#Ian Sams

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Sebastian Murdock at HuffPost:

Former President Donald Trump reportedly held a meeting with Rupert Murdoch, the former chairman of Fox Corp. and News Corp., to demand the conservative network be even nicer to Trump.

During an appearance on “Fox & Friends” Friday, Trump whined that he would be having a meeting with Murdoch to stop “negative commercials” about him. “I’m going to see Rupert Murdoch,” Trump said at the end of an interview with the “Fox & Friends” hosts. “I’m going to tell him something very simple, because I can’t talk to anybody else. Don’t put on negative commercials for 21 days. Don’t put them and don’t put on — they’re horrible people. They come and lie.” Following the appearance, Trump met with Murdoch, The Washington Post reported Wednesday. Along with Trump’s frustration about negative ads on a network seen as an ally to him, Trump reportedly raised the issue of Democratic guests appearing on the network. A spokesperson for Trump’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment. In recent days, Trump’s ire has been particularly focused on Ian Sams, a 35-year-old aide to Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign. Earlier this month, Sams appeared on Fox News to call into question Trump’s lack of interviews.

Donald Trump demanded that Fox “News” be even more deferential to his whims. What a whiny move by a man who demands a safe space to spew out lies without pushback.

[gwydionmisha]

The stated reason for the impeachment by the Republicans is that despite a massive amount of time and money spent investigating Joe Biden since his inauguration, they have not been able to find even a shred of proof of wrong doing, which is in itself a high crime and misdemeanor requiring immediate impeachment.

IDK, it makes no sense to me either.

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The White House tried to flip the script on border security politics, accusing House Republicans of “staging political stunts” and undermining border security ahead of a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday that probed the Biden administration’s handling of the US southern border.

In a memo obtained by CNN, the White House counsel’s office spokesman Ian Sams credited a series of new immigration and border security actions by the administration with reducing southern border crossings last month and slammed House Republicans for voting against the omnibus spending bill last year that included billions of dollars in border security funding and accused them of “pushing an agenda that would make border security worse.”

“It is clear that House Republicans are more interested in staging political stunts than on rolling up their sleeves to work with President Biden and Democrats in Congress on legislation to strengthen border security and fix our immigration system that has needed repair for decades,” Sams wrote in the memo. “But beyond their refusal to work constructively to pursue concrete solutions, they and their allies in the states are actually pushing an agenda that would make things worse at the border.”

The memo was distributed Tuesday morning to Democrats on Capitol Hill and other allies, just hours before the House Oversight and Accountability Committee held a hearing with two chief patrol agents of the US Border Patrol.

The committee’s chairman, Rep. James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, has accused the Biden administration of igniting “the worst border crisis in American history.”

“Starting on day one in office, President Biden and his administration rolled back deterrent focused policies, halted the construction of the border wall, gutted interior enforcement, pushed amnesty for illegal immigrants – all of which have made it difficult for US Border Patrol agents to secure the border,” Comer said in a statement announcing Tuesday’s hearing, vowing to hold the administration accountable.

Southern border crossings have hit record levels under Biden, making the issue a key political vulnerability that the newly empowered House Republican majority is eager to exploit. But Biden administration officials saw progress last month as daily migrant encounters dropped by more than half on the heels of new policies enacted by the administration.

During that hearing, Republicans slammed the Biden administration over its handling of the US southern border, claiming that the administration is to blame for the uptick in fentanyl being smuggled into the country and doubling down on their intentions to investigate.

“We will investigate. We will reveal the truth. And we will force accountability,” said Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana.

The back and forth between Republicans and Democrats over fentanyl in the over three-hour hearing underscored the highly political nature of the border, including over drug smuggling.

GOP lawmakers repeatedly cited so-called “gotaways” – migrants who evade capture – arguing that the thousands of known “gotaways” are evidence of what lawmakers described as an “open border” policy despite the Department of Homeland Security continuing to rely on a Trump-era border restriction that allows authorities to turn migrants away.

Democratic lawmakers on the committee, meanwhile, frequently cited data that shows fentanyl primarily comes in and is stopped at ports of entry. Republicans pushed back, saying that it’s unclear how many individuals may be carrying drugs into the United States.

“All we’re doing in this hearing is politicizing another issue in this country that doesn’t need to be politicized. We all agree that fentanyl is a problem,” said Democratic Rep. Jared Moskowitz of Florida.

DHS has said it’s false that migrants seeking asylum between ports of entry are bringing fentanyl, which is instead often smuggled via vehicles through ports of entry.

The White House is also putting the spotlight back on GOP state officials who are suing to end Biden administration immigration policies, including most recently a lawsuit by 20 Republican-led states to block the expansion of a program that will allow up to 30,000 migrants from Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua and Haiti to enter the US each month. Ending those policies “would lead to more unlawful border crossings,” the White House said.

“Why won’t House Republicans stand up to Republican state attorneys general who are trying to create more unlawful border crossings by ending President Biden’s new measures for border enforcement and safe, orderly migration?” Sams asked in the memo.

“House Republicans should join the President in pursuing real solutions, not political stunts – and they should answer for their opposition to funding for border security and their refusal to stand up to Republican officials trying to create more unlawful border crossings,” he added.

[scottguy]

Article: ‘People need to see this’: Harris spokesperson reacts to Trump’s Arnold Palmer anatomy rant

Harris takes down hecklers with a great line. Then, Jan Psaki dissects Trump rambling with Harris' chief spokesperson.

