After the unparalleled success of the Favourite Pamela, Favourite Jo, Favourite Val, Favourite Paul, favourite Michael, favourite Jan, favourite Harris, favourite Benjamin and favourite Sally threads let's talk about our favourite Margaret!

Washington reflected on watching Spacey win an Oscar in 2000 for his performance in 'American Beauty' in a new essay for 'Esquire'

Denzel Washington says many people in Hollywood had suspicions about Kevin Spacey decades before the House of Cards actor faced allegations of sexual assault and harassment.

On Nov. 19, Esquire published a five-part, first-person essay written by Washington, 69, in which the two-time Oscar winner remembered moments in his life and career ahead of the release of Gladiator II. While Washington reflected on attending the 2000 Academy Awards — at which he was nominated for Best Actor for his performance in The Hurricane — the actor recalled watching Spacey, 65, win that year's award instead.

"I’m sure I went home and drank that night. I had to," Washington, who also wrote much about his decision to live a sober lifestyle over the last ten years, wrote in the piece. "I don’t want to sound like, Oh, he won my Oscar, or anything like that. It wasn’t like that."

"And you know, there was talk in the town about what was going on over there on that side of the street, and that’s between him and God," he added. "I ain’t got nothing to do with that. I pray for him. That’s between him and his maker."

Spacey won that year's Best Actor Oscar for his role in 1999's American Beauty; it marked his second Academy Award win after he won Best Supporting Actor in 1996 for the crime thriller The Usual Suspects. 17 years after Spacey won that second Oscar, the actor's career unraveled when Anthony Rapp became the first person to publicly accuse him of sexual assault, with several more accusers coming forward in the years that followed.

In 2022, a jury in New York found that Spacey was not liable for battery in relation to Rapp’s accusations; the following year, a U.K. court found him not guilty of nine counts of alleged sexual assault, with additional initial charges in the case struck as well.

Allegations against Spacey have continued to amass in documentaries like Investigation Discovery's Spacey Unmasked, released in May. Spacey, who has denied all claims made against him — and received criticism for coming out as gay in response to Rapp's initial accusations in 2017 — said in a June interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored that he is struggling to pay his legal bills and that his home in Baltimore was being foreclosed on as a result of the criminal prosecution against him and other lawsuits.

Washington's new movie Gladiator II releases in theaters Nov. 22.

I was reading there’s a new trend amongst women to get an abortion once a year (more often is debilitating) to take advantage of the female hormone rush that happens during the first trimester.

Supposedly this sudden influx of hormones gives a dramatic boost to hair, skin, and nail growth, making them extra healthy, soft and glossy.

While I support every woman’s right to choose, I’m concerned about this trend because the entire pregnancy is only engineered (then yanked out) for cosmetic purposes. What are your thoughts?

Former President Bill Clinton said during a recent interview that the country may not be ready for a female president following Vice President Kamala Harris' loss to President-elect Donald Trump, and suggested a Republican woman might have an easier time getting elected.

"Maybe," Clinton replied to CBS' Tracy Smith's question about whether the U.S. isn't ready for a woman president. "I think in some ways we've moved to the right as a reaction to all the turmoil. And I think if Hillary had been nominated in 2008, she would've walked in, just like Obama did."

Clinton spoke to Smith about his new book, "Citizen," and was asked if the country had changed following Harris' loss. The book also reportedly details his frustration while being questioned about his infamous affair with Monica Lewinsky.

"Well, I think all these cultural battles that we're fighting make it harder in some ways for a woman to run," he said.

"So, you think it has more to do with party than gender?" Smith followed up.

"No," Clinton responded. "Although I think it would probably be easier for a conservative Republican woman to win."

The former Democratic president said it was because that was what Margaret Thatcher did and added, "I still think we'll have a female president pretty soon."

It's not too early to start the horserace.

He’s BASKING in the attention.

At this point, I am hoping for the best and making my small part of the world as good as it can be. If I can do anything else, I will.

I'm not ignoring the significance but I can't continue to live in negativity, as it is suffocating.

I need DL to be a release from reality not a glaring reminder...

WASHINGTON — Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlined a plan Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump to oversee a massive reduction in the federal workforce, arguing the employees won't be needed after Trump eliminates "thousands of regulations" in his next administration.

Musk and Ramaswamy, who Trump last week named co-heads of a new Department of Government Efficiency, singled out in a Wall Street Journal op-ed federal employees "who view themselves as immune from firing thanks to civil-service protections."

The duo pointed to recent Supreme Court decisions to argue the incoming president has the executive power to nullify many regulations unilaterally without Congress, pursue "large-scale firings" of federal workers and relocate some agencies outside of Washington. They said "a drastic reduction in federal regulations" would require vastly fewer federal employees.

"DOGE intends to work with embedded appointees in agencies to identify the minimum number of employees required at an agency for it to perform its constitutionally permissible and statutorily mandated functions," their op-ed reads.

Musk and Ramaswamy, two loyal Trump allies, were tapped to lead the effort to "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies." Although dubbed a department, the Musk/Ramaswamy-led effort is effectively an outside advisory commission − not a formal agency − with no legal authority.

The incoming Trump administration is expected to revive a plan to convert some employees to "Schedule F," status which strips them of job protections, among other efforts to cut the workforce.

Musk and Ramaswamy said the number of federal employees to cut "should be at least proportionate" to the number of regulations that are eliminated. "Not only are fewer employees required to enforce fewer regulations, but the agency would produce fewer regulations once its scope of authority is properly limited," they said.

They did not specify how many workers could be downsized, or which agencies would be targeted, if their plan is carried out. They said "employees whose positions are eliminated deserve to be treated with respect, and DOGE’s goal is to help support their transition into the private sector," without providing specifics on how such a transition would work.

Trump would be able to use existing laws to give targeted federal workers incentives for early retirement and provide voluntary severance payments "to facilitate a graceful exit," they added.

Musk and Ramaswamy acknowledged "conventional wisdom" might suggests civil-service protections prevent the president from firing federal workers. But they argued Trump has the broad power − under the Supreme Court's 2021 Collins v. Yellen decision − to pursue "reductions in force" that don't target specific employees.

They also floated the possibility of requiring these workers to return to in-person work five days a week, predicting it "would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome."

"If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home," they said.

"We are entrepreneurs, not politicians," they wrote in the op-ed. "We will serve as outside volunteers, not federal officials or employees. Unlike government commissions or advisory committees, we won’t just write reports or cut ribbons. We’ll cut costs."

I will miss Monica but I know the rest of these bitches will bring the crazy. Let's go!

I think with mashed potatoes and stuffing, mac and cheese, is an unnecessary starch and unneeded. Thoughts?

My choices::

The Bellagio Horror

Graxy

Elaborate Scenario

So, on the Bonnie Franklin thread, we were having a discussion of why some people who were in fact quite homely or at least quite average were presented as "hot" sexbombs on TV shows back in that era. Bonnie Franklin and Mac Phillips were the subjects at hand but of course there are others.

But the practice seems to be dying off? The last instance of this I can detect is Ted Danson. Is this still a thing?

Previous thread posted below:

For your upcoming appointment on November 24, 2024

What are your preferred pronouns?

He/Him/His .... She/Her/Hers .... They/Them/Theirs .... I Don't Know / I Don't See Myself Here .... Prefer Not To Answer ......................................................................................................................

What do you think about pronouns?

Tonight I made a 3 egg omelette, I stuffed it with feta and cooked spinach and some pumpkin seeds and a bit of thyme. Cooked it in an olive oil and butter mix to crisp it up. It was really good. Then I felt kind of saddened that many basic home cooked meals like an omelette are going to disappear. Young people don't cook meatloaf, omelette, or lasagne! These meals will die out.

An American man is the third person suspected to have died after a mass drink poisoning in Laos that killed young Danish women and left two Australian teens fighting for their lives.

The US State Department on Thursday confirmed the death of one of its citizens in Vang Vieng, a tourist town where at least 10 people became seriously ill last week from drinking spirits believed to be laced with methanol, a cheap and deadly form of alcohol mostly found in crude or criminal brews.

Melbourne friends Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles had been backpacking there alongside travellers from all over the world until a night out on November 11 and 12. They had been drinking at the bar of their accommodation, Nana Backpacker Hostel, but their movements in Vang Vieng after this were unclear.

The State Department said it was “closely monitoring” the situation. The spokesperson declined to provide specific dates or details about the American victim but said that he died while still in Vang Vieng. Most, if not all, the other victims were moved to bigger hospitals in the capital, Vientiane, or in neighbouring Thailand.

It was up to local authorities to determine the cause of death, the US said. While this has not yet happened, or at least not publicly announced, Laotian authorities are believed to be investigating it as a poisoning.

Denmark’s Foreign Ministry had earlier confirmed two of its citizens, aged 19 or 20, had died.

This masthead has also been told the case had reached the highest levels of the Laos government and that senior figures had ordered further work.

Accordingly, police appeared to be escalating what had been a lacklustre and low-profile investigation.

More than a week after people became sick, a group of officials, including a police chief, went to the hostel on Wednesday and confiscated bottles for testing in Vientiane.

It was unknown whether investigators from the other visit, which happened shortly after victims emerged, had taken samples. In any case, the bar at Nana continued to serve guests despite its links to at least some of the victims.

The manager of the hostel, Duong Duc Toan, said this week that he served the Australian 19-year-olds free shots of local vodka but denied this was what made them sick.

He said other guests notified staff that the Melbourne teens were unwell. They failed to check out as planned on November 13, and he said the hostel then arranged hospital transport for them. Both were flown to Thailand in critical condition.

Toan said the Australian women had joined more than 100 other guests for free shots of Laotian vodka offered by the hostel as a gesture of hospitality.

The hostel said the women started drinking at the bar at 8pm and left about 10.30pm, going elsewhere for the rest of the night and returning in the early hours of the morning. He said no other guests reported any issue.

When this masthead visited the hostel on Tuesday afternoon, Toan produced a bottle of Tiger Vodka he said he served the women, pouring himself a drink and finishing it.

The bottle said the vodka was 40 per cent alcohol and distilled in the southern part of Vientiane. He said he hoped the police investigation would clear his name.

Trump's the reason, not my dead career!

Proving the party attracts a significant number of masochists.

DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. (CBS) — A 64-year-old woman from Chicago's western suburbs is facing hate crime charges and accused of assaulting a Palestinian-American couple in a video that went viral.

Alexandra Szustakiewicz, 64, of Darien, Illinois, was charged with two felony hate crime counts and one count of misdemeanor disorderly conduct.

Just before noon, Downers Grove police responded to a disturbance call at Panera Bread in the 7000 block of Lemont Road.

Police said Szustakiewicz confronted and yelled expletives at a man "regarding his sweatshirt with 'Palestine' written on it." Police said the suspect also attempted to hit a cell phone out of the hands of a woman, who was with the man, when she started videoing the interaction.

"According to the complaint filed against Szustakiewicz, she allegedly 'committed a hate crime by reason of perceived national origin' of the two victims," police said in a written release.

The man, Waseem Zahran, can be seen in surveillance video standing between his wife and Szustakiewicz.

"[She] kinda whispered to us or said quietly, 'F Palestine,'" Zahran said. "And at first I didn't know what she said because of her accent, so I smiled at her and thought she was saying something nice to us. I said, 'Oh, what was that?' And she was far away and said it again and came closer to my face and kept repeating it."

The video does not show the entire incident, but Zahran is seen repeatedly holding Szustakiewicz's arms and pushing her back. He said his pregnant wife started recording in an effort to protect him, and that he was trying to shield her from Szustakiewicz assaulting and throwing a cup of coffee at them.

"It could've easily been scripted that I was the one attacking her," Zahran said. "Once I saw she was going to throw hot coffee on my wife, I had to stop it. So I grabbed the cup of coffee. She was still trying to force it up. So in the video you see me spilling it, so if she does throw it, it's not going to hurt us. ... As I'm spilling [the coffee] out, she goes for a punch and kind of hits me in the side of my face."

Szustakiewicz left the scene and was arrested the next day. Szustakiewicz was granted release and is barred from entering the Panera Bread where the incident took place. Police said as part of their investigation they also reviewed video from Panera's cameras.

"This type of behavior and the accompanying prejudice have no place in a civilized society, and my office stands ready to file the appropriate charges in this case," said DuPage County State's Attorney Robert Berlin in a statement.

In a statement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)-Chicago also said in part, "This shameful and abusive behavior has to be understood and called out for what it is."

Downers Grove Police Chief Mike DeVries did not want to sit down for an interview, but he did thank the officers who responded and investigated the incident.

"This type of behavior is not and will never be tolerated in our community," he said in a statement.

Zahran said the supportive messages he has received outweigh the hateful ones.

"I'm really proud of being Palestinian. And I love my country, America, and I love Palestine," he said. "Just be human. Have a heart. Just because people aren't your color or your country or your religion even, doesn't mean you can't feel for them."

Szustakiewicz will be back in court on December 16.

There have been a number of incidents reported in Chicago of Palestinian expression being targeted, including a Palestinian café on Chicago's North Side that said it was vandalized twice for displaying a Palestine flag in its window. Additionally, there have been multiple anti-Israel incidents in the metro area as well, including the phrase "Death to Israel" being displayed on a digital billboard last month.

One doubts Miss LuPone will be rushing to rebook her ticket.

At Sotheby's, a Tiffany window smashes the auction record, as the femme fatale auctioneer gives off sinister and sexy vibes. Watch this bitch!

Name your three iconic divas from the entertainment world who have the talent to back it up ( Not just being bitchy or demanding). Me- 1. Maria Callas 2. Barbra 3. Diana (Get out of my way) Ross

50% forehead. 50% teeth. 100% man.

😍😍

Elegant? Refined? Thoughts?

Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance

How are you remembering trans people today?

KooKoo (1981)

Rockbird (1986)

Def, Dumb & Blonde (1989)

Debravation (1993)

Necessary Evil (2007)

You can vote below in the poll for your favorite album.

I Love Lucy without Fred Mertz would shift the dynamic of the show in a way that could arguably make it more streamlined and focused on the core relationship between Lucy and Ricky. Here’s why the show might be better without Fred:

1. Tighter Focus on Lucy and Ricky's Relationship: Fred often acted as a third wheel in the dynamic between Lucy and Ricky. While the show is famous for its ensemble of characters, the real heart of the show lies in the comedic tension and affection between Lucy and Ricky. Removing Fred would allow more screen time to explore their relationship without the interruption of Fred’s frequent interjections. This could lead to more intimate, character-driven humor, making the comedy feel fresher and more centered around their evolving marriage.

2. Greater Flexibility in Plot Development: Fred's role, while comedic, often served as a foil to Lucy’s antics, providing him with a predictable set of reactions. Without him, the show could have explored new comedic directions, with Lucy’s schemes facing more direct opposition from other characters, like Ricky, or even creating entirely new dynamics with the neighbors. This could lead to fresher plotlines and less reliance on the same old formula of Lucy and Ethel pulling off a ridiculous scheme, only for Fred to disapprove and offer predictable banter.

3. Stronger Female Empowerment Themes: Fred’s presence often meant that the show had to balance Lucy and Ethel’s antics with male perspectives or commentary. Without Fred, I Love Lucy could have leaned more heavily into the women’s friendship and comedic agency. Ethel would have had a more prominent role as Lucy's partner in crime, and the two women could have taken on more sophisticated or independent schemes, allowing the show to explore themes of female camaraderie and empowerment more thoroughly.

4. More Room for Ethel to Shine: Fred sometimes overshadowed Ethel, even though both were meant to serve as comic relief. If Fred were removed from the equation, Ethel could have played a more substantial role in the show’s comedic plots. Her interactions with Lucy could have been given more depth, and without Fred's constant presence, there might have been more opportunities for the two women to take center stage in the show’s comedic moments, giving the series a more balanced dynamic.

5. William Frawley was ugly/Vivian Vance

This takes the place of “I See Me” in the show.

Do you believe in God or a higher power?

The Ladies of Monaco are royally pissed over the dismissal of Princess Kelly from GH.

Queen Carmina, or even Princess Kelly herself, leaked details of her termination from GH to the media. Princess Kelly even threatened to spill secrets.

A vast effort from fans to ensure that Princess Kelly retain her position at GH were in vain.

Queen Carmina even took it upon herself to reveal personal information & retweet spoilers regarding Princess Kelly's final days working at GH.

How will the Monaco Monarchy persevere? Is there another job on the horizon for Princess Kelly of Monaco? Will she marry her younger lover? Or is she destined to live a life of modesty in the Poconos?

PENSACOLA, Fla. − Files containing statements from witnesses who gave damaging testimony against former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for attorney general, were hacked on Monday, attorneys say.

The hacked files include an unredacted deposition of a woman who reportedly claimed to have had sex with Gaetz when she was 17.

The attorneys are involved in a federal defamation lawsuit against former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg brought by former state lawmaker and lobbyist Chris Dorworth in 2023. The lawsuit accuses Greenberg, who is serving an 11-year prison sentence for sex trafficking, and several of Greenberg's family members of "conspiring with Joel’s sex trafficking victim ... to falsely accuse Dorworth and Gaetz of sexual misconduct."

Greenberg's attorney, Fritz Wermuth, notified other attorneys in the case that unredacted documents were accessed from a secure document sharing service by an "unauthorized third party" on Monday afternoon.

In an email obtained by the USA TODAY Network to attorneys in a Florida defamation lawsuit, Wermuth warns that unredacted files with depositions of several witnesses were accessed.

"The exhibits included, for instance, unredacted copies of the deposition transcripts" of three witnesses, including the alleged trafficking victim, Wermuth wrote in the email.

Witnesses in the case said the 17-year-old alleged trafficking victim had "access to the bedrooms in the Dorworth Residence to engage in sexual activities" as well as "alcohol, cocaine, ecstasy also known as molly, and marijuana."

Several of the witnesses in the defamation case have also testified before the House Ethics Committee.

Florida Attorney Joel Leppard told ABC News on Monday that he represents two women who testified that Gaetz paid them for sex through Venmo, and one witness said she saw Gaetz having sex with her then 17-year-old friend at a Florida house party in July 2017.

Gaetz has vehemently and repeatedly denied the allegations.

The House Ethics Committee is expected to meet Wednesday behind closed doors to discuss whether to release its report on the allegations against Gaetz. Speaker Mike Johnson has publicly urged the bipartisan committee to not release the report because Gaetz is no longer a member of the House. House Ethics Chair Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss., told Politico the committee would make its own decision regardless of what Johnson said.

Democrats need to not let him say this for the next 4 years. I know I said no more Trump threads but this important. You have to call out the lies. And you must do so constantly. Instead of crude jokes and one of inane comments focus on real shit. Do not let this man claim a mandate for the next 4 years or they will lose again

If not, how much longer will it grow?

The forceful tariffs promoted by President-elect Donald Trump would likely lead to higher prices for consumers, according to a top executive at Walmart, the U.S.’ largest company by revenue, a notable warning on the potential inflationary effects of Trump’s favored trade policy tool.

2 days after the fallout, Joe claims he was flooded from calls from around the world congratulating him. He continued to say, "there is a massive disconnect between Social Media and the real world." [bold]No Joe, the massive disconnect is between you and reality. That's why you turned off the comments on your own videos.

Smiles everyone, smiles.

Him or her, I shall follow.

It seems like every day there are more and stranger stories of Republicans going off the rails.

Let's compile them here

Good Riddance

When mami has paid more motherfucking taxes, contributed more to social security than their basic asses will in a lifetime.

People who speak in text speak are annoying.

With Rebecca Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Harriet Walter, Rashida Jones, David Oyelowo.

[quote]In a ruined and toxic future, thousands live in a giant silo deep underground. After its sheriff breaks a cardinal rule and residents die mysteriously, engineer Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson) starts to uncover shocking secrets and the truth about the silo.

Out May 5th.

Starts Sept. 18.

Link has cast members including: Jon Lovett: As a podcast host, I get to travel the country with Pod Save America and Lovett or Leave It,

Pick your top 3 and winner.

Kyle, Genevieve, Andy.

Winner: Andy

I just had a heart attack.

Cher darling, YOU ARE NOT SONNY’S WIDOW! STOP ACTING LIKE TOU ARE. You spent 29 years dumping on the guy, but once he was dead you starting acting like you were Jackie Kennedy ( without the fashion sense). You come off as desperate.

A new rumor doing the rounds online is claiming that Henry Cavill (Man of Steel, Deadpool and Wolverine is in talks for a role in Simon Kinberg's Star Wars trilogy...

Could our previous big-screen Superman take flight in the galaxy far, far away?

Last week, the news broke that Lucasfilm is developing a new Star Wars trilogy, with Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Dark Phoenix) tapped to write and produce all three films, and a new rumor claims that none other than Henry Cavill has met with Lucasfilm about a potential role.

Cavill has appeared in a number of major comic book, sci-fi and fantasy franchises over the years, playing the Man of Steel in the DCEU, Geralt of Rivia in Netflix's The Witcher, and a Wolverine variant in this year's Deadpool and Wolverine. He also has the lead role in the Highlander reboot on the way, and there are rumors that he might be in line to play another character in the MCU.

The actor has spoken about his love for the Star Wars franchise in the past, and scooper MTTSH is now claiming that he has had discussions with the studio about possibly taking a role in the new trilogy.

Here's what Cavill had to say about his appreciation of Star Wars several years ago.

"I am a fan of them. I would have to read a script and speak to a director before I could possibly say if I’d be interested in being a movie it’s not as simple as you know. Yes, it’d be fun and ideal but what if the script sucks…you’ve got to keep your fingers crossed that it works."

I’m the “I Want” song.

I know we've done this many times before. Fuck it -We need it!

I'll start us off:

Two old ladies meet up at the mall. The first one asked her friend, Did you come on the bus?”

“Yes,” she replied, “but I made it look like an asthma attack.”

Continue here...

I am a Larry Shipper, a Larry believer if you will/

92% on RT and it seems clear that Ariana and Cynthia will both be nominated for Oscars. The critics LOVE them.

She's gravely ill and her insurance was cut off.

Our beloved friend, Sally Kirkland, has graced the stage and screen, inspiring audiences and lifting the spirits of countless many both in and out of the Hollywood community as an actress, teacher, and minister. A lifelong member of the Actors Studio over the last six decades she has starred in over 300 projects including "The Sting", "Private Benjamin", "EdTV", "Bruce Almighty", "The Haunted", "Best of The Best", "Revenge", "Coffee Date", "Roseanne", "JFK", "A Brave New World", "Anna", and is currently starring in the 2024 indie hit film "Sallywood".

Hosted by Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski and Willie Geist, the program features in-depth and informed discussions that help drive the day's current political conversation. The show attracts a wide variety of guests, including top newsmakers, Washington insiders, journalists, and cultural influencers, representing a diverse set of voices and opinions that provide keen insight and analysis around the day's biggest stories. Since its debut in 2007, the show has also covered major political events from the heart of the action, including presidential conventions and inaugurations.

Network: MSNBC

Executive producer: Alex Korson

Release: April 9, 2007 –; present

I love Thelma Harper.

Gorgeous. I really am taken aback by how gorgeous he looks. He is the moment.

This thread will be about:

What’s next? How fast will it be? How can you protect yourself?

And finally, remove all fear from this thread. We are past that. This is about acceptance, not denial. If you aren’t ready for that, it’s ok, but we cannot have hysteria.

I know people. I have insider info plus open source, though I will not connect to any of my sources, you’ll need to verify what I’m telling you on your own, and you SHOULD do that.

Do you consider her to still be relevant?

The texts also mention Trump and his inauguration

It was a “plandemic.”

Donald?

He’s back on Days of Our Lives and on General Hospital. What do we know about this silver daddy?

I shit you not.

Her former husband spoke to the parole board before they issued their decision. I can't imagine the pain that poor man has been through.

The objects of fascination the year I joined the DL "family" (2005) were Anderson Cooper and Mariska Hargitay.

As we all know, the concept of "fit fat" originated here at the datalounge. This popular body type is a perennial favorite being both accessible, homey yet hot.

The clue is FIT fat. Not fat fat.

Not unfit fat.

No unfit fatties allowed on this thread.

A friend of mine's family makes fresh sausage every year over Thanksgiving. One of the benefits of living in a semi-rural area. I ordered two pounds of cased. So fresh it's still oinking right now.

It truly is delicious, but here's my problem.

Every year, I've made sausage, peppers, and onions in the crock pot. Now I sort of feel over that.

Any good, relatively easy (I'm no chef) recipes out there to use two pounds of cased sausage?

Continue your discussion of each day's game here.

It’s called sticker shock. And if you haven’t been to a dealer’s showroom since before the pandemic, you might want to prepare yourself.

Americans paid a whopping $47,612 on average for a new car in October, according to data from Edmunds. That’s a jump of almost $10,000 from October 2019, ahead of the pandemic. That means new car prices have risen much faster than most goods and services.

The price jump has multiple origin stories: The pandemic snarled supply chains and limited essential car parts. Buyers increasingly prefer larger cars with more features, continuing the decades-long shift to bigger, more expensive SUVs and trucks.

But much of the reason Americans are paying nearly $50k for a car is that automakers decided to go all-in on expensive cars. The more they charge for a car, the more money they make off it.

“You’d be hard pressed to find anything under $30,000 from an American automaker,” said Ivan Drury, director of insights at Edmunds. “They’re hacking away at models altogether, and basic trim levels, which are no longer the bulk of the business. They’re raising the floor prices.”

Today’s cars come with all manner of driver assist features, including automatic braking, adaptive cruise control and blind spot warning systems.

“People didn’t know they wanted them (these features) until they had them,” said Charlie Chesbrough, economist and senior director of industry insights at Cox Automotive. “It’s a mix of what consumers want, and what industry is moving to. The market is abandoning the below-$35,000 price point.”

There are also more electric vehicles, as well as growing demand for hybrids, both of which are more expensive than traditional gas-only cars.

The cheaper cars remaining are generally from foreign brands. The average price of a Nissan sold in the United States in the third quarter stood at $35,362, and that includes sales of its luxury Infiniti brand.

The traditional Big Three of General Motors, Ford and Stellantis, which sells under the Jeep, Ram, Dodge and Chrysler brands, have virtually abandoned the sedan market to focus almost entirely on SUVs and pickups.

Ford sells only one traditional “car” these days, the Mustang, a two-door coupe rather than a family sedan. The last non-SUV or pickup Chevrolet will roll off the line this month.

The exclusion of almost everything that isn’t a big, high-riding crossover or SUV has already raised the average sales price to $50,922 at GM, $54,963 at Stellantis and $55,632 at Ford.

While average prices are down $142 from a year ago, they could be heading higher soon.

It’s a weak year with the frontrunner as of now being little-known Mikey Madison in little seen Anora

God knows the Hollywood liberals would love to give it black woman after what happened to Kamala

Erivo would be only the second Black actress to win the Best Actress Oscar, and the first Black-Black actress to do so.

I'm thinking we're about to get a lot of Franco and Thatcher, with a dose of South African Broederbond.

Probably fake but still funny 😁

Most of the period details are still there. And the price is incredible.

I love it!

How are you spending your summer days in Genoa City?

Enjoying the Chancellor-Winters escapades?

Waiting for Diane and Kyle to get into a full scale war?

Savoring Victor's impending revenge against Jack?

Counting the days until Jordan escapes prison and returns to get revenge on Nikki and the Newmans?

They can put the woman behind bars, and she will be a political prisoner, but the music will never die.

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va (WDTV) - A former youth pastor is now facing nearly 100 sex charges against children in four North Central West Virginia counties.

John Radcliff, II, of Nicholas County, has been charged in Lewis, Harrison, Braxton and Nicholas counties for the sexual abuse of children that occurred between 1987 and 2003, according to West Virginia State Police.

Radcliff was originally arrested in Nicholas County in September for incidents that occurred in 2018 and 2019, which led to many victims being interviewed and a multi-county investigation.

According to court documents from Lewis County, Radcliff began abusing two young girls when they were just 3 and 4 years old — both of whom are Radcliff’s nieces. Both girls, who are now adults, told police about numerous incidents that occurred in Lewis County, in which Radcliff made them perform sexual acts on him and sexually assaulted them in other ways throughout their childhoods.

One of the victims told police about a time Radcliff, along with his wife, Kathy Radcliff, made her and her cousin, who was around the same age as her, come into their bedroom and watch a pornographic movie with them while the couple performed sexual acts on one another. The girl said she ran out of the room to hide, and Kathy later came to find her to ask her if she was okay.

Kathy has also been charged in relation to the above-mentioned incident in Lewis County with displaying obscene matter to a minor and accessory, as the victim told police Kathy was aware of everything that was happening at all times.

Both John and Kathy are currently in the Central Regional Jail. In total, John’s bond is over $1.7 million in Lewis, Harrison and Braxton counties, while Kathy’s is set at $75,000 in Lewis.

Anyone that is or was a victim of these individuals or has information relating to this investigation is asking to contact TFC. R.C. Watson at the Weston Detachment of the West Virginia State Police at 304-269-0500 or 304-637-0200.

Radcliff is facing 98 total charges throughout the four counties, 77 of which were filed on Monday. He is facing the following charges in the following counties:

Lewis County

Radcliff was charged with seven counts of first-degree sexual abuse, five counts of first-degree sexual assault, 12 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian, five counts of incest and one count of displaying obscene matter to a minor for incidents that occurred between 1987 and 2003. Bond is set at $1,000,000.

Braxton County

Radcliff was charged with 15 counts of first-degree sexual assault, 15 counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian and 15 counts of incest for incidents that occurred between 1995 and 2000. Bond is set at $250,000.

Harrison County

Radcliff was charged with one count of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian, one count of first-degree sexual assault and one count of incest for incidents that occurred in 2002. Bond is set at $450,000.

Nicholas County

Radcliff was charged with five counts of second-degree sexual assault, eight counts of sexual abuse by a parent, guardian or custodian, and eight counts of incest for incidents that occurred in 2018 and 2019.

It's a new year, so time for a new thread! Let's start from where we left off in 2023...

She told me that I’m a horrible human being. She’s vegan. I told her to fuck off.

2 years, 2026

Tinted windows on a car always make me wonder what the owner has to hide.

Part One comes out this week.

The Apocalyptic world beacons and The View finds itself attached to the Mouse Propaganda machine as bad as Fox.

Also, 40 years of her being the biggest female music artist in history!

These guys are spending their entire lives in the gym. Five, six, seven days a week, lifting weights for hours. Nothing else matters to them.

I can’t imagine why anyone who has the money would choose to live here, you can get a $10.8 million apartment overlooking the lake or Lincoln Park and not have cars honking below.

And there’s always Lake Forest where you can cosplay as Beth Jarrett.

Michael Sheen, Ruth Wilson.

[quote]Explores Emily Maitlis' journey as a News night journalist and Prince Andrew's disastrous interview with her.

Three episodes, out September 19.

1. Your neighbors rev up their vehicles and slam their car doors all hours of the night.

2. The same neighbors have loud, raucous house parties even on weeknights.

3. Your pissed off.

I’ve always eaten fast because I’ve always enjoyed the perfect bite whether hot or cold. Why would I want to take 45 minutes eating a hot dish to suffer through eating something that isn’t even lukewarm anymore.

On the other hand, why would I want to eat ice cream that’s been melting for 30 minutes? Let me enjoy it when it’s still frozen.

My parents would always tell me to slow down while they took over an hour to eat one medium sized plate of food. My god, I’m surprised they didn’t get botulism by the time they finally got around to finishing their plate.

Yeah, I know, I type fat.

A storm that will bring strong winds to Washington state has been intensifying quickly off the Pacific coast. According to Maddie Kristell, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Seattle, the storm will reach levels that are rarely seen in the region at this time of year.

“We do have an anomalously strong low pressure system offshore. It has deepened its intensity, dropped pressure pretty significantly in the core of it,” Kristell said in a phone call with McClatchy.

In an interview with KIRO Newsradio, University of Washington atmospheric sciences professor Cliff Mass said that the system is approaching the strength of a hurricane. However, Kristell said that NWS’s forecasts suggest Washington will likely be spared the storm’s worst effects.

“It does remain offshore. The track does seem to take it closer to northwestern Vancouver Island, so we’re not looking at a direct impact of the lowest pressure on our shores,” Kristell said.

But that doesn’t mean Washington will be completely in the clear. According to Kristell, gusts of wind will approach 65 miles an hour in parts of the state.

“Certainly through the Strait of Juan de Fuca and along the coast, that’s where we’re going to see our strongest winds, where sustained winds could be between 30 and 35 miles per hour, with gusts between 60 and 65 miles an hour,” Kristell said. “The lowlands and up through the Bellingham area will probably see gusts more in the 35, 40 miles an hour range.”

The storm is expected to hit Washington the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov. 19, around 4 or 5 p.m., and will last until the following morning, according to Kristell.

Several reports have referred to the storm as a bomb cyclone. The term refers to a storm that intensifies incredibly quickly. For a pressure system to be considered a bomb cyclone, it needs to drop 24 millibars within a 24-hour period.

According to Kristell, it’s unclear whether the storm approaching Washington meets that definition.

“We haven’t been following the exact amount that it’s dropped,” Kristell said. “It definitely could have, because it’s a lower area of pressure than we typically see.

Additionally, Kristell said that at lower latitudes, a lower drop in pressure can still effectively amount to a bomb cyclone.

“That definition of the 24 millibar drop in 24 hours is a rule of thumb that’s normalized to 60 degrees north in latitude,” Kristell said. “We’re not sitting up there, we do have to take that definition with a little bit of a grain of salt for where we’re sitting at in the latitude.”

NWS has already issued both wind and flood advisories for the areas that will be affected by the storm. According to Kristell, while the storm will bring some rain, water levels aren’t as much of a concern. The coast could see flooding, but wind will likely be the primary effect of the storm on the Puget Sound region.

“Wind will be our primary concern on this one,” Kristell said. “There will still be some rain with it, but the focus of the rain is actually more to our south.”

That belt is not doing Brianna any favors.

It's nonsensical to drink a raw animal product, like eating raw meat, now we wait until it mutates and we have human to human transmission, stupid people.

He looks ill

Up to twenty inches of rain

I thought this would be helpful for you broke bitches.

How was it comfortable, or even doable, to sleep on the top of his house?

Eldergay this, eldergay that. What is your definition of an eldergay? What age does a gay become an elder? Are you sure you're not one already? You probably are to someone...

Apparently getting a lot of watchers, but I have been lied to. Dude looks like he should have been one of Dexy’s Midnight Runners.

Damn you Netflix

$400 in tips on a Tuesday night.

Came in to work at 4:45 p.m. and finished at 9:15 p.m.

Waited on four tables.

WTF???

Damned little brat.

Two years after the "Twin Peaks" director, 78, was diagnosed with emphysema, he finally stopped smoking — and now he's urging others to quit too

I think it's about time they remade this film.

They also found that he had eaten staples. Video has gone viral.

The only thing I can think of is LOL, we are ruined.

QUEEN.

Oh, dear lord.

I doubt it!

I have no confidence that Democrats have learned their lesson and will change their policies and shift the constituents they serve. None.

Not my juicy hole, you perverts, You can see this beauty, but unfortunately you can't smell it, pity that is, frost may come next week

This should be interesting.

WOW! In less than two weeks, the media has been oversaturated their reporting with the words "wrecking ball", "guard rails" and "clown cars".. Everyone commenting or reporting on the election and its aftermath, has to include these three phrases within the first 40 seconds, or so it seems.

Any other 'attention grabbing words' coming out of their mouths lately which I've been missing ?

Lard Channel are taking a long break so Junkie Niko can go to rehab. Greasy Niall is still rotund and has just finished a 90 date world tour. Poor Lewis Fataldi was forced to take a career break because of his Tourettes, so he's inactive as well. Nevertheless, we'll still find plenty to talk about!

…if you’re a fan. 42 years ago—Nov. 20, 1982.

The new series starts on Channel 4 next Tuesday Sep. 24.

I only see one rather cute guy in the lineup, but maybe the others have winning personalities.

Kyle's getting the villain edit this season.

Erika continues her Ozempic journey.

They swapped out last season's token black cast member for another one that looks like a drag queen.

Dorit and Sutton continue to be boring.

Jennifer Tilly!

Discuss

By that I don't mean have you felt just sad necessarily, but also: have you felt especially anxious, distracted and forgetful, even suicidal?

Please no judgments. This thread should be about how you're feeling, not what you SHOULD be feeling.

SO i have Told my hubby to stop donating to anything....It doesn't work...We had four years of "talk".....The country spoke and Trump won...Every state that was a "swing".... We are very liberal gays but i think the next 4 years we should step aside and chill ....We would have lost money had Kamala had her tax stuff go though......We are far from republicans but my view is to let them kill each other over prices and stuff....As of now Trump will not affect my gay marriage ......we make to much

Time to take the pants to the tailor to let out the seams.

As vain as Trump is he can't be happy Musk posted this photo

And a fucking moron, too. She can't even spell "Fauci" correctly.

Drag the bitch.

His boobs are nice and round

God I loved it.

Did this air yet? Did anyone see it? Absolutely chilling. Poor Mark Milley and family.

Going on MSNBC at 7 to talk about this.

NBC EXCLUSIVE: Trump transition team compiling list of current and former U.S. military officers for possible court-martials

I will be in New York during the first two weeks of January. I would love to know which shows I should try to see. I've been out of the country and am somewhat out of the loops. What is the word on the play "English"? The show "Stereophonic"? I am open to the opera too. I would appreciate any advice.

I doubt it. He looked dirty and unkempt, and his dirge like output didn't get any gay dancefloors jumping, that's for sure.

Any "grunge gays" here? Did you wash back then?

He's been a fun channel to follow on Youtube this week - he's been having a great time at the DNC. Comer Pyle is a good one. Mike can really talk some shit. Tucker Fucker Carlson.

It's from writer/director Jacques Audiard who made the exceptional The Beat My Heart Skipped, Rust And Bone and A Prophet.

The film stars Latinxs Selena Gomez. Zoe Saldana, Edgar Ramirez and Karla Sofía Gascón who is tipped to become the first tranny to get a Best Actress nomination, despite being a supporting character.

It won best actress at Cannes for the ladies involved and reviews have been good but it doesn't feel like anyone is talking about it other than critics?

What you say Datalounge?

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) plans to introduce a resolution Monday that would bar transgender women from using the women’s bathroom in the Capitol, according to her office. The move comes ahead of Rep.-elect Sarah McBride (D-Delaware) being sworn in as the first transgender lawmaker in the United States on Jan. 3. The resolution is not under privilege, meaning the House does not have to immediately vote on it. Even if the resolution were to be adopted this year, it would have to be reintroduced and passed in 2025 to be in effect for the 119th Congress.

Old lady attacks a young guy in Panera wearing a "PALESTINE" shirt.

Can't we all just get along?

Diddy or didn’t he?

Carry On!

Please explain the pivotal role he plays in your life.

Victoria Kjær Theilvig of Denmark has been crowned Miss Universe.

Kjaer, an animal protection advocate who works in the diamond selling business, beat out Miss Nigeria at the end of 73rd edition of the competition in Mexico City. Miss Mexico placed third.

It is the first time a Danish contestant has won Miss Universe.

This is an accurate portrayal.

Our office Fraus love these things, and always arrange at least 5 potlucks between now and December 31.

I'm an introvert, and I hate socializing with strangers.

It's even worse having to sit down to eat with them, while trying to make conversation.

Would it reflect badly on me if I just refused to go, and sat at my desk instead?

Oh, Dataloungers, this is the *ultimate* Tasteful Friends edition, a pinnacle of some kind of "taste," and an exhausting one at that with 200+ very, very busy, colorful, almost visually assaultive pictures.

I cannot even begin to describe this place. The sellers appear to be some kind of OCD "artists," maybe? Lovers of Gaudi? Themed rooms, appliquéd toilets, elaborate tiled floors, frescos on the ceilings and walls, a Viking ship-inspired kitchen table, custom-made everything including some nice woodwork. Not an inch of space goes undecorated.

Who would buy this and what would they do with it? I think I'd need to be paid to live there.

There's no narration. Just shows him setting up a camp.

392K views - I wonder why

Just a boy and his horse

Who else finds attorney Joel Leppard (the lawyer for the two women accusing Gaetz with having sex with underage girls) incredibly sexy whenever he's on TV? WOW - there's something about this guy that oozes sexiness to me. Does anyone have any info on him ? Does he play on our team ?

Trump 2.0 is a reality television program. His cabinet will be full of big personalities and billionaires. They are going to have a brutal wake up call that if you are not the president, you are staff.

Who do you think is going to be voted off the tribe first?

They can't even have a short period of peace and harmony to savor their victory

Let's post any stories about broken promises, dashed hopes, bitter recriminations, and general #ETTD here. Ric Grenell must be feeling kind of bitter and used right about now.

[QUOTE]There’s a chill in the air over Mar-a-Lago as Trump’s courtiers remember that while Trump demands loyalty, he’s hardly loyal himself. A stark reminder of this came last night, when The New York Times reported that Trump was passing over Ric Grenell to likely select Marco Rubio for Secretary of State. Anyone who has spent time with Trump over the past eight years knows that Grenell has been at his side, soldiering on next to him even in his darkest hours of post-January 6 exile, when Rubio took to the Senate floor to denounce the chaos that had erupted that day. “Ric busted his ass this campaign,” said a senior Trump advisor. “For years, actually.”

[QUOTE]Some Grenell supporters are convinced that Trump only chose Rubio—viewed suspiciously as a Republican establishment-adjacent war hawk by the isolationist MAGA movement—so that Lara Trump could be appointed to his Senate seat in Florida. Meanwhile, I’m told Governor Ron DeSantis was not clued into whatever switcheroo the family braintrust is concocting. On the contrary, I heard he woke up to the Rubio news in Italy, a sign of the real and metaphorical distance between the two camps. It’s certainly a rift that DeSantis could endeavor to mend with a quick appointment of Lara over, say, his own chief-of-staff, James Uthmeier, who could be a place holder for DeSantis when he needs a new job in 2026.

[QUOTE]In any case, the Grenell snub is only the latest in a series of Trump choices that are sure to be controversial with one or another constituency. Some Republican allies have privately expressed concerns after Trump plucked two members of Congress, Elise Stefanik and Mike Waltz, to serve as Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor, respectively, placing additional pressure on whatever slim majority Speaker Mike Johnson will have to work with. Other MAGA members of the House didn’t bother pitching their services, believing that there was no way to get into the administration because of that margin, and are now irked to see their colleagues get the nod. There are also gripes that “establishment” staffers who have resumes connected to Elaine Chao and Bill Barr, two ex-secretaries non-grata, are involved in the transition, rather than MAGA soldiers from the campaign. It’s all of a piece with the broader resentment bubbling to the surface as the president-elect elevates old political hands with Washington cred over fringier grassroots characters who have been waiting in the wings.

[QUOTE]As for Democrats, they’re bracing themselves for a particularly bruising photo-op tomorrow, when Joe Biden does the classy thing and invites Trump to the White House to discuss the transition—an official act that Trump wouldn’t perform in 2020. Of course, the Democrats are already throwing stones at Biden, but this difficult day for him will be the only picture anyone is looking at.

They had a big year! These are the Vanity Fair Hollywood Issue stars for 2024.

Los Angeles, the second largest US city, is setting itself up for a standoff with President-elect Donald Trump over immigration.

On Tuesday, its city council passed a "sanctuary city" ordinance to bar using local resources to help federal immigration authorities.

LA's public school system also reaffirmed itself as a "sanctuary" for undocumented immigrants and LGBTQ students in a series of emergency resolutions.

Trump, who will be sworn in in two months, has promised mass deportations once he returns to the White House. His chosen "border czar", Tim Homan, has urged sanctuary cities to "get the hell out of the way" of federal immigration crackdowns.

The term "sanctuary city" has been popular in the US for more than a decade to describe places that limit their assistance to federal immigration authorities. Since it is not a legal term, cities have taken a variety of approaches to becoming "sanctuaries", such as setting policies in laws or simply changing local policing practices.

Aimed at making a 2019 executive order into city law, the city council's sanctuary city ordinance prohibits using city resources for immigration enforcement, including cooperating with federal immigration agents, NBC News Los Angeles reports.

Coming soon to Netflix.

JFC.

Hardly worth posting you say since sexual assault is practically rite of passage for the modern GOP, right? He plied a woman with alcohol and raped her while she was passed out. OK, unsurprising. Well... It was his 21 year old DAUGHTER!!! He pleaded guilty after the election, he never took his name off the ballot despite having been arrested in June.

Bizarre story. It's a custom for him to take his kids to Vegas when they turn 21 (weird right?). She was the youngest. He didn't want her boyfriend to come along, but the grandma and step grandpa were on the trip and in the adjacent room as her son was raping her granddaughter. She suspects he may have planned it.

Poor woman. Talk about the ultimate betrayal.

I’ve been to Vegas a few times and usually have the same experience. I’m doing some light gambling, I’m eating a ton of great food and hanging by the pool and going to shows, just having a blast. And then it happens: for a moment I am paralyzed by the realization that this city encapsulates everything that is wrong with American society and hyper-concentrates it a hundredfold into the space of a few blocks, wave upon wave of horror crash upon me as I gaze into the angry flashing lights imposing themselves upon me, I feel so small and helpless against this force and while I thought I was the consumer, the whole time the city was actually consuming ME.

And then the moment passes and I get a sundae.

Russians. Maybe the Yakuza.

Потрахался и узнал

めちゃくちゃになってバレた

…by someone who apparently has never seen a Luca Guadagnino film.

