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also, in general, if you weren't in the veep mines between 2015 and 2017 when david mandel started running that show into the ground then you don't know my pain ✋🛑

listen, i'm not saying that selina wouldn't ask amy to shave her legs under a desk during a meeting or whatever but david mandel never got the fact that the richer part of their relationship is the greater indignities that amy would suffer for selina (like pretending she had a miscarriage!) but all the while still desiring selina and having her be the most important person in her life. but i really think david mandel just liked making jokes at the expense of women's bodies so we get a stupid amy klobuchar rip off punchline

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listen, i'm not saying that selina wouldn't ask amy to shave her legs under a desk during a meeting or whatever but david mandel never got the fact that the richer part of their relationship is the greater indignities that amy would suffer for selina (like pretending she had a miscarriage!) but all the while still desiring selina and having her be the most important person in her life. but i really think david mandel just liked making jokes at the expense of women's bodies so we get a stupid amy klobuchar rip off punchline

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oh the fanfiction one could write based on this~

#following this reblog up with a rant about how i hate david mandel

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This NPR interview with with Angela Saini about how race science never really left the global scientific consciousness is super interesting! I’m gonna read her book!

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UNDER THE BRIDGE 1.02

#THE COMBO EYE ROLL EYEBROW RAISE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #lily gladstone the person that you are

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#!!!!!!!!!!! #seems like the show itself is going to be meh but i'm in it for THEM #(and archie panjabi)

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watching the apple tv steve martin documentary waiting to see if bernadette is going to come up

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anyways, julie andrews propaganda because look at her... imagine denying her a vote... come on...

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I feel like so many critics are angry about the Civil War movie 'not taking a stand' but I think that misses the point. This was not gonna be a movie about "this side good, that side bad". On the ground, war is hardly political. The 'looters' being strung up ("knew him in high school, he barely talked to me, now he does"), the two soldiers pinned down by a sniper with christmas background music, Jesse Plemons' character picking them off one by one, the Global Relief Fund camp, etc. This wasn't necessarily about (American) politics, why the civil war broke out, or how the various alliances came about. This was about war on the ground, on the streets, the role of journalists in showing that, are they complicit or not, how much must you sacrifice for the money shot, is there a 'right' meaning we can draw from their images?

To me it was actually a very effective and thought-provoking anti-war movie. (Also the cast and cinematography were both phenomenal.)

#honestly the fact that the western forces was made up of texas and california alone #shows you how little this film is interested in american politics

[thehours2002]

Elsbeth Tascioni Fact-Finding Mission

Part 7

Elsbeth S01E05

She's been in New York for about a month now.

She has bad knees :(

She had a few tennis lessons when she was a kid.

Elsbeth's assignment is only a year long.

Her son Teddy doesn't like the nonprofit job he has in DC and he doesn't like it when she tries to interfere in his life / help with his struggles.

At least one of her caricatures is framed in her office now.

Ah! Now Teddy works for a nonprofit that he does like thanks to Wagner's strategic intervention.

#elsbeth #elsbeth tascioni #caught up now...!

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Norma Shearer presents the Academy Award for Best Actress to Marie Dressler, 1931

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before twitter goes, here’s my favorite tweet of all time

#post of all time

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feeling vindicated by the tepid reviews of cabaret. all that silly spectacle before the show begins and it's not even that good...

#obvi i loved steven and bebe #you could tell in the room from how the audience reacted to them #that they were the most emotionally grounded part of the show

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amy ryan <3

#will break the streak with civil war tomorrow

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#camelot?!!! #half the reason we still talk about camelot is because jfk loved it

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AMY RYAN THE WOMAN THAT YOU ARE!!!!!!$

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Elsbeth Tascioni Fact-Finding Mission

Part 6

Elsbeth S01E03-S01E04

Elsbeth S01E03

She finds it difficult to stop herself from pushing buttons.

Her short term rental is infested with cockroaches :(

Just going to leave this one here for the record.

Elsbeth S01E04

She has fond childhood memories of sitting by a warm fire on a cozy rug. (And apparently is the kind of person who might assimilate movie moments into her memory by mistake?)

She grew up in Peoria, Illinois.

She's not a gala gal! And has not met any "gala date types" since moving to the city.

She put up a "digital window thingy" where her window was and her son helped her choose which "vistas" to program.

She thinks that men who are turned on by her "upbeat" and "simple" qualities "can be a little crazy" (read: AUSA Josh Perotti). Also I will take it that her sexual encounter with him on a desk ended up being disappointing because of a stapler. (Ouch?!)

She used to love the game Clue.

She changes the picture in her window depending on her mood.

She's find it difficult to meet "people" in the city. (Note the gender neutral word)

Apparently she's spent a lot of time on Where's Waldo? books.

She's pretty spooked by Margot's suggestion that she should devote more time to love/her personal life than her career.

Okay, 1) that man has no visible nose hair. 2) Another gender neutral word choice: "the wrong person."

Here's the guy's face closer up so you can see the lack of nose hair lol.

She rejects another man here that Claudia suggests she should check out.

She drinks Shirley Temples. I think the default way these are made is without alcohol so she's not drinking. Because she's on the clock trying to see what Wagner's up to, or because she just doesn't anymore? 🤔

#elsbeth #elsbeth tascioni #deluding myself into thinking they might let her be gay #even though they definitely won't