Buster Keaton’s greatest stunt – 9/4/27

This is from my favorite Keaton film, Steamboat Bill, Jr. which was released in 1928.

Buster Keaton said that the cameramen were so terrified they turned their backs to the shot. https://t.co/VQGEd1SXPh
— Farran Nehme (@selfstyledsiren) September 5, 2022

Good tweets on CNN’s shift to the right

New CNN boss Chris Licht reportedly “is starting his tenure by casting out voices that had often been critical of former president Trump and his allies, in an effort to present a new, more ideologically neutral CNN” https://t.co/3M7xZdVrQ6
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 3, 2022

This thread is eye-opening https://t.co/O7idlGCFRH
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) September 4, 2022

I’m not sure how accurate this is but it’s how things looked to me when CNN fired @JohnJHarwood and canceled @ReliableSources. I retweet it to encourage @CNN to reply if they think these inferences are unfair. As of now, I’m reluctant to accept any more @CNN interview invitations https://t.co/zU614t857a
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) September 4, 2022

cool that the new CNN is just reporting the views of straight-up racists as “some say” pic.twitter.com/c0Qr0pXmAk
— Sam Adams (@SamuelAAdams) September 4, 2022

What is going on at CNN? It’s a serious question. There is a lot of speculation on directives and motives. What’s really going on? And is it being noticed by the audience?
— Dan Rather (@DanRather) September 2, 2022

I see CNN has now completely locked in on its new conservative course https://t.co/FJBA5edPKE
— vocational politics stan account 🫳♨️ (@Convolutedname) September 4, 2022

WHY CANT YOU SAY “Blake Masters is lying” WHEN YOU CATCH HIM IN A LIE????
Did people learn nothing from their Trump coverage??? https://t.co/gfxD2jnpZR
— Elie Mystal (@ElieNYC) August 27, 2022

More on the damage done by overturning Roe v. Wade

Terrible Supreme Court decision

This is a nightmare. https://t.co/7IjEQkjULA
— Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) September 7, 2022

Roe V Wade was overturned just a little over two months ago.

A🧵of the catastrophic damage this has created:
— Ariana Afshar (she/her) (@progressivebrat) September 3, 2022

… The Supreme Court recently overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision which had established a woman's right to an abortion. Do you agree or disagree with the recent Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade?

Agree 34%
Disagree 61%

(Quinnipiac U, 8/25-29/22)
— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) September 2, 2022

Here's my NYRB "Deconstructing Dobbs" essay on the fallout from the tragic turn the Supreme Court took in Dobbs and other cases in its most recent term: what brought the Court to this terrible place? https://t.co/QmFc4SUb9v
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) August 31, 2022

The impact of Tennessee's cruel and dangerous abortion ban is already evident, @JRubinBlogger writes https://t.co/dps6uX4mPM
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) August 31, 2022

A mom whose IUD failed. A Catholic woman sure she’ll go to hell. A high-schooler whose boyfriend’s condom broke.

Some patients are going to Indiana for abortions. Staff say they'll help as many as possible until a new law likely shuts them down, too. https://t.co/A2nHOUJdzp
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 30, 2022

My 55 yo friend who is having postmenopausal bleeding just called me from CVS in TX bc they refused to fill her Rx for misoprostol (used to open the cervix) bc she couldn’t prove she wasn’t having an abortion. She is having surgery in 2 days. This is what total abortion bans do.
— Emily Porter, M.D. (@dremilyportermd) August 28, 2022

"I had to carry my baby to bury my baby."

— Nancy Davis, who was denied an abortion in Louisiana despite the fact that she is carrying a non-viable fetus, speaks on the steps of the state capital pic.twitter.com/H1vKPJlOnm
— The Recount (@therecount) August 26, 2022

Two more pregnant children who were raped were denied abortions in Ohio.

Two cancer patients were denied an abortion and couldn’t receive cancer treatment due to being pregnant.
— 𝐁𝐞𝐤𝐬 (@antifaoperative) September 28, 2022

The Big Lie has undermined Republican voters’ confidence in elections

About 2/3 don’t think Biden won. This is a very bad sign for the future of our country. I expect a lot of Republicans to be unwilling to accept that they lost in elections this year. The tweet says “Many Americans” but this is mostly a Republican issue.

