Bad Bunny was amazing

(Bloomberg) -- US companies announced the largest number of job cuts for any January since the depths of the Great Recession in 2009, according to data from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

A friend told me she thinks the thing that’s gonna break everyone hasn’t happened yet. Idk what else is supposed to happen. We’re already past the point of no return—I’ve seen this happen before and the quicker we accept the truth, the better we’re equipped to live with the consequences

HAPPY 'FINE LINE' MONTH! pennedbypen.beehiiv.com/p/happy-fine... #reylo friends! #booksky #romancelandia

New from me: It is not just that the US is experiencing democratic backsliding. Authoritarianism has emerged more quickly than in other benchmark countries. This graph from John Burn-Murdoch sums it up. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

I’ve added the script for Wake Up Dead Man to my site. This is the final shooting script, so it has stuff that was cut and moved around, which I always think is more interesting to see than a conformed cleaned up version. Enjoy! www.rian-johnson.com/screenplays

German Jews were citizens of Germany at the start of 1933. By the end of 1933, the Nazis had removed citizenship from naturalized citizen Jews. In 1935, all German Jews were fully stripped of their German citizenship. Citizenship under dictatorships is contingent for targeted minorities.

This week's newsletter is here, and it's inspired by how we give sh*tty advice to each other without really looking at what the real issue is PLUS the first excerpt from my new romcom that is You've Got Mail but on Slack... You'll get what I mean

I'll NEVER stop being mad about the end of Ally McBeal. RDJ OWES ME A WEDDING.

Me 17 days ago

So we’re just announcing foreign strikes and kidnappings of foreign leaders on social media now? No Congress. No explanation. This is madness.

"I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her" aka my thoughts on how much millennials want to turn this ship around and how I'm personally tired of hearing we can't aka some light New Year's Day reading from me! I promise it is! denizcam.substack.com/p/millennial...

Belgian detective

Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.

Had the pleasure to read A FINE LINE this week and IT IS STEAMY AND SWEET AND YOU SHOULD READ IT TOO

Hey #Reylo friends! If you'd like to read and/or download Calculated Risk or Such Devotion, please do so by the end of the year. Both fics will be coming down Dec. 31st :) Such Devotion: archiveofourown.org/works/619172... Calculated Risk: archiveofourown.org/works/524044...

Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, a freshman, and Ella Cook, a sophomore, were killed in the shooting at Brown University on Saturday. Umurzokov was studying biochemistry and neuroscience, while Cook studied math and French.

Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

I got tired of hearing I need to be “self-sufficient”. So I looked into where that advice comes from—love it when everything is tied to our social & economic decline since the 80s. I share thoughtful & timely pieces as well as my fiction work. Pls subscribe, I’d love to have more of your thoughts

@jelaniya.bsky.social, as an alum and an immigrant, I’m curious if CJS will comment on this/criticize this

What’s up with men “going crazy for Arsenal” on Hinge? I run into that response too frequently

I visited the Green-Wood cemetery & all I saw was #Reylo “A hand reached out to her, she grabbed it. It was cold, but strong enough to pull her up. “I’m sorry, thank you,” she turned around to face the stranger. “Benjamin Skywalker Solo,” the man said. Disheveled, tall, and absolutely half-dead.”

💗COVER REVEAL💗 I’m so pleased to present the cover for my contemporary romance novel, A FINE LINE, about a small town mayoral election and the rivals running the campaigns. +

Growing up Muslim, you know no one likes Muslims (even Muslims, tbh), but then life happens to you and you see how bad it can get whether you believe or not

I picked up the Meditations to feel better about myself and see the hype about Roman emperors. What I found was hope in the eternal hopelessness of being human. My newsletter is free & has fun sneak peeks of my past and future work (romance, history, life in NYC). Please support me by signing up

Kylo: Father, it’s been ten minutes since my last confession - Hux: oh my god what have you done now

I will no doubt read and enjoy all your very good Nuzzi jokes, but I also want to say earnestly, so many of us (myself included) are on the verge of being pushed out of this industry and it's genuinely so dispiriting to see the worst among us, ethics-wise, get such preferential treatment.

quick question, what role did he play in this chain of events

I’m waiting for people with a lot more power than me to do the right thing. Like, come on!!

The Most Magical Place on Earth

Also, now that I’m sharing thoughts on issues here after so long, I have to say we should have never found out why Han’s last name is Solo. He should have just always been Han Solo

I tracked the “SNAP goes to illegals” claim (for a project)—which, besides rhetoric, is also untrue. Most noncitizens can’t get govt benefits DESPITE paying $100+ billion a yr in taxes. Some states allow taxpaying noncitizens to benefit, but also USDA never found a repeated abuse of the system

Isn’t this our money they’re withholding, though?

centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

My weekly newsletter (free) is here just in time for a timeline cleanse! It has excerpts about two parties in the 20s—a century apart. I want to connect with readers & creators who appreciate stories full of heart. Give this week a chance and see if it’s worth a follow

I’ve been regularly posting my original writing on Substack for the past month. A small community is forming and it’s so exciting! Would you help me spread the word? Literally this week my FMC caught her husband trying to flee to Switzerland in 1922 open.substack.com/pub/denizcam

One of the best fics i’ve read. Thank you @writerpen.bsky.social

I (writer-producer & first-time filmmaker) finished production on my rom com "Friends with Benefits" AND just submitted to Sundance Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com! I can't wait for the world to see our ode to early 00s rom coms with a 2025 take @sundance.org

HEY WRITERS: Tony Gilroy will not be releasing the Andor scripts due to AI scraping concerns (understandable but sad), but the script for season 2 episode 9, "Welcome to the Rebellion," is now available for download on Disney's Emmy consideration site: assets.debut.disney.com/documents/An...

This week’s newsletter is here. It has rejection of all kinds, wisdom from my friends, and ofc, at least one but tbqh more Star Wars references denizcam.substack.com/p/rejection-...

I don’t post much here besides sharing my favorite #Reylo stories, but if you were a follower of my work (prose & film), or just curious about the life a 30-something romantic (ehm… a New Romantic), follow me on Substack! It’s free and I’m hoping to write every week

I started a new Substack!! It’ll include all kinds of my writing (novels, scripts etc.) and if you like romance, multi-generational stories, and writing in general, join me here: denizcam.substack.com I’ll basically be venting about how much I love writing and also can’t stand it sometimes

This is truly a dark age we’re living in & it’s been coming at us at light speed

The hateful, xenophobic, and anti-Muslim attacks on Zohran Mamdani and our Muslim colleagues cannot go unanswered and must stop. Anti-Muslim speech and its normalization undermines the safety, dignity, and rights of our communities and erodes our fundamental democratic values. We must reject hate.

YOU ALL WE SHOT A MOVIE!!!

We hit our goal!!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

We’re so so close to our goal ($1,800 to go) and would really appreciate your help!! The team has come together on passion project rates, we just have to pay for things like location and lenses and set and lighting etc!