Devil Wears Prada 2 was quite a lot of fun.

Great piece.

Google co-founder Sergey Brin — the third-richest man on the planet — is reportedly spending $57M to defeat California's proposed billionaire's tax. So he and his fellow oligarchs can't afford a wealth tax, but they'll spend a fortune buying elections? See the problem...

Hey so, Trump's war is officially really, really illegal starting tomorrow, seems like that should be every headline.

Writin' about Maul matthewfreeman.substack.com/p/somebody-t...

This Weeks Onion Magazine: You’re Not Wrong, Babies Are Getting Worse: Enshittification Comes For A Once-Beloved Classic

If you're a liberal, it's probably not fun to live under a 6-3 conservative SCOTUS. But consider this: Hillary Clinton's email security and retention protocols at the State Department were subpar.

Re: Fidelity and SPLC: we should all take a closer look at the rules surrounding Donor Advised Funds.

Today's SCOTUS decision is a disaster and a slap in the face to all the people that fought so hard for the Voting Rights Act. Combine this with the attack on the Southern Poverty Law Center and the project is obvious: undo the Civil Rights movement and restore white power.

More Star Wars writing, this time about LEGOs. open.substack.com/pub/matthewf...

Just a quick reminder that the US bombed and killed children about six weeks ago and now we’re arguing over the price of gas and ballrooms.

Clearly an ADA violation. variety.com/2026/film/ne...

“He usually hits me but tonight he said I didn’t burn dinner!” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

They didn’t stage this. That would require planning and expertise. They’re just chaos magnets and buffoons who inspire the worst is the world around them.

This is such a flagship moment for where America is right now. Gun violence, showmanship, celebrity, mass confusion, and also according to C-SPAN, people are opening the bottles of wine still on the tables.

I’m a conspiracy theorist about basically one thing: most popular culture outrage is manufactured by bots.

I'm fine with Danhausen being Toru Yano.

Rocky Horror Show on Broadway was a fucking blast but it’s also bursting with sincerity. Highly recommend. Luke Evans is incredible!

I have New York Times "breaking news" delivered to my inbox for exactly one headline. When I see that headline, finally, I will unsubscribe to all that spam.

I don’t want NYC to become a museum. It should be a living, breathing testament to the working people of our city.

Why yes, I did get a ton of tickets to the first Star Wars movie in theaters in seven years, why do you ask? Also: the clips and trailers have rocked. I simply cannot understand the urge to be cynical about Star Wars. It's a very sweet, fun, exciting story in a world that could use more lightness.

I feel exactly zero sympathy for Republicans who feel disenfranchised in Virginia. You voted for a man who attacked the US Capitol and then pardoned the entire violent mob. Go jump in a lake, dorks.

Virginia! Today is the last day to vote in the redistricting referendum. Make sure to vote YES. You can find your polling location at IWillVote.com/VA.

It's crazy to me that Lucasfilm brought reporters in to watch the first fifteen minutes of The Mandalorian & Grogu as if to prove they made a movie. It's kind of the opposite of how Star Wars has been promoted for almost 50 years?

I continue to write about Maul. matthewfreeman.substack.com/p/calling-mo...

The WWE crowd apparently doesn’t know what “whoop that trick” means.

Gunther retires John Cena and and Golberg and AJ Styles. WWE Announcer: "Gunther has a lot to prove tonight." What is life?

I haven't watched a WWE PPV for a while now, especially since they moved over to ESPN but I've never missed a Wrestlemania since 1987, so I'm watching this one. The number of advertisements is...quite something. They know I'm paying to watch it, right?

Man of the people.

The war is going so badly they're arguing with the fucking Pope.

Is it possible that the stock market rewards the wrong things?

I'm not a practicing Christian, but my father is an Episcopal Priest, so let me just say: it drives me crazy when Republicans are constantly identified as Christian while openly believing pretty much nothing related to actual Christianity. These. People. Are. Not. Christians.

Jamie Dornan Is Your New Aragorn in 'The Hunt for Gollum'

Hunt for Gollum! Hell yeah!

I wrote a little about droids and AI and Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord. matthewfreeman.substack.com/p/the-mirror...

Trump's losing his war so he's bitching about the Pope. So glad we sacrificed the the post-war world order and the security of our nation and the legitimacy of our democracy for this worthless celebrity.

I'm shocked - shocked! - that the Trump Administration has failed to reach a deal. It's almost like they have no cards, that they don't hold any cards?

The best advertisement for AEW right now is WWE.

No one likes unnecessary scaffolding. Thankfully, we have a plan — and John Wilson is here to help break it down.

It’s illegal to shout “fire!” in a crowded theater… but if the President shouts “I will destroy your civilization and commit war crimes!” we’re just all supposed to just wonder if Mike Johnson is awake, I guess?

The other way a whole civilization dies is by committing war crimes

Love to live in a country where the leader just sundowns into increasingly violent fantasies and we have to wonder if he “means it.”

I simply can’t believe Congress and the cabinet are sitting around, totally fine with what is absolutely demented behavior from the president.

If only a dozen Republicans in Congress found the will, they could impeach and remove him today.

Not to be a stickler for the law or whatever, but does threatening to destroy an entire civilization constitute a war? Congress hasn’t declared war. So every single thing he’s doing is illegal, right?

This.

Unhinged

Let’s talk Maul. open.substack.com/pub/matthewf...

He's confessing to planning war crimes on live television