#dina gregory

[kwebtv]

Wilbert Francisco Cobbs (June 16, 1934 – June 25, 2024) Film and television actor. On television he played Lewis Coleman on I'll Fly Away (1991–1993), Jack on The Michael Richards Show (2000), and had guest appearances on Walker, Texas Ranger and The Sopranos. In 2012, he had a reoccurring role as George in the sitcom, Go On. In 2020, he won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Performance in a Daytime Program for the series Dino Dana

He also appeared and was a regular on many television programs, including as Lewis Coleman on I'll Fly Away (1991–1993), James on The Gregory Hines Show (1997-1998), Jack on The Michael Richards Show (2000), and George, a blind grief-support-group member, on Go On (2012-2013). He also appeared on Good Times, Sesame Street, The Outer Limits; ER, Six Feet Under; The Others; JAG; The Drew Carey Show; Walker, Texas Ranger, The Sopranos, October Road; One Tree Hill; Star Trek: Enterprise (as Dr. Emory Erickson, inventor of the Transporter); Bill Cobbs also had a small roll, with scene partner, funny, Michael McKean, in Christopher Guest/Eugene Levy hilarious comedy, (dog-show, mockumentary); “Best in Show,” (2000); and many more. (Wikipedia)

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[battyaboutbooksreviews]

🌙 Books for Arab American Heritage Month 🌙

🌙 Good morning, bookish bats, and Eid Mubarak to those who are celebrating. Eid al-Fitr ("the feast of breaking the fast") marks the end of Ramadan, an Islamic holy month of fasting and sacrifice. April is also Arab American Heritage month, which celebrates the 3.7 million Arab Americans across the country. This is an opportunity to combat Anti-Arab bigotry by challenging stereotypes and prejudices.

✨ One of the best ways to do so is to read books ABOUT Arab Americans. To help, here are a few books for Arab American Heritage Month you can read, discuss, or add to your ever-growing TBR!

[ List under the cut. ]

✨ Growing up, I didn't have books that represented my experiences as an Arab or Muslim American. My friends didn't have stories to read that could help them understand my perspective. With that in mind, I added children's books on the last slide, for the moms out there searching for diverse books--books that allow us to empathize and understand different perspectives and experiences.

🌙 A Woman Is No Man - Etaf Rum ✨ The Other Americans - Laila Lamami 🌙 You Exist Too Much - Zaina Arafat ✨ Grape Leaves - Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa 🌙 The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine ✨ The Beauty of Your Face - Sahar Mustafah 🌙 Martyr - Kaveh Akbar ✨ Between Two Moons - Aisha Abdel Gawad 🌙 Tasting the Sky - Ibtisam Barakat ✨ A Game for Swallows - Zeina Abirached 🌙 Love Is An Ex-Country - Randa Jarrar ✨ The Thirty Names of Night - Zeyn Joukhadar

🌙 I Was Their American Dream - Malaka Gharib ✨ A Country Called Amreeka - Alia Malek 🌙 A Theory of Birds - Zaina Alsous ✨ Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Arab in America - Toufic El Rassi ✨ The Skin and Its Girl - Sarah Cypher 🌙 Sex and Lies - Leïla Slimani ✨ Loom - Thérèse Soukar Chehade 🌙 Birds of Paradise - Diana Abu-Jaber ✨ Come With Me - Noami Shihab Nye 🌙 Girls of Riyadh - Rajāʼ ʻAbd Allāh Ṣāniʻ ✨ How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? - Moustafa Bayoumi

🌙 Evil Eye - Etaf Rum ✨ The Girl Who Fell to Earth - Sophia Al-Maria 🌙 What Strange Paradise - Omar El Akaad ✨ Girls That Never Die - Safia Elhillo 🌙 Bahari - Dina Macki ✨ Life Without a Recipe - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Egyptian Diary - Richard Platt ✨ Man O'War - Cory McCarthy 🌙 The Cave - Amani Ballour, MD ✨ The Map of Salt and Stars - Zeyn Joukhadar 🌙 They Called Me a Lioness - Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri ✨ Salt Houses - Hala Alyan

🌙 Arabiyya - Reem Assil ✨ Mornings in Jenin - Susan Abulhawa 🌙 Shubeik Lubeik - Deena Mohamed ✨ The Wrong End of the Telescope - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 Conditional Citizens - Laila Lamami ✨ An Unnecessary Woman - Rabih Alameddine 🌙 It Won't Always Be Like This - Malaka Gharib ✨ Proud - Ibtihaj Muhammad 🌙 The Land in Our Bones - Layla K Feghali ✨ Everything Comes Next - Naomi Shihab Nye 🌙 The Immortals of Tehran - Ali Araghi ✨ Starstruck - Sarafina El-Badry Nance

🌙 Our Women on the Ground - Various ✨ The Jasad Heir - Sara Hashem 🌙 Tell Me How You Really Feel - Aminah Mae Safi ✨ Surge - Etel Adnan 🌙 Here to Stay - Sara Farizan ✨ We Hunt the Flame - Hafsah Faisal 🌙 A Tempest of Tea - Hafsah Faizal ✨ The Bad Muslim Discount - Syed M. Masood 🌙 A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena ✨ Not the Girls You're Looking For - Aminah Mae Safi 🌙 All-American Muslim Girl - Nadine Jolie Courtney ✨ The Moon That Turns You Back - Hala Alyan

