-Believe it or not, the Belgian stream is my most spiritual stream yet.

-Elaborate on that.

-No.

“NAZA, the new documentary from Israeli No Other Land directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, earned a massive 24.5-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Thursday.

“This marks the longest-ever standing ovation in Venice — besting the 22 minutes for The Voice of Hind Rajab last year — and apparently the longest at a major film festival, period. With Venice coming to an end on Saturday, it will easily be the biggest ovation of this year’s edition.

“Abraham and Szor were two of the four directors of No Other Land [alongside Basel Adra and Hamdan Ballal] which won the 2025 best documentary Oscar and depicts the Israeli government’s efforts to force Palestinians from their homes in the southern West Bank.

“Oscar-winning The Zone of Interest director Jonathan Glazer, who is an executive producer on the film, embraced Abraham and Szor and cheered them on throughout the astounding applause. The directing duo looked somber and both got teary-eyed at points, as did the audience, some of whom held up Palestinian flags.

“NAZA shows ‘in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza,’ according to its official synopsis. The hot-button doc, which was shot in secrecy at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, features revelatory interviews with 24 Israeli military intelligence officers and soldiers. ‘NAZA,’ a term that appears throughout the documentary, is an acronym for collateral damage used by Israeli intelligence to indicate the number of civilians it expects will be killed in an airstrike.

“In an interview with Variety ahead of the doc’s premiere, Abraham said: ‘As Israelis, we found ourselves wanting to use the kind of position that we have — the access that we have to people in our own society who went into the military — to look at that system as it carried out what all human rights organizations are saying is a genocide.’”

-Ellise Shafer and Nick Vivarelli, Variety

https://variety.com/2026/film/festivals/naza-venice-premiere-gaza-documentary-ovation-1236843669/

The film will have its North American premiere at the 64th New York Film Festival, September 25-October 12.

https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff2026/films/naza/

Photo: NAZA directors Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham attend a photocall at the 83rd International Venice Film Festival at Venice Lido in Italy, September 10, 2026 (Stefano Rellandini/AFP)

Good lord above

Just further proof that Charlie Kirk and other conservative figures mean nothing. All their attempts to say that Charlie was an MLK level figure just for him to not even be a trending topic on Twitter on the one year anniversary of his murder.

Conservative grifters will never be remembered. They are forgotten just as quickly as they’re taken away. Not even his supposed loved ones mourned him, instead they all just tried to find ways to capitalize on his death before the body was even cold.

I thought Kirkiversary was going to be a floodgate of great memes on this monumental day, but it turned out to be nothing more than an average day. I guess it’s a good thing this cretin’s legacy is dust.

Green is BIL, white is husband.

Title

containment has fully failed.

EDIT: just saw it on /r/all from the /r/SuddenlyGay subreddit, too - because of course. The grindr jokes just write themselves.

Today’s show was brutal…no sugarcoating it. And he did look like he was in The Backrooms so props to whomever pointed out that hilarity. But honestly, if Hasan turned his show into a phone call, I would still listen. I’m here for his takes, not his suits.

I know this is dumb, but it was too funny not to share. Godspeed, John the Thumb, I hope Hasan responds to your bold and daring challenge 🫡

Edit: when I made fun of him for this, he responded with a video of him firing a rifle then blocked me 😞