This is what they mean when they say shit like "suicidal empathy." It's just bloodlust. Not patriotism or deft military strategy. Just thuggery on a global scale.

“We ignore US law so screw international law.” #inners

Watched HARD TO HANDLE (1933). Silly movie about conman James Cagney getting scammed by his partners while he tries to convince Mary Brian to marry him. Both Cagney and Ruth Donnelly as Brian's mother are funny and charming when they aren't screaming, which is too often. In Meryvn LeRoy collection.

THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB (2025) is on Letterboxd streaming service for $6.99. letterboxd.com/video-store/...

#TCMParty #booksky #literaturesky www.nyrb.com/collections/...

Far right election deniers lobbying Trump to declare national emergency so he can: -seize voting machines -outlaw mail voting for most Americans -force every American to re-register before midterms & every subsequent election Insane wannabe dictator fever dream www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

A former nursing-home owner, who had been convicted of tax crimes, paid a lawyer and lobbyist at least $100,000 to help secure a pardon from President Trump and walked free. Others are following his blueprint in a lucrative pardon industry that has emerged around Trump.

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Hope it gets a US release.

The Trump administration took your money illegally. They won’t give it back.

2026 so far...

#LastFourWatched #LetterboxdFriday I liked UNDER CAPRICORN a lot. Just don't go into it expecting your usual Hitchcock film.

Tomorrow on TCM!

Czech poster for ACCATTONE (1961) Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini - BOTD in 1922

Historians looking back on the 2026 midterms and trying to explain how the Democrats managed to thrash Republicans will point to many causes—but let me suggest that they should pay attention to these two words right here: "I guess."

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

Pier Paolo Pasolini by Herbert List, Trastevere, 1953 "I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief."

Interesting that *everyone* assumes (accurately, probably) that neither Trump or anyone in the admin told her directly she was out before he posted it.

Everybody shipping Mullin and Lewandowski now.

Trump replacing Noem with Mullin is a reminder that, yes, it can always get dumber.

There it is: Noem out, Mullin in

“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.” My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less. stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

It’s gonna be Kid Rock

Tomorrow on TCM!

Did a new Blu-ray cover… whysoblu.com/cecile-is-de...

Today in 1936 Dean Stockwell was born.

William Wellman's NOTHING SACRED (1937) w/ Fredric March and Carole Lombard is now on Criterion Channel. This is the MoMA restoration from the original Technicolor separations, w/ warm, golden tones that are completely lost in other transfers. It looks and sounds glorious. #FilmSky

Lucky DC-area movie goers!

i really don't think Hegseth realized the diplomatic consequences of that strike

Someone saw some fresh polling this morning

Feels like talk on here today has turned to WWIII.

From FT comments

NEW: JD Vance’s clash with Pope Leo XIV and the Catholic Church is escalating. On CBS, he accused Catholic bishops of supporting immigration because it “makes them money.” Cardinal Dolan later said on EWTN that Vance apologized. Now Vance tells the Washington Post that apology never happened.

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Fetterman just voted with every Senate Republican (except Rand Paul) to block legislation aimed at halting Trump's disastrous war of choice with Iran. @fetterman.senate.gov and his GOP colleagues now share ownership of Trump’s stupid, unpopular, unjustified and already tragic war — and the fallout.

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

Twin tubs? Well, that was pretty good. #Cowboy #TCMParty

I don't think Glenn Ford deserves to be on his high horse. #Cowboy #TCMParty

Oscar connection: nominated for Best Film Editing. #Cowboy #TCMParty

That complicates things. #Cowboy #TCMParty

I woulda tossed the guy who threw around a poisonous snake. #Cowboy #TCMParty

Bonus Brian Donlevy! #Cowboy #TCMParty

Original title: Cowboy Cynic. #Cowboy #TCMParty

Is this Jack Lemmon's only western? #Cowboy #TCMParty

***ANNOUNCEMENT*** Coming on May 19th on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com and #SomethingWeirdVideo as #18 in their #ForbiddenFruit line: #TheWagesOfSin (1938)! The gold standard of exploitation films, Willis Kent’s The Wages of Sin is perhaps the most polished (and emotionally compelling)

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

636 British dead in Iraq and Afghanistan you fuck.

Tim Walz: There are no Somalis in the Epstein files.

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

You don't have to love all of these movies, but you do have to understand that a studio that makes Sinners and One Battle and Mickey 17 and Wuthering Heights and The Bride and Weapons grasps its responsibility to filmmaking and its own history and tradition in a way that David Ellison does not.