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Comedian Josh Johnson's latest: "RFK Jr: Head of Health and Human Sewage," https://youtu.be/_B1uNEZPgmQ.

Comedian Josh Johnson's latest: "RFK Jr: Head of Health and Human Sewage," https://youtu.be/_B1uNEZPgmQ.

Henry Winkler's lovely commencement speech at Georgetown University: https://youtu.be/-POkS617eW4 (11 min.).

Henry Winkler's lovely commencement speech at Georgetown University: https://youtu.be/-POkS617eW4 (11 min.).

I enjoyed watching the miniseries "Sunny" (AppleTV+, 2024), starring Rashida Jones. Unfortunately, following the same logic as on...

I enjoyed watching the miniseries "Sunny" (AppleTV+, 2024), starring Rashida Jones. Unfortunately, following the same logic as on network television, where every good and quirky thing must meet an untimely death, the show won't see a second season. But it still holds up well on its own. 📺

Kristi Noem's use of the term "due process" is crazy disingenuous.

Kristi Noem's use of the term "due process" is crazy disingenuous.

The short clips of committee oversight hearings that Forbes posts to YouTube represent devastating critiques of MAGA–DOGE governance. At...

The short clips of committee oversight hearings that Forbes posts to YouTube represent devastating critiques of MAGA–DOGE governance. At the same time, watching Democratic legislators do this work feels kinda good. https://www.youtube.com/@ForbesBreakingNews/videos

Catalog card processing at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, ca. 1917–1920. Via Library of Congress,...

Catalog card processing at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC, ca. 1917–1920. Via Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2016649543/ #OldPhotos #LibraryOfCongress

Jewel Mazique at a Library of Congress card catalog, Washington, DC, ca. 1942. Via Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration/Office...

Jewel Mazique at a Library of Congress card catalog, Washington, DC, ca. 1942. Via Library of Congress, Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information photograph collection, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2017828946/ #OldPhotos #LibraryOfCongress

My three-year-old grandchild was getting a little distracted and started talking with her father while I was reading to her via video chat....

My three-year-old grandchild was getting a little distracted and started talking with her father while I was reading to her via video chat. Then she noticed I wasn't reading and asked her father—with a straight face—to quit talking so we could continue with the book. 😀

An impressive assortment of wires above a street in Guiyang, China, on July 13, 2015#photos

An impressive assortment of wires above a street in Guiyang, China, on July 13, 2015
#photos

I’ve been streaming the Franco-Belgian detective series “Astrid et Raphaëlle” (aka “Astrid” and “Bright Minds”) on PBS, and...

I’ve been streaming the Franco-Belgian detective series “Astrid et Raphaëlle” (aka “Astrid” and “Bright Minds”) on PBS, and I’m really enjoying it. The autistic Astrid is a compelling character, and Sara Mortensen plays her with love and respect.… (read more: https://markstoneman.com/xpost006). #TV

📽️ I watched a film about Nicholas Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Prague before the Wehrmacht occupied the city. I’m...

📽️ I watched a film about Nicholas Winton, who helped rescue 669 children from Prague before the Wehrmacht occupied the city. I’m usually not attracted to this subject on screen, but I found “One Life,” dir. James Hawes (Bleeker Street, 2024), both absorbing and affecting. Much of its poignance comes from its shifts between an old man in the late 1980s and his memories of the late 1930s. Anthony Hopkins, who must have been 85 or 86 when he played the lead, is brilliant. #movies #refugees

I thought the Library of Congress was Congress's, not a plaything of the executive.

I thought the Library of Congress was Congress's, not a plaything of the executive.

"Toward a Mixed Parliamentary–Presidental System in the U.S.?" Freshly blogged at...

"Toward a Mixed Parliamentary–Presidental System in the U.S.?" Freshly blogged at https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/07/toward-a-mixed-parliamentarypresidential-system.html. The extreme degree of power that the Trump administration is trying to assert need not end in the direction they seek or in the pre-MAGA status quo either. #USpol

https://bsky.app/profile/mluckovich.bsky.social/post/3lomdx2l5zs2r

https://bsky.app/profile/mluckovich.bsky.social/post/3lomdx2l5zs2r

Timothy Snyder summing up Russia's relationship to NATO from 1999 to 2010 (paragraph-length quote):...

Timothy Snyder summing up Russia's relationship to NATO from 1999 to 2010 (paragraph-length quote): https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/07/timothy-snyder-summing-up-russias.html

#RussoUkrainianWar #RussiaIsATerroristState #InformationWar

"'Nothing but the Truth' (Sony Pictures, 2008)" https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/07/nothing-but-the-truth-sony.html My...

"'Nothing but the Truth' (Sony Pictures, 2008)" https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/07/nothing-but-the-truth-sony.html My reaction to a movie that pits the freedom of the press, embodied by a mother, against the federal government’s powers of coercion in ostensible national security matters. #Movies

Yesterday I received my first ever skeptical question about my wearing a mask in the grocery store. I doubt she was from around here because...

Yesterday I received my first ever skeptical question about my wearing a mask in the grocery store. I doubt she was from around here because we are pretty much live-and-let-live, not unlike DC in this respect. 😷

I am a sucker for a good Jean Arthur movie, so I was happy to run across “Only Angels Have Wings” (Columbia Pictures, 1939), in which...

I am a sucker for a good Jean Arthur movie, so I was happy to run across “Only Angels Have Wings” (Columbia Pictures, 1939), in which she plays opposite Cary Grant. I remember… https://markstoneman.com/2025/05/06/i-am-a-sucker-for.html #OldMovies

I enjoyed the pre-Code film "Ladies They Talk About" (Warner Bros., 1933), starring Barbara Stanwyck. This fast-paced drama...

I enjoyed the pre-Code film "Ladies They Talk About" (Warner Bros., 1933), starring Barbara Stanwyck. This fast-paced drama features a bank robbery, a revivalist with a radio program, and an interesting portrayal of inmates in a women's ward at… https://markstoneman.com/xpost005 #OldMovies

In the beginning was the word, and shit got weird…"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies"...

In the beginning was the word, and shit got weird…

"People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies" https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-spiritual-delusions-destroying-human-relationships-1235330175/