#Emily Claire Hari is Michael Hari

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Another violent man trying to worm his way into spaces with vulnerable women. Did he feel like a woman when he attacked a women’s health center?

By Anna Slatz March 20, 2024

A trans-identified male serving a 53-year sentence for multiple domestic terrorism charges is suing the Bureau of Prisons, demanding transfer to a women’s prison. Emily Claire Hari, formerly known as Michael Hari, led a ragtag right-wing militia called Patriot Freedom Fighters, later re-named to the White Rabbits.

Hari, along with the small group, began engaging in criminal activity in 2017 with the intention of carrying out acts of domestic terrorism. In August of that year, Hari’s group set an improvised incendiary device near the Imam’s office of the Dar-al Farooq Islamic Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. One of Hari’s associates, Micheal McWhorter, would later confirm the purpose of the attack was to “scare Muslims out of the United States.” No one was injured in the attack.

In November of 2017, Hari and his “soldiers” targeted the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois, where they threw a pipe bomb into the building. The bomb did not detonate and was found by a receptionist of the clinic who called police to safely extract the device from the facility. 

Hari in Sherburne County Jail in 2021.

Hari and his militia would go on to engage in a series of petty crimes in an attempt to gather the funds to continue their operations, including robbing a Hispanic man and holding up two local Walmarts in Clarence, Illinois in December of 2017.

In early 2018, Hari and his ‘militia’ attempted to sabotage railroad tracks near Effingham, Illinois with a bomb. After the attack, the group sent ransom emails demanding $190,000 in cryptocurrency under threat they would damage the railway further. 

Shortly after, Hari tried to frame another individual for the crimes, but the effort would only lead to Federal Investigators more easily tracking him and the members of his militia down.

Hari and his colleagues were ultimately arrested, and, in 2021, Hari was sentenced to 53 years for his role in the Dar al-Farooq bombing. He later received an additional 14 years in 2022 on a number of other charges related to his domestic terrorist activity and the attempted bombing of the women’s clinic. The 14 years is to be served concurrently with the 53-year sentence.

During his trial, it was revealed that Hari identified as a transgender “woman.” While leading the White Rabbit militia, he had been searching terms such as ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet. Hari allegedly planned on fleeing to Thailand to get ‘gender affirming’ surgeries.

Hari had asked the court to take his gender dysphoria into consideration, and made a request for an amended federal prison placement based on his identity. The details of his request were placed under a seal and the presiding judge stated he would defer to the Bureau of Prisons to make the final call.

But Reduxx has now learned that the judge in the case recommended Hari be placed at FMC Carswell, a female institution, but that Bureau of Prisons instead sent him to a men’s facility. As a result, Hari launched a lawsuit agains the Bureau of Prisons in late 2022 in a case that has been quietly making its way through the US District Court in the Central District of Illinois.

Hari is seeking transfer to a women’s prison under the Bureau of Prison’s transgender policy, which was amended in February of 2022 to make a transgender inmate’s “personal safety” and gender identity a priority when determining housing.

In his complaint, which was hand-written, Hari claims he has been subjected to sexual harassment by “dangerous tranny chasers,” and made fun of for his gender identity. He has since filed over two dozen “exhibits,” attempting to show the court he does not belong in a men’s prison. Among these exhibits include photos of himself wearing a dress-like inmate uniform.

Hari formally applied for transfer to a women’s prison in October of 2023, attempting to exhaust his internal remedies.

In an email exchange dated January 10, 2024, the Transgender Executive Council, which makes housing decisions, re-affirmed his placement at the men’s facility and told Hari his case would be re-reviewed in November — something Hari had been told repeatedly in the past.

In a Motion for Miscellaneous Relief, Hari claimed that if he were not transferred to a women’s prison in November, he would go on a hunger strike and slice off his own penis.

“The hunger strike is a political protest against both the conditions that I have been held under, and the conditions that my transgender sisters have been held under in BOP custody,” Hari wrote. “If I am not given some reasonable assurance that I am to be moved to a gender affirming housing by November 5, I will initiate a hunger strike and auto-castration on that date.”

From the motion for miscellaneous relief filed on November 13, 2023.

Hari is currently housed at Allenwood USP, a high-security facility in Pennsylvania for male offenders. While he is classified as a “male” inmate, his name in the BOP system has been changed from “Michael” to “Emily.”

If Hari is moved to FMC Carswell, he will be one of several dangerous trans-identified males held at the facility.

As previously broken by Reduxx in December, a trans-identified male convicted of rape and child sexual abuse was transferred FMC Carswell after launching a lawsuit against the Bureau of Prisons claiming “discrimination.” July Justine Shelby, born William McClain, was convicted on multiple counts of child pornography trafficking after being caught distributing photos of infants being sexually abused.

According to Keep Prisons Single Sex USA, there are approximately 1,980 transgender offenders in the federal system, of which 1,295 are trans-identified males. Of them, almost 50% are in custody for sex offenses. This is compared to just 12% of the general federal inmate population, meaning that trans-identified males are incarcerated for sex offenses at a rate of almost four times that of non-transgender inmates.

Between 2022 and 2023, there was an almost 23% increase of federal inmates who identified as transgender.

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2024 Reading List Updated Jan 28 lol July 8 Oct 31

Read so far:

Shy, Max Porter

Love and Other Poems, Alex Dimitrov

I said the sea was folded, Erik Jansen

High Risk, Ben Timberlake

Excavations, Kate Myers

Trick Mirror, Jia Tolentino

Lioness, Emily Perkins

Hummingbird Salamander, Jeff VanderMeer

People Like Her, Ellery Lloyd

Wintering, Katherine May

Lost Connections, Johann Hari

The Club, Ellery Lloyd

Darling Girls,

Funny Story, Emily Henry

Everyone in my Family Has Murdered Someone

First Love, Lily Dancyger

Entitlement,

Confessions, Kinae Minato

The Art Thief, Michael Finkel

Pageboy, Elliot Page

American Mermaid, Julia Langbein

Currently Reading:

Horse,

Monsters, Claire Dederer

Blueberries, Ellena Savage

Want to Read:

Splinters, Leslie Jamison (out Feb 20!!)

