Adrian Mester (moved)Jan 27
Louie Mantia, Jr.

To everyone who works at Apple: are you seeing this shit where Tim Cook continues to support the Trump administration? How do you reconcile that with your employment?

Apple values you as an employee or they wouldn’t pay you so much. Use that little bit of leverage to be upset about it. Tim Cook has an email address. You can email him directly. Worst case is that you lose your job. But if you actually lose your job over this, isn’t that indicative of it being not a great place to work right now?

Jan 27 at 7:14amWeb
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Jan 27
It would be unwise to be a reply guy here.
Show threadAndrew WickliffeJan 27
@louie but it helps me block! (word)
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Jan 28

Good. But also email him directly. Flood his inbox with dissent.

https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti/

Apple Workers Are Livid That Tim Cook Saw “Melania” Movie Hours After CBP Killed Pretti

Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death.

The Intercept
Show threadDr. Juande Santander-VelaJan 28

@louie «“[Cook’s silence on ICE actions in Minnesota] isn’t leadership. This is an absence of leadership.” To which a colleague quickly countered: “I disagree, this IS leadership. This is intentional, nobody travels to the white house by mistake.”»

Indeed…

Show threadFazal MajidJan 27
@louie actually Apple is known for being stingy with pay. They used to say they made up for it by being the place could do your best work, but their software has gone to weed and their appeasement of Trump to get exempted from tariffs is just cringe.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Jan 27
@fazalmajid uh huh okay
Show threadMacross マクロスJan 27
@louie i think ya gotta put your money where your mouth is on that one - offer to pay the bills of any of the apple people who get fired for having a fit over corporate performative ass kissing.
Show threadLouie Mantia, Jr.Jan 27
@macross I do not have to do that at all, no. This is not my responsibility.