🌙 Ms. Marvel - Destined - Saladin Ahmed ✨ Americanized: Rebel Without a Green Card - Sara Saedi 🌙 Internment - Samira Ahmed ✨ Stardust Thief - Chelsea Abdullah 🌙 Once Upon an Eid - Various ✨ Farah Rocks Fifth Grade - Susan Muaddi Darraj 🌙 Barakah Beats - Maleeha Siddiqui ✨ Amira's Picture Day - Reem Faruqi 🌙 The Tale of Princess Fatima, Warrior Woman ✨ Lailah's Lunchbox - Reem Faruqi 🌙 In My Mosque - M.O. Yuksel ✨ Halal Hot Dogs - Susannah Aziz

🌙 The Proudest Blue - Ibtihaj Muhammad ✨ Silverworld - Diana Abu-Jaber 🌙 Other Words for Home - Jasmine Warga ✨ Time to Pray - Maha Addasi 🌙 Under My Hijab - Hena Khan ✨ Wishing Upon the Same Stars - Jacquetta Nammar Feldman 🌙 Amina's Voice - Hena Khan ✨ Yasmin the Recycler - Saadia Faruqi 🌙 The Shape of Thunder - Jasmine Warga ✨ Deep in the Sahara - Kelly Cunnane, Hoda Hadadi 🌙 The Turtle of Michigan - Naomi Shihab Nye ✨ Shad Hadid and the Alchemists of Alexandria - George Jreije

[ostolero]

Update: I am re-enabling messages as of Jan 30. I am still ill but I will respond to messages when I can.

Update: I have come down with COVID since this Sunday Jan 26. I will not be able to respond to messages until I am well

I am traveling for a funeral tonight through this weekend and

I will re-enable messages when I can give people my absolute full attention on monday (January 27)

I will be without my PC and I will not be able to effectively respond or perform research or compose detailed posts

Here are some vetted accounts with active campaigns you can support.

Use the @'s to navigate to their blogs.

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[moocha-muses]

Your sims are so well-written ❤️. Who are some of your favourite characters from other players’ games?

Aaah, Anon! I'm so sorry it took me forever to answer this, because it was so sweet and it's such a good ask and I wanted to give it a great answer and I forgot.

Short answer: all my mutuals' sims are adorable and I love them.

Long answer: So I literally kidnapped @pixeldolly's Fiona Merridew, and I'm obsessed with my deep-rooted horror of Larkin. I love @eulaliasims Gaius and Chiana and Theo, and Syx and Kaiden (beautiful tropical birb) and Carlos (perfect hair). @episims Hanna is one of my favorite sims of all time (I like robots) and Jonas has grown on me such slowly and so much (appropriate for a plant sim.) I would fight God herself for @dunne-ias's take on Nina Caliente if God and I weren't pals. I love how @nappe-plays-the-sims writes Candy Hart, and Lana's whole arc. (And Cyan Weiss). @vixsims's Brandi and Dina. @beikonsims's super cute roboticist, Arin Capp. Every weirdo in @mynameisquoi's game except Jack. Every chubby-cheeked toddler in @deedee-sims' Griffonmere. Dr. Gregory Occulus (thank for creating such a perfect being, @virtualpeople).The whole aesthetic vibe of every sim @simmer-until-tender makes. Especially the vampires. @mikexx2's fashion icons, Jillian and Daphne. @simnostalgia's absolutely iconic Xander Roth. And Mashugas! And Tiffany Burb! And Blaire, and-

@plumbbobtoggle Saeed and Rea and Adam (especially Rea.) I think all the sims in @katatty's Hollyhead are super well-created, especially Luna and Myrna and Clyde. (Also, every sim on Nekojima ;D.) @simhealing's found-family version of Natasha, John and Rick Contrary. @enkisstories' own version of Daniel and Gavin and all the extremely technical gameplay that goes with them. @bramblefinch's Helena Zhao (my fave blood-stained disaster.) And @softpine's Elaine <3 and Stevie, who have been rotating in my head a lot, lately, despite everything else that's going down in the Pines.

Sims are the best.

[toonabby]

Happy (late) 35th birthday, Naomi Oozora

Characters pictured above from left to right: (BOLD text means Star-Making Role)

Satanichia "Satania" McDowell Kurumizawa from Gabriel Dropout

Hana Uzaki (Monica Rial) from Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!

Jahy (Lisette Monique Diaz) from The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!

Kiriha (Sarah Wiedenheft) from Tsugumomo

Ruti (Tia Ballard) from Banished from the Hero's Party

Samidare Asahina (Ariel Graham) from Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer

Chio Miyamo (Mikaela Krantz) from Chio's School Road

Inari from Inari, Konkon, Koi Iroha

Midori Kohakobe (Emily Neves) from Call of the Night

Susanna "Sue" Hopkins from Genshiken: Second Generation (Replacing Yuuko Gotou)

Keiko Tomioka (Rachel Michelle Thompson) from Remake Our Life!

Kanon Konomori from Wataten!

