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[batboyblog]

Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #18

May 10-17 2024

The Justice Department endorses lifting many restrictions on marijuana. Since the 1970s marijuana has been classified as a Schedule I controlled substance, the most restrictive classification for drugs that are highly addictive, dangerous and have no medical use, like heroin. Schedule I drugs are nearly impossible to get approval for research studies greatly hampering attempts to understand marijuana and any medical benefits it may have. The DoJ recommends moving it to Schedule III, drugs with low risk of abuse like anabolic steroids, and testosterone. This will allow for greater research, likely allow medical marijuana, and make marijuana a much less serious offense. President Biden welcomed DoJ's decision, a result a review of policy he ordered. Biden in his message talked about how he's pardoned everyone convicted of marijuana possession federally. The President repeated a phrase he's said many times "No-one should be in jail just for using or possessing marijuana,"

The Department of Interior announced no new coal mining in America's largest coal producing region. The moratorium on new coal leases has been hailed as the single biggest step so fair toward ending coal in the US. The Powder River Basin area of Wyoming and Montana produces 40% of the nations coal, the whole state of West Virginia is just 14%. The new rule is estimated to reduce emissions by the equivalent of 293 million tons of carbon dioxide annually, the same as taking 63 million gas powered cars off the road.

Vice-President Harris announced that the Biden-Harris Administration had broken records by investing $16 billion in Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Harris, a graduate of Howard University, is the first President or Vice-President to have gone to a HBCU. The Administration's investment of $900 million so far in 2024 brought the total investment of the Biden-Harris administration in HBCUs to $16 billion more than double the record $7 billion. HBCUs produce 40% of black engineers, 50% of black teachers, 70% of black doctors and dentists, and 80% of black judges. HBCUs also have a much better record of helping social mobility and moving people out of generational poverty than other colleges and universities.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development announced $30 billion dollars in renewal funding for the Housing Choice Voucher Program. The program supports 2.3 million families that are in need of housing with vouchers that help pay rent. This funding represents a $2 billion dollar increase over last year.

The Department of Agriculture announced $671.4 million in investments in rural infrastructure. The money will go to project to improve rural electric grids, as well as drinking water and wastewater treatment infrastructure. The money will go to 47 projects across 23 states.

HUD announced a record breaking $1.1 billion dollar investment in Tribal housing and community development. HUD plans just over 1 billion dollars for the Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) program. This is a 40% increase in funding over 2023 and marks the largest ever funding investment in Indian housing. HUD also is investing $75 million in community development, supporting building and rehabbing community buildings in American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

The Department of Transportation announced $2 billion in investments in America's busiest passenger rail route, the Northeast Corridor between Washington DC and Boston. This is part of a 15 year, $176 billion plan to rebuild the corridor’s infrastructure and prepare for increased ridership and more trains. So far investments have seen a 25% increase, 7 million riders, over figures last year. a fully funded plan would almost double Amtrak service between New York City and Washington, D.C., and increase service between New York City and Boston by 50%. It would also allow a 60% increase in commuter trains.

HUD announced plans to streamline its HOME program. Currently the largest federal program to help build affordable housing, the streamlining of the rules will speed up building and help meet the Biden Administration's goal of 2 million new affordable housing units. HUD announced last week $1.3 billion dollars for the HOME program, which built 13,000 new units of housing in 2023 and helped 13,000 families with rental assistance

The Department of Interior announced $520 million in new water projects to help protect against drought in the western states. The funding will support 57 water related projects across 18 western states. The projects focus on climate resilience and drought prevention, as well as improving aging water delivery systems, and improving hydropower generation.

The Departments of Agriculture and HHS have stepped up efforts to wipe out the H5N1 virus prevent its spread to humans while protecting farmers livelihoods. The virus is currently effecting dairy cattle in the Texas panhandle region. The USDA and HSS are releasing wide ranging funds to help support farms equipping workers with Personal Protective Equipment, covering Veterinary costs, as well as compensating farmers for lost revenue. HHS and the CDC announced $101 million in testing an monitoring. This early detection and action is key to preventing another Covid style pandemic.

The Senate confirmed Sanket Bulsara to a life time federal judgeship in New York and Eric Schulte and Camela Theeler to lifetime federal judgeships in South Dakota. This brings the total number of judges appointed by President Biden to 197. For the first time in history the majority of a President's judicial nominees have not been white men.

Bonus: The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that transgender health insurance exclusions were illegal. The ruling came from a case first filed in 2019 where an employer refused to cover an employee's gender affirming surgery. The court in its ruling sited new guidance from the Biden Administration's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission that declared that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act protects trans people in the work place. These kinds of guidelines are often sited in court and carry great weight.

[squiddy-god]

Twst cowboy/western AU

Omg ok so I have so many thoughts here we goooo!!! 

Tw: western Au! Mental illness, guns and gangs, I think that's it- this is a pretty wholesome au soooo

New tags! Town of Night Raven, twisted western, twst western!Au

Ok this au takes place in like the 1890’s in the small western town of Night Raven 

I'll go in order of the boys 

Riddle Rosehearts 

Managed to move away from his mama and go here, he still writes her but he's dead to her and it crushes him

He's a good ole english boy turned cowboy and night Raven is the only town that would take him 

He runs the town's stables and looks after the horses, acting as a sort of vet for their illnesses. Takes house calls to peoples farms so he can fix up their animals.

He has quite the temper and kicks like a horse himself 

Trey Clover 

Local dentist and doctor. 

Friends with Riddle but ain't much for horses

Definitely has this work cut out for him in this mess of a town. 

Came from the big city and knew Riddle as a kid before he moved back to London

Was shocked to see him in night Raven looking like he'd been dragged through hell 

Ace trapola 

Moved west for money and settled in night Raven only to never leave 

Causes a bunch of trouble for the law, always galavanting around town and getting in bar fights

Works at the stable with Riddle and deuce but barely is there to work and just messes around with the horses 

Punched riddle once when he first came to town and has not hit him since considering that Riddle got a lot better at fist fighting since you first came in

Deuce spade 

Used to be a gang outlaw before he came to night Raven and decide he wanted a quiet life to make his mama proud 

Hardest worker at the stables and dose all the lifting

Part time ranch hand out at the big farm Crowley owns 

Leona kingscolar

Runs a gang of outlaws and reeks quite a bit of havoc on night Raven

Came from a wealthy family but left the big city's to make his own path

Succeeded, his territory is pretty big in the West and he just needs night Raven to make it complete 

Only problem is night Raven has waring gang factions

A quick shot and a good rider

Ruggie bucci 

Used to be a street thief to support his town before Leona took over and things got better

Has been his errand boy and enforcer ever since 

Still steals but mostly from rich blokes he finds on the side of the rodes

He's a better shot than Leona, always has two 6 shots and a knife on him. 

