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michaelericross.bsky.social
Screenwriter (Stage 32 QF, SF; ScreenCraft QF, Emerging Screenwriters QF, Stunt List, LA Int'l Screenwriters) | essayist | journalist (NYT, MSNBC.com, TheWrap) | editor | pain in the ass | captive of LA (indeterminate sentence).
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If you support this, you're a monster.

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

The success of SINNERS reminds me that our business has squandered so much talent and money through their complete lack of foresight and their refusal to develop new ideas and new storytellers over the last twenty years.

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

“Losing faith”? Muddy Waters said it best: Can’t lose what you never had.

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Breaking News: A federal judge expressed deep concern that the Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras “with no meaningful process.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/25/u...

submitted 2 days ago • 126 comments

A 12-year-old killed herself at a Spokane hospital that recently closed its youth psychiatric unit. Workers say girl’s death is an example of what they feared from Providence closing the unit. Read the full story, originally published by @investigatewest.bsky.social now:

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

Virginia Giuffre, the prominent survivor of Jeffrey Epstein's sexual abuse, has died by suicide. Giuffre, 41, died in Neergabby, Australia, where she had been living. Giuffre was one of the earliest and loudest voices calling for criminal charges against Epstein. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

submitted 2 days ago • 883 comments

DOJ is tarnishing the crown jewel of the Department, the Civil Rights Division. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/...

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

This is why they don’t want to do due process.

submitted 2 days ago • 26 comments

Griffin gets it.

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Citadel founder Ken Griffin extended his criticism of the Trump administration’s trade policy, saying that tariffs won’t bring back American manufacturing jobs the way that the president anticipates and the country should play to its strengths instead.

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

My little indie that could keeps on chugging. “The Next Black Man …” just made the QF round in the Emerging Screenwriters drama comp. Thanks to the judges who took my story to heart. On to the semis! #scriptsky

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Probably worth saving this number

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

Now more than ever.

submitted 79 days ago • 440 comments

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

submitted 64 days ago • 1324 comments

Good. 👍🏾

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: People are being suspended on X in Turkey for posting videos of these protests against Erdoğan’s corrupt and repressive regime. Keep sharing everywhere.

submitted 35 days ago • 332 comments

WOW! AOC and Bernie Sanders just held the Biggest political event in Denver since Obama 2008.

submitted 36 days ago • 1052 comments

Oh well ... FAFO

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

This. It's no more complicated than this.

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

I'll co-sign this!

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Welp, there goes the US defense industry.

submitted 36 days ago • 2651 comments

Australia’s Treasurer Jim Chalmers has warned the impact of the new US administration’s policies will have a “seismic” impact on the global economy, ahead of his fourth national budget due to be handed down on Tuesday.

submitted 36 days ago • 26 comments

I'm glad someone can afford eggs these days.

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submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Stupider and stupider.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

About 500 staffers at the SEC have agreed to leave the agency in response to its $50,000 buyout and deferred-resignation offers, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter

submitted 37 days ago • 18 comments

Pritzker: The question I ask is: if you’re willing to hand the keys to Europe over to Putin, what’s next? How does the US retain its leadership in the world when he’s essentially retreating to our own borders? He’s even made enemies of the Canadians—I can’t imagine anything more telling than that.

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YouTube’s play button doing the lord’s work

submitted 39 days ago • 871 comments

The people who complain about the runtime of Scorsese movies watch like 4 of these kinds of videos every week.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments