#it’s an instinct mr cohen would understand. i think.

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(Icarus Ch. 2) - Rookie Mistakes

Pairing: Ethan Ramsey x F! MC (Olivia Anika Cohen)

Word count: 3.1k words

A/N: ANGST 

Warning: Language, mentions of small character death, war and violence.

Disclaimer: PB owns characters. There’s lots of Grey’s Anatomy references with some dialogue borrowed from Open Heart.

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Song: 21 Guns by Green Day.

They all gathered at a nearby bar, Donahue’s to celebrate surviving their first week in the university. It was dingy and dim but completely packed.

By the time Olivia made it to the bar, the rest of the gang was already packed into a corner booth a little too small for them.

Before Olivia could slide into the booth, a very drunk Bryce held up a hand to stop her.

“Halt traveler! You must answer our riddle to take a seat.”

Olivia rolled her eyes at his ridiculousness but decided to roll with it. 

“Here we go…”

“One of us only tells the truth. The other only tells lies.” Bryce said, gesturing to himself and Aurora. 

“Jesus Christ, Bryce, I said I was sorry!”, Aurora said.

Olivia looked amused but puzzled. She looked over to Jackie for an explanation.

Jackie explained that Bryce and Elijah had had a drinking competition and Aurora had declared Elijah the winner.

Olivia chuckled as she sat down.

“Quick! There’s still sixty-seven seconds left in happy hour!”, Sienna said with urgency in her voice.

“Who cares? We’re all going to have a hundred grand in debt anyway.” Elijah retorted.

“Relax Sienna, I put in quite a few orders before the buzzer.” Jackie winked at her.

The waitress brought over a tray lined with tequila shots filled to the brim.

“You want to start with tequila?”, Aurora asked, eyebrows raised.

“Start, finish and everything in between”, Liv said. 

Jackie laughed. “A woman after my own heart.”

They all clinked glasses and threw back the shots. The smooth liquid burned as it traveled down her throat.

“Whoa.”

“Again”, Jackie said as she flagged down the waitress for another round.

Bryce interjected. “No, let me.”

He got up and walked to the bar. Ten minutes later, he arrived with a tray lined up with mysterious blue colored concoctions.

“I call this Early Onset Alzheimer’s because you won’t remember a thing in the morning if you drink this.” He grinned as he handed the drinks out.

They all took a sip each only to set it back down.

“Yeah, I’m going to switch back to tequila.” Olivia said.

She was met with laughter and “me too’s” from the rest of the gang.

***

The door swung open as Ethan and Tobias walked into the bar. They took a look at the dark, packed place as Ethan asked Tobias, “Remind me again why I agreed to this...”

“Because you are a great friend, Ethan… and I agreed to buy you drinks.”

“What are you waiting for then, Carrick?” Ethan said as they took a seat near the counter.

Tobias waved the bartender over.

“Two gin and tonics.” 

“What, are you just learning to drink? Make it two scotches, neat.”

Tobias was about to respond when they heard peals of laughter coming from a corner booth. 

Ethan looked over to the booth only to see her face once again. Tobias watched as Ethan’s face took on an irritated expression which seemed focused on one person in particular. When he saw the girl approach the bar, his eyes lit up with an idea.

She walked up and ordered a tray of tequila shots. As she waited for her order, Tobias slid onto the stool closest to her.

“Hey, I think I’ve seen you around campus. I’m Tobias. The grumpy guy over there is Ethan.”, he said as he held out his hand.

Olivia smiled at Tobias and shook his hand. She gave Ethan a tiny nod to which he responded with one of his own.

“Olivia Cohen.”

She saw Ethan look up slightly as though he was registering her name.

“Nice to meet you. Can I get you a drink?”, Tobias asked.

Just then, the bartender slid over a tray of shots, answering his question. 

She smiled and he gave her an understanding nod.

As she started to move back to the booth, he called out to her.

“I saw you in a few of our classes. It wouldn’t hurt to have a friendly face that's not Mr. Grumpy over here. You could sit with us...?” He trailed off with a questioning look.

Ethan discreetly rolled his eyes but Olivia glanced at him out of the corner of her eye. Somehow, the fact that their friendship would annoy Ethan made it all the more easier for her to agree.

“I don’t see why not, considering my friends have different schedules. I guess I’ll see you there. Tobias. Ethan.”

As she walked away, Tobias turned towards Ethan only to be greeted with a glare.

“What? I told you we need new friends. I don’t see the problem. She seems nice.”

Ethan shook his head. He did not like where this was going.

***

It was late.

They were in no position to drive. Olivia pulled out her phone to call them a cab.

Her friends all piled into a cab which left no space for herself and Sienna. She waved them on and tried to call another cab. Her phone had chosen an excellent moment to die.

“Fuck!” She threw the phone back into her purse.

Tobias and Ethan happened to be leaving at the time and Tobias offered to share a cab. Olivia seemed uncertain but eventually agreed.

Tobias stepped away to call them a cab.

Suddenly, she heard a loud noise like a gunshot ripping through the air. On instinct, she fell to the ground and tightly shut her eyes. Her mind started flipping through memories and it put her right back onto the battlefield.

She opened her mouth but no words came out, only whispers. “No…no…please, no.”

She heard clear gunshots ring through the air as people dropped like flies on both sides. She touched her arm and pulled away, only to find it slick with blood.

She felt strong hands grab her arm and the touch wrenched her away from her memories, back to the present. She opened her eyes to see his face. This time the concern evident on his face as he made no attempts to hide it.

“Olivia, are you okay?” Ethan asked softly.

“What happened?” She asked, her voice barely above a whisper.

“A car backfired.” 

He saw a distant gaze in her eyes. “Are you sure you’re okay?”

She focused her eyes on him and nodded firmly. He decided not to press further.

Sienna got her into the cab and the rest of the ride passed in silence.

*** 

The next day…

 Ethan entered the room only to find Tobias and Olivia already seated together, talking and laughing. A wave of jealousy passed over him which, to him, was completely unprecedented. The strangest part was that he wasn’t sure if his jealousy was towards Olivia for monopolizing his best friend or towards Tobias for being the one laughing with Olivia. 

He broke out of his thoughts as he saw Tobias wave him over.

He took a seat near Tobias and leaned over to him.

“So you weren’t kidding about sitting with her?”

“Be nice, Ethan. She’s very funny. I bet you both would get along, if you just gave it a shot.”

“Oh, I’m sure”, Ethan thought to himself.

Two hours into the lecture, the professor seemed to have completely ditched the topic at hand and was focused on his personal exploits. 

Olivia looked around the room trying to find ways to stay awake.

She looked over at Tobias who seemed to be…sleeping?

Fighting her laughter, she leaned over to look at Ethan whose gaze never faltered from the professor. 

Her eyes finally settled on the ceiling fan. It was almost as though all other sounds had been muted except the whirring of the fan. She felt her mind wander and before she knew it, she was back on the battlefield. 

Shouting all around her was drowned out by the loud mechanical whirring of the helicopter. It positioned itself to deliver medical supplies and food for the soldiers. The sand whirled around, forcing her to cover her eyes. Suddenly, she heard a deafening noise and shrapnel flew all around her. It opened up gashes on her arms as she threw them up to protect herself. The helicopter had been shot down. She saw as it came crashing down and with it their hopes of survival. She saw her comrade and friend, Mia Perez shouting for help to patch up one of the injured soldiers but her legs were frozen in place.

“Olivia.”

“Olivia!”

“OLIVIA!”

Beads of sweat clung to her forehead. She felt a hand on her shoulder as her visions dissolved. She faced Tobias who gestured towards the front of the class. 

The professor looked at her expectantly. 

“I’m sorry. Could you repeat the question please?” Olivia asked.

“What is histology? You’re sitting in a histology lecture. You should be able to answer that.” The professor said with an exasperated sigh.

Olivia struggled to bring her focus back to the present.

Ethan noticed her struggling. He remembered last night’s events and quickly cut in. “Sir, may I?” 

The professor gave him a begrudging nod.

“Sit down, Rookie.” He whispered to Olivia.

“Histology is-” He began but was quickly interrupted as her voice rang out clearly.

“Histology is the study of the micro anatomy of cells, tissues, and organs as seen through a microscope. It examines the correlation between structure and function.” Olivia said with conviction. 

The professor nodded. “Eyes on me during the class, Ms. Cohen.”

“Understood, sir.”

Olivia thanked Tobias for the timely wake-up call and shared a private smile with Ethan. 

***

In the afternoon, the mess hall started to fill up with students.

“Hey Liv! Saved you a seat or five. Take your pick.” Bryce gestured at the huge table as she approached.

“Oh good. I thought I was going to have to answer ‘a riddle’ again.” She smirked at Bryce.

She looked over and saw Tobias and Ethan looking around in search of a free table.  

“Gimme a sec, guys.”

