Marvel fans were flying high with the release of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as the Disney+ series rose to top Nielsen’s closely watched streaming chart with 855 million minutes viewed during the April 12-18 frame. Yet one person fans were surprised to learn wasn’t watching was Ed Brubaker. The comic book writer, who co-created the Winter Soldier character and whose work helped inspire $1 billion grossers like 2016’s Captain America: Civil War, made waves with a widely circulated interview in which he expressed dissatisfaction with his Winter Soldier pay. “I have made more on SAG residuals than I have made on creating the character,” Brubaker told Kevin Smith and Marc Bernardin on the Fatman Beyond podcast, referencing his cameo in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014). In May, Ta-Nehisi Coates, whose run on Black Panther comics helped the $1.2 billion- grossing Chadwick Boseman film get greenlit, backed Brubaker in an interview with Polygon, noting that he was fortunate not to depend on comics for a living. “I wish that Marvel found better ways to compensate the creators who helped make Black Panther Black Panther,” said Coates.

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Delaware State Police are facing a lawsuit after four plainclothes officers in unmarked vehicles blockaded a woman in her car and held her at gunpoint, before realizing she was not the suspect they were searching for. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday night in U.S. District Court, seeks damages for “extreme emotional pain and suffering,” citing claims of excessive force, false arrest, assault and battery, and negligence. Martiayna Watson, 20, was leaving the BP Gas station at 201 S. Heald St. in Wilmington’s Southbridge neighborhood at 5:25 p.m. on June 24 when, according to the suit, she noticed a car driving slowly behind her. The car followed her to the 1000 block of Church St. when the car suddenly swerved in front of Watson to cut her off, stopped and reversed into her car. At the same time, a second car hit Watson from behind. A third and fourth car then pulled up on either side of her car, blocking her in. All four cars were unmarked Delaware State Police vehicles driven by plainclothes officers. “I thought I was about to be kidnapped,” Watson said Thursday during a press conference outside the gas station. The four plainclothes officers got out of their cars with guns drawn and pointed at Watson through her rolled-down windows, according to the suit. “What’s going on?” she asked. “Stop talking and shut the ---- up,” an officer said, the suit says. One of the officers broke the driver’s side rear window of Watson’s car, according to the suit, and another officer opened the door of her car and forcefully pulled out Watson.

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Sybil Elijah believes she contracted the coronavirus while working at a Texas chicken production plant and passed the virus to her husband, who later died. Elnora Brown also worked at the plant, and she died nearly a month later at age 60. Her husband is convinced she got covid-19 on the job. Those are among the claims in a lawsuit filed against Pilgrim’s Pride, a multinational food corporation with operations in several states, alleging the company wantonly disregarded worker safety and was grossly negligent. But the meatpacker is utilizing a new Texas law to argue the lawsuit should be thrown out. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) signed a bill last month raising the bar for what employees will have to prove to sue their employers for being exposed to the coronavirus at work. Consumer advocates and labor rights groups say the law effectively makes it nearly impossible for workers to win in court. “You cannot prevail,” said Remington Gregg, an attorney with the nonprofit group Public Citizen. “A worker cannot prevail under Texas law.” Although the lawsuit was filed in April, the new statute can be retroactively applied to cases stretching back to March 2020.

Without more sand, Louisiana’s barrier islands are shrinking at a rapid rate as sea levels rise, and becoming more costly to maintain. Jean Landry sits on her covered porch, 16 feet above ground. Hummingbirds hover just below her face as she sips her morning coffee. Half a mile away, the Gulf of Mexico laps against Grand Isle’s shores.On most days, the slow pace of life on Louisiana’s last inhabited barrier island fills Landry, 74, with peace. There’s only one road in and one road out, a remote paradise to the community of fewer than 1,500. Like the rest of Grand Isle’s full-time residents, Landry lives on “island time.” But that carefree phrase has taken on a grimmer cast as hurricanes and rain storms have intensified and the land sinks into the rising sea. Landry and some of her neighbors consider: How much time do Grand Isle and Louisiana’s 20 other disappearing barrier islands have? “What used to be 100-year storms became 50-year storms. Now, they’re 10-year storms, and sometimes, they don’t even give us 10 years in between,” said Landry, a conservationist. After Louisiana faced six tropical storms and hurricanes in 2020, she knows it’s related to climate change. “It’s here, and it’s a real thing. We’re seeing it; we’re living it.” Across the Gulf Coast, humans live and recreate on dozens of barrier islands, from Mississippi’s Ship Island to Florida’s Santa Rosa Island, home to Pensacola Beach. These narrow, sandy spits are the first line of defense against storm surge for ecosystems and inland coastal communities such as New Orleans. But compared to those protecting Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, the barrier islands of Louisiana are unstable, disappearing at a faster rate and becoming more costly to maintain.

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