Wajahat Ali
@WajahatAli
The Left Hook Substack, Democracy-Ish Podcast, Author of a memoir & a play, http://wajali.bsky.social, [email protected], http://wajali.com
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All the best writers at @washingtonpost are leaving. Billionaires destroy everything.
Some professional news: After 11 years of columnizing at WaPo, I'm taking the buyout. This is my last column. It is my advice to any other lucky pundits who land a perch like this—11 principles I've aspired to, even if I haven't always achieved them: wapo.st/3TU2fGw
Yeah this isn't a technical glitch.
Well this is jarring. John Kennedy (R-LA) is midway through a quip he's delivered a thousand times ("Jesus loves him but everyone else thinks he's an idiot") and completely freezes up mid-sentence.
Matt and Trey got their bag and decided to torch the company, Paramount, that paid them and furthermore dared/begged/invited Trump to sue Paramount knowing that Paramount will probably cave, give millions, cancel their show and all of this might potentially ice its merger with…
‘South Park’ began its 27th season with multiple shots below the belt at President Trump, showing off the president’s “teeny tiny” penis in both animated and live-action form. trib.al/VNork4F
!!! H O L Y S H I T A L E R T !!! The new @SouthPark Donald Trump episode that aired tonight (7/23/25) took down @DonaldTrump in a legendary way to the size of an ant and perfectly destroyed him. I can't imagine the problems it's going to cause @ParamountPics and @Skydance.
Hard to think of anything more defiant in media & entertainment recently than Trey Parker & Matt Stone going scorched earth on Paramount in a South Park season premiere on the heels of netting a $1.5 billion deal with the very same company.
Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump shared an “abiding obsession” of chasing supermodels as part of their long-standing friendship, according to biographer Michael Wolff. trib.al/puEv1BI
Another incredibly disturbing report. Every aspect of this Alligator Alcatraz nonsense should be investigated, rigorously.
Catholic priests have been barred from providing religious services inside Florida's controversial new migrant detention facility — dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" — nearly three weeks after it opened deep in the Everglades, the archbishop of Miami said. bit.ly/3IFk8qd
This is one of those images you instantly know will appear in history books of the future. And people will wonder how we allowed this to happen.
So, will MAGA turn on South Park now that Matt and Trey just eviscerated their King and Daddy Donald Trump? Thursday is going to be wild. Just a terrible week for Trump...good.
How it started How it’s going After CBS bowed down to get the Paramount merger approved… Matt and Trey have entered the chat
Difficult to overstate just how racist Matt Walsh is being here, and how responsible Ben Shapiro is for this blatant racism - Elvira Salazar was born in Miami. She’s an American. She can’t ’go back to Cuba’. An insanely racist and bigoted and dishonest statement from Walsh.
"Get the hell out": Daily Wire's Matt Walsh tells Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar she’s “not American" and should "go back to Cuba." She was born in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. #BecauseMiami
Respect.
Paramount axed Colbert report because Trump didn’t like it, they give $1.5 billion to South Park, who- literally the next day- go after him 10x harder than Colbert ever has. Genius.
South Park went hard in the paint. Trump is way way too fickle. He can't resist. He is going to whine about this...and now they have material for the year. Amazing. Love it.
Oh my God. South Park just literally dropped a nuclear bomb on top of Donald Trump. He is going to lose his entire mind…. …the last five minutes…😳
Paramount killed their 30 year late night show and settled a bogus 60 Minutes lawsuit just to get a deal through — only for South Park to do this:
Tonight’s episode of South Park is going to make Trump lose his f*cking mind
South Park, which is co-owned by Paramount Global, ended tonight’s season debut with a hyper realistic, AI-generated scene of Trump walking through a desert, naked, with a tiny penis.
Andor's Warning: How Fiction Unmasks Trump's Fascism Lessons from a Fictional Rebellion: The Need to Resist the Numbing Agenda of Fascists and Reclaim the Truth. I got @DeeTwoCents to finally see Andor Season 2 and Rogue One! open.substack.com/pub/thelefthoo…
73-Year-Old Republican Senator Disassociates in Middle of Interview trib.al/JjAcMYU
Russian state media is asking, "What did he [Trump] do with Epstein?"