My feature Avalanche Express has finally been announced! Yay! I am so excited.

If it were a choice between signing my name to this pledge or losing my credentials, I’d hand over my badge and still break news you wanted kept secret. This is going to backfire so hard. Do. Not. Sign.

Thank you to The Page Awards for making my little hoarding movie a semi-finalist. And congratulations to writers' group friends @dzorn.bsky.social and @juliabergeron.bsky.social and AFF friends @suzannegriffin1.bsky.social and @kasibrown.bsky.social - happy to be in such distinguished company!

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:

this is theft on an unimaginable scale

Feeling pretty hopeless as our government is being torn apart with the illegal actions by Trump? Take one measure, contact your Member of Congress and ask them to set aside all work other than the impeachment of DJT. We are in a Constitutional Crisis, let's act like it. Have a great Sunday!

Reporters. Are you just reporting what Trump or his spokespeople say, or are you reporting what is actually happening? If the former, you're just repeating government propaganda.

If Elon Musk and his unsanctioned team of techno thieves and pirates are interfering with any payments designated by Congress, that’s a flat-out crime And Democratic Attorneys General in every state need to prosecute them

No one's blaming Democrats for causing this crisis, but yes, many of them are failing to meet this moment. One Democratic senator could bring the chamber to a halt. House Dems can go to fed agencies being gutted by Musk with cameras in tow. Governors can push back. State AGs can bring lawsuits.

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something: Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain." And just stand there. This is how many of you are coming across.

if a major politician held an emergency rally about the current ongoing coup by the richest man in the world, I think people would go to it. Shit is well and truly fucked. I can think of a couple of people who should do that right now.

Others have said this, but it's worth repeating. Study after study show that the biggest benefactor DEI policies in the USA are... WHITE women. Do with that information what you will.

Life imitates art.

Absolutely fantastic news as sickle cell gene therapy is to be rolled out for sickle cell academia with a one off treatment curing 97% of patients 🧪

It would be fantastic if major federal institutions would acknowledge that the executive branch cannot legally unilaterally cancel or redistribute congressionally appropriated funding on ideological grounds and thus they have no legal obligation to comply with such directives

Welp. Turns out electing an unstable maniac is a bad idea after all.

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

Trump is literally purging the federal government of Black people and women. So the people who told us he wasn’t a racist or misogynist were full of shit.

"The tragic irony is that Trump will inherit a thriving economy, which he’ll claim he restored to its pre-2020 greatness through sheer force of will, and neither the media nor even his fellow Dems are likely to spend much time defending Biden’s record."

I worked countless hours and raised millions of dollars to elect half this list. They just voted to get rid of my right to due process.

It’s amazing to me that politicians don’t commit to post first on @bsky.app and to engage with constituents here THIS is more powerful than CNN , MSNBC, The Post will ever be. You can broadcast for 9 mins on a declining medium, or engage here and start a real discussion. Which is more powerful?

They’re saying the quiet part out loud. Storytelling = fiction. They’re going to lie to their readers.

Number of the day 63. That's the percentage of COVID infections in Wales last week that were acquired in hospital. Atrocious that nothing is being done. And that we don't know the number in almost any jurisdiction anywhere in the developed world.

The story of my becoming a screenwriter is a jumble. Not clear and decisive like some other people's journeys. But one of the earliest times I was beckoned into this world was when I saw the wild, weird wonderfulness of Blue Velvet for the first time and I thought "oh, there's a place for me here."

“My masculinity is in crisis because I am no longer thrust into positions of responsibility for others, and this is the fault of women and queer people, and not related to the unsuitability of my character for such responsibility, nor my refusal to accept duty without authority”

Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼‍♂️

You can help people who lost everything AND help save a historic Black community from predatory developers. And it’s listed from least to most completely funded so you can easily find the folks who need it most!

Immigrants are saving the dogs! They're saving the cats! They're saving the homes of the people who live here!

The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood

Be careful out there, LA drivers. People are operating on less sleep, more stress, and on unfamiliar roadways. I just saw two vehicles drive straight through red lights within 3 minutes of each other. Like they didn't even see them.

The Kenneth Fire is now 100% contained. Great news!

p.s. Looting in disasters is largely a myth floated by law enforcement and the status quo both because they assume only their authority holds back chaos and because they care about private property so much. From A Paradise Built in Hell. p.p.s. Not as exciting if you call it shoplifting or theft.

if only there was some sort of historical precedent we could look back on as a reference for these types of lies being used to whip up hatred against a marginalized group

INAUGURATION COUNTER-PROGRAMMING! Here are 3 Resistance Acts we all can do on Jan 20. Use what I call FAFO, “Focused Action with Focused Objectives.” 1) BLACK OUT THE INAUGERATION FOR 100 HOURS. -Do not watch, read or engage w/TV, Radio, Social Media or Cable fm 8am 20 Jan until weekend.

A gentle reminder that you should always resist the temptation to tag a creative person into a negative review of their work. It doesn't matter what your intentions are, it's kind of an asshole maneuver. You are free to say whatever you like, of course. Making it their problem, however, is not kind.

Tesla and SpaceX probably would’ve gone bankrupt But the US government gave Elon Musk over $25 billion in grants, credits & contracts Yep-the same American people he now sells out to China And whose Social Security he wants to reduce Are the ones who helped make Elon the richest man in the world

As you watch "It's a Wonderful Life" this holiday season, know that the bank runs happened in real life and could again with Trump 2.0. A good explainer from @crampell.bsky.social & it's a gift link.

I've been quite ill the majority of this year. For me, writing uses the top 5% of my brain, and most of the year I didn't have access to that. But this week, for the first time in a while, I started to get my old self back. I forgot how much fun this brain can be when it's working right.

Did you know health insurance plans are required to provide the same access to mental health care as medical care? The media is ignoring President Biden’s new regulations to strengthen protections for mental health coverage and hold insurance companies accountable for unlawfully denying it.

Katie Porter & her whiteboard drop facts! Republicans love the uneducated so they can slash trillions from the budget & blame Social Security & Medicare. Don’t buy their lie: SS isn’t funded by the debt, & it has a surplus! Tax income over $400K to pay debt. Americans deserve better.

Nothing to see here, folks. No special favors to anyone we know.

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They said Let’s Go Brandon. He did! Largest climate bill in history & it reduces the deficit $300bil An infrastructure bill for the first time in 40 years Gun control for the first time in 20 years CHIPS Act spurred nearly $1TRIL in investments #DemCast #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE

A lot of doctors are no long working or working full time since their COVID infection.

1. To become editor-in-chief of the Washington Post you have to interview with Jeff Bezos 2. Bezos went on a stage and said he was going to try to convince Trump that the press is not Trump’s enemy 3. What does this mean for the WashPost’s future coverage of Trump?

Media gave more coverage to some old rich dude getting killed instead of focusing on the two kindergartners who were just murdered. Why should any of us care about some old rich dude when the media doesn't care about dead children? The media has trained us to be apathetic, and now blame us for it