Use your anger tonight to do something constructive. Donate to a worthy cause, contact your reps, learn about local progressive candidates, OR if you have the means, reach out to @runforsomething.net and put yourself in a local race. From school board to state senate, it all matters.

please please please keep donating, it would be amazing to get to $20,000 by tomorrow for these three great organizations! even if you aren't able to donate, please boost and share - the livestream is here and so is the donation information! postersmadness.wordpress.com

HOLY SHIT Y'ALL we raised over $15,000 for BIPOC trans folks in Portland and mutual aid / rent assistance in Twin Cities, and I venture to say that all four hours of this telethon are absolute bangers. the whole thing is available to rewatch here and you can still donate for the next 24 hours!

Printmaker Clare Leighton, 'Blackbird on Nest, Lithograph of Wood Engraving, 1935 #womensart

I should be old /jaded enough not to be bothered by guys hyuck-hyucking about being forced to acknowledge women who just won a gold medal. But I’ll be damned if that one hasn’t been under my skin all day. At the very least, I don’t want to hear about the loneliness thing anymore. Go improve.

I promise trans people would love to not talk about Newsom, regardless of electability. HE is talking about US. Interviewers ask, "how about those trans", Newsom says, "much love but they got to be segregated" and the interviewer goes, "sounds right!" We can't let that become an acceptable standard.

Ice Skating on the lake in Central Park, New York City (the Dakota in the distance), Unidentified photographer, 1894

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots. This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline. An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION. Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

The Frida Cinema and @oclgbtpride.bsky.social are teaming up on March 20th to present a screening of Tim Burton’s 1988 ghoulish comedy BEETLEJUICE in honor of the late, great Catherine O’Hara 🪲🧃 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/beetl...

At the moment, I'm regrettably not exploring a quaint bookstore on a cobblestone street in Vienna during a raging thunderstorm, so no, I'm afraid your email did not "find me well.”

"If you felt offended" - NOT an apology "If you were offended" - NOT an apology "That's not how you should've taken it" - NOT an apology "That's not what I meant" - NOT an apology "Sorry you feel that way" - NOT an apology "I am sorry." - IS an apology.

One of the first things we were taught at Quantico was that there is never a moment in which you are not representing the Bureau; but, then again, we earned our place there, and weren’t granted its directorship as a sinecure for partisan malfeasance and a willingness to disregard the constitution.

By the way, the way some white disabled people are responding to this thread by acting as if the N word isn't itself a disability issue for Black people is a great case in point of how it is taken as a given that Black people must simply tolerate everyday racism as the price of being in public

People’s electric bills are tripling and quadrupling because of data centers. We can’t buy RAM or Hard Drives because of data centers. Black communities are suffocating in generator exhaust because of data centers. And OpenAI is raising $100 BILLION in venture capital to accelerate it all.

I keep coming back to something that someone else posted: The confidence the tech bros have in AI isn't based on how well they understand technology, its based on how poorly they understand humans.

I wrote about joy and resistance and Alysa Liu and Bad Bunny. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

And animation friends, too!

I would pay all the taxes in the world if it got me free healthcare, universal basic income, free education, better roads and infrastructure, clean air, clean water, and cheaper, higher quality groceries. Because I’m fine with paying taxes when we get all we need to live in return. As it should be!

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Womensart #Monday

The penultimate film in our Akira Kurosawa retrospective is his epic 1985 masterpiece, RAN, now restored in glorious 4K thanks to Rialto Pictures! March 1-5 ⚔️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/ran/

Just announced! Delroy Lindo in-person tribute + SINNERS in 70mm 🔥 SINNERS (2025) in 70mm / DA 5 BLOODS (2020) + Q&A with actor Delroy Lindo. Free, members-only event coming to the Aero next Wed. 2/25 at 7 pm. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

Just added! THE SECRET AGENT (2025) + introduction by actor Wagner Moura 🇧🇷 Members-only screening coming to LF3 next Thurs. 2/26 at 10 pm. www.americancinematheque.com/now-showing/...

