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It’s #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! As I did last year, I’m beginning my new #DirectedByWomen thread with an Indie Spirit contender. And, since it’s Christmastide, I'm bearing witness to the religious musical bio-pic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) by Mona Fastvold. #52FilmsByWomen #1

In 2020, I argued every state must count mail-in ballots postmarked by Election Day. Today, the RNC argued no state can. That is how far the right has descended into voter suppression. And it is why I continue to fight.

Let me get this straight. The leading Senate Republican walked into the White House Sunday with a bipartisan deal to end the TSA nightmare. Fund everything except ICE now, get TSA agents paid today, handle ICE separately. Senate Republicans and Democrats said yes. Trump said no. Why? Because Trump is holding TSA workers’ paychecks hostage to try and force Congress to pass the SAVE Act, a voter suppression bill that would knock millions of eligible Americans off the voter rolls. He wants to make it harder for Americans to vote. Like a petulant child flipping the board when he’s losing, Trump torched a bipartisan deal his own Senate leader handed him on a silver platter. His tantrum continues as he unleashes ICE agents into airports. Agents with zero screening training, zero TSA authority, and a good chance of making everything worse. Democrats have been ready to fund TSA from day one. What we refuse to do is write a blank check for an ICE agency that gunned down two American citizens in Minneapolis and still demands the ability to kick down doors without a judge’s approval while hiding behind masks. We will not pass the SAVE Act either. Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act. Non-citizen voting is already illegal. It was illegal yesterday. It will be illegal tomorrow. This bill solves nothing except the Republican party’s losing electoral math. Fund TSA. Reform ICE. End this today. Trump is the one standing in the way.

@ThiefCGT Finally!

#NowWatching The Thin Man (1934) I know some of my friends will be happy I'm finally checking this one

I'm apologizing in advance for the person i'll become when trump dies.

Here is the bracket for the #1930sLeadActor Tournament, which starts tomorrow. Actors who just missed the field include: Charles Laughton, Lionel Barrymore, and Groucho Marx.

@mubi Just when I thought the day couldn't get any wilder, here comes THE BRIDE! (2026) by Maggie Gyllenhaal. An ambitious 1930s punk rock take on the Frankenstein legacy as well as, oddly enough, a sort of "Bartleby, the Scrivener" stan account. Loved the score. #52FilmsByWomen #22

@mubi This #FemaleFilmmakerFriday I've gone back to the 19th-century Brit lit well of 2 weeks ago. I've also gone back to the theater—finally!—to see my first 2026 films. First up was "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" (2026) by Emerald Fennell. The quotation marks are warranted. #52FilmsByWomen #21

It’s #FemaleFilmmakerFriday! As I did last year, I’m beginning my new #DirectedByWomen thread with an Indie Spirit contender. And, since it’s Christmastide, I'm bearing witness to the religious musical bio-pic THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (2025) by Mona Fastvold. #52FilmsByWomen #1

I went with Jean Gabin Clark Gable Cary Grant William Powell Jimmy Stewart I know Gabin has no chance but he's in so many of my all-time favorite French films. #1930sLeadActor

If every American voter, without a passport, decided to get a passport, as their primary form of ID, it would take 5 years to fill the requests. But Republicans want this to be in effect before the midterms. They know this, of course, so it’s obvious voter suppression.

Nobody wanted to play with him 😞

Nobody thinks this. They think making woman use their birth certificates will make voting harder especially for the 70 million women whose last names don’t match the birth certificate anymore. Right wingers know this and so have to frame it in lies like this

You don't drive off until you see that person walk into their house

if there is any lesson of the history of disenfranchisement in america, it is that the people writing the laws are only going to enforce them against their enemies. it’s not a level playing field. this smarmy “the SAVE act will bring a 100 year dem trifecta” thing is really dumb

sorry Oscar winner we don’t have time for you to thank your mom or whatever we need the presenters to do the longest and worst comedy bits imaginable

13 years ago, Ryan Coogler released his debut feature Fruitvale Station, writing the part for Michael B Jordan in his first ever lead role. Today they’re both Oscar winners.

In honor of Autumn Durald Arkpaw making history, here’s Gia Coppola telling me about how she and Autumn referenced a shot from Transformers II in The Last Showgirl. Congrats to a real one

@themediawitch @tomandlorenzo The pink is reading rather warm so I wonder if both colors are actually cooler than they seem.

@tomandlorenzo It really works for her but I’d have liked the red top to have a touch more blue in it

Now that is a motherfucking Best Actress gown

Misty Copeland doing ballet during the “I Lied To You” musical segment at the Oscars. See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26

@JusFeelAmazin @ThiefCGT @hulu I have a Disney-Hulu bundle. On my laptop it shows up on the home screen as this URL: hulu.com/hub/home

@ThiefCGT @sly_wit @hulu Do you have hulu exclusively or thru the disney+ bundle

Same shit as last year 🙄 They say the #Oscars will be on @hulu but then they are nowhere to be found

@ThiefCGT @hulu It was on the home screen when I went to Hulu on Roku. I'm only watching there because ABC via my digital antenna was fritzing and I happen to have Hulu right now.

@sly_wit @hulu Why can't I find them???