250 days of nonstop high crimes and misdemeanors, and we’re finally there: “the president has magic powers.” Why is everything allowed to be so stupid?

Democrats should become the anti-corruption party. 72% of voters think a member of Congress would likely accept a bribe if offered one. 80% say donors run DC. The solution isn’t left vs right, it’s clean vs corrupt. But first, Democrats must reform themselves and reject big money.

Now’s a great day to watch the doc “Marjoe” (free on Fandango at Home, the Roku channel and Fawesome.tv) @iwriteok.bsky.social approved! He mentions it every other episode!

I’m a modestly popular podcaster. I expect this kind of coverage when something tragic happens to me (my soda overfizzes, causing me to trip on nothing, hit head on lawn gnome.)

Oh for a reporter to ask what percentage would make it free speech again. If it’s 72% negative is that OK? How bout 52%? 18%? -1000%?

ThirtyTwentyTen Aug. 22-28: Antonio Banderas Plays, Terry Gilliam’s Grimm Tale, and HBO Goes to Rome Movies recommended this week: ▫️Desperado (Roku) ▫️Beyond Rangoon (hoopla) ▫️The Tuskegee Airmen (HBO) ▫️Classic Corner: Rashomon (HBO, kanopy), Pather Panchali (HBO, kanopy), Better Off Dead (HBO )

Bite me, RFK Jr.

Hey! Companies! I like your rewards programs, but could you not make me enter my phone number on a GIANT touchscreen where the people behind me can clearly see it? Yours truly, People who don’t want to be stalked by the weird guy at 7-11

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Cats purring 2. Clean sheets after a shower 3. Deaf people laughing 4. “I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You” album by Aretha Franklin 5. When all your stuff fits into your cargo pants so you don’t have to bring a purse

One of these rich dudes invested in a food company with all proceeds going to kids in need. The other started Sundance Institute, boosting the lives of countless artists. Hey modern rich dudes, don't be a typical greedy AI crypto-prick, be like these two.

If she said “We don’t know who did it, but I bet it’s a [n-word],” people would see her and the propagandists for what they are. Fun fact! Mace was the 1st female graduate of the previously all-male Citadel. She didn’t care about the sanctity of gendered spaces until she could make it hateful.

Found a bot. Or they’re following me because they’re a masochist, in which case don’t make me part of your kink without my permission.

Not only this, we need to end originalism as a legal framework. The beliefs of 12 slaveowners 250 years ago who thought Germans weren’t white and bleeding cures measles do not apply. We need a framework, and I suggest weighing harms. The harm to your religion vs. the harm of no wedding cake.

ThirtyTwentyTen July 4-10: King Sean Connery, Fantastic Four Part 1, and Minions Begin Movies recommended this week: ▫️Species (hoopla) ▫️Minions (netflix) ▫️Tangerine (netflix, prime, hulu, hoopla, tubi) ▫️Classic Corner: Silverado (MGM+), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (rental), The Great Race (tubi)

Nearly all gun violence is done by men - to other men, to their partners, or to themselves. BAN MALE GUN OWNERSHIP. Only women should get to own guns. (Men may used them when properly supervised.)

If you can film your script for $20 million, I’ll fund it and get out of your way. $25 million if the director is a woman. I will also be driving this:

The joke used to be George HW Bush picked Dan Quayle as his VP so no one would try to kill him and risk an empty suit president dumber than a houseplant. USED TO BE.

Happy International Dog Day! May the dog of wisdom bless you and keep you.

Even if it happens in public, on camera and has an obvious cause, the conspiracy theories will be insufferable.

Look, Trump doesn't know shit about real people living in real cities, because if he did, he'd know there are three cities with extreme chips on their shoulders not to fuck with. It's the "Ya Think Ya Betta Than Me?!" triumvirate: #Chicago, #Boston and #Philadelphia.

One thing I love about the @500songspodcast.bsky.social podcast is it’s like James Burke’s “Connections” series. Where Burke showed how rug designs led to computer programming via airline reservations, Andrew shows how Frankie Valli led to Led Zeppelin via Joan Rivers.

We’re going to have to have trials for ICE officials one day. Maybe we should ship them to CECOT without due process first, then try them.

Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck gettin' dirty and gritty Been down, isn't it a pity? Doesn't seem to be a shadow in the city. #sanfrancisco

As someone who’s edited a podcast, this ➡️ LITERALLY ⬅️ made me shiver.

If Republican policies worked, Mississippi, Alabama and Arkansas would be have great schools, low crime and booming economies. Instead, they’re always dead last. (This message would win for Dems, especially in swing districts, but noooo.)

