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Let’s have a look at my bucket list real quick. Oh wow look at that.

✅ Make a @criterion.bsky.social Closet video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Yfy...

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Sir....

A tale of two movies:

Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.

One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.

The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.

And yet this is the coverage.

Let me go to Costco tomorrow!

The Burden of Packaging and Development Has Fallen Solely on Writers And Hollywood is Worse For It How does this affect creators?

I have a Showrunner friend who went out with a project with an Academy Award winning director attached and they still couldn’t sell the show. And this was in early 2023. It’s even worse now.

nofilmschool.com/the-burden-o...

I just got the “We’ve updated our terms” email from eBay and of course I didn’t read it so I’m signal-boosting Andy’s helpful tip for anyone else who might’ve missed it

This is beyond scary....

SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained "I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

SCOOP—Emails obtained by @zeteo.com show Mahmoud Khalil reached out for help from the Columbia administration *one day before* ICE detained him.

He said he couldn't sleep from threats he was receiving.
He even wrote that he feared ICE "might come to my home."

LA Times: Secret recordings reveal LAPD cops spewing racist, sexist and homophobic comments, complaint alleges

So…a normal Monday?

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK M.K., Petitioner, -٧- WILLIAM P. JOYCE et al.. 25-CV-1935 (JMF) | NOTICE OF CONFERENCE Respondents. JESSE M. FURMAN, United States District Judge: it is hereby ORDERED that counsel for all parties appear for a conference with the Cour n March 12, 2025 at 11:30 a.m. in Courtroom 1105 of the Thurgood Marshall Courthouse, 4( Centre Street, New York, New York. Counsel must confer in advance of the conference and submit a joint letter, no later than March 11, 2025, at 5:00 p.m., indicating whether the conference is necessary and addressing how the Court should handle the present Petition. If counsel do not believe a conference is required, and that briefing is appropriate, counsel should propose a briefing schedule (expedited or otherwise) in the joint letter. To preserve the Court's jurisdiction pending a ruling on the petition, Petitioner shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the Court orders otherwise. See, e.g., Local 1814, Intern. Longshoremen's Ass'n, AFL-CIO v. New York Shipping Ass'n, Inc., 965 F.2d 1224, 1237 (2d Cir. 1992) (*Once the district court acquires jurisdiction over the subject matter of, and the parties to, the litigation, the All Writs Act [28 U.S.C. § 1651] authorizes a federal court to protect that jurisdiction" (cicaned up)); Garcia-Izquierdo v. Gartner, No. 04-CV-7377 (RCC), 2004 WL 2093515, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 17, 2004) (observing that, under the All Writs Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1651, a district court "may order that a petitioner's deportation be stayed….. when a stay is necessary to preserve the Court's jurisdiction of the case"); cf. Michael v. I.N.S., 48 F.3d 657, 661-62 (2d Cir. 1995) (holding that the All Writs Act provides a federal court of appeals reviewing a final removal order with a basis to stay removal). All counsel are required to register promptly as filing uscrs on ECF. All counsel must familiarize themselves with the Court's Individual Rules, which are…

Federal Judge Jesse Furman has ordered that Mahmoud Khalil may NOT be removed from the United States by the Trump administration unless he orders it.

Judge Furman has scheduled a conference for Wednesday.

Well this is disappointing....

Please check on family members who receive Social Security. Saving needs to start NOW and a plan for the future needs to be developed for them.

Trump fired hundreds at NOAA, Weather Service. Here’s what that means for forecasts. Current and former agency officials and lawmakers said the cuts could have major impacts on Americans and the economy, compromising important functions.

"Jobs were also eliminated at the National Hurricane Center and Storm Prediction Center... and the tsunami warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii..."

www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...

The remains of a missing Native American girl were found in the woods near Globe, Arizona. I want this to get as much exposure and out cry as Gaby Petito did. She was only 14. A baby. Our people deserve better.

I will be taking part tomorrow. I hope you do the same.

If you are in the film/TV industry in CA, do me a favor and call Rick Chavez-Zbur to say thank you for introducing legislation to expand CA tax credits for film & TV production

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BREAKING

NEW YORK (AP) — The Associated Press sues three Trump administration officials over access to presidential events, citing First Amendment.

Trump Is Rolling Out a Huge Part of Project 2025’s Proposed Attacks on Elections The far-right playbook foretold these moves. They’re not done yet.

The recent freeze of "all election security activities" at CISA is part of a broader attack against the federal guardrails that protect our elections. Derek Tisler and I take a deep dive into the damage that's already been done, what to expect next, and how to push back in @slate.bsky.social.

It's like they're trying to just kill us all of slowly...

Joy is also resistance. Take care of yourself yall.

I've never been scared to fly until now...

FAA Employees Say Trump and Musk's Purge Is a 'Threat' to Air Safety Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration employees. The administration argues it won’t affect air safety.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated."

"This is a very real threat to the American flying public.”

EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

How Marco Rubio helped bury American soft power This is why his boss once called him "Liddle Marco."

MARCO RUBIO IN 2017: "Foreign Aid is not charity. We must make sure it is well spent, but it is less than 1% of budget & critical to our national security.”

MARCO RUBIO IN 2025: "USAID is a global charity."

Trust fund? Bwhhhhaaaaaaaaaaa

WHAT. THE. ACTUAL. FUCK. In a continuation of trying to extort Zelensky — in Munich, Trump had a US Congressional delegation hand Zelensky a piece of paper they wanted him to sign, granting the US rights to 50% of Ukraine's future mineral reserves. Zelensky refused to sign it. 😡

Do people not understand what’s happening with the Eric Adams thing? The memo instructing the prosecution to be dropped explicitly said it was because he was carrying out the president’s agenda. It was “you’re working for me, so we’re letting you go.” It was an explicitly corrupt bargain