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APRIL 2023

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Trump has been indicted!! A Manhattan Grand Jury could bring possible charges of falsifying business records. Conspiracy and financial fraud.** Pence was ordered to testify in the Dominion case.

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Denver donated 35 bison to Native American tribes. More of that!

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Killers of the Flower Moon will premiere at the 76th year of Cannes. Tantoo Cardinal is in the cast and that is all I need to know!!

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Nick Cage will star in Sympathy for the Devil

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Maggie Mull, creator of Maggie has just signed to Disney. She has also been a writer for Dad’s, Family Guy, Life in Pieces and Not Dead Yet.

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The Night Agent was picked up for a second season. ** Harry Wild is getting ready to come back for its second as well with Jane Seymour and Rohan Nedd.

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And into March, I still heard people talking about Biden and his wife eating the same meal in a restaurant. Do these people have absolutely nothing to do? Why is this a story?

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Idaho is bringing back the firing squad.

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The Monkees episodes are coming back to a new generation on Axs tv.

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Andy Kaufman will be added to the wrestling hall of fame.

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Adam Sandler was given the Mark Twain prize this year.

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Poker Face is getting a second season!!! And Emmy noms please for Tim Meadows and Ellen Barkin! That was a great episode!!

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Will Ferrell stopped for a bite at the Rail house in Pekin, Il. while working on a project.

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A principal in Florida resigned after some parents were angry about their children seeing the statue of David.** John Leguizamo made a great comment about Jesus being nearly naked on the cross. Is that acceptable?

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George Santos is being investigated by the ethics committee. He also made a deal in a fraud case in Brazil. He will pay damages to an elderly man he stole from that his Mother was caring for.

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“News destroyed us.” - Rupert Murdoch

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Days alert: Good-bye Jack and Jen. It is sad but there was not much story there anyway. Come back when you can figure out a way to get the paper back.** Did ya see Stefan yell out, “Bababooey?”** It really feels like old times with Bo and Hope and the gang. I am so glad to see Andrew and Paul back together!!!!!** They mentioned Seth Meyers on the show which isn’t a stretch since he is on NBC but he is the current best late night host.** I think that they should have brought the current Dr. Rolf on as Rolf’s son. **

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Oh no.. Yamiche Alcindor has moved on from Washington Week. I will miss her soo much. I will see her on NBC and will read her book , but she was a GREAT host.

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Why does Colbert hate Mounds bars?

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I was thrilled to see Pete Holmes walk onto Night Court. He is the perfect personality to pair up with the new Judge Stone. His quip about being confused with John Ritter made perfect sense. And good to see Joanna Kerns directing!!** And speaking of directing, I was thrilled to see Osgood Perkins directing a Twilight Zone and with Colleen Camp!!!! Hooray!!!!!

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Some quotes about Trump that I heard this week: He is “as smart as a box of hair.” **”the savant part of Trump.”** Talking to Trump is like, “talking to a spoon.”** He is a serial business failure.** “History will hold him accountable.”- Mike Pence** He wants to invade Mexico??

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There was a big story of a clam that was given the name, Abraclam Lincoln because it was born about the same time as Lincoln. It was later found that they were way off on the age so it was a non story!

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Elon Musk is said to be buying a town in Texas.

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The Trump administration changed banking regulation liquidity requirements which helped to cause the failure of Silicon Valley bank and Signature bank. Many Dems voted for it too but not Elizabeth Warren or Bernie Sanders.

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The Oscars came and went without much fuss this year. Jimmy Kimmell did a great job and the winners did not go on as long as usual. There was respect, something lacking everywhere as of late. It was a kinder, gentler Oscars. I was thrilled that Brendan Fraser won. The man deserved it for Gods and Monsters but this will do!! I was also so thrilled for Jamie Lee Curtis, Ke Huy Quan, Sarah Polley and Michelle Yeow. Who were all winners. ** I thought the most beautifully dressed were Sarah Paulson, Lady Gaga, Gabrielle Union, Angela Bassett, Julia Louis Dreyfus, Seth Rogan, Lenny Kravitz, Ava DuVernay, Eva Longoria, Mindy Kaling, Kate Hudson, Janelle Monae and Jessica Chastain. Michael J. Fox received the Humanitarian award. I also like the Oscars because I hear of films I hadn’t realized I wanted to see. Now, I can’t wait to see The Boy, the Mole. The fox and the horse and I am also up for Navalny.**All quiet on the Western Front and Everything, everywhere, all at once were the big winners. To see James Hong there was also a huge treat and I smiled when I heard a shout out to the Carpenters.** At an after party, people wondered why Justin Beiber was curled up in a blanket?.

