Michael J. Anderson

Professional actor based in NYC. Also a teacher based in NYC. NBA fan and lifelong PC gamer. Endeavoring to keep a beginner's mind.

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

"The Party told you to reject all evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." 1984. Orwell.

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@nytimes No shit.

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@mehdirhasan I suppose so. But also isn't that the point? To try and be better, humbler, more decent? It sort of gives the lie to what Giuliani said, doesn't it? If you were so "offended" by Momdani being there, why shake as well?

[Bob Wire @pops30575819]

"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

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

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.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

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?

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

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.'

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@GeraldoRivera Or. They'll do it because it's right.

[DuffJuice @DuffJuice30]

Dolly Parton gave the greatest piece of advice to the teenager in America. This kinda person is just supposed to live forever bruh.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

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.

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@sgallz_ Thank you! That was fantastic. That guitarist, man, was he poised, professional, and utterly smitten! He looked so determined to play that song as well as he could play it, and she was delighted to. What a wonderful thing to find on this, much too often, awful site.

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

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.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

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

[Chase Madar @ChaseMadar]

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 https://t.co/4I9mLlhDeX

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

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?
https://t.co/hDJAEBT7OC

[David Doney @David_Charts2]

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.

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@HPbasketball Hope so but hard to think bench isn't thinner now.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

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:

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

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.”

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@SenBillCassidy Coward

[Michael J. Anderson @Mike_the_Actor]

@SenBillCassidy Coward.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

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.