I've tried to approach this election unflinchingly & w/ clear eyes, but this is the absolute worst case scenario. We're in an epochal shift in American history of the worst sort, &, while it does not spell the absolute end of Amer liberal democracy, MAGA is a fatal illness. 1/

“If you were able to overlook a genocide and cast a vote for Harris, you already know how a conservative was able to overlook Trump’s extremism and vote for him.”

So a published professor of medicine vs a lawyer who denies that HIV causes AIDS. Yeah idk.

The Master.

Newly found family. #ThePenguin

I’m seeing so many tweets praising Matt Reeves for The Penguin, and not nearly enough love for Lauren LeFranc, who developed and wrote the damn thing.

I once believed that the Israeli government's slaughter of civilians was indiscriminate. I was completely wrong. It is deliberate, massive and plainly genocidal.

the art the artist

So it's not enough to have a native political class. It's not enough to say the West should leave Africa alone. The problem is cultural. The political culture in our institutions. The very colonial nature of those institutions & the fact that we inherited them without questioning

More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined

Tucked away in the #Pluribus credits, it reads, “This show was made by humans.” “I hate AI,” creator Vince Gilligan told Variety with a chuckle. “AI is the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine. I think there’s a very high possibility that this is all a

Soon

Israeli troops kill two Palestinians after they appear to surrender bbc.in/4p8ukYG

An inquiry has been told that a senior figure at UK special forces allegedly tried to cover up concerns that SAS units were carrying out extra judicial killings in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan Inquiry has released summaries of closed hearings in which members of special forces

Im quite tired of people that don’t live in London telling us how terrible London is.

Palestinians tell BBC they were sexually abused in Israeli prisons bbc.in/3Y5tcsT

🚨 UPDATE: The Met Police say they will no longer enforce the ban on Palestine Action

James Gray argues that studios should be allowed to lose money on their art and specialty divisions, saying those films are cultural investments, not just profit centers.