Adam Szymkowicz

Adam Szymkowicz

@aszymkowicz.bsky.social

Playwright he/him www.adamszymkowicz.com

658 Followers 1,000 Following 9 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago
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He wore the cheesehead hat in WI. Spent $20 million. Paid people to sign petitions. Paid people to canvas. Did million dollar giveaways. A rally. TV interviews. But I guess people in Wisconsin didn’t appreciate an oligarch trying to buy their civil liberties.

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This is FASCISM

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Trump and Musk’s attack on USAid is causing global chaos. Millions of lives are now at risk | Devi Sridhar On top of the human cost, the US’s soft power and influence is disappearing. Russia and China will fill the void Amid the daily troubling news coming from the United States are the ongoing and increasingly damaging efforts by President Donald Trump,…

Trump and Musk’s attack on USAid is causing global chaos. Millions of lives are now at risk | Devi Sridhar

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Hegseth’s rough start: Pentagon chief faces protest at U.S. base abroad The question isn’t why the defense secretary faced pushback at U.S. European Command headquarters; the question is whether he’ll see more protests soon.

📌I was the managing editor at Stars and Stripes and can tell you that Pete Hegseth is the first SecDef I am aware of to be openly booed by military families on a military base.

📌This is the most significant pushback I have seen to this administration's racist, hostile initiatives.

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Democracy Playbook 2025 Norm Eisen and Jonathan Katz provide actionable steps for democratic actors in the U.S. and globally to strengthen democratic institutions and resist illiberal forces.

Presidents don't have unilateral power to fire civil servants & gut fed agencies

Congress, courts, media, & citizens can act to check the power of the exec branch

We discuss how👇-TN www.brookings.edu/articles/dem...

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Dems can:

-oppose all Trump nominees until this EO is withdrawn
-deny unanimous consent to slow senate proceedings
-vote no on all cloture
-force quorum calls at every chance

It’s a constitutional crisis. There is absolutely no reason the Senate should be connecting business as usual.

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He detests poor people, but pretends to like farmers. He hates them too.

WIC is a bargain between rural farmer representatives those of urban poor. It subsidizes price of farm products. w/out WIC, the price of some commodities would collapse. But, there won't be immigrants to work on farms anyway.

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The White House confirms: Medicaid websites are down throughout the country.

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Connecticut officials confirm: The state's Head Start reimbursement system, which provides low-income families with federal money to support their children's education, is shut down. @MSNBC

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Trump just shut down Meals on Wheels for America's Senior Citizens.

Trump is coming for your Social Security and Medicare next.

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Wait! I didn’t fuck around. Hey you guys! I didn’t fuck around!

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Second: Meta seriously weakened its hate speech standards in a way that makes all protected groups generally, and immigrants, women, and LGBTQ+ people specifically, much more vulnerable to abuse on the site. 🧵 5/11

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Clown Bar Clown Bar The Graphic Novel is based on the stage play which was a New York Times Critics Pick. The play was followed by a sequel, Clown Bar 2 and a prequel, Clown Bar Christmas. Happy's junkie broth...

Just in time for the holidays. Clown Bar graphic novel. mixam.com/print-on-dem...

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the very minute health insurance CEOs start getting locked up for the deaths they cause I’ll stop laughing when they get shot.

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Here’s a crazy idea. Let’s make sure the proposed new FBI Director can pass an FBI Background Check.

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Clown Bar Clown Bar The Graphic Novel is based on the stage play which was a New York Times Critics Pick. The play was followed by a sequel, Clown Bar 2 and a prequel, Clown Bar Christmas. Happy's junkie broth...

Just in time for the holidays. Clown Bar graphic novel. mixam.com/print-on-dem...

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"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.

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Trump reportedly plans to swiftly eject trans troops within days of inauguration Trump’s actions could eject thousands of current trans service members

News has just broke that Trump plans to eject trans people from the military within days of inauguration.

Trans servicemembers who have served 19 years will lose their pensions and healthcare.

This is obscene. They served our country, and will be kicked to the side like trash.

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doctor: make sure you drink plenty of fluids

me: that’s literally all i drink

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Exactly this

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/24/o...

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Thank you!

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Also: If you don't have money to buy my (or anyone's) books, and you live in the anglosphere, before you pirate them, try to get them from your local library instead. They have it or can get it, they pay for the books, and in many places writers get paid for their books being lent. Everyone wins!

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Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents among all car brands, report shows A new analysis of National Highway Transportation and Safety Administration auto crash data shows that Tesla has the highest rate of fatal accidents...
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Constantly. Probably means the thing I’m watching is boring.

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Letters to a Young Playwright: Practical and Impractical Advice on the Art of Playwriting In Letters to a Young Playwright, Szymkowicz dispenses hard-earned, unsentimental, and entertaining advice to early-career dramatists.

rowman.com/ISBN/9781493... and wherever you buy books

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Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Each year, the trans community loses too many lives, especially trans women of color, to hate and violence.

More than ever, we must stand by our trans family and support them, hold space for them, and insist the scapegoating and targeting stop.

Now.

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disney exec: it’s about a guy who thinks he’s a monkey lol. probably don’t need anything too crazy for the soundtrack.

phil collins: [eyes glowing white, levitating above the ground] no

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