Tim Appelo

There goes the First Amendment.

There must be an effective Boycott Fascists app, so that zero dollars from Trump-victim Americans go to businesses and institutions that menace us (& democracy, rule of law, science, public health, free speech, prosperity, America's power in the world & reason itself) more with each passing day.

I lived in the beautiful apartment my landlord bought with money from making Anaconda. Same one whose door Naomi Watts knocks on and Ann Miller opens it in Mulholland Dr.

Trump's ally strikes again

Listen. I believe in my ability as a writer, but I know it’s asking a lot for you to support me when Ty Burr and Alan Sepinwall are out here with their own newsletters.

Whatever support you can offer is appreciated

The 'Don't Tread on Me' people are in jackboots treading on the other half of the country.

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech

TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

Also America: Bite your fingernails while Medicare delays for months in signing you up, risking a gap of coverage that enables insurance companies to bankrupt or kill you. Why did my grandparents ever leave Norway?

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From Twitter: David Oscar Markus & @domarkus X.com Dear @MuellerSheWrote : There is no such thing as work release in federal prison, so your reporting is false. All you had to do was ask any criminal law practitioner, and they would have explained this to you. I wish we had work release in federal prison — and I wish we treated people behind bars better than we do. How about you? I'm surprised to hear my progressive friends criticizing more humane prisons and Ghislaine's transfer to a safer facility, especially after she faced serious danger in Tallahassee. The outrage machine wants to turn a safer placement into a scandal. But it's still prison. And despite the soundbites, prison is a truly awful place.

My response on Twitter: Hello, Mr. Markus. Here is the BOP policy that says Out Custody is eligible for work details outside prison. Will you go on record that she will not be allowed outside despite her waiver? Also, who authorized the waiver, and in exchange for what? The BOP policy reads: ₽5100.08 9/12/2006 Chapter 2, Page 4 OUT CUSTODY. The second lowest custody level assigned to an inmate requiring the second lowest level of security and staff supervision. An inmate who has OUT custody may be assigned to less secure housing and may be eligible for work details outside the institution's secure perimeter with a minimum of two-hour intermittent staff supervision.

Ghislaine Maxwell’s attorney - addressing me directly - says there’s no such thing as prisoner work details outside the facility in the federal prison system. Yes there are. I have receipts.

Republican Presidential speechwriter David Frum: Trump's tariffs are reducing supply and raising real costs of almost every good in the economy.
It's like what OPEC did to the United States in 1973-75, only this time it's the US president doing it to his own country.

Rudnick: Netanyahu just declared Mike Johnson "a goy's goy. He's like mayonnaise on white bread with a bottle of Diet Sprite. He washes Trump's golf cart with his tongue. He's what Jesus called 'an elf with no muscle tone or morals.' He's a spritz of Febreze in a cheap suit

Steve Martin correctly predicts:Trump will meet Putin in Alaska.
America returns Alaska to Russia for nothing. Russia gets to take Ukraine.Putin will NOT release the pee tape nor the Epstein list. Trump will get golden knee pads...the likes of which you've never seen. Trump keeps the beauty pageant.

Among white voters who'd moved more than 2 hours from their hometown--improving their odds of getting a good job--Hillary Clinton had a 6-point lead. Those living within 2 hours of home backed Trump by 9 points. And those who had never left their hometown supported him by a remarkable 26 points.

Every day @stephenking.bsky.social proves he is a really good writer.

The Gilded Age of DEI is over. Now the quiet part begins. A reflection on the past five years.

Very interesting thoughtful article by one of my most talented former colleagues. rebeccasun.substack.com/p/the-gilded...

I sat right behind Larry Flynt at the Paramount screening of The People Vs. Larry Flynt. He seemed to be weeping, but I was told leaky eyes was just a symptom of his nerve damage.

YouTube video by EVNautilus New Details of USS DeHaven Shipwreck in Iron Bottom Sound | Nautilus Live

My uncle Cato Swalling escaped this sinking ship, but went back in to save his buddies, fellow sailors stuck in the boiler room. He got a posthumous Purple Heart, and he'd bought triple life insurance, which paid for my mom to go to U. Washington & meet my dad. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oqL...

Conservative David Frum: Obama should've said:"Russia worked to influence the 2016 election, but did not successfully manipulate ANY VOTING MACHINES." We cannot know whether Russia did or didn't manipulate any VOTES by its pro-Trump clandestine operations in 2016, but likely it moved at least some.

Frum sensibly notes: The Wikileaks releases in October 2016 did Hillary Clinton considerable political damage. Wikileaks got its material from Russian espionage operations. Wikileaks surely influenced some voters, even if Russia failed in its effort to manipulate voting machines to help Trump.

Ozzy Osbourne As I Remember Him A rock critic tells all about the lighthearted Prince of Darkness, Ozzy's thoughts on addiction — and what he planned to say to God in heaven

Want to know what Ozzy Osbourne planned to tell God in heaven? He told Jim Sullivan in a piece I was delighted to edit: www.aarp.org/entertainmen...

Jeff Greenfield channeling Pam Bondi: "Did you think I said I have Epstein's LIST on my desk? No no! I had Epstein's 'Liszt!' on my DISC. The 'Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2' ! A simple misunderstanding."

Suggests an UWS murder mystery: The Body in the Other Room.

David Frum reminds us: As Scooby Doo taught millions of TV watchers: if the deceased villain's best friend tells you there's nothing worth seeing inside the locked closet ... there's probably something worth seeing inside the locked closet.

Projekt Europa:This is the Quantum Presidency. He simultaneously doesn't know about a major decision [Ukraine], and also would know about any decision. His knowledge exists in a superposition of total ignorance and absolute omniscience. Reality collapses to what's politically convenient that second.

Both of my poorly paid backup freelance reviewers from when I was Portland's daily film critic skyrocketed to stardom: Kim Morgan (Nightmare Alley) and Shawn Levy (serial biographer, most recently of Clint Eastwood). I couldn't be happier unless I were them!

This year it feels more like the Farce of July.

Ah, the golden age.