Quincy Jones #BOTD never won a single competitive Oscar. Not one.
He should have. For THE COLOR PURPLE (1985).
Brilliant score, and one of his finest works.
This one scene captures it perfectly.
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#filmsky #moviesky #filmscores #Oscars #musicsky
The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled.
A truly extraordinary moment.
We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT.
Act like it.
And I feel like this should be put into conversation because just who the promise of protection was targeted towards and the targets of “transgression” through race science etc is very salient to why they held an affinity for the right.
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One of the things I think people should grapple with is the easy description of “Peak Woke” as haughty moralism, only to then describe the “race science” of the right as a secret thrill. Feels like the “woke” people knew about the race science, but even in these mea culpas, it can’t be said.
For hundreds of years, people have made pie. You are part of history when you make pie.
I like having a day where people think about pie because I love pie. It’s such a ritual. You have it on ritual occasions and it has ritualistic steps. There’s the Cutting In Of The Fat, the Rolling Of The Dough, the Preparation Of The Filling, where it is so easy to lose focus,
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7. @bradduplessis.bsky.social said it best: "Militaries fight in social, cultural, political, and economic contexts." Secretary Hegseth's myopic focus on "lethality"will cost a generation of officers the education they need to meet the most turbulent geopolitical moment since 1991.
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I served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training for three years before the office was disestablished last year. I owned the policy on professional military education for all five services. I have listened to Secretary Hegseth's announcement. I have thoughts. 🧵
Even the conservative Wall Street Journal understands the havoc wealth inequality is wreaking on our economy and society.
It’s far past time to unrig the system. https://www.wsj.com/finance/billionaires-low-taxes-are-becoming-a-problem-for-the-economy-27a560ca
There’s petty and then there’s ✨opera petty✨ 😂
don't worry about getting oil through the Strait of Hormuz, we've got our best minds on it
I think a lot about how the worst possible thing that has ever happened to all these low-level bullies and swindlers is accidentally getting absolute power
There's a hauntingly beautiful irony in these morons thinking that carefully crafted American hegemony was actually weak and woke, and they would be the ones who would do Power and Dominance properly, and immediately bringing everything crashing down
I don't understand why, when Trump gives his toadies shoes that don't fit, they don't just buy a pair in that style that fits and tell him those are the ones he gave them. They're all paid well and can afford to buy them.
" M5 tie in"
"M5"
"Am I great...?"
"Sigh... you asked me that ten minutes ago"
#TOSSatNight 2 hours
I bent over to pet him, forgot I was holding an open bottle of water, and poured it all over the floor in front of him. now he is just staring at me like this
Another bat flip beauty. From Al Bello/ Getty Images
Watch this clip.
Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.
NEW: DOJ is barely even a functional law firm at this point. Each day there is more proof.
Jeanine Pirro's effort to subpoena the Fed hit a wall. At the same time, DOJ was also forced to "clarify" arguments made in court about the Pentagon's new press policy.
Today, at Law Dork:
FCC Chair Brendan Carr threatens broadcast licenses over Iran War coverage
We got a new baby delivery today. Seven new little guys in the beer garden.
Yes, I agree. It's like saying that we deserved drive-by shootings as children because a few Detroiters were drug dealers. And, f*ck that.
Collective guilt is a nonstarter. And children NEVER "deserve it." Not Jewish children. Not Muslim children. Not Black children. Not ANY child on this planet.
This is one of those sentences that starts great and gets more awesome with every word
Inside the Department of War are two wolves:
"We've shut down the Colleges of War because book learnings are woke, gay, and irrelevant to war fighting."
"How come no one told us the Strait is important, there are different kinds of Kurds, Iran is big, and air power historically doesn't win wars?"
When buses are given priority on the road, customers have a quicker, more reliable travel experience! Since 2019, Metro Buses traveling on road segments with transit priority have moved nearly 20% faster. 🚌
I've got a post up this morning on partisanship by education among Colorado residents
www.co-political-landscape.org/partisanship...
#copolitics
Yes! Yes! Yes!
