Treating trans people like content fodder is fucked up, but I’ll say one thing: actual WNBA fans are, in my experience, the most inclusive, diverse, progressive fans there are. Players too, I think. They’ll keep pushing back against this shit. Cunningham’s incel “fans” don’t even watch the game.

Awful Announcing@awfulannouncing.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Protecting girls in sports” by driving girls out of sports by imposing medical tests and examinations of their genitals or else. This shit hits every single one of the sexist, pedo, rapist, surveillance state, and Nazi buttons.

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

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Alex Segura@alexsegura.com · 3d ago

A fantastic peek at some of the best directors of the era - couldn’t put this book down.

"I think part of the reason we can’t see the horizon is we’ve got a bunch of 40-year-old columnists asking 60-year-old film executives what the future is going to be."

Are YouTubers the new Spielberg, Coppola, Lucas? A history of the Movie Brats, with Paul Fischer open.substack.com/pub/vinceman...

Are YouTubers the New Movie Brats? Spielberg, Coppola, and Lucas, with Paul Fischer

Movies looked irrelevant and corny before, until some kids brought it back from the dead. Are there signs that it's happening again? 'Last Kings of Hollywood' author Paul Fischer explains.

open.substack.com

A light listen (or read, I imagine) perfect for summer. I had no idea how intertwined the careers of these three + Scorsese were. app.thestorygraph.com/books/ce2e3b...

The Last Kings of Hollywood: Coppola, Lucas, Spielberg—and the Battle for the Soul of American Cinema by Paul Fischer

The untold, intimate story of how three young visionaries—Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, and...

app.thestorygraph.com

Recently finished THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD and the stories of the JAWS shoot were epic

reading "last kings of hollywood", a recent book about coppola, lucas, spielberg (and guest starring scorsese)... i could read about the friendships / differences among these guys forever. reminds me of, like, coleridge & wordsworth, shelley & byron, pound & eliot

Very entertaining and enlightening book, by the way

This is my next audiobook. A friend who's been in the film distribution business his entire career read it, and recommended it.

just finished THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD, a very enjoyable read on coppola, lucas, and spielberg. it's striking how much nicer spielberg is than everyone else. it's also striking how much better the hollywood they were fighting to destroy was than what we have now.

Just finished The Last Kings of Hollywood by Paul Fischer, and DAMN, it got dark in that epilogue. Very interesting book.

Reading THE LAST KINGS OF HOLLYWOOD and I'm at the part where Spielberg takes all the scary stuff out of the first draft of ET and uses that for POLTERGEIST.

So many anecdotal stories of how these three men changed the way movies were created and distributed to audiences hungry for their new takes on familiar stories. An engaging read with plenty of Hollywood name dropping. You won’t be disappointed. #LastKingsofHollywood #CeladonReads @CeladonBooks

Sunday made! #LastKingsOfHollywood

Alex Segura@alexsegura.com · 3d ago

I devoured this book! Great stuff.

Cruelty is the foundation of those 'policies'. Making us feel threatened is the purpose. We have no physical proof of our status, we are at the mercy of a glitch. We are aliens, and we must be made aware of it. Reform's 'plan' to strip us of our Leave to remain is just a darker shade of grey.

Lisa O’Carroll@lisaocarroll.bsky.social · 3d ago

Exclusive: Some EU citizens in the UK have been contacted by the Home Office to say they were granted settlement status after Brexit "in error". If you know anyone this happened to contact me on lisa.ocarroll@theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I just subscribed to this block list, and I really appreciate the public service provided here

Tess is Surviving the Horrors@mothmother.com · 4d ago

I started getting followed by some "film festivals" and "writing festivals" and thought "oh, these are cool!" Then I looked a little closer. They're all part of a network that preys on writers, charging us for reviews, and feeding our stuff into slop generators. So I made a list.👋🏻🖕🏻😠

“But we’re still gonna open up the North Sea to drilling, build data centers, and demonise the foreign migrants who’ve been trying to flee and survive this emergency for years”

Leo Hickman@leohickman.carbonbrief.org · 7d ago

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

"That’s even more than the $1.35 trillion in debt the five companies officially reported in their financial data for the most recent quarter."

"As Japanese financial newspaper Nikkei Asia found in a recent investigation, just five US tech giants — Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle — are hiding an estimated $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on balance sheets. futurism.com/artificial-i...

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

futurism.com

The use of extremely online memetic aesthetics to support far-right political goals is like something out of Walter Benjamin’s nightmares.

DHS surveilled peaceful protesters and then yanked their Global Entry, federal lawsuit alleges

DHS surveilled peaceful protesters and then yanked their Global Entry, federal lawsuit alleges

Plaintiffs in a federal lawsuit filed in California allege that the Department of Homeland Security revoked their Global Entry privileges in retaliation for exercising their constitutional rights.

latimes.com

Mexican man who was killed by an 18-wheeler as he ran from the masked thugs of ICE in #Florida has now been ID’D -- he was tourist with a valid visa. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

Mexican man killed by truck as he ran from ICE in Florida ID’D as tourist with valid visa

The Mexican man who officials say was killed by a truck last week in St. Augustine while running from immigration officers was identified by a farmworkers’ advocacy group as a father of two on vacatio...

yahoo.com

🚨BRING ON DAN BURN 🚨

This is like Gollum smugly asserting that the Fellowship is all dwarves, elves, and other assorted weirdos

PEIPolitical 🇨🇦@peipolitical.bsky.social · 3w ago

Miller: "It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent Antifa demonstrations not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism." #cdnpoli

They’re going to threaten this stuff, they’ll hamfistedly screw up the implementation, commit seven atrocities, and still lose every election that matters in November. We’re now nearing the “fuck you, do it, see what happens” stage of this confrontation IMO

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Mullin says that election officials in states that don’t cooperate with the Trump administration may face jail time

I've lived in Beijing, and the thing is - they don't have elections.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Newsmax talking head: "I've lived in Beijing. I can say the elections in Beijing are much better than California and the United States."

The Politico article itself notes that there is ZERO actual evidence for the DHS claims. The Politico headline is inexcusable. Never forget that Politico is owned by Alex Springer. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Politico@politico.com · 3w ago

DHS says it found thousands of non-citizens on voter rolls in four states

There's so much talent in the WNBA, so many brilliant inspiring women, and somehow the media and corporate interests around the league have decided this coddled, entitled, flopping and diving show should be the centrepiece, bc... CC's white and can shoot from the logo? So can Sab. So can Mabrey.

CJ Fogler@cjzero.bsky.social · 3w ago

Caitlin Clark went off on one of the referees when a foul was not called (via USA)