[QUOTE] Kamala Harris’ advisers are dishing that they were “surprised” to see public polling showing her ahead of Trump in September and October of the election, because internal polling was showing her way behind.

A Hawaii woman's father who flew to Los Angeles looking for her after she was reported missing has been found dead near Los Angeles International Airport.

The body of Ryan Kobayashi, 58, was found in a parking lot on Sunday, according to the Los Angeles County medical examiner. Los Angeles Police Department officials said they responded to reports of a body in the 6100 block of Century Boulevard about 4 a.m. Sunday and discovered someone dead of an apparent suicide.

Kobayashi was in Los Angeles looking for his daughter, Hannah Kobayashi, 30, who was last seen at LAX on Nov. 8 and last contacted her family by phone Nov. 9, according to an LAPD news release.

Relatives confirmed Ryan Kobayashi's death in a Sunday statement, saying they had "endured a devastating tragedy."

"After tirelessly searching throughout Los Angeles for 13 days, Hannah’s father, Ryan Kobayashi, tragically took his own life," according to the statement. "This loss has compounded the family's suffering immeasurably."

The family has urged the public to "maintain focus on the search for her. Hannah IS still actively missing and is believed to be in imminent danger. It is crucial for everyone to remain vigilant in their efforts to locate Hannah."

Kobayashi boarded a flight in Maui on Nov. 8 headed to New York City with a stop at LAX but never made it to New York, her family told USA Today.

She landed at LAX but missed her next flight, appearing instead to visit the Grove shopping center, where she went to a Nike event Nov. 10, her family told USA Today. The next day, Kobayashi apparently went back to LAX but didn’t board a flight. Later that day, she sent what her family called “strange” text messages.

LAPD spokesperson Charles Miller confirmed that the department is investigating Kobayashi's disappearance as an "active missing person case" but declined to specify details about the investigation. No updates were available Monday morning.

Kobayashi's sister, Sydni, told The Times that her sister's friend has reached out to the family about "strange" text messages Kobayashi reportedly sent.

Kobayashi texted her friend about her ID being stolen and expressed concern that someone she thought she loved was trying to take her money.

"She seemed like it was someone else or she was just totally out of it," Sydni said. "It just didn’t seem right because it’s not how she normally texts."

Kobayashi was supposed to meet up with her aunt and spend time with family in upstate New York, according to her sister.

Ruby Keeler. Clompity-clomp-clomp-clomp. Like a Clydesdale.

Previous thread posted below.

Feels like I watched the first season a lifetime ago.

[quote]Three years after winning Squid Game, Player 456 gave up going to the States and comes back with a new resolution in his mind. Gi-hun once again dives into the mysterious survival game, starting another life-or-death game with new participants gathered to win the prize of 33 million dollars.

Out December 26th.

Why aren't you?

The Tony Award, Daytime Emmy Award and Drama Desk Award winner was 98.

Sold everything and moved to India.

Settings can't be changed, cookies aren't saved. Too many political MAGA discussions, shriekers. DL was so much fun for a time.

A Florida woman who became pregnant while in jail on murder charges gave birth to a baby whose father is a fellow inmate accused of murder — even though she says they’ve never met in person and have never had physical contact with each other.

Florida court records indicate that both Daisy Link and Joan Depaz are currently in custody being held on charges of murder. Both have been in custody since at least 2022. But WSVN reports that in June, Link gave birth to a daughter fathered by Depaz.

“She’s a miracle baby, she’s a blessing,” Link, 29, told the station in a jailhouse interview, while Miami-Dade Corrections officials told the station that an internal affairs investigation is ongoing.

WSVN interviewed both inmates, who explained how Link was able to get pregnant while both parents were in custody at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County.

Link told the outlet that she and Depaz were able to speak to each other through the air conditioner vent in her cell. They also began passing notes and pictures to each other and a romantic relationship began.

Depaz, 23, told WSVN that he eventually shared that he wanted to have a baby, but knew that he might not have the opportunity for a long time. Link agreed to try and have a child with her fellow inmate.

The two used bedding to make a line between their two vents, which Depaz tells WSVN that he then used to pass semen rolled in Saran wrap to Link in her cell.

“He would kind of like roll it up almost like a cigarette and he would attach it to the line that we had in the vent and I would pull it through,” Link told the station. “From there, I had placed it inside of, you know, the yeast infection applicators? I had placed it inside of there and then from there, yeah, I administered it.”

Eventually, Link became pregnant with Depaz's child, who was born in June and now lives with his mother.

“I can’t believe it worked," Link reportedly said. "I think everything happened for a reason."

Depaz told the outlet that Link getting pregnant, despite the two never having touched, was like “the Virgin Mary.”

The pair are now in different jails, according to jail records, but WSVN reports that they still communicate over the phone and have video visits with their daughter.

Court records indicate that Depaz's murder trial is currently scheduled for May 2025. Link’s has not yet been scheduled.

Pam Ferris as Aunt Marge in “Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban” was fantastic.

Proving the party attracts a significant number of masochists.

I'll start with Shawn Mendes

DL, I need your help.

For the first time in my life, I live in a building with doormen. I plan to tip them for the holidays, but I'm wondering about the protocol. Mainly: should I tip them all a flat amount, or it is appropriate to tip the ones I interact with higher? I'd rather tip the ones I know more than the ones I don't. (If I were rich, I tip them all $100/each -- but alas, I'm not rich.)

Any other advice or insight is welcome!

I loved him.

This man was incredible in this film. I felt like I was watching the birth of a movie star. He was so ridiculously charming in this film. He doesn’t have any huge scenes or anything like that, his performance is very subtle and nuanced and poignant. His performance is absolutely wonderful. What a lovely performance, and he is so attractive in this film. I was actually shocked by how much I loved him. By the end of the film, I had a little crush on him lol.

His very first scene, I literally couldn’t keep my eyes off of him. Your eyes just stay attached to him in everything that he’s in.

As for the film, it is broken down into three chapters. Chapters one and two are great, but chapter 3 is a mess. Well, not necessarily a mess, but it is strange beyond belief. I am left with questions. It is a very sad and heartbreaking film of crippling loneliness.

There must be some DL gourmands here. And no, I am not considering the Times Sq Olive Garden.

Considering - Le Veau'd Or, Cosme, Cecchi's, Don Angie, maybe Le Rock. Help, DL!

I'm watching this cheesy Hallmark movie (Christmas Island) and this guy is one of the hottest Hallmark holiday movie actors I've seen.

His name is Andrew Walker.

He's from Quebec, eh.

Are gay men tense or nervous around straight men or are gay men more aloof and cold towards straight men? Please feel free to discuss.

I'm putting mine up on December 1st.

I love the lights and enjoy them every night. I need a bit of early Xmas cheer this year.

How about you?

Watching this right now on Tubbi. This is trippy. Please share.

All the booze, pills, coke and drama

RFK, Jr’s next wackadoo plan

Fascinating story.

These siblings found a parachute in a storage shed after their mother died and contacted the FBI. Interestingly, their father was arrested and jailed for a similar attempt in Utah not long after DB bailed. Prosecuted and jailed, but escaped. He was killed in a shootout with LE.

[QUOTE]The children of a D.B. Cooper suspect handed over new evidence to the FBI because they think their dad was the culprit.

[QUOTE]A parachute long hidden on family property in North Carolina is said to match the type used in the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history.

[QUOTE]The suspect in question was arrested for a similar skyjacking just months following the D.B. Cooper event.

These guys are great.

Can be food, toiletries, cleaning products, household gadgets, pet supplies, etc.

I recommend trying the Walmart Pumpkin Sandwich Cookies this Fall season. I discovered them through a youtuber several years ago and they are very good. I have purchased them every year since.

A light whipped cream cheese frosting with a very slight hint of cinnamon between two soft, cakey pumpkin cookies.

The flavors are well balanced, not overpowering and not too weak. I've taken then to the Office and to get togethers and everyone has really liked them.

Me, me, I, myself, me, me, me. Is she trying to out-Porter Billy Porter?

[quote]“Dare to be. Dare to adventure. There’s frivolity and joy in it. The way I dress is innately queer. I’m trying to be myself,” says Erivo, adding after a knowing pause that her style is meant to be “limitless.”

[quote]“I have a real sort of ownership of who I am and what I want. I have some control over how things happen for myself, which is a really powerful thing,” says Erivo, who has her own production company and is most excited to create projects for future stars. Then the actress puts it in pop-culture parlance, “But as the old adage goes, with great power comes great responsibility.”

[quote]Another responsibility Erivo relished? Being nosy. She tried to understand every job, from the assistant director calling “cut!” to the wind-machine operator. “That’s my commitment to myself to make sure that everyone feels seen and acknowledged,” she says. It was “a bit jarring at first” for “Wicked” director Jon M. Chu (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “In the Heights”). “It’s like, ‘We got this. Don’t worry. You just figure out your own thing,’” he says.

She’s the headlining star of one of the biggest films of the year, about the receive her second Best Actress nomination, and has a voice as powerful as Whitney and Aretha’s.

Isn’t she the next Margot Robbie or Julia Roberts? If not, please explain.

He needs more attention!

Also, please remember on the one hand that he is a godly man with a passel of crotch droppings....

.....but on the other hand, he's stripping down for cancer! Yes, per the Deadline article:

[quote] In December, Van Der Beek is set to appear on The Real Full Monty, a two-hour special also featuring Taye Diggs, Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Chris Jones and veteran Dancing with the Stars judge Bruno Tonioli as they strip down to raise awareness for prostate, testicular and colorectal cancer testing and research.

[post redacted because independent.co.uk thinks that links to their ridiculous rag are a bad thing. Somebody might want to tell them how the internet works. Or not. We don't really care. They do suck though. Our advice is that you should not click on the link and whatever you do, don't read their truly terrible articles.]

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.

My cousin (early 40s) and 3 of his kids (8 to 11 years old) say they have it.

My parents got vaxxed but say their 80 something neighbors have it.

Is walking pneumonia so common now that pre teens and 80-somethings get it?

I’m thinking of Pakistan vs India and Palestine vs Israel.

The British sowed these conflicts for its divide and conquer strategy. We still feel effects today

Coming soon to Netflix.

But why?

It's just pasta, cheese, pepper and water.

BFD.

I much prefer Arrabiata or Carbonara.

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 celebrity usually dies on New Year's Eve.

My prediction for this year is Barbara Eden.

You don't say!

My Aunt is so cheap that she once served my family vanilla ice cream with chocolate sauce, and when we were finished eating, she scooped right in front of my eyes the remaining traces of chocolate back into the jar. Disgusting. She is insanely cheap about everything, even though her husband is a (also cheap) university prof and she was a schoolteacher with a good pension. She has been like this her entire life. It is so awful that it makes me curious and I want to ask her what is wrong that she behaves this way, but I know she would rip my face off.

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.

too soon?

Well?

Democratic megadonor John Morgan joined “CUOMO” on Monday night to discuss the failed Harris-Walz campaign, claiming former President Barack Obama and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not want Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic nominee to replace President Joe Biden.

Biden stepped down from the presidential race in July, amid pressure from high-ranking Democratic figures. He endorsed Harris no less than an hour later, while former President Obama took five days to endorse Harris on his X page.

“He did not want to go gently,” Morgan said of Biden. “He nominated her, basically Obama did not want her. Obama did not endorse her for five days, Pelosi did not want her.”

According to Morgan, Biden’s endorsement of Harris was an “F you” to Obama and Pelosi.

“I think it was to say, F you to Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and every representative that was pushing him out… and I think he was pissed,” Morgan told Cuomo.

Morgan said another stumbling block for the Democrats was that voters did not choose Harris in the primaries or caucuses and instead was set in motion by Biden’s decision to swiftly nominate his No. 2.

“Pelosi told her California delegation, there will be a conference, there will be a caucus, there will be a convention,” Morgan said, a point touched upon by many Republican politicians and commentators during the process. “We basically ran on this deal where ‘democracy, democracy!’ And then we didn’t have democracy in picking our nominee.”

Morgan, who admitted he did not personally donate to Harris’s campaign, criticized the way the campaign handled its funds, saying it could put her presidential future in doubt.

Morgan’s critique comes amid multiple reports the Harris campaign is $20 million in debt after a lavish spending spree.

The megadonor claimed those alleged squandered campaign funds should permanently disqualify her from running for president again.

“The same thing is going to follow Harris for the rest of her career. She cannot be trusted with the money, and the donors are going to be, like, ‘Where is this money?’” he said.

Lindy Li, a member of the DNC finance committee, told NewsNation’s Rich McHugh the internal strife and monetary confusion at the center of the party led some staffers to leave altogether.

The Harris campaign has denied there are any outstanding debts or bills.

Morgan argued that despite Harris’s performance in the presidential debate against President-elect Donald Trump, her history showed she was unsuitable to take on the Republican party this election cycle.

“We already saw what she looked like on the national stage,” Morgan said. “Look, she’s got to be talented to have done what she did in California. I’ll give her that.

“But she was not ready for prime time, and then they rolled her out in prime time, and she got destroyed.”

Spends Thanksgiving with Jennifer Garner, leaving JLo in the pile of discards.

He is a straight acting gay. I can just tell. He is.

Lost in the woods

I enjoyed it until S3. Has it jumped the shark?

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

Coco wins the WTA year-end championship.

Shapo won in Belgrade.

Now, in porn, all the bottoms now seem to be wearing jock straps. Is it expected now??

Do jocks actually even wear jock straps or is it only gay bottoms?

Delta seems to be the only one still trying.

Will Lucky ever bathe or wash his hair?

Will Lulu find happiness snuggling up to Cody's dadbod?

Will the Celeste Talbert of Port Charles lose his marbles......or spit them out of his mouth?

The answers to these questions and more can be found or discussed inside.........

MPs in the UK have voted in favour of the Assisted Dying Bill. This doesn't mean it's law, just that it goes through to the next stage.

If it does eventually pass, it'll mean those who are terminally ill and who have less than six months to live can choose to end their life. There are safeguards, such as it needs to be agreed by two doctors and a High Court Judge.

I think ultimately it's the right choice. I strongly believe if someone is nearing the end of their life, they should have the choice (operate word being CHOICE) to take that decision if they wish. Most of the objection seems to come from those who are worried some will feel coerced into the decision by family, but it doesn't seem right to allow possibilities to dictate the decision to pass it into law.

I am nearly 65 years old and have spent my whole life being foolishly optimistic even thought it has never really worked out very well. The past few years have done me in and I’ve finally, as of today, faced reality and intend to spend the rest of my life just enjoying the world while it all burns. I have zero money for retirement, all but one of my friends has died, my parents died 30 years ago and I have no family. I am self-employed at home and see no one in-person so I have almost zero social interaction. I live alone and haven’t had a date in 20 years.

Yet, I’m still kinda happy and grateful that I have a nice tiny apartment and like the city I live in. I’m pretty healthy as far as I know and it really feels good to FINALLY have no plans for improving my situation because everything I ever tried failed and only made things worse for me.

I’ve been coming to Datalounge for as long as I can remember and this is one of the only daily touchstones I have anymore. I’m not depressed, just done. In fact, I feel like I can actually enjoy life more now that I’ve given up all hope and all attempts to fix anything.

It’s Taco Tuesday. I will go to the lovely Mexican restaurant up the street for lunch and that will make my day! I love you Datalounge!

Awaiting a new New York trial next year on additional sex crimes charges, Harvey Weinstein seems to be wishing he was spending Thanksgiving behind bars at the Wende Correctional Facility near Buffalo and not at Rikers Island.

That’s certainly one of the takeaways from the long-incarcerated and convicted rapist’s lawsuit of “no less than $5,000,000.00” against the city of New York and others over the conditions and medial services at the notoriously violent and decrepit 92-year-old jail.

“This claim seeks monetary damages arising from negligence, carelessness, recklessness, gross negligence, medical malpractice, intentional and/or reckless and/or negligent deprivation of medical treatment, deprivation of civil and constitutional rights, and negligent and intentional torts committed by officers, agents, and employees of the New York City Department of Correction (“NYC DOC”), New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation (“NYC H+H”), Rikers Island Correctional Facility, and New York City Health & Hospitals Corporation/Bellevue (“Bellevue Hospital”),” reads the November 26 filing in New York state court from Weinstein’s Adala, Bertuna & Kamins lawyers.

A point hit home today by one of Weinstein’s legal team.

“When I last visited him, I found him with blood spatter on his prison garb, possibly from IV’s, clothes that had not been washed for weeks, and he had not even been provided clean underwear – hardly sanitary conditions for someone with severe medical conditions and susceptibility to illness,” defense attorney Imran H. Ansari told Deadline of what she termed “deplorable conditions” in the jail in a statement after the filing. “I questioned whether I was in a prison facility that is supposed to be managed in accordance with our constitution, or a gulag where the prisoners are treated like animals.”

Plagued by illness even during his 2020 sex crimes trial in Manhattan, the now 72-year-old Pulp Fiction producer has been in and out of hospitals even before he was transferred to Rikers from the upstate Wende prison in April after the New York Court of Appeals overturned his New York felony convictions on first-degree sexual assault and third-degree rape, and the subsequent 23 year sentence. Due to his sex crimes convictions in Los Angeles in late 2022, Weinstein remained behind bars, though more often in Bellevue than Rikers.

“While in the custody of Rikers Island Correctional Facility, the Claimant’s medical conditions deteriorated significantly, unreasonably, and dangerously, leading to multiple instances where the Claimant feared for his life. Respondents were on notice of Claimant’s medical condition yet intentionally, recklessly, and/or negligently, failed to render proper medical treatment to Claimant,” the five-page filing from Weinstein defense lawyer Ansari added. “Said conduct fell below the standard of care for medical professionals. Furthermore, the conditions amounted to cruel and unusual punishment in violation of Claimant’s constitutional rights.”

With no small degree of coincidence, the filing comes as a federal judge Wednesday ruled New York City was in contempt for not adequately handling the brutality and growing violence at Rikers. In an often scathing 65-page ruling about ongoing failings of officials to get the aging facility back on track and the “civil contempt of eighteen provisions” already set out to help fix things, Judge Laura Taylor Swain indicated she was considering a return to direct Department of Justice oversight for Rikers.

Even though the New York City Council voted recently to close Rikers by August 2027, that goal looks unlikely, which is why, in part, Swan has given city and prisoner officials until January 14 to put together a receivership strategy for the overstuffed jail.

DL sleuths lets get to the bottom of this. Whose had him?

