a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans

Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · 9h ago

AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h ago

Tuberville: "If we don't straighten out this country's voting and immigration system, we're not gonna make it. It's gonna be over. I'm gonna go back to Alabama and hey, we might build a 30-foot wall around our state."

dare I ask

Jason Bailey@jasondashbailey.com · 24h ago

The thing about @walshfreedom.bsky.social is that he stands for absolutely fucking nothing. Just a craven opportunist dickweed who goes whichever way the wind blows and expects to be bathed and blown for making the journey.

Our GUIDE FOR THE FILM FANATIC conversation with John Malahy on RISKY BUSINESS, released on this day in 1983: www.youtube.com/watch?v=saVw... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...

“Risky Business” with John Malahy

YouTube video by Guide for the Film Fanatic

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Aug 5th - Racial tensions heat up in a Brooklyn neighborhood over the course of a hot summer day. 📽️📅 Do the Right Thing (1989)

I would preface this question with two others: “Who won the 2016 election?” “Who won the 2024 election?”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

BLUMENTHAL: Judge Cook, who won the 2020 election? COOK: A joint session of Congress certified Joe Biden BLUMENTHAL: How many times have you rehearsed that answer with the White House? Who won the popular vote? COOK: So if you look at each state, the governor-- B: So you're unwilling to answer

I—

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · 7h ago

NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

I know we are chalking the success of some leftist candidates almost entirely to the DSA. However, it seems like the more common theme is that these are candidates with organizing experience?

"If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die. Death with dignity is surely a better fate for the genre than fascist capitulation." Zero stars for this piece of shit movie. My review of ONE NIGHT ONLY for @ebertvoices.bsky.social

One Night Only review: Pull out from this sex-negative rom-com

If this is what it takes to get a rom-com greenlit these days, maybe we should just let them die.

rogerebert.com

Ethan Corson had Kansas unions and the popular Democratic governor going hard for him and he got cooked by ten points by a populist who wants a moratorium on data centers

Kevin@reginageorgebush.bsky.social · 22h ago

Cindy Holscher pulls away in the Kansas gubernatorial primary and will be Democrats' nominee in their toughest gubernatorial defensive race of the cycle

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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Coda: www.offmessage.net/p/27-thought...

Brian Beutler@brianbeutler.bsky.social · 11h ago

Twenty-seven thoughts on the Michigan race, and the unofficial end of a brutal primary season. www.offmessage.net/p/27-thought...

"if new york goes left, all the business money will move away" reality: business people like living in nyc and dont actually want to live in red states or podunk www.wsj.com/us-news/mamd...

This is the most loser-coded image imaginable, big "villains in an '80s breakdancing movie" energy

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10h ago

JD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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This dude really thought he "gotcha,checkmate"d people whose whole deal is we don't use this shit

Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterday

Guys like this don’t realize that they are the freak

This is a sentimental essay about politics, which I know isn't the fashion, and yet the editors at @newrepublic.com let me write something personal about the Lone Star State. Link in the replies.

Either "Layla" in GOODFELLAS or "Sunshine of Your Love" in GOODFELLAS or "Mannish Boy" in GOODFELLAS or "Baby I Love You" in GOODFELLAS or "Monkey Man" in GOODFELLAS or "Memo from Turner" in GOODFELLAS or "Jump into the Fire" in GOODFELLAS or "What Is Life" in GOODFELLAS or "Sure the Boy I Love" in

mae, podcast princess@eversonpoe.bsky.social · 23h ago

Name your fav use of licensed music in a soundtrack: bad to the bone in T-2 starless by King crimson in Mandy spybreak in the matrix gut feeling in life aquatic the killing moon in Donnie Darko stigmata martyr in night of the demons tumbling lights by the acid in the eyes of my mother

porn on main

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 22h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

My slight tweak to ONE NIGHT ONLY is that it should take place in a world where only a tiny fraction of people are even *capable* of having sex. And they’re forced to do so in a club while “sex negatives” watch. Also the sex is unsimulated.

Getting word that the new Will Gluck movie is bad, impossible as that may be to believe

lol eat shit

Your periodic reminder that Velvet Goldmine is back on Criterion Channel, rightfully under the "Rock biopics that don't suck" category.

TODAY: @milesklee.bsky.social celebrates a high point of cinema, that Orson Welles frozen peas commercial. Welles has "no cause to give even a microscopic fraction of a fuck about how the finished product will turn out. He insists on integrity anyway." flaminghydra.com/a-celebratio...

A Celebration of Orson Welles’s Frozen Pea Commercial Outtakes

I never let a July pass me by without revisiting the infamous 1970 bootleg audio of Orson Welles attempting to record voiceover narration for advertisements for various foods, beginning with frozen pe...

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Pepper has never had to read a Donald Trump tweet

Miss Katefabe@misskatefabe.bsky.social · yesterday

EVERYONE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING and meet Pepper who weighs 2.3 lbs and is figuring out the world for the very first time

These men are immoral, untrustworthy cowards.

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 23h ago

“Republican Senators Thom Tillis and John Cornyn each reneged on their promises to meet with victims of Jeffrey Epstein, with Tillis even leaving them waiting in his office for 45 minutes before they gave up.” newrepublic.com/post/213959/...

The fact that this drooling pants-shitting whitewashing dipshit thinks these two things are remotely comparable really tells you who the fuck he is, doesn't it

Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" was released on this day in 1954. @jasondashbailey.com on what made it so special: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...

Classic Corner: Rear Window — Crooked Marquee

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 favorite (out now in a gorgeous new 4K transfer) remains one of his most effective movies – and one of his kinkiest.

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