All Fours, Miranda July

Alphabetical Diaries, Sheila Heti

Land of Milk and Honey, C Pam Zhang

Arrangements in Blue, Amy Key

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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums -  P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents  - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen 

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

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CJ current events 16sep21

Where’s my luminol?

Gabby Petito and Brian Laundrie hopped in her van in July and drove from Florida to Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming and points west.  He recently rolled back to Florida, and Gaby hasn’t been seen since Facetiming her mom around 23Aug.  He released a statement:

“On behalf of the Laundrie family it is our hope that the search for Miss Petito is successful and that Miss Petito is re-united with her family,” said the statement, issued through an attorney.

“On the advice of counsel the Laundrie family is remaining in the background at this juncture and will have no further comment,” it said.***  https://nypost.com/2021/09/14/gabby-petitos-boyfriend-issues-statement-over-her-disappearance/

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SALT LAKE CITY — A search warrant obtained by FOX 13 has revealed additional information about the double murder of Moab couple Kylen Schulte and Crystal Turner.

The couple was reported missing and found dead days later on August 18 at their campsite in the South Mesa area of the La Sal Loop Road in Grand County, according to The Grand County Sheriff’s Office.***

"Investigators were informed that Kylen had mentioned to her friends that if something happened to them, that they were murdered. Kylen had continued by saying there was a “creepy man” around their camp and they had been intimidated by him," the search warrant states.

The last time the couple was seen was on the night of August 13, leaving "Woody's Tavern" at about 10:30 p.m.***  https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/search-warrant-documents-reveal-new-details-about-moab-double-murder 

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A friend discovered the victims partially undressed and riddled with bullet wounds, according to a warrant obtained by the Salt Lake City-based FOX 13.

Schulte worked nearby at a co-op grocery store called Moonflower – the organic, herb-scented bodega where Gabby Petito, 22, and Brian Laundrie, 23, got into an emotional argument that prompted a police response on Aug. 12.

The proximity of time and location prompted speculation that the two separate incidents may share another connection.

No charges were filed after the domestic call, but the incident was enough for a third-party witness to call 911. The engaged couple, who had been road-tripping across the country in a Ford Transit van since early July, told police that stress and undisclosed mental health issues had been building up ahead of the argument.

To be clear, there's been no evidence the two are connected at this time.

Police separated the two and set up Laundrie in a hotel overnight to cool things off. Petito stayed in the van – which Laundrie drove home to Florida without her on Sept. 1. That was 10 days before his fiancé’s mother reported her missing and six after Petito’s last known video call from Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.*** https://www.foxnews.com/us/utah-gabby-petito-crystal-turner-kylen-schulte-brian-laundrie 

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Good riddance

Emily Claire Hari, 50, f/k/a Michael Hari, was sentenced to life in prison for the Aug. 5, 2017, bombing of the Dar al-Farooq (DAF) Islamic Center in Bloomington, Minnesota.

On Dec. 9, 2020, following a five-week trial, Hari was convicted by a federal jury on all five counts of the indictment, including intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying religious property because of the religious character of that property; intentionally obstructing and attempting to obstruct, by force and the threat of force, the free exercise of religious beliefs; conspiracy to commit federal felonies by means of fire and explosives; carrying and using a destructive device during and in relation to crimes of violence; and possession of an unregistered destructive device.***

As proven at trial, during the summer of 2017, Hari established a terrorist militia group called “The White Rabbits” in Clarence, Illinois. Hari recruited co-defendants Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris to join the militia, which Hari outfitted with paramilitary equipment and assault rifles. On Aug. 4 and 5, 2017, Hari, McWhorter and Morris drove in a rented pickup truck from Illinois to Bloomington, Minnesota, to bomb the DAF Islamic Center. Hari targeted DAF specifically to terrorize Muslims into believing they are not welcome in the United States and should leave the country.

As proven at trial, Hari, McWhorter, and Morris arrived at DAF on Aug. 5, 2017, at approximately 5:00 a.m. At Hari’s direction, Morris used a sledgehammer to break the window of the Imam’s office at DAF and threw a plastic container with a mixture of diesel fuel and gasoline into the office. Then, also at Hari’s direction, McWhorter lit the fuse on a 20-pound black powder pipe bomb and threw it through the broken window. McWhorter and Morris ran back to the truck where Hari was waiting in the driver’s seat. The three men sped away from the building and drove back to Illinois. When the pipe bomb exploded, the blast caused extensive damage to the Imam’s office. It also ignited the gasoline and diesel mixture, causing extensive fire and smoke damage. At the time of the bombing, several worshipers were gathered in the mosque for morning prayers.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/dar-al-farooq-mosque-bomber-sentenced-53-years-prison

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An Ohio man was sentenced today to 20 years in prison for attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and attempting to commit a hate crime, for planning an attack on a synagogue in the Toledo, Ohio area.

Damon M. Joseph, aka Abdullah Ali Yusuf, 23, of Holland, Ohio, pleaded guilty in May 2021. According to court documents, in 2018, Joseph drew the attention of law enforcement by posting photographs of weapons and various messages in support of ISIS on his social media accounts, as well as a photograph originally distributed by the media wing of ISIS.*** https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-sentenced-20-years-prison-attempting-provide-material-support-isis-and-attempting-commit

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from https://www.tumblr.com/blog/view/badjokesbyjeff

What do you call a person who saw an apple store getting robed?

