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Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings

Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer

Margaret Atwood’s version of this, in The Handmaid’s Tale, is “Nolita te bastardes carbarendurum” carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.

Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days.

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I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

From 2020 but evergreen

This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:

www.nokings.org#map

Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer

“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."

LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history.

I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/

Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”

So odd to be watching the joyful, inclusive LA Pride parade broadcast live on local news while friends from elsewhere send worried texts because of reports telling them that LA is rioting

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

I had a nice chat with @joypress.bsky.social at @vanityfair.com about the state of the Entertainment Industry (not great, Bob!) and how it looks from the perspective of a therapist / former screenwriter #mentalhealth #talktherapy #tacos

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Welcome to Hollywood–that’s not smog, it’s depression.

“It feels like the end of days,” an LA-based psychotherapist tells @joypress.bsky.social. “I've been doing this for 31 years now, and I've never seen this level of despair among creative people in the industry.”

Even AI knows how unreliable it is