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How Ron DeSantis Let Billionaires Destroy Florida. Jamie Raskin on Trump's Possible Disqualification. Poor Things | Movie. Adam Driver talks SAG Strike, Netflix and Amazon. AI Finally Beats Humans at a Real-life Sport — Drone Racing.

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Reader Comments: Racist Gun Violence Fueled by MAGA; March on Washington, Chicano Moratorium; GOP "Debate"; Capital Destruction and Maui; Hollywood Runs on Low Pay; Dolly Parton - The Book Lady; 50th Anniversary of Chile Coup; Cartoons; more....

What Might Finally Resolve the Hollywood Strikes

David Dayen The American Prospect
The unions raised the need for antitrust enforcement, and the Biden administration’s top antitrust cops paid attention. The one-two punch of simultaneous WGA and SAG strikes, for the first time in 60 years, has stalled out virtually all productions.

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Hollywood Is a Union Town, but the History Is Complicated

Steven Wishnia The Indypendent
The American movie industry has been one of the most consistently unionized sectors of the economy since the 1930s — but to achieve that, workers had to overcome “the iron fist of the moguls” and organized crime, says historian Gerald Horne

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Why the Hollywood Strike Matters to All of Us

Ethan Marcotte WBUR cognoscenti
photo of strikers holding on strike signs from SAG-AFTRA and WGAstrike signs ing These two unions are taking the threats of AI seriously — and the rest of us should, too. Now’s the time to form a union with your coworkers, and discuss what protections you’ll need to face this moment.
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