Reposted by Amy Holden JonesDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/02/2026When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay. 252106413972
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesProPublica @propublica.org · 22/02/2026Our Pulitzer-winning "Friends of the Court" series began with this story that revealed how SCOTUS Justice Clarence Thomas had, for 20+ years, been treated to undisclosed luxury vacations by real estate titan and GOP megadonor Harlan Crow. (Published April 2023)propublica.orgClarence Thomas Secretly Accepted Luxury Trips From Major GOP DonorIsland-hopping on a superyacht. Private jet rides around the world. The undisclosed gifts to Thomas have no known precedent in the modern history of the Supreme Court. “It’s incomprehensible to me tha... 54285003677
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesTroy Matthews @keeptroyblue.bsky.social · 06/02/2026I’m old enough to remember a time when the President of the United States posting incredibly disgusting racist videos would have caused massive outrage. Now it’s just Friday. meidasnews.com/news/trump-p...meidasnews.comTrump Posts Racist Video of Barack and Michelle ObamaMore vile bigotry from the president 1110121
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesTrailers From Hell @trailersfromhell.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Celebrate TFH Guru @ahj17.bsky.social’s birthday with her Slumber Party Massacre trailer commentary! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGMk...youtube.comAmy Holden Jones on SLUMBER PARTY MASSACREYouTube video by Trailers From Hell 0216
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Lovely article about one of my beloved early films in The New Yorker. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...newyorker.com“Love Letters,” Received Forty Years Too LateAmy Holden Jones’s 1983 melodrama should have established her as a major Hollywood director, but, as a female filmmaker, she faced rejection. 080
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesDavid Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 30/05/2025▸ @ahj17.bsky.social and Jamie Lee Curtis @newyorker.com, Marva Nabili @nytimes.com, new @cineastemagazine.bsky.social, Lisa Lu @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, Takashi Miike @ MUBI, lots of goings on all over … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post... 152
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesAdam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 05/05/2025But Hunter Biden! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...nytimes.comDonald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President TrumpThe president’s older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing deals, many of which will financially benefit their father. 27948771557
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Yes. A big part of why so many young men are turning to destructive, amoral, misogynistic, bigoted, selfish, self-absorbed, blame-everyone-else ideologies is because that's what their dads believe in. 1163115685
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 16/04/2025If only. www.tvinsider.com/1186521/the-.... #TheResidenttvinsider.comCould 'The Resident' Return? Malcolm-Jamal Warner on Revival Chances'We really have such a genuine respect for one another as actors, as people.' 251
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/03/2025Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids. 579124615916
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesLarry Tenney @larrytenney.bsky.social · 21/02/2025If you didn't know... • Exxon • Moulton/Coors • Walmart Have funded Heritage Foundation (#Project2025) for YEARS #Boycott 824115726567
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 21/02/2025The Trump recession begins. There is far worse to come. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/b...nytimes.comStock Market Sees Biggest Declines of Trump’s Presidency So FarFueling a 1.7 percent decline on Friday was an unexpected drop in the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, as Americans worried about stubborn inflation. 010
Reposted by Amy Holden Jonesemptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 17/02/2025Fired Department of Labor IG Larry Turner found $191B in improper COVID unemployment payments, much of it fraud, and was hunting down $135B more when he was fired. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... 8531261434
Reposted by Amy Holden Jones𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 17/02/2025Here’s the guy who replaced Pete Buttigieg. If you’re flying anytime soon, good luck! 85790240
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/02/2025Oh. Would be a shame if everyone shared this everywhere while trump and Eric Adams try to work out a deal. 17580064181
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 11/02/202520 million $ to be exact. Thats what we paid for Trump to go to the Super Bowl. 031
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 02/02/2025RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag. 18795037717613
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/02/2025Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US" 316512426834271
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 31/01/2025Kaine: "He let Musk force the resignation of the FAA administrator. He disbanded an aviation safety committee... he's got an OMB director who's pushing a hiring freeze & saying 'I want to traumatize the federal workforce'"... he's got an anti-safety agenda..that's why he went the race-baiting route" 418145174459
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/01/2025Yeah, how about not dissolving the air safety advisory commission at the FAA. As your team did last week. 12494894911947
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 28/01/2025My husband Michael Chapman on location onTaxi Driver with Scorsese. 230
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesHelen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 18/01/2025Jan 20, 1961. A blizzard the day before. Temperatures well below freezing. Without a coat or hat, JFK gave a speech we still quote today. Robert Frost, 86, recited a poem. Steinbeck and Hemingway and Rothko were among the VIPs. A million people gathered in the cold to hear it. This is the precedent. 669208715703
