6/8/01: Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también More: @davidopie.bsky.social: www.digitalspy.com/movies/a6114... @jasondashbailey.com: www.flavorwire.com/473150/how-d... Sragow: web.archive.org/web/20020914... @carlosfilm.bsky.social: www.nytimes.com/2021/08/25/m...

Happy Birthday Robert Preston! youtu.be/xfIa0QJs4ZE?...

This is Diesel. His bed has been taken over by a two-pound kitten. Wondering if you can ask them to please move. He is too scared. 13/10 (TT: lahdeedahdee)

Alexis Smith, born 8 June 1921.

On 8 June 1949 actors John Garfield, Frederic March, Danny Kaye, Paul Muni, Edward G. Robinson, writer Dorothy Parker and Helen Keller - yes, Helen Keller - were named as members of the Communist Party by Hoover's FBI. Coincides perfectly with the publication of "Nineteen Eighty-Four" #OTD.

Sturges and Stanwyck during the filming of "The Lady Eve" (1941).

Orson discusses the era a bit here:

The President has threatened to “nationalize elections” and it’s no mistake he’s targeted Detroit and Michigan. One of the best ways to secure your vote? Vote early and tell everyone you know they can too. Get more info at Michigan.gov/vote

Ken Paxton's impeachment defense lawyer just endorsed James Talarico. Dan Cogdell says his former client "has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas."

absolutely...

The most dangerous man with a nuclear weapon is Netanyahu.

Men are too emotional to be president.

ANYONE who STILL thinks this racist, sexist, fascist, unpunished child rapist, unrepentant insurrectionist, unrelenting grifter, petulant man baby should still be President hates this country, women, children, Black and brown people, and freedom. THERE ARE NO EXCEPTIONS. WE MUST STOP ALLOWING ANY.

Thomas Massie says the conspiracy theorists were right about Section 224 of the NDAA, which he says will merge the US military with the IDF. Massie says the provision is treasonous and warns that it will force the US to compromise its own security for Netanyahu's demands.

This is who represents us in the U.S.

Trump and Biden simply don’t belong in the same conversation about a president’s deteriorating mental state. The mainstream media covers [Trump's] disordered thinking as a colorful “quirk” — Trump being Trump — rather than a serious, escalating threat to the nation. -Stephen Robinson

EWWWWWWW....just.....ew. #SheShed

Just once I would love to see the male journalists in the White House press corps tell Trump to his face to shut the fuck up with this misogynistic crap. The women shouldn’t be expected to do it on their own. -Bradley P. Moss

Bold words. Bold, bold words from a dumb fucking asshole.

I guess they got the non-woke president they were looking for.

Just a dog having the best day of its life. Original post

What the hell is that??? #Riffotronic

I love that John Turturro picked #FilmNoir Out of the Past (1947) tonight as his first selection on TCM w/Ben. #TCMParty

What the actual hell

while threatening to cut social security. Lift the cap. Make everyone pay their fair share. And ensure the benefit we ALL pay into is available for all of us when we retire.

I LOLed

"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper." ~Rod Serling

/2 Also: notice the parallels between Trumpism and the sort of Matt Stoller politics on display here: the notion that what the people really want is to be able to be douchebags in public without any social sanction. The commonality is being assholes; whether it’s for left or right is just cosplay.

But I was promised a communist hellscape

📽 Beautiful shot of Mary Astor... The Maltese Falcon (1941) #FilmNoir #SummerOfDarkness #TCMParty

French activists who took part in a Gaza-bound foreign aid flotilla accuse Israeli forces of abuse and torture.

Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

Israel's war in Lebanon has killed thousands of civilians and displaced over a million — and the United States is bankrolling this terror. It's unconscionable. We must pass Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's War Powers Resolution and stop the United States' complicity in Israel's war crimes.

Bandleader Louis Jordan showing Canada Lee the program for the premiere of BEWARE! in June 1946. Jordan produced the movie and performs with his band. It was directed by Bud Pollard.

My years of working as a bartender often put me on the horns of a dilemma. Am I correctly spotting an ulterior motive, or am I just cynically thinking everyone is trying to get over on me? Recently a suspected ulterior motive became very "exterior"! Clarity! I often hate clarity, but not this time!

This is Ramsey. He is a mail delivery dog. Shipping is free, and while packages might not be handled with care, they are handled with enthusiasm. 14/10 (TT: rhiannoninthe904)

Tell me more about Trump/Republican family values… www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Israel strikes Lebanon despite ceasefire, while Hezbollah rejects deal as death toll tops 3,500.

If, at the end of this dark era, we actually have a Democratic president again, there is one thing they absolutely must take to heart: F*ck forgiveness. Our country will only unite behind criminal prosecution and prison sentences, before eventually, slowly, beginning to heal.

“Daddy?” “Yes Johnny?” “Donald Trump deported my friends, closed my school, forced you to sell the family farm and took mommy’s cancer medicine away, so why did you vote for him again?” “Because we needed to paint the reflecting pool, son.”

Anti-Semitism review recommends that badges proclaiming political support should not be worn by public health workers

Reputedly one of Charles Bukowski's watering holes.

Carson McCullers’ debut novel, “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” was published on June 4, 1940. She was only 23 years old at the time.

NEXT WEEK: Betty Grable sparkles, Victor Mature sweats and Laird Cregar looms, as #TheNoirCollective serves up film noir in its infancy. June 10 at 8 PM ET/5 PM PT, watch screwball plunge into the inky depths of noir in I WAKE UP SCREAMING (1941), hosted by @vanstanwyck.bsky.social. See you then!