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The Black List founder. Film & TV producer. Politics & Football person. Vanity Fair contributing editor.
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Law enforcement really out in Los Angeles playing man to man defense right now. Wild times.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

There’s more chaos during your average championship-starved city’s sports championship celebration than there is in LA right now even with this utterly absurd militarized government presence. This administration is an absolute farce.

submitted 12 hours ago • 7 comments

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality. A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social [A thread 1/8🧵]

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

President Trump has decided to sell the red Tesla he got in March, less than 24 hours after the president and Elon Musk engaged in a public spat, according to a White House official speaking on condition of anonymity.

submitted 4 days ago • 144 comments

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

submitted 4 days ago • 534 comments

This still cracks me up 🤣

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

It should come as exactly zero surprise that Mira Nair’s son’s visual storytelling game is elite.

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Incredibly proud to have preserved a public submission process for the Nicholl Fellowship this year. Most proud of the fact that every single writer who applied for a fee waiver between the moment we announced the process to the close of submissions received one.

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

Most pathetic Speaker of the House since ... the last one.

submitted 6 days ago • 84 comments

Listen to publishing industry experts, agents and authors like Robert Jones Jr. (THE PROPHETS) only on Read the Acknowledgments with Randy Winston. Subscribe on Spotify to hear this incredible episode AND check out EVERY episode of RTA: open.spotify.com/show/3qSRTyi...

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Is that cell block tango still calling? That’s probably because CHICAGO opened on Broadway on this day in 1975! In adapting Maurine Dallas Watkins’ 1926 play, theatrical legends Kander + Ebb created a bona-fide Broadway classic that is still being staged to this day.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Craving some comfort food? Well, this week we're diving into the myth, the legend and the majesty of so-called "chick flicks!" Listen here: laist.com/podcasts/nob...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Our 20th anniversary collaboration with @letterboxd, #blcklst20x20, is back just in time for Pride Month! We're kicking things off with Makana Lani's list, queerlove. Visit buff.ly/D4XG40r to see it now!

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Cheers to the incredible ‪@marcmaron.bsky.social‬ on the end of WTF Podcast, which has brought so much joy into our lives over the last 15 years thanks to Marc's often imitated, never duplicated style of interviewing his guests.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Spoiler Alert: Wrexham gets promoted and Cambridge gets relegated despite this devastating late penalty back in December. Also, I’m in this clip.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Officially one of the hardest photos in sports history.

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

🎶 The Champions 🎶 (I’ll have more to share in the morning, but until then, what an incredible night.)

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

He loves TACO bowls/investments.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

Remember Zaila Avant Garde, who won the Scripps National Spelling Bee? Well, her little brother Zwe just placed 10th and he’s perfect.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

He was born in Massachusetts and lived for decades in California.

submitted 11 days ago • 93 comments

Perhaps I’m just a cynic but a certain person “leaving” government strikes me as all performance and wholly irrelevant to the damage he’s done and will continue to do.

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

Made it exactly five steps out of the Munich airport before I was asked to sign something by someone thinking I was Christian Karembeu.

submitted 13 days ago • 13 comments