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Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.

I’m sorry—but it is very difficult to maintain a high opinion of anyone who thinks this is fitting conduct for the President of the United States. He embarrasses the country and makes his supporters look like fools every single day.

🚨NEW: CBS is cancelling the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. This comes after the network caved to Donald Trump and settled a lawsuit. RETWEET if you stand with Colbert against CBS and Donald Trump!

BREAKING: Trump’s VA just gave doctors the green light to refuse treatment to veterans who are Democrats or unmarried. Yes—you read that right. Serve your country, risk your life, and when you come home, your care depends on your politics and marital status.

Pauline Kael & Woody Allen Discuss Mean Streets & The Exorcist (1974) youtu.be/BmdZ-V6LvaQ?si… via @YouTube

I just got back from the Trump parade and I have to say it was legitimately the worst executed mass attendance event I’ve ever seen One overarching thought: how do you spend $80 million and fumble the basics? Many more thoughts - 🧵 🧵 🧵

Pirates of the Caribbean 2 was made almost 20 years ago. The downfall of Hollywood cgi needs be studied

No one showed up for my book reading event. I know this happens and I'm trying really hard to keep it together but I feel terrible that the shop stayed open to host me for nothing.

It would appear that Donald Trump has been incapacitated. Fingers crossed

I was replaced by AI at my job and have been officially unemployed since last week. Are we still claiming that AI is incredible and changing humanity for the better? It’s soulless. It’s slaughtering humanity.

✨Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s Closet Picks!✨

So...price controls. That's where we're at now. Price controls.

🧬 The Rise & Fall of 23andMe - From DNA Pioneer to Bankruptcy A fascinating story of innovation, scale, and eventual downfall Let me break it down... 🧵

I know it's not safe for me to travel to America anymore, I already have an FBI file, but now ICE is picking up randos up at airports. White girls, white boys, and the brown and down as usual. Hell, they picked up an actress from the American Pie and put her in chains. 🧵 1/10

I usually try not to post too hysterically because it's not strategically useful, but you really do need to admit that the completely hysterical anti-Trumpers were right about everything. People are always attempting to sanewash Trump's latest idiocy, and it always fails.

Yup, blocked for calling it like it is. Always hated scalpers. But these guys pretend to be fans but they’re just filthy scalpers.

Unlike MAGA, Ronald Reagan understood that foreign aid is vital to America’s national security and economic interests: “You know the excuses: We can't afford foreign aid anymore, or we're wasting money pouring it into these poor countries, or we can't buy friends…all these…

This is an excellent summary of Musk’s takeover of the Treasury from @NYMag’s @chasdanner, with quotes from WSJ, NYT, WaPo, and my op-ed from @MSNBC yesterday. But this quote from @smotus is right on the money. This isn’t efficiency. It’s a coup. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

As we end the week, I wanted to share some really good local reporting on how President Trump's water actions in California are being received by locals... THREAD ⬇️

The awful news that Elon Musk clashed w/top Treasury official in an effort to access govt payment systems raises a crucial question: Did Trump authorize this, or not? I talked to former officials who explain why this is a key Q, and why it's so alarming: newrepublic.com/article/191014…