Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Ach! For this 80s Beltway kid, this park was WILD WORLD. The Wild One (108 years old!) was my first roller coaster. This is a bummer, man. www.timeout.com/usa/news/its...

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Career highlight! This summer I went to Fraunces Tavern with Ken Burns to talk about American history. That interview is now live at @vanityfair.com www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

midprice Airbnb shit

I don't resent poor people who use food stamps to buy another soft drink. I resent rich people who take away the funds for food stamps to buy another yacht.

Today is Lee Grant's 100th birthday. This remarkable movie/TV/stage actress and filmmaker is the definition of a survivor. Read up on her fascinating life. Better yet, see her movies! (Also, if you can hunt down anything from her Emmy-winning run on Peyton Place, totally worth it.)

Once again, the Senate, also run by Republicans, remains open. This is solely an effort to protect the pedophiles and sex traffickers in the Epstein Files.

The British royal family is taking a more hardline stance against sex predators than the US government

I'm only 34 and I remember a time when nazism and racism and sexism and homophobia was a bad thing that nobody wanted to be connected to

In the 33 years before the U.S. halted nuclear testing in 1992, countries conducted over 1,000 tests. In the 33 years since? Roughly 20. The global moratorium—and the treaty backing it—has curbed both the spread and sophistication of nuclear weapons worldwide.

Why is it that every disappeared US citizen is not front page news? At the very least we should have a little box with a count of the number of citizens who have been taken away and are not locatable and a link to a story with photos & min-bios, just as we used to do with military casually figures.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Freeeeeeeeman

Will Klein! Wow. #dodgers

🚨Attn Classic Film Fans🚨 The ERROL FLYNN Draft with @bryancogman.bsky.social & Maureen Lee Lenker will now be... ...the FLYNN & DE HAVILLAND SUPER DRAFT, premiering in early November! All 8 films starring the iconic pairing will make the list - what do you want to see at the top? The bottom?!

Just imagining the reaction if Obama or even Biden had bulldozed a wing of the White House without warning, and without consulting a single soul anywhere in the government. The outrage machine would've screamed eternally.

The destruction of the East Wing is a reminder that America has violated the only check-and-balance that actually ends up mattering: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-only-c...

Tired: “Frankenstein isn’t the monster” Wired: “William Powell isn’t the Thin Man” Inspired: “Tim Conway and Don Knotts aren’t the Apple Dumpling Gang”

That was incredible. OHTANI. #Dodgers

PSA for LA-based @screendrafts.bsky.social listeners. Remember when I was raving about 'Love and Death' on the podcast recently? The good people at the @amcinematheque.bsky.social are showing it next month (along with several other Diane Keaton classics).

Every time I see 'The Archers' trending I think for a split-second that Powell & Pressburger's films are enjoying some kind of huge resurgence with the kids today and then I come to my senses...

good morning. watch Reds.

Remember when there were TWO big studio Christopher Columbus movies released the same year? That was weird.

This is a lovely interview of Tim Curry from @michaelschulman.bsky.social.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

Diane Keaton was always a genre unto herself. On and off screen, she was effortlessly funny, achingly honest, and unafraid to mirror back to us what it means to be human in an impossible world. We love you, Diane, and we’ll celebrate you on our big screen and in our video store til the end of time.

One of her finest line readings

I’m absolutely heartbroken. Along with Olivia de Havilland, my favorite screen actress of all time. (Pictured here in 1981‘s REDS) Rest in Peace.

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Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Okay, for funsies: Best LAW & ORDER cast? For me, it's Season 5: Orbach, Noth, Merkerson, Waterston, Hennessy, Hill Yours?

(swoons) Rest in peace.

We may have to, begrudgingly, accept certain behaviors in first run multiplex screenings now. But it’s wild to me how pervasive those same behaviors are at film festivals now, let alone press and industry screenings which should be, frankly, populated by the very people rallying against that.

I'm just begging anybody with anything to say about this to read up on the fact that (1) JVDB has cancer and (2) this is a cancer fundraiser before they put their har-dee-har pants on and start stomping around.

Seconded. One of the great movies. Absolutely riveting in IMAX.

The view from my desk. Love Robert Redford -- star and/or director of many of my favorite films (this one included). But also a great humanitarian and with one of the great film legacies -- the impact of Sundance almost impossible to full measure. Rest in Peace.

Now bring Eriq LaSalle onto THE PITT somehow and get him HIS Emmy!

Noah Wyle. I've loved him since I was 14. Overdue and well deserved! And thrilled for the Best Drama win too, this is splendid.

Thrilled about that #Andor win. My favorite episode of TV this year.

At least two students have been shot at Evergreen High School in Evergreen, Colorado, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

Got a new one for the "Bryan's Adventures in the Screen Trade" book I'll write some day. Pitched a time travel movie last week, based on a game. Thought I came up with a pretty good idea, all things considered. As you have to nowadays... (cont.)

One of the more tiresome internet things is when someone feels the need to declare, after a famous artist has said or done or supported something reprehensible: "Oh, well, I never liked their stuff anyway. I always liked THIS person who aligns with all my beliefs!" Congrats, here's your medal.

Listening to the Randy Newman AVALON score on vinyl whilst writing and realizing I might be the only person on the planet who owns the Randy Newman AVALON score on vinyl.

For the Pritzker fans (like me), this is a great speech he made:

Gritting my teeth as I see Terence Stamp, gone today at the age of 87, referred to as "Superman costar" in obit headlines. He was sexier, weirder, darker, so much more interesting than that. Many entry points, but you can't go wrong starting with Billy Budd (1962) and The Collector (1965). RIP.

"LOONEY TUNES" is now available to watch for free on Tubi! There are 786 shorts available, packaged into 262 half-hour compilations of three shorts apiece — more than HBO Max ever had!