#Rep. John Larson

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An open letter to the U.S. Congress

Expand Social Security by Taxing the Rich!

1,122 so far! Help us get to 2,000 signers!

If nothing is done to strengthen Social Security’s finances, starting in 2034, Social Security will only be able to pay roughly 80% of benefits owed. Thankfully, there’s a fiscally responsible easy solution to this future shortfall that doesn’t impoverish seniors or their families: Make the wealthy pay their fair share! Senator Bernie Sanders has introduced the Social Security Expansion Act of 2023, which would increase benefits by $2,400, extend the lifespan of the Trust Fund by 75 years and do much more to solidify this bedrock of working-class prosperity. And, it’s completely paid for by scrapping the payroll tax cap on incomes over $250,000―meaning that millionaires and billionaires would finally start paying more of their fair share. In the House, Rep. John Larson has previously introduced the Social Security 2100 Act: A Sacred Trust, which would affect just the top 0.4% of wage earners. It would fulfill the promise of our Social Security system by improving benefits for millions of seniors living in poverty and extending the lifespan of the Trust Fund―once again, paid for by making the wealthy pay more of their fair share. Instead of Republican proposals to raise the retirement age or directly cut benefits, Congress needs to scrap the Social Security payroll tax cap on the wealthy. That means that while working people won’t pay a dime more in Social Security contributions, millionaires and billionaires will finally be paying their fair share all year long. Good!

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malevolent and the queer-coded villain trope

*disclaimer please respect the #masked tag. while i'm putting these thoughts out into the ether they're not really meant for harlan to see as i don't want to be put on blast for criticising the show. this is not me attempting to malign this podcast or its creator or to go "it's bad and problematic actually so don't listen to it" because that's a frankly horrible and unhelpful way of engaging with media and the world at large. i'm certainly not going to stop enjoying malevolent wholeheartedly or supporting harlan in his creative endeavours. this is not an accusation, it's an observation.

i've been thinking about the queer-coded villain trope in a separate context recently, but something clicked for me with part 34. horror (and other genre fiction but let's focus on the relevant genre here) has a tradition of placing queer elements within the subtext. it's a means of Othering and used to separate the protagonist from whatever evil entity they're up against in the story, be it man or creature, and where the the tropes of the monstrous queer and the queer-coded villain are born from.

a brief second disclaimer. i'm a queer villain and queer horror enjoyer and here to reclaim every single queer-coded villain and monster ever created but acting like the trope doesn't have a problematic, negative history is a sucky way of engaging with and examining a piece of media so let's not do that.

aaanyway, to the actual meat of this post: i believe malevolent reiterates the monstrous queer / queer-coded villain tropes however unintentionally and they go unexamined in the text.

first, we have kayne. flamboyant, exaggerated kayne who calls arthur—and to an extent john—pet names. i don't really think i have to go into detail for people to know what i'm getting at.

then we have larson. yeah, larson. in particular, i'm referring to the scene where arthur wakes up in the larson estate and his clothes have been removed. larson approaches arthur while he's in bed, vulnerable, and while there's not anything untoward happening in the text, it's still very ... master of the house and the gothic heroine, for lack of a better comparison. actually, think of count dracula and jonathan harker in castle dracula — the dynamic is very reminiscent of that, and dracula is a famously queer coded monster in part for that whole thing.

and finally, there's the butcher. a predator—a serial killer—obsessed with chasing arthur down. and boy did part 34 lay it down thick. i mean, he hears peggy gordon in his head when he hunts arthur and sings it to him when he's come to get him. it's a song about a man's unrequited love and it's pretty obvious the butcher's meant to be the man while arthur is peggy, who slighted him when he escaped from the butcher back in the train. and then as if that wasn't obvious enough he has a line about falling in love with his victims. "it's dedication, devotion, a bond. (laugh) sounds a bit like falling in love, doesn't it? maybe i suppose you could say i've fallen in love with each and every one of them. with each and every animal." which is then followed by more arthur-specific obsessing.

harlan has explicitly stated that arthur isn't queer rep, so unintentionally what's happening in the text is that the heterosexual protagonist is pitted against these queer-coded malevolent entities in a way that's pretty text book.

none of these characters i used as examples are written to be explicitly queer, but the coding is certainly there. again, i'm not saying harlan is a secret queerphobe who is putting this subtext in malevolent intentionally—i can with confidence say that we can safely assume that isn't the case! but, like i said when i was prefacing this post, queer subtext in the monstrous and villainous have a recorded history within horror. it's really easy to reiterate tropes like that if you create within a genre without actively examining your work and its wider context, and i think that's what happening here.

so what was the point of this post? there isn't much of one, really, i just made an observation and wanted to share because i believe in and enjoy examining the things you love critically. and i do love malevolent, with its queer-coded villains and all. i'm not calling for anything to change in the story, or accusing harlan or anyone else of anything; i'm just having thoughts about the wider scope of horror media and where malevolent fits within it and i'm using a cda and queer theory oriented brain to do it.

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Oli Sykes on Instagram, 04/05/2023.

LosT Very proud of this one. I feel like my vision for future emo & this next record has been realised. But it’s gonna get even more bonkers. Thank u for all the love. Thankyou to @zakkcervini for convincing us to go with our original instincts. @jordanfish86 for going insane on production as well as @traceybrakes & @lonelyspeck sharing their unique, magical sounds and ideas with us. On the video side, I’ve never been so impressed and inspired by a director as I was with @jensennoen I thought I was a perfectionist but geez the guy is tapped in. So much fun creating this video with him and I learnt so much. And such an incredible team, which I will credit underneath. PH2 is coming eeee 🧪👹🫀 Directors: @Jensennoen @olobersykes Producers: @phoenixvaughn + @rndevereaux + @ashhainzer Executive Producers: @frankborin + @ivannaborin Cinematographer: @justinjonesdp Production Company: @blesscode Video Commissioner: @kat_catt Production Designer: @three60s Co-Producer: @jessiexthexmess Production Coordinator: @flavor_flaim HMU Designer: @tarnovetska Casting Director: @nadiaaat & linaa_lovelyyy Dance Choreographer: @gabbyskalak Assistant to Producers: @chrislaplante_ 2nd AD: @elliotphonehome84 2nd 2nd AD: Sean Doyle Gaffer: @ocufilms Best Boy Electric: John Landry Electricians: @mylifeismundane, Sean James, Pauli Dandino Key Grip: @joseph_simpsun Best Boy Grip: Michael Kotaya Grips: @akorede.amole, Miguel Escalona, Kevin Amaya Dolly Grip: @lionlera 1st AC (A Cam): @thatguyaric 1st AC (B Cam): @kraig.bryant 2nd AC: Neil Hausey SFX Blood Technician: Cody Wilkins HMU designer: @tarnovetska On set makeup artists: @plazticpatrick @fainafx @alexromanmua @xknifeplay FX Technician: @codyjwilkins Makeup Props: @fxmuartist @bastaromina Costume Designers: @orchidsatellite & Elias Martinez Assistant Wardrobe: Sailor Gonzales Art Director: Zoe Hazlett Co-Art Director: Allison Jensen Set Dresser: Layla Kornota Art Assistant: Diane Lac Prop Master: @Sate_paige Key PA: @maximbalter Camera Van Driver: Yuri Fedorova PA Crafty: Danny Lopez Key PA Talent: Quinton Couch PA Production: Audrey Eck PA Runner: Ryan Colegrave Site Rep: Trevor Larson FSA Officer: James (Jim) Paul

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Connecticut Democratic lawmakers report bomb threats on Thanksgiving

