1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

Season 7, Episode 7: Father Mulcahy in a towel.

This is not okay, my fellow Washingtonians.

Thank you, @criterion.bsky.social www.criterion.com/current/post...

We're going to Sundance.

I got around to reading the transcript (well, as much as I could bear) of the president's "speech" to the gathering of US military leaders and it truly is insane. rollcall.com/factbase/tru...

Had a great week of film viewing: CHRISTY — had zero interest and wouldn't have seen it if I had not been invited, but got caught up by the performances and story; THE MASTERMIND — my love for Kelly Reichardt persists and my love for Josh O'Connor grows, also, dang those Thompson boys;

No one cares about truth any more. The narrative is written and then facts are selected to illustrate the chosen tale. I honestly feel like I am going to lose my mind.

I said this before and I am sure I will say it again; the frequency with which male colleagues talk shit about their female colleagues in airline lounges is astounding. Listening to two men discuss abducting and killing a female colleague they dislike. "She is too confident." I love bears.

I fucking love this woman with every ounce of my soul.

When I was 10, my friend Wendy got tickets to see #Ozzy on the Blizzard of Oz tour and asked me to join her. My mother, never one for active parenting, said yes and Wendy's mom dropped us off at the Hartford Civic Center. He did not bite a bat; he did throw a crucifix. I got my first contact high.

In case you're wondering what the GOP/MAGA tax cut bill will do to #Seattle in particular, the Select Committee on Federal Administration and Policy Changes of the City Council has pulled this presentation together. seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

This is a meaningless trick. A court cannot violate rule 6(e), which prohibits public disclosure.

One of the first things Vladimir Putin did on becoming president was take over NTV, the TV channel that hosted a satirical puppet show because he didn't like the Putin doll and how he was portrayed. He arrested NTV's owner and only released him when he signed the channel over. #Colbert

IDEA: @pbs.org and @npr.org create a 24/7 paid subscriber channel featuring whatever the fuck programming #Colbert wants: late night talk show, Amy Sedaris, Keanu Reeves blowing our minds, Jon Stewart, Evi, LOTR trivia, and Father Jim. Each paid subscription subsidizes 1 for someone w/o the means.

Two men at bar talking about how no American has dominated in tennis since Sampras retired more than 2 decades ago.

The anti-graffiti ordinance that the #Seattle City Council is about to pass is being handled by their Public Safety Committee. Seattle, where white people feel unsafe because they are forced to look at things that make them uncomfortable. Performative bullshit, once again.

If you haven't watched Judgement at Nuremberg, this might be a good day.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

The condescension dripping from the lips of the GOP is astounding. They are liars and I pray for a vengeful God. I cannot wait for the day when that snivelly little fuck Johnson hands over the gavel to Jeffries.

I was already excited about Sentimental Value, but I didn't know that Anders Danielsen Lie was in the cast. I will be running, not walking on November 7. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKbc...

If you are in close proximity to someone experiencing dementia and you want to cry and snot in your popcorn. Familiar Touch

The Getty Images Archive isn’t fucking around today: “85 years ago today, the residents of Paris were waking up to the sound of a loudspeaker announcement, informing them not to leave their homes—the Nazi occupation of the capital had begun.⁠” www.instagram.com/p/DK4Gg5ZNYda/

Via @criterion.bsky.social - This is astounding. "a series of interactive timelines that break down movies… scene by scene to answer the question: Did that really happen?" informationisbeautiful.net/visualizatio...

I came on here to see who was talking about basketball and apparently you're talking about a couple of old queens scratching each other's eyes out. Priorities. OKC could win the finals and need to thank a CANADIAN.

Yay, @awalkerinla.bsky.social! Yay, LA mass transit!

Last night, we were one of the first outlets to report the ADULT ban on gender affirming care for Medicaid recipients who depend on it to access it. This morning, that bill passed 215-214-1. It now goes to the senate. It's a bleak day for transgender Americans.

Watching Brittany Shyne's Seeds made me think of why I first loved Frederick Wiseman. I came to him via City Hall, which managed to celebrate the labor of municipal employees, just as Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros celebrated the artistry of chefs.

Boycott Microsoft every way you can

The #Seattle City Council votes today at 2 pm about whether to loosen their ethics and allow them to vote on matters in which they have an economic interest. Anyone wonder why the trend in this country is toward a lack of trust in institutions? seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

Draymond Green would be slightly less exasperating if he didn't pull the befuddled "Wait, what did I do?" schtick every time he got called out for elbowing a guy in the jugular.

Seattle City Council thinks it would be a good time to change their code of ethics, allowing them to vote on legislation in which they have a financial interest. Read the room, Cathy Moore. December 2027 can't come soon enough. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

"The U.S., which is slated to leave WHO in 2026, was not involved in final discussions and is not expected to sign the agreement."

I’m not sure when the complaint is “this is an out-of-touch weird rich person thing to do,” a good response is “you couldn’t understand the specialness of my experience and you never will.”

Autocrats always try to dismantle universities and other sites of free thought. But the current effort to destroy American institutions is also a reactionary backlash against real progress on racial justice in this country. Backlash only happens when movements are winning the argument.

If you have any space in your brain left for further outrage, Bill Morrison's "Incident" is well done and horrifying. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Reading this rundown of the Cannes lineup made me remember how, when it feels like there is nothing to look forward to, we still have movies. Particularly excited for new Kelly Reichardt (with Josh O'Connor). www.criterion.com/current/post...

Are you a woman who changed your name when you got married? Congress is considering a bill that could make it much harder for you to vote. Call your rep—this is not a drill. indivisible.org/resource/cal...

Peter Hegseth just got rid of a book on Holocaust memorialization from the Naval Academy’s library but apparent it’s the Democrats and the left who have an antisemitism problem 🤷🏽‍♂️

@dwhdaily.bsky.social Went to go see Henry Fonda for President at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social today based on your recommendation. I happened to be in NY for the weekend, so it was wonderfully serendipitous. Made me think a bit of Raoul Peck's I Am Not Your Negro. Brilliant.

Hey, #Seattle, today the City Council's Select Committee on Federal Administration and Policy Changes received presentations on the impact of the WH's raping and pillaging of our taxes on the unhoused population in our city. seattle.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=...

All I keep thinking about is how Pete Hegseth raised questions of the competency of a Black four-star general and Air Force fighter pilot who was the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Hegseth asked did he get the job “because of his skin color? Or his skill? We’ll never know, but always doubt.”

This is a better shot of the size of the crowd at Powder House Square for Rumeysa Ozturk. Less than 24 hours notice.

NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

This is a profoundly bad statement from The Academy, after refusing to issue a statement in support of No Other Land co-director and recent #Oscars winner Hamdan Ballal when he was recently beaten and abducted. To suggest there is are many sides to what happened to Ballal is heinous.

Join @stevelevitsky.bsky.social & me on April 3 at 4pm ET. We’ll catch up on the current state of backsliding and resistance in the US. Register below.

I'm suspicious of documentary filmmakers with "hot" headshots.

"This afternoon."