Barbara VanDenburgh
@babsvan.bsky.social
Poor, obscure, plain, and little. Writer, critic, friendly neighborhood anarcho-socialist. Former books editor at USA TODAY. Let’s talk movies https://boxd.it/lA7b
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2025 watch #1: Wicked. This is as if BookTok became sentient and made a film. The green and pink Stanley cup of movies, the Starbucks of cinema, the cultural lowest common denominator for a country that just reelected a disgraced reality TV star president. No gravity defied here.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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So when are you holding a leadership vote to replace Chuck Schumer?
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 5:39 AM
So when are you holding a leadership vote to replace Chuck Schumer?
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It is impossible to overstate just how important Tatsuya Nakadai was to Japanese film. One of the greatest to ever do it.
November 11, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It is impossible to overstate just how important Tatsuya Nakadai was to Japanese film. One of the greatest to ever do it.
Can we talk about how cool the coffins are in Frankenstein
November 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Can we talk about how cool the coffins are in Frankenstein
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“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
November 11, 2025 at 3:05 AM
“whatever club he’s invited to join has been devalued by the invitation”
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every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
Pirro: "Mr President, there is in this room a group of people who love you, who believe in you, and who are so proud to be in this Oval Office and to be part of this amazing day because you have changed the course of America."
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet
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What a Faustian bargain: you get to be the richest man who ever lived, and all it'll cost you is to also be the biggest dipshit loser in human history. Future historians will comb the archives to find someone in the historical record with less rizz- with a greater deficit of dignity- to no avail
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
What a Faustian bargain: you get to be the richest man who ever lived, and all it'll cost you is to also be the biggest dipshit loser in human history. Future historians will comb the archives to find someone in the historical record with less rizz- with a greater deficit of dignity- to no avail
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[at Tesla]
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
November 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
[at Tesla]
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
Tesla Shareholders: in recognition of your incredible gift for lowering the price of tesla stock, we would like to award you this trillion dollar bonus
Elon Musk: yeah yeah that'sa fine
Tesla Shareholders: what's the matter? you seem distracted
Musk: no i'm fine
Musk: [muttering] oates
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This is what the Democrats caved to.
“All Air Traffic Controllers must get back to work, NOW!!! Anyone who doesn't will be substantially ‘docked.’”
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is what the Democrats caved to.
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I don't know if anyone ever considered this before but I think we should have a left wing party in the United States. Just my opinion
November 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I don't know if anyone ever considered this before but I think we should have a left wing party in the United States. Just my opinion
Every frame of Frankenstein, Oscar Isaac is hotter than in the last, Jesus Christ
November 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Every frame of Frankenstein, Oscar Isaac is hotter than in the last, Jesus Christ
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Until the sun burns out
November 10, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Until the sun burns out
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How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 AM
How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.
Don't give them a moment's peace. Ruin their Thanksgivings. Ruin their holidays. Scream at them on airplanes and in restaurants. Send them your hospital bills. If they don't stand with us, they stand against us.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Don't give them a moment's peace. Ruin their Thanksgivings. Ruin their holidays. Scream at them on airplanes and in restaurants. Send them your hospital bills. If they don't stand with us, they stand against us.
“However this vote turns out” shouldn’t you know, Charles Entertainment Cheese? Are you not in charge? Could you maybe consider leading as if you understand you’re the opposition party?
Schumer: "However this vote turns out, this fight will and must continue. Democrats must fight."
November 10, 2025 at 1:42 AM
“However this vote turns out” shouldn’t you know, Charles Entertainment Cheese? Are you not in charge? Could you maybe consider leading as if you understand you’re the opposition party?
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You ever drunk dial your senator?
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
You ever drunk dial your senator?
Hey @democrats.org great job, just updated my party affiliation for the first time since 2008. If you’re going to willingly hand the Trump administration victories, then you’re functionally no different than republicans and I no longer have a party. Primary all these motherfuckers.
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Hey @democrats.org great job, just updated my party affiliation for the first time since 2008. If you’re going to willingly hand the Trump administration victories, then you’re functionally no different than republicans and I no longer have a party. Primary all these motherfuckers.
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Funny prank: everyone becomes militantly communist very quickly
October 1, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Funny prank: everyone becomes militantly communist very quickly
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so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 AM
so much suffering and sacrifice only to to agree to terms that will beget more suffering and sacrifice.
*taps the sign*
It's not just the Republican party that's no longer politically viable. The whole goddamn thing needs to burn to the ground.
We use language like "brace" when we have done a poor job of equipping, preparing, and passing the baton~
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
November 10, 2025 at 12:23 AM
*taps the sign*
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lol she got his ass and he knows it
November 9, 2025 at 3:36 PM
lol she got his ass and he knows it
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
I was saving All That Jazz for a special occasion. Turned out that special occasion was finally getting COVID for the first time. Watched it half-delirious with a fever, not sure if my head was spinning from sickness or awe (it was the latter). The chutzpah it takes to make that film!
What is the best movie not from this year that you’ve seen this year? Bonus points if you say why
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I was saving All That Jazz for a special occasion. Turned out that special occasion was finally getting COVID for the first time. Watched it half-delirious with a fever, not sure if my head was spinning from sickness or awe (it was the latter). The chutzpah it takes to make that film!
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I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.
November 9, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I support Plur1bus’s mission of giving an X-Files writer what appears to be a billion dollars.