Yusuf Gad
@yusufgad.bsky.social
I write scripts. I rewrite scripts. I even occasionally sell scripts.
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This is supposedly our socialist mayor.
www.thestar.com/business/oli...
Olivia Chow wants to bring Torontoโs downtown back to life โ and sheโs meeting bank CEOs about increasing office days to do it
Toronto's mayor has been meeting with the CEOs of some of Canada's largest companies to discuss how to get workers back in the office at least four days a week
www.thestar.comIt's incredible it has taken them so long to do this. It's a travesty to these families.
For the last time: MBS is not pope of the Muslims, Biden.
Reportedly the Biden administration is going to unveil its US-KSA mutual defense treaty soon with the hope that the Israelis join later on.
Bibi killed 250 Palestinians because he wanted to step on Gantzโ planned press conference and no one is going to convince me otherwise.
@issalopez.bsky.social reposting communist humour from a pro-Palestinian account?
I have found my soul mate everyone.
All of these AI companies are out there with billion-dollar valuations, but none of them can do a passable one-page script summary for shit.
It's a sentence that can only be written once every 100 years or so.
In every city, citizens are held hostage by police unions, who compulsively chew up larger and larger chunks of budgets.
I'm not sure why so many people struggle to understand this.
The US/Israeli position has always been "LOL Palestinian statehood."
"You are allowed to have a state but you cannot control your own borders, your own airport, your own army, your own police, your own tax collection, or your own foreign relations" is in fact the same exact thing as saying "you are not allowed to have a state" and yet this is the Israeli/US position.
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The degree to which Westerners and Israelis casually discuss the absurd notion of limiting Palestinian sovereignty on a great variety of issues is indicative of the extreme arrogance and racial supremacism at the core of their mindset towards the issue. Palestinians are not to be managed like dogs.
"House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries started raising his concerns with Hochul, claiming that if the plan were to go into effect during this election year, the ensuing buzz could make it harder for New York Democrats to win back the House of Representatives."
Dick.
slate.com/business/202...
What Was Kathy Hochul Thinking?
Why believe the experts? She just has a feeling it might be a bad idea.
slate.comIt doesn't. But a good defense attorney will make any little thing into a scandal. It doesn't change the fact that this was an own goal.
It will be the first thing they do.
www.huffpost.com/entry/chicag...
Chicago Police Claim Mass Arresting DNC Protesters Are โLast Resort.โ What Does History Say?
With the city's documented history of violent responses to mass protests, activists and civil rights groups are skeptical of reform ahead of the convention.
www.huffpost.comIf I were Trump's attorney, I would absolutely make this a thing. That's what's frustrating about this all. This was a needless fuck up. There are hundreds of lawyers she could have hired.
Contraception rights aren't an urgent enough issue for Dems to suspend the rules for a supermajority because they want to use this as an election issue in November.
Raise hell.
www.cbsnews.com/news/right-t...
Senate vote on right to contraception bill falls short amid Republican opposition
Republicans largely opposed a vote to advance a bill to protect access to contraception Wednesday, as Democrats make a push to center reproductive rights in the run-up to the election.
www.cbsnews.com
The American legal system is not designed to punish the powerful.
www.thedailybeast.com/georgia-cour...
Georgia Appeals Court Halts Racketeering Case Against Trump
Trump and his defendants have appealed a judgeโs decision to allow Fani Willis to stay on the election interference case.
www.thedailybeast.com
We're all one people.
canoe.com/news/world/r...
Remote Amazon tribe gets internet, turns men into porn addicts
A remote and reclusive Amazon tribe has become hopelessly addicted to porn after they were finally hooked up to the internet.
canoe.comAnd yet, indeed.
"The Israeli government attempts to have an outsized influence over US policy in the Middle East and will go as far as using means that we generally regard as bad or even pernicious in other cases" is just plainly true and yet.
But when Russia does it, it's a bad thing.
jfc. the israeli government paid a marketing/intelligence firm to weaponize meta platforms and AI by creating fake accounts and fake news sites in an effort to influence black democrats.
