Bill Stamets

Chicago freelance writer & reviewer, part-time film lecturer, Super-8 filmmaker.

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@robertloerzel Unlikely it’s one of our other Great Lakes, if you can trust Great Lakes Ice Tracker app

[Pro-Democracy RTs @ProDemocracyRTs]

Too many journalists won’t ask powerful people tough questions because they want more interviews of powerful people in which they’ll avoid tough questions so they get even more interviews of powerful people in which they’ll avoid tough questions.

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former, as in defrocked or canceled?

[Jane Mayer @JaneMayerNYer]

In defense of Clarence Thomas @WSJ slams @propublica as “Left-Leaning” website- omitting that it was founded by former WSJ assistant publisher Richard Tofel & former WSJ managing editor Paul Steiger: https://t.co/3d8SN3EMAd

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pre-Putin, pre-OPEC
post-Mesozoic -Cenozoic -Paleozoic ages

from "New Role of Wealth. Rockefeller's Part In Making Chicago A Mecca Of Culture" July 30 1894 Chicago Tribune

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“Scalia’s and Thomas … impunity, arrogance, and unabashed partisanship… Federalist Society… driving the court’s composition and agenda… more aggressive in their unprincipled judicial activism…more defiant in their resistance to ethics reform.” https://t.co/fPAA0c0XNz

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Six sentence pitch for biopic. Chicago Tribune April 27 1930. Or in the seventies under-25 words sense of “high concept” these six words — The Elephant Man meets Mulholland Drive.

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Legal loophole lingo to update for Cory proceedings re: Trump indictments, or to use his term, indications.

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What benefits are in the salary package for Trump campaign hires, unless all that’s suppressed by NDAs.

[Jonathan Swan @jonathanvswan]

New w ⁦@maggieNYT⁩: Former President Donald J. Trump has told aides to hire Laura Loomer, a far-right and anti-Muslim activist, for a campaign role, according to four people familiar with the plans. https://t.co/IsCZFZgTcY

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A pooch and a pal, much missed. Also running companion and avid biter of rats.

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@ChiFilmArchives Pope John Paul II visited Providence of God in 1979. https://t.co/NYv4Z3NrtO

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@ChiFilmArchives Pope made a stop at that church on 18th St. in 1979. Possibly shot a short exterior scene that got into my Super-8 film “Pope Visits Chicagoland.” Later made “China President Visits Chicagoland.”

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@ChiFilmArchives For many years this procession drew photography students from Columbia College, much like the old Maxwell Street got suggested or assigned as a subject for film students at various schools. Shot a now lost roll of b/w 16mm there in 1975 for Sem on Cross-Cult Film (Hum Dev 450).

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When the U.S. armed the Taliban to oust Soviet occupiers.

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Investigative caper screenplay ought to star that “Indonesian scuba diving instructor.” Played by? Since ProPublica sources its story to “interviews with dozens of people ranging from [Crow’s] superyacht’s staff… to an Indonesian scuba diving instructor.” https://t.co/YQGpZ3EVrP

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Inside Higher Ed asked “presidents of the 40 public colleges and universities in Florida” about moves “to remake public higher education… into a branch of the most conservative faction within the Republican Party… Presidential responses, anonymous or otherwise: zero for 40.”

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“You remember Al Capone. They could never get him on the murderous crime organization he ran. So they got him for lying on his income taxes…The public wanted him put away by any legal means necessary. We’re Al Caponing you, Don.” https://t.co/nznRislv3c

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“Obviously” Justice Thomas is there doing undercover “research” on the unsuspecting satanic elites. Somebody has to do it.

[Poker and Politics @PokerPolitics]

Justice Thomas hanging out at Bohemian Grove is something QAnon is going to pretend never happened.

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Well of course.

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Retweeting this because @musicboxtheatre just retweeted it. 🎥 🍿 🎉