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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

“Secretary Rubio’s desire to stay on his boss’s good side leads him to twist reality like a pretzel.” Francis Fukuyama on Marco Rubio’s speech at the Acropolis from October 7. I’d be so disappointed in myself if one of the world’s preeminent political scientists (rightfully) flogged me like this.

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Rubio is cribbing from my book #francisfukuyama

YouTube video by Frankly Fukuyama

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I saw it tonight, it achieved the impossible: it made Canadian politics look interesting and fun 😝 it is a bit esoteric though, I don’t think I’d be able to follow along had I not watched this ahead of time. It segues into the film really well, I think it uses some of the same archival footage too.

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Triumph & Treachery: The Brian Mulroney Story | FULL DOCUMENTARY

YouTube video by CTV News

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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 10/10/2026

they should've made the sequel to the blair witch project about going in there with the army to kill her

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

English Canada press coverage of Québec’s politics is so bad, all across the board.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Judge for yourselves: “[Kushner] announced a $2.45bn recovery plan and talked of $71bn for a decade of reconstruction. The board would oversee 66 projects over the next 6 months alone, he declared…Such promises ring hollow in Gaza. Israel has depopulated the nearly two-thirds of Gaza it occupies.”

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Jared Kushner has a $2.45bn recovery plan for Gaza

But the board of peace’s grand promises ring hollow in the strip

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I googled “What’s going on with the Gaza Peace Plan.” It’s not working because it’s not a peace plan at all, it’s a ghoulish real-estate development deal masquerading as foreign policy. The Trump clan doesn’t care about human rights or advancing the U.S. interests, only lining their own pockets.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

La Presse, a Québécois newspaper, says that the newly elected minority government helmed by Plamondon’s Parti Québécois has the least amount of votes of any government in Québec’s history, only 30% of the pop. vote, so a referendum on separation is highly unlikely. www.lapresse.ca/elections-qu...

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In light of this information, neither referendum should be allowed to proceed!

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974), dir. Ettore Stola I’ve been thinking about this one a lot lately. It’s fascinating how good movies stay with you, how they can be like a hug when you need one.

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The Tyee @thetyee.ca · 05/10/2026

Michael Harris: Just because Mark Carney is on a roll doesn’t mean Canada can do without an effective Opposition. Too bad Pierre Poilievre and his Conservatives can’t muster one. #canpoli thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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Canada Needs an Opposition That’s Serious and Constructive | The Tyee

Instead, we get Poilievre’s simplistic sound bites, leaving Carney unaccountable.

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Heathenly Rick Havoc @rickhavoc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Today has been a cold can of Chef Boyardee.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From the book Empire of Pain, detailing the story of the Sacklers, the family behind OxyContin. I’ve felt this about today’s rapacious billionaires destroying the world for profit (especially Sam Altman) but couldn’t put it in words. Also applies to journalists trading their integrity for access.

“They [the Sacklers] could produce a rehearsed simulacrum of human empathy, but seemed incapable of comprehending their own role in the story, and impervious to any genuine moral epiphany.”

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

P.P.S. Filmmakers using the visual grammar of social realist cinema to peddle government propaganda is akin to companies running ads in newspapers disguised as editorial copy. It’s fundamentally dishonest. Seeing film critics enable it instead of calling it out is sending chills down my spine.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

P.S. Distortion of truth via the writer’s emotions makes for great literary fiction and it’s why we read it but it makes for lousy journalism. It’s irresponsible for media outlets to conflate the two.

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Melissa Nadia Viviana 🐸 @resistrebelrevolt.net · 02/10/2026

"A dozen orcs stormed the Palantir offices in Seattle this week to apply for jobs at the surveillance tech company. Palantir's militarized AI products attracted the horde of orcs, who hoped that their history of serving the Dark Lords would land them a gig. Unfortunately, Palantir didn't bite." 🤣

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also, the fact the soldiers blew up the wrong car implies that if they blew up the right one, if they killed the insurgents instead then their deaths would have been mission accomplished and there would be no movie or article because their lives don’t matter.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only reality Atonement examines is the one fabricated by the Bush/Cheney Administration in which Iraq was brimming with WMDs. I believe that movies that pass off the government’s version of the truth as reality are called something else. (Psst it’s propaganda)

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The people; their tragedy theyre all just props, the author could not care less about them, all he wants is another Pulitzer.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That Atonement movie is set 13 years in the past. The article it was based on is plagued with the same issues as the writer’s book dealing with a similar subject: entirely self serving, disingenuous, the author playing at Hemingway, distorting reality with his emotions.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The main difference between the Italian neorealism and the cheap facsimile out today is that the Italian films were more humanist in their scope, they examined the human condition as it lay in the rubble of WWII, the filmmakers were trying to make sense of a new reality, here and now.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Michael Herr on the Vietnam War press coverage in his book Dispatches. The Iraq/US War reporters are now getting the social realist, prestige cinema treatment, which is giving me emotional whiplash, considering the origins of social realism (Sica’s Bicycle Thieves, Rossellini’s War Trilogy).

