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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

False accusations, reckless insinuations, and guilt by association. Now, where have I seen all this before…?

Joe McCarthy gestures to a map while Joseph Welch looks exasperated

A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just revisited BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM on the big screen. Hard to overstate how much this film taught me about storytelling—when I was lucky enough to see it, *very* young, on its original theatrical run. Now to check out @historyonfilm.bsky.social’s recent episode on BATMAN: TAS…

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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Chase

Alt: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Chase

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Just got out of THE WEIGHT and really enjoyed it on the big screen. Can’t say I bought Bavaria as a stand-in for Oregon, but Ethan Hawke is tremendous as always, and it’s one of the best cinematic takes on the Depression since ROAD TO PERDITION.

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The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Don't forget to check out this week's all-new episode where I talk NETWORK with @joshshepperd.bsky.social and @abradschwartz.bsky.social! And make sure to come back next week to hear me talk about music biopics with @chriswade.bsky.social! youtu.be/Az9u5Z-ueiM?...

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"Death of a Newsman" Episode Trailer (NETWORK 1976)

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Thrilled to dissect one of my favorite films with my friends @historyonfilm.bsky.social and @joshshepperd.bsky.social. Check out our conversation about NETWORK—which also gets into Edward R. Murrow, Neil Postman, and another Ned Beatty classic (THUNDERPANTS): podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... 🗃️

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Death of a Newsman

Podcast Episode · The History on Film Podcast · September 21 · 2h 34m

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I highly recommend watching the whole thing, which was (thanks to El-Sayed’s performance and Rogers’s absence) easily among the best TV “debates” I’ve ever seen. youtu.be/LZREebWZXbg?...

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U.S. Senate Race in Michigan: Full Debate

YouTube video by FOX 2 Detroit

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

@historyonfilm.bsky.social has discovered that when asked about the great Ned Beatty, I will inevitably bring up my entirely unironic love for the film THUNDERPANTS. youtu.be/rZECfpHQTw8

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Thunderpants (2002) - Trailer

YouTube video by Video Shack

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

While boosting the interests of opioid makers in Congress, Rogers repeatedly voted against funding healthcare for 9/11 first responders. So I’ll never miss an opportunity to vote against him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Republican seeking to implicate Abdul El-Sayed over 9/11 voted twice against benefits for first responders

Mike Rogers has also helped kill other bills that would have provided healthcare to responders and survivors

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I loved everything about COYOTE VS. ACME—including this poster, which is one of the best one-sheets of recent years. (And yes, it gave me a lump in my throat near the end.)

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CNN @cnn.com · 12/09/2026

During the reading of names at the September 11 memorial service in New York, the son of one victim of the 2001 terror attacks condemns hatred and Islamophobia.

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

SPOORLOOS (aka THE VANISHING) I’d been warned how brutally disturbing the ending is—but, like the main character, I just had to know…

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The last thing I did before finding out about the 9/11 attacks was begin a journal entry for my English class about what was supposed to be a normal day. Reading this powerful piece from @vermontgmg.bsky.social took me right back to that moment:

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The History on Film Podcast @historyonfilm.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Here's a look at the first five weeks of Season 3! If you want to join in on the fun, reach out here or to historyonfilmpodcast[at]gmail! @abradschwartz.bsky.social @joshshepperd.bsky.social @dandock.bsky.social @chriswade.bsky.social @vincenthaddad.bsky.social

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not to mention the fact that Ed Murrow broadcast from the top floor of Grand Central Terminal, while this photo was taken at the Oyster Bar—on the lower level. (Perhaps there’s a metaphor in there somewhere…)

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Just to show how integrated the 🇺🇸/🇨🇦 economies are, the original maker of Canadian Club (Hiram Walker) was an American who moved his distillery across the river from Detroit to get away from the Temperance movement. Capone & the Purple Gang later “imported” a lot of his product during Prohibition.

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Even if you don’t share my lifelong fascination with Civil War submarines, this is still very much worth your time:

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

“There are no words to describe the thing that is happening,” Murrow reported a few days later. “…you can have little understanding of the life in London these days… These things must be experienced to be understood.” And yet, somehow, he always found the right words. 🗃️

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What's an example of perfect casting?

Dick Powell as Philip Marlowe in MURDER, MY SWEET

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Not at all surprised COYOTE VS. ACME had me in stitches throughout, but I did not expect the slight lump in my throat near the end. Can’t remember the last time a film filled me with this much joy.