Several Democratic lawmakers from Connecticut on Thursday reported bomb threats, one day after members of key senior staff picks of President-elect Donald Trump’s reported they were targeted by threats and “swatting.” Sen. Chris Murphy, Reps. Jahana Hayes, John Larson and Rep. Jim Himes — all Democrats — issued statements on Thursday that their homes were subject to bomb threats. Murphy’s office…

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Rising Political Tensions: Connecticut Lawmakers Targeted in Bomb Threat Scare

Rising Political Tensions: Connecticut Lawmakers Targeted in Bomb Threat Scare The political landscape in the U.S. took a chilling turn this Thanksgiving as multiple Democratic lawmakers from Connecticut faced bomb threats at their homes. Representatives Jim Himes, Joe Courtney, and John Larson were among the targets, raising alarms across the political community. Thankfully, law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Capitol Police and local authorities, responded swiftly and found no explosives. Context of the Threats These incidents occurred just a day after several prominent figures connected to President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet reported similar threats and "swatting attacks," which involve false reports intended to provoke a police response. Notable individuals such as Elise Stefanik, Matt Gaetz, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, and Lee Zeldin were also threatened, underscoring the volatile political climate in the aftermath of the elections. Rep. Himes expressed gratitude towards law enforcement while vehemently condemning political violence. "There is no place for political violence in this country," he stated, echoing a sentiment shared by many who long for peace during the holiday season. A Troubling Backdrop The backdrop of these threats is an election season marred by violence, including a recent incident where a gunman opened fire at a Trump rally, injuring the former president and killing a supporter. Such events highlight the dangerous divide in U.S. politics and underscore the urgent need for tightened security and constructive dialogue across party lines. Implications for American Democracy These threats bring to light a pressing issue confronting American democracy: the challenge of maintaining civil discourse in an increasingly polarized society. The incidents prompt discussions about the responsibilities of media and political figures in promoting peace and unity. As the nation grapples with these challenges, it is crucial for citizens and leaders alike to stand against violence and foster a culture of tolerance and understanding. M Read the full article

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IS YOUR ELECTED REP ONE OF THESE ?

The 158 Democrats who voted against the bill are:

Alma Adams, North Carolina

Pete Aguilar, California

Gabe Amo, Rhode Island

Jake Auchincloss, Massachusetts

Becca Balint, Vermont

Nanette Barragán, California

Joyce Beatty, Ohio

Ami Bera, California

Donald Beyer, Virginia

Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Georgia

Earl Blumenauer, Oregon

Suzanne Bonamici, Oregon

Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware

Jamaal Bowman, New York

Shontel Brown, Ohio

Julia Brownley, California

Cori Bush, Missouri

Salud Carbajal, California

Tony Cárdenas, California

André Carson, Indiana

Troy Carter, Louisiana

Greg Casar, Texas

Ed Case, Hawaii

Sean Casten, Illinois

Kathy Castor, Florida

Joaquin Castro, Texas

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick, Florida

Judy Chu, California

Katherine Clark, Massachusetts

Yvette Clarke, New York

Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri

James Clyburn, South Carolina

Steve Cohen, Tennessee

Gerald Connolly, Virginia

Luis Correa, California

Jim Costa, California

Jasmine Crockett, Texas

Jason Crow, Colorado

Danny Davis, Illinois

Madeleine Dean, Pennsylvania

Diana DeGette, Colorado

Rosa DeLauro, Connecticut

Suzan DelBene, Washington

Mark DeSaulnier, California

Debbie Dingell, Michigan

Lloyd Doggett, Texas

Veronica Escobar, Texas

Anna Eshoo, California

Adriano Espaillat, New York

Lizzie Fletcher, Texas

Bill Foster, Illinois

Valerie Foushee, North Carolina

Lois Frankel, Florida

Maxwell Frost, Florida

John Garamendi, California

Jesús "Chuy" Garcia, Illinois

Robert Garcia, California

Sylvia Garcia, Texas

Dan Goldman, New York

Jimmy Gomez, California

Al Green, Texas

James Himes, Connecticut

Steny Hoyer, Maryland

Valerie Hoyle, Oregon

Jared Huffman, California

Glenn Ivey, Maryland

Jonathan Jackson, Illinois

Sara Jacobs, California

Pramila Jayapal, Washington

Hakeem Jeffries, New York

Henry "Hank" Johnson, Georgia

Sydney Kamlager-Dove, California

Bill Keating, Massachusetts

Robin Kelly, Illinois

Ro Khanna, California

Dan Kildee, Michigan

Derek Kilmer, Washington

Andy Kim, New Jersey

Raja Krishnamoorthi, Illinois

Ann Kuster, New Hampshire

Greg Landsman, Ohio

Rick Larsen, Washington

John Larson, Connecticut

Barbara Lee, California

Summer Lee, Pennsylvania

Teresa Leger Fernandez, New Mexico

Ted Lieu, California

Zoe Lofgren, California

Doris Matsui, California

Lucy McBath, Georgia

Jennifer McClellan, Virginia

Betty McCollum, Minnesota

Morgan McGarvey, Kentucky

James McGovern, Massachusetts

Gregory Meeks, New York

Rob Menendez, New Jersey

Grace Meng, New York

Kweisi Mfume, Maryland

Gwen Moore, Wisconsin

Joseph Morelle, New York

Seth Moulton, Massachusetts

Kevin Mullin, California

Jerrold Nadler, New York

Grace Napolitano, California

Richard Neal, Massachusetts

Joe Neguse, Colorado

Donald Norcross, New Jersey

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, New York

Ilhan Omar, Minnesota

Frank Pallone, New Jersey

Nancy Pelosi, California

Scott Peters, California

Brittany Pettersen, Colorado

Dean Phillips, Minnesota

Chellie Pingree, Maine

Mark Pocan, Wisconsin

Katie Porter, California

Ayanna Pressley, Massachusetts

Mike Quigley, Illinois

Delia Ramirez, Illinois

Jamie Raskin, Maryland

Deborah Ross, North Carolina

Raul Ruiz, California

C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, Maryland

Linda Sánchez, California

John Sarbanes, Maryland

Mary Scanlon, Pennsylvania

Janice Schakowsky, Illinois

Adam Schiff, California

Bradley Schneider, Illinois

Robert "Bobby" Scott, Virginia

David Scott, Georgia

Terri Sewell, Alabama

Brad Sherman, California

Darren Soto, Florida

Melanie Stansbury, New Mexico

Haley Stevens, Michigan

Marilyn Strickland, Washington

Mark Takano, California

Shri Thanedar, Michigan

Mike Thompson, California

Bennie Thompson, Mississippi

Rashida Tlaib, Michigan

Jill Tokuda, Hawaii

Paul Tonko, New York

Norma Torres, California

Ritchie Torres, New York

Lori Trahan, Massachusetts

David Trone, Maryland

Lauren Underwood, Illinois

Juan Vargas, California

Marc Veasey, Texas

Nydia Velázquez, New York

Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Florida

Maxine Waters, California

Bonnie Watson Coleman, New Jersey

Nikema Williams, Georgia

Frederica Wilson, Florida.

Democrats proudly against citizen

VOTE TRUMP 2024

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How Democrats could win more elections

My fellow Americans…if I may call you that? I’ve only been a US citizen for five weeks, but I think I may have identified a key weakness in the Democrats’ electioneering strategy, and I wanted to bring it to your attention because it would be great if the forced birth/martial law/mass incarceration party didn’t win the next election.

If Democrats want to win more elections, they should try:

Enacting popular policies, preferably ones that materially improve the lives of potential voters;

Making sure those policies take effect before the next election; and

Telling people about them.

As a bonus, they could also publicize when Republicans want to enact policies that:

Aren’t popular; and

Materially worsen the lives of potential voters.

I know, I know. Don’t teach granny to suck eggs! High-paid Democratic Party consultants have forgotten more about this stuff that I’ll ever learn, etc etc. But you guys, I think I could really be onto something.