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Peacock is bringing us The Monk Movie: Monk’s Last Case!!!!!!!!! It sounds like the whole cast will be there!!!!!

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YouTube has brought Trump back but as of yet, he isn’t using any of the sites that banned them. He is pushing his “Truth” site.

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Can Micky Dolenz host SNL or how about Carl Weathers again??? I miss the old days when there were all different kinds of hosts. Lorne has become too predictable.

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Scientists are studying Beethoven’s hair to learn more about his death.

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David Sedaris made a comment that reading his books to people is the laziest form of show biz and that is all he ever wanted. I have never heard it put better. I wholeheartedly agree!!

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Give to The Drag Defense Fund!!

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I loved that female show down on Your Honor. The show is filled with top notch acting!!

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The Netflix film, I See You, was not bad but is it me or is Helen Hunt looking more and more like Eric Stoltz?

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Drew Barrymore talked with Melanie Lynskey and husband Jason Ritter about Drew and Jason’s struggle with alcohol. They both felt a fear of getting too close to someone. And let’s hope Melanie Lynskey gets some award love for Yellowjackets because she is awesome in that.

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So now some parents are bitching about Dolly Parton in school because a teacher wanted to use the song Rainbowland. I thought we could all agree on Dolly but add Miley and singing about inclusion and they bitch.

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Wes Anderson’s newest, Asteroid City, will go nationwide on June 23. The film stars his usual cast along with Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie and Steve Carell.

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Is there some dirty dealings going on in the Mclean Co. Illinois DCFS? There have been a lot of rumblings.

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Trump holds his first big campaign rally in Waco? That sounds about right. The only other Republican candidates so far for Pres are Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswami. Will there be more before April is over?

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R.I.P. Wayne Shorter, Peter Kelley, Tom Sizemore, Tom Whitlock, Gary Rossington, Robert Blake, Kristen Bjorklund, Topol. Jim Gordon, Lance Reddick, Joe Pepitone, John Jakes, Andy Rothman, Lynn Seymour, all the school shooting victims, Tornado victims, Darcelle, Fuzzy Haskins, Nicholas Webber, Leo D. Sullivan, Blackhawk casualties,

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Tuesday, March 28, 2023

‘Catastrophe’ for Poor New Yorkers as Pandemic Food Aid Ends (NYT) For nearly three years, New Yorkers have been able to take advantage of a pandemic-era lifeline that provided people like Jocelyne Grandu, a retired French teacher who lives in Harlem, with an extra $80 each month in food stamp benefits. But with that federal assistance ending this month, more than 30 million people across the country are expected to receive less help. In New York City, more than 1.5 million people, or nearly one in five residents, could receive smaller food stamp benefits, according to nonprofit leaders—reflecting a loss of at least $160 million total in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits each month. “What we’re seeing is really a catastrophe for well over a million New Yorkers,” said David G. Greenfield, executive director of Met Council, a prominent Jewish nonprofit that oversees 100 food pantries. “We’re hearing from our clients that they’re rationing things like medication, they’re not going to be able to pay their rent and they can no longer pay for things like child care.” As Mayor Eric Adams and the City Council negotiate next year’s budget, Mr. Greenfield has called on the city to set aside nearly $13 million in emergency funding for food pantries, where demand for aid has surged: Visits to food pantries in the city rose by more than two-thirds last year compared with 2019.

Armed Woman Kills 6 in Nashville School (NYT) A heavily armed woman entered a Christian school in Nashville on Monday morning and fatally shot three children and three staff members before she was shot and killed by the police, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said. According to the initial findings of an investigation, the woman, who was 28 and lived in the Nashville area, was “at one point a student” at the school. The school, the Covenant School, was founded in 2001, and serves about 200 students from preschool through 6th grade, according to its website. The woman entered the building through a side door, armed with two assault-style rifles and a handgun, and went from the first floor to the second floor, firing “multiple shots,” Don Aaron, a spokesman for the Police Department said. When officers arrived, they heard gunshots on the second floor, he said. Once there, members of a five-person team saw the woman firing, Mr. Aaron said. Two members of the team opened fire, killing her, he said.

The gun that divides a nation (Washington Post) The AR-15 wasn’t supposed to be a bestseller. The rugged, powerful weapon was originally designed as a soldiers’ rifle in the late 1950s. “An outstanding weapon with phenomenal lethality,” an internal Pentagon report raved. But few gunmakers saw a semiautomatic version of the rifle as a product for ordinary people. It didn’t seem suited for hunting. It seemed like overkill for home defense. Gun executives doubted many buyers would want to spend their money on one. Today, the AR-15 is the best-selling rifle in the United States, industry figures indicate. About 1 in 20 U.S. adults—or roughly 16 million people—own at least one AR-15. It also has become a stark symbol of the nation’s gun violence epidemic. Ten of the 17 deadliest U.S. mass shootings since 2012 have involved AR-15s. And today, the 128th mass shooting of 2023 took place at a Christian school in Nashville, with 3 children and 3 adults killed by an assault weapon.