And like Persephone, we descend into Hades as winter approaches.

I’m sure he’ll make lots of friends

Any plans?

Doing Yard work or working out.

Joan Crawford had one of her best vehicles of the '50s in "Sudden Fear." This slick "woman in jeopardy" film noir paired Joan opposite Jack Palance, both formidable in their roles as newlyweds. Then Crawford finds out Palance is only after her money, with the help of vixen Gloria Grahame. The cast is great, plot is clever, suspense is far-fetched fun, & production top notch. My look at 1952's "Sudden Fear":

@madonna After struggling for days in LA , listening to producers and agents Tell me why I couldn’t make my film —I(been working on it for 4 years!!!) downsize-down scale -think smaller-they say—I realized that everything in my life is going to be challenged. No easy rides for me. I guess I should be grateful.. It forces me to think outside the box. I did not have a normal life.

I cannot make this in the normal way.

Spending time with my creative friends was just the fuel I needed to keep going!

We all agreed that we need to be even more fearless!!!

Art =Survival

We cannot shrink and make ourselves smaller. If you want something badly enough in life— the whole universe will conspire to hel you get it.

Should I make the story of my life into a series or a feature Film. 🤷🏼‍♀️

Think before you answer !!

More pressure being exerted on Whoopi.

He's a hateful, far right douche

Starring Donald Trump as the Piglet. Carry on!

Previous thread below.

(yes, in this version there’s a piggy).

[QUOTE]Many of Rodgers’ passes are either late, off-target or bad decisions. That throw he once made look simple, where he turns and throws off his back foot, is no longer hitting the mark. He looks finished.

Shocking testimony today. The girlfriend of Jose Ibarra, who is accused of brutally murdering College Student Laken Riley, told the court the pair were staying at hotel in NYC (paid for by the government). They then requested a flight to Atlanta where his brothers lived, which the government paid for.

Why is the US government providing free flights to the desitnation of their choice to illegal aliens? Who then hop off the plane and almost immediately stalk and murder college students?

Seven years after they last spoke to him, MSNBC Morning Joe hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski traveled to Mar-a-Lago over the weekend to meet with President-elect Donald Trump.

The duo, who used to be friends with Trump, turned into fierce critics during his first term in office, and he returned the favor, occasionally ripping into them in posts on X (formerly Twitter). At the top of Monday’s program, they disclosed their trip, acknowledging that his decisive win influenced their decision.

“Joe and I realized it’s time to do something different and that starts with not only talking about Donald Trump, but also talking with him,” Brzezinski said. “For those asking why we would go speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, especially between us, I guess I would ask back, why wouldn’t we? Five years of political warfare has deeply divided Washington and the country.”

The pair said that Trump was upbeat during their meeting, and noted that the only communication they have had in recent years was a phone call Scarborough made the day after the assassination attempt over the summer.

As for what they discussed: “We talked about a lot of issues, including abortion, mass deportation, threats of political retribution against political opponents and media outlets,” Scarborough said. “We talked about that a good bit. It will come as no surprise to anybody who watches this show, has watched it over the past year or over the past decade, that we didn’t see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues and we told him so.”

“What we did agree on was to restart communications,” Brzezinski added. “My father [former Jimmy Carter national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski] often spoke with world leaders with whom he and the United States profoundly disagreed. That is a task shared by reporters and commentators alike.”

“I will tell you a lot of Democratic leaders we have talked to this past week since the election have told Mika and me, it’s time for a new approach,” Scarborough added.

I love Sharon Horgan — especially in "Pulling" and "Catastrophe" — so I was interested in this immediately.

Five Irish sisters, one of whom is married to a complete asshole. He ends up dead, and the series uses flashbacks to spell out who did it and how.

I've only watched one episode, but so far it's a great dark comedy and Horgan is terrific.

Enough dreary and terrible news about politics and the dying planet….new Timmy content is here to save us.

Hallelujah!

The "new" New York ladies are back. And this time they're not fighting about cheese.

I bought a can of Chicken of the Sea mackerel at the grocery store. First time. It’s supposed to be a healthy source of Omega 3s. It had bones in it. I had to debone a large portion of it. It reminded me of catfish bones. It is cooked and flaky like tuna only tastier. I put some of it on my salad.

Any suggestions?

They are well reviewed and from a legit gig service so I won't have to lock up my priceless Madame Alexander collection.

They are moving my exquisitely boring Fat Lava and Wiener Werkstätte collections.

Just because I love this picture...

Aren’t they amazing?

Turn tricks? Engage in the oldest profession?

I know there have been a number of threads here with posters asking about hiring an escort but this is a different question......

Strange instructional film about using the telephone. The woman is stranger than the man. I do not remember this from my childhood even though I was 8 years old in 1974. I am the person who started the thread about how boring datalounge is lately so I decided to post this film I found on youtube because it is a slightly amusing period piece.

A celebration and honoring of beautiful, perfect, inviting, delectable, asses

MSNBC, CNBC, E!, USA, SyFy, Oxygen and Golf

This will be an interesting couple of months as a wave on consolidation is expected in media with expected M&A leniency from the Trump Administration

Who's leaving? Where's everyone going? How did you decide where to go? What was the process you took or are taking to make it happen? All tales and practical suggestions are welcome. Thanks, everyone!

I was planning on Panama, but now I'm having some doubts, because the cost of things there is going up. I still haven't ruled it out, but now I'm thinking about Ecuador, even though there are problems with their government v. drug gangs. Hmmm.

Please share your stories and progress here.

When I was 15 yrs old….

A boy followed me into the restroom one morning. I thought nothing of it. He cornered me and then he pulled out a knife and stuck it at my chest. He said.” I want that jacket and I want it now. I said, get that fucking knife away from me before I turn it around and put it in your eyeball. He was stunned. He said who the fuck are you? Said who the fuck are you right back at him. Then I shoved him back. Hard. He flew about 6 feet and landed on his ass with the knife still in his hand. He got up, called me a fucking bitch and ran out of the bathroom. I just stood there in the mirror, wondering what was happening looking back I don’t blame him. He was desperate and he just wanted my coat. And mine was the coolest jacket in the school.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump has said he wouldn’t be a dictator — “except for Day 1." According to his own statements, he's got a lot to do on that first day in the White House.

Here's a look at what Trump has said he will do in his second term and whether he can do it the moment he steps into the White House:

Make most of his criminal cases go away, at least the federal ones

Trump has said that “within two seconds" of taking office that he would fire Jack Smith, the special counsel who has been prosecuting two federal cases against him. Smith is already evaluating how to wind down the cases because of long-standing Justice Department policy that says sitting presidents cannot be prosecuted.

Smith charged Trump last year with plotting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and illegally hoarding classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

Trump cannot pardon himself when it comes to his state conviction in New York in a hush money case, but he could seek to leverage his status as president-elect in an effort to set aside or expunge his felony conviction and stave off a potential prison sentence.

A case in Georgia, where Trump was charged with election interference, will likely be the only criminal case left standing. It would probably be put on hold until at least 2029, at the end of his presidential term. The Georgia prosecutor on the case just won reelection.

Pardon supporters who attacked the Capitol

More than 1,500 people have been charged since a mob of Trump supporters spun up by the outgoing president attacked the Capitol almost nearly four years ago.

He called the rioters “unbelievable patriots” and promised to help them “the first day we get into office.”

As president, Trump can pardon anyone convicted in federal court, District of Columbia Superior Court or in a military court-martial. He can stop the continued prosecution of rioters by telling his attorney general to stand down.

“I am inclined to pardon many of them," Trump said on his social media platform in March when announcing the promise. “I can’t say for every single one, because a couple of them, probably they got out of control.”

Dismantle the ‘deep state’ of government workers

Trump could begin the process of stripping tens of thousands of career employees of their civil service protections, so they could be more easily fired.

He wants to do two things: drastically reduce the federal workforce, which he has long said is an unnecessary drain, and to “totally obliterate the deep state” — perceived enemies who, he believes, are hiding in government jobs.

Beyond the firings, Trump wants to crack down on government officials who leak to reporters. He also wants to require that federal employees pass a new civil service test.

Part of II Things that Annoy you, now in its 600th post.

Have you ever been harassed at work verbally continuously and hired a lawyer and won the case? Do tell.

None of the other actors who are supposed to be doing it will film it with him because of their publicists.

Women sabotage themselves and really do want to be protected by men

Connections drives me batty. Ranging from the comically basic (body parts mentioned in the song Heads, Shoulders, Knees And Toes? Really?) to the ridiculously esoteric.

When golden towers pierce clouds above the sea,

The plague of pride shall bend the eagle's wings,

While trusted guards unlock the garden gate,

The mighty fall to whispers, plots, and strings.

From marble halls the serpent's tongue speaks sweet,

While crimson death stalks streets both rich and poor,

The people feast on lies and bitter meat,

Till truth lies bleeding on the chamber floor.

What with the Putin and the nuclear and the war stuff.

I am about a 6 if I look at the news

Jim Wright, a retired US Navy Chief Warrant Officer and freelance writer, wrote a post about RFK and his anti-vax campaign on Facebook that might be of interest here.

"Trump has nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a conspiracy nut and rabid anti-vaxxer, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

RFK Jr has a long, long history of insane, counterfactual, completely wrong, and at best misleading claims regarding vaccines. I don't think he's ever said a single word about vaccines that was correct. There isn't an unhinged vaccine conspiracy theory Kennedy doesn't love and believe whole hog. He's lost literally hundreds of lawsuits over vaccines.

But NOW he's going be in charge of vaccination for the entire country. We're literally going to put the biggest nut in the booby hatch in charge, and we're going to lock up all the doctors.

Guess Liberals should have shown up, eh? Then again, anti-vax conspiracy theories have long been a popular bugaboo on the far left, which is where Kennedy himself came from, so maybe the Left is getting exactly what it wanted after all.

Be that as it may, or may not be, Kennedy has said the government won't out and out outlaw vaccines, but will just make it so they aren't mandated.

Vaccines won't be mandatory and no one from schools to employers to the military will be able to make them so. (You probably don't want to spend too much time imagining the massive vulnerability any unvaccinated military will face in a battlespace where disposable $100 drones can easily spray biological agents over wide areas...)'

Anyway, you'll still be able to get your family vaccinated. But your insurance won't cover it.

Yeah, if vaccines aren't mandatory, AND the government agency tasked with certifying their effectiveness is run by a bunch of drooling lunatics who think Froot Loops make kids gay or something, well, then there isn't any way in hell that your insurance company is going to pay for them. Especially when they repeal the ACA slash Obamacare.

In practical terms what this means is that ONLY the rich will be fully vaccinated. And the poor will be ravaged by disease.

Oh, and it's not just going to be measles, mumps, polio, whooping cough, flu, COVID, etc. No no. It'll be the classics like cholera and typhus too, because Trump, RFK, and the new Department of Government Efficiency run by Vivek Ramaswamy and Elon Musk, are ALSO going to get rid of health inspectors, you know, the people who make sure your food isn't contaminated by rat flees or your drinking water doesn't have human shit in it.

When Trump said make America like the 1700s again, Buddy, he wasn't kidding"

The NY Jets just won another game with Aaron as quarterback against the New England Patriots.

So this season, they've lost one game (the first of the season), and they've won two.

Katie Couric took a swipe at Vice President Kamala Harris for her non-answers in various interviews leading up to the presidential election.

On Thursday's installment of her podcast "Next Question with Katie Couric," the veteran broadcaster had a lengthy post-election conversation with MSNBC host and longtime Democratic spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who said she thought one of Harris' "better interviews" was her Fox News sit-down with Bret Baier.

"I always find that people do better when they're asked really challenging, pointed questions. I always felt that way about Hillary Clinton," Couric said. "If you are giving them these almost weird, like, amorphous softballs, it's really hard to kind of hone your message and be succinct and say what you really need to say."

"I also felt that, and again, I think [Harris] really did well in so many areas, but I was frustrated by her inability to really succinctly answer questions at times, Jen," Couric continued.

"Like, if she was asked about changing the Supreme Court at that CNN town hall, she had an opportunity to talk about ethics and what, you know, [Supreme Court Justices Samuel] Alito and Clarence Thomas were doing, and she answered, like, in one sentence, and then went on to something that had nothing to do with the question," Couric said. "You know, people notice that, and it's like, ‘Answer the g-dd--n question, please!’"

She then pivoted to Harris' now-infamous comments on "The View" where she was asked about what she would do differently from President Biden, calling it "one of the most damaging things."

"Ok, Jen, you're an insider. Why didn't Joe Biden say, 'Listen, I know you're going to have to separate yourself from this administration. Let's talk about areas where you can, where they're legitimate, and God speed,'" Couric wondered. "Because it- I think somebody wrote that it was almost as if they were more afraid of hurting Joe Biden's feelings than winning the election."

Psaki, who served as Biden's White House press secretary before joining MSNBC, responded by saying it was a "unique and painful summer" for Biden and that there "was a fragility" about him being sidelined by the Democratic Party. She also pointed out that Biden was "beloved" by the party when he stepped aside and that Harris had "navigated the politics of that in a very tricky way."

"It seems to me, if I were running for president, Jen, I would sit down with my brain trust, and I'd be like, 'Okay, let's play out these questions. What am I gonna say?'" Couric said.

"And I would have had a template that I would have carried around with me in every interview, and I would have reviewed them and said, you know, 'This is what I believe, and this is how I'm going to handle a question like that.' Now, why didn't they- it just didn't seem like that was done. Am I crazy?" she wondered.

Couric also knocked the vice president for going several weeks without doing any interviews when she first emerged as the Democratic nominee, saying it was "making me crazy as a consumer."

"What was that?" the former "Today" host asked.

"I don't know," Psaki responded before speculating that the Harris campaign was prepping for the debate.

"She should've been everywhere," Couric later added.

Expect more of this.

Selena Gomez can now add becoming a billionaire to her long list of achievements. The 32-year-old actress, singer, investor and entrepreneur just achieved the financial milestone thus making her one of the youngest self-made billionaires in the United States, according to Bloomberg, which values her net worth at $1.3 billion.

Some of the wealth for the “Only Murders in the Building” star comes from singing, brand partnerships and acting, but the “vast bulk” of her wealth is tied to Rare Beauty, her 5-year-old makeup line that is a success with influencers and teens, the publication revealed Friday.

Enough. So tired of the Kelce family. Make it stop.

The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.

A bride is cutting off her friends who didn’t bother to show up to her wedding without so much as an apology.

On November 6, Kalina Marie went viral on TikTok for exposing the vacant reception hall she and her husband walked into on their wedding day. “POV: you planned the most beautiful entrance. Just to open the doors to an empty venue,” she wrote over her video, which has now amassed over 8.6 million views.

Marie had been planning her big day for 10 months, sending out more than 75 invitations to their closest friends and family so they could join them on the joyous occasion. But on the day of their wedding, the happy couple was met with the disappointing reality of only five guests waiting to greet them inside the decorated reception room.

“FIVE PEOPLE SHOWED UP!!!!!!! Like, are you kidding me,” Marie exclaimed. “As you see in the video, we enter the venue. And no one is there. The invite said 1pm. My mom messaged me at 1:15 that no one was there. My husband and I finally showed up at 2 o’clock, to 5 people. In a venue planned for 40.”

The couple, who have been together for nine years, had been engaged for four years, but their wedding was delayed due to the pandemic.

In her caption, she said: “It just makes me think, like, why? What did we do? Am I that bad of a person? What did my husband ever do to deserve any of this? Why couldn’t we matter enough for people to show up?”

“I still have ‘friends’ that haven’t even messaged me to congratulate me or tell me why they didn’t come,” she continued. “It truly makes me sick. I honestly can’t wrap my head around this yet.”

In a follow-up video, Marie admitted her viral post has brought her an abundant amount of new supporters online. However, she and her husband are still finding it difficult to come to terms with the actions of their friends.

She said: “I am completely overwhelmed. Between feeling the love and support from TikTok, but also having to deal with the grief of deleting a lot of people out of our lives. It has been a whirlwind of emotions.

“For the most part, we’ve done a lot of re-evaluating our lives and just spending a lot of time appreciating what we have and what we had.”

Marie didn’t say whether she had contacted the no-show guests to hear their excuses, but she did confess that a lot of her husband’s family were the ones who didn’t come or send a card in their absence.

Amid the devastation, the newlyweds still managed to have fun at their reception, dancing with Marie’s son, her mom, and her cousin with festive masks on like she’d intended.

The trailer to the new “Cruel Intentions” series is here!

Looks fun!

They were/are fabulous.

“It’s important not to yield to manufactured panic and to align with the actual facts before making sweeping claims,” the former White House Press secretary said on her MSNBC show.

Do not give the GOP an inch

NEW YORK -- A suspect is in custody following random stabbings in New York City on Monday morning that left three people dead, police said.

Police said a 51-year-old man, identified as Ramon Rivera, was apprehended following the third attack and his been charged with three counts of murder.

"Three innocent New Yorkers who [were] going about their lives were the victims of a terrible, terrible assault," Mayor Eric Adams said. "It is a clear, clear example of a criminal justice system and a mental health system that continues to fail New Yorkers, and it is troubling that we are standing here today, in a day that brings a great level of difficulty to the city. Three New Yorkers, unprovoked attacks that left us searching for answers on how something like this could happen."

Well?

While the press spends the week engaged in their favorite activity (flogging Democrats), there is quiet chatter on social media about election interference. At this point not much more than chatter, but what is clear is that the math ain't mathin' in the election results.

Several states elected Dem congresspeople, Dem governors - *and* Trump;

Most of those states are showing 200,000 - 300,000 vote discrepancies between total votes for Congress and for President. (yes states like NC are known for splitting votes, but this many states, by this many votes?)

The GOP by staggering odds won all 7 swing states;

The GOP showed vote gains in every state of the US except Washington State. Coincidentally, Washington is the only state where all votes are conducted by paper mail ballots.

Donald made several verbal slips in the last 2 weeks, talking about the fact that "I don't need your votes".

On today's podcast Joe Rogan gushed about Elon Musk having "an app where he can predict the election 2 hours before results are public".

The government made noise in December 2023 about voting machines being hacked, which was largely ignored.

I'm hearing that Elon's Starlink system was used to transmit voting data in at least one state (no confirmation at this point).

So a mountain of circumstantial evidence, which may never go beyond the internet rumor stage. I personally believe the discrepancies are getting investigating under the table right now and they're waiting for gather enough solid evidence to drop the bomb.

But MAGA told me that America was a crime-filled hellhole with migrants killing people left and right...

Well?

She keeps killing it!

Nearly 38% of gay, lesbian and bisexual U.S. adults have smoked e-cigarettes, compared with 16.5% of their straight counterparts, a new report found.

Eric, Stefan & Fiona have been shipped off to new adventures away from Salem.

Newbie Javi gave NuGabi & especially Rafe some much needed family energy.

Newbie Joy seems to have seduced Rockin' Johnny from Chanel for 1 nite only.

Brady is now free as a bird & hanging out at Ava's cozy bird feeder.

"Body & Dull" seems to be sucking up lots of airtime with very little payoff.

Discuss.

Post them here, lunatics!

The 2024 season is set to start on September 17.

I'm still glad there is no Tyra Banks despite her leaving over a year ago.

Madonna, 66, has been working on her biopic for the last four years

A source told DailyMail.com that she clashed with producers over the budget

But they said that 'perfectionist' Madonna has no plans to back down

As if no conservative ever had an abortion or gay sex

Luke Evans is surprised there aren’t more gay actors performing the kind of macho screen roles that have made him a Hollywood star.

In an interview with The Guardian newspaper, the Welsh actor shared that he first realised he had broken through one of Hollywood’s glass ceilings when he was cast in macho roles including The Hobbit and the Fast & Furious franchise, and gay activist and actor Ian McKellen (Gandalf in Lord of the Rings) told him, “Ooh look at you, you’re going to be a big butch star!”

Evans said of McKellen’s comment: “He was aware of the ground I was treading. I just hoped it would have moved further than it has.”

Evans is currently filming a TV series called Criminal, in which he plays a tough, straight man, and he was asked if he could think of any other out gay actors who would be cast in the same part? He said not, and added in the same interview:

He added: “I thought over a decade ago, you won’t be on your own for long. Of course there are lots of gay actors, but playing the roles I’m playing I don’t think there’s many.”

I am so sorry, friends. I didn't realize we were as close to finishing the last thread as we were Hopefully you can all find this one.

The bed was.... painful. I think my lower back may be too far gone for me to just have a few good night's sleeps and it to magically repair. I was in terrible pain all night. I tried every position and setting and I finally had to knock myself out to get even 4 hours sleep.

I brought it on myself, though. I had the hubris yesterday morning to tell my friend I was feeling good, and I'm being punished for it. This always happens to me. I should know better at this stage in my life. Just shut up.

I was working at a special event, and one of the guests, a man in his late 60s or early 70s, dropped to the floor. I called 911 and our medical team, who arrived within minutes and tried for at least 30 minutes to revive the man. I felt horrible for the man, and I've been upset ever since thinking that if I knew CPR, I could've started it as soon as I saw him go down. I wonder if those few minutes might have made a difference.

I was certified in CPR years ago, but now I'm definitely going to get certified again.

Any other DLers certified in CPR? Would you intervene if you saw someone suddenly collapse?

Could she Catherine Zeta-Jones to Cynthia’s Renée?

This clown is tedious.

Do you see it as a heteronormative concept? My boyfriend and I have been in an open relationship for nearly five years. We've discussed marriage before, but even if we do marry, it wouldn't affect our open status because we like the way things are. We know not every couple is like us, but I wanted to ask DL if you prefer monogamous or open?

I'm soooooooo cool

I love Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump!

Donald Trump Jr suggests that his father has “backup plans” if his cabinet picks aren’t confirmed by the Senate.

Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert F Kennedy Jr are receiving the most pushback in President-elect Donald Trump’s list of controversial cabinet picks. But his eldest son told Fox’s Sunday Morning Futures host Maria Bartiromo on Sunday that even if the Senate doesn’t confirm some of his nominees, Trump has a plan B.

“Has your father talked about backup plans? What if some of these people are not confirmed? There’s been a lot of backlash over some of them,” Bartiromo asked.

“Listen, there’s always ideas,” said Don Jr, who is helping with transition efforts. “We have lists of people. We’re not just randomly picking a name out of a hat. We’re showing him lists of 10 to 12 people for every position. So we do have backup plans.”

“We are obviously going with the strongest candidates first,” he continued. “Some of them are going to be controversial. They are controversial because they’ll actually get things done.”

“The swamp doesn’t want that so we’re gonna go all in and make sure that those people have the best chance at getting confirmed as possible because they are the people who are most effective,” he added.

“When you see that kind of backlash, generally speaking, it’s because it’s a threat to the uni-party in Washington, DC. They don’t want to see change…They don’t want to be disrupted,” Don Jr said.

Many of the picks are “not traditional names,” Bartiromo said. She asked whether he thought Gaetz was going to face pushback in the Senate.