Take Social Security. Created in 1935 by FDR, Social Security is one of the most popular government programs in US history — and it’s especially popular among old people for some reason, and you know, old people vote a lot!

[Image ID: A Data for Progress polling data chart entitled ‘Voters Are Very Concerned About the US Government Cutting Social Security Benefits.]

80% of US voters want Social Security expanded. Not 80% of Democrats — 80% of voters, from a June 2022 survey from Data For Progress:

https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2022/6/dfp_ss_june_tabs.pdf

And yet, a July poll found that 70% of voters hadn’t heard that the GOP wants to “sunset” Social Security — that is, get rid of it, over the next five years. 71% of Republicans didn’t know this — and neither did 76% of independents (who might, you know, vote Democrat if they found out), nor did 64% of Democrats.

https://www.filesforprogress.org/datasets/2022/7/dfp_july_ss_tabs.pdf

This is just me spitballing here, but what if someone like Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden or Chuck Schumer were to call a press conference and announce that this was the Republicans’ plan? I mean, it’s a long shot, but maybe if they were to tell voters what specific, material, important changes the next election could bring about, voters would find that interesting or even motivating.

I know, I know, I’m not an expert here. But when 81% of all likely voters support indexing Social Security to the cost of living, Democrats could actually do that, and also point out that Republicans won’t?

[Image ID: A Data For Progress chart entitled ‘Voters Strongly Support Imposing Payroll Taxes on the Wealthy to Expand Social Security Benefits.’]

And while pay-fors are bullshit (the US Treasury is a currency issuer, not a currency user, and it is not monetarily constrained), if the Dems wanted to do pay-fors to fund Social Security expansion, they could tax the rich. 76% of Americans want higher taxes on people earning $400k or more/year, including 76% of independents and 65% of Republicans.

As Jessica Corbett writes for Common Dreams, the Congressional Progressive Caucus is onto this, and is spreading the word, primarily via CPC chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal, but the Democratic party leadership is effectively silent on subject:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/08/15/80-us-voters-across-party-lines-support-expanding-social-security

This despite the fact that there is already proposed legislation to enact this extremely popular policy that would hearten Democrats, please independents, and demonstrate to the majority of Republican voters which party has their interests at heart.

Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust is a bill introduced by Rep John Larson, intended to end the 50 year neglect of Social Security:

https://larson.house.gov/issues/social-security-2100-sacred-trust

And then there’s the Social Security Expansion Act, introduced by Bernie Sanders and Rep Peter DeFazio, which increases contributions by the wealthy and expands benefits to match increases in the cost of living:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/06/09/time-scrap-cap-sanders-warren-bill-targets-rich-expand-social-security

But the Dem leadership isn’t pushing for these bills and they’re keeping the GOP’s intention to zero out Social Security very quiet. It’s hard to say why, but maybe it has to do with the corporate wing of the party’s hatred of Social Security, which has found its expression in Biden’s nomination of the anti-Social Security ideologue Andrew Biggs the Social Security Advisory Board:

https://www.levernews.com/biden-taps-anti-social-security-ideologue-to-oversee-program/

Biggs has spent his career advocating for Social Security cuts and privatization — two ideas that are both cruel and wildly unpopular, especially among old people, who, as noted, vote a lot. Biggs is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, an organization whose illustrious career includes a key role in denying climate change and promoting the interests of tobacco companies:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2019/jan/23/free-market-thinktanks-tobacco-control-polices-database#0/?american-enterprise-institute

Biggs says he no longer favors privatizing Social Security — he’s switched to another boondoggle, creating investment accounts for Social Security savers that would let them give their retirement savings to Wall Street to gamble with.

As Matthew Cunningham-Cook writes for The Lever, Biggs’s career includes work on GW Bush’s plan to privatize Social Security and shift its investments from T-bills to “high-fee, high-risk ‘personal accounts.’”

https://www.levernews.com/biden-taps-anti-social-security-ideologue-to-oversee-program/

This wasn’t a temporary lapse: Biggs has spent his career writing editorials and papers calling for Social Security cuts and privatization, claiming, for example, that Social Security privatization would make seniors “not only richer, but also happier, healthier, more familial, smarter, and more active citizens.”

https://www.cato.org/commentary/investings-rich-fringe-benefits

Biggs’s career is a Zelig-like tour of catastrophic privatizations and cuts — for example, in 2016, he became part of the unaccountable board that seized control over Puerto Rico, sidelining its elected leaders with the mission to make sure that Puerto Rico kept paying out to Wall Street bond-holders, irrespective of the human costs:

https://www.aei.org/profile/andrew-g-biggs/

Not only are Biggs’s ideas terrible — they are also wildly, fantastically unpopular among voters. Voters do not want this. Social Security privatization is the pet project of a minuscule minority of fantastically wealthy dilettantes, and if it come to pass, the party responsible for them will be deservedly punished in elections.

Now, the Democrats are, in fact, capable of creating policy that is both popular among voters and the sort of thing that will make material improvements to their lives. For example, the Inflation Reduction Act contains modest, but meaningful, controls on pharmaceutical prices.

Here too, however, the Democrats have managed to absolutely snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The drug price controls in the IRA don’t take effect until 2026 — that is, long after the next two elections.

Writing in The American Prospect, David Ddayen points out that while negotiating prices takes some time, this is an outrageously, pointlessly, self-defeatingly long timeline. Medicare itself was implemented in a single year:

https://prospect.org/health/prescription-drug-price-reforms-wont-happen-for-years/

And at least some parts of the drug price controls could go into effect tomorrow — but are still not going to be implemented until long after the next two elections. The $2000 cap on seniors’ annual out-of-pocket drug spending doesn’t go into effect until 2025.

Again, I’m just a humble Canadian, newly welcomed into America’s bosom, but it seems to me that if you want to win an election, you should do things to make life better for voters before that election rolls around. Implementing the out-of-pocket cap requires “tallying up patient out-of-pocket costs, which are fully transparent, until they hit $2,000, and then stopping them.”

What’s more, as Dayen points out, delaying the Medicare pharma price negotiations actually makes this bill cost more — every dollar that is negotiated down in pharma pricing is a dollar that can be used to offset the out-of-pocket cap (though again, offsets are bullshit).

The Dems are planning to run on these price caps for the midterms, but, as Dayen says, Dems are going to be claiming to have fixed something that is still broken, as in, “Vote for me — I fixed something for you four years from now!”

Dems gain nothing by this delay. Pharma-backed dark money groups are already blitzing out ads that lie shamelessly about the Medicare improvements in the bill, claiming that Dems have “cut Medicare by $300m” (meaning that Dems have told pharma they’re going to cram $300m in savings down their shareholders’ throats and use that money to help patients):

https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/11/rope-a-dope/#cowards-and-lies

I realize that I am not a high-paid Democratic Party consultant here, but I remain convinced that the party could improve its election prospects by doing good things in a timely fashion and then telling voters about them — while also letting voters know about the awful things the Republicans are promising to do.

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Disney's D23 Expo is taking place this weekend and it's a orgy of content. The offerings from Disney and its holdings so far are:

-New footage from ANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMNANIA starring Paul Rudd, Kathryn Newton, Evangeline Lilly, Randall Park and Jonathan Majors. It opens Feb. 17th.

-Friday the late Chadwick Boseman became a Disney Legend and Saturday saw D23 attendees watching footage from BLACK PANTHER: WAKANDA FOREVER. It opens Nov. 11th. On hand was director Ryan Coogler, Leticia Wright, Angela Bassett, Winston Duke and newcomer to the fold Tenoch Huerta who will portray Namor the Submariner.

