Norm Wilner

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Programmer, @TIFF_NET; host of @SEMcast, Secret Movie Clubber, SHINY THINGS newsletterer. Opinions mine, all mine. He/him. IG norm.wilner

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There can be a learned helplessness in media even among those of us who want to do good and it’s so refreshing to see a middle-aged white guy on the local TV news, the kind of person you’d assume is part of the problem, take the opposite tack

local Nashville reporter, Phil Williams, doing what the national newspapers won’t do

Confronting the hate, Phil Williams tells neo-Nazis: 'When I look at you guys, I do not think master race.'www.newschannel5.com Nashville belongs to us — not the out-of-state neo-Nazis who have created havoc this week on our streets with their symbols of hate and vile words.

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Oh so when HE has a chosen name everyone just goes with it

update, per The Wall Street Journal

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The best thing I saw on the internet today was that someone made an entire taxonomy of the little plastic clips you put on bread bags www.horg.com/horg/?page_i...

Daniel Dale RULES.

Pants on fire.

CNN Fact-Checker Debunks Trump's RNC Speech Lies For 2 Minutes Straight—And Yeah, It's A Lotbit.ly CNN's Daniel Dale fact-checked lies Trump told at the Republican National Convention.

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New Standing Room Only! Excerpt: We asked RNC attendees when America was last "great." Regardless of age, most said when they were children. Says nothing about America, but lots about conservative psychology. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by the Specials.

The empathy gap in a nutshell.

I think it's fundamentally the division between people who think "wow this thing that affects me sucks, nobody else should ever have to deal with this" and "I had to endure that shittiness so why should someone else get to avoid it" The "we have to keep hazing because I got hazed" crowd

Not to speak ill of the dead, but seriously. Fuck that guy.

Pat Buchanan took the stuff mainstream for one night at the RNC but Lou Dobbs was the first person I ever saw on a normal-ass news channel on a normal-ass TV in a normal-ass place saying fanatically racist things with no cover or caveats

Any comedian who's ever done a phone bit owes Bob Newhart an immeasurable debt.

We've lost a comic genius. RIP Bob Newhart. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/b...

Bob Newhart, Dean of the Deadpan Delivery, Dies at 94www.hollywoodreporter.com A former accountant, he became an overnight sensation with the release of a 1960 live comedy album, then starred in a pair of fabled CBS sitcoms.

America.

Lol the RNC is DDOSing grindr

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Goddammit, all the flooding in Toronto took out the North York Harvest Food Bank. Please donate if you can, they’re good people ❤️

Donate — North York Harvest Food Bankeml-pcan01.app.blackbaud.net Give food and hope to neighbours in the North York Harvest Food Bank community.

"They are flotsam from different eras of American reaction, Trump a sea-burnished knob of gilded plastic from a 1985 New Year's Eve party at which more than one person drowned and Vance a creature that evolved to live near the sulphuric ocean-floor money vents that sustain conservatism ..."

I don't want to give anything away but I really do not care for this dude. (This is a gift link) defector.com/donald-trump...

Donald Trump Selects His Wingman | Defectordefector.com First things first: Donald Trump’s selection of Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his vice presidential candidate on Monday evening is insignificant. The office itself is insignificant by its nature and doub...

Unbelievable.

Eric Trump admits that his father got a tiny flesh wound when the bullet hit his ear on it's way past him www.rawstory.com/trump-ear-in...

Pals! After a decade of Lenovo laptops (just two models, but one was replaced like three times) I am thinking about changing teams. The LG Gram is looking real pretty these days -- does anyone have any advice one way or the other?

If this gets Trump honking about what mean ol' Joe wants to do to his beautiful, perfect judges ...

Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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Doug Ford cut Ontario's flood management programs funding in half in his first provincial budget. Since then, he's accrued one of the most environmentally destructive records of any recent Ontario premier. Toronto gets more than a month’s worth of rain in a few hours amid rainfall warning

Toronto gets more than a month's worth of rain in a few hours amid rainfall warningtoronto.citynews.ca Toronto and parts of the GTA are under a rainfall warning, with Environment Canada calling for "extremely heavy rain."

It's the Times, I know, but this is really funny.

In Leaked Phone Call, Trump Tries to Coax Kennedy Into His Campwww.nytimes.com Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apologized for a leaked video of the phone call, in which Donald Trump questions the safety of childhood vaccines and says the injury to his ear “felt like the world’s largest mo...

Truly incredible how the Republican reflex of circling the wagons around Trump until his latest offense blows over has resulted in blunting the gut-deep horror of his attempted assassination. In a month, it'll be just another of his whiny grievances.

This is good, you should read this.

Apologies in advance for what might look like a rambling diatribe going nowhere. But the one thing I know really well - better than almost anyone else - is boxing. And there’s a really valuable lesson from boxing that the Democratic Party needs to learn in a hurry. Let’s start with the boxing bit.

Just take Trump to the nearest IKEA and tell him there's ten thousand large hidden in one of the drawers, he'll never bother us again

Okay, give the monkey's paw back to the shopkeeper www.criterion.com/films/29016-...

Gummowww.criterion.com Harmony Korine’s debut feature is an audacious, lyrical evocation of America’s rural underbelly, and an elegy in the southern-gothic tradition of William Faulkner and William Eggleston. Shot in Korine...

A changed man.

is this it are we unified yet

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Honestly there's something to be said for living hundreds of years ago when rich failsons were messing up entire continents on the daily but you were too busy farming or dying or being illiterate to know about it

Guy literally had secrets in his bathroom, selling them to foreign nationals. Calls people to steal votes. Sends a mob to keep himself in office. This country pissing all over its history to bend over backwards for this guy? This is the guy we bring down the whole experiment for?

It's all about the timing.

Breaking news: The federal judge overseeing the classified documents charges against former president Donald Trump has dismissed the indictment, on the grounds that special counsel Jack Smith was improperly appointed, according to a new court filing Monday.

Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Trumpwww.washingtonpost.com Judge dismisses classified documents indictment against Donald Trump.

When all the talk shows came back after 9/11, the one thing I respect Jay Leno for doing -- the ONE thing -- is setting up a joke about George W. Bush's intelligence failures and then saying "But we can't say that, because he's smart now."

This is deranged. The press has just decided that criticizing Trump is no longer okay. www.cnn.com/2024/07/14/m...

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I have never read anything more credulous than Axios’s thing about Trump this morning. Like…

Always wait for the fact-check.

The shooter did NOT donate to ActBlue…

Just the dumbest fucking person.

Elon Musk says the Trump assassination attempt is making him want to build a flying metal suit of armorwww.businessinsider.com Musk also says that he thinks two people have tried to kill him in the past 6 months.

Looking for a distraction? My latest SHINY THINGS -- posted just as everything went to hell yesterday -- catches up to GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, IMMACULATE and TAROT. You're welcome.

Spooks, Specters and a House of Cardsshiny-things.ghost.io In which Norm catches up to GHOSTBUSTERS: FROZEN EMPIRE, IMMACULATE and TAROT. Genre in July!

And, once again, fuck cancer.

Shannen Doherty, star of “Beverly Hills, 90210” and “Charmed,” has died. She was 53

Shannen Doherty, Star of 'Beverly Hills, 90210' and 'Charmed,' Dies at 53: 'Devoted Daughter, Sister, Aunt and Friend'people.com Beverly Hills 90210 and Charmed star Shannen Doherty was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2015. Doherty's rep confirmed the death of the actress in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE on Sunday, Jul...

The really weird thing is, if his lawyers hadn't delayed Thursday's sentencing hearing he probably wouldn't have been campaigning in Pennsylvania tonight.