ProgGrrl
@proggrrl.bsky.social
I work in TV whatever that means now. Cinephile. News junkie. Treehugger. Brooklyn NY. Hating on fascists and authoritarians. I follow tons of folks to grow a great news/culture feed for myself to read, so there.
A 🧵 Nepo baby David Ellison’s recent OpEd deflected attention from the reality that the Paramount attempted takeover of WarnerBros is corrupt to the core, a debt-time bomb, a natl security issue, would decrease diversity of voices in film/media/ journalism +a press freedom issue. #BlockTheMerger 1/n
Sanders: The irony is that the proper criticism of communism is that the Soviet Union was an authoritarian society. And then you’ve got the most authoritarian president in the history of this country. So I suppose when he says, “I’d be a great communist,” yeah, I think there’s some truth to that
#NewBrunswick #Canada #Science This is a huge discovery. Moncton-based company Breathe BioMedical has developed a test that can detect signs of breast cancer by analyzing breath samples in women of all breast density types. globalnews.ca/news/1200880...
N.B. company’s new breath test could change how breast cancers are detected | Globalnews.ca
A new breath test could change the way breast cancers are detected, specifically in women with dense breasts, thanks to Moncton-based company Breathe BioMedical.
globalnews.ca
It is 2006. I am 22. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance. It is 2026. I am 42. The US is mired in a costly Forever War. A predictable historic market collapse looms. I do not have health insurance.
if anyone ever needs for some reason to gather all the straight men over forty in one place, just get a big barn and put a sign up on it that says VOTE ON WHO GETS TO BE THE NEXT JAMES BOND, open the doors and wait
Plain spoken language is how you defeat these fabulists
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4h agoEl-Sayed: "Once a government agency like ICE is told it has impunity to do the worst things and violate the highest law of the land, which is the Constitution itself, I don't think you can reform or retrain. I think we need to start from scratch ... I think we need to abolish it."
Folks, Trump and his Republican enabler’s are going to try every trick in the book to cheat in the midterms just like they did in Tarrant County, TX where they tried to close half of the polling locations for the midterms. Stay loud📢 and focused👀 Lets get a #BlueWaveIn90Days
The Trump regime is publicly thanking a creepy anonymous snitch for trying to get someone arrested and deported over erroneous immigration suspicions. The regime wants you to keep informing on your neighbors to please Big Brother.
Brendan Nyhan@brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h agoNothing to worry about, just a US attorney investigating people for deportation when suggested by rando X accounts
This is just rank Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism, based on the bigoted idea that there is something inherently scary about a president with the last name "El-Sayed." It is incumbent on all of us to call it out.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9h agoJD Vance: "We don't want the next administration, whoever -- god forbid you're gonna have President El-Sayed in three years ... "
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
Lestat’s debut album is out of this world: “These songs are sung by Lestat himself (Sam Reid), and it shakes out to the album as a whole being worthy of not just respect as a body of music, but heavy rotation...” buff.ly/tAKxTxR @salon.com @amcplus.com #TheVampireLestat @nerdist.bsky.social
Lestat's debut album is no mere TV soundtrack
Daniel Hart and Sam Reid turn a fictional band into a compelling musical achievement with "The Failures."
buff.ly
The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and EmblemHealth agreed to reimburse as many as 250,000 retired civil servants who claimed they were unlawfully charged co-pays for medical visits.
City and Insurer to Pay $53 Million Over Retiree Copay Lawsuit
The administration of Mayor Zohran Mamdani and EmblemHealth agreed to reimburse as many as 250,000 retired civil servants who claimed they were unlawfully charged co-pays for medical visits.
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It’s attention to details like this that demonstrates how government can be and should be for the people.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last wk.Uber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.
It's even crazier given there are numerous examples of high profile MAGA covid deniers who ended up contracting the virus and dying kfor.com/news/conserv... www.reuters.com/article/worl...
Herman Cain, ex-presidential candidate who refused to wear mask, dies after COVID-19 diagnosis
Herman Cain, a former Republican presidential candidate and supporter of President Donald Trump who pointedly refused to wear a mask during the coronavirus pandemic, has died after contracting COVID-1...
reuters.com
Paul Duane 🥔@paulduane.bsky.social · 3d agoWild that people are trying to retroactively pretend covid wasn't a big deal. Someone I work with came down with it last November & is still unable to work the following August, suffering complete viral exhaustion. There's a reason we locked down.
A video taken Saturday shows former NYC Mayor Eric Adams in sales pitch mode in Wisconsin Rapids, as he's heckled by residents opposed to the data center he's trying to sell them on. "My name is Eric Adams," he begins, as the boos begin to rain down. "You belong in prison!" one attendee shouts.
Eric Adams Is Selling Data Centers in Wisconsin Now
The former mayor had a wild weekend, and other links to start your day.
hellgatenyc.com
