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aka Brent Burket // Music: Noise/Metal/New Age/Jazz/Electronic // Grateful Dead // Art // Mysteries // Cornell Woolrich // Film: Pre-code/film noir/screwball comedies/Giallo // Jade Daniels is my final girl. // Wear a mask. // Punch a Nazi.
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Amazon sucks. Please never buy books from them.
Amazon is making money off AI copies of books - and putting the onus on authors to prove they’ve been plagiarised.

Honestly, just stop buying books from Amazon. Get them from an actual bookshop or order them from a reputable book supplier like bookshop.org

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon Is the World's Biggest Online Book Marketplace. It's Filled With AI Knockoffs
Authors say Amazon's knockoff book problem is leaving them frustrated — and making the internet worse in the process.
www.rollingstone.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Pretty happy with Jay Kelly already because of the early Dean Wareham cameo, and then Jay Ferguson's Thunder Island hits the speakers a couple scenes later. All good here.
December 10, 2025 at 2:16 AM
My god the painful mediocrity of the Wainwrights. Except for Martha.
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Never has a talk show host been less deserving of their house band.
December 9, 2025 at 5:24 PM
ROTFL at this scowling bag of incompetence.
Trump loyalist Alina Habba said she is stepping down as New Jersey’s top federal prosecutor, citing “compliance” with a court order. She called the judges who disqualified her “weapons for the politicized left" and maintained they will not "weaken" the DOJ.
After Court-Ordered Disqualification, Alina Habba To ‘Step Down’ as Acting U.S. Attorney
Read more here.
bit.ly
December 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Imagine all the death threats received by the Capitol Police because of the shit this human stain has been spewing about them since Jan. 6. Please back into the bushes and disappear forever you spiritual Michael Heizer sculpture, you.
Marjorie Taylor Greene on why she's leaving Congress: "I've had over 773 death threats that my office reported to Capitol Police ... should I have to become like Charlie Kirk? I think that's too much to ask."
December 9, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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lol
CNBC: Do you sense that the president is in your corner here?

DAVID ELLISON: What I would say is I'm incredibly grateful for the relations with the president, and I also believe he believes in competition
December 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I have no idea how sincere MTG is here, but the idea that Trump would be bothered by his comments generating death threats misses the point that he has used terror as as a tool.

Terror is not a byproduct of Trumpism; it is a central feature of how he governs.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM
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This lady was the Steve Jobs of the Online Death Threat Industry for like 10 years. Not to be a dick, but fucking spare me.
Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she shared with Trump death threat she received that he incited, and his response was "extremely unkind"
December 8, 2025 at 3:26 AM
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This kid knows how to talk and he’s very smart. I did not know they consulted 50 Survivors of the Titanic for this movie. And the officer who survived and saved soldiers at Dunkirk.
#TCMParty #ANightToRemember
December 8, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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This is extremely funny given that she already confessed to contributing to the toxic culture, but when someone else calls her out for it she goes back on the attack. It’s just who she is.

LESLEY STAHL: You contributed to the toxic culture. You were out there pounding, insulting people

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE: You've contributed to it as well

STAHL: I want you to respond to what you have done in terms of insulting people

MTG: I'd like for you to respond to that
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Just the best.
#ComingUpOnTCM

CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z.Sakall
Dir.: Peter Godfrey 5:00 PM PT

A homemaking specialist who can't boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.

1h 41m | Comedy | TV-G

#TCM #TCMParty
December 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Also noteworthy that the third guy is a breast cancer survivor proudly standing behind the guy who's cutting breast cancer research.
Noteworthy that the two guys behind Trump were mediocre musicians who became famous in the 70s by putting on makeup, high heels, and one piece jump suits…while writing seductive love letters to their largely young, male fans.
December 7, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Hollywood. When you hear stories about rape in Hollywood, whether it's the Golden Age, or whatever period we're in now . . . believe them. #NoirAlley #TCMParty #CryOfTheCity
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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The gorgeous and talented Agnes Moorehead, c. 1920s or so ^PG #TCMParty #BOTD #Dec05
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Under Trump, America is committing war crimes. But under Biden, there were irritating student protests at a college I did not attend. I have never felt more politically homeless.
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Margaret Hamilton is OWNING this scene. So good. #PeopleWillTalk #TCMParty
December 7, 2025 at 1:13 AM
As does the book.
December 7, 2025 at 1:07 AM
More bad news for Bezos. The beard doesn't help. You are still a cackling dork, as uncool as the sun.
December 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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supreme court to decide whether part of constitution is part of constitution
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 4d
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Every director's secret weapon.
Here are two views of birthday girl Agnes Moorehead performing the celebrated radio drama Sorry, Wrong Number (written by Lucille Fletcher, who was also the first Mrs. Bernard Herrmann and much later wrote my beloved Night Watch*).

*The play, not the dreadful film adaptation.
December 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Great TCM short on the Tarzan movies. Especially RE the reliance on sound/not music & the construction of the Tarzan yell. That was some straight up musique concrete shizzle. Wld love to know if Pierre Schaeffer or Halim El-Dabh were influenced or more likely the other way 'round. #TCMParty #Tarzan
December 6, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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The constant erasure is so appalling. This man's ego is going to erase us all, starting with Black people and Latinos.
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Probably asked for a PDF.
December 5, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Mother fuckers making it really easy to unfollow today.
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM