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I’ll Be Glad When You Dead…

Buck Woods tells German-speaking Nazis what he thinks of them while performing in France. Somehow feels relevant these days.

From REUNION IN FRANCE, starring Joan Crawford and John Wayne, released on Christmas, 1942.
My investigation continues…
November 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I contacted dozens of people in media last year to alert them to this guy grooming kids on X. Got NO RESPONSE (not even @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social ) so I gave up

FINALLY someone with clout did something: PHIL WILLIAMS @philinvestigates.com an investigative reporter for the local news in Nashville!
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I never trusted Ryan Lizza's smirk. I always assumed that as a political journalist he was another Mark Halperin in the making, and two of them is two too many. Halperin, after his #MeToo fall, oozed back into standard pundit hackery while Lizza is oozing in every direction.
November 23, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Maureen Dowd flitted through my mind because Thanksgiving is coming up, so I'm told, & that's when she annually turns the Times column over to her MAGA brother, whose turkey stuffing is between his ears. Will MoDo be slumming it again this Thanksgiving or will an editor finally say Enough already?
November 23, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/s...
Marilyn Minter Is Camera Ready
www.nytimes.com
November 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Talked with Noah Baumbach about emerging from his “quiet crisis” post-White Noise, art imitating life, and, of course, his (movie) Pop, the late Peter Bogdanovich.
Noah Baumbach – Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
Noah Baumbach (‘Jay Kelly’) on his love letter to movies, the infamous ‘Marriage Story’ fight scene, and the impact of director Mike Nichols.
talkeasypod.com
November 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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HBD model/actress Mariel Hemingway, BOTD in 1961, turning 64 today. 7 members of her family took their own lives, including her grandfather, Ernest Hemingway, who shot himself in the head in 1961 at 61 & her older sister, model/actress Margaux Hemingway, who died in 1996 at 42
November 22, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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When the facts are on your side, argue the facts. When the law is on your side, argue the law. When neither is on your side, glare menacingly while pointing and calling someone “piggy”. - Snarl Sandburg
November 18, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna cofounded Open Philanthropy to identify charities that would create the biggest impact per dollar. Now, they’re changing its name and encouraging others to join the effort.
Billionaires Are Jumping Into Coefficient Giving’s Pooled Philanthropy
Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna founded Open Philanthropy to identify charities that would create the biggest impact per dollar. Now, they’re changing its name and encouragi...
www.forbes.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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My SATURDAY RUBRICS honor three actresses this weekend. Check them out. Thanks.
SATURDAY RUBRICS: 11/15/25
Sally Kirkland and a Couple of Others
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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"They’re so disrespectful of our business. [...] That is my major beef with the digital barons." @tinabrownlm.bsky.social talks about the relationship between the uber-rich and media organisations in The Interview with Lulu Garcia-Navarro for
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/m...
Tina Brown Thinks the Über-Rich Have It Coming
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Harry championed reporters who dig for truth with moral courage. Nandhini’s work exemplifies that spirit, and I'm thrilled to see what she will uncover during this fellowship. 👏👏
reutersagency.com/media-centre...
New Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow in Investigative Journalism announced
New Sir Harry Evans Global Fellow in Investigative Journalism announced
reutersagency.com
November 15, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Not digging PLURIBUS, if I'm savagely honest. Whole project seems off--overscaled, overconceptualized, overchoreographed (those delivery trucks), the set pieces show-offy self-contained & strangely weightless. It's all blatantly schematic, which Gilligan's always avoided, & the dialogue is crud.
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
If 2000 was an action horror story, what the HELL is 2025?
November 15, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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Gorgeous & tragic bisexual peekaboo girl Veronica Lake was BOTD in 1922 & died of acute alcoholism in 1973 at 50. She didn't make a lot of movies, but several have become true classics, particularly Sturges' "Sullivan's Travels" (1941) & Marshall's "The Blue Dahlia" (1946)
November 14, 2025 at 7:52 PM
An easy search tool for the 22,000 pages of Epstein emails, provided by @couriernewsroom.bsky.social

Thanks to @camaron.bsky.social for making it so easy!

journaliststudio.google.com/pinpoint/sea...
Pinpoint - From the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein
journaliststudio.google.com
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Today at the White House -- a visit from Erika Kirk, future Vice President or First Lady (Peter Thiel hasn't decided yet.)
November 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
In the last 25 days, Kim Kardashian’s jet used 33,130 gallons of fuel:

- 4.5 tanker trucks of gas
- Enough to fill large swimming pool
- Same as 36,050 gallons of car fuel
- Enough for 1,110 avg cars daily
- Power for 45 homes/year

For carbon offset: 5,667 new trees

Source: @kimkjet.grndcntrl.net
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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More proof that Sean Duffy lied when he said Trump was canceling private flights at the same rate as commercial ones.

A new report shows that private jet travel saw massive increases as thousands of commercial flights were being canceled.
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The 10 richest Americans got $700 Billion richer last year. I'm sure we're all SO happy for them.
Oxfam: Wealth of 10 Richest Americans Grew by Nearly $700B Last Year
The United States' 10 richest billionaires saw their wealth grow last year by nearly $700 billion, according to a new report published Monday by Oxfam, which warns the Trump administration is worsenin...
ground.news
November 12, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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I never thought I could feel passionate love for a court system. I was wrong.
🚨BREAKING: In a sweeping victory for voters, a Utah court struck down the GOP-controlled legislature’s congressional gerrymander and a companion law designed to entrench partisan power — restoring a fair map for the 2026 elections. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Utah Judge Strikes Down GOP Gerrymander, Restores Voter-Approved Fair Map
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Indivisible does a lot of good— but it’s asinine for @ezralevin.bsky.social to encourage anger and create division with Senators who voted for the shutdown. STAY FOCUSED on the enemy: MAGA! Not other Democrats.
We just launched the biggest primary program in Indivisible’s history. Help us (literally) send Schumer and the surrender caucus a message. open.substack.com/pub/ezralevi...
Democratic leaders failed us again. Time to get some new leaders.
Indivisible's weekly newsletter with analysis and action
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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JUST IN: Trump CAVES after we called him out for letting billionaires keep their private jets flying while thousands of commercial flights are canceled.

Yesterday, Secretary Sean Duffy couldn’t answer a simple question from Fox News—and now they’re banning private jets from 12 major airports. (1/5)
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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It's perturbing yet somehow delightful that Elise Stefanik is a dead ringer for Bari Weiss, a.k.a. Schmoopie. The only diff is that Bari wears studious glasses & is flanked by an elite unit of buff catalogue models, but otherwise they could be twins or maybe the same "op" hoaxing and hexing us.
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
44 million people get SNAP benefits
22 million people get enhanced ACA benefits

So for Democrats mad about the Senate voting to end the shutdown because voters don't want it-- which voters are they referring to?

The 22 million people who'll pay more for insurance, or 44 million who are destitute?
November 10, 2025 at 3:26 AM