By the way, that happened in Indiana. Indiana has the third highest maternal mortality rate in the country, and it’s really bad for Black women. In 2021, Black women in Indiana had a maternal mortality rate that was 73% higher than white women.

I’d say an exploitation indicator above all. This ain’t the first job listing that has tons of responsibilities to little or no pay. Many companies or known for exploitation.

Read the Variety article instead. Rebecca Rubin didn’t bury the lede here. This is all Brett Ratner’s doing. Trying to repair his career after SA allegations in 2017. Multiple distributors didn’t want to be attached to a fourth film because of Ratner’s involvement.

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Just sharing this again...I'm like 30 subscribers away from my goal for 2025 (free & paid). With losing my part-time job, I'd love to be able to focus on what I love while I figure out the rest. Any shares/subs would very much be appreciated. Thanks. 🖤

They want state schools to be job prep while elite schools get education. They'll never do to their kids what they want to do to yours. Their kids will read Chaucer and Dante but yours will read manuals.

Progressive groups are urging shoppers to vote with their wallets this holiday season and stop shopping at Amazon, Target and Home Depot.

This interview is a snapshot into where tech companies are with online harassment right now. They know how to end it, but they decided not to spend the money. They’re prioritizing growth (and profit) above all else. And they’re blaming YOU for logging on to the platform they designed to be unsafe.

Study after study shows that using LLMs is bad for cognition, bad for learning, bad for understanding, bad for mental health. So why are our schools and universities still relentlessly pushing them?

wrote an article for @thebookseller.com outlining to the industry why small presses are the lifeforce & future of book production. Pls share esp w people who may not know what small press publishers do! www.thebookseller.com/comment/dont...

I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact they're all mandatory reporters. And victims of her and her husband have come forward with shit that happened to them back in the 80s and 90s. It couldn't possibly have anything to do with that though, surely.

It's Trans Day of Remembrance. I don't know a single trans person who hasn't lost another trans person in their circle. Please hold them in your hearts today, even if their names are new to you. And remember all of us who are out here, doing the best we can.

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I used to be a love and light pagan. Now... I am mostly love and light, unless you are a Nazi or sympathizer. Then.... not so much. Given todays climate I feel the need to be clear.

We are traumatizing an entire generation of children, whether they're ever in an active shooter situation or not It's the guns It's the guns It's. The. Guns.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but every now and then I just have to stop and imagine how Republicans would react if Obama did this

I warned that private equity taking over Walgreens would be bad for workers. This is the private equity playbook: they hollow out businesses, cheat their workers, and drive them into the ground. Red Lobster, Toys "R" Us, and Joann Fabrics. Who’s next?

This is also an inspiring read. I don't know when the AI bubble will burst but I will welcome that day with open arms. www.thedart.co/2025/11/19/w...

I applaud and second this wholeheartedly and I'm coming out as an unabashed AI hater. In the immortal words of Guillermo del Toro: Fuck AI. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

Iceland Climate Minister Johannsson: "It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security. (This) is the first time a specific climate-related phenomenon has been formally brought before the National Security Council as a potential existential threat." www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

One movie that I feel did not get the love it deserved was Freaky Tales, which to me was a comic book mixtape filled with action, laughs, and drama. Also, a beautiful love letter to 1980s Oakland.

You olds don't need to hear this, but to you youngbloods out there, I come to you from the future: when the news begins talking about ways to save money for the holidays, rather than getting you hyped to drown in debt buying shit, that means shit is WAY FUCKING WORSE than they are letting on.

So I'm against AI, as most of you know, if you've been paying attention. Recently, a few weeks ago, I think, 15yo got into trouble in school because a paper she submitted got flagged because the AI detector her teacher uses determined that it was AI generated. It was not.

"[...] Paramount and its subsidiaries have spent 2025 blacklisting and silencing the opposition from within and without, pissing all over free speech, attempting to shape the news to their favor, and paying off the government—all in service of gaining more control over more of the media landscape."