Don Jr didn’t offer a direct answer, instead he replied: “I think a lot of them are going to face pushback for the same reasons. They are going to be actual disruptors.”

Trump confirms he is prepared to declare a national emergency and use military assets to carry out his mass deportation pledge.

I have a friend who is married to high net worth individual and was talked into voting for Trump by the partner. He did. Now 2 weeks he is beside himself and says he wants to quit his mind.

Other things I have heard from wealthy gay friends is that they are "just going to chill" over the next four years, and stay on the sidelines. They have now ceased all their donations to liberal causes because they believe it was a waste money, due to this election.

What is this proper course of action for these types of individuals, in these troubled times we are now facing?

It could be an unhappy ending for a seedy all-male massage parlor that officials say openly offers hands-on sexual satisfaction.

The city is suing to close down 28 Men’s Spa on the West Side, claiming in court documents filed Wednesday that the spa’s roster of masseurs offered “manual stimulation of the penis” to three undercover cops during separate incidents last summer.

The spa, which goes by M&J Men’s Spa and advertises on social media with pictures of shirtless muscular men, is referenced on websites for gay men seeking “happy endings.”

But a worker told The Post that the city’s claims were “disgusting.”

And spa manager Ping Du said in a brief phone interview that the spa didn’t sell rub-and-tugs for cash but was a “regular massage” parlor.

Du said he he took over the spa at 45 West 28th St. this past April and confirmed all of their massage therapists and customers are men but he denied any illicit behavior.

“We don’t do that here,” Du said.

While Du may have taken over in April, the city’s lawsuit claims that three undercover NYPD officers in June and July were offered happy endings inside the spa.

By using the city’s nuisance abatement statute — which helped clear out the notorious porno theaters of Times Square years ago — the suit also takes aim at the building owner, whom they claim should have had some idea that one of their tenants practiced the world’s oldest profession.

That means the spa and the landlord could be fined $1,000 per day for every day of illegal activity, according to court papers, while the spa also faces closure for a year.

Two workers agreed to offer sex acts — “manual stimulation of his penis,” the complaint reads — for around $80, while a third offered the service for $180, according to the suit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

in my hole and my throat at the same time

I can see your dirty pillow!

I hear he now has less than 50%.

That Trump's solution to high gasoline prices will be to nationalize the oil companies. That would tear his coalition apart.

Anybody else watching. Such good reviews but I’m finding the acting or dialogue a bit cringe this season. Ellis is a hottie, the main smiley character is the stuff of nightmares.

Musicals have always been a cornerstone of the Hollywood machine, but recently, studio and marketing executives seem terrified of promoting them as such.

It’s Musicals Week at IndieWire. With “Wicked” about to sparkle over theaters, we’re celebrating the best of the movie-musical genre.

It was the fall of 2018, and for a week or so, my co-writers, producers, and I were on a pitch tour, taking our idea for an original film musical around to every major studio in Los Angeles. As part of our pitch, we played a few sample compositions to give backers an idea of the vibe of music featured in the film and even sang a bit of one of the songs we planned on incorporating into the script.

For my collaborators and I, this was always a crucial element in getting our story across — this was a MUSICAL, guided by song and informed by our characters’ taste and appreciation of the form. And every time my co-writers would burst into a duet as I narrated the circumstance, the mouths in the room dropped. These execs, people who were used to having words hurled at them all day long, were enraptured by this sudden shift in delivery.

Without fail, after the song was finished, they would stop the pitch and ask where the music had come from, shocked that we’d written it ourselves. Once the tour was wrapped up, only one studio ended up actually making an offer and, as we negotiated the terms of our contract, we were saddened to discover that, despite their initial excitement, they didn’t want us to write any of the songs until they had a script they were sure they liked.

For context, this was the first big sale for most of the team involved, and we didn’t want to get into a prolonged debate over the integral nature music had to our story, but ultimately, we were able to get the studio to commission us for three of the 12 or so songs that were supposed be part of the film. Despite multiple drafts, all of which seemed to impress everyone involved, the studio never let us write all of the music that would’ve made this film come alive and, in turn, we were unable to find other collaborators willing to take a risk on an incomplete vision.

I share this story not to seek sympathy or pity for a failed effort, but to show the uphill battle musicals face (especially when they’re original) in both being released and in being developed at all. And it’s not because they’re unsuccessful (“Wonka” grossed over half a billion just last year, and “Wicked” looks to do the same or better) or because they’ve fallen out of fashion with modern audiences as some would have us believe. On a much more fundamental level, most studios no longer have any institutional knowledge of what makes them so special, therefore undervaluing them at every opportunity.

It’s keeping NBC News.

Who gets Steve Kornacki?

With a massive legacy program hanging in the balance, the Commerce secretary wants to get billions in microchip money out the door in the next two months.

Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo is on an urgent mission: get as much high-tech spending out the door before Donald Trump takes office.

The Biden administration is aiming to commit nearly every unspent dollar in its $50 billion microchip-subsidy program before President-elect Donald Trump takes over in January, an effort that would effectively cement a massive industrial legacy before the GOP can reverse course.

“I’d like to have really almost all of the money obligated by the time we leave,” Raimondo said in an interview with POLITICO. “That’s the goal, and I certainly want to have all the major announcements done as it relates to the big, leading-edge companies.”

The effort to spend her department’s full CHIPS Act budget would put a capstone on a signature Biden economic policy.

It also speaks to the urgency facing a host of Biden’s historic raft of spending programs, many of which could be vulnerable to a Republican White House and Congress eager to pare back the most ambitious Democratic spending packages.

List them.

Here's one: Many actors and actresses like to present themselves as progressive and authentic - yet constantly push/revel in consumerism/materialism/corporate culture.

Nothing comes btw me and my Calvins

What celebrities will die in 2025? Do you think Jimmy Carter will be able to hang on that long?

Make your predictions here!

What a spineless piece of shit.

I used to think I’d feel safe in the US as a gay man – I hope the election doesn’t change that

Journalist Alastair James writes about what he’s observed of the LGBTQ+ community’s fears around a second Trump presidency and hopes for the future

For the longest time, America felt like a place where I could feel truly accepted as an LGBTQ+ person. Growing up in Yorkshire, during the 90s and the 2010s, I never felt like I could live anything that even vaguely represented a happy life as a gay man. Such a thing was only for characters in the few TV shows and movies I was able to glimpse where I could see a queer person thriving. A lot of them were set in America.

Of course, I’m well aware of the United States’ history regarding LGBTQ+ rights and homo and transphobia, and those characters, in shows like the US take on Russell T. Davies’ Queer as Folk, did not always live happy lives. But there was a sense of community, of chosen family, and love. So, by and large, I always imagined that I could come here and feel safe.

I’ve been in the US for the past three weeks. As part of a career break I wanted to come to the States to explore New York City, Los Angeles, and San Francisco – cities I’d never been to before and all that seemed to teem with opportunity for reinvention, adventure, and queerness. I’ve had a wonderful time. One of the things that has been heartwarming to see is queer people living their lives authentically out in the open, for everyone to see, and not (it would seem) caring who sees, and more importantly, experience any negative reaction. What has been especially validating is the number of queer couples I’ve seen walking around holding hands. I think I’ve seen more of that in NYC, LA, and San Francisco in three weeks than I have in much longer in London. What none of those people knows is that they’ve brightened up my day with their visibility, given me a reason to smile, and feel the acceptance I longed for as a young queer person.

After the election it feels like everything is about to change and I accept that that sounds dramatic and ‘end of the world’-esque. Being here these last few weeks, I’ve met many queer people at parties, in bars, and on social media. Naturally, the election has come up a few times. And what I picked up from those interactions was a real fear for what a Trump win could mean. Among people’s fears are a repeal of marriage quality, greater attacks on the trans community, and a restriction within education of anything to do with the LGBTQ+ community similar, maybe even worse, to Margaret Thatcher’s Section 28 which lasted in the UK from 1988 to 2003.

I guess she loved The Substance LOL

[quote]Her description of herself as demisexual got a lot of viewers wondering what the term "demisexual" means.

[quote]It's a word used to describe people who only develop a sexual attraction to others after forming a deep bond based on their personality, rather than feeling an instant connection.

[quote]They may not fancy someone based on things like the way they look, smell or sound.

I don't want to fuck Big Lola who works down the chip shop and stinks of vinegar. Does that make me a demisexual?

Here's the headline:

[bold]In a Hurry To Leave the U.S.? Here Are 3 Countries You Can Move To Today[/bold]

[quote]With political tensions high, many people are looking to leave the U.S. right now. Google searches for how to move abroad are surging. On election night, searches for how to move to Canada had a 400% day-to-day increase.

[quote]While current searches may be motivated by political concerns, the concept of moving abroad has been rising in popularity for years.

[quote]If you’re looking to get out of the U.S. before Inauguration Day due to increasing tensions and launch life in a new country quickly, here are your three best options.

They're puttin' it right out there, aren't they?

VIDEO.... Hiding behinds the red masks again.

Shawn Mendes' new album "Shawn" fails to debut on Global and US Spotify. In his native country, Canada, he charts only 1 song from his first new album in four years.

The album is a flop

Although there are still the persistent political threads.

I'll take it. I was pretty sick of the constant threads on the current topic du jour.

Well?

But the older I get, the more I see AIDS took that away.

If they're republicans, newly-minted lawyers, Sophia & Peter Park, 17 & 18, would be what we could expect from Trump.

I’ll start: Princess Leia

She is a spoiled brat -Rich husband-lives in Hollywood-successful family-Influential gay friends-therapists-life coaches-Drs.-Psychiatrists. If they can’t help her-say la vie and Maybe I’ll see you on the other side ‘’Sis-ta’’

I wonder how that play ended..

This is not a surprise because autistic people love cults. Extremely high correlation between cult followers and autistics.

Fairly easy to spot: glassy or cowlike eyes; doesn’t look at anything while they speak.

That yahoo in Oklahoma who bought all the Trump bibles started doing interviews yesterday and I could tell right away. Then there’s Speaker Mike Johnson. And Elon of course.

Not with the disinformation/misinformation machine absolutely indoctrinating people.

This isn’t about Kamala. This is about a war being waged on western democracies.

Snoop Dogg and Mick Jagger both seem to have good senses of humor, for all their fame.

Same with Henry Winkler. His Instagram is endearing.

Who else?

Does anyone remember the name of the really handsome-deep voiced male anchor on CNN in 1996-full head of dark hair-anybody?

Former Duke star Kyle Singler’s cryptic Instagram post saying he fears for his life has drawn an outpouring of concern and support from former teammates and others.

Singler, 36, spoke slowly and was shirtless in the short video, which was posted Tuesday morning.

“I have been mistreated and abused, neglected, made into a mental example,” Singler said. “And I fear for my life every day. And people in my community make me look out as if I’m going to be someone that’s going to be a problem and make things difficult for people when I’m only trying to be helpful.

“I feel like I have a certain way about myself and strength and purpose that does not get valued or get treated properly.”

The video cut off abruptly after about 90 seconds. It was shared more than 1,200 times in the 12 hours after it was posted.

Several NBA players responded. Kevin Love wrote, “I love you Kyle. Hit me whenever. Please.” Isaiah Thomas said: “Here for you bro! Always and forever.” Andre Drummond added, “You aren’t alone brother! I’m here for you.”

Many of those who responded included Duke men’s basketball and the NBA in their comments, hoping to get their attention.

Singler was on Duke’s 2010 national championship team and was named Most Outstanding Player of the NCAA Tournament.

He posted another video on Tuesday afternoon. He was more stable while repeating grievances from the first post.

O face is perhaps to mild a description, it’s somewhere in between “double penetration” and “werewolf transformation”

My God his hair is nice

Madam Putin in charge of intelligence.

The Earth's magnetic North Pole is currently moving toward Russia in a way that British scientists have not seen before.

Scientists have been tracking the magnetic North Pole for centuries, telling the British newspaper The Times that it had moved closer to the northern coast of Canada. In the 1990s, it drifted into the Atlantic before moving in a faster manner toward Siberia in Russia.

Compass needles in the Northern Hemisphere point toward the magnetic North Pole, although the exact location of it changes from time to time as the contours of Earth’s magnetic field also change. The magnetic North Pole is sometimes confused with the geographic North Pole, but this spot stays at the same place as it is where all lines of longitude converge.

In the 300 years between 1600 and 1900, scientists estimate that the magnetic North Pole moved about six miles per year. At the beginning of this century, it picked up to about 34 miles per year, before slowing in the last five years to about 22 miles per year.

The moves are tracked as the data allows the compasses in our smartphones and other navigation devices to navigate.

Scientists told The Times these movements are tracked by the British Geological Survey and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In conjunction, they make the World Magnetic Model, that predicts where the pole should be at any time.

The model plays a role in the GPS systems we use on a day-to-day basis.

“Planes, boats, submarines, you name it, it’s in there,” William Brown, the global geomagnetic field modeler at the British Geological Survey, said in an interview with The Times.

Earth’s outer core is made up of mostly molten iron, a liquid metal. Unpredictable changes in the way it flows cause the magnetic field around the Earth to shift, which then causes the magnetic core to also move.

“It’s like a giant cup of tea,” Brown said to The Times. “It’s a hot liquid with the viscosity of water.”

Bluesky, the microblogging platform backed by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, has been attracting attention as more high-profile users leave X.

The platform gained more than 700,000 new users in the week following president-elect Donald Trump’s election victory in the US.

Here’s a look at some of the other famous faces now active on Bluesky.

Lizzo

The Grammy Award winner, who hasn’t posted to X since September 2023, recently posted a mirror selfie on Instagram while wearing a white bathrobe. “I hate the internet,” she captioned the post. “Anyways I joined bluesky cus we're leaving toxicity in 2024.”

She also shared the post to her Instagram Stories adding the hashtag #TheGreatMigration.

Stephen King

The King of Horror recently announced he was leaving the platform, as he's been a vocal critic of Trump as well as X owner Elon Musk. “I'm leaving Twitter,” King tweeted, adding that he “tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic.”

“Follow me on Threads, if you like,” he concluded, although he also has an account on BlueSky.

Ben Stiller

The actor didn’t make any grand announcement about leaving X but posted twice about his account on BlueSky, redirecting his 5.3 million followers to follow him there. His second post was to reconfirm the account was indeed his: “Red Hour is real me”.

George Takei

The actor most well-known for his role in the Star Trek franchise has been vocal about his dislike of Trump as well as Musk. Although he hasn’t quit X just yet, he recently told his 3.1 million followers on the platform to “join me over where the skies are blue” with a link to his BlueSky account.

Gabrielle Union

The Bring It On actress announced she was leaving the social media site in a post. “Platforms like X were founded on authentic connections, true engagement and creative expression, all anchored in respect for user privacy and trust,” Union wrote on Friday in a post she captioned: “End of an era.”

“Yet with the recent and upcoming changes to the terms of service – and the return of volatile figures – I find myself at a crossroads, facing a direction I can no longer fully support.”

However, she urged her 4.2 million followers to find her on other platforms, such as Instagram, Threads and BlueSky.

Barbra Streisand

The EGOT winner, who has been a vocal critic of Trump, announced she was leaving the platform on Friday. “Effective immediately, any comments I post will be on Bluesky,” she tweeted to her more than 820,000 followers. She also used the hashtag #TwitterExodus.

The Emmy-winning actress and Abbott Elementary star appears to have deactivated her X account and has instead switched over to Bluesky writing “Hello again” on the platform.

Don Lemon

The American news anchor not only announced his departure from the platform, but also deactivated his account.

“I have loved connecting with all of you on Twitter and then on X for all of these years, but it’s time for me to leave the platform,” he said. “I once believed that it was a place for honest debate and discussion, transparency and free speech, but I now feel it does not serve that purpose.”

He also redirected his followers to find him on other social sites such as YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and BlueSky.

Guillermo del Toro

The Mexican filmmaker told his 2.4 million followers on the platform on November 11 that his account would “stay mostly unused” but that he might still “drop in on occasion”. His post also redirected to his BlueSky account where he claims he could be found there “more and more” before he wished everyone to stay well.

Now I want Cynthia Erivo to be the Oscar frontrunner, because Viola will be in the audience for at least one ceremony.

Just imagine her sitting there glowering à la Margo Channing while Erivo accepts her certain award for Golden Globe Musical/Comedy.

I’ll be in Columbus the last week of October, and I need your recommendations.

What are the must-see spots and things to do? What’s the gay scene like - if there is one? I’m one of those so-called coastal gays who’s never set foot in the Midwest, so I'm ready to explore! I’d also love some snappy day trip ideas, especially if they lead to the Great Lakes.

Help a homo out! Thanks, xoxo!

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The eldest son of Norway’s Crown Princess Mette-Marit has been arrested again, this time on suspicion of rape, police said Tuesday.

Marius Borg Høiby is the stepson of the heir to the Norwegian throne, Crown Prince Haakon, and the son of Mette-Marit from a previous relationship. He has no royal title or official duties.

Borg Høiby was arrested late Monday in Oslo on a preliminary charge of having had “sexual intercourse with someone who is unconscious or for other reasons unable to resist the act.” A preliminary charge comes before a formal charge and allows authorities to detain suspects during an investigation.

Police did not say when the alleged rape occurred, but only that “the victim must have been unable to resist the act.” Norwegian media said Borg Høiby denied the accusation.

Hege Salomon, the lawyer for the woman who was allegedly raped, said “she is having a hard time.” She told Norwegian broadcaster NRK that police, not the woman, had brought the case. The woman was not identified.

The royal palace had no comment, the news agency NTB said.

On Aug. 4, police officers responded to a disturbance in downtown Oslo and briefly detained Borg Høiby. He faced preliminary charges of bodily harm and criminal damage and was released. Details were unclear but police said there was “a relationship between the suspect and the victim.”

More preliminary charges have since been filed against Borg Høiby, including violating several restraining orders and driving without a valid driver’s license. In all, the cases involve four women and one man.

The case was top news in Norway, where the royals are popular.

Borg Høiby, 27, lives with the royal couple and their two children, Princess Ingrid Alexandra and Prince Sverre Magnus.

Norway’s future queen made headlines in 2001 when she married Haakon because she was a single mother who had lived a freewheeling life with a companion who had been convicted on drug charges.

Someone’s looking for a gig.

I’ve outgrown my days of post-gym protein drinks for “gains”. I also wake up without an appetite for a proper breakfast. Is there any benefit to drinking old-people shakes like Ensure for breakfast relative to having some coffee with toast and fruit?

I was a Carnation Breakfast devotee for a couple years, but I’m an itinerant and I travel a lot from city to city. I can’t always find it at local supermarkets.

What are your favorites? Are they worth their weight, or would one be worse for wear?

I’ve been to many cities with even larger populations yet nowhere do I see this same behavior on such a large scale.

What makes NY so uniquely fully of irritating people?

Everyone already knows what Marilyn Monroe looked like so I don't even need to link a picture of her.

For those who don't know what the other 3 ladies looked like, I linked a picture below. From left to right: Jayne Mansfield, Mamie Van Doren, Diana Dors...

I'd love some thoughts from our DL astrologers.

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The main draw for me is Jessica Chastain working with Bernard Rose - a pretty oddball genre director (seriously, look up his filmography). She never really works with those types, so this is interesting.

Thoughts?

Nine staff gone in three months.

What is it about elected Republican women? She was slightly more stealth with her craziness than MTG and Boebert, but plenty more abusive. Ol' battle ax Nance makes Amy Klobuchar seem angelic.

[QUOTE]Another senior staffer recalled how Mace called them close to midnight on Christmas Eve and demanded to know why she wasn’t getting on TV more during the holiday week.

[QUOTE]"If she needed us, we had to answer within eight minutes,” this staffer said, clarifying that the eight minute timeframe was actually a “rule.”

[QUOTE]"All this is why pretty much every staffer and fellow member on the Hill thinks she’s a joke,” this ex-employee said. “Also a big reason why she’s only able to hire former George Santos staffers right now.”

[QUOTE]Mace’s propensity to ensure everyone was working all the time. Even on Good Friday, when some staff just wanted to take an hour off to go to Mass in the late afternoon, Mace wouldn’t have it, two former senior staffers said. (The House was adjourned at the time.)

Plenty more insanity at link. I didn't get a subscription wall.

I’m sorry but this is the funniest line in the history of television.

Since it's Fall, will start with "Foliage." Fo-LEE-ij. Often heard as FO-lij and FOIL-ij. "Realtor" (REAL-tor) has become real-UH-ter.

Used to go there years ago when living NYC. As a 20 something on a first visit, the then manager Eric, a handsome Swede pulled me aside and told me to be careful and to be safe. A year or so later he was dead from AIDS. Is it still running?

She’s is giving hard butch realness.

Inventor, and World-Class Communicator, who has been at the forefront of healthy living for decades," Trump said in a statement, adding that Oz would work alongside Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist whom Trump wants to head the Department of Health and Human Services.

The whole thing is like a script from the Simpsons.

Wealthy whites stayed with Harris. But others, fed up with illegal migration, crime, urban decy and inflation, switched to Trump.

From New York magazine: "Of all these areas, Corona fell hardest for Trump. If you slice a map of Corona into the jagged multi-block Tetris pieces known as election districts, you’ll see that every one of them went for Biden in 2020. Four years later, most went for Trump or narrowly for Harris, sometimes by a single vote. A heavily immigrant enclave of 110,000, the neighborhood is almost impossible to navigate without some Spanish and is effectively New York’s flyover country. Anyone who has taken the 7 train to see a Mets game or watch the U.S. Open has floated above its commercial thoroughfare of Roosevelt Avenue, which flows in from neighboring Elmhurst, another district that grew much redder in 2024. Corona was devastated by COVID. It is also one of the places that has borne the brunt of the migrant crisis, which has brought more than 200,000 new arrivals to the city since 2022, when Biden lifted Trump-era border restrictions and Texas governor Greg Abbott started busing asylum seekers north. While pockets of midtown Manhattan and the Upper West Side mounted resistance against new migrant-inhabited hotels, and violence and disarray around shelters in Randalls Island and Clinton Hill brought tensions of their own, it was along Roosevelt Avenue that the influx was most visible and controversial.

The essential issue there, as an aide to one local Democratic politician puts it, is that “the underground economy is completely overground.” Roosevelt Avenue and its surroundings have become saturated with two types of new arrivals: unlicensed street vendors selling food or merchandise and sex workers soliciting customers outside makeshift brothels. There is consensus among elected officials and residents that many of the women are sex-trafficking victims from Central and South America working to pay off their debt to smugglers. These factors have led to what residents describe as a quality-of-life disaster, coinciding with an uptick in crimes such as robbery and felony assault, which increased locally by about 50 percent in the past two years."

Tired.

Please vote and give your learned opinions.

What have you done for trans awareness over the last week?

To honour our fallen trans siblings I left the toilet seat up in the gender neutral toilets.

