#Margaret Sullivan

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Margaret Sullivan at American Crisis:

Jamelle Bouie gets it. The New York Times columnist wrote something a few days ago that stood out to me because it was so directly stated and so horrifyingly correct. It began: “Even if anyone had elected Elon Musk to anything, the past week would still be one of the most serious examples of executive branch malfeasance in American history.” Bouie went on: “Musk has seized hold of critical levers of power and authority within the federal government, apparently enabling him to destroy federal agencies at will, barring congressional action or judicial pushback.” The piece was titled, “There is No Going Back.” Here’s a gift link. Read it in full and weep for what we’re losing, day by day. But Bouie’s sense of alarm, well founded as it is, is strangely rare in Big Journalism these days. Witness, for example, a piece last week by Jason Willick, a regular opinion columnist at the Washington Post, who wrote something titled “Save the panic over Trump’s ‘power grabs.’ It might be needed later.” Calm down, Willick counseled, mocking the idea that a coup is underway, and concludes that, instead of having what he calls a “meltdown,��� everyone should just wait and see. Why? Because, he argues, casting Trump and Musk’s early moves as a constitutional crisis “will diminish the force of such warnings if they are needed.” Willick was appropriately blasted in the reader-comments section: “This sycophantic, willfully delusional apologia for the dismantling of the American republic and the shredding of the constitution … is contemptible sophistry of the very worst kind,” said one. Read Willick’s column, if you have the stomach, and judge for yourself; here’s a gift link. Overall, the tone in the major media is much more like Willick than Bouie. For example, the popular Times newsletter, The Morning, offered this tepid headline one day last week: “A Constitutional Crisis?” Then it considered the question from various angles, including only one quote from a lawmaker — Republican senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina who notes that what Trump and Musk are doing “runs afoul of the Constitution in the strictest sense,” but “nobody should bellyache about that.” As Jamelle Bouie put it in the column I mentioned above, no question mark is appropriate here. In fact, calling what’s happening a constitutional crisis “does not even begin to capture the radicalism of what is unfolding in the federal bureaucracy.”

[...] Righteous indignation like that is hard to come by. That’s why I wrote a Guardian column last week about two new-generation Democrats who have become strong voices: Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett of Texas and Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut. I quoted political consultant Sawyer Hackett: “There’s been no better messenger in the first two weeks of Trump 2.0 than Chris Murphy. At a time when too many Democrats are afraid of their shadow, Murphy is showing how to fight back with a compelling populist message that should be a blueprint for the Democrats moving forward.” My Guardian editor asked me to include a paragraph at the end about what’s giving me hope right now. You can read that, and the rest of the column, here.

Margaret Sullivan is spot-on: Our press needs righteous truth-telling during these constitutional crisis times.

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Adrienne Ames-Margaret Sullivan "La fugitiva" (Woman wanted) 1935, de George B. Seitz.

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Hiring McDaniel – a powerful election denialist who joined then president Donald Trump in pressuring voting officials not to certify the 2020 election – was like putting a standing chyron on the NBC Nightly News: “Lying is rewarded here.”

Margaret Sullivan

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Everyone loves to hate the Oscars. But here’s why I’ll be watching | Margaret Sullivan Events like the Oscars are rare examples of monoculture in a pop-culture world increasingly fractured into tiny splinters“Ooh, the Hollywood issue!” was my first thought on pulling the glossy new Vanity Fair magazine – timed to this Sunday’s Academy Awards – from my mailbox.Then came my second thought: “Who are these people?”Margaret Sullivan is a Guardian US columnist writing on media, politics and culture Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/06/oscars-academy-awards-pop-culture-margaret-sullivan

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There's a lot to be said for making people laugh. Did you know that that's all some people have? It isn't much, but it's better than nothing in this cockeyed caravan.

SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941) | dir. Preston Sturges

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very abandoned people

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listening to Ruddigore and I know G&S can be a lil wild but I actually have no fucking clue what's going on right now

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I'm not sure why but I wonder what are your favorite ocs in bully fandom? :3

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Your Margert, I feel like she might be a good antagonist towards Ruth, since I know we get bored of the ,"everyone love everyone" type of Oc interactions. I'm interested in their enemies HC's. I can see that they would be forced to be near each other, since Ruth still is associated with Preps, being in Mock Trial and being Parker's girlfriend/ and ex, along with the fact they have seen her work at Aquaberry, and where it, along with seeing her play piano or violin at "Amour Luve", a fancy restaurant she get's paid a lot from. I can see Margert saying, "She's not one of us, she works there, we shop there, trust me when I say she's just trying to be like us", which if FAR from the truth. Ruth doesn’t wanna be acknowledged as a prep due to her past of seeing what the rich can do to people, she hated it.

@lyalagushkina's Holly, I wonder how her life was in Catholic school. Considering the fact Ruth also went to a private all girls Catholic school. And I wanna know if its true that Catholic creates mean girls, which might explain Holly's nasty personality, which I love dearly. Ruth is pretty and mean herself, which is because of the school she went to. It shaped her up as the vile, so called apathetic woman we know today.

I also liked her "Nacy" girl, but I believe she not really made as an official OC, but I loved her design and she's so cute and UGHH! Plus, the creator is an amazing artist, she knows how to use the personalities of Bully characters and show it out in her drawings, like giving Pinky and sharp nose and making her tall, Betrice slim and awkward, she's is just so amazing.