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Acme Vs Coyote Acme Sucks

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Sometimes “research” means going through boxes in an archive, or newspaper articles online. Sometimes it means taking to the skies in a WWII bomber (one of only two Avro Lancasters still airworthy) to try and imagine Edward R. Murrow’s experience flying in a raid over Berlin. 🗃️

Me in the machine gun turret of an Avro Lancaster in flight

The nose of a parked Avro Lancaster flying the Canadian flag

Me taking a selfie in an Avro Lancaster flying above Niagara Falls

Me on the flight deck of an Avro Lancaster

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Having just flown over Lake Ontario this afternoon, I can assure you (despite what you may see online) nothing about the lake has changed.

A Google Map showing Lake Ontario as “Lake America”

Me in the cockpit of an Avro Lancaster above Lake Ontario

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Update: Sloooowly I turned, and…NIAGARA FALLS!

Looking at Niagara Falls over the wing of an Avro Lancaster in flight

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

About to take off in this thing and fly over Lake Ontario, just to make sure the name hasn’t changed.

Avro Lancaster sitting on the tarmac on a sunny day

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

An academic goes on a federally funded research trip.

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Rooney “was popular and beloved because he was trusted. And he was trusted because he took core journalistic principles and used them the way they’re supposed to be used: by sticking up for the little guy.” One could say much the same thing about Edward R. Murrow (and all the true greats).

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Obi-Wan Kenobi said it best: “Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?”

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’d bet the outrage is even higher here in Michigan—where we grow up knowing the Canadians as excellent neighbors, so the idea of starting a trade war with them registers as particularly grotesque and insane.

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Exactly 100 years ago today (August 26, 1926), Eliot Ness took his oath of office as a Prohibition agent in Chicago. He was 23 years old and four years away from taking on Al Capone as leader of the Untouchables. 🗃️

OATH OF OFFICE
Prescribed by Section 1757, Revised Statutes of the United States
(Department or Eablishment
(Bureau or Office)
I.
Eliot Ness
do
(Name in full, pelinted or typed)
solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So HELP ME GOD.
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(Signature of Appointes)
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NOTE.—If the oath is taken before a Notary Public the date of expiration of his commission should be shown.
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THE UNITED BIALES
TREASURY DEPARTMENT
BUREAU OF PROHIBITION
Washington,D.C.
MAY 20.
THESE PRESENTS WITNESS THAT
19.27
Eliot Jess
(whose photograph and signature under official seal are annexed), is regularly appointed and commissioned by the Bureau of Prohibition of the United States Treasury Department to enforce the laws and regulations relating to the manufacture, sale, transportation, control and taxation of alcohol and of intoxicating liquors, under the authority vested in the Bureau of Prohibition by the Congress of the United States and the Secretary of the Treasury.
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Asistant Commisioner. Prohibition.
This commission is void if autographed photograph of appointee does not bear the seal of the Treasury Department.
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Eliot Ness

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Not his best role by far, but only Tim Curry could make the downfall of a henchman this unhinged and unforgettable. #RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7Hx...

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The Shadow (1994) - Showing Claymore the Exit Scene (8/10) | Movieclips

YouTube video by Movieclips

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I still remember how it felt to get my first dose of Dolly Parton’s vaccine, back in the dark days of the pandemic, and I’ll always be grateful to be one of the millions of lives she touched for the better. #RIP

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

One key difference is that Lawrence’s data center ad features an actual voter facing this problem in MI-07, whereas you see Barrett spending time with his constituents about as often as you see Clark Kent standing next to Superman. youtu.be/K3gfFTSTIas?...

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Michigan First

YouTube video by William Lawrence for Congress

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I’d almost decided END OF OAK STREET was the perfect drive-in movie, but I went out of my way to see it in IMAX and am *very* glad I did.

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William Lawrence @wewill2026.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have spent 250 days at sea with just 2 days ashore while fighting Trump's unauthorized war in Iran. Trump says it's "not nearly long enough." Congressman Barrett voted twice to fund this war.

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

After THE ODYSSEY, this is easily my most anticipated film of the year:

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

@michaelsocolow.bsky.social has it right: “Radio is alive, electric, experiential and connective in ways that text cannot match.“ Something about listening to a radio report from before/during WWII still transports me like nothing else can. 🗃️

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A. Brad Schwartz @abradschwartz.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Remember when Trump said he admired the action-hero president Harrison Ford played in AIR FORCE ONE, and Ford replied: “It's not like this in real life, but how would you know?" www.today.com/popculture/h...

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Harrison Ford reminds Donald Trump that 'Air Force One' was only a movie

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