And when I spoke to the homeless woman outside the jewelry store and told her I don't give money to beggars I told her my pronouns.

Focus features seems extremely confident about this one. They’ve been hosting screenings on both coasts that garnered very positive feedback from some of the industries most respected critics and cinema snobs. And painful as it is to type this, Lily Rose Depp is apparently very VERY good.

What say Datalounge. Is this all hype? Can a genre movie also be great cinema? Do we have a new horror classic on our hands? Is LRD a STAR?

I’m trying to be grateful for all the positives in my life; and not let the election take the wind out of my sails during this holiday season Having a few friends over for Thanksgiving.

Doing the traditional turkey, stuffing etc. but need easy-ish recipes for appetizers.

Any and all suggestions welcome.

I have learned throughout life that living in a neighborhood with a majority of any specific culture gets old fast.

Some examples are living in an area with a significant Black population, in a gay ghetto, and in a suburb with a vocal Jewish population. Everything was racism! Homophobia! Anti-Semitism!

stop it already!

On to the end of the season and the short off season.

Coco wins the WTA year-end championship.

Shapo won in Belgrade.

He picked me up on his motorbike after work and took me to his home massage studio, which was a grubby little converted garage with a massage table and fairy lights in this poor area of town with stray dogs outside. But he was super nice and really hot. He was a actually a professional masseur for a hotel, so the massage was amazing, we had some fun together at then end and then he drove me back home. Honestly it was a 10/10 experience.

I've never seen a cat so loving and affectionate. Does anyone know what breed of cat this is?

Do any of you have a cat this affectionate?

I want to try yoga and this video can also be for GAY men on the datalounge.

Since I am a shallow faggot as well I do not mind looking at this hunk. Does the datalounge find him appealing ( sexually)?

This is the golden thread that never ends.

Suspicious

Bela Karolyi, the larger-than-life coach who led Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to Olympic gold while revolutionizing the sport of gymnastics, only to see his legacy destroyed by allegations of abusive coaching, has died. He was 82.

USA Gymnastics confirmed the news, saying he had died Friday. Comaneci paid tribute to Karolyi with a post on her Instagram, showing a carousel of photos that included a black-and-white photo of her with the coach on a walk in the woods. The caption read: "A big impact and influence in my life. RIP Bela Karolyi."

"Almost 50 years ago he guided me to the historic performance of the First Perfect 10 in the Olympics … and that changed my life for ever," Comaneci, who remained close with Karolyi, told USA TODAY Sports in a text message.

A cause of death has not been revealed, but Karolyi had been in poor health in recent years. He and wife Martha largely disappeared from public view following the abuse scandal that rocked USA Gymnastics. Former team physician Larry Nassar sexually abused hundreds of girls and young women, with some of the abuse occurring during national team training camps at the Karolyi ranch.

The Karolyis denied any knowledge of Nassar’s abuse but the scandal brought a reckoning with the sport's toxic culture, including complaints that both Karolyis had been physically and emotionally abusive as coaches. In 2017, USA Gymnastics backed out of a deal to buy the Karolyi ranch and use it as a national team training center, effectively cutting ties with the couple.

"Bela Karolyi was a man whose influence on my life and the sport of elite gymnastics is undeniably significant. He was a complex individual, embodying a mix of strengths and flaws that left a lasting impact on those around him," Dominique Moceanu, perhaps the most vocal critics of the Karolyis, said in a post on social media.

"Anyone who has followed my story knows that my journey under Bela's guidance as my coach came with immense challenges. His harsh words and critical demeanor often weighed heavily on me," she continued. "While our relationship was fraught with difficulty, some of these moments of hardship helped me forge and define my own path."

Karolyi first rose to prominence in his native Romania. He and Martha were elementary school teachers in Transylvania when they began teaching their students gymnastics as a way to stay warm. Their performances delighted the townspeople and caught the attention of the government. Within a few years, they’d been put in charge of the national team.

Karolyi shook up the sport in 1976, when he arrived at the Montreal Olympics with a team of kids. Most elite female gymnasts in the 1970s were in their late teens or early 20s, but Karolyi’s team had just one gymnast older than 14. Romania won the silver medal, cementing for the next four decades the idea that gymnastics was a sport reserved for the young.

It was also in Montreal that the world was introduced to Comaneci, a dark-eyed, dark-haired sprite who scored the first perfect 10 at the Olympics. Comaneci would repeat that feat six times on her way to winning three gold medals, with Karolyi there to wrap her in a bear hug after each routine.

Please post the ones you know here so we can boycott them.

YT's fitness loving Asian "Soosh" puts up a video today wearing a Trump t-shirt at the end after golfing at one of his GC recently.

I had no idea he was a Trumper until today.

Discuss.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) launched a blistering critique of former Chicago mayor Rahm Emanuel's potential bid for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, slamming the Democratic establishment's donor-focused approach. "There is a disease in Washington of Democratswho spend more time listening to the donor class than working people," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on X, formerly Twitter. "If you want to know the seed of the party's political crisis, that's it."

The sharp rebuke from the progressive congresswoman came after veteran Democratic strategist David Axelrod publicly pitched Emanuel, the current U.S. Ambassador to Japan, to lead the DNC when current chairman Jaime Harrison's term concludes in March.

[quote]The point that I would really tell my liberal friends to understand is just because we voted in a very conservative president, that means that we don’t want to put rules on you either. We just care about our own liberties.

[quote]He owns Midwest Solar and his vote could hurt his business; the startup has benefited from Biden administration clean energy incentives.

[quote]But he urged Trump to go full speed ahead, including with tariffs that could raise prices on Chinese components he needs for some big solar installations.

[quote]“I would say, ‘Get over it,’” Mudd said. “I don’t believe there is anything to be scared of. There are people who are scared. But I believe it is false. I believe they are scared over things that are not real.”

That seems to be the message.

I just read that plankton in the oceans are dying off, meaning the oceans themselves will die.

Numerous countries seems to be deep-diving into Fascism, the US included.

I guess Trump and Putin and their ilk will eat the planet, drink our blood and finally die, whining the whole time about how they were treated.

I just had to talk my mother out of killing herself. I put a good face on it.

But maybe I'm done.

I see no light.

No one else comes close!

Chilling surveillance video shows the moments before man went on a deadly string of unprovoked stabbings in Manhattan on Monday.

The suspect, who is charged with three counts of first degree murder, had an extensive criminal history and serious mental health issues, leading the mayor of New York City to question why he was out on the streets.

She’s unstoppable!!!

I recently discovered the benefits to drinking one strong cup of coffee first thing in the morning, It quick starts my brain, then helps to move my bowels. I don't particularly care for the taste, but I'm willing to tolerate it for the benefits.

I want a strong but economical, reliable mix. I usually buy from Trader Joes but willing to shop elsewhere. It's my understanding that light mixes actually have the highest content of caffeine, which is what I want.

Recommendations? And feel free to correct any misinformation.

Daddy was horny. 🤮

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Right up the gay alley!

Who’s going?

This is Barbie 2.0 apparently

YOU 🚬S CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT DRUNK DRIVING 🐮S, 🐀S MARRIED TO BEADY EYED 👸S, PRETENTIOUS 🪓WOUNDS AND, OF COURSE, ME, THE FUCKING ⭐️OF THIS 💩SHOW!

KEEP GOING BITCHES! I NEED YOUR HELP CONVINCING THAT ✝️👀✡️TO BRING ME BACK!

The Irish actor, a usually intriguing presence, doesn’t hold the screen here so much as he vanishes into its tumult. Of all the ways in which he feels miscast, the most fatal may be his utter inability to seem like someone other guys would follow to their deaths. Mescal’s career to date has been heavily delineated by women — from his breakout role in the TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People to the part in Charlotte Wells’s debut feature Aftersun that made him a critics’ favorite — and he has excelled at playing elusive objects of longing. But he’s terrible at giving the rousing speeches that were so iconic in Gladiator and that Gladiator II, which has a clunkier script written by David Scarpa, attempts to re-create. His instinct is to underplay these moments rather than bellow theatrically, which is a problem, especially when saddled with somewhat confusing slogans like “Where we are, death is not!”

As she threw up out of a car in the middle of Brooklyn’s Atlantic Avenue, Alexandra Daddario wondered if she should just get her pregnancy announcement over with. She’d kept the whole thing quiet for six months—wearing baggy clothing, posting tightly cropped photos on her Instagram, and avoiding pretty much everyone. But, as horns blared and people shouted at her to get out of the road, she realized the logical conclusion of not telling people you’re pregnant is…no one knows you are pregnant. Instead: “They just thought I was drunk,” Daddario says.

The incident didn’t make it to Deuxmoi or anything. (”Another reason I’m glad I’m not more famous,” she adds.) But the actor took it as a sign that it might be time to make the news public. There’s only so much an oversized shirt can do anyway, and one day, someone, somewhere, with an iPhone was going to figure it out. “I want to be able to not have to hide and have someone print a photo of me eating a bagel at the bodega,” she says.

So instead she’s telling me and my recorder in her Dumbo loft, where she lives with her husband, film producer Andrew Form. Daddario’s just finished taking photographs in Khaite and Phoebe Philo—her first real experiment with maternity style. Until recently, she’s been shooting the second season of AMC’s Mayfair Witches in New Orleans, wearing “whatever my character was wearing.”

Daddario wears a Dôen cardigan and Éterne shorts. Photographed by Heather Sten; Styled by Emma Morrison Her castmates on the show quickly figured out she was expecting as she had extreme morning sickness. “I was on set, and I was throwing up and having make-out scenes with my costars right after,” Daddario tells me. “By week five, I was like, There’s no way I’m going to be able to hide this.”

Admittedly, she wasn’t doing the best job of hiding it anyway. When someone asked if she wanted a turkey sandwich, Daddario told the crew she couldn’t have deli meats. Her costar Ben Feldman asked if she was pregnant. When she attempted to be nonchalant about it, he responded: “Well, why are you announcing no deli meat?”

A fair point. So Daddario fessed up. Plus: “I was like, If I tell my job that I’m pregnant, I’m going to get a lot of time off to go throw up in peace,” she says. Did it work? “No,” she responds, laughing. “[However] I have wonderful costars who have kids, and everyone was very understanding about making out with a nauseous, vomiting girl.”

Daddario wears a Phoebe Philo shirt, Hanro underwear, Brother Vellies socks, and a Tag Heuer watch. Photographed by Heather Sten; Styled by Emma Morrison But no one understood more than the anonymous users of Reddit. At first, she logged on to lurk on mom message boards, scrolling posts that discussed severe nausea. Now, she reads it for just about everything: “I’m like, Should I be doing Solidcore at 14 weeks? Better check with Reddit on this.” She also became an obsessive reader of studies: After finding several that said prenatal yoga leads to an easier birth, she’s now an active practitioner.

She laughs through many stories she tells me, with most taking the form of humorous anecdotes. Until they don’t: “I feel like now that I’m pregnant and it’s all successful and everything’s healthy, I shouldn’t complain,” Daddario says, her smile wavering. She wants me to know she’s overjoyed with being pregnant. Which is something she didn’t allow herself to feel for a very long time: “Well, I had been pregnant,” she says before trailing off. Then, “I had loss.”

“It’s long and complicated, so I don’t want to be too specific,” she says softly. “Those kinds of losses and trauma are very hard to explain unless you’ve been through them. I really relate to all the women who have been through those kinds of things in a way that I didn’t understand fully before. It’s very, very painful.” Morning sickness and yoga, I realize, were likely far from the only topics she was searching about anonymously.

Stay tuned to find out, but prepare now to miss all the action..

Sick of pink and green

Enough is enough

Good for him. He’s far behind NAC but that’s fine.

Check him out in Monster and other movies.

This is so messy already and they haven’t even been sworn in.

What a disaster.

I cannot with the Times typing "veggie" in a title.

16 Nov 24 The demographic detail of Donald Trump’s victory: Immigrant voters may have won America’s presidential election for the nativist candidate.

For democrats, the worst thing about Kamala Harris’s loss is that Donald Trump will return to power. The second-worst thing, however, may be their inability to explain away his victory. In 2016 the left attributed his triumph to racism and the electoral college. This time, he won the popular vote—thanks not to “deplorables” but, the exit polls implied, to surging support from the non-white working class.

Did Mr Trump really win Latino men by 12 percentage points, as exit polls showed? Such surveys tend to overestimate how many voters belong to Democratic-leaning groups, and thus underestimate the share of voters within each group who back Democrats. This bias can be extreme. In 2016 the exit poll found that Mr Trump had won white college graduates by three percentage points. More accurate post-election surveys had him losing them by 15.

The best way to verify the exit polls’ findings is to test them against election results. In theory, if Mr Trump made larger gains among Hispanic voters than among white ones, he should also show the biggest improvements in heavily Hispanic areas. And returns from the 3,000 counties that have counted at least 90% of votes show that “racial depolarisation” was both greater than many Democrats thought possible, and insufficient to account for the magnitude of America’s red shift.

The most striking aspect of Mr Trump’s gains is their uniformity. Around 90% of American voters live in counties where his vote share increased from 2020. Half live in those where it rose by at least 1.9 percentage points. But some counties swung more than others, and these differences confirm that the shift was concentrated among Latinos. Among the 10% of voters living in the most Hispanic counties, the president-elect’s vote share rose by 5.1 points. For the 10% in counties with the fewest Latinos, the swing was just 1.6 points.

However, this predictor leaves big regional patterns unexplained. In Florida and especially the New York City area, the swing was greater than the Latino population implies. Elsewhere, it was smaller.

CBS’s 60 Minutes has sparked a right-wing backlash over its brutal takedown of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks.

Host Scott Pelley began Sunday’s show with a monologue dissecting Trump’s choices for his future administration, detailing one-by-one how the likes of Pete Hegseth, Matt Gaetz, Tulsi Gabbard and Robert F Kennedy Jr have “no compelling qualifications” and “no government experience” to take up the jobs they’ve been nominated for.

“Some nominees appear to have no compelling qualifications other than loyalty to Trump,” Pelley said.

Pointing to Hegseth, Pelley said the former Army veteran and Fox News contributor tapped to become the US defense secretary in charge of the Pentagon has “no government experience.”

Pelley then turned his attention to former Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, nominee for attorney general, who was at the center of a Justice Department sex trafficking investigation and House Ethics Committee probe. Gaetz has never been criminally charged and denies all the allegations.

“Gaetz has been investigated by Republicans for alleged drug use and sex with a minor,” the host continued, before describing Tulsi Gabbard, who was nominated as director of national intelligence, as someone accused of having “sought a pardon on Edward Snowden, who leaked US secrets and now lives in Russia.”

On vocal anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist RFK Jr, Pelley said Trump had chosen a “a skeptic of vaccinations” to lead America’s largest public health body.

Pelley’s comments caused quite a stir on social media.

Many anti-Trump accounts shared the clip of his comments in agreement with his assessment while many Trumpworld figures hit out at the host and 60 Minutes, calling it “propaganda.”

Trump’s incoming White House Communications Director Steven Cheung took to X to claim that Pelley’s segment was riddled with “disgusting bias”.

“This is exactly why we rebuffed @60Minutes for an interview during the campaign,” the former Trump campaign spokesperson said, referring to Trump’s refusal to take part in a sit-down interview with Pelley in early October.

He continued: “Their disgusting bias & unhinged ‘reporting’ are out of touch with everyday Americans who voted for President Trump. 60 Minutes is an out-dated relic of the past. CANCEL!”

Elon Musk, Trump megadonor and head of the newly-founded Department of Government Efficiency, also chimed in: “No Republican should ever do an interview with CBS News again, 60 Minutes, who edited the interview with Kamala [Harris] to try to make her look better, hates Trump.

“And they aren’t hiding it in this leftist, trash propaganda piece.”

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Fuck joy.

Trump was there to watch.

Or bi. Fucking finally! It's been a long time coming.

Thought you could use a cute picture when all this bad political stuff is happening

God, I miss the 80's

The just released memoir by former First Lady Melania Trump proves to be a 'disaster', according to tracking from Circana Book Scan. In it's debut week, the wife of Presidential candidate Donald Trump sold a paltry 85,000 copies of the hardcover book titled 'Melania'. In comparison, former First Lady Michelle Obama sold 1.4 million in the first week with her memoir, 'Becoming', in November 2018. By November 2019, it had sold 11.5 million copies.

Over at Amazon, “Melania” is a dud on Amazon’s Kindle e-books at number 161. Amazon lists a large print paperback at 6,856. No audio book is available.

Donald Trump boasted at the Al Smith dinner that Melania Trump’s book, “Melania,” is number 1 on the NY Times best seller list.

But that will be for one week only.

“Melania” has not made it to number 1 on USA Today, Amazon, or at Barnes & Noble. It’s been outsold by Bob Woodward’s “War” and by Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie Presley’s posthumous memoir.

At Barnes and Noble, “Melania” is number 40.

The Times list is ten days old when it appears. Initial sales and back orders propelled “Melania” to number 1. But the momentum wasn’t there.

Can she not sew their hostility to her?

In the era of Instagram and overexposure and every celebrity wanting to push products and be your best friend, who still has that Old Hollywood sense of mystery and intrigue about them? You know, the quality that made Garbo so iconic and enduring? Or is this type of star a relic from a bygone era, never to be seen again?

The lake scene in Leave Her To Heaven is still shocking in its coldness

When people stop being polite, and start getting real.

Can someone explain this video to me?

I'm not sure I understand the message here, but all of the straight guys in the comments section are agreeing with it, and saying that it hits so close to home.

I especially didn't understand the ending.

Am I missing something?

I actually thought this was going to be a video about the one straight friend who turned out to be gay.

But it wasn't that.

Spill it you sideshow!

That’s right, I said it.

I am color television!

Trump voters are about to get what they deserve.

YES!!!

Multiple consultants and PR reps told me brands no longer care about influencers promoting MAGA. “Honestly,” one consultant told me, “people lose more brand deals talking about Palestine than anything else.”

We haven't had one in a long time & I know Muriel hates them because

they mess up the search engine but it's been messed up without these type of threads so...

Have some fun while this thread is still up!

I have heard Jessica had a first marriage between college and Juilliard back when she lived in Sacramento. Apparently she and her family have managed to hide any reference to it. Her first marriage and first husband are not on her Wikipedia page or anywhere on line. It’s as if the marriage never happened.

What could have happened that our freshly minted Oscar winner is so desperately trying to hide?

Host & Musical Guest: Charli XCX

The definitive thread.

Multiple threads are doing this piecemeal. Chatting about this PR statement or that photo editorial or fashion show. This series or that movie.

Let's get down to the nitty gritty. Nicole Kidman jumped the shark in her 50s and nowadays is often unsettling and tirelessly attention-seeking.

Give us your best Freud, Jung, Camille Paglia, or Walter Isaacson take on Nicole Kidman. Or your own insightful armchair analysis.

What do we really know. Is there anything we don't know and want to know?

The GOP always has a bogeyman to fear to win elections--this time it was invading immigrants and the forced trans-ing of kids.

The Dems are always playing catch up and wackamole.

It's time for the Dems to take the initiative. How can they instill fear into the electorate?

How can it be?

91 critic score with 100 reviews, 99 audience score from previews

I’ll Start - Ronald Dump. Also, all of Hollywood.

Another underwater pipeline between Sweden and Lithuania was 'disrupted' causing Sweden to prepare for war, there are outages of IT all over Europe and trump is following a very curated playbook that only a Soviet would deploy. We tried to warn them and they voted him in anyway. Game over.

I hope she alerted the airline.

[quote]“I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken,” Washington then revealed. “I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet.

Nice to see how Denzel was happy to do that now, earlier in his career he wouldn't have done that. And fuck the studio for being afraid of including it

I've already pissed off one friend by asking him to refrain from sending me anything else about "Why Kamala lost". I need a damn break.

“Currently, President elect Trump has named his secretaries for the VA, Energy, Interior and EPA administrator. Any one of these positions I hoped Sarah Palin would get,” the follower wrote, which Palin posted to Instagram and X. “Palin was Trump before Trump. I have been saying this for years. Sarah Palin is the Mother of MAGA. Back then [16 years ago], she was the face of the tea party, what would then become the MAGA movement,” the follower wrote. “It is so shocking to me how in 2017, and now it looks like in 2025, she will not get a seat at the table that she helped set.” Palin’s name has been notably absent from all short-lists for Trump cabinet picks. In 2016, Trump signaled that he was considering tapping Palin as interior secretary, but that never materialized. Now, Palin’s name isn’t in the conversation at all. “Big tent, big party, but know your history so America can repeat the good parts,” Palin captioned the follower’s rant.

See I admire this

Just like I admired Angelina when she took Brad

Shocking. 🙄

Not so much spooky /ethereal words but sounds.

Like this one below by Belinda Carlisle.

Go.

My chronic disease decided to flare up on me yesterday. Today it’s been hard to do the very basics like take my dogs out, do 2 loads of laundry, wash some dishes, get my mail and prepare a couple meals. It’s early evening and I’m exhausted. I’ll be headed to bed to lie there and rest. I’ll watch TV for a while but I’ll probably drift off to sleep around 7 pm. My boyfriend moved back to his apartment recently. It was a mutual decision. He still comes over 2-3 times/nights a week. We’re still a couple. I feel defeated today.

Will Cynthia blame racism and or the patriarchy? Will her and Ariana ever stop crying?

The Crown Princess of Norway’s eldest son has been arrested for allegedly violating a restraining order imposed after he allegedly assaulted his ex-girlfriend.

Marius Borg Hoiby’s lawyer said the 27-year-old was accused of contacting the victim once using a hidden phone number after police announced the arrest on Saturday.

Police now also suspect Mr Hoiby of crimes against three other victims – domestic abuse of two women and threats to another person – which he denies.

Mr Hoiby is the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, who was a single mother when she met the heir to the throne, Crown Prince Haakon, who has raised his stepson since he was three.

Mr Hoiby, who has never held a royal title, was first arrested on Aug 4 at the woman’s apartment in Oslo. They were in a relationship at the time.

He is accused of causing her bodily harm, which can carry a sentence of up to a year in jail, and she was discharged from hospital the next day after being diagnosed with a concussion.

Local media said police found a knife stuck into one of the walls of the woman’s bedroom at the time.

Mr Hoiby was arrested on Friday at a cabin in the municipality of Gusdal, where he was on a hunting trip with friends. He was released on Saturday.

“At the beginning of September, police received information that Marius Borg Hoiby had, on several occasions, made unwanted contact with the woman, who has the status of victim in the incident,” police said on Saturday.

They “filed a report for reckless behaviour and imposed a restraining order on Hoiby”, it said.

They subsequently “received information that Hoiby had violated the restraining order” and he was rearrested late on Friday owing to the “risk of recurrence”.

Oyvind Bratlien, Mr Hoiby’s lawyer, said his client denied the allegations and that he should never have been arrested.

“In my 17 years as a defence lawyer, I have never experienced or heard of an arrest on such a flimsy factual and legal basis,” Mr Bratlien told broadcaster NRK.

