If you’re a fan of Loden and/or Wanda check out this wonderful book by Nathalie Léger bookshop.org/p/books/suit...

Suite for Barbara Loden

The second in Nathalie Léger’s acclaimed genre-defying triptych of books about the struggles and obsessions of women artists. “I believe there is a miracle in Wanda,” wrote Marguerite Duras of the on...

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MidCenturyCinema@midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 5h ago

8/21/70: Barbara Loden's indie landmark Wanda @cinemiasma.bsky.social w/the BFI book: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/wanda-978... More: Amy Taubin: www.criterion.com/current/post... @pulpcurry.bsky.social: andrewnette.substack.com/p/barbara-lo... @justincchang.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

DoD's #2 is Steven Feinberg, founder of private equity firm Cerberus. Alan Waldenberg is Cerberus' top lawyer and manages Feinberg's personal trust. DoD hired Waldenberg to make deals for them. Feinberg chose him personally. Life in the Trump administration. prospect.org/2026/08/21/p...

Top Pentagon Official Contracted Personal Lawyer to Handle Pentagon Minerals Deal - The American Prospect

Alan Waldenberg manages Stephen Feinberg’s personal trust and is lead outside counsel to his former private equity firm. He has also represented the agency where Feinberg is the number two civilian of...

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Mid Century Modern tableware and where I think it would stand on trans issues, a thread

There is no functional difference between people looking for rampant voter fraud and ghost hunters.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 21h ago

BREAKING NYT: A month after the Trump admin declared without evidence that thousands of noncitizens had illegally registered to vote in Nevada, DHS officials were unable to substantiate the claim — finding just 185 potential anomalies, not the 16,000 claimed last month.

“A lot of people see artificial intelligence as something that is largely automated, frictionless, and just appears as a useful tool for us. But most of the human hours that go into making artificial intelligence possible are outsourced to various locations in the Global South.”

AI Is Only Possible Because of Global South Workers in “Digital Sweatshops”

James Muldoon discusses the global supply chains of AI and how people are forming emotional attachments with chatbots.

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The media relentlessly promotes the narrative that progressives are too mean to anti-vaxxers and we must bring them around with compassion. This isn't true and isn't helping. The more public sympathy you show them, the more empowered they are in their beliefs. www.statnews.com/2026/08/19/s...

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

I am *extremely insistently* tapping the sign to remind you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free news how and where you are able to

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2d ago

At an invitation-only gathering in Italy, white supremacists mapped out strategies to target rural America while local press coverage vanishes www.confrontthehate.com/p/white-nati...

now if there was only a political party that took the position against data centers, alas

Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 2d ago

smell that fear

Arturo Béjar testified in Oakland federal court today that Meta teen safety features for "designed to fail" and safety was an afterthought over growth and engagement.

Former Meta engineer says Instagram took a 'don't ask, don't tell' approach on kids under 13

A former engineering director at Meta who has testified before Congress about child safety on Instagram told jurors at a landmark trial that the company took a “don’t ask, don’t tell” approach on kids...

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Florida cop Lamar Roman used a license plate reader to stalk a woman he met on a TV show. We not only have footage of him pulling her over for no reason, but also statements from both him and the victim. @jasonkoebler.bsky.social reports. www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...

Maybe we should describe it the way we describe any software that fails

AP Stylebook@apstylebook.com · 2d ago

What do you think? How would you describe it when AI creates inaccurate information?

This is seriously going to get people hurt and killed.

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 2d ago

One teen poster has made several videos in which he "ragebaits" girls at school -- ragebaiting, in this case, meaning that he insults girls until they get upset and then posts the interactions to social media for others to weigh in w/ comments. Girls often ask him to stop recording. (He doesn't.)

It's not a coincidence that he posted this on X. If you spend time there regularly, then a statement like this seems perfectly savvy, even edgy. It's just another example of how X cooks smart people's brains. There is no safe level of exposure.

Salome@salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 2d ago

what is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me

Hey @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social, some of us on the left actually DO want to abolish prisons. And calling yourself a "law and order leftist" is necessarily reactionary. "Law and Order" is an inherently fascist ideology.

