#political-satire

#political-satire

During his opening monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live! the host branded the scheme the Get Into America Express Card, mocking its explicit transactional logic and its break from decades of immigration rhetoric. This is a card that will allow wealthy foreigners to live here, Kimmel said. For a million bucks, you get legal visitor status. You get a pathway to citizenship and a presidential pardon for one major crime of your choosing.

We happy few. We unlucky few. In years to come when we are all still recovering from post-traumatic stress disorder, we will be able to say we were there. That we have seen things that cannot be unseen. The eight thousand of us who, through a mixture of curiosity and comedy, chose to watch Liz Truss commit a drive by on herself.

Netflix Sean Combs. Photograph: Paras Griffin/Getty Images Summed up in a sentence An utterly damning docuseries about the musician which has so rattled his lawyers they are demanding that Netflix remove it. What our reviewer said It does such a thorough job of laying out and backing up so many horrific allegations that his way back to stardom is surely blocked for ever. Stuart Heritage Read the full review Further reading A lot of bad things happened': the most shocking moments from the Diddy docuseries Pick of the rest

"the healthiest human currently alive or recorded in medical history."

Stephen Colbert has panned claims by President Donald Trump's physician that men in his age group benefit from MRI scans as scrutiny around the president's health intensifies, with the Late Show host prescribing his own medicine for the commander-in-chief: Retiring!

shiny gold pales in comparison to the charm of Christmas lights.

WHAT UP, SMARTY BUTT? It's time once again to put your brainy-brain to the test with this week's edition of POP QUIZ PDX -our weekly, local, sassy-ass trivia quiz. And this week we'll be testing your knowledge on last week's big events, including public aerobics, Trump's continuing humiliation at the hands of Portland, and everyone's fave subject... DRUGS! 🥳 But first! How did you do on our last quiz?

First published in 1982 but set in the year 2025 (ever heard of it?), Stephen King's " The Running Man " takes place in a then-future where the world's economy has collapsed, America has turned into a totalitarian hellhole, and the country's media apparatus has created a free spectacle that keeps people too furious with their fellow citizens to recognize the government as their common enemy. Bachman al-Gaib!

The official White House website has unveiled a page called "mysafespace: a place for dems", whose sole purpose is to make fun of Democrats and blame them for the ongoing shutdown. The page is meant to mimic a MySpace blog, with an "About me" section describing Congressional Democrats as folks who "love DEI, transgender for everyone, and handing out taxpayer benefits to illegal immigrants."

Seth Meyers used his NBC show to push back against President Donald Trump on Monday night, after the president claimed on Truth Social that Meyers' comedy was PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!! Trump attacked the host on Saturday, insisting the comedian may be the WORST to perform, live or otherwise, and complaining that Meyers' act is now 100% ANTI-TRUMP which he added was PROBABLY ILLEGAL!!!

I have fond memories of my father reading the Western Star daily newspaper after supper, and I particularly enjoyed the coloured comic strips in the Saturday-morning edition, the sweet smell of newsprint and ink coming from the pages.

said he was disgusted by the lack of decency from the commander-in-chief and in particular, the clip he posted of himself flying a fighter jet and dropping feces on No Kings protestors, including left-wing influencer Harry Sisson. By the way, do we really have to treat people like that? You know, the meme that he had where he was flying with the crown and the, you know, spewing excrement all over the people down below Daniels said.

World-famous drag queen Trixie Mattel appeared on Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show to read a book to kids, as drag queens do. And the book she read was one "written" by Donald Trump's "least favorite son," Eric Trump. Trixie held up a copy of Eric Trump's Under Siege and told the kids: "Hey listen, we have to pay respect because this ghost writer worked really hard on this."

Tina Fey's still got it. And by "it," we mean the SNL makeup department. This was uncanny. Fey stopped by Amy Poehler's ep of Saturday Night Live during the cold open to unveil another eerily accurate GOP political impression. This time, she was portraying DHS Director Kristi Noem. The sketch started with host Poehler playing an uncooperative Attorney General Pam Bondi appearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

If you go up the Grand Staircase to the second floor of San Francisco City Hall and then make a right, you will find a graveyard outside the office of District 1 Supervisor Connie Chan. Each tombstone is marked with a Halloweeny riff on the name of a former district supervisor. Is it an homage? Is it a threat? "There's a lot of stuff going on, so it's nice to have a little levity," said Robyn Burke, one of Chan's legislative aides.

For what it's worth, Ocasio-Cortez later recorded a video saying she carries no bias against short men - or "the short king community," as she put it - and that she was primarily referring to "how big or small someone is on the inside." But the fundamental point in the viral clip - that anti-authoritarian movements can benefit from making a mockery of that which seeks to be menacing - is a point that historians and experts on authoritarianism have also made.

BILL MAHER: Kamala Harris's new memoir of the 24 election is called 107 Days, but it should have been called Everyone Sucks But Me. 107 Days is a victim's title because, get it, she only had 107 days to win. Yeah, and a billion and a half dollars and a built-in army of about 75 million people who'd vote for any human adjacent life form that wasn't Trump. But in 107 days nothing is ever Kamala's fault.

He said today, tweeted out that the Democrats are the party of hate, evil, and Satan. Good faith. Which is so ridiculous. If they ran Satan, they would have won Florida. I kid Florida, I love Florida. But now, Trump knows how to negotiate this. We're going to get over this. You know how you do it? You get everybody in a room, preferably a ballroom. And you say, nobody's leaving here until you check out these cherubs.

If that's how we're doing it, JD, then we here at The Late Show also enjoy humor, the host declared. He proceeded to roll a heavily censored AI animation of Vance humping a sofa while wearing a sombrero in callback to an internet hoax that falsely claimed Vance once wrote about such an encounter in his memoir. The rumor, long debunked, was recycled through online memes during the 2024 campaign.

Regina Hall's inherent Regina Hall-ness - her magnetic fusion of poise and charisma - never shows in One Battle After Another. Instead of that usual charm, Hall is sober-minded and serious. As Deandra, a guerilla involved with a revolutionary sect called the French 75, she's waging war against oppression, whether that's militarized police, migrant detention camps, Christmas-worshipping white nationalists, or fascism at large.

You could describe the nearly three hours of movie that follows in many ways; as a knockabout satire or a political broadside or, as Anderson put it after a screening this week, "an action comedy with a side of postpartum depression." But one way to think of it is as one man's epic journey to figure out just what the hell is going on.

Prototypes' London debut didn't just show clothes; it staged an exorcism. "In Loving Memory of British Culture" was less a catwalk than a funeral, resurrection, and carnival of dissent all rolled into one. Taking on the most loaded uniforms of British subculture. From the flight jacket thug to the football hooligan and the Union Jack zealot, the collection flipped fascist signifiers inside out, mocking their rigidity and repurposing their power.

This time, though, MAGA picked up on GWAR's antics and is crying foul. Both conservative-leaning websites Brietbart and New York Post have published articles on the band's performance at Riot Fest, while videos of GWAR circulated widely on X/Twitter throughout the weekend. "Listen I know they do this to every leader and even did Obama but after what happened with Charlie Kirk last week it's just retarded timing," one user complained.