An iWitness.

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CHEVY CHASE, MARYLAND — Pro-abortion protesters gathered Monday evening to protest in front of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s home.

Led by activists from ShutDownDC, protesters gathered at a Maryland park before marching about half a mile down the street to the Kavanaugh family home, located in Chevy Case, one of the wealthiest areas in the country.***  https://dailycaller.com/2021/09/13/abortion-protest-kavanaugh-home-maryland-activists/

***Speaking at the start of a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) called the protests “another blatant attempt to intimidate the judiciary” and anyone who “disagrees with the radical agenda.”

He was joined in his denunciation by Democratic senators Richard J. Durbin (Ill.) and Patrick Leahy (Vt.), who said those unhappy with the court’s action should express themselves at the ballot box or outside the courthouse.*** https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/brett-kavanaugh-abortion-protest/2021/09/14/3973efc8-1574-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html

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“Politics ain't beanbag. We all know that you have to have a tough mental hide to be in this business,” said Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), who chairs the committee, during a panel hearing. “But it's absolutely unacceptable, from my point of view, to involve any major public figure’s family or their home.”*** https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/572186-senators-denounce-protest-staged-outside-home-of-justice-kavanaugh 

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – A Parkville, Missouri, man who was charged in two federal cases pleaded guilty in federal court [Monday, September 13, 2021] to his role in a $335 million scheme to defraud federal programs that award contracts to firms owned by minorities, veterans, and service-disabled veterans, and in a separate case to filing false tax returns that cheated the government out of more than $615,000 in taxes owed.

Patrick Michael Dingle, 50, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Roseann Ketchmark to the charges contained in both federal cases. Dingle pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire and major program fraud. Dingle also pleaded guilty, in a separate case, to one count of filing a false tax return.

$335 Million Fraud Conspiracy

By pleading guilty today, Dingle admitted that he conspired with Matthew C. McPherson, 45, of Olathe, Kansas, to fraudulently obtain contracts set aside by the federal government for award to small businesses owned and controlled by veterans, service-disabled veterans and certified minorities.

Dingle was the operations manager for Zieson Construction Company located in North Kansas City, Mo. Dingle and his co-conspirators controlled and operated Zieson, which was originally formed in 2009 with Stephon Ziegler – an African-American service-disabled veteran – as the nominal owner. Zieson’s primary business was obtaining federal construction contracts set aside for award to small businesses owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans or certified minorities. However, Ziegler did not control the day-to-day operations or the long-term decision making of Zieson. Dingle and his co-conspirators actually controlled and operated Zieson, and received most of the profits from Zieson.

Ziegler signed Zieson checks when requested to do so, signed bids for government jobs when requested to do so and served as a courier of checks and invoices when requested to do so. Ziegler did not participate in any way in the management and control of either day-to-day operations or long-term decision-making for Zieson.*** https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdmo/pr/parkville-man-pleads-guilty-335-million-fraud-615000-tax-violations

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How do we know this may be malware?

Before you ask, no I’ve never been to e-harmony, and I have no intention of going there.

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Dr Feelgood case

Dr. David Newman, 61, of Maryville, owned, operated, and was Medical Director of Tennessee Valley Pain Specialists (TVPS), a non-insurance, cash-equivalent pain clinic. Newman owned this clinic with Dr. Steven Mynatt. Newman continued to operate and serve as Medical Director of TVPS, despite knowing that Mynatt was prescribing opioids to patients outside professional practice and for no legitimate medical purpose. Newman and Mynatt were charged with drug-related offenses as part of the April 2019 Appalachian Regional Prescription Opioid Strick Force Surge. Mynatt entered a guilty plea related to his distribution of controlled substances at TVPS in February 2020 and will be sentenced on Feb. 9, 2022.

Newman pleaded guilty to unlawfully maintaining a drug premises. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Feb. 9, 2022, and faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. ***  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/tennessee-doctor-pleads-guilty-maintaining-illegal-drug-premises

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FBI seriously jacked up Nassar

Senators and victims alike expressed anger Wednesday over the Justice Department’s decision to decline prosecution against the FBI agents who botched the case against now-convicted sexual predator Larry Nassar, as well as the department's refusal to send a representative to testify why it had let officials off the hook.

Simone Biles, McKayla Maroney, and other U.S. gymnasts condemned USA Gymnastics, the Olympic committees, and the FBI for ignoring — or helping cover up — sexual abuse allegations about Nassar during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Wednesday. Maroney specifically called out Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco for not showing up to testify, and she criticized the Justice Department for not charging any FBI agents who botched the case or misled others about it.***  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/anger-doj-not-prosecuting-fbi-agents-botched-larry-nassar-case

FBI Indianapolis office had first hand victim statement against Nassar and failed to follow up with the FBI in Michigan.  One agent actually communicated about employment with U.S. Olympic Committee while the case was pending.

Gymnast testimony in Congress was compelling.

https://oig.justice.gov/sites/default/files/reports/21-093.pdf is the DOJ IG Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Handling of Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Former USA Gymnastics Physician Lawrence Gerard Nassar 

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Terrorist Militia Leader Gets 53 Years in Minnesota Mosque Bombing

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque was sentenced Monday to 53 years in prison for an attack that terrified the mosque’s community.

Christian Terrorist Emily Claire Hari, who was previously known as Michael Hari and recently said she is transgender, faced a mandatory minimum of 30 years for the attack on Dar al-Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington. Defense attorneys asked for the minimum, but prosecutors sought life, saying Hari hasn’t taken responsibility for the attack.

No one was hurt in the bombing, but more than a dozen members of the mosque community gave victim impact statements Monday about the trauma it left behind. U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank said evidence clearly showed Hari’s intent was to “scare, intimidate and terrorize individuals of Muslim faith.”