Many Americans believe politics has entered into the nation's vote-counting process, with potentially big ramifications for the next election. (@SalvantoCBS Fred Backus & Jennifer De Pinto, CBS News) Details: https://t.co/BmASsbfLXL pic.twitter.com/Oia0mduCpd
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) September 4, 2022

Many Americans believe politics has entered into the nation's vote-counting process, with potentially big ramifications for the next election. https://t.co/FA2iHf3UnO
— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 4, 2022

Excellent New York Times article on Ravens kicker Justin Tucker

You can see NFL video on YouTube but can’t post it. I was able to post the video of Tucker singing opera.

Pretty cool to have one of the greatest magazine journalists writing on *the* greatest NFL kicker of all time. Wil Hylton on Justin Tucker:
https://t.co/bhwas8JmNk
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) September 4, 2022

Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker says it typically takes him only 1.3 seconds from the snap until he kicks the football. Tucker told 60 Minutes that just one-tenth of a second can be the difference between success and failure. https://t.co/ayudeM2i6A pic.twitter.com/nqoLl1XYEi
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) September 4, 2022

Youngkin is just another MAGA Republican

He’s terrible. He did not run as an extremist but that’s what he turned out to be.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's appointees are a mixed bag, but the controversial ones share a trait: racial obtuseness, the Editorial Board writes. https://t.co/gorF5BBIVe
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) September 4, 2022

Virginia's Executive Mansion — built in 1813 — has re-opened to tours under Gov. Youngkin. There's no mention of slavery, despite several years of work focused on just that. https://t.co/tCS4b2Sp95
— Ben Paviour (@BPaves) September 2, 2022

As CNBC’s business rankings highlight, leadership that makes Virginia a less welcoming place for workers makes it less welcoming to business, too, @DonScott757 writes in a guest opinion. https://t.co/Y5fsEF7P9g
— Washington Post Opinions (@PostOpinions) July 31, 2022

Gov. Youngkin’s New Appointee to the VA Board of Historic Resources Says Robert E. Lee Was a “Morally Fine Human Being”; “Secession Was NOT Treason”; the North’s “Invasion” of the South Was “just like we see Russia invading Ukraine”https://t.co/AqVEslXFcJ via @bluevirginia
— Larry Sabato (@LarrySabato) July 18, 2022

BREAKING: Over 300 Virginia Government employees have RESIGNED in the wake of Youngkin taking away their virtual work option – something they were told was never gonna be reversed.
— Ethan Lynne (@ethanclynne) July 8, 2022

I wouldn’t let Rick Scott manage campaign money

He has a history of huge Medicare fraud.

What did they expect when they put Rick Scott in charge? https://t.co/A06gzu7GxL
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 3, 2022

The Japanese government still uses floppy disks!

Floppy disks are still used for 1,900 government procedures In Japan. They must go, its digital minister sayshttps://t.co/JfGt0xUKJN
— TIME (@TIME) September 4, 2022

Covers: Massachusetts (Bee Gees song)

“Massachusetts” was a 1967 hit for the Bee Gees. It was just covered by Rita Wilson and Leslie Odom, Jr.

Rita Wilson has teamed up with Leslie Odom Jr. for an emotive cover of the Bee Gees' 1968 song "Massachusetts." https://t.co/k2HJ7RcTLR
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) September 2, 2022

"BEE GEES MOVE INTO TOP SIDE OF CHARTS: ATCO's hottest and fastest moving pop group, The Bee Gees, are now entering their final phase on their way to the top of the charts with ‘Massachusetts.’”
RPM (December 2, 1967)@beegees #beegees pic.twitter.com/cG0ymhkxuJ
— The Bee Gees 1967-1969 (@TheBeeGees1967) August 31, 2022

Rolling Stone on the 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time

From Tom T. Hall to @taylorswift13, Bob Wills to @TheBrandyClark, here are Rolling Stone’s Greatest Country Albums of All Time. https://t.co/6Yl5NcqCFp
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) August 30, 2022

I love #6, Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) by Lucinda Williams. It’s one of the best albums of any type that I know.