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  "if you watched all the way to the end, you would know that the point is actually the opposite of the headline!" If there is one thing I'd like people in media to understand, it's that their headline matters more than the content of their work. And when you do things like put known facts up for debate in your headline, or say horrible things about a group of people in your headline, you are placing a billboard on the information superhighway that promotes misinformation and fa...

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  I was reading that 40% of adult Americans do not have a job. Less than 50% do not work full time--and may even work as little as a couple of hours a week. The unemployment rate, however, is around 5%. Because it all depends on how you count things. For instance, 40% includes retirees. The biggest employer in the US is Wal-Mart, with 1.6 million employees. In fact, looking at the top employers in the United States makes it plain that the vast majority of people working do not have any sort (1)

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  Like so many things, we need to reframe Super PAC's as a direct threat to national security. Forget the corporations. All a foreign government needs to contribute unlimited funds to a Super PAC and control who gets elected is a proxy in America to make the contribution. There are rules against foreign nationals contributing, but who needs them to contribute directly? A person who manages international wealth could easily be a proxy for enemies of the United States. For example.

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  I've been thinking about the things that motivate me to create theatre no matter what (like a crazy person), and remembering when it became incredibly apparent to me how deeply sexist the theatre is when it came time for me to audition for grad schools. The overwhelming majority at the auditions were women. But most grad schools admitted people at a 2 to 1 ratio of men to women "in order to reflect the opportunities in the real world of theatre." They said this openly in their lit...

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  Every once in a while you still stumble on buried treasure... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GchgAvD1fxA

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  Private Practice makes Perfect Strangers. #tvshowproverbs #hashtagGames

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  Look before you Quantum Leap #tvshowproverbs #hashtagGames

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  All that glitters is not Golden Girls #TVShowProverbs #HashtagGames

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  Maybe rock bands need conductors. I feel like it would really help. Especially if he's also the designated driver.

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  Capitalism is not synonymous with loving billionaires. And socialism is not synonymous with loving the poor, or with hating billionaires. That's not what those terms mean. Capitalism doesn't even mean, "Pushing for unbridled profit in the next quarter no matter what happens in the future!" That doesn't have anything to do with the definition of capitalism. And--one must remember--this normalization of pushing for bigger and faster profits sprang from people who fully believ...

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  I'm fundraising the first $10K for my theatre company, Boneyard Theatre! All donations are tax deductible, and benefit TWO theatres--Boneyard, and our sponsor, Redwood Playhouse. I think it's going to be rad, and real boon to my community. You can read all about it here: https://boneyardtheatre.com/

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  I have now seen both The Devil Wears Prada 2, and The Odyssey, and I'm here to report: Anne Hathaway, who is beautiful, has a face full of the appropriate amount of wrinkles for her age, which, by the way, moves and emotes. I do not understand why she is part of the "immovable Botox face" conversation. I guess it's that one still from the Odyssey trailer, but I swear to you, she has very normal forehead wrinkles in that movie. People just spreading propaganda for funsies, I...

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  Pushing thinness on women in 2026 is a bad move, strategically. In the 90's it was easy to occupy women with diets. What were we worried about, besides? The economy was good, women were being taken more seriously in the workplace--things were looking up. So there was ample space in our minds to occupy us with a fake problem. But we're in survival mode now. We could give a fuck about fashion. And it's hard to make anorexia seem glamorous when you don't know if you can afford gr...

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  This is the original program for the Nazi's in 1920. It sounds exactly like what would happen if you combined the extreme right with the extreme left--when you put the group identities of people at the fore, and ask them to sacrifice the individual for the good of the group. You get Nazism. They will ALWAYS make it sound like it's for your own good/the good of all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Program

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  RE: https://mstdn.social/@smutmag/116975527894228982 The Odyssey is SO FUCKING GOOD! It's SO fucking good. It's an instant classic. I honestly wept through the whole thing, less because it moved me (though it did), and more because I haven't seen such perfectly crafted storytelling in such a long time. Classics, Literature, and History teachers/professors should cheer for this film, because it took something archaic and meandering, and illuminated the human through line. (1)

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  Just to reiterate: The United States has been taken over by Russia. All we have to do is take the "I don't know..." tone out of our voice when we state the facts, and it's as clear as day. https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-fbi-director-just-booked-a-flight?r=3247i9

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  Trump has just made a list of people that he says are assets of Cuba, and are spreading communism. Amy Goodman is on the list. Eve Ensler is on the list. Even George Floyd--who is dead-is on the list. EVERY. ACCUSATION. IS. A. CONFESSION. Who is the foreign asset? It's Trump. Who is actively centralizing power, authority and economy? It's Trump.When he points and says, "These are foreign assets who are creating a communist state," he is confessing that HE is doing just that.

