Amy Helfman

I saw the film yesterday and appreciated the thoughtful portrayal of religion and faith. And it was funny and scary, too!

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Pete Townshend "Let My Love Open The Door" - The Late Show's Commercial Breakdown

Saving this:
youtu.be/tcm5pQG5Bio

Signed, Epstein's mother

He's only ashamed that he got caught.

@therickwilson.bsky.social , you have an imitator over on Substack: substack.com/@rickwilson7...

People forget that he's a humorist and not a policy expert.

I took my then twelve year old nephew to see it at the Ziegfeld Theater in NYC. Accustomed as he was to NJ multiplexes, his eyes went wide as he marveled, "All this for one movie??"

If only the film had measured up to the venue! cinematreasures.org/theaters/12

The great great House of Guitars!

I'm taking the train.

87 days: The do-nothing Congress’s shutdown strategy This historic level of inaction is not an accident, a bug, or a well-deserved vacation.

You work hard while Republicans relax — and our access to affordable healthcare is paying the price. Jeff Nesbit explains.

You Don't, Under Any Circumstances, Have To Play Into Donald Trump's Hands He has a terrible poker face, and keeps telling us what he believes his greatest vulnerabilities are.

Have you noticed that Trump thinks information about him (his Epstein ties, his tariffs, or even just approval polling) is his most profound political vulnerability? What this piece presupposes is: what if he’s right? www.offmessage.net/p/you-dont-u...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

five days and a few hours to go and at this point I'm just gonna be shameless: if you can help signal-boost this thing, I'd be grateful. I've done very well through my own channels, but haven't had much luck breaking out beyond them.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

No, the Boomers Did Not Take It All - The American Prospect The more that young people focus on supposed generational injustices rather than the real injustices of class and power, the less likely they are to embrace a politics that might make a real difference.

The more focused people are on intergenerational injustice, the more they ignore the underlying issues of class and power. Robert Kuttner responds to The New York Times’ op-ed on the Boomers taking everything:
trib.al/adkzFlz

Cleve Jones: "This Is Our Country" This is the first guest essay at Meditations in an Emergency. I'm proud to bring you yesterday's speech by the great Cleve Jones, who has for nearly half a century been a key organizer for the global ...

Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."

Their disingenuous "apologies" are sickening!

The Ad Campaign for Capitalism In the 1970s, corporate America struck back at the forces attempting to rein it in. One of their tactics was a public service announcement.

Remember the Powell Memo! #nokings

prospect.org/power/2025-1...

Feh!

Robert Kraft is a low-IQ billionaire.

Anyone who can't complete a sentence without cursing is someone whose arguments I can't take seriously.

It must have been easier for parents when there was only one, physical backdrop for school photos...

Our Long National Nightmare by Tom Tomorrow Relive the trauma of the last five years through the cartoons of Herblock Award winner and Pulitzer nominee Tom Tomorrow.

I’m backing @tomtomorrow.bsky.social ‘s Kickstarter because his work helps me survive the insanity! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

I've said before that a Kickstarter is the cartoonist's version of doing a stage dive and trusting the audience to catch you, and well. So far, so good.

At least one dead and nine injured after shooting at Mormon church in Michigan Church on fire in violent weekend with shootings also in North Carolina, Texas, and New Orleans’ Bourbon Street

Just another weekend in the USA...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Non sequitur much, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social ?

I'm jealous!

Eriq La Salle - Wikipedia

Eriq LaSalle does more directing than acting these days: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eriq_La...

Tom Hanks and a big, slobbering dog as the title characters in the movie Turner & Hooch.

Don’t You Dare: Why Democrats Must Shut It Down Advice Democrats Won't Take On The Shutdown Fight

Count on @therickwilson.bsky.social to tell it like it is: therickwilson.substack.com/p/dont-you-d...

Yes.

YouTube video by C-SPAN CLIP: President Obama's Anger Translator (C-SPAN)

I feel like @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social needs an Anger Translator of his own. Either that, or he's just not dealing with reality.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HkAK...