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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 5h

CALIFORNIA PEOPLE! Vote YES on Prop 50 and mail your ballot!! If you don't have one, get one!

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

The Hollywood Reporter @thr.com · 6d

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

Dave Chappelle Criticizes Free Speech in America at Saudi Arabia Comedy Festival

Dave Chappelle criticized the status of free speech in the United States while on stage at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.

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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 5d

MAN. Second heartbreaking ending in five games for the Rams.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 6d

start telling your friends and family now that CBS is no longer reliable, because I'm still explaining how Newsweek was hollowed out by Republican ghouls and that deal was like a decade ago

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 5d

No one, and I mean NO ONE, in Hollywood is talking about Tilly Norwood except over drinks for a chuckle. Actors are such an important part of the creative process - you want an actor who can surprise you every take, not one whose performance you dial up and down on a laptop. This is an ad campaign.

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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 6d

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report

Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 6d

Perfecto!! Best news and best advice today!!

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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @warnock.senate.gov · 7d

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year.

Republicans in Washington did this.

This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d

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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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 7d

In all the chaos, I would urge folks to remember that a lot of folks now don’t know when their next check will come.

The vast majority are good people who love this nation deeply, and many of them are still working despite not knowing when they’ll be paid

Have compassion.

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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 7d

Just like no one misses Leno. No one remembers his comedy (whereas Letterman's is revered.) His entire tenure is forgettable, outside of the infamy of what he did to Conan.

🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 7d

No one will miss Fallon when he’s off the air.

Phil Nobile Jr. @philnobilejr.bsky.social · 7d

Fucking disgusting variety.com/2025/tv/news...

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 7d

A reminder that no matter what the news says, no matter how Republicans try to frame it, voters OVERWHELMINGLY blame Republicans for any and every government shutdown. Every. Single. Time.

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🔪Akilla Booper👻 @akelacooper.bsky.social · 7d

That Burr is spinning this with “Saudi Arabia’s not that bad!” is the whole point of the royan family bringing him and the rest of the comedians over and paying them obsscene amounts of money.

The comedy was incidental. The whitewashing was what they paid for.

causerie @causerie.bsky.social · 8d

What a disappointing dumb fuck Burr turned out to be. He's impressed that there's Starbucks and Burger King? Try saying something -- anything -- on stage about your fellow Netflix writer and comedian Abdul Aziz Al-Muzaini.

www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general...

Screencap from a Hollywood reporter article that says: When he flew into Saudi Arabia, Burr’s nervousness crept back, but he was struck by the amount of local Western influence. “You think everybody’s going to be screaming ‘death to America’ and they’re going to have like fucking machetes and want to like chop my head off, right?” Burr said. “Because this is what I’ve been fed about that part of the world. I thought this place was going to be really tense. And I’m thinking like: ‘Is that a Starbucks next to a Pizza Hut next to a Burger King next to McDonald’s …? They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 8d

Since the Ezra & Ta-Nehisi discussion is still happening: the main point I think most are missing is that Klein is saying the role of the journalist-intellectual is to do strategic politics, whereas Coates says the role of the journalist-intellectual is to tell the truth

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Matt Zoller Seitz @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 8d

This wretched government

Eye For Film @eyeforfilm.bsky.social · 8d

Concerns have been expressed for US-Brazilian filmmaker Barbara Gomes Marques, who has reportedly been denied medical care after being detained by ICE www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/news/2025-09... #filmsky 🎬

The filmmaker Barbara Gomes Marques. A smiling US-Brazilian woman wearing a white top and standing by a microphone.

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Bill Wolkoff @billwearsties.bsky.social · 10d

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · Dec 4

Stuck in a scene? Do what the pros do: use brackets. Write what the story beat is:

[Our hero gets out of the fight through clever means]

Then just keep writing what happens after. Maintaining momentum is key to getting the most words on the page. Meanwhile solutions often present themselves later.

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Dougal D'Arcy @mrdarcydog.bsky.social · 11d

War-ravaged Portland, 5 minutes ago

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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 11d

I worked with Bob, long ago. Best of men, best of writers.

Writers Guild of America West @wgawest.bsky.social · 11d

"Can you still get up there and create something of value and depth, and humor? If you can, you should have that opportunity." #Writtenby www.writtenby.com/career-craft...

Robert Eisele Embraces His Senior Moment

Film written by Paul Selvin Award honoree tells an unlikely underdog tale.

www.writtenby.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 12d

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

Ben Mullin @benmullin.bsky.social · 12d

NEWS: Sinclair says its ending its pre-emption of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

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TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 12d

I have confirmed this as well. Per an industry source familiar with the situation, ABC and Kimmel made no editorial or content concessions to Sinclair.

TVMoJoe @tvmojoe.bsky.social · 12d

Per the WSJ's @jbflint.bsky.social, Sinclair stations will air tonight's JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE. I suspect Nexstar will follow, but...who knows.

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Matthew Federman @matthewfederman.bsky.social · 12d

Their only power is our fear because when we push back on anything they lose.

Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 12d

BREAKING

Sinclair Media says it’s ending the preemption of the Jimmy Kimmel show and that the show will start airing again this evening on Sinclair stations.

Sinclair Statement on the Return of Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Baltimore, MD - September 26, 2025 - Sinclair today announced that it will end its preemption of Jimmy Kimmel Live! and the show will return this evening on Sinclair's ABC affiliates.
Our objective throughout this process has been to ensure that programming remains accurate and engaging for the widest possible audience. We take seriously our responsibility as local broadcasters to provide programming that serves the interests of our communities, while also honoring our obligations to air national network programming.
Over the last week, we have received thoughtful feedback from viewers, advertisers, and community leaders representing a wide range of perspectives. We have also witnessed troubling acts of violence, including the despicable incident of a shooting at an ABC affiliate station in Sacramento. These events underscore why responsible broadcasting matters and why respectful dialogue between differing voices remains so important.
In our ongoing and constructive discussions with ABC, Sinclair proposed measures to strengthen accountability, viewer feedback, and community dialogue, including a network-wide independent ombudsman. These proposals were suggested as collaborative efforts between the ABC affiliates and the ABC network. While ABC and Disney have not yet adopted these measures, and Sinclair respects their right to make those decisions under our network affiliate agreements, we believe such measures could strengthen trust and accountability.
Our decision to preempt this program was independent of any government interaction or influence.
Free speech provides broadcasters with the right to exercise judgment as to the content on their local stations. While we understand that not everyone will agree with our decisions about programming, it is simply inconsistent to champion free speech while demanding that broadcasters air specific content.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 12d

Shockingly, it turns out there is a limit to what is tolerable. This is an opportunity to be exploited. Record everything. Get loud.

And get trained in bystander intervention.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/n...

ICE Officer ‘Relieved of His Duties’ After Pushing Woman to Floor

www.nytimes.com

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jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social @jorgecoolreyes.bsky.social · 13d

Two hours and already past a million views on the second night back...
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Trump Threatens Jimmy Kimmel & ABC, Escalator Fiasco at the UN & Ethan Hawke Interrupts for Support

YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 13d

I still believe the CIA was paid to drop off podcasting equipment in the Black community.

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