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Arthur M. Jolly (he, him)

@jollyarthur.bsky.social

Playwright and Screenwriter. Upcoming productions at www.arthurjolly.com Catch "Where We Disappear" on Amazon Prime.

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The *First* American Revolution, I think they mean.

09.06.2025 02:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are National Guard or Active Duty military and you are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of US citizens then this is the number to the Gl Rights Hotline.

There is support, you don't have to go through with it. tel: 877-447-4487

Via @lascanner.bsky.social

08.06.2025 03:25 β€” πŸ‘ 318    πŸ” 128    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 2
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"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

21.05.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 17045    πŸ” 4939    πŸ’¬ 212    πŸ“Œ 179

Even though today was shitty, I didn’t text National Secrets on a Signal chat and put a bunch of military folks in harm’s way so I’ve at least got that going for me.

27.03.2025 06:07 β€” πŸ‘ 118    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Make this go viral!

Her husband’s life was put at risk by the Signal texts.

26.03.2025 16:42 β€” πŸ‘ 29463    πŸ” 15797    πŸ’¬ 1421    πŸ“Œ 1729

Witch ti

If you're going to be upset that the offering could stain the altar cloth use a different offering or altar cloth

#WitchSky #Witchmadness

23.03.2025 13:10 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm rewatching The Wire. A character in the episode I'm watching says, "A lie ain't a side of the story. It's just a lie." For some reason, that speaks to me these days (as do a million other lines from the show.)

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Never Stop Filming: 5 Black Horror Characters Who Know The Importance Of Keeping Receipts Sharai Bohannon highlights a fascinating horror trend: the Black camera operator and their job to record and protect white counterparts.

I swear I’m gonna shut up at some point today BUT I’m fucking proud of this new thing over at @dreadcentral.bsky.social.

Huge thanks to @cassclarke.bsky.social for listening to my podcasts and alerting me that I said something interesting in my tipsy rants.

www.dreadcentral.com/editorials/5...

28.02.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 43    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2
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Look what just arrived! They are even brick colored! #YouthPLAYS #playwright

25.02.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

*Sips coffee*... Support Artists by ✨reposting✨ their work.
It literally will NOT get seen without you doing so.

That is all. ❀️

#Goodmorning #RepostArt #SupportArt

16.02.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 217    πŸ” 48    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2

as a playwright, I feel a lot of big feelings about seeing organizations like the Playwrights Center and New Harmony - nonprofits which incubate, develop and support new plays and support living playwrights - bravely call out the NEA’s cowardice and defend diverse voices in the American theatre

16.02.2025 01:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1236    πŸ” 250    πŸ’¬ 11    πŸ“Œ 5
This is the piece I will be arrested for.
by
Arthur M. Jolly


Charges will be made, 
Leveled, brought, filed
And this is the piece I will be arrested for.
Do not read it.
They have warned you.

The words are subversive,
an incitement to violence.
I have committed assault,
I have disturbed the natural order,
I would resist, but
I have no resistance.
Only empty words, unread, unheard.
And this is the piece I will be arrested for.

I have beaten my ineffectual fists against the monolithic tanks 
and heard nothing but a hollow knocking echoing inside.
Inciting violence will be stamped across my file.
I would show these words to them and ask where,
but who would I show them to?
They will not read them,
they will not,
for these are the words I will be arrested for.
(Do not read them. They have warned you.)

Inciting violence, 
when the blood drips from their boot heels,
when every action they have taken  in turn took its price
in suffering, in misery, in lives.
Was I the one that said when peaceful protest is impossible, 
violence is the only option? 
That Fascism has only ever been defeated by direct confrontation,
that complacency always and only aids the oppressor?
Those aren’t my words,
even if they are true.
I never said them.
And yet
These are the words I will be arrested for.

Do not read them.
They have warned you.