Israel Secretly Targets U.S. Lawmakers With Influence Campaign on Gaza War
Israelโs Ministry of Diaspora Affairs ordered the operation, which used fake social media accounts urging U.S. lawmakers to fund Israelโs military, according to officials and documents about the effor...
www.nytimes.com
Must read.
www.vox.com/policy/35266...
Itโs not Islamophobia, itโs anti-Palestinian racism
Anti-Palestinian racism is a distinct form of bigotry that's too often ignored.
www.vox.com
RUN LOLA RUN is back in theatres; many people have never seen this great movie. I highly suggest checking it out if you can. Inventive, fast-paced, and very original. Its core concept would be adapted and reworked in many other movies in the following decade.
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/run_lola_run
Run Lola Run | Rotten Tomatoes
In this visually and conceptually impressive film, two-bit Berlin criminal Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) delivers some smuggled loot for his boss, Ronnie (Heino Ferch), but accidentally leaves the 100,000 ...
www.rottentomatoes.comWhat are we doing here, folks?
In November, human rights lawyer Rabea Eghbariah was set to be the first Palestinian published in the Harvard Law Review. Then his essay was killed.
But yesterday, he became the first in the Columbia Law Review.
Then the Board of Directors took the whole website down.
Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on Palestine, So Its Board of Directors Nuked the Whole Website
The students who run the Columbia Law Review sought out the Palestinian scholar Rabea Eghbariah, who was censored by Harvard Law Review last year.
theintercept.comThe actual rationale is beyond delusional. The idea that it is easy to undocumented people to vote is just looney toons.
These numbers should be causing widespread panic in the industry.
Weโre basically 5-10 years away from the death of broadcast TV programming.
There are some incredible statistics in here.
The median age viewer of Blue Bloods is 73.
CBS has 12 shows with a median age viewer over 70.
The median age viewer of primetime broadcast networks is 65 years old. Same is basically true of cable.
Only one show came in under 50, Bob's Burgers, at 49
TV Viewers Are Aging. These Shows Bring In the Oldest Audiences
CBS has the grayest primetime audience (and the largest one), while Foxโs five animated series helped age down that broadcaster during the 2023-24 season.
www.hollywoodreporter.com
This is the new business model for streaming services.
Cut production costs and jack up subscriber fees.
If we allow them to get away with this, this cycle will continue as they rush to maximize profits over art.
www.blogto.com/film/2024/06...
Canadians shook after movie streaming platform announces 'steep' price hike
A Canadian subscriber of Mubi was surprised when the movie streaming platform notified him that it would be introducing a major price hike.
In an X...
I would watch a 10-part Netflix series following this woman's journey into milkshake radicalism.
Boss move.
The PLO should send a delegation to the Swiss Peace Summit, as Zelenskyy has invited it to do, and support the Ukrainian position that not a single inch of territory is able to be annexed or admitted into another country through the force of arms.
When Trump said heโd do this we called him racist.
NEWS
President Biden is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday that would ban migrants who cross the border illegally from claiming asylum, allowing them to be quickly deported back to Mexico or their home countries, according to officials familiar with the planning.
Via WSJ
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He thinks if he goes out and announces this, it will miraculously force Israel to accept the deal. Look how lopsided his speech was in making this look like Israelโs idea.
It blows up in his face. And the media is covering it up instead of calling this a massive face-plant.
I hope Biden loses by the exact number of dead Palestinians on Nov 3. Fucking monster.
Benjamin Netanyahu has been invited to address a joint session of Congress with signatures from Schumer and Jeffries despite Democratic backlash.
Joe Biden just racking up the Ls.
www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...
Sen. Joe Manchin Leaves Democratic Party, Registers As Independent
Manchin has long been an outspoken critic of the Democratic Party and an obstacle to many of President Joe Bidenโs legislative priorities.
www.huffpost.com
It's disgusting how normalized the idea of "Palestinians can just move elsewhere" has become. I am constantly hearing it as a viable "solution."
Why is this any less offensive and disgusting than "Go back to Poland?"
Just read a blog post about Matthew Yglesias going from "left wing" to "center left" over the last two decades. Anyway here's Matthew Yglesias positively contemplating the forced expulsion of 7,000,000 people in 2002.
