Telly Davidson

Author of CULTURE WAR - buy it (below), you'll like it! Writer in all forms & formats, book guy, film/TV critic/exec, wannabe time-traveler. Opinions mine alone

[Telly Davidson @TellyDavidson]

Make EVERY day #nationalbookday! (This one's mine, but find one that fits your fancy. There's (so, so many more than) one out there for everyone! https://t.co/1oUdYddxtd

[Moving Pictures @MovingPictures2]

August 31st In Memoriam: Margaret Landis, Claire Du Brey, Fredric March, Arthur Godfrey, Dore Schary, Sanford Meisner, Richard Basehart, James Lanphier, GD Spradlin, George Sewell, Buddy Hackett, James Coburn, Noble Willingham, Warren Berlinger, Johnny Wactor.

[Samantha Richardson �� @classicfilmgeek]

I’m grateful that we haven’t lost many stars this year, but the ones we’ve lost so far have hit me so terribly hard. Catherine O’Hara, Margaret Kerry, Ann Blyth, Hayden Panettiere, now Shelley Fabares.

Too many supremely talented and stunning women. 💔

[Morgan Fairchild @morgfair]

So very sorry to hear of the passing of Shelley Fabares! We served on the SAG board together for years & she was the sweetest, most down-to-earth lady imaginable! Such a loss for our biz & for the world. My condolences to her husband, Mike Farrell & her friends & family! #RIPShelleyFabares💔💔💔💔💔💔

[Andy Jackson @andyinrok]

@PrezWisdom @Harvard @TIME It looks like each generation's ranking of presidents tells us more about that generation than it does about the presidents.

[Jesse Marioneaux @jesse_marioneau]

Q) What is the difference between Vietnam and Iran?
A) Trump knew how to get out of Vietnam

[David Wolf @DavidWolf777]

Man, this is a tough one. As a kid, obviously Toys R Us. Shame kids today won't be able to experience it. As a teen, it's a toss up between Tower Records and Blockbuster. As a young adult, Radio Shack. Going with the family to Kmart and Sears was cool too.

[Telly Davidson @TellyDavidson]

Probably the best "how we got here" spot I've seen. The weaponized shamelessness and zero-consequences of Clinton/Gingrich and Bush/Cheney, followed by Obama [largely forced to] look *backward* not forward, for his successors.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

How did we get here?

It is an important question.

It is a complex question and multifaceted, the work of a volume, not an essay, but I will do my best to explain a major current that has pulled our tired American ship towards the rocks where ruin waits.

https://t.co/7DQN2sBjvx

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

Happy to confirm:

[Nicky🇺🇸 @NickyScatz]

If you ask democrats if men can get pregnant and ask republicans who won the 2020 election they suddenly forget how to answer a question

[There are other things to do in life @Gregory__Adams]

@realJeremyCarl This is a reflection of their lust for power and refusing to hand it over to a younger generation. What are the first things that you’re supposed to do as a leader in business is to start training the person who’s going replace you when you retire. None of these elderly did this.

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

Another sketchy ‘proof of life’ pic from Mitch. Hey doctors and nurses — what’s wrong with this photo? When did they start posting room numbers on the inside and hang charts on the side of the bed?

[enabuns @EnaBuns]

Chapter 5 is up after a mini hiatus! Thanks so much for the continued interest y'all and thank you for your patience!! I've been enjoying this so much 😬 #ThePitt #ao3 #hucklerobby
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[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

@MollyOShah @AndyBeshearKY There's a reason KY Republicans are so desperate to avoid a special election.... my guess is they think Massie would have a shot in a special election, but you'd need to ask a KY expert for more possibilities
https://t.co/ATio7gbyqY

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Beshear is failing this moment.

He has Presidential ambitions.

This is his moment to prove to the nation that when the cards are down he will actually take action on things in this country and not just write strongly worded letters.

Step the fuck up Governor.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

If it turns out Mitch McConnell is dead and the GOP are involved in a coverup to prevent a special election that is mandated by Kentucky law, people need to go to prison.

Full stop.

[Бианка @BiankaB12]

One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea).

We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New World.

The truth is not hidden - it is almost always readily available. But it is buried beneath an industrial quantity of noise: propaganda, outrage, half-truths, conspiracy theories, influencer theatre, algorithmic rage bait and an endless stream of content designed not to inform us, but to keep us emotionally stimulated.

The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise.

A fact no longer has to be disproven - it only has to be surrounded by a hundred competing claims, stripped of context and nuance, turned into partisan ammunition and pushed into the same feed as celebrity gossip, memes and 15 second videos engineered to deliver the fastest possible dopamine hit. By the time the truth reaches us, it appears as just another piece of content competing for our attention.

That is the more sophisticated form of control: not preventing people from knowing, but exhausting their capacity to care.

Orwell feared a world in which people would be deprived of information. Huxley feared a world in which they would be given so much distraction, stimulation and triviality that they would lose the desire to seek it.

The defining struggle of our age is therefore not simply between truth and censorship, but between truth and indifference.

[1WondrousLife @1WondrousLife]

Mitch McConnell is dead as a doornail.

[Telly Davidson @TellyDavidson]

@JoyceCarolOates I'm happy to say they do! Had a brindle tabby feral I cared for for four years before he passed (fresh water, kibble, leftovers on my balcony patio every morning - wouldn't let me get him) but would play with domesticated cats and even roll over and do cuties on his own for me

[Telly Davidson @TellyDavidson]

@JoyceCarolOates I'm happy to say they do! Had a brindle tabby feral I cared for for four years before he passed (fresh water, kibble, leftovers on my balcony patio every morning - wouldn't let me get him) but would play with domesticated cats and even roll over and do cuties on his own for me

[S. Carlin @carlin_sus46010]

Mitch McConnell should have retired from Congress years ago. As much as I dislike him, I'm sorry to know that he's probably brain dead or I should say, dead. It's elder abuse and we need term limits. Someone needs to come forward and let everyone know the exact status of Mitch. I think we all know he's gone but confirmation is necessary.