It was between that and "Death Becomes Tammy Faye."

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Take a moment to remember those who were lost to this devastating pandemic and how far we have come since.

The 1996 Sally Field film Eye for an Eye is gruesome.

“The Agency” is based on the hit French series “Le Bureau.” In the English-language version, Fassbender stars as Martian, described as “a covert CIA agent ordered to abandon his undercover life and return to London Station. When the love he left behind reappears, romance reignites. His career, his real identity and his mission are pitted against his heart; hurling them both into a deadly game of international intrigue and espionage.”

Anyone know this whore?

I need a living room chair, a swivel one would be nice. I’ve looked at the standard Crate and Barrel, Pottery Barn, Arhaus, etc, but their shipping costs add almost a third to the price of the chair.

Im so over paying so much for furniture. Should I just buy something from Amazon or Wayfair and call it a day? Are they okay enough in quality? Are returns easy if I don’t love it?

The journey continues in Vienna.

The Dallas-area Christian broadcasting empire, which has an estimated yearly revenue of $100 million, was founded in 1993 by Marcus and Joni Lamb.

Marcus Lamb, who opposed pandemic shutdowns and coronavirus vaccines, died from COVID-related complications in late 2021 at age 64. According to Jonathan Lamb, his father had chosen him to eventually head Daystar. But in August 2021, amid family strife, a new succession plan emerged, tapping Joni as the network’s next president.

Now Jonathan Lamb and his wife, Suzy, are speaking out, saying they’ve been wronged. The couple, who once hosted a show on Daystar, allege that Joni Lamb has tried to cover up the sexual abuse of their daughter—her granddaughter—by an unnamed family member.

Joni Lamb indicated she is taking “legal steps” to defend herself. On Nov. 27, Roys posted that she received “a demand for a retraction” of her article about the scandal. Roys also published audio of various parties in the dispute, including marriage expert Jimmy Evans telling Jonathan Lamb to submit to his mother’s God-given authority.

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

I am color television!

It seems that no matter in the world you go, lighter skinned people are thought of as more beautiful and higher in the hierarchy than dark skinned people

If only I liked Cruises

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.

How are you supposed to cook this thing??

I only have one, and I'm so afraid I will over cook it.

We're downsizing Thanksgiving this year because we're taking a trip the day after, and don't want to have to clean up after a big production or be stuck with a ton of left overs.

So I bought this little egg-shaped turkey breast, but I have no idea what to do with it.

Any suggestions?

Who cooks this for the holidays?

How does it compare to turkey?

It's a close call...

Who are your favorite sexy male wrestlers?

Post your favorites.

Go.

Watching lots of old movies lately and I can’t help but wonder what might have been with some of the actors I’ve watched whose careers seemed somewhat short lived.

Samantha Eggar was a beautiful, stylish British actress who peaked in the 60s. Her career seemed to trail off in the 70s. She had the kind of cut glass English accent and looks that could rival Joan Collins on Dynasty. She also guest starred on a lot of Aaron Spelling shows in the 70s and 80s that I wonder if she wasn’t a consideration for Alexis too.

James Fox is another actor whose career somewhat lagged in the 70s when he decided to become an evangelical Christian. I sometimes watch Michael York in the 70s and wonder if he didn’t run of with Fox’s career.

They moved to France from San Francisco in October 2023, but just over 12 months later, Joanna McIsaac-Kierklo and her husband Ed Kierklo say they are on the brink of returning to the US.

While Joanna, 74, and Ed, 75, intended to spend the rest of their lives in the European country, the retired couple have struggled to make friends and are becoming increasingly frustrated with French bureaucracy.

“We gave it a year here,” says Joanna. “And we just said, ‘Too much grief and no joy.’ There’s no fun. We’re struggling every day.”

“I honestly don’t think we could have put in any more effort to acclimatize to the French way of life,” adds Joanna, who describes their experience as “a nightmare.”

While they’re still working out the finer details of their imminent return, Joanna and Ed say that they’re “frustrated and exhausted,” by life in France and feel ready to “give up and leave.”

Uprooting their lives in the Californian city and moving to France was certainly not a decision taken lightly, they say.

Joanna and Ed, who’ve been married for 20 years, had already traveled the world extensively, both together and separately, beforehand.

“I didn’t get married till I was in my 50s,” says Joanna, who is originally from San Francisco. “So when I met my husband, we traveled.

“We have no children. No siblings. No parents. There’s nothing to encumber us doing exactly what we please.”

Joanna explains that she and Ed bought and sold three different homes during their first 15 years of marriage, “giving us a comfortable amount of cash to afford us the option to travel and even relocate to anywhere we wanted.”

In 2010, the couple bought a summer home in Northern California and spent eight years or so “going back and forth to San Francisco.”

“I think every married couple needs two places to live, because you’ve got to get away from each other,” adds Joanna, who previously worked as a healthcare executive.

But she says she was becoming increasingly frustrated with the political climate in the US and felt the urge to move somewhere else permanently.

“I’m a pretty political person, and I feel like the United States should be better,” she says. “And it never gets better.”

In 2011, the couple moved to London and spent much of their spare time traveling to different countries around Europe.

“I loved every place I went,” says Joanna. “I really enjoyed seeing a lot of Europe.”

After deciding that they couldn’t afford to live in the UK capital anymore, Joanna and Ed, a former IT executive, returned to San Francisco and tried to work out where to go next.

They’d previously spent two months living in the city of Nîmes in Southern France and “loved every minute,” so the destination seemed like it could be the ideal choice for them.

“We were looking for civility, consideration and little or no gun violence… which Nîmes has all three,” adds Joanna.

The couple hired a relocation specialist to help them find an apartment to rent and started the process of applying for a long-stay visa. However, things weren’t as straightforward as they’d envisioned.

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.

WalMart was testing its new line of crematoriums when it baked an employee to death a few weeks ago. Today it announced that it would rollback its DEI efforts. Most of it targets ethnicity and race but here's a few nuggets for gay Trumpers to chew on:

[quote] Walmart confirmed to the Associated Press that it will better monitor its third-party marketplace items to make sure they don’t feature sexual and transgender products aimed at minors. That would include chest binders intended for youth who are going through a gender change, the company said.

[quote] The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer will also be reviewing grants to Pride events to make sure it is not financially supporting sexualized content that may be unsuitable for kids. For example, the company wants to makes sure a family pavilion is not next to a drag show at a Pride event, the company said.

[quote] And it would stop participating in the Human Rights Campaign’s annual benchmark index that measures workplace inclusion for LGBTQ+ employees.

First they cane for Trans and I said nothing because I was not Trans. When they came for PRIDE there was no one left to speak for me.

Who will take over when Macy's finally goes under? Walmart? Target? Dollar General?

Commercials for Plexaderm. Has anyone used it or another product?

Fuck the forced birth states

A longtime coworker and friend is going through some very tough stuff right now. He confided in me today which isn’t like him because he typically keeps things to himself. I’d really like to get or do something nice for him. Any suggestions?

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.

As its two stars (i.e. the fiercely pro-Palestinian actress Rachel Zegler and the Israeli actress Gal Gadot) fight over the war in Gaza, rows over sexism, race and the dwarfs are turning the fairytale into a nightmare.

Doing Yard work or working out.

This was nice.

I had no idea they even knew each other.

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

Beginning with a hot guy with stupid hair

WOMP WOMP

We all wish for a place of peace and prosperity where we can be safe.

Where would you establish it, what are the rules, and what are its basic needs?

WHITESBURG, Ky. (FOX 56) — Spectators cried out in a Morgan County courtroom as surveillance video played, depicting the shooting death of District Judge Kevin Mullins.

Former Letcher County Sheriff Shawn “Mickey” Stines appeared before a judge on Tuesday afternoon for a probable cause hearing. Stines was arrested without incident on Sept. 19 after he reportedly shot and killed the district judge in his chambers.

Lead investigator, Kentucky State Police Detective Clayton Stamper, was called to the witness stand. According to Stamper, surveillance video captured the exchange that led to Stines shooting Mullins multiple times.

On Tuesday, the Commonwealth played a roughly 10-second clip from the recording. The Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts subsequently released the clip to FOX 56.

Kentucky sheriff reportedly shoots judge: A look at the timeline, investigation

The clip’s start is timestamped for 2:52 p.m. on Sept. 19. According to Stamper, before this, Stines had been seated and is seen standing to the side of Mullins’ desk with his hands in the air.

Stines raised his weapon, pointed it directly at the judge, and fired at least one shot at Mullins before he fell from his chair.

As Stines rounds the corner, Mullins moves underneath the desk with his hands covering his head. It appears that Stines fired another shot, but the desk obscures the view.

Video shows the desk sliding across the floor as Stines moves toward the door to open it before firing another shot at Mullins.

The entire exchange lasted a matter of seconds.

Stamper testified that it’s standard for judge’s chambers to be equipped with security cameras. However, no sound was captured.

During the exchange, Stamper said that there were people in the next room over. They weren’t able to hear what led to shots being fired, but they could hear gunshots and Mullins pleading for help.

The video released is only a piece of a larger picture, according to testimony on Tuesday.

The entire video reportedly shows Stines making a phone call and then using Mullins’ phone to make a call. Stamper testified that the outgoing calls were made to Stines’ daughter and that shots rang out just moments after the calls were made.

He said that Stines’ daughter has been interviewed with a parent present, but her phone was not collected as evidence yet.

Both Mullins’ and Stines’ phones were sent for forensic examination, but investigators have yet to receive the results. A woman reportedly employed by the Letcher County Sheriff’s Office also gave her phone to investigators to be examined. Stamper testified that she was one of Stines’ employees and believed she’d received text messages from Stines that detailed what occurred at lunch and ultimately led to the shooting.

According to court documents, the defense established probable cause in Tuesday’s hearing, and the case is set to be heard by a grand jury.

Paul and Prue are legends, but their tastes have gotten a bit stodgy:

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.

Has there been any hit movie about a gay character?

When straight actors were allowed to do these roles, the movies became cultural events—Philadelphia, Brokeback Mountain, Longtime Companion.

I don’t believe there’s been a hit gay movie since gays started playing the main roles

The gayest scene in this movie is RENEWAL the second gayest scene is with that shimmering android- he's both BITCHY and QUEENY.

I saw this in a movie theater with my parents in September 1976 I was 11 years old. I liked it. They thought it was so so.

I used to love this movie as a kid, having watched it multiple times on TV—afterschool movie. It’s a musical with songs by Burt Bacharach, about a group of westerners who crash land in the Himalayas to find a hidden town of people who never grow older.

As an adult, I found out that it’s supposed to be one of the worst films ever made, with 14% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I’ve been wanting to re/watch it for years but could never find it on streaming—but now it’s on Tubi!!

I revisited it last night. Soooo good. I miss independent movies like this one. Parker Posey is so good in it. Everyone is really.

Past or present.

Setting Barry Gibb's falsetto aside.....

Lots of soft and somewhat effeminate voices. Al Stewart, Michael Franks and Stephen Bishop come to mind.

Christopher Cross - his voice was a wee bit lower/deeper but not much.

Was it the era of a more sensitive man?

TV and movies are full of stories of those who were ostracized as kids who, through beauty or talent, became the belles of the ball as adults.

Are you amazing now?

And here I thought you bitches were just wishful thinking.

KooKoo (1981)

Rockbird (1986)

Def, Dumb & Blonde (1989)

Debravation (1993)

Necessary Evil (2007)

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

Roberto Bolle.

That was hot.

Stunning and brave, too.

For real!

They would make a steamy couple.

I googled and couldn’t find anything before the Times and New Yorker articles were coming out.

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."

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I'm not talking about g4p gay porn stars...

Zayn looks great.

But Louis looks so old!

He's such a ditzy Twink!

I'm fascinated by him because he's independent, he lives in an RV, he's fairly handy, and he seems really nice.

But he's so ditzy!

He has a mouse infestation in his camper, he doesn't really know how to drive, he can't cook for shit, and he's so clumsy!

Ethan also thinks that wet wipes constitute "taking a bath," and he's constantly breaking things in his camper.

I think he also has a few OCD type of phobias, which he hasn't really explained fully.

Nevertheless, I think he's adorable. And at least he has a boyfriend to keep him company.

And oh yeah, the boyfriend won't show his face on camera. Lol.

"Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago club in Florida, bringing together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network."

Time to come clean.

I had a crush on Bonnie Franklin.

He is later subdued, restrained, and then..... helped by the man who restrained him.

That man just happened to be the CEO of a substance abuse center.

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.

She’s deep in MAGA country. She got involved this year, GOTV for Sherrod Brown, introduced her daughters to political activism

As of right now, she can’t even look at her neighbors. She is desperately looking for another church (I am not religious, she picked that up on her own) using the word “deconstructing” which is an extremely painful process for religious folk. She wants nothing to do with anyone who voted for Trump. She is so hurt that friends and neighbors did not care about her rights or her daughter’s rights. That MAGA is so gleefully looking to see “deportations”. She will not try for another child because she has a history of miscarriages. She wants to move out of Ohio, but her whole life is there, and her kids are right at the age moving would be very upsetting.

My God she is in pain. Betrayed by people she thought were good, decent people, only to discover how much joy they get from the suffering of others. Like, the outsides look good, but the insides are full of rot and unresolved trauma they project only others. I don’t fuck with MAGA, but I’m also in Seattle where they are easy to avoid.

She didn’t understand the scope of how shitty these people are.

I just ache for her, and all the other blue dots. You guys on Datalounge are my hero’s right now. Thank you for everything.

Any fans of the 1981 cartoon series "Blackstar" on the DL?

The entire show has been up on YouTube for several years now.

Some say he was the first Native American cartoon hero but his ancestry is never focused on in any episode. He rode a fire breathing green dragon named Warlock & also had a white blond haired astronaut girlfriend (named Katana who resembled & predated She-Ra) that he is seen kissing in 1 episode.

His sorceress friend Mara reminds me of Princess Ariel from Thundarr & gives off lesbian vibes. In the debut episode, she is revealed to have had a long "friendship" with a sorceress named Amber who she must rescue from the show's villain The Overlord.

His other humanoid ally Klone is an awkward shapeshifter than reminds me of Star Trek's Data. No romances for him in the entire series.

The other 7 recurring characters are the "Trobbits" (name taken from tree hobbits) who are based on Disney's "Snow White & the 7 Dwarves" characters with one having large ears which he can use to fly like Dumbo (for some reason).

I watched the entire 13 episodes recently as I must've watched something else when this show was on Sat. mornings back in the early 80s.

Discuss.

Is he winning the Oscar?

She was a hot piece back in the day! The original Maggie the Cat!

We never talk about her. Why not?

A hiker who was lost in the backwoods of British Columbia for more than five weeks has been found alive.

Sam Benastick, 20, was reported missing on 19 October after he failed to return from a 10-day fishing and hiking trip in Redfern-Keily Park in the northern Rocky Mountains.

Authorities had called off search and rescue efforts for the avid hiker in late October. Temperatures in the region had at times dropped to around -20C (-4F).

Mr Benastick was found on Tuesday by two people headed to the Redfern Lake trail for work, who recognised him as the missing hiker as he walked towards them.

Given all the time he was missing, a different outcome had been feared, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl Madonna Saunderson told the BBC on Wednesday.

"We're very grateful. The family is thrilled," she said, adding that he had simply gotten lost.

Mr Benastick told police that he stayed in his car for a couple of days and then walked to a creek where he camped for 10 to15 days. At the time he went missing, he was equipped with a tarp, a backpack and some camping supplies.

He then moved down the valley and built a camp and shelter in a dried-out creek bed. Winter conditions ramped up, with some snowfall.

Eventually, Mr Benastick made his way to the area where he flagged down his rescuers.

"Those are very difficult conditions for really anyone to survive in, especially [with] limited supplies and equipment and food," Prince George Search and Rescue search manager Adam Hawkins told the BBC.

"Even someone with quite a bit of experience would find that challenging."

Multiple rescue teams, the Canadian Rangers, the RCMP, and family and friends, had all conducted a ground and air search over "a pretty huge amount of terrain", Mr Hawkins said.

The rugged, remote region was hours from any towns, and featured low-lying hills, steep alpine cliffsides, and "even glaciated terrain", he said.

Little is known about Mr Benastick's condition or how he survived in the backwoods. He is currently in hospital.

Local inn owner Mike Reid, who got to know Mr Benastick's family while they stayed at his establishment during search efforts, told broadcaster CBC that the hiker had cut his sleeping bag and wrapped it around his legs to stay warm.

He said he was told the young man nearly collapsed as he was placed into the ambulance and was in "rough shape".

Lots of legitimate reports coming in from a lot of battleground counties that did not count democrat votes.

And they just keep coming.

Now I’m staring to believe it…

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

I’m sure he’ll make lots of friends

The real magic start around 30 seconds in. I've never seen anything like it. Ooooh those fingers! Fuck you, Henry Mancini.

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.

What happened? What didn't happen? What did you want to happen?

I know this one of yall

After a TikTok video in which a Texas physician informed the public of their right to not respond to a citizenship question on hospital intake forms went viral, Gov. Greg Abbott (R) fired back on social media.

In a post on X on Monday, Abbott wrote, "Hey Texas Children's Hospital & Baylor College of Medicine, this doctor is putting your Medicaid and Medicare funding at risk. You better think twice & have crystal clear records. There will be consequences for failing to follow the law in the Executive Order." In the video, which is no longer available, Tony Pastor, MD, said he sometimes goes viral for "cute videos of my boyfriend and our dog" and "fun stories about residency," but "this video is a little different."

"I'm hoping the algorithm will do its thing because it's very important," he added.

He goes on to explain that "any patient who comes to a hospital has to click a box, basically, that is on the intake form. It says, 'Are you a U.S. citizen?' 'Are you not a U.S. citizen?' There's no third option that says, 'Rather not disclose.' It's either or."

"It has made all of us physicians and providers super uncomfortable," Pastor said. "No one has told us what people are going to do with this information."

He noted that "we were told today that people do not actually have to answer the question ... but no one is telling these people this, right?"

Maybe the law is "just a deterrent" for people who are not documented to go to a hospital, he said. "But even if that's the motive, it's really messed up. You should come to a hospital if you're sick. You should get healthcare if you're sick."

"So, my proposal to everyone ... is just know that you do not have to answer this question," he continued. "And my second sort of proposal is, wouldn't it be amazing if everyone who comes in doesn't answer it, and it really messes with whatever data that they're looking for?"