She walked over to them. “Hey guys, would you like to sit with us? We have plenty of room. Besides, I thought all my friends should finally meet.” She looked straight at Ethan. He shook his head with a small hint of a smile on his face.

“Lead the way!” Tobias said.

Everyone looked up as she approached with two people in tow.

“Everyone, meet Tobias Carrick and Ethan Ramsey. My two new best friends.” She laughed at the annoyance in Ethan’s face.

They sat down after all the introductions were made. 

“So, did you follow my lead and fall asleep during the lecture?” Tobias asked jokingly. 

Olivia hesitated and caught Ethan’s eye. Recognition flashed in his eyes.

“Har har…it’s amazing that someone actually managed to stay awake.” She gave Ethan a pointed look.

“Oh, Professor Hardman? Everyone sleeps in his classes. Don’t worry about it, Liv.” Bryce said getting nods of assent from the rest of the gang.

***

Towards the end of the day, Olivia and Ethan made their way to the histology lab. Attendance was optional so Tobias had decided to opt out. His exact words had been, “If I have to listen to Hardman drone on for another minute, I might stab him with a pair of forceps.”

They took their seats and saw the equipment laid out in front of them.

“Usually computer applications are used to analyze specimens in histology labs nowadays but today, we decided to go the old school way. Each one of you has been set up with your own microscope and blood sample. Let’s begin.” Professor Hardman began instructing the students.

Olivia took the blood sample in her gloved hands and was about to set it up in the microscope when a loud crash caused her to spill the blood sample on her hands.

Her mind started spinning as she looked down at her bloody hands in horror. She was once again transported to the battlefield. She faced intermittent gunfire as she took her position behind steel enforced hideouts. To her left was Private Mia Perez, her best friend. The gunshots eventually halted and Mia smirked at her.

“Let’s smoke these suckers.”

Mia and Olivia stood up and opened fire on the other side.

As the gunshots from the other side started up again, they quickly took cover. “This won’t do. We need to get closer.” Mia said.

“Let’s go around and take them from the other side. They only have two privates stationed there.” Olivia said as they started moving.

They cornered the enemy from the back and Olivia took the shot. Mia looked around for a split second to see an enemy soldier hiding, rifle raised to take the shot at Olivia. 

Before she could register what was happening, Olivia heard gunshots ring in the air. Mia’s body collided with her own as they both fell to the ground. Olivia touched her torso and found her clothes soaked in blood. She felt around but couldn’t seem to find the source of the bleeding. Her face paled as realization washed over her.

“No…NO! Mia!”

She rolled her over to find that the bullet had ripped through her best friend’s abdomen. She put her hands over the wound and applied pressure in an attempt to stop the bleeding but the look on Mia’s face said it all. There was nothing she could do.

Tears streamed down her face as she held her dying best friend in her arms. 

“It’s alright, Livvy. We got them.” Mia whispered before her body went limp.

“Rookie…you alright?”

The words jerked her back to the present and she found Ethan looking her over. She felt fresh tears run down her face. She looked up to see the professor chewing out a student for breaking the apparatus which was the source of the sound that startled her.

She felt her emotions overwhelm her and she knew she was about to break down. She quickly excused herself under the pretext of cleaning up and ran into an abandoned lecture hall. 

The tears now freely streamed down her face as images of her friend flashed in her eyes. She broke out of her trance when she felt someone sit down next to her. Ethan had also excused himself to look for her. She looked over and tried to school her features but fresh tears pricked her eyes. Ethan pulled her into a hug as she let the tears run down her face. 

“Flashbacks, invasive memories, extreme physical reactions like sweating even under the cool breeze of a ceiling fan. Rookie, all this coupled with personal experience leads me to believe that you’re suffering from PTSD.”

“That obvious, huh?”

“Maybe I was just paying close attention.” Ethan gave her a small smile.

“You don’t have to tell me what happened-” Ethan started but was interrupted.

“I served in the Israeli military for two tours.” She paused before continuing.

“Long story short, there was an error in my judgement which led to my best friend taking a bullet for me. I held her as she died. She was an amazing soldier and an even better friend. Today is the anniversary of her death.” She choked up.

“That was a major factor which influenced my decision to be a doctor. I have harmed countless lives in the name of protecting my country but I can’t watch people die anymore and be able to do nothing about it.” 

Her face strengthened with resolve. “I refuse to.”

“I’m so sorry for your loss. I know how it feels to be helpless and to blame yourself for their death. I did the same.” 

"Right, you said you had personal experience. You don't have to share just because I did."

He silently handed her a handkerchief from his lab coat. 

Bold letters stood out in black against the white background.

EJR.

She chuckled. “Monogrammed handkerchiefs? Really?”

“They were a gift from my mother.” He smiles as he reminisces.

 He takes a moment to compose himself.

She sees him struggling to collect his thoughts and lays her hand on his, as a show of support. He interlaces their fingers, holding tight as he continues to speak.

“It was my 17th birthday. My father had taken me out to the bookstore and my mom made use of the opportunity to surprise me with my favorite funfetti cake but she realized that she didn’t have any sprinkles. She made a quick trip to the store but on the way back…she met with an accident and passed away.” His eyes sparkled with unshed tears. 

“She seems like a lovely lady. I would have liked to meet her.”

Ethan regards her for a moment and slowly smiles. “I think she would have liked to meet you too.” 

His ocean blue eyes met her amber ones. It was almost as though they were pulled together by an invisible force. Their faces were so close that he could see the light catching on her eyelashes. She leaned into him, their lips meeting softly at first. They pulled apart, just an inch to gaze at each other. His lips then came crashing down on hers. Her fingers gripped his hair, pulling him closer just as his arms encircled her waist. He kissed her with an intensity that made her cling to him.

A loud buzz from Olivia’s phone forced them to pull apart. She checked her phone and sighed.

“It’s Tobias. He’s asking where we are since Prof. Hardman’s class got over ten minutes ago. I think we’d better go.”

Ethan nodded and they both got up. Just as Olivia started walking, he grabbed her hand and turned her back toward himself. He kissed her again, slowly and deeply till another buzz, this time from Ethan’s phone forced them apart. 

He checked his phone with a grimace. “He is very insistent on knowing where we are as I can only infer from the ungodly amount of question marks and emojis.”

Olivia took out her phone and tapped away before turning on her heel and walking out, leaving Ethan staring at his phone in confusion.

Rookie

5:47 pm

K imma dip.

“What in God’s name is she dipping?”

He looked it up on his phone.

Ethan made his way to the dorms only to find Olivia already standing next to Tobias.

“What took you so long?”, Tobias asked.

“I was dipping the lab.”, Ethan answered, clearly looking pleased with himself. 

Tobias stared at him in confusion while Olivia couldn’t help but laugh at his miserably failed attempt. 

