Most Republicans don’t believe the truth about the election and insurrection

We did something we don't always do when polling on Jan. 6: broke out responses by media consumption. You will not be surprised to learn how Fox-News-watching Republicans stand out. https://t.co/4XrMG1h7Ox
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 3, 2022

Republicans and Democrats divided over Jan. 6 insurrection and Trump’s culpability, Post-UMD poll finds https://t.co/n36mfuv3Kx
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 1, 2022

The Fox/Newsmax/OAN effect: https://t.co/kB7LCBU3AL
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) January 2, 2022

ABC/@Ipsosus poll: Majority of Americans think Jan. 6 attack threatened democracy: 65% of Americans believe Biden's victory in 2020 was legitimate; among Republicans, 71% side with Trump's false claims that he was the rightful winner (@brittanys ABC News) https://t.co/UBl6x9ZV92 pic.twitter.com/SiEcApJHis
— Opinion Today (@OpinionToday) January 2, 2022

Tweets on the best James Bond movies

Don Winslow is an excellent novelist. His list of favorite James Bond films inspired some good replies. I added mine. I just finished watching the Bond 50 box set and have now seen all of the official Bond films. I only saw three in theaters: Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, and Spectre. I felt so grown up seeing Thunderball at age 11 or 12.

Right on time. Just watching the last Bond film I hadn’t seen.
1) Goldfinger
2) Casino Royale (2006)
3) GoldenEye
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) January 2, 2022

Daniel Craig, Barbara Broccoli, Michael G. Wilson and Cary Joji Fukunaga sit down with Variety’s Adam Vary in the Variety Streaming Room presented by @MGMstudios to discuss the making of “No Time to Die.” Watch the full FYC interview here: https://t.co/X9QvMo1aKV #NoTimeToDieFYC pic.twitter.com/eLZr3Bhy6h
— Variety (@Variety) January 7, 2022

This is great! Thank you. I'm looking forward to reading these.

I've collected screenplays for a long time, and here is my library of James Bond screenplays: https://t.co/XemORrAwLv (with more here: https://t.co/Mbdb6PYmtc)
— LennartGuldbrandsson (@AliasHannibal) June 15, 2022

I may have tweeted this a few times before but I don’t care. This is the greatest celebrity encounter EVER. https://t.co/PqBfSfNpCd
— Patton Oswalt (@pattonoswalt) October 14, 2022

James Bond Ranked: Every 007 Movie, From Most To Least Profitable

Director Lee Tamahori joined us to talk all things DIE ANOTHER DAY and we had to ask him about the films infamous tsunami-surfing scene…

But is this the craziest moment in the history of the #JamesBond films?

Hear what he had to say in our interview: https://t.co/ti4MNGRYJJ pic.twitter.com/zgPUgbL0oT
— SpyHards – A Spy Movie Podcast (@SpyHards) December 8, 2023

James Bond actors ranked by how often their 007 films feature an exploding helicopter.
🤵🔫🍸🚁💥
1⃣Pierce Brosnan – 4/4 100%
2⃣Sean Connery* – 3/6 50%
3⃣Roger Moore – 2/7 29%
4⃣Daniel Craig – 1/5 20%
5⃣George Lazenby – 0/1 0%
6⃣Timothy Dalton – 0/2 0%
*EON films only. pic.twitter.com/low96wJ9Xd
— Exploding Helicopter (@chopperfireball) December 8, 2023

Hilarious Pittsburgh newspaper failure

look at the comments for another example

The Post-Gazette today sold its whole Sunday front page as an ad (an honor to Ben Roethlisberger) and then sold an ad sticker that covered up the honoree’s name pic.twitter.com/H3H46Wz3fE
— Charlie Wolfson (@chwolfson) January 2, 2022

Tweets on low royalty rates paid to musicians by streaming services

Seattle musician who once made $16,000 per year selling compact discs at gigs now earns just $150 annually from Spotify. https://t.co/4alGDSv5Qu
— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) January 2, 2022

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That streaming saved the recording industry pic.twitter.com/B98b4AMakl
— Trading Places Research — Non Fungible Account (@LookingGdLouis) December 29, 2021

Just reading down the comments on Kara's retweet. Really amazing how tired and cliched the pro-tech sentiments. Hilarious shit like "Record labels should have licensed Napster." (They tried see Snocap, p2p didn't want to pay) "You make more money on live shows." (We don't)…1/x https://t.co/Mx13uAasKz
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) December 30, 2021

Happy Anniversary (Spoiler alert: We won) https://t.co/hvvrZBbVAN
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) December 30, 2021

