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Mark Hughes

@markhughesfilms.bsky.social

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Screenwriter "Court of the Dead." Wrote for "In View" w/Larry King. Film reviewer & box office analyst. He/Him

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Mark Hughes @markhughesfilms.bsky.social · Nov 11

Besides being a contributing writer at Forbes, I'm also a screenwriter. I write mostly horror/fantasy/sci-fi, as well as comedy, for live-action & animation.
Lived in Hollywood more than a decade, bought a house in Michigan & moved here last year. Hope to meet other MI screenwriters & film folks!

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Nichole Hiltz @nicholehiltz.bsky.social · 20h

Ohhh, oookay from
“Bawitdaba da bang da bang
I sing shitty
I pretend to be a cowboy
At four years after fifty
Make people call me Kid Rock
But name is James Ritchie
I pick the boogie said I eat the boogies! 🎙️

Nic, out ✌️

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 1d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23h

The right-wing tech oligarchs are perhaps more oligarch than right-wing. www.thebulwark.com/p/why-our-te...

Why Our Tech Overlords Took a Hard Right Turn

A new book tells the story of how Elon Musk and other Silicon Valley entrepreneurs became angry admirers of authoritarianism.

www.thebulwark.com

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 10d

ADP numbers for September were -32,000 on a projection of +51,000.

August was revised to -3,000, marking the first consecutive negative months since the heights of Covid.

This is bad.

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It’s Still Me! @itsstillme1.bsky.social · 21h

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22h

"there are fires all over the place"
~the president of the united states with absolutely zero clue what is going on

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 23h

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

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

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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Maggie 🇺🇸⚾️ @lacentrist.bsky.social · 1d

All part of Project 2025 to permanently lay-off thousands of government employees. They are shrinking the government to a point where there are no services and they are consolidating power into one office. Trump’s office.

This is really bad for all of us.

www.rawstory.com/government-l...

Trump admin to lay off 'thousands' of federal workers on day 10 of government shutdown

MSNBC and CNBC reported Friday afternoon that President Donald Trump intends to usher in "lay-offs" for "thousands" of federal workers. The government has been shut down for the past ten days as offic...

www.rawstory.com

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weinberg @weinberg.social · 22h

look at Oz's tie.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' A really nice thing to do. I didn't say 'Then give it to me, though.'"

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JonZoidberg @jonzoidberg.xyz · 22h

Just what absolutely fucking nobody asked for: another pointless goddamn trade war to raise prices further and tank the market.

Who benefits? Billionaires.

apnews.com/article/trum...

Trump threatens tech export limits, new 100% tariff on Chinese imports starting Nov. 1 or sooner

President Donald Trump says he hasn't canceled a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping planned for late October in South Korea after earlier expressing anger about export controls China has placed...

apnews.com

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Dr Alex Bond @thelabandfield.bsky.social · 1d

Well, it's official. After our paper last year (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....), the Slender-billed Curlew is officially declared Extinct today.

Scientists dream of describing new species, not writing their obituary and epitaph, knowing that they are gone forever #ornithology

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

This is not a border crossing.
There’s no law that any of us have to show our papers on the interior.

This is a blatant civil rights violation. How is anyone supposed to know whether this man is a real ICE agent or just pretending to be one?!

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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 22h

Seems like a major UI issue when the owner can't figure out to how to send a DM.

The Briefing with Jen Psaki @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social · 2d

"Not the only one." Reacting to WSJ reporting that the now-deleted Donald Trump post demanding AG Pam Bondi prosecute his political enemies was meant as a direct message, Preet Bharara bets there are more such messages.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 1d

“If you gift me a sick jet, I’ll let you build an Air Force base base in Idaho. Tradesies!!!” ~ Donald Trump to government of Qatar, probably.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

US says Qatar to build air force facility in Idaho

The facility in Idaho will be used to train Qatari pilots to fly F-15 fighter jets, the US defence secretary says.

www.bbc.com

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 22h

Democrats need to schedule town halls in each of these MAGA Congressional districts with clear, easily understandable demonstrative evidence which show these Republican voters exactly how their Representatives screwed them

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Klobuchar: "Let's look at these healthcare premiums. Three-fourths of the people on ACA plans live in states that Donald Trump won. The majority of them are in Republican congressional districts ... "

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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 22h

From last week www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

TikTok ‘directs child accounts to pornographic content within a few clicks’

Despite platform’s limits on adult content, study finds it not only accessible but often suggested

www.theguardian.com

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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 23h

The joy of Tik Tok

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Samuel Paul @samuelpostpaul.bsky.social · 22h

AND they've prescribed a solution: don't look at or think about it!

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Kay Grove @kaygrove.bsky.social · 22h

So TikTok is admitting that ICE's behavior is extremely violent and causes psychological harm.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 22h

the joy of tik tok

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 23h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 22h

Senator, I am once again asking all of you to coordinate with your governors for a National Guard escort in order to assist you in upholding FEDERAL LAW

Senator Dick Durbin @durbin.senate.gov · 1d

We were just denied entrance to the Broadview ICE facility in Illinois.

WHAT is the Trump Administration hiding?

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 22h

His big idea was to put the word "force" at the end of any random word.

Heather Knight @heatherknightsf.bsky.social · 23h

For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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