David Bates

It's been awhile since I've done a full-length film review, but this one demands it. Check it out on my Substack, subscribe (free, no password required) and share. #YouCanSeeEverything #Film #Cinema #AI

This is a short one, I just wanted to get 988 out there for those who need it. If you're suicidal or in crisis, please use it. Just call or text.

I saw @garygulman.bsky.social's Grandiloquent at the Elsinore in Salem, Oregon tonight ... terrific show. The first live comedy I've seen since, believe it or not, the 1990s. As a fellow traveler in Depressionland, I found it both funny and unexpectedly moving, real. Thank-you, Gary. 🫶🖖

How is Trump's 'public relations' stunt in Iran workin' out for you at the pump, MAGA? Are you feeling the PR? Remember, always remember, because those of us who saw this coming will never, ever let you forget it: YOU wanted this, and YOU did this. 🫵 😅 😂

Easily the most riveting essay I've read this year.

Just discovered this remarkable artist, beautiful work. I could look at this stuff all day. 😍

If you cannot tell, you should consult your physician.

Imagine spending an eternity listening to Donald Trump.

I wrote and posted this to Instagram a couple of days ago and it became my most-read poem ever. I’m honored I get to feel big feelings alongside you all. I’m posting it here too and want to use this space more consistently. Hello friends ❤️

Artemis II crew learning that three new episodes of the new season of 'For All Mankind' will be available when they get back.

Look at all that DEI sending astronauts around the moon.

A good friend who graciously gave this one a beta read told me that this is one of my "most honest" pieces I've done on Substack, one where "the wizard behind the curtain" is on full display.

A good friend who graciously gave this one a beta read told me this is one of my "most honest" pieces I've done on Substack, one where "the wizard behind the curtain" is on full display. #Depression #MentalHealth

My latest over on Substack, where I write about art and culture in these unsettling and terrifying times. Subscribing is free, I've paywalled nothing, and no password is required. #Art #Culture #Substack

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud.. www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

I'm confused. I thought we needed scientists and experts to go to the moon. Or did we send "do your own research" astronauts launched by "both sides" engineers and physicists at Mission Control?

Now Trump's team knows what it felt like to be Biden's team watching the train wreck of the final debate that finally persuaded them it was long past time for Joe to go. 😒

Just a friendly reminder to check your voter registration regularly. A lot of us have had our voting records sent to The Regime. There is no reason to believe this was a benign action.

I just did 2.5 hours in an MRI and I’ve had COVID19 vaccines numbering in the double digits, so I think we can confidently conclude that the vaccines don’t, in fact, magnetize a person.

I really feel like we are at the dawn of an age in which truth, the simple facts of the matter, will be more valuable than ever and also less accessible than ever.

Art Candee's feed piling up with pathetic ICE "agents" pulling airport duty is the laugh I needed today. 😂

As long as ICE is in U.S. airports, I will not be. COMPLETE AND TOTAL BOYCOTT! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!

"Hegseth increasingly desperate"

"She’s hearing from people sick with the virus: 'A number of them clearly said if they had known, they would have vaccinated themselves and their children against measles, but they didn’t realize how bad it was.'" What happens when we downplay disease. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

My latest at Oregon ArtsWatch on the McMinnville Short Film Festival. #Film #Oregon

Watched press conference footage of Pete Hegseth a couple days ago and the mind just reels: What a monumentally stupid, astoundingly insecure and immature piece of excrement he is. Makes Rumsfeld and Cheney look like enlightened intellectuals. Every fucking day, I'm like 🤯 🤯 🤯 WTAF?

Here's my latest on Substack, an interview with a Portland filmmaker about his semi-autobiographical film. #Music #Film

I've resumed writing on Substack, here's my latest. Please like, share, subscribe ... it's free and simple, no password bullshit. I ain't selling anything (although paid subscribers obviously are always welcome).

The Trump administration can shuffle HHS personnel all they want. Until this administration is over and RFK Jr. is removed from office, the process of rebuilding science and public health in the United States cannot begin.

I guess "mass deportations" actually meant "mass detention in prison camps." Deportation and imprisonment are not the same thing. But I guess imprisonment has way bigger profits.

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Trump's America. If you're okay with this, I'm not okay with you.

If you refuse to vaccinate and your child becomes seriously ill with a vaccine-preventable disease, I can assure you that all of your anti-vax “friends” that you met on social media will be nowhere to be found.

Since last year, we’ve been reporting on ICE extensively. But every week brings new information, and it’s getting harder to keep track of what’s happening, let alone remember what’s already happened. So here’s a quick thread to help.

This needs to be read as widely as possible, it's likely the next play -- possibly attractive to the fascist perpetrators because it's less optically repugnant than simply shooting American citizens in the street. Heads up, Minnesota, show the country how to fight this shit.

"I was only following orders" wasn't an acceptable excuse at the Nuremberg trials & won't work now. #AccountabilityIsComing

No, ICE, you don't get to override the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution with a fucking internal memo. #AmericanFascists

Vance doesn't appear to fully grasp that he's going to be handing Baby #4 over to Trump at some point. Grinning as he does it.

Boston to Lisbon ... so ICE is concerned that "illegal aliens" might try to ... leave the country? And wants to stop this from happening? 🤔

You may have heard that there’s a measles outbreak in Arizona. You may not have heard that 97% of the cases were unvaccinated, and that measles continues to spread in the state.

Rogan is now blasting the "Gestapo." What the fuck did he think was going to happen? Did he think "mass deportations" was going to be friendly, polite and orderly?

Marco Rubio, June 2012.

Seems like every day there are more and more people looking at ICE and saying “I didn’t vote for this”. You did. You voted for a man who handed out MASS DEPORTATION NOW signs to crowds at his rallies. Did you think that mass deportation was going to be gentle and thoughtful and peaceful?

"POLICE" wear uniforms with no masks, not army fatigues with masks. That's not police, but it sure as fucking hell is a police state.

ICE agents are stalking the streets of Minneapolis demanding that random brown people provide proof of citizenship. We good with that, America? I thought we learned this lesson back in World War II, but I guess not.

If he steals the next election and lives that long, we could very well still be listening to the President of the United States bitch about 'Sleepy' Joe Biden until 2033.

The Klan wore masks. ICE wears masks. Same goddamned thing.

"People"