Howard A. Rodman
@rodman.bsky.social
• Novelist, The Great Eastern, Destiny Express.
• Screenwriter, Joe Gould's Secret, Savage Grace.
• Past President, WGAW
• Vice President & Governor, AMPAS
• Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts
• Postpunk guitarist
• Home barista
• Screenwriter, Joe Gould's Secret, Savage Grace.
• Past President, WGAW
• Vice President & Governor, AMPAS
• Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts
• Postpunk guitarist
• Home barista
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So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
November 29, 2025 at 3:30 AM
So apparently the administrators at Northwestern have caved to the extortionist demands of the Feds. Faculty voted 595-4 AGAINST this measure.
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
Whether it's higher-ed extortion, or suing CBS editing Kamala's interview, or the Tariffs, it's all middle-school lunch-money bullying. It's all he knows.
And as in middle school: it only works if you let him.
And as in middle school: it only works if you let him.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Whether it's higher-ed extortion, or suing CBS editing Kamala's interview, or the Tariffs, it's all middle-school lunch-money bullying. It's all he knows.
And as in middle school: it only works if you let him.
And as in middle school: it only works if you let him.
To Mr William Blake, who would have been 268 years old today.
November 29, 2025 at 1:34 AM
To Mr William Blake, who would have been 268 years old today.
The UN General Assembly considered a resolution on ending torture. 169 nations voted in favor. Three voted against.
No bonus at all if you can guess which three.
No bonus at all if you can guess which three.
November 28, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The UN General Assembly considered a resolution on ending torture. 169 nations voted in favor. Three voted against.
No bonus at all if you can guess which three.
No bonus at all if you can guess which three.
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The "Larry Summers complained to Jeffrey Epstein that MeToo went too far" and "Olivia Nuzzi committed crimes on behalf of the fascist she masturbated with while reporting on him" are the same story: American elites have no ideology other than "I should be untouchable." Society is run by empty husks
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This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This is so deeply at odds with the vision and history of America. Take pretty much any ethnic or racial group that are part of the American mosaic America today - they have all faced the same accusation. The moment these accusations are turned into policy are some of the most shameful in US history
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Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
November 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Personally, I think it's a bad thing when people in the government post AI images without disclosing that they're AI.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
Image on the left is something RFK Jr. posted today. Image on the right is a photo from 2024.
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Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!
#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
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sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
November 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
sorta coming around to the view that the social danger of genAI images is less that they'll make people believe fabricated things are real and more that they'll make people believe real things are fabricated
Rian wearing an IDA LUPINO t-shirt is everything.
Let’s all go around BlueSky and each say what we’re thankful for. I’ll start: GLENN CLOSE! And #WakeUpDeadMan being in theaters. WITH GLENN CLOSE! Thanks to all who are coming out to see it. Theater finder in my pinned post!
November 27, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Rian wearing an IDA LUPINO t-shirt is everything.
Leonard and Debbie wish you a joyous and bountiful Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Leonard and Debbie wish you a joyous and bountiful Thanksgiving.
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A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
A bit too on the nose for thanksgiving
Certain household rituals: The Velvet's Sunday Morning for Sunday mornings; Patti Smith's Easter for Easter; and William S. Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer for Thanksgiving.
William S. Burroughs - A Thanksgiving Prayer
YouTube video by williamburroughsVEVO
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Certain household rituals: The Velvet's Sunday Morning for Sunday mornings; Patti Smith's Easter for Easter; and William S. Burroughs' Thanksgiving Prayer for Thanksgiving.
Cesar or The Skipper?
Choose your own Thanksgiving adventure.
Choose your own Thanksgiving adventure.
November 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Cesar or The Skipper?
Choose your own Thanksgiving adventure.
Choose your own Thanksgiving adventure.
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I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
November 26, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I think if Canada wants to have a strong cultural identity we need to go back to doing what we're best at, making the weirdest fucking TV shows you've ever seen
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"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 AM
"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.
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One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.
November 27, 2025 at 6:18 AM
One personally frustrating thing about the big AI push is that it forces people to assess it in a hurry, which makes people careless. It kinda smells like a scam to me if someone’s hurrying you along, cultivating urgency in you, well before you know where they’re taking you.
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If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.
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"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
"Left on the economy, right on culture" is also, as needs repeating a hundred thousand time, the central lie of fascism.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
OF COURSE it appeals to the in-group who thinks their well-being AND their prejudices will be pandered to.
The thing about "left on the economy, right on culture" is it's based on analysis of swing voters. Those voters are often low attention and their politics are often not especially coherent. Which is fine for them, it's not their job to run the country, but, you know, the government is
November 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
"Left on the economy, right on the culture," is just fascism in the end. Also it will never take you left on the economy in the long run, because a machine built for eating people will keep eating people.
Reminding you that my novels DESTINY EXPRESS, about Fritz Lang's flight from Berlin in 1933, and THE GREAT EASTERN, a lavish literary anticolonial 19th-century adventure, are being reissued next year by Rare Bird/Unnamed.
Pub date: May 19—the birthday of Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Grace Jones.
Pub date: May 19—the birthday of Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Grace Jones.
PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! Do not ask me how my writing is going.
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November 27, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Reminding you that my novels DESTINY EXPRESS, about Fritz Lang's flight from Berlin in 1933, and THE GREAT EASTERN, a lavish literary anticolonial 19th-century adventure, are being reissued next year by Rare Bird/Unnamed.
Pub date: May 19—the birthday of Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Grace Jones.
Pub date: May 19—the birthday of Malcolm X, Ho Chi Minh, and Grace Jones.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
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This sounds like a great night to me.
According to Bowie, he, Iggy & Lou once sat in the back room of Max's with 'nothing to say to each other' (I think a chemical impediment is implied) so they simply 'checked out each other's makeup'
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 PM
This sounds like a great night to me.
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It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.
November 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
It says a lot about our country that the FBI had no interest in interviewing Brett Kavanaugh but wants to talk to Mark Kelly.