“Diversity is the strength of this country,” Frank said. “Anyone who doesn’t understand that doesn’t understand the constitutional promise of this country that brings a lot of people here.”

“Anything less than 636 months would (be) disrespect to the law,” the judge added.

Hari made a brief statement before she was sentenced, saying, “For how blessed my first 47 years of life were, I can’t complain about what the last three have looked like ... considering my blessed and fortunate and happy life, I can’t ask the judge for anything further.”

She also said the victims who testified during Monday’s hearing have been through a “traumatic ordeal” and she wished them “God’s richest blessings in Christ Jesus.”

Frank said he was prepared to recommend Hari go to a women’s prison, but said the Bureau of Prisons would decide.

Hari was convicted in December on five counts, including damaging property because of its religious character and obstructing the free exercise of religious beliefs.

Members of the mosque asked the judge on Monday to impose a life sentence, describing their shock and terror at the attack. Some were afraid to pray there afterward and have not returned. Mothers were scared to bring their kids to the mosque, which also serves as a charter school and community center.

“I felt really scared because I was going to start school in the same building soon and we lived like six blocks away from the mosque,” said Idris Yusuf, who was 9 when the bombing happened. “I was scared because if these people could do this to our mosque, what’s stopping them from coming to Muslim people’s homes too?”

Afterward, community members said they saw 53 years as justice for an attack that has rattled worshippers for more than four years.

“We were looking for life (in prison), but this is something we can settle for today,” said Khalid Omar, a community organizer and Dar Al Farooq worshipper.

Several men were gathered at Dar al-Farooq for early morning prayers on Aug. 5, 2017, when a pipe bomb was thrown through the window of an imam’s office. A seven-month investigation led authorities to Clarence, Illinois, a rural community about 120 miles (190 kilometers) south of Chicago, where Hari and co-defendants Michael McWhorter and Joe Morris lived.

Authorities say Hari, 50, led a group called the White Rabbits that included McWhorter, Morris and others and that Hari came up with the plan to attack the mosque. Prosecutors said at trial that she was motivated by hatred for Muslims, citing excerpts from Hari’s manifesto known as The White Rabbit Handbook.

McWhorter and Morris, who portrayed Hari as a father figure, each pleaded guilty to five counts and testified against her. They are awaiting sentencing.

It wasn’t initially clear how the White Rabbits became aware of Dar al-Farooq, but the mosque was in headlines in the years before the attack: Some young people from Minnesota who traveled to Syria to join the Islamic State group had worshipped there. Mosque leaders were never accused of any wrongdoing. Hari’s attorneys wrote in court filings that she was a victim of online misinformation about the mosque.

Assistant federal defender Shannon Elkins also said gender dysphoria fueled Hari’s “inner conflict,” saying she wanted to transition but knew she would be ostracized, so she formed a “rag-tag group of freedom fighters or militia men” and “secretly looked up ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the internet.”

Prosecutors said gender dysphoria is not an excuse and said using it “to deflect guilt is offensive.”

Prosecutors asked for several sentencing enhancements, arguing the bombing was a hate crime led by Hari. They also say Hari committed obstruction when she tried to escape from custody during her transfer from Illinois to Minnesota for trial in February 2019. Hari denied trying to flee.

Hari, a former sheriff’s deputy and self-described entrepreneur and watermelon farmer, self-published books including essays on religion, and has floated ideas for a border wall with Mexico. She gained attention on the “Dr. Phil” talk show after she fled to the South American nation of Belize in the early 2000s during a custody dispute. She was convicted of child abduction and sentenced to probation.

Before her 2018 arrest in the mosque bombing, she used the screen name “Illinois Patriot” to post more than a dozen videos to YouTube, most of them anti-government monologues.

Hari, McWhorter and Morris were also charged in a failed November 2017 attack on an abortion clinic in Champaign, Illinois. Plea agreements for McWhorter and Morris say the men participated in an armed home invasion in Indiana, and the armed robberies or attempted armed robberies of two Walmart stores in Illinois.

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Militia Leader Gets 53 Years In Minnesota Mosque Bombing

Militia Leader Gets 53 Years In Minnesota Mosque Bombing

2021-09-14 13:26:21 ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque was sentenced Monday to 53 years in prison for an attack that terrified the mosque’s community. Emily Claire Hari, who was previously known as Michael Hari and recently said she is transgender, faced a mandatory minimum of 30…

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USA: Illinois terrorist to be sentenced in ’17 Minnesota mosque bombing

USA: Illinois terrorist to be sentenced in ’17 Minnesota mosque bombing

www.UMMnews.org ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The leader of an Illinois anti-government militia group who authorities say masterminded the 2017 bombing of a Minnesota mosque is to be sentenced Monday for several civil rights and hate crimes in an attack that terrified a community. Emily Claire Hari, who was previously known as Michael Hari and recently said she is transgender, faces a mandatory…

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Noticias de series de la semana: Hora de aventuras

Renovaciones

CBS ha renovado Evil por una segunda temporada

BBC Two ha renovado Defending the Guilty por una segunda temporada

HBO Max ha revivido Adventure Time. Será una undécima temporada titulada Distant Lands.

Amazon ha renovado Modern Love por una segunda temporada

Cancelaciones

Freeform ha cancelado Cloak and Dagger tras su segunda temporada

ITV ha cancelado Beecham House tras su primera temporada

Noticias cortas

John E. Reid and Associates, Inc., liderada por un antiguo agente de policía pionero en las técnicas de interrogación, ha demandado a Netflix y Ava DuVernay por referirse incorrectamente a sus técnicas en When They See Us. En la serie se insinúa que la "Reid Technique" consiste en coaccionar al detenido sin comida, acceso a un baño o la supervisión de los padres. [Fuente]

FX ha despedido a Kurt Sutter, showrunner de Mayans MC, por múltiples quejas sobre su comportamiento. Esto no afecta a su trato con 20th Century Fox TV. Él mismo se describe como una persona abrasiva y desagradable. [Fuente]

CBS ha encargado nueve episodios adicionales de Bob Hearts Abishola, veintidós en total.

