Thomas LaGrange

Happy Bondvember!

a tweet from 2020: (james bond being beaten up by a goon) GOON: bond you will maintain continuity BOND: Never GOON: the year is 2020 and you're roughly forty five, you were born around 1975 BOND: *spits out blood* i was a sea captain in world war two and i've been to space GOON: you son of a bitch

My last word on the matter

Thank you, New York City. Together we made history.

Now let’s get to work.

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Robert Redford playing a gentle incarnation of death, coming for a frightened old woman in The Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark" (1962). An extraordinary performance then, terribly bittersweet today

Your First Call After You Shoot Someone In the era of Stand Your Ground, self-defense insurance is increasingly popular. Does it promote gun violence?

Around two million American gun owners have signed up for self-defense insurance. Detractors have called the product “murder insurance.”

America Surrenders in the Global Information Wars The U.S. is reorienting its foreign policy to protect governments that manipulate and suppress information.

On our unilateral disarmament: America is reorienting its foreign policy to help governments that manipulate and suppress information.

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people have already mentioned SNEAKERs, THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR and of course ALL THE PRESIDENT’S MEN as great redford performances, let me recommend THE CANDIDATE, which is really one of the best movies ever made about american politics

It's disorienting living in the Wile E. Coyote portion of a country's life cycle. We ran off the cliff but haven't plummeted down yet. We're just now starting to hold up the big YIKES sign

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

Annelle Sheline, a former US State Department official, says the US is complicit in crimes against Palestinians and violating international law alongside Israel.

A question every reporter should be asking Trump and Republicans:

If Trump doesn't trust his own Director of National Intelligence, and by extension, US intelligence, then which country's intelligence is he relying upon?

Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining

Amazon Teases Next James Bond Will Face Off Against Threat Of Collective Bargaining theonion.com/amazon-...

Sorry to hear Brian Wilson has died. The Beach Boys were the soundtrack of my summers, from "Surfin' Safari" on.

CDC backtracks on layoffs, rehires more than 400 people Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and Tuberculosis Prevention.

The CDC is rehiring more than 400 people who had received layoff notices.

Around half of those employees are in the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD and Tuberculosis Prevention.

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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced Tuesday that she signed an executive order seeking greater transparency from federal immigration officials. She said the city will submit regular Freedom of Information Act requests to find out who ICE is detaining and on what grounds.

Oh, yeah. I get the Sunday scaries, but it’s not for work. It’s for the news cycle to start back up.

When people ask how I feel about the 007 buyout, I don’t even say anything anymore. I just show them this.

Thinking about a 63 year old family legacy today. No one did it better!

😭😭😭😭

It’s the 7th of the month which means it’s a 007 day! Thinking about Tomorrow Never Dies where James Bond faces off against discount Rupert Murdoch for no particular reason.

Find and contact elected officials | USAGov Use USAGov’s Contact Your Elected Officials tool to get contact information for your members of Congress, the president, and state and local officials.

RFK Jr's nomination to HHS head has advanced to a full Senate vote (date TBA).

It's crunch time. Please call your Senators and tell them to vote NO.

Call your Senators regardless of what position you anticipate they will take.

Use this tool: www.usa.gov/elected-officials

Zombie uprising from LAND OF THE DEAD

Zombies from SHAUN OF THE DEAD with the heroes mingled in

Torturer with chainsaw from HOSTEL

Cary Elwes in SAW

When I was growing up during the Bush years, I'd say the two most prevalent and popular horror subgenres at that time were zombies and "torture porn"

Horror is political and it radicalized me.

I only know what it was like to be a young woman seeing the Beatles in the early 60s because I’ve seen Barry Manilow live.

Je suis un James Bond superfan!!

First #FantasticFour trailer officially releases Tuesday during Good Morning America 🎥

(via ABC)

Without Mel Brooks hiring Lynch to make THE ELEPHANT MAN — on the strength of ERASERHEAD alone — he is very likely just a guy who made a weird film at AFI. That whole filmography you love doesn’t happen.

We all need sponsors and mentors and patrons. We need people who believe in us.

60 movies releasing in 2025 🍿

$1,131,794,901

That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns.

Well, the planet is burning.
Don't let them look away.