#Robert Milton

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Devotion (1931)

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William Powell-Ruth Chatterton-Clive Brook "Charming sinners" 1929, de Robert Milton.

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Bella Donna (Robert Milton, 1934) 

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Matt Smith as Robert Mapplethorpe & McKinley Belcher III as Milton Moore MAPPLETHORPE: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (2020) dir. Ondi Timoner

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Rob James-Collier as Thomas Barrow

DOWNTON ABBEY S06EP01

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Philip Glass – Robert Wilson, Einstein on the Beach, (12" Vinyl), Designed by Milton Glaser, Tom 101, The Tomato Music Company, Ltd. [Tomato Records], 1978 [MoMA, New York, NY]

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Mike Luckovich

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"Russia, Russia, Russia. It's always Russia!"

October 9, 2024

Robert B. Hubbell

On a day of major political stories, the Earth is reminding us that we are guests on this planet subject to our collective good behavior over the long term. Hurricane Milton is threatening Florida like no other storm in the last century. Millions are (wisely) evacuating in the face of strong winds and a record storm surge that will inundate coastal areas.

Two months ago, Trump joked about human-caused climate change creating “more beachfront property.” In 2021, 175 House Republicans and 35 Senate Republicans voted to defund FEMA. See MTN News, A Whopping 175 House Republicans Voted Against FEMA Funding in 2021. Many of those lawmakers are now criticizing FEMA for being overwhelmed and under-resourced. Last week, Speaker Mike Johnson refused to call a special session of the House to enact emergency supplemental funding for FEMA.

Jokes aside, the substantive policy of the Republican Party is to promote fossil fuels and undermine green energy. See Center for American Progress, Project 2025 Would Jeopardize Global Climate Action. One of Trump's first acts in 2017 was to serve notice that the US would withdraw from the Paris Climate Accords, and one of Joe Biden’s first acts was to rescind that notice. If Trump is re-elected, we should expect that Trump will again seek to withdraw from global efforts to fight human-caused climate change. See NBC News, Mike Johnson won't commit to bringing House back before the election for more hurricane relief.

The weather is not the climate and record-breaking weather events are not (in themselves) climate change. But acceleration in global climate trends over time are evidence of human caused climate change. Indeed, the tendency of hurricanes to rapidly increase in intensity—like Hurricane Milton—is part of a new trend in hurricane behavior. See NBC News, Hurricane Milton's rapid intensification is part of a climate-fueled trend.  

Climate change is maddeningly difficult because its effects are difficult to track—until they are not. We may be living through one of those moments in which the effects of climate change are undeniably manifest. The question facing us is whether we have the capacity to maintain our concern and sense of urgency after the water has receded and the news crews have moved to the next breaking story. We need the ability to engage in long-term thinking and the patience to allow solutions to work over decades (or longer).

Many worthy and effective organizations are focused on fighting human-caused climate change. I have previously endorsed and appeared before Third Act, an organization started by Bill McKibben. Third Act describes itself as “a community of Americans over sixty determined to change the world for the better. Third Act harnesses an unparalleled generational power to safeguard our climate and democracy.” Check out Third Act—or highlight your climate focused organization in the Comments section.

In the meantime, my wife and I express our concern and empathy for the hundreds of thousands of Floridians affected by Hurricane Milton. Be safe and follow the guidance of authorities!

[Robert B. Hubbell Newsletter]

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Stills of Carrie Preston with guest star and husband Michael Emerson (Judge Milton Crawford) in an upcoming Season 2 episode of Elsbeth

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Satan Summoning his Legions by John Robert Cozens

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One thing I’ve grown to appreciate about the “Red Dead Redemption” series now that I’m older is that you can tell Rockstar approached this project as an anti-western. It lures you in with the promise of Wild West, yeehaw goodness, but when you actually play the games, you get hit with the brutal reality of this world.

Examples of what I mean:

1) The Mexican Revolution arc isn’t romanticized. At first, you think it’s a simple tale of the evil fascist government fighting against the heroic rebellion. But then you meet the rebel leader and he turns out to be just as bad as the government. It’s a true “both sides are in the wrong” situation and, unfortunately, the ones who truly suffer are the peasants (such as Luisa Fortuna).

2) Frontier life isn’t just shooting and action. It was also watching over animals, building farms and ranches, and trading with towns. The games really make you feel the monotony of doing chores and yard work, especially when John was in his Jim Milton phase.

3) Outlaw life isn’t romanticized either. Although you start off as a happy family, it eventually devolved into backstabbing, despair, and self-destruction. Even before then, your group aren’t the greatest of people, especially with the whole robbing people at gunpoint and shooting up towns.

4) Good guys don’t always get a happy ending. Also, every action has a consequence. John Marston had to learn that the hard way.

5) The racism. I feel like a lot of Western-themed media tries to skirt around this issue, or even avoid the topic (such as the 2016 remake of Magnificent Seven, which had a diverse group of fighters). Red Dead doesn’t pull back its punches. You have the Ivy League professor who treated Native Americans as subjects for his racist research. Abraham Reyes straight up calls Chinese people an inferior race. Then there’s the Blackwater short film playfully talking about the massacre of Native American tribes.

6) Along the same lines as point 5, the sexism. For example, there was the propaganda short film about opposing the women’s suffrage movement. And, of course, Sadie Adler not wanting to be relegated to cooking for the group since she can shoot.

7) This is more for RDR2. You actually have to pay attention to the maintenance of the horses and the guns. I’ve never seen this in a Wild West movie/TV show, and yet it’s integral to someone whose life revolves around horseback riding and shooting people!

8) Not skirting around the issue of disease, especially when healthcare wasn’t as advanced as it is nowadays. You can see that especially with Arthur and Abigail.

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Sometimes I just can't BELIEVE how Dutch just left John to die, and how he just wanted to leave Abigail with Mr. Milton. Like, he practically raised John, since he was twelve years of age. TWELVE YEARS OF AGE. And then just leaves him to die whenever he gets shot in chapter 6. That was fifteen years of being together, and it's still fucking crazy how Dutch just lied to everyone telling them that he was dead, knowing damn well that he was probably alive. And as for Abigail, I think I understand that Dutch didn't want to get caught by the pinkertons, and by the agency while getting Abigail, but if he was as good as a man he said he fucking was, then he should have went and got Abigail. I just think Dutch was fucking horrible for doing those things, and I'm so GLAD he got what he deserved in red dead redemption 1.

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The best of: Milton Dammers

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Douglas Fairbanks Jr.-Helen Chandler "Outward bound" 1930, de Robert Milton, Ray Enright.

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mlp au my friend and i made last night

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Robert Mapplethorpe & Milton Moore ↳ You're perfect. And we'll take care of you. ↳ MAPPLETHORPE: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT (2020) | dir. Ondi Timoner

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a little something the bestie and i thought up while talking prep last night

(i'm from florida & a katrina + wilma survivor; i'm allowed to make the joke. before anyone gets their britches in a twist. also abigail hate will get you blocked, we stan)