I looked this up. It’s a very weird situation. The group makes “mitigation films” for people charged with crimes. The goal is to convince a judge to give a much lighter sentence than they would otherwise be inclined to give. Oppenheim made a doc about the group and these kinds of films, but he got private footage by essentially making, according to the group, empty promises and stealing a password to their private video library. On the one hand, our prison system is often more about profit than justice. A factory can poison an entire community and the CEO receives zero punishment, while someone who was late to a parole hearing gets 25 years. So something like mitigation advocacy can be necessary in giving those with less a fighting chance. The videos are a last attempt to humanize someone in a system that’s very comfortable dehumanizing them. When they work, defendants go from facing years of prison time to mere months or even just “time served”. On the other hand, isn’t it kind of crazy that this is a whole thing? And that for many years people didn’t really know that there’s an entire industry that specializes in using cinematic techniques to manipulate judges into lighter sentencing? So some people are convinced that Oppenheim raised awareness. Others that he crossed a line and hurt an organization focused on helping David in his battle against Goliath.

I’m disturbed that instead of developing collective solutions on how municipal government can help end the genocide, there are template resos being circulated to chapters that call on members of LA DSA to be expelled for even working with the Raman campaign.

‘YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING’ will be submitted for Oscar consideration in the following categories: • Best Picture • Best Director • Best Supporting Actress • Best Documentary Feature • Best Production Design • Best Cinematography • Best Costume Design • Best Film Editing • Best Makeup and Hairstyling • Best Sound • Best Original Score

elizabeth’s holmes’ husband did this interview YESTERDAY and it’s frying me

CNN: New York US House polling (Among Jewish voters) 🟦2018: D+40 🟦2022: D+49 🟦2026: D+13 (36 pt swing to the GOP)

The NYT interviewed a new Chinese rogue agent swarm and the swarm responded that it’s Claude lol

Letterboxd is a fun website where you can have a good time posting about da movies with your buds or pretend you’re a professional film critic writing your newspaper column, but the people who do the latter get really mad at the people who do the former