Ashley Gable
Ashley Gable
@ashleygable.bsky.social
I’m a television writer living in Los Angeles.
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Sickening. Please share far and wide.
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
Great @maddow.bsky.social show tonight. SUCH a long (albeit interesting) stemwinder setup but a very satisfying and inspiring end. Quintessential Maddow (Where tf is this going?… OK I don’t care where it’s going, this is intriguing… OH! Now I get it!)
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NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.
Stay tuned for more on this from mainstream reporting hopefully later today, but Bob's got the gist of it; last week, it appears that ICE began disappearing people from the Online Detainee Locator System the moment they get a final order of removal. Yes, this is as deeply screwed up as it sounds.
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Agree! Seems like we should do everything we can to stop media companies from being controlled by his cronies!
First, Trump banned independent news from the White House. Now, he's launching what is quite literally state-run TV to try drowning out the fact that he and his corrupt administration are failing the American people. This is truly autocratic behavior from a failed President.
Well of course she’s there — @lyndacarter.bsky.social is WONDER WOMAN
The one and only Lynda Carter — Wonder Woman herself — is here at the Kennedy Center. WATCH: open.substack.com/live-stream/...
Wow, Rahm Emanuel probably thinks he killed it on @jenpsaki.bsky.social tonight, but he came off as a total asshole I would never vote for.
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Congratulations, @karenattiah.bsky.social ! A well deserved win.
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“Those of us in the industry have heard these promises before: A larger company will invest more, create more and strengthen the industry. It does not bear out. Consolidation has not made the jobs better in this industry, it has made them worse.” ~ Tom Fontana & Michele Mulroney #BlockTheMerger
@jenpsaki.bsky.social Thank you for your first half-hour covering the Stars and Stripes firings. I appreciate you centering a story that exposes the president ‘s creeping authoritarianism but is also overlooked by most news tonight
Fahrenheit 451 but for history: “I am Plato's Republic… I want you to meet Jonathan Swift, the author of that evil political book, Gulliver's Travels! …Here we all are, Montag. Aristophanes and Gandhi and Buddha and Confucius …and Thomas Jefferson and Mr. Lincoln, if you please.” #SaveOurSigns
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This is a mainstream view. @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social agrees: Abolish ICE.
El-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."
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Sign the BECTU Union petition in support of ending the culture of long hours in UK film and TV production! #1u vist.ly/5cszz
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Let’s remember why the film industry took off in LA: -Cheap land -good weather -stable employment -extensive infrastructure You can give all the tax incentives you want, if LA is not affordable and the jobs are 3 months a year, it’s not a movie town. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Dan Drezner is all of us. #AbolishICE
Interesting report by Dan Drezner on the “Liberalism in the 21st Century” conference of the Institute for the Study of Modern Authoritarianism. I was amused by this: “I am also simply unprepared for a world in which Kristol sounds way more radical than Ezra Klein.” open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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Filmmaker William Greaves collected the surviving members of the Harlem Renaissance in 1972 for one hell of a party held at Duke Ellington’s house. The footage sat for 50 years…until Greaves died and his son David decided to turn it into a film. I have a feeling this is going to be amazing...
I’m proud of my union for fighting
If Warner Bros. merges with Paramount, the combined company would become the largest employer of writers. Both companies are already industry giants and the loss of head-to-head competition will directly impact writers at every level as well as the pipeline for emerging writers. #BlockTheMerger
There has never been one time, in all the ICE/DHS/CBP killings, where their justification has matched the facts that later emerged. Not one.
This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days. ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.
Netflix, please listen and let @colehaddon.bsky.social save you hundreds of millions of dollars
Netflix’s biggest shows have been losing 30-70% of their audience between seasons 1 and 2. Executives are in a panic because they can’t figure out why, but the answer is probably pretty damn obvious to anyone who’s paying attention.
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Lindsey Graham was one of the main subjects of a @theatlantic.com cover story I wrote in 2020, on why people collaborate with regimes they know are immoral. Here's a gift link: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Read the whole thread, folks. @okbjgm.bsky.social is spot on.
somewhere in this life, someone said "hey, this binge watching thing is great, let's do it all that way!" without realizing that the actual phenomenon was buttressed by an entire media landscape that has now essentially vanished because of the initial success and novelty of stream-binging.
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