#OnThisDayInHistory, Dick Van Dyke is born in 1925. Happy centenary, good sir!

#OnThisDayInHistory, George F. Grant, a dentist, receives the patent for the world's first golf tee in 1899. Before that, caddies had to balance the ball on their fingers for the golfers to hit.

Trump signed an executive order that attempts to pull authority over artificial-intelligence regulation away from the states and concentrate it at the federal level.

Medicare for all, paid leave, universal childcare. Busting up big corporations and tackling Wall Street’s greed. Getting big money out of politics. Supporting unions and fighting for higher wages. If Dems want to win back working people, this is the agenda they must support.

#OnThisDayInHistory, Edward VIII announces his abdication of the throne to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson in 1936. "Screw you guys, I'm goin' home."

#OnThisDayInHistory, the first Nobel Prizes are awarded in 1901. Ha ha! Ha ha ha ha ha!

Our review for The Sound of Music, on stage at Red Curtain Foundation for the Arts in Marysville through December 21. @redcurtainwa.bsky.social www.thesoundonstage.org/stage-review...

#OnThisDayInHistory, "A Charlie Brown Christmas" airs for the first time in 1965. CBS execs almost refuse to air it, but now it's a staple. What, CBS execs make a dumb decision? That's unpossible!

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

#OnThisDayInHistory, Mary, Queen of Scots is born in 1542. It does not end well for her. But she does get a nursery rhyme out of it.

Today we remember the thousands of Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 84 years ago. Nearly half of those lost were aboard the USS Arizona, and I remember what a moving experience it was when Gabby and I visited the memorial. We’ll never forget their sacrifice.

#OnThisDayInHistory, the US Patent Office grants Leo Baekeland a patent for the first synthetic plastic, Bakelite, in 1909. I bet ol' Leo didn't know we'd be making everything out of plastic!

So, the thing about execs is that they will get this bee in their bonnet and nothing can dissuade them from their vision. Carl Laemmle kept hiring distant cousins. Sarandos is obsessed with getting rid of the theatrical experience, presumably because an usher dumped him in tenth grade.

This will be remembered as the most pathetic moment in American history. What a needy fool.

#OnThisDayInHistory, two months after the launch of Sputnik, the Americans attempt to launch Vanguard 3, which rises four feet off the launchpad and blows up, in 1957. The press dub it "Kaputnik" and "Flopnik." They're so FUNNY.

#OnThisDayInHistory, Flight 19, made up of 5 bombers on a training mission, disappears in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945. Spooky!

Release the Epstein files. Lock up war criminals.

#OnThisDayInHistory, a jam session breaks out between Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, and Carl Perkins at Sun Records in Memphis, dubbed the "Million Dollar Quartet," in 1967. Hey, let's write a play about it!

#OnThisDayInHistory, "A Streetcar Named Desire" opens on Broadway in 1947. Stella! Stella!!!!!!

#OnThisDayInHistory, the Environmental Protection Agency opens in 1970. Back when we thought rivers catching fire was a bad thing.

#OnThisDayInHistory, police responding to reports of a gunman come face-to-face with a cardboard cutout of Denzel Washington inside a video store in Lilly, PA, in 1991. They use the experience as a training day. But the cutout wasn't from "Training Day." That would have been too confusing.

#OnThisDayInHistory, Galileo begins observing the moon in 1609. I hope he cleaned all the man-shaped blurs off his telescope lens!

#OnThisDayInHistory, Godzilla gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his 50th birthday in 2004. He looks amazing, what's his skin routine?!

#OnThisDayInHistory, William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway in 1582. She looks amazing, what's her skin routine?!

#OnThisDayInHistory, Pope Francis releases a prog rock album featuring his words over guitar riffs and synths, in 2015. To think, you can find His Holiness in the record bin right next to Genesis!

#OnThisDayInHistory, the first instant Land camera, now known as Polaroid, goes on sale in 1948. I feel an Outkast song coming on....

#OnThisDayInHistory, Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens on London's West End in 1952. It's still running, making it the world's longest-running play. It just keeps going and going and going and going....

#OnThisDayInHistory, Eisenhower's plane, Columbine III, is officially christened as Air Force One in 1954. But Gary Oldman was never thrown off it.

I don't know about anyone else, but in terms of my life, this is some impactful shit right here. Thank you, Joel, Trace, Josh, Kevin, and Jim.

#OnThisDayInHistory, John Herrington becomes the first Native American in space when he embarks on a mission to the International Space Station in 2002. He brings an eagle feather and traditional wooden flute with him. I'm not clear on if he played the flute in space or not. #ItsAboutDamnTime

#OnThisDayInHistory, 20-year-old Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick to become the youngest heavyweight boxing champion ever, in 1986. This was pre-tattoo, of course.

#OnThisDayInHistory, George Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey in 1776. Vroom!

#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Day After," a made-for-TV movie about a nuclear bomb being dropped on Kansas, airs on ABC in 1983. I think I made it about 10 minutes before getting too freaked out to finish.

The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.

#OnThisDayInHistory, CBS bans a Calvin Klein jeans ad featuring a 15-year-old Brooke Shields for being too suggestive in 1980. I feel like they might have had a point.

#OnThisDayInHistory, Abraham Lincoln travels to Gettysburg to give his famous address in 1863. Contrary to popular belief, he did not write the address on an envelope while on the train. Sorry.

#OnThisDayInHistory, the Elizabethan Age begins in 1558. "We're called Elizabethans, they're all a bunch of heathens!"

#OnThisDayInHistory, "The Sound of Music" premieres on Broadway in 1959. In real life, the oldest von Trapp was a boy, and you don't just walk to Switzerland, but it makes for a good story. BTW, my production of "The Sound of Music" opens November 28. @redcurtainwa.bsky.social

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Bondi's DOJ is suing California because of redistricting. Bondi LIED about the reason & says it about race. NO, it's because you are trying to cheat by having red states redistricting, so you can continue destroy democracy. apnews.com/article/cali...

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One thing I learned many years ago on the fringes of Film Twitter is that people who get granular about the age of consent are bad news. (Ditto irl men who can quote from memory Humbert Humbert lines from Lolita.)

My three-year-old was reading the Epstein emails when she turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why is the nice orange man joking with the sex offender on his computer?" And when I told her "Because women made it impossible to joke in the workplace," she started crying.

They complain about a male loneliness epidemic but have they even tried going shirtless and leaping to and fro on clay pots whilst wearing diaphanous trousers? They have not.

#OnThisDayInHistory, a grilled cheese sandwich with what appears to be an image of the Virgin Mary sells on eBay for $28,000 in 2004. It is said to be 10 years old (at the time) and had never sprouted mold. Incorruptible sandwich!

#OnThisDayInHistory journalist Nellie Bly sets off on her journey to circle the globe faster than Phileas Fogg's in "Around the World in 80 Days" in 1889. She makes it in 72 days. #feminism

Increase in productivity since 1979: 87% Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32% Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%. As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.

You would think that the 8 GOP Senators who are SO OUTRAGED that Jack Smith subpoenaed their phone records that they want $1 million compensation would bring him in to testify IN A PUBLIC HEARING to explain why he did this. But no, they don’t want to do that. I wonder why?