Jim Wurst

the thing i don't get about this is that sure, you're some groyper who thinks the posters look cool. but, like, you must know that the nazis lost, and they didn't just lose, they lost to the people they *deemed inferior*: a polyglot nation of shopkeepers on one front & russian peasants on the other

Finally committed to my next project, a crime thriller called:

THE MURDER PLACE

Gotta review my 10 page outline, fix or expand upon anything that needs it - and then it's balls to the walls!

Credit out to @stephenking.bsky.social for inspiration on the Title (re: 11/22/63 #IYKYK) #Scriptsky

If our votes didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be trying so hard to take them away.

On the 60th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act, tell Congress to protect our freedom to vote by passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act: civilrights.quorum.us/campaign/110... #RestoreTheVRA

A win, but too soon to tell how large or small. Two studio execs have one of my scripts. BUT I haven't heard from either one for more than a month. Hollywood no or summer doldrums? Only time will tell. 🫣

Washington Post: “Is fascism bad? The answer may surprise you”

Teen Vogue: “Here are three fun tips you can use this summer to disable an armored personnel carrier”

sadly but realistically, this will probably have more of an effect than any statement from any politician.

seriously, keep pressuring corporations that cooperate with this authoritarian regime.

money talks.

As we mark 80 years since the United States destroyed the city of Hiroshima, Japan, with a single, handmade, relatively small atomic bomb, here is a way to put into context the still very large number and almost unimaginable explosive power of weapons remaining in the deployed US nuclear stockpile.

That's why I write what I want

It's why I'm a MULTI-genre writer

Why should I limit myself when nobody is actually putting a limit on me?

Yet

If they come calling for a specific genre, I've got multiples of each, so I'm good to go.

Can't understand why no one has posted this yet.

Ughhhh. I just want universal healthcare and a livable wage.

You’ve heard me say it before: the only thing New Yorkers hate more than a politician they disagree with is one they can’t trust.

And you can’t trust a word Andrew Cuomo says.

EPA has a new name. Come celebrate!

Solidarity forever.

On This Date: The Hours Before the First Atomic Attack, 1945 Hiroshima has less than a day to live.

80 years ago today: The Hours Before the First Atomic Attack, 1945 open.substack.com/pub/oppenhei...

A wonderful National Night Out in the Bronx and Brooklyn, meeting officers and neighbors working together to make our city safer.

Copper, Manhattan (the A bomb project), My Name is Earl, Glow, Evil (but it did end on a good note).

Trump’s Epstein cover-up isn’t about ancient history. This is about a sitting president potentially being able to use his power (again) to protect himself and his elite friends from justice.

But the story isn’t going away — because we’re not letting it: indivisible.org/epsteinfiles...

Irish fantasy

PROTECT THE FREE PRESS. TONY GILROY, SPIKE LEE, ILANA GLAZER, ADAM MCKAY, LIZ MERRIWETHER AND MORE THAN 2000 WGA MEMBERS AND ALLIES SIGN OPEN LETTER DECRYING RECENT ATTACKS ON THE FREE PRESS We are members of the Writers Guild of America who speak with one voice to decry the dangerous and escalating attacks on the First Amendment, independent media, and the free press. We are a union of screenwriters, television writers, and journalists built and sustained on the bedrock belief that bold storytelling, fearless comedy, and unflinching reporting are indispensable to a free and democratic society. We have always understood that fidelity to those beliefs could lead to attacks from our bosses, from corporate interests, or even from politicians. Still, we have always understood our role in a healthy democracy.

Now we face an unprecedented, authoritarian assault. In the last few months alone, President Trump has filed baseless lawsuits against news organizations that have published stories he does not like and leveraged them into payoffs, most notably at Paramount, which settled a meritless lawsuit against 60 Minutes for $16 million. He has retaliated against publications reporting factually on the White House and threatened broadcasters' licenses. He regularly calls for the cancelation of news and entertainment television shows that criticize him in late-night and, most recently, The View. Alarmingly, the bulk of the federal government has now joined these attacks. Congressional Republicans collaborated to defund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in order to silence PBS and NPR. The FCC openly conditioned its approval of the Skydance-Paramount merger on assurances that CBS would make "significant changes" to the purported ideological viewpoint of its journalism and entertainment programming. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr has echoed Trump's threats.

And yet Paramount still asks us to believe that the cancelation of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was not about politics or merger approval. These are un-American attempts to restrict the kinds of stories and jokes that may be told, to silence criticism and dissent. We don't have a king, we have a president. And the president doesn't get to pick what's on television, in movie theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or in the news. We call on our elected representatives and industry leaders to resist this overreach. We call on our audiences, on every single person ready to fight for a free and democratic future, to raise their voice. This is certainly not the first time that free speech has come under assault in this country, but free speech remains our right because generation after generation of Americans have dedicated themselves to its protection. Now and always, when writers come under attack, our collective power as a union allows us to fight back. This period in American life will not last forever, and when it's over the world will remember who had the courage to speak out.

Tony Gilroy, Spike Lee, Ilana Glazer, Adam McKay, Liz Merriwether and more than 2,300 WGA members signed onto an open letter decrying the recent attacks on the Free Press.

“Now and always, when writers come under attack, our collective power as a union allows us to fight back.”

Stay strong TX Dems! We see you and we got you!

All Texans deserve to have our voices heard for the good of our beloved state.

@indivisible.org

Thank you @governor.ny.gov. Harbor the Texas Democrats. Redistrict in NY. If there is mid-census redistricting in Texas, it’s fair game everywhere.

Wouldn't that encourage them to slide DOWN it? If I were a kid, it would be an invitation. And I was quite a squirrel in my youth.

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Congratulations, Marianna!

Of course.

Congratulations Gillian!

Texas Indivisibles stand behind TX Dems as they fight back against this power grab.

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