#David Appel

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Tonka (1958)

Comanche : the story of Americas most heroic horse by Appel, David (1951)

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Chubby Checker - The Fly (1961) John Madara / David White from: "The Fly" / "That's The Way It Goes" (Single) "For Teen Twisters Only" (LP) "The Best of Chubby Checker: Cameo Parkway 1959-1963" (2005 ABKCO Records Compilation)

Rock and Roll | Rock/Pop | 1960's Dance Song

JukeHostUK (left click = play) (320kbps)

Personnel: Chubby Checker: Lead Vocals Joe Renzetti: Guitar Roy Straigis: Piano Fred Bender: Organ Joe Macho: Bass Ellis Tollin: Drums

Saxophone: Buddy Savitt Fred Nuzzullio Georgie Young

The Dreamlovers: Backing Vocals (A Doo-Wop Group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Members: Morris Gardner: Lead Don Hogan: Lead Clifton Dunn: Baritone Tommy Ricks: Tenor Cleveland Hammock: Tenor James Dunn: Bass

An Electric Shaver: Sound Effect of the Buzzing Fly

Produced by Dave Appell / Kal Mann

Recorded: @ Reco-Art Sound Recording Co. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA August/September 1961

Released: September: 1961

Parkway Records, Inc. (US) Columbia Graphophone Company Ltd. (UK)

Musca Domestica

[gameofthunder66]

-watched 4/27/2024- 3 [1/2] stars- on Roku channel (free)

84% Rotten Tomatoes

EVAN RACHEL WOOD AS MADONNA IN WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY (2022) 

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20th Television Animation Brings Animation To San Diego Comic-Con 2024

Animation fans will have a lot to keep them busy and entertained at this year’s Comic-Con. Disney just announced its plans for its Hulu and 20th Television Animation festivities and panels set for the San Diego.

Friday, July 26

Solar Opposites, 2:00-2:45 p.m., Indigo Room. The popular animated series returns to San Diego Comic-Con ahead of a new season packed with new family values, mayhem in the Wall and some all-new Silvercops adventures. Join executive producers Mike McMahan and Josh Bycel, and cast Thomas Middleditch (Terry), Mary Mack (Jesse) and Sean Giambrone (Yumyulack) for an advance screening of a never-before-seen episode, and a discussion of the hilarious and out-of-this-world upcoming fifth season premiering Aug. 12 on Hulu.

The Great North, 3:00- 3:45 p.m., Indigo Room. Embark on an exhilarating journey to Lone Moose at Comic-Con. Catch an exclusive look behind the scenes of this animated comedy series that follows the quirky Tobin family as they navigate life together. Get to know the creative minds behind the series including creators and executive producers Wendy Molyneaux, Lizzie Molyneaux-Logelin, Loren Bouchard and the voices behind the Tobin family including Jenny Slate, Dulcé Sloan, Paul Rust and Aparna Nancherla to gain fascinating insights into the production of the show, its unique setting, and the colorful characters that inhabit the world of the Tobin family.

Bob’s Burgers,  4:00-4:45 p.m., Indigo Room. Join the Belcher family and the creative minds behind Bob’s Burgers for a can’t-miss panel. Creator and executive producer Loren Bouchard, executive producers Nora Smith, Holly Schlesinger and supervising director Bernard Derriman will break news about the upcoming season. The cast including H. Jon Benjamin, John Roberts, Kristen Schaal, Eugene Mirman, Dan Mintz and Larry Murphy will have the audience howling with laughter through exclusive sneak peeks, a lively panel discussion and Q&A.

Saturday, July 27

Futurama, 11:00-11:45 a.m., Ballroom 20. Neither snow nor rain nor cancellations nor pandemics nor Hollywood strikes can keep Futurama from blasting back into existence. Please join Matt Groening, David X. Cohen, Claudia Katz and “Futurama” superstars Billy West, John DiMaggio, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr, David Herman and Maurice LaMarche for a live sneak preview of the all-new season premiering July 29 on Hulu. They promise to spill the maximum legal dose of spoilers. Plus, there is the chance to walk away with debatably precious door prizes!