CBS ha encargado temporada completa para All Rise, Carol's Second Act y The Unicorn. No ha especificado el número exacto de episodios extra, que podría variar entre tres y once.

The CW ha encargado nueve episodios más para Batwoman y Nancy Drew, veintidós en total.

Megan Mullally (Karen) no aparecerá en dos de los episodios de la última temporada de Will & Grace. Se cree que podría ser debido a tensiones con sus compañeros.

Ashley Romans (Tabitha) será regular en la segunda temporada de NOS4A2.

Incorporaciones y fichajes

Carmen Maura (Volver, La comunidad), Cecilia Suárez (La casa de las flores, Todo por amor), Ernesto Alterio (El método, Días de fútbol), Carlos Cuevas (Merlí, Cuéntame cómo pasó), Alejandro Speitzer (La Reina del Sur, Enemigo Íntimo), el bailarín Isaac Hernández, Ester Expósito (Elite, Tu hijo), Pilar Castro (Cuestión de sexo, Los Serrano), Mariola Fuentes (Los abrazos rotos, Hable con ella), Eduardo Casanova (Aída, Gym Tony), Manuel Morón (Crematorio, La peste) y Juan Carlos Vellido (Hierro, Todos los hombres sois iguales) protagonizarán la miniserie Alguien tiene que morir en Netflix.

Lee Pace (Pushing Daisies, Halt and Catch Fire) y Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown) protagonizarán Foundation en Apple TV+. Serán Brother Day, el actual emperador de la galaxia; y Hari Seldon, un genio matemático que predice la caída del imperio.

Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill, Chicago P.D.) será recurrente en Love, Simon como Veronica, la nueva novia del padre de Mia (Rachel Naomi Hilson).

Freddie Prinze Jr. (I Know What You Did Last Summer, Scooby-Doo) será Travis, el exmarido de Punky (Soleil Moon Frye), en el revival de Punky Brewster.

Joseph Mawle (Game of Thrones, MotherFatherSon) se une a The Lord of the Rings. Los detalles no se han revelado, pero se cree que interpretará al villano Oren, frente al joven héroe Beldor (Will Poulter) y la protagonista Tyra (Markella Kavenagh).

Meagan Good (Minority Report, Californication) y Raymond Lee (Here and Now, Mozart in the Jungle) se unen como recurrentes a Prodigal Son. Serán Colette Swanson, agente del FBI que trabajó con Malcolm (Tom Payne); y el novio de Ainsley Whitley (Halston Sage).

Ryan Robbins (Arrow, Sacred Lies), Mishel Prada (Vida, Fear The Walking Dead: Passage) y Timothy Webber (Once Upon a Time, Loudermilk) serán recurrentes en la cuarta temporada de Riverdale como Fred, el hermano de Frank (Luke Perry); Hermosa, investigadora privada de Miami; y Forsythe Pendleton Jones I, el abuelo de Jughead (Cole Sprouse).

Hallie Todd (Jo), Robert Carradine (Sam) y Jake Thomas (Matt) volverán al revival de Lizzie McGuire.

Zosia Mamet (Girls, Tales of the City), Colin Woodell (The Originals, Devious Maids) y Rosie Perez (Search Party, Rise) serán Annie, la mejor amiga de Cassie (Kaley Cuoco); Buckley, un actor sin trabajo; y Megan, azafata jefe y amiga de Cassie; en The Flight Attendant.

Lela Loren (Power, Altered Carbon) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de American Gods como Marguerite Olsen, nueva vecina de Shadow Moon (Ricky Whittle).

Brittany O'Grady (Stars, The Messengers), Shalini Bathina (Undergrad), Sean Teale (Skins, The Gifted), Colton Ryan (Homeland), Samrat Chakrabarti (The Sinner, The Kindergarten Teacher), Gopal Divan, Sakina Jaffrey (Timeless, House of Cards) y Emma Hong (Glass) protagonizarán Little Voice.

Noah Emmerich (The Americans, The Spy), Fred Willard (Modern Family, Eveybody Loves Raymond), Jessica St. Clair (Playing House, American Housewife) y Don Lake (The Bonnie Hunt Show) serán recurrentes en Space Force como Kick Grabaston, jefe de gabinete de las fuerzas aéreas; Fred Naird, el padre de Mark (Steve Carell); Kelly King, una contratista que ayuda a Mark a construir una nueva base en Colorado; y Brad Gregory, asistente de Mark.

Amber Gray (Escape at Dannemora) será Gloria Valentine, hija de un esclavo y dueña de una plantación, en The Underground Railroad.

Poppy Drayton (The Shannara Chronicles) se une como regular a la segunda temporada de Charmed. Será Abigael, una poderosa y misteriosa bruja.

Cory Hardrict (The Oath) será recurrente en la tercera temporada de SWAT como Nate, hermano de acogida de Jim Street (Alex Russell).

Anne-Marie Duff (Shameless, His Dark Materials), Rafe Spall (The War of the Worlds, Roadies), Mark Addy (Game of Thrones, Downton Abbey), Annabel Scholey (The Split, Britannia), Johnny Harris (This Is England, Fortitude), MyAnna Buring (The Witcher, Ripper Street), Ron Cook (Mr. Selfridge, Chernobyl), Stella Gonet (Holby City, The Cry), Faye McKeever (Trollied, A Confession), Kimberley Nixon (Fresh Meat, New Blood) y Duncan Pow (Holby City, Flowers) protagonizarán Salisbury.

