Zach Heltzel
@zachheltzel.bsky.social
Academy Award winning writer and director of SWIMFAN.
The penny taught me it was okay to be weird.
November 12, 2025 at 7:47 PM
The penny taught me it was okay to be weird.
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If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
Epstein Files Live Updates: G.O.P. Lawmakers Release Thousands of Files
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
If the Republican strategy is "if you reveal the President is a pedophile we'll reveal tons of other pedophiles" then... Okay? Go for it? Take them all down? Send them all to jail forever? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...
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every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation
I know Trump wiggles out of everything but the economy is actively collapsing and the Epstein files are going to come out, so…
November 12, 2025 at 7:14 PM
I know Trump wiggles out of everything but the economy is actively collapsing and the Epstein files are going to come out, so…
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One of the GOP's sweatier Epstein defenses has been "if they had good stuff they'd have used it when Biden was president." But the growing awareness that Garland spiked anything that could look political explains this!
I feel like “mad at Merrick Garland” is going to hit a whole new level.
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
One of the GOP's sweatier Epstein defenses has been "if they had good stuff they'd have used it when Biden was president." But the growing awareness that Garland spiked anything that could look political explains this!
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Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
It seems like all of the rich and powerful people around him patronizingly tolerated the race science stuff (“he has such an inquisitive and childlike mind”) in order to get access to his harem of underage sex slaves
The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"
November 12, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Right, these are the two options: Either they tolerated Epstein's eugenics to get to the sex crimes or they tolerated his sex crimes to get to the eugenics
Filmmaking is an inherently autistic profession. You take what are essentially the blueprints for assembly in a factory and use them to emotionally manipulate people.
November 12, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Filmmaking is an inherently autistic profession. You take what are essentially the blueprints for assembly in a factory and use them to emotionally manipulate people.
ChatGPT is really fucking up my whole deal because I’ve always been a big fan of em dashes.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 AM
ChatGPT is really fucking up my whole deal because I’ve always been a big fan of em dashes.
Evelyn Normielib has very quickly become acutely aware of who people like Laura Loomer and Nick Fuentes are. Her fervor is the result of profound shock and disgust.
November 12, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Evelyn Normielib has very quickly become acutely aware of who people like Laura Loomer and Nick Fuentes are. Her fervor is the result of profound shock and disgust.
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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all of you are very annoying but i also am very annoying
November 12, 2025 at 2:39 AM
all of you are very annoying but i also am very annoying
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Man the "Wicked: For Good" ad budget is insane.
November 12, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Man the "Wicked: For Good" ad budget is insane.
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Wild to think that there's a junior exec walking around Manhattan right now who, within a month, will be sent by her firm back to her hometown to close a local business, only to run into a former-flame turned tree-farming cookie enthusiast who'll change her life via the power of Christmas.
November 11, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Wild to think that there's a junior exec walking around Manhattan right now who, within a month, will be sent by her firm back to her hometown to close a local business, only to run into a former-flame turned tree-farming cookie enthusiast who'll change her life via the power of Christmas.
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Yes, why indeed did social media going global coincide with an international network of fascists springing up with chapters in every country
checking on ross "i would do anything for love but i won't" douthat
November 11, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Yes, why indeed did social media going global coincide with an international network of fascists springing up with chapters in every country
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Really, it's the "now look what you've made me do... this hurts me more than it hurts you" abuser mindset that animates the underlying politics to begin with
the arg is literally "if only wokeness didn't go so far, we wouldn't have postliberalism"
which. lol. lmao. lmfao.
which. lol. lmao. lmfao.
Funny that the 'only liberals have agency" framing is adopted even on the Right, they've essentially made themselves NPCs
November 11, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Really, it's the "now look what you've made me do... this hurts me more than it hurts you" abuser mindset that animates the underlying politics to begin with
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Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Kendrick, Joyce Carol Oates, Menswear Guy, and Isaac Chotiner are the Voltron of People You Don't Want Focusing on You
Am I to believe there is supposed to be plot continuity between different Bond actors? Because what the fuck are we talking about here?
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Am I to believe there is supposed to be plot continuity between different Bond actors? Because what the fuck are we talking about here?
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
So uhh…do I need to absolutely clear out my local dispensary right now?
November 11, 2025 at 5:41 AM
So uhh…do I need to absolutely clear out my local dispensary right now?
Joker Joker I am the Joker
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Joker Joker I am the Joker
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oh god he fell in love with a chat bot
November 10, 2025 at 11:56 PM
oh god he fell in love with a chat bot
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OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
Oscar Isaac Was ‘Not So Open to Working With Disney’ After Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Said He’d Return to ‘Star Wars’ if Disney Does ‘Not Succumb to Fascism’
Oscar Isaac was not open to working with Disney after Jimmy Kimmel's suspension and will only return to 'Star Wars' if the studio avoids fascism.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:28 PM
OSCAR ISAAC, on whether he'd return to "Star Wars":
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
".. Yeah. I mean, I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great."
@variety.com $DIS
variety.com/2025/film/ne...
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Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.
November 10, 2025 at 1:17 AM
Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.