The Simpsons, 12:00-12:45 p.m., Ballroom 20. Show creators give an exclusive spooky sneak preview of “Treehouse of Horror 35” – the scariest 35th Halloween Special ever. Join panelists Matt Groening, Matt Selman, Rob LaZebnik, Tim Bailey, along with special guest moderator Kevin Smith and surprise terrifying guests for original drawings, prizes and more.

American Dad! 1:00-1:45 p.m., Ballroom 20.  Celebrate the enduring success of the show at Comic-Con with hilarity, hijinks and heartfelt moments. Dive into the quirky world of the Smith family and their eccentric friends and foes as this beloved animated series celebrates its ongoing success with stars Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Dee Bradley Baker, Jeff Fischer, and executive producers Matt Weitzman, Kara Vallow and Nic Wegener.

Family Guy 2:00-2:45 p.m., Ballroom 20.  It’s time to look back at 25 years of laughter, satire and iconic moments with the long-running show at this must-attend Comic-Con panel. This milestone event will bring together fans, the iconic cast including Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Jennifer Tilly, Gary Cole and Mike Henry, and executive producers Rich Appel, Alec Sulkin, Steve Callaghan and Kara Vallow to honor a quarter-century of hilarity, irreverence and unforgettable moments in Quahog. Whether a long-time fan or new to the Griffin family’s antics, this is the ultimate event to honor one of television’s most beloved and enduring animated series.

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Europeansim Council Summit: Francesim, Iona and Pierreland play spoilsport

The 8 heads of state of Europesim met for a summit of the Europeansim Council, one of the major institutions of the Europeansim Union. The role of the Europeansim Council is to decide on the next directions of the E.U. in the coming months, and it is currently presided over by the Empire of Francesim for 6 months.

Official photograph of the Europeansim Council summit.

H.I.M Emperor Napoléon V of the French, who presided over the meeting, wanted to impose stricter police measures throughout the EU.

The topics discussed at the diamond table focused mainly on the security of member states. As a reminder, Francesim and Iona have been the victims of attacks on their sovereigns, Emperor Napoléon IV and Queen Viviana I, in recent months. These terrorist acts raise many questions about policing and surveillance measures in the Europeansim Union. A few years ago, Pierreland also had to deal with a regicide.

H.I.M Emperor David of Pierreland brought his country's experience of crisis management to the diamond table.

While the national security vote is being prepared everywhere in the Europeansim institutions, uncertainty remains as to the severity of the legislation. This law is likely to have a major geopolitical impact on all Europeansim countries, allowing them to strengthen or not their surveillance measures, and leading to a clear reduction in individual freedoms.

Pierreland's proposals did not meet with unanimous approval, particularly from the heads of state in Iona and Greecesim.

Some countries, such as Greecesim, condemned these exchanges as a "terrible mistake". Queen Viviana II called for calm, proposing "reinforced surveillance" rather than fully aligning herself with the vigorous police measures proposed by the French Presidency.

From this meeting, we can only conclude that the Europeansim Council Summit will require further sessions to achieve fruitful debates. A rift between the Europesim countries is more than tangible, and is worrying the people of the E.U.

Collaboration with @funkyllama and @officalroyalsofpierreland

⚜ Traduction française

Sommet du Conseil européen : Francesim, Pierreland et Iona jouent les troubles-fêtes

Les 8 chefs d'états d'Europesim se sont réunis pour un sommet du Conseil Européen, l'une des grandes institutions de l'Union Européenne. Le Conseil Européen a pour rôle de décider des prochaines directions que prendront l'U.E les prochains mois, et est actuellement présidé par l'Empire de Francesim pour 6 mois.

Photographie officielle du sommet du Conseil Européen.

L'Empereur Napoléon V, président de la séance, a souhaité imposer des mesures policières renforcées dans toute l'U.E.

