Whirlpool on TCM tonight at 11:45

Whirlpool is not a great film but well worth seeing.

It was on Blu-ray from Twilight Time in a limited edition. It was also on DVD from Fox.

Short word from a while back on Preminger's Whirlpool (on @tcm tonight at 11:45 p.m. ET) and the influence of its style: https://t.co/wcVpHYlJe1
— Richard Brody (@tnyfrontrow) February 17, 2022

I don’t miss vinyl records

I grew up with vinyl but I don’t miss it. My lack of nostalgia probably goes back to my college days. Do you have any idea how hard it was to put a needle on a record when you were drunk or high?

I still own some records and certainly the packaging is better than with CDs (or downloads). However, I have bought very few CDs that were damaged compared to records. I don’t have a turntable.

If you like it:

You don't have to spend a fortune on a record player that's easy to use, and has amazing sound quality.

These are our picks: https://t.co/QxDHN1sjDw
— Wirecutter (@wirecutter) October 20, 2022

If you're a newbie when it comes to record players, don't fret.

This is what you need: https://t.co/Ex9AqcSLA9
— Wirecutter (@wirecutter) April 22, 2022

Records outsold CDs in 2020, for the 1st time since 1986, per the Recording Industry Ass’n of America. Last yr, sales spiked 61 % topping $1 billion for the 1st time in over 35 years. To put this into perspective, more than 1 one out of every 3 albums sold in 2021 were vinyl LPs.
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) May 6, 2022

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Perfect sound.

What is it exactly? You can measure it, reducing it to frequencies and amplitudes, or you can recognize it as something else.

Post reporter @geoffedgers chronicles the vinyl’s booming comeback and the search for the best way to listen. https://t.co/mlA8NJWAuI pic.twitter.com/NznlnwduIl
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 17, 2022

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Republicans side with airplane disrupters

They’re fine with anti-mask protestors disrupting flights. Disgusting. This is like their support for the Canadian truckers who are interrupting commerce and costing people jobs and money. They have no concern for the public good. They think anyone can do what they want yet they claim to support law and order.

Republicans are objectively pro-abusive airline passengers and yet somehow Democrats can’t figure out how to fight a culture war. https://t.co/rleYtXdRv7
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 16, 2022

There Republicans go again, siding with thugs, @JRubinBlogger writes: https://t.co/TO1eadhroV
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) February 16, 2022

BREAKING: The Association of Flight Attendants, a union representing 50,000 airline employees, calls on Homeland Security to "get serious" and create a "centralized list" of violent passengers because "flights are under attack." RT IF YOU SUPPORT THE IDEA!
— Occupy Democrats (@OccupyDemocrats) February 15, 2022

FAA sends 80 unruly airline passenger cases to FBI for possible criminal prosecution https://t.co/XLDwAfR1W7
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 16, 2022

Loneliness and the pandemic

For two years, New York City was an experiment in loneliness: nine million people siloed with smartphones and 24/7 home delivery, cut off from the places where they used to gather. Therapists were booked up, even as tens of thousands were grieving. https://t.co/G59RtoGXof
— NYT Metro (@NYTMetro) April 22, 2022

The pandemic has spurned more loneliness, especially for those who are single and crave in-person connections.

Here are some ways to put yourself out there if you are feeling lonely. https://t.co/s7vg2oTODI
— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) February 15, 2022

One study says that 3 in 5 American adults describe themselves as lonely — and that was before the pandemic https://t.co/I64xr9FVXC
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) December 5, 2021

Dementia and loneliness during COVID https://t.co/Lhd7VpewpL
— Extremalby Blog (@sonnolenta46) February 15, 2022

Putin memes remind me of the breakfast scene in Citizen Kane

In Citizen Kane, the breakfast table gets bigger and the gap between Kane and his wife expands as the marriage deteriorates.

