OK, let’s do this. It’s the #Oscars ... Here’s my thread.
TBH, I didn’t see a bunch of the films so I don’t have as strong of feelings about tonight as usual.
But I welcome Laura Dern in a cloud with all of my heart.
Loved Regina King’s opening. Honest and compelling.
Daniel Kaluuya was so impressive as Fred Hampton.
(With the note made in a good piece at the time about him being significantly older than Hampton actually was when he was murdered.)
OK, West Side Storyyyyyyy! Get it!
The direction and cinematography of Nomadland were incredible. So great to see this. Chloé Zhao’s message of goodness — and seeking it out — definitely resonates with me! 💖
Hi, Riz. HI. (Also, hi to Jeremy.)
Congrats, @Travon! And thank you for your message. 💖
Soul was so good. Such a great evening.
So sad that I wasn’t able to go to @EStreetCinema to see the shorts this year. 💔 Hopefully, next year!
Glenn’s perfect record remains. 💔
Youn Yuh-jung: “The is the result because Mommy worked so hard.” 😭 💖
Documentary short, 2022: “My wife Louise.”
GAH. To love anything as much Jon Batiste loves music. That was so wonderful. 💖🎶
Glenn is OVER the Academy. 🤣
Not ending with Best Picture is a weird admission of the failure of this ceremony, yes?
Anyway, we got a wolf howl. So, it’s not all bad.
Yes, we all know *why* they did it; that’s why I didn’t ask why they did it.
Welp.
That’s what you get for doing that.
And *that* is why you don’t do that.
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You really should read the relatively short #SCOTUS ruling tonight. The unsigned opinion for the Supreme Court is pretty much downright rude to the *conservative* panel below. supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf…
Which is yet another reason why the shadow docket’s constant per curiam treatment is inappropriate given how many cases are effectively being resolved this way — as the justices in the majority tonight themselves make clear they expect lower courts to understand.
The 2-page dissent from Kagan is just as sharp — but aimed (uncharacteristically, for Kagan) at her colleagues in the majority. (Look at that last sentence.)
This paragraph is either an Escher drawing or a Rorschach test. I can’t decide which.
Back in 2009, I was a blogger in Columbus, Ohio, mere days before I covered the signing of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act bill-signing (it was actually the NDAA) at the White House. They welcomed me with open arms!
BREAKING: Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson announces he has VETOED anti-trans bill HB 1570.
Hutchinson says the bill was overbroad, restricted people’s decisions, and sent a message about Arkansas that he did not want to send. At the same time, he notes that the legislature can still make an override vote (by a simple majority).
Notable that Hutchinson said specifically that he wants transgender people in the state to know they are loved. (Albeit, in an answer defending his signing of the other two pieces of legislation that subject trans people to differential treatment.)
#SCOTUS grants one new case, Brown v. Davenport (20-826), a case that could even further limit the circumstances under which federal habeas relief can be granted.
#SCOTUS vacates the appeals court judgment in the case over Trump's blocking people on Twitter as moot because Trump is no longer president. Thomas concurs.
What an amazing Easter Sunday. The cherry blossoms are a gift that is an annual wonder. The weather was perfect. Today’s 8-miler was exactly what I needed.
In the midst of the run, as I stopped at the MLK Memorial and read the side of the statue, “Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope,” I looked around at the people, slowly but surely restarting a way of living that resembles life before the pandemic, I started to tear up.
This past year has been so difficult, for so many people in so many different ways. It feels good to feel optimism again. Thanks to everyone—from the front-line workers to the scientists who brought us the vaccines to family and friends—who got us from last March to this April.