Les sujets engagés à la table losange se sont principalement concentrés sur le thème de la sécurité des états-membres. Pour rappel, la Francesim et l'Iona ont été victimes ces derniers mois d'attentats sur leur souverain, l'Empereur Napoléon IV et la reine Viviana I. Ces actes terroristes soulèvent beaucoup de questions quant aux mesures de police et de surveillance dans l'Union Européenne. On se souvient, quelques années plus tôt, que Pierreland avait également dû faire face à un régicide.

L'Empereur David de Pierreland a apporté à la table losange l'expérience de son pays en matière de gestion de crises.

Alors que le vote de sécurité nationale se prépare un peu partout dans les institutions européennes, l'incertitude demeure quant à la sévérité des textes de lois. Cette loi devrait avoir un impact géopolitique majeur sur l'ensemble des pays d'Europesim, leur permettant ou non de durcir leurs mesures de surveillance et entraînant une diminution des libertés individuelles.

Les propositions de Pierreland n'ont pas fait l'unanimité, notamment auprès des chefs d'états d'Iona et de la Grèce.

Certains pays comme la Grèce fustigent ces échanges parlant d'une "terrible erreur". La reine Viviana II appelle au calme en proposant une "surveillance renforcée" plutôt que de s'aligner totalement sur les mesures policières vigoureuses proposées par la présidence française.

De cette réunion, on peut seulement conclure que le Sommet du Conseil Européen nécessitera de nouvelles sessions pour parvenir à des débats fructueux. Une fracture entre les pays d'Europesim est plus que tangible et inquiète les habitants de l'U.E.

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Markled Tyler Perry RESCUES boys (& girls) that cry wolf.

Illinois Appeals Court Affirms Actor Jussie Smollett's Convictions and Jail Sentence | Newsmax.com

https://www.newsmax.com/us/jussie-smollett-illinois-appeal/2023/12/01/id/1144444/

An appeals court upheld the disorderly conduct convictions Friday of actor Jussie Smollett, who was accused of staging a racist, homophobic attack against himself in 2019 and lying about it to Chicago police.

Smollett, who appeared in the TV show "Empire," challenged the role of a special prosecutor, jury selection, evidence and many other aspects of the case. But all were turned aside in a 2-1 opinion from the Illinois Appellate Court.

Smollett had reported to police that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack by two men wearing ski masks. The search for the attackers soon turned into an investigation of Smollett himself, leading to his arrest on charges he had orchestrated the whole thing.

Authorities said he paid two men whom he knew from work on "Empire," which filmed in Chicago. Prosecutors said Smollett told the men what slurs to shout, and to yell that he was in "MAGA country," a reference to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign slogan.

A jury convicted Smollett in 2021 on five felony counts of disorderly conduct, a charge that can be filed in Illinois when a person lies to police.

He now will have to finish a 150-day stint in jail that was part of his sentence. Smollett spent just six days in jail while his appeal was pending.

A message seeking comment from his attorney, Nenye Uche, was not immediately returned. Lawyers for Smollett, who is Black and gay, have publicly claimed that he was the target of a racist justice system and people playing politics.

Appellate Justice Freddrenna Lyle would have thrown out the convictions. She said it was "fundamentally unfair" to appoint a special prosecutor and charge Smollett when he had already performed community service as part of a 2019 deal with Cook County prosecutors to close the case.

"It was common sense that Smollett was bargaining for a complete resolution of the matter, not simply a temporary one," Lyle said.

Special prosecutor Dan Webb was appointed to look into why the case was dropped. A grand jury subsequently restored charges against Smollett in 2020, and Webb concluded there were "substantial abuses of discretion" in the state's attorney office during the earlier round.

Smollett was not immune to a fresh round of charges, appellate Justices David Navarro and Mary Ellen Coghlan said in the majority opinion.

"The record does not contain any evidence that (prosecutors) agreed Smollett would not be further prosecuted in exchange for forfeiting his bond and performing community service," they said.

