Amanda Scott
@amandascott2023
Jungian. Cinéphile. Lawyer. Chess fanatic. CEO NanoApps Medical, Creative Dir. Alias... I read a lot. “The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” Charles Bukowski
Trump launched another fundraising appeal, asking supporters to contribute $15 as part of a “24 HOUR TRUMP FUNDRAISING BLITZ.” He told his cult once again he wants to “try and get to Heaven” and somehow their money helps his mission.. FFS. When does this bullshit end? www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...
The Pentagon is quickly running short on cash. The Pentagon faces an urgent budget shortfall caused largely by the war in Iran, with some critical lines of funding set to run out within weeks even as Trump escalates the conflict with Tehran. And then? This is pathetic. www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
“The most fantastic thing you could film is people reading. I don't see why no one's done it... The movie you'd make would be a lot more interesting than most of them.” Jean-Luc Godard What We leave Behind Photographs by Stéphan Crasneanscki From Jean-Luc Godard’s Archive Foreword by Patti Smith
‘Civilization is like a thin layer of ice upon a deep ocean of chaos and darkness.’ Werner Herzog
This does not include business endeavors by Trump’s sons, including recent investments in military contractors, predictions market companies and billions of dollars of federal assistance to build a Kazakhstan mine - effectively taxpayer funded for their benefit. Thanks, Dad.
It has been a week since Trump's name was removed from The Kennedy Center. Concealment. Familiar theme.
“Unless I am free to do what I do better than anyone else, bring this Institution back... I have no interest in continuing what could only be a hopeless journey into ‘NEVER NEVER LAND.’” Trump Never-Never Land is a fictional utopia where people never grow up. Should be very familiar to him.
"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread... nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." Isaac Asimov
How Dementia Affects Dreaming •Blurring of Dreams and Reality: Was it a dream or an actual memory or a hallucination? •Reduced Dream Recall: Dementia impairs brain networks responsible for memory •Increased Nightmares: From damage to brain areas that regulate emotions and threat detection🤔
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich". Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Happy birthday Marilyn Monroe! #BOTD "Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring" MM Born 100 years ago today.
Pentagon Requirements for Active Duty Service Members who want an invite to attend the White House UFC Fight Service members must be in uniform, adhere to strict body composition standards and look good on camera. Overweight non-camera-friendly personnel are explicitly excluded. Memo to Trump?
Personally, I'd conceal the fact that I'm losing my mind. Actual late night posts.
“It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.” Erich Maria Remarque, author of ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’
Edward Hopper 🙏 July 22, 1882 - May 15, 1967 "Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house." Edward Hopper
“The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it's conformity.” Rollo May 'Corporate Head' in LA was created by Terry Allen in 1990.
"Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful." Lucius Annaeus Seneca Trump's Rededicate 250 will be a celebration “about the history and the foundations of our nation, which was built on Christian values." Whose history? Bollocks.
A Library Dedicated Solely to the Epstein Files Is Opening in New York Estimates suggest that the released material might represent only about 2% of the total data (including video/images) held by authorities. The files released so far? No consequences for Epstein's "closest friend."
'The humanists' replacement for religion: work really hard and somehow, you'll either save yourself or you'll be immortal. Of course, that's a total joke, and our progress is nothing. There may be progress in technology but there's no ethical progress whatsoever.' David Bowie Photo © Gavin Evans
The White Rose (German: Weiße Rose) was a non-violent, intellectual resistance group in Nazi Germany which was led by five students and one LMU Munich professor: Willi Graf, Kurt Huber, Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, and Hans and Sophie Scholl.
Sophie Scholl 🙏 #BOTD (9 May 1921 – 22 February 1943) German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active within the White Rose non-violent resistance group. Convicted of high treason and executed by guillotine. “An end in terror is preferable to terror without end.” Sophie Scholl
Thomas Pynchon 🙏 #BOTD 'Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.' Thomas Pynchon
Saul Bass #BOTD American graphic designer and Oscar winner, best known for his design of motion-picture title sequences, film posters, logos. "You know, whenever I was presented with a challenge that brought up feelings of fear or self-doubt, I almost always said, 'Yes'."
"Those who do not read at age 70 will have lived only one life: their own. The reader will have lived 5000 years: there was when Cain killed Abel, when Renzo married Lucia, when Leopardi admired the infinite ... because reading is a 'immortality backwards'" Umberto Eco Image: Godard's La Chinoise
'I'm not bitter about Hollywood's treatment of me, but over its treatment of D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich von Stroheim, Buster Keaton and a hundred others.' Orson Welles Images from 'F For Fake.' Dir. Orson Welles 1973
Orson Welles 🙏#BOTD 'I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.' Orson Welles
Pete Hegseth pushes 'fake news' about Trump's Iran war Rolling Stone Opinion by Mac William Bishop "No Blood for Oil," the anti-war crowd shouted in the streets back in 2003. Think you can be sold on "Blood for No Oil"? www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...
"The horror! The horror!" The ubiquity of the Mar-a-Lago face. Vogue editor Anna Wintour “I think Lauren is going to be a wonderful asset to the museum and to the event. I’m very grateful for her incredible generosity, and she’s a great lover of costume and obviously of fashion." Obviously. 🤦