“Hoiby was arrested because he allegedly contacted the victim once on Saturday Sept 7, despite the restraining order, from a hidden telephone number,” Mr Bratlien told Aftenposten.

Gay travel blogger Ben "Lucky" Schlappig shared a story about how/why Finnair operated a flight with an all-male crew.

I must admit that when I saw the picture, my first thought was, "Oh, my, a gaggle of gays!"

Admit it, you wrapped a scarf around your head and sashayed around your bedroom.

Any questions?

Kate Beckinsale is embroiled in a messy battle with a trauma “healer” who claims she stiffed him on a nearly $3,000 bill — but the actress says she’s not paying because he allegedly sexually assaulted her.

In August, Nick Abramovic of the Bionic Method was contacted by the “Serendipity” star’s assistant, and they discussed scheduling three sessions that would take place during a two-week period for $2,700 total.

The sessions consist of an “intense” and “emotional” massage similar to those done during Reiki therapy, in which the healer uses psychosomatic practices to heal parts of the body that are in pain.

Abramovic claims that after the session he believed Beckinsale was pleased with his services, as she gushed over his healing methods and returned a second time.

A text message Page Six reviewed shows the star’s assistant purportedly writing via text prior to Aug. 4 that Beckinsale “really enjoyed the session.”

Abramovic claims the actress also told him herself, “‘You’re like Harry Potter. I would really like to promote you on my Instagram. I think we could do a party at my house instead of me having to come here and you could meet all my friends.’”

The healer, who claims he has not received payment from the “Jolt” star for the sessions, says he didn’t realize she was “expecting free s–t” in return for her recommendations.

I used to but feel it's become a stupid endeavor. It still gnaws at me whenever someone might post something hateful, but refrain.

Today, an acquaintance posted how AOC needs to go because she's bringing the Dems down. She's, of course, doing nothing of the sort. All his friends are cheering on his post. Do I give an alternate view or just ignore it?

Probably pit bulls.. again. Good to know the owners got attacked. Owning a pit bull is some sort of mental illness. Cross the street whenever you see one of these ugly shit beasts.

Another 80s music icon is getting the biopic treatment.

Nicole gets candid about mortality and grief.

Pics or videos linked preferred.

She’s really, really dead.

I actually find the people who call fascinating and can almost always guess what region they're from within 2 sentences (not because of accents) and if they order clothes I can guess their size about 80 percent of the time just by their voice.

AMA- except the company because while I suspect that I have actually spoken to a few of you, I don't want get harassed and I won't tell my name obviously.

What's been your best experience with them?

Your worst?

I'm searching for a new one possibly one from outside the USA.

Discuss.

Yay! We will be getting an Equalizer 4 and 5!!!

Kamala leading Trump by 3 points in Iowa!!!

How many of these are we going to see in the next few years?

This guy has suddenly shown up on my reels. Fantastic body

From a huge acting family led by a major stage mother.

I can see why he never became massive, but I'm surprised he didn't do a better job of capitalizing on the "Just One of the Guys" hype (people at Columbia thought he was the next Bill Murray). Instead, just D-grade movies and endless television.

He never really talks about his career either.

He was so hot and we had amazing chemistry. I can never have sex with him again and that’s fucking me up. He cheated and I hate him. It has been over three months since we last had sex. I’m not into hooking up so I don’t know how I’ll survive. I have a very high sex drive. It was the best sex of my life. It was curved.

And here I thought you bitches were just wishful thinking.

How do you find her walk and her face?

Title: Lucy and Ethel Play Matchmaker

The episode begins with Lucy and Ethel in the hallway of their apartment building, chatting about a new tenant they’ve heard about, Mr. Edward O'Mallory, who works in the accessories department of the elegant department store, Goldstein & Lieberman's. Intrigued, they decide to introduce themselves and bring him a welcome cake (which, of course, Lucy nearly drops down the stairwell).

Edward is dapper, polite, and charming, immediately hitting it off with Lucy and Ethel. During their conversation, he mentions his love of fashion, Broadway musicals, and fine accessories, which Lucy and Ethel take as signs that he is “perfectly sophisticated.” They decide Edward is lonely and needs companionship—someone “respectable”.

Unbeknownst to the ladies, Edward develops a fondness for Fred during their first meeting, charmed by Fred’s gruff humor. Fred, oblivious, thinks Edward is simply being friendly. Meanwhile, Ricky sees what’s going on and finds the whole situation hilarious but opts to let it play out.

The Mystery Edward begins leaving beautifully wrapped packages outside Fred and Ethel’s door. At first, Fred is confused but pleased with the gifts: an elegant silk scarf, leather gloves, and a fancy umbrella. Ethel assumes the gifts are a thank-you for their hospitality and convinces Lucy they should throw Edward a tea party to “introduce him to someone.” They invite half the building, and Lucy sets her sights on matchmaking Edward with a shy single woman named Miss Kowalski.

The Physical Comedy At the tea party, Lucy’s nosiness leads her to discover Edward brought Fred another present—a silk handkerchief. Believing Edward must be a secret admirer of Miss Kowalski and “too shy” to give her gifts directly, Lucy tries to orchestrate a moment for Edward to confess his “true feelings.” This results in a series of misunderstandings:

Edward politely declines to dance with Miss Kowalski, but Lucy tries to physically push him into her. This ends with Lucy falling into a tray of sandwiches.

Fred, clueless about the crush, begins modeling all the accessories Edward has given him, looking increasingly ridiculous as he piles them on. Ricky, struggling not to laugh, offers running commentary that only confuses Fred further.

Ethel, frustrated by Fred “hogging the attention,” tries to take some of the accessories for herself. This results in a tug-of-war over the umbrella that ends with it popping open and spilling tea everywhere.

The Resolution Finally, Edward nervously pulls Fred aside to confess something—but before he can, Lucy bursts in, convinced he’s about to reveal his “love” for Miss Kowalski. In the chaos that follows, Edward tactfully excuses himself, and Ricky finally spills the truth to Lucy and Ethel. The ladies are shocked but quickly laugh it off, realizing how oblivious they’ve been.

The episode ends with Fred and Ethel bickering over who gets to keep the fancy umbrella, while Ricky teases Lucy for her terrible matchmaking skills. Edward, ever-gracious, promises to remain friends with the Ricardos and the Mertzes but declines any more tea parties.

Tagline: Lucy: “Well, I guess you can’t judge a book by its cover.” Ricky: “No, but you could try reading it once in a while.”

Cue the audience's laughter and applause!

I would not mind a live action Bee Movie tho. It would look so fucked up!

What are some of your go to sad pieces of music?

Looks pretty good. Starts in March '25

Currently, it's nothing but dark sky and clouds. Sort of sucks and I have low energy because of it.

It's now a blood sport with rallies, spectacles and (Kid) rock concerts.

No icky wokeness to worry about! Fuck everything from football to Disney cartoons!

Scream with joy as the military deports millions!

Howl with laughter as bombs fall on Gaza!

Root for your team as they root you right to hell and back!

And when they finally come for you, grin from your toothless, blood-splattered mouth and say "We sure owned dem libs!"

by Jennie Garth

Experience self love.

I watched the first episode. Pretty good with new interviews.

So this is the first time I am ever seeing the actual live video footage from this concert celebration of Juneteenth. Either President Biden got some bad plastic surgery or completely does not know where the fuck he is.

How far would you go to get a 20% discount at Ross?

Musk appears to pressure Trump on Cabinet and tariffs, raising eyebrows

In a Saturday post on X, the social network he owns and runs, Musk praised a foreign leader’s decision to cut tariffs - the same import taxes that Trump wants to raise to the highest level in a century. Several hours later, Musk posted that Howard Lutnick, Trump’s co-transition chair, would be a better choice than hedge fund executive Scott Bessent for treasury secretary.

He opposed the JetBlue purchase of Spirit and now Spirit has filed for bankruptcy.

This was so depressing to watch.

How can middle class people afford to live there?

Who is buying all of these multi-million dollar homes?

And why did the Australian government let prices get so out of control?

Fess up.

Majorie Taylor Greene called for red and blue states to separate in a post on X Monday, an idea she has brought up several times during her tenure in Congress.

The Georgia congresswoman’s criticism comes amid reports of Democratic governors taking measures to protect their states against Trump’s policies.

“​​If Democrat governors plan to commit treason against our President and the majority of Americans then let them destroy their own states,” she wrote. “No one will want to live there. And after years of being attacked by the deranged left, most of us are so sick of their c---.”

California Gov. Gavin Newsom called a special legislative session to “safeguard California values and fundamental rights in the face of an incoming Trump administration.” Colorado Gov. Jared Polis and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker created the coalition Governors Safeguarding Democracy to protect state-level institutions from influence at the hands of the federal government.

“Hope alone won’t save our democracy,” Polis said when he announced the formation of the coalition. “We need to work together, especially at the state level, to protect and strengthen it.”

Greene accused Democratic governors of “threatening the upcoming Trump administration’s mandate.” She said she is “still in favor of a national divorce if need be.”

Greene has stirred up controversy by calling for a national divorce several times in the past. In 2023, she called the idea “not a civil war but a legal agreement.”

“Tragically, I think we, the left and right, have reached irreconcilable differences,” she wrote previously.

Definitely worth checking out!

These endless 24/7 threads about Trump and politics are nauseating - even worse than a visit to my mother with her 8 - 12 hours a day of MSNBC. The endless hysterics are nauseating.

Yes, it sucks that we lost. Yes, it will be a horrible 4 years. However, let have a little reality check here. First, gays and trannies are not going to be "marched into the gas chambers" like it's 1942 Germany. If gays die during Trump's term, it will be for the same reason they always do - AIDS-related complications and drug overdoses. If "trans women of color" die during Trump's second term, it will be for the same reason they are dying now - prostitution related murders and living shady lives involving shady people. You all sounds as crazy as that trans woman Blossom screaming about trans women being hunted like deer.

Also, for the love of God, quit talking about your plans to leave the US. None of you assholes left during Trump's first term and you ain't leaving now. You know it, I know it, your drug dealer knows it. Get a grip!

This site used to be so much fun. Now it's Trump, Trump, Trump. Yes, he's a threat. Yes, he will cause damage to this country, but we will survive as we always do and we will carry on.

In the middle of an article “ Democrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan”

Do they really think their readers want to see that?

Isn’t it saying “You don’t belong here?”

Starring Maika Monroe and Mary Elizbeth Winstead. Now filming.

I hope it's not just a pale remake and they actually go for morally complexity. The original hinted at this kind of material, but would always fall back into good guy vs. bad guy thriller shenanigans (certainly fun and a bit campy, but I want more).

Timothy Chalamee, Paul Mescal, Domingo Colman, Daniel Craig and Adrian Brody.

Correct me if I'm wrong.

I checked my mailbox and had a bunch of mail today, and one was from someone I know. I was confused why they would send me a letter instead of just text or call or even email (it is 2024 after all!) but when I opened the mail, it was a note saying “these made me think of you XO” and it was two magnets of naked men 🤣

Plus a bunch of small stickers of men. So funny.

Here are step-by-step instructions for how to digitally silence the President-elect from your devices. But first, let’s talk about whether you really want to do this.

He was here a few years ago, and then poof, he's gone.

This movie is like an unpleasant dream.

Does the Bible ever mention any punishment to the devil and the demons , I don’t know for intance like being crucified upside down for eternity or something like that. It seems that punishments are only given to humans but not to the Satan and the demons themselves, no hellish punishment for those except being expulsed from heaven. Instead they are rewarded with tormenting the sinners not only in hell but mankind in general on earth.

I was having a argument with my fundie neighbor and I pointed this out to her and she didn’t even know if there was any specific punishment given satan and its demons.

This is important because then God is not interested in punishing these superior beings’ wrong doings but only those of the humans.

I think the overarching theme of both seasons (and probably the upcoming third) is how primal people be - even sophisticated rich liberal/progressives. I also like that the show is cynical, but never deteriorates into nihilism. Plus, it knows how to be un-PC without pulling any try-hard South Park bullshit.

What is your take on this show?

Do you have one? Several? Suction cup base or handle? Anal balls on a string? Prostate massagers? Please let us know what’s in your toy chest.

His name is Peter Mairhofer. He's a model with a dazzling blend of charm and charisma.

He's not just gay; he's a rainbow wrapped in charisma, with a smile that could illumine the darkest room.

I more or less enjoy all of the films in the series for pure entertainment value, but I think Part II is my favorite, mainly because I find Jason's brief sack mask/pickaxe era in it visually terrifying (plus, it has a lot of atmosphere, similar to the first film).

What do we think?

I’m looking for a quiet, pleasant beach village where I can rent a simple beachside bungalow with a hammock for a couple of weeks. Mexico? Puerto Rico? Brazil? Or…?

On a tight budget so priority is affordability.

Timing is flexible but thinking of a January departure (after the Xmas travel rush).

What are your recommendations?

TIA

I just paid the $50 annual fee for my home alarm. The police can refuse to come to my house if I don't have a permit on file

That doesn't seem right.

Even "Barbie" pales in comparison.

When will too much be recognized as too much?

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday that it defeated a Ukrainian ATACMS attack in the western Bryansk region, shortly before the Kremlin updated its nuclear weapons doctrine to allow for nuclear strikes in response to foreign ballistic missile attacks.

Ukrainian forces fired six "ballistic missiles," the ministry wrote on its official Telegram page, five of which were downed and the sixth damaged. "According to confirmed data, American-made ATACMS operational-tactical missiles were used," it wrote.

"ATACMS fragments fell on the technical territory of a military facility in the Bryansk region, a fire broke out, it was extinguished," the ministry added.

The ministry alleged the attack shortly after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists that the changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine -- signed by President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday -- meant "the use of Western non-nuclear rockets by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response."

Peskov's remarks came after three U.S. officials confirmed to ABC News that President Joe Biden had approved Ukraine's use of the long-range American-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System -- colloquially known as the ATACMS -- to hit targets in Russia's western Kursk region.

Bryansk borders Kursk to its west. The target and location of Tuesday's alleged Ukrainian strike is unclear. Kyiv is yet to comment on the Russian Defense Ministry's report.

The Biden administration hasn't publicly confirmed the policy change. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller told journalists at a Monday briefing he would not confirm or deny approval for ATACMS use inside Russia, but said the U.S. response to Russian and North Korean military cooperation in the war "would be firm."

There are now some 10,000 North Korean troops in Russia's Kursk region intended for deployment to the battlefield, U.S. officials have said.

The changes to Russia's nuclear doctrine were unveiled several weeks ago but only signed by Putin on Tuesday, as officials in Moscow expressed anger at the U.S. decision to allow ATACMS use on Russian territory.

The doctrine now says Russia can launch a nuclear attack against a country assisting a non-nuclear country in aggression against Russia that critically threatens the country's state integrity.

Moscow has repeatedly threatened nuclear weapon use against Ukraine and its Western partners throughout its full-scale invasion of the country.

Western leaders including President Joe Biden have said that avoiding a direct clash between Russia and NATO is a top priority given the danger of nuclear war.

I always think that the things that are secretly attractive are the real deal breakers. For me it's the nose and shoes. If a guy is wearing nice, clean shoes and has a great nose- not too long or flat, not unique but attractive on the guy. When I was younger I once stop dating a guy because he wore Velcro tennis shoes. He wasn't 8 or 70. I dated a former boxer once. His nose had been broken a couple of times, and to me that added character to his face.

Lock these two assholes up, and expel them from school.

Every student should know better than to pull shit like this.

It's not even remotely funny.

Shen Yun’s Longstanding Labor Practices Attract Regulators’ Scrutiny The New York State Department of Labor has opened an inquiry into the global dance group and its treatment of the children and teenagers who stage its shows worldwide.

“The students did everything,” said Mr. Glickman, who quit the show in 2016, exhausted by its rigorous touring schedule. “That place would not run if they had to pay real musicians, like every other organization in the country does.”

Former performers told The Times they worked from early morning until close to midnight while on tour. The young performers carried and set up heavy equipment, rehearsed, performed up to two shows a day and spent hundreds of hours on cross-country bus rides, according to former performers and written schedules.

A tour schedule from December 2016 showed that one Shen Yun troupe was slated to perform or travel on nine consecutive days without a break, including a 17-hour bus trip from Michigan to Texas.

Starring Cate Blanchett, Lesley Manville, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kodi Smit-McPhee. Alfonso Cuarón writes and directs all seven episodes of the show, which is adapted from Renée Knight’s 2015 book.

Are we watching the shit out of this or not? I have never in my life seen a kitchen lit so beautifully. Look at that pink sky!

October 11th.

Hallmark executive VP of programming Lisa Hamilton Daly told her staff she did not want to cast “old people”.

Presumably they do not attract Hallmark’s target audience of Twitch addicted, PornHub addled Gen Zs.

Since the election, I’ve noticed a surge in articles and videos claiming that celebrity culture is over and that celebrities should stay out of politics.

Ironically, many in the anti-celebrity, anti-Oscar crowd voted for a reality TV star who’s been famous since the 1980s and regard a Hollywood actor as one of the best Presidents in history.

If Americans are willing to vote celebrities into the highest positions of power, why would they expect celebrities to stop engaging in politics?

Whit Stillman comes to mind. I wonder if the actors/actresses who work with him realize he's a conservative?

This fat whore is salivating over the blueberry crumb donut in particular. I might have to go there later this week. These two hillsbillies on youtube taste tested these limited edition donuts and their favorite was the blueberry crumb.

The White House has condemned an incident over the weekend in which a group of masked individuals with Nazi flags marched through the streets of Columbus, Ohio.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement President Joe Biden "abhors the hateful poison of Nazism, Antisemitism, and racism," which he called "hostile to everything the United States stands for, including protecting the dignity of all our citizens and the freedom to worship."

"Hate directed against any of us is a threat to every single one of us," Bates said. "This sickening display comes during a tragic rise in Antisemitic rhetoric and violence that is a crises the American people should all come together against. That is why President Biden launched and continues to act on the first ever national strategy to fight Antisemitism in American history.”

On Saturday afternoon, a group of unidentified individuals marched through Columbus wearing black and carrying flags with swastikas on them.

The individuals were also "armed with firearms," according to the Columbus Police Department.

Members of the group were detained, but no arrests were ultimately made, police said. Police said officers had initially been advised of a possible "physical altercation," but released the detained individuals after determining "an assault did not take place."

Officials spoke out after photos and videos of the demonstrators circulated widely across social media.

In a statement from the city of Columbus, city officials said they "reject the cowardly display" and would work with police to monitor the situation.

John Oliver spent part of his Sunday evening tearing into President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees, calling them awful “even by his low standards.”

But he saved his harshest quips for former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Trump’s pick for attorney general. Oliver said that when Gaetz was in high school, he was voted “most likely to not be allowed within 500 feet of here.”

Gaetz was under federal investigation in a sex trafficking probe involving a 17-year-old girl, although no charges were brought and the investigation was eventually dropped. He was also under investigation by the House Ethics Committee until his resignation last week.

Oliver played a supercut in which Gaetz was blasted by conservatives, including former national security adviser John Bolton, who said Gaetz’s selection “must be the worst nomination for a Cabinet position in American history.”

“It might,” Oliver agreed. “But get used to it, because ‘the worst blank in American history’ is going to be this administration’s MO going forward. So, get ready for the worst Easter egg roll in American history. The Easter Bunny will be on fire, every egg will be filled with expired mayonnaise, and all the kids who don’t win will be immediately put into foster care.”

Oliver noted that one Republican lawmaker said “are you shittin’ me?” when he was told Trump had picked Gaetz.

He called that reaction “objectively the correct response to the idea that this guy could be attorney general: a man who my lawyers insist I cannot call ‘Jeffrey Epstein if he went to shittier beaches,’ so I am not going to do that.”

Two Tuesdays in a row with disappointing results.

It’s been almost 10 years since a white supremacist was welcomed into a South Carolina church and opened fire, killing nine people in a Bible study, including the Rev. Sharon Risher’s mother, two cousins and childhood friend.

When the shooter, Dylann Roof, was sentenced to death in 2017, Risher believed he deserved to die. Over time, she reconnected with her faith and found a way to forgive him.

As she learned about the broader issues with the death penalty, like the racial disparities and the lack of evidence that it deters violent crime, Risher helped launch a campaign to save not only Roof’s life but the lives of all the men on federal death row, including high profile inmates like Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was convicted in the Boston marathon bombing and Robert Bowers, the man sentenced to death for the 2018 mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Risher, who serves on the board of Death Penalty Action, hand-delivered a letter to the White House in June urging, President Joe Biden to commute their sentences – but received no response. The nonprofit she represents sent another letter signed by 350 organizations after former President Donald Trump won the election in November. They have not received a response. Her group plans to send a fourth letter next month as the window runs out for Biden to grant clemency.

Opponents like Risher hope to secure life sentences for these prisoners since the former reality TV star helped expedite 13 executions during the last six months of his first term. No federal executions have happened during Biden's presidency, which ends Jan. 20, 2025.

“We're afraid that if Biden doesn't step in, that this will happen again,” Risher said.

Death Penalty Action is among hundreds of advocacy groups pressuring Biden to fulfill a promise he made on the campaign trail to end the federal death penalty and prevent Trump from initiating another series of executions. They've pleaded with Biden through letters, petitions and protests to commute the sentences of all 40 men on federal death row. (The last woman on federal death row was executed eight days before Trump left office.)

There’s precedent at the state and federal level for mass 11th-hour commutations, but given Biden’s record on clemency, it’s unclear if he’ll take action.

“He absolutely can commute all of those sentences," said Rachel Barkow, a professor of law at New York University who has written about presidential clemency. "I just don't know if he will."

Trump took a hardline stance on the death penalty last time he was in office. Attorney General William Barr said after the first executions were scheduled in 2019, "The Justice Department upholds the rule of law – and we owe it to the victims and their families to carry forward the sentence imposed by our justice system."

The Trump administration was the first to carry out the federal death penalty in 17 years, overseeing 13 executions, in an unprecedented run that continued despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. The inmates included Daniel Lewis Lee, the first prisoner executed by the federal government since 2003, and Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on death row and the first woman executed in nearly 70 years.

On the campaign trail, Trump called for expanded use of the death penalty to punish drug dealers, human traffickers, child rapists and migrants who kill American citizens or law enforcement officers. The Trump transition team did not respond to a request for comment about its policy for the upcoming term.

It would have been nice if someone had published something like this [italic]before[/italic] the election.

Gift article.

Based on Patrick Radden Keefe’s acclaimed 2018 book, spanning four tumultuous decades during The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

Nine episodes, out November 14.

'We're All Slaves to Information Now'

Actors are inherently stupid.

Listed for $37.5million in 2006 now back on market at $49 million.

The Piano Man wants to spend more time at his Florida estate so this NY property is surplus to requirements.

Posts haven't been working this morning.

