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Thursday, July 25, 2024

In fiery speech to Congress, Netanyahu vows ‘total victory’ in Gaza and denounces U.S. protesters (AP) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed “total victory” against Hamas and condemned American opponents of the war in Gaza on Wednesday in a scathing speech to Congress boycotted by dozens of Democratic lawmakers and protested by thousands seeking an end to the war and the humanitarian crisis created by it. Netanyahu’s combative speech offered no sign that his visit to the United States could bring some progress in months of U.S.-led mediation for a cease-fire and hostage-release, as the Biden administration has hoped. Speaking for nearly an hour to frequent applause from U.S. lawmakers, as well as stony silence from many leading Democrats in the chamber, Netanyahu said the U.S. has a shared interest in his country’s fight against Hamas and other Iran-backed armed groups. He called protesters “useful idiots” for Israel’s adversaries.

Homelessness Hits Record High, Straining Rescue Missions (Christianity Today) Homeless ministries around the country have said the same thing in interviews with CT: They are seeing big increases in those seeking shelter, but not from migrant arrivals. “Nationally, what we’re seeing is that the highest area of homelessness is single moms and children,” said Tom De Vries, the CEO of Citygate Network, which represents more than 300 faith-based shelters across the country. Asylum seekers are not as much of a factor in the increases, he added. He attributes the rise in single moms seeking shelter to inflation—and to a lack of thick community support a mom could lean on when she needs to work more or take care of her kids.

Parents of kids stranded by Delta scramble to find flights (Washington Post) Sarah Watt was ready to get home to Utah on Friday night after spending three weeks at camp in North Carolina. Then the 12-year-old got one round after another of bad news from Delta Air Lines in the chaotic aftermath of a global tech outage that has left the carrier reeling for days. As Delta canceled thousands of flights between Friday and Tuesday, it suspended travel for unaccompanied minors like Sarah, extending the pause multiple times before saying they would finally be allowed to fly again Wednesday. That left some parents scrambling for child care far from home, spending hours on hold with Delta and searching for their own expensive tickets. Some booked their kids on other airlines or plotted worst-case-scenario road trips. Families complained that Delta did not ask about their children’s individual situations or offer to book flights on other airlines.

Seized Mexican cartel ‘monster trucks’ destroyed (BBC) Officials in Mexico have destroyed 50 “monster trucks” used by cartels in their gun battles. The vehicles, which are also referred to as “Frankenstein trucks” because of the modifications made to them—such as adding gun turrets and armoured plates—were seized by the security forces. As they are not easy to manoeuvre, these “monster trucks” are most often deployed as a show of force or when cartel members expect to be involved in a gun battle. Armourers in the pay of the cartels add bulletproof panels to the sides and sometimes battering rams to their fronts. Reinforced turrets from where machine guns can be fired are also a common feature. The 50 trucks destroyed by the prosecutor’s office on Monday were all seized in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, which borders Texas.

Under President Milei, the worst economic crisis in decades puts Argentine ingenuity to the test (AP) In the crush of anti-government protests paralyzing downtown Buenos Aires in the last months, some Argentines saw a traffic-induced headache. Others saw a reaction to President Javier Milei’s brutal austerity measures. Alejandra, a street vendor, saw people with nowhere to urinate. Plazas provided no privacy and cafes insisted on pricey purchases to use the toilet. With little more than a tent and a bucket, Alejandra started a small business that has surged alongside Argentina’s angry rallies and sky-high inflation rate. She charges whatever people are willing to pay. “I haven’t had a job for a year, it’s now my sole income,” said Alejandra, who declined to give her last name for fear of reprisals from neighbors. The political establishment’s failure to fix decades of crisis in Argentina explains the tide of popular rage that vaulted the irascible Javier Milei, a self-declared “anarcho-capitalist,” to the presidency. But it also explains the emergence of a unique society that runs on grit, ingenuity and opportunism—perhaps now more than ever as Argentina undergoes its worst economic crisis since its catastrophic foreign-debt default of 2001.

Thousands of migrant kids have reached the Canary Islands alone (AP) The children sometimes won’t stop crying. Health workers dealing with migrants arriving on Spain’s Canary Islands try to understand if the tears are from illness, injury or, as is often the case, from pure shock. One young Senegalese boy who disembarked recently kept fainting every few minutes, troubling doctors who couldn’t determine the cause. Other migrants finally explained: the boy had witnessed both parents die during the arduous boat voyage from West Africa. Their bodies were thrown overboard into the Atlantic Ocean. “There’s no medicine for that,” said Inmaculada Mora Peces, a 54-year-old emergency doctor who treats migrants arriving on the island of El Hierro. Mora Peces is among a growing number of people sounding the alarm as the archipelago struggles to deal with thousands of teenagers and children traveling alone to the European Union territory from Senegal, Mali, and other African nations, fleeing poverty, conflict and instability.

Violence against women and girls at ‘epidemic’ levels, UK police say (CNN) Violence against women and girls in England and Wales has reached “epidemic levels,” UK police have warned, saying forces should prioritize their response to the issue in the same way as they do terrorism and organized crime. In a major report, police estimate that at least one in every 12 women will be a victim of violence against women and girls (VAWG) every year, amounting to 2 million victims. Meanwhile, at least one in every 20 adults will be a perpetrator of this violence. Crimes including rape, domestic abuse, stalking and harassment increased by 37% in the past five years, the report found—a “staggering” increase that has prompted the UK Home Office to classify VAWG as “a national threat to public safety.”

Paris Olympics: 75,000 troops and a maze of metal fences (BBC) As Olympic fever rises, QR codes are in use on the streets of Paris to gain access to areas within the secured perimeter around the River Seine. Up to 75,000 police, soldiers and hired guards are on patrol in Paris at any one time in the largest peacetime deployment of security forces in French history, writes Paris correspondent Andrew Harding. A Russian man was this week arrested on suspicion of plotting acts of "destabilisation" during the event, as France said it had screened more than a million people as part of the extensive security measures. Roads and metro stations have been closed. Some 44,000 barriers have been erected. It's not just pedestrian and motor traffic around Paris that have been affected. French politics has stalled too, with President Emmanuel Macron refusing to name a new government until after the end of the Games, in August.

