the Dome would be another demolition by neglect. That night was the first form of communication I’ve had with the owners in six years. A few weeks later their property representative responded to a comment about my incident saying “Ownership has taken notice to extreme public interest in reopening” and then  I gave ownership a deadline of August 20th to reopen or pick a new operator or massive protests will resume at their HQ. Just a few months later I’m contacted by Sony about the reopening.  Now I have Save Your Cinema with over 20K followers on social media and millions of views each day.  With the help of my followers we have saved multiple cinemas and are actively working on more reopening soon TBA! I am so grateful for everyone supporting me. Here are just some of the people I’d like to thank! Sean Baker, Edgar Wright, Alma Har'el, Joshua Safran, Alison Martino, Gary Baum, Mark Olsen, Jazz Tangcay, Pat Saperstein, Tait Forman, Christopher Forman , vanfathernighy and every single follower and person who signed my petition and liked my posts. We all made this happen TOGETHER as a community effort. Thank you to EVERYONE! The BEST movie theater on Earth will be reopening 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

@PulaRJS He’ll be remembered just like the judge from the Jeremy Thorpe trial https://t.co/z3tS8O8u8W

[𝐑𝐘𝐀𝐍 ˙⋆✮ @whizzerlive]

oh wow u can’t even watch youtube in full screen without an ad forced into the corner. holy unusable

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

@jan_murray @hughlaurie @unherd What have you done to anger trans activists? Are you anti-trans? That’s the real question we should be asking…

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

@letgetrestarted @SOPROSOCIAL yes bc cruising and gay hookup culture definitely didn’t exist prior to online porn 🤦‍♂️

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

Long before “rage-baiting”, Gehry saw that provocation could be a tool, and he built a career out of it.

From regional architect to global icon. He never bent to public taste, it caught up to him.

He made a global impact. Chances are there’s a wacky Gehry building near you. 🫶

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

Frank Gehry died this week at 96.

He was the OG rage-baiter of architecture.

You probably know his iconic works that redefined contemporary architecture, like the Walt Disney Concert Hall & Guggenheim Bilbao.

But his work wasn’t always beloved…

(A thread 🧵)

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

Over the decades Gehry iterated. Plywood and chain-link gave way to sweeping volumes & complex sculptural elements.

Eventually, it evolved into a leading contemporary design language.

By the time Walt Disney Hall opened in 2003, he was a world renowned ‘starchitect’.

[Mehak Vohra @itsmehakvohra]

did an evening with my cofounder here last year. It was euphoric.

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

@itsmehakvohra So stoked to be on the founder journey with you ❤️

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The right’s cancel culture is at it again.

A cowardly act from a man desperate to distract us from his inability to lead the Pentagon.

[Charlie @charliebesso]

Can we just ban the internet instead?
Our phones should have 2 buttons.
1 for mom, 1 for police

[Ridge @ridgemkxn]

@Eccentric0Eagle the algo knows me too well bc 1st one is in my hometown AND the parent trap house 🥹

[United Nations Geneva @UNGeneva]

UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory:

#Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy #Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination.

https://t.co/qROB23h6zz

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

It is a dark day in US history when an authoritarian with warrant requests from the International Criminal Court is allowed to address a joint session of Congress.

40k Palestinians are dead.
Hostages aren’t home.
Netanyahu is a war criminal.
I will be boycotting his address.

[Drunk Coyotes @drunkyotes]

Bro check out this property I found