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  People are so stupid about what constitutes "dirty money." I was just thinking about a stripper I knew once, who organized her strip club to raise money for something at their kid's school. They didn't say, "We're the stripper's league for change" or anything. They just pooled their tips for a night to try and give it. But the people at the school knew she was a stripper, and woudn't take the "dirty money." But the stripper did not have an agend...

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  The office, both locally and federally, that we need to focus on is Attorney General. This is the person who handles consumer protection issues, and is charged with protecting the people's interests. In 43 states, the AG is elected by the public. In all of those states, we need anti-AI candidates who vow to put corporate criminals in prison. And if you don't get the candidate you want, we need to focus on surrounding them with the message that corporate criminals in prison is what we...

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  ANDREW TATE WAS ARRESTED! Thank you, UK!

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  Here is a very chaotic blog I wrote because I can't think about this all too much or I will rip my hair out. But still, we all need to think about these things. https://smutmag.com/2026/07/15/we-have-to-talk-about-putin-and-israel/

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  Just got off the phone with the president of the board of directors of the theatre that is considering fiscal sponsorship. It went very well. In fact, I think they might give me a seat on the board, if I want it. If you want to make it in show business, move to a place that is filled with outlaws and pot smokers who are over 60 and need young (by comparison) hell-raisers to carry on the tradition.

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  I want Americans to stop feeling like conspiracy theorists about Russia. Lay as much as you want at their feet. Lay it all at their feet. Blame Russia first, and ask questions second. First of all, because every time shit doesn't make sense, if you ask, "How does this benefit Russia?" it almost always makes sense. Second of all, because it behooves us to take our anger off each other for just a fucking minute, and join in a cause together. And most of all, because you can't go...

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  Do you know what's sad, when you think about it? The evil tech lords, and the evil businesses who use their robots, did all of this, because they couldn't bear to hear what disappointments they were to their faces. For rich people, their entire lives are about preventing people from letting them know what people really think of them. They live in that much fear. They hate themselves that much. They're painfully aware of how loathesome they are, & all efforts are about keeping t...

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  I know when the American people will riot. I just hope it's not too late. Everyone is going to riot at the inevitable point that they bring back debtor's prison. Keep your eyes peeled for it. Because if you don't think that's coming, I don't know what magical universe you live in.

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  Trump posted that dumocrats are communists and that they are all coming to kill him and basically signalled to his base that they need to kill us before we kill them. In the KGB plan, demoralization happens for 15-20 years, destabilization happens for 15-20 years, and then you arrive at a crisis, which will either be civil war, or an invasion. He's setting up the civil war, precisely on time.

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  The following is a dumb conversation I had with a robot on Substack as I continue to try and get my suspended account deleted. The robots make you repeat after them and say the magic words to get to a human.

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  Well, I'm getting a Vimeo account going as an alternative to Youtube. Is it also evil? Well, I think it's owned by the same company that owns Tinder, so at least a little evil. But compared to Google, they're practically a small business. And no ads, and a focus on filmmaking, which means the first video I see there is this delightful short film. https://vimeo.com/1206783284

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  I may make myself a liar and not get off Gmail and YouTube just yet--mostly because I cannot seem to get my fucking videos downloaded off it, and now I'm rethinking my strategy. Fucking Google is wrapped all the way around my life....I know. Remember: Hypocrisy is the compliment vice pays to virtue! But now that this is out of the way, I have to share this with you, because it's a good example of anti-semitic propaganda masquerading as political concern for Gaza. https://www.youtube.co...

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  Healthcare for everyone would be nice. But we will never, ever, ever have a healthcare that actually does what it's supposed to do, that actually benefits people, and that actually lasts after political football, until every American has a home that they own. Because that's when the citizens will actually have power to create safety nets that work. Until that day, "Healthcare" is just a fucking carrot they dangle when they want donations. Americans need a real, LASTING benef...