Russia is sending house cats to the Ukraine war front lines (Gazeta Wyborcza/Poland) Rodents in the trenches are making life difficult for both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers, and authorities and activists are now sending house cats to the front lines. The U.S.-based news channel CNN recently reported that “The front lines are swarming with rats and mice that spread diseases that cause vomiting and bleeding from the eyes, and also weaken combat effectiveness.” The Ukrainian authorities say the problem has also been brought to their attention. Both Russian and Ukrainian soldiers admit in conversations with the media that animals destroy helmets, damage communication cables, and eat food, medicine, clothing and leather products. They also chew through wires. “Sometimes, in just one unit, the damage caused by mice and rats can amount to tens of thousands of dollars,” they said. Ihor Zahorodniuk, a researcher at the National Museum of History of Ukraine, told CNN that the losses could be much greater. “If they bite the wires, it may lead to loss of communication, which may even cost their lives,” he said.

In Georgia’s Depressed Heartland, Pining for the Soviet Past (NYT) The town of Kazreti, nestled in the picturesque mountains of Georgia near the border with Armenia, once boasted a cinema, a bank, musical fountains, two schools and a kindergarten. Dance ensembles and volleyball teams from across the Soviet Union would come to perform and compete, and central heating and electricity were free. “It was a true Communist oasis,” said Davit Jakeli, 52, who worked as a carpenter in a state-run vocational school in the town of about 5,500 people, about 50 miles southwest of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. But after the Soviet Union’s collapse in the 1990s, he said, everything also came crashing down in Kazreti. No longer supported by the Soviet command economy, the unprofitable local gold and copper mines and an enrichment plant were shut, putting hundreds of people out of work. They reopened years later on a much smaller scale under private ownership. Now there is just one school in the town and the cinema and bank have closed. The fountains, which once adorned a central square, are long gone. Stray dogs roam potholed roads flanked by decrepit apartments.

Plane crash at Nepal's Kathmandu airport kills 18 (Reuters) Eighteen people were killed when a regional passenger plane belonging to Nepal's Saurya Airlines crashed and caught fire while taking off from the capital Kathmandu on Wednesday, officials said. The plane, carrying two crew members and 17 technicians, was going for regular maintenance to Nepal's new Pokhara airport, which opened in January and is equipped with aircraft maintenance hangars, they said. Nepal has been criticised for a poor air safety record, exacerbated by many airlines in the Himalayan country flying to small airports in remote hills and near peaks shrouded in clouds. Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 tallest mountain peaks. Nearly 350 people have died in plane or helicopter crashes in Nepal since 2000.

Trash dropped by a North Korean balloon falls on South Korea’s presidential compound (AP) Trash carried by at least one North Korean balloon fell on the South Korean presidential compound on Wednesday, raising worries about the security of key South Korean facilities during North Korean provocations. The rubbish that landed on the presidential compound in central Seoul contained no dangerous material and no one was hurt, South Korea’s presidential security service said. While North Korea likely lacks sophisticated technology to drop balloons on specific targets, some experts say South Korea should shoot down incoming North Korean balloons next time to protect major facilities because they might contain hazardous substances in the future.

Is China building secret commodity stockpiles? (Economist) Last year China’s imports of many basic resources broke records, and imports of all types of commodities surged by 16% in volume terms. They are still rising, up by 6% in the first five months of this year. Given the country’s economic struggles, this does not reflect growing consumption. Instead, China appears to be stockpiling materials at a rapid pace—and at a time when commodities are expensive. Policymakers in Beijing seem to be worried about new geopolitical threats, not least that a new, hawkish American president could seek to choke crucial supply routes to China.

Typhoon Gaemi sinks freighter off Taiwan, barrels towards Chinese seaboard (Reuters) Typhoon Gaemi swept through northern Taiwan on Thursday, killing two people, triggering flooding and sinking a freighter before barrelling west across the Taiwan Strait towards China where it is expected to dump more torrential rain. Gaemi is the strongest typhoon to hit the island in eight years and was packing gusts of up to 227 kph (141 mph) before weakening, according to the Central Weather Administration. The storm cut power to around half a million households, though most are now back online, utility Taipower said.

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smallfrost · 5 years ago

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A turning point for Witches in Motherland: Fort Salem - the 1830s

One of the juiciest nuggets to come out of Memorial Hall are the family trees. We learn that the Cravens have 6 generations in the US military, while the Collars only have 5. And though we still have much to learn, they so far have provided us with some interesting math that leads us back to the beginning of the 19th century. We also find out that the Bellweathers (and the Swythes) fought in the Battle of Juarez in 1811. According to Abigail in 1x07, she is a 6th generation Bellweather, which, to be honest mathematically is pushing it that her ancestor would have fought in a war at the start of the 19th century. However, we can deduce that this was the start of the Bellweather line in the Military.

It is no coincidence then, that it appears as though there was a new wave of matrilines entering the military between 1810-1840. But what exactly happened during this time? With the limited amount of historical context clues available, let’s take a quick trip through time.

For one, the Second Mexican War happened, which ended in 1813. Perhaps there was a push to identify more witches at the start of the 19th century as a need to strengthen the army for this conflict with Mexico.

However, after the war, three very prominent things happened. First, the Chippewa Cession ceded from the United States and the lands were given back to Indigenous Tribal Federations in the 1830s. This is not something that has been explicitly addressed in the show, but Eliot teaches us in an early interview. And the reason for this Cession? Alder needed access to a particular type of magic the Federations had; the magic that would keep her youth. Without this magic, Alder would have perished.

