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*Chris Rock voice*

“NOW I’M NOT SAYING JOHN WILKES-BOOTH WAS RIGHT. I’M NOT SAYING HE SHOULD’VE DONE IT... BUT I UNDERSTAND.”
Obviously I *don’t* understand what it’s like to be an American citizen of color who is told to go back to their country by a racist. But the rage I feel towards @realDonaldTrump and his enablers in the @GOP is unlike anything I’ve ever felt.
I reviled George W. Bush as President. His administration did terrible things. But I didn’t feel that he was a terrible person. I didn’t look forward to the end of his existence.

Trump triggers – in his supporters and his opponents – a desire for violence.
In a long list of execrable qualities, that is very near the top.
Look, I want @realDonaldTrump to die of natural causes – or, at least, as naturally as one can die when one doesn’t exercise and one’s diet consists of fried chicken and sleeves of Oreos.

But while he’s alive, I want him to be punished for who he is and what he’s done.
For every insult to humanity, for all the damage to the planet, and hell, for making me feel this way.
The fact that SDNY has (for now) shut down its investigation of the Trump Organization is disheartening. The country continues to warp itself around Trump’s distorted, immoral shape. Laws aren’t enforced. Vile actions increasingly have no consequences. cnn.com/2019/07/12/pol…
I’m tired of feeling rage, and I’m a privileged white guy. This has been relatively easy for me personally!

But I want the moral arc of the universe to start bending up again.

The 2020 election is a big firewall. Decent people must rally around decency. There are more of us.

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A friend of mine got a show picked up by Netflix. There was no money in his budget for a writing staff. “I don’t want to write every script myself,” he said. “I’ve done a lot of tv. Other voices make the show better.”

“Oh yeah, totally,” said Netflix. “Here’s what you’ll do: 🧵
“Instead of hiring a staff, just pick some writers and tell them you’re giving them a script. They’ll come in to help break the story and outline-”

“But they’re not on staff.”

“They’re getting a script fee. Developing the script is now part of that.”

“It is?”

“It is.”
“What happens after they turn their draft in? Usually the staff would table [rewrite] the scripts together.”

“Just call some writers and tell them you can pay them for one day to punch up four scripts. They’ll obviously have to read them ahead of time and make notes, blah blah.
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Jun 3, 2023
Quick 🧵 about free work, which is a WGA issue with studios but *also* with our reps. Here’s a very typical example: my (former) agents once asked me to meet with a performer who was attached to a studio reboot of a high profile show. He needed to partner with a showrunner.
“It’s basically already sold,” my agents assured me. “A few weeks to develop it, then take it out. Apple and Netflix are already asking for it.”
But it wasn’t a few weeks. The performer kept getting schedule conflicts, which kept pushing our window to take out a pitch. They also became increasingly problematic, pulling their romantic partner into our meetings as a “creative muse.” “Don’t worry,” my agents kept saying.
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Those of us who have been doing this a while have a hundred reasons why the WGA had no choice but to strike. Here’s (another) one of mine: #WGAStrong Image
How’d we know we’d go over schedule? Bc the streamer wanted a show with low budget New Media rates, so our producing partner/studio built a production calendar that was ridiculously short (so offices could be vacated/staff cut to make the #’s work). It was a Potemkin schedule.
We went to work *knowing* we couldn’t make the show in the time allotted for the money they were paying.

So the studio just…stretched the time without paying the people writing/producing it anything more (extra money was found for animators and other staff on weekly rates.)
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Reporting that the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia personally hacked the phone of Jeff Bezos is terrifying; MBS is a murderer who has also imprisoned and tortured human rights activists, including @LoujainHathloul. But it gets scarier. 1/ theguardian.com/technology/202…
It means MBS almost certainly owns the Trump family, via desperate failson Jared Kushner.

Quick context: 2/
In 2005, Charles Kushner went to prison for illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering (he hired a prostitute to seduce his sister's husband, who was cooperating with the Feds, recorded them, and sent the tape to his sister.) 3/ cbsnews.com/news/nj-scanda…
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DO YOU THINK THEY LIKE ME?

- Donald J. Trump (mixed media, 2019)
DO YOU THINK THEY LIKE ME?
DO YOU THINK THEY LIKE ME?
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Re: the news that @GavinNewsom signed a bill to phase out private prisons and privately-run immigration detention facilities in California... a friend of mine did six months in a minimum security private prison years ago. Quick (interesting!) thread: sfchronicle.com/politics/artic…
When my friend was driven from court to the minimum security prison he was sentenced to, the car detoured to the (private) high security facility next to it. He was told there was a problem with his paperwork. He was placed in solitary confinement and asked if he wanted a Bible.
Confused, he said no. And he sat there for two days, treated like a violent criminal. Meals through the slot in the door. You know: solitary. Third day, he was told to turn backwards and put his hands through the slot to be cuffed. He was taken to a smiling corrections officer.
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