Yolanda Machado

Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival Comedian Atsuko Okatsuka posts contract after turning down Riyadh Comedy Festival

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on.
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I ❤️ @mattbelloni.bsky.social for this. The ethics of Hollywood are basement level. Same for tech (see below a column I wrote in 2019).

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I think people have forgotten we're human beings, and that feeling feelings is normal...is something I say as I smoke weed and type into an app.

Today was the day BlueSky finally became Twitter

I just hope he's suffering a lot

As a Mexican-Peruvian American:

que barbaridad es esto! me da ascó verlo.

Level of dissociation I'm currently at?

I'm on my 200th rewatch of Beyonce's Cowboy Carter Paris shows. I'm not sure what outside looks like anymore, but that's OK. Outside is expensive and scary.

Reuters photo of Zohran Mamdani onstage, with his mom looking up at him lovingly and squeezing his cheek.

Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

I really, really, really hope this is only happened at the Frank McCourt-owned parking lots at Dodger Stadium, so that it's just another thing to hate Frank McCourt for.

Regardless, it's a good time for folks to read up on the Battle of Chavez Ravine.

Exclusive | Paramount delays $35M settlement with Trump as media giant fears bribery backlash: sources Negotiations to settle Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News over the Kamala Harris “60 Minutes” interview entered their sixth month.

the only reason CBS hasn't folded and paid Trump his bribery money yet is California threatened an investigation into whether such a deal would violate state bribery laws, which chuck here "forgets" to mention

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I really wish all reporting of immigration stories would stop using the term ‘federal agent’ unless it can be confirmed that these cowardly motherfuckers are actually federal agents. Use the term ‘unknown masked men’ or, in the rare cases women are involved ‘unknown masked people’

Thoughtful thread that rings very true to me based on over three decades of covering the media and culture

The New York Times front page.

I'm sorry but the largest protest of my lifetime is not the 7th or 8th biggest news story in the country behind "what does Gen Z want from Instagram?" This shit is humiliating. Rearrange your layout to meet this moment. Omitting the thing happening in every American city is malpractice.

It’s not hyperbole to say that the deaths in Minnesota are on the GOP’s hands. They’ve built this political environment and they’ve allowed a demagogue to spread hate. This is entirely on them.

So proud to be a part of this amazing morning. Location ocean beach San Francisco
#nokings

At Chicago baseball stadium, Pope Leo makes his first pitch to America Chicago’s elation over the hometown boy’s election led to a huge party for the first U.S. pope, who will begin to chart his historic path.

Pope Leo XIV will address a packed baseball stadium in Chicago on Saturday, greeting a U.S. audience directly for the first time and offering a glimpse of the potential impact of the first American papacy.

It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism.

To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.

wonder if the battalion of marines sent to LA for literally zero reason will enjoy seeing the big minion

UPDATE: David Huerta was just released from custody!

David Huerta, president of SEIU California, detained during L.A. ICE raids David Huerta was detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles. Federal authorities said he was arrested on suspicion of interfering with federal officers.

My god.

"Service Employees International Union California President David Huerta was injured and detained while documenting an immigration enforcement raid in downtown Los Angeles Friday, labor union officials said — prompting protests and calls for his release."

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#ProudBlue

There is NO looting & ICE is inciting the small & I mean small riots. I wouldn’t even consider them riots.

This post by Yam Tits is nothing but lies! They are just trying to invoke the Insurrection Act, so they can finish implementing Project 2025 as planned.

Greater Los Angeles is about the size of the entire state of Delaware.

There are about 18.5 million of us.

We burn cars and wreck shit when the *Lakers* win. What do you think we’re gonna do now?

Want the people I love to feel safe and comforted by community and belonging this month… But personally when I see this I’m reminded of how Pride really started (video by @jeremotographs.bsky.social)

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid?

Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms.

Wanna know another fun fact?

If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

If you want to help LA and aren’t here?

Go cause some good trouble.