-First footage of the CAPTAIN MARVEL sequel THE MARVELS starring Brie Larson, MS. MARVEL's Imani Vellani and Teyonah Parrish who returns as Monica Lambeau.

-We have new recruits to CAPTAIN AMERICA: NEW WORLD ORDER.. Joining Anthony Mackie is Shira Haas (who was stunning in Netflix's UNORTHODOX) and Tim Blake Nelson who reprises his villain role from THE INCREDIBLE HULK. Reprising their roles from the Disney+ series THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER is Carl Lumbly and Danny Ramirez. The team reports for service in May 3, 2024.

u-We have director for FANTASTIC FOUR in GAME OF THRONES director (and former child actor) Matt Shakman. The reboot flames on in Nov. 8, 2024

-Casting info the new HAUNTED MANSION. Winona Ryder, Hasaan Minaj and Dan Levy are joining Rosario Dawson, Lakeith Stanfield, Tiffany Haddish, Owen Wilson, Jamie Lee Curtis and Jared Leto (voice only, as far as being reported).

-THUNDERBOLTS casts up. The film is slated to close out Phase 5 on July 26, 2024. Joining Sebastian Stan is BLACK WIDOW's Florence Pugh, David Harbour and Olga Kurylenko; THE FALCON AND THE WINTER SOLDIER's Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Wyatt Russell and ANT-MAN AND THE WASP's Hannah John-Kamen.

*People are already gearing up to ship Yelena and Bucky. Yucky must not happen!

MORE ON D23

-Harrison Ford and Phoebe Waller-Bridge was on-site to excavate the trailer for INDIANA JONES 5 which will serve as a final bow for the 80-year old Ford. The film also stars Mads Mikkelsen, Toby Jones, Boyd Holbrook and Antonio Banderas.

- LOKI series two got a trailer and a newcomer with Ke Huy Quan joining Tom Hiddleston, Sophie DiMartino, Owen Wilson and the already announced, Rafael Casal.

*D23 presented the opportunity for Ke to reunite with Harrison Ford. In a recent interview on THE KELLY CLARKSON show, Ke revealed he knows how to swim thanks to Ford.

-Also revealed: Footage from AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER, sneak peek and title for the LION KING prequel. MUFASA: THE LION KING, which will roar into theaters in 2024. Teaser trailer for the live-action THE LITTLE MERMAID starring Halle Bailey. TLM wades to the surface, summer 2023.

Also a look at the live-action SNOW WHITE starring Rachel Zegler and Gal Gadot.

-Disney+ fare teased was HOCUS POCUS 2 - which is the origin story of the Sanderson Sisters (airing Sept. 30th) stars Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kathy Najimy, Tony Hale, Sam Richardson and this babe,

Hannah Waddingham bringing her witchy ways.

Other Disney+ offering is:

-WILLOW: A new trailer for the reimagining of the 1988 fantasy classic was shown, and Christian Slater was revealed as a cast member. He joins an ensemble that includes Warwick Davis, Joanne Whalley, Ruby Cruz, Erin Kellyman, Ellie Bamber, Dempsey Bryk, Amar Chadha-Patel and Tony Revolori.

-Fifteen years after Giselle and Robert found their happy ending in ENCHANTED comes DISENCHANTED. Joining the returning cast (Amy Adams, Patrick Dempsey, Idina Menzel and James Marsden is Maya Rudolph.

-PETER PAN & WENDY with Alexander Molony as Peter, Ever Anderson (daughter of Mila Jovovich), as Wendy, Jacobi Jupe (younger brother of Noah Jupe in his feature film debut), Alyssa Wapanatâhk  as Tiger Lily, Jim Gaffigan as Smee, Yara Shahidi as Tinker Bell and Jude Law as a Hot! Captain Hook.

This wasn't the only Disney project Law repped at D23. Law is in the Marvel universe thanks to CAPTAIN MARVEL, Disney Classic universe with PETER PAN & WENDY and now he joins his pal Ewan McGregor 

in the STAR WARS universe with Jon Watt's series SKELETON CREW about a group of kids who are trying to find their way home after being lost in space.

Is not Disney without animation so there was info about Pixar films ELIO, INSIDE OUT 2, Disney Animation's WISH with the voicework of Ariana DeBose and Alan Tudyk. And STRANGE WORLDS featuring the voicework of Jake Gyllenhaal, the best Twitter troll Jaboukie Young-White, Gabrielle Union, Dennis Quaid and Alan Tudyk.

-Announced: The casting of Shakira Barrera in IRONHEART starring Dominique Thorne as Riri Williams. Don Cheadle reprising his role as Colonel James "Rhodey" Rhodes in AMOR WARS.

-Shown: The full trailer for SECRET INVASION starring Samuel L. Jackson, Cobie Smulders, Olivia Colman, Emilia Clarke, Kingsley Ben-Adir, Carmen Ejogo (whose ex-husband Jeffrey Wright voiced The Watcher in Disney+'s WHAT IF?) , and appearances by Don Cheadle, Ben Mendelsohn and Martin Freeman.

The audience was treated to a live performance from the spoof "Rogers" musical from HAWKEYE. Very fitting as there was a special look at ECHO, the HAWKEYE spinoff starring Alaqua Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio, alongside Devery Jacobs, Graham Greene, Cody Lightning, Tantoo Cardinal, Chaske Spencer and Jacobs' RESERVATION DOGS costar Zahn McClarnon. 

D'Onofrio was also on hand with Charlie Cox to discuss the triumphant return of Matt Murdock in the upcoming DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN. Production will begin in 2023.

-Trailer for WEREWOLF BY NIGHT, aHalloween-themed special starring Gael García Bernal as Jack Russell who is not a terrier but a werewolf apparently. It's set to howl on Disney+ on October 7.

Just as father and son Kurt and Wyatt Russell are in the Disney fold, and buddies Pedro Pascal (whose trailer for series 3 of THE MANDALORIAN was shown) and Oscar Isaac are, Garcia Bernal joins his friend Diego Luna who was on hand to discuss his series ANDOR where he reprises his ROGUE ONE role of Cassian Andor.

*Many people think Luna and Garcia Bernal met making Alfonso Cuarón's Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN, but they are childhood friends and costars

whose parents worked together in theater. Their parents were rehearsing and doing costume design for a play while Gael was born and were still doing the play when Diego was born.

Other LucasFilm wares revealed like TALES OF THE JEDI, an animated anthology series, so a Disney Junior animated series STAR WARS: YOUNG JEDI ADVENTURES and STAR WARS: THE BAD BATCH whose second season is pushed back from September 28 to January 4, 2023.

-While no word on when the BEAUTY AND THE BEAST spinoff GASTON AND LEFEU will begin production (star Luke Evans promises it will happen), Disney will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the animated film with a special -featuring live and recorded performances - will star Josh Groban as the Beast, Joshua Henry as Gaston and Rita Moreno as the narrator. The choreography will be done by the master, Jamal Sims.

There was also info on the PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS series, the NATIONAL TREASURE series NATIONAL TREASURE: EDGE OF HISTORY, an original series titled AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, a long-from series IWAJU which is described as a love letter to Lagos, Nigeria; comedy series THE MUPPET MAYHEM, series two of THE PROUD FAMILY: LOUDER AND PROUDER, new movie PROM PACT, the original series THE SANTA CLAUSES with Tim Allen returning, short-form series ZOOTOPIA+ and John Stamos was on hand to tease series 2 of BIG SHOT. He also took the time to talk of the last time he spent time with his late FULL HOUSE costar Bob Saget - the two went to Disneyland.

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With a resume spanning nearly thirty years, Graham’s got a REP!! This post got long REAL fast as you factor in he’s been spotted in (by my best count) 137 television episodes! He’s no stranger to film either and now a fan fave in more than one fandom. He’s the only actor to have worked with Sylvester Stallone in films as both Rocky AND Rambo. Take a peek!!

