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
Anyone who relies on Gemini for factual information should be commanded to eat their shoe.
November 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Anyone who relies on Gemini for factual information should be commanded to eat their shoe.
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"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82
www.nytimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
"There is a role for every person in revolution if he is revolutionary."
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
—H. Rap Brown, later Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin.
Noah Cross said “Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Same with the craft of screenwriting.
Today we're no longer simply 'schmucks with Underwoods,' but have actually gained some respect. And if we have, it’s in great measure due to Robert Towne.
Today we're no longer simply 'schmucks with Underwoods,' but have actually gained some respect. And if we have, it’s in great measure due to Robert Towne.
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Noah Cross said “Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.” Same with the craft of screenwriting.
Today we're no longer simply 'schmucks with Underwoods,' but have actually gained some respect. And if we have, it’s in great measure due to Robert Towne.
Today we're no longer simply 'schmucks with Underwoods,' but have actually gained some respect. And if we have, it’s in great measure due to Robert Towne.
Robert was our prince. And remains an axiom of cinema. Happy birthday, sir.
November 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Robert was our prince. And remains an axiom of cinema. Happy birthday, sir.
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When will Elon pay the tariffs on all his imported tweets?
November 23, 2025 at 2:28 PM
When will Elon pay the tariffs on all his imported tweets?
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It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 AM
It's been SEVEN hours and
fifteen days
fifteen days
Same here.
Is popular with friends broken or did you all just stop liking stuff 8 hours ago?
November 23, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Same here.
Why four asterisks? Three will do quite nicely.
can't believe rfk jr wants to stop me from eating red M&Ms but he'll eat *** out of an ****
November 23, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Why four asterisks? Three will do quite nicely.
Barry Lyndon
Jerry Maguire
Happy Gilmore
Jay Kelly
Ella McKay
Where is it written that if a film’s title is the name of a character, they must be Irish?
Jerry Maguire
Happy Gilmore
Jay Kelly
Ella McKay
Where is it written that if a film’s title is the name of a character, they must be Irish?
November 23, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Barry Lyndon
Jerry Maguire
Happy Gilmore
Jay Kelly
Ella McKay
Where is it written that if a film’s title is the name of a character, they must be Irish?
Jerry Maguire
Happy Gilmore
Jay Kelly
Ella McKay
Where is it written that if a film’s title is the name of a character, they must be Irish?
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Are their board members in the files?
The Washington Post editorial board decided the Epstein files have “no public interest” before even seeing them. That’s a stunning position for any newsroom to take. Praising Clay Higgins as the lone ‘no’ vote, too? No wonder no one trusts legacy media. Absolutely disgusting.
November 22, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Are their board members in the files?
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Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
November 21, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place
Crépuscule with Nellie.
November 23, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Crépuscule with Nellie.
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Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
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It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
It’s crazy to think about the crimes we’re going to learn about after this regime ends.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
We’re already hearing about Watergate level crimes every week. Imagine what will come out after it’s over.
We’re going to need a full accounting of all that’s been done in violation of the constitution.
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The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.
Breaking News: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he personally instructed the CDC to abandon its position that vaccines do not cause autism. The move underscores his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy — in this case, that vaccines save lives — and bend the health department to his will.
RFK Jr. Says He Instructed CDC to Change Vaccines and Autism Language on Website
In an interview, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. cited gaps in vaccine safety research. His critics say he is ignoring a larger point: Vaccines save lives.
nyti.ms
November 21, 2025 at 11:52 PM
The committee that settled on the phrase “underscoring his determination to challenge scientific orthodoxy” should be dissolved and its members compelled to take a remedial course on the scientific method.
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Today was the day Zohran Mamdani finally became president
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Today was the day Zohran Mamdani finally became president
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The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️
RI judge intervenes after ICE mistakenly detains Superior Court intern
A teenager was nearly taken into federal immigration custody in Providence Thursday afternoon before a Superior Court judge intervened, according to the Rhode Island Judiciary.
www.wpri.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The part where they threatened to break a judge’s car windows should be a bigger story … they feel comfortable treating judges this way, which means they are being told that they can do literally anything to nearly everyone
Can recommend this, from Gallimard. Planner in the format of a Serie Noire novel. And all of the affirmations are appropriately doomstruck.
November 21, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Can recommend this, from Gallimard. Planner in the format of a Serie Noire novel. And all of the affirmations are appropriately doomstruck.
Guy in a not-quite tux (actually: low-double-breasted black flannel suit with Oxford bag trousers from @edwardsexton.bsky.social) grosgrain tie (from le noeud papillon) staring awkwardly during the step-and-repeat; Academy Board of Governors.
Photo courtesy @theacademyusa.bsky.social.
Photo courtesy @theacademyusa.bsky.social.
November 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Guy in a not-quite tux (actually: low-double-breasted black flannel suit with Oxford bag trousers from @edwardsexton.bsky.social) grosgrain tie (from le noeud papillon) staring awkwardly during the step-and-repeat; Academy Board of Governors.
Photo courtesy @theacademyusa.bsky.social.
Photo courtesy @theacademyusa.bsky.social.
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I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
November 21, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.
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It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
November 21, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It's always hard to pick a worst day politically, but today the president called for the death of members of the opposition party, and the administration decided that people were being too hard on the swastika
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This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM
This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.
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In case anyone wonders how things are going in The Other Place
November 20, 2025 at 11:59 AM
In case anyone wonders how things are going in The Other Place
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It may be a simple thing but I have a measure of inner contentment that even if I could make a computer program do this for me, I never would. Wouldn’t even occur to me.
November 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
It may be a simple thing but I have a measure of inner contentment that even if I could make a computer program do this for me, I never would. Wouldn’t even occur to me.
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French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:03 PM
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)