Trump's covert surveillance of anti-ICE protesters is much worse than we thought. I dug into this and found that DHS agents secretly spied on over a dozen meetings of left-leaning groups, all protected by First Amendment. The details are unnerving. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2144...

Trump’s Secret Police Spying on Americans? It’s Darker than We Knew.

Court papers reveal that the Department of Homeland Security’s covert surveillance of anti-ICE groups is much darker than it first appeared. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America.

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“The fund-raising disparity between Alex Vindman and Angie Nixon was massive. Nixon raised $975,000 over the course of the campaign while Vindman, powered by a national donor network, raised $16.3 million, or more than 16 times as much.” — NYT

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Angie Nixon wins Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Florida special primary election.

Vindman recently screamed at his constituents that he was correct to throw trans voters under the bus. Alas, he will now live under that very bus.

MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · 3d ago

NEWS: Angie Nixon will win the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate in Florida, defeating Alexander Vindman

Absolutely staggering: 152 cases involving ICE and CBP officials or contractors accused or convicted of crimes. 131 involved sex offenses. 78 involved children. Maybe the people demanding unlimited power to hunt down “criminals” should spend a little more time looking inside their own agencies.

Spencer Ackerman@attackerman.bsky.social · 3d ago

ICE and CBP are full of rapists and child predators. A new report details it in horrific detail.

It's insane to me that we don't treat unfounded accusations against Muslims and/or Arabic people of supporting 9/11 as fundamentally, irredeemably racist. Islamophobia is racism. It's racism with extra steps, but it's racism, and we should call it what it is

Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 4d ago

Not sure if one thing has to do with another, but Michael LaRosa was on C-SPAN yesterday and took a lot of heat from Democrat callers, which saw him fire back and once again claim that El-Sayed is a "coward" for not standing up to Piker -- who he falsely said "justifies" terrorism and 9/11.

Experts urge schools to keep teaching writing in the age of AI, not even because of its importance per se but because it’s essential to developing habits of mind: “Writing is a technology for thinking” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

What Do Students Lose When They Stop Writing? (Gift Article)

Educators are worried that many students can no longer write essays without A.I. And it’s costing more than just grammar skills.

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The problem is that farmers and ranchers have an extremely lucrative, free resource from the government (basically free water to irrigate low-value and feed crops) and there is precisely zero political will to take that away from them and so instead we're going to do an ecological disaster.

goes even harder now tbh. especially Ladybug Mecca's verse www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw1D...

Digable Planets Perform “Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)” Live | Cadillac Chronicles

YouTube video by CadillacChroniclesTV

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Where are the fathers?

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 4d ago

14 charged in cocaine trafficking ring at two Penn State fraternities, attorney general says pledges packed drugs

go! see! this! film!

Music Box Theatre@musicboxtheatre.bsky.social · 4d ago

TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA is playing all week at the Music Box❄️ Presented In 35mm Get Tickets Now: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Really glad to see David Goodman and @lmcgaughy.bsky.social's bylines on this because only people who have been watching Texas for a while can really understand how and why Islamaphobia is a main force in Texas politics right now

Peter Sagal@petersagal.bsky.social · 4d ago

“The Justice Department responded in a brief that ‘Islam is plainly a religion’ protected by the First Amendment. Whether the department under Mr. Trump would take the same position was an open question.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/17/u...

SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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New: An "expert witness" in a $61 million lawsuit over an industrial explosion that killed three people and destroyed 200 homes used ChatGPT to write his report for the court. He prompted ChatGPT to "show how 3M is 0% at fault for the explosion at Watson Grinding" www.404media.co/show-how-3m-...

Democrats should cut their ties to these organizations. Moreover, I think there should be a legal requirement that all fundraisers call any person who has made an excessive number of donations to call the donor and ask whether s/he can say roughly how many donations s/he has made in the last year.

Adam Bonica@adambonica.bsky.social · 5d ago

The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.

Bodycams won’t fix this, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social. Abolish ICE.

Whitney Curry Wimbish@whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 5d ago

More than 140 people have joined the hunger strike at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, WA, @laresistencianw.bsky.social announced just now. The hunger strikers' only demands are the bare necessities to live: edible food, meals on time, hygiene items and medical care.