I know two people who recently went to the US. One had to go for business reasons, and we assumed there would be no problems (although werent sure). Indeed no problems.
The other one went to visit family, and we were concerned. In that case there was an increased questioning at the airport but also no actual problems.
Now, both of these are pretty unpolitical people. If you have any past of sharing certain political views online or on your device: yeah don't even bother to think about going there.
Orr explained that the size of Universal’s rerelease slate this year was “more coincidental” than anything else, with all the films hitting anniversaries in 2025.
I'm pretty sure you get film anniversaries every year.. might be that Universal has more anniversaries for their biggest films this year than last, but surely they can find anniversaries every year.
This could be due to the server (in your case lemmynsfw.com) being set up a certain way and not serving your area well. I had this experience with my Mastodon instance when I was on vacation on the other end of the world.
I was confused there for a second but apparently the BBC has introduced a paywall only for US users. Site is still completely free to read anywhere else, which is why I didnt even realize that there is a paywall.
Which of course means that US Americans could simply VPN their way around it..
They serve users in the UK, therefore they can be fined. There is an established way to not get fined by governments of states whose markets you operate in: get out of that market. Block traffic from the UK. It is not the country's obligation to block, it is the company's. This has been already played out over the years in courts.
Arnie definitely has a personal problem with things like Trump's climate policy, his anti-immigrant policy and some other stuff. He has no problem with gerrymandering to favour the GOP though apparently, and still won't go on record against the GOP - only against Trump personally.
I think there is nothing about race at all. Whitewash as in the meaning: to make something bad seem acceptable by hiding the truth.