@aubreylikesmith's main oc Azia, I already have a funny meme in my head for her and Ruth, she already gave me an Ask, so I wanted to ask her more on her character and mine so I don't misinterpret hers. Plus, her design is hella cool, very spunky and rad. I'm suprised Gary bagged that. -.__-. I still am. Anyway's, Azia seems pretty cool, I want to know more of her history and problems.

@sergeantcowboy's crow, his backstory is really sad. But, he make sense to me, he rebels against the school's morals because of his rough life. The creator gives depth into Crow, which I only see sometimes with other people Oc's (No shade U.U). Bro gave us his report card, facts that he forges ID'S for students! Plus his voice claim fits him SO FREAKING GOOOOD! Overall, amazing character, put him in a movie, or show, I'd watch it.

@biohazardtx's Herald and Rebecca, t-totally not because I openly simp for both of them... anyways, Herald, more interested in his problems in health and how he views situation with Mandy. Rebecca's backstory, it's almost similar to Ruth's but it mainly cause I see them as mother and daughter duo. I was also interested in their Antonio, he has a burned scar and he looks so cool, I wanna know everything!

@gojossotoru's Maxime, his character is well written, his backstory makes sense, along with the fact this man maybe, just maybe got ptsd. Just saying. Well thought out, plus, hes fineee. I do like the character Lynette, she has similar thing's with Ruth also.

And in conclusion, my bad for glazing.

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Gilbert and Sullivan take of the day: Mad Margaret is an Addams.

So is Old Adam.

Despard becomes an Addams through marriage.

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Silent Hill characters I ❤️ and don't

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The choice for president has seldom been starker. On one side is Donald Trump, a felonious and twice-impeached conman, raring to finish off the job of dismantling American democracy. On the other is Kamala Harris, a capable and experienced leader who stands for traditional democratic principles. Nevertheless – and shockingly – the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post have decided to sit this one out. Both major news organizations, each owned by a billionaire, announced this week that their editorial boards would not make a presidential endorsement, despite their decades-long traditions of doing so. There’s no other way to see this other than as an appalling display of cowardice and a dereliction of their public duty. At the Los Angeles Times, the decision rests clearly with Patrick Soon-Shiong, who bought the ailing paper in 2018, raising great hopes of a resurgence there. At the Post (where I was the media columnist from 2016 to 2022), the editorial page editor David Shipley said he owned the decision, but it clearly came from above – specifically from the publisher, Will Lewis, the veteran of Rupert Murdoch’s media properties, hand-picked last year by the paper’s owner, Jeff Bezos. Was Bezos himself the author of this abhorrent decision? Maybe not, but it could not have come as a surprise. All of this may look like nonpartisan neutrality, or be intended to, but it’s far from that. For one thing, it’s a shameful smackdown of both papers’ reporting and opinion-writing staffs who have done important work exposing Trump’s dangers for many years. It’s also a strong statement of preference. The papers’ leaders have made it clear that they either want Trump (who is, after all, a boon to large personal fortunes) or that they don’t wish to risk the ex-president’s wrath and retribution if he wins. If the latter was a factor, it’s based on a shortsighted judgment, since Trump has been a hazard to press rights and would only be emboldened in a second term. [...] Some news organizations upheld their duty and remained true to their mission. The New York Times endorsed Harris last month, calling her “the only patriotic choice for president”, and writing that Trump “has proved himself morally unfit for an office that asks its occupant to put the good of the nation above self-interest”. The Guardian, too, strongly endorsed Harris, saying she would “unlock democracy’s potential, not give in to its flaws”, and calling Trump a “transactional and corrupting politician”.

Margaret Sullivan at The Guardian on the cowardly abdication of the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times by refusing to endorse a Presidential candidate (10.25.2024).

The egregious and cowardly actions done by both the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times deciding to sit out the Presidential endorsements process this election is craven and cowardly, as both papers were set to endorse Kamala Harris (D). Even the New York Times, for all their faults, got it right by endorsing Kamala Harris.

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#OTD in Irish History | 22 November:

1773 – Lord John Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland, is born in Dublin. 1830 – Justin McCarthy, politician, novelist and historian, is born in Cork. 1869 – Jeremiah O’Donovan Rossa, Fenian, contests and wins a Tipperary by-election in abstentia, but is declared ineligible as a convicted felon. 1912 – Birth in Dublin of poet, dramatist and lawyer, Donagh MacDonagh, son of…

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Vicky (Dana Sparks), Angela (Jane Wyman), Emma (Margaret Ladd), Maggie (Susan Sullivan) et Melissa (Ana Alicia).

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Ill be honest out of all my old Hollywood invested years, i still dont know who Margaret (O) Sullivan is

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Ruddigore 第一夜 Mad Margaret和Despard Murgatroyd的对话，但他们之后的二重唱似乎乐谱丢失了😂

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Title: The Jane Austen Handbook: Proper Life Skills from Regency England

Author: Margaret C. Sullivan

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2007

Genres: nonfiction, history, classics

Blurb: Every young lady dreams of a life spent exchanging witty asides with a dashing Mr Darcy, but how should you let him know your intentions? Seek counsel from this charming guide to Jane Austen’s world. Its step-by-step instructions reveal the practicalities of life in Regency England, including sensible advice on how to behave at your first ball, ride sidesaddle, decline an unwanted marriage proposal, improve your estate, throw a dinner party, and much more. Offering readers a glimpse into day-to-day life in Jane Austen’s time, this is the perfect companion for fans of her novels and their film adaptations, complete with detailed information on love among the social classes, currency, dress, and nuances of graceful living.