Robert Edwards
@robertsedwards.bsky.social
Veteran, writer, filmmaker, music and comedy nerd, blogging at The King’s Necktie thekingsnecktie.substack.com. Author of RESISTING THE RIGHT, from OR Books. Writer/director of "Land of the Blind" starring Ralph Fiennes and Donald Sutherland.
3/3 any more than one would run a headline reading "Trump announces plan to flap arms and fly to the moon."
November 6, 2025 at 8:18 PM
3/3 any more than one would run a headline reading "Trump announces plan to flap arms and fly to the moon."
The Univ of Austin Texas (UATX) is a new university co-founded by Bari Weiss and right wing billionaire Joe Lonsdale (of Palantir), teaching a Hillsdale-like curriculum. Its facilities feature this bust of Bari.
Good luck, CBS.
Good luck, CBS.
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The Univ of Austin Texas (UATX) is a new university co-founded by Bari Weiss and right wing billionaire Joe Lonsdale (of Palantir), teaching a Hillsdale-like curriculum. Its facilities feature this bust of Bari.
Good luck, CBS.
Good luck, CBS.
I put this picture of Trump (at left) through an AI to try to see what he would look like in 2032, if he lives that long. But I accidentally had the software set to "female" and this is what came out.
October 29, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I put this picture of Trump (at left) through an AI to try to see what he would look like in 2032, if he lives that long. But I accidentally had the software set to "female" and this is what came out.
Proud to have been among the roughly 7 million Americans who turned out nationwide today to register our deep unhappiness with this authoritarian regime.
October 18, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Proud to have been among the roughly 7 million Americans who turned out nationwide today to register our deep unhappiness with this authoritarian regime.
How does the WaPo editorial board breathe with its lips perma-stuck to Trump's ass?
October 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
How does the WaPo editorial board breathe with its lips perma-stuck to Trump's ass?
Please file under "Imagine if a Democratic President Said This" (category is getting very full), cross-referenced with "Stop Telling the Left We Have to Reach Across the Aisle."
September 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Please file under "Imagine if a Democratic President Said This" (category is getting very full), cross-referenced with "Stop Telling the Left We Have to Reach Across the Aisle."
This is how we lose the pro-democracy struggle.
File next to the headline that reads, "UN Decides Russian Invasion of Ukraine Was Not Nice."
File next to the headline that reads, "UN Decides Russian Invasion of Ukraine Was Not Nice."
September 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This is how we lose the pro-democracy struggle.
File next to the headline that reads, "UN Decides Russian Invasion of Ukraine Was Not Nice."
File next to the headline that reads, "UN Decides Russian Invasion of Ukraine Was Not Nice."
Was shopping online for a globe recently and was delighted to see that some companies proudly announce, as a selling point, that their globes still read "Gulf of Mexico."
September 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Was shopping online for a globe recently and was delighted to see that some companies proudly announce, as a selling point, that their globes still read "Gulf of Mexico."
Great event last night at the Wellfleet Public Library in conversation w/Michael Meeropol. SRO crowd to discuss RESISTING THE RIGHT and the democratic crisis in our country. Vigorous conversation among engaged Americans!
Thank you WPL, Mike, and everyone who came out!
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Thank you WPL, Mike, and everyone who came out!
@orbooks.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Great event last night at the Wellfleet Public Library in conversation w/Michael Meeropol. SRO crowd to discuss RESISTING THE RIGHT and the democratic crisis in our country. Vigorous conversation among engaged Americans!
Thank you WPL, Mike, and everyone who came out!
@orbooks.bsky.social
Thank you WPL, Mike, and everyone who came out!
@orbooks.bsky.social
@deathandtaxesfilm.bsky.social Justin Schein on @wnyc.org’s Brian Lehrer Show this morning, discussing our film DEATH & TAXES, which opens in NYC today.....
Or is it a late night free jazz DJ on the midnight shift, circa 1972? You decide.
Or is it a late night free jazz DJ on the midnight shift, circa 1972? You decide.
July 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
@deathandtaxesfilm.bsky.social Justin Schein on @wnyc.org’s Brian Lehrer Show this morning, discussing our film DEATH & TAXES, which opens in NYC today.....
Or is it a late night free jazz DJ on the midnight shift, circa 1972? You decide.
Or is it a late night free jazz DJ on the midnight shift, circa 1972? You decide.
Five-time draft dodger, convicted felon, and Vladimir Putin fanboy who denigrated fallen US soldiers as “losers and suckers” throws himself multimillion dollar military parade for his birthday at taxpayers’ expense.
