Just went to see One Battle After Another. It is long, but it is rich and complex and layered and funny and topical and complicated and *incredibly* shot with *amazing* performances. And it feels incredibly topical in a really human way. www.metacritic.com/movie/one-ba...

Genuinely would be an impeachable offense at any point in America’s history. But not now because we’re down a f***ing rabbit hole.

This has nothing to do with the law - it is revenge. We know that is because Trump’s own appointed US Attorney just resigned because he refused to make a mockery of justice. So they brought in Trump’s hack personal attorney to do it. This is about abuse of power by Trump & Bondi.

some days I have actual commentary and some days I'm like this is all stupid bullshit and today is one of the latter this is all stupid bullshit

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I am absolutely livid that I have ever had imposter syndrome.

It’s beyond parody, really.

So Starmer is backing ID cards - which I do not like - in order to facilitate this government’s ugly immigration policies - which I also do not like - and in doing so is apparently spiralling down the electoral drain and throwing votes to Farage - whom I do not like? Fan-fucking-tastic.

I can’t actually think of a decision that would be more explicitly calculated to make loads of left-leaning voters concerned about incipient fascism more likely to defect to other parties. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It’s just exhausting how shit he is. Everything he actually sets his mind to doesn’t address the issue but somehow makes another part of life on idiot island worse. What is the fecking point of him?

Look, who amongst us hasn't accidentally hit "reply all" while blind drunk at ten o'clock in the morning

Weirdly it’s stories like this I think that will will stick in our historical consciousness. Along with the almost inevitable massive protests and huge negative reaction any Israeli team is likely to experience on US soil.

Sometimes I wonder if it’s going to be like World War 2 and the only thing that will stop the UK from falling to fascism is watching another nearby state falling to fascism and revealing exactly what that means and how terrifying and awful it is.

Do you remember when you could read the news in the morning and not be terrified that (a) the US was about to either do an ideological purge of the armed forces (b) exact revenge on liberal states by deploying the army on US soil or (c) annex Greenland or Panama? www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/pet...

“Their accounts paint the picture of someone with a vaguely libertarian bent who despised both major parties and politicians generally (including Trump) but who didn’t engage with politics beyond that. He preferred edgy humor, video games and the message board 4chan”

"Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Elon Musk’s cost-cutting blitz are being asked to return to work"

Didn’t he call Trump Hitler

Latest episode Gen-V. They named a real goat after Elon 'cause they only name them after arseholes. 😆😆😆

oh my god lol -- Trump calls for UN workers to be arrested because his escalator didn't work yesterday

Extraordinarily good thread about ICE and immigration judges in San Francisco that I would strongly recommend everyone reads.

The people who don't believe that black people are of equal worth and are deserving of civil rights ARE NAZIS. Buddy, we're not out here disagreeing over whether or not to put a stoplight up by Main Street. Those are full-fledged fascists!

it will never not be wild to me that there are actual human people walking around our neighborhood streets dressed just like this I think we need to continue to remind our brains that this is extremely not normal

A police officer was killed in the attack on the CDC by an antivaxxer. Trump did not mention it. Use this as a benchmark to compare how the Trump administration responds to an attack on an ICE facility to judge which federal employees are deemed worth protecting. abcnews.go.com/US/1-week-af...

Well, that’s probably the most surprisingly stupid thing I’ve ever heard her say.

Oh gosh, which one could have been lying. The ex-human rights lawyer or the guy they made a multi-hour TV show about on British TV detailing all his lies?

I have no idea who shot at the ICE facility or why, & hard to trust this FBI director. Murder is always inexcusable. Now, the idea that people are mad at ICE because of ‘Democrats’ rhetoric’ & not because of daily videos of masked ICE agents assaulting people, including citizens, is for the birds.

That escalated quickly.

One of my absolutely favorite sights in Central London, relatively near Waterloo.

ABC/Kimmel should announce that they'll take all the preemption fees and donate them to something the magats will hate, like the ACLU.

As has been pointed out in many quarters, not only will Sinclair/Nexstar owe ABC a huge preemption fee each time they DON'T run Kimmel, but ABC can also offer Kimmel to rival in-market stations at low cost, and Sinclair/Nexstar risk ABC terminating their deals 🤦🏼‍♂️

I'm glad Jimmy Kimmel is back.

Trump just threatened to sue ABC again for allowing Jimmy Kimmel back on the air, which is SUPER weird, because all of these Republicans said that the decision to pull Kimmel’s show was a “business decision.”

Kimmel’s monologue was really pretty great and effective and he was clearly moved by the reaction. You should watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

To be fair, Trump is the only person who can solve the world’s problems, in that he’s causing most of them and he could just stop.

The Kimmel monologue was 18 minutes of extraordinary, raw television that will be hated by the people who wanted him off the air for good. Trump and Brendan Carr lost this one as badly as it's possible to lose.

In his first show back on ABC after being suspended for comments on Charlie Kirk’s death, Jimmy Kimmel said that President Trump “might have to release the Epstein files to distract us from this now.”

Kimmel handled this with absolute class and clarity. Impossible to imagine anyone even vaguely reasonable walking away from this thinking this entire episode was justified. Very much worth watching - silly as it sounds, this is an important moment in history. youtu.be/c1tjh_ZO_tY?...

Kimmel’s monologue was really pretty great and effective and he was clearly moved by the reaction. You should watch it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Some of us do.

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These people are so fucking stupid. Jesus Christ, just use a piece of blessed crystal washed in holy water or something. Everyone knows this.

Could someone go and explain to Politico that this post assumes things they can't know: • What Trump feels • What his motivations are • That they are fundamentally altruistic and honorable And at no point does it make it clear that they are completely unmoored from evidence of *any* kind.

Isn't it insane that we've come to this moment - that media organizations are scared of putting out shows that say white supremacy is bad just in case it makes them a target of the Republican Party and Donald Trump. You'd think this stuff would force the right to look in a mirror. Apparently not.

You’ll be shocked to learn that all the people Nick Robinson mentions here as involved in UK “free speech controversies” are on or adjacent to the far right- Connelly, Linehan, T Robinson, Musk- as are most of the politicians cited, and that he ends with a plea to listen to both sides

Breaking: Trump's US envoy to Syria (also one of his few personal friends) apparently wholly unaware of what "Islam" means. This is stunning and in any normal world would be career ending for any diplomat in the Middle East.

To be fair, Trump is the only person who can solve the world’s problems, in that he’s causing most of them and he could just stop.

everything trump says is the worst thing any president in my lifetime has ever said

So the country that pays the least for drugs. Works for me. Well done UK.

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