Elizabeth Isham

We have to be greater than what we suffer.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Dr. King said it best

#MLKDay

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Through struggle and discipline, persistence and faith, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. helped move this country forward. As we honor his legacy today, let’s remember the lesson he taught us: that even in the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can help change it. In honor of #MLKDay, I hope you’ll do what you can in your community to create a better future for us all.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

JAWS was released 49 years ago today. Regarded the first summer blockbuster and a landmark of Hollywood, the making of story is so crazy it begs the question of how it was ever made…

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[Jane of the North @JaneotN]

It’s in the Bible. I shitteth you not.

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK was released 43 years ago today. The first Indiana Jones movie and one of Steven Spielberg’s most beloved films, the behind the scenes story is an adventure all of its own…

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[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Cyndi Lauper & Laura Dern get it right. 🥹

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE was released 35 years ago today. The third, and for some best, entry in the Indiana Jones series, reading the behind the scenes story will mean you chose wisely…

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[Kevin Bacon @kevinbacon]

That was a close one… 44 years since Friday the 13th, and I still can’t take a nap in peace. #FridayThe13th

[JPA @jasrifootball]

Eli choosing violence this morning 💀

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If you MAGAts care about children so much, where was your outrage when that 10-year-old girl in Ohio was raped and forced to carry her rapist's child?

What about the 13-year-old girl forced to give birth to her rapist's child?

They were raped by American men. Does that make it LESS offensive?

How about when little kids are denied school lunch because Republicans are cruel and greedy?

How about states that legalized kids 14 years old working in bars and factories, and working late shifts on school nights?

I'm just trying to figure out your stupid fucking hypocritical rules when it comes to things that make you all outraged.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

@Morbidful “It’s not a sin to get knocked down; it’s a sin to stay down” - Carl Brashear, the first amputee to certify as a Navy diver

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

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[Elizabeth Isham @Random_Moose80]

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[NFL @NFL]

The key to the @49ers success?

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[Elizabeth Isham @Random_Moose80]

@BigDaddyVictorZ Hope you feel better soon. #sanasana #colitaderana 🐸

[San Francisco 49ers @49ers]

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[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

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