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This is scary but I'm taking The Film Maven off Substack and have transferred to Ghost. Not only does this give me complete ownership of my work, but also means I won't continue to lose money to Substack and Apple. I lay everything out for Subscribers here. thefilmmaven.substack.com/p/the-film-m...
I was FURIOUS.
"According to GVA, 97.7 percent of mass shootings through 2021 were perpetrated by non-trans men, which means, over that period, you were nearly 43x more likely to be killed by a man who is not transgender than a perpetrator of any other gender identity."
Thanks. I needed to hear that.
Thanks for sharing this. I have 39 pending tasks on my Google Calendar that I've been shifting the dates on for about a year. I have to believe that I, too, can get unstuck.
Yeah, I don't get cozy (COZI) vibes from The George Lopez show (maybe some ppl do). I wish these nostalgia channels would lean even more heavily into the retro/vintage shows. Double down. So many shows that haven't seen the light of day in decades. Do some curation. Do some social media marketing.
AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
UPDATE: Lisa Cook says she's not going anywhere and Trump's bid to fire her is baseless. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Guys, I have a special & unusual request today. My cousin Sean is a union bus driver here in Los Angeles who was just FIRED in retaliation for saying he would not let masked ICE agents onto his bus to abduct riders. The fight is on to get his job back, you can help: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
Hey everyone, you’ve been asking me to run for office for a while, so guess what? I’m running for California State Assembly! Now, I don’t like asking for money, but we gotta pay for this somehow, and if everyone throws in $7 we’ll have the resources to run one hell of a race, so, uh, do the thing.
Do not come, Donald Trump. You are neither wanted nor needed here in Illinois.
Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward. Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything. www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Get hip to the world of Programme 4, local broadcast television and AM radio designed for living. It’s all happening at Programme4.tv — More to come! 📺📻
It was never appropriate, but who still uses the word "retard" in this context in 2025? And then doubles down when called on it? Are these the people on our side? The Democrats, the liberals, the progressives? We're supposed to be better than this. #politics #PoliSky #StephenMiller #hippies
Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for.
A 10-year-old #Georgia farmer makes history with a full-ride #HBCU scholarship for agriculture. 👩🏿🌾❤️ #agriculture #gardening #garden #GeorgiaSky #GaSky
As you watch clips of donald warmly greeting a war criminal on a red carpet, you may want to recall how donald treated Volodymyr Zelenskyy in February. It’s all you need to know.
Flooding a city with law enforcement produces the crisis that it purported to solve, thereby manufacturing its own justification. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-pretex...
If your child is struggling to read at grade level or at all, KEEP READING! Let them see you read. Talk about what you read, what they read. Reread their favorite books. Read them aloud! Have them read the physical book while listening to and reading along with the audiobook. 🧵 1/2
Let this be a lesson to dictators everywhere. If you attack one of our allies, *we will give you a bunch of valuable stuff!*
ANDREW CUOMO: 🎶 butterfly in the sky, I can fly twice as h- [gets sucker punched] LEVAR BURTON: [wipes blood off hands, stands over Cuomo] take a look, it’s in a book, you’re a creepy sex pest
Somewhere a multi-millionaire is sleeping in a homeless shelter because Andrew Cuomo is occupying their mansion.
LOOK! The Easy AM 66 Promotional Album Vol. 3 has arrived on LP, ready for easy listening on your hi-fi while you swirl Drambuie in an open robe. This limited edition pressing is a special gift for premium contributions to Programme 4 - ONLY A FEW ARE LEFT so ACT NOW! Programme4.bandcamp.com
The historical cognate for what is happening in the United States right now is the period known as the Redemption. And the restoration of Confederate iconography, just like when they were originally installed, is to signal to the nation the return of white power.
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Millionaire American trophy hunter Asher Watkins, 52, was gored to death on the horns of a buffalo he tried to kill on a trip to South Africa.
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Today marks the 60th anniversary of the passage of the Voting Rights Act. The beginning of true democracy in America. A offering to this country paid for by the work, dedication and lives of ordinary Black people. We’ve always had to fight. Are you prepared to fight to protect our rights?
I scored 15/15 in "Hercule Poirot : A Quiz". If you consider yourself a Poirot devotee, this quiz is the one for you. #AgathaChristie #BookSky ♥️📚 #FilmSky #Poirot
this is the worst zz top song i’ve ever heard
Why yes, I'd love to sit in the dark and sob uncontrollably—in public with a crowd of strangers. Translation: Just bought a ticket. #StudioGhibli #GhibliFest #FilmSky
Doctor: You have chlamydia. Take this doxycycline Trump: You're fired. Laura? You're my doctor now Laura Loomer: You have Enormous Penis Syndrome. The only cure is golf and steak, which will make your penis more wonderful
Yeah, same. I generally hold it all together (maybe not the healthiest option) no matter what, but the darndest things will make me tear up. Given the state of things, I guess my emotions are like "we've gotta come out some kinda way 🤷🏽♀️" lol.
