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WA income tax passes House after 24-hour debate

The state House has approved the high-earners income tax after more than 24 hours of debate.

The U.S. Built a Blueprint to Avoid Civilian War Casualties. Trump Officials Scrapped It. The Pentagon dismantled its civilian protection mission as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority and the Trump administration reorganized national security around two principl...

NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.

But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.

By @hannahallam.bsky.social

Pour one out for Amanda Seyfried, Mona Fastvold, and their triumphant film THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (now available to see on VOD) which deserved infinitely more love. If you haven't yet witnessed their vision for yourself, best do so ASAP. If you already have, no better time to revisit it than now 📽️

I’m incredibly curious about this and I’m going to try to catch it this weekend.

Breaks my heart to hear that!

Very possibly! I tend to think this is a performance that will be remembered as being great anyways, but definitely something that was still disappointing to see overlooked.

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Watch the film and you'll feel even more attacked (complimentary!)

As for The Dears over MGMT, if memory serves, there will also be something more for you in the full film.

This is a film about my late twenties and I feel personally attacked

(Would've gone with The Dears over MGMT, but alas)

Pour one out for Amanda Seyfried, Mona Fastvold, and their triumphant film THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE (now available to see on VOD) which deserved infinitely more love. If you haven't yet witnessed their vision for yourself, best do so ASAP. If you already have, no better time to revisit it than now 📽️

I'm curious to see how this will be received by my daughters, their cousins and friends, who grew up around the Mile End indie music scene and Pop Montréal.

Problem Child | Eli Cugini Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.

probably the best examination of current-day Pixar I’ve read, very good stuff

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Thank you!!!!

When people say Lynchian or whatever it's always the strobe lights and the surrealism and the whooshing ambient dread, and never that scene in Twin Peaks when Ben and Jerry excitedly eat too much bread and deliver their dialogue through gobs of gluten

‘Project Hail Mary’ review: Ryan Gosling is a wise-cracking hero in Lord and Miller’s irreverent sci-fi Phil Lord and Christopher Miller's entertaining space adventure also stars Sandra Huller

With PROJECT HAIL MARY, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller mix the grandeur of 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY with the irreverence of a buddy comedy. It mostly works.

Ghosts of Video Stores Past The Alex Ross Perry documentary ‘Videoheaven’ and an accompanying Criterion Channel series explore our sometimes fraught relationship with videotapes and the stores that rented them.

A truly excellent @kphipps3000.bsky.social rumination today on video stores, inspired by Alex Ross Perry's VIDEOHEAVEN and the Criterion Channel VHS series. Not a nostalgia piece, but a more clear-headed remembrance of a bygone era. (Also free to read!): thereveal.film/ghosts-of-vi...

This a great piece, and quite well-timed, too, given Docter's cowardly comments.

MILE END KICKS, the great second feature from director Chandler Levack starring Barbie Ferreira, just dropped its first trailer (youtu.be/nD8D89N_89I?...) and is coming out April 17. Best read my rave review below from back at TIFF to get ready for this coming-of-age classic for a new generation 📽️

Problem Child | Eli Cugini Pixar isn’t just dithering about diversity—it has become visibly scared of children themselves.

very excited for this to be out in the world: i wrote about repressed queerness in Elio, child surveillance in Inside Out 2, the post-Lasseter crisis, and the figure of the child in Pixar for The Baffler

thebaffler.com/latest/probl...

Went on the Nerd Farmer Podcast to talk the Oscars (it's almost over!) with the always great duo of @natebowling.com and @ahamm.bsky.social. Come for our respective rankings of the Best Picture nominees, stay for the many Timothée Chalamet &
Marty Supreme hot takes 📽️
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Remembering the Forgotten Movies of the 2026 Oscar Season A salute to the urgent documentaries, quiet dramas and provocative filmmakers who were ignored by Academy voters.

The Oscars are Sunday. For @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I paid tribute to 10 great movies from 2025 whose names we won't hear once during the show. Which is a shame.

Went on the Nerd Farmer Podcast to talk the Oscars (it's almost over!) with the always great duo of @natebowling.com and @ahamm.bsky.social. Come for our respective rankings of the Best Picture nominees, stay for the many Timothée Chalamet &
Marty Supreme hot takes 📽️
nerdfarmpod.com/2026/03/09/t...

America's Cinematic Salvation Coiled at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another is a shadowy club committed to the “racial purification” of the American populace. Meeting in luxury hotel suites and bland offi...

I wrote about One Battle After Another, The Secret Agent, and the American cinematic canon in the age of the heritage american, for @readliberties.bsky.social: libertiesjournal.com/online-artic...

Hannah Sabio-Howell is Challenging Sen. Jamie Pedersen in the 43rd District Sabio-Howell’s pitch is this: Sen. Pedersen is quick to concede to big business before the politicking has even begun, and a corporate-friendly incrementalist like him had no business representi...

Hannah Sabio-Howell wants to knock the crown off Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen's head in the 43rd district. This is going to be a very interesting race.

My feature:

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Gullible, Cynical America The trouble with believing anything and nothing at the same time

The data economy has made us dumber in ways that also make us vulnerable to authoritarian takover. We are have become both cynical and gullible in the sense we think we are too jaded be fooled and as a result are tricked more easily www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

MILE END KICKS, the great second feature from director Chandler Levack starring Barbie Ferreira, just dropped its first trailer (youtu.be/nD8D89N_89I?...) and is coming out April 17. Best read my rave review below from back at TIFF to get ready for this coming-of-age classic for a new generation 📽️

Mile End Kicks | Official Trailer (2026) - Barbie Ferreira, Devon Bostick, Jay Baruchel YouTube video by SUMERIAN

Great trailer, go see it soon! 📽️

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The 2026 Best Picture Power Rankings – Chase Hutchinson and Andrew Hammond – #261

Here's some non-war related content from your boy.

The 2026 Best Picture Power Rankings featuring film critic @eclectichutch.bsky.social and sports guy @ahamm.bsky.social.

Chase disliked F1
Andrew hated Marty Supreme
I HATED Frankenstein

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A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Tom Noonan (1951-2026) A personal tribute to a great actor, a great friend, and a gentle giant of a man.

"He was a great teacher who spoke not just to the craft elements of acting, but the complexities of existence. A few compared his classes to a kind of therapy. Same with his movies,” writes @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social about the late Tom Noonan.

A Beautiful Day for a Neighbor: Tom Noonan (1951-2026) A personal tribute to a great actor, a great friend, and a gentle giant of a man.

"I looked up, and up, and up, and up, until I saw Tom Noonan's face, looking down at me with a curious expression. 'What did you say your name was?' he asked." A remembrance of my friend Tom, lost too soon. www.rogerebert.com/mzs/a-beauti...