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Today’s new moon in Aries helps us achieve the sort of progress that the passage of time doesn’t necessarily guarantee. The caveat? This broad doesn’t exactly have a bedside manner.

The first installment of a two-parter about the year my mom and her silent-generation pals began discovering women’s liberation (and the weaponry of fresh paint).

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

We’re poised for a Venus Spring that will help us heal romantic scars. Don’t feel guilty about it, for it’s easier to resist with a rosy heart.

Today’s spring equinox organically grants us stubborn, resistant, grounded hope. Literally, since the soil itself is finally stirring, though we cannot yet glimpse its blooms.

Conan’s bookmark shtick worked; he really should be host for life.

The biggest fuckup on my Oscar ballot stemmed from misbegotten hope—I’d really held onto the belief that Sinners could take best pic bc it deserved it

WHAT ABOUT WALLACE! So very glad Michael B Jordan is at that podium now

Adrien Brody really is insufferable even when he keeps it short

Very, very glad Sentimental Value, my favorite 2025 film, won best foreign-language. Trier’s most fully evolved film yet, less defined by the smoke and mirrors of his former endeavors but no less clever.

Autumn is so gracious and styling in her well-deserved acceptance of best cinematography (I’m glad my prediction for this category was wrong.)

Demi Moore has been taking too much of the Substance

OBAA had excellent editing, so I’m not cross. But I still hope best director and pic are split up

That point in the telecast when i can no longer distinguish bt an ad and a montage

Sinners score composer Ludwig on Amy Poehler’s podcast was “talking well behind Ryan Coogler’s back” and it was honestly touching how long they’ve been rooting for each other.

SINNERS FOR BEST SCORE FEELS SO GOOD.

Leo DiCaprio is actually funny in his 50s.

Standing O for Bridesmaids is all right!

Of course it’s the doc winner that finally speaks truth to power. Everything nominated this category is worth watching, FWIW

Jesus, you know America is at a nadir when only Jimmy Kimmel is overtly political.

Jimmy Kimmel giving ungracious ex vibes

The grogu propaganda worked on me hard

Frankenstein is just gonna get crafts awards, the Academy is obsessed w del toro but can’t pretend the film was anything but a well-crafted dirge.

Beardless Pedro Pascal looks like a 1930s spokesperson for Prohibition

Babs singing for her friend Redford, when she never sings live anymore, gave me chills. This was quite the in memoriam; Rachel McAdams did wonderfully as well.

They need to turn down the piano while Barbra is speaking of Redford. She is so faint and frail it’s making me very anxious for her

We knew the In Memorium was gonna kill us this year, and it is. I mean, we lost so many heavyweights in 2025 that I’m still weeping

Billy Crystal on Rob Reiner is the only way he could ever make me cry. But I am crying so, so much.

Ryan Coogler is such a brilliant, beautiful man, and I love how he spoke like a sped-up 45 record to make sure he gave everyone their flowers. What a treasure!

Just yelled so loudly my cat is mad. SINNERS FTW

Fine with the PTA win though I’m not into the vaguely political acceptance speech.

Netflix releasing Train Dreams the ultimate irony, since it’s only good on a big screen

Both RDJ and Chris Evans wearing glasses to seem smarter than Avengers? Just asking

Kieran Cullen called it. Sean Penn really didn’t want to be there, such a charmer

Sadly, I was right in my Oscar pool about Penn. Delroy Lindo was long overdue for his flowers

A tie win feels very Mercury in Retrograde in Pisces, sorry

Really? A tie? A tie? It feels like they could have sorted that out

This is, as predicted, so sanitized. Not one ICE out pin, no nothing

Kumail’s love for his cat and his wife is so great that I overlook his weird male orthorexia.

O how I love love love Sentimental Value. I went looong on it in today’s Ruby Report. open.substack.com/pub/therubyr...

Still haunted by Anna Wintour presenting costume design. She’s like DT only in the sense that she’s so extreme that no parody is required.

Wagner Moura looks like the love child of Pedro Pascal and Joshua Jackson, not complaining

Ok, I’ve finally been wrong in my Oscar’s predictions—didnt’ think OBAA would win for casting but actually v v v happy w this win. Who else would have put Teyana opposite Leo?

yet another thing that annoyed me about Hamnet: using that Max Richter piece used in Arrival and Cloud Atlas. enough already!

Conan is the consummate host, I’m feeling this ceremony so far

Shit, I keep wining my Oscar pool. I sadly knew Frankenstein was gonna beat out Ruth E Carter

All right, the occasional Oscar reaction here tonight! Starting with how Conan is oddly way hotter in the Weapons wig..what is happening??

Notes/predix for tonight’s Oscars, o my