lmfao

Elon threatening to just leave people on the ISS is making a pretty good case for why you nationalize your space program!

Something I’m enjoying is watching the right try and make this situation “masculine” when it is two extremely catty and weak-seeming people having a petty, messy and passive aggressive argument in public, refusing to talk to each other at all

hello bluesky hivemind! i've heard some, uh, *troubling* details from an FAA source but since i don't traditionally report on this agency, i am in need of additional sources to speak with. if this is you or somebody you know...can you help a reporter out (@cwarzel.92 on signal). many thanks.

great column @MuseZack and i agree! i didn’t realize it was @steveasbell who originally said that amazing line “I got into all this because I love movies, but now I have this fear that my job is to ruin them.” ahahahaha www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

‘We had the same moral panic about TV’ is a common refrain when people bring up social media, but like, in terms of social-political impacts, it’s hard to not see the ‘moral panic’ about TV as at least partially vindicated! A reality TV star is president! He’s filling his admin with Fox News hosts!

Fascinating about them removing the language of the trial committee from the ballot measure. Seems like they put their finger on the scale every step of the way. Why were they so afraid of a fair vote?

this is a great question! i believe the Guild put their thumb on the scale at every step because they were prosecuting me for something that wasn’t against the rules in the first place. so then— instead of apologizing for their mistake—they just doubled down & broke the law over and over

i did this interview with The Hollywood Reporter immediately after the appeals vote came out. it’s pretty raw. i lost the vote by just 59 votes — by far the closest Guild vote i have ever seen (every other Guild vote is always over 90% in favor of the Board)

The normie lib boomer winemom neighborhood by The Grove has upside down American flags in yards and they're having protest organizing meetings/happy hour at each other's houses. Crazy to see the boomers mobilized against the government.

Instead of saying "Defund the Police," people should have just said: "The police is operating at a net loss, so we're going to have to make some cuts."

If you didn’t know, there’s a race for governor in Jersey right now and Baraka is running. He jumped to the top of the ranks overnight. Every Dem that stands up to Trump and becomes wildly popular is confirming what we’ve all been saying: voters don’t want Schumer-style leadership.

WGA Members: you have until 2 pm (less than one hour) to vote on the appeals. links below ⬇️⬇️⬇️ VOTE NOW!!

the WGA Board has forced me to do the most humiliating thing possible in Hollywood— put out a statement:

so @MattBelloni was kind enough to write about the WGA Board’s witch hunt against me in his column for @PuckNews this week. talking to him on the phone was like my own personal episode of The Town! thanks so much Matt 😊👏

In reading the WGA discipline against @juliebush.bsky.social , Edward John Drake and others, a concerning image emerges: a WGA board inserting itself into what are designed to be a fair trials by one's peers, weighing the scales against the accused and even secretly changing our constitution.

exactly. what they have done is a violation of federal labor law which holds that unions have to adhere to *their own Constitutions.* the General Counsel said the Board gets to interpret the Constitution however they want & guessed we wouldn’t have a quorum at an in person meeting

i talked to the @latimes.com about the WGA’s kangaroo court against me. WGA members can vote now through May 9 at 2 pm. the link should be in your email, just like Guild elections

two more hours until the appeals vote is closed!

to dispute the misconception that i "asked for this popular vote," here is the demand letter i sent to the WGA Board on April 30 asking for the secret in person appeal at the annual member meeting that the WGA Constitution requires. the General Counsel refused it.

i sent this demand letter to the WGA's General Counsel this afternoon regarding Board Members & Captains sending mass emails to members (some with false information claiming that i was convicted of breaking strike rules--i was found innocent of breaking strike rules!)

i talked to @GeneMaddaus @Variety about how insane this WGA appeals process has been.

And my favorite part is that the WGA board changed the constitution to make this an online vote. but supposedly they were bound by the constitution in blasting the names of writers appealing before due process was complete. Potentially career ending.

For the WGA vote: I'm voting to adopt the alternative action proposed by the appellant. It seems like the board has lost sight. A trial committee chair (who also was a defense attorney) said this process was unfair. Something that the captains and board members refuse to acknowledge.

