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We hit the Superfecta! This one is big. DA WIllis is charging this as a criminal conspiracy and prosecuting Trump and his 18 co-conspirators as a *group*.

Here's the TLDR version: The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) was created to go after the mafia. The bosses would always escape prosecution because they relied on henchman to do the actual dirty work. So RICO looks at the whole thing as one big crime and thus *anyone* involved has committed a crime even if they didn't metaphorically "pull the trigger".

In this particular case, we're calling the attempt to overturn the election results the main conspiracy. The indictment says this conspiracy involved 161 (!!) individual criminal acts - But it is all part of the same Conspiracy Stew. It's a concerted effort by a large group of people, engaging in a myriad of activities that taken alone might not be a major crime, but when you put them all together, they add up to a serious offense. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

#conspiracy #indictment 4 #trump indicted again #Trump Superfecta

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Republicans worship at the altar of the almighty dollar

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#trump indicted again

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"Production on XYZ has stopped" is not news, ofc they have stopped, there is no point in going on without writers AND actors.

You know what is news? Tell me about the productions that haven't stopped, the actors that keep promoting their work so I know who to put on my (s)hit list!

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Ooooo Love this sooo much. Fight the power VFX artists.

ok NOW we can all freak out marvel vfx workers voted to unionize thank god

article here

#vfx #unionize everything

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Hopefully if you're on Tumblr it means you don't use Twitter. If you still use twitter.. Why?

#elon can eat a bag of dicks #elon is an idiot

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the way these strikes get framed is always so funny to me

"the strike could stretch on until the end of summer" or the execs could pay their workers

"there won't be ANY new shows because of this strike" or the execs could pay their workers

"no more content for us because the mean old writers and actors are-" OR THE EXECS COULD PAY THEIR WORKERS

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Fuck Bob Iger, Fuck David Zsaslav, Fuck all these corporate pieces of shit who have wanted to remove the humanity and soul from the art for increased revenue streams who made it so none of us own any of the art we love, we all only rent it.

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Shein is going down for being an organized criminal organization. Actors and Writers are striking. Student Loan debt relief may actually go through after all. Jack Smith is closing in on Trump, and all signs point to him dying in prison. Billionares are dying in ignoble and humiliating ways. Please God keep this ball rolling, it almost feels like the first taste of justice in about as long as I can remember.

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Holy shit. 98% of the people in Ohio State University's precinct voted NO on issue one. When I tell you Republicans are scared shitless of young people, this is what I mean. Young people see right through what Republicans are doing & it's just not going to work with us.

#End the GOP

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“Receiving positive feedback from Wall Street since the WGA went on strike May 2,Warner Bros Discovery, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Disney, Paramount and others have become determined to “break the WGA,” as one studio exec blatantly put it.  

“To do so, the studios and the AMPTP believe that by October most writers will be running out of money after five months on the picket lines and no work.

“‘The endgame is to allow things to drag on until union members start losing their apartments and losing their houses,” a studio executive told Deadline. Acknowledging the cold-as-ice approach, several other sources reiterated the statement. One insider called it ‘a cruel but necessary evil.’

“The studios and streamers’ next think financially strapped writers would go to WGA leadership and demand they restart talks before what could be a very cold Christmas. In that context, the studios and streamers feel they would be in a position to dictate most of the terms of any possible deal.”

#I Stand With The WGA

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If you're thinking about watching that Pontoon Boat fight that went viral... watch this instead.

#Pontoon Boat Fight #reconstruction #Black Codes

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out of curiosity i wanted to compare this metric to david zaslav's salary, so lets specifically compare it to his earnings last year which was $39 million. if the studios referred to in this article continue to lose this amount consistently week to week, over the course of a whole year it STILL wouldn't total up to $39 million. it would take just shy of another 3 months for them to lose as much as this one man made in one year. that's how grotesquely overinflated his paycheck is and that is precisely why this strike needs to happen.

#WGA Strike #WGA strong

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yeah, I remember a lot of this growing up

#WGA Strike #I Stand With The WGA

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Yes yes yes

I don't live near any major picket lines, so if I have to get on social media every day or every few days and further explain why this is an issue and that CEOs are overpaid then that's what I'm going to do. If they want to save money, get AI to do their jobs.

And don't forget that Zaslav is a Trump supporter and Murdoch supports white supremacists.

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CGI animators should unionize next. normally, their jobs would be too precarious to strike, since studios would replace them without a second thought, but if it's part of this larger general film strike, they might finally have meaningful power to better their working conditions

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It's strange to see anyone surprised by Universal using a tactic as cruel as denying even shade to picket line members, in the heat-based hellscape that is Los Angeles. So let's try to condense the explanation.

By and large, executives are people who already come from wealth and privilege, and have that wealth and privilege protected throughout their life as they're escorted through whatever levels of education and then into employment.

Most of them have never received any kind of culture shock to make them aware of the struggles of 'lessers'. Their parents and peers had a vested interest in keeping the then-children from mixing with 'those people'.

They are insulated enough from daily life that they no longer see anyone outside their immediate wealth and influence bracket as human.

So a strike, to them, is not "people who want enough money to live and work in health", it's "The machine that makes us money is broken, get those workers back into their jobs so we can keep making money."

So the executives treat the strike like they would a broken machine or a disobedient pet. Hit it until it works, and replace it if it breaks.

And don't doubt for one minute that this wasn't at the advice of a Pinkerton or similar union-busting agency consultant. This is more than just petty; this is tactical cruely.

#WGA Strike #I Stand With The WGA