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesHarry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The Contrarian masthead already the strongest pro-democracy group in the country, probably stronger than all of legacy media combined. Check it out (and it’s already growing beyond this): Contributors include: Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Andrew Weissmann, Andy Borowitz, Asha Rangappa, Barb McQuade, 30683081872
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesThe Lown Institute @lowninstitute.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Our judges said: “There’s no oversight. When a physician is billing millions to Medicare, no follow up occurs to check on the cause.” - Amy Holden Jones (@ahj17.bsky.social) 121
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesThe Lown Institute @lowninstitute.bsky.social · 13/01/2025Source: Sarah Kliff, Katie Thomas (@bykatiethomas.bsky.social), Staggering Rise in Catheter Bills Suggests Medicare Scam, The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/h...nytimes.comStaggering Rise in Catheter Bills Suggests Medicare ScamSeven medical supply companies made suspicious claims involving thousands of Medicare beneficiaries, an advocacy group found. 101
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesThe Lown Institute @lowninstitute.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The results are in! These are the winners of the 2024 Shkreli Awards, a top-ten list of the most egregious examples of profiteering and dysfunction in healthcare this past year. 🧵 lowninstitute.org/projects/202...lowninstitute.org2024 Shkreli Awards - Lown InstituteA top ten list of the worst examples of profiteering and dysfunction in health care, named for the infamous "pharma bro" Martin Shkreli. 123
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 07/01/2025I could not agree more. It’s sheer snobbery for Academy voters to ignore great popular entertainment. Many of recent winners were critical darlings that no one watches anymore. open.substack.com/pub/entertai...open.substack.comMy 2025 Plea to the Academy Voters: Nominate More Popular Films For Best PicturePlus Four More Ideas to Help Save the Ceremony 030
Reposted by Amy Holden Jonesdamagedhearts @damagedhearts.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Bit late to the party, but found the medical show #TheResident on Netflix. It's a great show, wonderful acting and writing. Thanks to @ahj17.bsky.social for creating this show 👏 and hoping Netflix do the decent thing and hooks back up with Chastain hospital. 061
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 13/12/2024Trump is Hitler. Never appease. Dont bend the knee. Fight. Never give up. Never, never, never give up. #theresistance 030
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 09/12/2024This story, inspired by another doctor who also gave chemo to healthy patients, was our season one arc on #TheResident. I was told by other oncologists at the time that more doctors were doing this as well. Why? If an oncologist infuses the chemo, it pays big time. 062
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesVíctor M Montori MD @vmontori.bsky.social · 05/12/2024And The Resident is the brilliant show in which art predicted reality placing a first edition of “Why We Revolt” on the desk of a fictional hospital CEO. @patientrevolution.org 093
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesMark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 05/12/2024You may not understand why, but the healthcare insurance and PBM contracts YOU have signed for Tesla, SpaceX , @X, along with CEOs of other big companies , have more impact on healthcare costs and quality of care in this country, than anything you can do with DOGE 2209488379773
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesAaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 30/11/2024The Texas Maternal Mortality Committee is skipping review of maternal deaths after the Dobbs decision and not enough people are talking about it. My latest with @meidastouch.bsky.social: meidasnews.com/news/texas-m...meidasnews.comTexas Maternal Mortality Committee Skips Reviewing Two Years Of Maternal DeathsThe deaths occurred in the two years following the Dobbs decision and the Texas state abortion ban 28445162293
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesFred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 01/12/2024The biggest dumsbshit on Earth just nominated this jackass to run the FBI. 76897121740
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Our colorful villain from the first film I rewrote and directed, #SlumberPartyMassacre has passed. Rest in peace driller killer. deadline.com/2024/11/mich... villella-dies-84-slumber-party-massacre-actor-1236186479/deadline.com 160
Reposted by Amy Holden JonesJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 23/11/2024A government run by billionaires will never be for the people. 20405242013180
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Introducing myself here. I am a screenwriter, director and tv ep and creator. You’d know me for Mystic Pizza, Beethoven, Indecent Proposal and The Resident. #art #screenwriting #democrat #gardening #film #tv #birds 5111
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Trump feels free to create a government of rapists and sex trafickers because he got away with similar crimes and won without the women’s votes. We are entering the reign of the American Taliban. #TrumpCabinet 021
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Stop blaming anyone but Merrick Garland. Trump stole classified documents and defied subpoenas and shoukd be in jail. www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...usnews.com 041
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 17/11/2024The endlessly entertaining John Hodgman has a new #podcast and I’m on it! Enjoy! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/j...podcasts.apple.comJJHO Presents: E Pluribus Motto!Podcast Episode · Judge John Hodgman · 10/22/2024 · Bonus · 1h 2m 010
Amy Holden Jones @ahj17.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Today I deleted the demon X leaving 11,000 followers behind. Hope to connect with truth seekers, the film community, writers, gardeners, art lovers, pet people and more. Also found as @aholdenj on threads. 2181