Chris Cooper (American Beauty, Adaptation) será Leonard Geist, un botánico excéntrico, en la segunda temporada de Homecoming.

Kevin James (Kevin Can Wait, The King of Queens) protagonizará y producirá The Crew, comedia de Netflix ambientada en el mundo de NASCAR. Será el jefe de equipo en un taller que debe aceptar a regañadientes a sus nuevos compañeros millennials.

Jaleel White (Family Matters) se une como recurrente a The Big Show Show, comedia de Netflix protagonizada por Big Show, la estrella de la WWE. Se desconocen detalles.

Cristela Alonzo (Cristela, The Laundromat), Helen McCrory (Harry Potter, MotherFatherSon), David Suchet (Poirot, Press), Kit Connor (Rocketman, War & Peace) y Joe Tandberg pondrán voz a Hester, Stelmaria, Kaisa, Pantalaimon y Byrnison en His Dark Materials.

Ken Watanabe (Incepcion, The Last Samurai) protagonizará Tokyo Vice, en HBO Max, junto a Ansel Elgort. Será Hiroto Katagiri, detective y figura paterna de Jake (Elgort).

Dylan Walsh (Nip/Tuck, Unforgettable) se une como recurrente a la décima temporada de Blue Bloods. Interpretará al nuevo alcalde de Nueva York.

Keegan-Michael Key (Key & Peele, Dolemite Is My Name) y Dylan McDermott (American Horror Story, The Politician) se unen como recurrentes a la tercera temporada de No Activity.

India de Beaufort (Kevin (Probably) Saves the World, Veep), Michael Thomas Grant (Roadies), Kapil Talwalkar (American Princess), Alice Lee (Brittany Runs a Marathon) y Stephanie Styles (Bonding, American Vandal) se unen como recurrentes a Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist. Serán Jessica, prometida de Simon (John Clarence Stewart); Leif, un programador desaliñado y dulce; Tobin, un programador inteligente pero sin habilidades sociales; Emily, esposa del hermano de Zoey (Andrew Leeds); Autumn, barista de la cafetería favorita de Zoey y Max (Skylar Astin).

Brad William Henke��(Orange Is the New Black, Lost) será Big John Gray, líder de una milicia en contra del gobierno.

Abby Brammell (9-1-1, The Unit) y Bambadjan Bamba (The Good Place) se unen como recurrentes a la sexta temporada de Bosch. Serán Heather Strout, una mujer de clase obrera que puede o no estar relacionada con los asuntos de su marido; y Remi Toussaint, la mano derecha de Jacques Avril (Treva Etienne).

Karine Vanasse (Cardinal, Revenge) será recurrente en la segunda temporada de God Friended Me como Audrey Grenelle, socialite francesa con una misteriosa conexión con la cuenta de Dios.

Ashley Zukerman (Manhattan, Succession), Marielle Scott (You, Lady Bird), Shane Harper (Awkward, Code Black) y Adam David Thompson (Godless, The Sinner) se unen como regulares a A Teacher. Serán Matt, el marido de Claire (Kate Mara); Kathryn, profesora de francés y nueva amiga de Claire; Logan, hermano mayor de Cody (Cameron Moulène); y Nate, hermano mayor de Claire. Rya Kihlstedt (Yellowstone, One Mississippi), Camilla Perez (Gotham, Star), Cameron Moulène (Foursome) y Ciara Bravo (Wayne, Red Band Society) serán recurrentes como Sandy, madre de Eric (Nick Robinson); Alison, exnovia de Eric; Cody, chico de fraternidad; y Mary.

Pósters

                Nuevas series

Hugh Laurie (House M.D., The Night Manager) desarrolla una adaptación de una novela de Agatha Christie (no mencionada) para BBC. No se sabe si también la protagonizará.

The CW desarrolla una precuela de The 100 ambientada 97 años antes y centrada en los supervivientes de un desastre nuclear en la Tierra. Un episodio de la séptima temporada The 100 servirá como backdoor pilot.

Gabrielle Union (L.A.'s Finest, Being Mary Jane) protagonizará y producirá Tips, dramedia sobre una joven que encuentra una vía de escape de su trabajo y una ruptura reciente comenzando a trabajar como bailarina de barra en un bikini bar. Creada por Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (The Orville, Family Guy).

Apple TV+ encarga Mosquito Coast, basada en la novela de Paul Theroux (1981), sobre un idealista que se lleva a su familia a Latinoamérica. Escrita por Neil Cross (Luther), dirigida por Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) y protagonizada por Justin Theroux (The Leftovers), sobrino del novelista.

Apple TV + encarga Shantaram,  sobre un ladrón de bancos australiano que escapa de prisión y se muda a la India, donde encuentra una nueva vida en los barrios bajos de Bombay y también la forma de entrar en su mundo criminal. Protagonizada por Charlie Hunnam (Sons of Anarchy, Queer as Folk), Richard Roxburgh (Catherine the Great, Rake) y Radhika Apte (Sacred Games). Basada en la novela de Gregory David Roberts (2003). Escrita por Eric Warren Singer (American Hustle). Diez episodios.

Apple TV+ desarrolla El Gato Negro, adaptación del cómic de Richard Dominguez sobre un joven del sur de Texas que quiere vengar la muerte de su mejor amigo y toma la antigua identidad de su abuelo, un luchador mexicano que luchó contra el crimen hace décadas. Protagonizada y producida por Diego Boneta (Luis Miguel, Scream Queens). Dirigida y producida por Robert Rodriguez (From Dusk Till Dawn, Desperado).