June 15, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Five-time draft dodger, convicted felon, and Vladimir Putin fanboy who denigrated fallen US soldiers as “losers and suckers” throws himself multimillion dollar military parade for his birthday at taxpayers’ expense.
81 years ago today, American soldiers, sailors, and airmen began the key phase of the liberation of Europe from fascist oppression....and to keep that scourge off our own shores.
Still fighting today.
Still fighting today.
June 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
81 years ago today, American soldiers, sailors, and airmen began the key phase of the liberation of Europe from fascist oppression....and to keep that scourge off our own shores.
Still fighting today.
Still fighting today.
You know how we know there's no such thing as zombies? Because if there were, all the dead in Arlington would have risen up and eaten this draft dodging foreign tool like he was a McNugget.
May 26, 2025 at 5:50 PM
You know how we know there's no such thing as zombies? Because if there were, all the dead in Arlington would have risen up and eaten this draft dodging foreign tool like he was a McNugget.
In honor of Kash Patel getting his as$ fired as head of the BATF (bye Felicia), allow me to re-post my favorite The New Yorker cartoon of all time.
April 10, 2025 at 6:21 PM
In honor of Kash Patel getting his as$ fired as head of the BATF (bye Felicia), allow me to re-post my favorite The New Yorker cartoon of all time.
This is the front page of The Guardian right now. Except for the story about a serial killer in Canada, every single story is about a Trump-driven nightmare.
That is a measure of just how bad things are right now, and how a proper newspaper covers it.
That is a measure of just how bad things are right now, and how a proper newspaper covers it.
March 18, 2025 at 12:42 AM
This is the front page of The Guardian right now. Except for the story about a serial killer in Canada, every single story is about a Trump-driven nightmare.
That is a measure of just how bad things are right now, and how a proper newspaper covers it.
That is a measure of just how bad things are right now, and how a proper newspaper covers it.
Jeff Bezos: Scumbag and coward.
March 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Jeff Bezos: Scumbag and coward.
Still trying to get my money. FU.
March 1, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Still trying to get my money. FU.
"We take threats against public officials very seriously." From the party of January 6th, and Ed Martin—a vocal proponent of the Big Lie—in particular. Wow.
February 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
"We take threats against public officials very seriously." From the party of January 6th, and Ed Martin—a vocal proponent of the Big Lie—in particular. Wow.
Carolyn Cadwalladr in The Observer, with a mockup of what an accurate NYT headline would say right now.
February 20, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Carolyn Cadwalladr in The Observer, with a mockup of what an accurate NYT headline would say right now.
This just in: Donald Trump receives the coveted Герой Советского Союза as a Hero of the Soviet Union.
He earned it, people.
He earned it, people.
February 14, 2025 at 9:20 PM
This just in: Donald Trump receives the coveted Герой Советского Союза as a Hero of the Soviet Union.
He earned it, people.
He earned it, people.
Yes, it's true—Google Maps has bent the knee and is now using Trump's idiotic new name for the Gulf of Mexico.
What I want to know is, why is he so un-ambitious? Why not just go ahead and rename Mexico itself Trumpistan or Trumpland or Trump Taco Bowlville?
What I want to know is, why is he so un-ambitious? Why not just go ahead and rename Mexico itself Trumpistan or Trumpland or Trump Taco Bowlville?
February 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Yes, it's true—Google Maps has bent the knee and is now using Trump's idiotic new name for the Gulf of Mexico.
What I want to know is, why is he so un-ambitious? Why not just go ahead and rename Mexico itself Trumpistan or Trumpland or Trump Taco Bowlville?
What I want to know is, why is he so un-ambitious? Why not just go ahead and rename Mexico itself Trumpistan or Trumpland or Trump Taco Bowlville?
Sen. Brian Schatz, doing Hawaii proud and showing the rest of the Democratic Party (along with other stalwarts like Jamie Raskin and Chris Murphy) how it's done.
And note the absurd WSJ subheader: as if Schatz's action is the thing putting the US government in peril!
And note the absurd WSJ subheader: as if Schatz's action is the thing putting the US government in peril!
February 4, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Sen. Brian Schatz, doing Hawaii proud and showing the rest of the Democratic Party (along with other stalwarts like Jamie Raskin and Chris Murphy) how it's done.
And note the absurd WSJ subheader: as if Schatz's action is the thing putting the US government in peril!
And note the absurd WSJ subheader: as if Schatz's action is the thing putting the US government in peril!