Chapter 3: Flashbacks and Flashcards

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Richard Feigen, Gallerist and Champion of Art, Dies at 90 Richard L. Feigen, a prominent gallerist, dealer and collector whose influence in the art world in New York and beyond included brokering top-dollar deals of all sorts for museums and magnates while championing both old masters and new talent, died on Jan. 29 in Mount Kisco, N.Y. He was 90. His daughter, Philippa Feigen Malkin, said the cause was complications of Covid-19. Mr. Feigen had a hand in numerous headline-making art sales during his more than 60 years in the business. At his galleries in Manhattan, Chicago and elsewhere, he hosted countless exhibitions, including early ones by emerging figures like the Pop artist Gerald Laing and the sculptor Enrique Castro-Cid. For years he represented the elusive collagist Ray Johnson, and he was a big booster of the assemblagist Joseph Cornell, the painter and sculptor Jean Dubuffet and the painter and printmaker Max Beckmann, all of whom received shows at his galleries. At various points he advanced Surrealism, German Expressionism, Italian art from the 13th century to the Baroque period, and, especially, anything involving old masters. A headline on a 1987 article in The New York Times about him and his work on behalf of the freshly minted collectors of the day said simply, “Old Masters, New Tycoons.” As that article noted, with his interest in old masters he was shaking up a traditionally staid corner of the art market — he had “brought the style and pressure of Wall Street to a trade still steeped in the notion of aristocratic gentility.” Whatever artist or genre he was bidding on or showing in his galleries, Mr. Feigen, despite having little training in art or art history, showed a keen instinct for spotting value — or, more important, future value. “Richard was always ahead of the curve,” Frances F.L. Beatty, who from 1980 to 2017 was vice president and then president of Richard L. Feigen & Company, said by email. “He did not like being a follower; he wanted to shine a spotlight on great art that was underappreciated.” Mr. Feigen traveled in heady circles, befriending artists and jet-setting about to cajole those who collected them. His hard-driving style put off some of his more reserved colleagues. “He can manage to work four English dukes, three financiers and two movie stars into one of his long-running sentences,” one of them once complained. Whatever his passion of the moment, Mr. Feigen came to understand that to appreciate the art’s importance and value required knowing how it fit in its time period. “The artists that I like take chances,” he said in an oral history recorded in 2009 for the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art. “They’re not painting in their rearview mirror. They’re painting through the windshield.” Richard Lee Feigen was born on Aug. 8, 1930, in Chicago. His father, Arthur Paul Feigen, was a lawyer and real estate investor, and his mother, Shirley (Bierman) Feigen, was a homemaker. By the time he was about 10, he was already developing a rudimentary theory of collecting. “I think I was interested in the future potential of things,” he said in the oral history. At 11 or 12, as he told the story, he bought a watercolor by the Scottish artist Isaac Cruikshank caricaturing the French Revolution, which had caught his eye in a local antique shop. He paid $100, he said, money he had earned by selling teacups with flowers in them. Why would a child buy such a thing? “I liked it and I felt it was undervalued in terms of what it would cost me,” he said in a 2019 interview with Christie’s, the auctioneer. Updated  Feb. 3, 2021, 3:22 p.m. ET By the time he was in college at Yale University, he had accumulated enough of a collection that he worried the pieces were “somewhat endangered by a bunch of rowdy roommates,” he said in the oral history. He earned a bachelor’s degree there in 1952 and a master’s degree at the Harvard Business School in 1954. He was being groomed for a spot in a company owned by relatives, the Beneficial Standard Life Insurance Company of Los Angeles, and at 25 was assigned to start its investment division. But his passion for art collecting kept pulling him back east. He bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, thinking he could work Wall Street and pursue his art passion at the same time, but that didn’t prove feasible. In 1957 he jumped into the art world with both feet, opening the Richard Feigen Gallery on Astor Street in Chicago. “I had to use my own collection as my opening show,” he recalled in the oral history. It was titled “Masterpieces of 20th-Century German Art,” Mr. Feigen having been enamored of the German Expressionists. But soon he was showing Beckmann, Francis Bacon, the Romanian sculptor and painter Victor Brauner and other important artists there. He also took to representing some Chicago-area artists, among them the painter George Cohen. Their eagerness to have their work seen in New York, he said, was one of the reasons he opened his first New York gallery, on East 81st Street, in 1963. In 1965 he opened a second Manhattan gallery, in SoHo, focused on contemporary art. In this period he had a piece of a gallery in Los Angeles, and, for four years in the early 1990s, he had a gallery in London. Over the years his New York galleries occupied various spaces, including the current one on East 77th Street. Mr. Feigen enjoyed working with his artists, even mercurial ones like Mr. Johnson, who died, apparently by suicide, in 1995. Once Mr. Johnson indulged in a sort of performance art, dropping 60 hot dogs out of a helicopter over Wards Island in New York City. He talked Mr. Feigen into picking up the tab for both helicopter and dogs. “He was relentless in his devotion to particular artists and movements (never the most obvious ones),” Dr. Beatty said. While showing artists at his galleries, Mr. Feigen built a reputation as a wheeler-dealer in the art world. He often turned up as the bidder behind a high-priced sale at the big auction houses, and even was cast as a version of himself in Oliver Stone’s 1987 film, “Wall Street.” Often at such auctions he was representing buyers he had schooled on the value of investing in art. “There are few ready-made clients in this business, particularly Americans,” he told The Times in 1987. “You have to convert them.” Museums often turned to Mr. Feigen for important acquisitions. But sometimes he was buying for himself, either for inventory for his galleries or for his private collection, which over time became formidable. “I’ve never bought a great object for myself that I could afford,” he admitted in the oral history. “I never knew where the money was going to come from. I managed somehow to conjure it up.” Several times late in life Mr. Feigen, who at his death lived in Katonah, N.Y., sold pieces of his collection to finance his retirement. Christie’s handled one such sale in 2019. “I hope none of them will sell,” he said at the time, “because I want them back in my living room.” Mr. Feigen’s marriages to Sandra Elizabeth Canning in 1966 and Margaret Culver in 1998 ended in divorce. In 2007 he married Isabelle Harnoncourt Wisowaty, who survives him along with a daughter, Ms. Feigen Malkin, and a son, Richard, from his first marriage; two stepdaughters, Stephanie Diana Harnoncourt Wisowaty and Léonie Allison Harnoncourt Wisowaty; a stepson, Alexander Karl Richard Wisowaty; a sister, Brenda Sue Feigen; and three grandchildren. Mr. Feigen, a staunch Democrat, recorded the Smithsonian oral history in January 2009, during the final days of the administration of President George W. Bush, whose eight years in office he had viewed with dismay from a cultural standpoint. He spoke about stewardship and where art should fit in society’s value system. “It has to start out with a belief that is not universal: that the arts are fundamentally important,” he said. “Now, not everybody agrees with this, and some people would call it elitism. The fact is that I believe that what we leave behind in terms of the arts is what really matters, and not the bombs we make and the craters we dig and the structures we build, which will turn into rusty piles in time.” Source link Orbem News #Art #Champion #Dies #Feigen #Gallerist #Richard

[mbtizone]

Ryan Atwood (The O.C.): ISTP

Dominant Introverted Thinking [Ti]: Ryan has his own internal way of thinking and he doesn’t typically share his logical conclusions with others. He is good at analyzing situations and coming up with solutions. Ryan is highly intelligent and his test scores are very high. Though he has a lot of potential, Ryan doesn’t really apply himself. He even took his SATs as a sophomore and scored in the 98th percentile. Ryan is good at noticing logical inconsistencies. A lot of the time, this can be shown with a mere facial expression, but sometimes, such as when Seth is venting to him about his personal problems, Ryan is quick to point out how Seth can fix his problems. When Ryan happens to walk in while Sandy and Kirsten are meeting with a contractor, Ryan is able to quickly determine that there are discrepancies between the floor plan and the finished product. Ryan is good with technical drawings and sketching, which eventually leads him down his architectural path.

Auxiliary Extroverted Sensing [Se]: One of Ryan’s dominant personality traits is his tendency to make impulsive choices, such as starting fights or aiding his brother in grand theft auto (which he was reluctant to go along with, but ultimately did). His short-sighted choices usually land him in hot water. Ryan tends to live in the present. He’s aware that his actions have consequences, but usually, he makes the choice that will get him into trouble anyway. Ryan is street smart and has a good sense of his environment. He’s very physical and can become violent quickly. Ryan is tough with a short temper, but as he adapts to Orange County and the Cohens, learns to try to resolve disputes in other ways before resorting to fighting. Ryan is athletic, and played both soccer and football prior to moving to Orange County.

Tertiary Introverted Intuition [Ni]: Sometimes, Ryan has really good intuition and he follows his hunches. He knows something is off about Oliver, and so, he trusts his instincts and is eventually proven correct. Ryan’s goals aren’t really long-term. He knows that he wants to have a better life than he did at home with his mom, and doesn’t want to mess that up by ruining things with Sandy and Kirsten, though he sometimes falters in the heat of the moment. With some nudging from a counselor, Ryan eventually decides that he’d like to be an architect, and goes to school to make that dream a reality. While Ryan’s instincts are usually good, they can sometimes lead him to incorrect assumptions. While he’s in Florida, he can tell that something happened between Marissa and Trey, but believes that she cheated on him with his brother, and doesn’t guess that Trey assaulted her. Because she doesn’t tell him what actually happened, Ryan confronts Trey, who says that Marissa was the one who made a move. Though Ryan isn’t sure what to believe at first, it’s Theresa who convinces him that Marissa is worthy of his trust, not Trey.

Inferior Extroverted Feeling [Fe]: Ryan doesn’t like to talk about his feelings. He usually keeps things bottled up, but will open up on rare occasions. Ryan cares a lot about the people in his life and is extremely protective of them. Even though he barely knows Kirsten and she is judgmental of him, he defends her honor when an inmate is inappropriate with her in juvie. He protects Seth when the water polo players harass him. He saves Marissa on multiple occasions and helps Theresa when she’s in need. Ryan has a bit of a savior complex, and always seems to be rescuing someone (particularly his love interests), which he usually does at his own personal expense. Because he grew up in an unhealthy, abusive environment, Ryan has trouble trusting people and letting them get close to him. However, Ryan is extremely loyal to his loved ones, and will sacrifice a lot for them. Even though Ryan doesn’t know for certain if Theresa’s baby is his, he returns to Chino, leaving behind his life in Newport, in order to help her raise the child. When Kirsten is struggling with alcoholism, he is able to vocalize his feelings about not wanting to see someone else he loves go down the same path as his mother.

Quotes:

Marissa: So, what are you doing here, seriously? Ryan: Seriously? I stole a car. Crashed it. Actually, my brother did. Since he had a gun and drugs on him, he’s in jail. I got out, and my mom threw me out. She was pissed off and drunk. So, Mr. Cohen took me in.