Hulu encarga The Mysterious Benedict Society, drama para jóvenes adultos, basado en la novela de Trenton Lee Stewart (2007), sobre cuatro huérfanos dotados reclutados por un excéntrico benefactor que los envía a una misión secreta. Creada y escrita por Phil Hay (The Invitation, Destroyer) y Matt Manfredi (The Boys, The Invitation).

Netflix Polonia encarga The Woods, adaptación de la novela de Harlan Coben (2007) que cuenta la historia de un abogado, todavía afectado por la desaparición de su hermana hace veinticinco años en un campamento de verano, que investiga ahora la muerte de un chico que desapareció con ella. Escrita por Agata Malesinska y Wojtek Miloszewsk. Seis episodios.

La segunda sueca serie original de Netflix será Love & Anarchy, dramedia romántica sobre una consultora y madre casada y un joven técnico informático que comienzan a flirtear y a retarse con cosas que cuestionan la vida moderna. Creada por Lisa Langseth y escrita por Langseth y Alex Haridi (Quicksand). Ocho episodios.

Netflix encarga la coreana Round Six, sobre gente que falla en la vida por distintas razones pero reciben una misteriosa invitación para participar en un juego de supervivencia para ganar diez millones de dólares. La historia incluirá juegos infantiles populares de Corea. Dirigida por Hwang Dong-hyuk (The Fortress, The Crucible).

Netflix encarga la coreana Extracurricular, sobre varios estudiantes de instituto que se ven inmersos en una serie de conflictos y acontecimientos que retan los valores y la moral.

Netflix encarga la coreana The School Nurse Files, sobre una nueva enfermera de instituto que descubre secretos y misterios gracias a su habilidad sobrenatural de perseguir fantasmas.

Netflix encarga la coreana My Holo Love, drama sobre una mujer exitosa (Go Sung Hee, Suits) que no es capaz de reconocer caras y debido a esto se encuentra sola la mayor parte del tiempo. Un día conoce a un holograma de inteligencia artificial llamado Holo (Yoon Hyun Min).

Fechas

The Moodys se estrena en FOX el 4 de diciembre

La octava temporada de Last Man Standing se estrena en FOX el 2 de enero

Deputy se estrena en FOX el 2 de enero

La séptima temporada de The Haves and the Have Nots se estrena en OWN el 7 de enero

Outmatched se estrena en FOX el 23 de enero

Duncanville se estrena en FOX el 16 de febrero

Tráilers y promos

The Crown - Temporada 3

Dollface

9-1-1: Lone Star

ZeroZeroZero

The L Word: Generation Q

Belgravia

On Becoming a God in Central Florida - Temporada 2

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As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, let us not stop this important discussion. Mental Illness is a topic that needs to be discussed more in society and although this month makes us aware about our daily mental health, it also alerts us about the everyday struggles that most people go through. Mental illness may be a difficult subject for most to approach, however, here are some great book selections, for various age groups, that will help get this much-needed conversation started:

For Children

Silly Billy by Anthony Browne – This books takes a gentle look at childhood anxiety

Michael Rosen’s Sad Book by Michael Rosen and Quentin Blake – With unmitigated honesty, a touch of humor, and sensitive illustrations by Quentin Blake, Michael Rosen explores the experience of sadness in a way that resonates with us all. (Credit: Candlewick Press)

The Bear Who Stared by Duncan Beedie – A funny book about a socially awkward bear that is trying to make friends.

 Some Kind of Happiness by Claire Legrand – Finley Hart battles with depression as she deals with her parents’ marital problems and meeting her grandparents for the first time in this fantasy novel.

For Teens

Turtles All The Way Down by John Green – The story focuses on 16-year old Aza Holmes, a high school student that lives with multiple anxiety disorders and is on a search for a fugitive billionaire.

Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley – A story about 16-year-old Solomon, an agoraphobic, who has not left his home in three years.

I Have Lost My Way by Gayle Forman – Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved, and Nathaniel is arriving in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. When a fateful accident draws these three strangers together, their secrets start to unravel as they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in help­ing the others out of theirs.(Credit: Penguin Teen)

All Better Now by Emily Wing Smith – In turns candid, angry, and beautiful, Emily Wing Smith’s captivating memoir chronicles her struggles with both mental and physical disabilities during her childhood, the devastating accident that may have saved her life, and the means by which she coped with it all: writing. (Credit: Dutton Books)

A World Without You by Beth Revis – 17-year-old Bo suffers through delusions that he can travel through time.

For Adults

Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee – Two sisters: Miranda, the older, responsible one, always her younger sister’s protector; Lucia, the vibrant, headstrong, unconventional one, whose impulses are huge and, often, life changing. When their mother dies and Lucia starts to hear voices, it’s Miranda who must fight for the help her sister needs — even as Lucia refuses to be defined by any doctor’s diagnosis. (Credit: Pamela Dorman Books)

Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions by Johann Hari – From the New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs, a startling challenge to our thinking about depression and anxiety. (Credit: Bloomsbury USA)

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety by Sarah Wilson – In her new book, she directs her intense focus and fierce investigatory skills onto this lifetime companion of hers, looking at the triggers and treatments, the fashions and fads. She reads widely and interviews fellow sufferers, mental health experts, philosophers, and even the Dalai Lama, processing all she learns through the prism her own experiences. (Credit: Macmillan Australia)

Defying the Verdict by Charita Cole Brown – During her final semester of college, Charita Brown suffered a psychotic episode frighteningly reminiscent of her grandmother’s own breakdown and subsequent hospitalization. Afterward, she was diagnosed as bipolar. Vowing to remain honest, Charita details her struggle after her diagnosis—a life full of love, hope, and success. (Credit: Curbside Splendor Publishing)

The Astonishing Colour of After by Emily X.R. Pan – With lyrical prose and magical elements, Emily X.R. Pan’s stunning debut novel alternates between past and present, romance and despair, as one girl attempts to find herself through family history, art, friendship, and love. (Credit: Orion Children’s Books)

Books To Help Discuss Mental Health As Mental Health Awareness Month comes to a close, let us not stop this important discussion. Mental Illness is a topic that needs to be discussed more in society and although this month makes us aware about our daily mental health, it also alerts us about the everyday struggles that most people go through.

