Violet Lucca (@unbuttonmyeyes) 's Twitter Profile
Violet Lucca

@unbuttonmyeyes

Author of DAVID CRONENBERG: CLINICAL TRIALS (Abrams). Bylines at NYT, Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Art in America, Criterion, Reverse Shot, & elsewhere.

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Joe Kerr (@societylivr1984) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again

There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
RednBlackSalamander (@9mmballpoint) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Just so we're all clear on what's happening here, the US government is creating AI-generated propaganda posters inspired by a WEF Facebook Boomer conspiracy meme, to justify taking real food away from real starving children, who are really going to die as a result.

Adam Johnson (@adamjohnsonchi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote about how the NYT keeps taking grimy potshots at Zohran Mamdani, suggesting he is struggling w/ Jewish voters but polls show this is objectively false—it’s just a racist vibe and reflects NYT’s editorial line that all Jewish voters are one dimensional pro-Israel cartoons.

Eye on Palestine (@eyeonpalestine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The buses are rolling out. From Tunis, the Al-Soumoud Caravan begins its historic journey to Gaza. Crowds cheer, flags wave, voices rise in unison-Tunisians and Algerians shoulder to shoulder, hearts ablaze with solidarity. This is more than a convoy. It's a people's march. A

Alonso Gurmendi (@alonso_gd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

ā€œUgh Greta that was such a performative stuntā€ There’s been 5 flotillas before the Madleen. Israel used force against 4. 2010: 10 killed 2011: no incidents 2015: crew detained for 6 days 2018: crew tasered 2025: drones shot at the ship Think about why you didn’t know this

ā€œUgh Greta that was such a performative stuntā€

There’s been 5 flotillas before the Madleen. Israel used force against 4.

2010: 10 killed 
2011: no incidents
2015: crew detained for 6 days
2018: crew tasered
2025: drones shot at the ship

Think about why you didn’t know this
Violet Lucca (@unbuttonmyeyes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New Yorkers: I just passed two guys in fatigues that have ā€œEmpire defense forceā€ on the back of their uniforms in my neighborhood. I asked them why they’re here and they said ā€œto protect you.ā€ I asked, ā€œfrom what?ā€ They said ā€œeverything.ā€ Not good!

Janos Marton (@janosmarton) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Let's be honest about what's happening here. Zohran's candidacy is an existential threat to the elites who have run NYC forever, including the elite NY Times board members who hit the Hamptons with Cuomo donors. This is a *change election*, and they are nervous.

Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NYT, 6/16/25: Mamdani lacks the "instinct for compromise that has made Bernie Sanders, his fellow democratic socialist, effective." NYT, 1/19/20: "Compromise is anathema to [Sanders]. Only his prescriptions are the right ones, even though most are rigid, untested and divisive."

NYT, 6/16/25: Mamdani lacks the "instinct for compromise that has made Bernie Sanders, his fellow democratic socialist, effective."

NYT, 1/19/20:  "Compromise is anathema to [Sanders]. Only his prescriptions are the right ones, even though most are rigid, untested and divisive."
austerity is theft (@wideofthepost) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What an insane way to describe arresting Netanyahu, who is under an ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, just as ā€œIsraelis.ā€

What an insane way to describe arresting Netanyahu, who is under an ICC arrest warrant for crimes against humanity, just as ā€œIsraelis.ā€
Adam Johnson (@adamjohnsonchi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

here’s the thing with all the Biden/Harris counterfactuals: if they indeed would have done things differently now would be a great time to say so! They have a platform, they criticize Trump often and they—and Hillary and Obama—haven’t said a word criticizing Trump on Gaza or Iran

Violet Lucca (@unbuttonmyeyes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Oh my god it’s almost like the white brocialist narrative doesn’t hold up when you look at data and not at things media people say on Twitter? Maybe the fact those commentators only see white guys doing a thing says more about them than the politicians they seek to criticize??!

Moshik Temkin (@moshik_temkin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

These people want to talk about everything except substance. This is like saying FDR won four elections because of ā€œfireside chatsā€ without talking about The Great Depression and The New Deal and why people supported his policies.

Dudley Newright (@newrightpoast) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Zohran's wife is hot guys, c'mon now she has those big sleepy med eyes that make her look like a Byzantine icon, you can imagine her furtively beckoning to you from a well on a cool jasmine-scented evening, the heat of the Levant mercifully subsided. She balances a clay jar on

Zohran's wife is hot guys, c'mon now she has those big sleepy med eyes that make her look like a Byzantine icon, you can imagine her furtively beckoning to you from a well on a cool jasmine-scented evening, the heat of the Levant mercifully subsided. She balances a clay jar on
Violet Lucca (@unbuttonmyeyes) 's Twitter Profile Photo

There are many fucked up things about the NYT Mamdani Columbia application ā€œstory.ā€ The one I can’t get over is that it depends on people reading the headline and not the piece. The NYT doesn’t even believe in being a newspaper anymore, just a single-sentence generator.

Taylor Lorenz (@taylorlorenz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The only backlash was against the NYT for publishing such a sloppy hit job. But it’s fascinating how after months of making Zohran look darker skinned and more Muslim they lightened this image to make him appear whiter.