So the American Nazis are finishing the work of the German Nazis now

My Scorcese Top 5 (NOTE: I haven’t seen every of Scorcese’s movies, but I have seen enough) Honorable Mentions: After Hours, Casino, Hugo, The Irishman, Killers of the Flower Moon 5.) Gangs of New York 4.) The Wolf of Wall Street 3.) Taxi Driver 2.) The Departed 1.) Goodfellas

Just heard re: some ICE agents who raided a Chicago taqueria, then went back to the same taqueria for lunch the following week and got confused when the owner kicked them out, and I realized "jesus these doofuses really do believe we're all living in a video game where the NPCs have no memory"

fuck that noise

KARL: The president claims that Thanksgiving costs are down 25%. Does he know that's not true? HASSETT: Well if you look at Walmart-- KARL: Wait a minute. I've gotta stop you. The Walmart package this year contains much less than the one last year. That's why the price is less.

So many people in politics have lost their goddamn minds. I don't know if it's chasing the algos, consultancy firms, or microplastics, but it's mind-boggling.

I’m pretty sure things would be way better if we elected Kamala Harris.

Today I'm working on how to do a better job of having real relationships with writers and readers instead of just tallying list size or follower counts. My publisher will always see numbers, but it's important to me that "storytelling as product" doesn't eclipse "storytelling as human connection."

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

I try to read all the Booker winners, so I am in the middle of this year's (Flesh) right now. It's decently well-written, but if it is the last word on masculinity (total lack of interiority, driven solely by sexual impulses that cannot be explained or controlled) then masculinity is in real trouble

Peaceful protestor arrested at Broadview ICE by cook county sheriffs for holding an ICE OUT sign on a corner cops decided was not in the designated protest zone. Aka some bullshit.

65 years ago on Nov. 14, little Ruby Bridges was escorted into an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. Norman Rockwell, renowned for blissful depictions of Americana, did this remarkable painting for Look magazine. Printed as a double page, over-size spread, it's his masterpiece.

Thread boost. Very acute and insightful take from Mark.

OPINION: "Our young people still enlist hoping for opportunity: job training, education and a way out. But too often, they are met with trauma, discrimination and broken promises," Horace Small writes.

The allegations include making false statements on loan documents to secure favorable loan terms - so he's being accused of following Trump SOPs?

I don't expect that it's going to work with Swalwell. He's a fighter.

A President cannot refer the DoJ to prosecute specific individuals. As it is an abuse of power, I would suggest anyone who is targeted by these to file lawsuits against Trump, the person as he is not immune outside his position.

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This is a BIG reason I wrote Burn It Down. I was v tired of doing One Bad Man stories & wanted to shout from the rooftops that every He's Just One Bad Man is NOT a one-off--each 1 is propped up by multiple interlocking systems of enabling, protection & even celebration. The SYSTEMS are def evergreen

ANYWAY! My 2023 book -- about systemic, institutionalized, longstanding patterns of misconduct, abuse, predation, and the enabling and even the celebration of same by the powerful -- was titled Burn It Down 🔥🔥🔥🔥 just sayin' bookshop.org/p/books/burn...

Yep. Some go into journalism to have access to power, to be power's handmaiden & PR. Others go into journalism to question & illuminate the operation of power & how some norms/systems hurt the powerless. Wolff just 1 of many examples showing--again--the former is very common& usu far more lucrative.

I did not have "Not Like Us" on daily rotation for an entire year for the American media to start carrying water for middle-aged dudes creeping on high school sophomores.

p.s. I have a BFA in Theatre Studies so this is *really* not legal advice. Okay?

This is not legal advice but: Everyone can now publicly say “Donald Trump is a pedophile.” Suing for defamation would open him up to discovery and draw more attention. And as a public figure, he must meet a higher standard. He’d have to prove you knew it was false — which you very much don’t.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.