Yes they did, after Paramount openly slavishly kissed Trump’s ass for months, demonstrating they were more than happy to gut the free press promised Americans in the 1st Amendment—giving the USA a even more boring tamed corporate super-right-wing behemoth. Boring. Nasty. Hope Americans stay away.

Trump and his wacko disciples are seriously trying to expunge from the record his 2019 and 2021 impeachments, voted on by both parties. He’s a mental and political weakling who can’t handle the truth of his proven criminality in this case and on Jan 6th. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdNb...

“Evangelicals felt looked down on, mocked, dishonored by elite culture. Tremendous distrust & resentment built up...a longing to strike out at the individuals, institutions they hated...Trump understood this... Many Trump supporters relish his dehumanization of those they despise.” --Peter Wehner

Peter Wehner reports on a topic I’ve wanted to know about a LONG time: how do Christian evangelicals square their emphatic support of cruel, non-loving, misogynist Christ-forsaking Trump with Christ’s loving teachings in the four gospels? Shocking: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

With the important decision below just taken by a federal court, and the decision today to rightly take Trump’s undeserved name off the Kennedy Center, the courts are guarding our democracy again--but with Trump administration ignoring 100s of court orders how long can it last?

Tomorrow's front page of the @the-independent.com⬇️is too true. Many predicted the colossal damage to Britain before the Brexit initiative barely passed, and liars like these three⬇️were never made accountable. We all, especially young people, are paying the price heavily a decade later.

“This weekend marks a brand new low for America in the eyes of the world, a new low for Trump & his record of showing disrespect & glee for destroying the country’s most iconic historic symbols,” as the White House hosts a massively commercial violent UFC fight. www.youtube.com/watch?v=y46q...

Musk’s heavily overvalued dishonest $1.7 trillion IPO shows “capitalism in this era is no longer based on economic principles as taught in school--prices set by supply and demand. It’s now based on hype,connections & total, arbitrary control” @rbreich.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The closer you look at the SpaceX IPO, the more it looks like Musk’s ill-fated Doge. Arbitrary--based on the hype and will of one man with a giant ego and an insatiable thirst for money and power...self-dealing. No accountability. No checks. No balances.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Having water and energy under public control has got to be a better deal overall for Britons than the environmental disasters & economic greed for the rich that has ruled the situation since the 1980s privatisations. Burnham's vision here is a no-brainer. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

In 2 1/2 centuries, Americans have not rewarded violent traitors and criminals. But now we are trying to fight back and figure out: what happens if the head of the government⬇️really really really wants to instigate a forever coup that overthrows the government? (@WashingtonPost.com)

For all the Jews I know in the US and UK, including me, there has been no choice for YEARS. (@nytimes.com)

This is very much like the AI companies who now rule the U.S. stock market without posting real PROFITS. As @bhgreeley.bsky.social says below, these companies are becoming “too big to fail.” With Musk and SpaceX especially, we don’t know if we can believe the financial figures about his IPO.

“Despite the hype and promises, the actual financials do not add up to actual profit.” SpaceX has had $13B in losses in 3 yrs, including $4B in 2026. Morningstar's figures report SpaceX is worth less than half of its $1.75 trillion IPO target. Stupid dangerous math. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHC9...

Gorgeous shots of the late David Hockney and his work, 1967-2023. Not only a great, ever-evolving artist, but quite a stylish chap as well⬇️ www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

"Just because I'm cheeky, doesn't mean I'm not serious." --David Hockney 🥹 🇬🇧

I feel sad. Like a significant part of the world's color just vanished. David Hockney, one of my fave artists, died today. Loved his vision since I was a teen: Laurel Canyon portraits, photo collages of Calif desert, psychedelic Brit countryside in later years etc www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The 2-hr-old rather romantic Olivia Rodrigo single makes me miss NYC a lot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt9t...

Can you imagine, say, Roosevelt taking to the radio to announce, in advance, that there would be bombing over Germany and Japan on a given night? Someone doesn't give a fuck about the lives of American pilots and crews. His public dick-grab matters more.

This @nytimes reporting⬇️shows the extreme personal danger of Trump hiring a bunch of unqualified hacks to high White House positions—when Trump is truly in trouble, he hasn’t got the seasoned hands that can extricate him from crises. And Trump just wanted to bury shit, not discuss it with ANYONE.

The strong impression I get⬇️ from this is how incompetent White House staff/cabinet are—here was Epstein dynamite that could blow up Trump’s presidency and strategies were conflicting, people being lone wolves to make themselves look good without long-range strategy. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

Trump has said more than once during this insane 100-day war that he has always lusted to TAKE Iran's oil. 21st-Century colonialism by America's top racist. (@washingtonpost.com)

As punk's 50th anniversary now hits, Alexis Petridis goes through tons of period music journalism to show how there was a lot of boring new stuff in the pop market B4 the Pistols blew it away, yet the dinosaurs were still kicking ass too (Stones,Macca etc) www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

New @nytimes.com reporting, backed by hundreds of interviews, demonstrates that while Trump and his top staff insisted the Epstein story was not important and had no connection to the president, behind the scenes, his staff was constantly panicking about this issue like nothing else.

New @nytimes.com reporting, backed by hundreds of interviews, demonstrates that while Trump and his top staff insisted the Epstein story was not important and had no connection to the president, behind the scenes, his staff was constantly panicking about this issue like nothing else.