Is the David porn? Come see, Italians tell Florida parents (AP) The Florence museum housing Michelangelo’s Renaissance masterpiece the David on Sunday invited parents and students from a Florida charter school to visit after complaints about a lesson featuring the statue forced the principal to resign. Florence Mayor Dario Nardella also tweeted an invitation for the principal to visit so he can personally honor her. Confusing art with pornography was “ridiculous,” Nardella said. The board of the Tallahassee Classical School pressured Principal Hope Carrasquilla to resign last week after an image of the David was show to a sixth-grade art class. The school has a policy requiring parents to be notified in advance about “controversial” topics being taught. The incredulous Italian response highlighted how the U.S. culture wars are often perceived in Europe, where despite a rise in right-wing sentiment and governance, the Renaissance and its masterpieces, even its naked ones, are generally free of controversy. Sunday’s front page of the Italian daily publication Corriere della Sera featured a cartoon by its leading satirist depicting David with his genitals covered by an image of Uncle Sam and the word “Shame.”

Police using ‘excessive force’ at France protests, rights groups say (Washington Post) Police in France have responded to a wave of recent protests with heavy-handed and sometimes brutal tactics, according to local and international rights groups, prompting calls for an independent investigation into allegations of police brutality as the country grapples with its worst unrest in years. Protesters opposed to government efforts to raise the retirement age have destroyed cars and buildings, burned trash and newspaper kiosks, and clashed with law enforcement in cities such as Paris and Bordeaux in recent days. But the forceful and apparently indiscriminate nature of the police response, including arbitrary arrests and the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators and reporters, has also drawn scrutiny. “There are now hundreds of testimonies of police brutality that cannot be justified by the law,” said Sebastian Roché, a professor at Sciences-Po Grenoble who researches French policing. Top human rights officials at the United Nations and the Council of Europe, which is headquartered in Strasbourg, France, have also weighed in, condemning what they said was excessive use of force by law enforcement officers.

Pray for rain: Spanish farmers hold unique Mass amid drought (AP) When Josep Altarriba looks across his parched fields, the Spanish farmer can’t remember a time of such widespread drought in Catalonia. If it doesn’t rain in the next two weeks, he says there’s little chance of saving the harvest. What can be done? For the mountain villagers of L’Espunyola, the answer is divine intervention. On Sunday, around 250 residents brought back the faded practice of a special Mass and procession to pray to Our Lady of the Torrents, a local virgin associated with rainfall. “It’s not a magic act, it is an act of trust,” Bishop Francesc Conesa told The Associated Press. Three years of very low rainfall and high temperatures put Spain officially into long-term drought, the country’s weather agency said this month. Last year was Spain’s sixth driest—and the hottest since records began in 1961.

Myanmar army leader calls for decisive action to crush foes (AP) As Myanmar’s military put on an annual show of strength Monday, its top leader told its assembled ranks they need to take decisive action against those fighting army rule of the country. Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing spoke at a military parade on Armed Forces Day. At sunrise, members of all service branches marched in mass formations onto a huge parade ground in the capital, Naypyitaw, backed by armored vehicles, missiles and artillery as well as fighter jets and helicopters flying overhead. Myanmar’s military has been accused of indiscriminate killings of civilians as it engages in major offensives to suppress the armed resistance opposed to its takeover of the government two years ago.

In China, Marriage Rates Are Down and ‘Bride Prices’ Are Up (NYT) The 30 women sat in wooden chairs, facing each other in a rectangular formation. At the front of the room was the ruling Communist Party’s hammer and sickle logo, with a sign declaring the meeting’s purpose: “Symposium of unmarried young women of the right age.” Officials in Daijiapu, a town in southeast China, had gathered the women to sign a public pledge to reject high “bride prices,” referring to a wedding custom in which the man gives money to his future wife’s family as a condition of engagement. The local government, describing the event earlier this year in a notice on its website, said it hoped people would abandon such backward customs and do their part to “start a new civilized trend.” As China faces a shrinking population, officials are cracking down on an ancient tradition of betrothal gifts to try to promote marriages, which have been on the decline. Known in Mandarin as caili, the payments have skyrocketed across the country in recent years—averaging $20,000 in some provinces—making marriage increasingly unaffordable. The payments are typically paid by the groom’s parents. Official campaigns like the Daijiapu event sidestep the fact that the problem is partly of the government’s own making. During the four decades of the one-child policy, parents often preferred sons, resulting in a lopsided gender ratio that has intensified competition for wives.

