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from the lawsuit:
“Giuliani said, ‘Jews want to go through their freaking Passover all the time,
man oh man. Get over the Passover. It was like 3,000 years ago. The red sea parted, big deal. It’s not the first time that happened.’” forward.com/fast-forward/5Show this thread
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Talked to some other WGA members who r thankful4 the solidarity shown by IATSE & Teamsters during this strike.
Whole productions shut down w 2 picketers cuz Teamsters & IATSE wont cross.
Writers ive spoken to are definitely gonna return the favor.
#WGA #DGA #IATSE #TEAMSTERS
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‘NBC Has a Heart That’s Cold’: Upfronts Week Kicks Off With Pickets Circling NBCU’s Radio City Music Hall Presentation variety.com/2023/tv/news/u via
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Who appeared on stage during the NBC News Group portion of today's NBCU upfront? @SavannahGuthrie , @hodakotb , @LlamasNBC , @WatchSavannah , @joefryer , @BeckyQuick , @JoeSquawk , @andrewrsorkin , @alexwagner , @jrpsaki , @SteveKornacki , @vanessahauc and @JulioVaqueiro.
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Biggest celebrities here today just might be Today hosts Savannah Guthrie & Honda Kotb and MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki
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🚨🪧 Pickets for Monday, May 15 🪧🚨
• NBC Upfronts from 8am to 1pm
• On-location shoot in NJ from 9am to 2pm
• Fox Upfronts from 3pm to 7pm
Sign up to picket with us at wgaea.st/NYC-Pickets
#WGAStrong #WGAStrike #1u
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So far this year under “tough on crime” DA Brooke Jenkins, homicides in San Francisco are up 27% and violent crime is up 4% compared to the same dates last year under reform DA Chesa Boudin.
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VICE files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, filing docs in here:
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new york's finest!
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There were 30 cops, literally, in my subway station last night. Just standing there in a vast crowd, getting paid overtime. This is why libraries are closing on weekends and public schools are falling apart
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WGA writers deserve to be paid fairly and respected for their labor.
Stay strong, sisters and brothers. #HoldTheLine #writersstrike #1u ✊
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👀 Peep FSP Steering Committee member in the talking with about our organizing around AI's emergent threats to independent and freelance media creators: latimes.com/business/techn
Worried about AI too? Join us!
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My first piece to run A1 and above the fold is in the print edition of the @latimes today — it’s about workers taking on the companies trying to use AI against them.
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The new grads did not disappoint during the speech. Lots of heckling, most grads turned their backs
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reading this 2010 hollywood reporter roundtable with todd phillips and aaron sorkin and I could not be Less Surprised:
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📣HB 1122, the Freelance Worker Protection Act, just passed the Senate and now goes to the governor's desk! This measure would ensure all workers are paid what they are owed quickly so they can support themselves and their loved ones. Read more here: bit.ly/44VW74L
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From tech to TV to the media industry, executives have made clear that they plan to use AI to replace workers, or as leverage against them. So, a movement is taking shape to fight back, led by unions, writers and artists. The strike is only the beginning
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Scoop: The Biden administration, desperate to limit border crossings after a key pandemic-era measure expires later today, has slashed the amount of time asylum-seekers have to find lawyers before their crucial first interviews with immigration officials.
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It's going to take a unified front—from precarious freelancers to unionized screenwriters—to keep management from using AI to erode wages, kill jobs, and load extra work onto those who remain. To make AI work for us, not for executives. That fight starts now.
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Hell yeah! Hospitality workers have announced they “will not cross any picket line set up by the WGA.” 🔥
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This is still needed if people are around that area and feel like joining the cause!
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3:55 Downtown folks: go to 1 North Moore ASAP. #WGAStrong line needs reinforcement.
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a beautiful day to support #wgastrong right in my neighborhood — they need a fair contract now! I can also highly recommend the plum strudel at the Star Deli while you’re here on Nassau Ave
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You would never have any idea what the NYC subway experience is from hyperbolic Twitter. This is the uptown E train at noon arriving at Lexington.
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if/when absolute gubernatorial unit JB Pritzker signs this bill into law, Illinois will be the first state in the country to enact legislation to protect freelancers. imo pretty embarrassing for a certain New York governor who could have done it last year and chose not to!
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BREAKING: The Illinois Senate just passed the Freelance Worker Protection Act! Adapted from NY's Freelance Isn't Free Act, the bill will enshrine necessary protections for IL's freelancers, as well as freelancers working for IL-based employers. 
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BREAKING: The Illinois Senate just passed the Freelance Worker Protection Act! Adapted from NY's Freelance Isn't Free Act, the bill will enshrine necessary protections for IL's freelancers, as well as freelancers working for IL-based employers. 🥳
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No wages, no pages! #wgastrong @EricThurm @FSP_NWU
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some good news: 8 months later (from the initial delayed payment) but i finally got paid!!!!!!!
HUGE SHOUTOUT to the + for all their help on this. & to whoever needs to hear this: you deserved to be paid fairly & on time!
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hi @QuakeMedia can you please pay me out or maybe have the decency to return one of the many messages/emails i've sent to you over the past 5 months (while i was still doing work for the company?) plz help @studyhallxyz @paythewriter @FSP_NWU twitter.com/JillM_Webb/sta…
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Important PSA: Zeta Gundam is finally streaming on Crunchyroll, meaning that not only one of the best sequels in science fiction history now on the platform, with 0079, Zeta, and ZZ on there the greatest trilogy in anime is streaming in one place... maybe for the first time ever?
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this book is gonna be so good
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Hey look I got a new temp job @harperbooks writing a book about how American democracy died in the workplace!
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Greenblatt said, in a meeting with ADL staff, that he doesn't expect Palestinians who were expelled in 1948 "to be Zionist". But it seems that he expects them to never speak about it publicly. And he expects everyone to prevent them from speaking about it.
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It is disgraceful that @SenSanders allowed this event by @RepRashida to be held in our nation’s Capitol. Real conversations are needed around a path to peace, but not with groups & individuals who espouse antisemitism. We call on the Senate to condemn this event. twitter.com/marcrod97/stat…
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Good morning #WGAEast RapidResponders. We’ve got pickets that need YOU today. First up, 86 Diamond St., Brooklyn. Near the G and the L. Sunrise Squad already there. Join them to keep us #WGAStrong. Writers, actors, friends, families all welcome
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