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To distract myself from all the doomscrolling, I joyfully discovered that Amazon has the complete series of Xena Warrior Princess. Awesome! It's even better than I remember from when it first aired. But, very annoyingly, each episode begins with an advertisement that Amazon will be hosting its own election coverage with Brian Williams to host. I just want to focus on strong women! I don't want to see ads for Bezos' involvement in the election! Seriously, his newspaper won't endorse a candidate, yet he wants to air election news on his network? No, just no.

I remember doorbelling for Bill Clinton in 1992, and crashing exhausted at 7 pm on Election Day that year, having worked for national and local candidates for months. And then awakening at 10pm that evening to learn we'd won!

Twitter thread of one attendee's experiences (actors were great, the event staff were not). Disclaimer that I don't know this account, never heard of them before, but it reflects a lot of what I've seen other twitter accounts state... THREAD: https://x.com/WhereAreYouBabe/status/1853004967839236234 Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 1:23 AM PDT · Nov 3, 2024 A few of my comments about #DayofDays2024 and then we’ll bury it alive. 1. Peacock had no proper or firm structure in place on how to handle the rows of seating and then keeping track of those in line and directing them off the stage into a new area. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 2. Fans were cutting. Once on stage and through the line they had been waiting for, they jumped directly into another line ON STAGE. I think this gave the illusion to the workers that new people from the seats were coming up. They were not. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 3. In section 1 specifically, everyone who had waited the first time moved forward for session two. We waited through lunch, through the Day Players—this was in addition to waiting already done through the first session. If we moved, we lost our spot. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 4. When Peacock came out with new rules in the second half, they immediately broke them! We couldn’t believe the insanity one worker who immediately took people from the back of the line who hadn’t even been waiting like the rest of us. Some had already been on stage. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe When our disdain of that absolutely bonkers move was very audibly vocalized, that’s when the mood shifted to this idea that we were unreasonably entitled, when in fact, we had been the ones following the rules the entire time. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 5. Some Peacock people appeared to simply not give a [!@#$%^&*] about the event, the fans, or anything going on. I wonder how toxic of a work environment that place must be. Nobody looked happy. Nobody had microphones either, so they’d be talking and only 1 row in the front cld hear Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe Nobody came over to truly check in on us. The disdain for us was real. People in Peacock shirts saying they don’t even work there. They had no answers, but they had a ton of mouth. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe Here’s an example: After finally getting on stage at 3:40 pm and getting through the line by 4 something, some fans who had waited in the same seat all day decided to get glimpses of the stars! So we stood from afar and watched people go through the lines on stage. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe One guy told us rudely to clear the stage so they could do the Q&A (they were still signing!). When we explained why we were there and how long we waited he said “IT’S A FREE EVENT” in a tone that insinuated that we expected too much from something we didn’t pay for. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe Well he’s wrong: Everyone PAID to get there. I invested my time and gas and the $40 parking fee. It didn’t cost to get in, but I didn’t [!@#$%^&*] float here on a cloud. Nobody did. We told him he was rude. He repeated it. I really almost didn’t stay for the Q&A and promo. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe At that point, the endless waiting and watching people cheat and cut and then those following the rules not being supported or treated well doesn’t foster the happy feeling the host poked at us for not having. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 6. The host tried to make that shitty situation work. Unfortunately, after hours of waiting, nobody wanted to play his games—they kinda followed the Peacock line of we were ungrateful rude assholes, when we were just sticking up for the right thing and continued to get 🥊 Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe He did get boos. Sorry my guy, ur the face/voice of the production. You ask us how we’re doing while being mistreated, you’re getting boos! Nothing personal. Just awful event business. But don’t make us feel bad for not being okay with sitting doing nothing for HOURS. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 7. One line of fans somehow managed to COMPLAIN their way from the back of the line to the stage. Someone Walked them through the side to HIDE it from us. We sat and watched people cut and cut, but were the assholes for calling out all the bad moves. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe But the juicy tea here is that it was said by one fan that one of the people associated with Dishin Days was behind sneaking them into the stage before people who had been waiting hours and hours. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 8. Nobody seemed to want to listen to the people in the seats who had been waiting. Why there was confusion when several people explained the situation was WILD. I did stand up and speak out for myself and others. When you have ME being loud in public, you’ve really fucked up. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe 9. At the end of the day, this was a FAN event. The actors appreciate and understand our dedication to the show, but the Peacock event people don’t—AND THIS IS ONE OF THEIR PEACOCK ORIGINALS!?This is not some random title they’re hosting. Truly embarrassing and disheartening. Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe Everything this year felt like it was done begrudgingly, and they turned the fans (the ones following their [!@#$%^&*] rules and paying their Peacock subscriptions!) into the bad guys here. Sorry, the John Black in me is not buying it. Stefano, get back. #DayofDays2024 --- --- --- --- Question from @doolfan777451 Were you able to meet anyone? I feel so sorry for you guys of what happened. reply from Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe https://x.com/WhereAreYouBabe/status/1853135103205179807 Yes—around 3:40 pm after hours and hours of waiting and skipping lunch, I got to go to station one. But that was it. I asked if we could just get into a line since we had waited both times til the end. They did not allow that. 🤷🏻‍♂️ --- --- --- --- https://x.com/WhereAreYouBabe/status/1853135239922762024 Matthew @WhereAreYouBabe The actors were great! The staff running the show let us all down. 10:00 AM · Nov 3, 2024

For the past few years, the Day of Days promo video hasn't been a fall promo. Instead, it has been a "trailer" for the full season with snippets of what's already been filmed, and usually covers around five months. In this case, it's more like 7 months or more. This is a trailer for Season 60 (as the thread title says).

