Alonso Duralde
@aduralde.bsky.social
Film critic (thefilmverdict.com) Podcaster (linoleumcast.bsky.social bfastallday.bsky.social maximumfilmpodcast.bsky.social deckthehallmark.bsky.social) Member, LAFCA & NSFC. Books: HAVE YOURSELF A MOVIE LITTLE XMAS, HOLLYWOOD PRIDE. he/him🌹🏳️🌈🎄📽
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An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned
As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...
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February 2, 2026 at 11:01 AM
An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.
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"When in doubt, draw a distinction."
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
Not sure where he got it, but in grad school one of my teachers taught me that.
This (long) thread is about the key distinctions I rely on as a critic. There's a Twitter version from 2021. This one builds on that one.
I will post them one at a time. Ready?
February 2, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
February 2, 2026 at 3:23 PM
This is a post about animal excrement and the English language.
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
bull$#!% = nonsense/lies
chicken$#!% = petty or cowardly
horse$#!% = nonsense/lies
dog$#!%= low quality
ape$#!% = wild
bat$#!%= crazy
Ordered above from oldest to newest: bull$#!% (1914), bat$#!% (1971).
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Take a look at this insane image the Illinois College Republicans posted and then read their statement about how they're not trying to excuse or glorify violence.
February 2, 2026 at 12:29 PM
Take a look at this insane image the Illinois College Republicans posted and then read their statement about how they're not trying to excuse or glorify violence.
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Hoping that congressional Democrats realize they need to campaign on these crimes so they can be ready to hit the ground running with hearings, investigations and impeachment proceedings.
The window between the new Congress beginning and the 2028 election season starting will be painfully short.
The window between the new Congress beginning and the 2028 election season starting will be painfully short.
Each of these 7 items would easily be the biggest scandal for like 45 Presidents.
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Hoping that congressional Democrats realize they need to campaign on these crimes so they can be ready to hit the ground running with hearings, investigations and impeachment proceedings.
The window between the new Congress beginning and the 2028 election season starting will be painfully short.
The window between the new Congress beginning and the 2028 election season starting will be painfully short.
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Uhhh...Why is Tulsi Gabbard's office in charge of deciding how a serious complaint against her can be examined?
🚨BREAKING
😳 The Wall Street Journal is reporting there is a whistleblower complaint so sensitive against Tulsi Gabbard that it is locked in a safe and the Trump Administration does not know how to notify Congress about it.
😳 The Wall Street Journal is reporting there is a whistleblower complaint so sensitive against Tulsi Gabbard that it is locked in a safe and the Trump Administration does not know how to notify Congress about it.
February 2, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Uhhh...Why is Tulsi Gabbard's office in charge of deciding how a serious complaint against her can be examined?
Sorry to gripe, Cinematrix, but The Saga of Gösta Berling should be an acceptable answer in Greta Garbo x Based on a Book or Play #filmsky 📽
February 2, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Sorry to gripe, Cinematrix, but The Saga of Gösta Berling should be an acceptable answer in Greta Garbo x Based on a Book or Play #filmsky 📽
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Y los perdedores con los aranceles de Trump son...los estadounidenses dozz.es/lawuh1
Y los perdedores con los aranceles de Trump son...los estadounidenses
dozz.es
February 2, 2026 at 5:55 AM
Y los perdedores con los aranceles de Trump son...los estadounidenses dozz.es/lawuh1
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I see that Axios has gone from "lazy reporting" to "zero reporting"
February 2, 2026 at 1:26 AM
I see that Axios has gone from "lazy reporting" to "zero reporting"
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Just one more thing the miserable idiot took over, slapped his name on, and drove out of business in record time.
Trump: "I have determined that the fastest way to bring The Trump Kennedy Center to the highest level of Success, Beauty, and Grandeur, is to cease Entertainment Operations for an approximately two year period of time, with a scheduled Grand Reopening that will rival and surpass anything."
February 1, 2026 at 11:46 PM
Just one more thing the miserable idiot took over, slapped his name on, and drove out of business in record time.
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Look at this toned-down rhetoric.
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Look at this toned-down rhetoric.
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"Every Minnesotan who is upset about the armed goons murdering their neighbors and terrorizing their communities is a paid agent of George Soros who should be imprisoned, and that's my plan for getting Minnesotans to choose me as their next senator."
Michele Tafoya pledges that if elected to the US Senate she will investigate who is paying the protesters in Minnesota
February 1, 2026 at 11:57 PM
"Every Minnesotan who is upset about the armed goons murdering their neighbors and terrorizing their communities is a paid agent of George Soros who should be imprisoned, and that's my plan for getting Minnesotans to choose me as their next senator."
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That may be the first accurate thing Kristi Noem has ever said, because not a day has gone by without my hearing about her and the lawless departments she oversees.
Kristi Noem: "I always tell people that the days you don't hear about us are the days we were successful."
February 2, 2026 at 12:42 AM
That may be the first accurate thing Kristi Noem has ever said, because not a day has gone by without my hearing about her and the lawless departments she oversees.
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Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
February 1, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent
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There is currently no medical care in ICE facilities because DHS stopped paying for it.
This is la palimpsest of Trumpist fuckery that is going to result in so much misery and death
This is la palimpsest of Trumpist fuckery that is going to result in so much misery and death
ICE now confirming that there is a measles outbreak at the Texas concentration camp where young Liam was held.
February 2, 2026 at 12:44 AM
There is currently no medical care in ICE facilities because DHS stopped paying for it.
This is la palimpsest of Trumpist fuckery that is going to result in so much misery and death
This is la palimpsest of Trumpist fuckery that is going to result in so much misery and death
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Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.
February 2, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Let's check in on the Twitter Files guy -- who insisted that the behind the scenes decision-making on content moderation was the most important issue of our time -- and see what he thinks about the publication of communications involving the most notorious sex predator of our generation.
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And/or want to put a stop to stories about dismal ticket sales and artists refusing to play there
Donald Trump and Ric Grenell want to do to the Kennedy Center what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to do to America: Crush everything about it that is pure and good and remake it in their distorted, hateful image.
February 2, 2026 at 12:38 AM
And/or want to put a stop to stories about dismal ticket sales and artists refusing to play there
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Channel surfing with one of Ken Russell's short films for the BBC's Monitor, from a script by archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, a narrator ponders what the curious, lost culture of "Britain" was centuries after a cataclysmic event. Very much in 28 Years Later's DNA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8yE...
1962: What Was Britain Like Before the Apocalypse? | Monitor: The Lonely Shore | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
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February 1, 2026 at 3:22 AM
Channel surfing with one of Ken Russell's short films for the BBC's Monitor, from a script by archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes, a narrator ponders what the curious, lost culture of "Britain" was centuries after a cataclysmic event. Very much in 28 Years Later's DNA. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8yE...
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In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
February 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.
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Two days ago, the president used his social media platform to endorse this "phenomenal candidate" and to urge "all America First Patriots" in the district to get out and vote for her.
Today, he says he doesn't know anything about it and had nothing to do with it.
He's lying or demented or both.
Today, he says he doesn't know anything about it and had nothing to do with it.
He's lying or demented or both.
February 1, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Two days ago, the president used his social media platform to endorse this "phenomenal candidate" and to urge "all America First Patriots" in the district to get out and vote for her.
Today, he says he doesn't know anything about it and had nothing to do with it.
He's lying or demented or both.
Today, he says he doesn't know anything about it and had nothing to do with it.
He's lying or demented or both.
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Burn it all down.
This level of disgusting racism and cruelty didn’t exist in a vacuum, and it didn’t end with Epstein.
Epstein files:
“JEFF wanted, ‘young, fresh meat girls. Virgins.’ He told ■, ‘Don’t bring me any n*ggers.’”
Epstein files:
“JEFF wanted, ‘young, fresh meat girls. Virgins.’ He told ■, ‘Don’t bring me any n*ggers.’”
February 1, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Burn it all down.
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Based on my experience fundraising for arts nonprofits, I think the lack of public funding for arts, science, etc is one reason that interesting not-evil people hang out with boring evil rich people. One benefit of taxing the wealthy is reducing their ability to purchase social camouflage.
February 1, 2026 at 4:14 PM
Based on my experience fundraising for arts nonprofits, I think the lack of public funding for arts, science, etc is one reason that interesting not-evil people hang out with boring evil rich people. One benefit of taxing the wealthy is reducing their ability to purchase social camouflage.
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With notable exceptions of diversity, inclusion and basic competence, there's nothing Hallmark Channel does that Great American Family won't try and copy, only way more cheaply.
GAF announced 4 "getaway" movies for February, all of them old (3 from 2022, 1 '24) and widely available on FAST channels
GAF announced 4 "getaway" movies for February, all of them old (3 from 2022, 1 '24) and widely available on FAST channels
February 1, 2026 at 4:36 PM
With notable exceptions of diversity, inclusion and basic competence, there's nothing Hallmark Channel does that Great American Family won't try and copy, only way more cheaply.
GAF announced 4 "getaway" movies for February, all of them old (3 from 2022, 1 '24) and widely available on FAST channels
GAF announced 4 "getaway" movies for February, all of them old (3 from 2022, 1 '24) and widely available on FAST channels