North Korea test-fires 2 more missiles as US sends carrier (AP) A nuclear-powered U.S. aircraft carrier and its battle group began exercises with South Korean warships on Monday, hours after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles in an apparent protest of the allies’ expanding drills. The seventh missile test this month underscored heightening tensions in the region as both the North’s weapons tests and the U.S.-South Korea joint military exercises have intensified in a cycle of tit-for-tat. The launches may have been timed for the arrival of the USS Nimitz and its strike group, including a guided missile cruiser and two destroyers, which engaged in air defense exercises and other drills with South Korean warships in waters near Jeju island.

Iran’s Truce With Saudi Arabia Heals Rift, but Not Its Reeling Economy (WSJ) Iran’s move to reset diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia was a radical break from years of enmity between the two Middle East rivals, but it hasn’t been enough to prop up its struggling economy. Before China stepped in to broker the deal earlier this month, Iran’s currency, the rial, had lost a fifth of its value over the last two weeks of February to hit a record low, adding to the problems besetting the ruling clerics here. Inflation was already rising, hitting 59% late last year, and talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal and get some relief from U.S. sanctions were all but dead. European powers had given up on a separate mechanism to transfer funds to Iran for humanitarian aid. Prisoner-swap negotiations with the U.S. weren’t progressing either, keeping billions of dollars in overseas bank accounts out of reach. The Americans had also begun cracking down on flows of hard currency from neighboring Iraq, removing an important pressure valve. But while news of the deal helped ease the strain on the rial in the short term, pushing it off its historic low of more than 600,000 to the dollar, the currency has since lost value as the reality sinks in that, even with the Saudi deal, the country has few prospects for a turnaround unless it can escape sanctions over its nuclear program or build closer economic ties with China and Russia.

Mass protests erupt after Netanyahu fires defense chief (AP) Tens of thousands of Israelis poured into the streets of cities across the country Sunday night in a spontaneous outburst of anger after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly fired his defense minister for challenging the Israeli leader’s judicial overhaul plan. Protesters in Tel Aviv blocked a main highway and lit large bonfires, while police scuffled with protesters who gathered outside Netanyahu’s private home in Jerusalem. Unions are threatening to paralyze the economy. Medical strikes are underway and workers shut down outgoing flights at the main airport. (Later, Netanyahu announced that he would pause the judicial changes.)

Many rely on radio broadcasts in Zimbabwe and across Africa (AP) Just the size of his hand, the radio set hung in the busy marketplace stall is essential to Mark Nyabanda. “I can’t do without it,” said the 25-year old, taking a break from selling fertilizer in Mbare market in the capital, Harare, to listen to a radio weather report warning of possible floods. Radio bulletins also provide him with information on disease outbreaks, political news and entertainment, he said. In many Western countries, conventional radio has been overtaken by streaming, podcasts and on-demand content accessed via smartphones and computers. But in many of Africa’s 54 countries, with a combined population of 1.3 billion people, traditional radio sets are widely used, highlighting the digital divide between rich countries and those still struggling to have reliable internet.

Clowns converge on Orlando for funny business (NPR) This week, dozens of clowns descended on Orlando, Florida for the 40th annual World Clown Association convention. But these aren't your scary clowns, the ones you might know from scary movies. These are professional clowns who work in big circuses and county fairs and those who volunteer in local hospitals, senior centers and schools. Members of the WCA hail from 35 different countries and their one purpose is simple, to "bring happiness, joy, fun and comic relief to children of all ages." Robin Bryan, who goes by Pinkie Bee, is president of the WCA. She mostly volunteers at local hospitals with her hubby. "My husband and I have over 1,500 volunteer hours for Wolfson Children's Hospital," said Bryan. "So we go in every week and we do our best to give smiles and tears and laughter and that's what is important about being a clown, right?"

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noisynutcrusade · 2 years ago

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Florida school principal fired for showing students Michelangelo's Dav

Parents complained over “pornographic” statues. A school principal in Florida has been fired following parental complaints that children were exposed to pornography after being shown Michelangelo’s iconic statue of David. The incident occurred at Tallahassee Classical School following a Renaissance art lesson which included images of the David statues as well as Michelangelo’s Birth of Adam and…

