There goes the First Amendment.

There must be an effective Boycott Fascists app, so that zero dollars from Trump-victim Americans go to businesses and institutions that menace us (& democracy, rule of law, science, public health, free speech, prosperity, America's power in the world & reason itself) more with each passing day.

Trump's ally strikes again

Listen. I believe in my ability as a writer, but I know it’s asking a lot for you to support me when Ty Burr and Alan Sepinwall are out here with their own newsletters. Whatever support you can offer is appreciated

The 'Don't Tread on Me' people are in jackboots treading on the other half of the country.

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

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Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.

Republican Presidential speechwriter David Frum: Trump's tariffs are reducing supply and raising real costs of almost every good in the economy. It's like what OPEC did to the United States in 1973-75, only this time it's the US president doing it to his own country.

Rudnick: Netanyahu just declared Mike Johnson "a goy's goy. He's like mayonnaise on white bread with a bottle of Diet Sprite. He washes Trump's golf cart with his tongue. He's what Jesus called 'an elf with no muscle tone or morals.' He's a spritz of Febreze in a cheap suit

Steve Martin correctly predicts:Trump will meet Putin in Alaska. America returns Alaska to Russia for nothing. Russia gets to take Ukraine.Putin will NOT release the pee tape nor the Epstein list. Trump will get golden knee pads...the likes of which you've never seen. Trump keeps the beauty pageant.

Among white voters who'd moved more than 2 hours from their hometown--improving their odds of getting a good job--Hillary Clinton had a 6-point lead. Those living within 2 hours of home backed Trump by 9 points. And those who had never left their hometown supported him by a remarkable 26 points.

Every day @stephenking.bsky.social proves he is a really good writer.

Very interesting thoughtful article by one of my most talented former colleagues. rebeccasun.substack.com/p/the-gilded...

I sat right behind Larry Flynt at the Paramount screening of The People Vs. Larry Flynt. He seemed to be weeping, but I was told leaky eyes was just a symptom of his nerve damage.

My uncle Cato Swalling escaped this sinking ship, but went back in to save his buddies, fellow sailors stuck in the boiler room. He got a posthumous Purple Heart, and he'd bought triple life insurance, which paid for my mom to go to U. Washington & meet my dad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqL...

Conservative David Frum: Obama should've said:"Russia worked to influence the 2016 election, but did not successfully manipulate ANY VOTING MACHINES." We cannot know whether Russia did or didn't manipulate any VOTES by its pro-Trump clandestine operations in 2016, but likely it moved at least some.

Frum sensibly notes: The Wikileaks releases in October 2016 did Hillary Clinton considerable political damage. Wikileaks got its material from Russian espionage operations. Wikileaks surely influenced some voters, even if Russia failed in its effort to manipulate voting machines to help Trump.

Want to know what Ozzy Osbourne planned to tell God in heaven? He told Jim Sullivan in a piece I was delighted to edit: www.aarp.org/entertainmen...

Jeff Greenfield channeling Pam Bondi: "Did you think I said I have Epstein's LIST on my desk? No no! I had Epstein's 'Liszt!' on my DISC. The 'Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2' ! A simple misunderstanding."

David Frum reminds us: As Scooby Doo taught millions of TV watchers: if the deceased villain's best friend tells you there's nothing worth seeing inside the locked closet ... there's probably something worth seeing inside the locked closet.

Projekt Europa:This is the Quantum Presidency. He simultaneously doesn't know about a major decision [Ukraine], and also would know about any decision. His knowledge exists in a superposition of total ignorance and absolute omniscience. Reality collapses to what's politically convenient that second.

Both of my poorly paid backup freelance reviewers from when I was Portland's daily film critic skyrocketed to stardom: Kim Morgan (Nightmare Alley) and Shawn Levy (serial biographer, most recently of Clint Eastwood). I couldn't be happier unless I were them!

This year it feels more like the Farce of July.

Ah, the golden age.

The Bear made superb use of Paul Simon's "Let Me Live in Your City," demo version (different lyrics) of what became the killer tune "Something So Right." Quincy Jones' orchestration of the final version is genius, but the demo has a whole other pristine beauty. americansongwriter.com/revised-behi...

I agree.

NYT:Cuomo Doesn’t Blame Himself for Losing the Primary. Others Do. David Edelstein:"He didn't ask for our vote, he felt we owed it to him." Cuomo supporter David Paterson: “His blind spot is that he doesn’t really connect particularly well with, just, people.” Paterson is legally blind.

While we wait for the Supreme Court to rule in a critical redistricting case from Louisiana, this is what the GOP is up to in Texas and Ohio. Remember the GOP's plan is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for them to cheat.

All 11 episodes of The David Frum Show now on one single YouTube page m.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

The saddest "what might have been" images

That’s exactly what this is about. Distraction. For all of this and that lame duck, low energy spectacle

David Frum notes: In 1979, Portugal and Iran were economic peers. If mullahs had chosen free markets, democracy, peace with neighbors, US alliance, Iran and Portugal would have stayed economic peers.The regime's "resistance" was just mystification for oppression, aggression, poverty & backwardness.

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Want to be Patricia Highsmith's live-in assistant? You'd better give the correct answer to this question: "Do you like Hemingway?" yalereview.org/article/work...

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.” They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

🚨BREAKING: Georgia Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN four State Election Board rules concerning certification and hand counting ballots last year. A big victory for GA voters and a stinging defeat for the RNC and election deniers. www.democracydocket.com/cases/georgi...

When your only standards are double standards.

#climatechange #climatecrises #greenenergy #science #globalwarming

Michael McFaul: “Had Trump’s anti-foreign student policies been in place, Oxford's Elon Musk would've built Tesla in the UK, Tsinghua U's Jensen Huang would've built Nvidia in China or Taiwan, and Moscow State U grad Sergei Brin would've built Google in Russia.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"The trade policy uncertainty index [is] through the roof, up 846 percent versus a year ago."

Sure, he's published 74 papers in Nature and elsewhere with over 14,000 citations — but now my brain scientist nephew Trygve is on TV! www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGYJ...

Mike Johnson: “The adults are back in the room and we are going to turn this economy around." James Surowiecki: "Better than 4% unemployment w/inflation below 3% and the economy growing 2.8% in real terms? Because that's the economy Trump was given."

David Frum: 2025 is also the 250th anniversary of the US Navy and the US Marine Corps - but their founding dates don't coincide with El Jefe Maximo's birthday party, so no parade for them.

Ain’t just the CBO. Penn/Wharton model says $3.6T as well.

They're eating the checks, they're eating the balances.