Return to Treasure Island (TV Mini Series, 1986): Ned: S1E2 - Mutiny

Highlander (TV Series, 1996): Charlie Tarvise: S4E21 - Judgement Day

Casualty (TV, 1998): Gerry Talbot, 5eps: S13E10 Clip (Graham @ 7:01), Two / S13E18  Clip (Graham @ 8:34), Two (Graham scenes @ 5:01 & 6:12), Three (Graham AND Tobias Menzies @ 7:43), Four (Graham & Tobias @ 4:56, again @ 7:28), Five (Graham @ 8:14) / S14E1: Clip (Graham @ 7:44 & 8:23), Two (graham @ 4:35 & 5:57) / S14E3: Clip (Graham @ 7:42), Two (Graham @ 9:00), Three  / S14E6 : Clip (Graham @ 1:28 & 4:47, 5:43, 7:10), Two (Graham @ 2:54, 4:51, 7:19), Three (Graham @ 3:48, 6:15, 7:23, 8:16), Four (Graham @ Beginning, 0:36, 1:09, 1:48, 2:40 )

Red Dwarf (TV Series, 1999): Ackerman, 5eps: S8E3 - Back in the Red Pt3 / S8E5 - Krytie TV, Making of (Graham @ 7:46) / 30th Anniversary

Heartbeat (TV Series, 1999): Derek Flowers: S9E2 - Tricks of the Trade

Dinotopia (TV Series, 2002): Ajax: S1E3 - Handful of Dust

Rosemary & Thyme (TV Series, 2003): DI Taylor: S1E3 - Language of Flowers

Murder City (TV Series, 2004): Noel Fredericks, S1E4: Clip

Empire (TV Mini Series, 2005): General Rapax, 5eps: Episodes 1-3: Clip (Graham @ 1:58), Two (Graham @ 0:48), Three (Graham @ 3:19 & 4:28), Four (Graham @ 5:09), Five (Graham @ 2:38) // Episodes 5-6: One (Graham @ 4:39), Two (Graham @ 7:47), Three (Graham @ Beginning), Four, Death (Graham @ 3:27) // Watch Entire Series

Rome (TV Series, 2005): Urbo, 2 eps: S1E9 Clip 

The Bill (TV Series, 2005-6): Pete Larson, 6eps: S21E68 - The Boys Are Back in Town / S21E72 - The Scapegoat / S21E85 -  A Mean Game Pt1 / S21E86  - A Mean Game Pt2 / S22E8 - Spirits / S22E20 Connections Pt2

Jekyll (TV Mini Series, 2007): Gavin Hardcastle, S1E6:  FanVid

NCIS (TV Series, 2007): Aleksei, S5E6: Fanvid (Graham @ 2:05)

Lost (TV Series, 2008): Sergeant, S4E5: Clip (Graham @ 0:38), Two (First 20 Seconds)

CSI Miami (TV Series, 2008): Mitch Davis, S6E16: Clip (Graham @ 0:21)

Pushing Daisies (TV Series, 2008): Hansel Von Getz, S2E3: Clip

24 (TV Series, 2010) Mikhail Novakovich, 7eps: S8E16: Promo, Full Ep (ReDubbed in French) / S8E17: Promo, Full Ep in French / S8E18: Promo, Full Ep / S8E19: Promo, Full Ep / S8E20: Promo, Full Ep (In French) / S8E21: Promo, Full Ep (In French) / S8E22: Promo, Full Ep (in French)

The Good Guys (TV Series, 2010): Dolph: S1E7 - Hunches & Heists

Outlander (TV Series, 2014-2020): Dougal MacKenzie / Buck MacKenzie, 19eps: See Master Post

Colony (TV Series, 2018): Andrew MacGregor, 3 eps: S3E3: Clip (Graham @ 0:57), Two (Graham @ 0:15), Three / S3E4: Clip, Two (Graham @ 0:19) / S3E5: Clip, Two (Graham @ 0:31), Three (Graham @ 0:29)

Lucifer (TV Series, 2019): Father Kinley, 6eps: S4E1 - Everything’s Okay / S4E2: Clip / S4E3: Clip, Two, Three / S4E7: Clip, Two / S4E9: Clip / S4E10: Clip // Jibland2019, Two, Three

Preacher (TV Series, 2016-9): The Saint of Killers / The Cowboy, 42 eps: TVGuide / KTLA5 // S2 Saint Promo, Two, Three // Premiere: AP //  S1 Trailer / S3 Intro / S4 Teaser, S4 Featurette // SDCC 2016: IGN, MTV, IMDb Q&A, Panel Part One & Two, AMC, TVLine, Vulture // SDCC 2017: EW, MTV, Panel - Saint Clip, Full Panel,  IMDb, TVLine // Clips: Saint Shoots Thru Planet / Jesse & Saint in Australia // S1E9 Finish the Song - Clip // S2E1 On the Road - BTS, Clip  / S2E2 Mumbai Sky Tower - BTS, Two - Clip / S2E4 Viktor - Deals w/ Satan / S2E5 Dallas - Viktor / S2E6 Sokosha - BTS, Jesse & Saint, “Get On Your Knees” / S2E12 On Your Knees - Returns / S2E13 The End of the Road - BTS // S3E7 Hitler - Trailer, Visits Hitler (Graham @ 2:11) / S3E10 The Light Above - Saint vs Satan, Meets w/ Satan, Sydney // S4E3 Deviant - Turtle Pie / S4E6 The Lost Apostle - Preview / S4E7 Messiahs / S4E8 Fear of the Lord / S4E9 Overture - Trailer, Saint vs God / S4E10 End of the World - Jesse vs Saint, Saint vs God

Men In Kilts (TV Series, 2019-): See Master Post

For Queen & Country (Film, 1988): Lieutenant: Full Movie (w/ a young Denzel Washington!)

Freedom Fighter (TV Movie, 1988): Guard: Full Movie

Erik the Viking (Film, 1989): Thangbrand, Etc: Full Movie (Starring: Mickey Rooney, Eartha Kitt, John Cleese, and fellow S1 Outlander Alum Tim McInnerny (Father Bain))

Macbeth (Film 1997): Banquo: Full Movie

Dot the I (Film, 2003): Detective #1: Trailer (No Graham) / BTS with Tom Hardy & Charlie Cox, JUST BECAUSE (No Graham)

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (Film 2003): Submarine Captain: Deleted Scene

Good Girl, Bad Girl (Film, 2006): Gromek: Trailer (Graham @ 0:35)

Rambo (Film, 2008): Lewis: Mercenaries Clip / Die for Something Clip / Collider Interview / Wellington Con Interview

Sisterhood (Film 2008): Martin: Trailer (Graham @ 1:29)

Secretariat (Film, 2010): Earl Jansen: Trailer (No Graham)

The Wicker Tree (Film, 2011): Sir Lachlan Morrison: Trailer / Full Movie / BTS / Clip

The Hobbit: Unexpected Journey (Film, 2012): Dwalin: Announcement Trailer, Trailer #1, Trailer #2, Trailer #3 / Full Movie // BTS, Two, Three, Four, Dwalin’s Chair, Mr Baggins, Graham Does Metalica, “Middle Earth” (Graham @ 0:56), “Windybeard” (Graham @ 0:10), Archery Training, Beard Envy / Dwarf Bootcamp // Clip, Two, Three, Four, The Fish, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten, Eleven // Premiere

Note: I tried my best to get the numbered clips in the right movie’s category. I haven’t seen the films, so I may have misattributed some...

