Professional actor based in NYC. Also a teacher based in NYC. NBA fan and lifelong PC gamer. Endeavoring to keep a beginner's mind.
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"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." 1984. Orwell.
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
Just checked out this White House app. Under “accomplishments,” it lists…
1) Gas prices from seven months ago, before the Iran war (they’re now more than $1.50 per gallon higher — $4.48, per AAA)
2) The inflation rate from seven months ago, before the Iran war (the most recent rate, for August, was a full percentage point higher, 3.4%)
3) GDP growth from three quarters ago (the most recent available quarter, Q2 2026, was nearly three points lower, 1.5%)
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
In just two years they fucked up everything. Don't give them another chance.
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Reminder to those who apparently don't know: the Kennedy Center was financially robust, with many private donors, before this administration undermined it, chased out the National Symphony, Washington Opera and others. Trump has forced it into bankruptcy out of sheer vanity.
The Kennedy Center was a beloved Washington institution, enjoyed by millions of people. It has been destroyed for no real reason. Just vanity, carelessness, indifference.
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
I can’t get over the fact that a Russian oligarch paying for Don Jr’s wedding is like a total non-story.
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Imagine if the Iranians were doing this to the US military on Biden or Obama’s watch. Republicans would be screaming in the streets and Fox would have these images on air on a loop, 24/7
The Trump administration continues to downplay the U.S. war with Iran, as new images obtained appear to show the damage and destruction to U.S. military assets.
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
The Republican controlled House has now canceled at least 63 scheduled voting days this Congress. And now they're leaving DC until after the election.
Does this party care at all about getting things done for you?
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
We’ve only had 72 days in session this year.
Under Republican leadership, this is the laziest & least effective Congress in American history.
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"The video of him beating the Canadian PM with a hockey stick is just some good-natured trolling” say the people who wail that a picture of seashells is incitement to murder
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One of President Trump's ever-growing imaginary numbers grew again yesterday: he claimed new data had just come in and "now it's over $20 trillion" being invested in the US, not the "$19.2 trillion" he'd been saying.
I asked the White House what the basis for the $20 trillion number is given that the White House's own (wildly inflated) website still claims it's "$11 trillion" in "major investment announcements" this term.
Spokesman Kush Desai responded, "President Trump is right: business leaders from across the world and across industries are lining up to invest in the United States thanks to the Trump administration’s pro-growth agenda."
Desai provided no evidence whatsoever for the president's figure.
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
I would like to congratulate @SenSusanCollins on all of her influence! Lets see: Trump wages a war without congress, implements tariffs without congress, ignores congressional orders to release the Epstein files and engages in rampant corruption. Incredible influence. What would we do without her?
Susan Collins on navigating Trump and why she didn’t take the @Liz_Cheney approach: “What influence does she have today? Really, none… Liz Cheney, it’s not just that she lost her seat. It’s that she has no impact, in my view.”
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Georgia state elections officials just finished a full review of their voter rolls. Out of 7.9 million voter registrations, there were 432 'potential noncitizens who have voted at some point since 1996.'
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Dolly Parton gave the greatest piece of advice to the teenager in America. This kinda person is just supposed to live forever bruh.
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It’s hard to imagine many people having a bigger impact than Dolly Parton. Born in a one-room cabin, she earned 11 Grammys and an Emmy, built a business empire, helped millions of kids learn to read, and — as if that wasn’t enough — helped accelerate the research that led to the Moderna COVID vaccine. What a life. Michelle and I are thinking of Dolly’s family and her many, many fans.
Breaking News: Dolly Parton, the country singer, songwriter, entertainer and entrepreneur known for her outsize persona and prodigious vision and talent that placed her in a class by herself, has died at 80. nyti.ms/45Prr77
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Of course it's impossible, frustrating and probably useless to continue to point these out. But I'm glad @ddale8 is doing God's work.
The sheer number of lies from President Trump about Canada – growing again today – is remarkable. Just some fact checks from the last 18 months:
- Trump falsely said today that Canada's unemployment rate is "10% and rapidly rising,” though it is 6.4% (under the Canadian method that adds about a percentage point) and has been declining for three months
- Trump falsely said today that Canada does 95% of its business with the US, though 72% of Canadian exports went to the US last year
- Trump falsely said today that high Canadian agricultural tariffs have caused the entire US trade deficit with Canada, though that deficit is overwhelmingly caused by US imports of cheap Canadian crude and though something like 97% of US ag exports to Canada are tariff-free
- Trump has falsely said Canada generally doesn’t “take” US agricultural exports, though Canada is the world’s second-biggest buyer of those exports
- Trump has falsely said the Canadian public likes the idea of becoming the 51st state, which the Canadian public overwhelmingly opposes
- Trump has falsely said Canada is one of the world’s highest-tariff countries, though it is actually low in WTO global rankings
- Trump has falsely said Canada essentially doesn't have a military, though its military has fought with the US in multiple wars and its force size ranks in the upper half of NATO
- Trump has falsely said Canada hiked its dairy tariffs during the Biden administration, though they hadn’t changed since Trump’s first presidency
- Trump has falsely said the US trade deficit with Canada is “$200 billion,” though it is nowhere close
- Trump has falsely said Canada prohibits US banks, though it doesn't and though more than a dozen US banks were operating in Canada at the time he spoke
- Trump has falsely said Canada is “constantly surrounded” by Chinese and Russian ships, though that is fiction
- Trump has falsely said then-outgoing PM Trudeau was using their trade battle to run again for prime minister, though Trudeau obviously wasn’t running
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
Remarkable how little political noise it's made here in the U.S. that a major American naval base in Bahrain was basically destroyed, and that this was kept quiet for five months nytimes.com/2026/08/14/us/po…
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
Republican town halls in 2026: 39
Democratic town halls in 2026: 451
Which one is listening to you and which one is hiding from you?
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
Since 1965, there have been 6 fiscal years when federal spending fell relative to the preceding year:
🔵1965 - LBJ
🔵2010 - Obama
🔵2012 - Obama
🔵2013 - Obama
🔵2022 - Biden
🔵2023 - Biden
No Republican president in the last 60 years has cut spending vs. prior year.
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
Not that we needed more evidence @DineshDSouza's 2,000 Mules film was a scam, but just a reminder that none of these people are willing to take their evidence to court when there are real repercussions for lying. They'll bloviate on social media, but won't do that:
Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has settled a defamation lawsuit filed by a Gwinnett County man in 2022, avoiding a trial that was set to begin Monday in federal court in Atlanta. #gapol
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
The amazing thing about @ossoff’s comments is how utterly benign they are. Trump wants to “travel with Natalie.” But because Trump is a sexual predator and Natalie’s relationship to him is completely bizarre, it’s the MAGA brains who are conjuring the sordid “implication.”
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Michael J. Anderson retweeted
Between 2016 and today, the US has spent almost $9 trillion on defense. It then ran dangerously low in many advanced munitions fighting a country with no air force and navy--after about two months of combat operations.
This is an extraordinary scandal.
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