"Anyways, I hope the universe helps this video go off and people get this message," Pastor concluded. "We're gonna still keep advocating for our patients, because that's why we went to medical school."

Anyone remember Australia’s greatest export?

Anyone watching it these days?

Continue your discussion of each day's game here.

33 years old, 5'11" and 160 lbs., brown hair and hazel eyes.

Luca might have been fond of Armie Hammer in CMBYN, but he LURVVVES Drew Starkey. Look at that torso closeup.

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

Joe Biden granting Ukraine permission to use NATO-supplied rockets to attack military targets within Russia is an escalation of a European conflict now past its 1,000th day – and, though it is far from being a global conflict, the West is effectively now at war with Putin’s forces Then Russia ups the ante by firing an experimental intermediate range ballistic missile at Dnipro which carried a conventional warhead, but letting the world know the missile could be fitted with other warheads as well. And all this is happening as we elect Trump and his clown car of cabinet picks who will have their hands on the future of this conflict, not to mention nuclear codes.

Rumor is Trump has suffered a massive stroke.

Amid the Thanksgiving travel rush, a stowaway was discovered Tuesday night on board a Delta Air Lines flight out of JFK Airport in New York City headed to Paris.

Authorities said the stowaway was discovered on board Delta Flight 264 from JFK to Paris and removed after the plane landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

The person who boarded the flight bypassed the document check podium and a gate agent, but was fully screened at a security checkpoint at JFK, a TSA spokesperson told ABC News. That means they weren't carrying any prohibited items and did not pose a security risk, TSA said.

The FBI is aware of the incident.

No other details about the person who boarded the flight have been made public.

A representative for Delta said the airline is "conducting an exhaustive investigation of what may have occurred and will work collaboratively with other aviation stakeholders and law enforcement to that end."

A video taken by another passenger on board the flight shows the flight attendants walking down the aisle as the pilot's voice on the intercom says, "We are just waiting for the police to come on board … They directed us to keep everyone on the plane until they sort out the extra passenger."

The latest iteration of Kathy Griffin. What's your take?

A 65-year-old golfer died at a course in Florida after being attacked with his own clubs in what appears to be a "random act of violence," police say.

Junior Boucher, 36, is now facing a first-degree murder charge after the death of Brian Hiltebeitel at the Sandhill Crane Golf Club in Palm Beach Gardens Monday afternoon.

"At this time, it does not appear that Boucher had any legitimate purpose for being at the golf course. This appears to be a random act of violence where Boucher used the victim's golf clubs as weapons and viciously attacked the victim, ultimately killing him," Palm Beach Gardens Police Chief Dominick Pape said at a news conference Tuesday.

According to a police report, witnesses heard Hiltebeitel scream, "He's trying to kill me," and then saw Boucher beating him with a golf club on the first fairway.

Hiltebeitel tried to run away, but Boucher retrieved another club from Hiltebeitel's bag and chased him into a pond, where he jumped on top of him, choked him and again beat him, police said.

After the attack, Boucher stripped off his clothes and fled into the woods. Officers used a stun gun to subdue him.

Boucher, who is being held without bond, has previous arrests for domestic battery, battery on a police officer and drug possession.

Pape told reporters Tuesday that efforts to save Hiltebeitel’s life were unsuccessful, adding he was pronounced dead at the golf course.

Boucher had been reported missing by his family an hour before the attack, according to The Associated Press.

Court records show that, earlier Monday, members of Boucher's family had filed an eviction notice to remove him from their house.

Dina Lauro, identified by WPTV as Hiltebeitel’s girlfriend, described him as "such a good, good person. He was exciting to be with, always in a good mood, never depressed, wake up happy."

I put it on every year.

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Included Joy Division for their sound although they didn't have the goth aesthetic.

Wonder who his lawyer will be, since he can't represent himself anymore.

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.

A Republican running to fill a soon-to-be-vacant seat in the House of Representatives appeared to threaten the chamber’s only two Muslim women Tuesday, telling them they should “consider leaving before I get there.” Randy Fine calls himself the ‘Hebrew Hammer.’

In a message to Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Florida state Sen. Randy Fine added the cryptic hashtag “#BombsAway.”

Fine is running to replace Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), who is set to step down in Florida’s 6th Congressional District to be President-elect Donald Trump’s national security adviser.

Anyone else excited for this? Could get Demi Moore her first Oscar nomination. She seems really grounded and normal in this interview with the guardian. I’m rooting for her!

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 sent to one in German and it was wonderful. Walking around the craft stalls while drinking hot mulled wine is the best.

None of this would have happened if they had real floors instead of bare concrete. Bare concrete gives people permission to cut corners.

This is the golden thread that never ends.

Chandelier by Mark MacKiIIop is the best cover I’ve ever heard, maybe the best song I’ve ever heard. The voice of an angel.

I’ve heard a bunch of comments from people who are warning others not to sing, but has anyone actually encountered someone singing at a screening of Wicked?

I know they’re having sing-a-longs later, and that people sing from the audience during Broadway musicals now, but is it really a problem at Wicked screenings?

Kamala raised record amounts of money. What good did it do?

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

Hell to the naw naw naw

Starring Donald Trump as the Piglet. Carry on!

Previous thread below.

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

I can't remember the last time I saw this Goldie Hawn / Chevy Chase comedy from 1978. Overall, it was a fun slapstick comedy (though a bit too long). which borrowed heavily from the 1972 Streisand / O'Neal comedy 'What's Up Doc ?' - right down to the car chases through San Francisco (which included car pile ups and driving through plate glass. Even the Asian culture was prevalent in the movie. Overall, not quite as funny as WUD but close. Thoughts ?

She did better than what would have happened under Biden still running, or any other "compromise" candidate. Because of her, the Republican majority in the House has shrunk to a 2-seat majority, several Dem Senate incumbents that would have otherwise lost actually won, and she still kept the Orange Baboon from a majority in the popular vote.

Considering the headwinds against her, she did a phenomenal job. She connected with voters who were ambivalent about voting before she became the candidate. She made inroads with educated voters, an important voting bloc with consistent turnout. She had a lot of good policy ideas that Dems can incorporate (increase tax breaks for small businesses, tax credit for first-time homeowners) for future elections.

Timothee Chalamet

Taylor Swift

Glen Powell

Nicole Kidman

I just watched the excellent 4-part Netflix show on the tsunami in the Indian Ocean 20 years ago (!).

It was horrendous—one second your having a great vacation on the beach, and suddenly a mass of rushes im, flooding the entire area.

Have you ever experienced a disaster (war counts)?

Legendary Mexican actress who did both film and theater work. She played the title role in Mame in Mexico City in three different productions.

And I don’t mean those dolled-up Ken dolls that juice on Instagram. I mean the 35 and up daddy types that look like they’ve spent quite a bit of time in the military. What are they like? And is it true that they don’t mind messing around as long as they get their rocks off? Tell me stories.

He’s truly global.

Taxes? They are proposing a 25% national sales tax so poor people can't buy stuff.

Deficits? Trump added %8 trillion to the national debt and he wants more tax cuts for the rich and corporations so Social Security and Medicare will be cut. Obamacare will be destroyed so most people will go without insurance and die young. A death panel by a different name.

He plans to deport ag workers and impose huge tariffs on foreign producers which Americans will pay for with higher prices, particularly for food ( alot of AMerican don't realize most of our bread is made with wheat germ from China)

Overtime rules will be eliminated. Tort reform will stop anyone from suing an employer. Trump will assassinate domestic enemies but people will only know that others have disappeared mysteriously.

Every day will bring a new foreign poicy disaster. There will be a political purge of our generals, thus ensuring we lose any attempt to stop China from taking Taiwan. Trump will always put the energy company needs first, and damn climate change.

You will be told what books you can read and what opinions you can hold.

The middle class will finally be eliminated altogether. . Hyperinflaiton, no credit, millions of bankruptcies, it's all coming.

She released it just a few days ago.

Does the DL love it or hate it?

Discuss.

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":

Continuing our discussion of the stars, storylines, and Sapphic sisters of the Lawrence family of Pasadena.

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

Make your predictions here!

Oh, this is sad.

Our boys!!!

From the old thread re: Simon Winder, I liked Germania and Danuba, but found Lotharingia a weak afterthought.

Finished [italic]Sub Rosa[/italic], which I can recommend if you're a fan of Roman-era fiction such as the Falco series. I know ... a woman writing MM, ugh! Here, I think she did okay, although a bit awkward at times. Audio narrator has very pronounced "gay voice" which I think is his own, not for effect.

Finishing up a second book by Vendela Vita. Didn't like it any more than the other one, reads like a self-published un-edited work. I'm left wondering if she's published because she's married to successful Dave Eggers?

Not a drag queen!

Will they allow Blacks, gays, trans, poor, etc, on the ships there?

Oscar loves nothing more than a late in life revival and Demi is fantastic in The Substance... plus her Hollywood pals ain't gonna vote for Cynthia over her.

Demi will be this year's Brandon Frazier.

Cynthia will clean up all the lesser awards but Demi will get gold.

Rumours the company is in its death throes underestimate the actor’s talent for business – and the public’s insatiable appetite for kooky wellness gimmicks

Watching the Wizard of Oz on TBS. Rewatching these every year is a Thanksgiving tradition. It still works all this years later. This is something I am grateful for.

- sipping a nightcap and had a few puffs

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

Sad.

Part One comes out this week.

Can be for movies, TV shows, porn, concerts, music videos, specials, etc...anything.

Fuck joy.

Threads - Zuckerberg/Meta’s X/Twitter clone - who has been on it and what was your impression?

I find it notably more intolerable than even Reddit. At least Reddit can host such hyper-specific discussions that it provides a useful forum that’s tough to duplicate.

My impression of Threads nearly a week in? Full of nelly prisspots and insufferable cunts who sound like chronically miserable people. A lot of us may have voted for the same presidential ticket, but that in no way means I would ever want anything to do with a lot of these freaks.

I haven’t tried Bluesky yet. I deactivated my X/Twitter account months ago.

Mainstream social media reminds me of the reason I find the quirks of Datalounge so endearing.

She was great. I wish they had left more of this edge on the Sophia that we saw in this scene.

In a rare moment of candor, stand-up comic Anthony Jeselnik spoke about his sexuality in a new interview, which has us wondering if he just came out as bisexual.

During a long interview with Vulture to promote his upcoming Netflix special Bones and All, the 45-year-old comedian opened up about the reason he quit a project about bisexuality and gave an honest, if vague, window into his own sexuality.

In the past, Jeselnik — who at one point dated fellow comedian, Amy Schumer — has tried to keep his private life out of the spotlight but has spoken about women he’s dated in past interviews and even in his stand-up routines, Queerty reports.

Back in 2014, Jeselnik was developing a show for FX, which he described in the Vulture profile as being like a “bisexual Louie.” But he had second thoughts about his involvement and ultimately decided to walk away — and gave back the money — even after the network told him he could write the scripts without having to star in the show.

“I said, ‘You know what? I don’t even want to work on this anymore. I don’t want to do a narrative, I don’t want to talk about sexuality. It doesn’t really benefit my comedy.’ Writing the story, writing all the characters, it was like, This is too much,” Jeselnik explained.

When interviewer Kathryn VanArendonk asked if the character in the show was based on his own life or someone he created, he replied, “A little of both. It would’ve been someone figuring out their sexuality later.”

Jeselnik didn’t seem ready to elaborate, but when pushed about whether this was an experience he was familiar with, he said, “Sure. Yeah.”

VanArendonk then asks if the reason he left the project was because he didn’t want his sexuality to be part of his identity as a comedian. “I didn’t really have a comedic angle on it,” Jeselnik answered. “It was like, Oh, maybe I’m gonna try this out. Then I was like, No, I don’t really have anything to say about it, so maybe it’s someone else’s story to tell. Or just … Yeah, it never really came together, and no one really gave a sh—t.”

Jeselnik posted a link to the profile on his Instagram stories, so he clearly approves of the article, but it looks like we may have to keep waiting for him to be more frank about his sexuality.

Bones and All premieres on Netflix on November 26, 2024.

It seems like something we will never know. Someone should have confessed on their deathbed. Was anyone here alive when he went missing? Was it a huge story? I’m only asking because I’m watching the Irishman( it’s awful). He was a tough son of a bitch

Busker

Nook

Cattycorner

Moist is fine.

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.

It was more than a decade before the development of the lifesaving “AIDS cocktail.” At the time, a diagnosis was seen as a death sentence, and many of the men huddled around the Valencia Rose’s round tables suspected that it would be their last Thanksgiving. Some had healthy, full cheeks just months earlier; now, Kaposi’s Sarcoma lesions pocked their skin. Caretakers pushed men in their 20s on wheelchairs, and other guests leaned on canes. But in spite of the bleak occasion, the mood in the room was celebratory. Diners laughed at comedians and nodded along to a pianist’s routine.

I am euthanizing my 13 year old dog tomorrow. He's my best friend, the love of my life, the reason I get out of bed in the morning. He has lung cancer and is in end stage congestive heart failure. I have been ugly scream sobbing since around noon today. I am filled to the brim with medication right now and holding on. We're snuggling in bed, he's coughing and panting but enjoying the cuddles still.

I put in for being a respite foster over Thanksgiving with one place and longer foster term elsewhere. I think they're going to be dropping off an 80 pound catalouha mix with blue eyes from Texas. I will not hold him being from that traitor state against him.

I am not talking with all my real life friends about it because they all want to help and be here for me and hug me or just sit with me. I can't do that and being my friends, they understand.

My Big Guy, man, he's the best dog. He loves holding hands and always wants me to scritch between his toe pads. I also always feel so safe with him around. I ordered cameras for outside so I stress less.

BG was the first dog I ever pulled from SC. Hundreds and hundreds of dogs later and I have learned so much from him. He failed with the dog whisperer, he failed with months long boot camps. He failed with every dog training device and method. Just trusting me and being loved was the only thing that helped heal him.

He has a weird kindness to his vicious self, he never barked at anyone in a wheelchair or elderly or children. Anyone else was fair game. He is good with puppies, kittens and sick animals, any others are fair game. Basically, he's an asshole but not a bully.

I am so much of a better person because of him. Please tell me about your special pets, celebrate the loves we've lost but still think of.

It was fine when I woke up today but at some point during the day it started aching.

Now I can't raise my arm over my head and it hurts to reach for anything. Driving home, I couldn't even rest my right hand on the wheel.

WTF is it?

Would each state be a stand-alone entity or would like-minded states form smaller coalitions?

If tonight were June 29, 1981.

Lou Grant sounds good. I always enjoy Dean Santoro’s work.

What are you tuning into?

It shows the reality of the Israeli occupation of West Bank and the brutality of the Israeli armed force.

A place where we ponder everything about The Young & the Restless (Y&R) and wonder why we're still watching America's No. 1 daytime soap opera!

So which reason is it? - Hoping to see Conner Floyd in his underwear? - Imagining JaBottom's unseen Grindr hookups? - Praying for gay Fen to show up for the holidays?

Or maybe you tune in for the Sharon Case Daily Face Update? - Or just enjoy hate-watching The Stafford and her tiresome shtick? - Or simply love seeing the always-perturbed Aunt Jack just being Aunt Jack?

And of course, everyone is surely tuning-in for the greatly-anticipated Traci & Alan sex scene, as well as hoping to see seventy-somethings Aunt Jordan & Ian Ward fuck like rabbits as well. And let's not forget the always-lovable Messa!

So what stories are currently on your must-see list and what do you see in your Winter forecast for the residents of Genoa City?

All leave you with Phillip 'Chance' Chancellor rubs one out.

Melania, who is famous for being a conscious eater, is taking a more personal approach to improving her husband's diet. She is “cooking family dinners at Trump Tower for the president and their son, Barron,” the source said, adding, “She’s also encouraging him to make healthier choices.”

The insider went on to share that the former and future first lady “famously watches every bite she takes… She has also guided their son’s eating habits since he was a toddler. Mar-a-Lago members say they spot her heading to the spa, to work out and have regular skin care and hair treatments.”

What was she thinking?

They're showing this on Pluto TV. How did anyone ever watch this show? I watched it as a kid in the 80's, but it's completely laugh free. I will say Kirk Cameron was always cute. He looks like the kind of person who never had an awkward phase in his life.

Australia has imposed a sweeping ban on social media for children under 16, one of the world’s most comprehensive measures aimed at safeguarding young people from potential hazards online. But many details were still unclear, such as how it will be enforced and what platforms will be covered.

After sailing through Parliament’s lower house on Wednesday, the bill passed the Senate on Thursday with bipartisan support. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said that it puts Australia at the vanguard of efforts to protect the mental health and well-being of children from detrimental effects of social media, such as online hate or bullying.

The law, he has said, puts the onus on social media platforms to take “reasonable steps” to prevent anyone under 16 from having an account. Corporations could be fined up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (about $32 million) for “systemic” failures to implement age requirements.

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

In the wake of President Joe Biden withdrawing from the 2024 presidential election, a new star has emerged — and we aren’t talking about Vice President Kamala Harris. She’s going to shine at the Democratic National Convention in August as the presumptive nominee, but a new political voice has emerged from the shadows… actually from the internet.

Jack Schlossberg, the grandson of John F. Kennedy Jr. and the son of Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, has become a voice for Gen Z — even though he’s a younger Millennial himself. The Harvard Law and Business School graduate has become a TikTok sensation not only for his musical theatre antics and paddle-boarding adventures, but for also breaking down the political scene into layman’s terms for many voters who will be casting their ballot for the first time in 2024.

“I am inspired by my family’s legacy of public service,” he told Vogue earlier this month. “I take that very seriously, and I want to contribute in my own way. I have big dreams, but I also know that I’m trying to make a positive impact today.” Not only did the 31-year-old get a glossy feature in the fashion magazine, but he was announced as their political correspondent for this election cycle.

Vogue editor Chloe Malle told The New York Times in a statement why Schlossberg was a natural fit for their election-year coverage. “Jack emerged as a staff favorite early on in this election cycle with his irreverent but intelligent takes on the political landscape,” she wrote. “We all know the stakes of this election and it is critical to Vogue that we do all we can to get our audience motivated to vote.”

And Vogue wasn’t wrong with their assessment because X users were quick with the memes after Joe Biden announced his exit from the race. “jack schlossberg having the craziest new hire probation period rn,” wrote one social media user. Another added with a photo of Carrie Bradshaw drinking a Cosmopolitan, and as Sex and the City fans know, she’s a fictional alum of Vogue, “Jack schlossberg working on a different vogue article as we speak.”

