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@WGAWest

Just a little update from

@paramountplus

' quarterly earnings call today... 1/7

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Girls supporting girls

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Jordan Neely was a child when his stepfather murdered his mother & stuffed her body in a suitcase. He testified at the trial. His aunt begged with judges & doctors to help her find treatment for him & was turned away each time. He was a familiar busker in the subways,

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Oh Buddy. You’ve done more than make them think about it. You’ve bonded them forever in a group text where one of them will share a wedding photo or promotion news and one of the others will say “i don’t know, SMELLS LIKE FAILURE.” And then they’ll all die laughing.

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There are too many people who reject Black and Asian solidarity, who assume our communities don't want the same things and can't fight for them side by side.

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Behold the cover of the upcoming 2023 StokerCon Souvenir Anthology -- art by

@todd_keisling

-- edited by Cina Pelayo for the

@HorrorWriters

Registrants to the con get a free copy! See stokercon.com for details. instagram.com/p/Cr4XCYnLgDv/

How the media works in Black and white Louisvile Bank shooter kills 5 in mass shooting is humanized in headline Homeless and suffering mental health crises is murdered on NYC subway and criminalized in headline

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’s THE SPITE HOUSE. Farging awesome. Scratched that gothic itch I didn’t even know I had.

As the studios continue to push back against properly compensating writers, just a reminder Viacom once paid 30,000 dollars for this “cloud” light fixture in a random conference room.

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Robert Evans (The Only Robert Evans)

@IwriteOK

my parents weren't cousins

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Wayne Larson

@carrifex

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Men, what's keeping you from looking like this?

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This is so evil, man. This is what happens when the language of mental health gets co-opted, now you can kill someone and portray it as a way to raise awareness for mental illness. This is incredible sick.

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@Phil_Lewis_

New: Daniel Penny, the man who choked and killed Jordan Neely, has released a statement through his attorneys

The law firm of Raiser and Kenniff, P.C. represents Daniel Penny, a twenty-four- year-old college student and Marine veteran. Earlier this week Daniel Penny was involved in a tragic incident on the NYC Subway, which ended in the death of Jordan Neely.
We would first like to express, on behalf of Daniel Penny, our condolences to those
close to Mr. Neely. Mr. Neely had a documented history of violent and erratic behavior, the apparent result of ongoing and untreated mental illness. When Mr. Neely began aggressively threatening Daniel Penny and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves, until help arrived. Daniel never intended to harm Mr. Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death.
For too long, those suffering from mental illness have been treated with indifference. We hope that out of this awful tragedy will come a new commitment by our elected officials to address the mental health crisis on our streets and subways.

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Grupo Frontera and Bad Bunny (

@sanbenito

)'s "un x100to" remains at #1 on the global Spotify chart with 7.62 million streams. It's the longest running regional Mexican #1 hit (14 days).

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Peter Schwartz just sentenced to 14 years and 2 months: WASHINGTON (AP) - Judge delivers longest sentence for a Jan. 6 case, giving man with extensive criminal record over 14 years in prison.

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oh my god lol

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Studios Demand Showrunners Work During Writers Strike

@GoshDarnMyLife

hollywoodreporter.com

Letters to striking writer-producers from studios including those owned by Warner Bros. and Disney state that they must perform non-writing duties and may be obligated to act against their guild's...

The #Transformers and #TheLittleMermaid trailers played at the same time - and somehow it syncs up perfectly? 😂

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Easily the funniest part of brain-dead conservative media defenses of Harlan Crow's patronage of Clarence Thomas is that how many of them end with "DISCLOSURE: ok yes Harlan Crow gives us a ton of money, too"

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What Luke Thompson, NRO contributor, won't tell you is that National Review Institute has Harlan Crow as a platinum sponsor. It's just corruption all the way down.

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Luke Thompson

@ltthompso

Clarence Thomas did not have a child in private school. He was caring for his great-nephew. Harlan Crown did not pay the tuition. According to the family, he paid the first year of tuition at two separate institutions. This is an intentionally deceptive tweet. twitter.com/justinelliott/…

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We are devastated to not be with our incredible crew and cast right now, but there was no other option here. Writing happens at every stage of the process - production and post included. It’s what makes shows and movies good. It’s what makes them possible. #wgastrong

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Deadline Hollywood

@DEADLINE

EXCLUSIVE: Filming on Season 3 of HBO Max/Universal TV hit comedy series Hacks, starring Jean Smart and Hannah Einbinder, has been halted, Deadline has learned. According to sources, production will be on pause for the duration of the work stoppage deadline.com/2023/05/writer

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BJ Colangelo SUPPORT THE WGA!

