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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 21h

“This is a prize given to a cause which the United States has very much supported over the years.”

Meaning, you know, democracy.

Reuters @reuters.com · 23h

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 22h

“A brave and committed champion of peace who keeps the flame of democracy burning during a growing darkness.”

Sounds like a great choice.

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize

Leader of country’s opposition receives award after scrutiny surrounding committee and comments by Donald Trump

www.theguardian.com

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

Visually, not much happens. Bergman’s Brink of Life (1958) isn’t a cinematographer’s showpiece. The writing is more honest than it is profound. But it feels like a story that wants to be told because these kinds of stories are happening in wards just like these all the time. In 1958 and in 2025.📽️

A ★★★½ review of Brink of Life (1958)

I’d been avoiding this one. Sounded too sad, too bleak, too dreadful. But there it was, the last of the 1950s era Bergmans on Criterion, and I needed to check it off my imaginary list. Turns out… it’...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

These are all variants on the same dude from marginally different timelines.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

There is no universe in which I would ever want to find myself on AG James’s bad side at all, much less even further on her bad side than I very much already was.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

The Attorney General of New York was just indicted by our tinpot dictator

Letitia James criminally charged in Trump’s latest effort to punish rivals

Prosecutor who sought charges was installed amid Trump frustrations with pace of investigations against rivals

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 1d

“The public criticizing an author or a piece of writing is not the same as local and federal governments passing laws to ban books by queer authors and authors of color.”

Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

The Real Threat to Free Speech in America is From the Right, Not the Left—Stop Pretending Otherwise

The road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. For years we’ve been told that the censorious Left is a serious threat to free speech. If Simon & Schuster cancels one book because the pu…

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d

Summer Interlude (1951) feels like Bergman’s first attempt at what would later become Summer With Monika, ✨and it’s occasionally unbearably embarrassing to watch the young lovers at the center of this memory play drama falling entirely in love not just with each other but with love itself, and yet…📽️

A ★★★½ review of Summer Interlude (1951)

Ingmar Bergman’s Black Swan, Summer Interlude feels like a first attempt at what would later become Summer With Monika, and because it’s early and because Bergman is still figuring out what works and ...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d

Lafayette, Georgia.

18 miles south of my hometown, and if you’re a local, it’s luh-FETT.

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d

The angry goose meme, two panels

top panel:
WHICH FASCISTS WAS WEIMAR
ERA ANTIFA
FIGHTING IN 1932?

bottom panel:
WHICH FASCISTS, MOTHERFUCKER?I

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d

🌞The number one movie was The Godfather

🌛 The number one song was “Horse With No Name” by America.

🌅 The NYT best-selling book was Herman Wouk’s The Winds of War.

Bo Bolander @bbolander.bsky.social · 2d

i think we should just do horoscopes based on what the number one movie at the box office was the day we were born, it seems more scientifically rigorous

Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 2d

“I do not think it is radical to want to avoid suffering, especially while eating.”

The always revolutionary @jayasaxena.com on how maybe (just maybe) your cocktail shouldn’t hate you.

Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 2d

"Am I wrong not to want to brace? I am braced all day. I want to unclench. I want to slip into something comfortable." slate.com/life/2025/10...

It’s the Quickest Way to Ruin a Great Cocktail. Thankfully, Bartenders Are Finally Cutting It Off.

The era of bracing bravado is coming to an end.

slate.com

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

anyway somebody please let me write a big essay about being driven so mad by living through history that I read all twelve books of A Dance to the Music of Time in like six weeks

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 3d

I finally finished A Dance to the Music of Time and basically this is what A Dance to the Music of Time is about

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 3d

Rev David Black of Chicago’s First Presbyterian Church was part of NYC’s Judson Memorial Church’s Community Minister program a few years back.

What Rev David is bringing to protests in Chicago is what we’re going to need right here in Manhattan before too long.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 3d

I swear to God, if 2025 takes Dolly Parton…

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 3d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 3d

“Say goodbye to the past!”

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 3d

It was a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the Bronx and Harlem at our paper shredding events — we cleared out old junk mail, built community, danced, took family portraits and enjoyed frozen treats (it still felt a lot like summer). Thanks to everyone who joined.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 3d

🎶 Ridin' in my GNX with Anita Baker in the tape deck, that's gonna be that “Sweet Love.” 🎶

Bring a Trailer @bringatrailer.bsky.social · 3d

28k-Mile 1987 Buick Grand National

Bid for the chance to own a 28k-Mile 1987 Buick Grand National at auction with Bring a Trailer, the home of the best vintage and classic cars online. Lot #214,577.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · Nov 30

The photo from the “don’t email my wife” meme with the word “harbor” replacing “email.”

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 4d

The score is strange and off-putting, particularly toward the beginning, and there’s an uncomfortable level of DePalma-directed misogyny, but almost 50 years on, Carrie (1976) is a phenomenal movie, not just a horror movie.

Good enough to make you wish that maybe this time, the bucket won’t fall.📽️

A ★★★★ review of Carrie (1976)

After watching 3 Women the other night and thinking to myself that 3 Women just might be an unofficial sequel to Carrie, I had to find out for myself and confirm or deny my theory. Carrie, the novel,...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 5d

I haven’t seen any actual episodes of Breaking Bad or The Wire and you know what, I think I’m going to be fine going forward without.

Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

short guys who don’t want to date tall women is one thing (I have many opinions but that’s not the subject here), but tall guys who don’t want to date tall women are like oh so you really just want to buy your own sweaters for the rest of your life, huh

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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 5d

I’ve never seen one minute of Girls and I’m sure it’s great but I’m absolutely never gonna watch one minute of it (“I live in America, Louis, I don’t have to love it,” basically)

Hannah Fearn @hannahfearn.bsky.social · 5d

Inspired by a post I just saw in which someone admitted they hadn’t seen a single episode of Friends nor the film Love Actually… what cultural hole do you have that’s a bit weird for your generation?

I’ll go first: I haven’t seen Dirty Dancing.

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 6d

The poster for this 1974 Italian “whydunnit” with Elizabeth Taylor is phenomenal.

ELIZABETH TAYLOR

THE DRIVER’S SEAT

WAS SHE
REALLY
MAD ENOUGH TO PLOT
HER OWN
MURDER?

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

Judge IMMERGUT, a Trump appointee to the bench, ruled that Trump's call-up was based on false claims about unrest in Portland and that Trump's own statements were "simply untethered to the facts." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Thomas @thomaslstrickland.bsky.social · 6d

AAAAWOOOOOOO /
Karl Ove Knausgård

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