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The principal of a charter school in Florida resigned after a parent complained about a teacher showing an image of Michelangelo's David. Ben Gleib, Cenk Uygur, and Rick Strom discuss on The Young Turks. Watch TYT LIVE on weekdays 6-8 pm ET. http://youtube.com/theyoungturks/live Read more HERE: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/michelangelo-school-principal-fired-david-statue-b2307088.html "A parent in Tallahassee, Florida cost a charter school principal her job after complaining that one of the world's most beloved artistic masterpieces was pornographic. Hope Carrasquilla, who had just stepped into her role at Tallahassee Classical School less than a year prior, announced her resignation on Monday during an emergency board meeting, according to the Tallahassee Democrat's reporting. She spoke with the Tallahassee Democrat about the incident and the end to her time at the school. Ms Carrasquilla told the paper that the school board's chair, Barney Bishop, informed her that she would either need to quit or she would be fired. Though it appears he did not specify why the principal was asked to leave, she believes it was related to a lesson on Renaissance art." *** The largest online progressive news show in the world. Hosted by Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian. LIVE weekdays 6-8 pm ET. Help support our mission and get perks. Membership protects TYT's independence from corporate ownership and allows us to provide free live shows that speak truth to power for people around the world. See Perks: ▶ https://www.youtube.com/TheYoungTurks/join SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ http://www.facebook.com/TheYoungTurks TWITTER: ☞ http://www.twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM: ☞ http://www.instagram.com/TheYoungTurks TWITCH: ☞ http://www.twitch.com/tyt 👕 Merch: http://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt Unbossed with Nina Turner https://www.youtube.com/unbossedtyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA #TYT #TheYoungTurks #BreakingNews 230324__BE01FloridaPrincipalFired by The Young Turks

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tothemaxxx · 7 years ago

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My Favorite Films and Performances of 2017

Tomorrow: Oscar nominations Today: the stuff that I loved

I hope you check out something on this list that you haven’t heard of, or reconsider something you didn’t intend to see. If it's not on here, I either didn't have the opportunity to see it or I didn't really care for it (and here’s 2016 and 2015 for your perusal).

1. TWIN PEAKS: THE RETURN, David Lynch

Without question, the greatest cinematic experience of my year was 18 hours of new David Lynch material, unfurling over four months. However, if we’re talking strictly about theatrical releases, my favorite film of 2017 is

2. PHANTOM THREAD, Paul Thomas Anderson

and the rest of the Top 25, in alphabetical order:

AFTER THE STORM, Hirokazu Kore-eda

THE BIG SICK, Michael Showalter

BPM, Robin Campillo

BRAWL IN CELL BLOCK 99, S. Craig Zahler

BRIGSBY BEAR, Dave McCary

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, Luca Guadagnino

DUNKIRK, Christopher Nolan

FACES PLACES, Agnès Varda & JR

THE FLORIDA PROJECT, Sean Baker

GET OUT, Jordan Peele

GOOD TIME, Josh and Benny Safdie

IN THE FADE, Fatih Akin

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, Yorgos Lanthimos

LADY BIRD, Greta Gerwig

THE LURE, Agnieszka Smoczynska

MOTHER!, Darren Aronofsky

PERSONAL SHOPPER, Olivier Assayas

RAW, Julia Ducournau

THE SHAPE OF WATER, Guillermo del Toro

THE SQUARE, Ruben Östlund

SUNTAN, Argyris Papadimitropoulos

THIRST STREET, Nathan Silver

THE WORK, Jairus McLeary and Gethin Aldous

But that’s not all! I enjoyed so many more 2017 movies. Sometimes with reservations, but enjoyed nonetheless:

A Ciambra, Baby Driver, Battle of the Sexes, Beatriz at Dinner, The Beguiled, Blade Runner 2049, Brad’s Status, Colossal, The Commune, A Cure For Wellness, Darkest Hour, Detroit, The Disaster Artist, Donald Cried, A Fantastic Woman, Foxtrot, Free Fire, Gerald’s Game, The Ghoul, Girls Trip, Graduation, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Happy End, The Hero, Hounds of Love, Hostiles, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Ingrid Goes West, It, John Wick: Chapter 2, Lady Macbeth, Landline, The Lego Batman Movie, Logan, Logan Lucky, The Lost City of Z, Lost in Paris, Loveless, Marjorie Prime, The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected), Nocturama, Okja, Patti Cake$, The Post, Prevenge, Roman J. Israel, Esq., Song to Song, Split, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Stronger, Super Dark Times, Thor: Ragnarok, T2 Trainspotting, Thelma, This Is Not What I Expected, The Trip To Spain, The Unknown Girl, Wind River, Wonderstruck, The World of Tomorrow Episode 2: The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts

And these documentaries:

All These Sleepless Nights, Brimstone & Glory, City of Ghosts, Contemporary Color, David Lynch: The Art Life, Dawson City: Frozen Time, Icarus, Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton, Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Karl Marx City, Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press, Risk

Small-Screen Wonders:

Atlanta, The Deuce, GLOW, Mindhunter, Nathan for You “Finding Frances,” Top of the Lake: China Girl, Vice Principals

My favorite performance of the year:

Michael Stuhlbarg as Mr. Perlman in Call Me By Your Name.

Dynamic Duos:

Fiona Gordon as Fiona & Dominique Abel as Dom, Lost in Paris

Armie Hammer as Oliver & Timothée Chalamet as Elio, Call Me by Your Name

John Hamm as Water & Lois Smith as Marjorie, Marjorie Prime

Vicky Krieps as Alma & Daniel Day-Lewis as Reynolds Woodcock, Phantom Thread

Favorite Ensembles:

Beatriz at Dinner, The Big Sick, Detroit, The Florida Project, Free Fire, Hostiles, It, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, Lady Bird, Okja, The Post, T2 Trainspotting, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

More memorable (and in many cases underrated) performances):

Lior Ashkenazi as Michael Feldmann, Foxtrot

Kris Avedisian as Donald, Donald Cried

Nahuel Pérez Biscayart as Sean, BPM

Emma Booth as Evelyn White, Hounds of Love

Rob Brydon as Rob, The Trip to Spain

Lindsay Burdge as Gina, Thirst Street

Bene Coopersmith as Bene, Person to Person

Siddharth Dhananjay as Jheri, Patti Cake$

Kirsten Dunst as Edwina, The Beguiled

Buddy Duress as Ray, Good Time

Betty Gabriel as Georgina, Get Out

Jeff Goldblum as Grandmaster, Thor: Ragnarok

Tiffany Haddish as Dina, Girls Trip

Adèle Haenel as Jenny Davin, The Unknown Girl

Fantine Harduin as Eve, Happy End

Harriet Sansom Harris as Barbara Rose, Phantom Thread

Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Travis, It Comes at Night

Sally Hawkins as Elisa, The Shape of Water

Sylvia Hoeks as Luv, Blade Runner 2049

Lil Rel Howery as Rod Williams, Get Out

O'Shea Jackson Jr. as Dan Pinto, Ingrid Goes West

Dafne Keen as Laura, Logan

Udo Kier as Placid Man, Brawl in Cell Block 99

Kirin Kiki as Shinoda Yoshiko, After The Storm

Kevin Kline as Maurice, Beauty and the Beast

Diane Kruger as Katja Sekerci, In The Fade

Jarkko Lahti as Olli Mäki, The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki

Alice Lowe as Ruth, Prevenge

Melanie Lynskey as Ruth, I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

Lesley Manville as Cyril, Phantom Thread

Garance Marillier as Justine, Raw

Elizabeth Marvel as Jean Meyerowitz, The Meyerowitz Stories

Tatiana Maslany as Erin Hurley, Stronger

James McAvoy as Dennis et al., Split

Kyle Mooney as James Pope, Brigsby Bear

Terry Notary as Oleg, The Square

Michelle Pfeiffer as Woman, mother!

Florence Pugh as Katherine, Lady Ma

Lance Reddick as Charon, John Wick: Chapter 2

Andrea Riseborough as Marilyn Barnett, Battle of the Sexes

Millicent Simmonds as Rose, Wonderstruck

Maryana Spivak as Zhenya, Loveless

John Turturro as Alan, Landline

Daniela Vega as Marina Vidal, A Fantastic Woman

Denzel Washington as Roman J. Israel, Esq., Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Michelle Williams as Gail Harris, All the Money in the World

Dwight Yoakam as Warden Burns, Logan Lucky

Favorite older films I saw for the first time in 2017:

MARRIED TO THE MOB, Jonathan Demme, 1988

THE MERCHANT OF FOUR SEASONS, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1972

PAPER MOON, Peter Bogdanovich, 1973

PIECES, Juan Piquer Simón, 1982

Fin!

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gywair · 6 years ago

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Hey! I got the honor of being on Historical Hotties. It’s a podcast about researching hot historical figures and ranking them. I was on the episode about crime fighters. Below are my notes and references about Mabel Walker Willebrandt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Walker_Willebrandt

http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/media_detail/2082505810-willebrandt/

https://themobmuseum.org/notable_names/mabel-willebrandt/

https://www.encyclopedia.com/women/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/willebrandt-mabel-walker-1889-1963

https://www.loc.gov/item/mm82059618/

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jul-02-me-47028-story.html

http://www.anb.org/view/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.001.0001/anb-9780198606697-e-0600712

https://books.google.com/books?id=CfGHM9KU7aEC&pg=PA736&lpg=PA736&dq=dorothy+rae+willebrandt&source=bl&ots=Ot1Hr5r5jy&sig=ACfU3U1zTmlS6XVkw1QFXoWtYaMSk5dOWA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwia_-fX5KLhAhUELa0KHdrfC3gQ6AEwDXoECAkQAQ#v=onepage&q=dorothy%20rae%20willebrandt&f=false

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Mabel Walker Willebrandt

Born May 23rd, 1889

Died April 6th, 1963 at age 73

She was born in Woodsdale, Kansas as Mabel Elizabeth Walker.