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug (Film, 2013): Dwalin: Sneak Peek, Teaser, Trailer #1, Trailer #2, Trailer #3 / Full Movie / Berlin Premiere /  Clip, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six / Costumes

Plastic (Film, 2014): Steve Dawson: Trailer (Back of Graham’s head @ 1:03) / Premiere (Graham @ 4:42) / Full Movie

The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies (Film 2014): Dwalin: Teaser, Trailer #1, Trailer #2 // Full Film // Premiere, Two, Anglophile / Clip, Two, Three,  Four, Five, Six, /  Deleted Scene / SDCC 2014 Full Panel

Creed (Film 2015): Tommy Holiday: Interview / Trailer (No Graham) / Clip (Graham @ 1:36), Two (Graham @ 1:08), Three (Graham @ beginning & 1:15, 2:25)

The Finest Hours (Film, 2016): Frank Fauteaux: Trailer (Graham briefly in background @ 1:53), Trailer #2 (Graham @ 1:07), TV Spot (Graham @ 0:40) / Clip, Two / BTS (Graham @ 5:09 and on) / Full Movie

The Stolen (Film, 2017): Bully: Trailer (Graham @ 0:42)

Aquaman (Film 2018): King Atlan: Extended Trailer (Graham @ 2:09) / Clip, Two (Graham @ 0:39)

Stakeout (Film 2019): Ibrahim Kozlov: Trailer (Graham @ 1:20) / Full Film

Actors Talk About Themselves / TheCouchCast

iFit: New Zealand / Scotland

ComicCons:

2013: HobbitCon, Two, Singing, Closing Ceremony (Bonn, Germany) / DragonCon: “Dwalin”, Panel #1 Full, Panel #2 Full / SupernovaCon, Two, SeaFM Interview @ 2:39, Q&A // 2014: FantasyCon: Who’s Line Is It Anyway, Dwalin, Kickoff Panel, Dwarven BootCamp / Wales ComicCon // 2015: Cincinnati ComicExpo, Two / MTL ComicCon / LIGeek / RingCon (Outlander) One, Two // 2016: RingCon: “Dwalin, Gloin and Bombur - At Your Service”/ MegaCon Tampa Bay: Hobbit Panel / “Finding Your Inner Dwarf” / Welligeddon: “Dwarves Believe They’re Giants”, “That’s Not Creepy At All”, “Fish Scene”, “Dwalin”, “HobbitCon” / MotorCity ComicCon // 2017: SupernovaCon: Lightsaber Presentation / CollectiveCon // 2018: SideshowLIVE! / TheOneRing Interview  // 2019: GalaxyCon

Charities:

Breakfast for SickKids - FanExpo Canada 

Commercial

Ford Focus (2005): One & Two

Jaguar (2017)

Upcoming Projects:

This Guest of Summer (2021): Mallory: Welcome / Caitriona Balfe “Auditions” / Sideshow Live! / Twitter w/ Stephen Walters

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From Social Security Works

President Harry S Truman famously had a sign on his desk that read “the buck stops here.” If Andrew Saul, the man Donald Trump put in charge of the Social Security Administration (SSA), had a sign on his desk, it would say “it’s never my fault.” Nearly 30 million Social Security beneficiaries are facing weeks-long delays in receiving their COVID relief checks. These are seniors and people with disabilities, many of whom live on fixed incomes and desperately need these checks. Instead of taking responsibility, Saul and his deputy David Black are pointing fingers, making excuses, and flat out lying. Several weeks before the American Rescue Plan became law, the IRS asked SSA for the data needed to send $1,400 survival checks to Social Security beneficiaries. For a full month, Saul and Black failed to send the data.1 As a direct result, seniors and people with disabilities across the country did not receive their relief checks. Finally, Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee took action. Congressmen Richard Neal (D-MA), John Larson (D-CT), Bill Pascrell (D-NJ), and Danny Davis (D-IL) issued an ultimatum. In the words of Rep. Pascrell, “We are giving the Trump-appointed heads of the Social Security Admin 24 Hours to get off their backsides and stop delaying sending stimulus checks to 30,000,000 Americans.”2 The congressional pressure worked. The next day, Saul and Black finally sent the IRS the data to send out the checks. But by dragging their feet for a month, they ensured that the survival checks would arrive weeks late—a catastrophic delay for seniors and people with disabilities who are counting on those checks to pay for food, housing, and medicines. Saul and Black insist that the delay was not their fault, claiming that a bureaucratic error in the stimulus bill prevented them from sharing data. They are lying. Asked about Saul’s claims, a spokesperson for the Ways and Means Committee told Newsweek:3 “Funds could not be directly appropriated because of the reconciliation process, but they were appropriated to Treasury with the intent that they would be distributed to SSA in a timely manner, so this line of defense doesn't hold. It inexplicably took two weeks for the transfer to happen after the American Rescue Plan was signed into law, which is a clear failure of leadership from SSA.”Doubling down on his lies in an extremely defensive statement,4 Saul tried to hide behind the agency’s workforce. “There is no one more committed to serving the public than the employees of this agency,” said Saul. “I find any insinuation to the contrary to be unacceptable.” SSA employees are indeed dedicated to serving the public. That’s why they want President Biden to immediately fire Saul and Black, who are undermining the agency’s mission. Back in December, unions representing the SSA workforce held nearly unanimous no-confidence votes for Saul and Black.5 The people who know Saul and Black’s leadership best want them gone. It’s unclear if Saul and Black delayed the survival checks in a deliberate attempt to sabotage the Biden administration, or if they are just extremely incompetent. But their record shows that they deserve zero benefits of the doubt. For years, Saul and Black have worked to cut Social Security benefits and union-bust the agency’s workforce. They want to make it harder to qualify for Social Security disability benefits, and easier to take them away. According to a whistleblower report, 6 they threatened to fire judges for approving too many disability claims—which is illegal.   The drumbeat for President Biden to remove Saul and Black is growing. In January, several unions representing the SSA workforce urged Biden to remove Saul and Black on day one of his administration.7 During his first weeks in office, Biden made some positive personnel changes but failed to remove Saul and Back. In February, in his first act as chair of the Senate Social Security Subcommittee, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) called Saul and Black “key agents of the Trump agenda to dismantle Social Security” and urged Biden to remove them immediately.8 Weeks ago, Reps. Pascrell, Larson, and Davis—who are all chairs of key House subcommittees—joined the calls for the removal of Saul and Black, stating that they have “pushed substantial cuts to Social Security” and “engaged in aggressive anti-union activities.”9 Their sabotage of the survival checks shows that just because a new president is in the White House doesn’t mean Saul and Black will stop acting as Donald Trump’s agents. Joe Biden ran for president on a promise to protect and expand Social Security. To fulfill it, he needs leadership at the Social Security Administration who will work with him, not against him. Alex LawsonSocial Security Works 1 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/social-security-stimulus-payments-holdup-irs_n_605bae35c5b6531eed018de92 https://twitter.com/BillPascrell/status/13748153800158699693 https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-stimulus-delay-ssa-blames-staff-funding-congress-irs-15790304 https://blog.ssa.gov/commissioner-statement-on-economic-impact-payments/5 https://www.federaltimes.com/management/leadership/2020/12/09/social-security-leaders-receive-double-no-confidence-votes/6 https://news.yahoo.com/trump-appointed-social-security-administration-officials-test-bidens-ability-to-forge-new-agenda-090005885.html7 https://www.govexec.com/management/2021/01/social-security-unions-urge-biden-oust-agency-leadership-day-one/171356/8 https://www.cleveland.com/open/2021/02/sen-sherrod-brown-wants-to-boot-trump-appointees-who-lead-the-social-security-administration.html9 https://larson.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/larson-davis-pascrell-call-removal-social-security-commissioner-and

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Who: Rep. John Larson (D-Connecticut)

Twitter: @RepJohnLarson

When: March 2020

What: Social Security

Watch on C-SPAN

Read Congressional Record

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Hollywood Reporter, September 25

Since I don’t have any tabloids  to add today, I’m going to add the Hollywood Reporter. I’ll do this when I run dry of tabloids. If you’d like me to add HR more often, let me know :) 

Keep in mind HR is an over-sized magazine, so some scans will be cut off. If you’d like something scanned that I cut off, again let me know

Lastly, there are a lot of ads in HR, especially For Your Consideration and Congratulations ads. Let me know if you’d like me to keep an eye out for ads for someone or something you’re interested in

Cover: Fall Style Glam Squads -- Hairstylist Bryce Scarlett, Margot Robbie and makeup artist Pati Dubroff 

Page 10: Contents, Cynthia Erivo

Page 12: Contents 

Page 23:  The Report -- How sky-high can massive TV library deals fly?, Heat Index -- Lizzo

Page 24: Who wants to buy DirecTV at a deep discount? 

