Ray Pride
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Film critic, writer, photographer. Senior editor, Newcity. “Today In Culture” weekday column.
Chicago, IL
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And Chaffetz's superb healthcare is paid for by taxpayers
Chaffetz' actual FEC filing showing his iPhone was paid for by donors. What an iPhony!
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Bourdain on Henry K
A fundamental concern is how America found itself withdrawing from Afghanistan "without much warning or consultation with allies or the people most directly involved in 20 years of sacrifice,” argues Henry Kissinger in The Economist
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Opinion | Don’t Let Amazon Eat the Film Industry - The New York Times
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Chicago’s Claudio the Tamale Guy contracts virus weeks after opening dream restaurant
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A Chicago bus. A woman shrieked. People looked, saw her, mouth open, staring at phone. Most people checked their phones… a chorus, one by one, of pleased exclamations
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Rahm covered up the police killing of a teenager until he could no longer get away with it.
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"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty."
“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”
–legendary broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow, who helped take down Joseph McCarthy
Tomorrow, Trump will tell Americans to fear immigrants. The networks shouldn’t assist him.
#BoycottTrumpsAddress
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“The scum has to be annihilated out of the media”
Meanwhile in Russia: a host urged the citizens to exercise "internal censorship": not to read hostile media reporting and abstain from complaining, lest their comments end up being used by foreign networks like CNN. He also seems to be striking at the comments made by head of RT.
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Hillary Clinton is gonna be the first never-elected President to get impeached, isn't she?
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Goebbels now with hand firm on tiller of the nation's destiny
#StopPresidentBannon
Trump's restructuring of National Security Council gives a permanent seat to Steve Bannon & limits attendance of DNI
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Finding Dory is about a family desperate to reconnect across the vastness of oceans. It must've made Trump seethe with fury
@realDonaldTrump
you started Finding Dory at 3pm. It's 1 hr 45 min long. You got out and 4 min later started tweeting about WW3.
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Tell us a story…
"Putin's yacht" Scheherazade has been "arrested". . How symbolic.
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Chicago's Walking Man, Joseph Kromelis, looks both ways. (Ray Pride, 2015)
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Richard Linklater Thinks A Second Then Gives The Flat-Out Most Amazing Response To Question Of A Sequel To BOYHOOD
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Chilling portrait of the world’s worst man, cornered like a rat
He was a sadistic, vengeful man long before he descended the elevator and talked about criminals and rapists coming from Mexico. Of course, as the vise tightens, he will incite more violence. How crazy is all this? I offer this thread. 1/20
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Granny-starving, absolutely.
Speaker Ryan, visibly disturbed last week after ordering Trent Franks to resign, told friends, "I didn’t realize slitting throats was part of my job.”
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Nice normal guys having a nice normal show on a nice normal day
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Pandemic profiteer Perdue possibly positive for pathogen
Uh oh... Perdue to quarantine after contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19.
Five days till the runoff.
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Post-screening SHAPE OF WATER, studio security guard casually wiping away tears streaked like rain
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Think of caged kids, not the Zara coat donated by a Melania underling to the cause of news cycle white noise
This jacket, the misspelled tweets (covfefe) and similar tactics are purposefully concocted to redirect our attention (esp. the media’s) from harmful stories to Trump. She wore it to dominate the news cycle and squeeze out stories of kids in cages being kept from their parents.
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A logorrheic monologue practiced for forty years ain’t “knowledge,” it’s not even an introductory lecture by an adjunct professor at a remote community college
Margarita Simonyan recalled Tucker Carlson's persistent requests over the years to arrange an interview with Putin. Simonyan said she cried watching it, and uneducated Americans who don't read were "stunned" by the depths of Putin's historical knowledge.
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If Trumpism turns into a religion, what do you imagine acolytes will wear on a gold-plated chain around their necks?
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Your taxes paid for this, directly into Trump and Dubai pockets.
#benghazi
#EmolumentsClause
Here's a look into the incredible grand opening of
@TrumpGolfDubai
this past weekend with guests of honour,
@EricTrump
and
@DonaldJTrumpJr
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Still amazed by the pure terror of the video shot inside walk-in freezer when Joplin tornado hit. What you hear...
http://mlkshk.com/p/2N4T
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Oh Manchin is for the owners and extraction profiteers and only the owners and the extraction profiteers
A big deal: The coal miners' union just ratcheted up pressure on Manchin to support BBB. This is a seminal moment: The divergence in interests between workers and mine owners who oppose BBB has been exposed. Manchin must choose one or the other. My latest:
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Thread on revelations of pro-rightwing actions by Twitter, from today’s Congressional hearing
With the news that Twitter had a database to keep track of all the right-wing requests to take down posts, I’m going to once again point out that my tweets highlighting coordinated right-wing disinfo campaigns were flagged as sensitive content and de-boosted/suppressed.
