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I write movies… They still make those, right?

Reps: IAG & Bellevue #WGA
The thousand yard stare of someone who works at The Grove during the holidays.
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Shoutout to the ADs and PAs of Plur1bus. It’s not easy to get background actors in sync like that.
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Mood. Technicolor Christmas trees and black & white movies.
November 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I loved loved loved Roofman and I’m so glad it got made. Everyone involved crushed it.

Buuuuut it feels like a bleak sign for the industry that it took 7 production companies to get a modestly budgeted movie with huge stars across the finish line, right?
October 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I thought working from home as a writer with no real set schedule messed up your concept of time, but it's nothing compared to retail.

What do you mean I just worked two 8-hour shifts and it's Monday?
October 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The world is bleak, my country is breaking in half, my industry is falling apart, I'm working 4 jobs to survive, but hey basketball is back!
October 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
We all know True Grit is not the Coen Brothers’ best movie, but what this post presupposes, is maybe it is.
October 18, 2025 at 1:45 AM
We are failing our kids and ourselves.
Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
www.rollingstone.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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.
October 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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If this were true, it wouldn’t need to be an advertorial.
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...
October 8, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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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.
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…
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“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
October 1, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Whenever there's an election or proposition, the side running the most ads is inevitably the absolutely wrong side.

California, vote #YesOn50
October 1, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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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.
September 25, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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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/
September 22, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Not to brag, but I protested at the Disney lot today, so you're welcome.
September 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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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
September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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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
September 20, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.
Ingraham: A Democrat congressional candidate was thrown to the ground by an ICE agent. Good work
September 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I promise to continue never having gone to Disney Land.
September 19, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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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
September 18, 2025 at 3:09 AM
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WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!
September 18, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Boarding a train with a bouquet of flowers because my life is a 1950s movie I guess.
September 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"It's going to be a hard year to be a WVU fan," he said for the 10th year in a row.
September 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM