Christopher Leone 🇺🇦’s Tweets

Oct 16

There’s an entire skeleton inside me I’ve never seen.

Is it unfair when great artists are also great looking? Because we can’t help that

I keep trying to put this story out of my brain because it scares the hell out of me.

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Bill McKibben

@billmckibben

Oct 14

A vast new study finds there are 70 percent fewer wild animals sharing the earth with us than there were in 1970. Read that again. And again. billmckibben.substack.com/p/a-fast-empty

I like that She Hulk finale a lot.

I have enjoyed the BAD SISTERS program.

this story is pure magical delight.

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Patton Oswalt

@pattonoswalt

Oct 14

I may have tweeted this a few times before but I don’t care. This is the greatest celebrity encounter EVER. twitter.com/atrightmovies/…

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The Republican Party tried to overthrow the government on January 6 and they never stopped, and it would be very nice if that fact defined them in media and informed any mention of them going forward, and if those empowered to stop them did so without any further throat clearing.

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Oct 14

New passport photo is stunning.

Sugar does not cause hyperactivity in children. The idea spread from the results of a single study unreplicated since 1978. How many other false things do you know? Identifying them is where science comes in.

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@NoLieWithBTC

Oct 13

If Republicans take control in just 26 days, they will dissolve the January 6 committee and seek to defund the DOJ. Make a plan to vote.

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The case being carefully made by the Jan 6 Committee against Trump and his inner circle is so rock solid, so compelling, and so deeply disturbing that one thing is clear. If Trump and those around him are not tried and held to account, our democracy will never again be secure.

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Martin Scorsese says that the obsession with box office results has gone too far “Cinema is devalued, demeaned, belittled… It’s kind of repulsive” #NYFF60

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DO NOT STAY HOME ON NOVEMBER 8TH. Every race is close or tied, and we absolutely need every single vote. Each failure to vote is a vote for Marjorie Taylor Greene, Kevin McCarthy, Matt Gaetz, and Lauren Boebert. PLEASE VOTE.

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everyone is motivated by something different. for some folks it's money, for others it's a paycheck. some people are even motivated by cash hitting their bank account. others do it for the love of getting paid.

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Oct 11

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT, get your physical media.

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Criterion Collection

@Criterion

Oct 11

50% FLASH SALE

For the next 24 hours, all Criterion Collection Blu-rays, DVDs, and 4K discs are 50% OFF at criterion.com!

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Opinion | How Italians Became ‘White’ (Published 2019)

Oct 11

Excellent read on this here:

nytimes.com

Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: an American story.

Good news! Today Italian-Americans are fully integrated into the United States. Bad news! Turns out Columbus was a monster. So just like Italians got lifted up in our time of need, we should pay it forward — to retire Columbus and embrace Indigenous Peoples Day.

Columbus Day had a more complex history than I knew — it was originally created to help Italian immigrants - like my great grandparents - integrate into American society after the worst mass lynching in American history:

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March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings - Wikipedia

Remembering legendary cinematographer Freddie Young (#BOTD) and his beautiful wide shots from David Lean's 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962)

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BTW, this meme going around, I did say this. 100% TRUE.

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The idea of alpha males is so funny bc guys really made up an upper class and then put themselves in it. Ok if you're an alpha male then I'm a turbo dude. That's one level higher. You wouldn't understand bc you're just an alpha, sorry.

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Make up your minds, amphibians

Oct 7

It is a crime that Big Night is not on Blu-ray, have a nice weekend

Hope amid climate chaos: ‘We are in a race between Armageddon and awesome’

Oct 7

On Zoom, no one can see your smell.

conservative lecturer DESTROYS sjw college student

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Renewables, decarbonisation, activism, cooperation … The challenge is immense, but the situation is far from hopeless

It’s almost like the people most concerned about being “alphas” are actually the worst butthurt crybabies on the fucking planet.

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Ron Filipkowski

@RonFilipkowski

Nick Adams says he will be giving a speech next week at E. Tenn State about “how the most persecuted group in the USA are straight, white, christian men,” and “the need for men to be men, and women to be women.”

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A problem that many institutions face (I face it as a teacher) is that the American right has come to be so based around lies that simply stating basic truths can be seen as politically provocative. It's one reason the right's lies have become an institution-destroying machine.

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Max Boot

@MaxBoot

If the "woke general" is disciplined for his tweets, it will send a chilling message to the entire Army not to call out MAGA lies. And that, in turn, will enable the real threat to “Army values”--the one posed by Trump and his followers--to metastasize. wapo.st/3e59hXC

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I highly recommend The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow. Using the latest archeology, it upends so many myths about the origins of civilization But more importantly, it exploded my ideas of how we live now. We are an amazing species.

What a breath of fresh air!

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More Perfect Union

@MorePerfectUS

Sep 26

NEW: This is the most important under-the-radar congressional race in 2022. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, a working class auto shop owner, is taking on a white-nationalist sympathizer in rural Washington. An unconventional approach has her on the verge of a stunning upset.

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