its frankly ridiculous that no one thought of a Brady Brunch show before now. 

Everyone needs to be a total expert on issues before ever discussing issues in any kind of public forum. There is no room to learn or grow after the fact. That’s what I’ve learned from these controversies. 

I’m confused. According to liberals cancel culture doesn’t exist. It’s just a right wing trope in order to defend awful people. Are you trying to tell me cancel culture DOES exist on the left? 😏

It’s not like David Zaslav is stopping by the writers’ room of House of the Dragon. The writers’ immediate bosses are the showrunner on House of the Dragon, and those people can say (correctly) that they didn’t really have anything to do with the negotiations here.  

Is there a reason people are assuming the studios caved and not the union?

As soon as they saw the promos for Snake Oil, they knew it was time. 

There was a strike?

What exactly is the plan then if this new deal is only for 3 years. Both sides reload in the next 3 years for another strike? Seems like a armistice  more than a deal. 

Thanks for putting this so much more eloquently. Absolutism also exists on the left, sadly, and some things aren’t a matter of righteous outrage, they’re just complicated and tremendously sad for all involved.

That conversation has happened before on Jezebel, and I still feel the same as every time that story has been dangled in front of me with the hope to elicit indignation. The conservative war against reproductive rights is a heinous business, but this particular story is a terrible hill to die on. Every aspect of it is…

Even though that law applies to licensed abortion providers, not people self-managing their own terminations, Jessica Burgess was still charged.

So this was over 10 years ago now, but at the time it was one of the few Russell Brand bits I’d ever seen (I was not familiar with “Get Me to the Greek” which seems to have been where a lot of US people first heard of him) and I thought it was legitimately funny and well-delivered.

Julian Assange shows that it’s a far left thing as well though. Being ‘anti-establishment’ means rape accusations are always just a conspiracy against you.

I was a fan.. but between this and how obnoxious he acted on Celebrity Jeopardy, I’m out.

I remember listening to his WTF interview with Maron and there was something really off and performative about him, whereas the parts of him that felt real were his ambition and his self-centeredness bordering on narcissism. This is just what he admitted on the record in the a New Yorker interview - given the…

“At a time when the LGBTQ community is under unprecedented cultural and political attacks”

Yeah, when I got to that part I thought Mary was being alarmingly dumb. As much as he was rambling, I understood that part at least. Sometimes I wonder if she’s being intentionally dumb to provoke a reaction. 

What I got from this article is that Sean Penn totally has a man-crush on Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Sean Penn Continues to be A Lot

The problem is that his point is a bad one. If the studio uses his likeness it is because he willingly and knowingly sold it to them to be used as they wanted. Someone’s daughter did not.