NYT INVESTIGATION: As the Trump administration & Congress last year moved to repeal sanctions on Syria, the Qatar-based family that most stood to benefit was privately negotiating a real-estate partnership with Jared Kushner and proposing a Trump golf course in Syria www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
The unmatched god-mode cinematography of Terrence Malick's DAYS OF HEAVEN - which returns to the PCC in a luminous 4K restoration, Wed 13th May in our downstairs screen.
🎟️: buff.ly/5c7EKyC
No mention of ankylosauras. This is not a serious list.
The 10 largest individual donations so far in the midterm elections total almost $300 million. Some of them came from a series of little-known nonprofits that has allowed billionaires to remain anonymous — a new normal in American elections. nyti.ms/4trNdYq
This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect.
A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...
Great thread to follow throughout the day.
Bruce Springsteen, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Joan Baez, Jane Fonda and other big names in music and progressive politics will headline today’s No Kings protest in St. Paul.
Organizers are expecting more than 100,000 people to attend.
Some immigrants with chronic health problems were swept up by ICE in Minnesota, leading to missed medications and, for one man, missed chemotherapy sessions.
Six months into Bari Weiss’ overhaul of CBS News, new ratings data obtained by Status shows its flagship programs are shedding viewers at an alarming rate, collapsing to historic lows and accelerating the network’s decline.
Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/cbs-news-r...
Trump gets a daily video montage briefing about the Iran war
The montage, which typically runs for about two minutes, has raised concerns among some of the president’s allies that he may not be receiving the complete picture of the war.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/whi...
“.. He fought back tears as he explained what was there before: two wooden shelters, an outpost to make cheese, sheds for his equipment. The horse paddock was spared, but the chicken coop was gone.”
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...
🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon suggested that President Donald Trump deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to major U.S. airports as part of a “test run” for using them to meddle in upcoming elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
🚨SCOOP: Trump officials are quietly adding a line into government contracts that would force AI companies to remove safety & privacy guardrails as Trump officials advance plans for autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, according to contract text reviewed by @levernews.com.
I know in the years after we made Don't Look Up, the propaganda system intensified, the culture radically shifted & nobody in politics, media or polite society is allowed to mention the climate crisis anymore because it's now considered uncool to discuss. But the crisis is real & it's getting worse.
Kurosawa on watching Solaris with Tarkovsky
Whoa whoa whoa. WSJ reports that Trump *personally* pushed the Justice Department to settle its antitrust case with Live Nation.
Several sources for my NYT column speculated this was the case. The Journal says it's a fact.
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...
🚨SCOOP: Trump officials are advancing a stealth clause that would empower them to force AI companies to scrap safety protocols, eliminate privacy protections & follow other Trump orders related to autonomous weapons & surveillance, according to text reviewed by @levernews.com.
* U.S. TO DEPLOY THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST, THREE U.S. OFFICIALS TELL REUTERS
@reuters.com
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives?
A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit.
Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit?
A: No, we didn’t.
They're going to let this guy work in MLS again
Michael B. Jordan… Hamnet… what a night for things that are one letter different from other famous things
Final tally for Warner was 11.
All of the four other "big" studios (Paramount, Disney, Universal, Sony): 1
Netflix, Apple, Focus Features, BBC Film took home the rest.
Laotians whose families fled after the Vietnam War and legally settled in Minnesota as refugees now risk being sent back to Laos, where they don’t speak the language, don’t have family, and are unlikely to be welcomed as citizens.
Now that he has nearly destroyed the Kennedy Center, doing damage to other DC institutions along the way - the National Symphony, the Washington Opera - Ric Grenell is leaving, perhaps to ruin something else
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/a...
When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.
NEW: The Trump admin told a court it would take *4 million* hours of manual work to refund $166b in illegal tariffs. That may be an overstatement, but it illustrates the complex task now facing the White House -- and the ways that Trump has tried to slow it down
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...
What stage of the dystopia is this?
