wilandrea blair

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Authoritarian takeovers in other countries happened more slowly, in part because there was more institutional opposition.

Scholars and journalists in the U.S. *need* to sound the alarm against Trump, even if it gets them accused of being partisan.
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This is absolutely about racism.

White women everywhere this is a call for you to stand up to white men now. We have been too silent for too long with too much fear. We are powerful. We have a voice.

Time to use it.

Thanks Julian!

My little western maybe not be riding off into the sunset quite yet. Thank you @networkisa.bsky.social !

Two features. Two finalists. Sometimes I just gotta see if my writing is resonating with anyone other than my mom - who says I should just call Ava and get her to direct one of my scripts. Cuz that’s how it works. Thanks @creativescreen.bsky.social and @networkisa.bsky.social!

I debated 20 far-far-far-right conservatives (racists? fascists?) on Jubilee's 'Surrounded.'

Here are some of the highlights of them unable to answer my basic questions or rebut the simplest of points. Not sure whether to laugh or cry.

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Every single Republican in the Wisconsin Congressional delegation just voted on a budget resolution to cut billions in federal funds for BadgerCare, directly endangering their most vulnerable constituents, while adding trillions to the national debt.

🚨House Republicans just passed a bill that would disenfranchise 70 million married American women.

Under the SAVE Act, women who took their spouse’s last name and don't have an updated passport or birth certificate would be turned away at the polls.

French Senator Claude Malhuret:

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers and a jester high on ketamine... We were at war with a dictator, we are now at war with a dictator backed by a traitor."

All the folks who exited NBC today. Seen together, hoo boy. Message received.

How do we know you DON’T look like this and you’ve sold a gazillion screenplays, but you’re just modest?

So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white **retired** Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

Count me in, ladies!! 💙💙

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand.
#resist

BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

Screw the commercials and the game, I hope the crowd puts on a show - fu*k tRump jerseys, boos and/or chants, taking a unified knee during anthem, homemade “end racism” signs, etc. #nfl #superbowl

This was always America. Built on dollars - not change.

A memo listing all of the clubs eliminated by USMA.

The United States Military Academy has just eliminated all Cadet clubs and activities for POC. Most of these have existed for decades like the Society of Black Engineers. They were there when I was a Cadet in 1987. All of the religious ones remain. This isn’t DEI. It’s white Christian Nationalism.

YouTube video by HWYWI How Would You Write It? Interview with WGA Screenwriter Danielle Nicki.

Ever wonder what’s it like to work in the writers room of a hit television show? Join us as we sit down with WGA screenwriter Danielle Nicki. Streaming now on YouTube @HWYWI . Link in bio.

I know right???

Watching #paradise. AMAZING writing (and not just because sterling k brown has a shower scene)!! #scriptsky

This isn’t a “seems like” or “appears to be” event…

It was intentional, deliberate, and unequivocal.

Didn’t have to evacuate, but got out just in case. Stay safe my Cali peeps. #wildfires

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