One Folly after Another. And the timing: Loosening bank capital requirements just when more capital is needed.
wsj.com/finance/regula… via @WSJ
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Whit Stillman
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Whit Stillman
@WhitStillman
Filmmaker, Novelist? https://t.co/7ngb4Yor4z
USA Katılım Mayıs 2010
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Ukraine's interest *is^ our interest. They've been fighting the West's "Main Adversary" for 12 brutal years. How did the Senate ever confirm these hollow men: bully boy traitors.
Jay in Kyiv@JayinKyiv
Hegseth announces that Ukraine is cut off. Serving Putin is the core focus of the Trump administration.
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@TedIacobuzio Thanks! Have done, will read.
newyorker.com/magazine/1993/…
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@WhitStillman Look up Wilfrid Sheed's piece on Warren, the great unknown.
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Heading to @RegentStCinema, there to see, once again (and there can never be enough times), the wondrous Metropolitan by @WhitStillman as part of a live recording of @PPFIdeas - it promises to be a high-grade experience.
@j_amesmarriott
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@LauraRbnsn Sure, except the winner could be Rohmer’s A Tale of Winter or @WhitStillman’s The Last Days of Disco
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36 typos and style guide violations yesterday before I quit. Typos 1 and 2 of the day: Reyes’ is a bad style guide violation for Reyes’s. Fused participle; defendants should be possessive. @alanfeuer @AlexandraBerzon @londonoe
Typos of the New York Times@nyttypos
52 typos and style guide violations yesterday. Typo 1 of the day: a bad reign in/rein in error by @el72champs.
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Let me take you back 116 years to the summer of 1910: I've cleaned-up this astounding autochrome of young Hélène Gélibert, engrassed in her crochet and enveloped in such beautiful iridescent light! It was taken in Monplaisir, France, by the Lumiere brothers and it depicts their niece (the daughter of Juliette Lumière). It is an original colour process from 1910 and not colourised.
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@mmckeg @SugarpussOShea1 WHICH Golddiggers? All good, I believe.
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@SugarpussOShea1 @WhitStillman I recently saw (& enjoyed) Gold Diggers. What’s the next one I should watch?
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@SugarpussOShea1 @mmckeg That's probably my favorite sequence in cinema - and has been since youth.
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@mmckeg @WhitStillman You might want to try Gold Diggers of 1935. The movie itself isn’t as enjoyable as 1933, but the stupendous Lullaby of Broadway number is a jaw-dropper
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The Gay Diplomat (1931)
A Russian diplomat takes on a notorious female spy in Bucharest.
DIR Richard Boleslawski
CAST Ivan Lebedeff, Genevieve Tobin, Betty Compson
1 HR 15 MINS | DRAMA | 5:30 PM EDT
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Then 12 noon Saturday will show a secret short film & discuss low budget filmmaking - also at the Hellenic American Union kinoathens.org/independent-he…
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If in #Athens - "The Last Days of Disco" screens 7 pm Friday at the Hellenic American Union as part of #kinoathens - info in replies
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Better movie posters a century ago - and much else.
Next on TCM@NextOnTCM
Street Girl (1929) A girl from the wrong part of town finds a new life managing a jazz band. DIR Wesley Ruggles CAST Jack Oakie, Betty Compson, John Harron 1 HR 30 MINS | DRAMA | 11:45 AM EDT
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The US delegation is now meeting with the dictator of Belarus, a country with a GDP smaller than the US state of Vermont.
Putin needs the US to take sanctions off Belarus to use it as a conduit for western technology for the Russian war machine. The US gains absolutely nothing, but surely the Trump family will make billions from the coming arrangement.
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Photographed in colour on 26th September 1909, this amazing autochrome by Léon Gimpel is entitled "The Balloons on the Esplanade des Invalides" which captures the Parisian launch of several gas balloons (as opposed to modern hot-air balloons) participating in a long-distance race organized by the Aéro-Club de France. It is an original colour process from 117 years ago and isn't colourised.
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JD Vance changed his name, his religion, and his entire political ideology to become the exact avatar his billionaire backer Peter Thiel required.
When a politician reinvents their identity to serve an oligarch, they are an asset.
You cannot trust a word they say
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