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@benroyce@mastodon.social · 21 hours ago

did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?

of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power

it refers to a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May_Day

it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech

from the play "Sir Thomas More"

here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory

( #Gandalf, #Magneto, etc)

on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"

#FuckICE #ICEout

Evil May Day - Wikipedia

Ben Royce 🇺🇦 🇸🇩

@benroyce@mastodon.social · 21 hours ago

did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?

of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power

it refers to a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May_Day

it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech

from the play "Sir Thomas More"

here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory

( #Gandalf, #Magneto, etc)

on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"

#FuckICE #ICEout

Evil May Day - Wikipedia

George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

@georgetakei@universeodon.com · 2 weeks ago

Never letting this go. Thank you, Stephen Colbert!

der.hans

@lufthans@mastodon.social replied · 2 weeks ago

@georgetakei Larry Wilmore use to just throw in references to Bill Cosby ( "I haven't forgotten about your MFer" ) when Cosby was being prosecuted for rape

Colbert should ask about the Epstein files every night.

"Is Epstein?" in lieu of "is potato"

Oh, and name someone who's been protecting the FOE ( Friends Of Epstein )

#StephenColbert

#FriendsOfEpstein #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #PamBondi #RTEF

Heidi Li Feldman

@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social · 3 weeks ago

When so many elected officials and prominent, powerful people are not using their positions and platforms to directly and forcefully oppose the Trump executive’s lawless, thuggish, totalitarianism, it is important to be aware of what doing that looks like. People like Schumer and Jeffries, Cook and Bezos should be asked, as often as possible, how they can live with themselves when lone trial court judges are doing more to fight for U.S. constitutional democracy and rule of law then they are. 8/8

six_grandfathers_mountain

@six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social replied · 3 weeks ago

@heidilifeldman
RE
When so many elected officials and prominent, powerful people are not using their positions and platforms to directly and forcefully oppose the Trump executive’s lawless, thuggish, totalitarianism...

That's the key issue Jon Mecham on #StephenColbert is saying on Jan 15 2026

#wethepeople voted them in, we need to vote them out

But we need to get more folks register to vote and check if you're still registered, bc #MarcElias says #votersuppression is real

Jon Mecham and Stephen Colbert (Jan 15 2026)
Checks and Balances

(Mecham)
We the people, the document is only as good, as the people doing the voting, the people we vote into office and then people who act as checks and balances. And that's the great problem here.

We are in a moral crisis, too many of us, have decided to put, our own interests ahead of a constitutional order, that is based on a rule of law and is based on our actually, not just taking everything we want, right when we want it.

If I like your tie and I want it and I just grab it, that's breaking the law.

(Colbert)
What if my tie were Greenland? — Jon Mecham and Stephen Colbert (Jan 15 2026) Checks and Balances (Mecham) We the people, the document is only as good, as the people doing the voting, the people we vote into office and then people who act as checks and balances. And that's the great problem here. We are in a moral crisis, too many of us, have decided to put, our own interests ahead of a constitutional order, that is based on a rule of law and is based on our actually, not just taking everything we want, right when we want it. If I like your tie and I want it and I just grab it, that's breaking the law. (Colbert) What if my tie were Greenland?

Chris 🦑

@sturmsucht@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

Watched the Stephen Colbert show recently where he shortly mentioned the Signalgate affair by mentioning "the insecure messenger Signal". And that's what naming can do.

@Mer__edith we need you on the Late Show.

#signalgate #stephencolbert #lateshow