Sandy: Your test scores? 98th percentile on your SAT1’s. Ryan, 98th percentile, you start going to class. Are you thinking about college? [Ryan scoffs] Sandy: Have you given any thought to your future? Dude, I’m on your side. Come on, help me out here… Ryan: -Modern medicine is advancing to the point where the average human life span will be 100. But I read this article which said Social Security is supposed to run out by the year 2025, which means people are going to have to stay at their jobs until they’re 80. So I don’t want to commit to anything too soon. [Sandy chuckles] Sandy: Look, I can plead this down to a misdemeanor. Petty fine, probation. But know this, “stealing a car cause you’re big brother told you to,” it’s stupid and it’s weak and those are two things you can’t afford to be anymore. Ryan: Two more things. Sandy: You wanna change that? Then, you’re gonna have to get over the fact that life dealt you a bad hand. I get it, we’re cut from the same deck, Ryan. I grew up, no money, bad part of the Bronx, my father was gone, my mother worked all the time… I was pissed off, I was stupid. Ryan: Look at you now. Sandy: Smart kid like you. You gotta have a plan. Some kind of dream. Ryan: Yeah… right. Let me tell you something, okay? Where I’m from, having a dream doesn’t make you smart. Knowing it won’t come true? That does.

Ryan: [laughs insincerely] You know what I like about rich kids? [punches Luke] Ryan: Nothing! Seth: That was awesome!

Ryan: I’m not too popular around here, and your boyfriend – a little bit angry. Marissa: You’re telling me you didn’t try to hit him back? Ryan: Actually, I hit him first. Marissa: Well, hard to believe you’re not more popular.

Seth: Are you just not going to go ’cause you’re afraid of Luke? Ryan: That’s not what I’m afraid of. Look, your parents taking me in, that’s, like, the greatest thing that’s ever happened to me. I’m not going to lose it just to kick some guy’s ass. Seth: But you could totally kick his ass, right? Ryan: Oh, yeah.

Ryan: I used to want to be an architect. Kirsten: And what do you want to be now? Ryan: Seventeen. Kirsten: Me too.

Kirsten:: I couldn’t help notice that you wanted to talk to Seth. Ryan: Oh, did I? Kirsten:: Well, since he’s out of town and he’s going to be moving out next semester, you’re going to need a new Seth. Don’t tell Sandy, but I thought I would audition for the job. Ryan: Oh, yeah, that’s very thoughtful. Kirsten:: So, how does it work? Do I ask you what’s on your mind? Ryan: Eh, usually you talk about yourself, and I solve my problems on my own.

Sandy: You’re not having breakfast with us? Ryan: I’m not hungry. What do you want? Sandy: Dr. Kim just called to let us know that you’ve been suspended indefinitely pending a disciplinary action if the school board will vote to expel you. Ryan: I know you want me to apologize, but I’m not. Oliver told me right to my face that he wanted me gone so he could get to have Marissa all to himself. Sandy: Then why would he drop the assault charges against you? Ryan: He did that? Sandy: Yeah, he did. It seems to me that if he had it out for you, he would have had you gone and you’d be back in juvi hall by now. You know that. Come on, help me out. Tell me what’s going on with you. Ryan: Oliver is dangerous. He’s a sociopath who provoked me into attacking him so he could come off as the poor, innocent victim before Marissa and everyone else. He’s so charming and charismatic that no one can see the person for what he really is. Sandy: No, this is how I see it. YOU attacked HIM… unprovoked… in full view of witnesses at your school because you’re jealous about him being around Marissa. You’re on probation and you knew that the slightest infraction would land you back in juvenile hall and maybe lead to you being taken away from us, but you did it anyway. For the life of me, I can’t understand why you would do that. Talk to me. Tell me what’s really going on with you. Talk to me. Why did you really attack Oliver? Ryan: What’s the point? Oliver was right. You’re not gonna believe me anyway. You and everyone else believes him over me. Sandy: It’s not what I believe. I wish it was. It’s about what you did! The next time you think about raising your fists to someone you don’t like, you’d better instead open your mouth and talk! I’m here for that now. What is really going on with you? What am I gonna do with you? I can’t ground you or chain you to a wall. There’s the door. You want to go after that poor Oliver kid? Go ahead. But if you want to stay, if you want to be a part of this family, you are NOT going to go anywhere, you’re not gonna see anyone or talk to anyone unless Kristen and I say it’s okay. That’s the deal. Take it or leave it.

Marissa: I love you. Ryan: Thank you. Marissa: You’re welcome?

Taylor: Why couldn’t you just have had faith in us? Ryan: I don’t know. I guess maybe I thought we were too different. Taylor: Maybe you were right. Ryan: No, no, I wasn’t. And I realize now that how we feel is much more important than what we have to talk about. Taylor: And how do you feel? Ryan: I… Taylor: That stuffed animal you bought me is much more expressive, Ryan. Henri-Michel is reading a poem that he wrote for me at the bookstore tonight. It’s a love poem, Ryan, and It’s long.

Kirsten: We’ve all talked about it. And we want to be your legal guardians. We want you to be part of the family. If you want to be. Ryan: What if it doesn’t work? Kirsten:Well how do you mean? Ryan: Well what if something happens and you guys change your mind? Sandy: Like what? You steal a car? You burn down a house? You beat up the captain of the water polo team? Those ships have sailed, my friend.

Kirsten:: Don’t you say a word, I let you into this house. Ryan: Yeah you did, because my own mom couldn’t take care of me. Because she wouldn’t get help even though I asked her to. I don’t want to see that happen again to someone I love.

Kirsten: We’ve all talked about it. And we want to be your legal guardians. We want you to be part of the family. If you want to be. Ryan: What if it doesn’t work? Kirsten:Well how do you mean? Ryan: Well what if something happens and you guys change your mind? Sandy: Like what? You steal a car? You burn down a house? You beat up the captain of the water polo team? Those ships have sailed, my friend.

Sandy: I’ve never heard you talk so much. Ryan: I like to save it for when it counts. Sandy: Good. So I heard about what happened with your test today. Or what didn’t happen. You’re suddenly not so talkative. Look I get it. Marissa needed help, you were worried about her. Believe me, I understand. I’m worried about you. Ryan: I know. I’m okay with going to public school. It’d be a hell of a lot better than where I went. Sandy: Go to Dr. Kim and explain yourself. Ryan: I don’t think she wants to hear from me. Ever again. Sandy: You’re afraid of her. You, who went toe-to-toe with Julie Cooper, the Dragon Lady. You can take Dr. Kim. Talk to her. If there’s a problem, you’ll have your attorney present. I got your back.

Ryan: Marissa, this event is important. And… on a yacht. And whenever I go to one of these things somebody gets into a fight.