Jack howl 

Honestly never wanted to be in a gang but Leona wouldn't leave him alone.

Only joined cause his family lives in a town Leona controls. 

Mostly works as a farm hand for Crowley because of his muscle

Is the one to break up epels bar fights all the time 

Has a mean right hook 

Azul ahsengrotto 

Runs the morstro saloon that he uses to conduct his under the table business. 

He co-owns it with vil

Octovinell is his gang, with jade too his right and Floyd to enforce his rules, 

Active in the night Raven gang wars but mostly just the dirty money he sweeps under the table for arms dealing and such 

jade leech 

Infamous leech brothers 

Escaped convicts that azul took in when they were first forming the gang. 

Handles most of the product side of things for the “business” and runs the front of the house with vil

Spent most of his early life taking care of Floyd and his troubled mind 

Floyd 

Troubled mind growing up, 

They ended up as orphans before they where 12 and had to fend for themselves

Killed three men in a town and ran, from place to place

7 bodies in total before they where caught and thrown in jail. 

Escaped and joined azuls gang at 17 and have been with him ever since. 

Relatively charming young man if you ignore the teeth and glare he sports in a bad mood 

Kalim al-hasim 

Moved west for peace and quiet and decided to bring Jamil along with him 

He's the kind but sort of naive shop owner

Runs the general goods store and has a real knack for business 

Partners with Crowley's farm to supply the store of most produce. 

If you need something bought or sold you either talk to kalim or azul 

Jamil Viper 

Resents kalim for dragging him west 

But he does like the freedom of the western deserts 

Works at kalims shop and chases off any of their more unruly customers (see : Leona and azuls gangs) 

Definitely learned how to shoot and became one of the best shots in town. 

Has his own horse named saffron who's just the most beautiful red! 

Vil schroheint 

Co-owns the salon with azul and runs the front of the house with jade! 

He's absolutely gorgeous, has a slight German accent and often gets mistaken for a lady. 

Was a singer and actor in Germany

Definitely a more effeminate man but after they watched him beat the snot out of some unruly customer they don't mention it. 

Rook calls him gorgeous. And that's it. 

Always mad at epel for bar fights 

Rook hunt 

Definitely a hunter

Always sells his game at kalims shop and always has the best catches

Most avoid him because he's an odd Fellow but no one can deny his skill at hunting. 

Follows vil around so much his nickname has become “the saloon owners dog” 

Epel felimer 

Farm hand at Crowley ranch after he quit working for vil. 

In this au he's a bit taller and more muscular

Realistically he's a strong farm boy, good at bucking hay and climbing trees. 

Mostly tends to the Apple trees but he also herds in the cattle 

Gets in a lot of bar fights 

Vil thinks he's too crass with his thick accent 

Idia shroud 

Rich city guy that moved here unwillingly 

But he's here and he's scared of the gangs

Mostly keeps to himself and is pretty paranoid 

Reads books like crazy, his little house is more of a library then it is a home- well ok it is the local bookstore but his room and or this are on the second story

Used to be quite the gunSlinger before ortho

Ortho shroud 

Takes care of his troubled brother and runs most of the errands! 

Brings home stray cats for idia and always plays with the dogs! 

He's a sweet boy who all but begs people to teach him to shot so he can be just like his big brother but no one budges 

Malleus draconia 

The marshal

With his black Stetson and those horns it has on it makes him look like the bloody devil

And to some he is. 

Really disomnia is more of a benevolent gang, but they enforce the law and keep things mostly peaceful 

Malleus himself is a sweet man but a scary one

All outlaws with territory bigger than leona could ever hope 

Lilia vanrouge 

Outlaw and ex mercenary before he settled down with disomnia 

Malleus right hand 

Fought in the war before he became a hired gun, then an old friend called in a favor and he raised malleus and settled down. 

Joined the gang malleus formed and was right into the thick of it. 

Now he's really settled, just a older gentleman raising his adopted son silver now. 

Silver vanrouge 

 The poor baby he found 

Technically Lilia is the one who made him an orphan but- he felt so bad he adopted silver. 

Now he's a strong young man who loves his pops 

A member of disomnia and works in the town as part of law enforcement occasionally

Besides that he helps Lilia with his little farm. A few cows and some goats, sheep and chickens. 

Nothing much but it still what he loves. 

Sebek zigvolt 

Joined disomnia after seeing Lilia and melleus in a shoot out and becoming an instant devotee 

Works full time as law enforcement. 

Has a penchant for trying to break up bar fights but ends up getting roped into them on accident. 

Denies it but he's so gentle with the horses it's insane to think it's the same boy always yelling and shouting. 

Dire Crowley 

Mayor of the town and a shady one too. 

Pays off all three gangs so they don't kill each other 

Runs a big farm on the outskirts of town that supplies a lot of work. 

Comes into town often but no one likes him much

Definitely a few skeletons in the closet. 

[crystalsandbubbletea]

Small rant about colonialism and Israel's genocidal campaign

The fact that people continue to support Israel when there are PICTURES of what the hell is happening in Gaza disgusts me.

A four-day ceasefire isn't enough, it needs to be a permanent ceasefire.

I don't even want to think about what will happen when the ceasefire ends...

The dead children, the mothers, the fathers, the sisters, the brothers, the friends...

And then the videos and photographs of the civilians..

All the heartbreaking images I seen, it's permanently in my mind.

"Oh but Hamas-"

SHUT YOUR GODDAMN MOUTH YOU GENOCIDE-LOVING MANIAC!

PALESTINE ISN'T HAMAS, CIVILIANS AREN'T HAMAS, GAZA ISN'T HAMAS, THE WEST BANK ISN'T HAMAS!

A MAJORITY OF GAZA'S POPULATION WERE CHILDREN WHEN HAMAS GOT IN POWER! AND A MAJORITY OF GAZA'S POPULATION ARE STILL CHILDREN!

Just admit you like watching innocent children die you fucking monsters.

"Palestinians are like Nazis!"

NO THEY FUCKING AREN'T! KINDNESS IS A HUGE PART OF PALESTINIAN CULTURE!

PALESTINE DIDN'T ATTACK FIRST WHEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE ARRIVED, IT WAS ISRAEL THAT ATTACKED FIRST!

IN ALMOST EVERY SINGLE PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTEST I HAVE SEEN THEY KICKED NAZIS OUT BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO BE AROUND NAZIS!

PALESTINIANS. ARE. NOT. NAZIS!

"From the river to the sea Israel will be free."

"Free Israel."

FREE ISRAEL FROM WHAT? THE MAP!?

ISRAEL DOESN'T NEED TO BE FUCKING FREED FROM ANYTHING EXCEPT FROM THOSE GENOCIDAL RIGHT-WINGS!

"Oh so you're an anti-Semitic person because you support Palestine!"

I AM SPEAKING OUT AGAINST GENOCIDE! HOW DOES THAT MAKE ME ANTI-SEMITIC!?

And then there's Israel's propaganda.

What a ton of bullshit.

Creating a fake website and claiming it's an official Hamas website that will cause a virus on devices to try to justify genocide? Bullshit.

Using A.I generated images to make it seem like people are supporting Israel? More bullshit.

Using dentures and implants and claim that it's the teeth of children? Bullshit. And let's not forget that dentists pointed out that it was dentures and implants, and that those didn't look like the teeth of children.

All the attempts to try to get people to sympathize with Israel have been bullshit.

The only thing Israel has succeeded in is showing their ass to the world.

Fuck America, fuck the U.K, and fuck Israel.

"What does the U.K have to do with this?"

Clearly we're forgetting that for a time the U.K was colonizing Palestine, after WWI they took it over as a "mandate".

"Palestine colonized Israel first!"

I'd like to see your source for that. Clearly you never paid attention in history. Palestine never colonized Israel.

I will never support Israel or any nation that funds their genocide. I will never listen to people who try to "justify" Israel's genocide. I will always stand with Palestine.

[usakofashion]

White is at the opposite end of the spectrum from black, but like black, it can work well with just about any other color. White is often associated with purity, cleanliness, and virtue. In the West, white is commonly worn by brides on their wedding day. It’s also associated with the healthcare industry, especially with doctors, nurses and dentists. White is associated with goodness, and angels are often depicted in white. - Cameron Chapman

[ultravionna]

ABOUT ME! onna. twenty. she/her. poc (black and ukrainian). 333. writer + botmaker. nyc & old hollywood lover. soon to be psychology student.

LIKES! furry animals. iced coffee. salty/savory. horror. all about the baggy jeans ’n baby tees. almond nails + french tip. loafers. gold jewelry. shopping. museums. going to the dentist. pasta.

DISLIKES! insects. heights. seafood. milk. tomatoes. spam calls. disorganization. rudeness.

HOBBIES! baking. cooking. drawing. painting. reading. photography. dancing. learning. yoga. video games. traveling. volunteering. tennis. babysitting.

STANS! matt dillon. austin butler. jenna ortega. kaia gerber. jacob elordi. zendaya. olivia jade. mike faist. chris sturniolo. drew starkey. taylor russel. nicholas chavez. cooper koch.

MUSIC! lana del rey. tyler, the creator. sade. wallows. a$ap rocky. sabrina carpenter. suki waterhouse. sza. the driver era. the smiths. the weeknd. kehlani. destin conrad. kid cudi. justin bieber. ariana grande. the neighbourhood. frank ocean. doja cat. kanye west. blood orange. billie eilish. yeat.

FLIMS! texas chainsaw massacre (1974). girl interrupted (1999). scream (1997). scream vi (2023). young frankenstein (1974). rosemary’s baby (1968). american psycho (2000). the bad seed (1956). the wizard of oz (1939). psycho (1960). imitation of life (1959). halloween (1978). halloween ends (2022). jailhouse rock (1957). the parent trap (1961). goodfellas (1990). that thing you do (1996). hocus pocus (1984). the princess diaries (2001). challengers (2024).

[transmasculineswag]

hi im the musicals dude, here are your recommendations :)

Suddenly Seymour (Little Shop of Horrors)

Dentist! (Little Shop of Horrors)

Mr. Cellophane (Chicago)

What the World Needs (Ride The Cyclone)

Feed Me (Little Shop of Horrors)

Grow For Me (Little Shop of Horrors)

We Both Reached For The Gun (Chicago)

Razzle Dazzle (Chicago)

I Can't Do It Alone (Chicago)

Roxie (Chicago)

Ballad of Jane Doe (Ride The Cyclone)

Talia (Ride The Cyclone)

Gee Officer Krupke (West Side Story)

Maria (West Side Story)

Tonight (West Side Story)

All 'Er Nothin' (Oklahoma!)

It's A Scandal It's A Outrage (Oklahoma!)

Lonely Room (Oklahoma!)

i have more but don't want to give you too many. i apologise for so many songs, i just got excited

Thank you thanks! I’ve listened to a good handful of these but I haven’t done a foray on Oklahoma yet. I’ll add it to my list!

On my end, I’d recommend that anyone reading this listen to the Heathers and Hadestown soundtracks :3

[bxnghost]

Speedsters HC : Teeth shifting

I've thought about this recently while I was re-drawing my Wally West design, and I remembered I gave him braces at the beginning of his adulthood. If you quickly think about it and not acknowledge it, it isn't THAT of a big deal, it's just a personal character design.

I've decided to use my little nerd brain about it. Thinking about my own personal experience with orthodontics & some common knowledge about teeth. And I came with the conclusion that all the speedsters have or need retainers, braces, headgear (and other orthodontics stuff).

The simple reasons being, they use their speed at least once a day or more.

Because overnight your teeth shifts, but it's so unnoticeable until a dentist points it out (whether your teeth are crooked, your bottom or top teeth are way too forward, or your upper jaw got smaller). That's for someone that doesn't have super speed (connected to the speedforce). But for Speedsters, time can go faster for them, especially when they vibrate their molecules.

Instead of their teeth shift little by little every night, speedsters teeth shift so quickly (between 24 - 48hrs) that it's noticeable. so what? It's not gonna personally affect them for being heroes or their personal work. It does affect them, and it can even cause some gum diseases.

Any type of shifts that I mentioned (an over/underbite, crooked teeth, a smaller or larger upper jaw) can cause them issues eating, resting their facial features or more.

Now depending on how fast the speedster is, they'd have different types of oral treatment.

