Dave Auburn

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

It's bad, and it "deals with political corruption" badly

Nobody buys this. You lead the Democrats and this is your failure.

Force 10 from Navarone could be a Star Wars movie with like a few name changes. It even has Harrison Ford!

this play should be revived asap

Diane Keaton as Mary Tyrone

What did "bring balance to the force" even mean? Splitting the difference between good and evil?

Happy 11/7 to all who are building a world where students are free to learn. Rise up against billionaires and their loyalty oaths!

The Times likes enraging its readers with reactionary garbage. It thinks it's forcing us out of our bubbles.

Samira Wiley and Jin Ha Join Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in Broadway Revival of Proof (Exclusive) PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that Emmy winner Samira Wiley and Grammy nominee Jin Ha are joining Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle in the new Broadway revival of David Auburn's play, 'Proof.'

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it helps to be super talented

I think if you made a really faithful movie adaptation of the book, Gatsby would be a lot like Trump, not glamorous and dashing like Leo or Redford, just a weird tacky guy

"I love NYC, let's make it better" > "This is a hellhole only I can salvage."

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

Like those prices!

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle-Led Revival of Proof Finds Its Broadway Home This will be the first Broadway revival of David Auburn's Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play.

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I've called my Dad's first cousins my Aunt and Uncle my whole life.

It's Olympic-level ass kissing

Right. Even if the supposedly perfect "message" could be devised (it can't), how are people supposed to hear it?

Does this guy feel good about himself? Does he see himself as a hero, a tough savvy operator, a stand-up guy?

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

It's kind of a cult? Similar to Trump?

Why $230 million? Why not half a billion? Why not 10 billion or a trillion? Just give him the whole fucking treasury if that's how we're doing things now.

Why 230 million? Why not half a billion? 10 billion? Fuck, just take the whole fucking treasury if that's how we're doing it now

John Cena is a really first-rate actor

A WPA poster for Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon, San Francisco, 1937. The play premiered in 1920.

Full-time professional writer here. I don't use AI for my work. I never will. I won't participate in any project that does. against-a-i.com

It's a very extreme and uneven film. I don't love all of it, but the good parts are extraordinary.

It's entirely self-loathing.

Lots of great info packed into this very short interview.