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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These guys really think we're stupid.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
These guys really think we're stupid.
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Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
November 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Filling out a banking form that asks for my occupation, and in what I am choosing to consider as a sign of the times, "journalist" is not a selectable option, but "cryptocurrency" is
Amen.
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Amen.
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who is this guy talking to
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 11, 2025 at 12:44 AM
who is this guy talking to
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
November 10, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …
This is correct.
democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up
November 10, 2025 at 6:33 AM
This is correct.
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Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Mamdani is going to implement SSHaria law. Communications will be end to end encrypted.
Mamdani is going to implement Shakira law. Hips will no longer be able to lie.
November 9, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Shari Lewis law.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
Everyone will be required to stick their fist up a lamb's a
Excuse me, there's someone at the door.
*This* is what antisemitism looks like. *This* is what leads to pogroms and roundups.
What don’t the major Jewish organizations in the US spend half as much time on this as they do spreading fear of Mamdani?
What don’t the major Jewish organizations in the US spend half as much time on this as they do spreading fear of Mamdani?
There’s no daylight between what Candace says here about “the Jews” & what Nazi propagandists & Father Coughlin said about the Jews in the 1930s. Her show is one of the top 5 “conservative” podcasts in the US. She has 5.5 million subscribers on YouTube and 7.3 million followers on X.
November 8, 2025 at 10:24 PM
*This* is what antisemitism looks like. *This* is what leads to pogroms and roundups.
What don’t the major Jewish organizations in the US spend half as much time on this as they do spreading fear of Mamdani?
What don’t the major Jewish organizations in the US spend half as much time on this as they do spreading fear of Mamdani?
Chef’s kiss.
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Chef’s kiss.
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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
November 8, 2025 at 3:33 AM
One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.
The government shutdown was invented in 1980
The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal
…whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses… then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter One, “Loomings.”
Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter One, “Loomings.”
November 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
…whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses… then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.
Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter One, “Loomings.”
Melville, Moby-Dick, Chapter One, “Loomings.”
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Posing the question should get you politely but firmly ejected from society by a large man dressed like an usher at the opera.
He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.
He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.
November 6, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Posing the question should get you politely but firmly ejected from society by a large man dressed like an usher at the opera.
He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.
He just appears with a tight smile and quietly suggests that it would be best if you don’t cause a scene.
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finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
finance guys on twitter are like "can't believe zohran hired lina khan. she wants to make it illegal to bundle memecoin futures into junk stocks and sell them to public worker pension plans. the public won't stand for it."
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someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
Alarming criminalization of green card holder based on "Antifa Materials" - another attempt to silence dissent and target people critical of this administration
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
Release Des and the Prairieland Defendants!
November 6, 2025 at 5:16 AM
someone got indicted on the basis of “transporting antifa materials” for allegedly transporting a box of ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
THEY’RE PROSECUTING PEOPLE FOR DOMESTIC TERRORISM OVER ZINES
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Jesus I see what you've done for others
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Jesus I see what you've done for others
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Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
November 6, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Cool. What would you call the other wing then? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/03/u...
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🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
November 6, 2025 at 12:57 PM
🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."
Oh, @nytimes.com. Sigh.
“Democrats Raise Concerns” on speed dial?
Also: the killings (sorry: “lethal strikes”) are *not* against drug cartels in any way that can be proven. Also: the killings are illegal under national and international law. You’d think a headline would point these things out.
“Democrats Raise Concerns” on speed dial?
Also: the killings (sorry: “lethal strikes”) are *not* against drug cartels in any way that can be proven. Also: the killings are illegal under national and international law. You’d think a headline would point these things out.
November 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Oh, @nytimes.com. Sigh.
“Democrats Raise Concerns” on speed dial?
Also: the killings (sorry: “lethal strikes”) are *not* against drug cartels in any way that can be proven. Also: the killings are illegal under national and international law. You’d think a headline would point these things out.
“Democrats Raise Concerns” on speed dial?
Also: the killings (sorry: “lethal strikes”) are *not* against drug cartels in any way that can be proven. Also: the killings are illegal under national and international law. You’d think a headline would point these things out.
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Newly discovered Zappa album just dropped.
November 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Newly discovered Zappa album just dropped.
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James Baldwin and his youngest sister Paula, 1953.
Photographer unknown.
Photographer unknown.
November 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
James Baldwin and his youngest sister Paula, 1953.
Photographer unknown.
Photographer unknown.
Reunited and it feels so good.
November 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Reunited and it feels so good.