Michael Crawford
@michaelcrawford.com
Exists simultaneously as wave and particle. Occasionally pretends to be a writer.
See the rest of my nerdery at
@progresscityusa.com
Formerly @MiklCraw4d at The Old Place™
See the rest of my nerdery at
@progresscityusa.com
Formerly @MiklCraw4d at The Old Place™
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This has never happened before in the American electoral system. What is to become of New York?
December 28, 2025 at 6:31 PM
This has never happened before in the American electoral system. What is to become of New York?
Man these kids they've had on are so cool
8-year-old Rosemary Brune has picked an ultimate classic to kick off our final night of our special programming, Kid Fans.
Join her for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN ('52) tonight at 8pm ET.
Join her for SINGIN' IN THE RAIN ('52) tonight at 8pm ET.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Man these kids they've had on are so cool
Whoa cool kid
December 28, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Whoa cool kid
Good one
HOLIDAY (1938) — 4:00 pm ET — 1h 33m
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan; directed by George Cukor
An unhappy heiress falls in love with her stodgy sister's freethinking fiance.
#TCM #TCMParty
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Doris Nolan; directed by George Cukor
An unhappy heiress falls in love with her stodgy sister's freethinking fiance.
#TCM #TCMParty
Holiday (1938)
www.tcm.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Good one
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These left-handed handshakes are even more intense than the right-handed ones.
seems to be a small hole at the site of discoloration
December 28, 2025 at 8:46 PM
These left-handed handshakes are even more intense than the right-handed ones.
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Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.
ICE raids appear to be 100% responsible for the current housing crunch in south Texas. Indeed, they have brought residential construction to an end.
South Texas homebuilders say ICE arrests have slowed work
More than 380 people attended an impromptu meeting that industry leaders in the Rio Grande Valley hosted to draw attention to the chilling effect ICE arrests have had on construction.
www.texastribune.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Immigration is incredible because it's one of the few policy areas where people are willing to suffer real, concrete consequences in order to solve completely imaginary problems.
Um because it's awesome
How did curling become a Winter Olympics sensation? Inside the sports' unique history
How did curling become a Winter Olympics sensation? Inside the sports' unique history
More than 2.3 million people — or one of every 18 Canadians — participate in the sport of curling. A look at how the quirky sport became an Olympic star.
www.latimes.com
December 28, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Um because it's awesome
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We Didn't Start the Fire. With Bardot's passing three people mentioned in the song remain alive
December 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
We Didn't Start the Fire. With Bardot's passing three people mentioned in the song remain alive
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Brigitte Bardot, the enchanting French starlet with the marvelous pout who became a carefree icon of sexuality in the 1950s and ’60s after her liberated performance in the scandalous And God Created Woman, has died. She was 91.
Brigitte Bardot, Sultry Sex Kitten of French Cinema, Dies at 91
Brigitte Bardot, the enchanting French starlet with the marvelous pout who became a carefree icon of sexuality in the 1950s and ’60s after her liberated performance in the scandalous And God Created Woman, has died. She was 91.
bit.ly
December 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Brigitte Bardot, the enchanting French starlet with the marvelous pout who became a carefree icon of sexuality in the 1950s and ’60s after her liberated performance in the scandalous And God Created Woman, has died. She was 91.
When you can't even try to lie
KARL: What side of Russia-Ukraine is Trump on?
GOP REP. MIKE TURNER: I, you know, clearly, ummp, Trump is on the side of peace
GOP REP. MIKE TURNER: I, you know, clearly, ummp, Trump is on the side of peace
December 28, 2025 at 8:10 PM
When you can't even try to lie
This is just the absolute stupidest talking point and it makes me insane every time they trot it out
Turner: "When you look at Biden administration & the weak immigration policies, tens of millions of illegal immigrants came across unchecked & that caused housing supply to go down & costs to go up. With secure borders & our fiscal house getting in order, this is a step toward housing affordability"
December 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
This is just the absolute stupidest talking point and it makes me insane every time they trot it out
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A podcast was - and should still be - an enthusiast driven audio forum; a hand written fanzine about your favourite band or team printed after hours on the school photocopier.
Not a celebrity fronted marketing exercise recycling an already successful TV show with one eye on a Netflix special. Fin.
Not a celebrity fronted marketing exercise recycling an already successful TV show with one eye on a Netflix special. Fin.
December 27, 2025 at 10:31 AM
A podcast was - and should still be - an enthusiast driven audio forum; a hand written fanzine about your favourite band or team printed after hours on the school photocopier.
Not a celebrity fronted marketing exercise recycling an already successful TV show with one eye on a Netflix special. Fin.
