Howard A. Rodman
@rodman.bsky.social
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• Novelist, The Great Eastern, Destiny Express. • Screenwriter, Joe Gould's Secret, Savage Grace. • Past President, WGAW • Vice President & Governor, AMPAS • Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts • Postpunk guitarist • Home barista
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.
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lolennui.bsky.social
So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”
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brendannyhan.bsky.social
Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."
dlknowles.bsky.social
Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...
Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.
southsideweekly.com
rodman.bsky.social
"Breaks with tradition..."

That's one way of putting it.

Dear, dear @nytimes.com, will you ever learn?
THE NEW YORK TIMES

Trump Administration 4m ago
National Guard Deplyments 10m ago

Photo of Trump with American flag background

ANALYSIS

Why Trump's National
Guard Deployments Break
With Tradition
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
My statement on the two year anniversary of October 7, 2023.
“Two years ago today, Hamas carried out a horrific war crime, killing more than 1,100 Israelis and kidnapping 250 more. I mourn these lives and pray for the safe return of every hostage still held and for every family whose lives were torn apart by these atrocities.

In the aftermath of that day, Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israeli government launched a genocidal war: adeath toll that now far exceeds 67,000; with the Israeli military bombing homes, hospitals, and schools into rubble. Every day in Gaza has become a place where grief itself has run out of language. I mourn these lives and pray for the families that have been shattered. Our government has been complicit through it all.

This must end. The occupation and apartheid must end. Peace must be pursued through diplomacy, not war crimes, and our government must act to end these atrocities and hold those responsible to account.

These last two years have demonstrated the very worst of humanity. We must answer it by modeling the very best: a relentless pursuit of our higher ideals and an unwavering commitment to universal human rights.”
rodman.bsky.social
I'm only five-foot one
With a bottle of aspirin
A sack full of jokes
I wish I could go home
With all you big folks

I'm only five foot one
I won't grow no more
No more, no more
And I'm doing the things a five-foot one man can do

I wish life could be Swedish magazines

I’m only five foot one!
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
Things that it is permissible to deadname:

- The Department of Defense
- Twitter
klasfeldreports.com
This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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mcopelov.bsky.social
👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.
atrupar.com
Sean Duffy says the safety of the air traffic control system will start being impacted next Sunday if the shutdown continues
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dandrezner.bsky.social
At what point does a governor call up their National Guard to oppose the deployment of an out-of-state National Guard?
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scalzi.com
Delighted that Cory is having a moment with "Enshittification," because it's an accurate word for what's happening in tech and he's the right person to describe it.

(Gift link)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
A Powerhouse Writer Found One Word to Change the Debate About Tech
www.nytimes.com
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hntdove.bsky.social
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc
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qasimrashid.com
Last month Judge Diane Goodstein blocked SC from giving DOJ voter data.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of the DOJ condemned Goodstein's ruling.

Yesterday Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists requiring force."

Today Judge Goodstein's home is on fire, investigated for arson.
rodman.bsky.social
Gov. Pritzger; Gov. Newsom. Both willing to see this, and call this, as it is.
This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

We must now start calling this what it is: Trump's Invasion. It started with federal agents, it will soon include deploying federalized members of the Illinois National Guard against our wishes, and it will now involve sending in another state's military troops.

I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

The brave men and women who serve in our national guards must not be used as political props. This is a moment where every American must speak up and help stop this madness. Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States.

America is on the brink of martial law.

Do not be silent.
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wyden.senate.gov
Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question
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radleybalko.bsky.social
If any other president said something like this in a speech to a military academy, it would be a massive scandal. Instead, it isn’t among the ten most dangerous things he’s done this week.
atrupar.com
Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."
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muellershewrote.com
Harmeet Dhillon (DOJ) publicly targeted this judge on Twitter a couple weeks ago.
thetnholler.bsky.social
SOUTH CAROLINA… “Judge Goodstein was walking on the beach when the fire started. Her husband, Arnie, was in the house with children and perhaps grandchildren. The family had to escape by jumping from a window or balcony...” www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
rodman.bsky.social
Amen. When I was 30 my life savings was entirely couch change, I’d yet to publish a novel or write a film, or have a family, or meet many of the best and dearest people in my life. So much can change, and great news can come from the most unexpected of places — especially places within.
scalzi.com
When I turned 30 I had not yet written my first published book or my first published novel and did not know (or know of) some of the most important people in my life. I didn't know how much my life could still change, and did, after the age of 30. There is so much your life still yet to live.
essencesimmone.blacksky.app
Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
The fact they jumped straight to AI actors modeled after women when, if I’m not mistaken, male actors are a higher labor cost kind of says it all doesn’t it,
rodman.bsky.social
What if they wanted a Charlie Kirk bear for a gay wedding, would it be okay to say no?
klonick.bsky.social
Everything is content moderation.
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eschatonblog.com
We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them
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gothamgirlblue.com
The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.