Ballet dancer falls to his death from building. What did he do?

Centre Island on Long Island's North Shore is home to a bunch of impressive properties. But Billy Joel's recently updated 26-acre waterfront estate stands out as one of the more luxurious homes on the island.

Ouch!

I've never had it before, but my big toe joint started hurting yesterday, and today it's swollen and I can't walk.

It's so fucking painful!

I can't see the doctor until tomorrow. Are there any home remedies to make it feel better, until I get to the doctor?

I'm almost afraid of starting a poll about this name. So many to choose from. Such a weird name. If you met an alien named Ann you wouldn't bat an eye.

This is not an Onion headline.

[quote] Mystic temple and prophecies only felt by movement and revelations because the opening of the heart is one the world’s most beautiful mysteries !!! Am I the key 🔑 ??? 19m

– A new report from Soliant Health reveals a concerning trend: healthcare professionals across all age groups are leaving the industry due to job stress, poor work-life balance, and unhealthy workplace cultures.

– Surprisingly, Gen Z (ages 18-27) is leading the exodus, with over 22% planning to leave their healthcare jobs within the next 1-3 years.

Gen Z: Unhealthy workplace culture and limited career advancement opportunities are the primary drivers for leaving.

Millennials (ages 28-43): High job stress, burnout, and poor work-life balance are the main concerns. Gen X (ages 44-59): Similar to Millennials, unhealthy workplace culture and high job stress are top concerns, along with lack of support from management.

Baby Boomers (ages 60+): Unhealthy workplace culture, job stress, and lack of leadership support are the main reasons for leaving.

Is anyone here planning to watch this?

Will they show Aaron getting it on with guys?

Russian ballet star Vladimir Shklyarov died on Saturday after falling from the fifth floor of a building.

The preliminary cause of death was labeled as an accident, with Russian authorities launching an investigation, according to RIA Novosti, a Russian state media outlet.

CNN reported that he died two days before he was going to have “complex spinal surgery” and was on “serious painkillers.”

In Feb. 2022, at the beginning of Russia’s invasion in Ukraine, the dancer spoke out against the violence. “I am against the war in Ukraine! I am for the people, for a peaceful sky over my head! Politicians should be able to negotiate without shooting and killing civilians, for that they are given their tongue and head,” he was quoted as saying by Russian-Ukrainian former ballet dancer Alexei Ratmansky on Facebook.

“It is impossible to watch everything that is happening today without tears... I wanna dance... I want to love everyone—that’s the purpose of my life... I do not want wars, no borders.”

Multiple Vladimir Putin adversaries have died after falling from windows. The term “Sudden Russian Death Syndrome” was born after many notable Russian figureheads who have spoken out against Putin’s reign died in puzzling ways. One of the most common causes of the deaths are window falls.

“Some two dozen notable Russians have died in 2022 in mysterious ways,” wrote The Atlantic in 2022. “After all, this is what the Kremlin does. There is precedent for this phenomenon."

Notable deaths include Pavel Antov, who fell from a window at an Indian hotel two days after his Russian travel companion died (at the same hotel); Putin critic Alexander Litvinenko, who was poisoned; and Russian defense official Marina Yankina, who fell 160 feet and died in St. Petersburg in 2023.

Shklyarov, meanwhile, worked at the Mariinsky Theater as a principal dancer, the highest ranking position.

“It is with profound sadness that the Mariinsky Theatre announces the untimely passing of principal dancer Vladimir Shklyarov. Mr Shklyarov, a beloved artist and audience favourite, died tragically on 16 November,” wrote the theater on their website. “His loss is deeply felt by the entire Mariinsky family and the wider ballet world.”

Shklyarov, 39, was married to Maria Shirinkina, another dancer at the theater. The pair had a son and daughter.

Big dicked Peter from Sean Cody's glory days gave up porn, enlisted in the military, got married, had kids, and became a devout Christian.

So naturally, he'd start up a construction business in Florida and run a scam to cheat clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, including one client who died of cancer before their case could be rectified.

Gay porn -> Florida -> Arrest record

I'm guessing he's full MAGA now, too.

Anybody watched this?

The veins and blood vessels surrounding the anus and lower rectum become enlarged and engorged with blood, increasing the risk of hemorrhoids.

There are no good threads- I am SICK TO DEATH of the political threads- I'm not the only person who has said this.

Goes to Gelson’s and eats potato salad then comes home and photoshops all her pictures?

The Trump transition team is compiling a list of senior current and former U.S. military officers who were directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and exploring whether they could be court-martialed for their involvement, according to a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.

Officials working on the transition are considering creating a commission to investigate the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, including gathering information about who was directly involved in the decision-making for the military, how it was carried out and whether the military leaders could be eligible for charges as serious as treason, the two sources said.

“They’re taking it very seriously,” the person with knowledge of the plan said.

Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defense for counternarcotics and global threats, is helping lead the effort, the sources said. It is being framed as a review of how the U.S. first got into the war in Afghanistan and how it ultimately withdrew.

President-elect Donald Trump has condemned the withdrawal as a “humiliation” and “the most embarrassing day in the history of our country.”

It is not clear, though, what would legally justify “treason” charges, since the military officers were following the orders of President Joe Biden to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

A 2022 independent review by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blamed both the Trump and Biden administrations for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in 2021.

Trump first reached an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, roughly 13,000 troops, and release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison. The Biden administration then completed the withdrawal and badly overestimated the ability of Afghan government forces to fight the Taliban on their own.

Trump’s choice for defense secretary, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, has criticized the withdrawal, saying the U.S. lost the war and wasted billions of dollars.

In his book “The War on Warriors,” Hegseth wrote: “The next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make us ready to defend our nation and defeat our enemies. Lots of people need to be fired. The debacle in Afghanistan, of course, is the most glaring example.”

Hegseth calls the withdrawal a “humiliating retreat” and says leaders at the Defense Department were not held accountable for the deadly attack at Abbey Gate, which killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians. Nor were they held accountable for a subsequent U.S. airstrike in Kabul that officials thought would kill the Islamic State group leader behind the suicide attack but instead killed 10 innocent Afghans, including seven children, he wrote.

“These generals lied. They mismanaged. They violated their oath. They failed. They disgraced our troops, and our nation. They got people killed, unnecessarily,” he wrote. “And, to this moment, they keep their jobs. Worse, they continue to actively erode our military and its values — by capitulating to civilians with radical agendas. They are an embarrassment, with stars still on their shoulders.”

The transition team is looking at the possibility of recalling several commanders to active duty for possible charges, the U.S. official said.

It is not clear the Trump administration would pursue treason charges, and instead it could focus on lesser charges that highlight the officers’ involvement. “They want to set an example,” said the person with knowledge of the plan.

Two weeks after Houston lawyer Tony Buzbee said he would soon be representing at least 120 accusers against Sean “Diddy” Combs, the attorney filed his first six sexual assault complaints on Monday — including one from a man who claims he was a teen at the time of his encounter with the music mogul.

All six lawsuits, which were obtained by TheWrap, were filed in the Southern District of New York per the Victims of Gender-Motivated Violence Protection Act, with the allegations stemming from between 1995 and 2021. Buzbee is representing four John Does and two Jane Does in these cases.

One of the four anonymous male victims claims he was 16 years old when he was sexually assaulted at one of Combs’ White Parties in the Hamptons in 1998.

According to the then-teenage victim, he was invited to the party at Combs’ mansion by a mutual friend, where he bumped into the rapper (an apparent picture of the pair from the event in question is included in the legal documents). “Combs took an interest in John Doe” and they engaged in pleasant conversation about the entertainment industry, per the lawsuit.

“When John Doe admitted his voice was not great, Combs assured him that did not matter. Combs made clear that the only thing that mattered was having the right look for the industry, and with it, Combs could transform Doe — or anybody — into a star.”

However, “Combs abruptly told John Doe that he needed to drop his pants. John Doe, caught completely off guard, confusingly asked Combs to repeat himself. Combs made himself clear. He instructed John Doe to drop his pants and expose his penis so that Combs could inspect it, explaining it was a rite of passage and the route to becoming a star, and also as a way to prove himself,” the suit alleges.

“Out of fear, anxiety and the imbalanced power dynamic between himself and Combs, John Doe then dropped his pants and exposed his penis as Combs previously instructed,” it continues. “Combs moved closer and grabbed John Doe’s penis and genitals with his hand. He firmly cupped and held onto John Doe’s genitals for an extended period of time.

During this time, Combs moved his hand in such a fashion to manipulate John Doe’s genitals, squeezing and feeling them … Combs abruptly then let go of John Doe’s genitals and told him that his people would be in touch. Combs continued with his party as if nothing had happened, but for John Doe, everything had changed.”

“We will let the allegations in the filed complaints speak for themselves and will work to see that justice is done,” Buzbee shared in a statement to Rolling Stone. “We expect to be filing many more cases over the next several weeks naming Mr. Combs and others as defendants as we continue to gather evidence and prepare the filings.”

Meanwhile, Diddy’s attorney Erica Wolff issued the following statement to TMZ following Buzbee’s initial press conference: “As Mr. Combs’ legal team has emphasized, he cannot address every meritless allegation in what has become a reckless media circus. That said, Mr. Combs emphatically and categorically denies as false and defamatory any claim that he sexually abused anyone, including minors.

Mr. Buzbee has not yet filed a single case in any jurisdiction. Mr. Combs looks forward to proving his innocence and vindicating himself in court if and when claims are filed and served, where the truth will be established based on evidence, not speculation.”

Paul Teal, the actor known for his recurring role as Josh Avery on the young-adult drama One Tree Hill, died Friday at 35 after a battle with cancer.

His representatives at STW Talent Agency confirmed the news on social media and said, "His exceptional talent and kind spirit touched the hearts of everyone who had the privilege of knowing him. The void he leaves behind will be deeply felt."

Teal's partner, Emilia Torello, also mourned his death, writing, "Paul, you were my soulmate, my soon-to-be-husband, my rock, and my future. You filled my lungs with laughter, my stomach with butterflies, and my heart with love. You were taken too soon, in a battle that you fought bravely without fail. While a part of me died with you, I promise to fight to find joy in life as hard as you fought to live every single day."

Teal hailed from the Wilmington, N.C., area and was active in the local theater community. The actor go this start performing in musicals like The Producers; Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; and The Rocky Horror Picture Show; for which he won several local acting awards, according to an obituary in the Wilmington Star News.

Teal's screen credits also included Descendants: Rise of Red, Deep Water, Outer Banks, and The Staircase. But his breakthrough came on One Tree Hill, which filmed around Wilmington. Teal appeared in several episodes of the series' seventh season as Josh Avery, a successful yet closeted actor who strikes up a complicated relationship with Jana Kramer's Alex Dupre.

Bethany Joy Lenz, who starred on One Tree Hill throughout its nine-season run, shared her memories of working with Teal in front of and behind the camera in a heartfelt Instagram post. "I was giddy to be directing an episode of One Tree Hill where I'd get to cast a new recurring character, Josh - the sleazy movie star," she wrote. "With his self-effacing sense of humor and willingness to dive fully into any character, Paul was perfect for the part. He was a joy to work with in any environment and so generous."

Evidence found in Sean "Diddy" Combs' jail cell suggests he has influenced a witness in his New York sex trafficking and racketeering case and is trying to blackmail others, prosecutors allege. They say that he has sought to avoid federal detection by using three-way calls and other inmates' phone access codes.

In a motion filed Friday, federal prosecutors say Combs was using secretive methods to contact outsiders from jail, and evidence gathered shows "the clear inference that the defendant’s goal is to blackmail victims and witnesses either into silence or [to] provide testimony helpful to his defense. An allegation that is more often seen in mob trials or Mexican Mafia-style cases."

But in a motion filed Monday, the music mogul's lawyers contend that what investigators actually seized from his Metropolitan Detention Center cell in Brooklyn was "attorney-client privileged material," including handwritten notes by Combs.

"This search and seizure are in violation of Mr. Combs’ Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights," his attorneys wrote. "The targeted seizure of a pre-trial detainee’s work product and privileged materials — created in preparation for trial — is outrageous government conduct amounting to a substantive due process violation."

The attorneys learned that notes were seized from Combs' cell only when prosecutors filed a motion 30 minutes before midnight Friday citing them as evidence opposing his release, his attorneys wrote.

In a new filing Monday, prosecutors said they had not seen anything from a legal file in his cell and turned over photographs agents took of items in the cell to a "filter team" to determine if there was anything privileged that should remain private. That team redacted anything that appeared to be privileged and then gave the information to prosecutors.

The battling motions come as a federal judge is slated again this week to decide whether Combs, who has been behind bars since his September arrest, should be granted $50-million bail and released to house detention.

Federal prosecutors reiterated their opposition to Combs being granted bail to the judge on Friday, alleging Combs attempted to tamper with witnesses and influence potential jurors from his prison cell using his family members, and said they feared that his behavior would worsen out of custody.

According to prosecutors, Combs' notes were recovered from the "defendant’s cell during a pre-planned nationwide sweep of BOP facilities."

Neama Rahmani, a former federal prosecutor, said there's a reason prosecutors believe Combs is obstructing justice from prison, similar to an argument they made during a previous bail hearing, and there is a good chance the judge doesn't toss out evidence seized.

"Inmates don’t have a Fourth Amendment expectation of privacy in prison. Guards can search his cell without probable cause or a warrant," she said, adding that there is a process to handle potentially privileged materials found during a search.

"The feds usually use a ‘taint’ or ‘dirty’ team of agents that aren’t working on the case to conduct these searches. That way, if they see privileged materials, the ‘clean’ team won’t be disqualified from the case."

In their partially redacted filing on Friday, prosecutors allege the evidence seized shows a pattern of influence from Combs while in custody and that he's made "relentless efforts to contact potential witnesses, including victims of his abuse who could provide powerful testimony against him."

They accuse Combs of using phone access codes, known as PAC numbers, of eight other inmates to contact several people — including his sons — and making "three-way calls to contact other individuals." Prosecutors also allege that Combs has used a third-party communication service called ContactMeASAP to reach unauthorized individuals.

They referred to a call with "Witness-2" and said his communications with the individual as well as his personal notes revealed "a strong inference" that "the defendant paid Witness-2 after she posted her statement."

At first I thought it was Shiloh

Continuing our discussion of the stars, storylines, and Sapphic sisters of the Lawrence family of Pasadena.

I asked him to come over and look at my crack.

Kathy must be elated.

Terms of Endearment (the little boy crying next to his mother towards the end gets me every time)

Beaches

Indecent Proposal (John Barry's beautiful score)

Bridges of Madison County

Requiem For A Dream

Against All Odds (nostalgia, Phil Collins' song)

St.Elmo's Fire (nostalgia, David Foster's Love Theme)

WTF is a casserole?

They got to be from the 1960s, and they got to be truly vile, repugnant, and cacodemonic. Mine......DOMINIQUE (1963)....MISSES BROWN YOU HAVE A LOVELY DAUGHTER (1965)....WINCHESTER CATHEDRAL (1966). Bonus...SUKIYAKI (1963).. ....Don't remember it? Sure you do. Caution: may cause ear worm.

Go into the light, Dennis.

Go into the light!!!

Take my poll.

I don't even care if it's a trailer park. When I die, I want to be a Californian.

I swear the breaks between shows are so long now it's easy to forget them.

I just want to keep DL updated on the latest trends.

Enough. This isn’t a social activism site. We will stand strong and united in our fight against Dump.

Now give me some good celebrity tea. Who’s fucked a B lister lately?

Where in NYC can I find moderately priced modern art paintings? What's your favorite gallery?

Is he teasing us at this point?

This for a manager position at my current company.

Any advice?

Is Sheila really dead?

When will Steffy and Liam get back together?

When will Hope tell Douglas to hit the road?

Are Ridge and Brooke ever going to be an interesting couple again?

Continue your discussion of the show here.

Mama likey!

I order a lot of stuff online -- mostly from Amazon, Walmart, Target, Kohl's and a few others. Amazon is usually pretty good about delivering things when promised (or sooner, in some cases.) I think this is because -- at least in my area -- they primarily use their own delivery service for most purchases.

Walmart and Target however .... I guess because of the heated competition with Amazon and each other they are really pushing "same-day" or "next-day" delivery -- but in my experience lately, they fall short much of the time. And a lot of it is because they rely on other delivery companies -- the good ones like UPS and FedEx-- but unfortunately also some third-rate no-name local companies.

Frankly, I don't care if things arrive quickly most of the time--but I don't like to be fed misinformation about delivery dates and times. I had a Walmart order last week that was supposed to be delivered on Saturday. By Wednesday, they still hadn't updated their website to indicate where it was or when it might arrive--it just said "delayed." I finally called them and they said it was probably lost or damaged. Whatever--just update your damn website!

Target was supposed to deliver something yesterday via FedEx. Never showed up. Then they said it would arrive today. Now, after 7PM, it still says "arriving today" but FedEx hasn't even received the item yet.

You'd think with all the technology available they could do a better job with this.

Forcing Bobby to eat McDonalds and drink Coke.

He looks like a hostage. But again RFK jr. always looks like he just escaped from the inside of an oven.

He was talking about Gaetz.

I only know it from Ab Fab and it seemed kind of freaky. It made Eddie dream about Romanian babies.

I saw bring on Project 2025 and RFK Jr for HHS Secretary. Let Trump add as many SCOTUS judges that he can. Deport 15 million. Add tariffs to everything.

Dems don't need to block any one of his proposals.

Let the people experience everything Trump promised.

“To those people asking if I ever went to Diddy’s freak-off parties. No. Never.. but my ex-wife J-Lo did. Ask her about the SEX TAPES, 734 DILDOS, and the BABY OIL”

-Jennifer Lopez ex-husband, Ojani Noa, speaks out on Instagram

A few observations:

- Young Johnny was really quite handsome. With all those women......there must have been serious sizemeat present.

- Brief mention of Arsenio Hall in the book - I don't remember this but apparently Hall's show was for a time the first and only real competition to Carson's and may have contributed to Carson's decision to retire.

- For the Suzanne Pleshette troll here at the DL, your girl is mentioned several times in the book!

WW3 trending on Twitter

What song?

It's raining and there are so many little spiders on my doorstep! I wonder if they're confused by 70 degree weather in November?

Her new solo album is awful. Is she the new Jennifer Lopez? Who keeps giving her money to record god-awful albums that make no money?

Employment Lawyers are chomping at the bit for all the work they're going to get as employees file tons of lawsuits.

I just got my first pair. Everyone says you need to get used to them.

The main issue I’m having is I’m not use to the larger size of the glasses. Plus the whole thing just feels weird.

I have 45 days to return them. Any advice?

I wasn’t around in the 1970s but this was a #1 hit. How did a song about a disco duck become a big popular song?

Adderall?

Do any shows still use them?

TRUMP: Belong? To you? I can't believe my ears!

MUSK: What a dull cliché.

TRUMP: Belong to you - why, that sounds medieval, something out of an old melodrama!

MUSK: So does the history of the world for the past twenty years. I don't enjoy putting it as bluntly as this. Frankly, I'd hoped that somehow you would have known, that you would have taken it for granted that you and I...

TRUMP: Taken it for granted that you and I... [laughs]

MUSK: [slaps him] [bold]Now, remember, as long as you live, never to laugh at me[/bold] - at anything or anyone else, but never at me.

TRUMP: [walks to the door and opens it] Get out!

MUSK: You're too short for that gesture.

Prince William and Kate Middleton endured a scary experience at their home last month.

Burglars allegedly broke into the grounds of Windsor Castle—the estate that includes Prince and Princess of Wales’ primary residence—in October, police confirmed to NBC News.

Thames Valley Police told the outlet it received report of a burglary "at a property on Crown Estate land" just before midnight on Oct. 13. Police said the burglars entered a farm building and "made off with a black Isuzu pickup and a red quad bike" before leaving for a nearby town.

They added in their statement, “No arrests have been made at this stage and an investigation is ongoing.”

The location of the burglary was just a few miles away from Adelaide Cottage, where Kate and William live with their children Prince George, 11, Princess Charlotte, 9, and Prince Louis, 6. King Charles III and Queen Camilla, for their part, reside primarily in London’s Clarence House, near Buckingham Palace.

Neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace responded to NBC News’ request for comment.

November 17, 1994 - Glenn Close opened on Broadway in 'Sunset Boulevard' to stellar reviews which turned into a Tony winning performance. One reviewer said, "the mansion has landed", crediting the decadent, state-of-the-art moving mansion as the real star of the show.

There was more 'behind the scenes' drama over this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical than any other show which had opened on B'way, and probably since. Too bad there was no internet then - we would have had front row seats to all the drama.

I’ve never owed back taxes in my life, but several days a week I get voicemails for tax debt relief services.

Wiley Nickel calked for the creation of a “shadow cabinet” due to the insane cabinet Trump is floating.

MAGAs replied calling for his murder.

I never trusted them.

Grate film!

He was his PROCURER!

[quote] "I definitely feel like I’m on an island alone," said Tanya Tsikanovsky, who resides in LA's San Fernando Valley. "The queer people have turned their backs on me, and I’m queer, so it’s very painful."

🎻

Reminding us that times are hard but we have each other.

Cynthia Nixon announces she is leaving the Democratic Party!

What does the DL have to say about America's thirstiest little gay Mormon?

Wouldn't one expect it to be a suburb of the big city?

First soap opera featuring African-American cast since "Generations" in 1989. 2:00PM ET following "The Bold and the Beautiful."

Included in the cast ..

“Marcus” a congressman who followed in his grandfather’s footsteps in politics. He doesn’t live in the prestigious Fairmont Estates but rather in a brownstone in Washington D.C. Marcus feels it’s important to live in the district he represents. Marcus is married to his husband, Daniel. Seven years ago, they adopted two biological siblings. The married duo met when Daniel was working as a reporter, covering the political beat in D.C. Daniel became a stay-at-home dad to raise their children. Marcus is ambitious; in fact, he has a burning ambition to be the first Black openly gay President.

Election results

Sources previously told NBC News that undocumented Chinese nationals of military age will be among the first groups targeted for deportation by the incoming Trump administration.

Something something Mika’s bleeding facelift, failing MSNBC and covfefe .

I like some of this queens piano versions of theme songs. He does a nice rendition of Father Knows Best too.

The search does not help

The vibes have officially shifted.

The economy Donald Trump said was broken? All it took was him winning, and consumer sentiment among Republicans soared.

Elections? Suddenly Republicans are on board with the reality that they’re secure. House Speaker Mike Johnson said he saw no evidence of fraud in the 2024 campaign.

And the media landscape? Viewership of Fox News has surged since Trump’s win despite his harsh criticism of the network in the run up to Nov. 5.

At the same time, Democrats’ sentiment of the economy — essentially how they view its overall health — dropped by 13 percent after Trump’s win. And viewership for liberal MSNBC has seen a downturn.