Example (with Speedsters who has treatments): Wally only wears traditional braces. And once his treatment comes to an end, he'll be wearing traditional retainers (wired retainers). Not that his teeth were THAT crooked, but he had concerning overbite. His teeth can shift back in less than a week if he doesn't wear his retainers (They're not permanent retainer, but he does have to wear them daily)

Barry, on the other hand, only has a permanent retainer (or bonded retainers if you will) WITH plastic retainers (you can have both). Barry's teeth are always going to be crooked, but not at a level where he needs braces.

Bart... Bart's teeth are so messed up due to not only his speed but also his accelerated aging. So he has to wear braces with forsus springs (elastics wouldn't work with him at all, just saying) BUT ALSO a palate expander (because of the rapid aging) & a headgear to sleep (yet again, rapid aging and his extreme speed but stopped wearing it for a while)

But this is my personal headcanon about the speedsters, don't take it too personal (in a negative way) if you don't actual visualize any of them with orthodontic methods. It's fine totally fine if you don't !! 👍🏾

[crownedlegend]

Princess Elizabeth was photographed leaving a dentist's office in West End after an appointment in 1934.

[camisoledadparis]

THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … November 6

1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan,  was born (d.1566); the tenth and longest‐serving Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning from 1520 to 1566. He is known in the West as Suleiman the Magnificent and in the Islamic world, as the Lawgiver, deriving from his complete reconstruction of the Ottoman legal system. Within the empire, Suleiman was known as a fair ruler and an opponent of corruption.

As well as being a capable goldsmith and distinguished poet, Suleiman was also a great patron of artists and philosophers, overseeing the golden age of the Ottoman Empire's cultural development.

Historians claim that Suleiman, in his youth, had an admiration for Alexander the Great as he wanted very much to learn how he had managed to unite the peoples of the east and the west.

Pargali Ibrahm Pasha was the boyhood friend of Suleiman. Ibrahim was originally Greek Orthodox and when young was educated at the Palace School as a devshirme (the systematic abduction of young boys from conquered Christians lands by the Ottomann sultans as a form of regular taxation in order to build a loyal slave army).

As the Sultan's male favorite, he shared Suleiman's quarters and his tent while at home and on campaign. Suleiman made him the royal falconer, then promoted him to first officer of the Royal Bedchamber. Eventually, Ibrahim Pasha became the Grand Vizier in 1523 and commander in chief of all the armies. Suleiman also conferred upon Ibrahim pasha the honor of beylerbey of Rumelia, granting Ibrahim authority over all Turkish territories in Europe, as well as command of troops residing within them at times of war.

According to a 17th century chronicler, Ibrahim had asked Suleiman not to promote him to such high positions, fearing for his safety, to which Suleiman replied that under his reign no matter what the circumstance, Ibrahim would never be put to death.

Ibrahim would eventually fall from grace with the Sultan. During his thirteen years as Grand Vizier, his rapid rise to power and vast accumulation of wealth had made Ibrahim many enemies among the Sultan's court.

Reports had reached the Sultan of Ibrahim's imprudence committed during a campaign against the Persian Safavid empire, in particular his adoption of the title serasker sultan was seen as a grave affront to Suleiman. Suleiman's suspicion of Ibrahim was worsened in a quarrel between the latter and the Minister of Finance Iskender Chelebi. The dispute ended in the disgrace of Chelebi on charges intrigues against the Sultan, with Ibrahim convincing Suleiman to sentence the Minister to death. Before his death however, Chelebi's last words were to accuse Ibrahim of conspiracy against the Sultan. Since these were his dying words, Suleiman became convinced of Ibrahim's disloyalty and on March 15, 1536, Ibrahim's lifeless body was discovered in the Topkapi palace.

1730 Hans Hermann von Katte  (1704 – 1730) is executed in Prussia. Prince Fredrick II of Prussia (aka Frederich the Great) was thought to be lovers with, Katte. They planned to escape Prussia together, but were discovered. The court sentenced Katte to life in prison but refused to judge the prince. Fredrick’s father thought this too lenient and ordered Katte executed and Fredrick imprisoned. Frederick was awakened at 5:00 AM and told to look out his prison window at the execution of Katte. He called out to him "My dear Katte, a thousand pardons." Katte called back, "My prince, there is nothing to apologize for" just before he was beheaded.

1949 – Brad Davis, American actor, best known for his role in the 1978 film Midnight Express, was born on this date (d.1991).

Davis was born Robert Creel Davis in Tallahassee, Florida to Eugene Davis, a dentist whose career declined due to alcoholism, and his wife, the former Anne Creel. His brother Gene is also an actor. According to an article in The New York Times published in 1987, According to an article in The New York Times published in 1987, Davis suffered physical abuse and sexual abuse at the hands of both parents. As an adult, he was an alcoholic and an intravenous drug user before becoming sober in 1981. Davis was known as "Bobby" during his youth, but took Brad as his stage name in 1973.

At 17, after winning a music talent contest, Davis worked at Theatre Atlanta. He later moved to New York City and attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, as well as studied acting at the American Place Theater. After a role on the soap opera How to Survive a Marriage, he performed in off-Broadway plays. In 1976 he was cast as Sally Field's love interest in the television film Sybil. He played the lead role in Larry Kramer's play about AIDS, The Normal Heart (1985).

His most successful film role was as the main character in Midnight Express (1978), for which he won the Golden Globe Award for New Star Of The Year - Actor. He also had a small role in Roots. The steamy shower scene in Midnight Express and Davis' portrayal of the sexy Gay sailor in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film adaptation of Jean Genet's Querelle (1983) made him a Gay film icon.

Davis was married to Susan Davis, who later became an Emmy Award-winning casting director. They had one child, Alexandra (now Alex, he's a transman).

Diagnosed with AIDS in 1985, Davis kept his condition secret until shortly before his death. Although it was announced he died of AIDS in 1991 in Los Angeles, he actually died of an intentional drug overdose. Near death and in severe pain in a hospital, he opted to return home and end his life on his own terms. With his wife and a family friend present, he committed assisted suicide. Susan Davis continues to campaign to combat AIDS.

1952 – Michael Cunningham is an American writer, best known for his 1998 novel The Hours, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1999.

Cunningham was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and grew up in Pasadena, California. He studied English literature at Stanford University where he earned his degree. Later, at the University of Iowa, he received a Michener Fellowship and was awarded a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. While studying at Iowa, he had short stories published in the Atlantic Monthly and the Paris Review. His short story, "White Angel", was later used as a chapter in his novel A Home at the End of the World. It was included in "The Best American Short Stories, 1989," published by Houghton Mifflin. A Home at the End of the World, a gay love story, was also made into a 2004 movie with Colin Farrell, Dallas Roberts and Robin Wright.

Cunningham is currently professor of creative writing at Yale University.

Although Cunningham is gay and has been in a long-term domestic partnership with psychoanalyst Ken Corbett, he dislikes being referred to as a gay writer, according to a PlanetOut article. While being gay greatly influences his work, he feels that it should not be his defining characteristic.

1955 – Wolfgang Busch, born in Heppenheim, Germany, is a two time Humanitarian award winner, was inducted into the Queens Business Hall of Fame for his company Art From The Heart Films, was inducted into the LGBT Hall of Fame and is a multiple award winning documentary filmmaker, director, producer, cinematographer and editor, including a humanitarian award for his documentary "How Do I Look". He also received a "Keep The Dream Alive" Martin Luther King Humanitarian award for his social and artistic activism for the Black and Hispanic LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) Ballroom community, aka Harlem Drag Ball community.

He is an entrepreneur, grass-root organizer, motivator, inspirational and touches people life's from all walks of life. His Art In Education Documentaries are screened worldwide. He lectures about Artistic Empowerment and HIV/AIDS education at the most prestigious universities, Yale, NYU, Penn State, not for profit organizations The Door, LGBT Community Center in New York City and Chicago, the Gay Mens Health Crisis, community-based organizations and Churches across the United States; London, Amsterdam, Paris and Berlin.

From 1990-2000 he produced New York New Rock, a weekly TV show highlighting cultural and educational aspects of various communities such as the local New York City Rock and R & B communities, LGBT, arts, sports, politics and fashion reaching 500,000 Manhattan households. The show was a successful outreach tool for artists and not for profit organizations and Busch was able to sign national and international record and licensing deals for several artists.

As an openly gay artist, he has been embraced by a wide range of LGBT organizations to produce high level events including GLAMA (The Gay and Lesbian American Music Awards), SAGE (Senior Action in a Gay Environment) Lifetime Achievement Awards ceremonies and events for LifeBeat, Center For the Media Arts and Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center.

1957 – Cam Clarke is an American voice actor and singer known for his work in animation, video games and commercials. Among his notable roles are Leonardo and Rocksteady in the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, Shotaro Kaneda in the 1989 original Streamline Pictures English dub of Akira, and Liquid Snake in the Metal Gear series. He often serves as a voice double for Matthew Broderick.

Clarke was born Cameron Arthur Clarke in Burbank, California, to actor Robert Clarke and singer Alyce King.

Clarke is the nephew to guitarist Alvino Rey and pianist Buddy Cole, cousin to actress Tina Cole and writer Chris Conkling, half brother to musicians Ric and Lex de Azevedo, and uncle to voice actress Emilie Brown and actress Rachel Coleman.

Clarke began his acting career in The Hollywood Palace as The King Family Show. He continued to perform with his family on various television specials until the 1980s when he got his first voice acting roles in Snorks and Robotech. He was taught by Michael Bell.

To date, Clarke has voiced over four hundred titles. From 1987 until 1996, Cam Clarke would most notably portray Leonardo, the leader of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well as Rocksteady, one of the show's antagonists. Clarke would reprise the role of Leonardo in non-musical spoken portions of the first show of the "Coming out of their Shells" concerts designed around the Ninja Turtle characters held at Radio City Music Hall, though the later VHS tape released of the event leaves him uncredited.Clarke is openly gay, and his experiences inspired his album Inside Out, which changed pronouns in lyrics of classic songs and his one-man autobiographical play Stop Me If I Told You This.

1988 – Tom Neuwirth, better known by his drag stage persona Conchita Wurst, is an Austrian singer. Wurst came to international attention when winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "Rise Like a Phoenix".

Born in Gmunden, Neuwirth moved to Graz to do his Matura with a focus on fashion, before embarking on a singing career through the 2007 casting show Starmania. He subsequently became a founding member of the short-lived boyband Jetzt Anders!.

In 2011, Neuwirth began appearing as Wurst – a drag persona noted for her beard – and came second in the Austrian preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Wurst was successfully selected to represent Austria at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014, where she proved victorious.

Wurst's entry and victory courted controversy, being condemned by some of the continent's social conservatives and right-wingers who saw her performance as a promotion of LGBT rights. Conversely, it brought her international attention and established her as a prominent LGBT icon, resulting in invites to perform at various LGBT pride parades and the European Parliament.

Neuwirth describes himself as a gay man and uses female pronouns to describe his Wurst character, but male pronouns when referring to himself.

1991 – Paul Poirier is a Canadian ice dancer. With Piper Gilles, he is the 2021 World bronze medallist, as well as a three-time Four Continents medallist (silver in 2014 and 2020, bronze in 2019), three-time Skate Canada International champion (2019, 2021–22), and two-time Canadian national champion (2020, 2022). Gilles and Poirier competed for Canada at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.

With earlier partner Vanessa Crone, he is the 2010 Grand Prix Final bronze medallist, 2011 Four Continents bronze medallist, 2008 World Junior silver medallist, and 2011 Canadian national champion. Crone and Poirier competed for Canada at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Paul Poirier was born in Ottawa, Ontario, to Debra Mendes de Franca and Marc Poirier. In 2015, he graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts in linguistics. He continues graduate studies in linguistics part-time. He speaks English, French, Japanese, and Spanish. His brother played in the Ontario Hockey League.

Poirier is gay and has spoken about "perhaps [being] a role model for...younger queer athletes."

2012 – Washington State voters approve Referendum 74 legalizing same-sex marriage.

[tacomasterstudios]

Underdog's Secret Origin Story

Published for the first time in 2005 in the book "How Underdog Was Born" by Underdog creators Chet Stover and W.W. "Buck" Biggers, this origin story for the Mutt of Might was originally written back in 1963 as part of the series bible, but never shown to sponsors and never used in any episodes. It's also completely unhinged.

He was born in Huntsville, West Virginia, where his father, Lewis N. Clark, worked as a coal miner. Wages were low and the family of three, living in a small log cabin in a wooded area far from town, had difficulty making ends meet.

His mother, Molly Barker, before she became Molly Clark, helped earn money by writing poetry which was bought by local and regional publications and, occasionally, by national magazines such as Reader's Digest and The Saturday Evening Post.

