"We lived happily during the war," Ilya Kaminsky

We are failing our kids

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.”

Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

Talent isn't rare. Throw an apple & you hit someone with talent. Perseverance? rare. Work ethic? exceedingly rare; the willingness to grind. Being able to endure the scorn, rejection & privation a life in the arts dooms you to in the United States is unicorn-scarce. But talent? Talent is everywhere.

Art is freedom. Art is rebellion. It is defiance. There are people who don't feel a thing. Hollow men. We put them in charge of our souls.

Fun update! Transgender Film Center has opened applications for our second-ever Career Development Lab.

We’re giving out $150K through this 12-week fellowship: $15K to 10 trans filmmakers.

Get your applications in by August 24th.

Spread the word—and apply if you’re eligible.

the intensity of my anger at those who would criminalize the homeless — a population literally created by the greed and callousness of the ruling class — is very hard to contain. it was you who dismantled the safety net. if you don’t like the results, put it back

Happy International Cat Day, which is every day at Casa Babs.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.

A: We need to get rid of immigrants because they're moochers, lazy and shiftless, a drain on our society.
B: Cool! Where do we find them?
A: Where they work.
B" But...
A: Or with their tax returns.
B: "Their tax..."
A: Or when they show up to file citizenship papers...
B: Wait...
A: Or for asylum.

“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.”
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