Page 26: Why Disney quietly launched streaming in the Netherlands, Theaters’ latest cash grab: ads after trailers 

Page 28: Emmys shocks, surprises and that big ratings stumble, who won big and who won big on TV, Emmy Heat Index -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge, HBO, Amazon, Ozark, Jesse Armstrong, Variety categories, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, the women of Game of Thrones, Fox Entertainment 

Page 32: Box Office, Broadcast TV, Cable TV, Billboard Hot 100, Billboard 200 

Page 34: 7 Days of Deals -- Margaret Nagle, Penelope Ann Miller, Mia Kirshner, Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman, Bruce Holsinger, Greg Berlanti, Jessica Queller, Robert Rovner, Melissa Korn, Jennifer Levitz, D.V. DeVincentis, Ali Krug, Patrick Chu, Jeffrey Wright, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Dean DeBlois, Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds will star in a musical reimagining of A Christmas Carol, Joaquin Phoenix, Big Deal Exclusive -- Billy Joel’s music will be a scripted “arc-thology” called Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Hot New Books with Hollywood Appeal -- The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Raven Lane by Amber Cowie

Page 35: Rita Wilson, Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver, Gideon Adlon and Lovie Simone and Zoey Luna, Mayim Bialik and Jim Parsons, Ryan Seacrest, Jared Padalecki will star in a Walker Texas Ranger reboot, Stephen Falk, Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson, Dan Levy, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Nahnatchka Khan, Kiefer Sutherland and Boyd Holbrook, Queen Latifah, Kendrick Lamar, Rep Sheet -- Cecily Strong, Chance the Rapper, Jason Bell, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell, Kevin Nash AKA Diesel, Next Big Thing -- Barbie Ferreira

Page 39: About Town -- Stephanie Ruhle of MSNBC 

Page 40: AllBright pitches women a diverse membership and professional cred to stand out amid multiplying options -- Jameela Jamil, Olivia Wilde, The Bungalows’ bar to entry -- Taylor Swift and Emma Stone, Eddie Redmayne

Page 41: Soho Warehouse, Cory Booker Q&A -- he’s a big fan of Supernatural 

Page 46: Yes, I Did Say That -- Bob Iger, Reed Hastings, Renee Zellweger, Thomas Lennon, Mike Schur, Mike Johnson, Oprah Winfrey, Demi Moore, Flashback -- Julian Fellowes in 2018 

Page 48: Rambling Reporter -- Robert Osborne, Billy Porter, Laverne Cox, Ricky Martin, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Padma Lakshmi, Shoshana Bean, Constance Wu, Hudson Yang, Charlotte Kirk, Kevin Tsujihara, Neil Marshall, Sylvester Stallone, Peter Bradshaw, Power Dining -- Issa Rae, Larry David, Helen Hunt, Jamie Foxx, Brian Grazer, Alicia Vikander brunching at Brentwood Country Mart’s Farmshop, Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Charlie Hunnam, Julie Bowen, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian 

Page 50: Hitched, Hatched, Hired 

Page 53: Emmy Awards -- Phoebe Waller-Bridge 

Page 54: Best Dressed -- Emilia Clarke, Rachel Brosnahan

Page 55: Mandy Moore, Naomi Watts, Michelle Williams 

Page 56: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Gwyneth Paltrow

Page 57: Julia Garner, Billy Porter, Sophie Turner, Kristen Bell 

Page 58: On the Carpet and Inside the Parties -- Jared Harris and Craig Mazin, Phoebe Waller-Bridge and boyfriend Martin McDonagh, Peter Roth with wife Andrea and Ann Sarnoff and husband Richard, Ted Sarandos and Jason Bateman, Billy Porter, Michelle Williams and John Landgraf, George R.R. Martin 

Page 59: Ava DuVernay and Ethan Herisse and Asante Blackk and Jane Rosenthal, Bob Greenblatt and Stephen Loguidice, Rachel Brosnahan, Joey King and Patricia Arquette, RuPaul, Jodie Comer 

Page 60: Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Anna Chlumsky, Peter Dinklage and David Benioff, Eugene Levy and Deborah Devine and Ben Stiller, Charlie Collier, Jeremy Strong and Jesse Armstong and Casey Bloys, Sophie Turner and Nina West, Lena Waithe and Ben Whishaw and Latesha Gillespie and Charlie Barnett 

Page 61: Kelly Kahl and Thom Sherman and their wives, Jeff Bezos and Bethenny Frankel, Norman Lear and Karey Burke, Jharrel Jerome and Korey Wise, Zendaya, Jeff Shell and daughter Anna, Rambling Reporter Emmy Edition -- Ted Sarandos, Jharrel Jerome, Korey Wise, Game of Thrones cast

Page 62: Regina King, Tony Shaloub and Alex Borstein, Robin Wright, Iain Glen and Kit Harington, Jaboukie Young-White, Seth MacFarlane, Adam Devine, Samantha Bee 

Page 64: THR and SAG-AFTRA Nominees Night -- Sterling K. Brown and Mandy Moore and Susan Kelechi Watson and Chris Sullivan, Michael K. Williams, Clea Duvall and Natasha Lyonne, Anthony Carrigan and Jared Harris and wife Allegra Riggio, Jennifer Salke and Bert Salke and Pearlena Igbokwe, Chris Silbermann, Lea Michele, Jeremy Gold and Marci Wiseman and Craig Erwich, Sarah Snook and Nicholas Braun, Aaron Paul and Joey King, David Nevins and Matthew Belloni and Josh Sapan 

Page 66: The Business -- Bill Damaschke 

Page 68: Digital -- Gamer’s Plight -- retire at 25? 

Page 70: TV -- Shane Gillis, SNL and the art of the post-racist-rant apology 

Page 72: Are Hollywood “Loan-outs” done for? 

