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The full performance of “Golden” from ‘KPOP DEMON HUNTERS’ at the Oscars.
See the full winners list: bit.ly/OscarWins26— DiscussingFilm (@discussingfilm.net) March 15, 2026 at 10:03 PM
GOLDEN took the award, but it sounds like I LIED TO YOU won Fan Favorite for the evening…
if ya missed it…#Oscars
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dWV…— Bruce Warren (@somevelvetblog.bsky.social) March 15, 2026 at 8:46 PM
“Girls Just Want to Have Fun” peaks at #2 today in ‘84
“We got every racial group of girl—mixed, Spanish, white, black, Asian,” said Lauper, “so that every little girl who looked at that video would .. understand that every young woman, older woman, every person is entitled to a joyful experience.”— Carl Quintanilla (@carlquintanilla.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Schumer on the SAVE America Act: "It is not about showing ID when you show up to vote. It's about the voter registration rolls, destroying them, purging them, not letting people know, and taking the rights in an algorithm but together by DOGE and Musk — it's an outrage"
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) March 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
I just left another briefing on Iran.
Here's the only part of Trump's plan that is clear to me:
He won't spare a cent for the 15 million Americans who will lose their health care, but he'll spend a billion dollars a day bombing Iran.— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) March 10, 2026 at 2:05 PM
Trump has spent more in 10 days on his reckless war in Iran than America spends in two years on community health centers providing medical care for low-income and uninsured Americans.
Our priorities are out of whack in this country.— Rep. Jim McGovern (@repmcgovern.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 9:46 PM
Then those people are idiots.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 6:10 PM
Freedom’s just another word for Repubs are gonna lose..
— Dana Houle (@danahoule.bsky.social) March 11, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I am sure this will only reinforce his sense of white victimhood.
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 6:55 PM
when Olaudah Equiano was 11 he was kidnapped out of coastal Africa and sent into slavery, he bought himself as an adult and settled in UK, he spent the rest of his life fighting to abolish slavery, though he didn't live to see it, his book was key in the passage of a bill banning the salve trade
— Henry (@henrythedog.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Harvey Milk spoke of the need for Hope, that you cannot live on hope alone but without it life is not worth living.
Dr. King said he might not live to see the promised land but he had seen it
Equiano didn't live to see the fruits of his work, but he built a better world he never got to see.— Henry (@henrythedog.bsky.social) March 10, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Bold strategy to cut this kind of advertisement for the Democrats.
[image or embed]— Malaclypse the Middle (@malaclypse.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 7:39 AM
Warnock: "We heard tonight the rumblings of a desperate man who's trying to present case he can for the midterms. It was half lies, half grievances. He knows he is quickly losing power."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) February 24, 2026 at 11:45 PM
You know who kept Iran from getting nuclear weapons? Obama. Trump ripped up that deal and walked away, and here we are today. He’s desperately trying to come up with a way to solve a problem that he created out of thin air.
[image or embed]— VoteVets (@votevets.org) February 24, 2026 at 10:50 PM
“Children should be enjoying life. Not thinking about deportation.”
Listen to Dr. Gabeau’s story.
[image or embed]— Elizabeth Warren (@warren.senate.gov) February 25, 2026 at 9:54 AM
Speaker Emerita Pelosi: Trump took a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare and $1 trillion out of Medicaid. He talked about how many people he took off of SNAP, and the Republicans just stood up and cheered. All of that to give a tax cut to the richest people in America.
— FactPost (@factpostnews.bsky.social) February 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
The president doesn’t give a flip about Medicaid fraud.
In June, Trump commuted Lawrence Duran’s 50 year sentence for filing over 860,000 fraudulent Medicaid claims worth about $200 million.
He had commuted one of Duran’s co-conspirators’ sentences in his first term.
share.google/iShrzItOsCas…— Joe Ura (@joeura.bsky.social) February 25, 2026 at 6:18 PM
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
Tonight I thought maybe we could host our own awards show. Minus the “show” part, and of course minus the actual award itself and the speeches. Oh, what the hell, we can have speeches, right?
Let’s combine the Oscars and the Emmys and the Pulitzer Prizes and the Bookers and the Grammys and the Tonys and the Country Music Awards and the Golden Globes and the Baftas, and so on. You can even make up your own awards and categories!
A few examples: Worst movie ever with otherwise talented actors. Best ensemble show set in Cincinnati. Worst movie with the best concept ever.
Nominate what you want and tell us which award it or who is being nominated for. Or share your acceptance speech for some award. Surely there are great people deserving of the lifetime achievement award, who aren’t famous enough to get one?
Tell us who you are and what you would wear for the red carpet pics!
Hell, you can even make up your own lame banter for the people handing out those awards. I’ve never been sure whether they pay those folks to say all that lame stuff in front of a TV camera or whether the back of the envelopes have hostage photos of their loved ones. Read this lame shit, or else.
Once again, this will likely either be super fun or really lame. But you can’t win if you don’t play. :-)
In case you are new to Medium Cool, these are not open threads.
Medium Cool is a weekly series related to popular culture, mostly film, TV, and books, with some music and games thrown in. We hope it’s a welcome break from the anger, hate, and idiocy we see almost daily from the other side in the political sphere.
Arguments welcomed, opinions respected, fools un-suffered. We’re here every Sunday at 7 pm.
Tonight let’s talk about all things comfort.
Comfort foods – are they the ones we grew up with, or something we picked up along the way?
Music, books, TV shows, movies, poetry, walks in the woods or playing with the dog, anything that provides comfort in these are other tough times. What are they, when did you first discover them, what’s comforting about them?
I’ll start. I discovered that amazing photo from Steve from Mendocino in the Media Library in March of this year. So lovely. I used it in a Friday night music thread, and someone (maybe eclare?) posted a link to the song below. The beauty of the image is soothing, and paired with that song together they make my breathing slow and somehow give me hope. The song reminds me of simpler times; it’s upbeat and the syncopation in the song matches the hooves that we hear about in the song, which I find oh so charming.
I feel certain that it’s a total coincidence that two things related to water would provide comfort to someone named WaterGirl!
In case you are new to Medium Cool, these are not open threads.
An explanation: You’re protecting pedophiles, jacking up prices, and spending taxpayer dollars to bomb foreign countries.
Americans are sick of your shit.— Democrats (@democrats.org) January 6, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Jeffries: "The Constitution isn't a matter of inconvenience. It is a requirement. George Washington in his farewell address to the nation made clear that the Constitution is sacredly obligatory upon all. That means everybody. There is no Trump exception."
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) January 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
We're forcing a vote to save the ACA tax credits and reverse skyrocketing health care costs for millions of families.
Republicans have a choice: keep making life more and more unaffordable or join us in lowering health care costs.— Congressman Juan Vargas (@vargas.house.gov) January 5, 2026 at 11:22 PM
— George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 (@gtconway.bsky.social) January 3, 2026 at 8:29 PM
House Democrats met today to address the situation in Venezuela. There is no question that Maduro is a terrible person. There is also no question that Congress must be involved in any military operations.
— Rep. Mike Thompson (@mikethompson.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
I, along with most Democrats, have already called on the Speaker to convene the House immediately, and our position is unanimous:
— Rep. Mike Thompson (@mikethompson.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
We stand with the American people in opposing boots on the ground for oil and rejecting any military occupation, whether in Venezuela, Greenland, Canada, Cuba, or anywhere else.
Speaker Johnson, convene the House now!— Rep. Mike Thompson (@mikethompson.house.gov) January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.
— jamelle (@jamellebouie.net) January 4, 2026 at 6:52 PM