Michael Gott

I teach Global French Studies & Film and Media Studies at the University of Cincinnati. I study Screen Borders, Cinéma-monde, Transnational film and TV.

[Michael Gott @mgott150]

Excited to report that issue 47.1 of @CFCJournal is available online. It includes a detailed intro + great contributions that explore diverse facets of and recent developments in cinéma-monde

Special Issue of Contemporary French Civilization (47.1)

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Remember when they said Zelensky desecrated the sanctity of the White House by not wearing a suit

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

The President is not well. He can’t stay awake at important White House events and cabinet meetings.

@WhiteHouse needs to come clean about why trump takes so many trips to the hospital and why doctors keep giving trump cognitive tests.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Olszewski to Marco Rubio: "I may have to get you a new pair of glasses because the facts are right in front of you, and it seems like malpractice for the Secretary of State to not be able to see this president and his family enriching themselves by billions of dollars."

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Trump administration is DISMANTLING the network of buoys that help California monitor for major tsunamis and earthquakes.

Cool.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump said leftover money from his ballroom would go to his triumphal arch.

Trump said leftover money from his inauguration would go to his presidential library.

As corporations donate millions to these opaque slush funds, we're left to wonder where the money is really going.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Read the whole thread.

[Sherrod Brown @SherrodBrown]

The rising cost of diesel and fertilizer doesn’t just hurt our farmers, it hurts your family at the grocery store.

Instead of working to lower costs, Jon Husted has voted eight times to continue the reckless war in Iran.

Enough is enough.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

The moment of one of today’s Russian strikes on Kyiv.

I can see that fewer and fewer people are reading news from Ukraine. I understand that on a Sunday morning, people don’t want to read about war. They want to sleep a little longer, drink good coffee, and sit in the sun. I understand that. The algorithms on X limit content about war, destruction, and suffering. You have to make an effort to even see this information.

All of this is understandable on a human level. But unfortunately, if you remove Putin and the war from your information feed, they do not disappear from reality.

Putin is a sadist and a maniac. He is a threat to all of humanity.

There needs to be active resistance. News from Ukraine needs to be shared. People need to keep their focus.

Despite a sleepless night, I’m still here. And I’m grateful to everyone who continues to stand with us.

One day, we’ll drink morning coffee together in a beautiful, peaceful Kyiv.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

This is a great story about how Trump and his family are profiting off the renaming of the Palm Beach International Airport, with the blessing of Fla Gov. Ron DeSantis. I guess everything is up for grabs in America these days, with no input from local taxpayers or voters.

[David Pepper @DavidPepper]

Yes, because when you want to end fraud, you call two scam artists.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Donald Trump is currently stealing $1.7 billion from taxpayers for his “weaponization” slush fund and fleecing taxpayers for another billion for his ballroom that he said would be privately funded.

[. @GregTSargent]

This is simply bonkers. The White House is in active discussions with DOJ about settling Trump's lawsuit against the IRS in his favor, *precisely because* a judge might soon throw it out. WH apparently wants DOJ to agree to "settle" the lawsuit *before* that happens. Insanity.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Another absolutely horrendous quote that will be shoved down Republicans' throats during the 2026 midterms

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

My latest @NYTimes oped shows that the White House is dramatically understating the cost of the war in Iran.

By my calculations—and I show my work—it will cost the typical American family thousands, and it could cost them tens of thousands.

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[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

Literally.

[Rachel Coyle @RachelCoyleOhio]

@RichardHanania Yep it's true. I really wish it weren't.

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[Katherine Clark @TeamKClark]

Trump in March: “This [ballroom is] no charge to the taxpayer whatsoever. This was all donations made by friends of mine… Not one penny of tax will be donated to this.”

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

This is literally the funniest moment in the history of American foreign policy.