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Kamala llama a Trump "débil" porque no tiene concepto de fuerza

Imagínese no tener victorias políticas independientemente de toda una maquinaria política y los medios de comunicación nacionales levantándolo por los tobillos, además de estar casada con un hombre llamado “Doug”, quien supuestamente abofeteó la cara de una mujer en público. Entonces imaginemos que todavía tenemos la confianza para llamar “débil” a Donald Trump, actualmente bajo amenaza de…

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[ Pipe Lines 2 | Mountain High X Snowboy Productions ]

Year two of our steel and transition playground on the sunny slopes of Mountain High, CA. Here's a glimpse of what went down over three days in January.

Filmed and edited by Andrew Percival.

Additional filming by Trevor Slattery, Daniel Salazar & Thomas Haraden.

Riders in order of appearance: Irie Jefferson, Andrew Brewer, Casey Pflipsen, Myrie Metzger, J DeForge, Paul Romero, Michael McDaniel, Niall Noel, Tyler Aubrey, Melissa Evans-Gray, Laura Rogoski, Jesse Paul, Mike Gray, Johnny Hancheck, Hunter Butler, Nick Guin, Dilyn Tillie, Ian Sams, Levi Kaseroff, Ryan Pluche & Kolman LeCroy.

Made possible by the support of Mountain High, Arbor Snowboards, Liquid Death, Dragon and Diecutstickers.com.

[foxesdontscareme]

board af | are you bored yet - wallows ft. clairo

there is something about adults taking games very seriously that's very hopeful. it's very uncynical. - sam reich, adventuring academy (season 5, episode 1)

[themusicsweetly]

"Ian and Claire and Jamie have come home," Roberts notes. "They've brought Jamie's cousin's body back home. And in season 3, when Jamie left Scotland, he made a promise that he would return one day and this is that return. He's bringing Claire with him, and obviously, Ian wants to go home and see his family as well. We packed the house. It's this big homecoming, and there might be some other special guests too." —Matthew B. Roberts for EW

—First look at Claire, Jamie, and Young Ian at Lallybroch in Outlander Season 7B

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Quite possibly my favourite behind the scenes is the interviews of the actors just saying how Sir Ian McKellen kept reminding them all to be physically affectionate on camera so the queer subtext could shine through because

Peter Jackson may have worked hard

but Ian McKellen worked harder

[mickeym4ndy]

too impaired by my youth to know what to do

[autistook]

Ian McKellen on the set of Lord of the Rings

[justinspoliticalcorner]

David Badash at NCRM:

The Harris-Walz campaign is warning if Donald Trump becomes president again, he will have “unchecked power,” thanks in part to plans made by his transition team that include “modern-day enemies lists.” “Trump is literally preparing modern-day enemies lists, at the same time he’s under fire for calling other Americans ‘the enemy within’,” Harris Campaign spokesperson Ian Sams wrote Wednesday. “It’s all making it very clear: Trump will have no one to restrain his worst instincts in another term. Unchecked power. No guardrails.” Sams also pointed to a Politico report that says, “Trump team preps list of banned staffers.” “The lists of undesirable staffers include people linked to the Project 2025 policy blueprint; officials who resigned in protest of Trump’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; and others perceived as disloyal to the former president, said two former Trump officials familiar with the discussions.”

The claim anyone linked to Project 2025 would be banned is questionable, given many of Trump’s White House top officials are deeply embedded in the operation. CNN reported in July that “at least 140 people who worked in the Trump administration had a hand in Project 2025, a CNN review found, including more than half of the people listed as authors, editors and contributors to ‘Mandate for Leadership,’ the project’s extensive manifesto for overhauling the executive branch.” “Overall, CNN found nearly 240 people with ties to both Project 2025 and to Trump, covering nearly every aspect of his time in politics and the White House – from day-to-day foot soldiers in Washington to the highest levels of his government. The number is likely higher because many individuals’ online résumés were not available.” They include Stephen Miller, the chief architect of Trump’s “zero tolerance” anti-immigrant child separation policy that stripped over 5000 children from their parents “with no tracking process or records that would allow them to be reunited,” PBS News reported in 2022.

Miller has been a very active surrogate for Trump during this campaign, including speaking at his rallies. PBS News reported last week Miller “is expected to take a senior role in the White House if Trump wins.”

The Harris campaign is delivering a stark warning than an unchecked Donald Trump could be very dangerous to democracy.

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[heymrspatel]

'"What the fuck is this."

Ian pulls out half a dozen cupcakes, all different flavors, and sticks a candle in every single one. He lights them all and sings Happy Birthday to his husband in the lowlight of their kitchen, his arms wrapped around Mickey’s waist and his voice soft. Mickey’s cheeks turn pink, and Ian pretends not to notice. He makes him blow out the candles anyways.

“You have to try them all,” Ian tells him. “Have to?” “Legally required.” “I don’t remember signing a contract.” “It’s written in between the lines of our marriage license.”

Mickey snorts and picks up the first cupcake—basic, safe, plain old vanilla with vanilla frosting—and takes a huge ass bite before handing it to Ian. He gets frosting on his nose.' - i need you (like cake on my birthday) by @sam-loves-seb

my gift for the lovely @sam-loves-seb 💙✨ prompt - art based on a fic for @gallavichthings gallavich gift exchange

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POLYPARK!!!! I LOVE POLYPARK