Stage Write
@stagewrite.bsky.social
Dramatist.
HOTEL MAYFLOWER; CONGRESSMAN DAVY
More at: https://www.richardbyrneplays.com/ and https://stage-write.ghost.io/
HOTEL MAYFLOWER; CONGRESSMAN DAVY
More at: https://www.richardbyrneplays.com/ and https://stage-write.ghost.io/
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BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME: Antifascist playwright Ernst Toller's death mask hides a startling tale of abandoned ashes, fractious leftist politics, Hollywood gossip, lost artworks, comic book wars, and a long hidden lover. March 10 / We Heard You Like Books.
www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...
www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...
Help us bring CONGRESSMAN DAVY to life this spring!
Our musical is set in 1835 but it's a story about our moment as well: a polarized landscape with bad electoral losers, naked corruption, and a revolutionary legacy hijacked by partisan politics.
congressmandavy.bandzoogle.com/bring-congre...
Our musical is set in 1835 but it's a story about our moment as well: a polarized landscape with bad electoral losers, naked corruption, and a revolutionary legacy hijacked by partisan politics.
congressmandavy.bandzoogle.com/bring-congre...
Congressman Davy - Bring Congressman Davy to Life!
Store for Congressman Davy
congressmandavy.bandzoogle.com
January 17, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Help us bring CONGRESSMAN DAVY to life this spring!
Our musical is set in 1835 but it's a story about our moment as well: a polarized landscape with bad electoral losers, naked corruption, and a revolutionary legacy hijacked by partisan politics.
congressmandavy.bandzoogle.com/bring-congre...
Our musical is set in 1835 but it's a story about our moment as well: a polarized landscape with bad electoral losers, naked corruption, and a revolutionary legacy hijacked by partisan politics.
congressmandavy.bandzoogle.com/bring-congre...
STARDUST MEMORIES (1980)
January 17, 2026 at 1:17 PM
STARDUST MEMORIES (1980)
BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME: Antifascist playwright Ernst Toller's death mask hides a startling tale of abandoned ashes, fractious leftist politics, Hollywood gossip, lost artworks, comic book wars, and a long hidden lover. March 10 / We Heard You Like Books.
www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...
www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
BEAUTY DOESN'T REACH ME: Antifascist playwright Ernst Toller's death mask hides a startling tale of abandoned ashes, fractious leftist politics, Hollywood gossip, lost artworks, comic book wars, and a long hidden lover. March 10 / We Heard You Like Books.
www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...
www.richardbyrneplays.com/beauty-doesn...
A paid @CNN commentator invades the "island of decency, justice, community, and peace" with his vulgar annihilating rhetoric.
The thing is, some people can make mistakes, get things wrong, be careless, etc. But that’s not what Jennings did here. Jennings knowingly, purposefully and intentionally lied to utterly distort what was said, which CNN pays him to do every day. CNN is the enabler of this.
January 16, 2026 at 2:20 PM
A paid @CNN commentator invades the "island of decency, justice, community, and peace" with his vulgar annihilating rhetoric.
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A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
Video Analysis of ICE Shooting Sheds Light on Contested Moments
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2026 at 12:24 PM
A new NYT video analysis by confirms that Renee Good's vehicle did not run over Jonathan Ross and did not strike him. It's possible that it brushed up against him, but that remains unclear. Ross should be under arrest. This is a gift link. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/v...
So extraordinarily evil.
New: meet ELITE, the Palantir app ICE is using to find neighborhoods to raid. Map interface; officers search for immigrants; click person to bring up individual dossier. This is clearest link between what Palantir is building and ICE's activities on the ground yet www.404media.co/elite-the-pa...
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
www.404media.co
January 16, 2026 at 2:05 AM
So extraordinarily evil.
Voted for six key White House nominees.
Unbelievable. Troops from France, Germany, the UK, Norway, and Sweden are arriving in Greenland right now. Trump has turned our allies against us.
January 16, 2026 at 12:34 AM
Voted for six key White House nominees.
Total debacle for @fcaugsburg1907.bsky.social. Up 1-0 in 2nd half injury time at home. Union Berlin down to 10 men.
Of course they cough up a goal.
The club has flirted with disaster many times, but Baum clearly was the wrong pick for a relegation scrap - and a drop to 2. Bundesliga looms large.
Of course they cough up a goal.
The club has flirted with disaster many times, but Baum clearly was the wrong pick for a relegation scrap - and a drop to 2. Bundesliga looms large.
January 15, 2026 at 9:39 PM
Total debacle for @fcaugsburg1907.bsky.social. Up 1-0 in 2nd half injury time at home. Union Berlin down to 10 men.
Of course they cough up a goal.
The club has flirted with disaster many times, but Baum clearly was the wrong pick for a relegation scrap - and a drop to 2. Bundesliga looms large.
Of course they cough up a goal.
The club has flirted with disaster many times, but Baum clearly was the wrong pick for a relegation scrap - and a drop to 2. Bundesliga looms large.
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BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
January 15, 2026 at 6:44 AM
BBC report at a headline level that Grok will now not make sexually exploitative images any more. An actual reporter comes on and explains that it will do no such thing, and will just make the images invisible in the UK. These are two very, very different things.
From an account of Byron's time in Greece:
"On opening a bottle of wine, and inspecting the complexion of its contents, his lordship questioned Fletcher as to its name and lineage.
'I really don't know, my lord,' was the reply.
"Then away with it,' he rejoined. "I hate anonymous wine.'"
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"On opening a bottle of wine, and inspecting the complexion of its contents, his lordship questioned Fletcher as to its name and lineage.