Of course, there is the athletic side to Schlossberg, and very reminiscent of his late uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., “The way Jack Schlossberg had to evacuate his kayak just now so that he could write a Vogue post about this,” another humorous post noted.

So, look for Schlossberg to be a voice for young Democrats, who are trying to navigate their way through an election cycle that is anything but normal. Schlossberg is quirky, but he’s doing it in a way that is authentically him.

Alright, girls, spill. For those of you who’ve gone under the knife (or even just dipped into the botox/filler fountain), was it worth it? Did it change your life, or are you still side eyeing your reflection wondering where it all went wrong?

And for the holdouts, would you ever do it? What’s stopping you? Money? Fear of looking like a Real Housewife after a bender? Or are you just naturally blessed and don’t need it (don’t lie)?

Let’s hear the good, the bad, and the botched.

I am.

Parents are gone.

Siblings are distant both geographically and emotionally.

I received a few FRIENDSGIVING invitations but...they were at overpriced restaurants where the food is mass produced and there are no substitutions. I'm pretty picky. There were going to be people I either didn't know or had met before and didn't necessarily hit it off.

I'm OK being alone but...it'd be nice to be with people, too.

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

Nine episodes, out November 14.

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, everybody had colorful carpet in their living room, and colorful walls and/or wallpaper. I remember visiting people’s homes and they had either blue or green carpet in the living room. Sometimes pink. People used to have colored fixtures in their bathroom that were either powder blue or pink.

I remember sometime around the year 2000, everything changed and the aesthetic became all white. White walls, white carpet, white floors. I wonder if it was the depressing feeling of the Bush years that brought this on. Everything just became boring and depressing and sad.

Gobble gobble

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!

There are no good threads- I am SICK TO DEATH of the political threads- I'm not the only person who has said this.

In his efforts to cut government costs, Elon Musk has thrown his support behind slashing a federal office created in the wake of the Great Recession to regulate financial services used by Americans.

"Delete CFPB," Musk wrote on X early Wednesday of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. "There are too many duplicative regulatory agencies."

Musk, along with Vivek Ramaswamy, has been tasked with heading up the Trump-created Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, and finding ways to reduce spending and streamline bureaucracy within the federal government. The unofficial advisors have floated "deleting" entire agencies, laying off staff, and enforcing return-to-office mandates.

When reached for comment, a spokesperson for Trump's transition team said she had nothing to add to Musk's statement.

While it's unclear how DOGE and the incoming Trump Administration would abolish agencies, if it does, the CFPB could be on the chopping block. Here's a look at its purpose, employee makeup, and political controversies.

The CFPB was created by Congress as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act. The law aimed to strengthen oversight of Wall Street after its risky mortgage lending practices caused the global financial crisis. The CFPB has a broad mandate to protect Americans from deceptive or abusive practices by US financial firms. The agency investigates consumer complaints related to credit cards, loans, bank accounts, and debt collection and enforces consumer protection laws.

Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a professor at Harvard Law School, originally proposed the agency in 2007. In 2010, President Barack Obama appointed Warren to head the CFPB's steering committee to help establish it.

"The time for hiding tricks and traps in the fine print is over," Warren said during a White House ceremony that year. "This new bureau is based on the simple idea that if the playing field is level and families can see what's going on, they will have better tools to make better choices."

As of March 2024, the CFPB employed just under 1,700 people, earning an average of about $184,000 a year, according to the Office of Personnel Management. The Bureau's 2024 financial report broke that workforce into six groups; about 43% of CFPB's employees work in the supervision and enforcement of financial institutions, 18% in operations supporting the Bureau's other initiatives, and 14% in research, monitoring, and regulations.

Since its founding, the CFPB has recouped $19.6 billion for consumers through direct compensation, canceled debt, and reduced loan principals.

The agency has also issued $5 billion in civil penalties against banks, credit unions, debt collectors, payday lenders, for-profit colleges, and other financial services companies. That money is deposited into a victims' relief fund, with nearly 200 million people eligible for relief.

I'm talking immediate switch off.

Me: Janis Joplin.

The raspy caterwauling and shrieking is awful. I don't know how anyone can listen to her.

He is a straight acting gay. I can just tell. He is.

It's that time of the year again.

What are your "Thanksgiving for One" plans?

A big bottle of wine? A small slice of turkey breast, enough for Thanksgiving and then some leftovers?

Frozen mashed potatoes, a bag of green beans, a box of stuffing, and a store-bought apple pie?

That actually sounds lovely, doesn't it?

Maybe even watch Planes, Trains, and Automobiles on tv and then start putting up your holiday decorations.

Luckily, Thanksgiving is on November 30 this year, so the holiday season is shortened.

I say, go big. Do a whole turkey for one, spend the day making mashed potatoes from scratch, cut and clean your green beans then saute them with mushrooms and butter, bake some cornbread stuffing, and order the most decadent pie from your most expensive local bakery.

Buy some eggnog with whiskey, a huge bottle of wine or champagne, and play holiday music all day long.

Have fun with it!!

Did she ever win?

He had a fun instagram for a while and then he just became boring.

Why does DL keep asking me to ACCEPT cookies again and again?

I grocery shopped for my parents for Thanksgiving. They gave me the grocery list and I bought store brand where possible.

They got very upset because they saw very few brand names. I was told that the only reason they never bought brand names before was because they had 4 kids and couldn’t afford it.

Funny - when I was a kid, they said everything was made in the same two or three places, and they just put different labels on: rich labels for people who wanted to buy the same thing at a higher price and poor labels for poor people who would buy the same thing at a lower price.

I pointed this out to my father, who asked me if I wanted to make Thanksgiving dinner with my “poor people” groceries. So I shut up.

Not for the squeamish.

Gives new meaning to "load bearing walls!"

It’s hokey, but I feel excited about her movies - like she’s some 50s starlet who is about to throw a performance that makes me jump and say “yeah”. This is the first sprouting actress I’ve followed and it’s so cool.

So far, I love “You’re Next” followed by Baby Sitter movies. “Azrael” plot didn’t hit with me, but I’m so happy to see a final girl turn into a revenge hunter.

Wouldn't one expect it to be a suburb of the big city?

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 don't think she gets enough credit or is in the spotlight enough for her A level cuntery.

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.

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

Warms my heart a little

I'm not complaining as I like the scruff.

What do you think?

I’ve heard this so often from gays, most often when they’re first coming out of the closet.

They think that all gays must be the same because one type seems to get more publicity.

The other thread was greyed out.

The series starts next week on Sky in the UK and Peacock in the US.

Lashana Lynch is the woman on the hunt for Eddie, having made an impact in No Time To Die as the new 007.

Also in the cast is Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance and the always reliable Lia Williams, not to be confused with Lia Thomas.

And I am unanimous in that

Since the most recent comment on the summer thread is about the gays in Detroit, they get the place of honor as the thread photo.

(Until Mike Holmes Jr shares a photo in a jockstrap....)

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

The campaign begins today.

Governor Shapiro will stitch together the shambles of democracy and restore order in America.

Each and everyone of you is loved by the most high.

I guess he did that Loki series for Marvel/Disney, but otherwise he's not been very visible for years.

He used to be considered a really big deal.

They are both so well behaved. Color me impressed.

Former teen heartthrob turned evangelist, Kirk Cameron, is furthering his "anti-woke" agenda with a new Christian children's show called "Adventures of Iggy and Mr. Kirk," which is being described as a "modern-day Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" for parents who want their kids to learn biblical wisdom and values from a pious Iguana and not — in his own words — "gay dinosaurs and trans ducks."

The live-action show, produced by Brave Books, features Cameron, Leigh-Allyn Baker ("Charmed," "Will & Grace"), and John Kennedy as the voice of Iggy the Iguana. To support its launch, the project is partially relying on a crowdfunding campaign aiming to raise $1,250,000, according to Fox News. The creators plan to share the first season for free on YouTube.

"If you watch many of Hollywood's kids shows, you would think that parents want woke instructions for their kids," Cameron told Fox News Digital at last week's Green Carpet Premiere of the program.

"But the reality is they don't. They're not looking for gay dinosaurs and trans ducks to teach their children morality. They want wholesome values and morals to be taught to their kids by people that they trust. And that's why I'm so excited about our show. Because it gets to the heart of the kinds of values parents are trying to teach their kids at home and this show is going to reinforce those values while keeping the ‘wow’ factor of the entertainment."

Baker, known for her roles on popular shows centering on witches and gay men, spoke of her involvement in the project, saying, "First of all, children's entertainment has gotten really visually overstimulating, and they've done studies to show that that's actually the brain on heroin for children. It becomes very addicting. So, we wanted something that was slower-paced. That parents could actually take a break and let their kids watch. And it would be educational, and it would encourage great behavior, positive attributes to society, ways that we should all be living a better life."

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

The entire cast, except LVP, are being replaced by younger whores in Granny Pump’s stable.

And Schwartz and Sandy’s is closing.

Scheana must be suicidal.

we really are losing the optics war

I am making a turkey, Broccoli Raisin Salad, Patti LaBelle's Macaroni and Cheese (added some onions and hot sauerkraut), corn bead. For dessert, I went to the Farmer's Market and got a homemade cherry pie and pumpkin. I will have leftovers for days.

Why?

Explain it to me like I’m Stacey Q..

I watch the bushman scare people.

List of supposedly the best whores according to Zach

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.

The twitter and Onlyfans community mourns @passion4pluto AKA Pluto, who took his life at 27

He had a big booty but he couldn't live forever 😩

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

My God his hair is nice

The summary is, while the price is near $400/person, the quality at both restaurants has diminished spectacularly

US universities have been emailing international students and staff advising them to return to campus before President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, amid concerns over his plans for mass deportations.

"All international students are worried right now," University of Colorado Denver professor Chloe East told the BBC.

Trump, a Republican, has pledged to enact the largest deportation operation in history, and use the US military to help.

More than 400,000 undocumented students are enrolled in US higher education, according to the Higher Ed Immigration Portal.

Officials in Trump's incoming administration have suggested they will build vast holding facilities for undocumented immigrants on the deportation list.

His incoming border tsar Tom Homan has said violent criminals and national security threats will take priority for removal from the country. But that has not allayed concerns in higher education.

Well, wonder no more.

About $1300 for the cheapest seats, $4000 to $6000 for mid-range tickets, and over $10,000 for the stadium floor.

Tell me. How are teenage girls paying for these tickets?

A Tesla Cybertruck owner says, “You work hard, but your kids don’t want to hang out with you, and your friends are too busy to visit,” get a Cybertruck, and the world can’t ignore you. Surprisingly, close to 50 Cybertruck owners echo this sentiment.

Gen Zers on average believe an annual salary of $587,797 and net worth of $9.47 million are needed when they envision “financial success,” according to Empower. For millennials, that means earning $180,865 a year with a net worth of $5.6 million, the Empower survey found. For Gen X, the respective numbers were $212,321 and $5.3 million, while boomers put theirs at just $99,874 and $1.05 million.

Not only does Gen Z have the highest benchmarks, they are also the most confident in reaching them: 71% said they are optimistic they will achieve financial success in their lifetimes, compared to 70% of millennials, 53% of Gen X, and 45% of boomers.

I’m excited despite what my friends said. But they all had one huge positive to say… Drew Starkey. Allegedly he’s sooo good in this and one said they looked him up immediately after the film ended because they didn’t know who he was and he was amazing. So charming.

I will give you my thoughts after.

... and in the most dramatic way possible!

[quote]“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Courage to change the things I can. And the wisdom to know the difference,” she wrote in the post, in reference to the oft-cited Serenity Poem, attributed to 20th century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.

Are you impressed with our Jamie Lee's brave and outspoken political stance?

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.

I want him deeply inside me

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

The golden age of wandering around the mall with your crush is finally returning. A refreshed Barnes & Noble will open 12 new locations this month, which puts the chain on track to hit its goal of 60 planned openings this year.

The bookseller, which was on the verge of bankruptcy just six years ago, is copying the indie bookstore model and ditching its one-size-fits-all attitude to claw its way back to the top.

B&N fall from grace. Amazon crushed Barnes & Noble, which scrambled to try and win back customers by expanding its offerings and sinking $1 billion into a Kindle knockoff. In 2019, a hedge fund bought the chain (often the kiss of death for an ailing retailer), but instead of stripping it for parts, it handed over the reins to British bookstore turnaround legend James Daunt.

In addition to snapping up cheap retail space, Daunt immediately worked to undo everything. Daunt ended publisher deals that accepted payments for featuring books and let individual locations build displays and organize stores to best fit their communities.

Recent openings: Last week, the chain took over the historic 1919 Noel State Bank building in Chicago, and on Wednesday, it returned to the three-story Georgetown location it closed 13 years ago in Washington, DC.

Who knew Leslie was the one holding this thing together. We could really use his comedies right now.

God knew what he was doing when he created us

Targeted, doxxed, panicking for good reason. A billionaire has decided they must die, career wise. So they're dead. Possibly in more ways than one.

Totally normal.

For more than a year, the Israeli government has avoided holding itself to account for its failure to prevent the deadliest event in Israel’s history: the Hamas-led raid on Oct. 7, 2023.

An independent commission, founded by survivors of the raid and relatives of Israelis who were killed and kidnapped, tried to fill that void on Tuesday, releasing a scathing report that blamed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and top military commanders for years of faulty decisions that made Israel more vulnerable to invasion.

Based on three months of interviews and public hearings, the commission’s report criticized the government’s decision to funnel money to Hamas, which allowed the group to entrench itself in the Gaza Strip in the decade before the attack. The commission, formally known as the Civil Commission of Inquiry of the Oct. 7 Disaster, condemned Mr. Netanyahu for sidelining high-level decision-making forums that might have stirred greater internal debate about the wisdom of such a policy. The commission also criticized top generals for reducing the number of troops stationed along Israel’s border with Gaza, allowing loose discipline among the soldiers who remained, and prioritizing signal intelligence over human and visual monitoring of the Palestinian enclave.

More from Walford here.

Well?

I work in an upper class gym in a very middle class city. It is the land of trophy wives and they are gorgeous. These are life-long gym bunnies who are now in their 40’s, 50’s, and 60’s. These women don’t have an OUNCE of belly fat. No shit, some of these women have abs at 60 years old. They also have gorgeous muscle tone, they’re perfectly sculpted head to toe.

Every single one of them has practiced the most disordered eating for decades.

First of all - everything they eat is both nonfat & low carb. They eat low carb tortillas. Usually put a Splenda in the nonfat iced coffee. But it’s mostly just that they eat lean meats all the time. Chicken breast & tuna & raw veggies. When they make dinner for their family they’ll make their own meal of meat & salad.

Second - they don’t drink. None of them drink at all. A lot of them actually say they had issues with alcohol and had to completely quit to save their marriage. Usually their husbands still drink.

Third - they compulsively exercise. They come in for a morning workout and it’s usually yoga sculpt or cardio. Then they come back in the afternoon for weights.

Fourth - this doesn’t apply to all of them, but some of them take a lot of sleeping meds every night to get some sleep.

Fifth - they give the best advice. “If I feel hungry for a snack I just go for a walk. If that doesn’t help, half a beef jerky stick will do the trick.”

He is an egomaniac, arrogant, cocky & a narcissist.

Stuck in a fake political marriage, kids he didn’t want and his career is in limbo!

Give a little love to our Democratic Hottie, Gavin Newsom!

Jealous, bitches? 😏

Paley played a big role in helping Beach Boy Brian Wilson make his eponymous debut solo album, released in 1988. It marked a formal re-emergence for Mr. Wilson after years of mental struggles, erratic behavior and drug abuse, which began in the 1960s

Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing said in a separate X post that the two had “ended their relationship.”

In the past few months, Owens and Daily Wire co-founder Ben Shapiro had clashed multiple times over Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 attack on the country. Shapiro, who is Jewish, urged her to quit after she started promoting anti-Israel views laden with antisemitic tropes, some of them apparently leveled at Shapiro himself.

Last time, there was controversy because their owner forced them to.

I’ve boycotted them since.

Will they whore themselves out to Trump again?

This is certainly.......festive.

Not sure if this is Lawrence Welk or Hee Haw though it seems way too square for the latter. I only thought Hee Haw because they panned the camera to the dog once or twice!

Minus Susan Dey

It’s interesting. I would have assumed Minnesota would be up there because of the Big Two: Prince and associates, who repped his home state, and Bob Dylan, who didn’t at all. But it’s not. Other from then you have Judy Garland, the Replacements, and then no one else who reach those giddy heights.

Then Oklahoma is a surprising embarrassment of riches: Oklahoma - Chet Baker, Flaming Lips, Gap Band, Garth Brooks, Gene Autry, Hanson, JJ Kale, Leon Russell, Reba McEntire, Vince Gill, Woody Guthrie.

He really had gayvoice, didn't he?

They seem to be about half the daily rate of Alamo, Thrifty, etc.

More than half of Senate Republicans, including some in senior leadership positions, privately say they don’t see a path for the former Florida representative, according to a number of Republican sources.

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.

I hope his Broadway play flops.

We haven't had a thread to talk broadly about British shows and/or the PBS or Britbox viewings of them in the US for a while.

Starting off with something that apparently happened a few months ago....the sexy guy that played Spiros on The Durrells has been ACCUSED! of sexual harassment/assault/rape. (He was serving as a rep in EU parliament.)

Check him out in Monster and other movies.

Should we thank Ridley Scott for this shot of Ryan? 🌊

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

Longtime PJ fan Courtney is not happy. PJ is serving radio silence, of course.

I wonder if Feige goes before Iger. At $350-375 million, it’s more than twice the budget of Wicked. Last minute reshoots and a date change could push it past $400 million. This could potentially be one of the biggest bombs of all time.

Look, I’m not saying being the domestic one in the relationship isn’t work. I get that there’s a lot to manage around the apartment, and there’s emotional labor involved that I probably don’t even notice because I’m too busy working 40+ hours a week to keep the bills paid and the lifestyle afloat. But is it too much to ask for a simple chicken that isn’t burnt to a crisp? Roasting a chicken is not a five star culinary challenge. Did you even try?

It’s such a small thing, and maybe just maybe if they could handle that, we wouldn’t argue about every other little thing. Oh, you’re storming out to stay at a friend’s house again? Who’s paying for everything in this goddamn house? Your skincare routine? Your boutique gym membership? The endless parade of designer candles you insist we need? Me. That’s who.

