I have been comparing this Oscar year to 2007 for a second. That year, two hugely loved movies from the same studio (No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood) faced off. The award went to the Coens, both because the movie was good and because they were “overdue” (whatever that means).
A big takeaway this year has to be that Sinners and One Battle After Another were big, artist driven, swings bankrolled by WB whose future is ultimately unclear. I like living in a world where people like PTA and Ryan Coogler get to make the films they want to make with those resources.
hey remember when Sean Penn kidnapped Madonna, held her captive, bound and gagged her, and beat the shit out her?
FIRST WOMAN TO EVER WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST BLACK PERSON TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. FIRST FILIPINA TO WIN BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY. ACADEMY AWARD WINNER AUTUMN DURALD ARKAPAW.
It’s pronounced “Rishter”???? … oops
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I know it’s not gonna win but I’m still rooting for it!!
Hard eight babyyyyy
Misty Copeland comes out of retirement to put Timothée Chalamet in his place during a live ‘Sinners’ performance at the #Oscars.
Amazing. Amy Madigan did it.
@louispeitzman.bsky.social!
AMY
The latter!
Canada is accepting asylum applications from the LGBTQ+ community in the US.
Here is an organization helping get LGBTQ+ community members to safety
www.rainbowrailroad.org
it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.
A man who was shot by Connecticut police last year and later died had to wait 10 extra minutes for another ambulance to arrive at the scene, after another officer having an anxiety attack took the first one.
Especially after going through the Epstein files, some of the framing of this administrations Choices (especially rfk) seems wildly naive. They are stupid and immature, yes, but the policies they are enacting are actively trying to harm/kill you. It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.
ICE is trafficking people who aren’t from there to a tiny landlocked absolute monarchy on the borders of South Africa and Mozambique.
$11.3 billion could cover any of the following for a full year:
-1.4 million people on Medicaid
-19 million kids getting free school lunches
-1.4 million people getting affordable housing
-1.1 million hungry seniors fed
-0.8 million children given free child care
Hey fellow scientists, I'm just letting you know that if you're promoting something with some junky AI image, I'm not gonna click. You've got a workshop, a conference, a new paper?
Just not gonna bother. You want a bespoke image? Hire an illustrator.
Cities in Vermont and Maine are experiencing some of the same tactics that ICE has been using across Minnesota since December, and facing lots of resistance.
I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding
I hope I'm wrong but I've settled on the idea that unless the next Democratic president is a generational talent with a sharp focus and an iron will we can pack this whole thing up and go home
it’s a mite frightening in the dark lol
When Target holds a DEI Woke Black History/Pride is everyday celebratory sale I would consider coming back but until then they can continue to F'off
This is one of my favorite posts and a damning graph on how our super majority Dem legislature voted to eliminate a program to save consumers money and fight climate change because corporate executives told them to. Then refused to even vote to require justifications for rate increases #mapoli
“On Tuesday, [a 14-year-old] girl from #Marlborough with no criminal history was detained by immigration agents, [U.S. Rep. Lori Trahan] said. The girl was apparently used to ’coerce’ her father into turning himself in during an ’overnight attempt,’ according to Trahan.”
#Massachusetts
Trump has spent more in 10 days on his reckless war in Iran than America spends in two years on community health centers providing medical care for low-income and uninsured Americans.
Our priorities are out of whack in this country.