Copyright 2023 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission

[greenerteacups]

hi!! adore you and your work!! sort of went down a rabbit hole today on your page scrolling through asks, and i just wanted to piggyback off a question you had received a while back on faceclaims for the lionheart characters (draco being skarsgard/jamie campbell bower coded weirdhot is the REALEST thing)- could you please tell us the same for the others? esp the slytherins: daphne, theo, pansy

i don't particularly have a logic for this, but i see hannah dodd as daphne and alice pagani as pansy, while im constantly confused between lorenzo zurzolo and louis partridge for theo. would love to hear about what you think!!

Oh thank you! You're very kind!

Hannah Dodd is a wonderful fancast for Daphne. I hope I don't change your mental image of her by offering another — the idea of having a personal imagining of a character I wrote is so very dear to me and makes me so happy, I'd be loathe to mess with it. Plus, I don't really see specific human faces when I'm writing, so these are just "well, if I had to cast, these guys would be really fun to watch tackle the role!"

That being said, Daphne I could also easily see being performed by one of those Old Hollywood actresses. She's got the classic yellow curls, big sad baby blue eyes, round face, that kind of thing. Young Grace Kelly, Mae West, that kind of girl. Astoria is repeatedly described as visually similar or identical, so she kind of gives me baby Bette Davis — something about that pinched little smirk of a mouth.

I love Alice Pagani as Pansy, honestly, no notes. Exactly captures the "thousand-yard-stare that could be exhausted contemplation of her own fucked-up life or a quick brainstorming session for ways to bitch you out." Also has the great "consumptive chic??" situation going on, which is very Pansy. I once also described as a young Christina Ricci, which is a similar if not identical vibe.

Theo doesn't get much description in terms of looks, but Draco thinks of him as "rat-faced" at one point, which leans him towards the partridge side rather than the usual svelte zursolo faceclaim (though I think Partridge is quite good-looking and does not deserve the appellation "rat-faced," in fairness). I've thought of him when I've seen pictures of David Mazouz and Jack Dylan Grazer, too. Those actors look younger, which makes it easier to capture Theo as he actually *is,* now, at 15, rather than how I imagine him looking as an adult. Which is a common problem in faceclaims! We're all so used to 30-somethings playing teenagers the cultural consciousness is not used to imagining realistic 15 year olds on-screen.

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by David M. Litman

Nationally, hate crimes against Jews are at shockingly high and disproportionate levels, with four times as many anti-Jewish crimes as anti-Muslim and anti-Arab crimes combined. One need only look at some of the recent scenes on campus, such as anti-Israel demonstrators besieging Jewish students locked in a room at Cooper Union, to understand why Jewish students are afraid.

Moreover, it is not the pro-Israel rallies and activists that have regularly descended into violence, intimidation, and vandalism — or barrages of antisemitic and genocidal chants.

It is the Jewish students who are being attacked at their own rallies or while putting up posters of innocent Israeli civilians taken hostage by Hamas. It is Jewish students who are being forced to reject a central part of their Jewish identity if they want to participate in university functions.

We know where much of this hate is coming from. As shown by one study, the presence of the major anti-Israel student organization, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), is one of the best predictors for the perception of a hostile climate for Jews on campuses.

As one New York appellate court ruling explained, a university’s conclusion that an SJP chapter would “work against, rather than enhance [a university’s] commitment [to] open dialogue” was “not without sound basis in reason” nor “taken without regard to the facts.”

Which brings us to the “cry” part of “crybully.”

Anti-Israel activists shriek and howl over alleged threats to their free speech. But the evidence is thin that there is any reason for anti-Israel students to feel that their freedom of expression is under any serious threat on campus.

Moves against various SJP chapters on universities have not been on the basis of their beliefs or expression, but rather their violations of legitimate university rules, and even plausible arguments that National SJP has run afoul of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

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[THE LEAGUE OF SELINA KYLE'S EVIL EXES]

7. White Mask (David Franco)

Reason for joining: foolishly thinks he can get her back

Power: stealing shit

Fun Fact: faked his death

6. Spark (???)

Reason for joining: ????

