Amanda Mercedes

Your place for Writerly Drama and Religious Trauma. Writer of one-hour drama/dramedy. SW The Rookie: Feds, DGE fellow 2022 #WGA #exvangelical she/her

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

I caught the white whale!! https://t.co/obuFBAsfYC via @variety

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just dropped a bomb on Trump. He speaks directly to the American people.

He explains clearly the repercussions of Trump's Trade War on Canada, and exactly how it's going to cause tremendous pain to Americans.

He is clear that Canada loves America and the American people and they want nothing to do with this. But it's Trump's doing, and his actions will cause immense damage to America.

[Emily Snook @hoopersnook]

Reflecting on the absolute shame of today, I want to say I’m shocked & appalled. But I’m not.
Bc that all felt so familiar.
Every survivor of any kind of abuse has lived that attempted humiliation.
Every cult documentary has that scene of its unhinged leader screaming nonsense.+

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@masonmennenga *gasp* repressed memories unlocked 👀

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@masonmennenga @Forms_Respecter I have so much respect for your patience with this conversation 😂 I’d have tapped out about two satanic/apostate references ago.

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@danushman @LandOLox @GoodPoliticGuy Having read a bunch of your replies to people, this is all I can think about when you say “centrist” and “woke” 😅

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

For all my Christian friends and family. The world is watching, and they’re not seeing Jesus anywhere.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

As a Christian, I want to share a lament with you.

What we Christians get outraged about and what we don’t says a lot about our Christian reputation in the world.

This last week was a prime example.🧵

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@lindsayywithana @roadmapwriters @joey_tuccio @KristaAcai Hooray!!! 🥳👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 overdue and we’ll deserved! Can’t wait for the staffing post! ✨

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@elle_carnitine Oh wow I wish I’d been able to stand up for myself like this at 12! I was so eager to please my mom I agreed I wouldn’t need it because I would be a virgin marrying a virgin when I got married. 🙄 I wish she wasn’t as naive as I was.

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@keane_nate You’re definitely a racist, but I’m sorry people’s anger at that has resulted in violent wishes on your family. What I hope is for your children to become so curious about the world, so in awe of its diversity, that their questions cannot be contained by your bigotry.

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@Matthew24081726 @aprilajoyr Hmm. I must have missed Jesus’ gender theory sermon in the gospels. What is it about drag that disqualifies someone from loving God and loving neighbor, which are *actual* fundamental Christian beliefs?

[Skye Jethani @SkyeJethani]

Founder of Fox News, Roger Ailes, famously said, "People don't want to BE informed; they want to FEEL informed." Likewise, today's culture warring evangelicals don't want to BE righteous; they want to FEEL righteous.
https://t.co/ReX7RwCsm2

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

“Writers like me will literally do anything to keep the dream of writing alive.” 💯 Most of us worked 7-10 years to get our first break. We’re very practiced in how to keep the lights on when the work is lean. The studios’ threat about dragging this strike out ain’t shit to us.

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

Sooo satisfying ☺️ #WGAstrong

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros Discovery, hit with a massive "Pay your writers!" chant from Boston University students during his commencement speech. Love to see it. #WGAstrong

[Phillip Iscove @pmiscove]

The strike is costing the studios approximately $30 million a day in lost output. Meaning in the 15 days the WGA has been on strike they’ve lost an estimated $450 million dollars aka almost exactly the amount we’re asking for in our contract for THREE YEARS. #wgastrong

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

😅😅😅

[Julia Yorks @juliayorks]

WGA East members when WGA West members post their picket line step count

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@tbhattacharya @PreWGAStrike This is amazing! Thank you for including and encouraging #PreWGA writers!

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@lindsayywithana Ditto!

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@linzlowe Hi Lindsay, DMing you!

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

@aparham @netflix @WGAWest @WGAEast Aww hate we missed you guys! Hope he had fun in all the chaos ☺️ I’m sure we’ll see you on the line before this thing is over.

[Amanda Mercedes @amandamrcds]

The littlest picketer. We hit @netflix this morning with a small army of strollers from #WGAmoms. So many families fighting for their futures! @WGAWest @WGAEast #WGAonStrike