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Just a cult rewriting history.

“Emily Claire Hari, who previously went by Michael Hari, was found guilty last year of civil rights and hate crimes charges related to the Dar Al-Farooq Islamic Center bombing in 2017.

Hari, 50, says she was influenced by gender dysphoria and right-wing misinformation at the time of the bombing in Bloomington, the Star Tribune reported on Tuesday.”

“British comedian and performer Eddie Izzard grew up down the road from a building with a fascinating past, the Victoria-Imperial College in the British seaside town of Bexhill-on-Sea, and was always fascinated by its story. It was an enclave for the best and brightest young women who would support Adolf Hitler's Third Reich.”

“For years, Dajana Pospiš was a member of the National Front, a far-right, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ movement that waged war on Serbia's queer community. But during a stint in prison for racial and religious discrimination, Pospiš came to accept what no one saw coming: Despite being assigned male at birth, she was a woman—and she desperately wanted to transition.”

“Parker-Dipeppe, who goes by Tyler, had known since age 5, when he was growing up in Egg Harbor, New Jersey, that he wanted to be a boy, but his father threw away the “boy clothes” his mother bought him and physically abused him, including choking him, Mazzone wrote in a sentencing memo.”

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Another trans woman with a history of violence against women and criminal offenses. And he wants a lenient sentence because of his gender feels

US — Minnesota. One of three men tied to an attempted bombing of a women’s health clinic and adjudicated guilty of the terroristic bombing of religious property has told a judge that his prison sentence should be significantly reduced, because he led a double life, secretly desiring to undergo “transgender surgery” abroad while heading a militia group in plotting and carrying out attacks. Michael Hari, who is now 50-years-old and self-identifies as a woman named Emily Claire Hari, faces up to life in prison for the civil rights and hate crimes of Damaging Property Because Of Its Religious Character, Forcibly Obstructing The Free Exercise Of Religious Beliefs, Conspiracy To Commit Felonies With Fire And Explosives, Using A Destructive Device In A Crime Of Violence, and Possessing An Unregistered Destructive Device.

Acting as leader of the White Rabbit Three Percent Illinois Patriot Freedom Fighters Militia, Mr Hari drove a rental pickup truck to collect Joe Morris, aged 25, and Michael McWhorter, aged 31, on Saturday, August 5, 2017. Mr Morris and Mr McWhorter had not met prior. At 4 AM, during a drive that had already lasted 10 hours, Mr Hari revealed to the two: “We’re going to go to Minnesota and we’re going to bomb a mosque.” Equipped with assault rifles, a sledgehammer and a 20-pound bomb containing 10 pounds of gunpowder, the trio arrived at Dar Al Farooq Islamic Center in Bloomington at around 5 AM. At Mr Hari’s command, Mr Morris smashed out a window and threw in a container filled with diesel fuel and gasoline, and McWhorter lit a fuse on the bomb and heaved into the imam’s office as worshipers prayed in the mosque.

The blast caused thousands of dollars in property damage and left worshipers with a shaken sense of security.

Mr Morris and Mr McWhorter pleaded guilty to the bombing of the mosque, and served as key witnesses against Mr Hari. Mr McWhorter’s and his stepson Ellis Mack admitted that they had joined Mr Hari and Mr Morris in committing a series of crimes around Indiana and Illinois. The FBI tied Mr Hari, Mr McWhorter and Mr Morris to the attempted November 7, 2017 bombing of the Women’s Health Practice in Champaign, Illinois. The FBI additionally found that Mr Hari had planted explosives on the property of a neighbor whom he had been arrested for assaulting in July 2017. In an attempt to frame and discredit the man, Mr Hari called in a tip to the FBI about the explosives before the start of a February 2018 trial on assault charges.

Through attorney Shannon Elkins, Mr Hari is arguing for a mitigated sentence of 30 years in prison for the mosque bombing, rather than the life term he is facing:

“She strongly desired to make a full transition but knew she would be ostracised from everyone and everything. Thus, as she formed a ragtag group of freedom fighters or militiamen and spoke of missions to Cuba and Venezuela, Hari secretly looked up ‘sex change,’ ‘transgender surgery,’ and ‘post-op transgender’ on the Internet. “

Ms Elkins claims her client had been planning a trip to undergo “transgender surgery” in Bangkok and Thailand. “Inner conflict” due to a “combination of gender dysphoria and right-wing misinformation” had driven Mr Hari’s criminal activity, the attorney said.

Mr Hari first made national headlines more than 16 years ago when, during a custody dispute with his ex-wife, he kidnapped daughters Allene, aged 12, and Molly, aged 14, on March 28, 2005, and took them to live with him in Mennonite communities in Mexico and Brazil. The case was featured on multiple episodes of the talk television show Dr. Phil, with the girls’ mother Michelle telling the host, “I’m just so scared I’ll never see them again.” When Mr Hari, who had been named a federal fugitive, brought Allene and Molly back to the US months later, he was found guilty of abducting the children, and received 30 months’ probation.

Mr Hari, who posted dozens of anti-government rants to YouTube under the handle ‘Illinois Patriot’, previously held the positions of sheriff’s deputy and owner of a gun store. In 1988, he ran unsuccessfully as a libertarian candidate for Ford County Sheriff.