Chieri Ogata from THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls

Tamamo Cross from Uma Musume Pretty Derby

Perseus from Azur Lane

Patricia Abelheim from Atelier Ryza

Characters not pictured (in order of the work's release year):

Duvalie (Eden Riegel) from The Legend of Heroes series

Yuragi Hakoniwa from Noucome

Jessica Shannon (Danielle Judovits) from Marvel Disk Wars

Karen Bombardier (Molly Searcy) from Chaika: The Coffin Princess

SG-1000 II from Sega Hard Girls

Bal-chan from Robot Girls Z+

Noriko Mizuyama from Momokuri

Tellu (Laura Post) from Sailor Moon Crystal III (Replacing Chieko Honda)

Falcon and QJY-88 from Girls' Frontline

Yuma Kusanagi from Matoi the Sacred Slayer

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog (Sarah Wiedenheft) from Kemono Friends

Ylgr (Megan Hollingshead) and Lethe (Kristen Day) (from Path of Radiance) from Fire Emblem Heroes

Charlotte Anana (Madeleine Morris) from One Piece(*)

Yuki from PriConne (Princess Connect! Re:Dive)

Nikola Graf (Kate Higgins) from Valkyrie Chronicles 4

Michi Edogawabashi from Pastel Memories

Pan Dina (Nadine Russell) from Kandagawa Jet Girls

Marisa Kirisame from Touhou Spell Bubble

Mafuyu Kogarashi (Madeline Dorroh) from Maesetsu!

Sakuna (Laura Post) from Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin

Fenneca (Carling Doubt) (yes THAT'S her name) from Bakugan: Geogan Rising

Amanozako (Deva Marie Gregory) from Shin Megami Tensei V

Mogumogu Chō Higashisakura from Hanabi-chan Is Often Late

Lopomon from Digimon Survive

Ripple from Reborn to Master the Blade

Sayuri Osanada from Rokudo's Bad Girls

Panda Yanagiba from World Dai Star

Shizuka Futari (Robin Clayton) from Sasaki and Peeps

(*) = Debut episode

[l0veophelia]

below you'll find my masterlists i've created, enjoy!

please don't repost my work, translate it or, copy it without my permission.

MARVEL MASTERLIST

including;

agatha harkness, wanda maximoff, thor odinson, nebula, loki lauyfeson, jessica jones, tony stark, kate bishop, gamora, matt murdock, bucky barnes, bruce banner, natasha rommanoff, yelena belova, peter parker

THE LAST OF US MASTERLIST

including;

joel miller, ellie williams, tess servopolus, tommy miller, dina, jesse, abby anderson

STRANGER THINGS

including;

steve harrington, nancy wheeler, robin buckley, eddie munson, johnathan byers, joyce byers, jim hopper

CRIMINAL MINDS

including;

aaron hotchner, spencer reid, derek morgan, emily prentiss, jennifer jareau, penelope garcia

SHADOW & BONE

including;

alina starkov, aleksander kirigan, nikolai lantsov, zoya nazyalinski, genya safin, kaz brekker, inej ghafa, nina zenik, matthias helvar

HOUSE MD

including;

gregory house, james wilson, lisa cuddy, robert chase, remy hadley

SUPERNATURAL

including;

dean winchester, sam winchester, castiel, rowena, charlie bradbury

SHAMELESS

including;

fiona gallagher, lip gallagher, ian gallagher, mickey milkovitch, mandy milkovitch, veronica fisher, kevin ball

THE HUNGER GAMES

including;

coriolanus snow, lucy grey barid, katniss everdeen, peeta mellark, finick odair, johanna mason, haymitch abernathy

DETROIT BECOME HUMAN

including;

connor, markus, kara, rk900

NARCOS

including;

javier pena, steve murphy

YOU

including;

joe goldberg, love quinn

EUPHORIA

including;

rue bennet, lexi howard, maddy perez, cassie howard, fezco

GREY'S ANATOMY / PRIVATE PRACTICE

including;

meredith grey, derek shepherd, alex karev, arizona robins, amelia shepherd, mark sloan, april kepner, jo wilson, cristina yang, lexie grey, george o'malley, izzie stevens, addison montgomery, pete wilder, cooper freedman, violet turner, dell parker

BRIDGERTON

including;

anthony bridgerton, benedict bridgerton, colin bridgerton, simon basset, daphne bridgerton, eloise bridgerton, penelope featherington.

[badass-queer-couples-battle]

The major bracket of the gay wrongs/murder husbands and wives poll is here!

Full list of all couples/ships along with sources below (although not in order they're in the poll)

Osamu Dazai & Chuuya Nakahara - Bungou Stray Dogs

Edward Teach & Stede Bonnet - Our Flag Means Death

Arséne Lupin III & Jigen Daisuke - Lupin The Third

Princess Bubblegum & Marceline - Adventure Time

Tiziano & Squalo - Jojo’s bizarre adventure: Golden Wind

Ellie Williams & Dina - The Last of Us 

Eve Polastri & Vilanelle - Killing Eve

Louis & Lestat - Vampire Chronicles series/Interview with the vampire

Kinn & Porsche - Kinnporsche

Alec Hardison & Eliot Spencer & Parker - Leverage

Vegas & Pete - Kinnporsche

GoodTimesWithScar & Grian - 3rd life (Life series as a whole, hermitcraft)

Jonathan Simms & Martin Blackwood - The Magnus Archives

Legolas & Gimli - Lord of the rings

Female Byleth & Edelgard - Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Heavy & Medic - Team Fortress 2

Edward Nygma & Oswald Cobblepot - Gotham (TV series)

Misa Amane & Rem - Death Note

Joe & Nicky - The Old Guard

John Silver & James Flint - Black Sails

Vriska Serket & Terezi Pyrope - Homestuck

Nandor & Guillermo - What we do in the shadows (TV series)

Eustass Kid & Killer - One piece

The Doctor & The Master - Doctor Who

Hannibal Lecter & Will Graham - Hannibal (TV series)

Wen Kexing & Zhou Zishu - Word of honor (series)/Faraway Wanderers (book)

Lord Boxman & Professor Venomous - OK KO: let's be heroes!

Jack Harkness & John Hart - Torchwood

Nadja & Laszlo - What we do in the shadows (TV series)

Poison Ivy & Harley Quinn - DC comics/Harley Quinn (series)

Gregory House & James Wilson - House MD

Rei Suwa & Kazuki Kurusu - Buddy Daddies

Wylan & Jesper - Six of crows (books)/Shadow and Bone (TV series)

Eddie Brock & Venom - Venom

Mystique & Irene Adler - X-Men Comics

Roronoa Zoro & Sanji - One piece

[littlemixdaily]

leighannepinnock: I'm so excited to be narrating the original Hans Christian Anderson version of The Little Mermaid exclusively for @audible_uk 🧜🏽‍♀️ Dina Gregory is such an incredible storyteller; reading her adaptation truly made me feel seen in a story I've been so familiar with as a child. There are so many themes within this now iconic storyline that feel so familiar to my own life and so my narration was inspired by not only my experiences but also my culture, my heritage. My hope is that people like myself can see themselves in this story too and I've enjoyed retelling this tale to my own children already 💕 I hope you all enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed narrating it! x

[princesshillaryellaworld25]

SpongeBob Parodies BF’s Names (My AU)

GHB BF: Gregory

Sick BF: Sarika Sickest

Drugfriend: Danny Handles

YBS BF: Yuki Braham

Spongequan BF/ Bro’friend: Jeffery

Friendboy: Jeremy

Pamtri BF: Perry

Anime BF: Zane

Ifunk BF: Isiah Brown

Naughty BF: Nick Files

Child BF: Corey

BF Wow: Bobby

Spingebill BF: Grey

Sack BF: Samuel

D-side Sick BF: David Flu

BBB Sickfriend: Bubble Soda Sickest

Panchito BF: Kyle Matric

Cave BF: Dina Underwarnings

Adultfriend: Jamie Swim

Scarey BF: Lucas

Sketchfriend: Steve Writings

That is all the spongebob parodies BF's names in my AU.

[sporadiceagleheart]

January of the passings and the birthdays that passed away in heavenly peace Charlton Reed “Reed” Longgrear, Carlos Eduardo Hernandez, Nicholas Colby Gilbert, Seth Alexander Fairchild, Vedavyasa Dasa Carsten, Samuel Gordon “Sam” Bish, Lauren Dawn “Lulu” Townsend, Kelly Ann Fleming, Claude Georges Bernheim, Charlotte Frances O'Brien, Hartog Carel “Harry” Berkelouw, Isaac Bernardus Barendse, Gustav Louis Arenson, Helena “Hetty” Abram, Dina Gottliebova-Babbitt, Edith Holländer Frank, Charlotte Lynn Jones, John Singer Sargent, Ava Renee Wood, Anne Brontë, Yvonne De Carlo, André the Giant, Charlotte “Charly” Josephine Jones, Gabrielle Renea “Gabby” Barrett, Gabriella Peyton “Gabbie” Green, Mrs. Charlotte Ann Quesenberry O'Brien, Charlotte O'Brien-Stensvold, Herman Friedrich Grimm, Philipp Wilhelm Grimm, Eliahna “Ellie or Elle” Torres, Nevaeh Alyssa Bravo, Sir Walter Raleigh, Melissa Helen Currie, Brett McKinnon, Ava Jordan Wood, Tristyn Bailey, Jordan David Carter, Hana Maria Pravda, Michaela Lynn Brewster, John Connor Caldwell, Helena Freja Ramsay, Cooper Cain Dixon, Darian Gregory King, Meagan Ashley Mauldin, Bart the Bear, Charlotte jones, John Hancock, Katherine Anderson, Mary Lee Martin, Louis XVI, Ella Harper, Mary Ann Jackson, Sarah Bagley, Jacob Grimm, David Bowie, Virginia Woolf, Thomas Hardy, Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Lord Byron oh holy night we fall on our knees and hear the Angels Voices edit January 2025 rest In Peace Sleep in heavenly peace I have two more edits one for Alexandria Rubio after Destiny Arianna Kay Riekeberg

[bllsbailey]

How McCormick Won Pennsylvania's Senate Race

It is just after 9 p.m. on election night in an oversized suite on the 24th floor of downtown Pittsburgh's Fairmont Hotel. All the couches and cushioned chairs have been placed along the wall and replaced by around a half dozen campaign staffers working at desks, or makeshift desks, watching data start to pour in from across Pennsylvania. In the center of it all sits Dave McCormick, looking at a monitor with his wife, Dina Powell, hovering over him, her arm on his shoulder.

It is a tender moment captured in the middle of a chaotic scene.

It's early, and McCormick, Republican Senate challenger, is behind incumbent Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) at this moment, but there appears little panic. In fact, they are smiling. So are Mark Harris and Brad Todd, McCormick's top campaign advisers. Harris is looking at a whiteboard with counties scribbled across the top, and Todd is pacing, looking at his iPhone. Elizabeth Gregory, McCormick's press secretary, is on the phone. Matt Gruda, McCormick's campaign manager, is watching the results as the Republican challenger starts to grab a very slim lead.

By midnight, they all know McCormick will win, as they have suspected for the past month. However, it would take the Associated Press two days to call it and Casey two weeks to concede a race very few analysts thought the three-term Democrat could ever lose to a candidate his team believed was an easy target.

McCormick and his team believed otherwise.

So how did a West Point graduate from Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania, go from losing an agonizingly close, contentious Republican Senate primary two years ago to Dr. Mehmet Oz to winning against Casey, whose family has been a Pennsylvania political institution for four decades? It all began with focus and an interview conducted in his Pittsburgh living room days after he lost that first race.

At the time, McCormick said he was unsure if he would try another race.

Within just over a year, he was in. The first thing he did was what many CEOs do when forming a board of directors: He formed a team of professionals from very different backgrounds and experiences who had never worked together. This is a risky business in politics, where a campaign team usually comes as a package deal.

Harris, the Pittsburgh-based chief strategist, was hired first. He came from the political orbit of former Pennsylvania Republican Sen. Pat Toomey. Todd, whom McCormick dubbed "the chief storyteller," was hired on Labor Day 2023. He came from the world of Republican Sens. Rick Scott (Fla.), Josh Hawley (Mo.), and Thom Tillis (N.C.). Gregory and Gruda were strategists for Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.).

Todd, a Tennessee native and founding partner of OnMessage who coauthored "The Great Revolt: Inside the Populist Coalition Reshaping American Politics" in 2018, said it's impossible to overstate the importance of their team not having a contested primary.

"That is all a testament to Dave's nature and his work ethic," said Todd. "He did not get mad and let people who weren't for him become enemies from the first race. He just kept working on relationships."

In those early days traveling across the state, you could see McCormick sitting down and listening to people who did not support him. He never acted like anyone owed him anything, even though it would have been easy to adopt an "I told you so" pose after Oz lost badly to Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) in 2022. He also engaged in small, off-year elections for local offices, thus building more relationships.

Then came the hard part: how to run against a man who, with the exception of one primary race for governor in 2002, had won handily in every statewide race he had run, including for state auditor general, state treasurer and the Senate. Add the kicker that Casey had the same name as his late father, a beloved centrist Democrat governor of the state. From 30,000 feet, a win against Casey seemed daunting.

Todd said he and Harris found out really quickly in research that Casey's strength was overstated.

"He was a mile wide and an inch deep," explained Todd. "A lot of people were familiar with his name, but nobody was familiar with anything he had done or was working on doing."

In short, Casey had no political equity.

Todd said it is rare to see a politician who has broad name recognition and no equity, "especially after as long a career as he had. But beyond knowing that he was in office, he really started with nothing. On the negative side (in terms of campaigning against him), he also did not have any established negatives."

No one was ready to throw Casey out, but no one knew how to rally around Casey to keep him in.

Todd explained that was the tricky part of the campaign.

"So we had to accept early on that people were not going to hate Bob Casey or think Bob Casey was terrible, so we had to construct a strategic framework that let voters vote for Dave without being mad at Bob," he said.

One key thing they had to do was invest cash in introducing McCormick.

Todd explained that sometimes you beat incumbents by just piling on their negatives, something he said he's done in certain races.

"But because Casey didn't start with a lot of negatives and we knew he would have unlimited money, we did not think that it was possible to beat him with negatives alone," he said. "Therefore, the positive construction of Dave and what he's for was going to be pretty important."

Meanwhile, Todd said Casey's mistake was his refusal to break with President Joe Biden or, later, with Vice President Kamala Harris.

"It was obvious to us from the start that the administration was unpopular," Todd said. "Joe Biden personally had some old wells of support, but the administration was unpopular."

Despite that, McCormick's team likely was the only campaign in the United States that was happy when Biden stepped off the ticket.

"We thought that Harris ... would be a disaster in Pennsylvania, and that's why we were ready to go with a campaign linking Casey to Harris on the very first day, really before any other campaign in the country was," he said, pointing to their groundbreaking ad using the voices of Casey endorsing the vice president and the vice president on her litany of positions that included banning fracking, getting rid of the filibuster, limiting meat consumption and abolishing the immigration-control service.

The ad was potent. Using the vice president's leftist statements in her own voice did more to demonstrate that the Democratic Party was too far left than anything they could put on the screen with an announcer in graphics. Using Casey's voice saying she was awesome and perfect, juxtaposed with her saying something far left, helped establish him on the wrong side of the political divide.

Casey's team did little to disrupt their plan despite having a big money advantage heading into the summer, while McCormick's team held their powder until they could even things up in September and October.

Meanwhile, Mark Harris "just spent an enormous amount of time trying to do resource strategy," Todd said of the strategist's strength in understanding the state. Mark Harris had run both of Toomey's successful races.

Also crucial for McCormick was the help of Keystone Renewal, the super PAC run by Sean Parnell, a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan, ran for Congress and lives in western Pennsylvania. Without Keystone Renewal, McCormick may not have crossed the finish line.

Parnell helped raise $14 million for the effort that tapped into several different categories of voters, including traditional, young and low-propensity voters, and got them to vote by mail. The final report released Friday showed Republicans added a total of 240,430 people to the permanent vote-by-mail list, the first cycle ever where state Republicans added more voters to the permanent list than Democrats did.

Parnell said they also produced 365,000 first-time voters.

"Those 365,000 are the first voters we need to fold into the program for the next cycle to get added to the permanent list, something that will benefit us immensely," he said.

Todd said the most maddening thing for him was race handicappers kept not seeing McCormick's path to victory: "The Cook Report moved the race to toss-up, but nobody else did, ever."

Throughout the race, Todd said reporters would repeatedly tell him you cannot beat Casey in Pennsylvania. He would counter by pointing to Casey's lack of deep favorables. What they missed was that the race was close, that McCormick had budgeted well and so was going to have enough money, and even more importantly, the presidential race was moving away from Kamala Harris and, in tandem, from Casey too.

Poll after poll after poll showed Casey would be at whatever number the vice president was, and McCormick would be five or six points below President-elect Donald Trump. Todd said that is a hill you can climb "because that means there are a lot of people who are voting for Trump who just don't know enough about you yet."

In the end, the coalition that voted for Trump was also the coalition that brought over McCormick. There are likely a few voters in upper-income suburbs who voted for McCormick but didn't vote for Trump, and there are likely a few people in blue-collar, suburban and ex-urban communities who voted for Trump but didn't vote for anybody in the Senate race.

However, the conservative populist coalition that most of the press missed once again expanded. It is a working-class coalition, plus some capitalists who think the Democrats have gone too far.

Todd said he suspects that because a lot of the voters who are Republican historically but skeptical of Trump are mostly tax cut and border-security type voters, "I think some of those people will continue to come home. They don't like the rhetoric around Trump. They're not culture warriors, but they do agree with him on border security and on the economy. And I suspect he can win a few more of those over time if he plays his cards. And I think the more they get to know Dave, the more they're going to love him."

In the end, Todd said McCormick won because of his leadership in the campaign infrastructure and because he embodied Pennsylvania.

"Dave's family has a detailed family history, and they've invested in writing it all down. They do things like go to Decoration Day every year," he said.

"You very quickly come into the fact that West Point is a really important inflection point for his father, Doug, and Dave both. It has shaped the rest of their life. And so, we had a challenge of ... how do you portray (that) West Point's a United States military institution (inside) which you cannot shoot an ad, then we got to the notion of the Thayer Gate because that's a portal," he explained.

Once you walk through that gate, you're a soldier, and when you walk out of that gate, you are an officer. It was a transformational threshold that became the pivot point of their campaign.

The team's last ad was shot in the streets of West Point, right outside the gate, with McCormick referring to the experience of going through the gate and how it changed him.

In the close, he said, "I left here determined to serve my country for the rest of my life, and that's why I'm running."

When you understand what motivates a candidate, it is the most important thing you can do to persuade a swing voter. They're swing voters for a reason. They don't have real strong opinions on a lot of matters. Or they have strong opinions that conflict with each other ideologically.

From the deliberate strategy of winning over voters in places such as Pennsylvania's Luzerne and Bucks counties and to cutting into Casey's votes in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, it was clear the plan worked. In the end, swing voters went with their gut based on what they perceived to be the motivations of the candidates, and McCormick won.

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美国密集出台多项涉台法案

一.2023年台湾税收协定法案

2023年7月19日,众议院外交委员会主席、共和党众议员迈克尔·麦考尔(Michael McCaul)与外委会资深成员、民主党众议员格雷戈里·米克斯(Gregory W. Meeks)和民主党众议员杰里·康诺利(Gerry Connolly)推出跨党派的《2023年台湾税收协定法》(Taiwan Tax Agreement Act of 2023)，授权拜登行政当局与台湾协商并完成税收协定。

参议院外交委员会主席、民主党参议员鲍勃·梅嫩德斯(Bob Menendez)、民主党参议员克里斯·范霍伦(Chris Van Hollen)和参议院外委会亚太小组资深成员、共和党参议员米特·罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)提出了相应的跨党法案。该法案通过了参议院外委会。

除了麦考尔、米克斯和康诺利之外，这项法案还得到了其他来自两党的众议员的联署，��们是：阿米·贝拉(Ami Bera)、鲁本·加莱戈(Ruben Gallego)、格雷格·斯坦顿(Greg Stanton)、安迪·巴尔(Andy Barr)、匡希恆(John Curtis)、帕特·法伦(Pat Fallon)、安·瓦格纳(Ann Wagner)、盖伊·瑞森绍尔(Guy Reschenthaler)和金映玉(Young Kim)。

二.台湾国际团结法案

2023年2月,台湾国际团结法案是由弗吉尼亚州民主党联邦众议员杰拉德·康纳利（Gerald Connolly）提出的跨党派立法,、联署成员包括众院外委会印太小组民主党首席议员贝拉（Ami Bera），以及众议员泰塔斯（Dina Titus）、匡希恒（John Curtis）、安迪`巴尔（Andy Barr）、 费茨派垂克（Brian Fitzpatrick）与麦克林（Lisa McClain）等10多位议员。

2023年5月16日，众议院外委会口头表决无异议通过该法案,

2023年7月25日，美国联邦众议院通过法案

三．通过实力促进台湾和平法案

6月15日，共和党籍参议员马可·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）提出参议院版本的法案，民主党籍众议员巴帕斯（Chris Pappas）与共和党籍众议员班克斯（Jim Banks）7月28日提出了两党的《台湾通过实力实现和平法案》，试图加强美国对台湾岛的支持。

四．美台21世纪贸易倡议首批协议实施法

2022年6月，美国行政当局与台湾政府在宣布将启动《美台21世纪贸易倡议》谈判，同年8月正式展开谈判，经过几轮在台北和华盛顿的面对面与视频协商，2023年6月1日，美国在台协会（AIT）与驻美代表处于华府签署“台美21世纪贸易倡议首批协定”，由驻美代表萧美琴与AIT执行理事蓝莺（Ingrid Larson）代表签署，台湾行政院政委邓振中、美国副贸易代表毕昂奇（Sarah Bianchi）及AIT主席罗森博格（Laura Rosenberger）在场见证。

6月9日，民主党籍参议院财政委员会主席韦登（Ron Wyden）及共和党籍众议院筹款委员会主席史密斯（Jason Smith）等人提出实施法案，除盼透过跨党派核准程序表达国会对协定的支持，也为加强国会监督。

6月21日，众议院表决通过此项立法,7月18日参议院表决通过此项立法，7月27日，这部得到参众两院民主共和两党议员支持的法案被送交白宫。

8月2日，众议院筹款委员会发布声明称，《美台21世纪贸易倡议实施法》确认了国会对美台在此贸易倡议下签署的首批协议的支持，并表明这���首批协议和未来美国与台湾达成的协议在没有国会的批准下将不能生效。

8月7日，美国总统乔·拜登将国会通过的《美台21世纪贸易倡议首批协议实施法》（the United States-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act）签署成法。

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When Manny Singer’s wife dies, his young daughter Molly becomes mute and withdrawn. To help cope with looking after Molly, he hires sassy housekeeper Corrina Washington, who coaxes Molly out of her shell and shows father and daughter a whole new way of life. Manny and Corrina’s friendship delights Molly and enrages the other townspeople. Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Corrina Washington: Whoopi Goldberg Manny Singer: Ray Liotta Molly Singer: Tina Majorino Jonesy: Joan Cusack Sid: Larry Miller Jevina: Jenifer Lewis Jenny Davis: Wendy Crewson Grandma Eva: Erica Yohn Grandpa Harry: Don Ameche Brent Witherspoon: Brent Spiner Bratty Boy: Tommy Bertelsen Repeat Nanny: Lin Shaye High Heels: Noreen Hennessey Shirl: Lucy Webb Miss O’Herlihy: Juney Ellis Rita Lang: Mimi Lieber Liala Sheffield: Karen Leigh Hopkins Mrs. Wang: Pearl Huang Tommy: Marcus Toji Joe Allechinetti: Louis Mustillo Wilma: Patrika Darbo Delivery Man 1: Don Pugsley Annie: Lynette Walden Business Associate: Bryan Gordon Club Singer: Jevetta Steele Woman in Audience: Yonda Davis Percy: Curtis Williams Lizzie: Briahnna Odom Mavis: Ashley Taylor Walls Frank: Harold Sylvester Anthony T. Williams: Steven Williams Lewis: Asher Metchik Howard: Courtland Mead Mrs. Werner: Sue Carlton Gregory: Kyle Orsi Mrs. Rodgers: Maud Winchester Mrs. Morgan: K.T. Stevens John Brennan: Christopher Chisholm Chubby Boy: Bryan A. Robinson Mrs. Murphy: Roz Witt 2nd Delivery Man: Sean Moran Film Crew: Screenplay: Jessie Nelson Editor: Lee Percy Producer: Steve Tisch Executive Producer: Ruth Vitale Original Music Composer: Rick Cox Producer: Paula Mazur Executive Producer: Bernie Goldmann Director of Photography: Bruce Surtees Music: Thomas Newman Stunts: Ben Scott Stunts: Kym Washington Longino Associate Producer: Joe Fineman Line Producer: Eric McLeod Casting: Mary Gail Artz Casting: Barbara Cohen Music Supervisor: Bonnie Greenberg Costume Design: Francine Jamison-Tanchuck Production Design: Jeannine Oppewall First Assistant Director: Phillip Christon Second Assistant Director: David Minkowski Second Second Assistant Director: Peggy Hughes Production Accountant: Gwen Everman Script Supervisor: Benita Brazier Camera Operator: Geary McLeod First Assistant Camera: Heather Page Steadicam Operator: Kirk R. Gardner Still Photographer: Suzanne Hanover Gaffer: Alan Brownstein Best Boy Electric: Steve Reinhardt Key Grip: Charles Saldaña Production Sound Mixer: David Kelson Boom Operator: Randall L. Johnson Key Makeup Artist: Michael Germain Makeup Artist: Deborah La Mia Denaver Key Hair Stylist: Candy L. Walken Hairstylist: Julia L. Walker Hairstylist: Michael Pachal Property Master: Barbara Benz Assistant Property Master: Michael D’Imperio Art Direction: Dina Lipton Set Designer: Louisa Bonnie Set Decoration: Lauren Gabor Leadman: John Maskovich Construction Coordinator: Lars Petersen Construction Foreman: Steven C. Voll Transportation Coordinator: Billy G. Arter Additional Editor: Lynzee Klingman Supervising Sound Editor: Steve Richardson ADR Voice Casting: Barbara Harris Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Matthew Iadarola Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Gary Gegan Color Timer: Mato Dialogue Editor: Lewis Goldstein Dialogue Editor: James Matheny Dialogue Editor: Kimberly Lambert Dialogue Editor: Jim Brookshire Dialogue Editor: Alison Fisher Supervising Sound Effects Editor: Joel Valentine ADR Editor: Darrell Hanzalik ADR Editor: Mary Ruth Smith ADR Editor: Jeff Watts Assistant Sound Editor: Paul Silver Assistant Sound Editor: Catherine Calleson Assistant Sound Editor: Tony Cappelli Foley Artist: Alicia Stevenson Foley Artist: Zane D. Bruce Foley Mixer: David Jobe Foley Recordist: Don Givens ADR Mixer: Charleen Richards-Steeves ADR Recordist: Greg Steele Music Editor: Will Kaplan Set Dresser: Mike Malone Movie Reviews:

