President Biden’s message to the press: The defeated former president has made no secret of his attack on our democracy. He said he wants to be a dictator on day one, promised a ‘bloodbath’ when he loses again, and so much more. Eight years ago, you could have written it off as…

Lara Trump: I’m here to assure people how their money is being spent, trust me, I’m the daughter-in-law of Donald Trump.

Woman who stole $2M from a dog rescue charity wants you to know your donations to the RNC are in good hands.🤡
#ProudBlue #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica

Tilda Swinton by Yelena Yemchuk

Actress Tilda Swinton androgynously victorian and dark in a fashion editorial for Vogue Italia July 2016, captured by photographer Yelena Yemchuk.

#TildaSwinton #Fashion

My action profile on The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) has just been posted on my website. I discuss how the sequence depicts the acceleration of the British Lancers, as well as how its dialectical editing expresses the conflict of opposing forces. action-cinema.com/?p=2644

.Jen Psaki: 'When it comes to Donald Trump, those hypotheticals that got tossed around in the Supreme Court this week aren't really hypotheticals... This view of the presidency that Trump has – this absolute power, above-the-law mindset – is literally the plan for a second term.'

.Ronald Klain: 'The court needs to think about its own institutional legitimacy and its role in American society. Prior versions of the Supreme Court were very conscious of that, and I hope Justice Roberts and his colleagues take that into account now.'

Nice to see Helen Vinson playing a nice sidekick. She normally played nasty bitches and other women. #JewelRobbery #TCMParty

“I think there will be debates... I think what we have to see is something different than we saw in 2016 and 2020... We need to have debates where the candidates can be heard.'

Ronald Klain on possible general election debates this fall.

Another week of a stark presidential candidate split screen:

“We are essentially one vote away from the end of democracy as we know it.”

Andrew Weissmann (weissmann11 on Threads)🌻 on the stakes in SCOTUS presidential immunity case.

I can't believe I even have to say this, but it is not normal that the Supreme Court is taking its sweet time to decide if the president can incite an insurrection to overturn an election and maintain power. This should have been decided already. The answer is no!

#OTD J. Lee Thompson's The Guns of Navarone (1961) premiered in London. An adaptation of Alistair MacLean's 1957 novel with an ensemble cast who play a group of allied saboteurs that are tasked with blowing up two Nazi field guns as a means to rescue trapped British soldiers.

“Every courtroom sketch of Donald Trump looks like the Grinch had sex with the Lorax”

—Colin Jost

(He can call it a joke if he likes but holy shit truer words never spoken)

The Alito Four seem convinced that “the sanctity of the Court and the laws and norms of our democracy will protect them. Anyone who has spent 10 minutes studying how democracies collapse knows this is idiotic, but it stems from the justices’ own hubristic belief that the Court is…

Élégance parisienne.
Années 1900. Paris

All right back to noir SF next week!

#NoirAlley

Anthony Quinn and Gregory Peck playing chess on the set of The Guns of Navarone (1961) that premiered #OTD .

#RandomSaturdayLateMovie
Living Dead in the Manchester Morgue / Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974) by #JorgeGrau
w/ #CristinaGalbó #RayLovelock
A cop chases two hippies suspected of Manson-like murders, not knowing the real culprits are the living dead.
#1970s #Horror #Zombie #SciFi

Here's the black & white lineart for my Alien poster. A lot of that artwork that gets blended away or obscured.
#AlienDay