Greg Iwinski
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emmy-winning tv writer: late night, star wars. union guy. always sleepy. omgreg.com
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TV with some all-stars: @joshgondelman.bsky.social @lizhynes.bsky.social @sashastewart.bsky.social
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Episode 133: Protecting Free Speech in Late Night with Josh Gondelman, Liz Hynes, Greg Iwinski and Sasha Stewart — OnWriting: A Podcast of the WGA East
In part 2 of our series on protecting free speech, veteran late night television writers Josh Gondelman, Liz Hynes, Greg Iwinski and Sasha Stewart join us to discuss the eventful past few months in th...
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December 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Talked about (what else) late night
TV with some all-stars: @joshgondelman.bsky.social @lizhynes.bsky.social @sashastewart.bsky.social
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TV with some all-stars: @joshgondelman.bsky.social @lizhynes.bsky.social @sashastewart.bsky.social
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You, a normal person visiting basilicas: wow very holy, what an atmosphere for prayer.
Me: what if all the giant statues in this city came alive and battled in a kumite?
Me: what if all the giant statues in this city came alive and battled in a kumite?
December 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
You, a normal person visiting basilicas: wow very holy, what an atmosphere for prayer.
Me: what if all the giant statues in this city came alive and battled in a kumite?
Me: what if all the giant statues in this city came alive and battled in a kumite?
And now, a single day in Rome.
Here we go.
Here we go.
December 4, 2025 at 4:38 AM
And now, a single day in Rome.
Here we go.
Here we go.
As a father of Hamnets I cannot physically bear to see Hamnet.
December 3, 2025 at 4:15 AM
As a father of Hamnets I cannot physically bear to see Hamnet.
Centrism-as-ethos fails to reckon with an existential-level belief in a hard moral universe, or the subsequent animating conviction to land squarely on the right + just side of that moral line.
Only a vibes-based “right side of history” morality gives room to break bread with those inflicting evil.
Only a vibes-based “right side of history” morality gives room to break bread with those inflicting evil.
December 3, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Centrism-as-ethos fails to reckon with an existential-level belief in a hard moral universe, or the subsequent animating conviction to land squarely on the right + just side of that moral line.
Only a vibes-based “right side of history” morality gives room to break bread with those inflicting evil.
Only a vibes-based “right side of history” morality gives room to break bread with those inflicting evil.
Dems ended the shutdown claiming one of the “wins” was SNAP funding through next September.
They dumb as hell.
They dumb as hell.
The Trump administration said that it will move to withhold SNAP food aid from most Democratic-controlled states unless they provide recipient records.
Trump administration says it will withhold SNAP food aid from Democrat-led states over data
The Trump administration said Tuesday that it will withhold SNAP food aid from recipients in most Democratic-controlled states starting next week.
bit.ly
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Dems ended the shutdown claiming one of the “wins” was SNAP funding through next September.
They dumb as hell.
They dumb as hell.
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December 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
sigh
The headline every day should be that across the nation, across every district of voters, across all wings of the party, there aren’t even a *dozen* elected Republicans who oppose any of this.
November 28, 2025 at 4:54 AM
sigh
A VIDEO PODCAST
IS JUST
A TALK SHOW WITHOUT A TIME SLOT
IS JUST
A TALK SHOW WITHOUT A TIME SLOT
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
A VIDEO PODCAST
IS JUST
A TALK SHOW WITHOUT A TIME SLOT
IS JUST
A TALK SHOW WITHOUT A TIME SLOT
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Ranking the best of Star Wars:
1.) Andor
2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old
3.) Knights of the Old Republic
4.) Knights of the Old Republic II
5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1
6.) Empire Strikes Back
7.) A New Hope
8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album
1.) Andor
2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old
3.) Knights of the Old Republic
4.) Knights of the Old Republic II
5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1
6.) Empire Strikes Back
7.) A New Hope
8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album
November 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Ranking the best of Star Wars:
1.) Andor
2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old
3.) Knights of the Old Republic
4.) Knights of the Old Republic II
5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1
6.) Empire Strikes Back
7.) A New Hope
8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album
1.) Andor
2.) Any SW movie when you’re 8 years old
3.) Knights of the Old Republic
4.) Knights of the Old Republic II
5.) Tattered Star Wars expanded universe paperback you found for $1
6.) Empire Strikes Back
7.) A New Hope
8.) Christmas in the Stars holiday album
finally, after years, a reason to say “Bouie is wrong”
rogue one is bad folks. i have believed this since i saw it in theaters and no subsequent rewatch has changed my mind. basically a chop job until the final sequence, which is good (for star wars)
November 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
finally, after years, a reason to say “Bouie is wrong”
Who knew the kryptonite for horrible men running for President was Bleached Handsome Squidward
November 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Who knew the kryptonite for horrible men running for President was Bleached Handsome Squidward
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fitting that MTG's resignation was played as an interrupt
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
fitting that MTG's resignation was played as an interrupt
A 2 cents that seems obvious to me: Donald Trump has THE JUICE and with Zohran he finally got someone in his office who also has THE JUICE.
