Pat Coleman
@patcoleman.bsky.social
Creative person, atheist, political-junkie, proudly progressive and anti-fascist, anti-apartheid, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic+
🚨BREAKING: Missouri voters have rejected a ballot measure to limit their own ability to pass amendments to the state constitution — a proposal that fueled extraordinarily high voter turnout in Tuesday’s election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Missouri voters reject ballot measure limiting their power to amend state constitution
Notably, the proposed amendment would not have affected constitutional amendments that the legislature put on the ballot. State lawmakers only wanted to make it harder to pass a voter-led measure, not...
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NEW from me: I think this is the perfect time to use Rachel Maddow’s oft-repeated phrase - ‘watch what they do- not what they say.’ Ignore Ellison's PR pitch, but look at what's happening at CBS News including directing reporters to add “facts” that did not exist. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...
David Ellison can’t be trusted with CNN
We've already seen how Ellison has wrecked CBS. Don't fall for his PR push on CNN.
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Aug. 5, 1926: “Battling Butler,” Buster Keaton’s latest movie comedy, has its premiere in Chicago. The actor-director stars in an adaptation of a stage musical, playing a weak and pampered heir who poses as a boxer (the Battling Butler of the title) to impress a new love interest. 1/2
Montgomery Ward made this ‘Airline Television’ for airline customers in the mid-late 1950s. I saw an earlier late 1940s version, with a circular screen.
Winning November begins now. These three won without a cent of corporate money. We must continue to support them. Donate to Abdul, Will, & Donavan: act.link/gi-S6cJzx?re...
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A thousand years ago, the Vikings had a shock encounter with Native Americans that ended in disaster
When Old Norse explorers reached North America, they made history. But their brief, violent encounter with its indigenous peoples shows how cultural collisions could end in chaos. Historian and Viking...
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Unfortunately, outside of my Apple News, this article is behind a trial pay-wall. But I posted this screen-grab and link. www.thecut.com/article/goin...
“Sacred”? I hate this commercial. Haha, but leave it to right-wing MAGA types to ruin even this bit of pop-culture fluff. www.jezebel.com/the-white-ho...
The White House Just MAGA-fied Nicole Kidman’s Sacred AMC Commercial
The White House has released an elaborate spoof replacing Kidman’s breathless ode to moviegoing with a tacky recreation of Donald Trump’s so-called “Golden Age”
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Léonard Tsuguharu Foujita, Madeleine Lequeux, and their cat. 1938
Th Ghost and Mrs. Muir - 1947 Rex Harrison dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz