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Sure, if there's a depression.

Pneumonia. RIP.

On Friday, the federal employees reportedly asked the Doge workers to deliver the memo to Doug Burgum, the interior secretary, for his signature, thereby assuming the legal responsibility for the associated risks.

However, Burgum reportedly never signed the memo. [...]

Meanwhile, Tyler Hassan, the recently named interior department’s acting assistant secretary of policy, management and budget and a former Doge employee, reportedly placed two of the IT officials who had resisted the Doge employees on administrative leave and under investigation for their “workplace behavior”, according to the two sources.

Thank you to the IT workers that refused to cooperate with this order and pushed back repeatedly.

Get outta here with that negativity. It's the first sign of life from Senate Democrats, and taking a moral stance against Trump is still important. We need more of this, not less.

Watch it live here.

He was just reading letter after letter after letter from American seniors who are scared about what the administration might do to Social Security. Really helps bring home that these are real people who are affected.

Edit: 15 hours now and he's still going strong. He just gave a fiery speech about how his colleagues need to do more.

Edit: 25 hours. He beat the record. At least it won't be held by a racist anymore.

So long as my local theater has reserved seating, I'll continue to show up 20 minutes late, skip all the actual TV commercials, and be just in time for the movie.

Maybe they should start with "what do audiences want" versus "how can we make more money"?

I wasn't crazy about The Day The Earth Blew Up, but I'll check this out when it's released here.

You wouldn't do shit and you know it. But I tell you what, if you want to play Rambo, fly on over and give it a go.

Oh, right. It's "not your fight."

Open bribery for votes. In a society based on the rule of law, officers would be on hand at the rally to arrest him the moment he attempted to hand over the money. But of course they weren't, because only the plebeians are held accountable for their actions.

Wisconsinites, you should demand accountability.

The company may attribute their bankruptcy filing to the legal fight with WB in order to make itself look like the victim and deflect blame from itself, but the actual culprit was just plain spending too much money, to the point where they weren't paying screenwriters. Village Roadshow took on a bunch of debt to finance this debacle:

Former Sony executive Steve Mosko, who joined Village Roadshow in 2018 as chief executive, left this year. He had attempted to build Village Roadshow into an independent studio that produced its own movies and television shows.

But the Mosko-led campaign to remake the company into a full-service studio proved costly and untimely.

Village Roadshow put into development 99 feature films, 166 scripted television series and 67 unscripted series. Of those, six movies and seven television series went into production. “No film or television series that was produced was able to create a profit that could sustain the studio business,” Maib wrote.

So Mosko cratered the company with a half-baked plan and then danced away without consequences. Variety says:

Mosko, well-liked and deeply experienced, will have his pick of new corporate jobs. Some individuals close to his thinking said he may take a stab at producing on his own.

Also note:

Village Roadshow’s library assets generate about $50 million a year in revenue, according to Maib’s declaration.

They literally would be better off if they had just done nothing.

The framing is really gross as well. Facing a future without Social Security? Try saving for retirement with Moneywise...

They just don't say the company directly in the calls to action because it's likely intended mainly to boost their search engine rankings. Hence the number of links...

Moneywise. There are like 5 or 6 links to it in the text, starting from halfway down the "article," and it starts to get really blatant when it starts talking directly to you, the reader. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire thing was written by AI.