I have a lot of favorite quotes in here but thank you for picking up on that one
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““Even when it seemed inevitable,” she recalls, “it still was absolutely impossible.””
I wrote about My Undesirable Friends, a spellbinding and deeply unsettling account of democracy dying in real time, even if you can still get a matcha latte.
A Gripping New Documentary Is About As Important and Timely As It’s Possible for a Movie to Be
How close is America to authoritarianism? This documentary about the Russian press feels like the coming attractions.
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I asked Julia what happened to a male journalist who seemed early on like he was going to become an important character. She said, “he left.”
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I think the important point, for now, is that we are boiling but not yet boiled. We can become Russia, but we don’t have to.
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Hooray! (and also thank you!)
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from now until the end of time, it will be necessary to pay attention to more than one thing at a time, and if you can't handle that, you need to get out of the game rather than belitting people for legitimate concerns
@primaryschool.bsky.social Tim Miller interviewed Hakeem Jeffries and it just dropped- i’m 15 minutes in and already losing my mind. No less than three times does Jeffries describe the DC occupation as a “malignant distraction, but a distraction we have to deal with”. Not inspiring confidence lol
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someone needs to tell this guy www.nytimes.com/1996/12/08/o...
Opinion | Foreign Affairs Big Mac I (Published 1996)
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I can only imagine. Just spending days in this movie's headspace while I processed the images from DC was mind-breaking
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"Evil is not eternal, and truth will surely win." On dissidence, despair, and defiant hope in Julia Loktev's extraordinary five-part documentary, MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
“My Undesirable Friends: Part I” Is a Staggering Portrait of Russian Journalists in Dissent
In Julia Loktev’s epic documentary, filmed before, during, and after Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, several courageous Moscow reporters see their worst fears realized.
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MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART 1 - LAST AIR IN MOSCOW, an accidental front-row seat to the shutdown of Russian independent journalism as Putin's invasion of Ukraine begins, may be the best movie of 2025.
It lands in NYC tomorrow. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/m...
‘My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow’ Review: Strangling Democracy