Ryan Atwood (The O.C.): ISTP was originally published on MBTI Zone

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Expert: Last week, Jeremy Corbyn humbled the entire political and corporate media commentariat. With a little help from Britain’s student population. And with a little help from thousands of media activists. Without doubt this was one of the most astonishing results in UK political history. Dismissed by all corporate political pundits, including the clutch of withered fig leaves at the Guardian, reviled by scores of his own Blairite MPs (see here), Corbyn ‘increased Labour’s share of the vote by more than any other of the party’s election leaders since 1945′ with ‘the biggest swing since… shortly after the Second World War’. He won a larger share of the vote than Tony Blair in 2005. Corbyn achieved this without resorting to angry lefty ranting. His focus was on kindness, compassion, sharing, inclusivity and forgiveness. This approach held up a crystal-clear mirror to the ugly, self-interested cynicism of the Tory party, and transformed the endless brickbats into flowers of praise. On Twitter, John Prescott disclosed that when Rupert Murdoch saw the exit poll ‘he stormed out of the room’. As ever, while the generals made good their escape, front-line troops were less fortunate. Outfought by Team Corbyn, out-thought by social media activists, outnumbered in the polls, many commentators had no option but to fall on their microphones and keyboards. LBC radio presenter Iain Dale led the way: Let me be the first to say, I got it wrong, wholly wrong. I should have listened more to my callers who have been phoning into my show day after day, week after week. The Guardian’s Gaby Hinsliff, who had written in January, ‘This isn’t going to be yet another critique of Corbyn, by the way, because there is no point. The evidence is there for anyone with eyes’, tweeted: This is why I trust @iaindale’s judgement; he admits when it was way off. (As mine was. As god knows how many of ours was) Hinsliff promised: Like everyone else who didn’t foresee the result, I’ll be asking myself hard questions & trying to work out what changed… Annoying as ever, we asked: But will you be asking yourself about the structural forces, within and outside Guardian and corporate media generally, shaping performance? And: Is a corporate journalist free to analyse the influence of owners, profit-orientation, ad-dependence, state-subsidised news? Taboo subjects. Presumably engrossed in introspection, Hinsliff did not reply. Right-winger John Rentoul, who insisted four weeks ago in the Independent that, ‘we are moving towards the end of the Corbynite experiment’, appeared to be writing lines in detention: I was wrong about Jeremy Corbyn – The Labour leader did much better in the election than I expected. I need to understand and learn from my mistakes. Channel 4 News presenter and Telegraph blogger, Cathy Newman tweeted: Ok let’s be honest, until the last few weeks many of us under-estimated @jeremycorbyn Translating from the ‘newspeak’: many corporate journalists waged a relentless campaign over two years to persuade the public to ‘underestimate’ Corbyn, but were wrong about the public’s ability to see through the propaganda. Piers Morgan, who predicted the Conservatives would win a ’90-100 seat majority’, wrote: I think Mr Corbyn has proved a lot of people, including me, completely wrong. In a typically dramatic flourish, Channel 4’s Jon Snow’s summation was harsh but fair: I know nothing. We the media, the pundits, the experts, know nothing. Guardian columnist Rafael Behr, who wrote in February, ‘Jeremy Corbyn is running out of excuses’, also ate humble pie: Fair play to Jeremy Corbyn and his team. They have done a lot of things I confidently thought they – he – could not do. I was wrong. In March, Observer columnist Nick Cohen graphically predicted that ‘Corbyn’s Labour won’t just lose. It’ll be slaughtered.’ In an article titled, ‘Don’t tell me you weren’t warned about Corbyn’, Cohen indicated the words that would ‘be flung’ at Corbynites ‘by everyone who warned that Corbyn’s victory would lead to a historic defeat’: I Told You So You Fucking Fools! Apparently frothing at the mouth, Cohen concluded by advising the idiots reading his column that, following the predicted electoral disaster, ‘your only honourable response will be to stop being a fucking fool by changing your fucking mind’. Awkward, then, for Cohen to now ‘apologise to affronted Corbyn supporters… I was wrong’; presumably feeling like a fucking fool, having changed his fucking mind. Tragicomically, Cohen then proceeded to be exactly as ‘wrong’ all over again: The links between the Corbyn camp and a Putin regime that persecutes genuine radicals. Corbyn’s paid propaganda for an Iranian state that hounds gays, subjugates women and tortures prisoners. Corbyn and the wider left’s indulgence of real antisemites (not just critics of Israel). They are all on the record. That Tory newspapers used them against the Labour leadership changes nothing. Former Guardian comment editor and senior columnist Jonathan Freedland spent two years writing a series of anti-Corbyn hit pieces (see our media alert for discussion). Last month, Freedland wrote under the title, ‘No more excuses: Jeremy Corbyn is to blame for this meltdown’, lamenting: What more evidence do they need? What more proof do the Labour leadership and its supporters require? Freedland helpfully relayed focus group opinion to the effect that Corbyn was a ‘dope’, ‘living in the past’, ‘a joke’, ‘looking as if he knows less about it than I do’. Freedland has also, now, had no choice but to back down: Credit where it’s due. Jeremy Corbyn defied those – including me – who thought he could not win seats for Lab. I was wrong. Like Freedland, senior Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee has relentlessly attacked Corbyn. On April 19, she wrote of how ‘Corbyn is rushing to embrace Labour’s annihilation’: Wrong, wrong and wrong again. Was ever there a more crassly inept politician than Jeremy Corbyn, whose every impulse is to make the wrong call on everything? This week, Toynbee’s tune had changed: Nothing succeeds like success. Jeremy Corbyn looks like a new man, beaming with confidence, benevolence and forgiveness to erstwhile doubters… Apparently channelling David Brent of The Office, Toynbee added: When I met him on Sunday he clasped my hand and, with a twinkle and a wink, thanked me for things I had written. With zero self-awareness, Toynbee noted that the Mail and Sun had helped Corbyn: ‘by dredging up every accusation against him yet failing to frighten voters away, they have demolished their own power’. Former Guardian political editor Michael White, yet another regular anti-Corbyn commentator, admitted: I was badly wrong. JC had much wider voter appeal than I realised Former Guardian journalist, Jonathan Cook, replied: Problem is you *all* got it wrong. That fact alone exposes structural flaw of corporate media. You don’t represent us, you represent power. White responded: You’re not still banging on, are you Jonathan. You do talk some bollocks. Guardian, Telegraph, Independent and New Statesman contributor Abi Wilkinson tweeted: Don’t think some of people making demands about who Corbyn puts in shadow cabinet have particularly earned the right to be listened to… We paired this with Wilkinson’s comment from June 2016: Any hope I once held about Corbyn’s ability to steer the party in a more positive direction has been well and truly extinguished. Wilkinson replied: ‘oh fuck off’, before concluding that we are ‘two misogynistic cranks in a basement’, and ‘just some dickheads who aren’t actually fit’ to hold the media to account. When a tweeter suggested that Corbyn’s result was ‘brilliant’, New Statesman editor Jason Cowley replied: ‘Yes, I agree.’ Just three days earlier, Cowley had written under the ominous title: The Labour reckoning – Corbyn has fought a spirited campaign but is he leading the party to worst defeat since 1935? In March, Cowley opined: The stench of decay and failure coming from the Labour Party is now overwhelming – Speak to any Conservative MP and they will say that there is no opposition. Period. Like everyone else at the Guardian, columnist Owen Jones’ initial instinct was to tweet away from his own viewspaper’s ferocious anti-Corbyn campaign: The British right wing press led a vicious campaign of lies, smears, hatred and bigotry. And millions told them where to stick it. And yet, as recently as April 18, Jones had depicted Corbyn as a pathetic figure: A man who stood only out of a sense of duty, to put policies on the agenda, and who certainly had no ambition to be leader, will now take Labour into a general election, against all his original expectations. My suggestion that Corbyn stand down in favour of another candidate was driven by a desire to save his policies… Jones has now also issued a mea culpa: I owe Corbyn, John McDonnell, Seumas Milne, his policy chief Andrew Fisher, and others, an unreserved, and heartfelt apology… I wasn’t a bit wrong, or slightly wrong, or mostly wrong, but totally wrong. Having one foot in the Labour movement and one in the mainstream media undoubtedly left me more susceptible to their groupthink. Never again. We will see! To his credit, Jones managed to criticise his own employer (something he had previously told us was unthinkable and absurd): Now that I’ve said I’m wrong…so the rest of the mainstream commentariat, including in this newspaper, must confess they were wrong, too. Despite the blizzard of mea culpas from colleagues, George Monbiot also initially pointed well away from his employer: The biggest losers today are the billionaires who own the Mail, Sun, Times and Telegraph. And thought they owned the nation. And: It was The Sun wot got properly Cor-Binned’. And: ‘By throwing every brick in the house at Corbyn, and still failing to knock him over, the billionaire press lost much of its power. After receiving criticism, and having, of course, seen Jones’ mea culpa, Monbiot subsequently admitted that anti-Corbyn bias is found ‘even in the media that’s not owned by billionaires’: This problem also affects the Guardian… Only the Guardian and the Mirror enthusiastically supported both Labour and Corbyn in election editorials. But the scales still didn’t balance. This is a change from Monbiot’s declared position of three years ago, when he rejected the idea that the Guardian was part of the problem. This week, he recalled his own dumping of Corbyn in a tweet from January: ‘I have now lost all faith.’ The full tweet read: I was thrilled when Jeremy Corbyn became leader of the Labour Party, but it has been one fiasco after another. I have now lost all faith. Monbiot blamed media bias on the way journalists are selected – ‘We should actively recruit people from poorer backgrounds’ – and wrote, curiously, ‘the biggest problem, I believe, is that we spend too much time in each other’s company’. We suggested to Monbiot that this was not at all ‘the biggest problem’ with ‘mainstream’ media, and pointed instead to elite ownership, profit-orientation, advertiser dependence and use of state-subsidised ‘news’, as discussed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in their ‘propaganda model’. Jonathan Cook responded to Monbiot, describing the limits of free speech with searing honesty: This blindness even by a “radical” like Monbiot to structural problems in the media is not accidental either. Realistically, the furthest he can go is where he went today in his column: suggesting organisational flaws in the corporate media, ones that can be fixed, rather than structural ones that cannot without rethinking entirely how the media functions. Monbiot will not – and cannot – use the pages of the Guardian to argue that his employer is structurally incapable of providing diverse and representative coverage. Nor can he admit that his own paper polices its pages to limit what can be said on the left, to demarcate whole areas of reasonable thought as off-limits. To do so would be to end his Guardian career and consign him to the outer reaches of social media. The same, of course, applies to Jones, who made no attempt at all to account for corporate media bias. Media grandee Will Hutton, former editor-in-chief of the Observer, now Principal of Hertford College, Oxford, wrote of ‘How the rightwing tabloids got it wrong – It was the Sun wot hung it’. On Twitter, we reminded Hutton of his own article, one month earlier: Er, excuse us..! Will Hutton, May 7: “Never before in my adult life has the future seemed so bleak for progressives. Tragicomically, given the awesome extent of his employer’s anti-Corbyn bias, John Cody Fidler-Simpson CBE, BBC World Affairs Editor, tweeted: I suspect we’ve seen the end of the tabloids as arbiters of UK politics. Sun, Mail & Express threw all they had into backing May, & failed. We replied: Likewise the “quality” press and the BBC, which has been so biased even a former chair of the BBC Trust spoke out. Sir Michael Lyons, who chaired the BBC trust from 2007 to 2011, commented on the BBC’s ‘quite extraordinary attacks on the elected leader of the Labour party’: I can understand why people are worried about whether some of the most senior editorial voices in the BBC have lost their impartiality on this. Conclusion – The Corporate Media Monopoly Is Broken ne week before the election, the Guardian reported that ‘a new force is shaping the general election debate’: Alternative news sites are run from laptops and bedrooms miles from the much-derided “Westminster bubble” and have emerged as one of the most potent forces in election news sharing, according to research conducted for the Guardian by the web analytics company Kaleida. These alternative articles were ‘being shared more widely online than the views of mainstream newspaper commentators’. Remarkably, ‘Nothing from the BBC, the Guardian or the Daily Mail comes close’ to the most-shared alternative media pieces. The Canary reported that it had doubled the number of visitors to its site to six million in May. A story by Evolve Politics, run by just two people, was shared 55,000 times on Facebook and was read at least 200,000 times. These websites ‘explicitly offer a counter-narrative to what they deride as the “MSM” or mainstream media’. Indeed, the evidence is now simply overwhelming – the 100-year big business monopoly of the mass media has been broken. It is obvious that the right-wing press – the Daily Mail, the Sun, The Times and Telegraph – play a toxic role in manipulating the public to favour elite interests. But many people are now realising that the liberal press is actually the most potent opponent of progressive change. Journalist Matt Kennard commented: The Guardian didn’t get it “wrong”. It is the mouthpiece of a liberal elite that is financially endangered by a socialist program. In truth, the Guardian sought to destroy Corbyn long before he became Labour leader (see here and here). This means that it did not target him because he was an ineffective leader imperilling Labour. And this hostility was no aberration, not a well-intentioned mistake that they got ‘wrong’. To this day, the Guardian remains Blair’s great cheerleader, despite his awesome crimes, just as it was Hillary Clinton and Obama’s cheerleader, and just as it was Bill Clinton’s before them. While employing a handful of compromised fig leaves, the Guardian has ruthlessly smeared anyone who has sought to challenge the status quo: Julian Assange, Russell Brand, Hugo Chavez, Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman, John Pilger, George Galloway and many others. It has also been complicit in the great war crimes of Iraq, Libya and Syria – accepting fake government justifications for war at face value, ignoring expert sources who made a nonsense of the claims, and propagandising hard for the West’s supposed ‘responsibility to protect’ the nations it so obviously seeks to destabilise and exploit. In our view, the corporate journalists who should be treated with most caution are precisely those celebrated as ‘dissidents’. Corporate media give Owen Jones, George Monbiot, Paul Mason and others immense outreach to draw 100,000s of progressives back to a filtered, corporate version of the world that favours established power and stifles progressive change. Above all, as Jonathan Cook says, the unwritten rule is that they will not speak out on the inherent structural corruption of a corporate media system reporting on a world dominated by corporations. This is crucial, because, as last week confirms, and as we have been arguing for 16 years, if change begins anywhere, it begins with the public challenging, exposing and rejecting, not just the right-wing press, but the corporate media as a whole, the ‘liberal-left’ very much included. In the last month, we witnessed astonishing numbers of people challenging all media, all the time on every bias – we have never seen anything like it. The young, in particular, are learning that they do not need highly-paid, privileged corporate employees to tell them what to think. We don’t need to tolerate a corporate-filtered view of the world. We can inform ourselves and each other, and we can do so with very much more honesty, courage and compassion than any corporate journalist. If there is one message from last week, it’s a simple one – dump the corporate media; all of it. http://clubof.info/

