Newt Calkins
@graynewt.bsky.social
Adjunct professor of Film and TV specializing in screenwriting. Freelance story analyst since 2010. Award winning short horror screenwriter. Steve Martin fan. Clive Barker stan. Jim Henson man. Progressive lefty with a tendency for angry hyperbole.
Unfortunately the writer who wronged me years ago?
November 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Unfortunately the writer who wronged me years ago?
It is so hard to resist indulging in "my dad can beat up your dad". So I won't.
I'd bet this lady would knock Whiskey Pete on his ass any day of the week and twice on Sunday. He's a cosplaying stupid drunk. He couldn't command a shit to stink.
I'd bet this lady would knock Whiskey Pete on his ass any day of the week and twice on Sunday. He's a cosplaying stupid drunk. He couldn't command a shit to stink.
RAW STORY: “The first woman nominated to lead the Naval Special Warfare command overseeing Navy SEALs had her promotion abruptly canceled — military sources blame Hegseth's hostility to women in combat roles.” 🤔 www.rawstory.com/pete-hegseth...
November 12, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It is so hard to resist indulging in "my dad can beat up your dad". So I won't.
I'd bet this lady would knock Whiskey Pete on his ass any day of the week and twice on Sunday. He's a cosplaying stupid drunk. He couldn't command a shit to stink.
I'd bet this lady would knock Whiskey Pete on his ass any day of the week and twice on Sunday. He's a cosplaying stupid drunk. He couldn't command a shit to stink.
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Wow, that’s crazy. Republicans lied and are screwing you over? Who could have seen that coming?
NEWS: Senate Republicans are threatening to block the extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies—unless Democrats agree to tougher abortion restrictions.
Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds
Democrats say that’s a nonstarter, arguing there are already limits on abortion access. The dispute could torpedo a deal, leading to higher health insurance premiums for millions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Wow, that’s crazy. Republicans lied and are screwing you over? Who could have seen that coming?
I really wish people I like on here would stop reposting anything Justin "You're Too Stupid to Understand AI, You Plebs" Wolfers writes. There have to be other good economists who don't platform AI and treat AI skeptics as idiots.
November 11, 2025 at 9:08 PM
I really wish people I like on here would stop reposting anything Justin "You're Too Stupid to Understand AI, You Plebs" Wolfers writes. There have to be other good economists who don't platform AI and treat AI skeptics as idiots.
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When Democrats say “Big tent politics” what they mean is they have taken us all hostage in their tent like we’re in “Clockwork Orange” and force us to watch while they continually platform bigots while saying they’re being “open-minded”.
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
When Democrats say “Big tent politics” what they mean is they have taken us all hostage in their tent like we’re in “Clockwork Orange” and force us to watch while they continually platform bigots while saying they’re being “open-minded”.
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In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
November 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...
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Literally all this man does is complain.
Trump: "If we die, we must die and we as men we die without complaining."
November 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Literally all this man does is complain.
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This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
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Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
November 11, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Senate Democrats: what just happened under our current leadership is a total travesty
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
Also Senate Democrats: i have nothing to say about whether our current leadership may be part of the problem
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It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
But there are real dangers out there that must be fought; and energy spent fighting each other is energy lost to that bigger fight.
November 11, 2025 at 1:27 AM
It’s wild to suggest this is a circular firing squad or something when it’s millions of citizen Democrats who hate it versus 47 elected Democrats who conspired to surrender for nothing.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
We’re not fighting “each other,” we’re fighting you. There’s only a few dozen of you, but you hold all the power.
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C'mon bro it'll be different this time I promise bro c'mon we're gonna get em this time bro I swear bro c'mon I know we've said this every time but this time it'll be different bro just wait and see bro but don't primary bro okay I promise I'm trying bro
November 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
C'mon bro it'll be different this time I promise bro c'mon we're gonna get em this time bro I swear bro c'mon I know we've said this every time but this time it'll be different bro just wait and see bro but don't primary bro okay I promise I'm trying bro
Even on B&N 50% off Criterion sale it was perhaps a foolish expenditure but my birthday is this week so I indulged in the Wes Anderson box set. If they weren't all 4K I might not have. I don't love all of his work but I consistently like so much that he may be my favorite filmmaker by volume.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Even on B&N 50% off Criterion sale it was perhaps a foolish expenditure but my birthday is this week so I indulged in the Wes Anderson box set. If they weren't all 4K I might not have. I don't love all of his work but I consistently like so much that he may be my favorite filmmaker by volume.
FINE, so create a balance. If you're gonna stick me with ads during pause it should remove ads from play. One or the other. Both is fucking obnoxious. Further proof that streaming was always a fucking con by techbros.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
Big Streamers Bet on Increasingly Aggressive ‘Pause Ads’ to Stop Viewers in Their Tracks
Big streamers are placing more focus on aggressive "pause ads" that pop on screen after a viewer calls for a halt in the action.
variety.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
FINE, so create a balance. If you're gonna stick me with ads during pause it should remove ads from play. One or the other. Both is fucking obnoxious. Further proof that streaming was always a fucking con by techbros.
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
variety.com/2025/tv/news...
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Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
November 10, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Wait do I have it correct that Joyce Carol Oates said Musk was a shell of a man with no joy in his life and he totally saw it and said "No I'm not" and now he's searching the titles of different movies he likes and replying "great movie"
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Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
If Schumer votes AGAINST this but enough Ds vote FOR it that it passes, he needs to RESIGN immediately.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
He will have shown himself to be absolutely ineffective as a minority leader. He has to go.
Literally resign tonight.
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Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
OpenAI faces 7 lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide, delusions
OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits claiming ChatGPT drove people to suicide and harmful delusions even when they had no prior mental health issues.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.
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Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
www.teenvogue.com/st...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.teenvogue.com/st...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
"Let her passing be an inflection point for how you think about trans rights and trans people more generally."
www.teenvogue.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Politicizing Transgender Athletes Is Dangerous. Lia Smith Deserved Better.
www.teenvogue.com/st...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
www.teenvogue.com/st...
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
...spoils the bunch. The BUNCH. For those who lean on that rhetorical crutch.
Beatings. Choking suspects until they confess. Shooting unarmed people.
On this week’s @revealnews.org, reporters from @mississippitoday.org and @nytimes.com reveal the years-long reign of terror of a group of sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi.
On this week’s @revealnews.org, reporters from @mississippitoday.org and @nytimes.com reveal the years-long reign of terror of a group of sheriff’s deputies in Rankin County, Mississippi.
How a ‘Goon Squad’ of Mississippi deputies got away with years of brutality
A “Goon Squad” of Rankin County sheriff’s deputies spent years brutalizing people until their reign of terror was exposed.
www.motherjones.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:37 PM
...spoils the bunch. The BUNCH. For those who lean on that rhetorical crutch.
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$40 Billion to Argentina so Milei can dance like Trump at Mar-a-lago but they’re suing not to feed hungry Americans and they’ll let your health care premiums skyrocket
November 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
$40 Billion to Argentina so Milei can dance like Trump at Mar-a-lago but they’re suing not to feed hungry Americans and they’ll let your health care premiums skyrocket