Patrick D. Green

@patrickdgreen.com

#Actor #Filmmaker patrickdgreen.com BEAU IDEAL coming soon! Check out The Brain That Wouldn’t Die, Escaping Freedom & Crazy Right: all streaming now. Veg for the animals and enviro 🌈 he/him SAG-AFTRA, PNW Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/1eAyr

Thomson Reuters, which owns news agency Reuters, has signed a $125M deal giving ICE access to its databases of personal data. USA Today has partnered with Palantir to gain "actionable intelligence" on its audiences. The media should be opponents of Trump's police state — not collaborators.

I wish we could soften our reflex to rank, compare, categorize, and compete. Those habits often seem like quiet ways we enact the values of the capitalist system we live within.

Obama: "As algorithms keep feeding us a steady stream of distraction and outrage, as only the loudest most extreme voices get attention, fanning our prejudices, appealing to our basest most tribal instincts, it's tempting to give in to cynicism and even despair, to stop trying."

Memo to Democrats: You can be cis and straight and the Republicans will still run a homophobic and transphobic campaign against you. Also there will be racism. So just do the right thing. Support the most vulnerable in our society full throatedly and proudly.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo ago

REP. BRANDON GILL: This is a much more effeminate version of Beto O'Rourke ... this is somebody who is really obsessed with children ... I think of James Talarico as a barely straight version of Pete Buttigieg KAYLEIGH McENANY: We know Talarico has a longtime girlfriend and she's very beautiful