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3 PM TODAY: TRUMP announces Paris accord decision — INSIDE Trump’s climate struggle — THE DAWSEY DOWNLOAD: Understanding the WH — 2020 WATCH: Biden launches PAC — OBAMAS buy Kalorama house from Lockharts

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Good Thursday morning and happy first day of June. THE PARIS ANNOUNCEMENT — 3 P.M. TODAY — THE BACKDROP — President Donald Trump — joined by Vice President Mike Pence — will announce whether the United States will drop out of the Paris climate agreement, joining Syria, which is in the midst of a civil war, and Nicaragua, which wanted the agreement to go further in punishing nations that don’t comply. Inside the White House, there is near uniform agreement Trump will pull out, but some senior aides still think Trump will try to squeeze out a “better deal” by only partially ditching the climate accord.

ANDREW RESTUCCIA and JOSH DAWSEY — “Inside the struggle to sway Trump on Paris: Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt have spent months building pressure on the president to exit the climate deal — and trying to outmaneuver Ivanka Trump”: “Donald Trump’s chief strategist and EPA administrator maneuvered for months to get the president to exit the Paris climate accord, shrewdly playing to his populist instincts and publicly pressing the narrative that the nearly 200-nation deal was effectively dead — boxing in the president on one of his highest-profile decisions to date.

“Steve Bannon and Scott Pruitt have sought to outsmart the administration’s pro-Paris group of advisers, including Trump’s daughter Ivanka, who were hoping the president could be swayed by a global swell of support for the deal from major corporations, U.S. allies, Al Gore and even the pope. But some of that pro-Paris sentiment wound up being surprisingly tepid, according to White House aides who had expected that European leaders would make a stronger case during Trump’s trip abroad earlier this month. …

“Some White House aides held out the prospect that the president still might take the middle course that Ivanka Trump and others had advocated — staying in the deal while drastically scaling back the Obama administration’s non-binding carbon cleanup promises. But three White House officials said Wednesday that they expect Trump to make a clean break by withdrawing from the agreement, though they noted it’s possible the president changes his mind at the last minute.” http://politi.co/2rsvPXM

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THE NITTY GRITTY ON HOW TRUMP CAN WITHDRAW, from Dawsey and Restuccia: “If he withdraws, how will Trump do it? He could abide by the formal procedures in the underlying text of the agreement, which mandate that a formal withdrawal will not go into effect until at least Nov. 4, 2020. Or he could pull out of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the underlying 1992 treaty that governs the negotiations, which would allow for a speedier pullout — a far more radical step that would see the U.S. abstain from the entire climate negotiating process. He could also declare that the agreement is a treaty, which would require a two-thirds-majority ratification vote in the Senate that would certainly fail.”

GOOD DETAIL, from NYT’s Mike Shear and Coral Davenport: “At home, he faced urgent pleas from corporate leaders, including Tim Cook, the chief executive of Apple, who told Mr. Trump on Tuesday that pulling out was wrong for business, the economy and the environment. Elon Musk, the chief executive of Tesla, threatened to resign from two White House advisory boards if the president withdrew from the Paris agreement.” http://nyti.ms/2shnrbA

–“All the ways Trump is shredding Obama’s climate agenda” – Politico http://politi.co/2qDy5MD

— BOSTON GLOBE: “Boston scraps summit on climate with China”: “The State Department-sponsored summit in Boston, revealed last June by then-secretary of state John F. Kerry, would have brought thousands of urban and business leaders to Boston from cities across the United States and China. It would have been the third such conference.” http://bit.ly/2sgZTU2

ONLY IN PLAYBOOK: UNDERSTANDING TRUMP — THE DAWSEY DOWNLOAD: “Senior administration officials told a dozen news outlets President Trump would withdraw from the Paris Accord, leaving few people completely sure he would do so. It is one of many hall-of-mirrors, sometimes head-spinning aspects of Trump’s White House. Administration officials and advisers fan flames of firing officials like Sean Spicer and Reince Priebus, and even speculate on replacements, while the current aide works. As one Spicer ally recently said: ‘How many times have people said he was going to be fired? He is still at the podium.’

“Administration officials leak to the media hoping it will eventually become true and that coverage will sway Trump. White House officials sometimes don’t trust one another and spread rumors. They call other aides and advisers to see what he is saying about them. And officials are contradicted by other officials — and even Trump, who tests different strategies aloud to different people. He sometimes agrees with whoever is in the room with him. He likes to please and can dial dozens of friends in a weekend.

“So while Trump told people he was pulling out of the accord, and officials began moves to make it so, no one was exactly sure if he would change his mind before 3 p.m., when he promised a Rose Garden announcement. As one adviser he frequently speaks to said of a different issue last week: ‘I heard that two days ago. That might not be true anymore.’ Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s first campaign manager, reminded people on the trail: The only person who speaks for Trump is Trump. It just depends who he is speaking to — and when he is speaking.”

