I was late to From as well. I think we're only partway through season 2, so we have some catching up to do AND avoid season 4 spoilers!
10.03.2026 18:44
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I was late to From as well. I think we're only partway through season 2, so we have some catching up to do AND avoid season 4 spoilers!
I'd gone to Catholic school that wasn't very preachy, but around age 12 I went to a friend's church youth group where they talked about abortion, and I didn't know what it was but the way they talked about it didn't make sense to me. Then I started questioning EVERYTHING.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
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I've been treating myself to a solo opera date a couple times a year for the past handful of years since I landed on some deep-discount Bay Area resident list and actually just bought a mini subscription to the next opera season. I do like how some companies are taking advantage of this to promote!
Yeah, I feel like he's often naive and careless in his comments and didn't think this one through, but I question how many people slamming him have gone to a ballet or opera in the past year, if ever.
That statue, which was cast back in 1961, was modeled on 1950s Texas Rangers β as in the law enforcement Texas Rangers β Captain Jay Banks. Since it's unveiling 65 years ago it has spent most of its life at Love Field in Dallas. But then in 2020 it was removed and placed in storage. Why? Because Captain Jay Banks was a racist cop who made it his mission to stop schools from integrating. This is an excerpt from the 2020 book, Cult of Glory: The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers by Doug Swanson, which describes' Banks' role in efforts to keep schools in Texas racially segregated in defiance of the United States Supreme Court's 1954 decision, Brown v. Board of Education: Then there is the form and face of the statue itself. This dates to 1956, when the NAACP, backed with a court order, attempted to integrate the high school in Mansfield, about 30 miles southwest of Dallas. White residents erupted in fury, so Gov. Allan Shivers dispatched the Rangers. But unlike state police in other Southern racial hotspots, the Rangers in Mansfield did not escort black students past howling mobs of white supremacists. They had been sent instead to keep the black children out of a white school.
The commanding Ranger on the scene was Sgt. E.J. βJayβ Banks. A wire service photo showed him casually leaning against a tree outside Mansfield High. To his left, above the schoolβs entrance, was a dummy in blackface, hanging from a noose. Nearby a white mob had assembled. Some carried signs that threatened death for anyone attempting to integrate the school. Banks saw no need to remove the effigy or disperse the mob. βThey were just βsalt of the earthβ citizens,β he later wrote. βThey were concerned because they were convinced that someone was trying to interfere with their way of life.β Blacks were so intimidated that none attempted to enroll at Mansfield. Several days later, Gov. Shivers ordered Banks and a few other Rangers to Northeast Texas, because African-Americans wished to take classes at all-white Texarkana Junior College, a public institution. Again the Rangersβ job was to stop black students from enrolling. As at Mansfield, a mob of white men gathered outside the school. An 18-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy, both black, arrived by cab and began to walk toward the college. The mob blocked their path. Some surrounded the 17-year-old and kicked him, while others threw gravel. The Rangers watched it happen and did nothing except threaten to arrest the two students. That wire service photo of Banks in front of the school with the Black person hung in effigy can be seen at the top of today's newsletter.
The statue was removed from public view in 2020 in the wake of that book about the Rangers being published. This occurred at the same time that statues of Confederates, Klansmen, racists, and segregationists were removed all over the country following the murder of George Floyd. But now the Texas Rangers Baseball Club, knowing full well the history of the statue, its subject, and its removal, and knowing that multiple municipal institutions decided it was inappropriate for public display, is happy to put that statue up in a public concourse at a major league baseball stadium. When I learned of this yesterday afternoon I contacted Major League Baseball and asked the following questions: Is Major League Baseball aware of the history of the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue and its subject, Jay Banks? Is Major League Baseball aware that Love Field and the City of Dallas removed the statue and put it in storage in 2020 after Banks' involvement in attempting to keep schools segregated in the 1950s came to light? Does Major League Baseball condone one of its Clubs erecting a previously-removed statue of a staunch segregationist at its ballpark?; and Does Major League Baseball have any comment regarding the discomfort that will be felt by Black fans when confronted with the statue of a segregationist at Globe Life Field? I did not receive a response. I'm going to assume that the league's silence on this means that it wholly condones the Rangers putting up the "One Riot, One Ranger" statue despite its sordid and extraordinarily well-reported history.
Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Share a TV show you never get tired of rewatching.
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974)
SirΔt (2025)
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025)
Pam Grier posing confidently in the movie Coffy with the words I Like My Coffy Black and Strong
I made my first meme.
Whatβs wrong, Congress? Youβve barely even touched your checks and balances
I expected better from a FIFA Peace Prize recipient
If trying to interfere with the 2020 election is justification for dropping bombs, I have some thoughts on further targets.
Now is a good time to remind people that Max Landis is a creep. He's not a singular, once-in-a-lifetime talent. Hollywood doesn't need to hire him. They choose to. Margo and I recorded this episode in 2020, and I've added an update at the beginning about the latest news.
Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same
Screenshot of a tweet from Katie Miller that reads "Restoring entertainment to a shared common culture devoid of overt liberalism will make our country a better place. Our children deserve programming without a forced trans agenda. A win for consumers. A win for Americans. A win for our children."
This is the wife of the second most powerful person in the American government, openly cheering on the censorship of stories and narratives and values that conflict with her own. It's appalling, and Democrats should absolutely fight back hard.
Abolish the legal gender marker entirely. No government can be trusted to have a database of which people have changed theirs, no government has any business tracking what your gender is "supposed" to be in the first place.
itβs not political itβs about making jokes against women & laughing about it instead of standing up for them or just keeping your mouth shut.making βjokesβ against women and then laughing with them is the problem. they did just as good, even better than you and you laugh at a joke at their expense
A+ State of the Union counterprogramming by TCM.
screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight
Masterful Troll, TCM.
My way isn't very helpful, but on work days I check it several times a day and archive/delete/unsubscribe. Before I go on vacations I aggressively unsubscribe so I'm not spending said vacation fiddling with email.
Share a TV show that raised you
Georgia was skating to MORTAL KOMBAT at the Olympics exhibition gala
Romeo and Juliet (the 1968 Zeffirelli version) and Island of the Blue Dolphins
Movie posters for Scary Movie 3, Mr. Nobody Against Putin, Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed and Wuthering Heights in quotation marks
Happy #LetterboxdFriday! This is the rare occasion in which the 2 new movies among my #LastFourWatched were better than the 2 older movies.
A digital illustration done in black and white graphite style. Toshiro Mifune as his unnamed ronin character in Yojimbo. With both swords prominently on view in his belt, he has his arms pulled inside of his black kimono with one hand coming up through the collar to stroke his chin as he gives some sharp side eye to the right, scheming. In a text box in the upper right corner is what I sincerely hope is an accurate Japanese translation of βmaybe it will happen todayβ.
She won a medal to the song MacArthur Park? Give her another medal.
I took a break from not watching the Olympics to watch hometown girl's performance. She started off at Oakland Ice Center, just like me!
Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness being coopted for a meme for Ash Wednesday. The text says Happy Ash Wednesday. Don't forget your boomstick.
Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.
