Trump really wants to get someone killed & is way overdue for some jail time.
Via Kyle Griffin:
Days after a man was arrested for threatening Judge Arthur Engoron and New York AG Letitia James — saying he would kill them if they didn't stop the civil fraud case against Trump — Donald #Trump attacks both Engoron and James online.
#Artists4Ceasefire / Oscar Winner Jonathan Glazer Said What No One Else Dared to Say
“Our film shows where dehumanization leads at its worst… Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many people, whether the victims of October the 7th in Israel, or the ongoing attack on Gaza.” --- Jonathan Glazer
The global condemnation of Israel's actions in Gaza following the events of October 7th seems to have shaken the confidence of many Israelis who still believe they are on the right side of history. Rather than provoking self-reflection, this widespread criticism appears to be causing most of them to double down on self-pity and the dehumanization of Palestinians.
Noa Tishby is back, and she appears to have descended into genocide denialism or, at best, has become an apologist for genocide.
"If you call for a #ceasefire without calling for the release of the captives - you are advancing #Hamas' agenda and casting doubt on Israel's right to self-defense"
Her attempts to justify, downplay or explain away Israel's brutal actions in Gaza, which have been widely condemned as disproportionate and barbaric by the international community, are deeply troubling. By dismissing well-documented human rights violations and the suffering inflicted on Palestinian civilians, she is engaging in a form of historical revisionism that whitewashes state violence against an oppressed population.
Others recognize that Israel's expectation that the world will remember October 7th but forget everything that happened since then, or anything since 1948, is simply pathetic. Israel's persistent brushing aside of Palestinian suffering and denial of historical realities is making it increasingly isolated, even among many of its traditional allies and supporters in the Jewish diaspora who were horrified by the barbarity on display in Gaza. Fewer and fewer are willing to reflexively identify with or defend Israel's actions these days.
A few years ago, Obama humiliated Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner. People laughed AT Trump. He was publicly humiliated. His racist blood was boiling. Tonight, Jimmy Kimmel publicly humiliated Trump at the Oscar’s. The audience cheered when he said it was “past your jail time”. I wish more people would do that. It’s Trump’s weakness. #Oscars #TrumpForPrison
Jonathan Glazer, after winning Best International Film for 'Zone of Interest:
“Right now we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness in a holocaust being hijacked by an occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people.”
The Academy Awards theme this year was ‘every other person in the building was seething’ after the #FreePalestine acceptance speech for a movie about the Holocaust. #Oscars.
I haven't been watching the #Oscars, but I've been paying attention to the winners as they rolled in and it looked like #Oppenheimer was unbeatable. That was confirmed.
The Academy didn’t take much of a liking to Barbie at all. #oscars#oscars2024 I watched on a flight with the sound turned off and thought it was brilliant. Gotta watch it again with the audio for the full effect. But it sure looked smart and fun.
Hip hip hooray for "Godzilla Minus One," the first Godzilla movie to win an Oscar. It won in the Best Visual Effects category. Variety has all the details on how the film was made with 35 VFX artists and a $15 million budget.
…Emma Stone on her role in Poor Things where she plays an adult woman with a mind of a child, kinda like the woman who gave the response to the state of the union Thursday night. #Oscars2024#Oscars
"The 17-minute documentary takes an intimate look at the unique sisterhood between Nǎi Nai and Wài Pó, Wang’s paternal and maternal grandmothers. The pair initially met because of Wang’s parents and took a particular liking to each other. They became close after the deaths of their husbands, and eventually they chose to live together."
Welcome to the #Oscars special episode of Metal Classical Rocks where instead of Robert #Oppenheimer meeting film, he meets the music of John Luthor Adams in symphony form, which was adapted from the opera of the same name.
Metal Classical Rocks recommends a piece of classical music for metal and rock fans every single week.
With 13 Oscar nominations, all signs point to #Oppenheimer as the star of the 96th #AcademyAwards. But a historian – whose research has revolved around the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing – explains why they are disappointed by the award-winning film.
“Yet again, the dominant narrative of the bombs chugs along,” writes Naoko Wake of Michigan State University. And the victims aren’t shown.
Back in the day my love for movies and my trivia knowledge combined to make me a walking IMDb. My movie watching has declined drastically since March 2013 (when Kid 1 entered the world) and it's hard for me to stay current. That won't stop me from enjoying Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat, and Tears by Michael Schulman. I'm only on Chapter 2, but already loving the old-school Tinseltown intrigue. #Books#Movies#Oscars#Hollywood#FridayReads#AmReading#Bookstodon@bookstodon