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Rob Reiner was one of the key people behind the effort to go to court to overturn California's anti-marriage equality Proposition 8 when it passed in 2008. Working with Chad Griffin, they founded the American Foundation for Equal Rights and got Ted Olson and David Boies to team up to fight Prop 8.

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

Rob Reiner was the consummate storyteller. Over and over, he revealed us to ourselves: what it is to be young and have friends, to fall in love, to feel misery and vengeance, to feel alive. And the laughs. So many laughs. The loss of Rob Reiner is... inconceivable.

What's striking about Trump's lies, and those of his apologists, is that they're not even plausible. They don't try to be plausible. As others have noted, that's kind of the point. True authoritarian control and power is telling a blatant and obvious lie, and showing you can get away with it.

Legendary

Election nights don’t get this much promotion.

Re: Donald Trump’s comments about Rob Reiner. Rob Reiner was a compassionate human, a devotee of democracy, a necessary moral voice and a greatly gifted creative artist. Donald Trump is a sick sociopath and a hateful person who dishonors the human race every time he opens his mouth.

If the New York Times was waiting for a news hook to write a long-overdue story about how Trump is mentally unfit to be president, Trump has provided one today with his post saying Rob Reiner got murdered because he was mean to Trump. Write it, NYT. End the normalization. @nytimes.com

Rob Reiner’s voice was progressive, but most of all human. What a terrible tragedy. What a terrible loss.

Here's Trump saying Rob Reiner is dead because he made people mad with his "Trump Derangement Syndrome." Absolutely insane. It's a real post by the president of the United States, who has the nuclear codes.

I believe giving the worst person on the planet the most power was a bad move.

RIP Rob Reiner. You were a prince and I’m grateful we intersected. www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Trump keeps making batshit crazy comments, and the media keep deciding it’s the new normal — not news.

Wow

Donald Trump maliciously mocks the brutal murder of Michele & Rob Reiner, and Republicans don’t bat an eye. But as soon as you quote Charlie Kirk’s views, all hell breaks loose.

Central Park this am. 💕 @newyorkcitykopp.bsky.social

I am shocked and sickened about Rob Reiner and his wife. I dread learning who did this.

both of these posts are still up as of 11:30 this morning

Rob Reiner, the legendary director and actor who rose to prominence in 'All in the Family' and went on to direct classics 'This Is Spinal Tap,' 'Stand by Me,' and 'The Princess Bride,' was found dead in his home alongside his wife. Story: rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

I simply could not and would not respond on social media last night about Rob and Michele. I am beyond devastated at the loss of two dear friends. There will be lots of mentions of his brilliant as an actor and director. He was just a wonderful person, as was she. Generous, a true Mensch.

NEW: Jan 6 police hero emerges as “go-to” Congressional witness to fight “whitewashing” of Capitol siege: “The only thing that will stop me is if people stop lying about Jan. 6 and just acknowledge what the day was and what really transpired” ===> www.cbsnews.com/news/jan-6-p...

This lawless abuse needs to stop. That includes Congress demanding the end to masked agents. Every Republican is complicit.

Today, in the Sunday print NYT, we published an investigative look at Harold Hamm, the 13th child of Oklahoma sharecroppers who started an oil company named Continental, which turned him into a billionaire, powerbroker and friend of Donald J. Trump. You may never have heard of Hamm. But you should

Fuck the corrupt pair, Witkoff and Kushner. They are selling out the West for Russian bribes. I don't understand why Congressional leaders here in the US are not louder, more outraged about what is happening, more willing to fight.

“If people wearing ski masks & tactical gear with no visible ID swarmed your workplace to take your coworkers away...could you tell the difference between fed law enforcement & a kidnapping?…We should not have to live in fear of masked, armed agents.” --ACLU www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-e...

“The LA Fire Department said a man and a woman were found deceased inside, approximately 78 and 68 years old.” Rob Reiner is 78. His wife, Michele Singer, is in her 60s. www.nbclosangeles.com/investigatio...

“.. He led me into the Hilltop, where half the people inside knew his name, to a corner where we sat drinking diner coffee. ‘You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,’ Zink said.” @politico.com #DOGE www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Just so we’re all clear here, he is saying that Rob Reiner and his wife were asking for it.

“Trump Derangement Syndrome” has always been a way to smear people for having a logical, rational response to Trump having power. The real TDS is normalizing Trump’s power and the way he abuses it

So much for that

Rob Reiner’s murder has left me in shock. I never met him personally, but Rob contacted me years ago on Twitter/X because he wanted to tell me he liked the way I used my voice and sparked conversation. And how important it was never to fall silent.