And let’s not even touch your so called “side hustle.” You bought one NFT of some pixelated nonsense, and it’s done exactly nothing. Your “big break” isn’t coming anytime soon.

Fellow gays, what do you expect from your partners when you’re the one out there keeping the lights on? Should I just accept that they’ll never figure out how to use the vacuum, or should I buy one of those robot ones for Christmas and let it do the work? Help me out here.

Money maker

A gift seems more fitting than none. I was thinking a book

Have yourself a......merry little Christmas!!

Tough shit to the people who voted for him "because the prices are too high"

Reuters reported last year that the FDA had received thousands of reports of patients, including many children, experiencing depression, suicidal thoughts and behaviors, or other psychiatric problems after they began using montelukast.

By 2019, the FDA tallied 82 suicides linked to Singulair and its generic versions reported to its adverse-event database since 1998. At least 31 of those reports involved someone age 19 or younger.

How about in Molokai?

FEMA officials said they didn’t want their housing program for survivors of Maui’s 2023 wildfires to displace any residents. But they didn’t bar the agency’s contractors from leasing properties previously occupied by long-term tenants.

Gen X shot themselves in the foot with their little Trumpian antics.

I vote Mayor Pete

Story at 11....

One last monetized video before she goes, tho......

For a very dear lesbian couple that always do nice things for me throughout the year. Got any great ideas? $500 is my budget for these two.

Lesley Manville doing her thing. Will Tudor seems to be playing a gay character of sorts, what a surprise.

[quote]Moonflower Murders, based on the second installment in Anthony Horowitz’s adaptation of his bestselling Susan Ryeland/Atticus Pünd series, picks up in the aftermath of Magpie Murder’s riveting finale.

September 15th.

There are too many of you people on the internet. I had no idea you existed and had opinions.

If it was just me I would insist you relate every thought and emotion to theater and Greek mythology.

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

She had it all. Her rugged good looks and her connections couldn't help. Life is funny.

"“I had an excellent conversation with President Donald Trump,” Ms. Sheinbaum wrote on social media. “We addressed Mexico’s strategy regarding the migration phenomenon, and I shared that caravans are no longer reaching the northern border as they are being addressed within Mexico.”

"....she and Mr. Trump had “discussed strengthening collaboration on security issues within the framework of our sovereignty and the campaign we are conducting in Mexico to prevent fentanyl consumption.”

Shouldn't the Biden/Harris administration be doing this? Why aren't they?

Somehow this film feels like the mood of the world right now.

Says that "Once you're deported, you can never come back."

But Signora Melania it's an easy mistake I'm still called an admiral Yet I gave up the sea long ago

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

I forgot this existed

I've been told this one from Monte's Diner in Madison is it.

If yours is better, please oblige.

It's more for the potential of stopping alcohol addiction, although losing the weight is an added/needed outcome as well.

I'm spending about $300 a month on alcohol so I don't see that this would be an extra expense for me. I also already have gastric attacks because of alcohol.

I need help with this. I'm willing to take a gamble if it can change my life. It's already changed the life of my best friend (weight/sugar cravings/high sugar levels). she also reports having no desire for alcohol whereas she was having at least a glass of wine a night (or more).

Willing to be on it for the rest of my life if it relieves my need for alcohol.

It has recently come to my attention that this is a gay amateur porn trend that I don't know about.

Give her her flowers!

Or a TEENAGED BROTHEL???!!!

The flirting here is off the charts.

Hunk of a man?

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.

Thanks to recommendations on DL I bought a cheap used copy and I’m about a third of the way through. I’m loving it and I’ve never been a Dietrich fan.

Dietrich’s daughter is a terrific writer, but seriously, could she have remembered SO much detail from such a young age? She had to have embellished quite a bit.

Thoughts?

For me, it’s Susan, on Friends. Jessica Hecht sucked. I liked Carol a lot, but Susan was an annoying and unfunny interloper.

My partner and I are watching Hannah and Her Sisters. It creates a nice warm feeling for me. Bookended by thanksgiving scenes and the last vestige of "old downtown".

This commercial is pure *CRINGE*

I don't need to hear this pig belch

The Lion that ate Roy.

@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 !!

I’m noticing Jon Hamm’s face has really fallen. Sad but he still has the big dick.

Does it sound to anyone else like the stalker/harasser is a gay guy? The councilman said about the other targets:

[quote] "They all do seem to be other gay men, out gay men," Lambert-Melton said. "[It's] a pattern of targeting other gay men, which is deeply unfortunate."

“Other gay men” suggests to me that the asshole is also a gay man, but the councilman doesn’t want to explicitly say it.

I think I first heard in November of 1999, it made me a fan and I still think it’s one of the greatest pop songs and debuts of all times.

What do you think?

I am freaking out over the UFO whistleblowing and what he is saying

Non-human intelligence is real, world powers have not only caught UFO's, but have been trying to reverse engineer them, the US has non-human bodies in some black project military base!!

I haven’t slept all month just thinking about the ramifications of all this.

I’m trying to be the contrarian skeptic I usually am, but something about this case is making it hard for me.

Where do you guys stand?

Anyone who has been a teenage goth does (or damn well should) know them. Peter Murphy has possibly the sexiest singing voice I've ever heard in my life—deep, rich, and booming. He has always been rather thin and androgynous looking, so you don't necessarily expect it.

Wendy Williams was labeled as “permanently incapacitated” in new court documents by her guardian, less than a year after revealing her dementia and aphasia diagnosis to the public.

Her guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, and her legal team, wrote in court documents obtained by The U.S. Sun that Williams “has been afflicted by early-onset dementia and, as a result, has become cognitively impaired and permanently incapacitated.” The revelation came amid an ongoing legal battle over the Lifetime series Where is Wendy Williams?, a documentary that showed the former TV host dealing with alcohol addiction, alongside health and financial issues.

Past court documents claimed that the series exploited Williams, and said that she did not have the ability to consent to the series due to her health ailments. The new filing asked for information of her “health, familial relationships, and finances” to be redacted in an effort of privacy, according to the outlet. Williams was diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia and primary progressive aphasia in 2023, revealing her health conditions publicly earlier this year.

Do you consider her to still be relevant?

God knows we need it during this troubled times. Netflix/NFL.

I have had it with my shitty android with its slow data, accelerated battery life, attack ads. Next month I'm ready to go over to the dark side and go apple. IPhone users what are the pros? Is it difficult to transition from Android? It's my first time be gentle.

Said he had sex with "20 good-looking men." Any of them on here? Of course, he also estimated that he had sex with about 300 women, and he's been married 3 times, so he's clearly something of a pussyhound, elderly genderbending notwithstanding. Oh, yeah---here's a pic of him with Tim Curry from 1974.

We need a lot of help to pull it off this year. What can you do? Greg always signed up for the centerpieces immediately but he died this past year so there's an opening there.

I would probably want to do the idea maybe in an earlier decade," Cherry explains. "Because the character I miss writing the most is actually Wisteria Lane. That was the most fun playground anyone in the history of television has ever had, because we owned the whole street. I know that street like the back of my hand. When someone shoots a commercial on that street, I know it instantly, because I know all those houses, I know the geography. It was such a fun place to write for. And there's times when I go, 'You know what? I wonder if I could write Wisteria Lane in like, 1966.' "

Cherry says there is a "part of me" that would "love to go back and do it again," thanks to the wisdom that's come with time.

"I started to go back and go, 'Okay, this was why that worked, or this is my approach to this,' " he says. "I did some things right the first season that were intuitive, more than intellectual. And I feel like if I ever got a chance to do that show again, I'd be better at the job. I learned so much."

The trick, however, is figuring out if "there is still stuff that needs to be said," Cherry explains. "If you do a reboot, you have to have a really good artistic reason to do it. And at some point, I'll sit down with someone and go, 'Okay, let's talk about if there's a good enough "why" to do it.' "

Creating Desperate Housewives "was like, you've taken a couple of swimming lessons and then they just throw you into the biggest pool ever and say, 'Go swim,' " Cherry says. "But that's probably a metaphor for life: Oh, I made so many mistakes, but I did some things right. And I just learned. God, I learned."

Desperate Housewives is now streaming in its entirety on Hulu.

that he hasn't already done.

Anyone remember the handsome, furry guy on a telenovela?

The movie of his book "The Late Great Planet Earth" scared the hell out of me when I saw it as a kid.

The disgraced film mogul is set to be retried on sex crimes charges next year.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a legal claim Tuesday against New York City, alleging the disgraced Hollywood mogul is receiving poor medical care and living in an unhygienic environment at the Rikers Island jail complex.

The notice of claim, a legal document that must be submitted before a lawsuit is formally filed, accuses the city and the facility of negligently failing to provide Weinstein with “timely and adequate” medical treatment and “the most basic human needs,” including clean clothes and “hygienic living conditions.”

Weinstein’s medical issues include chronic myeloid leukemia, diabetes, coronary artery disease, obstructive sleep apnea, obesity and high blood pressure, among other diagnoses, according to the legal filing. He was hospitalized in April and July, and he had emergency heart surgery in September, according to a representative.

In a statement, a spokesperson for the New York City mayor's office said the public hospital system works with the Department of Correction to "ensure people in custody have access to high-quality health care on Rikers Island, including individuals who have complex medical and mental health needs."

In a lengthy statement accompanying the seven-page filing, Weinstein’s lawyer, Imran H. Ansari, compared the Rikers Island facility to “a gulag where the prisoners are treated like animals.”

“When I last visited him, I found him with blood spatter on his prison garb, possibly from IV’s, clothes that had not been washed for weeks, and he had not even been provided clean underwear — hardly sanitary conditions for someone with severe medical conditions and susceptibility to illness,” Ansari said.

Mama likey!

Hopefully not. But there is a good chance of it happening.

Really?

Vice President Kamala Harris’ first video to her supporters after the election stunned social media users Tuesday.

The video, shared by the Democratic Party’s official X account, featured Harris speaking directly to followers discouraged by the recent election.

"I just have to remind you, don’t let anybody take your power from you. You have the same power that you did before Nov. 5, and you have the same purpose that you did. And you have the same ability to engage and inspire. So don’t ever let anybody or any circumstance take your power from you," Harris said.

Many X users were buzzing about Harris' appearance in the video, commenting about how there seemed to be something "off" with the vice president and expressing surprise it was publicly shared.

DC Examiner contributor Kimberly Ross responded, "Is this a...joke? It's a terrible video. Yikes."

"I’m not sure you guys want to be amplifying this. There’s something, ummmm, off with the vice president," Fox News contributor Joe Concha joked.

Senior National Review Online writer Dan McLaughlin reacted, "No video like this would ever have been released by a politician who is not hated by her staff."

"The joy is gone," the Republican Committee of Prince William County surmised.

Former Trump White House advisor Ben Williamson remarked, "I’d read a 5,000 word article on how this got approved for release."

"They wouldn’t let her go on @joerogan but they let her do this," American Principles Project president Terry Schilling posted with a facepalm emoji.

"Who thought this was a good idea? Who is this for? What is this for? What is she even saying? Once again, I will reiterate that we are ruled by imbeciles," Atlantic contributing writer Tyler Austin Harper wondered.

The video reportedly came from a call Harris took with donors and volunteers earlier today where she addressed her election loss for the first time since conceding to President-elect Donald Trump.

"The outcome of this election obviously is not what we wanted. It is not what we worked so hard for. But I am proud of the race we ran, and your role in this was critical. What we did in 107 days was unprecedented," Harris said.

Harris has mostly kept out of the spotlight since the election and has been vacationing in Hawaii with second gentleman Doug Emhoff since last week.

I'll start.

I'm buying Datalounge this twinkly pinky ring with a cock on it!!

Isn't it festive.

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."

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!

You don't have to "watch" watch these films, but they are fun and "feel good" films if one is bored, there's bad weather out. or you're just looking for some entertainment that is new and different

Almost Christmas (2016)

(Mo' Nique is EXCELLENT in this fare)

Walter Meyer (Danny Glover) is a retired mechanic who lost the love of his life one year earlier. Now that the holiday season is here, he invites daughters Rachel (Gabrielle Union) and Cheryl (Kimberly Elise) and sons Christian (Romany Malco) and Evan (Jessie T. Usher) to his house for a traditional celebration. Poor Walter soon realizes that if his bickering children and the rest of the family can spend five days together under the same roof, it will truly be a Christmas miracle.

Release date: November 11, 2016 (USA)

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The American justice system is a fucking joke.

So tell me datalounge - are you part of the elusive 37 percent?

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A former resident of New Hampshire’s youth detention center testified Tuesday that his house leader and another staffer restrained him in a stairwell while two other workers sexually assaulted him.

The four members of what he and other teens called “the hit squad” then carried him back to his room and tossed him in, he said.

“It felt like I hovered over and watched it,” Michael Gilpatrick said, wiping away tears in Rockingham Superior Court. “My body just went blank.”

Gilpatrick, 40, was the first former resident to testify at the first civil trial seeking to hold the state accountable for alleged abuse at the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called the Youth Development Center. The three years he spent at the Manchester facility in the late 1990s overlapped with the plaintiff, David Meehan, who alleges the state’s negligence in hiring, staffing and training led to the near-daily rapes, beatings and long stints in solitary confinement he endured. The state, however, argues it was not responsible for the actions of what it calls “rogue” employees.

Meehan has yet to take the witness stand in the trial, which began last week and has included testimony from multiple former workers. He and Gilpatrick, who will continue testifying on Wednesday, are among more than 1,100 former residents who have sued the state. Eleven former state workers are facing criminal charges, including several who are accused of abusing Gilpatrick and Meehan.

Meehan’s lawyers displayed police booking photos Tuesday of the so-called “hit squad” alongside a photo taken of Gilpatrick when he arrived at the center at age 14.

“The four of them used to roll together, and they would go to different cottages and beat kids,” he said. “They would literally come over and just go door to door and beat every single one of us, down the line.”

“They were grown men, and we were children, and they would literally swipe us to the ground, bang our heads off the floor, twist our arms behind our backs,” he said. “Anything they felt like doing, they did.”

Gilpatrick testified that he ended up at the center after running away from multiple group homes, committing a burglary and stealing food to survive on the street. The sexual assault on the stairwell happened after he ran away while on a furlough, he said. He had already spent several days locked in his empty room wearing only his underwear when the workers brought him to the house leader’s office and then the stairwell, he said.

Gilpatrick said he referred to the house leader, Bradley Asbury, as “Hitler.”

“He was a very bad man,” he said. “Not only did he have power over all the kids, he had power over the staff as well.”

Asbury has pleaded not guilty to charges of being an accomplice to Gilpatrick’s assault. Earlier Tuesday, jurors heard from a former ombudsman who said Asbury was particularly resistant to her attempts to investigate complaints and demanded to be present during any interviews with his staff.

“He definitely sent a message to the students and staff that I was not going to be looking into anything there, and if I did he’d micromanage the process,” said Rochelle Edmark, who started her job just before Meehan left the facility.

I coin this one “Nonbinary David Lynch.”

This happens occasionally. You have an actor who is a star, who’s recently outside their peak earning years, who hasn’t been awarded yet, who does an “audacious” role to show what a committed thespian he or she is, campaigns with the zeal of a Palestinian suicide bomber, and then DARES you not to vote for him or her, even if the movie wasn’t especially brilliant or the actor has done much better performances.

The most notorious example for this is of course Kate Winslet for “The Reader.” Matthew McConaughey for “Dallas Buyers Club” and Leonardo DiCaprio for “The Revenant” are some other examples.

Responding to Rogan's criticism of US assistance to Ukraine.

I have noticed many well educated/smart folks believe in astrology? Why is this?

Many of these same people scoff at religion so ummm....

Can any one offer some suggestions?

BTW: Can anyone interpret this for me?

From the NYTimes article:

"We’ve got to figure out how to take online conversations offline at scale,” he said. “While it is not obvious how to do that, that is something that through human history until about 15 years ago, we all did. And so we’re going to have ways to do that that might on some level be a return to form but on other levels, entail information environment work that is unfamiliar to people who have taken a free press in a democratic society for granted.”

Will you be tuning in to each movie?

What exactly is handling, why are we charged for it, why is that amount also taxed?

During covid and those couple of years of working from home Igave up shaving together and I'm not going back! I think I look pretty good with a nice quarter to half+one-inch beard and can't wait till it fully white not patchy. I found that I'm surprised that it doesn't bother what people think, either!

Does anyone still shave after 60? Why?

It will be on the BBC Iplayer beginning November 10, 2024 and each week after,

It be on PBS Masterpiece theater beginning 3/23/2025

Mark Rylance returns as Thomas Cromwell and Damien Lewisreturns as King Henry VIII

Great listen! It was originally recorded over a year ago, during the strike, but delayed for reasons the host explains in the intro. Among the many interesting tidbits I learned:

-- She was "great chums" with Susan Sarandon until directing Susan in the off-Broadway play "A Couple of White Chicks Sitting Around Talking" (co-starring Eileen Brennan) destroyed their friendship. LOL .

-- Getting her TV Directing-break on The Nanny: Dorothy had been friends with Fran & Peter, since the mid-late 1980s, when she opened an acting studio/school in L.A.-- Fran was one of her students. When she met them, Fran & Peter had a little side-business making gourmet *baked* croutons (which were not really a mainstream thing yet) to pay the bills & ended up selling it to a larger L.A. bakery. I thought I knew a lot about The Nanny & Fran, but I had never heard ANY of that.

Either handheld or mop

Do they work? If so, any recommendations?

How the mighty have fallen

$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.

The Gladiator II star, who said he has been sober for 10 years, revealed he is now focused on getting stronger after Lenny Kravitz hooked him up with a trainer

And entitled cunts like the one mentioned in an NYT article, some fat theater girl who thinks she should be allowed to sing because she waited soooooo long for this!

A Delta flight attendant slashed a co-worker and hotel security guard after a late night and early morning of heavy, “blacked out” drinking, officials said Wednesday.

Joshua Smith, 36, remained locked up in a New Orleans jail on Wednesday and is facing one count of attempted second-degree murder and several other battery and assault charges stemming from the bloody Monday morning incident, authorities said.

Smith and “several other coworkers were returning to their” riverfront hotel when he started bickering with the victim, New Orleans police said in a statement.

