Mark Booher
@markbooher5050.bsky.social
Gay/loves books, movies, tv, & democracy
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Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Munich, the first movie my husband wrote for Steven Spielberg and a film I still can't believe got made. I am obviously biased but...just watch it. I genuinely don't think it could be done now.
December 24, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Today is the 20th anniversary of the release of Munich, the first movie my husband wrote for Steven Spielberg and a film I still can't believe got made. I am obviously biased but...just watch it. I genuinely don't think it could be done now.
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My god.
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
December 22, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My god.
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
From Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues, posted by the NYT Michael Grynbaum:
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And here she is at the finale of her career, on The Waltons.
What a face.
What a face.
December 24, 2025 at 4:17 AM
And here she is at the finale of her career, on The Waltons.
What a face.
What a face.
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Donald Trump has never shown an appreciation of the arts. During his first term, Trump never attended the Kennedy Center Honors. Now, even though it takes an act of Congress to change the name, he has put his name ahead of President Kennedy, who was a champion of the arts. It is funny, isn’t it?
December 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Donald Trump has never shown an appreciation of the arts. During his first term, Trump never attended the Kennedy Center Honors. Now, even though it takes an act of Congress to change the name, he has put his name ahead of President Kennedy, who was a champion of the arts. It is funny, isn’t it?
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The only way I would watch the Kennedy Center Honors is if it were held at Ford's Theatre and John Wilkes Booth were going.
December 24, 2025 at 2:21 AM
The only way I would watch the Kennedy Center Honors is if it were held at Ford's Theatre and John Wilkes Booth were going.
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Gang, we are not watching the Kennedy Center Honors tonight. Watch a Rob Reiner movie instead.
December 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Gang, we are not watching the Kennedy Center Honors tonight. Watch a Rob Reiner movie instead.
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“I’m a centrist” - a right wing sympathizer
That’s how it works and life gets simpler once you understand it
That’s how it works and life gets simpler once you understand it
December 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
“I’m a centrist” - a right wing sympathizer
That’s how it works and life gets simpler once you understand it
That’s how it works and life gets simpler once you understand it
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The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
December 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.
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Nothing has convinced me that Trump is seriously ill more than his frenzy to have theaters, websites and battleships named after him. (Well, also his ankles and IV bruise.) I'd love to see 60 Minutes report on it, although Bari Weiss would doubtless say, "We need to give equal time to immortality."
December 23, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Nothing has convinced me that Trump is seriously ill more than his frenzy to have theaters, websites and battleships named after him. (Well, also his ankles and IV bruise.) I'd love to see 60 Minutes report on it, although Bari Weiss would doubtless say, "We need to give equal time to immortality."
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Growing into an adult is a constant series of discovering that every level you rise is populated by even stupider people who are even more morally repugnant.
December 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Growing into an adult is a constant series of discovering that every level you rise is populated by even stupider people who are even more morally repugnant.
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I just ran into an Instagram posting of the fake Cher tells off Karoline Leavitt thing that has been liked TWO HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND TIMES.
I give up.
I give up.
December 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I just ran into an Instagram posting of the fake Cher tells off Karoline Leavitt thing that has been liked TWO HUNDRED THIRTY ONE THOUSAND TIMES.
I give up.
I give up.
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CBS has become state regime media.
A Message to CBS from MeidasTouch
By Ben Meiselas
www.meidasplus.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
CBS has become state regime media.
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At some point very soon, all of the people who make 60 Minutes are going to have to decide where their personal line is.
December 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
At some point very soon, all of the people who make 60 Minutes are going to have to decide where their personal line is.
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CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Segment. A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political.’
www.nytimes.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:13 AM
CBS News now has to decide if it's a news organization or a White House propaganda instrument. If it is the former, Bari Weiss should lose her job over this decision, and CBS News staffers should go public and say she does not have their confidence. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...
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Vulgarity at the Kennedy Center. That's what Trump brings.