“The press got all the facts (more or less), it got too many of them. But it never found a way to report meaningfully about death, which of course was really what it was all about. The most repulsive, transparent gropes for sanctity in the midst of the killing received serious treatment in the papers and on the air.”

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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This is where I learned about the Hamas training exercises, not far from where they attacked on Oct 7: youtu.be/c5gKaqOrCpk?...

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Failure at the Fence (full documentary) | FRONTLINE + @WashingtonPost

YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Wouldn’t it be ethically murky if the new studio went ahead with Barbie II? Isn’t it already, considering Warner Bros’s existing business relationship with Mattel? I know it’s a total waste of time to type this out since nobody cares but this is exactly why so many people are opposed to the merger.

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AFP News Agency @en.afp.com · 24/09/2026

Gaza is suffering the world's worst economic crisis ever recorded, with nine in 10 businesses destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people unemployed, a top UN development agency warned on Thursday. u.afp.com/S9Si

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Matthew Rankin has a new movie coming out! I LOVED The Twentieth Century so I’m really glad that his newest seems to be in the same wheelhouse. I’ve never bought a ticket so fast!

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Brian Mulroney | TEASER

YouTube video by NFB

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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 14/09/2026

Paramount Skydance Chief Executive David Ellison faces a pivotal decision: Should he uproot his Hollywood studio — the birthplace of such film classics as “Sunset Boulevard,” “The Godfather” and “Beverly Hills Cop”?

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Paramount’s possible Hollywood exit puts Los Angeles on edge

Los Angeles' identity and workers' livelihoods are at stake, say worried residents who fear that Paramount will leave the state.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is a letter like this to lawmakers legally binding?

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

From March 2026: “My promise to you is to build a stronger Hollywood, by keeping both of these legacy studios operating separately, thereby preserving and potentially increasing jobs.” — David Ellison, in a letter to California senator Adam Schiff and California Rep. Laura Friedman

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David Ellison Sends Letter to CA Lawmakers Outlining Plan to Keep Hollywood Jobs Local (Exclusive)

In a letter to Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Laura Friedman, the Paramount and soon-to-be Warner Bros. studio chief argued that keeping key aspects of the historic studios separate will help workers and L...

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What a ride of an article! It reads like a modern Shakespeare play: Trump Sr. didn’t go to his son’s wedding. Article also mentions Gazprom, Russian state-owned gas company & arm of Putin that funded the Yura Borisov AK-47 movie filmed in Russian-occupied Crimea in 2020. Funny how it all connects.

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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch

The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Islamophobia, airport security theatre

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Tom Voorhees @angelus04.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The thing I remember most about 9/11 was the Republicans engaging in cancel culture if you didn't support their war in Iraq

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just out of curiosity, for anyone who reached out to their MP about this, did you get a response? I got nothing.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yuck, I’m not voting for this come next election, that’s for sure.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My YouTube feed today. I think it’s trying to tell me something 😝

Screenshot of my YouTube video feed. A thumbnail for a video of two chubby, passive aggressive corgis fighting. Below is another video thumbnail of Matt Stone and Trey Parker entertaining seniors at a retirement home.

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Even if Netanyahu wasn’t informed of the attack through official channels, Hamas were posting training exercises near the wall on their social media accounts for months leading up to it. There’s no way he didn’t know, unless he was comatose all that time, youd have to be to miss it.

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Jean-Paul Blartre: Mall Cop @oldpappythomas.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Me: *hassling the cat for fun* hee hee! Oh hee hee hee! The cat: *comes over to hassle me* Me: how dare, I don't know why you think you can act like this

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Isn’t this profiteering?

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“In much of the world, the big battle for women is not the one for equal pay, but the one to be allowed to work outside the home at all. In swathes of the Middle East, north Africa and South Asia, “male honour depends to a large degree on female seclusion,” notes Alice Evans of Stanford University.”

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How work makes families more equal

The love of money is the root of quite a lot of good

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Kaja @friesnwhispers.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve been reading up about Ron DeSantis. The parallels between his spat with Disney & the ParaBros megadeal debacle in California are interesting. While ideologically the two cases could not be further apart, the state AGs could definitely afford to manhandle Paramount more, be tougher with them.

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In Florida, there's détente in the battle between Disney and Gov. Ron DeSantis

Disney and a board appointed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have settled lawsuits over who controls development in the 40-square-mile district that's home to its Orlando theme parks.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

*Checks watch impatiently*

Scientists predict that the sun will explode in 2064.

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