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Kochs dispatch paid saboteurs to interfere with town halls. Is there a law here? RICO?
Koch brother allies are arranging to plant questions at town hall meetings to push members of Congress on tax reform
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Steve Bannon is the devil & he must be stopped at all costs. Its literally like having Charles Manson or David Koresh in the WH.
#StopBannon
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Red Wedding?
If I was a senator I'd be very weirded out about Trump getting everyone in one room.
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“‘Smidge’ Sulzberger And The Billion-Dollar Thumb”
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TRUE DETECTIVE JAPAN
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In Greece there are McDonald’s peopled with only a few middle-aged Bulgarian guest workers sipping coffee, staring into eternity, lashed with cement dust head to toe like in a Roy Andersson film
The median restaurant in Western Europe is called “King Taco Burger Kebab” and mostly serves machine espresso to 58 year old drunks.
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"I wish Gene Hackman were still acting," Anton Yelchin told me, "Every performance. You never get tired of him, he never disappoints you."
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Fix: in.
ABC News: Eyewitness says Syrian officials evacuated personnel and moved equipment ahead of the strike.
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My 1998 interview with Sidney Lumet where he cleanly lays out his philosophy of filmmaking
http://is.gd/ZSjwCF
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Greece: "Evia from the satellite. There was no extinguishment. The fire has reached the sea"
Η Εύβοια από το δορυφόρο. Δεν υπήρξε κατάσβεση. Η φωτιά έφτασε στη θάλασσα
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Doctors were murdered. Buildings were bombed. Threats proliferate every day, thickets of stochastic terrorism.
You are wrong. /end
The freakout you are witnessing from the left is very instructive. When Roe was handed down 49 years ago, pro-lifers didn’t riot, didn’t call for SCOTUS to be burned down, didn’t threaten the lives of justices, didn’t try to stack the Court. 1/ 🧵
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In 6,000-word interview, John Boorman talks morality, living in Ireland, and 50 years in film
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Isn't that like 45* to stiff police departments nationwide for hundreds of thousands of dollars?
#winning
While
@realdonaldtrump
routinely praises police, he's refusing to pay bills they've sent his campaign
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The hoots and hollers were coming from Trump's personal joy division. Not. CIA.
The people who were clapping when Trump spoke at CIA were not CIA staffers but people who accompanied Trump.
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When negotiating a contract, include a “rider” which mandates a percentage of inclusion of women, diverse hires, etc.
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A lonnng thread of faces of greats obliterated by the Academy In Memoriam
evening! what a fucking nightmare! jimmy kimmel fucking sucks, right? nice win for RRR, tho. the memorium segment was mostly outweighed by travolta's moving tribute. wish these people were there, especially this guy: Albert Pyun, a wonderful filmmaker - FARINA'D!
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"I quit."
But honestly, what are you supposed to say as WH press secretary if you know the president is buying into a bunk conspiracy theory?
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"No less than the greatest essay ever written on the subject of video games."
http://bit.ly/dlwkHB
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DHS didn't do legal analysis until after order was public, said it couldn't apply to green cards. WH overruled them.
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A loving thread
Roger Corman turns 92 today, and I feel like a lot of people have a skewed vision of his work as a director due to his work as a producer
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"Every billionaire is a factory for producing policy failures: On the “attack philanthropy” of Barre Seid" by
@doctorow
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"Editing is the transformation of chance into destiny." Godard, via Walter Murch
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Trump says 16-year-old's album “skyrocketing”; Billboard investigates. Untrue.
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Imagine the faces left behind in the
#TuckerCarlsonMurderCastle
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Mitt Romney: Federal Disaster Relief For Tornado And Flood Victims Is ‘Immoral,’ ‘Makes No Sense At All’
http://t.co/KXqpkTyU
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Donald Trump Isn't Running A Presidential Campaign
It's a campaign for immunity from the law, and Democrats aren't doing nearly enough to counter it.
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RT
@Criterion
: Listen to Tilda Swinton read the first chapter of Moby Dick:
http://t.co/qhxeHgu7
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Haley is bad. Also, Haley is very bad.
🚨NEWS: Nikki Haley served on Boeing's board - on its committee overseeing risk management - as the company faced post-crash allegations of fraud & a coverup.
Documents show she helped kill a shareholder initiative designed to force more transparency.
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Sean Baker
@Lilfilm
debuts 35mm print of THE FLORIDA PROJECT Monday night in Chicago at the
@musicboxtheatre
with Chicago Film Society. How’d the print come to be? Baker tells how.
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"The media was talking about him wandering around the White House in his bathrobe, which “I don’t have because I’ve never worn a bathrobe. And would never wear one, because I’m not that kind of guy.”
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A NYTimes piece as dripping with descriptive condescension and presumption as this about the wealthy would end a career
http://t.co/9GEqQBmc
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