Exclusive: ICE's Secret Watchlists of Americans Sparta, Reaper and Grapevine track protesters, their friends (+ others)

🚨 I've obtained a list of secret watchlists the Department of Homeland Security uses to keep tabs on American citizens
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screenshot of Grandia for the Sega Saturn. a young boy with red hair and a sword on his back is speaking with a sailor hiding in a shed. a text box reads, "My name is AWOL Joe. I'm famous for being absent without leave since I was five."

okay man

The way this Apple II rooftop cityscape draws itself in and then sweeps across the screen is very pleasing to the eye.

The traffic and skyscraper lights twinkling away very much build some lovely atmosphere and look lovely in their own right.

📺: D-Generation, 1989 (Unreleased prototype)

illustration of a woman's face, straw in moiuth, blowing bubbles with flowers and fish in them. clouds and snippets of the sea and a blue sky can be seen.

game machine, magazine, cover (1988) archive.org/details/game...

oh nice, I think about this one pretty often but I haven't been able to find it for a while

"I'm off to kill the most powerful man in the world."

- Phantasy Star (Sega Master System)

they are just lying when they say this is about arresting criminals

they are abducting children. babies.

they murder mothers, they kidnap children, they torture anyone who resists, and they call it "law enforcement"

they are pure fucking evil

Little Caesar (1931). Edward G. Robinson as Rico and George E. Stone as Otero, hiding from the cops in a doorway. Rico says, "This is what I get for liking a guy too much."

It holds all the way back to at least Little Caesar (1931).

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

Strangers on a Train is like how in the world of Pokemon everyone's always talking about Pokemon except the subject is The Perfect Murder

Randomly thinking about how Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid was a missed opportunity. They didn't really have enough material to make a whole movie so I think they should have gone in the opposite direction: a mostly conventional noir parody with exactly one gag where they intercut with a classic movie.

me

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!

Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

So your message is, "Mr Pwesident, pwease be nice 🥺" immediately followed by "Trump wants chaos." Does that sound like a coherent strategy?

If things are ever going to improve even slightly, you need to have at least as much courage as your constituents do

shoutout to the themed accounts that find this post via what was clearly a targeted search every once in a while

True to the name, it's pretty brutal for 1947. Young Hume Cronyn plays an absolute bastard, too

Sir Lancelot is a recurring player in couple more of these idiosyncratic Val Lewton horror productions. He's also great in Brute Force

An incredible poster when he wasn't being a piece of shit. Also incredibly easy to bait. He once called me an "Outragist" for making fun of his terrible takes

so this is what they’re teaching at drivers ed

Chrontendo Episode 53 (01:24:26)

When heavy military equipment is taken from its original context and placed in the hands of a domestic law-enforcement agency with little training in wartime scenarios, it becomes nothing more than an instrument of intimidation. It simply has no other purpose. Wearing jungle camouflage in an urban setting, pointing guns at civilians, driving around pointlessly in an armored personnel carrier — all of these egregiously violate military best practices. This is playing soldier dress-up to scare the pants off the locals — except the guns are real. Notice also how many of these riot cops have their faces completely covered by gas masks and insect goggles. That is almost never seen in recent wars, because covering the face makes a soldier look less human, which is directly at odds with modern counterinsurgency thinking. But covering the face to dehumanize the enemy is a common feature in first-person shooter games (like Half Life 2 and the Killzone series), where the player often has to slaughter them by the score. Doing it to oneself is, I think, a deliberate effort to broaden the emotional distance between law enforcement and the people who are being forced into submission. It turns out that when you put normal cops into soldier gear, you don't get soldiers. You get paramilitary goons.

I wrote this almost 11 years ago theweek.com/articles/444...

Someone already mentioned Roisin Murphy's TERF reveal so you know what's great?

The music of the Dragon Quest series

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Happy SOPHIE’S Moon! May her legacy live on in her art and our memories.

it's interesting that a prestigey historical drama starring Barbara Stanwyck and Clifton Webb in 1953 was not shot in color. From 20th century fox, too! On paper it sounds like the exact kind of thing that would get made specifically to show off technicolor + cinemascope.

When it counts the most, the NYT will always fail the public interest

Yellow book cover: Open Veins of Latin America by Eduardo Galeano.

Decided in this moment to reread some Galeano. First page: “The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.”

Clipping of David Lynch's comic The Angriest Dog in the World, which shows a comet-shaped black creature in someone's back yard, pulling its leash taut against a stake driven into the ground. The caption reads, "The dog who is so angry he cannot move. He cannot eat. He cannot sleep. He can just barely growl. ...Bound so tightly with tension and anger, he approaches the state of rigor mortis."

#CineJanes Tonight, as suggested during our livetweet of Leave Her to Heaven, it's Part Two in a Gene Tierney/Vincent Price trifecta -- Dragonwyck (1946) -- a gothic romance set along the Hudson river, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, based on the novel by Anya Seton. Free link later! 7PT/10ET!