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David Simon

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social

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Dramatist, author, apostate newspaperman specializing in artisanal contempt and discerning maledicta. The claim that I am the angriest man in television is faint praise indeed; the second angriest is yelling at an agent because residual checks are late.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3m

Ask your mom.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4m

With every inning that the Phillies cling to survival, they make it seem like the Dodgers needed all of the fucking money they threw at this season. Kind of a downside; if LA swept every post-season game by 10 runs they'd look like ridiculous, self-indulgent spendthrifts.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 1h

Really? Sorry I took down my replies calling him out. I was being polite when he 86'd his OP.

That's not upright shit.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

Any more fun they'll have to call it Mardi Gras.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

Irish punk. Two.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

The ghost of Clifton Cheniet told me to tell you to go fuck yourself.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

And the creek don't rise.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

Ukeleles being strummed en masse. Chickens openly addressing government officials. Line dancing in a public thoroughfare. Frogs, unicorns and dinosaurs getting their interspecies groove on.

Portland is lost. May God and Donald Trump save what's left of the United States of America.

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 4h

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

Unless the presiding judge in the Comey case is as corrupt as Bondi or as sentient as an artichoke, this is evidence enough to collapse the indictment and dismiss the case.

Fucking hell. This is astonishing. There are no moral, ethical or legal boundaries for these shitheels.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 10h

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

New WSJ reporting reveals Trump accidentally posted what he thought was a private message to AG Pam Bondi, urging her to prosecute James Comey and other perceived enemies. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports.

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

Too many U.S. Attorneys have weaponized that horrifying statute for too many years. It was only a matter of time before it slipped into the arsenal of the worst political players.

I won't take responsibility. That's the American way, of course.

Answermancer @answermancer.bsky.social · 3h

@audacityofdespair.bsky.social any thoughts on this? 😑

Nash @radiodeadair.com · 3h

Hold on.

Hold on.

Did ... did the Trump Administration get this whole thing about prosecuting people for mortgage fraud from The Wire?

They did, didn't they. Because the show called it "the headshot."

Jesus fucking Christ.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

I have some fascist tendancies.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

Shame. I thought he was about to be better.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 3h

I'm a giver.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

If you are urging gun-to-gun resistance at this moment, rather than rhetoric and lawsuits, you are a rube offering Trump and Miller exactly what they want to go full bore into the Insurrection Act. Pritzker is standing and using the best tools for this moment. Your imaginings are an L.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

The poster has, on some refection, removed the original point of contention after a fulsome discussion of things. I thank him for that. Leaving this only to affirm the actual record of things involving the WGAE and my involvement in this particular issue.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 6h

False. He was loud against continuing to admit digital unless WGAE fixed governance to avoid exodus of dues-heavy freelancers to West, which would have collapsed our union. He then served on the committee to solve this so digital organizing might continue. Digital reps serving on panel will confirm.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

I thank you. Genuinely.
It is my assumption that with bluesky, if it disappears, so does the thread including my replies.
And if you run into any digital folks still clinging to a narrative foisted on them in the run-up to a union election and devoid of real context, maybe have a brief word.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

The link actually posted the entirety of what was once on the blog.

David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

told by your *leaders*

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

He passed like a camel through the eye of a needle. It happens.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

...your readers how evil a Gomperite I was stealing bread from your mouth. And credulously, five years later, you are on the internet posting that shit when what I wrote before that election was true and the future of our union.

Shameful shit. Yes, you struck a nerve. A lie will do such.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

That was all in the open, on my blog available to anyone. It was a series of possible futures. I told the truth. We ended up, after the election, achieving )2. I did my best to help. But here you are, Mr. Doyle, still crying about what your initial sensations were upon being told by....

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

...to the governance dilemma and continue to exist with some measure of bifurcated governance or 3) Failing that, we would figure how to divide into two unions, either with the Guild taking journalistic elements or a unique digital union, likely subsidized by WGAE for some period....

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

I wrote then, prior to the election that three possible futures for the WGAE existed. 1) Freelancers would lose control of their union, flee to WGAW and the East union would collapse from lack of dues. Digital repping would end. 2) We would figure out an interior compromise and solution...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

....by some of your digital leadership going into that election to mischaracterize and hype my stance and to carry many digital members, such as yourself, away with their hurt and anger. But the truth is my stance was full and in plain sight even at that early moment:
deadline.com/2021/08/davi...

David Simon, WGA East Council Candidate, Warns Of The Perils Of A Digitally Divided Guild

David Simon weighs in on an issue that is splitting the WGA East: what to do about the guild’s rapidly growing contingent of digital news writers?

deadline.com

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 4h

That's a remarkable parsing of what you endeavored to do. Go back and read the OP. Imagine it standing alone, and without contradiction, as the sum of my work on WGAE governance, the continuation of digital organizing and the union's survival.
I was in no way naive about the efforts....

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