Power: enby swag and eletric metagene

Fun Fact: is a mystery dated her

5.Samuel Bradley

Reason for joining: wants to be remembered

Powers: cop (ew), basic bitch energy

Fun Fact: dresses like the 50's

4.Eiko Hasigawa

Reason for joining: had an unrelated fight with Selina and is (rightfully) pissed/ bad break up

Powers: yakusa, second catwoman skills, is just so freaking cool

Fun Fact: It's really fun to talk to/ the americanisation of her surname is not actually the real kanji translation

3. Riddler (Edward Nygma)

Reason for joining: thinks he can seduce Oswald by doing it

Powers: cane fight, twink powers, being annoying as hell, puzzles, nerd shit

Fun Fact: should really move on from Oswald (Clock King is interested)/will die if he tries to correct my speling here IDC (won't die if he hires me tho)/ does not have unpaid interns

2. Harley Quinn (Harleen Quinzel)

Reasons for joining: though it was a suport group/ just likes fighting/ it's a fun thing to do on the weekends

Powers: perfect fighting skills, clown swag, endless energy, psychology knowledge, friendly and fun

Fun Fact: is dating Ivvy/ was the one to come up with the fun fact category

1. Poison Ivvy (Pamela Isley)

Reasons for joining: Oswald is paying her/ it makes Harls happy

Powers: Controls plant, poison, planty mind control, cringe fall woman apeal, sexy appel, doctorade, is really really cool, activism

Fun Fact: makes great tea/ buys me coffee because she knows unpaid intership is evil

[THE SECRET LEADER OF THE WHOLE THING]

Penguin (Oswald Cooblepot)

Reasons for joining: thinks his ploy is going to make her want to date him

Powers: mafia boss, capitalism, a shit ton of money, umbrella, trains birds

Fun Fact: Never actually dated Selina/ has unpaid interns : (

[NEW TARGET]

Batman (Buce Wayne)

• Treat Level: High

• Reason for target: went to a real date with Selina

• Adicional info: Might have his own evil exes and they might have had a similar idea (look further into it)/ Riddler thinks he is hot / Single dad swag/ might be hiring(?)

made by Nico, the intern

[isagrimorie]

I'm rewatching Picard s3 and one of the things that's clear to me is that episodes 1-5 had more time to cook in the writer's room but episodes 6-9 were more undercooked.

(Frankly, to me, episodes 4 and 5 were the best. And Cindy Appel is now my favorite writer because that Ro Laren - Picard scene was chef’s kiss!)

Episode 6, The Bounty, while I love very much was actually supposed to be a different episode. They were underway trying to make it (a more Seven-centric episode of the season) but realized they didn't have the runway to produce it. So they had to pivot to a different episode, and with that, so many things had to change from episodes 6 to 9.

Episode 10 was already underway.

So the Daystrom Station was the fiddlier section of episode 5, and it did feel more like it. Episodes 7-8 they had to work in Vadic's backstory and transition the show from the Dragon to the real Big Bad.

Episode 9 was the in-between episode, that tbh could have folded in with episode 8. Episodes 8-9 were the episodes they were spinning their wheels more. It's probably between episodes 8 and 9, they got word they couldn't get Kate Mulgrew for episode 10.

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One of the fiddly things about the last half of Picard s3 is trying to move the characters where they needed to go, and one of those moving parts is how Vadic got inside Titan. And it’s the plot that doesn't really work, IMO.

The script needed another pass but I think they just didn’t have the time.

Picard gets his idea for the plan when Jack proposed he give himself up.

(And that’s the thing about Jack is that he works a lot better when the focus isn't on him and when he's a supporting character.)

All Jack’s bravado is just a mask and just like a different legendary Starfleet Captain, Jack's all too ready to trade his own life for other people.

Anyway, I’d like to think they cut out the scene with Seven and Shaw because Seven would, in not so many words call Picard's plan dumb. One of the times when Seven and Shaw would be in agreement.

I know it's just for narrative efficiency that they skipped over all of the Titan Command team's objections. (Also, probably, they can't afford to build another set, so much of showrunning is also budgeting.)