Second, a security act was signed into law, specifically in 1834, which was fittingly called the “Security Act of 1834”. Under this act, the use of inflatables in certain public areas was banned. We see this referenced on a sign outside of Salem Town.

Aside: Perhaps this sign is just implying that Salem Town is a restricted/federally protected area, but that still leads to question the reason behind this act being signed into law specifically around this time frame.

Now, the modern incarnation of the Spree has only been around for 20-25 years (according to Eliot in After the Storm). But it appears as though tensions were high among witches and the government in the 1830s after the Second Mexican War. Not only was a large portion of land ceded back to the Tribal Federations, but there was also an apparent threat of some kind growing after the Second Mexican War for congress to sign a Security Act into law. Further, due to depletion of matrilines after the war, Alder was likely pressured by the government to “replenish the troops” while also seeking sources of magic to keep herself alive and young.

And third, after three decades of conflict around this time that required an increase in conscription and the signing of security acts, the Civil War started in 1840 and lasted for 2 years. We can assume that the slaves fought on the side of the union because Petra reminds Abigail that their ancestor was a slave in the pilot ( and likely why the war only lasted 2 years instead of 4) but I would also assume the confederates had their own witches that were then required to conscript in the united American military after losing the war.

In the pilot, Raelle tells Abigail and Tally that her family lived in the Cession before it was a cession, so the Collar line existed but did not begin conscripting until at closer to 1850, after the Civil War (5 generations back from 2018). So why were the Collars not in the military until then? Did they fight with the confederates and the south (I’m not making any sort of insinuations here just since they live near Carolina - we have no idea where the line was drawn or what exactly the sides were in this universe for the Civil War)? Does the flag in Memorial Hall only show conscriptions post Civil War when America was united?

Alternatively, perhaps a new way of seeking out and identifying witches was discovered? If these matrilines existed before the 1800s, why were they not enlisted in the army already? Was there a wave of immigration that took place during this time? Or could it be that families that were not previously required to conscript were suddenly subjected to a form of slavery by the government? Was there an awakening of magic in new families?

If this is also around the first appearance of the Biddies, it is likely that this was the beginning of Alder’s constant battle to maintain power. Could it be that this, combined with the new efforts to increase those conscripted, led to the creation of the Spree? Were inflatables used in the 1830s as a form of weapon (the first inflatable balloons were actually invented around this time in our canon)? It seems convenient that around the same time a new wave of witches began to conscript that we may see the potential emergence of their most formidable enemy; the enemy that perhaps has given the Witch Army a reason to exist at all in modern times. And though still considered a crack theory, I would still file this under smells suspiciously like a deep state ploy to maintain control over a modern military by one Sarah Alder.

But regardless, and crack theories aside, while we are limited in the history of this Alternate America, it still appears as though something shifted in the 1830s in America. Perhaps this is where the first cracks in the American Military Complex appeared, ultimately leading up to the modern incarnation of domestic terrorism found in the Spree. I really need that history book now….

#mfs theories #MFS Research Institute #motherland timeline #motherland fort salem #motherland: fort salem

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FEBRUARY 2019

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***** I am over the moon at the suggestion of a biopic of Dave Letterman starring Michael Shannon. Will somebody think about really putting this into production??? Please??

***** Criminal Minds will wrap it up after this next and 15th season. The season 14 finale on Feb.6 will have Rossi’s wedding. They will spend the last season chasing after ‘a worthy adversary’ rumored to be played by Harold Perrineau as they jump ahead in time.

***** I am so touched by shows like Grace and Frankie and Schitt’s Creek that look right past the usually discussed issues for interracial and same sex couples . Gee, just think, it’s like we are all the same.

***** If you haven’t seen Michael Bennet and his senate floor speech about Ted Cruz, government shutdowns and Trump, run to C-span and catch it. These things make me proud to be in a DEMOCRACY!

***** Can this be true?? The constitution of Texas states that one can’t hold public office unless they believe in a supreme being??

***** Julian Castro is running for President.

***** Kamala Harris is running for President.

***** Cory Booker is running for President.

***** HGTV is apparently working on a huge publicity stunt and ratings grabber. They have purchased the home whose exterior was used in the Brady Bunch. A show will reunite the cast, bring in some famous fane and remodel the inside to look like the Brady set. At the end they may give the house away.

***** Michael Shannon and Audra McDonald will team up to revive Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune on Broadway.

***** Rashida Jones and Bill Murray will star in Sofia Coppola’s’ On the Rocks.’

***** Why isn’t extreme ironing a bigger sport by now??** And can we make Petanque a bigger thing while we’re at it?

***** Craig Ferguson is selling his LA compound.

***** China has landed on the far side of the moon!!!

***** NASA’s New Horizons has went further than anyone has gone before for our first image of Ultima Thule.

***** Kentucky has introduced a bill to ban abortion in the state.

***** Told to a reporter: “It’s your job to speak truthfully and precisely, not mine.” –Kellyanne Conway** The new book, Team of Vipers, suggests that The Conways are working in concert. It is thought that she is valuable to Trump because she has no qualms about saying anything.

***** Super bowl LIII will host Maroon 5, Travis Scott and Big Boi. They will have no pre- concert interview. It is said that many artists turned down the gig because of the controversy. Maroon 5 has gotten some shit for performing but they caution us to just watch.** Roger Waters has asked Maroon 5 to take a knee during the show.

***** Natasha Lyonne is getting raves for her new show, Russian Doll.

***** Tom Sizemore was arrested for drug possession.

***** 6 NFL coaches were fired in one week!!!

***** Pentagon chief of staff, rear admiral Kevin Sweeney is out.

***** Rod Rosenstein is on the way out.

***** Jaymo’s, a Peoria company is suing Wendy’s over the use of their S’Awesome sauce.

***** We should enact the stop the stupidity act.

***** Why does it seem every other show on the air is sort of an entire season of a Twilight Zone episode?

***** There are more people in the Kremlin than in Washington who know what Trump said to Putin. – Tom Nichols

***** Members of congress can retire at full pay after 1 term. Children of congress members don’t have to pay back student loans. Is that true?? Can this be right??

