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About 5 paragraphs in, please find a useful roundup of (polarized!) reactions to yesterday’s White House shitshow.

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This piece by James Emanuel Shapiro is really important and I hope folks give it some thought. Basically: the business landscape for indie films has totally collapsed—thanks to the closing theatrical window, the collapse of transactional business (both in terms of VOD and physical media sales), and decreasing prices for streaming sales—a…

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: The Oval Office fiasco

A Shameful, Appalling Spectacle

So at least one good thing has happened: an insurance company was planning to introduce draconian charging schedule for anaesthesia (where, if complications arose during your surgery, you could lose coverage while unconscious and wake up to find you're paying out of pocket)

It has been reversed. Of course they don't say it's because of the shooting, but then you wouldn't expect them to. And the timing is certainly perfect

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