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Elizabeth Taylor in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958).

If you're feeling kinda down today, Stacey Abrams has a message for you I'm editing this week's episode with Rep Abrams and Princess Mabel van Oranje about Vow for Girls and it's so good. Out Friday.

The Giant Claw, 1957.

Reggie out here being absolutely savage.

Douglas Fairbanks knew how to make an exit

He's absolutely right. The email is indeed a very basic pulse check: one intended to see where their loyalty lies - with institutions and agencies put in place by centuries of democractically designed policies and practices, or the whims of a Nazi trust-fund weirdo who YOU KNOW jerks off to robots.

Trump’s executive orders have blocked entrance to the country for more than 110,000 refugees, including thousands of Afghans who worked with the U.S. military. “We feel betrayed,” said one Afghan American soldier. With @texastribune.org

The "Go!" sequence (written by Preston Sturges) in William Wyler's THE GOOD FAIRY (1935) starring Margaret Sullavan. The Kino Lorber Blu-ray is on sale for less than $10 on their website. Highly recommended. kinolorber.com/product/the-... #FilmSky #TCMParty

Rather than reject climate science like many on the right, some have followed the path laid out by environmentalist and white nationalist John Tanton, using concerns about population growth and scarce resources to rationalize their hateful agendas. (Published Oct. 2024)

Just trying to figure out the right garment to pair with this Officer Big Mac “Don’t Cop Out” patch.

Listening to an #AT40 from 1977, and Casey's No. 15 song this week is "Undercover Angel" by Alan O'Dell. Feels like a song Matthew McConaughey could've put out had he been a star then and decided to pull a Travolta. I still think he could do a great cover. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jcvo...

Melissa Harris-Perry. Tiffany Cross. Alex Wagner. Joy Reid. I'm sure there's a pattern here but I can't quite put my finger on what it could be. (/s)

Today is Feb. 23, 2025, but over on the I Heart Radio AT40 station, the week of Aug. 28, 1982 just began with a little "Abracadabra" from Steve Miller Band. www.iheart.com/live/classic...

Age yourself with a movie you saw in the theater

I want to see every scientific society going into emergency mode. This is a good example of how an organization can flex its specific power in a time of great need. What else is possible?

It’s been wild to see so many headlines about the firings at the Joint Chiefs of Staff and none of them explicitly saying “Trump fired the one Black person and the one woman so he could have an all white male Joint Chiefs”

To me, a Nazi salute means, "I want to murder your family." There can be no irony about it: It puts deep anger and hatred in my heart to see it done and I will never forgive anyone who justifies or minimizes it.

2/19: MSNBC celebrates its NAACP Image Award and Joy Reid’s book Medgar & Myrlie. 2/22: Trump calls MSNBC a “threat to democracy” after NBCUniversal’s lawsuit settlement. 2/23: Joy Reid ( @joyannreid.bsky.social ) canceled. When Trump sent the heat, @MSNBC.com bent the knee—AGAIN!

Nickelodeons killed the melodrama star! This piece from the SF Dramatic Review was making a different point (the "white girls" and "dens of shame" line) but it's evidence of how movies took a big bite out of the stage. Barnstormer traveling productions used to be a reliable employer.

TACO MAN

Barbara La Marr in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA. Her publicity nickname "the Girl Who Is Too Beautiful" was allegedly (and creepily) coined by a judge who declared her too lovely to be alone in the city.

Speedball Mike Bailey is coming soon to AEW! Watch #AEWCollision on TNT & Max

Wonder if this new show made it? youtu.be/QjQlEzSlwNs?...

Based on all the stories of the people who ran it not knowing how a con works, it’s fully a fascist DashCon. A FashCon, if you will.

Obscure YT of the day: For Peter Fonda's birthday TWO PEOPLE (1973)! Fonda is a military deserter, Lindsay Wagner a model who falls for him. Legend Robert Wise directs. vk.com/video-204997...

Up next, Ginger Rogers as Ann “Anytime Annie” Lowell in 42nd Street (1933).

Sweater Detective!

Still a card-carrying member of the PEPSI GOTTA HAVE IT club. (1992)

Still struggling with work and in need of financial support, particularly for an overdue credit card bill. Please share, any help is greatly appreciated. #MutualAid #MutualAidRequest

Trans people deserve respect, happiness, protection, healthcare, basic human rights. Those who dehumanize and demonize trans people are hateful tyrants.

One person did benefit from the biotech company AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio: the town’s mayor. His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M. By @annaleighclark.bsky.social

Herbert West: "If I traumatize him enough, he'll HAVE to fall in love with me"

Animator Chuck Jones (September 21, 1912 - February 22, 2002).

I don’t know how many different ways to say that agency personnel don’t work for Elon. They don’t have to report to Elon. They report to their agency leadership, which reports to the President.

white guy DEI

when you've (already) lost Larry Kudlow ...

Remembering tonight these very racist rants from the campaign trail that nobody seemed to take seriously at the time. Welp.

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

Idiocracy was a documentary