But what I wouldn't give to have seen Seven's truly furious and annoyed looks.

Picard’s plan is a truly bad plan.

(Some people lay the loss of life on Seven’s feet because she wouldn’t let Shaw die. Hell, season 4!Seven wouldn’t hesitate to pragmatically sacrifice Shaw— but then again who knew if that would be enough to kill a Section 31!Changeling?

But no, if fans are to play the blame game— this was Picard’s plan. So…)

And to give Picard some credit, it could have worked but they were also battling Lore. Unfortunately, the idiot ball was passed to Geordi and he left LoreData plugged into the ship’s computer.

Seven knew from experience when she was a former bad guy, and someone on occasion almost hijacked Voyager. And having experienced Voyager hijacked too, that the best way to prevent Titan from getting taken over is to not let any enemy combatants in if they could help it.

But, alas, to quote David Greenwalt: Show’s called Star Trek Picard, Not Star Trek Seven of Nine.

Also, aside from Seven’s brief misaimed defensive anger about being a Fenris Ranger in season 1… Picard’s never had to deal with a pissed off Seven of Nine yet.

He got it easy tbh!

Janeway weathered many a storm dealing with a furious, stubborn newly severed Borg.

I don’t know how Picard would have dealt with that Seven.

/edited.

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: May 5, 1992

Lyrics:

Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin

I came to win, battle me, that's a sin

I won't ever slack up, punk, ya better back up

Try and play the role and yo, the whole crew'll act up

Get up, stand up (c'mon) c'mon, throw your hands up

If ya got the feelin', jump up towards the ceilin'

Muggs let the funk flow, someone's talkin' junk

Yo, I bust him in the eye, and then I'll take the punk's ho

Feelin', funkin', amps in the trunk, and

I got more rhymes than there's cops at a Dunkin'

Donuts shop, sho' nuff, I got props

From the kids on the Hill plus my mom and my pops

I came to get down, I came to get down

So get out your seat and jump around

Jump around (jump around)

Jump around (jump around)

Jump around (jump around)

Jump up, jump up, and get down

jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!

(Steady on the left) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!

I'll serve your ass like John McEnroe

If your girl steps up, I'm smackin' the ho

Word to your moms, I came to drop bombs

I got more rhymes than the Bible's got Psalms

And just like the Prodigal Son, I've returned

Anyone steppin' to me, you'll get burned

'Cause I got lyrics, but you ain't got none

If ya come to battle, bring a shotgun (shotgun)

But if you do, you're a fool, 'cause I duel to the death

Tryin' to step to me, you'll take your last breath

I got the skill, come get your fill

'Cause when I shoot the gift, I shoot to kill

I came to get down, I came to get down

So get out your seat and jump around

Jump around (jump around)

Jump around (jump around)

Jump around (jump around)

Jump up, jump up, and get down

jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Steady on the right)

I'm the cream of the crop, I rise to the top

I never eat a pig 'cause a pig is a cop

Or better yet a Terminator, like Arnold Schwarzenegger

Tryin' to play me out like as if my name was Sega

But I ain't goin' out like no pro, bitch

Get used to one style and yo, and I might switch

It up, up and around, then buck, buck ya down

Put out ya head and then ya wake up in the Dawn of the Dead

I'm comin' to get ya, I'm comin' to get ya

Spittin' out lyrics, homie, I'll wet ya

I came to get down, I came to get down

So get out your seat and jump around

Jump around (jump around)

Jump around (jump around)

Jump around (jump around)

Jump up, jump up, and get down

jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Steady on the right)

jump! Jump! Jump! Jump!