Not a celebrity fronted marketing exercise recycling an already successful TV show with one eye on a Netflix special. Fin.
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Today in 1964, Rod Serling’s “Carol for Another Christmas,” one of the most unusual versions of Charles Dickens’ classic story ever shown on television, was broadcast for the first and only time on ABC, the first in a series of programs fully underwritten by Xerox to support the United Nations.
December 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Today in 1964, Rod Serling’s “Carol for Another Christmas,” one of the most unusual versions of Charles Dickens’ classic story ever shown on television, was broadcast for the first and only time on ABC, the first in a series of programs fully underwritten by Xerox to support the United Nations.
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This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
"'I have my ID!' Mubashir shouted repeatedly, as heard on the video. The agents do not respond."
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
ICE agents tackle, arrest American citizen in Minneapolis
Federal immigration agents tackled and arrested a Somali American man in Minneapolis on Tuesday and detained him for about two hours for no apparent reason other than his ethnicity.
www.mprnews.org
December 28, 2025 at 4:32 PM
This is the world Justice Kavanaugh sanctioned in his foolish & unnecessary concurring opinion to the Court’s order in Noem v Vasquez Perdomo. His hopes of cleaning up that blunder with a plaintive footnote in last week’s concurring opinion in Trump v. Illinois, demonstrates his staggering naïveté.
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Shaking hands with his left hand.
not only was Trump's right hand discolored on Christmas Eve, but it appears his left hand is now discolored too
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
(Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty)
December 28, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Shaking hands with his left hand.
Recently watched the Ken Burns doc about this guy. I had never even heard of him and the story was wild. People sure are racist!
When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910)
When Jack Johnson, the First Black Heavyweight Champion, Defeated Jim Jeffries & the Footage Was Banned Around the World (1910)
Jack Johnson on Broadway in Howard Sackler’s Pulitzer Prize-winning The Great White Hope in 1968, he reportedly exclaimed, “You just change the time, date and the details and it’s about me!” In Johnso...
www.openculture.com
December 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Recently watched the Ken Burns doc about this guy. I had never even heard of him and the story was wild. People sure are racist!
<3
We say goodbye to international film icon, Brigitte Bardot.
One of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century, she mesmerized audiences in films such as CONTEMPT ('63) and later became a fierce animal rights activist.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
One of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century, she mesmerized audiences in films such as CONTEMPT ('63) and later became a fierce animal rights activist.
Our thoughts are with her family and friends.
December 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
<3
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Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
Trump greets Zelenskyy at Mar-a-Lago and says, "I've settled 8 wars and this is the most difficult one. I thought it would be in the middle of the pack."
December 28, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Performative public lying is a hallmark of far right authoritarian parties
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I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon.
For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.
For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.
All of the money that changed hands in the Teapot Dome scandal totaled less than $10 million after adjusting for inflation, and it was considered so corrupt we still teach it in high school government classes a century later.
Corruption so pungent, it wafts right off the page:
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Lobbyists who do pardon deals “say their going rate is $1 million. Pardon-seekers have offered some lobbyists close to the president success fees of as much as $6 million if they can close the deal.”
Gift link www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I just taught my lecture course on mid-20th c US history, which starts with Harding and concludes with Nixon.
For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.
For the first time, I had to pause and stress that those scandals were actually shocking at the time and, what’s more, that Americans actually demanded people be held accountable.
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Sir Patrick Stewart Demonstrates How Cows Moo in Different English Accents
Sir Patrick Stewart Demonstrates How Cows Moo in Different English Accents
Having spent the fall lounging in the bath dressed as a lobster, and gamboling around New York City with Waiting for Godot cast mate Ian McKellen, the irrepressible Patrick Stewart brought 2013 to a c...
www.openculture.com
December 27, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Sir Patrick Stewart Demonstrates How Cows Moo in Different English Accents
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I can’t get over how one directional Instagram feels…
I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.
I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.
December 27, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I can’t get over how one directional Instagram feels…
I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.
I liked old Twitter & now BlueSky because they feel like local pubs you go into and join chats with old mates and new. Instagram feels like you are walking into the backstage at a theatre where everyone is practicing their monologues.
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Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
December 27, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Happy 14th anniversary to this youtube video
Making friends all around the world
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and confusion.
Fear and confusion in Nigerian village hit in US strike, as locals say no history of ISIS in area | CNN
A day after part of a missile fired by the United States hit their village, landing just meters from its only medical facility, the villagers of Jabo in northwest Nigeria are in a state of shock and c...
www.cnn.com
December 27, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Making friends all around the world