🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩
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- "Why do we want to be in other people’s bodies? What does that provide us? I actually think we would all be really miserable." For this month's Female Filmmakers In Focus at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with Amanda Kramer about her singular new film BY DESIGN
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- "Why do we want to be in other people’s bodies? What does that provide us? I actually think we would all be really miserable." For this month's Female Filmmakers In Focus at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with Amanda Kramer about her singular new film BY DESIGN
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Crazy story: A bank analyst published a report showing Kalshi users lose money even faster than sports gamblers, so Kalshi first tried to pressure the data provider to change their data and then accused them and the analyst of conspiring to extort them when that doesn’t work.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩always bears repeating that this is NOT a financial decision. jeff bezos is worth over 250 billion dollars. he can afford to lose many millions and never even notice it. this is, at its core, a political and personal decision by bezos to destroy the post
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩A we mourn the ravaging of the Washington Post, it's a great day to subscribe to your local newspaper or another regional paper. Local reporting has a huge positive impact on local rights & justice, & we are seeing local papers shut down at devastating speed Democracy dies in darkness is still true
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩the Washington Post effectively blew up its arts section today, dismissing its books, TV, music, and theater critics, features writers, and several editors. (I'm also guessing the vacant film critic position will stay that way.) Just an insane loss of talent and a huge self-inflicted wound.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩The owner of Amazon killed the Washington Post books section.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩oh hell yes www.architecturaldigest.com/story/kriste...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Our hot new MJ cover story on all the idiotic things Trump is doing to control America's 250 anniversary celebrations and ictate the presentation of US history and culture is online. Read it before the First Amendment gets canceled. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩A 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 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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- once our herd immunity is gone we’re just gonna be a sickly country with the shittiest healthcare system for a country of our quote-un-quote developed status
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?
- 🚨BREAKING: Steve Bannon said Tuesday that the federal government is planning to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers to patrol polling stations during this year’s midterm elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩INBOX: Robert McCartney, who worked for 39 years at The Washington Post, including as a Metro columnist and editor, before retiring in 2021, claims on X that he has heard the Post has laid off *all* its photojournalists.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Normal people are out there doing extraordinary things. My mom's health aide emailed me: ICE took 2 of her neighbors; when she told them they weren't welcome, she was met w/a rifle. Now she's driving a neighbor to work hidden in the back of her car & escorting the neighbor's kids to the bus stop.
- “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...
- one of my fave parts of this conversation
- "Why do we want to be in other people’s bodies? What does that provide us? I actually think we would all be really miserable." For this month's Female Filmmakers In Focus at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with Amanda Kramer about her singular new film BY DESIGN
- "Why do we want to be in other people’s bodies? What does that provide us? I actually think we would all be really miserable." For this month's Female Filmmakers In Focus at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke with Amanda Kramer about her singular new film BY DESIGN
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Can comfirm from MN, as can anyone who lives here, that not a THING has changed except little Bovino isnt peacocking around the streets anymore. And there hasn’t been a third high-profile murder of a white person yet. But the gestapo attacks haven’t stopped. At all! bsky.app/profile/jyse...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Deepak Chopra in the Epstein Files writing, "God is a construct, Cute girls are real." In this same exchange, he responds to Epstein, asking, "Did you find me a cute israeli? :)" with "Cute girls are aware when they make noises." www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩I say this as a victim and as a lawyer and as a journalist and as a woman in public, no one, literally no one in power, cares about victims of sexual violence. This is why they promise women more police and prisons (allegedly to help them) while fancy men who are friends with Epstein go free.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩A new Arizona bill gives cops the power to arrest parents who let their children watch a drag show. A violation of HB2589 could result in a felony charge with up to three years in prison.
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Fucking surreal that people dressed like this and carrying assault rifles are permitted to kidnap people off our streets
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩I somehow knew Daughters of the Dust would make it. A truly transcendental film. Check if your local public library (or university) offers Kanopy streaming because it's free on there.
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- Here's everything I watched and wrote in January!
- tech bros really live by the "ask for forgiveness later" model
- In 1942, RKO slashed 43 minutes from Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and slapped on a happy ending. Now, an A.I. company wants to restore what was lost. Are they righting a historic wrong or descrating a classic? My deep dive, in this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Would Orson Welles want his lost classic restored by A.I.? You mean the same Orson Welles who, when Ted Turner was leading the charge to colorize black & white movies, famously proclaimed "don't let Ted Turner deface my movie with his crayons"? I think I can make an educated guess here.
- In 1942, RKO slashed 43 minutes from Orson Welles's "The Magnificent Ambersons" and slapped on a happy ending. Now, an A.I. company wants to restore what was lost. Are they righting a historic wrong or descrating a classic? My deep dive, in this week's New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩There's a prominent Republican congressman who met his current wife when she was in high school and he was in his 40s, and it's just treated like no big deal by his caucus. Worth remembering when they dismiss the Epstein Files stuff as no big deal.
- this might sound bad. but if you look into the story it's actually much, much worse prospect.org/2022/04/08/h...
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Nope. She’s lying again. He specifically said they wanted to “take over the voting in at least 15 places.” That’s not the SAVE Act. bsky.app/profile/atru...
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩So, of course, there are certain films that I really wanted that didn't fit. I tried to weave as many of those into the blurbs as I could. Also, as you'll find, many of them are available on Criterion Channel.
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- "The films in this collection chronologically present the emergence of groundbreaking Black directors, expansive female and queer-centered stories, and their wrestling with Black representation." Must-read piece for Black History Month by @812filmreviews.com
- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩Not only is it Black History Month. It’s also its 100th anniversary!! To commemorate its centennial, I wrote a list of 10 Black films, one from each of the last 10 decades, to stream.
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- Reposted by 🏳️🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. (AP) — Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather.
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