My pet compromise Electoral College reform plan I’ve had since 2000: Keep the EC, but each state is worth its number of seats in the House only. If you get rid of that extra two for each senator, you can’t run up inflated numbers in small states and more states are up for grabs.

I’ve survived a mammogram once more. Photo related.

Most of us yearn to have “fuck you” money, and yet billionaires are cowards and freaks, and inherited wealth is even more poisonous. And yet…every now and then…someone with “fuck you” money appreciates the power of “fuck you.”

@100thingsfilm.bsky.social Just finally listened to The Gold Rush episode - I’d totally come on for Birth of a Nation, but every fact would be “DW Griffith is in hell and I’m glad.” (I’m never watching that shit again.)

I’m watching “Four Brothers” (2005) and it’s making me want to go on a @danamira.bsky.social quest to find how many brothers can fit in a movie. www.cracked.com/article_3876...

I shit you not - preview for ThirtyTwentyTen Aug. 8-14. Same national park even.

Recommendations catch-up thread! ThirtyTwentyTen May 30-June 5: Clint Hits the Bridge, Russell Crowe Punches and Melissa McCarthy Spies Movies recommended this week: ▫️Heavy (YouTube) ▫️The Bridges of Madison County (rental) ▫️Cinderella Man (rental) ▫️The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (rental)

This is the best thread in Bsky history. I’m just so in love with movies right now.

I graduated college 25 years ago. I own a house. It has way too much stuff in it. I’m boycotting them over their anti-DEI bullshit. Why must Target’s dorm collection haunt me so? Every August, I suddenly want to buy fairy lights and cute throw pillows and INFLATABLE FURNITURE’S BACK OMG?!

As a graduate of the high school getting sued, I say… Fuck ‘em up, Chris. @aclusocal.bsky.social there’s a donation coming your way. It’s the ticket price of my upcoming class reunion.

Every. Single. Time. I hear “warfighter,” I think of Gunhaver the Cheat Commando from Homestar Runner: And now I hope you do too. Someone ask Signal Pete if the warfighters will be gunhavers.

I’m a newspaper editor in film. I have my sleeves rolled up, two ex-wives and an ulcer. I tell reporters they’re in over their head, there’s no story, but I’ll give them one more chance. I am indistinguishable from a police sergeant.

He outlived his obit writer. I’m surprised he doesn’t have a jaunty song about an obituary writer who laughs at the dead folks.

Long line at Hell’s intake today. This funeral’s gonna be a Wannsee conference of anti-American ghouls. Fingers crossed for something really funny happening: coffin flop, mass food poisoning, wasp swarm, meteor strike, gay streakers, errant Civil War reenactment cannon ball …

got this quote at a neo-Nazi event at the University of Florida in 2017, & in the nearly 8 years since it goes viral like this every few months — I suspect because it's a pretty good summation of where the GOP has gone

I’ve been planning on getting a big tattoo on my arm in a few years for my 50th birthday - I figure I’m past caring about respectability. My plan is all movie MacGuffins. Rosebud, the Maltese Falcon, the One Ring, the Ark of the Covenant, the briefcase from Pulp Fiction, the car from Repo Man…

Colbert should have Dick Smothers on just to compare notes on Presidents cancelling CBS shows they don’t like.

You don’t feed conspiracy theories because they never end, they just rationalize to move the goal posts. NOTHING they could release now will make people happy. There will always be missing pages or redactions or fake photos.

Hey grown ups! You can get a blood test to see if your measles vax is still working. Email your doctor and they can set it up. I was uncertain if/when I got the MMR, they pulled some blood, checked for all three, and, boom, I’m good.

It’s easier for people to keep believing in a conspiracy than to realize they were tricked into believing something false. “You’re in on it, too” fits the existing framework. “I was wrong” destroys the framework. I hope the leopards enjoy their meal.

Watching #LiveAid for its 40th anniversary and, man, even the bands I don’t care for and/or have never heard of brought their A game. (The epic Queen set aside, I think the Philly lineup is better, but it’s because of British acts. Dang you, Britain, perfecting our art form!)

Also, what in the possible fuck could a MAGA rando ever say that would convince 58 year old me that being kind and decent is the wrong way to be?

Quote with your favorite anti-fascist film.

So many words to just say “your cheating college boyfriend.”

Actually useful centrist party ideals: ✅ Socially liberal, fiscally conservative ✅ Libertarian for individuals, regulatory for business ✅ Environmentalism first ✅ Republicans circa Nixon minus the red-baiting Not useful: ☑️ I want my own Nazi personality cult because I don’t wanna share his.