MattDunning

@cb_doge Which movies missed the cut because of this standard?

David Rubin served as President of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 2019 to 2022. In 2020, under his leadership, the Academy launched the “Representation and Inclusion Standards” for Best Picture eligibility. These rules, still in effect, require films to meet at least 2 of 4 diversity criteria involving race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or disability in on-screen roles, creative leadership, or crew. Rubin publicly backed the changes and helped appoint the task force co-led by producer DeVon Franklin. He shifted the Oscars from “best movie wins” to race/gender engineering. A film can now be ineligible for the top prize purely for failing demographic quotas, regardless of quality or audience impact. Instead of focusing purely on talent and storytelling, the Academy under Rubin institutionalized identity preferences. Oscars prestige and viewership have tanked. Many see it as performative politics over art. Classics with non-diverse casts would be disqualified. He helped install the DEI machinery that turned awards into checkboxes and accelerated Hollywood’s quality decline.

@scottlincicome Are you also promising charts?

New column tomorrow on the Jones Act. Get excited.

@scottlincicome I’m going to place these charts on my Ridgeline to show the truck people who laugh at me how cool I am.

@PanasonicDX4500 @robneyer This comment isn’t accurate based on your own support. I see some of your other data and posts but the teen pregnancy change doesn’t compute. There’s been a very small drop in teen pregnancies since the 70s, but an overall continued collapse overall since then.

the whole “American birth rate crisis” thing is just that we successfully stopped teen pregnancies, by the way. people aren’t not having kids because of candy crush or whatever, the sex ed programs just worked and sixteen year olds aren’t having kids anymore.

@alex Poison that we have lived with for an extremely long time.

i really do think that gerrymandering is literal poison in our democracy and we need to get rid of it whole-cloth

@ResourcefulMom Agree. There are three flight at CVG heading to DCa that started taxiing and were stopped.

@BestMattDunning Suspicious at best 🤔

Anyone know what's happening at DCA Reagan National? Son's flight not being allowed to take off headed for DCA, but I'm not seeing a ground stop and there's not bad weather.

@JonahDispatch Totally agree. My current argument to supporters of it is asking when they started agreeing with the living constitution? If we can just change the constitution via EO then watch out.

Unlawful presidential action is unlawful. I'm sorry this hurts you.

@ProfessorSayi @JonahDispatch What was done vs what was expected?

@BestMattDunning @JonahDispatch No one said, when warpspeed was proposed, that a new and unproven technology for a "vaccine" would be used. People became suspicious when they learned what was done vs what was expected. Rightly so. A good idea gone bad.

Just rewatched World War Z. Does make me wonder how RFK Jr. would respond to a vaccine driven strategy to fight the zombie apocalypse. “Sure, the vaccine prevents you from being eaten by zombies, but do you really want to roll the dice with a vaccine?”

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@JonahDispatch Snooze.

I don’t want to be awake.

@yay_yee Rip Bellator

Bellator eliminator.

@Jason @ZohranKMamdani @realDonaldTrump More socialism?

Would be nice to see more of this from our leaders. 👏 @ZohranKMamdani @realDonaldTrump 👏

@KevMcCarville @scottlincicome Why do lower imports increase GDP? Actual question not a point.

The trade deficit really truly isnt an important number... But as Scott says here, that is not how it is treated by our politicians or the public. Mercantilism at its finest, Adam Smith spinning in his grave

@scottlincicome Stop trying to dispute it.

Was this a previously disputed title?

@JonahDispatch Better act quickly!

@TheGoodBobby @scottlincicome I’m joking. I bet I have fewer than his 5 lifetime doordashes

@BestMattDunning @scottlincicome People could learn a lot from boomers it seems

I demand to see hard data on Gen Z food delivery budgets

@scottlincicome Ok boomer

signed, a once-poor-and-still-cheap guy who spent many, MANY years buying/cooking/eating tupperware'd proteins/veggies he bought in bulk from Shoppers Food Warehouse and has even today used Doordash/UberEats less than 5 times ever (bc it's so expensive!)

@The0tt0Show @charlescwcooke 5+ years later. Same schtick.

@BestMattDunning @charlescwcooke Dems all share the same nuts so it shouldn’t be too mysterious.

No, he did not.