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So, yes. My state for unfathomable ass-headed reasons of its own re-elected Charlie Baker governor of Massachusetts because I guess "Well, he's not a Nazi" is enough of a platform for some people, but at least we held the line for trans rights: Yes on 3 passed. Otherwise, looking at the midterm results, I have been saying that it's not what I hoped for, but it's not what I feared, and that's not nothing. Especially against the gerrymandering, the voter suppression, the murderous fearmongering, it's not nothing. I didn't expect so many House seats to turn over. I didn't expect so many new Democratic governors. I hope they make a difference. We'll aim for more in the next round. That feels like more of a possibility than it did two days ago.
In the meantime, it looks as though I will be spending tomorrow evening at a rapid response rally in support of the Mueller investigation against 45's interference with it. It may not be incumbent upon us to finish the work, but when do we ever get the time to desist from it?
P.S. Will somebody please tell TCM that especially with FilmStruck imploding, now is not the time to fall down on the streaming of hard-to-find classic film? I waited months to see Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) and Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) and despite both of them airing on schedule this morning and early afternoon when I was out of the house due to doctor's appointments, neither appears to have gone into the on-demand buffer, which means I don't get to see them. The same thing happened this weekend with Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper (1952). I am really disappointed. I may console myself with Dorothy Arzner's The Bride Wore Red (1937), which did make it into the buffer, but one female director is not interchangeable for another, you know?
In the meantime, it looks as though I will be spending tomorrow evening at a rapid response rally in support of the Mueller investigation against 45's interference with it. It may not be incumbent upon us to finish the work, but when do we ever get the time to desist from it?
P.S. Will somebody please tell TCM that especially with FilmStruck imploding, now is not the time to fall down on the streaming of hard-to-find classic film? I waited months to see Ida Lupino's Outrage (1950) and Hard, Fast and Beautiful (1951) and despite both of them airing on schedule this morning and early afternoon when I was out of the house due to doctor's appointments, neither appears to have gone into the on-demand buffer, which means I don't get to see them. The same thing happened this weekend with Edward Dmytryk's The Sniper (1952). I am really disappointed. I may console myself with Dorothy Arzner's The Bride Wore Red (1937), which did make it into the buffer, but one female director is not interchangeable for another, you know?
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Yes. I was very frightened that Massachusetts would repeal its previous assertion of trans rights as human rights and not only would it make my state much more difficult to live in, it would set a precedent to be followed eagerly by hate groups in other states. And that did not happen. I don't like that it was a two-thirds split rather than a no-brainer sweep, but I like it much better than the alternative.