Frank Winters
@frankwinters.bsky.social
Playwright vibing in Brooklyn. www.frankwinters.net
It is!
Okay let's see if it's nicer here.
December 21, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It is!
Sookie always got it.
December 21, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Sookie always got it.
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It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
December 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
December 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.
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More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
December 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
More than 2,500 Starbucks workers are on strike. They’re demanding dignity: fair pay, safe conditions, a contract that respects their labor.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
It’s time their voices are heard at the same volume as CEOs earning millions.
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Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
December 2, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.
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oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
November 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
oh they gave me a blue check now I can say how I REALLY feel!!! trans rights free Palestine housing is a human right universal health care for all six hour day for eight hours pay mandatory minimum wage raises that track to rent & cost of living protect the oceans & the rivers and bring back Jujubes
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RIP to one of the best to ever do it. Absolute powerhouse and a legend.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
RIP to one of the best to ever do it. Absolute powerhouse and a legend.
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“The Kashoggi family and the American people deserve to know what was said on that call,” Rep. Eugene Vindman said. https://to.pbs.org/4oVInRp
WATCH: Reps. Vindman, Raskin call on Trump to release transcript of 2019 call with MBS after Khashoggi murder
"The Kashoggi family and the American people deserve to know what was said on that call," said Rep. Eugene Vindman.
www.pbs.org
November 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
“The Kashoggi family and the American people deserve to know what was said on that call,” Rep. Eugene Vindman said. https://to.pbs.org/4oVInRp
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i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
November 5, 2025 at 2:26 AM
i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often
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we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
Solar + storage is now $104 per MWh in Las Vegas or similar regions for nearly 100% clean firm power. There is no way new nuclear can compete with this. Even new gas plants will struggle and that is assuming access to cheap gas over the life-cycle of the plant, which is kind of a crazy gamble TBH.
Batteries are so cheap now, solar power doesn’t sleep
Batteries are now cheap enough to make 24/7 solar power affordable, unlocking round-the-clock clean energy in the world’s sunniest cities.
electrek.co
June 23, 2025 at 4:17 AM
we're living through one of the greatest technological revolutions in the history of mankind and it's not AI
this thing we're calling "AI" is such an obvious endpoint for capitalism's attempted degradation of art into something that fits into the square hole of commerce. the ultimate point (conscious or no) of language like "content." "second-screen viewing." the whole article is worth reading.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
May 26, 2025 at 5:29 PM
this thing we're calling "AI" is such an obvious endpoint for capitalism's attempted degradation of art into something that fits into the square hole of commerce. the ultimate point (conscious or no) of language like "content." "second-screen viewing." the whole article is worth reading.
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“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 1:08 AM
“I will not yield to disrespectful men.” - Rep. @aoc.bsky.social
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In response to stories I'm being told behind the scenes not involving anyone I know, I want to remind every creative person in every field that no one is SO creative and SUCH a genius that they have the right to speak or come at you to you disrespectfully.
May 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
In response to stories I'm being told behind the scenes not involving anyone I know, I want to remind every creative person in every field that no one is SO creative and SUCH a genius that they have the right to speak or come at you to you disrespectfully.
This fall, a show I wrote with the incalculably kind, brilliant Jen Tullock (who performs the whole thing) directed by the Jared Mezzocchi premieres at @phnyc.bsky.social called "NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM THE HAND OF GOD" and I can't believe I get to share it with you on this stage with these people
May 4, 2025 at 12:46 AM
This fall, a show I wrote with the incalculably kind, brilliant Jen Tullock (who performs the whole thing) directed by the Jared Mezzocchi premieres at @phnyc.bsky.social called "NOTHING CAN TAKE YOU FROM THE HAND OF GOD" and I can't believe I get to share it with you on this stage with these people
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Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..
April 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Certainly worth repeating in the times we are in..
Wild to have expectations this low and somehow he manages to crawl through the mud underneath. What unambiguous slime. We must make the midterms and every day in between a reckoning.
President Trump is planning to sign an executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S., a White House aide said on Friday.
Trump to Sign Order Designating English as Official Language of the U.S.
The order is expected to be largely symbolic but would be a victory for America’s English-only movement, which has long had ties to efforts to reduce immigration and restrict bilingual education.
www.nytimes.com
March 1, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Wild to have expectations this low and somehow he manages to crawl through the mud underneath. What unambiguous slime. We must make the midterms and every day in between a reckoning.
Just wanna shout out @tomtaylormade.bsky.social for making pop culture with a genuine social conscience. Batman struggling with the innate cruelty of the carceral system. So grateful.
February 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Just wanna shout out @tomtaylormade.bsky.social for making pop culture with a genuine social conscience. Batman struggling with the innate cruelty of the carceral system. So grateful.
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This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
What Gutting USAID Means for My Young Patients in Burundi
“To my patients and their mothers, I offered apologies from the American people,” writes Dr. Jennifer Furin.
time.com
February 25, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is a gut-wrenching, beautifully written essay. A doctor must watch helplessly as children die because USAID's freeze on aid has limited access to nutritional supplements. time.com/7258248/us-f...
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'The only dissenting voice to Donald Trump came from a woman, Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal bishop of Washington'
'The only dissenting voice to Donald Trump came from a woman, Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal bishop of Washington'
'This woman's intervention and her courage are a ray of hope in the face of the merciless world on which Trump wants to refound America,' wrote theologians Sylvaine Landrivon and Anne Soupa in this op-ed.
www.lemonde.fr
January 25, 2025 at 11:13 PM
'The only dissenting voice to Donald Trump came from a woman, Mariann Edgar Budde, Episcopal bishop of Washington'
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Christmas is a good time to throw Wikipedia a few bucks to thank them for the many times you relied on the site that year. Members of the billionaire class want to destroy it for some reason.
(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)
(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)
December 25, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Christmas is a good time to throw Wikipedia a few bucks to thank them for the many times you relied on the site that year. Members of the billionaire class want to destroy it for some reason.
(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)
(@archive.org is also under constant threat nowadays and in need of support)