***** Dupont is laying off workers.

***** Check out love your brain.com.

***** The Golden Globes were held and were hosted by Andy Samberg and Sandra Oh. My best dressed was Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Moss. Danai Gurira, Julia Roberts, Carol Burnett, Emily Blunt, Lupita Nyong’o, Patricia Clarkson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jameela Jamil, Rosamund Pike, Jim Carrey, Alison Brie, Gemma Chan and Bradley Cooper. Worst dressed goes to Rachel Weisz, Julianne Moore, Layra Dern, Anne Hathaway, Maya Rudolph, Rami Mlek, Molly Sims and Heidi Klum. I was so happy for winners like The Americans (highlight of the evening!!!), Regina King, Lady Gaga, Mahershala Ali, Patricia Clarkson, Darren Criss, Bohemian Rhapsody, Rami Malek, Olivia Colman and Green Book. The Cecil B. DeMille award went to Jeff Bridges. The new Carol Burnett award started off with Carol herself. I was saddened that Bill Hader, Henry Winkler, Kieran Culkin, Keri Russell and Sacha Baron Cohen went home empty handed. The Fiji water girl got most of the press and gave much free advertising to her product. Some of the stars did not like her getting in their shots to push a product without their knowledge, both a clever and sad state of affairs.

***** The Kominsky Method will be back for season 2.

***** The Sag awards had their big night and gave the lifetime achievement to Alan Alda. Winners included Emily Blunt, Darren Criss, Black Panther, Rami Malek and Glenn Close. I was especially thrilled with some love goingto Jason Bateman and Patricia Arquette. Best dressed were Amy Adams, Yara Shahidi, Brian Tyree Henry, Sydelle Noel, Eddie Griffin, Holly Taylor, Sofia Hubitz, Emma Stone, Emily Blunt, Darren Criss, Laverne Cox, Timothee Chalamet, Robin Wright, Lily Tomlin, Chadwick Boseman, Matthew Rhys, Keri Russell, and Catherine Zeta Jones. The WTF award goes to Alison Brie.

***** The Oscar race is on. Best picture could go to Blank Panther, Blackkklansman, Roma, The Favourite, Green Book, Vice, Bohemian Rhapsody and A Star is born. Black Panther also got some love for music and costume design. Fingers crossed for Isle of Dogs in the animated category. Actor nods had a few surprises. Willem Dafoe and Rami Malek , Lady Gaga and Melissa McCarthy are up for leads and supporting mentions are for Mahershala Ali, Regina King, Adam Driver and Sam Elliott. I am so hopeful for Spike Lee and I want to hear that speech.

***** If you haven’t seen Trigger Warning with Killer Mike, you gotta check it out. He and Sarah Silverman should go on a tour of teaching acceptance for their fellow man.

***** So.. Fox news said that Ruth Bader Ginsberg was dead??

***** In sexual harassment news: Harvey Weinstein is hiring new lawyers.** Les Moonves is seeking arbitration with CBS.

***** Cher has sold her Beverly Hills cottage.

***** Cindy Crawford and Randy Gerber’s daughter, Presley was arrested for DUI.

***** CBS news has named its first female President, Susan Zirinsky.

***** What is happening to the butterflies?

***** Illinois has refused a concert permit to R Kelly and Sony has dropped him. The pressure is finally starting to pay off??

***** Get ready for biopics about Harriet Tubman, Elton John and Ted Bundy.

***** NY mayor Bill De Blasio has given healthcare to every resident of NY city.

***** 25% of Russians do not have indoor toilets. Putin and his buddies have about $1trillion tucked away from London to Miami.

***** Days alert: I wonder if Leo’s real name ‘Matthew Cooper’ is a nod to out actor Chad Allen from Dr. Quinn??!! It is also fun to see Judith Chapman take on the role of Leo’s Mama, Diana. The pair played Mother and son previously on The Young and the Restless. Is she really Diana Colville from John’s past??** So Stefan has been played by Tyler Christopher who asked for some time off and a sub was put in place who will take over in March. Since Christopher left, he has since decided that he will leave permanently so things are up in the air. Will Stefan and Gabi hook up? Days has been renewed for season 55. HOORAY!!!! Ratings are up 4%. **Loved the line when Chloe told Rex he should wear a cup. **Leo and Xander’s playful “lust” was so sassy!!

***** Happy Valentine’s Day!

***** Steve Buscemi will play God on tv’s Miracle Workers.

***** So, the new Conan format has ups and downs. I miss the band and the desk but I am Loving the fade in and fade out at commercials. I have always hated the, “We’ll be right back “ nonsense. I was sad to lose a half hour at first but Conan and Andy do seem refreshed.

***** Still waiting for the release of Apple Seed which is written, directed and starring Michael Worth. It is one of the final films of Rance Howard who stars with his son, Clint, Adrienne Barbeau and the other Father and son team of Robby and Zephyr Benson.

***** The January Bob Segar concert in Illinois at the Peoria Civic Center is the top selling concert ever at this venue. Old rock acts take note.

***** Bob Costas is out at NBC after 40 years.

***** Trial and Error has been cancelled. BOO!!!

***** Steve Carell will star in Space Force which he is co-creating with The Office showrunner Greg Daniels.

***** Despite some people I admire that are giving Alexandria Ocasio Cortez a talking to like she’s a child, I say ‘Give ‘em Hell!’ She could well be President so fight girl!!

***** Word is that Karen Pence is now teaching at the Immanuel School in Virginia. The school refuses admission to students who participate in or condone homosexual activity. The application for the school states that misconduct includes heterosexual activity outside of marriage, homosexual activity, polygamy, transgender identity and use of pornographic websites. The application goes on to state that ‘a wife must submit to her husband’ and a pledge must be signed to that effect.

***** There is controversy over the bill to give people a day off for Election Day. Many people will still have to work, the country never completely shuts down. How many fucking times do I have to say it: VOTE BY MAIL!!!!!!!!!!!

***** So, Scary clown told us Mexico would pay for ‘the wall’. During the campaign he gave actual ideas for that like Mexico giving us a one time payout or else he would not allow Mexican immigrants to western union money back to Mexico. Another idea was that there would be a great ta on that Western union money. It does not seem like they tried any of that and just decided we would pay for the stupid ‘wall.’ How about the money he makes off Trump merch which his website and hotels still sell to pay for it?? How about the $35 million that Trump sold in real estate in 2018? The ‘Wall’ go fund me did not reach its $1billion goal so the $20 million they did collect is being offered for refunds. Some of those people still want that money to go for its purpose so Trump is creating a non- profit. Can’t we use that money to help the border patrol agents and get the backlog in immigration court moving?? That we are still talking about this ridiculous wall and that it had a go fund me page is enough to boggle the normal brain.** I think Kimmel said it best when he suggested that Trump just tell the red hats that the wall has been built. They believe everything he says so why wouldn’t they believe that?? It would save the country a lot of headaches. ** What the Hell is with his new “wheels and walls” mantra??** Russia caused Brexit too? Putin is a menace.** Another sink hole appeared the White House. WTF?

***** The congressional budget office says the shut down cost the U.S. 11 billion

***** Trump is talking to Herman Cain about a job on the Federal Reserve Board.

***** The GOP is selling fake bricks that cost about 50 cents for $20 each to send to Senate Dems. Some have said that the Dems should sign them and sell them and give the money to government workers. ** Why are Russian jets fucking around on the North American coastline??

***** Roger Stone has been indicted on 5 counts of false statements, 1 count of obstruction and 1 count of witness tampering. The FBI officers who arrested him were part of the shut down and they still did their job!! He publically and privately claimed to have communicated with Russia. Predictions are that many more indictments are coming down the pike that involve many familiar faces.** Roger Stone has a Nixon tattoo on his back. I feel sorry for his cell mate.-Bill Maher

***** Bill Maher got some flak for comments after Stan Lee died. He wasn’t slamming Lee, but wondered about comic book fans putting away childish things. I suppose that could include weed but point taken.

***** Jared Kushner along with 30 other White House staff was denied top secret clearance but Trump advisor Carl Kline overruled that decision and gave it to them anyway. This has never been done before, this is a job for intelligent agencies.

***** Empire star Jussie Smollett was attacked in Chicago in what cops are saying was a possible hate crime. The attackers were yelling that this was MAGA country, poured bleach on him and put a rope around his neck. The actor was previously sent a letter full of homophobic and racist slurs which he FBI had been looking into.

***** Ellen page gave us some memorable, powerful words to chew on with her appearance on Stephen Colbert. I am sure she gave courage to many who suffer because of our hate filled administration.

***** Gwyneth Paltrow is being sued from a 2016 ski incident for 3 mil.

***** I gain more and more respect for Seth Meyers. I did not really understand the choice of him as host in the beginning. His notice of local stations, choice of guests and revolving drummers makes for a great show.

***** A Dutch company may have invented a small device that converts heat into cold and Forbes is saying, ‘it could save the planet.’

***** So looking forward to Ryan Murphy’s The Politician which will star Jessica Lange, Gwyneth Paltrow and January Jones.

***** I know that is has happened little by little and we go thru times in our history when things get worse and then things get better but… When did this country get so fucking corrupt?? I mean seriously.. Why is Brendan Dassey still in prison and why is there no real justice for Teresa Halbach? ** Why is Trump still in the White House?**Why are government workers being told to work for nothing?? Why is R Kelly still living it up?? Why are some states going backward in time when it comes to women’s health?? Why do many corporations care more about their own pockets than the children of their employees or the environment around them??** Why does our justice system so often punish big for small infractions and allow the powerful to do anything they want?? **Why is a wall a better idea than infrastructure or warm beds for the homeless or food for our children and why are so many children in cages??

***** How can it be that we are still in a world where people are not allowed to reach their full potential?? Why do so many selfish humans actually fight to live in a world where they actively hold others back? Shouldn’t we all be concerned about the greater good? We should all be allowed to see a Doctor when we are ill. We should all be able to excel in education if we choose .We should all be able to get a job to fit our skills and work ethic. Opportunities and the pursuit of happiness should be available to all. Why is this so fucking hard for so many to grasp in this world? Imagine!

***** Sundance premiered the new flick, Big time adolescence with Griffin Gluck and Pete Davidson. Pete has since made no bones about filming in Syracuse. He hated it.

***** Jeff Flake will join CBS news as a contributor.

***** Tom Brokaw is in a bit of trouble for saying Hispanics should work harder at assimilation.

***** The Tom Hanks/ Matthew Rhys film, A beautiful day in the neighborhood has pushed back its release date to Nov. 22.

***** People are illogical and self- centered. Love them anyway. -Hedy Lemarr

*****R.I.P. Bob Einstein, Millie Wiesehan, victims of the Torrance. Ca. bowling alley shooting, Captain Darryl Dragon, Jo Andres, Lamin Sanneh, Carol Channing, Sandra Harmon, Bradley Bolke, the victims of Mediterranean shipwreck, Lorna Doom, victims of the Florida bank shooting, Kaye Ballard, Willie York , Barbara Claman , victims of the mining dam collapse in Brazil and James Frawley.

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As More Migrants Arrive, U.S. Streamlines Process To Identify, Admit Most Vulnerable

The Biden administration is ramping up exceptions to a public health order that has largely shut the U.S.-Mexico border to migrant traffic since last year because of the pandemic.

More migrants are being granted humanitarian exceptions because they are considered the most vulnerable, including families with young children and transgender people who had been living in dangerous conditions in Mexican border towns.

This comes as the number of migrants apprehended at the southern border topped 170,000 in April for the second consecutive month. The majority are still being turned away, but an increasing number of single adults and families are being allowed into the U.S. to seek asylum.

"We are working to streamline a system for identifying and lawfully processing particularly vulnerable individuals who warrant humanitarian exceptions under the order," Homeland Security Department spokeswoman Sarah Peck said in a statement to NPR, referring to the health order aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19.

"This humanitarian exception process involves close coordination with international and non-governmental organizations in Mexico and COVID-19 testing before those identified through this process are allowed to enter the country," Peck said.

But migration experts and aid groups say the Biden administration hasn't explained how the system works, creating widespread confusion in border communities about who is considered vulnerable.

"There's no clear set of criteria for which families are allowed in," said Jessica Bolter, an analyst at the Migration Policy Institute in Washington, D.C. "So it can really seem to migrants kind of like a game of chance."

The Biden administration has not sought to publicize this streamlined system of humanitarian exceptions to the health order. Instead, President Biden and top officials have repeatedly urged Central American migrants not to make the dangerous journey north because the border remains largely closed.

Immigrant advocates say administration officials are worried about touching off another surge of migration.

The number of migrants apprehended after crossing the southern border soared to a 20-year high in March, and rose slightly again in April, according to official numbers released Tuesday.

Nonprofits and immigrant advocates describe a patchwork of ways that asylum seekers are now being allowed into the U.S. — after being barred from entry for months under the pandemic health order from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention known as Title 42.

Under one arrangement, the Biden administration is working with a consortium of non-governmental organizations to identify the most vulnerable migrants so they can be allowed to enter the U.S., according to two people who are familiar with the process.

That system began last week on a small scale in El Paso, Texas, and is expected to be rolled out across the Southern border. Migrants are screened in Mexico before they present themselves to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials at ports of entry.

Ruben Garcia, executive director of Annunciation House, a nonprofit in El Paso, Texas, says he's heard that migrants are gaining entry by establishing they are vulnerable in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, just across the border. His organization provides temporary shelter to migrants.

"What exactly is the criteria, who chooses them; that I can't tell you," Garcia said. "I just don't know."

Under these Title 42 exceptions, groups of up to 50 people are being allowed to cross from Juárez to El Paso almost daily, Garcia said. Most other migrants are still being expelled.

"Here in El Paso, Title 42 is still being enforced," Garcia said.

Nearly two-thirds of migrants crossing in families — about 32,500 people in April alone — and a growing percentage of single adults were allowed into the U.S. to pursue asylum claims last month.

Many are being allowed in because parts of Mexico are refusing to take back families with small children, administration officials said.

It's not known how many migrants were granted humanitarian exceptions in April. But the number of migrants allowed to cross after presenting themselves at ports of entry — rather than crossing illegally — more than doubled to nearly 1,800.

Transgender migrants also have been allowed recently to cross through ports of entry to be processed by U.S. immigration authorities and released to reunite with family or sponsors while their asylum cases move through immigration court.

A transgender migrant shelter in Juárez is expected to close this week. Alexa Ponce, 25, had been living there for more than a year after arriving from El Salvador just before the border pandemic restrictions took effect in March.

She's scheduled cross into the U.S. Wednesday with a group of seven other transgender women to request asylum.

"I feel an avalanche of emotions," said Ponce, who dreams of attending college. "I'm very happy, but I'm also nervous. I'm not sure how things will go for me. I want to work and have a more dignified life than I could in my country."

In San Diego, immigrant advocates report at least five migrant families are granted humanitarian exceptions each day. Al Otro Lado, Jewish Family Service and other non-governmental organizations have been petitioning CBP to allow them into the U.S.

These groups visit la migrant encampment just across the border in Tijuana, Mexico,as well as local shelters, to help identify especially vulnerable migrants.

They advise families who are deciding between waiting to be allowed to cross together at a port of entry and "self-separating" by sending their children across the border alone. The Biden administration already grants entry to most unaccompanied migrant children.

They also accompany families who are allowed to cross to the border. Last week, a case manager with the legal aid group Al Otro Lado, which is based in Tijuana, waited with several families at the port of entry, communicating with CBP agents there.

One of the families — Valeria and her two children — had been stuck in Tijuana since leaving Michoacán, Mexico, last year, fleeing domestic abuse. She asked that NPR not use her full name because she's still worried the violence will follow her.

"I feel safe right now, because I'm on the way to be with my family," she said, before she crossed the border. Her father and sister already live in the United States. "In Tijuana, there's fear, but we're on the way to safety."

The Biden administration has come under fire from Republicans, who blame a recent surge in the number of migrants arriving at the border on President Biden's decision to roll back some of his predecessor's hardline immigration policies.

But the White House is also under pressure from immigrants' rights groups, who say the administration should be doing more to allow vulnerable migrants to seek asylum.

They're calling on the administration to lift the Title 42 public health order, which was put in place last year under former President Trump, effectively closing the southern border to asylum seekers.

"A process to immediately help particularly vulnerable families is helpful, but it is not a substitute for completely ending the Trump administration's Title 42 policy," said Lee Gelernt, a lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union, which has challenged the order as it applies to migrant families in court.

"The policy is unlawful and inhumane," Gelernt said.

The ACLU agreed to put its lawsuit on hold in February, and negotiated its own exception process with the Biden administration, according to Gelernt. Since late March, he said the ACLU has been referring up to 35 vulnerable families per day for entry into the U.S.

But the administration defends its use of the Trump-era public health order, and says it's up to the CDC to rescind it.

"We continue to expel single adults and families under Title 42," Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas in an interview with NPR's All Things Considered last week. "That is the province of the CDC to assess the public health needs of the situation with respect to the pandemic."

Mayorkas sought to downplay the scope of exceptions that the administration is granting.

"We do make exceptions for discrete humanitarian reasons to address particular vulnerabilities, and we have done so from the very outset," he told NPR.