@bjcolangelo

EVIL DEAD EXPOSE The Necronomicon winds up in a high school library after a series of book bans. Helicopter PTA parents and corrupt school board officials turn into Deadites and it's up to the protesting teens to destroy them from spreading their evil.

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Lee Cronin

@curleecronin

What should we do next, folks? variety.com/2023/film/news

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1) The fact that there are routinely people suffering from psychosis and/or homelessness screaming on mass transit represents a failure of public policy, the principal (tho not sole) victims of which are the people suffering from psychosis and homelessness.

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new from me: More than half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribed to the service that is, over 54% of the 150,000 users who first subscribed when Twitter Blue launched in November are no longer subscribing

mashable.com

More than half of Twitter Blue's earliest subscribers are no longer subscribed

The early birds cancel their subscriptions.

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Elon Musk simultaneously trying to please the hard right without losing customers for his electric car business is causing him to put out some completely demented content. "Global warming risk is overblown in the short term" what the hell does that even mean?

Global warming risk is overblown in the short term, but significant in the long term

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Update: Ron DeSantis staff eating cake while Floridians are in crisis. Typical. They go to sleep in mansions, while the rest of us pinch pennies to pay rent. They lounge in yachts, while our kids are gunned down in their schools. We say enough. Our problems > your money

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Can you imagine a world where women shot someone every time we felt unsafe?

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we dont put basic human rights up to a popular vote

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David Weigel

@daveweigel

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"Clear majorities of Americans support restrictions affecting transgender children, a Washington Post-KFF poll finds... a 57 percent majority of adults said a person’s gender is determined from the start." washingtonpost.com/education/2023

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Dying 💀💀 Pro Tip: Picking a fight with the wittiest workers on the internet is not advisable. Employers better take note. Glad we're on the same side #WGA 😂 #WGAStrong #TeamsterStrong

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Julie Benson

@TheJulieBenson

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

@AOC

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This is corruption. Plain and simple. And each day that passes, the Supreme Court is looking less like a bench and more like an auction house. Thomas should resign immediately and Roberts should see to it that he does.

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The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

‘Everybody Is Welcome Here.’

Exclusive: Conservative judicial activist Leonard Leo arranged for the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to be paid tens of thousands of dollars for consulting work nearly a decade ago, specifying that her name be left off billing paperwork. wapo.st/3LzCGpM

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A black card with white overlaid text reading: "Exclusive: Judicial activist directed fees to Clarence Thomas’s wife, urged ‘no mention of Ginni’"

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For some trans people, sports are an important refuge. Good profile in the New York Times:

nytimes.com

Kaig Lightner founded the Portland Community Football Club to give local youth an inexpensive chance to play. When he came out as transgender, they gave him a place to belong.

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Your periodic reminder that Clarence Thomas used to smear his own sister as a shiftless, welfare-dependent layabout in speeches to his Heritage Foundation pals, and when reporters tracked her down, his story turned out to be extremely fake greensboro.com/thomas-sister-

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WGA Latinx Writers! Our committee leaders

@aka_mselectric

@riverag3000

have organized picket line pachangas next week! Writers & Allies welcome! #WGAStrong

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Lots of people have positive experiences with the agent who harassed me. None of them look like me. These things are definitely related

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The killer’s name is Daniel Penny. And the media went to great lengths to hide his name.

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Rafael Shimunov

@rafaelshimunov

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For those who think Jordan Neely's killer wasn't racially motivated, he just hired a Trumpian defense lawyer who praises openly racist, antisemitic Curtis Sliwa.

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There've been thousands of strikes and work stoppages in the US in the last 3 years. We're in the middle of the biggest strike wave since the 1940s. There is mvmnt building. More radical, more powerful. Writers, directors, actors, and film crew are affected by and part of it

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Joe Russo

@joerussotweets