This. Also, the entire cast & crew does a bang up job every week. But procedurals almost always get overlooked…

My advice is to accept that a terrible first draft *is* the process.

If you write a terrible first draft (or several terrible early drafts) you’ll be in excellent company alongside most of the writers you admire.

Let it be terrible! Let it rip! The cliche is true— writing is rewriting. #scriptsky

Headline from The Guardian: Traders placed over $1 billion in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war. What is going on?

Yeah geez weird impossible to know I guess

The president of the United States is bragging about being able to write his own signature.

Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer, the latest move in an industry struggling with high fuel costs and falling supplies.

Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar

"The insanity of investing in a new playground when a dozen festering issues make the park unsafe should be crystal clear to one and all. Surely there’s more to the plan, one would hope — something substantive and sustainable. But that’s a risky bet."

“She described having the sex marker M in her passport as a ‘big problem,’ adding: ‘I don't blame Trump. I love him.’ Jenner said she appealed to him for help but received no response.”

One of the many many many reforms we need is a legal limit on how long “acting” government officials may serve without Senate confirmation.

This is a wild position for her to take when SAG-AFTRA is in the middle of negotiations and this is one of their biggest issues

Reese & Sandra both coming out w their let's lean into AI is not a coincidence. It's self interest. It's cynical and it's deeply disappointing that other creatives are willing to throw their fellow artists under the bus.

CA hasn’t signed off on a promised deal to help bail out LA if the Olympic Games lose money L.A. is banking on California sharing the financial burden if the Olympics go into the red.

You’ll never believe this but it looks like LA28 has also not finalized its deal with the state

Exposing a global ‘online rape academy’ that is teaching men how to abuse women and evade detection CNN exposes an online network of men encouraging each other to drug and assault their partners, and swap tips on how to get away with it.

There are so many insidious layers

An orange and black and white monarch butterfly on top of a bright orange Mexican sunflower bloom. The flower is against a white fence.

Nature break. Very thankful to the bird or animal who planted this Mexican sunflower in my yard.

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then?

Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

A'ja Wilson is the best women's basketball player in the world. Rookie of the Year, 4 MVPs, 3 DPOYs, multiple time champion, 5-time 1st team all W. Last year she made roughly the median salary of an executive at Colgate-Palmolive.

Weird. The same team that's the *only* team without a Pride Night.

Chevron executive Andy Walz suggests Americans should drive less amid high gas prices "People should try to drive less. They should try to conserve energy," Andy Walz told CBS News. "We should be doing that all the time. Energy's essential for people's lives, but we should conserve it....

Simple enough! It's not like we live in a nation that's structured to prioritize driving in cars over every other transportation mode.

Marvel leaves Georgia to film superhero movies in UK — gutting state’s movie industry: ‘You feel like a jilted lover’ Disney-owned studio behind “Spider-Man: Homecoming” and “She-Hulk: Attorney at Law” filmed nearly two dozen projects in Atlanta over the past decade.

1) They announced this 8 months ago

2) Marvel has split its production between the UK & ATL for over a decade

3) This is bad

4) Like bad bad

5) UK incentives are better than Georgia's but soundstage space was always hard to come by

6) Now it isn't

7) This is BAD BAD

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This was the inevitable next step for a country that used to turn lynching photos into postcards

The average federal income tax for an individual is 14.5%.

But in 2025, Google’s parent company, Alphabet, paid just an 8% tax rate.

Meta paid just 3.75%.

Amazon paid just 1.37%.

Palantir and Tesla paid nothing.

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Nothing says "America is Back Baby!" like "Allbirds became an AI hardware middleman because they wanted to pump their stock instead of going into bankruptcy, so they said they will find some computer chips somewhere, but can no longer sell shoes."

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public'

IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated

W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

This Tax Day 287 major companies are avoiding $139,256,870,000 in taxes on $1 trillion of their 2025 profits.

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Here at the council's first ad hoc committee since January 26 (!) to discuss LA28's new procurement strategy, LA28's human rights strategy, and a motion to prioritize sidewalk repairs around venues.

Listen here — sorry, we can launch a rocket around the moon, but no video for committee meetings

Strike averted! SEIU reached an agreement! Schools are open! It shouldn’t have had to happen in the middle of the night but it happened! #UnionStrong

Oh man! And on the eve of another education rally downtown?! Not again…

We hear they may go until 4am…picketing is set to start at 7am…the teacher in my house is on pins and needles. But, as always, #UnionStrong.

Open Letter: 1,000+ Industry Leaders Oppose the Paramount–WBD Merger Glenn Close, Ben Stiller, Jane Fonda, Mark Ruffalo, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and more than 1,000 filmmakers and industry professionals call on regulators to block the deal.

Once again, for the latecomers:

Media mergers are bad for everyone. Bad for writers. Bad for actors. Bad for directors. REALLY bad for consumers. Bad for executives. Bad for literally everyone except the billionaires who own them. Do what you can to stop this. blockthemerger.com/openletter