How much does Spotify pay per stream? What you’ll earn per song, and how to get paid more for your music

Lots of great stuff in this New Yorker convo between Amanda Petrusich, Will Oldham and Bill Callahan. Oldham really nails the malignant larceny of streaming: “As a listener, if you want more good music, then, at some point someone needs to be compensated.” https://t.co/IkNPloxILo
— The Paranoid Style (@paranoiacs) January 17, 2022

I know we've all known Spotify is a garbage pile since it took off, but man, this sucks. It's David fucking Crosby. David Crosby should be set for life. It's time to burn this all down https://t.co/vW0ucxRAyj pic.twitter.com/IkGlztHsUv
— Matt Prigge (@mattprigge) February 22, 2022

So @georgejohnson is the most important songwriter you've never heard of. Gets his due in this Billboard article. Sort of. The writer tries to portray him as a kook by noting supposedly fringe beliefs that are demonstrable truths. Example see screenshot. https://t.co/LgnDVLAuNm pic.twitter.com/3lqhe003sG
— David C Lowery (@davidclowery) July 29, 2022

Covers: Stand By Your Man

I am posting about “Stand By Your Man” because a bad version of it by Minnie Driver is in the James Bond film GoldenEye. The original version was by Tammy Wynette from 1968. I like the cover by Lyle Lovett (1989) which sounds like a warning.

The Big Lie lives on

Most Republicans will never accept Biden’s 2020 victory. I don’t think they would accept a 2024 Democratic win either. I bet the Big Lie winds up in red-state school textbooks.

% of americans that think the 2020 election was rigged/stolen from trump, as of june 2022:

dem: 7%
ind: 29%
gop: 65% (!)

-yahoo/yougov
— ian bremmer (@ianbremmer) June 17, 2022

.@MaddowBlog: As 2021 got underway, polls showed Republican voters embracing former President Trump's Big Lie. As 2021, too little has changed. https://t.co/PWTbPgnJNo
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 1, 2022

One Republican pollster on the idea of acknowledging Biden’s legitimate victory while running in a Republican primary: “You can do that, but understand the consequences. The consequences are probably that you're going to lose.“https://t.co/RNOL5iyVbr pic.twitter.com/91oueE9Y6K
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) December 21, 2021

Republican candidates across the country refuse to acknowledge that Biden won legitimately | Analysis https://t.co/RkWRfFThX1
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) December 21, 2021

Individualism vs. Public good

These tweets should do more to spell out that the individualism that is preventing us from doing better at combatting Covid is a Republican problem. Democrats want to do things to help the public good.

I mean… you've kind of got to work the country you've got. The US is extremely individualistic and not particularly risk-averse. It's also extremely polarized. None of that is going to change overnight. Public health strategies probably need to accept those as constraints. https://t.co/J363a8InQn
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) December 31, 2021

From the article pic.twitter.com/KpOD971pL2
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 31, 2021

It won’t work on the Trump cult members. They’re not concerned about protecting others. They’re only concerned about themselves.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) December 31, 2021

I don’t really buy “individualism” as a huge distinguishing cultural characteristic between the US and, say, Australia — two countries that pre-Covid I think everyone would have said are very much part of the same cultural milieu. https://t.co/dRUxGh8ZSE
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) January 1, 2022

National Hangover Day – 1/1/22

Today is National Hangover Day!

Today is National Hangover Day for a reason pic.twitter.com/E3inzYkgNv
— Peacock (@peacockTV) January 1, 2022

Take two aspirin and go back to bed, because it's #NationalHangoverDay. https://t.co/fNfEgqgaR8
— Dictionary.com (@Dictionarycom) January 1, 2022

Covers: The Big Light

“The Big Light” is an Elvis Costello song from King of America (1986). Johnny Cash covered it in 1987.

How do you watch Buster Keaton films?

These two tweets present opposite points of view

Stevens argues for free versions which would draw in more viewers

Kehr argues for better quality versions made by people who invested time and money to make them. The discs from Cohen Media Group (from Lobster Films restorations) are excellent.

It’s a tough call but I side with Kehr.

Or you could pay a couple of bucks and support the fine work of the Cineteca di Bologna, Lobster Films, @MoMAFilm and the other archives that have preserved and restored Keaton's work. https://t.co/Qt37jhFedO
— Dave Kehr (@dave_kehr) December 27, 2021

Take the Tour – the #BusterKeaton Studio. Visit Buster’s lost world, where #CharlieChaplin filmed too. Beautiful score by Frederick Hodges https://t.co/LzIALp4jxp
— John Bengtson (@silentechoes57) January 8, 2022