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Having just spent a few months reading accounts of CBS’ grotesque cowardice during the 1950s McCarthy-era blacklist, it’s nice to see that The Tiffany Network respects its traditions

This is literally what we reported would happen. www.status.news/p/skydance-c...

When your kid grows up to be a journalist, despite your dire warnings

Kieran Press-Reynolds Is Mapping the Brainrot Continuum A conversation with the NYC-based writer and proud zoomer, who shares his thoughts on Gen Z's relationship with music and details his own penchant for trawling the weirdest corners of the internet.

Quick! Read while the paywall is relaxed for 24 hours this conversation between @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social and Shawn Reynaldo of First Floor substack about being a Gen Z music+culture writer

Rumeysa Ozturk’s description of going to a library inside an ICE detention facility and finding handwritten notes from other detainees left in the margins of a novel

Margaret Atwood’s version of this, in The Handmaid’s Tale, is “Nolita te bastardes carbarendurum” carved into the bottom of a wardrobe. Life is imitating terrifying dystopian fiction www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...

The debt, deportation, and death bill has passed. Congress further decimates care work to fund violence work.

Vital services eviscerated and ICE becomes the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency ever known. It hasn’t been sold this way, but it’s a massive public jobs program for fascists.

In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.

I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

UPDATE: The Los Angeles Press Club has filed suit against the city of Los Angeles and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell in the Central District of California's federal courts over its actions toward journalists covering anti-ICE protests in recent days.

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In Los Angeles, So Much of the Protest Narrative Has Felt Wrong. Saturday Was a Corrective After a week of watching a fun-house-mirror version of their city in global media, thousands of Los Angeles residents took to the streets on Saturday.

I've been stunned by the maddeningly out-of-whack portrait of Los Angeles being presented to the world, so I wrote an on-the-ground report from some of the vibrant, riot-free local protests this weekend www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

From 2020 but evergreen

This searchable map of No Kings marches to join on Saturday is impressively crowded:

www.nokings.org#map

Can we just pull the plug on today's news? We've stockpiled enough horror to last us through the summer

“We’re slowly going underground, underground, underground,” the mother said. “You put one thing in place, and then you have to prepare for when that gets taken away."

Remapping LA Before California was West, it was North and it was East: the uppermost periphery of the Mexican Empire, and the arrival point for Chinese immigrants making the perilous journey from Guangdong.

LA wasn't founded by the Dutch or the British. It was founded by 44 Mexican pobladores, the vast majority of whom were mestizo, Indigenous or afro mestizo. What Stephen Miller is trying to do is erase LA history.

I explored this many moons ago in Guernica:
www.guernicamag.com/remapping-la/

Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”

Image of float in LA Pride parade

So odd to be watching the joyful, inclusive LA Pride parade broadcast live on local news while friends from elsewhere send worried texts because of reports telling them that LA is rioting

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

Hollywood Therapists Meet the Moment: “If You’re Not Dispirited Right Now, You’re Dissociative” With the entertainment industry in rough shape, everybody in LA is seeking shrinks and life coaches—or becoming shrinks and life coaches.

I had a nice chat with @joypress.bsky.social at @vanityfair.com about the state of the Entertainment Industry (not great, Bob!) and how it looks from the perspective of a therapist / former screenwriter #mentalhealth #talktherapy #tacos

www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

I... oh my god.
amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

Hollywood Therapists Meet the Moment: “If You’re Not Dispirited Right Now, You’re Dissociative” With the entertainment industry in rough shape, everybody in LA is seeking shrinks and life coaches—or becoming shrinks and life coaches.

Welcome to Hollywood–that’s not smog, it’s depression.

“It feels like the end of days,” an LA-based psychotherapist tells @joypress.bsky.social. “I've been doing this for 31 years now, and I've never seen this level of despair among creative people in the industry.”

Screenshot from google ai admitting it has been documented to produce inaccurate, misleading and even nonsensical results

Even AI knows how unreliable it is

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John Landgraf Has Notes: How One Philosophical TV Exec Brought You ‘The Bear,’ ‘Fargo,’ ‘Shōgun,’ and More Under his leadership, FX has become a factory of prestige hits by not acting like a factory.

According to the gospel of FX exec John Landgraf, making great work means “continuously losing your way. A television show is a living, breathing process that needs room for failure and also wild serendipity.”

VF’s @joypress.bsky.social reports:

Incredibly sad to hear about Tom Robbins. I was lucky enough to work with him at the Village Voice, and not only was he a fearless journalist, he was a kind (and funny) man. One of a kind.

Thanks, Claire. Excited to hear about your bk. In my notes Susan said she grew up in Flatbush, maybe because people back then considered Midwood part of Flatbush? And seems like Augustow can be classified as a shtetl, but can amend as needed

These various initiatives and policy changes are often regarded as discrete problems, but they comprise a unified assault. The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive attack on knowledge itself, a war against culture, history, and science. If this assault is successful, it will undermine Americans’ ability to comprehend the world around us. Like the inquisitors of old, who persecuted Galileo for daring to notice that the sun did not, in fact, revolve around the Earth, they believe that truth-seeking imperils their hold on power.

The Trump administration is engaging on an all-out assault on the institutions, workers and standards that make learning and knowledge production possible, in the hopes of securing political dominance forever. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...