Jeff Seelbach
Documentary Film & TV including jams like Philly DA (PBS), Queer Futures (Criterion), 16 Shots (Showtime), Dear Mr. Brody (Discovery+)
Old Haunts: Topic, AJ+, Wide Angle/PBS, WNUR, Dusted Mag
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- Reposted by Jeff Seelbach🧵 1/ We’re devastated about the layoffs at The Washington Post, which are gutting D.C. reporting. These journalists are an incalculable loss for our city. The 51st’s mission has always felt urgent, but now we know it needs to kick into high gear.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachHere’s a GoFundMe that the @postguild.bsky.social has organized to support laid-off colleagues, which I learned about through @timesguild.bsky.social colleagues ✊ www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachSince a ceasefire was agreed to on October 11, Israel has murdered 556 Palestinians and injured 1,500, in most cases offering the same pretext to continue its slaughter: that its occupation forces felt “threatened,” without presenting any evidence. Today, Israel claimed one of its occupation...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachTwo Human Rights Watch employees who make up the organization’s entire Israel and Palestine team are resigning after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a “crime against humanity”. Co-published with @jewishcurrents.bsky.social:
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachThousands of people identifying as ICE and CPB agents are congregating in an online forum, where they’re going “boohoo” about everything from long hours to incompetent leadership to their agency’s image problem: Killer scoop @telliotter.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbach"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachI'll say more before too long, but for now: Thanks to anyone who has ever read and supported the Post's books coverage.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachPowerful testimony from ICE watchers in suburban Minnesota:
- “If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachA staggering statement from former Washington Post editor Marty Baron: "This ranks among the darkest days in the history of one of the world's greatest news organizations."
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbachsending a fundraising email the morning you lay off a bunch of journalists — classy!
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- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachToday, as Gaza continues to be stuck in a bloody limbo, we are turning our website over to Gaza and its people in an initiative we are calling “A Day for Gaza.” There will be no pieces published on our website today that do not come directly from Gaza.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachThis article is filled with lies. NYC is not a "tuna melt town" this is not the ultimate NYC sandwich.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachI testified Friday before Gov. Pritzker's commission studying abuses of ICE and CBP and tried to explain how the agencies went so far off track. It's actually way worse than I ever realized. Please read and share my testimony as Congress considers reform: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/accountabi...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachAforementioned good news
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachChotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.
- New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachThis article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachYesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachA manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today. Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachX is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachCan't believe it, but MELANIA is adding humor to the often too serious documentary industry.... boston.craigslist.org/gbs/evg/d/bo...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachNEW: The FBI’s search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, GA, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachJoin us for a screening of the Oscar-shortlisted film Cover-Up by award-winning director and FPF board member Laura Poitras, followed by a conversation with Poitras, legendary journalist Sy Hersh, and FPF board member @azmatzahra.bsky.social. 📆 Monday, Feb. 2, 6 pm 📍 @columbiajournalism.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachPalestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports TikTok ban aje.news/ljjuww
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachCanadian friends: today is *the very last day* to buy a membership in the NDP and have a say in who the party's next leader will be. Only members can vote in March. On climate and economic justice, we need a strong third party. Don't sit it out! act.lewisforleader.ca/become-an-nd...
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbachcrustpunk is the new quiet quitting
- Obsessed with each and every grindcore inside joke you weirdos
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbachnapalm invest
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbachdeadguy “fixation on a coworker” but all the songs are a third of the length and three times as fast
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachMelania, 6pm, Brooklyn Alamo. Ok, which two of you is this
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachCity Prosecutors Join Forces to Bring Charges Against Federal Agents
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachICE are alllll over Harlem right now, 116 & Frederick Douglass, checking IDs and targeting the area’s African community. Multiple people have been detained. Community members are advising folks to carry citizenship documents - or stay away if they are at risk
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachHe helped build the religious right. Now he’s fighting ICE. On this week's More To The Story, evangelical minister Rob Schenck explains why he’s trying to undo his own legacy as a former leader of the Christian nationalist movement. 🎧️ Listen here: tinyurl.com/3y2twknn
- Insane @agreenberg.bsky.social story of trafficking and crypto romance scams in Laos - and with the data dump that shows it all in minute detail.
- Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachThis talk tomorrow on disinformation with @eliothiggins.bsky.social and @cward1e.bsky.social will take place at a slightly later time than originally advertised. Join us live at 6pm CET/12pm EST to ask your own questions. discord.gg/rDW7Z6aQ?eve...
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbachthe incredible gall to say “we have to look honestly at ourselves” to a room full of investigative journalists at the peak of their careers after you’ve been hired over them from your blog
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachPowerful statement!
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachNew CBS contributors announced: Grand Moff Tarkin, Lex Luthor, Norman Osborn, Cruella De Ville, Javert, Titus Andronicus, Killmonger, and the Beastfly from Silksong.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachImportant ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachGreat turnout in South Orange, NJ yesterday for SOMA Action's Visibility Brigade Protest to stand in solidarity with the people of Minnesota! #ICEOutForGood. @indivisible.org @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social villagegreennj.com/community/so...
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- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachI just created a series of seven deep-dive videos about AI, which I've posted to youtube and now here. 😊 Targeted to laypeople, they explore how LLMs work, what they can do, and what impacts they have on learning, well-being, disinformation, the workplace, the economy, and the environment.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachLooking at the video footage so far I think its questionable whether he was armed at the moment he was killed.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachAfter a hiatus for severe depression (look at this shit) and other obligations, the disappeared tracker is revving up again. I need your help. I can't keep track of the new carnage and backfill. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Here is a google form. If you want to help, follow these instructions/1
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachNYC standing in solidarity with MN. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachA German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.
- Reposted by Jeff Seelbachwants to be your dog
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachStatement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachA major coalition is launching a general strike in Minnesota tomorrow, aimed at pushing out ICE. It includes: -Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1005 -The MN AFL-CIO -SEIU Local 26 -UNITE HERE Local 17 -CWA Local 7250 -Saint Paul and Minneapolis Federations of Educators -Faith leaders And more. 🧵
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachI was interviewed about what’s next for public media after the closure of the CPB. This is a digestible 10-minute segment on the political and ideological winds that are currently confronting democratic voice. kgnu.org/what-does-th...
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachWishing a very happy birthday to the one and only Jim Jarmusch 🖤 Celebrate with our collection of the American auteur's films on the Criterion Channel—including STRANGER THAN PARADISE, DOWN BY LAW, MYSTERY TRAIN, NIGHT ON EARTH, and GHOST DOG alongside archival interviews, commentaries, and more!
- Reposted by Jeff SeelbachHis name is Liam Ramos, and he is 5. He was abducted from Minneapolis and trafficked to a detention camp in Texas.
