Marc Rivers

Currently analyzing every Tom Cruise movie with @kelliwessinger | Producer for @npr I You may hear me sometimes on @pchh

[Marc Rivers @marcarivers]

As the kids say today, I got to get in my feelings over my favorite Tribe track. But most important, I got to hear ⁦@nprAudie⁩ say my name on the radio. https://t.co/sdX721235K

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elon Musk held up a chainsaw, fed USAID into the wood chipper, and at least 600,00 people have already died as a result - two-thirds of them children.

History's first trillionaire.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is what Trump's done to the people's house:

A third of it is rubble.

Another third is a cage match.

What a metaphor.

[Stephanie Mencimer @smencimer]

Apparently running old stories in the print edition of @washingtonpost wasn’t an error but a new strategy for filling the paper with no staff. Take this Retropolis column today:

[Robert Daniels @812filmreviews]

I need journalists to ask Hollywood actors why they’re in pro-AI commercials.

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

Jeff Bezos fired more than 300 people and didn’t even arrange for them to get safely home.

Staffers were abandoned in foreign countries and war zones and are having to crowd source to get home.

One of the richest men in the world left them behind.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

This is the correct framing. These aren’t just cuts. This was MURDER.

Sad day for all of DC.

https://t.co/jGkbfCMYb9

[Emmanuel Felton @emmanuelfelton]

The other reporter on my team covering race was also laid off as well as the editor in charge of race coverage across national. The team covering America beyond DC is now 90% white.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2024: $194 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth in 2025: $215 billion

Jeff Bezos wealth today: $249.4 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since 2024: $55.4 billion

Cost of Bezos’s 417-foot superyacht: $500 million

Amazon investment in "Melania": $75 million

Original Bezos purchase price of the Washington Post in 2013: $250 million

Bezos net worth in 2013: $25.2 billion

Net increase in Bezos wealth since buying the Post: $224.2 billion

Last reported annual losses of Post: $100 million

Number of years Bezos could absorb those losses with what he makes in a single week: 5

@JeffBezos

[Karen Tumulty @ktumulty]

The ⁦@washingtonpost⁩ op-ed page on Friday, October 5, 2018

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

USAID cost $40 billion and saved 3,000,000 lives/year. So they cancelled it and spent $40 billion on this instead.

[Caroline Renard @carolinerenard_]

When they say "you must embrace AI" it's cause they have a financial stake in it. They spent billions and their new business models are reliant on it. They don't want to lose their money. I can't wait for this bubble to pop.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

The amount of cowardice being shown by the corporate media is galling

If the press won’t fight for the First Amendment, who will?

[Marc Rivers @marcarivers]

Lies from a shitty actor who was in a shitty movie.

[Variety @Variety]

Gal Gadot says the poor box office numbers for "Snow White" were "incredibly affected" by "pressure" in Hollywood to "speak against Israel":

"I can always explain and try to give context about what's happening here. And I always do that. But in the end, people make their own decisions. And I was disappointed that the movie was incredibly affected by all of that and that it didn’t do well at the box office. But that's how it goes. You win some, you lose some."
https://t.co/ZNBSOr33kG

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

It’s hard to express enough to people who don’t live in DC just how much nothing is actually going on that would justify anything like this.

The Guard already deployed are largely sitting around looking extremely bored (and somewhat miserable because of the heat and humidity).

[Marc Rivers @marcarivers]

Consider donating to your local member station :) https://t.co/hhAqawbbLG

[Marc Rivers @marcarivers]

The NYTimes polling Sean Evans for its 100 best films of the century feature is so unserious

[Marc Rivers @marcarivers]

"But it's more than just about slavery" they'll say. As if AMERICAN SLAVERY isn't a big enough subject. As if any one person or one work of art could hope to solve or contain the emotional, psychological, and metaphysical eternities nested therein.

[Marc Rivers @marcarivers]

Storming on the east coast right now so if you're staying in this Juneteenth, you could do worse than watching @BarryJenkins's THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, the best piece of visual storytelling yet made on American Slavery.

[David Folkenflik @davidfolkenflik]

As others have noted, more accurate to say "less lethal" than non-lethal.

In LA's Echo Park in 2021, police shot reporters with rubber bullets, took them into custody, hit them with batons.

My story w NPR's @marcarivers
https://t.co/H6Ibbo4HWP