Some real shade from âWhat We Do in the Shadowsâ 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.
đâConserv judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for #ClarenceThomasâs wife to be paid 10s of 1000s of $ for consulting work just over decade ago, specifying her name be left off billing paperwork.
â©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 caseâ
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/05/04/leonard-leo-clarence-ginni-thomas-conway/
Leonard Leo told GOP pollster Kellyanne Conway to give the spouse of the Supreme Court justice « another $25,000 » and to bill a nonprofit organization called the Judicial Education Project.
@adamconover ruins #CNN!
> David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, the parent company of the network Iâm talking to you on right now, was paid $250 million last year, a quarter of a billion dollars. Thatâs about the same level as what 10,000 writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively, alright. So I would say if youâre being paid $250 millionâthese companies are making enormous amounts of money. Their profits are going up. Itâs ridiculous for them to plead poverty.
Steven Rosenthal
Laffy
Charles Johnson
Cory Doctorow
Adam Conover