@Errol I know you've been busy at Day of Days and I totally appreciate/anticipate your reporting from that event. That does take priority! But when you can, please see if you can fix the twitter embedding issue. We can't post tweets from Day of Days on the D.o.D thread, and that's what I find fun, all the social media of the annual event that fans and cast post.

That weird phenomenon of embedded IG posts overlapping into the next forum post ... is happening happening for me again too, intermittently. When this thread was first started, I was on WIndows 7 with outdated browsers. But a couple of months ago, I upgraded to a brand new PC with Windows 10 and currently updated browsers. The IG overlaps started again in the past week or two.

Apologies. Thankfully I was able to correct my post before the one-hour editing limit.

Cannot embed tweets -- this is happening for me and others. @Vee said on another thread that he cannot embed tweets on the first try, but it works if he tries multiple times over and over until it works. He said that for one post, it took him twelve tries to get one tweet to embed. I've tried over and over with no success at all.

Elizabeth Banks on "why I voted for Kamala Harris". Her reasons "why" are very thought-provoking. Deep and practical stuff. Not soundbites. on tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@elizabethbanks/video/7431691572913114399 a copy via someone's twitter: https://x.com/ChristinePThoma/status/1852105131128688854 And the same on Elizabeth Banks' IG https://www.instagram.com/p/DBw4qt_AYE4/

I'm a person without a car, and I live miles from the nearest bus stop. I rely on Amazon and Doordash to survive. This sucks. I've already been upset with Bezos and the Washington Post refusal to endorse Kamala Harris, which has caused me much angst about using Amazon. But now Doordash? WTF.

Yeah. I loved it when Michael changed his name to Quartermaine, and when Sonny was in prison in an orange jumpsuit. Best era. GH should not have changed that.

Very gross thing for anyone to say, yeah.

I am too US-centric. I saw a headline about Georgia and the election... I read too fast, skimmed, saw mentions of Georgia, a recount, a political party, accusations of electoral irregularities, a stolen election, protests about fraud, intimidation, ballot stuffing, multiple voting, unprecedented levels of voter bribery and expulsion of observers from polling stations. Prosecutors said they had opened 47 criminal cases over alleged electoral violations. Upon slowing myself down, I realized... The article is about an election in the *country* of Georgia. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/31/georgia-election-final-recount-ruling-party-victory-electoral-commission Re: the official results reported by the ruling party's electoral commission: a global research and data firm called those reported results “statistically impossible”. The EU and the US have demanded a full investigation.

Emma Samms MBE @EmmaSamms1 I don’t talk politics much on here, and I would never tell anyone how to vote, but if you’re interested at all in my thoughts on the election, read on - I’ve met Donald Trump. I found him to be NOT a good person. Not one bit. And I think America and the world deserve better.

I get the same message no matter how many times I try. Cannot post any tweets.

https://x.com/MicheleValJean/status/1851755648834220342 @Errol I cannot embed MVJ's tweets, I keep getting this error message from SON: "The link could not be embedded because there is no tweet at that URL." But there *is* a tweet there. Another tweet from MVJ https://x.com/MicheleValJean/status/1851873259874128083 I *can* embed her IG posts. https://www.instagram.com/p/DBxkQ0zI3zs/ michelevaljean Right before the table read! Look at this beautiful cast So honored #BeyondTheGates

Stories won't embed but she also put it in an IG post jen.jacob Fully reppin’ the brand. Love my #beyondthegates family already. If I’m dreaming, don’t wake me up, okay? #cbs #cbstv

Gregori J. Martin is new to daily broadcast TV soaps... but not new to soaps. He's been the showrunner for The Bay for around 13 years. (The Bay has a limited number of episodes per year, but still).

https://x.com/MicheleValJean/status/1850991464328667602

I'm strongly opposed to Brady/Ava. And strongly opposed to Brady/Kristen. The actors Tamara Braun and Stacy Haiduk seem like nice people in real life. But the characters of Ava and Kristen are horrible people.

The point was that some of them were *eligible* voters who born and raised in Virginia, or legally naturalized citizens, and never should have been removed to begin with. They were already removed during the past few months. It was an automated process that had a lot of errors. There was a lawsuit, and the federal district court judge said they should be restored. The issue now is that six days before the election, the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the other judge and now says that Virginia doesn't have to restore these voters to the voting rolls. Yes I agree that it's fascist tactics!