“The victim escorted the suspect to his room at which time an argument ensued and the suspect cut the victim twice on the arm and once to the neck,” according to police. “The victim relocated to another floor of the hotel to seek help, and the suspect followed her.”

A “security guard attempted to intervene, and the suspect cut him on the thumb,” police added.

While Smith was booked for attempted murder, defense lawyer Thomas Calogero said his client shouldn’t be charged with that alleged crime once the case reaches prosecutors.

“I don’t believe there was an intent to murder,” the attorney said.

The 3 a.m. call to the end of Poydras Street came following a night of big partying in the Big Easy, according to Calogero.

“The group was drinking and he had blacked out,” the lawyer said. “He (Smith) has no memory of the incident at all, nothing.”

Representatives for Delta and the Association of Flight Attendants could not be immediately reached for comment on Wednesday.

Calogero said he highly doubts his client will ever be able to work as a flight attendant again.

“I don’t think so. I mean I’m sure he’s going to lose his job at Delta,” the lawyer said. “I expect him to.”

Because Harry lied on his visa application about his drug use!

Contemporary Art is usually dated as Post World WWII so not all 20th Century artists qualify. But the avant-garde such as Dadaists qualify, in my estimation. I give you Marcel Duchamp. I think he's swell but I know the common critique is that readymades are not creative and not really art. Of course this is one gesture that started Contemporary Art. Fountain is from 1917. Maurizio Cattelan's 2019 "Comedian" - a fresh banana duck-taped to a wall - and which sold on 20 November 2024 for $5,200,000, isn't any improvement on Duchamp's century old Fountain.

The legendary steakhouse in the bad part of town shares its fabled salad dressing recipe.

It took them long enough.

Only 5 years.

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?

And it doesn't require Senate confirmation. From The Guardian. JFC!

"Donald Trump’s selection of the far-right commentator Sebastian Gorka for a senior national security post has prompted outrage and ridicule over a pick that seems extreme even amid a stream of nominations of conspiracy theorists, alleged sex traffickers, TV hosts and repeaters of Russian state propaganda.

Last week, Trump named Gorka deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counter-terrorism. Unlike top national security picks – Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Pete Hegseth for secretary of defense – the position is not subject to Senate confirmation."

Watching Naked Gun in his honor tonight.

I'll start. Master of None, Thanksgiving episode, starring Angela Bassett and Jackee as Dev's best friend's mom and aunt. Poignant, hilarious, sweet and cozy. Hand's down THE best Thanksgiving episode of all time.

Any plans?

I won’t post all of them because they’re well-known by most.

A few stolen moments, is all that we shared

You've got your family, and they need you there

Though I try to resist, being last on your list

But no other man's gonna do

So I'm saving all my love for you

You used to tell me, we'd run away together

Love gives you the right to be free

You said be patient, just wait a little longer

But that's just an old fantasy

I've got to get ready, just a few minutes more

Gonna get an old feeling, when you walk through that door

'Cause tonight, is the night for feeling alright

We'll be making love the whole night through

So I'm saving all my love

Yes, I'm saving all my love

Yes, I'm saving all my love for you

Have a look…

In 2020, well before Election Day, MAGAs were crying "rigged election."

Immediately following the election, Republicans brought 60+ "election integrity" court cases, requested (and received) hand recounts—and despite no election fraud discovered, still rioted at the Capitol and have spent four years perpetuating a stolen election lie.

It is just days following the 2024 election, one where: - Donald Trump spoke several times in recent months about "already having the votes" - Elon Musk and Peter Theil (two men with more technology available to them than anyone) have been working alongside Trump and the Russian government. - dozens of bomb threats were sent by Russia on Election Day, causing shutdowns and delays... - 5 swing states showed results of Dems winning down-ballot and yet a Trump victory in all (a near impossible split-ticket scenario). - The Trump campaign (always proving a complaint is an accusation, claimed a stolen election until the moment Trump was declared the winner.

[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 will be living there for a year for work. I'm in the Near North/Gold Coast area. I've liked it the handful of times I've visited, but those were only a day here and a few days there.

And I love winter, so that aspect of life won't be an issue.

So, what is life in Chicago like?

I want him inside me quite deeply.

Starting at $6 and up, for an "affordable dining out, restaurant experience."

Just add hot water and let sit for 3 minutes.

Now I've fucking seen everything.

Even worse, there are people willing to pay for this crap.

There truly is a sucker born every minute.

Sad and dark, and the role of a lifetime for Miss Pam.

Jamie Lee is barely recognizable.

He’s going to rise extremely quickly. He reminds me of Keanu and Josh Hartnett.

Ted Danson as a mild-mannered widowed professor hired to go undercover as a spy at a nursing home to catch a thief.

Danson is great, as is the rest of the cast: Margaret Avery, Susan Ruttan, Veronica Cartwright. And I get all the praise for Sally Struthers on the theater threads. She's probably the best one of all.

This is like "Murders in the Building" with all the twee gone and just genuine easy comedy.

What does the DL have to say about America's thirstiest little gay Mormon?

The television role which made her famous is the epitome of female emancipation. As the PR mogul Samantha Jones in the American series Sex and the City, she's romped her way to celebrity status through her character's immense appetite for sex and liberal attitude towards it.

The actress herself originally turned down the part, but six series and two movies later, she is now at the very top of her profession. She played her first film role for Otto Preminger when she was 17, had starring roles in the comedy films Porky's, Police Academy, and Mannequin, and among many serious stage roles played opposite Ian McKellen in the Broadway production of Chekov's Wild Honey.

Of the part that has made her famous, she says, "I don't think there has ever been a woman on television who has expressed so much sexual joy without being punished."

Let's discuss DL fav Kim Cattrall

When I was a kid I loved December Bride mostly because I thought Spring Byington was the funniest name I ever heard. Then I saw Florida Friebus.

I knew he voted red. He knew I voted blue. I had hoped the most capable and most inclusive candidate would win. He hoped his idea of a better America would win. He won, and, from where I stand, America lost.

In the aftermath of Tuesday night’s results, still under the bed covers Wednesday morning, I scrolled social media looking for hope. I unfriended a few short-sighted FB friends— no need to continue our digital relationships and witness their selfishness and hate. Then I saw my husband’s post.

“God Bless America. God bless #45, 47.”

It had a few likes, and a few commenters joined him in his celebration. He was downstairs in the kitchen making coffee, and I was upstairs avoiding him. I couldn’t talk to him — or even look at him.

I immediately texted, “I love you, but out of respect for me and all my liberal writer friends, can you please take down that post? Also, tell your family I love them, but I will not be coming for Thanksgiving, and I won’t be hosting Christmas. I need space.”

Shortly after I sent the text, he brought me a cup of coffee in bed.

“I am sorry,” he said, “I understand.”

Did he? Did he really understand what he and so many others in this country had done? I could not forgive him. Not right now.

I spent most of the morning doom-scrolling next to the cold cup of coffee I ignored partially because I was distracted, primarily out of spite. I finally got up, made the bed, went outside into the beautiful sunny day, took a few deep breaths, and then went back upstairs to unmake the bed and spend the remainder of the day in it.

He went to work — I assumed energized by Trump’s victory.

The next day, I finally emerged and listened to Kamala’s concession speech. She reminded us, “Only when it’s dark enough can you see the stars.”

I wrote to my artist friends and told them to keep shining their lights. I wrote to my musician son in college and his songwriter girlfriend. I told them to keep creating. I wrote to my young nieces, who were terrified, and told them I was there for them. I wrote to my beautiful gay cousin and said I loved him and was thinking of him and his partner.

I kept writing.

I received a message from a family member who told me her Ukrainian friend was petrified. Another message came in from an actor friend who said she was afraid that the damage that will be done in the next four years could never be undone. One of my sisters wrote and said she had a panic attack and had to leave work. One of my students rescheduled our afternoon appointment saying she just couldn’t function.

Later that night, I briefly glanced at my husband and found myself not wanting to look into the eyes I love. I hated this divide. I wanted to touch his forearms and feel our connection, but I also felt an urge to punish him and deny him my touch.

“I am sorry about the holidays, but I cannot bite my tongue like I did with Hillary,” I told him. “I don’t want to disrespect your parents or your brother and his family in their home, or our home, so it’s best this way. No scenes. You can go see them. Seriously — I will not be in a room of 15 people who voted for Trump.”

He mentioned our son and his girlfriend, who are coming home for Christmas.

“Will they feel bad?” he asked.

Bad? I think they already feel bad. Really bad, I thought. Instead, I said, “We will have our own small holiday, and it will be fine.”

Will it be fine? I have wondered that since 2016, when I saw my husband’s stubbornness. How could a Latino vote for Trump? How can any of his family members vote for him? Haven’t they believed any of Trump’s comments about immigration? Aren’t they worried about the reproductive safety of the young women and girls in our family? Aren’t they worried about all of the other nightmares that could be headed our way?

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

It's that it lacks fighters (especially against right-wing disinformation and extremism). This is not new, but it stands out more now because they're dealing with a party that has barely given a fuck for the past 8 years. Most Republicans will do or say practically anything to win.

Anyone tracking the murder trial of the San Francisco tech mogul? Some shady stuff going on with heavy partying, drug use and a shadowy, big-busted Faye Resnick lookalike at the center of it all. No gay sex involved (at least so far) but otherwise pretty compelling stuff.

She looks pretty good now for her age. I caught an episode of A Man on the Inside and thought she looked pretty good for her age. She always seemed sweet.

My choices::

The Bellagio Horror

Graxy

Elaborate Scenario

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?

Pics or videos linked preferred.

Former Trump White House official Olivia Troye has issued a stark warning for women entering the incoming administration.

“TheTrump White House’s chauvinistic male-dominated culture will be exacerbated by the presence of Elon Musk, JD Vance, Donald Trump Jr., Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth, and other ‘bros’ in positions of authority or influence,” Troye, who served as former Vice President Mike Pence’s national security adviser, wrote on her Substack on Thursday.

“It will be an intimidating environment, but stay true to your values, even when it is uncomfortable or unpopular. Remember, you have only yourself to face in the mirror every day.”

Since leaving the administration, Troye has become an outspoken critic of Trump and campaigned on behalf of his Democratic rival Kamala Harris in 2024.

In her post, Troye also urged women to seek out female allies and warned that they would face the “male gaze” and “locker room talk” in the administration. The latter phrase is a reference to Donald Trump’s defense after the Access Hollywood tape, in which he said a recording of him bragging about groping women was exaggerated macho banter.

“It’s beyond time for Olivia Troye to go back to doing whatever the hell she was doing before she threw her integrity in the toilet to get her face on liberal television because she clearly has no idea what she’s talking about,” Trump-Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt told The Independent.

“President Trump just selected the first female Chief of Staff in history and I’m greatly looking forward to serving as the youngest Press Secretary in history. He has also chosen several other women to serve in his Cabinet, and there will be thousands of strong, independent women who fill the ranks across his Administration. President Trump empowers women and anyone who has their head on straight can see that.”

Multiple members of and nominees in the new administration have been accused of sexual misconduct towards women, including Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Department of Government Efficiency head Elon Musk, and since-withdrawn attorney general nominee Matt Gaetz. They have all denied wrongdoing and have not been charged with any crimes related to the allegations.

I've heard Bill Clinton has done that for years. The past few weeks when I wake up I have some brief lower back pain. It's gone as I move around in the morning. I'm wondering if I should start using a pillow under my back.

Look at our girl thriving. She was previously attached as an exec producer, but that Oscar win means she gets more acting opportunities now.

[quote]Production is now underway on the series in and around Montreal. The series is inspired by the true story of the “Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist,” in which 70% of the world’s global maple syrup supply was stolen.

Other leads are Margo Martindale and Chris Diamantopoulos.

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

Cool Whip Candy - only 3 ingredients!! EASY AND DELICIOUS!

Perfect for the holidays.

I'm not usually a sweets person, but these look damned good.

It lacks a globularness.

I caught DWTS saw this guy shirtless. Apparently a football player SuperBowl winner who got signed to Ford Models. Hot as fuck....no personal life I can find info on. Is he the gay. He has gay voice for sure.

God I hate celebrities. You got your cooch out onscreen a hundred years ago, no one appointed you liberal mouthpiece.

No conclusions: So who hacked into Ashley Madison? Who killed JonBenet? No conclusion to The Octopus Murders. WTF.

He's a hateful, far right douche

William Dale Archerd drank highballs, married frequently and despised 9-to-5 employment. He was Arkansas-born, slender, with pale blue eyes and wavy silver hair. He inspired romantic devotion in women and trust in criminal confederates. For decades, his wives and acquaintances were fatally stricken with sudden, convulsion-inducing illness that coroners did not grasp as murder.

His motive was greed, though he never made much. He was a frail 55 when police finally arrested him at his Alhambra home in 1967. “Well, it took you long enough!” he quipped. A prosecutor called him “the greatest cold-blooded killer since Bluebeard,” and a judge called him the most evil defendant he’d ever seen. There rarely seemed to be a dent in Archerd’s cool. Even on death row, he retained his aura of blithe unconcern.

Bon Jovi

What will Bobby say?

Now chief White House correspondent.

I booked a trip to Paris for late November, and I decided to stay near CDG airport and commute to the city daily, rather than staying in Paris itself.

What's the easiest way to Paris from a hotel near CDG?

I was thinking of catching the hotel shuttle to the airport every day, and then maybe taking a train from the airport to the city.

Is there a train from the airport to the city, and is it easy to navigate? Also, how much does it cost and how early/late does it run?

What stop(s) would be a good starting point to just get off at, and then walk around to explore the city?

I know this is a weird way to vacation in Paris, but I don't like being far away from the airport, especially in a big city that is unfamiliar to me, plus the language barrier.

Also, my return trip is early in the morning, so it's just easier for me to be close to the airport.

He talks about Democrats needing to change their domestic policies but doesn't go into detail. Also, they're insinuating that Trump won because he spoke directly to an audience that was ALREADY going to vote for him

When the tariffs kick in with Canada the immediate effect will be on gasoline we get from Canadian pipelines.

People just didn't listen when we warned them about him bankrupting a casino. This will be bigger than the Great Depression if he keeps this up. I'm putting my money in an offshore account, what are you doing to safeguard your finances? We're all going to be suffering through this.

Definitely one of the hottest guys ever!

Madam Putin in charge of intelligence.

So go comment on his post showing his ass and give it to him.

It was a “plandemic.”

Donald?

HuffPost Pocharapon Neammanee

[quote] A MAGA influencer who appeared multiple times on Fox News criticizing crime and homelessness in San Francisco was booked into jail on Monday on suspicion of pimping a woman for sex work.

[quote] Ricci Lee Wynne, 39, also known as Raw Ricci, was taken into custody shortly after he arrived at San Francisco International Airport on Sunday night, according to an emailed police statement. Wynne was charged with pimping and pandering following a search of his apartment.

[quote] According to police reports cited by the San Francisco Standard, Wynne’s arrest came after he was investigated in the sexual assault of a 15-year-old. At the time of his arrest, Wynne was traveling with an adult woman, whom police believe he was pimping out for sex work.

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For those who are locked out of Part 5 (which is now open for subscribers only).

Under the pseudonym “Villiers”. He’s put out a country pop breakup ballad duet “Cry” with the lead singer of Sixpence None the Richer.

Also the lyrics sound like his ex cheated on him but the guy must also have a golden dick and beer flavored balls because they broke up well over two years ago and he is still singing about it.

Theres good legs in GHOSTS, the CBS soon-4th season sitcom. Anyone see it? The character Trevor runs about without pants (when Trevor died he was without pants). Good legs on actor Asher Grodman, 37. A Columbia grad, he can fence! Legs are hairy enough, if your tv is good enough. I check out the show to see if he shows any dick. Any package is covered by shirttails. One tv interview the actor says he wears “flesh-colored underwear.” The GHOSTS bit is the ghost characters wear what they were in when they died. Show runners can play with his legs, as when hiding a pregnancy, showing Trevor sideways, sitting down, full frontal sometimes, his long necktie ‘tween his legs. Many I know want to bury their face in Trevor.

Good, Michelle Steel is a homophobe!

“Suits” star Patrick J. Adams appeared on the latest episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s “Dinner’s on Me” podcast and opened up about his exit from “Suits.” Adams was a series regular on the USA legal drama for seven seasons. He played Michael James Ross opposite Gabriel Macht as Harvey Specter. Adams returned for the final two episodes of the series but otherwise absent from its final two seasons.

“I wasn’t taking good care of my mental health and I was drinking too much [at] the end of season seven,” Adams revealed about his exit. “I was in a zone of living a pretty unexamined life. Pretty miserable [and] I would say, pretty depressed. I didn’t have the tools to deal with that depression beyond just spending money and drinking too much, and not really knowing how to talk about it.”

“I would numb myself [to] deal with my insecurity and my fears,” he continued. “And they just weren’t working. And they were taking a toll on my relationship, for sure, but also just making me a very not present father. That for me was a breaking point when I was like, ‘I think I should stop drinking probably, because I don’t wanna be that dad.’ The best thing I think I ever did for myself was stop stop drinking. It just needed to happen in order for all these other things to happen.”

“Suits” aired 134 episodes between 2011 and 2019. The show’s popularity was renewed last year when it arrived on Netflix. Adams said on the podcast that by the time Season 8 was gearing up, the only reason he could think of for staying was because of the financial gain. He consulted his mom, who advised him against returning if it was only for money.

“The only reason to stay was … money,” Adams said. “I didn’t know what else to offer. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and think about the money [Gabriel Macht] made those last two years, but I never regretted the decision for a second. It was the right thing for my marriage … it was time.”

The “Suits” franchise is now being revived with the upcoming spinoff series “Suits: LA,” which is set to premiere Feb. 23, 2025 on NBC. Macht is returning as Harvey Specter in a recurring role across three episodes. Adams, meanwhile, hosts a “Suits” rewatch podcast with co-star Sarah Rafferty.

Despite the personal troubles he faced during his “Suits” run, Adams said that he’s “filled with so much compassion for myself” when he looks back at the series, adding: “[I’m able] to be kinder to myself and realize how amazing this entire group of people were.”

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

President Biden announced Tuesday that the U.S. helped secure a ceasefire deal in Lebanon, which would end fighting between Israel and Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

His announcement came as Israel's Cabinet approved the ceasefire after urging from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The war between Israel and the Iran-backed group has killed almost 3,800 people in Lebanon over the last year and left about 16,000 others wounded.

