Following up on this. This remains a ‘cave is minutes or hours away’ situation. If you want to impact how this plays out you need to contact senators literally now. I want to add additional points of context. What I’m relaying is what I’ve picked up from highly reliable sources.

Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

Me flirting

@vivaciousvandal.bsky.social had a great idea for a YA mystery show and we‘ve been tag teaming on it. We finished the rough outline today. Ive been riding an adrenaline buzz and had to tell SOMEONE.

Miller's Crossing The Hudsucker Proxy

explain how my two favorite Coen brothers films were their two biggest bombs. I didn't plan it that way.

I really want a show about Mon Mothma's post-war career as a major player in the New Republican government. Make it West Wing, but also Star Wars, plus "hey we kinda need people to take a crash course on constitutional design, for no particular reason that needs to be addressed in the text."

Reminder that Republicans don't really believe in religious liberty. Religion is a tool for enhancing their political power, and any expression of faith to the contrary must be suppressed.

Nixon didn’t go to prison over Watergate, but 48 others were convicted and served time for the scandal - notably, his Attorney General. Attention, Pam Bondi.

Congratulations! You are being rescued. Please do not resist.

and it's a bummer and unfair that the police can just decide to refuse to follow the law, and that business associations etc will flood the zone with propaganda declaring any attempt at a better world a miserable failure But you have to meet that shit head on and riposte. It can't be avoided.

Zohran's success will hinge equally on what he is ABLE to do and how effectively he messages to voters when the federal govt of wealthy interests / police, etc in NYC deliberately sabotage things. we've seen this shit in oregon with elites lining up to torpedo progressive measures

Rude.

Me: I'll go make the bed. The bed:

I don't know who needs to get credit for this (Sterlin Harjo? Macon Blair?), but last night I watched what I think is one of the coolest music-related cameo scenes ever, while viewing Episode 5 ("This Land?) of the FX tv series "The Lowdown".

If you haven't watched the quirky, noirish, utterly entertaining "The Lowdown" but liked Harjo's earlier work ("Reservation Dogs"), or enjoyed "Fargo" (series or film), "Justified", "The Killing, S1", "Dark Winds", "True Detective, S1", etc. then give "The Lowdown" a look. Highly recommended.

And why exactly is the sex at birth, as opposed to their sex now, at all relevant to identifying, say, a fifty year old woman on DOCUMENTS THAT IDENTIFY HER. I had blue eyes at birth. You know what my driver’s license says? Hazel. Because they changed, and one is useless for identifying me.

People thinking they’re inventing network television after 10 years of destroying network television, I am going to walk into the fucking ocean.

i’m really proud of this essay and am going to keep reposting it ad nauseum! (as if there’s any need to ad more nauseum - THANK YOU I’M HERE ALL WEEK!)

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.

Politicians should probably get on Bluesky to get better in touch with the American electorate.

This account posts a lot about Xbox, frequently claims they are a black voter, but insists that Mamdani voters are all Trump voters and has posted obsessively anti-mamdani over the past 5 days. No real name, no photo. Gives off a weird vibe. wonder if it’s part of Cuomo’s last minute desperate $.

Apropos of nothing, #TheLowdowm (from the creator of Rez Dogs), streamable on Hulu, is fantastic and unpredictable. Peter Dinklage randomly shows up in epIsode 5. Keith David is in it throughout.

My laptop is in the repair shop and my writing partner is 3,000 miles away. I am BEREFT.

Talking to the 5-year-old about the election tomorrow has backfired spectacularly because she asked if she gets to vote, and I explained to her that she needed to be 18, and she is now crying and vigorously arguing that you should be allowed to vote “whatever age you are”

it means republicans are about to hit a tidal wave of opposition at the ballot that renders their current position even more untenable than it is and axios is owned by republican ratfuckers who want you to be mad at democrats

I am 64 years old and FOR MOST OF MY LIFE two things were true: - fascists were trying to take over the USA - we were beating them Those creeps are beatable. We beat them for decades. In the 30s they tried a form of MAGA and US beat them. The 50s? McCarthy purges. US beat them. Do. Not. Doom.

Wrote about the World Series. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/thank-you-...

happy halloween i am ready to confuse some trick-or-treaters

the Ozy time destroyed his works yes YES the Ozy's obscure

Ozyman, Ozyman- dias does what no mortal can and his works? are they there? no, but maybe still despair

i like big trunks and i cannot lie you other travelers can't deny that when a shattered visage lies in the sand with a sneer of cold command you get sprung from the passions read from a hand mocked and heart fed that pedestal tried to warn me but "look upon my works" makes (me-me-me so horny)

I got to eat half of the BBQ and it was absolutely delicious.

Robby Karol strikes again!

Quick, while @gregmachlin.bsky.social is in Austin, I need to quickly write and film a jazz great’s biopic, so if he gets a deal on his Miles Davis script, I can claim he’s ripping me off!

For someone who loved THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE, THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER, and MARIANNE -- what other really good horror TV do you recommend?

LOVING VINCENT (2016), first feature made entirely out of oil paintings. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGzK...

PPC Commentary: How Much Television Have We Lost? Over the last few days friends, I’ve been down a deep, dark and honestly, fairly mysterious rabbit hole. I suppose, I should also add, it’s a bit of a depressing one too. You’ve been warned. The current state of the world leaves plenty of room for…

#aff2025: An emerging writer is forced to swear a blood oath against a pro screenwriter he highly respects when the pro inexplicably endorses TWO SPACES AFTER A PERIOD.

I took the spookiest panoramic photo of my life last week… you can see the exact moment that a cloud moved overhead, but it looks like Evil climbed out of a grave just then…

Flew into Austin for AFF. I really dig it here, and it’s gonna be hard to go back to how cold Maine is after Austin’s version of October.

@vivaciousvandal.bsky.social has arrived at #AFF2025. Panels have been great so far! We have new *ideas* on how to pitch our current projects.

If a D is ever elected POTUS, razing the Trump ballroom and restoring the White House to pre-Trump status is non-negotiable. You have to tear down the physical manifestations of authoritarianism.

ok who did this? ☹️

I'm serious re: the _personal_ offense I take to this. I went to U-Va. on a merit scholarship for high-achieving, heavily recruited Black students. I worked my ass off, racked up AP credits, and devoted evenings + weekends to extracurriculars to get in. Whose fucking spot did I "take"? Whose?

Context for "Everything I say is off the record. You're not a journalist but I wanted to let you know." www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!