Named after his father, the future Underdog was called "Junior" by his parents and by his friends. Although the family was poor, Junior's life was happy and relatively uneventful until he was about to enter high school. At that time, when a dangerous criminal escaped from nearby Fullsome Prison, and everyone in the area was asked to help find him, it was discovered that Lewis was extraordinarily gifted at tracking, finding the path the escaped criminal had taken and discovering his whereabouts under even the most difficult of circumstances.

After capturing the first escapee and then repeating the feat several times, Lewis' fame spread rapidly, and he began to be called upon by prison officials, bail bondsmen, even private individuals suffering because someone close to them had vanished. The elder Lewis might have become wealthy as his fame spread, but he refused to take monetary advantage of

his talent.

His tracking freed him from the coal mine, which pleased him greatly because his lungs had suffered there, and a lower level explosion had damaged his hearing. But in terms of fees for tracking, he would take little more than the money he might have earned down in the mine shaft if his tracking talents had not been discovered.

As his reputation grew, Lewis prided himself on the fact that he had never once failed to bring back anyone he had been hired to track. Then, when Junior was 18 years of age, it appeared that his father's perfect record might be spoiled. Lewis was searching for a particularly unpleasant criminal, a fraudulent dentist (no credentials) who had been convicted of pulling healthy teeth and then charging exorbitant prices for doing this totally unnecessary, often very painful, work. The day he had been convicted, he had escaped from a courtroom far from Huntsville.

When Lewis was recruited to bring back this criminal, he was shocked to discover that this dentist had once worked on him! He had removed two teeth, quite painfully, which had almost certainly been healthy. This was the first time Lewis had ever been personally involved with anyone he hunted, and it may have caused him to be over-zealous and perhaps careless. 

Chasing the dentist across an unprotected railroad crossing, Lewis' car stalled and, with his poor hearing, he did not hear the approaching train until it was almost upon him. Miraculously, he lived, but only long enough to make a deathbed plea. In the hospital, he asked Junior to finish the hunt, to bring the dentist to justice. 

Even as distraught as Junior's mother was, almost destroyed by her husband's death, Molly did not try to stop Junior from going after the dentist. On a stormy night filled with lightning that streaked again and again from sky to ground, Junior picked up the dentist's trail at the rail- road crossing and tracked him to a deserted coal mine. It turned out, Junior had not really been tracking the dentist so much as the dentist had been leading him to this mine... to destroy him. 

Tricked into going down into the lowest level of the old mine, Junior discovered that the dentist had already made his exit, and now blocked Junior's only way out with an explosion. As if this alone was not enough to finish poor Junior, the dentist began pumping into the mine where Underdog was trapped the "laughing gas" dentists used at that time to ease patients' pain.

At exactly the moment this gas reached the bottom of the mine and filled the space where Junior was trapped, a bolt of lightning struck the mine and raced down the shaft to that room full of gas. What followed was like nothing ever recorded before in history.

The combination of lightning and laughing gas in that small area so far beneath the surface of the earth produced an unreleased explosion with a power and pressure of such dimensions that the coal left in this mine was literally turned to diamonds, and Junior underwent a comparable transformation. While he was laughing hysterically due to the huge quantity of laughing gas, Junior's eyes, ears, and muscles underwent a remarkable change, and he was empowered to become "Underdog.”

Without full realization of what had happened to him, Junior's first thought as he made his way out of that mine was to keep his promise to his father: bring the dentist to justice. This was not difficult; did not require any of Junior's newly developed powers. So certain had the dentist been that he had finished off this tracker, that he had not even left the premises. Junior captured him quickly, and returned him to the authorities from whom he had escaped. The record of the late Lewis N. Clark remained unblemished.

Back at home, Junior did not immediately speak of what had happened to him, for he and his mother were too caught up in grief, in burying their father and husband. And as weeks passed, Molly seemed unable to recover from this loss. But Junior finally spoke to her- he had to speak to someone-and discussed his new powers.

"It's providence," said his mother almost immediately. "Your father is gone- can no longer track down criminals- and you have been given strengths beyond belief."

"So, what should I do, Mother?"

"Use those powers to do what your father did; use them to fight for right and to help others in need. Use them for good. Help to bring a balance to life, to protect the poor and the helpless, the needy, the underdogs of the world."

And that was how Junior found his new name, "Underdog."

"I understand," he said to his mother. "That's what I'll do.”

"But you must never let those powers make you feel better than others. You must keep your feet on the ground, my son. Find a way to help you remain unchanged inside, no matter what fame comes to you."

This was why Junior would eventually adopt the personality of Shoeshine Boy whenever he was not fighting evil or helping others as Underdog. Shoeshine Boy would help to keep Underdog's feet on the ground.

Molly did not live long. There seemed no medical reason for her death. Some said the cause was simply the loss of Lewis; a broken heart. She did not want to continue on without her husband. Whatever the reason, she was gone less than a year after Lewis. And Junior was left alone.

He promised on his mother's grave that he would do as she had asked: Fight for the underdogs of the world and always remain humble. He made one other promise: As the hero of the poor and helpless- as Underdog- he would always speak in rhyme so that each time he spoke, he would be paying homage to his mother.

And, close to his heart, underneath the "U" on his chest, Underdog would always keep the last poem his mother had written.

Lies are like doors, And quickly we learn, When doors lock behind us We can never return.

Underdog would never lie.

[talkingbl]

GMMTV 2025 WishList

Sweet Tooth, Good Dentist final trailer and release date announcement

TayNew BL

JimmySea BL

RyuJava BL

Chokun BL

Sky and literally any facially gifted man in a BL

Fourth in a BL opposite someone other than Gemini (nothing against Gemini, I'm just trying to see something 👀)

BLs that end just as strongly as they start

No more singing from anyone not from the MSP cast

Depending on how Perfect10 Liners goes, I am interested in seeing PerthSanta

Start having activities in the West, though I'm not sure what

[otsukare-katsukare]

Please do!!

Well If You Insist!