December 20, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Vulgarity at the Kennedy Center. That's what Trump brings.
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RIP to Ziggy Sobotka.
I was just at the gym watching a The Wire s2 episode, and came back to this awful news. Ransone was incredible in that season — so believable as the screw-up determined to live down to everyone's low opinion of him. And great in almost everything else I saw him do. RIP.
'The Wire' Star James Ransone Dead at 46 After Apparent Suicide
James Ransone -- an actor best known for his role in the hit show "The Wire" -- has died ... and the medical examiner is pointing to suicide as the cause.
www.tmz.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:07 PM
RIP to Ziggy Sobotka.
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Doing my yearly watch of the Rankin/Bass Rudolph. The show where Santa is an ableist prick--and so is Rudolph's dad. There's also a gay twink elf, a Zaddy prospector named Yukon Cornelius and an even gayer Charlie in the Box. I wanted to live on the Island of Misfit Toys as a kid. I belong there!
December 20, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Doing my yearly watch of the Rankin/Bass Rudolph. The show where Santa is an ableist prick--and so is Rudolph's dad. There's also a gay twink elf, a Zaddy prospector named Yukon Cornelius and an even gayer Charlie in the Box. I wanted to live on the Island of Misfit Toys as a kid. I belong there!
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I also wondered what exactly was wrong with this doll. Why was she on the Island of Misfit Toys? She looks fine.
Did she grow up to be M3GAN or something?
Did she grow up to be M3GAN or something?
December 20, 2025 at 4:55 AM
I also wondered what exactly was wrong with this doll. Why was she on the Island of Misfit Toys? She looks fine.
Did she grow up to be M3GAN or something?
Did she grow up to be M3GAN or something?
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Kerry Kennedy on the name change of the Kennedy Center:
"President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy’s.”
"President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy’s.”
December 18, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Kerry Kennedy on the name change of the Kennedy Center:
"President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy’s.”
"President Kennedy proudly stood for justice, peace, equality, dignity, diversity, and compassion for those who suffer. President Trump stands in opposition to these values, and his name should not be placed alongside President Kennedy’s.”
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The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The White House claims the vote to rename the Kennedy Center was “unanimous.” That is false. I was muted on the call and denied the opportunity to speak or register my opposition. That is not consensus. That is censorship.
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This Kennedy Center shit is unacceptable, and whichever Democrats running for president swear to undo it (presuming it goes through, and I presume it will), plus immediately tear down the ballroom, go to the top of my list.
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
December 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This Kennedy Center shit is unacceptable, and whichever Democrats running for president swear to undo it (presuming it goes through, and I presume it will), plus immediately tear down the ballroom, go to the top of my list.
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
(Plus promising to seek prosecution for the entire administration.)
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Nothing says America First like Bounties on US Citizens.
It's hard to fathom but we are now *here* on this path to fascism.
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Nothing says America First like Bounties on US Citizens.
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The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.
Breaking news: The board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has voted to rename the storied arts institution the “Trump-Kennedy Center,” according to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt.
Kennedy Center board votes to rename ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’
Kennedy Center trustees, installed earlier this year by President Trump, have voted to rename the center after him, said Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The Kennedy Center is a living memorial to a fallen president and named for President Kennedy by federal law. It can no sooner be renamed than can someone rename the Lincoln Memorial, no matter what anyone says.
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When we get this asshole out of the White House, we get rid of all the gold crap, we replant the Rose Garden, and we take the name of the Kennedy Center back to Kennedy. Then we relegate this lunatic to the junk heap of history.
December 18, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When we get this asshole out of the White House, we get rid of all the gold crap, we replant the Rose Garden, and we take the name of the Kennedy Center back to Kennedy. Then we relegate this lunatic to the junk heap of history.
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BREAKING: Kennedy Niece Maria Shriver:
"It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not."
"It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not."
December 18, 2025 at 9:53 PM
BREAKING: Kennedy Niece Maria Shriver:
"It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not."
"It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not."