I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

Federal agents search Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say

Federal agents have searched Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home as part of a criminal investigation. That's according to people familiar with the matter.

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I really like two-strip Technicolor. It has the sleek graphic impact of Art Deco lithography. Just because it's not realistic doesn't mean it's not a cool artistic medium on its own terms. BEN. #KingofJazz #TCMParty

Some of you might have followed Ori Goldberg back at the other place. He has died. He was a compassionate, inspiring, and courageous voice of moral clarity.

"One cannot overstate this. Israelis knew and know everything happening in Gaza and in the West Bank. Attempts to seperate "liberals" from "messianics" are based on a lie. Israel is not a "robust democracy" even for Jews. It is a genocidal rough beast, endangering the world." Ori Goldberg (8/2026)

Resist 🕎🍉@antizionistjew.bsky.social · 18h ago

Ori Goldberg, Israeli human rights activist and a prominent voice for Palestinian rights, lost his life to colon cancer today, at the age of 50 💔 Goldberg was a man who always said the truth, without filters A terrible loss, he will be missed may you rest in peace Z"L יהי זכרו ברוך 😢

Ori Goldberg, Israeli human rights activist and a prominent voice for Palestinian rights, lost his life to colon cancer today, at the age of 50 💔 Goldberg was a man who always said the truth, without filters A terrible loss, he will be missed may you rest in peace Z"L יהי זכרו ברוך 😢

It was a cop. I wonder what else he got away with.

Closing a 65-year-old cold case, CPD says 8-year-old girl was brutally murdered by a young Chicago cop

It was a crime that shocked the city and stayed a mystery for decades, but now police say they have solved the killing of Gloria Kowalewicz using DNA technology. And the perpetrator, they say, was a y...

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PHOTO OF THE DAY. Archduke Franz Ferdinand posing as a mummy on a trip to Cairo (1896). 📷 Heymann & Co

This BACK STREET is the most emotionally exhausting, I agree; Imogen Smith at Bright Lights Film Journal is great on Back Street and two other John M. Stahl melodramas. brightlightsfilm.com/women-love-t...

Women in Love: Three Early ’30s Melodramas by John M. Stahl (Seed, Back Street, Only Yesterday) - Bright Lights Film Journal

The subtle beauty of John M. Stahl’s early ’30s work is revealed by the exquisite 35mm prints screening at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the series Universal Pictures: Restorations and[...]

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Van Stanwyck@vanstanwyck.bsky.social · 14h ago

A least the Susan Hayward one was lavish and colorful with an ending so inane you can't help but laugh. This is just enervating. #BackStreet #TCMParty

I need this!

Thomas Fortenberry@thomasfortenberry.bsky.social · yesterday

For a cold and rainy Sunday afternoon in NYC, here's a January 1968 photo of Broadway Joe Namath, NY Jets quarterback, watching TV with his left leg elevated. The leg was in a thigh-to-ankle cast to reduce strain on his chronically inflamed knee.

I don’t live in Los Angeles, but I like to imagine that sending your screenplay to a guy you’re not interested in would be a great way to get him to leave you alone.

Yes! And: I once saw a vision-impaired person on here *very* nicely ask a movie account for alt text and get blocked. Afterward she said sadly that she just wanted to join the fun. You see something like that and unless you're heartless you start adding the alt text. (Scolding, OTOH, doesn't work.)

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 22h ago

Hi, I’m a sighted alt text user! Here are some reasons I use it: - Slow Internet on an airplane - I’m over 40, I have no idea who that celebrity is - Bluesky broke images again - My vision sucks and that text is too small to read otherwise - Conveys further context and authorial intent

My wife forebore to make herself clean today, but continued in a sluttish condition.

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦@perevaa.bsky.social · yesterday

And now the best part: Bot traffic from the #Yandex network has plunged to near zero following the strike on its Vladimir data center. Bot traffic includes automated requests from search crawlers, scrapers and other online services. Twitter must be a ghost town by now.

early 1870s, Japan. Matsusaburo Yokoyama in Hakodate took a picture of his younger brother Matsukura

Mr. Dreyer's astounding powers of recollection aside, this post of his about the calming power of list-making, with its lovely coda, gave me some good feelings. I will make some lists today.

Benjamin Dreyer@bcdreyer.social · 2d ago

That Maya Angelou got a Tony nomination acting opposite Geraldine Page in a play that closed on opening night always sounds to me like the sort of thing you'd make up and keep a straight face recounting to see how many people would call you a liar.

This picture by Adnan Abidi seems to sum up 2026. A woman fighting disenfranchisement of Muslims in a country being ruled by a would-be autocrat who wants to make India into an ethno-nationalist state

You cannot possibly look at Sissy Spacek’s performance in Carrie and not be wowed by the ways in which that movie gets you to care about her, to root for her, and to imagine against all reason that it might work out for her. If you don’t get that, you have simply lost the plot.

October 10, 1977

October 10, 1947: Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical "Allegro" premieres at Majestic Theater NYC for 318 performances.

Finally, someone CLASSY

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

The center's executive director has named an agent who has worked with ZZ Top and Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee as the head of programming for the arts institution. n.pr/4AV602V

Charles MacArthur and Helen Hayes, photographed as blissful newlyweds by Edward Steichen in late 1928. The Front Page was still playing to SRO houses, Hayes was still touring with Coquette, and she would be pregnant with daughter Mary in the spring of 1929. Hayes was #BornThisDay in 1900.

October 10 Hirschfeld Birthdays: Jodi Benson, Victoria Clark, Laurel Cronin, Vernon Duke, Helen Hayes, Harold Pinter, Ben Vereen, and Bradley Whitford! View full works at alhirschfeldfoundation.org

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If I’ve seen this before it was so long ago I don’t remember it

A great NYC giallo with an absolutely outstanding cast (Brad Doris in particular). I can’t believe it’s taken me so long to watch this.