Happiest of birthdays to you! Cheers to another year around the sun! 🍻☀️
hello things are pretty dire over here and if anyone has spare trinket money, a sale or two would go a long way!! (and if you don’t, BOY do i understand!!!!! a share, either digital or word of mouth, would also go a long way!!) www.ariellemilstein.com/shop
There is a LOT going on—in my life and in the world at large—so my emotions are pretty "at the surface" at all times these days, but I literally burst into tears as soon as I read this. 😭
I've heard some version of "Funding for this program was made possible by the Corporation For Public Broadcasting and Viewers Like You" my entire life. 🥹 I don't think I've ever hated a human being as much as him. Though the GOP rubber-stamping his every whim is a close second.
Giving away a few more reviews if we can make it to $6000
My wife is in Vogue shitting on your AI-generated "art" 💜 www.vogue.com/article/matt...
![Well, everything. The death of art. [Laughs.] A thing that I’ve been struck by in the last year of tech development around art is that what makes us human is making art, even if you’re not a professional artist. This is kind of corny, but I think about cavemen, right? One of the first things we ever did as a species was put our handprints on a wall, and it’s just this drive that has always been there. It’ll always be there. And I think it’s preposterous that these people are suggesting that they develop this technology, and the first thing they want to eliminate is art, so you have more time to…what, email? I don’t know what they think I’m going to do with my fucking day. Most of the population is not artists, but a lot of the population has artistic hobbies, and if you replace that with a computer doing it for you or whatever, it’s just pointless. I think there’s a death drive in these people, almost, and an actual hatred of artists; they are jealous of people with imagination because they don’t have one, and they almost consciously want to eliminate it.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:obalt57atoxc2zooldtuur75/bafkreifnjtvupzmkqg7cggiv2z5nckzpp5yd2sm7h5gg2kq3plbwv2btuy@jpeg "Click to view full size")
Support writers who leave #Substack. No one should remain on that platform, but I recognize that it can be a difficult transition. There are other options out there. Good on Josh! #WritingCommunity #SubstackSky
Lots of great people running, but I want to point your attention to two stellar WGA members who, like me, have not run for board before: Christina Walker and Myles Warden (links below) Myles: elections.wga.org/2025/myles-w... Christina: elections.wga.org/2025/christi...
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One of the moms I interviewed for Holding It Together is a school bus driver. She's her family's primary earner (<$25K/yr), and she doesn't have access to paid leave, so she had to go back to driving while still bleeding after childbirth. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/697130...
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Happy 85th, Bugs Bunny! 🥕 He made his first official appearance in Tex Avery's A WILD HARE, released on this date in 1940. #FilmSky #LooneyTunes #BugsBunny
A minute of exercise gives you 5 minutes of extra life so just do a 6-8 minute easy jog to reverse it. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
If you love A Chorus Line or theater or New York or dancers or singers, take a break and watch this. The faces! The feelings! If you start sniffling at around the 4:30 mark, we're friends. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUIs...
Today is the 50th anniversary of the Broadway opening of A Chorus Line. To celebrate, about 173 of us who danced in that show gathered outside in the Lincoln Center Library of Performing Arts plaza, performed The Opening Away From the Mirror, One, and What I Did For Love. 💙
*Jakes places the last pieces of beef jerky and discarded toilet brush heads together and binds then with more catgut* Busey: Rise! Rise now! By the dark powers of Hraaza'adum and Nefarityys Pox, I command thee, Detritus Hulk, to embiggen this muscle shirt and do my fel bidding. Rise! RISE!!!!
I enjoyed this slogging more than — or perhaps exactly as much as — I should. “Williams’s grand subject being himself, now we have a third memoir. Summer of Our Discontent takes a caustic look at BLM from the lofty vantage point of his Parisian garret.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...
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Sad to read the news that the iconic singer & actress Dame Cleo Laine has died at the age of 97. A charming and engaging performer, who brought the art of jazz into many homes, Cleo's contribution to music and British culture endures. R.I.P. artandhue.com/rip-dame-cleo-laine
Hello WGAW writers! I’m running for board and would be honored to have your endorsement. I'm running because simply put, it’s a tough time for writers, and I want to help. Would you enjoy more details? Check out my candidate website here! elections.wga.org/2025/mike-ro...