Page 76: How to throw a viewing party for your own show, Power Shopping -- Cardi B., Ryan Murphy, Larry David, Cameron Diaz, Mark Wahlberg, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kristen Stewart, Kate Hudson, Style News and Notes -- Teressa Foglia, Gerard Butler, Owen Wilson, John Mayer, Will Smith

Page 78: Becoming Judy -- designers Jany Temime and Jeremy Woodhead transformed Renee Zellweger into Judy Garland 

Page 82: Glam Squads -- Zendaya 

Page 83: Zendaya with makeup artist Sheika Daley and hairstylist Ursula Stephen 

Page 85: Margot Robbie with Bryce Scarlett and Pati Dubroff, Zazie Beetz, Rachel Brosnahan 

Page 86: Cynthia Erivo with makeup artist Terrell Mullin and hairstylist Coree Moreno 

Page 87: Emilia Clarke, Cynthia Erivo, Scarlett Johansson, Nicole Kidman, Brie Larson 

Page 88: Jennifer Lopez, Lupita Nyong’o

Page 89: Rachel Brosnahan with hairstylist Owen Gould and makeup artist Lisa Aharon, Florence Pugh, Margot Robbie 

Page 90: BTS Emmys -- Michelle Williams’ winning glam slam 

Page 91 -- Saoirse Ronan, Hailee Steinfeld, Charlize Theron, Zendaya 

Page 92: Comedy’s Civil War -- Shane Gillis’ SNL firing has exposed a growing rift in the stand-up world over what’s legitimate envelope-pushing and what’s just plain racist 

Page 94: Reviews -- The Politician 

Page 95: Fall TV Roundup, THR’s Social Climbers -- Actors -- Cole Sprouse, Tracee Ellis Ross, Unscripted TV -- American Ninja Warriors, TV Personalities -- James Corden 

Page 97: Backlot -- Elizabeth Banks on fighting to direct and her picks for president, Film Row gives assistants face time with top execs 

Page 98: A new film takes the case of Eric Garner -- who was killed by NYPD officers in 2014 -- to court 

Page 100: Armando Iannucci embraces his softer side for a timely David Copperfield starring Dev Patel 

Page 102: Has Korean filmmaking become a victim of its own success? 

Page 104: 90 Years of THR -- In the early 1960s Marilyn Monroe’s hairstylist was ‘God’

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8chan has been taken out

" I examine just how terrorist teams utilize the Internet to hire and also radicalize," Evans informed investigatory press reporter Jace Larson throughout a meeting Monday in Mexico City.

Shooters in 3 various mass murders this year have actually uploaded statement of beliefs on an obscure web site where extremists collect to support on and also hire others.

The 8Chan web site has actually been down and after that back on-line consistently because the mass murders in El Paso Saturday.

An expanding variety of individuals examining mass capturings state homemade extremists are hiring as well as arranging like the method widely known fear teams such as ISIS or Al Qaeda have actually done, as well as they are making use of the 8Chan web site to do it.

Robert Evans does not emit the appearance of somebody that has actually examined extremists academically. The day he fulfilled us, he was clothed like a globe vacationer, putting on a TELEVISION, vest, publications as well as denims.

10 days back, Evans remained in Syria. He took a trip to research extremist teams in Mosel, Iraq in 2016 as well as 2017.

" 8Chan went from a number of disaffected, misogynist videogame followers to straight-out neo-Nazis," Evans stated.

Given that a shooter took place a rampage in March, eliminating 51 individuals in Christchurch, New Zealand, Evans has actually committed a lot of his time to researching just how 3 mass-shootings were linked to the 8Chan web site.

The website began after customers were started from a comparable, yet somewhat extra controlled web site called 4Chan, an image-based online bulletin board system where individuals publish as well as talk about pictures.

8Chan was created as an area where any kind of speech is enabled. Evans demonstrated how customers

" It's this concept that white individuals are going vanished as a result of migration," Evans claimed. He mentioned that he thinks the concept is incorrect.

On the website, viewers additionally speak about something called "substitute concept," which is additionally described as "white substitute concept." Some reveal a problem that the white race might be removed as even more individuals arrive from Mexico, various other main American areas as well as in other places.

The expression "defeating his high rating" is made use of to describe any person that can eliminate greater than a previous awesome.

Eliminating on 8Chan is occasionally compared to a computer game.

As proof of this sensation, Evans mentions that the Christchurch awesome livestreamed his bloodbath with a first-person perspective from a safety helmet web cam.

" There's a factor that the Christchurch shooter livestreamed his bloodbath for individuals at 8Chan, as well as there's a factor that he assembled a songs checklist that teemed with tracks that resembled pertaining to in jokes within that area," Evan claimed.

Robert was amongst the very first to locate a link in between 8Chan and also 3 2019 mass murders: the Christchurch carnage in March, the Poway synagogue capturing outside San Diego in April that wounded 3 and also eliminated one, as well as the capturing in El Paso that eliminated 22 Saturday.

The awesomes showed up to have actually left policies in each instance on the 8Chan web site prior to the murders.

easily blog post physical violence, anti-Semitic motifs as well as race-related severe sights. Pro-white nationalism photos are quickly located.

INDIVIDUALS LOOK TO TWEETS FOR VALIDATION

Legislator John Cornyn, R-Texas, uploaded a heading of a newspaper article in June that reviewed "Texas acquired nearly 9 Hispanic citizens for each extra white homeowner in 2015."

Texas obtained nearly 9 Hispanic locals for each added white local in 2014 https://t.co/rbjpkzMGwf using @TexasTribune

The sights of numerous on the website would certainly have been thought about in the past, also by individuals, as severe and also not shared by the public. Evans currently claims he's seen proof internet site customers really feel legitimized by current tweets from political leaders.

-- Senator John Cornyn (@JohnCornyn) June 22, 2019

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, published a tweet in March of 2017 that was right away conversional. It stated, "We can not recover our human being with somebody else's infants."

His blog post attracted prompt objection. His spokesperson stated Tuesday he just retweeted an information heading.

Wilders comprehends that society and also demographics are our fate. We can not recover our human being with someone else's infants. https://t.co/4nxLipafWO

-- Steve King (@SteveKingIA) March 12, 2017

King did not return an e-mail requesting for remark concerning the tweet.

Evans states there is no easy option.

College of Northern Colorado Sociology Professor Cliff Leek has actually checked out shooters' statement of beliefs as well as recognizes with blog posts on 8Chan.

He stated the U.S. Government need to be dealing with these extremists similar to those terrorist teams.

" When I saw the web link to the statement of belief, I was entirely unsurprised," Leek claimed.

" I believe the reality that we are surrounding 80 individuals dead in the last 5 months is all the proof that you require of that," he claimed.

Leek states these teams recognize exactly how to hire as well as indicate their comparing the eliminating goals to computer games as an initiative to target a team of individuals.

Evans thinks on the internet extremists' communications on 8Chan are equally as hazardous as horror strategies utilized by ISIS or Al Qaida.

" Especially for more youthful males that remain in their teenage years at once where a lot of us examine our borders, if we go into in an area where we're are confidential and also there's no person there to press back as well as claim 'No that's inappropriate,' it virtually ends up being one-up male ship," he stated.

8Chan is held overseas.

A great deal of individuals attempted not chatting concerning this. Currently lots as well as lots of individuals have actually been fired dead," Evans stated.

Evans claims not discussing them will not quit their activities.

Evans claims he does not think the capturings will certainly quit as the prestige remains to develop for shooters, in their very own circles.

We can not recover our world with someone else's infants." I attempted not speaking regarding this. A whole lot of individuals attempted not chatting concerning this. Currently lots and also loads of individuals have actually been fired dead," Evans stated. "It's one of those points where I believe I understand what not speaking concerning this looks like."

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US Rep. Darren Soto outlines Democratic plan to keep Social Security solvent…

Sabeena LoBello originally shared:

Dozens of seniors showed up to hear U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, D-Kissimmee, give an overview of the Social Security 2100 Act, a Democrat-led plan to keep Social Security solvent for the rest of the century and, perhaps, beyond.

The proposed legislation from lead author U.S. Rep. John B. Larson, a Connecticut Democrat, addresses concerns that aging baby boomers will eventually deplete the Social Security Trust Fund. Soto informed the crowd that many Social Security recipients will see a 25 percent reduction in benefits after 2034 without passage of the bill.

“We can’t just wait around for solutions,” he said. “We (Democrats) are committed to passing this through the House and we’re urging the Senate (to do the same).”

https://www.theledger.com/news/20190204/us-rep-darren-soto-outlines-democratic-plan-to-keep-social-security-solvent-during-polk-town-hall-meeting