Writing a Los Angeles crime novel. Contributing film criticism to Cinema Scope, Cineaste and Film Journey. Programming for Acropolis Cinema.
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Robert Koehler retweeted
I think the general consensus of people around the world is that Americans can get fooled by a con man once, but to return him to power a 2nd time after having seen his corruption, incompetence, ignorance, & buffoonery, the problem isn’t just Trump it’s the American people.
Robert Koehler retweeted
Anti-Semitism is a hatred of Jews.
Anti-Zionism is a hatred of Israel.
@MarkRuffalo seems to understand the distinction. Why can’t you?
Robert Koehler retweeted
Here’s the problem. When you put another country above the USA, when you are in the US government, no matter what you say, you aren’t working for the American people. Go be a lobbyist. Register as a lobbyist for a foreign government and make your living that way, but don’t take a paycheck from the US taxpayer. Get out of representing the people of the USA.
Jon is joined by U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) for discussion on the Democratic Party, Israel, and the issues that continue to shape his politics. New podcast out tomorrow!
Robert Koehler retweeted
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
- John Steinbeck
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Steinbeck never wrote this; it's a paraphrase by Ronald Wright (2004), not a direct quote. Steinbeck's actual 1960 line: "we didn't have any self-admitted proletarians. Everyone was a temporarily embarrassed capitalist" — about 1930s Communists he'd met, not millionaires. empathicfinance.com/are-you-a-temp…
Robert Koehler retweeted
Ah nothing like some masked Nazis marching through DC on the 4th of July with Confederate flags to celebrate America’s 250th
Robert Koehler retweeted
Killers of the Flower Moon is one of a handful of films that I call “litmus test movies”: if you don’t see why this is a spectacular film, I sort of question your overall judgment in film. Call me reductive- it’s just how I feel. This is a masterpiece from Scorsese & DiCaprio should’ve received an Oscar nomination at a minimum.
Robert Koehler retweeted
One year ago today, Trump and Republicans passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, cutting healthcare by $1 trillion. Since then:
—The average cost of healthcare has doubled
—4.2 million Americans lost ACA coverage
—3.8 million Americans lost Medicaid coverage
—Nearly 500 hospitals, clinics, and nursing homes have closed
Robert Koehler retweeted
This image is from today. A Black woman sits on the DC metro as masked white nationalists prepare to march on our nation's capital.
This is America's 250th anniversary. REUTERS/Cheney Orr
Robert Koehler retweeted
BREAKING: Vibrio vulnificus — a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria with a staggering 20% mortality rate — is now being detected in multiple U.S. waterways.
And here’s the part you’re not supposed to ignore: this comes after the Trump administration dismantled critical water monitoring systems and gutted CDC programs that were tracking this very threat.
When you defund science and silence public health experts, Americans pay the price.
Robert Koehler retweeted
It turns out the great egg price increase that helped topple Joe Biden's presidency was <checks notes> due to an alleged conspiracy among egg producers to artificially increase prices and the coverage of that fact is a blink-and-you-miss-it story on the NYT website 🙃
Robert Koehler retweeted
Let's be clear: Trump's administration is not "America First."
It is "Trump First."
Robert Koehler retweeted
Ossoff: We see a faithless president, self-dealing, while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes, while he plunges the nation recklessly into war, plunders our health care, and sends prices soaring.
And while the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself.
While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold.
Voting rights laws are dismantled, prisons for immigrants are full of children, and all the while we see this wickedness advanced and defended by those who wrap themselves in the banner of righteous faith.
But we ask, where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick, to take from those with the least to give to those with the most, to violate the house of worship to hunt down the refuge
Robert Koehler retweeted
THE COMPLETE KUBRICK 📕 Thirteen films, one singular collection. bit.ly/4fWkIP3
Introducing THE COMPLETE KUBRICK: an unprecedented box set bringing together Stanley Kubrick’s entire directorial output for the first time. A titan of cinema whose influence extends across visual art, philosophy, politics, technology, fashion, and beyond, Kubrick created an unparalleled string of masterpieces. Over the years, his body of work has been collected on home video only in partial form, never as a whole—until now.
Robert Koehler retweeted
Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery -- and then ties it?
Robert Koehler retweeted
.@BarackObama shades Trump: The exhibits here focus on the shared values that make democracy possible. That no one is above the law. That our military owe allegiance to the people and the Constitution. A belief in the peaceful transfer of power after the people have spoken in fair and free elections. And a belief that honesty, integrity, kindness, and compassion matter
