Andrew Nicholls
@andrewjn.bsky.social
writer, mostly. Over 100 TV series, and the book Comedy Writer.
Okay, Frankenstein, but directed by Parker and Stone, and it’s John Fetterman
November 16, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Okay, Frankenstein, but directed by Parker and Stone, and it’s John Fetterman
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I mean, this is just flat out corruption. It’s blatantly obvious. He’s stealing our tax dollars.
President Trump is demanding that the Justice Department pay him about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him.
Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
Whether he gets paid will ultimately be up to DOJ's second-in-command, who was recently his personal lawyer.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I mean, this is just flat out corruption. It’s blatantly obvious. He’s stealing our tax dollars.
Who knows what evil lurks on the porches of men?
October 16, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Who knows what evil lurks on the porches of men?
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"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
September 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
"We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent." —Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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🔥 MISSOURI voter to @RepMarkAlford: “You talked about abuses in the Medicare & Medicaid system… Trump just pardoned someone who defrauded the system for about $1.3 BILLION. I find that curious.”
(Esformes was then arrested for domestic violence)
(Esformes was then arrested for domestic violence)
August 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
🔥 MISSOURI voter to @RepMarkAlford: “You talked about abuses in the Medicare & Medicaid system… Trump just pardoned someone who defrauded the system for about $1.3 BILLION. I find that curious.”
(Esformes was then arrested for domestic violence)
(Esformes was then arrested for domestic violence)
No One Cares About Vague BIRDS shermanoaksreview.com/lint/no-one-...
No One Cares About Vague BIRDS
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August 21, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Cat On A Not Tin Roof
August 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Cat On A Not Tin Roof
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Reposted by Andrew Nicholls
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
July 18, 2025 at 6:03 PM
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
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Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
July 18, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
Come one, come all. Well, not ALL, there’s only 90 seats.
July 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Come one, come all. Well, not ALL, there’s only 90 seats.
@NPR.org, might you tell your correspondents to cut it out with the “sort of”s and “kind of”s? I’ve heard “sort of absolutely,” “kind of extremely,” and worse. Ten of these in a single story makes reportage sound like guessing.
Also, no authoritative answer to a question begins with “So yeah...”
Also, no authoritative answer to a question begins with “So yeah...”
July 4, 2025 at 1:13 AM
@NPR.org, might you tell your correspondents to cut it out with the “sort of”s and “kind of”s? I’ve heard “sort of absolutely,” “kind of extremely,” and worse. Ten of these in a single story makes reportage sound like guessing.
Also, no authoritative answer to a question begins with “So yeah...”
Also, no authoritative answer to a question begins with “So yeah...”
When Meatloaf, the singer, a play made
For Doris who On Moonlight Bay made,
It was easy to see,
Categorically,
What a Day, and a difference, Aday made.
For Doris who On Moonlight Bay made,
It was easy to see,
Categorically,
What a Day, and a difference, Aday made.
July 3, 2025 at 8:44 PM
When Meatloaf, the singer, a play made
For Doris who On Moonlight Bay made,
It was easy to see,
Categorically,
What a Day, and a difference, Aday made.
For Doris who On Moonlight Bay made,
It was easy to see,
Categorically,
What a Day, and a difference, Aday made.
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It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream.
It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻♂️
It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻♂️
UK weather: Temperatures to hit 33C for hottest two days in a row
Temperatures could peak at 33C on Friday to break Thursday's record for hottest day of the year.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 20, 2025 at 3:08 AM
It's about time these stories weren't accompanied by an image of someone frolicking in the water or eating an ice cream.
It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻♂️
It's not going to stop getting hotter, we really ought to fucking grow up and treat this seriously🤦🏻♂️
Possible time-travel story title: That Was Now And This Is Then.
June 15, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Possible time-travel story title: That Was Now And This Is Then.
Would it be legal for Elon to offer R. Senators $1 m each to vote against the budget bill?
June 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Would it be legal for Elon to offer R. Senators $1 m each to vote against the budget bill?
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"They could criticize Trump's authoritarian tendencies while supporting the movement that enabled those tendencies. They could maintain their status within conservative institutions while avoiding the discomfort of genuine opposition to authoritarianism."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
The Well-Dressed Liars of the Moderate Right
How the Intellectual Enablers of Trumpism Betrayed Free Speech, Free Markets, and the Free World
www.notesfromthecircus.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"They could criticize Trump's authoritarian tendencies while supporting the movement that enabled those tendencies. They could maintain their status within conservative institutions while avoiding the discomfort of genuine opposition to authoritarianism."
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
www.notesfromthecircus.com/p/the-well-d...
Find myself thinking a lot lately about Gödel’s Loophole. theconversation.com/kurt-godel-f....
Kurt Gödel: from loopholes and dictators to the incompleteness theorems
The mathematician Kurt Gödel is said to have found a way that the US constitution would allow for a dictator to take control, or so the story goes. He certainly had the mind for it.
theconversation.com
May 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Find myself thinking a lot lately about Gödel’s Loophole. theconversation.com/kurt-godel-f....
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This is the man Donald Trump put in charge of your hard earned benefits:
"I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?
So, I'm Googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great Googlers on the East Coast."
"I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?
So, I'm Googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great Googlers on the East Coast."
New head of Social Security, hired from Wall Street, tells staff he had to Google the job when he was offered it
Newly sworn-in Social Security chief Frank Bisignano, who previously was a Wall Street executive, told staffers he had to Google the SSA job when it was offered to him.
abcnews.go.com
May 22, 2025 at 7:17 PM
This is the man Donald Trump put in charge of your hard earned benefits:
"I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?
So, I'm Googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great Googlers on the East Coast."
"I'm like, what the heck's the commissioner of Social Security?
So, I'm Googling Social Security. You know, one of my great skills, I'm one of the great Googlers on the East Coast."
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We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Hundreds of rural hospitals are at risk of closing, threatening critical care
Hospital officials told CBS News the closure was driven by the same factors that have closed other rural hospitals: low reimbursement rates.
www.cbsnews.com
May 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We should be investing in rural communities and making them better places to build a life & raise a family - not shutting down rural hospitals by choking off their funding.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
Saving rural hospitals is one more reason to call your Representative and speak out against this GOP attempt to cut Medicaid.
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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
May 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid.
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A refresher from the #Picasso Museum in #Paris about what can happen when an autocratic head of state makes himself the "decider" of what is and is not art. [Also a h/t to
@MelBrooks for his Schnappsed-up Nazi playwright in "The Producers."] My column: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
@MelBrooks for his Schnappsed-up Nazi playwright in "The Producers."] My column: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Commentary: 'Degenerate' or 'woke,' Paris museum exhibit shows what happens to art in the crosshairs of politics
As President Trump launches an offensive against 'woke' art, the Picasso Museum shows the kind of works that the Nazis singled out decades ago for mockery or destruction.
www.latimes.com
May 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
A refresher from the #Picasso Museum in #Paris about what can happen when an autocratic head of state makes himself the "decider" of what is and is not art. [Also a h/t to
@MelBrooks for his Schnappsed-up Nazi playwright in "The Producers."] My column: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
@MelBrooks for his Schnappsed-up Nazi playwright in "The Producers."] My column: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
“www” uses three times as many syllables as what it’s short for.
May 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“www” uses three times as many syllables as what it’s short for.
Tiny books in matchboxes as part of book promo!
May 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Tiny books in matchboxes as part of book promo!