Her family were farmers

She spent her early years traveling between prairie towns from Oklahoma to Missouri

Her father David was a local newspaper editor

She used to help him set the type for print

She was expelled from Park College in Parksville (a Presbyterian college), Missouri for being outspoken

She questioned the validity of a “virgin birth”

Reportedly she won the debate

In 1906 she began teaching in Buckley, Michigan

During this time she

Was almost lost in a blizzard

Trapped by a forest fire

Was threatened by a student with a knife

In 1910 she married Arthur Willebrandt, the principal

Together they moved to Phoenix, Arizona while Arthur recovered from tuberculosis

Mabel graduated from Arizona State University in 1911

Around this time she became severely hearing impaired and wore a hearing aid in each ear

She supposedly fixed her hair to hide them.

In 1912, they moved to Los Angeles where Mabel taught school during the day and took law classes at night

In 1916, she graduated from the University of Southern California with a masters in law

While completing her degree, Mabel began pro bono work in local police courts for mostly prostitution cases

She argued 2,000 cases as the city’s first female public defender

Her efforts led to courts permitting testimony from both women and men in these cases

This meant the male clients had to appear in court (in front of the press) as well as the female defenders

She successfully campaigned for the enactment of a revised community property statue at the state level (which involves property rights in marriages)

She was instrumental in getting the police to stop nickelodeon owners from preying on young girls during the “Rosebud Baby Case”

Apparently, the men were taking advantage of young girls during the movies

After graduation, she opened her own practice in downtown Los Angeles with Fred Horowitz (he built the famous hotel Chateau Marmont)

During World War I, she served as head of the Legal Advisory Board for draft cases

John Shepherd, perhaps the only man she really loved, who was killed in World War I.

In 1920, she moved her folks out west to be closer to her

In 1921, at 32, she was recommended by Frank Doherty (her old law professor), Senator Hiram Johnson, and all the judges in Southern California for the position of Assistant Attorney General under President Harding

Making her the highest-ranking women in the US federal government at the time and the first woman to head the Tax Division.

However, part of the issue is that no one wanted the job

It had no political advantage

It was a position that had to enforce unpopular laws

Her duties included overseeing federal taxation, federal prisons, and matters relating to the Volstead Act (the Prohibition Act)

She established the first female federal prison, Alderson federal prison in West Virginia

At the time, female prisons were too full to hold all inmates

If there was not enough space they would be housed with male inmates or otherwise alternatively punished

Sexual exploitation of women in the prison system was very high at the time

The prison was modeled as a boarding school offering classes for work-oriented fields

It had no armed guards or fences

Weirdly, still segregated

Things weren’t all great, however

In her 1929 book, The Inside of Prohibition, she described her problems

The law was too weak to do the job

The man in charge was not up to the task

She was only given volunteers to help make arrests

Things were so bad, one of her early arrests was a group that actually fielded a baseball team called the BOOTLEGGERS

She helped convinced the state department to give her boats and crews to apprehend alcohol coming into the country by boat

Reportedly, she met with the Treasury’s Prohibition unit, the US Coast Guard, and the Customs Service once and weeks later Congress okayed $11 million dollars for speed boats and equipment

She might have been the only person working to enforce prohibition

She said, “At one time it was quite apparent that no real effort was being made to put an end to such open defiance of our laws. Liquor runners operated off Florida practically in the open, in broad daylight, with little or no interference. There for years the prosecuting office and the prohibition agents engaged equally in the game of evasion of responsibility.”

In 1923, she successfully brought down the ‘Big Four of Savannah’

Reportedly the largest bootlegging ring in the US

She brought in George Remus, nicknamed ‘King of the Bootleggers’ and supposedly the inspiration for Jay Gatsby

Mabel came under a lot of trouble at one point for arresting Helen Morgan, a popular singer who had been reportedly duped into running a speakeasy

She regularly made the society magazines as a bit of a villain

She also argued to reform prisons for young offenders

She is credited with starting the prison work programs for male prisons

She started the first record keeping system for federal inmate populations

In 1924, Mabel and her husband Arthur got divorced

They were separated in 1916

Her mother-in-law moved in with Mabel and Arthur but Mabel financially supported the whole family

Reportedly because after putting Arthur through law school, he was unwilling to pay his share of expenses

In 1925, she adopted a two-year-old daughter named Dorothy Rae

Whom she raised with her friends

Feminism, Sexuality, and Politics by Estella B. Freedman

The book mentions that this was a more common practice at the time for career women that wanted a family.

