“Jenin, Jenin” a documentary by Mohammad Bakri (available on Youtube)

“200 meters” a movie by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Born in Gaza” a documentary by Hernán Zin (available on Netflix)

“Samouni Road” a documentary & animation by Stefano Savona (available on Netflix and Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Edward Said on Palestine (1988)” a TV documentary style film by Christoper Skyes (available on Youtube)

“To My Father (2008)” a documentary style film by Abdel Salam Shehada (available on Palestine Film Institute’s website)

“Salt of this sea” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Children of Shatila” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Present” a short movie by Farah Nabulsi (available on Netflix)

“Frontiers of Dreams and Fears” a documentary by Mai Masri (available on Netflix & Youtube)

“The Crossing” a short film by Ameen Nayfeh (available on Netflix)

“Tantura” a documentary by Alon Schwartz (available on Youtube)

“3000 nights” a movie by Mai Masri (available on Netflix)

“Farha” a movie by Darin J. Sallam (available on Netflix)

“Arna’s Children” a documentary by Juliano Mer-Khamis (available on Youtube)

“Ma’loul celebrates it’s destruction” a documentary by Michel Khleifi (available on Youtube)

“A World Not Ours” a documentary style movie by Mahdi Fleifel (available on Netflix)

“Like Twenty Impossibles” a movie by Annemarie Jacir (available on Netflix)

“Omar” a movie by Hany Abu Assad (available on Netflix)

“Mars At Sunrise” a movie by Jessica Habie (available on Netflix)

“5 Broken Cameras” a documentary by Emad Burnat & Guy Davidi (available on Youtube)

“Aida Returns” a film by Carol Mansour (look for upcoming screenings through this link)

[this list will constantly be updated with more movies & documentaries that i’m reminded of, or with new pieces that i find and watch… if you have any suggestions please send them my way]

I’ve seen so many people saying “oh he couldn’t dress up because he needed to work” but that’s just not what he said lmao

It would’ve been extremely easy to let him say something along those lines and then his outfit would mean absolutely nothing, but that was not the case.

I do think that him being dismissive about it was a conscious decision, because It’s not about the outfit itself, it’s about his intentions.

If he was planing to dress up and couldn’t, he could’ve easily said this to Buck so he wouldn’t seem uninterested, but he was just genuinely uninterested, and that’s why he was like “eh this is good enough”

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Like this is Chris’s room:

It’s absolutely FULL of stuff. He’s got fun rugs, art, shelves, trophies, a terrarium, a LITTLE FIRE FIGHTER OUTFIT, stars and decorations on his dressers, a desk, a little basketball hoop, embroidered pillows. There is nothing Chris doesn’t have in here. Eddie bought this kid everything he needed and made sure his room felt special and fun and homey. And this is during Stuck, so there’s no Carla, no Buck, no Shannon helping him out. This room and everything in it was all Eddie who made sure his son has an awesome fun room with anything he needs in the city they just moved to.

And this is Eddie’s room:

Even for a guy who was in the military, this room is barren. No shelves, no decorations, no photos, a single mirror on the wall, no books, no art, nothing that would have taken any time or extra expense to put up. Now we know Eddie isn’t a guy lacking personality – he likes baseball, and has photos on his fridge and his living room, he has themed holiday pillows for the couch, he has a fucking personality, except he doesn’t here because his sole focus right now is taking care of his son so he hasn’t spent a single second worrying about the room Chris doesn’t go in and I am crying at self-sacrificing Eddie spending the few dollars he has as a probationary firefighter who just moved to LA to take his kid shopping for desks and rugs and shelves and buying nothing for himself but the barest necessities. Frank absolutely had Eddie pegged when he said he manages other people’s pain and never his own and this is just another example of Eddie sacrificing pieces of himself for his son.

I’m sorry, what was that about Joe not being liberal enough for y’all?

Because me and my six figures worth of student loan debt would like a word.

Source

From joebiden.com/beyondhs/#

More than halve payments on undergraduate federal student loans by simplifying and increasing the generosity of today’s income-based repayment program. Under the Biden plan, individuals making $25,000 or less per year will not owe any payments on their undergraduate federal student loans and also won’t accrue any interest on those loans. Everyone else will pay 5% of their discretionary income (income minus taxes and essential spending like housing and food) over $25,000 toward their loans. This plan will save millions of Americans thousands of dollars a year. After 20 years, the remainder of the loans for people who have responsibly made payments through the program will be 100% forgiven. Individuals with new and existing loans will all be automatically enrolled in the income-based repayment program, with the opportunity to opt out if they wish. In addition to relieving some of the burden of student debt, this will enable graduates to pursue careers in public service and other fields without high levels of compensation. Biden will also change the tax code so that debt forgiven through the income-based repayment plan won’t be taxed. Americans shouldn’t have to take out a loan to pay their taxes when they finally are free from their student loans.

That is much better than what the current set up does. Minus taxes and essential spending will be a fight over what that means depending where you live, but its a really good thing.

He also wants to help with job training so we don’t all get these degrees that don’t help us get dang jobs. And he wants to go after private for-profit universities. And he wants to better fun grant programs. and, and, and.

Lets say you’re a single human person, working a good job, 60k a year; after tax, you have around 45k. Under Biden’s plan, they start by taking 25k of that, putting it to the side and removing it from the calculus. Then. they take an amount off for essential spending. Don’t know what that math works out to yet, so lets assume someone awful gets to decide it, and its 12.7k a year (the poverty line for a single human) Then, they only can bill you for 5% of the remainder. So.

60k - taxes = ~45k

45k - threshold = 20k

20k - essential spending = 7.3k

$7300 x 5% = $365 a year -or- $30 a month

Sure, Strife, that’s a pipe dream, you say, what happens if the ‘essential spending’ part dies in congress? Fair point, Congress is a sinkhole of evil. But lets see:

60k - taxes = ~45k

45k - threshold = 20k

20k x 5% = $1000 a year  -or- $83 a month

Yeah, you say, but I’m a curmudgeon and I want to assume the worst because I hate politicians, what if they lose the threshold, and only get the 5% through and everything else stays exactly the same?

In that case, it will straight up cut everyone’s payments in half. Minimum. Whatever you’re paying now? Half that. In the case of the example above, that means

60k - taxes = ~45k

45k x 5% = $2250 a year  -or- $187 a month

So this guy is out here going after free college for the younger parts of GenZ and all of our kids. AND he’s going to make the loans we have into a much more bearable burden. PLUS. If you didn’t see up there? That he’d kill the taxes paid on forgiven loans? Yeah, that’s a thing right now. If you pay for 20 years, and end with 60k in loans to be forgiven, you pay taxes on the 60k all at once. Which means you owe the government around 15k. Which. Ironically. Usually means you have to take out another loan.

And this would apply to everyone, you can opt out if you wanna clear yours sooner, but you don’t have to do the jump through hoops and beg routine like you do now.