BREAKING: Hollywood writers are striking.
They’re fighting for their livelihoods against billion-dollar studios and streaming companies who have been squeezing writers to eke out more profits.
Writers didn’t shut down Hollywood — the studios did.
Couldn’t have asked for a better person to talk with about hoops history than Hall of Famer @AnnMeyers. She discusses athletes’ rights in the 70s, her journey into the NBA, and why basketball is the most imaginative sport in the country. For @GQSports: https://t.co/ZhBaQTXb2R
Thirteen Republican senators voted to increase their own meal reimbursements after rejecting funds for school lunches for low-income kids.
One of them was Sen. Mike Wobbema:
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You can’t make this up. Just 10 days after shooting down a bill to provide free lunch to low-income students, the North Dakota Senate approved legislation to give lawmakers more money for meal reimbursements.
They’re giving themselves free lunch, but not kids.
Today @WilliamLamberth, a Tennessee state representative, asked students protesting gun violence which gun they’d like him to use when shooting them: “If there’s a firearm out there you’re comfortable being shot with, please show me which one it is.”
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"In order to express my unequivocal solidarity with the activists who are leading the struggle to Stop Cop City, who are protesting the police killing of environmental activist Manuel Teran...I feel compelled to return the award offered me by the Atlanta City Council."
A 25-year rail engineer for Norfolk Southern has filed a federal whisteblower suit.
Lance Johnston was fired after he reported a defective brake that could have caused a derailment. A Norfolk supervisor told him to use the train anyway, the New York Times reports.