Ugh... I need somebody to wrest control of the #StarTrek IP from these people. You don't even have to be "good people". I'd settle for not actively destroying our country or bending the knee to those that are. #TVSky #TelevisionSky #Paramount #CBS #Skydance
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This is unconscionable. Our entire profession should be up in arms. Masked law enforcement and now anonymous lawyers. Our courts are open as is our legal system. If you can’t put your name to your representation as a lawyer then you should not be allowed to appear in court. @americanbar.org
PBS Passport has a treasure trove of contemporary + vintage PBS programs. Classic MASTERPIECE shows like RUMPOLE OF THE BAILEY and JEWEL IN THE CROWN. NATURE and NOVA episodes going back to the ‘80s. 40 years of Ken Burns docs, FINDING YOUR ROOTS, so much. All for $5/month donation. Support #PBS!
The PBS local stations are at risk! PLEASE donate what you can to support them and keep them going ❤️🩹 My local public media station I’m supporting is KQED. Which is your local station? 💙🩵 #SupportPBSandNPR @pbs.org @npr.org
Paramount+ sub = $60 a year Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.
For five dollars a month, $60 a year, you can get all the Ken Burns documentaries, Wolf Hall, Foyle's War, Marie Antoinette, Miss Austin, et. al.... It's the cheapest streaming service around and you know your money is going to something good and not some rapacious media a$$hat. #PBSPassport
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WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Farewell to Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy-winning lyricist Alan Bergman (1925–2025). With wife Marilyn Bergman (1928–2022) he wrote “The Way We Were," "The Windmills of Your Mind," and "In the Heat of the Night" and the GOOD TIMES, ALICE, and MAUDE themes. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a... #AlanBergman
Donated to my local PBS station because fuck this administration www.pbs.org
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C'mon @apnews.com, are you serious? Take this down and retract this garbage.
My young, preteen heart was immediately sold on #Shakespeare.
English class. We definitely didn't think #Shakespeare was dry after watching this.
Watched this at my Catholic elementary school. 🤷🏽♂️
if you've seen my show in the last year, you probably heard my 37-min pre-show mashup megamix. by popular request, i put it on bandcamp. stream it free or pay $1+, every dollar is going to our crew that feeds the residents of macarthur park every thursday electrolemon.bandcamp.com/track/anthem...
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I was just informed that Denali National Park has a sled dog puppy cam and you might also need this information www.nps.gov/dena/learn/p...
Once more with feeling: "We do NOT need #deepseamining, or its environmental harms. Here’s why..." theconversation.com/we-dont-need... 🌊 🦑
The New York Times might want to read up on when it's appropriate to use anonymous sources, according to (checks notes) The New York Times, from an article dated 6/11/25.
I just forced Republicans to stop calling me Pee-Pee Boy while they urinate on my face, so I guess you could say we both won big here
Or telling your toddler (who has evidently been playing with scissors and cutting the wrong things) that you'll cut off the head of their cat stuffed animal if they do it again. What a narcissistic psychopath! #DevilInTheFamily #RubyFranke #ArrestTheDadToo
Forcing your obviously struggling kid to film your YouTube videos & telling him to "fake being happy" when he says he doesn't know if he can appear happy (as instructed) on camera is some diabolical ish. #DevilInTheFamily #RubyFranke #ArrestTheDadToo
Same! I have the live version from Abbey Road on a playlist called "In My Feelings" (I'm so dramatic), and it always makes me cry. I was just listening to it last night.
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I urge the world: don’t forget the people of #Sudan. Ongoing fighting has displaced more people than in any other crisis. Health facilities are out of service or providing limited care. Diseases are spreading fast. We need urgent funding. We need access to make sure people receive health care.
50 years ago—on June 28, 1975—Rod Serling dies. "I just want them to remember me 100 years from now. I don’t care that they’re not able to quote a single line that I’ve written. But just that they can say, 'Oh, he was a writer.' That’s sufficiently an honored position for me.”
If you're forgetful like I am, you can set Bluesky to remind you to use alt-text. Settings -> Accessibility and it's right there. Tick a box and help out disabled users.
Honestly do not understand why so many of the biggest "progressive" accounts on here do not use alt text.
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
Any excuse to repost an all-time Bluesky banger
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I’m going to make a thread about how the feds have changed their tactics here in Los Angeles because the community has forced them to adapt.
The liberatory power of mass literacy has been established across half a millennia. When you begin with this fact, everything from Silicon Valley fantasies of post-literacy to MAGA book bans fall neatly in line. Literacy is the foundation of democratic society. It must be enclosed & economized.
lots of bad shit going on, this is good www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
Yes I blocked that account the instant I was aware of its existence
20% of Dr Oz's brain is just jellied salsa. Tapper: What do you mean? There's no real adjudication of how much salsa is in his brain.
I think I've made a big mistake. I put on episode 1 of #BeyondTheGates (supposedly as background) and now I'm on episode 7. I can't stop. Help! 🙃😬 #BTG #SoapOpera #DaytimeTV
I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.
A few key points: - Senator Padilla is the ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety - He identified himself as a Senator - Right before this happened Noem literally said she was there to liberate Los Angeles from its elected leadership
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