"The border is not open," he said.

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Left must practice what they preach Adriana Cohen Monday, June 25, 2018

Liberals put out yard signs that say “Hate Has No Home Here,” yet these are some of the very same phonies who are practicing hate and discrimination themselves on a regular basis.

Talk about hypocrisy.

Take the Red Hen in Lexington, Va. On Friday, Trump press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders — an educated, professional working mom — went to the restaurant but was booted by its liberal owner for simply working for the Trump administration.

How is this type of hate and blatant discrimination any different from a pre-Civil Rights Act restaurant in rural America refusing service to black patrons? Or if a modern-day restaurant were to refuse to serve an openly gay couple?

It’s not. Discrimination is discrimination, whether that’s refusing service for one’s skin color, religion, sexual orientation, marital status or political affiliation.

It’s also an assault on the core pillars of a democracy. A political system that supports a plurality of political parties voters can choose from. One that distinguishes America from one-party dictatorships under Communist regimes.

The appalling hate and discrimination that Sanders experienced wasn’t a one-off. Earlier in the week Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was forced to cut her dinner short at a Mexican restaurant in Washington after verbally abusive protesters shouted “Shame!” until she left.

Talk about harassment — not to mention textbook political discrimination.

And days earlier, Trump’s key adviser on immigration, Stephen Miller, was accosted by someone at a different Mexican restaurant in D.C. who called him “a fascist,” the New York Post reported. Also on Friday, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi was heckled by demonstrators during a Mr. Rogers documentary screening. The abuse was so bad that Bondi, a known Trump supporter, had to be escorted out of the movie by police.

The hateful intolerance that liberals are practicing against fellow Americans who support our president is not only unacceptable and a violation of their constitutionally protected rights — it’s flat-out dangerous.

Who can forget the charity baseball game practice last summer that was violently attacked by a gun-toting Bernie Sanders supporter who hated Republicans and nearly killed Louisiana U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise?

Is this the outcome liberals want? If not, they should stop fanning the flames of hate with provocative, intrusive actions that they may consider to be justified forms of protest or “resistance,” but which depart radically from any norms of civil discourse and create a heightened danger of deadly political violence.

When Barack Obama was in office, Republicans who didn’t support his left-wing agenda didn’t boot his press secretaries from their restaurants. Nor did they verbally abuse and accost members of his administration over political differences. To the contrary, conservatives strongly support free speech and all citizens’ right to vote for whomever they please.

It’s high time liberals did the same and start practicing the tolerance they preach.

Before another American gets hurt.

Adriana Cohen is a Boston Herald columnist, radio host and syndicated columnist. Follow her on Twitter @AdrianaCohen16.

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Don't You Stop, We Won't Stop

EC Brown Lise Baggesen Rodrigo Lara Zendejas Sarah Beth Woods Felicia Holman

Opening reception: Saturday, February 15 from 7-10 pm

From February 15 to April 25, 2020

“Hot topic is the way that we rhyme Hot topic is the way that we rhyme One step behind the drum style One step behind the drum style Carol Rama and Eleanor Antin Yoko Ono and Carolee Schneeman You're getting old, that's what they'll say, but Don't give a damn I'm listening anyway Stop, don't you stop I can't live if you stop Don't you stop Gretchen Phillips and Cibo Matto Leslie Feinberg and Faith Ringgold Mr. Lady, Laura Cottingham Mab Segrest and The Butchies, man Don't stop Don't you stop We won't stop Don't you stop So many roads and so much opinion So much shit to give in, give in to So many rules and so much opinion So much bullshit but we won't give in Stop, we won't stop Don't you stop I can't live if you stop Tammy Rae Carland and Sleater-Kinney Vivienne Dick…”

- Lyrics from Hot Topic by Le Tigre, 1999

EC Brown

My wife Catie's annual Krampusnacht event last December included a holiday market, and I presented a bin of paintings on chipboard that were folded like heavy 45 sleeves—with mulch+foliage+ploymer record shapes that became too encrusted to fit inside. The images invented an old psychedelic Krampus underground—militant and Luciferian. Dolly appeared as a surprise digression in the wee hours before the deadline.

For the past seven years of Krampusnacht, I have sidestepped the European relics in favor of thoughts about American undercurrents—rowdy, sexual, heretical, and perilously savage. But I like to imagine that the deeper magma is something propulsive and generative, rather than malignantly atavistic. An inevitable rebellion against civilized living.

With Edra's prodding, I'm pursuing the Dolly tangent: imagining a history in which the liftoff of her solo career was profoundly controversial—to the point that an enclave of armed male consorts developed around her. Perhaps her audience had detected a Luciferian bent in her, that would need time to transition to a more acceptable yet radical Christianity.

EC Brown: I prefer a collision of illustrative image-making that begs attention to narratives, and physical formats that shift these works into roles as implements or tactical objects addressing spaces and situations. Images have been a tempered fever-dream drawing from 1960s–70s aesthetics, pop occultism, science fiction, Modernist architecture, biomimetics, industrial photography and observational cinema. Often they are absurdist historical revisions.

Since 2005, I have mostly operated in Chicago's domestic artspaces. I co-organized Floor Length and Tux (2009–2014, with Catie Olson) and COMA (2006–2008, with Annika Seitz). I periodically organize a roving series entitled ASCII (2011–present). Since 2015, I have been conducting a discreet series out of my home entitled Tascam.

Lise Haller Baggesen

Interpersonal relationships, intergenerational and intersectional eco- and cyber- and xeno- feminism, reproductive justice, therapeutic aesthetics, color field painting, sci-fi tie-dye, hippie modernism, bio-punk, grunge, glam, and disco, are some of the vernaculars that inform my body of work. Since graduating in 2013 from SAIC's department of Visual and Critical Studies, this organic body has manifested itself in a hybrid and polydisciplinamorous practice, including writing, audio-visual installations, textile-, and sartorial works.