NOIR CITY Hollywood returns to the Egyptian Theater for two consecutive weekends April 3-5 and April 10-12. We’ll update you when tickets are on sale. Hosted by @eddiemuller.bsky.social #noircityhollywood @amcinematheque.bsky.social #noircity @tcmparty.bsky.social @tcmfans.bsky.social #noiralley

I was recently lucky enough to attend a lecture put on by the Art Deco Society of LA in the space what was once home to Oviatt's haberdashery, a jewel in LA's Art Deco crown. And guess what? I took some pictures!

It's early 1940 and you're a member of the Academy. It's time to fill out your ballot for Best Picture of 1939 and these are your choices. Which one gets your #1 vote?

“I thought of the question the choreographer asked her gathered dancers: What do you do in order to be loved?” — Rick Barot . . . This poem appeared in The Common Mag, Issue 29, 2025. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“And again // the stupid magnolia goes // stupidly showboating // into the stupid night.” — Hajara Quinn  . . . This poem appeared in Timber Journal, Volume 6.2, Summer 2016. Shared here with deep gratitude.

“yet there is always talk of Syria, there is always / talk of home” — Ahmad Almallah . . . This poem appeared in We Call to the Eye & the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Heritage, published by Persea Books, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

They expect us to go to movie theaters but do they schedule even one live dance routine themed to match the feature? We used to be a proper country

Alright, so, needed to replace some bolts on the workbench so I could set up my stained glass studio, went to Ace Hardware, as you do Left with replacement bolts, five bags of freshly popped popcorn, and a frozen peach pie Not sure what’s happening but I feel rich rn

Mothers Day....birthdays.... or gift yourself! 🧡💛🧡

A buzzer should go off when it's time to give up on someone.

BREAKING: DHS is pausing TSA PreCheck and Global Entry programs amid its funding lapse.

Influencers? The three Fates who weave, measure, and cut the whispere-thin yet iron-strong threades that bynde togethir all of spacetyme and that spelle out, yn sorcerous glyphs unreadable to any save those three, everyethinge that ys, was, or will be? Aye, Ich knowe of influencers.

the actual story of what happened at the National Endowment for the Humanities last year is even more infuriating than we thought

“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

the life-changing magic of rolling up a whole slice of prosciutto and eating it in one bite

This is a photo I took of a photo during a tour of CBS Television City at Fairfax & Beverly of the circa 1950s viewing room. It’s hard to imagine TV executives sitting around watching a new show on such a small screen. But it’s only small to us, but for them was normal.

Herbert’s Drive-in restaurant on the southeast corner of Fairfax Ave and Beverly Blvd. I have no date but I believe Herbert's came down early 50s to make way for CBS TV City. In the background, we can see Gilmore Field baseball park, home to the Hollywood Stars (1939 to 1957.) ("now" photo Dec 2023)

This April 28, 1939 photo at the Universal City Club annual dinner dance gives us an idea of the vastness of the Biltmore Bowl nightclub at the Biltmore Hotel. when it opened in the late 1920s it was called the Sala de Oro, which means “Room of Gold” and was quite lavish.

I wrote about Frederick Wiseman, for whom most superlatives don't go far enough, and the most important thing he did that wasn't making movies.

New today on the site! Our Best of 2025 issue continues, with @roxana-hadadi.bsky.social on SINNERS (🎨 by @studioralston.bsky.social)

News you can use, from the @wired.com security team (who are the best in the biz). They asked technologists, activists, aid groups, and cybersecurity experts for guidance on how to organize and collaborate in an age of surveillance. Here’s the result:

It ys a moost terrible tyme. My greatest wisshe ys that you may fynde sum unpredicted moment of peace, delight, mirthe, pleasure, discoverye, connectioun, or fascinacioun that doth make yower day just a litel bettir, that doth helpe you thrugh. Ich wisshe thys for thee wyth all of myne hearte.

why did I get invested in this

Ramadan Mubarak to everyone celebrating in Minnesota and around the world! May this blessed month bring peace, hope, and renewal ❤️

tfw you’re patiently waiting for @realgdt.bsky.social’s FRANKENSTEIN to screen at The Frida… Feb. 27 - Mar. 5 ⚡️ 🎟️: thefridacinema.org/movies/frank...