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Movies: Vice, The Big Short, Step Brothers etc, global warming, NBA, global warming, other stuff like Succession on HBO, global warming

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    New Big Picture: One of my favorite conversations in recent memory— on making VICE and the reaction it has received.

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    17 hours ago

    For some context regarding 's proposal today: the top marginal tax rate in the U.S. between 1936 and 1980 never dipped below 70 percent and reached a peak of 94 percent.

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    Reminder that Anderson Cooper is a literal Vanderbilt in case you're wondering why he looks so disturbed about the idea of the tax rate on the wealthy going back up to what it was a few decades ago

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  6. Jan 4

    Huge congrats to Francine Maisler and Amber Wakefield for nominations for casting Vice!

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    Jan 3

    Listen: ‘Vice’ Director Adam McKay Says Power is ‘the Biggest Drug There Is’

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    Jan 3

    TODAY: 'Vice' writer/director Adam McKay . It's about Dick Cheney's rise from flunking out of Yale to George W. Bush's powerful VP. 'Vice' has 6 Golden Globe nominations, more than any other film.

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    Jan 3

    Tonight at the Cinematheque: a great (and free!) double feature of VICE and THE BIG SHORT, with a discussion between Adam McKay and yours truly in between the films. Get on the list at the link:

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    Jan 3

    So basically, the Iraq War helped unleash a climate bomb

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    The 2018 movie with which Vice shares the most is Sorry to Bother You. Both use elements that prestige films are not "supposed" to--blackouts, overstatement, throwaway gags, fragmented scenes, broadness abrupt tone/style shifts--in the service of something real. And both... >

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  12. Jan 3

    (Deleted responses so I can write a proper response not on Twitter. Coming soon.)

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    Jan 2

    Adam McKay's 'Vice' wins best picture at Capri, Hollywood fest

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    Jan 2
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    Jan 2

    The greatest achievement by climate change deniers has been fooling the community into wasting much time, effort & resources on an unmovable fringe constituency--time, effort & resources that would have better been spent bringing along the "confused middle" & concerned.

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    Jan 1

    I understand why Mitt Romney’s op-ed will drive a news cycle, but trust me when I tell you that House Democrats tonight announcing they will reinstate the “Gephardt Rule” to make it easier to raise the debt ceiling matters a lot more in 2019 America.

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    Jan 1

    Good morning. It’s 2019. We’ve got 11 years to change the world. ❤️🌍🌹

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  18. 31 Dec 2018

    As I’ve gotten older New Year’s Eve more and more means one thing and one thing only: Twilight Zone Marathon!

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    30 Dec 2018

    Notice how the nut graph here is about how you may have to pay 10 cents more for your egg breakfast at the diner, rather than about thousands of workers getting paid slightly more so they can survive. This framing is not an accident— it is ideology.

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    30 Dec 2018

    A cafe in Tokyo is staffed by robots all being operated remotely by paralyzed workers.

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