Mother is a noun and a verb; I regard my practice as a sourdough, a gestation of material, out of which individual works, texts, and shows are wrought, while the mother remains, active.

Lise Haller Baggesen is a Danish born, Amsterdam raised, Chicago based, interdisciplinary artist. Her hybrid practice includes writing, installation, performative, sartorial and textile-based work. She is the author of Mothernism, and exhibits internationally, most recently with the multimedia show HATORADE RETROGRADE: THE MUSICAL, which premiered at SoEx in San Francisco in 2019 and will travel to G400 in Chicago in 2020

Rodrigo Lara Zendejas

I create memorials—fragmented, mischievous, and imperfect realities that reflect both a formal

break from traditional shape, while presenting an assemblage version of our collective social and political thoughts, concerns, and hopes. Although I was trained in the traditions of classical art, my pieces now are not always clean. Or finished. Or beautiful. My work holds the memory of an intimate process of becoming. In some bodies of work, I present obvious nooks and gashes, broad, quick strokes, and secretive, featherlike fingerprints, all of which aided in the modeling of the clay during the process of bringing the subject to life. It is this visceral and intimate approach to materials and form that drive my subjects of memory and memorialization through all of my works.

When considering the human form and its relationship to memorialization, immediate thoughts of bronze statues at historical sites come to mind. My fascination, however, is in the way that memory—with its inherent, ever-changing fluidity—disrupts our ability to fully or truthfully freeze, or memorialize people, moments, or perspectives in history. Instead, it is our momentary glimpses of memory and hindsight that drive how we understand the present.

As a Mexican immigrant to the United States, my works often rely on my own fragmented memories and stories of home, my direct experiences with fervent Catholicism, and other’s heroic (yet common) anecdotes of border crossing and acclimating to living in America. However, while my memories and relationships to patriotism, politics, my background, and my longing for the familiar certainly influence my work, it is my interest in the process, the poetics of the materials, and the action of sculpting that motivate my continued practice.

Born in Mexico in 1981, Rodrigo Lara Zendejas received a MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) in 2013. And his BFA from the Universidad de Guanajuato in Mexico in 2003. He has received several awards including: Proyectos Especiales FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes) Mexico City; Emerging Artist Grant, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York City; Jóvenes Creadores, FONCA, Mexico City; Extraordinary Abilities Visa, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services; Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Art Center; James Nelson Raymond Fellowship, 2013 SAIC Fellowship Competition; PECDA Estudios en el extranjero,Instituto Queretano de la Cultura y las Artes; the International Graduate Scholarship, SAIC; and the John W. Kurtich Travel Scholarship, SAIC Berlin/Kassel, Germany; among others. He won the first price in sculpture at the National Award for Visual Arts in Mexico in 2010. Lara held solo exhibitions at institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in the state of Mexico, Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago, the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago, Kruger Gallery in Marfa, Texas, among others. He has been in such residencies as the Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Ragdale, Cross Currents: Cultural Exchange, Mana Miami, and Rogers Art Loft. Currently, Lara lives and works in Chicago.

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Sarah Beth Woods

Hear the Glow of Electric Lights is a multifaceted project that centers around a black and white, 16mm reversal film, which investigates the choreographed performances of 1960s American pop music groups featuring girls and young women. During the summer of 2017, Sarah Beth Woods formed The Rhinettes, a conceptual girl group based out of Prosser High School on the West side of Chicago. Referencing the Supreme’s first nationally televised appearance and Cholly Atkins' choreography, the work reveals the inscription of sound on the body and other material surfaces.

Girl group: (L-R) Alexis Strowder, Yahkirah Beard, Anya Jenkins Cinematography: Brian VandenBos Choreography: Courtney Bradshaw Costumes: Ann Heggans, Sarah Beth Woods

Sarah Beth Woods is a Chicago-based multidisciplinary artist. Woods’ background as a painter and critical cultural worker has led to an interest in the aesthetics and political implications of modern surfaces and the body, specifically skin and hair, saturated color and shine. Cultural influences derived from formative years spent on the Southwest side of Chicago continue to manifest in the content and aesthetics of Woods’ work, specifically black material culture and women’s conceptual spaces as sites of possibility and transformation.

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Felicia Holman

"Originally created as a commissioned response to Edra Soto’s 2018 exhibition ‘Open 24 Hours’, interdisciplinary artist Felicia Holman presents a reprise of her solo performance—Wassup w/that ‘YAC?! (WWTY). As both a cognac enthusiast and a native of Chicago’s South Side, Holman unpacks experiential / anecdotal support of the formative research cited in ‘Open24 Hours’. WWTY centers the perspective of a Black Gen X’er cis-female cognac consumer. How do historic/ (pop) cultural/ social/ economic factors impact and influence her consumption of “that smooth brown spirit”? Guided audience participation optional but warmly encouraged (21+ only). Total running time: 45-60 minutes, no intermission.”

Felicia Holman “Lifelong”: Chicagoan/ artist and Prince "fam" Felicia Holman is an independent cultural producer/programmer, as well as a co-founding member of Chicago-based Afrodiasporic feminist creative collective, Honey Pot Performance. Felicia creates, presents, and supports innovative interdisciplinary performance that engages audience and inspires community. Felicia’s artistic & professional practices are both are grounded in critical thought, intersectionality, community building & embodied storytelling. Some of her recent projects and career highlights include:

*Featured artist in Jenn Freeman's "The People's Church of The G.H.E.T.T.O" and the 10th edition of Erin Kilmurray's "The Fly Honey Show”.

*Selected as City Bureau's Fall 2019 Public Newsroom Series Curator.

*Featured presenter at Arts Administrators of Color Network-DMV's 2019 Annual Convening (DC). *Featured artist / facilitator at Flux Factory's "Must They Also Be Gods" group exhibition (NYC).

*Facilitating career development programming for emerging artists.

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