What a thrill to watch the team from the classic 1993 film #DazedAndConfused do a table read and take q’s (to benefit March for Science and Voto Latino)... here’s Randall “Pink” Floyd (@JasonPLondon) throwing the pledge back in the coach’s face
2/ This film launched the careers of so many great actors; here’s Wooderson (@McConaughey) explaining to host @pattonoswalt how he came up with “Alright, alright, alright” (amazing story)
3/ Jodi Kramer (Michelle Burke), Don (Sasha Jenson) and Simone (@JoeyLaurenAdams)
4/ Those of who watch @Yellowstone may know Rip — we older folks know him as Benny (@colehauser)
5/ The brainy crew was there tonight of course — Cynthia (Marissa Ribisi), Mike (@TheAdamGoldberg) and Tony (@albinokid)
6/ Here’s Patton with auteur Richard Linklater, and Darla (Parker Posey)
7/ EXT: HIGHWAY - DAWN
Pickford, Michelle, Pink and a recently-awakened Slater are speeding down the early morning highway... Pink turns up the volume on the stereo and then stares out at the empty road ahead.
I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about the 1957 film A Face In the Crowd and what Director Elia Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg got right about politicians and mass media — and what they missed theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
2/ One of the thrills of researching this piece was diving into the Budd Schulberg papers in the Rauner special collections at the @dartmouth library — thank you to them for working with me during this trying time of COVID-19!
3/ (spoiler alert) The film may be best know for its climax but Kazan and Schulberg struggled to come up with that ending. In the short story, Rhodes trips on the stairs and dies. In early versions of the screenplay, he takes his own life. But then Kazan had an idea:
New England Journal of Medicine: "When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent."
2/ "The federal government has largely abandoned disease control to the states. ... But whatever their competence, governors do not have the tools that Washington controls. Instead of using those tools, the federal government has undermined them."
3/ The CDC "has been eviscerated and has suffered dramatic testing and policy failures." NIH has "been excluded from much crucial government decision making." FDA has "been shamefully politicized,.."
White House officials believe POTUS was infected at the event for Judge Barrett on Saturday Sept 26.
They will not say when POTUS last tested negative, raising questions as to whether he was tested at all between infection and the debate Tuesday Sept 29.
This is important...
2/ NYT reporter @shearm believes he got infected Sept 26 either at the WH (required to go to get a COVID test bc he was traveling with the POTUS) or on Air Force One with POTUS the night of Sat. Sept 26.
3/ The next day, Sunday Sept 27, POTUS briefed reporters in the Briefing Room and hosted Gold Star families in an event *with no masks or social distancing required.*
Did he test negative before meeting these families?
Two-thirds of Americans say Donald Trump handled the risk of coronavirus infection to others around him irresponsibly (63%), according to a new CNN/SSRS poll.
2/ Trump’s Handling of
Risk of Infection
To People Around Him Was...
Responsible 33%
Irresponsible 63%
Margin of error: +/-4.2% pts
3/ Quite a gender gap in that q
Trump’s Handling of
Risk of Infection
To People Around Him Was
Irresponsible
A telling vote just now in the House.
H. Res. 1154 from @Malinowski and @RepRiggleman "Condemning QAnon and rejecting the conspiracy theories it promotes."
Yea: 371
Nay: 18
Present: 1
Not Voting: 40
52 Republicans either voted AGAINST it, abstained, or voted present
thr/
2) Voting NO:
Amash
Arrington
Babin
Bishop (UT)
Brooks (AL)
Burgess
Carter (GA)
Davidson (OH)
Duncan
Ferguson
Flores
Gosar
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
Norman
Perry
Tiffany
Webster (FL)
All GOP except Amash, an independent
3) Voting PRESENT: Harris of Maryland, GOP
NOT VOTING, GOP:
Biggs
Bilirakis
Cloud
Collins (GA)
DesJarlais
Dunn
Estes
Fulcher
Gaetz
Gallagher
Gianforte
Gohmert
Graves (GA)
Hice (GA)
Huizenga
Jordan
Lamborn
Loudermilk
Marchant
Massie
Mitchell