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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 18h

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 21h

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 1d

It‘s easy to scroll social media and get the impression that everyone is doing better than you. But that’s rarely the full picture.

All this to say, it’s not just you. The industry is so, so hard right now. Do what you have to do to stay in the game. Don’t give up. Keep writing.

#scriptsky

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 1d

After all of that, today I accepted a job… at a book store.

And I’m glad to have it.

I was laid off from my day job a year ago and have been scraping as a reader for a coverage service.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 1d

A couple years ago, I was on The Black List with a script that’s in development with an amazing producer.

After that, I signed on to write & produce two projects with fantastic, talented teams.

This year, I pitched a movie with cool IP, a director of a hit film, and a great actor attached to star.

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Keri Ferencz @keriferencz.bsky.social · 3d

If this were true, it wouldn’t need to be an advertorial.

The Ankler @theankler.com · 3d

The “GPT-5 pass” has gone from curiosity to mandate. Scripts, trailers, pitch decks are all being filtered through an AI model that remembers every draft and forgets what originality looks like. @erikbarmack.bsky.social on Hollywood’s uneasy reset:
theankler.com/p/run-it-thr...

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10d

Most of the power authoritarians have is freely given. We should not comply with them in advance.

Trump is far weaker than he looks. So is the GOP. We should draw them out, drain them at every opportunity, and fight for people’s wellbeing at every turn.

We have been sent here to fight for people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10d

AOC: I think there's two things that are happening at once: One, there absolutely is an unprecedented abuse of power, destruction of norms, erosion of our government and our democracy in order to prop up an authoritarian style of governance

However, they are weaker than they look…

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 10d

“I hear the Democrats should be blamed, I hear the Republicans should be blamed. I actually think the president should be blamed if there is a shutdown. I think it would be a tremendously negative mark on the president of the United States.”

- Donald Trump, 2013

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 10d

Whenever there's an election or proposition, the side running the most ads is inevitably the absolutely wrong side.

California, vote #YesOn50

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divine beastmode @gunstreet.bsky.social · 15d

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station.

List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 18d

Not to brag, but I protested at the Disney lot today, so you're welcome.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 21d

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.

An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

newrepublic.com

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 21d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21d

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21d

Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 21d

I promise to continue never having gone to Disney Land.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23d

the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

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Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 23d

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice.
As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree.
Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich.
Silencing us impoverishes the whole world.
The WA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 27d

Second update.

I think I’m a train guy now.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 27d

Update.

Flower bouquet. Train window. Who am I, Clark Gable?

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · 27d

Boarding a train with a bouquet of flowers because my life is a 1950s movie I guess.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · Sep 6

"It's going to be a hard year to be a WVU fan," he said for the 10th year in a row.

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Sep 4

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · Sep 4

sweet christ on a bird flu biscuit how was he ever confirmed

Screenshot text from THE NATION
It is easy to frame what is happening now through the usual filter of politics, and the White House is eager to do so, making the critique of RFK Jr. just another partisan battle. But I want us to go back and sit with Caroline Kennedy’s letter:

His basement, his garage, and his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.

Forget the drugs. Reflect on the pathology, the cruelty, the “perverse scene of despair and violence.” Ms. Kennedy paints a chilling picture. This isn’t a political critique of our HHS secretary; it’s the origin story of a new American psycho. And before you reduce this to name-calling on my part, read the letter again. Then juxtapose the portrait Caroline Kennedy provides with the man today, the enormous power he has to do damage, to inflict suffering and death upon us all, and what he has done thus far. The case is clear: He should never have been let anywhere near public health, healthcare and biomedical science in this country. Congress needs to act. And we need to make them do it. RFK Jr. needs to go. Now.

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · Sep 4

WGA Friends! It's election season, and with negotiations coming up again next year (yaaay), it's an important one. Don't forget to vote!

I've endorsed some candidates I believe in, which you can see on the official site. If you want to chat about your vote, feel free to reach out!

#scriptsky #wga

WGAW Candidate

elections.wga.org

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bta. @briantarnold.bsky.social · Sep 1

Paul F Tompkins’s Werner Herzog Trader Joe’s Yelp review isn’t crushing with my family in rural Tennessee like I thought it would.

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