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Palm Springs/ex-IndieWire writer, Substack now/ex-film buyer in Chicago, New York, LA/world traveler, baseball (Cubs) fan/recovering cinephile/voracious reader /caregiver to 2 older bonded dogs/Northwestern U grad/political junkie
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Apart from the overall shared damage to our lives, this is a specific one that Trump has caused my city: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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As I suggested yesterday A Minecraft Movie beat estimates, grossed $163 million, a million better than Barbie tombrueggemann.substack.com/p/a-minecraf...

Minor considering but - as I suggested yesterday, A Minecraft Movie ended up higher than the initial estimate - WB now saying $163 million, a million above Barbie tombrueggemann.substack.com/p/a-minecraf...

Time for the NYDaily News to revise its most famous front page: TRUMP TO AMERICA: DROP DEAD

I have lived through many market dropoffs. I have never seen an administration do so little to reassure investors. The idea that this collapse is what they want seems as crazy as it is more credible all the time.

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Shutting this app off for the night because nothing is going to top this.

Theory: There is more than a 0 chance that the tech billionaires behind so much (allied with the theocrats) are using Trump's insane lifelong love of tariffs to cause an economic collapse, leading to civil unrest & the lead in for authoritarian control. The theory answers a bunch of questions.

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The people of Greenland are the only ones to determine their future. But can I add a fun option? Maybe Canada would be a better partner than Denmark? Canada actually shares a land border with them (a remote island they co-own) and is adjacent to far NE Canada. Love to see how Trump would react.

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