Posting here, too.

I just want to point out that Bovino's response to Bill gives away the underlying worldview: Sympathizing with (black and brown) immigrants over (white) American citizens makes you a (race) traitor, which makes you a part of the "problem" (and thereby deserving of same treatment as the immigrants)

Paul Newman in Times Square (with Joanne Woodward) - BOTD

Broke: Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today! Woke: Blazing Saddles only could’ve been made in the ‘70s, not before or since.

Friend texted me their setup during the snowstorm in New York and I’m sooo jealous! His house is THE ideal situation.

Had a dream that I posted a rather mean-spirited quote of a post, and it triggered a Bluesky-wide pile on, even after deleting the post quickly. It was terrible, and I was so relieved it was just a dream.

Turns out that music I really love in a language I don’t speak is my primary motivator for learning languages. I wouldn’t want it any other way.

Not could. Have. Fred Hampton.

REPUBLICANS: Democrats are antichrists and must be put against the wall. DEMOCRATS: Let's work together with our friends across the aisle.

Timeline cleanse with the coolest fucking song I’ve heard in a long time! Loredana Bertè - Ti Piacerebbe

I’m a big fan of civilization. Rule of law, public health, universities, science, all good things. Great stuff. It may not be ‘politically correct’ to say this but I’m also a fan of what civilizations have done to idiot barbarian hordes who attempted to trample on those things.

The American Revolution started over less

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

democrats voted to require freddy krueger to wear a glove with three claws instead of four. why aren’t you happy. why aren’t you grateful

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

White Americans are learning once again that the *only* thing that has ever made you safe from fascism is being willing to sacrifice non-white people. That is your contract with white supremacy. "Give us someone else so it won't be you."

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

the dumbest part of all of this is how predictable it was that conservatives would defend ICE executing random people for expressing the 1st and 2nd amendments rights would be

He was doing what many have been saying white men should be doing. He went outside to observe, he documented, he put his body on the line to protect another person and for this he was murdered by the gatekeepers of the fascist regime.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

The people who'll tell you today's murder victim in Minnesota shouldn't have turned up to a protest carrying a gun are the same people who said Kyle Rittenhouse was perfectly entitled to do the same thing.

I wish Democrats would start just speaking the truth: “ICE is killing American citizens in public for exercising their freedom of speech because Donald Trump wants to be a king. This isn’t about immigration—Trump wants to make it illegal to oppose him, and to stay in power until he dies.”

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Tuca was such an amazing Brazilian guitarist and singer/songwriter. She wrote and arranged most of the songs on my Desert Island album, Françoise Hardy’s La Question. I believe this is just one of her demo tapes!

This is the first Threads post that genuinely made me laugh out loud.

[To the tune of Baby, It’s You] C’est Léa Seydoux Sha-la-la-la-la-la-laaaa-la

There’s just something so spiritual about ‘90s R&B.

One of the most unexpected media events of this moment has been entertainment (Teen Vogue, People) & trade (Wired) publications accurately reporting the news & cogently calling out fascist falsehoods, while our Serious News Sources (NYT, WP, WSJ) avoid truth or sane-washes it, and publishes pablum.

The line about the confidence of a mediocre white person gained sentience. McCain thinks Rogers wasn't "political" because she thought his political opinions were good and therefore he wasn't being political. This is the fullest extent of her intellectual capacity. She is legitimately a moron.

Yeah the thing about Mr. Rogers is his show was never political.

I remember reading this when THE LAST MOVIE STARS came out. Great interview with Hawke!

based jack white

Stoked to see Amy Madigan nominated for WEAPONS! #Oscars

Ten months after Morning Pages, I’ve started to sound more and more like an asylum patient. Cheers! 🥂

Duran Duran is not a band that I would’ve expected to adapt to ‘90s music well, but alas, they did!

I'd always wondered what kind of person would think up fraternity-initiation rites; when I first watched Bill Murray on "Saturday Night Live," in 1976, I said "That kind." (1981)

My favorite music video. Liv Tyler was already my first female crush, but seeing her strip in that silver lamé bra made this a Gay Awakening for me. Aerosmith - Crazy

I would also like to take drugs and listen to Duran Duran with Dr. Kelson

Listen, probably nothing but you can’t be too safe. Gonna put us on preliminary It’s Happening Watch. Remember a Watch means the conditions are there but we haven’t seen anything. If we make it to a Warning then we’ll really need to buckle down.

Phillip Seymour Hoffman in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 3 takes a run-of-the-mill action movie villain and adds such a darkness to him that’s on par with John Carroll Lynch in ZODIAC. One of the best action movie performances of all time! RIP

I’ve been watching the Mission Impossible series for the first time, and logging my reviews on Letterboxd. I love how the app does this every time I log a review!

You know you’ve listened to Rio by Duran Duran way too many times when you instantly recognize the use of its intro in 28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE.

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

This felt relevant today.

I wanna thank the YouTube algorithm for recommending this to me. A song and a video that really captures ‘80s medieval metal! Castle Rat - Wizard

Overall, I didn’t like this one as much as the first, but there’s one REALLY fantastic scene in this, and you’ll know it when you see it.

Rian Johnson has responded to Kathleen Kennedy’s suggestions that "Online Negativity" put him off making more Star Wars - "lol zero spooked, sorry’" https://bit.ly/4b7TYIT