Hey America: This is your country under the heinous Trump and Miller, practicing “government-sanctioned child abuse.” A harrowing report: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C9C...

Hear the facts why Trump’s gauche UFC “Freedom 250” fight on the White House lawn next week has been purposely set up as a huge corrupt illegal financial opportunity for the president, Paramount, cryptocom etc—NOT to celebrate America. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX9d...

Pretty sad and accurate state of affairs, if you ask me. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

@markjacob.bsky.social with common sense suggestions on how to spread the word effectively and powerfully against the cruel anti-democracy economy-ruining lawbreaking @GOP and perhaps even change people’s minds about Trump and his constant failures and greed: www.stopthepresses.news/p/actually-s...

The apocalypse will be derivative, boring and entirely predictable. Which takes all the fun out of it.

Live tonight at @unionchapeluk.bsky.social, from 12 meters away, one could feel the rhetorical force of @mehdirhasan.bsky.social --so much better than onscreen. Have rarely ever seen someone so smart, insightful & fast at once. An evening that faced tough realities, yet was also inspiring, hopeful.

Israel “occupies a uniquely weirdly protected place in our political discourse. Criticism that would be considered routine in any other context--don’t bomb hospitals! Don’t kill kids!--is cynically rebranded as anti-Jewish bigotry.” It’s not just censorship. It attacks democracy.

Israel “occupies a uniquely & weirdly protected place in our political discourse. Criticism that would be considered routine in any other context--don’t bomb hospitals! Don’t kill kids!--is cynically rebranded as anti-Jewish bigotry.” It’s not just censorship. It’s an attack on democracy. YES.

For decades, western democracies insisted “freedom of expression was the hallmark of a liberal democratic society.” But as @mehdirhasan.bsky.social demonstrates with many factual examples⬇️, that’s no longer the case when Gaza and Palestine are being discussed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Polls shows UK & US publics have switched their support from the Israelis to the Palestinians. And the response from the pro-Israel people in power, having seen that they cannot win the argument on Palestine, is to now prevent the argument from happening." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A new book explains how manufactured protest over Scorsese’s 1988 thoughtful not blasphemous film “Last Temptation of Christ” started America’s cultural wars, w/much media manipulation & lies by religious & right-wing orgs. GOP still uses these methods. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l6y...

For 50th anniversary of TAXI DRIVER, the original principals—Jodi Foster, DeNiro, Scorsese & writer Paul Schrader⬇️met on Fri for a convo in NYC. DeNiro said: “people are still lonely...getting more isolated...becoming obsessed with something negative.” True that. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

George Harrison and Joan Baez, backstage at Candlestick Park at the Beatles’ last tour gig, 1966.

Ex-60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley has accused management of interfering w/the segment on ICE’s killing of Minneapolis protester Renee Good, asking if he would make the protesters look more violent & that Good’s car was driving toward the officer.” Both lies. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Just before the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote, a review of how Boris and David Cameron made Brexit possible with various lies and fear, and how the UK is hugely suffering for it now, with GDP 6-8%⬇️, trade 15% down, investment 18%⬇️& the UK disabled. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A heartening interview full of wisdom with NBA Knicks champion and ex-U.S. Senator Bill Bradley, stressing that to achieve ultimate success in both milieus, politicians and B-ball players need to practice “unselfishness.” So true, sir, thank YOU. 🙏 🏀 🗑️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlbB...

Death threats and violence are rising against federal judges who make decisions based on facts against Trump and GOP policies. No wonder, when Trump repeatedly calls them monsters, criminals, haters of America and demands “a war on judges.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-uo...

Some of the corporations who got $50B in no-bid federal contracts just for contributing money to Trump’s ballroom, so he illegally didn’t have to ask Congress for that money: Lockheed Martin, Palantir, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, T-Mobile etc.

Not only has Trump doled out $50B in gov’t ballroom contracts to friendly corps, but also more than 2/3rds of them were facing federal enforcement actions such as anti-trust lawsuits—these billions of donations get them let off the hook for their crimes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXjo...

As the anniversary of Tiananmen Square turns 37, a story on how Chinese gov't has for decades covered up how they killed 100s probably 1000s of their peacefully protesting citizens. Very much like how Trump is using gov't resources to cover up his 1/6 coup: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Been greatly enjoying this Brazilian cinema fest at BFI Southbank in London these days⬇️, ranging from the 1940s to this year: so diverse in genres and styles, neglected surprises, such as tonight's "Same Old West" (2024), an eccentric singular Brazilian western--many films still to go!

One of Taylor Swift's songs she discusses is one I’d never paid enough attention to⬇️: “Clara Bow” (2024), a rather devastating comment on women and stardom, how they’re used, as seen over a large historical period. And who today would know better? www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcVU...

The president is a socialist mafia boss--he wants his piece of the action. (@WashingtonPost.com)

Soon in Harlem: 100th birthday party of the Schomburg Center, maybe the best place in the world to do research on black history/culture. I've spent a month-plus there working on my Duke Ellington book & my just finished book on African American gospel 1930-65 www.schomburg100fest.org?utm_source=e...

Love hearing great songwriters talk about their craft. Ms Taylor Swift’s insight and joy on this topic is something to behold⬇️. Cool section when she waxes poetic on words and alliteration. And she’s correct that “Great American Dynasty” is special. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B8-...