Since people got fired for quoting Charlie Kirk's exact words, I think we should all start quoting some of Rob Reiner's exact words:

No, NPR, you cannot report it with stenography. You must put it in its grotesque context. www.npr.org/2025/12/15/n...

As the film world and people of good taste around the world mourn the sudden death of legendary director Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer, President Donald Trump jumped to make the apparent double homicide about himself. Read: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is nuts. Sounds fairly close to a horrific midair catastrophe tied to whatevet the fuck trump thinks hes doing in venezuelan air space. abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

"Alex Kleytman, an 87-year-old Ukrainian Holocaust survivor, was celebrating Hanukkah with his wife of 57 years, Larisa Kleytman, also a Holocaust survivor, when the attack began. He was killed while shielding Larisa from the bullets with his own body." www.timesofisrael.com/chabad-rabbi...

The people who wrote this about Charlie Kirk were fired and threatened with violence

I've got to say, this weekend, from students preparing for finals at Brown to Jews celebrating the festival of Hanukkah on Bondi Beach...it felt as if Yeats' awful vision were coming true: "The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned."

And intellectual property theft by a lawless regime.

Don't go to the hellsite for info about Rob Reiner. It will make you sick. Clearly, the civility police are only deployed for right wingers.

“You’re on a plane. Your pilot is inexperienced and unqualified. Is that a good thing?”

I got the tree in the stand and it’s reasonably straight. Win

Authorities are treating the deaths of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele Singer as an apparent homicide, with one of Reiner's family members being questioned in connection with their deaths. Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Love the idea underneath "we have to earn their trust" that X is just some regular ol' company with a banal history. Journalists know who owns it! They know how it was bought to make it a propaganda vehicle! All of that is still true, nobody with a good brain will "trust" your shithole Nazi forum.

This is vile.

Rep. Glenn Ivey (D-MD) on Trump social media post: "Trump’s statement is sick and dangerous because he suggests the Reiners killings were because they were vocal critics of the Trump admin. This rhetoric divides the country, paints targets on private citizens and risks inciting political violence"

If you're feeling down because you were wrong about something, just remember that, no matter how embarrassing it was, at least you didn't sign the Harper's "Letter on Justice and Open Debate" declaring that the greatest threat to free speech was "censoriousness" among liberal academics. 🫶

The sex predator president tries to distract us from his involvement in a child-rape scandal by ghoulishly celebrating the bloody murder of a beloved movie director. If you still support Trump, there's something deeply wrong with you.

“.. Over the course of the gala, a club member struck an attendee in the face .., Trump was endorsed for a third term and a protester wearing a Nazi armband and waving a swastika-laden banner popped up .. to shout, ‘I guess we’re all Nazis!’” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Incomprehensibe, tragic news about Rob Reiner and Michelle Singer Reiner people.com/rob-reiner-w...

“.. Wealthy taxpayers in high-tax states .. are the biggest winners, while most taxpayers will see only a modest boost.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Regarding Bacon's comment, provided to @jaketapper.bsky.social (which I screen grabbed b/c you don't need to see Trump's post for the 403rd time), I do think it's important to note this is a 62-year-old man who has been in Congress the entire time Trump has been president.

“I inherited a mess.” 🤡

When u see Calibri instead of Times New Roman.

I emailed the White House promising them I’d donate $8 million worth in Trump’s corrupt meme coin to Trump’s presidential library fund, if they could provide a convincing argument for why Trump’s Rob Reiner post this am was at all appropriate. Haven’t heard back yet zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

It’s crazy how the “Don’t tread on me!” and “Live free or die” crowd is fine with masked gangs of anonymous armed federal agents hassling, detaining, and assaulting people on the streets “papers please”-style. This feels like the most basic freedom of not living in a fascist police state.

Politico documents a sociopath’s rant. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

> @usapolling.bsky.social #PinkyPromise 🎀

christ, i can barely process this

Here are a few reasons off the top of my head why creators don’t LOVE AI: 1. It has been used to create videos of them saying inappropriate things 2. It has been used to sexually harass them 3. It has been used to scam their fans 4. It directly competes with their business and devalues their work

Are they kidnappers or federal agents empowered by Trump and unfettered by the Constitution and the rule of law? It's hard to tell the difference. Some lawmakers are fighting back. These men must be unmasked and required to show their IDs. open.substack.com/pub/america/...

mad max forever. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO4X...