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Everybody jump)

(Steady on the right) jump! Jump! Jump! Jump! (Steady on the right)

Songwriter:

yo, this is dedicated

(Steady on the right) to Joe "The Biter"

(Steady on the right) Nicolo

(Steady on the right) grab the bozack

(Steady on the right) punk

(Steady on- steady on the right)

(Steady on the right)

(Steady on the right)

Erik Schrody / Larry E. Muggerud / Kal Mann / David Appell

SongFacts:

👉📖

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Josh Kovensky at TPM:

U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon for the Southern District of Florida dismissed the Mar-a-Lago records case against Donald Trump on Monday. Per the order, Cannon dismissed the case after finding that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s appointment violated the Constitution. Cannon’s determination that Smith was unlawfully appointed effectively endorses a legal theory tested multiple times in previous cases and dismissed, rooted in the idea that the Attorney General cannot appoint and fund a special counsel absent authorization from Congress. That was seen as an absurd notion, and one contravened by decades of special counsel investigations under the current statute.

But it received a boost both after Cannon held a multi-day hearing on the question and after Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas supported the idea in a concurrence in the Trump immunity ruling. Cannon cited that concurrence throughout her order. The immediate effect of the dismissal will be to end what was seen as the simplest and most threatening of the criminal cases against Trump. Trump’s decision to retain classified records after the government repeatedly asked for them to be returned took place nearly entirely after he left office, and purportedly imperiled some of the most sensitive national security information the government possesses.

The outright dismissal will allow Smith to appeal Cannon’s ruling to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. Until Monday, Cannon had mostly ruled in ways that deprived the parties of the ability to appeal, effectively delaying any potential trial until after the November election.

The ruling caps more than a year of stunning decisions from Cannon, beginning in the investigation’s pre-indictment phase. Then, Cannon broke with fundamental principles of criminal law to order a halt to the investigation after Trump filed a civil suit seeking the same. [...] In this case, Cannon’s decision to dismiss the case by finding that Smith was unlawfully appointed reads more like an appellate – or Supreme Court – ruling than that of a district court judge, typically charged with applying existing precedent. Cannon’s ruling both nakedly benefits Trump and contravenes rulings issued by other conservative judges. Hunter Biden, for example, moved to dismiss the gun charges against him by arguing that Special Counsel David Weiss was improperly appointed. The judge in that case, a Trump appointee, rejected the motion. It’s one of many examples in which other judges – even of the same ideological stripe – rejected the legal theory that Cannon endorsed on Monday.

Right-wing Trump-appointed judicial activist Aileen Cannon issued a ruling today in United States v. Trump dismissing the Jack Smith Special Counsel investigation regarding the classified document theft and Espionage Act violations. It is repulsive that Trump is allowed to get away with committing blatant document theft at Mar-A-Lago.

Smith is expected to appeal the ruling to the 11th Circuit Court.

See Also:

HuffPost: Judge Dismisses Trump’s Classified Documents Indictment

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À quoi bon faire un film si on connaît le sujet ? C’est le manque du sujet qui appelle le film. La raison du film, c’est précisément la découverte du sujet. On est dans cette attente. Le regard doit tenir comme ça. C’est le vrai suspens. Chaque plan est imprévisible parce qu’on ne part pas du sujet mais qu’on y va.

Jean-Claude Rousseau, Entretiens avec David Yon, 2003-2004.

[xenopoem]

Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori (TRS 109)

YOU CANNOT ESCAPE THE INEFFABLE FOREST

Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori: Appendix 8.2.3 is a xenopoetic data/dada anthology that documents the activities of the artist collective The Ministry of Transrational Research into Anastrophic Manifolds. The anthology results from an experimental approach to impersonal literary composition. Similar to surrealist definitions, but on the scale of a technical document, members of the Ministry—poets, musicians, novelists, painters, curators, artists, scientists, philosophers, and physicians—were asked to offer a microfiction, poem, essay, fictional citation, or computer code, in the form of a footnote or annotation to a glitch-generated novel by iconoclastic Japanese artist Kenji Siratori; however, each participant wrote their contribution without any access to or knowledge about the nature of Siratori’s source text. After collecting the contributions, the “footnotes” were each algorithmically linked to an arbitrary word from Siratori’s novel. The result is a work of xenopoetic emergence: a beautifully absurd, alien document scintillating with strange potency. Bringing together algorithmically and AI-generated electronic literature with analogue collage and traditional modes of literary composition, the Ministry refuses to commit solely to digital, automated, or analogue art and instead seeks technological mutualism and a radically alien future for the arts. Accompanied by a groundbreaking original score by electro-acoustic duo Wormwood, the anthology offers the radical defamiliarization and weird worlds of science fiction, but now the strangeness bites back on the level form. Readers should expect to discover strange portals from which new ways of thinking, feeling, and being emerge. A conceptual and experimental anthology, Official Report on The Intransitionalist Chronotopologies of Kenji Siratori inaugurates collective xenopoetic writing and the conceit that the future of art will consist of impersonal acts of material emergence, not personal expression. Consume with caution.