FELLOW WGA MEMBERS: you’ve gotten an email to vote on punishment for four writers who were judged to have broken strike rules. The deadline is tomorrow. I urge members to read *all* the materials re: the Notice of Appeals of Discipline for the four writers—the Guild statements and writers’ replies.

I have always supported the Guild, but I’m deeply uncomfortable with some of the choices the Board has made in this process, and these writers deserve our thoughtful consideration. So if you haven’t yet, carve out some time and read/vote. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

our president is the worst

to dispute the misconception that i "asked for this popular vote," here is the demand letter i sent to the WGA Board on April 30 asking for the secret in person appeal at the annual member meeting that the WGA Constitution requires. the General Counsel refused it.

This is America.

i sent this demand letter to the WGA's General Counsel this afternoon regarding Board Members & Captains sending mass emails to members (some with false information claiming that i was convicted of breaking strike rules--i was found innocent of breaking strike rules!)

i talked to @GeneMaddaus @Variety about how insane this WGA appeals process has been.

UPDATE: white smoke has *also* been spotted in the city center of Avignon,,, bad news folks!!!

This piece features one bone-chilling quote after another: “Most Americans ... may assume they can keep their heads down for four years, make concessions, and then regain their independence on the back end. But history shows—and the Hungarian experience shows—that they would be mistaken.”

Because democracy is supposed to create at least a reasonable degree of equity. When that’s gone chances are the democracy became a performative sham a long time ago. And monied centrists don’t care about equity. www.compactmag.com/article/why-...

I'm really surprised a member of the WGA Board is behaving this way. I really wish he'd stick to normal Board policy and just call people he disagrees with Quislings. @wgawest.bsky.social

WGA Board member Rob Forman is sending this around to members. This is highly unethical, appalling behavior. And possibly illegal. I have also heard that WGA Captains are doing the same. If anyone receives communication like this from WGA leadership, can you send it to me?

An important, must read thread for screenwriters...

A really concerning thread. The board going against their own trial committees' recommendations is the most concerning part to me, and the main reason I voted against the proposed sanctions in each case.

I volunteered to help an autistic writer involved in one of the WGA disciplinary appeals currently before the membership. The sloppy, unprofessional way the guild handled itself during the process was very embarrassing to me as a member.

To WGA members voting to hang fellow writers this week: have you read Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery'? A story of public stoning in the market square? Secret tribunals, overreaching punishments, public shaming. Do you want that on your conscience? Think it through before you vote. #scriptsky

I suggest you read this thread in its entirety: bsky.app/profile/thin...

After inserting themselves into trials as "witnesses," overruling impartial Trial Committees in order to worsen punishments, and secretly changing our constitution (in violation of our rules), the board is now using our STRIKE CAPTAIN SYSTEM to whip votes in their favor. This cannot be who we are.

On Sunday, we came out to support Production Assistants United who are fighting for unionization! It’s time Production Assistants have the respect, protections, and pay they deserve. #1u

The conclave is now longer than Conclave

i talked to the @latimes.com about the WGA’s kangaroo court against me. WGA members can vote now through May 9 at 2 pm. the link should be in your email, just like Guild elections

it’s very obvious Jia Tolentino has pretty serious long covid and is in denial about it. she even jokes about whether she should see a neurologist about her inability to find words these days (YES!) but nevertheless writes an insipid culture essay instead www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Before you write a script, ALWAYS OUTLINE. Before you outline, ALWAYS DO A LONGLINE. Before a logline, ALWAYS WATCH SOME OFFICE BLOOPERS. Before bloopers, ALWAYS GO ON FACEBOOK TO SEE IF THAT DICK WHO MADE YOU CRY ON THE BUS IN 7TH GRADE IS STILL OUT OF WORK. Writing is a process. Respect it.

the new koi pond, under construction, under snow

Evidence mounts that across the political spectrum, officeholders see themselves as lords of their own petty fiefdoms rather than temporary public servants meant to return to the body politic as regular people