This is the piece I will be arrested for. by Arthur M. Jolly Charges will be made, Leveled, brought, filed And this is the piece I will be arrested for. Do not read it. They have warned you. The words are subversive, an incitement to violence. I have committed assault, I have disturbed the natural order, I would resist, but I have no resistance. Only empty words, unread, unheard. And this is the piece I will be arrested for. I have beaten my ineffectual fists against the monolithic tanks and heard nothing but a hollow knocking echoing inside. Inciting violence will be stamped across my file. I would show these words to them and ask where, but who would I show them to?
They will not read them, they will not, for these are the words I will be arrested for. (Do not read them. They have warned you.) Inciting violence, when the blood drips from their boot heels, when every action they have taken in turn took its price in suffering, in misery, in lives. Was I the one that said when peaceful protest is impossible, violence is the only option? That Fascism has only ever been defeated by direct confrontation, that complacency always and only aids the oppressor? Those aren’t my words, even if they are true. I never said them. And yet These are the words I will be arrested for. Do not read them. They have warned you.

How long before speaking out against the regime is labeled "UnAmerican"? Over/under is six months.

15.02.2025 00:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I stand with the trans community. Pass it along.

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Straw, Sticks, Bricks by Arthur M. Jolly ο»ΏYou know their story, you've just never noticed them in all that huffing and puffing: Straw, Sticks, and Bricks (the chosen building materials of the Three Little Pigs) are personified in this moving...

YES! And btw, this came out today, and I am so proud of a little play about a pile of straw that longs to be a house. Everyone deserves to have their story told! www.youthplays.com/play/straw-s...

04.02.2025 00:58 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Straw, Sticks, Bricks by Arthur M. Jolly ο»ΏYou know their story, you've just never noticed them in all that huffing and puffing: Straw, Sticks, and Bricks (the chosen building materials of the Three Little Pigs) are personified in this moving...

I am THRILLED to announce my fifteenth play with @youthplays.bsky.social "Straw, Sticks, Bricks" is now out!
Everyone deserves their own story, even a pile of Straw that longs to be a house!
www.youthplays.com/play/straw-s...
#TYA #theatre #playwright

04.02.2025 00:52 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or β€œcontroversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

30.01.2025 21:09 β€” πŸ‘ 127359    πŸ” 24705    πŸ’¬ 2243    πŸ“Œ 788

Politics is the art of the possible. And when the answer to "who's gonna stop me?" is "no one"... suddenly a lot of bad shit is possible.

#Greenland

24.01.2025 22:37 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

β€œWhen a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC πŸ”₯🎯

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As best you can, ignore him.

21.01.2025 22:11 β€” πŸ‘ 87015    πŸ” 7343    πŸ’¬ 3441    πŸ“Œ 687

You can wipe the s*** off the walls, but the stain remains.

19.01.2025 01:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Congratulations!

09.01.2025 16:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

May I suggest plays? So few libraries carry plays written after 1950.

07.01.2025 03:34 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Faces Of America Monologue Festival #6
YouTube video by The PlayGround Experiment Faces Of America Monologue Festival #6

Matthew Menendez rocks my latest monologue "No Quarter given" at the Faces of America Monologue Festival in NYC!
youtu.be/TzDhU03z-bM?...

21.12.2024 23:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Mrs. Dilbers Christmas Carol by Arthur M. Jolly https://www.loftensemble.org/mainstage-events
YouTube video by Joshua Finkel Mrs. Dilbers Christmas Carol by Arthur M. Jolly https://www.loftensemble.org/mainstage-events

A lovely comment by Joshua Finkel after the show!
youtu.be/CdQ--jyOmqo?...
#LoftEnsemble #MrsDIlber

20.12.2024 15:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Power to the People with Mrs. Dilber's Christmas Carol - RabbleRouse News What a delight Arthur Jolly’s play Mrs. Dilber's Christmas Carol now playing through December 22nd at Loft Ensemble is. Highly Recommended.

Mrs DIlber's Chjristmas Carol getting some love!
#revolution #theatre #LosAngelesTheatre
rabblerousenews.com/power-to-the...

12.12.2024 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Opening night! Mrs Dilber’s Christmas Carol at Loft Ensemble Theatre!

06.12.2024 04:04 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. 

If you use your library, please share. 

Picture of library aisle filled with books.

Destroy the myth that libraries are no longer relevant. If you use your library, please share. Picture of library aisle filled with books.

@goodwilllibrarian.bsky.social

01.12.2024 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 22444    πŸ” 7762    πŸ’¬ 526    πŸ“Œ 486

WRONG PUBLISHER! My mistake, it is from YouthPLAYS!

30.11.2024 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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