"Today, I have some good news to report from the Middle East," Mr. Biden said on the White House South Lawn. "I just spoke with the prime minister of Israel and Lebanon. I'm pleased to announce that their governments have accepted the United States' proposal to end the devastating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. I want to thank President Macron of France for his partnership in reaching this moment."

Under the deal reached, the ceasefire took effect at 4 a.m. Wednesday local time (9 p.m. Eastern Time Tuesday) across the Lebanese-Israeli border.

But as Mr. Biden noted, the ceasefire does not apply to the ongoing fighting between Israel and Hamas.

"This is designed to be a permanent cessation of hostilities," he added. "What is left of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations will not be allowed, I emphasize, will not be allowed, to threaten the security of Israel ever again."

Over the next 60 days, the Lebanese Army and state security forces will take control once again, he said, and Israel will gradually withdraw its remaining forces. Since the war with Hezbollah began, over 70,000 Israelis have been "forced to live as refugees in their own country," Mr. Biden said, and over 300,000 Lebanese people have also been forced from their homes.

"Let's be clear," Mr. Biden said. "Israel did not launch this war. The Lebanese people did not seek that war either, nor did the United States."

Echoing remarks from earlier from Netanyahu, Mr. Biden said if Hezbollah or anyone else breaks the deal and poses a direct threat to Israel, then Israel retains the right to self-defense.

And in a joint statement later released by Mr. Biden and French President Emmanuel Macron, the two leaders said that "the announcement today will cease the fighting in Lebanon, and secure Israel from the threat of Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations operating from Lebanon," adding that it "will create the conditions to restore lasting calm and allow residents in both countries to return safely to their homes on both sides of the Blue Line."

Netanyahu said earlier Tuesday that the war Cabinet had approved the ceasefire, and he urged ministers in the full Cabinet to approve the deal on Tuesday night. He did not give specifics, but he said if Hezbollah breaks the terms, Israel will "respond severely."

Netanyahu said the war Cabinet had approved the ceasefire, and he urged ministers in the full Cabinet to approve the deal on Tuesday night. He did not give specifics, but he said if Hezbollah breaks the terms, Israel will "respond severely."

Netanyahu also held meetings Tuesday in Tel Aviv with various government ministers, lawmakers and mayors from some of the northern towns that have been evacuated for months.

Lebanon's government also had to unilaterally approve the deal on Tuesday, but the U.S. official said that was expected. The ceasefire would end the deadliest war in Lebanon since its civil war, which ended in 1990.

Lebanon's Prime Minister Najib Mikati posted on social media calling for the international community to "implement an immediate ceasefire."

U.S. Defense Department spokesperson Patrick Ryder said Tuesday that "we are certainly very supportive of the ceasefire."

Under the deal, a full and permanent ceasefire would be implemented immediately. There will be 60 days permitted for the full withdrawal of Israeli forces — a gradual withdrawal to allow the Lebanese forces to mobilize and move in to secure the area, but the trigger time is immediate, set to take effect later Tuesday.

Adultery is no longer a crime in New York.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill on Friday repealing a 117-year-old state law that criminalized adultery, which had been a class B misdemeanor punishable by up to 90 days in jail.

In a statement, the governor said it was “somewhat ironic” that she signed the bill, given her 40-year marriage to her husband. But she said she understood people “often have complex relationships.”

“These matters should clearly be handled by these individuals and not our criminal justice system,” Hochul said. “Let’s take this silly, outdated statute off the books, once and for all.”

New York had been one of 17 states that considered adultery a crime, at least on paper. It now becomes at least the fifth state to have repealed such a law since 2015.

Technically, the New York law applied when a person “engage(d) in sexual intercourse with another person at a time when he has a living spouse, or the other person has a living spouse.”

Farmstead Butter.

YUM!

And the cows are so cute, too!

Samuel L Jackson said in a video interview with AP Entertainment, while promoting his role in Netflix’s “The Piano Teacher,” that Oscar nominations aren’t too big of a deal for him. Shockingly, Jackson has only earned one Oscar nomination during his illustrious career — for “Pulp Fiction,” which he landed a best supporting actor nod for in 1995. Jackson was awarded an honorary Academy Award in 2021.

“We’ve been in the business long enough to know that when folks go, ‘It’s just an honor to be nominated.’ No it ain’t. It’s an honor to win,” Jackson said with a laugh. “You get nominated and folks go, ‘Yeah I remember that.’ Or most people forget. Generally it’s a contest you didn’t volunteer to be in. I didn’t go in there so I could flex. ‘Let me do my scene, so you can remember who I was.'”

“They nominate you and people go, ‘What is that movie you’re nominated for? What’s the name of that thing?’ And after it’s over and people have a hard time remembering who even won,” Jackson added.

Jackson told The Times in 2022 that he deserved to win the 1995 Oscar for best supporting actor over Martin Landau (“Ed Wood”). In an interview with Vulture last year, he added that he was robbed of a second chance to win an Oscar when he didn’t even get nominated for Joel Schumacher’s 1996 legal drama “A Time to Kill.” The Oscars and Jackson have not gone hand-and-hand, which is fine considering he’d rather make billion dollar-grossing Marvel movies than chase down Oscar-friendly roles.

“I was never going to let the Oscars be a measure of my success or failure as an actor,” Jackson told the Times. “My yardstick of success is my happiness: Am I satisfied with what I’m doing? I’m not doing statue-chasing movies. You know [whispers]: ‘If you do this movie, you’ll win an Oscar.’ No, thanks. I’d rather be Nick Fury. Or having fun being Mace Windu with a lightsaber in my hand.”

Jackson said he’s fine with giving up Oscar roles if it means making movies “that people just want to see so they can get out of themselves,” adding, “That’s the guy I chose to be and I’m fine with it. I’m satisfied because that’s who I am. I’m the guy who does the lines that people see on T-shirts. There’s actors who go their whole careers and no one can quote a line they’ve said in a movie. People go to watch my movies to see how crazy I’m going to be or see how many times I say motherfucker. Whatever gets them in the seats.”

Expect more of this.

Well?

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.

Well....when you're in Pittsburgh you've got to do SOMETHING!

Apparently, a homeless straight man rented a room there for him and his girlfriend, and then when she called for him and he couldn't find her, he decided to shoot at......well, whoever.

Tom Cruise MAY star in a sequel to Days of Thunder! Yay!!!

Tired.

Let's discuss one of the funniest films of the 1990's. A documentary crew follows the process of a beauty pageant in a small Minnesota town. All is fun until the residents start getting murdered.

Directed by Michael Patrick Jann

Written by Lona Williams

Starring Kirstie Alley, Kristen Dunst, Denise Richards, Ellen Barkin, Allison Janney, Mindy Sterling, Sam McMurray, Brittany Murphy, Amy Adams, Nora Dunn, Matt Malloy, Mike McShane, Lona Williams, and ADAM WEST

New details have emerged about how Liam Payne spent his final hours at the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina — and the investigation has raised some serious questions.

Argentine police released CCTV footage that appears to show Payne being carried by three men, believed to be hotel employees, back to his third-floor room minutes before his death. The former One Direction singer was under the influence of drugs and alcohol, according to his autopsy, and allegedly had caused multiple disturbances in the lobby in the days leading up to his death.

However, Payne appears conscious in the video as he holds his head upright while carried. Shortly after he was taken back to his hotel room, the singer fell to his death.

TMZ obtained the police report that claims Payne may have been trying to escape his room via the balcony when he fell. Some witness accounts allegedly support the theory. Payne had a bag strapped around his shoulder when his body was recovered, which he did not have in the lobby video from just before the incident.

A hotel employee also discovered a brown duffel bag on the second-floor balcony directly below his room. There was a note that purportedly said "for Liam" with pills and a bottle of Jack Daniel's. One theory is that he dropped the bag down before attempting to escape from his balcony.

According to the surveillance video obtained by TMZ, Payne did not want to return to his room and struggled with hotel security, who used a master key to let him inside. The staff also removed a mirror outside his bedroom. Sources claim to the outlet that Payne did not like being alone in hotel rooms like he often was during his time with One Direction.

While Payne was allegedly on a drug binge in mid-September, his bodyguard was concerned for his well-being and put him in a room while they were staying at a rental house in Florida. Payne allegedly escaped from the balcony using a garden hose, a source told TMZ.

The 911 call released shortly after Payne's Oct. 16 death showed that hotel employees were worried about Payne being in a room with a balcony, as they specifically mentioned it when calling for help. Moments later, Payne fell and died from "multiple trauma" injuries as "the result of the fall," according to the autopsy. He was in a state of "semi- or total unconsciousness." The prosecutor's office ruled out "self-harm of any kind" or that a third party was responsible for Payne's fall. He had traces of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system.

Three people were arrested in connection with Payne's death. A former hotel employee and an alleged drug dealer were accused of selling him narcotics. Payne's friend Roger Nores, who was very close to the singer in recent months, was charged with abandonment as he saw Payne off the wagon an hour before the incident and left him alone.

However, TMZ reported a judge ruled national prosecutors have no jurisdiction over the charge, and their appeal of the ruling was denied. Local prosecutors have yet to file charges.

Omg lol

Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed to admit he jumped on the weight-loss medication bandwagon.

In a new interview, the comedian revealed that when the scale hit 270 pounds last year, he decided to start taking Mounjaro, a prescription drug like Ozempic that treats type 2 diabetes.

Continue here...

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

This sounds like a disaster.

We’ve had two of these houses on DL. Despite being straight, I’m wondering if Ryan George lurks on Datalounge.

If anybody ever made ‘em an offer, they refused.

Does look like crime paid for a while, though.

“Wicked” stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were paid the same amount for leading the movie musical, Universal Pictures said in a rare statement on the matter to dispel online rumors about salary discrepancies.

False stories about Grande and Erivo’s compensation for their work on “Wicked” circulated over the weekend as outlets like the New York Post reported on unsubstantiated claims by TikTok and Reddit users that Grande earned $15 million to play Glinda the Good while Erivo was paid $1 million to portray Elphaba, the eventual Wicked Witch of the West.

“Reports of pay disparity between Cynthia and Ariana are completely false and based on internet fodder,” a spokesperson for Universal said in a statement. “The women received equal pay for their work on ‘Wicked.'”

Of course, the studio behind the big budget musical declined to confirm the amount that Grande and Erivo were paid.

I’m terrified. A filling fell out yesterday and there is very little tooth left. I fear I may need a denture or implant.

Visceral heart-racing terror. The smells. The noise of a drill. The scary lady with rubber gloves and intrusive questions about flossing. Nothing else has ever given me this level of primal fear, and it never gets better.

She's an idiot

5 years ago next month, people around the globe started to hear about a little thing called "Covid-19." It's wasn't anything to worry about, just a couple of cases of flu-like symptoms around the town of Wuhan. Then, 3 months later, the world changed. I'm curious...how has your own personal world changed since then? What do you find you are doing now, or not doing now, that was directly a result of the pandemic, which basically reared its head 5 years ago? And, of course, condolences to those who lost loved ones.

My friend is 6'5" and a total bottom and said it can be hard finding tops who wanna do someone that tall.

What is your experience tall bottoms out there

Vladimir Shklyarov, a world-renowned Russian ballet star, has died after falling from the fifth floor of a building on Saturday.

His death was confirmed by the Mariinsky Theater, a venue in the city of St. Petersburg where Shklyarov was the highest-ranking dancer.

While Russian authorities have launched an investigation into Shklyarov’s death, the “preliminary cause” has been judged an accident, Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti reported.

This should be interesting.

I would probably choose someone else but I am not a Californian. But she seems to have been away too long.

Where can i get one of these?

I've only smoked marijuana a couple times in my 20s. Didn't like the way it made me feel (super paranoid.) I'm in my mid-50s now.

I suffer from anxiety and insomnia. A friend suggested I try some "sleep drops" from our local cannabis dispensary (I'm in NY), that he takes and sleeps like a baby now. They're microdoses of THC, CBD and CBN.

They did nothing for me. NOTHING. So I go back to the dispensary and ask what they'd suggest would be stronger but not enough to cause me paranoia. He recommended a tincture with 4:1:1 THC:CBN:CBD. He said I should fall asleep within minutes. Excited, I went to bed early to test it out. NOTHING.

Over the next several nights I tried increasing the dosage, and still no improvement on my sleep. I go back to dispensary, explain the problem, and that I'd like to try a gummy, not to help me sleep but to relax me and calm my anxiety (i normally take klonopin when I'm having an anxiety attack but only as needed). He gave me something that was 1:1 THC:CBD. Took half a dose and nothing; the next day took a full dose and -- you guessed it -- NOTHING!

Anyone here have any positive experiences with these things? Am I doing something wrong? Do some people just not have a reaction to them?

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.

1. The Carousel Waltz 2. No Way To Stop It 3. Many A New Day 4. This Nearly Was Mine 5. A Puzzlement 6. What's The Use of Wonderin' 7. When The Children Are Asleep 8. Love Look Away 9. I Am Going to Like It Here 10. It Might As Well Be Spring

I miss that chat room.

A riveting new docu-series from Prince Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex!!!

It’s a shame the son is too a Trumper. He’s pretty.

Does anyone remember this?

Agree? Disagree?

Who is a director who would be great to film a 70s period piece? They need to cast Our dear Jacob in a role. He is perfect for 1970s period pieces on an aesthetic level. Granted he is perfect for any time period aesthetically.

James Bond hasn't been around in awhile.

Russians. Maybe the Yakuza.

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According to the review, Boris. Epshteyn met with Scott. Bessent in February, at a time when it was widely known that he was interested in the Treasury post, and proposed $30,000 to $40,000 a month to “promote” Mr. Bessent around Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s estate in Florida.

Mr. Bessent declined. He also did not partake in another effort by Mr. Epshteyn, described in the report, to get him to invest in a three-on-three basketball league, but played along with him to avoid offending such a seemingly powerful figure in Mr. Trump’s world.

...with his gay dad.

I thought others had worse stories and still made it out okay... maybe when the #MeToo movement ends...

I keep seeing ads for magnesium supplements. It's so difficult to tell these days which supplements are truly beneficial and which are just stupid crap. I don't sleep well, and I can't take ambien or copious amounts of pot (silly). I would like something that might help me sleep better and, apparently, magnesium must be frequently used.

Any supplements you swear by in general? Right now, I only take a daily multivitamin. I don't know if it helps, but I suppose it isn't hurting me. I'm 44 - I forget if this is eldergay or not, but either way, I'm not 24!

Dictionary.com has demurely declared that 'demure' (the word which has taken over social media) is the 2024 Word of the Year.

Lucky for us, it has surprassed 'unhinged', 'amazing', and yes! 'delusional' - the three words over-used right here on this forum.

Cher isn't mincing words when it comes to her experiences in some of her iconic film roles, including the painfully dramatic biographical film Mask, and the lighter tone of her 1990 film with Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci, Mermaids.

The tone of the latter might have to do with the fact that Cher appeared to gain at least some control over who was behind the camera ... by getting its director fired.

The "Believe" singer opened up in a lengthy interview with The Times of London as part of her promotional tour for the first part of her just-released memoir, Cher: The Memoir, Part One.

"There are only two directors I didn't like," she shared. "Peter Bogdanovich and the guy from The Muppets." The latter refers to Frank Oz, who was involved with Mermaids for a time.

"I actually got the guy from The Muppets fired," Cher continued. "I said, 'Either you're going or I'm going,' which is a shame because he's a really good director, but he had a thing about me. He would go, 'At least my wife loves me!'"

While she didn't offer additional details of the tension between her and Oz, she did get into just how unpleasant things got on the set of the 1985 film, Mask, based on a true story.

Cher starred as the mother of Rocky (Eric Stoltz), a teen whose facial features are distorted due to him having craniodiaphyseal dyslpasia. Sam Elliott, Laura Dern, and Estelle Getty also starred in the film, which led to Golden Globe nominations for both Cher and Stoltz.

The classic film was helmed by director Bogdanovich, but the experience was clearly not positive for Cher. Nearly 40 years later, she still remembers it and did not mince words when talking about its director. whom she pointedly called an "a--hole."

"He was not nice to the girls in the film and he was so f--king arrogant. I really, really disliked him," Cher emphasized in the interview.

She went on to detail one incident where she and the director butted heads quite publicly. "He comes in and says, ‘Cher, where do you think we should film this scene?’ And I say, ‘Well, the kitchen is working pretty well, why don’t we do that again?’" she recalled.

"The next morning he arrives on set, eating an egg sandwich, and starts screaming that he’s not going to let me direct this film; I’m a nobody; he can cut me out at any moment," she continued. "Oh yeah, he was a pig."

The interviewer asked if she was trying to get involved with directing on the film, but Cher resisted that idea. "Ask everybody: I’m really easy to work with. I’m not arbitrary in the things I say, because it’s right to do what the director wants until you need to speak up."

She then shared some advice she received from Meryl Streep for how to get around direction you might not be a fan of as an actor. According to Cher, Streep told her, "If the director wants you to do something you don’t like, you say: yes, yes, yes, I’ll do it that way. Then you do it your way and they don’t even notice."

Bogdanovich passed away in 2022, but he'd previously spoken about their filming relationship, and it sounds like he didn't like her at least as much as she clearly doesn't like him.

"She didn’t trust anybody, particularly men. She doesn't like men," he told Vulture in 2019. "That’s why she’s named Cher: She dropped her father’s name. Sarkisian, it is."

"She can’t act. She won Best Actress at Cannes because I shot her very well. And she can’t sustain a scene," the late director continued. "She’d start off in the right direction, but she’d go off wrong somehow, very quickly."

Bogdanovich said he opted to shoot her close up "because she's very good in close-ups. Her eyes have the sadness of the world. You get to know her, you find out it’s self-pity, but still, it translates well in movies."

Two years after starring in Mask, Cher won the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Moonstruck opposite Nicolas Cage.

MSNBC mainstay Rachel Maddow has reportedly taken a significant pay cut to stay with the network following a dip in ratings.

The popular anchor and host of the eponymously titled Rachel Maddow Show has renegotiated a new five-year contract, which sees her typical $30 million annual salary now down to $25 million, according to The Ankler.

“This is a difficult time and they needed to keep her. No one else can do what she does. You can’t build a brand like it overnight,” one executive told the publication of the network’s decision.

These figures have not been confirmed; however, a network source told The Independent the number was inaccurate but declined to comment further.