(copied right out of the drafts <3) (long)

okay beatle roys. they don’t map perfectly at all, but if you absolutely HAD to, im sorry roman but you are george. yeah sure romey we know you’re a good songwriter you can have 2 on this album how’s about that? as smart as or maybe smarter than his siblings/bandmates but doesnt have a genius complex unlike them so is forced to play their games. including their mind games with each other. didn’t want to go on the roof; ended up on the roof. kendall is paul, ‘big brothering’ the little angry guy on the bus who he’ll always see as a little kid even though there’s like 2 years between them for christ’s sake. in terms of age seniority john might be the kendall equivalent but unfortunately paul was ACTUALLY an older brother and he brought that energy to the band, and the john/george alliance against paul reeks much more strongly of roman and shiv teaming up to peck their golden boy older sibling than anything george and paul had together against john. and to those who would say roman’s too much of a dick to be sweet peaceable george, he’s actually nicer okay cause he refused to sign the letter decrying kendall as a bipolar drug addict but george played slide guitar on how do you sleep quite happily.

on the subject of kendall, his depressive lows may seem more john but his manic highs? his big creative visions? his costumes (he got one for roman too)? his general addiction to the spotlight? his droopy eyes? his inability to have swag despite his charm and talents? the way his siblings close ranks against him when he tries to make a stand? the way he's a cog built to fit one machine and paul mccartney's state after the beatles broke up Actually im getting sad let's change the subject? looking for pussy like a fuckin techno gatsby? non zero chance of having done a collab with kanye west/wanted to do one? paul. he’s paul. 

but it’s tough because shiv is the least easy to pin down as her age and gender relations with the rest of the family put her the furthest from john, and she ends up being at best a combo of all three - the underestimated and undermined baby (george) the repressed thwarted leader failgirl (paul) and the hotheaded bastard who's smart but not as smart as she thinks she is (john). but that john role gets much more delectable when you have kendall as paul, or at least if you think of them as the core duo in some way - im thinking of that crushing final scene between them, like take 'I want a divorce' and multiply it by a hundred holy fuck. she respects him, but she needs to prove herself better than him constantly. she needs validation just the same as he does but she's determined to believe/put out that everything she does is entirely under her own steam and that other people are pawns to her. her relationships with logan and mattson remind me of john with authority figures he would latch onto in the hope that they'd fill the void left by his parents, before realising they were phonies trying to get something from him and angrily discarding them.

honestly actually while shiv is the hardest to map clearly john is also the hardest from the beatles end cause there's a lot going on there from childhood trauma that any one of the roys can relate to, and his brand of cruel wit fits them all to an extent as well - but this is the configuration i like the most. also her spouse broke up the band

of course connor maps onto ringo perfectly do i even need to explain it - actually i do cause people might just take that to mean i’m saying ringo was useless or ignored. no he was the older brother everyone loved and who loved everybody, who was an only child for most of his childhood and was so happy to get three brothers/siblings even though they happened to be the worst people alive.

there you have it. and logan. is allen klein (kendall dreams he is being hunted down by him as a dentist)

oh one more thing - kendall as paul is right because he's the only one who's a documented beatles FAN lol

[miskinmusic24-25]

DATES FOR THE YEAR

Hello,

Please relate the following information to your parents/guardians in respect to booking any holidays and events.

Parents/guardians, save this Tumblr link to see your musician’s schedules (posted every Friday)

Please do not take any holidays during term time and keep all dentist and other non-emergency appointments to Thursdays (which is usually your day off) For the time being you will be asked to work from home on either a Tuesday or a Wednesday. This will change around from project to project. You always need to be available all day on Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday and Fridays

You will be called in on three Thursdays this term (see below)

TERM 1

For your own public performances, you will need to keep the following dates free:

Your year group will have Thursdays off. This will always be the case except for the week before and week of any shows you are involved with as well as any outside trips that we have planned. 

Your first showing of work will be on the afternoon of the 11th of October, you will need to be available to come in on Thursday 10th of October.

On the same evening as the showing, we will be inviting your parents to an event called ‘Friends of the Miskin’ This is their chance to connect with the staff here and find out more about how your course works and ask us any questions they might have. We plan to showcase some of the music from the afternoon gig for them at the event. This will be from 7:30-9:00pm (details to follow).

On the evening of Friday the 25th of October there will be a Freshers gig with performances from the 2nd year musicians. You will be expected to attend

Half term will be 28th of October-1st of November

We are planning to take you to see an afternoon performance of the West End Show ‘Hamilton’ on Thursday November 7th

You will be performing some music at a live gig on the evening of the 29th of November. You will be expected to rehearse on Thursday 28th of November 

The latest day you will be called in this term will be December 18th

TERM 2 

You are not called back until Tuesday the 6th of January

The 2nd term show dates are Thursday the 13th and Friday the 14th of February. So you will be called in on the Thursday of that week (13th of February)

The following week is half term break (17th-21st of February)

You may be playing some of the music from this gig again at our open day on the 4th of March until 7pm in the evening

You will not break up for Easter until the 10th of April. Please be aware that the rest of the college breaks up earlier than you do that week. You are called back on the 22nd of April

You will need to be available on the evening of Friday April 25th to watch the 2nd year musicians perform in the Theatre

Your third term public show dates are Thursday 22nd-Saturday 24th of May

You will need to be available to work on Thursday 1st of May as we have a lunchtime gig the next day and both Thursdays during the two-week period of the show going out (15th and 22nd of May)

YOU WILL BE CALLED IN FOR A DEBRIEF on Tuesday 27th of May and also on another day that week for a tutorial 

PLEASE BEWARE THAT THIS IS HALF TERM WEEK FOR THE REST OF THE COLLEGE

You will not be called in on the week of the 2nd-6th of June however but will be expected to use that time to complete any outstanding portfolio work

We will break up officially for the Summer on the 20th of June, however there may be an end of year Prom the following week on the 26th of June

Attendance at the prom is optional.

Please Note that GCSE/functional skills sessions supersede any time off you have been given on this notice and you will still need to attend classes at times when the rest of your year group have time off.

We reserve the right to call you in on a Thursday if you fall behind with your academic work

[reallyhardy]

any idea if theres a way to watch the open air theater version of little shop somewhere? anytime i watch musicals online its kind of whatever i can get but im not sure if/how to find a specific production

i'm sorry, there's nothing! there's no video recordings of the regent's 2018 LSOH, and that's agonising. i can give you all the various promotional clips and interviews that i used to make gifsets from, but as far as i know there is no video bootleg or anything.

show trailer:

interviews with performers on opening night, there are some B-roll clips that aren't in the above trailer:

west end live performance of the opening song and dentist, not in costume:

behind the scenes clips from backstage edited to music just gives a bit of a look at some costumes mostly:

closest thing to a bootleg, the encore number 'mean green mother from outer space':

and i have [a clip i saved from instagram just after the show closed in 2018 of audrey ii's first entrance]

yeah and! if anyone out there in bootleg trading circles knows better than i do/if a video boot exists of this production... i'll love u forever etc etc let me know i'll buy it

[mithliya]

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-63587833

A gang who trafficked vulnerable women into Scotland for prostitution have been jailed for a total of 31 years.

