A little more on this: The union issue is with the IATSE crew, but the film has a SAG/AFTRA contract for actors. Didn't stop them from advertising for non-union actors last year. (Possible the ad was from before the contract was locked in, but SAG actors had joined the film prior to the date shown)

Mike Johnson reminds me of Peter O’Toole in The Ruling Class.

Goddamn, these people are beautiful. What beautiful people. It makes me cry.

*screams* www.instagram.com/reel/DRd2ldW...

Hey members of mainstream news, you know this includes you, your family, your friends too right? #ClimateEmergency

Over on X, the nazi algorithm & foreign bots site, they've convinced themselves that climate change is no longer a big deal. They are very wrong:

Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out. The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

It’s important to note: this is one of, if not the most, rabidly right wing legislative bodies in the country. As a Hoosier living abroad (California), I am gobsmacked.

I wonder if trump ever looks at all the news about epstein investigations and thinks "yknow, this is a lot like bamboo making a lawn look unkempt."

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

I took my seven year old to her first protest yesterday. When we got home she said she wanted to paint something but wouldn’t tell me what. She was very proud of it, I cried, it was awesome. #nokings

A quick note about money and comedy and power. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Imagine saying this with zero irony.

Colbert should break out his phone in the opening monologue and show everyone how to cancel Disney+ #wgastrong

Really not lost on me that a lot of the people cheerleading the authoritarian regime are themselves failed comedians

it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient

The evil that men do lives after them

She’s a real one, and could have been our nominee, and I will never stop bitching about it.

“Assassination?” Dude had a podcast.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Old entertainers need to stop saying this shit. Firstly it's boring grumpiness. Two, It's not true and thirdly, if it's true it also doesn't make sense. How do you "not make" something that already exists

“I know what a healthy child is supposed to look like” says the guy who looks like he fell out of a radioactive scoop of raisins

I admit I don't follow this world too much -- I pay attention to the main fascists not the pseudo intellectual fascists. But here's Curtis Yarvin, who JD Vance is reportedly a "disciple" of, arguing for the institution of slavery. He tries to dress it up in bullshit, but its slavery.

This hurricane may end up being so powerful it expends as much energy as the entire 2013 hurricane season. Rapid climate warming by big oil isn’t a “new normal.” It’s a new ever escalating abnormal.

Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.

It is very difficult, when organizing people in this moment, to balance two true things in tension w/ each other: 1. The threat is bigger/longer than you are perceiving and you are underreacting on offense 2. The threat is less proximate/powerful than you fear and you are overreacting on defense

You are not going to out "tough on crime" fascist Republicans. Because they don't actually care about *crime* - they care about racism and power.

they want to be accepted as mainstream so badly. people like gutfeld, hannity, glen beck, limbaugh (still dead) wanted to be comedians but couldnt hack it so they took the easier course - be a right wing media asshole. but in their hearts they want to be in the mainstream circle.

reskeet the shit out of this and let’s all make their lives hell

I have spent multiple weeks working on this story. We are not dropping it. I hope you will give this a read.

Yep: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Leonardo José Colmenares Solórzano, a 31-year-old Venezuelan, wants the world to know that he was tortured over four months in a Salvadoran prison. He said guards stomped on his hands, poured filthy water into his ears and threatened to beat him.

America is a reality TV production company that also has a nuclear arsenal

A lot of people are learning that cowardice won’t save them in real time. Might as well be brave.

Wait a sec. Last year NYC had 171 firearms deaths on a population of 8.3 million. Louisiana had 1,266 deaths on a pop of 4.6 million, which is on the order of 12 times as many. You are twelve times as likely to be killed by a bullet in Louisiana than in NYC.

We, as a nation, do not deserve Josh Johnson. We don’t deserve fucking Carrot Top at this point, but we have Josh Johnson. Protect this man at all costs.

She’ll be a guest at the White House before August is over.

It’s chilly so I’m wearing a hoodie cinched tight over my face. I was walking towards my car parked next to day laborers getting leaf blowers together, they saw me coming and quickly went into the truck and locked the doors. I just realized after what they were scared of, and fuck this country.

Actually do things with homeless people — they are members of your community, half of them have jobs, they’re not people to play safari with and volunteer at a soup kitchen once and think you’re one and done — and you will find that the line between them and you becoming them is shockingly thin

I bet you freaking communists of Bluesky have some second thoughts about releasing the Epstein lists now that you know it might include your favorite politician of all-time William Jefferson Clinton

US conservatives are bound & determined to prevent humanity from addressing climate change.

"In each civilization some men run wild. If we're lucky, we control them early. If not . . . ." Hoo boy. I'm reading James Michener's 1963 novel Caravans. This scene, which takes place in 1946, is between a former Nazi and an American diplomat. The Nazi calls it. 🧵

@brianstack153.bsky.social Brian, I’m so sorry this is happening to you and your similarity brilliant colleagues. I’m sure you and the show will land on your feet, but it must feel terrible to have your bosses bend the knee at your expense. Much respect for all that you do and will continue to do.

Colbert should do an entire show of Epstein Trump jokes tonight. All questions to guests about Epstein or Trump or both. Every musical transition a song like Thank Heavens for Little Girls. Every Monologue joke. Etc.

Colbert will be all right, maybe even better off. The world's his oyster and I'm sure MSNBC and Netflix will come calling. He could stand up the biggest late night YouTube channel in days. But they are just torching the Late Show, an institution, solely to appease a dictator. And that fucking sucks.

Congrats to Stephen Colbert for never bending the knee.