Her parents took over when she was in Washington

Back in Prohibition, however, Mabel prosecuted 48,734 cases between 1924 and 1925, of which resulted in 39,072 convictions

278 cases went to the Supreme Court

She argued 40 of those cases

In 1927, she devised the plan to catch gangsters with tax evasion and in 1931 successfully prosecuted Al Capone

She recommended J. Edgar Hoover to head the FBI

In 1928, she campaigned for Republican candidate Herbert Hoover

To do this, she would address Methodist ministers and slam Hoover’s Democrat opponent, Al Smith as a ‘wet’ candidate

She began timing speakeasy raids to coincide with the Democratic convention

She was recognized as a major force behind getting Hoover elected

She took political help anywhere she could get it including the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union and the Ku Klux Klan saying, “I have no objection to people dressing up in sheets if they enjoy that sort of thing.”

For her service, she expected to be appointed Attorney General but was snubbed

In 1928, she resigned her post and returned to private practice

Mabel’s first case outside of the government was for California Fruit Industries that made wine and went on to serve as a lobbyist for the industry

CFI’s first big product push with her was Vine-Glo

Which was a concentrate that if added to water and sugar and left alone for two months made wine at home

Her casework set the foundation for the basic interpretations of the 16th and 18th amendments

In 1930, Mabel successfully argued for Frederick Albert Cook’s release from prison

He had been falsely imprisoned when several of his business partners committed fraud

Because his lawyer, Joseph Weldon Bailey, had a personal problem with the judge, he lost the case

Mabel managed to get him off his 14-year sentence in 7

Cook claimed to be the first explorer to reach the North Pole

In 1950, she served as counsel to the Screen Directors Guild

She defended the studios during the “Red Scare” and Joe McCarthy

She represented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Aviation Corp. of America

Her famous clients include

Louis B. Mayer

Jean Harlow

Clark Gable

Jeanette MacDonald

She also began defending bootleggers she had helped put away

She went on to pioneer the fields of aviation and radio law

She was the first woman to chair a committee for the American Bar Association for aeronautical law

She got her pilot’s license and promoted air travel with Amelia Earhart and Jacqueline Cochoran (created the Women’s Auxillary Army Corps and Women Airforce Service Pilot organizations and was the first woman to break the sound barrier)

She received an Honorary Doctorate from the Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce

Due to intense criticism of her role in Al Smith losing the presidency, as her rhetoric was seen as anti-Catholic, she converted to Catholicism

Later in life, she worked to destroy many of her personal records (especially from when she was Attorney General)

She, in fact, was overlooked by several early women’s history studies as she purposely erased many of her personal histories

Which is why much of what we know comes from her legal work

Mabel Walker Willebrandt died of lung cancer in Riverside, California

She was survived by her adopted daughter, Dorothy Rae (Van Dyke)

Her lifelong friend, Judge John J. Sirica, was quoted as saying, “If Mabel had worn trousers, she could have been president.”

Nicknames

“First Legal Lady of the Land”

“Prohibition Portia” (which is a joke from Julius Caesar–it’s Brutus’s wife)

“Deborah of the Drys”

“Mrs. Firebrand.”

Fun facts

She owned a farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Once advised a prostitute she worked for on “going straight”

Mabel looked over her books and said to keep working six more months

Then ended up footing the rest of the bill herself to get the woman and her sons into a nice home

Quotes

“Give me the authority and let me have my pick of 300 men and I’ll make this country as dry as it is humanly possible. There’s one way it can be done – get at the source of supply. I know them and I know how they could be cut off. I have no patience with this policy of going after the hip-pocket and speakeasy cases. That’s like trying to dry up the Atlantic Ocean with a blotter.”

In reference to herself “an instrument of God”

Physical Hawtness: 2/5

Described as Comely

Sort of an Elisabeth Moss

More of the way she carries herself than her looks (substance over style)

Mental Hawtness: 5/5

She started school at age 13

was teaching at age 17

a principal at 22

Assistant Attorney General at 32

Social Impact: 3/5

For her time, she made a huge splash

Lots of firsts

Set a tone for the whole decade of the ‘20s

Je Ne Sais Quoi: 2/5

Problematic

Reformed?

Sounds too unbelievable for a movie

Historical Hotties – Mabel Walker Willebrandt Hey! I got the honor of being on Historical Hotties. It's a podcast about researching hot historical figures and ranking them.

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