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美国密集出台多项涉台法案

一.2023年台湾税收协定法案

2023年7月19日,众议院外交委员会主席、共和党众议员迈克尔·麦考尔(Michael McCaul)与外委会资深成员、民主党众议员格雷戈里·米克斯(Gregory W. Meeks)和民主党众议员杰里·康诺利(Gerry Connolly)推出跨党派的《2023年台湾税收协定法》(Taiwan Tax Agreement Act of 2023)，授权拜登行政当局与台湾协商并完成税收协定。

参议院外交委员会主席、民主党参议员鲍勃·梅嫩德斯(Bob Menendez)、民主党参议员克里斯·范霍伦(Chris Van Hollen)和参议院外委会亚太小组资深成员、共和党参议员米特·罗姆尼(Mitt Romney)提出了相应的跨党法案。该法案通过了参议院外委会。

除了麦考尔、米克斯和康诺利之外，这项法案还得到了其他来自两党的众议员的联署，他们是：阿米·贝拉(Ami Bera)、鲁本·加莱戈(Ruben Gallego)、格雷格·斯坦顿(Greg Stanton)、安迪·巴尔(Andy Barr)、匡希恆(John Curtis)、帕特·法伦(Pat Fallon)、安·瓦格纳(Ann Wagner)、盖伊·瑞森绍尔(Guy Reschenthaler)和金映玉(Young Kim)。

二.台湾国际团结法案

2023年2月,台湾国际团结法案是由弗吉尼亚州民主党联邦众议员杰拉德·康纳利（Gerald Connolly）提出的跨党派立法,、联署成员包括众院外委会印太小组民主党首席议员贝拉（Ami Bera），以及众议员泰塔斯（Dina Titus）、匡希恒（John Curtis）、安迪`巴尔（Andy Barr）、 费茨派垂克（Brian Fitzpatrick）与麦克林（Lisa McClain）等10多位议员。

2023年5月16日，众议院外委会口头表决无异议通过该法案,

2023年7月25日，美国联邦众议院通过法案

三．通过实力促进台湾和平法案

6月15日，共和党籍参议员马可·卢比奥（Marco Rubio）提出参议院版本的法案，民主党籍众议员巴帕斯（Chris Pappas）与共和党籍众议员班克斯（Jim Banks）7月28日提出了两党的《台湾通过实力实现和平法案》，试图加强美国对台湾岛的支持。

四．美台21世纪贸易倡议首批协议实施法

2022年6月，美国行政当局与台湾政府在宣布将启动《美台21世纪贸易倡议》谈判，同年8月正式展开谈判，经过几轮在台北和华盛顿的面对面与视频协商，2023年6月1日，美国在台协会（AIT）与驻美代表处于华府签署“台美21世纪贸易倡议首批协定”，由驻美代表萧美琴与AIT执行理事蓝莺（Ingrid Larson）代表签署，台湾行政院政委邓振中、美国副贸易代表毕昂奇（Sarah Bianchi）及AIT主席罗森博格（Laura Rosenberger）在场见证。

6月9日，民主党籍参议院财政委员会主席韦登（Ron Wyden）及共和党籍众议院筹款委员会主席史密斯（Jason Smith）等人提出实施法案，除盼透过跨党派核准程序表达国会对协定的支持，也为加强国会监督。

6月21日，众议院表决通过此项立法,7月18日参议院表决通过此项立法，7月27日，这部得到参众两院民主共和两党议员支持的法案被送交白宫。

8月2日，众议院筹款委员会发布声明称，《美台21世纪贸易倡议实施法》确认了国会对美台在此贸易倡议下签署的首批协议的支持，并表明这个首批协议和未来美国与台湾达成的协议在没有国会的批准下将不能生效。

8月7日，美国总统乔·拜登将国会通过的《美台21世纪贸易倡议首批协议实施法》（the United States-Taiwan Initiative on 21st-Century Trade First Agreement Implementation Act）签署成法。

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