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My number one favorite thing about being a director is that I get to surround myself with experts. I can have opinions on everything, but I can’t DO everything, and having oodles of experts makes the whole thing so much better! I love not knowing what they know!

Today is one of those days I wish I had chosen a career working at Trader Joe’s.

Right time for this story I'd wager. deadline.com/2025/07/jack...

Smiling at all the Edi Gathegi Superman love. He’s such a talent and had so much fun working with him on Aporia.

I love this peak inside Superman’s mind from Hitman/JLA by Garth Ennis and Steve McCrea.

I see people saying, "What do we expect the Democrats to do? We don't have majorities in any of the three branches of government!" But what I'm thinking is: Chuck Schumer's been a public servant since he was 24 years old. When, exactly, are we expecting him to get good at it?

Imagine if early in Obama's first term, in the face of a Democratic supermajority passing the Affordable Care Act, Republicans merely shrugged and said, "What do you want us to do? We're out of power!" And then just waited for the next election.

Schumer has no balls for a fight, no desire to make a case to the American people. He’s just gonna stand there, waiting for them to realize they voted for an asshole and then surely because he’s been there, he wins power by default. It’s the same playbook as an incel “best friend” in a teen romcom

I recently left DC for Ohio. It’s never been clearer to me why a lot of voters are disgusted with both political parties as well as the mainstream news media.

Considering the context of this video, I can think of no better visual example of what it feels like to be a working creative in 2025.

If your political life consists only of online rants and reposting screeds and "engaging" you are actively contributing to the kakistocracy. Community is a real life, hands on, grind it out, small group, next door neighbor work. And that is all that matters.

Not one Indian restaurant in the bunch!

ICE looking more and more like the American Gestpo.

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

Looking for your favorite Chicago restaurant recs! Good enough for grown ups, but not too fancy to bring kids too.

I did an event in DC & there was a party for donors etc after. Was talking to 2 ppl & I said "Things are so bad." They said "No this is how it is. Things swing one way, then another. It's normal." That's when I realized why Dems are toothless. They have no idea what this is. Frogs boiling in water.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly

I kid you not, my work knows that I do drawing on the side and someone in the office told me AI could save me time and my response was "but I like drawing" and it broke them. They didn't know how to answer, they just couldn't comprehend that people make art because they like making art.

When I tell you Los Angeles is an occupied city/county, this is what I mean… Yesterday, ICE agents showed up to a regular Saturday swap meet with armed Marines and a military helicopter overhead, like it’s a fucking war zone.

Dana Point, CA

I did my best to compile as many protest safety notes as possible into a one page foldout zine! Coincidentally…it seems the file has breached containment…like it’s available for anyone to print or hand out 👀⚖️ toonyart.com/s/PSZine.pdf

At this point, you are either collaborating or you aren't. No one should be doing a single thing to advance the agenda of these lawless scumbags.

It is imperative to recognize and call out this regime's bigoted identity politics. Their treatment of nonwhite electeds amounts to Taneyism. To them, these officials hold no authority they are bound to respect. Padilla, McIver, Baraka are merely the latest. They are doing this to POC on purpose.

This is what fascism looks like

Then stop playing the game the way they want you to play it. You shutting down DTLA is you confirming their false narrative. You are exceptionally bad at this, and you are giving him the foothold he needs.

Absolutely. We should hope these protests are flooded with American flags. It messes up the anti-American narrative the right-wing media is using to keep people from associating these protests with the rich constitutional history of this nation. Don't allow them to do that! Optics matter folks!

It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

I'd like to see more visibility from the House and Senate Dems in the leadership. They are way too passive right now.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

The first 5 years of living in Los Angeles is regularly being told by people who don't live here not to go to this neighborhood or that one and then you get invited for brunch or a kid's birthday and it's just, like, a normal neighborhood.

I live in Los Angeles. There is no "rioting." There are protests. Some protesters are being stupid with rocks and setting fires. But sending in the National Guard and the fucking Marines for protests LAPD can easily handle... is Piss-frosted Pumpkin Tits Theater. (No, I don't say his name.)

Fewer arrests then after the Eagles won the superbowl.

A love letter to stunt men.

Oh no. Such awful news. deadline.com/2025/06/jaso...

No self-respecting New Yorker orders a bacon, egg & cheese on an english muffin.

Greta Gerwig on sweating the details in the script, including things the audience will never see. youtu.be/sR9La54T5eQ?...

Doing a class project and looking for recommendations: what are your favorite comics for 9-year-olds? All genres welcome!"

Kid has discovered the MCU so gonna revisit the @screendrafts.bsky.social MCU draft to see what we need to watch.

Weyland-Yutani, Omni Consumer Products, and Skynet ultimately all want the exact same thing.

The entire ALIEN series isn't about alien creatures. It's about AI. Every single film is about Artificial Intelligence. Prove me wrong.

When you see the inevitable Marvel paean to beloved credit Peter David, remember that they continue to make money off of his work, but left his family scrambling for GoFundMe donations for half a decade.

Peter David was one of the most important writers of my childhood. I would pick up any book that had his name on it.

Introducing the kids to Star Wars using 4K77. No special editions for these guys!

I want an intrepid Star Wars fan to do the Rogue One: Andor Cut, that re-centers the story from Cassian’s perspective.