'I really don't know, my lord,' was the reply.
"Then away with it,' he rejoined. "I hate anonymous wine.'"
1/2
January 15, 2026 at 2:35 AM
From an account of Byron's time in Greece:
"On opening a bottle of wine, and inspecting the complexion of its contents, his lordship questioned Fletcher as to its name and lineage.
'I really don't know, my lord,' was the reply.
"Then away with it,' he rejoined. "I hate anonymous wine.'"
1/2
"On opening a bottle of wine, and inspecting the complexion of its contents, his lordship questioned Fletcher as to its name and lineage.
'I really don't know, my lord,' was the reply.
"Then away with it,' he rejoined. "I hate anonymous wine.'"
1/2
But, wait! I thought Republican members were doing their best work for the American people at home in their districts!
NEW: With a tiny majority, House GOP leaders tell members to show up for votes
Emmer's office is telling Republicans they can only skip under "life-and-death circumstances."
Not everyone's listening.
It's causing trouble.
Inside the House Republican tensions: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Emmer's office is telling Republicans they can only skip under "life-and-death circumstances."
Not everyone's listening.
It's causing trouble.
Inside the House Republican tensions: www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
With a tiny majority, House GOP leaders tell members to show up unless it's 'life or death'
Their already razor-thin majority has shrunk in recent weeks, while other Republicans have been absent from votes, leading to floor mishaps.
www.nbcnews.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:57 AM
But, wait! I thought Republican members were doing their best work for the American people at home in their districts!
Amazing that Americans are patronizing Starbucks during a strike.
Reminder that Starbucks workers across the United States are on strike! Please find coffee elsewhere until Starbucks finalizes a contract with striking workers. #NoContractNoCoffee
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
January 15, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Amazing that Americans are patronizing Starbucks during a strike.
Yes. Precisely.
I would say the French anti-Americanism isn’t directed at individual Americans but instead at American power – and nowadays, probably at American imperialism
January 15, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Yes. Precisely.
Garbage.
The woman killed by an ICE agent in Minneapolis last week served on the board of her son’s school, which linked to documents encouraging parents to monitor ICE and directing them to training. https://cnn.it/49yoNEa
January 14, 2026 at 4:17 AM
Garbage.
We are in a dark confusing place because of Jon Stewart. Literally the worst case of smug preening click activism on the left.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Jon Stewart on the Minneapolis ICE shooting: ‘We are in a confusing, dark place’
Late-night hosts discussed national outrage over the killing of Renee Nicole Good as the Trump administration ramps up ICE operations in Minneapolis
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 2:23 AM
We are in a dark confusing place because of Jon Stewart. Literally the worst case of smug preening click activism on the left.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
Dilbert draws upon deep reservoirs of alienation and absurdity within the grinding gears of American office capitalism. We know it best from Office Space. It's been there since Melville's Bartleby at a minimum.
The comic founders in its relentless recursiveness. No exit. And, thus, exhaustion.
The comic founders in its relentless recursiveness. No exit. And, thus, exhaustion.
January 13, 2026 at 9:14 PM
Dilbert draws upon deep reservoirs of alienation and absurdity within the grinding gears of American office capitalism. We know it best from Office Space. It's been there since Melville's Bartleby at a minimum.
The comic founders in its relentless recursiveness. No exit. And, thus, exhaustion.
The comic founders in its relentless recursiveness. No exit. And, thus, exhaustion.
LICORICE PIZZA (2021)
January 13, 2026 at 1:08 AM
LICORICE PIZZA (2021)
Bleaker House
In a letter to WBD shareholders, David Ellison says Paramount filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Chancery Court seeking information in its hostile takeover attempt (Lillian Rizzo/CNBC)
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
Main Link | Mediagazer Permalink
January 12, 2026 at 2:40 PM
Bleaker House
On a particularly annihilating day, @pbsnews.org's PBS News Weekend signed off for the final time tonight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j8l...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j8l...
PBS News Weekend full episode, Jan. 11, 2026
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:00 AM
On a particularly annihilating day, @pbsnews.org's PBS News Weekend signed off for the final time tonight.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j8l...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j8l...
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Notable part of this statement: “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:47 AM
Notable part of this statement: “The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President.”
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But I keep voting for the nominees that plan and enact these policies.
Warner: "In less than a year, Trump has used the military to attack Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Nigeria, Venezuela. He's now threatening Colombia, Greenland, and other nations. I'm not sure that America trying to be the policeman for the whole world is why Americans hired Donald Trump to be president"
January 11, 2026 at 5:32 PM
But I keep voting for the nominees that plan and enact these policies.
Welker should have replied:
"Yes, it is ridiculous to take $50,000 in a Cava bag."
"Yes, it is ridiculous to take $50,000 in a Cava bag."
The reality here is that "the FBI and DOJ reviewed this" and "I did not nothing illegal" can easily be contradictory statements given how politicized those agencies have become.
WELKER: Where is that $50,000? Did you keep it?
HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.
WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?
HOMAN: I'm not addressing it
WELKER: But did you keep the money?
HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
HOMAN: I didn't take $50k from anybody & that's a question for the FBI. Bottom line I did nothing illegal.
WELKER: But was there $50k in the bag?
HOMAN: I'm not addressing it
WELKER: But did you keep the money?
HOMAN: $50k is ridiculous
January 11, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Welker should have replied:
"Yes, it is ridiculous to take $50,000 in a Cava bag."
"Yes, it is ridiculous to take $50,000 in a Cava bag."