The New York Times has once again outdone itself.

A great moviemaker, yes. But, for the last decade, Rob Reiner has been one of the bravest, boldest voices in America. He called it as he saw it and didn’t apologize. RIP.

“.. When people realize that it’s popular now to be against the president on a couple of issues .., you’ll see a different attitude.” 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/12/13/m...

New: When the Washington Post ran tests on its AI personalized podcasts, the paper found that between 68% and 84% (!!) of the pods had potential issues. Still, the paper decided to release the product anyway, saying it would “iterate through the remaining issues” www.semafor.com/article/12/1...

This was a wonderful interview. There’s a moment where Terry Gross plays him a tape of his father Carl talking about him that he had not heard before that’s very affecting.

The apostate maga in congress are criticizing Trump for his vile Reiner post. I’m guessing this will make him double down.

If people really believed that you needed to engage on conservative-dominated platforms to be effective they’d be active on Truth Social, Rumble, and Kick. They are not. They just don’t like X as much anymore and they want it to be your fault

I tried to watch the Erika Kirk townhall, I really did, and couldn’t for the life of me see a) what the news value was and b) why this was promoted as if a network had just landed an exclusive with Michael Jackson at the height of the allegations

“The legacy media’s refusal to recognize Trump’s mental and emotional unraveling cannot conceal a stark reality: Trump has lost it,” writes Jen Rubin in her latest.

The person who helped locate the Brown shooter is an immigrant. The person in Sydney who tackled one of the shooters is Muslim. Sometimes the people who are most willing to help others are from communities that know first-hand how much hatred threatens the values we need to live together.

The Erika Kirk CBS town hall is one of the most deranged programming choices in the history of television. If this is how Bari Weiss is starting to run CBS, I can’t even imagine what’s coming next

SULLIVAN: While large news organizations “are doing great reporting .. government coverage often feels like business as usual. Journalism should be communicating the .. five-alarm fire that’s burning up our nation’s purpose ..” @sulliview.bsky.social margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/america-ha...

New - CNN anchor John Berman interviews his son about what it was like being on Brown’s campus last night. www.cnn.com/us/live-news...

Authorities release the man detained after the Brown University shooting spree, meaning the killer is still at large. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

DAY AHEAD: Jan 6 police hero emerges as public advocate combatting “whitewashing” of history ===> youtube.com/shorts/cjDjY...

lol. by all means keep tryin guys

This is absolutely horrific.

“You don’t want deflation.” 🇺🇸

Everything's coming up Epstein talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekende...

The courtroom scene in "A Few Good Men" is bullshit but the fact that everybody knows that scene from a movie released 33 years ago is evidence enough that it doesn't matter, it's just a damn fine scene.

Foot of my driveway, early this morning.

Okay WTAF is this podium?

Agreed! ICYMI Rep Bennie Thompson did the thing! It’s called “oversight”!

This is on brand for Laura Ingraham, who said last year “If you know Minnesota well, and I know it well — especially Milwaukee — it's changed.” www.jsonline.com/story/news/2...

Trump is never able to be anything other than who he is — even amidst tragedies like Rob Reiner’s death. Cruelty is always the point.

About Trump social media post... Former Rep. Denver Riggleman (R-VA), who also has been an intelligence officer and an investigator of political violence cases "When a popular authority figure dehumanizes opponents and engages in othering, they strip away empathy, paving the way for violence..."

Rob Reiner and his wife were found dead Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles Robbery Homicide Division detectives have been assigned to the case. Paramedics had been called to the home at around 3:30pm. Story: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Oh my fucking god

On Saturday, CBS hosted a televised townhall with Erika Kirk, the widow of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk, who was murdered in September. All of which raises the question: Where’s the network townhall for Melissa Hortman? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

The New York Times is increasingly competing with NYT Pitchbot for satire. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

A more vile and despicable creature does not walk the earth. I hope hell just heated up another thousand degrees for his arrival.

The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot. Proverbs 10:7

Demented, depraved

Since the Fed started cutting rates last Sept: * unemployment ⬆️ 30bps * CPI ⬆️ 60bps * 10-year yield ⬆️ 50bps

A whole lot of data-driven popularism pundits lost interest in the data when polls consistently showed a majority thought Trump's immigration and economic policies sucked, so now they're stuck with "data-driven popularism is when politicians say stuff I agree with."

In Rob Reiner's memory, we should all speak out to challenge the authoritarianism closing in on us. Together, we can push it back.