Iowa went all-in on school choice. It's hurting this city's public schools With school choice programs ascendant not just in Iowa but across the U.S., Cedar Rapids offers a preview of who wins and who loses when education meets the free market.

“School choice” is a long con by right wing corporate interests and every Democrat who played a part in selling it should never know a moment’s peace.

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Elaborately animated title card from the 1967 parody film Casino Royale

This is why I keep saying over and over that Poland is one of the world’s most dangerous places for Jews right now. They are systematically erasing and rewriting history. This is just one of countless examples.

Polish town’s new ‘information center’ denies murders of Jews by local Poles in 1941 Family of Jewish man who survived the Jedwabne massacre is trying to get the new installation removed: 'We call it a denial museum, because that’s what it is'

The Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 was one of the most brutal acts in the entire Shoah, committed by Poles against Polish Jews, not by the occupying Germans. Now the local government and people are denying that Poles committed this act. www.timesofisrael.com/polish-towns...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

Never expected to cheer so hard for the Baudrillard Papacy

Pharaoh YouTube video by Richard Thompson - Topic

Pesach sameach! Liberation now! youtu.be/qwD43LSZIyE

Best first views of March:

Il Decameron
Love on Delivery
To Sleep with Anger
Timecode
Porgy and Bess

They just tossed the jars in a bin!

I found it, the most deranged way a grocery store has ever displayed pasta sauce

I was in this show in high school

A screenshot of a post on X by Brian Sutterer MD (@BrianSuttererMD) quoting a post by The Associated Press (@AP). ​The main text by Brian Sutterer MD reads: "I don’t think the sports world is ready for how many unexpected positive tests they are going to find if every athlete is tested. ​Especially anxious to see how this plays out in sports like women’s basketball, where genetic gender testing isn’t done ​If they are truly going to do genetic testing on every female athlete, guaranteed there will be unexpected positives that will have a major life impact in the athlete who may have had no idea." ​The embedded quoted post from The Associated Press reads: "BREAKING: Trans women athletes are banned from the Olympics by a new IOC policy on female eligibility." ​The main post is dated March 26, 2026.

I'm telling you, the first time some blonde white woman whose also a major sports star gets disqualified for being intersex, all hell is going to break loose.

A younger man faces an older woman in the middle of a caravan from Biblical times, in a scene from The Ten Commandments (1956)

Supposedly this guy toward the front is Alfalfa from the Our Gang shorts; can anyone confirm or refute?

Finished it. A fair amount of it is silly and/or wooden, and the spectacle largely outweighs the spiritual, but the grandeur of it all is truly astonishing. Quite good when it comes down to it.

come look at our cash money, everyone, we let a pedophile scribble all over it

Movie still in which Bill Maher is sitting in a large steaming pot, surrounded by women in green bikinis

Anyway, I’m glad the star of Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death is finally getting the proper recognition

Craig Wasson (Body Double) - Have Me Arrested - Music Video YouTube video by www.UweBollRaw.com Official

Personally, I think they should have given it to Kenny Bania instead youtu.be/CmTXgDydDFI

Image of Craig Wasson, who looks like Bill Maher, in Body Double (1984)

Congratulations to the recipient of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize

I guess I also have a copy of the 1923 version... maybe I will watch that one later

Movie poster for The Ten Commandments (1956), with the tagline “The greatest event in motion picture history!” above images of Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner

Hmmm... it’s almost Pesach, maybe I should rewatch this one that I haven’t seen in probably a couple of decades at least

the video for “Walk of Life” by Dire Straits, but it’s just a loop of this clip

Pentangle - Light Flight (Later...with Jools Holland, 3rd May 2008) YouTube video by Pentangle

And from the final tour of the reunited original lineup: youtu.be/pNNhhh3Ke1k

‪Wonderful rhythmic derring-do here. Terry makes it look effortless. youtu.be/JcgTa-qmvqA%...

as of right now the biggest single donation to this gofundme for Valerie Perrine's burial costs? Noah Wyle

This leaves vocalist Jacqui McShee as Pentangle’s only living original member

Pentangle - House Carpenter (In Concert), 4th January 1971) YouTube video by Pentangle

R.I.P. the great Terry Cox, drummer for the groundbreaking folk-rock band Pentangle, and heard by many on David Bowie’s “Space Oddity.” I love this performance where you can see him playing his drum set with just his hands youtu.be/UYQeX9nDhww

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, folks! Here's Warwick Davis in full makeup being taught how to properly smoke a bong from behind the scenes of Leprechaun: Back 2 Tha Hood.

Academy Film Archive Lays Off Multiple Staff Members in Restructuring as AMPAS Announces Expansions to Collection The Academy Film Archive has laid off archive and library staff members in a restructuring move, as the Academy Museum announced new acquisitions.

A reminder that the Academy shamelessly and wrongly fired a lot of its archivists

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Very fondly recalling our days of watching PTA movies together in prior times

Bureau of Prisons: February 19, 2026 PURPOSE AND SCOPE To establish professional guidelines for the mental health evaluation and treatment of inmates meeting the diagnostic criteria for Gender Dysphoria (GD) to assist their progress toward recovery, while reducing or eliminating the frequency and severity of symptoms and associated negative outcomes.

This week it was uncovered that the Trump regime is trying to "cure" trans prisoners of being transgender, while doing everything they can - from labeling our mere existence as explicit to stripping us of our legal documents - to ensure we *all* end up imprisoned in their ever-growing camps.