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Robert Simonson

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Journalist. Cocktails, etc. Author of Substack “The Mix.”

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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."

-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

01.03.2026 19:01 — 👍 15866    🔁 5519    💬 344    📌 219

Between Covid, wars, ICE, Epstein, and various anti-human social policies and blanket support of billionaires/corporations, funding of corrupt foreign governments and their wars, Trump is the most murderous President in history. Millions dead by his actions.

01.03.2026 13:39 — 👍 18    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

Trump is Bibi’s bitch and they are both war criminals.

28.02.2026 19:58 — 👍 27    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 0
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When you start an illegal war to distract from the other illegal things you've done.

28.02.2026 19:19 — 👍 7466    🔁 2170    💬 438    📌 138
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Let me get this straight:

The former First Lady, who never met Epstein, had to testify before a Congressional hearing, but...

A different former First Lady who famously socialized with Epstein and his coconspirators won't be called?

Please note: There's no such thing as First Lady Privilege.

28.02.2026 01:13 — 👍 535    🔁 225    💬 29    📌 8
Chris Murphy speaking to reporters

Chris Murphy speaking to reporters

Murphy: “ppl now see Trump for who he is — a would be dictator who doesn’t care what Americans think, cares nothing about our Constitution or our laws, & sees himself as a kind of 18th century king, with unlimited power to drag all of us into disastrous wars overseas without the consent of the ppl”

28.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 2465    🔁 804    💬 133    📌 39
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GREEN ARROW SAYS EAT THE RICH

#GreenArrow
#EatTheRich
#EmeraldArcher

1. You probably have seen this panel. It's from JLA 80-Page Giant(1998) #1

It's a great short story. Only 10 pages.

28.02.2026 20:04 — 👍 4546    🔁 737    💬 59    📌 27
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Hillary Clinton never even met Jeffrey Epstein, but was forced to testify about him. #CoverUp

27.02.2026 18:39 — 👍 12458    🔁 4837    💬 424    📌 181

If you’re a Hal Ashby fan, his first film, “Landlord” (1970), is worth seeking out. If you can find it.

27.02.2026 22:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not by me.

27.02.2026 04:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Another reason I left New York: cars that take you from Ridgewood to Park Slope via LaGuardia and the Midtown Tunnel. City of cheats.

27.02.2026 04:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sure. But not one single decent person?

25.02.2026 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Regarding the US men’s hockey team, how is it possible that there are this many clueless chauvinistic male pigs on one team?

24.02.2026 05:26 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Trump’s Last-Minute Invite Of U.S. Hockey Team Causing Planning Issues For State Of The Union The U.S. women’s hockey team declined the invitation.

The U.S. women’s hockey team declined the invitation.

23.02.2026 19:30 — 👍 683    🔁 129    💬 79    📌 42
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Hey, Austin Smith! Thanks for proving once more that with Reich-Wingers, every accusation is a confession. #ElectionFraud #AustinSmith #TPUSA

22.02.2026 03:38 — 👍 10104    🔁 3559    💬 323    📌 172

Sam Altman looks like Jesse Eisenberg’s evil brother.

22.02.2026 20:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

25 years on, everyone loves “The Talented Mr. Ripley” so much. I mean, I love it too. Always have. But I wonder why it’s reputation has so skyrocketed in recent years.

22.02.2026 04:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Watched “Splash” for the first time since it came out. Holds up. All four leads charming and funny. And John Candy was phenomenal. Incredible to think they were all basic unknowns at that time.

21.02.2026 16:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

“Songs from the Big Chair” by Tears for Fears seemed like a nice new wave pop album when it came out. Now it sounds like a prescient protest album.

20.02.2026 03:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

19.02.2026 10:50 — 👍 11215    🔁 3146    💬 30    📌 139

I’ve never been so proud of my deep theater geek knowledge as when I learned Kelsey Grammer based his portrayal of Sideshow Bob on “The Simpsons” on stage director/actor Ellis Raab. And I actually know who Ellis Raab was!

18.02.2026 17:07 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Disappointed to find out thru obits that Robert Duvall was a lifelong Republican. But that tracks, given his strengths as an actor. He was at his best and most natural playing authority figures, military, bullies, mafia and embodiments of the faded American west.

17.02.2026 23:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Encountered the “Melania” demographic at the cinema yesterday. They were a white couple in their 80s with canes who held up the line forever with questions and demands and wanted to be escorted in wheelchairs to their seats.

16.02.2026 18:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How come a sitting president can sue an individual, but an individual cannot sue a sitting president?

15.02.2026 17:35 — 👍 12280    🔁 2495    💬 472    📌 122

Kevin James’ entire career is based on the idea that everybody likes Kevin James.

15.02.2026 21:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I go to antique shops because they remind me of a world better than the one we live in today.

15.02.2026 04:35 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just went to a cafe where they make the coffee in the basement and walk it up. That’s a first. I don’t like it.

14.02.2026 17:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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RIP Bud Cort. How else would you even pay tribute to him.

11.02.2026 20:51 — 👍 1705    🔁 502    💬 53    📌 77

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

11.02.2026 17:38 — 👍 27235    🔁 7006    💬 1967    📌 433