Aaaaaaaaand CUE Republican pundits and spokesobjects praising Trump to the skies for “saving us all from world war three” in five… four… three…

Every reactionary centrist and culture war grifter is now rapidly deleting their accusations of ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’.

“So Mike, what is the upside risk of genocide and where is the best place to invest to maximize gains in a genocide tailwind?”

"Calm down. He won't be that bad." "He won't go after political opponents." "He won't try to overturn an election." "He won't start a stupid, costly war." "He won't purge the military." "He won't use nukes." <--- We're currently here.

Where the fuck is Jamie Lannister when you need him? 😕

I’m sorry that my existence as a trans person was so upsetting to millions of voters that we are now having World War III as a result. That was not my intention but here we are.

my youngest grandson returns from The Waste. No food again, just metal scraps. But he's so proud, and wants a reward. "Tell me again about The Great Before. Tell me why The Green went away," he begs. "in the Before," I begin, "people had questions about who should participate in women's sports..."

Oh well that’ll bring the regime to its fucking knees

Again: the President of the United States is insane.

The President of the United States is insane. That’s KIND of the only thing that matters right now, isn’t it…? I mean there’s other stuff going on but I rather feel that fact that *the President of the United States is insane* needs to be addressed as a matter of priority.

The President of the United States is insane. That’s KIND of the only thing that matters right now, isn’t it…? I mean there’s other stuff going on but I rather feel that fact that *the President of the United States is insane* needs to be addressed as a matter of priority.

À propos of nothing much, Cathy asked me which literary character I most identify with, and try to deny it as I might, yup, it is and has always been Piggy from Lord of the Flies 😕

“If Trump were a Democrat would you still hate him?” Trump WAS a Democrat, and I hated him then, too. I don’t GAF what party someone claims to be. Nobody hates Trump because he’s a Republican. We hate him because he's a shitty President and possibly the shittiest human being who has ever lived.

He has risen!

Worth reposting my favourite Easter Sunday anecdote: open.substack.com/pub/mitchben...

Here’s another one. If you’ve got something to say, say it to my face rather than in the third person but using my @ handle so I’ll see it. I don’t enjoy using Amazon but some things are difficult to get quickly by other means. I’m trying to use it less. Anyway don’t be like this cowardly shitheel.

Happy ZJCD to those who celebrate! #Easter #Chocolate #Jesus youtu.be/w04ipnmhvSQ?...

A great executive I sold a tv series to, key to some of biggest tv shows of the past few years has just lost their job, trades reporting it’s possible their studio is looking to streamline development with AI. Feel terrible for them, but us screenwriters have been screaming ‘it’ll come for you too’.

I REALLY don’t like it when someone slags me off in the third person but uses my @-handle rather than just my name so I’ll see it anyway. Like talking about someone extra loud behind their back. Thought we’d left that sort of behaviour behind on X but it would appear not.

I’ll do it. Can’t get on any of those things for love nor money 😕

🎹 A heartfelt tribute to a musical comedy pioneer. 🎩 When a teenage Mitch Benn discovered American comic songwriting legend Tom Lehrer, the course of his life was changed forever. 📅 Saturday, 16 May 2026 🎟️ https://loom.ly/QtuQtV8 #MoC #WhatsOnLondon #Comedy #London #MuseumOfComedy

Bristol people! Extended version of Mitch's Embra show This'll be just up the road in Tetbury in mid-April. Easier parking than Bath! Recommended. Includes reimagined classics, updated Elements and scathing wit

Saw this at @edfringe.bsky.social last year - thoroughly recommended

Khamenei Ayatollahs is Toomenei Ayatollahs?

Scratch a transphobe, find a misogynist. They don’t care about protecting women, they care about controlling us. Transphobia is a threat to all women’s rights.

Mitch Benn THE LEHRER EFFECT April’s tour dates All dates & tickets at mitchbenn.com/lehrer-effect #mitchbenn #tomlehrer #comedysongs

We believe - on the basis of very good legal advice - that the law doesn't require this. Sadly, Girlguiding haven't taken up Good Law Project's offer of legal support and an indemnity. And it's these young girls who will suffer the consequences.

Is it any wonder our media ecosystem is such a mess? The guy in charge of the supposedly impartial watchdog is slagging off the BBC to the right wing Telegraph - which is hostile to the BBC - & defending the fact his organisation has let GB News act share misinformation and constantly promote Reform

Michael Grade is EIGHTY THREE YEARS OLD. The idea of this angry old granddad "regulating" the modern media and telecoms environment is like hauling in Petula Clarke to run Radio 1

ICYMI It's my 20th anniversary, anyone buying a print from happytoast.co.uk today will get a limited edition "20 years of Toast" print.

So it turns out the real scandal of the Gorton and Denton by-election was the willingness of media organisations to collude in Nigel Farage's attempt to undermine the result of a free and fair election www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/how-the-bb...

One day, a Muslim is gonna sink the game winner and proclaim Allah as the one true God and people are gonna suddenly be mad at religious statements made during sports things. That's really all it'll take.

The only mainstream journalists speaking truth to power these days are cartoonists

Do supposedly neutral US media outlets not get how supine it looks to even ask questions like this? When Stephen Miller gets his concentration camps built and the Latino population starts disappearing in their thousands, they’ll be like “Genocide? Or is Hide & Seek trending?” n.pr/3NxyZpE

Transphobia cooks your brain. You spend years screaming "everyone fits neatly into two sexes!" and then reality hands you Khelif or Caster Semenya and you can't adjust. You can't say "this is more complicated than I thought." You just call her a man, because the framework demands it. Fundamentalism.

Hey Cambridge UK, Mitch Benn is doing The (Tom) Lehrer Effect at the tiny Junction J3 on Sun 17 May. I'm probably away that weekend but you might not be. www.junction.co.uk/events/mitch...

@whitehouse-47.bsky.social FYI

The Doctor has always been autism-coded to me, decades before I was diagnosed. Especially Tom, who was “my Doctor”. The way he delights in seemingly insoluble problems, mind racing in a world of his own before snapping back to reality with a “WHAT?” and only making eye contact when it counts…

Whenever you ask a government official or a politician something and they say they don’t know or haven’t heard, the VERY NEXT QUESTION should be, “Well, now that you know about it, what are you going to do about it?” Follow up! Dig deeper! Push back! Don’t let them dodge!

Obvious gag made brilliant by thinking to include the golden escalator

I see Question Time has reached its inevitable endgame. It was bound to happen.

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Wow. Sadiq Khan asks Keir Starmer to not only “rejoin the EU Customs Union and the Single Market this Parliament”, but also to “fight the next general election with a clear manifesto commitment: a vote for Labour means we would rejoin the European Union”, without a second #Brexit referendum 👏

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, "Let us say to our British friends" "If they stand ready to return to the EU Single Market with all associated privileges and duties" "They will be be met with open arms" Sounds like a plan. Who's in?

This is a predictably great listen; Hawk The Slayer is perhaps the best bad movie ever made and weirdly unique in that even those of us who love it know it’s basically terrible, and yet somehow that’s not the point…

Not sure this thread is visible to everyone so I’ll post my bit of it here; it’s the story of How I Made It Up With James Blunt:

I actually wrote TWO songs: one back in late 2005 when You’re Beautiful was being played at you about once every 12 minutes and I was going as nuts as everyone else, and then another version in 2017 letting JB off the hook for being so self-deprecatingly funny on Twitter…