Stone Cold Steve Austin sees The Rock start getting pops, he knows THAT is who you want to be in the ring with. Enemies, friends, doesn't matter. Heat is heat.
Stone Cold Steve Austin sees The Rock start getting pops, he knows THAT is who you want to be in the ring with. Enemies, friends, doesn't matter. Heat is heat.
November 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
A 2 cents that seems obvious to me: Donald Trump has THE JUICE and with Zohran he finally got someone in his office who also has THE JUICE.
Stone Cold Steve Austin sees The Rock start getting pops, he knows THAT is who you want to be in the ring with. Enemies, friends, doesn't matter. Heat is heat.
Stone Cold Steve Austin sees The Rock start getting pops, he knows THAT is who you want to be in the ring with. Enemies, friends, doesn't matter. Heat is heat.
Reposted by Greg Iwinski
Even if we have free elections in 2028 & Trump leaves office, he'll die a free man in his bed one day, & his WH/Cabinet officials will go on to lucrative media, academic, & business sinecures after his presidency. We all know this. It's grotesque. But it's the central feature of 🇺🇸 politics forever.
This is the direct consequence of no senior officials, let alone GWB, paying any legal, personal, or professional price at all for torture & Abu Ghraib two decades ago. Our polity completely fails at elite accountability, and so here we are, on the doorstep of full-on fascism.
Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process.
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals.
Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH
November 21, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Even if we have free elections in 2028 & Trump leaves office, he'll die a free man in his bed one day, & his WH/Cabinet officials will go on to lucrative media, academic, & business sinecures after his presidency. We all know this. It's grotesque. But it's the central feature of 🇺🇸 politics forever.
Some smart person has made this point better than I will, but:
America CAN fundamentally and quickly remove harmful but ubiquitous parts of daily life (plastics, guns, social media, etc).
It’s already happened. Growing up, EVERYONE USED TO SMOKE INDOORS EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. And then we didn’t.
America CAN fundamentally and quickly remove harmful but ubiquitous parts of daily life (plastics, guns, social media, etc).
It’s already happened. Growing up, EVERYONE USED TO SMOKE INDOORS EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. And then we didn’t.
November 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Some smart person has made this point better than I will, but:
America CAN fundamentally and quickly remove harmful but ubiquitous parts of daily life (plastics, guns, social media, etc).
It’s already happened. Growing up, EVERYONE USED TO SMOKE INDOORS EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. And then we didn’t.
America CAN fundamentally and quickly remove harmful but ubiquitous parts of daily life (plastics, guns, social media, etc).
It’s already happened. Growing up, EVERYONE USED TO SMOKE INDOORS EVERYWHERE ALL THE TIME. And then we didn’t.
I would rather read a memoir by Miss Tessmacher.
November 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
I would rather read a memoir by Miss Tessmacher.
Trump Saluting Clinton’s Downtown Flagpole is giving me very strong Pee Tape 2.0 vibes.
November 15, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Trump Saluting Clinton’s Downtown Flagpole is giving me very strong Pee Tape 2.0 vibes.
Studios are intimately familiar with playing hardball -- and are willing to endure pain to fight for what they want. When it's important to them, they'll do it.
Just something to remember the next time a negotiating artists' union gets called out by the trades for being 'unreasonable.'
Just something to remember the next time a negotiating artists' union gets called out by the trades for being 'unreasonable.'
YouTube TV and Disney Reach Deal Ending Two-Week Blackout of ESPN, ABC
ESPN, ABC and other Disney TV networks are coming back to YouTube TV, after the media conglomerate and Google reached a deal on pricing and terms for a renewed carriage deal.
variety.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Studios are intimately familiar with playing hardball -- and are willing to endure pain to fight for what they want. When it's important to them, they'll do it.
Just something to remember the next time a negotiating artists' union gets called out by the trades for being 'unreasonable.'
Just something to remember the next time a negotiating artists' union gets called out by the trades for being 'unreasonable.'
Reposted by Greg Iwinski
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
November 13, 2025 at 10:29 PM
legitimately i think one of the core failings of centrist pundits is that they have come to define themselves by what they are against--to chart their intellectual course by who they think is being annoying this week--instead of by recourse to genuine principle
For the entire shutdown, the NASA app’s photo of the day was Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. Every time I swiped past it was that moon waiting for me.
The shutdown truly ended for me when I looked down to see a new photo. App is back at it.
The shutdown truly ended for me when I looked down to see a new photo. App is back at it.
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 PM
For the entire shutdown, the NASA app’s photo of the day was Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io. Every time I swiped past it was that moon waiting for me.
The shutdown truly ended for me when I looked down to see a new photo. App is back at it.
The shutdown truly ended for me when I looked down to see a new photo. App is back at it.
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please, tv writers, i beg you
stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here
i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!
stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here
i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
please, tv writers, i beg you
stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here
i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!
stop making the penultimate episode a flashback that answers all my questions about how we got here
i don't care! i already AM here. these are not questions i want answered! i don't care about these flashback people! i don't want to care about these flashback people!
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November 10, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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