I posted this upthread, too late to edit to add on, so reposting with more ... Sonia Blangiardo is listed as a producer on the table-read script that Colby Muhammad posted on instagram this morning. Sonia Blangiardo Goins is currently a director at DAYS. She's the one that at least 25 of the DAYS cast&crew requested in a petition to be promoted to co-EP to replace the repugnant firedguy(Alarr.) . But DAYS promoted Janet Spellman Drucker to co-EP instead. from @JAS0N47 https://www.jason47.com/days/staffbios.html Sonia Blangiardo has previously directed at "As the World Turns" (2005-2010), "General Hospital" (2012-2013), "All My Children" (2013) and the web series "Winterthorne" (2015), and also was a producer on "All My Children", "As the World Turns", "One Life to Live" and the web series "Tainted Dreams." She has been nominated for 4 Daytime Emmys, winning two (2002 for "One Life to Live" and 2007 for "As the World Turns.") Blangiardo was born April 18, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York. She married actor Brandon Goins on April 6, 2018, and her first credit as Sonia Blangiardo Goins aired on May 1, 2018. Tenure: October 14, 2015-Present --- Quoting The Wrap from August 2023: https://www.thewrap.com/days-of-our-lives-co-ep-albert-alarr-fired-misconduct-investigation-peacock-nbcu/ An insider close to production told TheWrap that NBCU brass requested the extended hiatus to give the show time to find a path forward. Earlier this week, at least 25 members of the show’s cast and crew signed a petition obtained by TheWrap that detailed the “traumatic and disheartening” work environment made public in the reports, and asking for Alarr to be replaced as co-executive producer with longtime director Sonia Blangiardo. “As you make this critical decision with ‘Days of Our Lives’ moving forward, we humbly ask that you consider our collective voice in choosing the best leader for the future of our show,” read the letter. End quote from The Wrap. ---- ------------- I just wanted to add on that Ron Carlivati being listed as a breakdown writer ... Hopefully his misogynist tendencies will be counteracted by Sonia Blangiardo being hired on the producers team ... At least 25 of the cast and crew thought Sonia would be the best choice to turn the Days ship around after firedguy.A.

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Sonia Blangiardo Goins is currently a director at DAYS. She's the one that at least 25 of the DAYS cast&crew requested in a petition to be promoted to co-EP to replace the repugnant firedguy(Alarr.) . But DAYS promoted Janet Spellman Drucker to co-EP instead. from @JAS0N47 https://www.jason47.com/days/staffbios.html Sonia Blangiardo has previously directed at "As the World Turns" (2005-2010), "General Hospital" (2012-2013), "All My Children" (2013) and the web series "Winterthorne" (2015), and also was a producer on "All My Children", "As the World Turns", "One Life to Live" and the web series "Tainted Dreams." She has been nominated for 4 Daytime Emmys, winning two (2002 for "One Life to Live" and 2007 for "As the World Turns.") Blangiardo was born April 18, 1968 in Brooklyn, New York. She married actor Brandon Goins on April 6, 2018, and her first credit as Sonia Blangiardo Goins aired on May 1, 2018. Tenure: October 14, 2015-Present --- Quoting The Wrap from August 2023: https://www.thewrap.com/days-of-our-lives-co-ep-albert-alarr-fired-misconduct-investigation-peacock-nbcu/ An insider close to production told TheWrap that NBCU brass requested the extended hiatus to give the show time to find a path forward. Earlier this week, at least 25 members of the show’s cast and crew signed a petition obtained by TheWrap that detailed the “traumatic and disheartening” work environment made public in the reports, and asking for Alarr to be replaced as co-executive producer with longtime director Sonia Blangiardo. “As you make this critical decision with ‘Days of Our Lives’ moving forward, we humbly ask that you consider our collective voice in choosing the best leader for the future of our show,” read the letter. End quote from The Wrap. ----

When Hillary Clinton said "basket of deplorables" (at an LGBT campaign fundraising event in New York City on September 9, 2016), she was indeed talking about people and not attitudes, but still, she specifically said that applied to only HALF of Trump's supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket_of_deplorables Note the last paragraph is bigger and she talks about the well-meaning people who support Trump, the ones we have to understand and empathize with: Quoting Hillary from 2016: I know there are only 60 days left to make our case – and don't get complacent; don't see the latest outrageous, offensive, inappropriate comment and think, "Well, he's done this time". We are living in a volatile political environment. You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables. (Laughter/applause) Right? (Laughter/applause) They're racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic – you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up. He has given voice to their websites that used to only have 11,000 people – now have 11 million. He tweets and retweets their offensive hateful mean-spirited rhetoric. Now, some of those folks – they are irredeemable, but thankfully, they are not America. But the "other" basket – the other basket – and I know because I look at this crowd I see friends from all over America here: I see friends from Florida and Georgia and South Carolina and Texas and – as well as, you know, New York and California – but that "other" basket of people are people who feel the government has let them down, the economy has let them down, nobody cares about them, nobody worries about what happens to their lives and their futures; and they're just desperate for change. It doesn't really even matter where it comes from. They don't buy everything he says, but – he seems to hold out some hope that their lives will be different. They won't wake up and see their jobs disappear, lose a kid to heroin, feel like they're in a dead-end. Those are people we have to understand and empathize with as well. End quote.