AUTHORS AND CONTRIBUTORS Rosaire Appel, Louis Armand, David Barrick, Gary Barwin, Steve Beard, Gregory Betts, Christian Bök, Mike Bonsall, Peter Bouscheljong, Maria Chenut, Shane Jesse Christmas, Roy Christopher, Tabasco “Ralph” Contra, Mike Corrao, R.J. Dent, Paul Di Filippo, Zak Ferguson, Colin Herrick, S.C. Hickman, Maxwell Hyatt, Justin Isis, Andrew Joron, Chris Kelso, Phillip Klingler, Adam Lovasz, Daniel Lukes , Ania Malinowska, Claudia Manley, Ryota Matsumoto, Michael Mc Aloran, Andrew McLuhan, Jeff Noon, Jim Osman, Suarjan Prasai, Tom Prime , David Leo Rice, Virgilio Rivas, David Roden, B.R. Yeager, Andrej Shakowski , Aaron Schneider, Gary J. Shipley, Kenji Siratori , Sean Smith, Kristine Snodgrass, Sean Sokolov, Alan Sondheim, Simon Spiegel, Henry Adam Svec, Jeff VanderMeer, R.G. Vasicek, Andrew C. Wenaus, William Wenaus, Eileen Wennekers, Christina Marie Willatt, Saywrane Alfonso Williams, D. Harlan Wilson, Andrew Wilt

early September release

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New York Appellate Judge Stops Ridiculous New York Gag Order of President Trump - The Last Refuge

"Earlier today appellate judge David Friedman finally intervened in the insufferable gag order and put some common sense back into the case putting a stay on the lower court order.

NEW YORK (AP) — A gag order that barred Donald Trump from commenting about court personnel after he disparaged a law clerk in his New York civil fraud trial was temporarily lifted Thursday by an appellate judge who raised free speech concerns.

Judge David Friedman of the state’s intermediate appeals court issued what’s known a stay — suspending the gag order and allowing the former president to freely comment about court staff while a longer appeals process plays out.

The trial judge, Arthur Engoron, imposed the gag order on Oct. 3 after Trump made a false comment about the judge’s law clerk on social media. He later fined Trump $15,000 for violations and expanded it to his lawyers after they questioned the clerk’s prominent role in the trial.

Ruling at an emergency hearing Thursday, Friedman questioned Engoron’s authority to police Trump’s speech outside the courtroom — such as his frequent gripes about the case on social media and in comments to TV cameras in the courthouse hallway.

Friedman said that while it’s true that judges often issue gag orders, they’re mostly used in criminal cases where there’s a fear that comments about the case could influence the jury. Trump’s civil trial doesn’t have a jury.

Trump lawyer Christopher Kise said after Friedman ruled that the appellate judge “made the right decision and allowed President Trump to take full advantage of his constitutional First Amendment rights to talk about bias in his own trial, what he’s seeing and witnessing in his own trial — which, frankly, everyone needs to see.”

Another Trump attorney, Alina Habba, indicated she has no plans to advise the former president to stay quiet about the clerk. (read more)

The temporary pause in Engoron’s gag orders comes as a separate, more sweeping gag order on Trump in his criminal case in Washington, D.C. has also been lifted pending oral arguments before an appeals court scheduled for Monday.

Engoron's clerk is good friends with Chuck Schumer and DJT told the world about it on social media. How is that "false info?"