Michael Matza retweeted
Here is George Clooney’s response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."
"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.
So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.
People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?
He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!
When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.
He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"
- George Clooney
actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist
How York County became the most dangerous place for immigrants in the Eastern U.S. inquirer.com/opinion/york-ca…
Michael Matza retweeted
Lesley Stahl, an 84-year-old American journalist for CBS's 60 Minutes, goes to the West Bank to better understand the extremist "Hill Top Youth" settler movement, which was preventing a local Palestinian from reaching his home.
Violent kid: "What are you? You with Hamas?"🤦♂️🫠
Michael Matza retweeted
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Michael Matza retweeted
L’impunité, le plus grand fléau de mon pays, #Haïti. Elle banalise le crime, encourage les abus et détruit peu à peu la confiance dans les institutions. Tant que personne n’aura à répondre de ses actes, rien ne changera...
#faisonsleschosesautrement #fautqueçachange
Michael Matza retweeted
The Haitian government has hired Roger Stone as a lobbyist. $65k a month. Having Rubio’s friend Carlos Trujillo wasn’t good enough, had to get someone in Trump’s circle too, I guess.
Michael Matza retweeted
Gangs yesterday attacked Saint-Michel-de-l'Attalaye, a gateway to northern Haiti. At least one man dead after being shot in the head & one injured. The woman was wounded as well, according to the mayor. If gangs take the area one might as well say they’ve taken the entire country, he added, noting it’s a doorway to the north.
Michael Matza retweeted
Haiti has seen a wave of kidnappings in recent days including one this morning and another in its northern region. Still, this @DHSgov flight that was supposed to arrive in Cap-Haitien from this morning only momentarily took off. People, already shackled 13 hours plus flight time, will be landing after govt offices have already closed and in the dark, forced to find safety in a country plagued by gang violence and kidnappings. flightaware.com/live/flight/…
Michael Matza retweeted
NEW: As Haiti reels from a gang attack in which 47 people were killed and more than 50 kidnapped, the US on Thursday deported more than 50 people to the troubled Caribbean country, including two young children
apnews.com/article/haiti-gan…
Michael Matza retweeted
One thing I think people are getting wrong about Haiti: armed groups can easily escalate. Despite the widespread terror in recent years, things could be made SO much worse. The de facto authorities and international community want to "bring the fight" to the gangs. But they won't be able to protect the population when it inevitably leads to escalation. As usual, it will be the most marginalized paying the heaviest price.












