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Founding Partner & COO at The Auxiliary. Truth & solidarity in the age of the virus. Words for @vice, @publisherswkly, @doubleblindmag.

[Erika Ishii @erikaishii]

Yes!!!! 🎮✊🏼

[Kim Kelly @GrimKim]

It says you really gotta get out more (and read @TeenVogue, and subscribe to @inthesetimesmag @labornotes @thebafflermag @proteanmag @thenation @JewishCurrents @readlux @TheRealNews etc etc)

[New York Mag Union @NYMagUnion]

A statement from the New York Magazine Union on the partnership between Vox Media and OpenAI.

[David Simon @AoDespair]

Unions gave the American worker discretionary income and created our middle class. And now, because of ahistorical submorons such as yourself, we are going to have to fight the 20th Century all over again.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Biggest strike wave since the 70s.

An unprecedented level of solidarity is happening.

We have the power to re-shape the world if we want.

[Beckett @BeckettMufson]

@jaycaspiankang 1

[Beckett @BeckettMufson]

@StupiderBabe Pairs nicely with intentional phonetic misspellings, e.g. "Kewl"

[Read Jackson Rising @JPHilllllll]

Absolutely surreal image of the New York skyline right now. The climate crisis must be stopped, and for that capitalism must be ended.

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

Ohhshit.

This has never happened this way in the history of SAG.

This is a strike authorization, allowing SAG to enter into negotiations while flashing their weapon.

This is a part of the biggest strike wave the US has seen in half a century.

We can shape the world around us

[Boots Riley @BootsRiley]

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

[Simon Ostrovsky @SimonOstrovsky]

I first met Shane in 2011 in a Japanese restaurant on Russia’s Chinese border. He was a week late to a shoot I had meticulously produced on N. Korean slave labor. He spend the whole meal talking about gold watches he owned. Who’d of thunk Vice would fail? https://t.co/QO33CBsd2A

[alex zaragoza @byalexzaragoza]

Deeply saddened and infuriated by the layoffs at Vice News today. The work my former colleagues, many of them friends, have done there was some of the best work in the industry. And as always, the c-suite stands to profit as workers suffer.

[VICE Union @viceunion]

VICE Union is devastated by today's mass layoffs affecting dozens of unit members and around 100 employees overall. These workers are suffering the consequences of years of poor decisions they played no part in.

[Beckett @BeckettMufson]

Same

[LeBron James @KingJames]

Welp guess my blue ✔️ will be gone soon cause if you know me I ain’t paying the 5. 🤷🏾‍♂️

[Prime Video @PrimeVideo]

A coming-of-age story that's 13 feet tall. From @bootsriley, #ImAVirgoOnPrime is coming soon.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

In Alabama, hundreds of striking miners are set to return to work Thursday after nearly two years spent on picket lines in the so-called "right-to-work" state.

Labor reporter @GrimKim has more on what "should have been the biggest labor story in the country." ⤵️

[Kyle Chayka @chaykak]

Twitter making the For You algorithmic feed default seems like the total opposite of what Twitter is useful for. Almost no one I actually follow shows up in it right now, only stuff people like and viral tweets

[NYTimesGuild @NYTimesGuild]

Scabby has arrived @nytimes.

[Ryan Broderick @broderick]

Let's speak it plainly: We are watching a wealthy man haphazardly strip-mine an app built and popularized by people of color and activists and relied on in the Global South as the last public social app that can still deliver news and information in 2G.
https://t.co/Mu4tKHAoSE