The best Putin massive table memes spotted on Twitter, a short thread: pic.twitter.com/KrfcIFuXdt
— Shaun Walker (@shaunwalker7) February 15, 2022

Tweets on corporate donations to Big Lie supporters

Corporate donations to Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, and other Jan. 6 election objectors have plummeted, and individual donors are Congress’s biggest fundraising forcehttps://t.co/7NyuRgLdsD
— Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (@JeffSonnenfeld) February 15, 2022

It is extremely disappointing to see that @comcast and @GoldmanSachs have resumed giving to the Sedition Caucus. It’s been more than a year since January 6, but the attacks on our democracy continue to spread—and these donations legitimize them. https://t.co/o01QZaAeC3
— Noah Bookbinder (@NoahBookbinder) February 2, 2022

26. @pfizer donated 15K to the @NRSC on 3/2/21https://t.co/g9HIXNHR4y
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 17, 2022

Marriott, Blue Cross, and Shopify are among the companies cutting off Trump and GOP https://t.co/E068flerUe by @benwerschkul pic.twitter.com/sY9eWw9yuQ
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 11, 2021

Corporations have reverted back to donating millions to election objectors

Walgreens said it would pause donations to Sedition Caucus members after the insurrection. So why have they donated to 11 of them now?https://t.co/KpoeYGFmMv
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 21, 2022

Trump tried to overturn the election. 147 members of Congress stood with him by voting to reject at least one state's election results.

Now companies like Walgreens, Home Depot, AT&T, Boeing, UPS, GM, and Walmart are donating millions in order to re-elect those seditionists.
— Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) February 21, 2022

I have three prayer candles

I’m an atheist but I have these:

Elvis

Grateful Dead (with art from their 1971 album)

Pee Tape (for the Trump pee tape which unfortunately doesn’t appear to exist

Covers: Carmelita

“Carmelita” is a Warren Zevon song that was first recorded by Murray McLauchlan in 1972. I didn’t know that until yesterday. Zevon recorded it in 1976 and Linda Ronstadt covered it in 1977.

Many Republicans are now opposed to all mandatory vaccines in schools

Do they want childhood diseases to come back? Look at the poll linked to in the comment by Harry Enten. In 2015, support for mandatory vaccines in school was 78%. The decline in support is part of the damage the Trump cult has done to our country.

A plurality of Americans say they oppose vaccine mandates in schools, driven by Republicans.

But! Ask if they support "requiring" vaccines like the standard MMR shot and … there's still a big partisan gulf. https://t.co/U6PN5zVb6B pic.twitter.com/c4TiwZdtvq
— Philip Bump (@pbump) February 18, 2022

A couple words notably absent from NRSC’s release on the vote on school vaccine mandates: “coronavirus” or “covid.”

As with so much of the rhetoric, it could be read to apply to plenty of other vaccines — and doesn’t delineate. pic.twitter.com/BNpQmZytYW
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) February 18, 2022

Cruz is describing it as an "abuse of power" for schools to require vaccines, something that schools have done for generations before covid existed.
— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) February 17, 2022

dem split on this question is 64/20, gop split is 14/74 https://t.co/8RHtrEd0fd
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) February 16, 2022

Analysis: The GOP’s anti-vaccine mandate push is seeping into other vaccines — and schools https://t.co/TDR4CZUxFB
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 26, 2022

I just had a patient refuse a tetanus vaccination. Curious if we are going to see eradicated and rare lethal illnesses start to resurface… the misinformation and politicalization of vaccines has to stop.
— Michelle Romeo, MD (@doctormromeo) February 10, 2022

It will be along time before we can adequately calculate the damage done by an anti-vaccine media push solely to deny Biden from fulfilling a campaign promise, but it will be immense. https://t.co/l9gsu49qk4
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 17, 2022

In 2010, Republicans were *more* trusting of doctors' medical advice than Democrats were. Now, they trust doctors less https://t.co/nz5wEa7Egc pic.twitter.com/0VtlwPummZ
— Olga Khazan (@olgakhazan) February 16, 2022

Covers: Shame, Shame, Shame (Shirley & Company song)

I thought of “Shame Shame Shame” when I saw the tweet about Cher. The original version was by Shirley & Company from 1974.

cher performing with tina turner (1975) pic.twitter.com/Gd0K0r0y1o
— cher doing things (@cherdoingthings) February 13, 2022