Devon Martinez

Writer. Journalist. Nothing important.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

I think one of the biggest green flags in both friendships and romantic relationships is being with people who don't make every
disagreement feel like a threat to the connection. I've never understood why some people immediately jump to "maybe we should stop talking," "maybe we shouldn't be friends anymore," or "maybe this relationship isn't working" whenever conflict arises. It creates an environment where people become afraid to be honest because every difficult conversation feels like it could be the last.

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

Trump spent enormous quantities of money to defeat someone who wanted transparency about the Epstein
files

That figures...

[Ana Kasparian @AnaKasparian]

Riiiiight. Totally.

The Israel lobby pumping tens of millions into a freakin’ GOP primary race for a single house seat had “nothing to do with it.”

Why did Trump turn on Massie in the first place?

- His role in getting the Epstein files released, which implicated Israel for its ties to the pervert. I suspect Tapper has read Drop Site’s reporting on this.

- His refusal to bow to Israel and fund their atrocities and slaughter campaigns.

- And his vocal opposition to war with Iran, which is being fought on behalf of Israel despite how disastrous it is.

If Massie simply gave Israel everything they wanted without questioning their conduct, Trump would have left him alone.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

AIPAC spent $9 million to take out Rep. Thomas Massie.

Trump megadonors spent another $7 million.

It was the most ever spent on a House primary race—all because he defied Trump on Gaza and Epstein.

NO, billionaire super PACs should not buy our elections. One person, one vote.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Strange outrage around this. If the gay lebanese PAC spent 35 million dollars attacking Massie i don’t think i’d be mad if he made a joke about Beirut Pride in the concession. Can’t smoke someone with a haymaker then cry foul when they kick you from the mat.

[Nuanced Film Takes @BadFilmTakes1]

This harkens back to that clip of Orson Welles calling out filmmakers who only draw from other films. There’s something to be said for someone like David Lynch, who took from painting and music even more than film. You’re doomed to homage if you are only inspired by one art form.

[Brandon Streussnig @BrndnStrssng]

beyond "nobody reads anymore," this is because many modern filmmakers work off of a base of the filmmakers they were inspired by, whereas those people were building off of art, sociology, history, and yes, literature. Obviously isn't true across the board, but you know

[Mandy Arthur @mandyarthur]

I'm sorry, but if you think the guy who was faithful to his high school sweetheart for 31 years, risked his career for Epstein victims' justice, and repeatedly voted to expose the Congressional Sexual Misconduct fund is the bad guy, you're a special kind of retarded.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Thank you Tim. You’re going to get some hate for this, but the hate will come from bots and boughts, and the love will come from supporters of the Constitution.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

It’s difficult to shock me. And yet I’ve been pretty shocked by the psychotic *global* response to Timothée Chalamet’s comment about opera & ballet, which was obviously completely right.

I used to work at an opera company. Every sane person in the industry knows it’s toast. It bleeds money & is kept alive by a few rich donors—many of them very old—because people do not go. The Met is begging *Saudi Arabia* for money. It’s grim.

Anyway, water is wet, the sun rises in the east, Whitney Houston sang the best national anthem of all time, opera is dying. Some things are not up for debate, and it is beyond silly that there is ongoing international furor that someone said a very benign fact.

I need a lot of people to kindly get a grip.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@EricLDaugh Can the FBI just enforce the law without adopting every leftist gun banner talking point?

🚫Carrying a gun = bad intentions.
🚫Loaded guns = bad guns.
🚫Spare magazines = extra bad.
🚫More than 10 rounds = bad.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

In the old days, I would have responded by calling right-wingers every name in the book as retaliation for this kind of bullshit. Really, 100 million Americans are all terrorists and criminals? Now, I'll just point out that this is what's dividing the country. And half the reason they say this is to protect Israel.

They're calling anyone who citicizes Israel "terrorists." The problem is they're now calling half their base terrorists, too.

Also, this is how they take away all of our rights by pretending that anyone who criticizes a foreign country is a domestic enemy of the US.

[Kalshi Film @Kalshi_Film]

In A History of Violence, the scene where Tom faces the gangsters in his diner is one of the film’s most intense moments. Mortensen delivered such a powerful performance that Cronenberg kept the very first take, saying its raw energy couldn’t be recreated

[Duncan Trussell @duncantrussell]

My thoughts on the Riyadh Comedy Festival

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

So, @jimmykimmel had an inaccurate statement in his joke. Are we going to go back and analyze every joke for factual errors now? Because @realjeffreyross better watch out, I hear Bea Arthur didn’t even have a dick!

[Conan O'Brien @ConanOBrien]

The suspension of @jimmykimmel and the promise to silence other Late Night hosts for criticizing the administration should disturb everyone on the Right, Left, and Center.  It’s wrong and anyone with a conscience knows it’s wrong.

[Matt McCusker @mattwritesbooks]

Wishing everyone the best of luck today. May you utterly humiliate and destroy your political opponents online. You are completely right about everything. Don’t ever forget that.

Have a great day.

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

I’ve been in broadcasting my whole life. I’m the FIRST to say abolish the FCC and that government should have NO involvement in kicking people like Jimmy Kimmel off the air.

That being said…I doubt that’s what happened. Between Kimmel's despicable "joke" about Charlie Kirk and his show's terrible ratings, I don’t think Sinclair or Nexstar needed any help suspending him. GOOD RIDDANCE.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 The Earth just tilted off its axis.

Tucker Carlson is now calling out Trump’s own regime, accusing it of using Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a pretext to abolish the First Amendment, round up Americans, and Nazify the country.

Yes. He said that. And he’s not wrong.

[Mike Solana @micsolana]

oh, no, two people who disagree about politics connecting over their shared humanity! quick everyone, get them!!