It’s a role reversal that, while heady for Republicans now, will quickly come with all the liabilities associated with incumbency. Republicans are betting they’re about to see further economic improvement, lower prices and the immigration crackdown Trump promised on the campaign trail. Democrats, meanwhile, have no more status quo to defend — and, like Republicans for the past several years, will be seeking to paint a dark portrait of the opposition party.

“For four years, Republicans felt as if they were living in an ‘I told you so,’ and everything that they said around Biden was a reality, whether it was his mental decline or the Biden-Harris policies for the past four years. They felt as if they were right across the board, and that the country was realizing that,” said Matthew Bartlett, a GOP strategist and appointee under Trump’s first administration. “Now Democrats are taking a very similar posture, certainly with a lot of the [Cabinet] picks coming out — saying, ‘We told you what he was going to be like.’”

Most of his achievements will be undone. We may as well have stayed home in 2020.

Tell us your fond memories, bad memories, pet peeves, mishaps, food likes and dislikes associated with this holiday. From childhood or adulthood.

Growing up my Italian immigrant mother always made lasagne which seemed out of place with the rest of the traditional Thanksgiving food. As an adult I have often also made it on Thanksgiving, it just brings back good memories.

It's a shift for the liberal group, which is growing frustrated w/ Biden's approach to Israel amid the war in Gaza.

What was the first Hollywood movie with a sympathetic, well-adjusted openly gay male protagonist? Was it as late as Philadelphia?

Ella Emhoff or Ivanka Trump?

"If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, okay?" Goldberg told "The View" audience.

The View star and Oscar-winning icon Whoopi Goldberg is hustling for her paycheck just like the rest of America, thank you very much.

One day before her 69th birthday, the Ghost actress and View cohost said on Tuesday's live show that she identified with the struggles of the working class and that, if she were the richest person alive, she wouldn't show up to moderate the long-running ABC talk show anymore.

"I appreciate that people are having a hard time. Me, too. I work for a living," Goldberg said, breaking growing tension about Donald Trump's second-term presidency that arose during a Hot Topic about Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asking her social media followers about their voting practices.

Goldberg then turned to the studio audience to stress, "If I had all the money in the world, I would not be here, okay? So, I'm a working person, you know?"

"My kid has to feed her family. My great-granddaughter has to be fed by her family. I know it's hard out there," she continued. "I love what [Ocasio-Cortez] did. Yay. We talk to people all the time who say, 'This is what's bothering me.' But, the thing that's bothering everybody should not be the thing that puts 85 percent of other people in danger. I think that's what we're saying."

The moment recalled former cohost Meghan McCain's past comments about what she suggested was a disconnect between the show's lineup and the public tuning in.

“I had an experience while I was working at ABC News [on The View]. I was in a particularly heated Hot Topics meeting. I remember yelling at the meeting that, 'Some of you' or 'All of you are going to have to start interacting with people who don’t make $100,000 a year or more. You have to interact with someone who makes minimum wage on some level or another,'" McCain said in April.

Outside of OG panelist Joy Behar, who was absent from the table on Tuesday's broadcast, Goldberg is the longest-running permanent cohost on the show, having first joined the program in 2007.

In addition to her time on the show, Goldberg hasn't skimped on her acting prowess, as she's appeared in several major projects in recent years, including on TV shows like The Stand, Harlem, and returning as Guinan for two episodes of Star Trek: Picard.

She's also currently at work on bringing Sister Act 3 to Disney+, having revealed last week during an interview with Jimmy Fallon that the script had to be reworked following the death of Maggie Smith, who seemingly would've returned for the third film in the series.

Didn’t know this is a thing.

I can't believe it.

I wanna go to this one to find me a hot daddy.

I won’t reveal his real name, but I found the Instagram profile for Grant from Corbin Fisher, who did about 18 scenes in 2016.

Now he is a real estate agent in Utah and he seems to be settled down and has kids. Apparently, he even had a son at the time he was doing his Corbin Fisher scenes.

He did not find religion. Based on what he follows on Instagram, he seems to be interested in New Age spirituality, Law of Attraction, Tony Robbins, any kind of motivational woo.

How does a guy like that do gay porn for awhile and then leave and resume having a family and a professional life? Does his baby mama even know about his past? (Maybe she was one of his scene partners, I don’t know).

awww

Did I post this already? Yes it's what you think it is, 33 to 66 trump, people whose little hot tamales got their heads blown off nice

Will another airline purchase them? What will become of the hilarious Spirit customer meltdowns and fights?

Anyone watching this? I was so excited and looking forward to this but I'm really bored and disinterested just watching the first episode. Does it get better. They released 3 at once.

David Simon, who executive produced the show and wrote the original book on which the show is based, announced on instagram on June 17 that NBC has finally procured the music rights to the show, and can now shop it to a streamer.

I can't wait.

The 64 year old singer and 'full sibling' of music superstar Prince Nelson died Monday after battling an undisclosed illness. She leaves behind her two sons, President Nelson and Sir Nelson. The singer announced her 'retirement' from music earlier this year, and planned a 'farewell concert' for this past June in Minnesota. However, she had to cancel due to illness. At the time of her death, she was finishing a memoir about her family.

Am I alone?

I always see them roasting in the roasting thing, and people are lined up for them. I've never gotten one. Are they really that good?

Beginning with a hot guy with stupid hair

He had a fun instagram for a while and then he just became boring.

I'm not complaining as I like the scruff.

What do you think?

I know he's a fast talker who ran for president, but has her ever had a successful career? Has he ever actually produced anything of value?

Why is he getting any say on how to cut government?

*Shudder*

I have such a crush on this guy.

His body is just insane, and he's sexy as fuck.

"Two" is only 24, but he looks a bit older.

He has beautiful big nips, and a smooth muscular body.

If only he wasn't straight, he'd be perfect.

Brazil’s first lady swore at billionaire Elon Musk at a G20 event in Rio de Janeiro about social media misinformation over the weekend.

Janja Lula da Silva, whose husband is President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, was talking about the need to combat fake news and regulate social media networks when she made it known how she felt about the Tesla CEO.

At one moment in her speech, a ship’s horn sounded, which prompted her to respond jokingly, “I think it’s Elon Musk,” Reuters reported. She then said she wasn’t afraid of him and added: “F*** you, Elon Musk.”

Musk, who has been at Donald Trump’s side consistently since he won the election, was swift to respond to the footage circulating on his social media platform X.

Sharing a clip of the moment, he captioned it simply with “Lol,” followed by a post that said: “They will lose the next election.”

The first lady has been feuding with Musk after threatening to sue his social media company following a hack on her X account. She accused the SpaceX owner of failing to adequately respond.

The incident comes as X returned to Brazil in October after remaining inaccessible for more than a month following a clash between Musk and a justice on the country’s highest court.

Internet service providers began restoring access to the platform after Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes authorized lifting X’s suspension.

De Moraes ordered the shutdown of X on August 30 after a monthslong dispute with Musk over free speech, far-right accounts and misinformation. Musk had disparaged de Moraes, calling him an authoritarian and a censor, although his rulings, including X’s nationwide suspension, were repeatedly upheld by his peers.

Musk’s company ultimately complied with all of de Moraes’ demands. They included blocking certain accounts from the platform, paying $5 million in fines and naming a legal representative. Failure to do the latter had triggered the suspension.

Brazil — a highly online country of 213 million people — is one of X’s biggest markets, with estimates of its user base ranging from 20 million to 40 million.

The Martha Mitchell effect is a term used to describe when someone is misdiagnosed as delusional or paranoid for making claims that are actually true.

The documentary was good but a little short. How was the Julia Roberts series 'Gaslit' about Martha?

Elon Musk is a Republican megadonor.

He’s using Twitter as a weapon to brazenly aid and abet the GOP. Yet Dem candidates and their supporters still rely on his platform. Why can’t Silicon Valley come up with something better so we can leave?

After the unparalleled success of the Favourite Pamela, Favourite Jo, Favourite Val, Favourite Paul, favourite Michael, favourite Jan, favourite Harris, favourite Benjamin, favourite Sally and favourite Margaret threads, let's discuss our favourite of the 10 winners.

The polls are open NOW.

List of supposedly the best whores according to Zach

She’s up 11 points. 61% of the party would prefer Michelle to be the nominee. I know she’s not interested in running but maybe she should put her country first. What do you folks think?

Just saw him on IMDB today - what a babe! Just beautiful. Tell me more about him - he's only 28, so there might not be much to tell. But did I mention that he's really beautiful?

Democrats are looking at spending at least the first two years of Donald Trump’s second presidency in the wilderness after losing the Senate. It looks increasingly likely they will fail to retake the House of Representatives, too. Now, many are questioning whether the party is truly going to learn anything of value from the second defeat of the Democratic standard-bearer to Trump and MAGA Republicanism.

Centrist Democrats in particular are taking it from all sides, humiliated with a seven-swing-state sweep after successfully talking Harris into abandoning the progressive-ish agenda she championed in her 2020 bid for the White House. Those centrists spent the past few months stating plainly that she would not be a meaningful departure from the presidency of Joe Biden, with whom Harris could not identify a single issue on which she disagreed.

Instead, she campaigned with Liz Cheney and sought out moderate Republican voters — the Nikki Haley coalition — in states like Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Analysts now agree with what the election results seemed to show last week: that strategy failed to move a significant number of voters to Harris’s side in all but a few areas. Worse, it likely alienated the vice president’s base at a time when Democrats were already in dire straits with those same voters.

J. Miles Coleman, executive editor of Sabato’s Crystal Ball, explains that the so-called “#NeverTrump” Republicans of 2016 are now either “standard Republicans or #Resist Libs”.

“You did have some of the suburbs around Milwaukee shift a little to Harris compared to…last time,” he noted. “[But] fundamentally, you know, it’s Trump’s party now… You probably have a lot of Democrats now saying, ‘We maybe, kind of should have focused more on turning out our base.’”

There’s also reason to believe, he says, that fears about younger Black men leaving the Democratic Party may be real, yet still overblown.

One fact remains to skew the numbers, which some Democrats are loath to admit: millions of voters, particularly younger ones, stayed home rather than turn out to vote for Democrats in 2024. Harris’s vote total marked a sharp decrease from Joe Biden’s in 2020, which was a year of higher voter turnout especially for younger voters.

Even in states where Harris campaigned intensely, there are already signs that a failure to turn out voters who inherently lean Democratic and likely were not considering Donald Trump at all contributed to Harris’s loss. Consider Detroit, a majority-Black city in one of the nation’s biggest battleground states.

Despite turnout statewide remaining roughly unchanged from 2020 levels, there was a 3-percent drop in the share of eligible voters who cast ballots in the deep-blue city this year. And that’s not even touching the vice president’s collapse in Dearborn, the hub of Arab American life in the state, where Democrats were swept to re-election easily in local races while Harris’s support sank to unrecognizable depths.

Just about everyone agrees: a massive part of the Democrats’ inability to motivate their own base to turn out stemmed from the refusal of Joe Biden to consider stepping down before the 2024 primaries took place. The stink of a party lurching on for months bound by pride to nominate a candidate voters so clearly did not think was physically or mentally capable to serve another four years in office never washed off Harris, his former running mate — especially as she declined to distance herself from those decisions at all.

Pod Save America host and Obamaworld insider Jon Favreau revealed last week that internal Biden campaign polling had the incumbent president losing a 400-electoral-vote blowout before he withdrew from the race in July.

“We modeled that she would need about 83-84% of the Black male vote to have a chance of winning. She didn’t get anywhere near that until our last October poll,” said Dr Alvin Tillery, whose group tracked Black support for Biden-Harris for months. “[By that point] she’s at like 71% after being at like 59% for months.”

Emily Blunt, Colin Firth, Coleman Domingo and Eve Hewson have been cast already.

Ariana Grande looks like the ultimate Bobble-head with the most fake smile ever.

And she's fucking scary-skinny. Yuck.

Javier Bardem will star. Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg will produce the series.

Is it bad that I like it? It’s relatable. If NAC wanted to I’d let him kill me with his dick too.

Tasteless at the same time though.

I think the party will still rely on celebrities for endorsements. Celebrities can be very effective surrogates in a non-hectoring way. However, it seems like over the past few years the country has hated and/or moved on from the entertainment industry. The Democratic Party is the party of working class people but when celebrities are the primary messengers of that well then the optics aren't exactly great.

Her past homophobic remarks and pro-Trump stance got a planned revival of the classic series canceled.

It’s true

Aye yai yai

This thread is piggybacking on the "OK, so who's leaving the U.S.?" thread.

If you have questions about Visas, how to apply, where to apply, what to reasonably expect, ask away. This threads is only for people who are curious about moving abroad and what life is like in another country. My expertise is Italy specifically, but some of the issues can apply to all countries.

It's late here now, 12:30am, and I am headed to bed. But I'll wake up tomorrow and answer anything I possibly can.

This sounds like a crock of shit. I’m 36 and my penis hasn’t been 4 inches in at least 25 years.

She talks about the time she guest starred on The Golden Girls and how she became very good friends with Bea Arthur. She looks amazing at 84. She's very funny and full of energy. Great interview.

I’m going to be fairly diplomatic and say that a podcast series where Hammer talks about his journey and his recovery is not a bad idea. There were certainly many avenues to approach this, perhaps doing it alongside a sober coach or mental health professional, or people from the bdsm community or fetish community or what have you. Or people whose reputations have been ruined in scandal. That would be an interesting podcast.

And yet he decided on this. An interview with a deeply uncomfortable looking Tom Arnold in a rundown apartment.

What are your favorite Christmas, Thanksgiving holiday films?

As an American I just want to say I am sorry, I did all I could to stop Trump.

If you live in a NATO country, now might be a good time to start thinking about a move.

"I can call gays FA--Gs if I want to. Lets make it a trend to shame them again...."

He’s calling it a wellness farm.

You guys did such a good, quick job with the last thread like this, I thought I'd give it a try. This pic was on Reddit - he's someone from one of the "90 Day Fiancee" shows, but I don't think he's a main character (the main character is apparently named Joe). I think he's dreamy - dark hair, thick eyebrows, long lashes, five o'clock shadow. Maybe Italian. Anyone know who he is?

I'm heartsick that Trump won, but especially horrified that Sherrod Brown lost.

He was one of the good guys, the last of the decent human beings in Congress. He worked hard for every single vote. But the human sack of shit known as Bernie Moreno bought his seat.

You’re supposed to dress FOR the red carpet, not AS the red carpet.

To continue our nice chats and bring you more photos of Sir Chonks-a-Lot.

The long-gestating prequel series to Dune is coming out soon and looks amazing!!! We will be watching.

It reminds me of the ending of the Evelyn Waugh novel A Handful of Dust, where the protagonist disappears in Guyana.

Donald Trump’s victory was a wrecking ball to the Democratic Party, but a boon to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

Had Kamala Harris been elected, Beshear’s presidential ambitions would have been deferred beyond 2028 — not a good thing for a governor whose term ends in December 2027. The national shelf life of a Democratic ex-governor in a Republican state isn’t very long.

Now, Beshear is among his party’s leading prospects for president in 2028, when Trump cannot run again. And there will be no Democratic president trying to persuade him to run in 2026 for the Senate, a place not suited to his executive personality. He has pledged to serve out his term.

Some Kentucky pros remain skeptical of Beshear’s presidential chances. Democratic consultant Jared Smith told me, “I just don’t know if he has the stature to lead the top of the ticket nationally because we have to get the blue wall back,” meaning Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin, which Trump took back this month.

But familiarity can breed contempt. Former U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth, a Louisville Democrat with good national connections, said Beshear is now “on every list” for president — because he was on Harris’ short list for vice president, campaigned for her and headlined Democratic events around the country, some for the political action committee he formed almost a year ago.

“He made a huge impression during the campaign,” Yarmuth said. “Seems to me that while Andy is popular here, he is regarded in an even more impressive way around the country.”

Sizing up Beshear’s potential opposition, the liberal Yarmuth said Govs. Gavin Newsom and Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania are too “coastal,” and while Transportation Secretary Pete Buttegeig has superb political skills, Yarmuth said the country is a generation away from putting a same-sex couple in the White House.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is well positioned to retake the blue wall, but her gender left her out of Harris’ running-mate selection process, and her campaign work was largely limited to her own state. Meanwhile, Beshear was building his stature. His profile is one of four featured on the Democratic Governors Association website, and he did a post-election piece for The New York Times.

Beshear’s next stature-building opportunity could be the Democratic National Committee’s election of a new chair to replace Jaime Harrison, who says he will step down. In 1972, after George McGovern lost 49 states, his DNC chairwoman wanted to stay, but governors led by Kentucky’s Wendell Ford got her ousted in favor of Robert Strauss, who became one of Ford’s biggest friends and assets when he went to the Senate.

“Beshear has got tremendous potential. … That’s one avenue he could focus on,” said Paul Patton, governor in 1995-2003, who headed the Southern, Democratic and national governors’ associations.

When they go low, we take out our checkbooks.

He was gorgeous. He even tried marrying into Hollywood families. Nothing worked. What did he do wrong? Whose cock didn’t he suck? And why haven’t his nudes leaked?

Should they have gone younger?

For decades, scientists have wondered why some people live longer and with less disease than the rest of us, to 100 years old and beyond. But research out of the UK appears to conclude that the so-called blue zones of longevity don't really exist, and many instances of extra long lives can be chalked up to inadequate birth and death records...

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Watch Season 2, and you'll see exactly what I mean.

Patriotism, Make America Great, the rise of Nazism.

Where bad is good and good is bad.

Where propaganda and social media lies, rules public opinion.

And the masses fall for it.

Where big corporations pull the strings behind the scenes, and evil forces in the world are all in partnership with each other.

I just re-watched Seasons 1 and 2 of "The Boys," and I cannot believe the similarities between what's portrayed on that show and what's happening in the US today.

What a gorgeous show, filled with his beautiful designs.

How did he manage to get Celine Dion to sing there???

It was the fashion event of the season!

Please post a Christmas/holiday/winter song to this thread.

I'll start with "Merry Christmas, Baby"by Ike & Tina Turner

Do they not know how to light movies anymore? It’s like Triumph of the Mame Lens.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is certain the war with Russia will “end sooner” than it otherwise would have done once Donald Trump becomes US president.

Zelensky said he had a “constructive exchange” with Trump during their phone conversation after his victory in the US presidential election.

He did not say whether Trump had made any demands regarding possible talks with Russia, but said he'd not heard anything from him that was contrary to Ukraine’s position.

Trump has consistently said his priority is to end the war and stop what he says is a drain on US resources, in the form of military aid to Ukraine.

“It is certain that the war will end sooner with the policies of the team that will now lead the White House. This is their approach, their promise to their citizens,” Zelensky said in an interview with the Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne.

He added that Ukraine "must do everything so that this war ends next year, ends through diplomatic means".

The situation on the battlefield is difficult, with Russian forces making advances, Zelensky said.

He said US legislation only allows him to meet with Trump after his inauguration in January.

Trump and Zelensky have long had a tumultuous relationship. Trump was impeached in 2019 over accusations that he pressured Zelensky to dig up damaging information on the Biden family.

Despite years of differences, Trump has insisted he had a very good relationship with Zelensky.

When the pair met in New York in September, Trump said he “learned a lot” from the meeting and said he would get the war "resolved very quickly".

Trump has yet to divulge how he intends to end the war.

Penis owners of the UK beware, as the freezing weather heading our way may be about to have an unwanted side effect on your genitals.

The winter months are no joke; darker nights, icy mornings, and the heartbreaking realisation that we may not properly see the sun for a few months until next year.

But some can forget rising heating bills and the risk of falling flat on their a*se while walking down the street - as the chilling spectre of 'winter penis' is back to haunt them on the days where the mercury drops below a certain temperature.

President-elect Trump will begin operations to deport millions of undocumented immigrants when he starts his term, campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News on Wednesday morning, Axios' April Rubin reports. He will launch the "largest mass deportation operation" of undocumented immigrants on Day 1, Leavitt said. Trump campaigned heavily on tales of immigrant violence. Immigration became a top issue to voters.

The big picture: Trump's plan will use obscure laws, military funds and law enforcement officers from all levels of government. It will curtail the existing multistep deportation process.

Fast-track deportations would be expanded to apply to anyone who illegally crossed the border and couldn't prove they'd been living in the U.S. for more than two years. It currently is reserved for recent crossers. Unaccompanied minors who crossed the border without their parents would also be targets of the plan.

Zoom in: Half of Americans opposed setting up military-guarded encampments for undocumented immigrants, per a survey released in October.

Looking for suggestions for ceiling decoration in a northbfscing room 6 x5 m with 5m high ceiling. A friend suggested a woven wallpaper with a classical theme like cherubs. I do t want anything too overpowering. The house dates from early 1700s and the walls will be off white. If anyone has had experience of this type of paper I'd be interested on your thoughts and suggestions. The former owners painted a pretty bad clouds and blue-sky scene. There's is also a pair of floor to ceiling double french doors. I've linked to the style of scene I was thinking of.

Add your own!

We ARE all angry and DO wish we had a penis.

Clearly the carver wasn't getting back at his boss for non-payment.

WASHINGTON — House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said Friday that he would "strongly request" that the House Ethics Committee not release a report detailing its investigation into former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla.

The Ethics panel had been investigating Gaetz — who resigned this week after President-elect Donald Trump chose him to serve as attorney general — off and on since 2021. He has denied any wrongdoing.

Johnson said that the release of the report, now that Gaetz is no longer a sitting congressman, would be a “terrible breach of protocol, tradition and the spirit of the rule,” and said he plans to communicate that to the panel’s chairman, Rep. Michael Guest, R-Miss.

“The rules of the House has always been that a former member is beyond the jurisdiction of the ethics committee,” Johnson said when asked if the public deserves to see the report. “I’m going to request, strongly request, that the Ethics Committee not issue the report.”

There is precedent for releasing ethics reports after or on the same day that a lawmaker resigns from Congress. Two months after former Rep. Bill Boner, D-Tenn., resigned in 1987, and on the day former Rep. Buz Lukens, R-Ohio, resigned from the House in 1990, the committee released its reports into the lawmakers.

Johnson said later Friday that making the report public "would open Pandora's box." He added, "If it’s been broken once or twice, it should not have been."

Johnson returned to Washington, D.C., early Friday morning after meeting with Trump at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday. Johnson declined to say whether he spoke to Trump about the Ethics report.

The bipartisan, 10-member Ethics panel had been scheduled to meet Friday to discuss the report on Gaetz and whether to release it to the public, but a source with direct knowledge had said on Thursday that the meeting was canceled.

Tom Rust, a spokesperson for the Ethics Committee, declined to comment on Johnson's remarks.

Republicans, who will control the Judiciary Committee next year and would oversee a Gaetz confirmation process, told NBC News Thursday that they wanted to see the details of the Ethics report, though some said they’d likely get that information from an FBI background if the report is not released.

Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, including Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., on Friday requested that the Ethics Committee preserve its report and immediately hand over all relevant materials from its investigation into Gaetz.