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THE STORY DRIVING NEXT WEEK — “Comey Expected to Testify Before Senate, if He Isn’t Blocked,” by NYT’s Matt Apuzzo and Mike Schmidt: “Senators expect the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, to testify next week about his conversations with President Trump, congressional officials said on Wednesday, setting up a test of the White House’s willingness to cooperate with investigations into Mr. Trump’s associates.

“Putting the highly anticipated hearing on the calendar would force Mr. Trump to decide whether to invoke executive privilege and try to prevent Mr. Comey from testifying. Mr. Comey is expected to be asked about several conversations he had with the president, including one in which he says Mr. Trump encouraged him to stop investigating his former national security adviser, Michael T. Flynn.” http://nyti.ms/2qDSUHM

THE LATEST ON RUSSIA — “House Russia investigators subpoena Flynn, Cohen,” by Austin Wright: “The House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday approved subpoenas for former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and President Donald Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, as part of the panel’s investigation into Russia’s meddling in the presidential election. The panel is also issuing subpoenas to businesses owned by the two men. The subpoenas to Flynn and Cohen were part of seven total subpoenas issued by the House committee on Wednesday, according to a congressional source who spoke on the condition of anonymity. Four of the subpoenas were related to the Russia probe, and three others were related to the issue of ‘unmasking’ — the process used by intelligence officials to learn the identities of people inside the United States who are referenced in intelligence reports.” http://politi.co/2rX1QYt

WELCOME BACK — “Trump administration moves to return Russian compounds in Maryland and New York,” by WaPo’s Karen DeYoung and Adam Entous: “The Trump administration is moving toward handing back to Russia two diplomatic compounds, near New York City and on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, that its officials were ejected from in late December as punishment for Moscow’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. … Early last month, the Trump administration told the Russians that it would consider turning the properties back over to them if Moscow would lift its freeze, imposed in 2014 in retaliation for U.S. sanctions related to Ukraine, on construction of a new U.S. consulate on a certain parcel of land in St. Petersburg. Two days later, the U.S. position changed. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a meeting in Washington that the United States had dropped any linkage between the compounds and the consulate, according to several people with knowledge of the exchanges.” http://wapo.st/2qIWT0R

—“Russia escalates spy games after years of U.S. neglect,” by Ali Watkins: “In the throes of the 2016 campaign, the FBI found itself with an escalating problem: Russian diplomats, whose travel was supposed to be tracked by the State Department, were going missing. The diplomats, widely assumed to be intelligence operatives, would eventually turn up in odd places, often in middle-of-nowhere USA. One was found on a beach, nowhere near where he was supposed to be. In one particularly bizarre case, relayed by a U.S. intelligence official, another turned up wandering around in the middle of the desert.

“Interestingly, both seemed to be lingering where underground fiber optics cables tend to run. According to another U.S. intelligence official, ‘they find these guys driving around in circles in Kansas. It’s a pretty aggressive effort.’ It’s a trend that has led intelligence officials to conclude the Kremlin is waging a quiet effort to map the United States’ telecommunications infrastructure, perhaps preparing for an opportunity to disrupt it.” http://politi.co/2qDSyNh

COMING ATTRACTIONS — “Benghazi investigators set for rematch on Trump-Russia scandal,” by Kyle Cheney and Austin Wright: “The last time Trey Gowdy and Elijah Cummings oversaw a politically explosive investigation, the two congressmen ripped into each other on national TV, as a grimacing Hillary Clinton looked on. With Washington in the grip of a new scandal over President Donald Trump and his team’s possible ties to Russia, Gowdy and Cummings appear set for a reunion that would test a deeply divided Congress’ ability to hold the White House to account. …

“The Gowdy-Cummings relationship, forged over two years as the leaders of the House Select Committee on Benghazi, is as complicated as it will be critical. It’s often harder for the executive branch to ignore bipartisan requests, which was a difficult hurdle during the Benghazi probe. The two men have squabbled publicly, but when the cameras are off, both profess respect for each other and an ability to work together, however haltingly.” http://politi.co/2qJk2jD

KEN VOGEL: “We were used, abused and exploited”: “As he built support for his signature political issue, Donald Trump formed a powerful partnership with a non-profit group dedicated to families of those killed by undocumented immigrants, but now some of those families are alleging they were exploited by both the non-profit group and President Trump. More than a dozen families involved in the Houston-based Remembrance Project — including two who spoke at the Republican National Convention and several more who spoke at Trump’s rallies or were featured in his campaign ads — have parted ways with the organization, according to people familiar with the situation, including six of the families.” http://politi.co/2rHsXr0

PAGE SIX: “CBS scrambling to find Scott Pelley replacement”: “CBS insiders say Norah O’Donnell has the gravitas for the job, but news chiefs are reluctant to take her out of ‘CBS This Morning,’ which she hosts alongside Charlie Rose and Gayle King, because the show is doing so well it could soon overtake NBC’s ‘Today’ in overall ratings.

“One insider said, ‘Norah would be willing to do both the evening and the morning if CBS wanted her to do so, but it would be a lot of work.’ CBS News chiefs had been in talks with Willie Geist last year, but insiders said he wanted too much money to leave NBC. Other TV insiders say CNN’s Jake Tapper could have been up for the role as he ‘had been making it clear that he’s ready for something bigger.’ But Tapper, as well as Anderson Cooper, who’s reported for ‘60 Minutes,’ have long-term contracts with CNN. Plus, CBS News doesn’t need to get the new evening anchor into the chair until September for the fall-ratings push.” http://pge.sx/2qJ17W7

THE JUICE …

–JOE AND MIKA will serve as visiting fellows this summer and fall at Harvard Kennedy School’s Institute of Politics. They’ll do a D.C. event with IOP students and alums in the “Summer in Washington” program and will go up to Cambridge in the fall to do more campus events with students. http://bit.ly/2reEdcP

— WAPO SCOOP: The Obamas paid $8.1 million to buy the Kalorama home they’ve been renting from Joe and Giovanna Lockhart. Lockhart purchased the house for $5.295 million in 2014. http://wapo.st/2refFRg

— EVERETT EISSENSTAT, the Senate Finance Committee’s top Republican trade counsel, is expected to join the National Economic Council as deputy director, Adam Behsudi, Andrew Restuccia and Ben White report. http://politi.co/2rsGcLc

— PETER J. BOYER to the Weekly Standard: “Morning Media has learned that he’ll be a national correspondent at the 22-year-old conservative publication, as part of what EIC Stephen Hayes is calling a ‘big staff expansion.’ Boyer is an illustrious magazine veteran who has done tours at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and Newsweek. But his most recent job, as an editor at large for Fox News, included a brush with controversy, as it was revealed that Boyer was present for a series of ‘war room’ meetings in which Roger Ailes plotted a smear campaign against biographer Gabriel Sherman.”

— DAVID SUTPHEN is leaving the Brunswick Group after nearly nine years at the firm. He is joining 2U, which partners with colleges and universities to work on digital education, as chief communications and engagement officer. George Little will replace Sutphen as head of the Brunswick Group’s D.C. office. Little joined the firm in 2015 as a partner. He previously was a Pentagon press secretary and director of public affairs and spokesman for the CIA.

THE MOMENT — per California Playbook: Recode’s Kara Swisher to Sen. Kamala Harris on stage Tuesday night at the #codecon conference in Rancho Palos Verdes: “Are you planning on running for President in 2020?” Harris: “I’m not giving that any considering. I’ve got to stay focused.” Swisher: “That’s a yes.” http://bit.ly/2qEeWWK

PHOTO DU JOUR: A member of the Secret Service looks out on the North Lawn from a balcony of the White House on May 31. | Andrew Harnik/AP Photo

CLICKER – Mary Meeker’s annual report — “Internet Trends 2017 — Code Conference” http://bit.ly/1dB4Zm9

LETHAL DUO — ADAM NAGOURNEY and JONATHAN MARTIN in Vista, California: “Democrats’ Bid to Regain Hold on House Begins in California”: “If Democrats have any chance of capturing the 24 Republican seats they need to take back control of the House, the road to victory starts here in California, and particularly in Orange County, a former conservative bastion that favored Hillary Clinton in 2016. It was the first time the county had voted for a Democratic presidential candidate since Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936.

“All 14 members of the California Republican congressional delegation voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, including seven who, like Mr. Issa, represent districts that voted for Mrs. Clinton. Four of those come from districts that include Orange County. With its changing demographics and its declining Republican Party, California has increasingly loomed as the center of any national battle for House control. The Trump fervor this year offers an opportunity for Democrats to make the sort of congressional district gains that have eluded them even as they have come to dominate state politics over the last decade.