Jagpal Singh, 52, his partner Donglin Zhang, 49, along with Vlassis Ntaoulias, 33, and Boonsong Wannas, 63, lured victims from China and Thailand with the promise of legitimate jobs.

The women instead had passports taken from them before being forced to work in brothels across Glasgow.

All four members of the group were sentenced at the High Court in Glasgow.

They returned to the dock on Thursday following a trial last month over crimes carried out between 2018 and 2020.

Singh, Zhang and Ntaoulias were convicted of human trafficking. Wannas had earlier admitted the same charge.

'Cold and callous'

Singh was jailed for 10 years. He had also been convicted of a charge of keeping a brothel.

Sentencing, Judge Douglas Brown told him: "You accuse the victims of lying.

"I also note you have displayed no empathy and that your attitude has been cold and callous."

Zhang was sentenced to eight years. She had also been found guilty of the brothel charge as well as aiding and abetting prostitution.

The judge said Zhang, who claimed to have formerly been a victim of human trafficking, had played a "leading role".

He added if she had been a victim of trafficking she should have been aware of the "pernicious nature" of the crime.

Ntaoulias, who was said to have a lesser but still "significant" involvement, was sentenced to seven years, while Wannas was jailed for six years and four months.

Wannas was also involved in the running of a brothel and was said to have "plainly exploited" a woman from Thailand.

Detectives caught the trafficking gang following an investigation in 2020.

Three women recounted their ordeals, though several others are also thought to have been affected.

A number of flats were used for the prostitution - including one in Glasgow's Albion Street and another city centre property in Oswald Street.

There were others in Charlotte Street in the east end, in Cathcart Road in the southside and in Linden Street in the west of the city.

'Female boss'

One victim told jurors that she was brought to Glasgow from China in September 2018 in the belief she would be employed as a dishwasher, babysitter or masseuse.

But she recalled being ferried to a city centre flat and her passport seized by Zhang - branded the "female boss".

The woman stated she initially did cleaning work but was not paid. She was then taken to a second flat by Singh and Zhang who ordered her to sell her body.

The woman told the court: "I said no and she said if you don't listen to me ... I will make sure you never go back to China."

She went on to meet men "every day" at the flat or in hotels.

Singh and Ntaoulias - who ran an Airbnb property business - exchanged messages where they spoke about "new fresh Chinese girls."

Property manager James Taylor told jurors that he encountered two Chinese women in nightdresses during an inspection of Singh's Albion Street flat.

He stated the property contained CCTV and a dentist style waiting area outside two bedrooms - one of which contained a naked Glaswegian man.

Singh eventually left Scotland, but Zhang and Ntaoulias kept the prostitution business going.

Ntaoulias and Wannas were also involved in the brothel at Charlotte Street.

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this is repulsive… the women involved who said they were previously victims of trafficking are such class traitors. i can’t imagine forcing other women through something when knowing firsthand how traumatic and painful it is. all their sentences were too fucking light

[theinconvenientlifestyle]

Private health firms have donated more than £800,000 to the Conservative Party over the past ten years, openDemocracy can reveal.

This includes companies run by wealthy tycoons who have wined and dined former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Theresa May and other senior ministers.

The finding comes as the government hands out more NHS contracts to the private sector in a bid to tackle the backlog in the health service.

The British Medical Association has warned that relying on the private sector threatens the "sustainability of the NHS”, which has suffered from “a decade of underinvestment”.

Health profits

The Conservative Friends of the NHS is a group of Tory-voting doctors and health professionals who claim to support the NHS. The group’s president is health minister Maria Caufield and it has hosted stalls at the Conservative Party’s annual conference.

But the organisation’s chairman and founder, Dr Ashraf Chohan, has not worked for the NHS for 23 years, according to his LinkedIn profile, and himself has a private GP and private health insurance.

Chohan is a private health tycoon who set up a portfolio of medical and nursing businesses in London. One of his firms, West End Medical Practice Limited, has donated more than £198,000 to the Tories since 2019 – making it one of the sector’s biggest political donors.

As chair of the Conservative Friends of the NHS, Chohan has met with senior politicians, including Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Nadhim Zahawi. Before Christmas, in the midst of the ongoing NHS crisis, he also attended a “meaningful” meeting at Number 10.

Despite the group’s claim to support the NHS, it has repeatedly championed a two-tier health system on Twitter, saying the private sector “should be applauded for reducing demand for the NHS”. In other tweets it has advocated health insurance and argued that “all high taxpayers must have [private health] insurance by 2025”.

Experts say reliance on private health firms is creating a system in which poorer people who cannot afford to go private are “left to put up or shut up”.

NHS outsourcing to the private sector has also been linked to higher mortality rates. And hospitals that use private cleaning companies have been linked with higher rates of the MRSA superbug.

During the pandemic, Chohan – who previously donated to Labour before switching – came under scrutiny over two private firms he ran with his son that sold Covid tests. Reports said customers were charged between £80-£200 for the PCR tests, but many complained about lost samples and refused refunds.

Another Conservative Party donor is Genix Healthcare Ltd, which is part of a group of private dental clinics that makes the “majority” of its £6.6m income from NHS contracts.

The company was set up in response to the “severe shortage of NHS dentists” and says it aims to become the “dental corporate of choice for the NHS”.

Genix Healthcare has bankrolled the Tories with donations worth more than £158,000 since 2015, including cash and sponsorships.

Its owner, Mustafa Mohammed, who has posed for photos with Johnson and May and boasted about owning a Rolls-Royce and a Mercedes S-Class, has also given almost £225,000 of his own money to the party.

This includes a £20,000 donation to Jeremy Hunt in 2019, the year after he resigned as health secretary.

As one of the party’s top donors, Mohammed has been part of an elite Tory dining club called the Leader’s Group, which enjoys regular access to the prime minister and senior government figures.

Care homes and GPs

The majority of Tory donations from the private health sector have come since the pandemic began in 2020.

One such donor, Doctor Care Anywhere Group PLC, has given the party more than £37,000 in the past two years – and reportedly spent £1,000 on a ticket for government minister Paul Scully to watch a cricket match at Lord’s.....