When I stopped being a studio executive 4 years ago, I felt further away than ever from being the director I had briefly been in my youth. Tired of waiting, I willed this into existence. Not sure we have 15 years left but never waiting 15 years again.

JD Vance using a photo of a Methodist church on the cover of his book about CATHOLICISM is some real Veep-level shit.

But actors and directors at these festivals love saying films are separate from politics. Tell that to Panahi in prison

If Trump chooses to engage in war crimes and strike Iranian power plants and throw that country into chaos, he should be handed over to Iran for trial. Practically that’s not possible but mass criminal actions should have consequences.

Terrible news from Tehran: I just heard that the Iranian authorities today arrested the great human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh. It's not known where she has been taken. Nasrin has been mentioned as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize for her unflinching courage and moral

Remember when the monarchist section of the Iranian diaspora actually believed Trump and co were coming to save their country and were cheering on this war?

A black U.S. soldier reads a message left by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, the message reads: "U.S. Negro Armymen, you are committing the same ignominious crimes in South Vietnam that the KKK clique is perpetrating against your family at home."

Sorry, J.D., if I want to read about a fatass Ohioan's reckoning with his relationship to the Catholic Church I will simply re-read Joe Eszterhas's 2008 Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith.

Trump: "We're gonna bring them back to the stone ages, where they belong". Keep in mind that an initial justification for the war was to "help" Iranians.

Now we're supposedly up to 45,000 dead in the January protests? That number seems to keep steadily rising with the passage of time

Fun Fact: Mass deportations have created virtually no jobs for American workers. None.

So impressed that @cnn has stuck with coverage of Artemis II, giving it the attention it deserves as a major milestone in human history. Compelling television that is about courageous people taking risks on behalf of all of us instead of those trying to divide us.

An opposition party, if such a thing existed, could do a lot with this clip.

The US sent astronauts to orbit the moon for the first time in 53 years and the President is giving a speech tonight on why the US is bowing up schools and apartment buildings in Iran based on a bunch of made up racist bullshit. A country animated by death, cruelty and punishment

Why is she doing this? Because there was general strike after general strike in Rome calling for an end to the genocide. Because the Italian dockers refused to ship weapons to Israel. The people made their fascist, pro-war PM change her tune because they demanded it. ✊🇮🇹

Not sure I'm even going to watch. I have so many great memories of watching TWIB when I was a young kid - do not want to "lose" those.

🚨 The guy on the left was arrested and convicted for illegally selling missiles to Iran during the Reagan Administration. The guy on the right is a Fox News "military analyst” who thinks Iran shouldn't have missiles. They're the same guy.

Why doesn't AOC just overtly model the transformation in rhetoric on Israel that all Democrats are going to need to adopt ASAP? "It's time for our party to have a clear line: No aid of any sort to apartheid Israel." She doesn't even have to say sorry.

This unironically then is the beginning of the end of the US empire: Militarily unable to collapse the Iranian regime from the air, sparking a global energy crisis for critical US allies and then telling them to go and fix the crisis we created

Funny that Trump may end the Iran war with a U.S. military defeat before the Democrats even develop a position on the conflict.

I'm going to try to not be delusional because we're only 4 games in but the Reds are definitely going to the World Series