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BREAKING: The Tony Awards WILL Be Broadcast. WGA Will Not Picket

BREAKING: The Tony Awards WILL Be Broadcast. WGA Will Not Picket.

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Clear the deck and light the lights. The Tony Awards are being broadcast!

Last week we reported that the 2023 Tony Awards, Broadway’s highest honor would not be televised or postponed because of the Writers Guild of America strike. But now The Tony Awards WILL AIR as originally scheduled on June 11th, and WGA has agreed not to picket the broadcast.

The Writers Guild released the following statement:

“The WGA will not be picketing the show. Responsibility for having to make changes to the format of the 2023 Tony Awards rests squarely on the shoulders of Paramount/CBS and their allies. They continue to refuse to negotiate a fair contract for the writers represented by the WGA. As they have stood by us, we stand with our fellow workers on Broadway who are impacted by our strike.”.

It’s not yet been specified what format the show will use, and what alterations will be made.

However, the New York Times newspaper has reported it’s likely that while the event will feature awards presentations and live musical performances, no scripted content will be included.

The Tony Awards are set – at least for now – for Sunday, June 11 at the United Palace in New York City’s Washington Heights. Whether Ariana DeBose will remain attached to a scaled-down, non-televised ceremony is unclear.

The union — representing 11,500 writers of film, television and other entertainment forms — has been on strike since May 2, primarily over royalties from streaming media. Although the guild doesn’t represent Broadway writers, it does represent writers who work on the Tonys telecast.

Back2Stonewall stands with the striking workers of the WGA. #UnionStrong

Donald Trump Calls for ‘War’ To Arrest Prominent Democrats

Trump Drops F-Bombs at Shutdown Meeting, Now Calls It A “Strike”

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Via The Daily Beast:

President Trump kicked off the meeting (w/Shumer and Pelosi) with a rant lasting roughly 15 minutes that included his $5.6 billion demand for a border wall, and threatened that he was willing to keep the government closed for “years” if that’s what it took to get his wall.

He also, unprompted, brought up the Democrats who want him impeached, and even blamed Pelosi for new Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib saying at a party earlier this week that Democrats would impeach the “motherfucker” Trump. (It is unclear why Trump would think Pelosi was responsible for this.)

Along with saying the word “fuck” at least three times throughout the meeting, the president bizarrely stated that he did not want to call the partial government shutdown a “shutdown,” according to the source. Instead, he referred to it as a “strike.”

Someone should tell The Madness of King Trump that since it is a unfair labor practice for labor unions to call or participate in a strike or a work stoppage that interferes with the operation of a federal agency . Then he is breaking the law and should be arrested.

LOCK HIM UP!