“At least for one election, it seems, there will be a role reversal: The state that has long served mostly as just an A.T.M. for candidates from across the nation will be on the receiving end of campaign cash. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, in an early show of force, is opening an office in Irvine. The committee’s western director, Kyle Layman, is already on the scene, working at a cafe table outside a Whole Foods Market in Tustin until a lease is signed.” http://nyti.ms/2sqW2mO

THE ECONOMIST WEIGHS IN ON U.K. ELECTIONS — “Backing the open, free-market centre is not just directed towards this election. We know that this year the Lib Dems are going nowhere. But the whirlwind unleashed by Brexit is unpredictable. Labour has been on the brink of breaking up since [Jeremy] Corbyn took over. If [Theresa] May polls badly or messes up Brexit, the Tories may split, too. Many moderate Conservative and Labour MPs could join a new liberal centre party—just as parts of the left and right have recently in France. So consider a vote for the Lib Dems as a down-payment for the future. Our hope is that they become one element of a party of the radical centre, essential for a thriving, prosperous Britain.” http://econ.st/2rHxOYU

2020 WATCH — “Trump to hold reelection fundraiser in June,” by Alex Isenstadt: “President Donald Trump continues to prepare for his next election – in 2020. Trump is slated to headline a Washington, D.C. fundraising dinner on June 28 that will benefit Trump Victory, a joint fundraising agreement between Trump’s campaign and the Republican National Committee, according to an invitation obtained by POLITICO. Funds raised at the event will be split between the two accounts.” http://politi.co/2rncyoh

— “Biden launches PAC, keeping options open,” by Isaac Dovere: Former Vice President Joe Biden will launch a new PAC on Thursday, American Possibilities, giving him a way of supporting candidates and keeping his own options open for a potential 2020 presidential run. Officially, the group will be ‘dedicated to electing people who believe that this country is about dreaming big, and supporting groups and causes that embody that spirit,’ according to the PAC’s launch materials. Biden has hired Greg Schultz, his political director during his second term as vice president, as the executive director of the PAC.” http://politi.co/2qDwana

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THE FAMILY — “How Jared Kushner built a luxury skyscraper using loans meant for job-starved areas,” by WaPo’s Shawn Boburg: “Jared Kushner and his real estate partners wanted to take advantage of a federal program in 2015 that would save them millions of dollars as they built an opulent, 50-story residential tower in this city’s booming waterfront district, just across the Hudson River from Lower Manhattan. There was just one problem: The program was designed to benefit projects in poor, job-starved areas. So the project’s consultants got creative, records show.

“They worked with state officials in New Jersey to come up with a map that defined the area around 65 Bay Street as a swath of land that stretched nearly four miles and included some of the city’s poorest and most crime-ridden neighborhoods. At the same time, they excluded some wealthy neighborhoods only blocks away. The tactic — critics liken it to the gerrymandering of legislative districts — made it appear that the luxury tower was in an area with extraordinarily high unemployment, allowing Kushner Companies and its partners to get $50 million in low-cost financing through the EB-5 visa program.” http://wapo.st/2sqUvNx

— “Trump administration approves tougher visa vetting, including social media checks,” by Reuters’ Yeganeh Torbati: “Critics argued that the new questions would be overly burdensome, lead to long delays in processing and discourage international students and scientists from coming to the United States. Under the new procedures, consular officials can request all prior passport numbers, five years’ worth of social media handles, email addresses and phone numbers and 15 years of biographical information including addresses, employment and travel history.” http://reut.rs/2rsrX94

TRUMP’S WHITE HOUSE — “Trump White House grants waivers of ethics rules,” by Josh Gerstein: “President Donald Trump’s executive order on ethics has been waived at least 11 times since the administration came into office in January, according to records the White House posted online Wednesday night. The waivers allow White House staffers to work on matters that could affect their former employers or clients or involve issues from which the aides would be normally be excluded because of past lobbying work. The waivers allow White House staffers to work on matters that could affect their former employers or clients or involve issues from which the aides would be normally be excluded because of past lobbying work.” http://politi.co/2rHz1zL

— WHO GOT THE WAIVERS: Kellyanne Conway to work with former clients, Stephen Bannon to engage with Breitbart, energy lobbyist Michael Catanzaro to work on “energy and environmental policy issues,” and tax policy adviser Shahira Knight, formerly of Fidelity, to work on tax issues. Andrew Olmem, a White House economic aide, to work on finance issues although he previously lobbied for the industries, Mike Pence’s chief of staff Josh Pitcock to work on issues related to Indiana and six lawyers from Jones Day, “including [Don] McGahn, were granted approval to take part in meetings with their former Jones Day colleagues relating to the firm’s ongoing legal representation of Trump, his campaign and related entities.”

— POLITICO EUROPE has launched a U.K. Election Tracker. Available for iPhones http://politi.co/2sl4gN1

MEDIAWATCH – SiriusXM later this week is launching two new weekend shows, as it continues to brand itself as “The Voice of the Resistance” to the Trump administration. “Signal Boost” is hosted by former Clinton campaign staffers Zerlina Maxwell and Jess McIntosh and will premiere on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET, while “#WokeAF” launches Sunday at 10 a.m. ET on SiriusXM Progress channel 127.

SPOTTED: Janet Yellen on yesterday’s 1:25 pm United flight from Washington to Chicago with four security guards … Kurt Bardella as a background actor as a “Reporter” in a few episodes of this new season of “House of Cards” — pics http://bit.ly/2rnCnoc

HAPPENING TODAY: Former HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell starts her first day as American University’s first female president. Burwell’s scheduled to meet with faculty, staff and students as part of a listening tour.

WASHINGTON INC. – Targeted Victory is forming a new partnership with Chris Wilson’s polling and intelligence firm WPAi. http://politi.co/2shekY8

TRANSITIONS — Christine Wormuth will be the Atlantic Council’s first director of its new Adrienne Arsht Center for Resilience. She was formerly under secretary of defense for policy under President Barack Obama.

WELCOME TO THE WORLD — Mary Beth Gombita, director of media relations at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, and Stephen Gombita, an associate at DLA Piper, recently welcomed Palmer Stephen Gombita. Pic http://politi.co/2rnDDrz

— Alicia D’Angelo, account manager for audience solutions at POLITICO, and Charles D’Angelo, president at Westmount Capital Group welcomed their daughter into the world on Tuesday at 11:30 p.m. “Arabella Charlotte D’Angelo arrived almost 2 weeks after her due date, and while mom and dad are thrilled she is finally with them, everyone on the Audience Solutions team is slightly disappointed that no one won the due date betting pool.” Pics http://politi.co/2qEmsoo … http://politi.co/2sh5oSV

BIRTHDAY OF THE DAY: Alex Seitz-Wald, political reporter for NBC News and MSNBC. How he’s celebrating: “My wife and I went to a bed and breakfast on the water in the Eastern Shore of Maryland over the Memorial Day weekend, which was also our first anniversary! I’ll also get together with some friends at a bar in D.C. on my actual birthday.” Read his Playbook Plus Q&A: http://politi.co/2rsLnuC

BIRTHDAYS: Sam Smith — her parents are coming into town to take her to dinner at Le Diplomate (hat tips: Bubba and Charlie the dog) … Alex Allbritton is 10 … Dan Bartlett … Alex Stoddard (h/t Geoff Morrell) … Rep. Gregg Harper (R-Miss.) is 61 … Spencer Ackerman, national security reporter at the Daily Beast and a Guardian and Wired alum, is 37 … Washington’s favorite winemaker Alex Gambal … Jenny Cizner of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs … Karen Tramontano of Blue Star Strategies … Leslie Harris (h/ts Jon Haber) … Constance Boozer, research assistant for Senate Majority Leader Leader Schumer … Elizabeth Glidden … former Rep. Mark Green (R-Wisc.) is 57 … Axios news desk reporter Shane Savitsky (h/t Bubba) … Irena Vidulovic … Elizabeth Rojas Levi … Forest Harger … Cruz-world’s Jason Johnson … Greg Nelson … Nairi Hourdajian, VP of marketing and comms at Canaan Partners and an Uber and GPG alum … Ronnie Dunn, one half of the legendary duo Brooks & Dunn (h/t Kurt Bardella) …

… Erin Shields Britt, director of corporate comms. at CVS Health … GOP ad man and Pittsburgh native Jim Innocenzi … Mark Lotto … Matt Burns … Mac O’Brien, senior associate at Hamilton Place Strategies … Suzanne Merkelson … Addie Bryant … Sean Kennedy, former Obama WH aide turned SVP for global gov’t affairs for Airlines for America … Steve Duprey … Diane Zeleny … Bill Shuler … Christopher Minakowski is 46 … Dominic Vilmain … Abby Spring … Timothy Gannon … Heather Matson … Addisu Demissie (h/ts Teresa Vilmain) … Steven Holmes … Dee Sachetti … Terrance Green … Pat Boone is 83 … Morgan Freeman is 8-0 … Heidi Klum is 44 … Alanis Morissette is 43 (h/ts AP)

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