Some real shade from “What We Do in the Shadows” writer Rajat Suresh.
Article here: https://jacobin.com/2023/05/writers-strike-wga-amptp-streaming-pay
Television shows across the country are going dark because their writers have walked off the job. The strikers say they had no choice but to walk, as new technology and the squeeze from executives have put their very livelihood in serious danger.
👀“Conserv judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for #ClarenceThomas’s wife to be paid 10s of 1000s of $ for consulting work just over decade ago, specifying her name be left off billing paperwork.
In Jan 2012, Leo instructed Kellyanne Conway to bill nonprofit group he advises & use that $ to pay Ginni Thomas The same year, the nonprofit filed a brief to #SCOTUS in landmark voting rights case”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/
@adamconover ruins #CNN!
> David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of the network I’m talking to you on right now, was paid $250 million last year, a quarter of a billion dollars. That’s about the same level as what 10,000 writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively, alright. So I would say if you’re being paid $250 million—these companies are making enormous amounts of money. Their profits are going up. It’s ridiculous for them to plead poverty.
This man was killed while doing yardwork because his neighbor thought he was a Democrat.
Got that?
If you call a Republican racist when they say or do something racist, they whine endlessly about how their “freedom of speech” is being attacked, then they turn around and do something like this.
https://www.kentucky.com/news/nation-world/national/article268513477.html
“Shouting obscenities & standing in front of rows of dead bodies, Wagner Group head Evgeny Prigozhin delivered his boldest challenge yet to Russia’s military leaders. “[These men] came here as volunteers, & they’re dying so you can get fat in your offices.” https://t.co/7adJCO9hNT”
Wired says #Bluesky is the space for “the Internet elite”.
So what they’re saying is that #Bluesky is for status seekers and clout chasers.
You know, the spot for media gatekeepers to pad their articles with social media posts that say something to the effect of, “This!” and “This!” and “You, sir, just won the Internet!”
Steven Rosenthal
Laffy
Charles Johnson
Cory Doctorow
Adam Conover
Tofu Golem
Kevin Rothrock
Chris Trottier