Melissa Tamminga

She/her. Program Director at Tweets my own. Also on Letterboxd & Bluesky as oneaprilday. And on IG as mdtamminga

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

Some personal/professional news: I start as Program Director at the Pickford Film Center tomorrow.

It’s the Bellingham arthouse that has been my cinematic home for many years. I’m still pinching myself that’s it’s where I get to go to work!

https://t.co/2hWxGx0plT

[Carlos Aguilar @Carlos_Film]

Feeling despondent. If you are an editor who wants to work with me, let’s do it soon. My time is running out. My only hope of staying in this country is if a publication or any job wants to hire me full time & sponsor me for a green card. A long shot. But the only shot I got.

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@EclecticHutch Oh no!

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@Geniusbastard Mind boggling to me that people seem to think Republicans are going to do something different after years and years of watching them do the same thing over and over.

“Govern”? “Fix problems”? Yield to pressure from Democrats? What the hell is she talking about?

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@Geniusbastard So glad you are there for them

[Stephanie Jones @StephanieJ_DC]

The media this morning saying Dems need to have a reckoning.

No, we don't. We can't be blamed because we expected Americans to be who they always claim they are.

Democrats don't have a messaging problem. America has a racism problem.

[Rebecca Cohen @GynoStar]

My feed is already filled with people tripping over each other to pinpoint exactly what Harris did to fuck this up, rather than facing how fucked up it is that so many people would vote for a convicted felon and rapist rather than a qualified woman of color.

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@jeffcannata In a number of text conversations with my various women friends, and yes. This is what we are all concluding too.

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@Geniusbastard Yes.

[Zach Wahls @ZachWahls]

HUGE NEWS: Johnson County, Iowa's most Democratic county, is on track to shatter turnout records tonight. if you are in line to vote, please stay in line! We had a US House race decided by only six votes here in 2020, your ballot could make the difference.

[Brandon D. Wilson @Geniusbastard]

JANET PLANET, which is for my money the best feature directorial debut of the year so far, is now on HBO MAX.

[Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg]

NO OTHER LAND enrages as it exposes Israel’s displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.

Two of its co-directors, @basel_adra and @yuval_abraham, discussed structural violence, apartheid reality. and the role of the camera in their resistance: https://t.co/0q5iSjmmmy

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@JakeTropila Congrats!!!

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@Geniusbastard I keep reminding myself of this, too. It’s a comfort.

I think I worry most now about what happens in individual states, e. g. violent attempts to stop vote counts there

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

@kylegriffin1 Too little too late from the NYT. If they had any integrity, they would have removed the last two words, taken it out of the Opinion section, and put it on the front page weeks ago.

[Tim Grierson @TimGrierson]

The only 2024 film named HERE that you need to see.

[Tomris Laffly @TomiLaffly]

This election will end in one of two ways: either Trump or Harris will win. Not the first to say this, but if you think not voting (or voting 3rd party) is a meaningful way to protest what’s happening in Gaza & being done to Palestinians, you’re delusional. & privileged. AND >>>

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

Already cancelled the NYT and LA Times, so I guess we’re on a roll

More grateful than ever for the independent journalists and other outlets that have become the staples of my media diet

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

NEWS: The Washington Post will not be making an endorsement in this year's presidential race, the editor of the editorial pages has told colleagues at a tense meeting this morning

THREAD AND LINK: https://t.co/papQiStKDC

[Melissa Tamminga @oneaprilday]

Soooo excited about this. Film Is Truth video store with its 22,000 titles is open again and now housed at the Pickford Film Center:

[Michael Phillips @MrPhillipsPart2]

Everyone's piling on 'Megalopolis' and 'Joker: Folie à Deux.' They're not the 2024 flops I worry about. Column, giftlink here: https://t.co/w4HV8O2yim