(NoColor-Check) Jay Ashworth

#jonvoyage (Photo credit: LA Times)

Based on their "100% US based workforce" tag in their new commercials, I've successfully shamed Spectrum into dumping the Malaysian call centers they were using for resi internet tech support. Good.

Hey, @BroadwayWorld? Your gala from @54Below? Will that have board sound on the stream, unlike all of their clips, which are camera mic?

"Democratic" state attorneys, @wusf. Democrat-as-an-adjective is a right-wing dog whistle. wusf.org/politics-issue…

@DHSgov If you weren't legally forbidden to be partisan like this, your projection/reversal of who's to blame would just be funny. I DON'T PAY YOU TO LIE. Shut up.

Thanks to the Democrats' shutdown, travelers at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport are again seeing MASSIVE security lines this morning. The Democrats' political games are making spring break travel a NIGHTMARE for Americans as they continue to withhold funding from DHS and refuse to pay our heroic @TSA officers.

I see that the @TheAcademy STILL has not internalized that you mention the nom count first and the win count second. (Hmmm... Wonder what they just bleeped) Hopefully, they will eventually post the entire 11 minute In Mem as one clip...

@akashabodywise @nbcsnl You know what bugs me? It's not the dozens of MAHAts acting all triggered... It's the one or two people who sound not-at-all nuts, and have complaints that require some research to rebut. I think they are rebuttable, but even so...

@nbcsnl Thanks for this SNL! You can clearly see how triggered the MAHA folks are in the comments 🤣

MAHAspital

Because @nbcsnl doesn't post the credits to YouTube and @WFLA cuts them off, and because I know lots of @IATSE and @CWAUnion / NABET types; the credits from this week:

@AskLyft @lyft @Uber I don't see why; "My 2FA system is broken" seems a thing you can fix without leaking any of my private account data. Likely moot anyway; the ride I need to take has nearly tripled in price since I did it last; not cost-effective.

@_Baylink @lyft @Uber We understand you need assistance with your account. We are here to help. Kindly DM us at your earliest convenience so we can look into this. x.com/messages/compo…

Since @lyft CATEGORICALLY refuses to provide an email address, I will post this email here instead, where they get to look bad in public: """ Fire your entire IT staff; they're incompetent. 1) Couldn't add a tip in the app after giving a less-than-5-star review [...]

Worse: @Lyft keeps sending me X-digit codes via SMS to log into the web UI, and none of those codes are *accepted*. And no reply to my other tweet, so clearly, they don't care. They used to be a better bet than @Uber; not anymore I guess.

4) Oh, and I have to go find a fucking email address to send this to, since you believe no-reply is an acceptable From: address. Quit that especially, assholes. I give up. Surely Uber is doing better these days. -30-

Given that @SouthwestAir is already not feeling the LUV from fliers over their seating policy change, if they don't Step UP on this "mistaken ICE takedown onboard a plane" thing, that could be bad for them.

Hey, @Chase? I *specifically* did not want my replacement card (for an only-one-year-old card degraded to the point of unreliability) to NOT have crash-numbers on the front, instead of printed numbers on the back. Bad systems and security design; please get over that.

WaPo: Trump aides struggle with how to spend $500B more on military. It can now be revealed... that I am an entire branch of the US Military...

YO. @FACEBOOK: Now P1.

@GlensyOne @TheWrap Noted.

@_Baylink @TheWrap I got that from either Chatgpt or Copilot.

The $7 million opening weekend for First Lady profile film #Melania looks absolutely paltry when stacked against its $40 million acquisition fee — making it the most expensive documentary in Hollywood history. But that tally is enough to make it one of the highest in recent box office history for what has become an endangered species in theaters: the political documentary. Read more: bit.ly/3MtIup4 Video: Getty Images

@GlensyOne @TheWrap Source? Independent, regular and objective?

@_Baylink @TheWrap No of theaters: 1,778 Average per theater: ≈ $3,960 over weekend. That means each theater showing the film earned on average about $4,000 in ticket sales from Friday through Sunday of its opening weekend. average $16 ticket price suggests around 250 per theater across weekend.

@pastormarkburns We know he didn't post it, doofus. A flush handle is nearly the limit of his technological capability. But you know that "and I approved this message" thing from the McCain/Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act? This is what that's for.

Statement on Video Depicting the Obamas I just spoke directly with President Trump regarding the offensive Obama ape video that circulated online. The President assured me clearly and unequivocally that he did not post it. He understands the painful and racist history in America of depicting African Americans as apes, a tactic long used by white supremacists to demean Black intelligence and humanity. He knows this is wrong, offensive, and unacceptable. The President made it clear to me that this post was made by a staffer and not by him. My recommendation to the President was direct and firm. That staffer should be fired immediately, and the President should publicly condemn this action. This kind of insensitive and racist communication does not reflect the heart, values, or leadership of the President of the United States, nor does it represent the America we are striving to build. Historically, the intelligence of Black Americans has been questioned and attacked in shameful ways. From the era of slavery, when enslaved Africans were falsely portrayed as inferior to justify bondage, to the Civil War, when Black Union soldiers were often denied officer ranks despite bravery and leadership, to the Jim Crow era, where racist pseudoscience compared Black people to animals in textbooks, cartoons, and propaganda. Even into the modern era, these same ugly stereotypes have been recycled to undermine Black achievement, leadership, and dignity. Racism must be confronted, not excused. Accountability matters. And leaders must always speak clearly when lines are crossed. #SpiritualDiplomat