Yolanda Machado
@yolandawrites.bsky.social
Writer. Critic. Beyoncé stan. Scorpio. Born and raised in L.A. Latina AF
Someone was abducted at 10 AM by ICE on Central Ave. Their coworker says they’ve lived here for over 20 years, are documented, and have 3 kids who were born here. Don’t be fooled by headlines when they’ve been lying to us the whole time. We still need you out patrolling until every agent is gone.
we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Chuck Schumer@schumer.senate.gov · 8mo agoOur DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable. We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow. Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
What this man is describing would seem to constitute crimes against humanity under international law. Other governments could and should contest the abuses he’s describing the U.S. government committing against migrants.
Molly Crane-Newman@mollycranenewman.bsky.social · 8mo ago“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
“It’s just a horrible, horrible, horrible place,” he said of his detention camp. “I’m not in fear of the other inmates. I’m afraid of the staff. They’re capable of anything.”
Karlin Lillington@klillington.bsky.social · 8mo agoAnd here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
idk but this country has worked pretty hard to make you feel fuckin miserable for being Latino so I’m still riding the high of one show reminding everyone that being Latine is one of the coolest things in the world
They didn't search it because they were afraid what it might reveal about important people. Cover up!
This one of many reasons why critics are still important. It’s our job to seek out art that’s outside the algorithm, because most people don’t even know what their options are anymore.
G. Willow Wilson@gwillow.me · 11mo agoThe death of browsing is part of the reason art is the way it is now. Our opinions are largely fed to us by algorithms. Spending a spare 15 minutes wandering around a bookstore or comic shop or video rental place was how you found stuff you wouldn't ordinarily pick up and thereby expanded your taste
every journalist who has been ringing the alarm bell about this for the last three years should get $10 million from any bailout, as a treat
R@ersquare.bsky.social · 11mo agoA story in 3 acts:
"People — including real-life radicals — are messy. The boundaries of their politics, personal lives, and morality are porous. This is most obvious in the image of Perfidia, a tornado of energetic reappraisal and erotic possibility. A reminder that the representation conversation can be a trap."
Black Actresses Are Carrying One Battle After Another
Teyana Taylor, Chase Infiniti, and Regina Hall propel the film’s most conflicted ideas, for better and worse.
vulture.com
Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival
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I ❤️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social for this. The ethics of Hollywood are basement level. Same for tech (see below a column I wrote in 2019).
I think people have forgotten we're human beings, and that feeling feelings is normal...is something I say as I smoke weed and type into an app.
As a Mexican-Peruvian American: que barbaridad es esto! me da ascó verlo.
Ryan Mac 🙃@rmac.bsky.social · last yr.I actually tried the food there too and well… yea.
Level of dissociation I'm currently at? I'm on my 200th rewatch of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Paris shows. I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore, but that's OK. Outside is expensive and scary.
I really, really, really hope this is only happened at the Frank McCourt-owned parking lots at Dodger Stadium, so that it's just another thing to hate Frank McCourt for. Regardless, it's a good time for folks to read up on the Battle of Chavez Ravine.
the only reason CBS hasn't folded and paid Trump his bribery money yet is California threatened an investigation into whether such a deal would violate state bribery laws, which chuck here "forgets" to mention
Exclusive | Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources
Negotiations to settle Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News over the Kamala Harris “60 Minutes” interview entered their sixth month.
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I really wish all reporting of immigration stories would stop using the term ‘federal agent’ unless it can be confirmed that these cowardly motherfuckers are actually federal agents. Use the term ‘unknown masked men’ or, in the rare cases women are involved ‘unknown masked people’
Thoughtful thread that rings very true to me based on over three decades of covering the media and culture
Leonard Pierce@leonardpierce.bsky.social · last yr.If we continue to idealize a 'free' press - which is in fact not free, but controlled by the people with the most wealth and thus the most reactionary - then we will endlessly repeat cycles of ebb and flow, with the left riding waves here and there but the tide always coming in from the right.
I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.
It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.