The left-leaning news channel has seen a drop in ratings after Donald Trump’s election victory, with Nielson ratings showing a 40 percent drop compared to last year’s ratings, The Daily Beast reported.

Network producers are also having to figure out how to properly platform conservative voices on the “only safe space for a liberal TV audience,” another insider told The Daily Beast.

“We were so Harris propaganda that when she lost, viewers were shocked,” one anonymous on-air pundit told the outlet. “It turned into one giant circle j**k and echo chamber. If MSNBC wants to be of service to its viewers, they can’t keep them in fantasy land.”

Maddow, 51, was praised by one executive network who called her “ratings Viagra.”

With her new contract, Maddow will continue hosting her Monday-night show in addition to producing podcasts and documentaries for the network.

Maddow’s pay cut comes amid an increasingly rocky media landscape. Just last week veteran broadcaster Chris Wallace announced he was departing CNN to explore the podcast and streaming landscape.

Question. (thanks in advance). I want to sell my house that I inherited in Cincinnati. Not sure how to go about it. I have been on the realtor sites (sold listings) and found comparable houses to mine. Should I reach out to real estate agents who are the listing agents or the broker agents?. Also the listings have multiple listing agents and multiple brokers listed on one house sale. My profit from the sale of the house will be less than 75,000 so it's not a mansion or anything. [bold] I'm just stuck on landing a real estate agent.[/bold] Thanks.

Any memorable memories from champagne or beer?

For me, it was an 8 year old Chinese boy I taught who was capable of learning absolutely anything. Science, math, the arts, you name it. He won a few math contests too.

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.

[QUOTE] Three years ago, when Mark Goff and Phillip Engel had their first viewing of Château Avensac in the south of France, only one thing prevented the California couple from putting in an offer: Was it old enough?

The gate tower, supporting walls, and stone bridge at the estate's entrance date back to the original medieval castle built in 1320. But the main building — a 48-room château with sweeping views of the Gers, the rural, foie-gras-producing region of southwest France — was rebuilt in the 1820s. "The idea of the royals and the nobles, to us, is a very romantic idea," Goff says. "That's why we love 'Bridgerton.'"

Which one of you lazy fat pig dataloungers is this?

Carol does Cher, while Cher does Carol...

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

What are DL's thoughts on Dr. Richard Dawkins?

A biologist and atheist, he believes Darwin's theories of evolution provides the starting point for everything we need to know about our world; religion can provide no answers at all.

Born in Kenya, but moved to England when his father inherited the family estate in Oxfordshire. He began to develop his ideas as a student at Oxford and later published them in popular books such as The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker, and the God Delusion.

Happy to be seen as a bridge between academic science and the general public, he is not frightened of controversy and has frequently found himself in public dispute with leading theologians.

“It fell back to another version of ‘Snow White’ that was told in history, where she survived a snowstorm that occurred when she was a baby. And so the king and queen decided to name her Snow White to remind her of her resilience.”

In this post-election environment, I've sworn off TV news and have searched for light entertainment. I turned on "Let's Make a Deal" today and was surprised to see how depressed and defeated everyone on the show seems to be.

The original "Let's Make a Deal" was always a complete shitshow, but Monty Hall did his best to play into the absurdity of it all. In this reboot, Wayne Brady and his co-hosts don't even try to hide the fact that they'd rather be anywhere else doing anything else. Brady can barely muster up any enthusiasm, and the tall ginger (pictured on the left side of the picture) doesn't even try to contain his contempt for the contestants. Even the blonde bimbo walks around in a near comatose state, clearly annoyed that she has to do thinks like ask people if they have a hard-boiled egg in their purse in exchange for $100.

The whole show is just so sad. It's like an advertisement for Prozac.

ATLANTA (AP) — As she checked into a recent flight to Mexico for vacation, Teja Smith chuckled at the idea of joining another Women’s March on Washington.

As a Black woman, she just couldn’t see herself helping to replicate the largest act of resistance against then-President Donald Trump’s first term in January 2017. Even in an election this year where Trump questioned his opponent’s race, held rallies featuring racist insults and falsely claimed Black migrants in Ohio were eating residents’ pets, he didn't just win a second term. He became the first Republican in two decades to clinch the popular vote, although by a small margin.

“It’s like the people have spoken and this is what America looks like,” said Smith, the Los Angeles-based founder of the advocacy social media agency, Get Social. “And there’s not too much more fighting that you’re going to be able to do without losing your own sanity.”

After Trump was declared the winner over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris, many politically engaged Black women said they were so dismayed by the outcome that they were reassessing — but not completely abandoning — their enthusiasm for electoral politics and movement organizing.

Black women often carry much of the work of getting out the vote in their communities. They had vigorously supported the historic candidacy of Harris, who would have been the first woman of Black and South Asian descent to win the presidency.

Harris' loss spurred a wave of Black women across social media resolving to prioritize themselves, before giving so much to a country that over and over has shown its indifference to their concerns.

AP VoteCast, a survey of more than 120,000 voters, found that 6 in 10 Black women said the future of democracy in the United States was the single most important factor for their vote this year, a higher share than for other demographic groups. But now, with Trump set to return to office in two months, some Black women are renewing calls to emphasize rest, focus on mental health and become more selective about what fight they lend their organizing power to.

“America is going to have to save herself,” said LaTosha Brown, the co-founder of the national voting rights group Black Voters Matter.

She compared Black women’s presence in social justice movements as “core strategists and core organizers” to the North Star, known as the most consistent and dependable star in the galaxy because of its seemingly fixed position in the sky. People can rely on Black women to lead change, Brown said, but the next four years will look different.

“That’s not a herculean task that’s for us. We don’t want that title. … I have no goals to be a martyr for a nation that cares nothing about me,” she said.

Jon M. Chu’s big-screen musical raked in $114 million in the U.S. this weekend, with 'Gladiator II' slashing at its heels in second place.

Moviegoers got Wicked this weekend, driving the long-awaited adaptation of the beloved Broadway hit to the top of the box office charts around the globe.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s green and pink magic conjured up $114 million in ticket sales in the U.S., averaging $29,321 in ticket sales across the 3,888 theaters.

Jon M. Chu's eye-popping film, which also stars Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, and Bowen Yang, has earned $164.2 worldwide as of Sunday.

Audiences were also feeling festive this weekend, with the Chris Evans/Dwayne Johnson Santa bounty hunter comedy Red One landing its sleigh in the No. 3 slot. An additional $13.3 in ticket sales gives director Jake Kasdan’s film a nice-not-naughty overall domestic haul of $117 million after two weeks of release.

At No. 4 on the box-office list, the literally named Bonhoeffer: Paster. Spy. Assassin. — seriously, it’s all right there in the title! — earned $13.28 million in its debut weekend across 1,900 theaters nationwide. Bonhoeffer tells the story of a preacher at the center of a plot to assassinate Hitler. (See? Pastor, spy, assassin.)

Rounding out the top five films of the weekend was Venom: The Last Dance. As it entered its second month of release, the R-rated Tom Hardy super(anti)hero sequel earned another $4 million for a total haul of $133.8 million.

He had a beautiful clear high tone unlike any other, because he had no balls.

I asked him to come over and look at my crack.

What the fuck is this insufferable nonsense?

Such a hot look. Add a backwards baseball cap and it's even better.

Seasoned divas Janet and Madonna both make the list twice (1990 & 1993 and 1985 & 1989, respectively).

Enjoy it. I sure did.

Was The Golden Girls something you watched when it was on air, or was it something you gradually watched/discovered since its release as you became more immersed in the culture?

I agree it is now the favorite for Best Picture and the two actresses

Director I think they will go with Brady Corbett for The Brutalist because he is a former actor and I remember how Rob Marshall was snubbed for Roman Polanski (oddly also for a film about a Holocaust survivor played by Adrien Brody)

Below the line: Art Direction, Costumes, Hair & Makeup, Sound, and Visual Effects are probably guaranteed.

HealthWatch Life expectancy gap in U.S. widens to 20 years due to "truly alarming" health disparities, researchers say healthwatch By Sara Moniuszko

Edited By Paula Cohen

November 21, 2024 / 6:30 PM EST / CBS News

Life expectancy in the United States varies by more than 20 years depending on your race and ethnicity and where you live, according to new research. The authors call the level of health disparities "truly alarming."

In the study, published Thursday in The Lancet, researchers analyzed death records from the National Vital Statistics System and population estimates from the National Center for Health Statistics from 2000 to 2021.

Large disparities in life expectancy were apparent throughout the study period but grew more substantial over time, particularly during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors noted.

"The extent and magnitude of health disparities in American society are truly alarming in a country with the wealth and resources of the USA," senior author Christopher J.L. Murray said in a news release. "These disparities reflect the unequal and unjust distribution of resources and opportunities that have profound consequences on well-being and longevity, especially in marginalized populations."

In 2000, life expectancy ranged from an average of 70.5 years for Americans at the lowest end to 83.1 years for those in the highest group — a difference of 12.6 years. The gap widened to 13.9 years in 2010, jumped to 18.9 years in 2020, and now in the latest data, 20.4 years in 2021.

“Disney: We Give Up”

I am still deciding whether to do live or fake. I love the smell, but not cleaning all the needles come January.

Everyone wants a piece of that Wicked buzz, lol.

[quote]"Oh yeah, there's loads and loads of The Wizard of Oz in Ted Lasso," Goldstein says when asked pointblank if the show is a retelling. "The pinball machine is the one that's always 'Ted has to go home. There's no place like home.' And then, there's no place like Richmond F.C. Yes, that's all Wizard of Oz."

[quote]Goldstein took things a step further, clarifying who each character on Ted Lasso was meant to represent in the story. "I'm the Tin Man," he says of his own character, Roy Kent. "Ted is Dorothy, Rebecca's the Lion, and the Scarecrow is Jamie."

But the townspeople of Gainesboro say "This town is not for them."

I'm proud of these people.

It's good to know what these creeps are up to, and it's even better to fight back!

A return to his small scale films after the epics Mr. Turner and Peterloo, this film is getting Oscar buzz for Marianne Jean-Baptiste as a mouthy malcontent DL would love.

Or perhaps even won? Is it even possible/would the Academy allow it?

The reason I ask: if Ariana and Cynthia are nominated and even win for Wicked Part in 2025, could they be nominated for Part 2 in 2026? Unlikely I know but interested to know!

The owner of Holtermann's Bakery claims she denied the 'View' host's request because of issues with her boilers, not Goldberg's political views

BALTIMORE (AP) — A dozen students at a university on Maryland’s Eastern Shore have been arrested after they lured a man to an off-campus apartment, beat him up and called him a homophobic slur, according to local police.

In addition to assault and false imprisonment, the 12 young men are facing hate crime charges for allegedly targeting the assault victim because he’s gay, Salisbury police said in a news release. According to charging documents, one of the defendants made a fake account on a dating app and promised the man sex with a 16-year-old.

Steve Rakow, an attorney representing one of the defendants, vehemently denied the alleged motive. He said the man never reported the incident because he was trying to have sex with a teenage boy.

The man’s age is not included in court documents. Under Maryland law, the legal age of consent is 16 in most cases.

“Let me just set the record straight — this is not a hate crime,” Rakow said in an email.

Salisbury University officials announced last week that the 12 students were suspended. Officials said the school is working with law enforcement as the investigation continues and “condemns all acts of violence.”

University President Carolyn Ringer Lepre said she was creating a taskforce focused on LGBTQ+ inclusiveness.

“Our community is reeling from an act of visceral hate,” Lepre said in a statement posted to social media. “We are witnessing a campus filled with anguish that something so unspeakable could happen from within the community that we all love.”

Rakow, in turn, accused the university administration of jumping to conclusions by issuing the suspensions, saying that “apparently, due process doesn’t apply to academia.”

Attorneys for the other students either declined to comment or didn’t respond to requests from AP. Some of the defendants don’t yet have attorneys listed in online court records.

Salisbury University is located on the Eastern Shore, about 100 miles southeast of Baltimore.

Charging documents say the Salisbury Police Department started investigating after two witnesses told campus police that they had seen a video of the Oct. 15 assault.

Police later obtained the footage from a phone belonging to one of the defendants. It also showed the victim’s car leaving the scene. Police used his license plate number to identify and contact the man, who said “he never notified law enforcement of the attack in fear for his safety due to retaliation and being threatened by the attackers,” the documents say.

The man went to an apartment “for the purpose of having sexual intercourse” with someone he believed was 16, according to the documents. Shortly after he walked into the apartment, a group of “college-aged males appeared from the back bedrooms” and forced him onto a chair in the middle of the living room, police wrote. They slapped, punched, kicked and spit on him while calling him derogatory names and preventing him from leaving, according to police.

Police said the victim received a broken rib and extensive bruising.

Some of the defendants have been charged with more counts than others.

Actually I don't know if he is Voltron or if he is just in it. I have no idea what this IP is. It looks like a transformers/power rangers hybrid.

Yes, it’s not a good source but this is a gay gossip site.

And why is her family making statements on her behalf? If she ill?

Turkeys at Butterball plant given some "special basting."

Do you guys have any favorites you'd like to share?

I discovered this one recently & it made me laugh while watching it.

Post your favorites whether tv, films or even songs.

Go.

What If?

Betty had played Blanche and Rue was Rose?

Judy had gotten clean?

Joan and Bette bonded on Jane and became inseparable pals?

Joyce DeWitt had married LeVar Burton?

Merrick Garland had done his job?

He does videos with real guys kissing & also computer-generated stuff like the image down below.

Any fans of his here on the DL?

Have you guys even heard of his site?

Discuss.

Not so much spooky /ethereal words but sounds.

Like this one below by Belinda Carlisle.

Go.

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!

Elon Musk has called MSNBC “the utter scum of the Earth.” He has said the channel “peddles puerile propaganda.” Just a few days ago he said, “MSNBC is going down.” And now he is posting memes about buying the channel.

Confused why the choice was made to go with the silver shoes from L. Frank Baum’s novel.

Usually this is done in OZ movies because MGM has the rights to the ruby slippers

However wicked lifts massive amounts of music, costuming and makeup cues directly from the 1939 version, - if they could have a green witch, Glinda in a bubble, multiple melodies from the 1939 film score and Dorothy in blue and white checked gingham why not just pay mgm to use the ruby slippers too?

You may have seen on her on TV at your parent’s house! 🤡

Up to twenty inches of rain

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Did doctors just cut off their dick and balls?

How old were they?

Did some bleed to death?

How did the skin grow back over the area that was hacked off?

I have more questions than answers!!

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)

His music career being cut so short is a huge tragedy, but he's hugely influential. Give him a listen if you never have. Hell, give him a listen anyway.

King Charles III probably thought he had the winning strategy to get his younger brother, Prince Andrew, out of Royal Lodge once and for all. However, he didn’t realize that the Duke of York had one more trick up his sleeve when saving himself from eviction.

Charles thought that cutting off Andrew’s $1.3 million annual allowance, would put the nail in the coffin and he would be forced to move out. But in this game of royal survivor, the monarch was outwitted and outplayed by his brother to outlast him in the Windsor residence. Prince Andrew found a way to maintain his lifestyle and win what The Times describes as “the siege of Royal Lodge.”

He will no longer receive public funds, and the media outlet noted that “Prince Andrew’s money has been approved by Sir Michael Stevens, the keeper of the privy purse, as coming from legitimate sources.”

That’s quite a blow to Charles, who tried hard to get the Duke of York to move into Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s former home, Frogmore Cottage. The downsize would have been significant for Andrew, who is accustomed to a 30-room estate. He held firm to the 75-year lease that he signed in 2003 with the Crown Estate — he was not going to be evicted without a fight. Still, Prince Andrew has his doubters.

Financial expert Norman Baker raised questions with the Daily Mail about where the funds came from. “It is stretching credibility to believe he has legitimate sources of income that enable him to pay a big rent and undertake the necessary repair work, to that building, particularly when he appeared to have nothing just a matter of weeks ago,” he expressed his concern. “We need to understand where this money is coming from – whether it is clean or whether it is coming from one of his nasty dictator friends in the Middle East. He should come clean.”

With Prince Andrew winning another real estate round, Charles will now have to figure out what to do with Frogmore Cottage which stands vacant after Harry and Meghan’s forced exit.

I loathe my MIL's cooking. I told her I liked her deviled eggs once (under duress, I lied) but over the last few years her cooking has gotten worse. She cooks with an ancient electric oven that is always 20 degrees off either way and everything else ends up a watery mess, burnt or undercooked. What I have done is come up behind her and quietly add salt, pepper and dried herbs so it's at least palatable. The rest of the family is privately urging me to fix the food, even going so far as to ask me to make mashed potatoes and toss hers out and add mine to the same dish she brought. It's dumb. I told my husband and his brothers to just ask her to bring one item instead of 6(!!!) and not to say anything because it's what she loves doing. I'm not playing along this year because I'm sick of the waste and it's just dishonest.

Anyone else go through this kind of thing? You know someone's food sucks but you endure it to make them happy?

‪Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez‬ ‪@aoc.bsky.social‬ · 1h

Post Hidden by Muted Word Hide Fwiw she is pretty widely disliked even by her GOP colleagues. She’s all over the place. Messy. Fights with them too.

This is the most attention she has gotten in ages despite her many attempts, hence the differences in tack some have taken in this whole brouhaha. She really craves it. It’s weird

I can't believe it's been 20 years since a quarter of a million died because of the earthquake and subsequent tsunami in the Indian Ocean

1985: The Breakfast Club The Sure Thing Heaven Help Us Secret Admirer Just One of the Guys Back to the Future The Legend of Billie Jean Real Genius Fright Night Weird Science Better Off Dead

1987: Some Kind of Wonderful River's Edge The Lost Boys Adventures in Babysitting Can't Buy Me Love Three O'Clock High

1998: Get Real Can't Hardly Wait Disturbing Behavior Halloween: H20 Bride of Chucky Dead Man on Campus Pleasantville Urban Legend Slums of Beverly Hills Whatever The Faculty

1999: Varsity Blues She's All That Jawbreaker Cruel Intentions 10 Things I Hate About You Idle Hands Election American Pie Drop Dead Gorgeous Dick

*i consider The Virgin Suicides and But I'm a Cheerleader 2000.

Baldvin Oddson, CEO of a Wyoming-based musical-instrument online storefront, the Musicians Club, fired 90% of his staff—99 out of 110 employees and freelancers—via Slack message for missing just one morning meeting at 8:30 a.m. on Fri., Nov. 15.

One former employee detailed the shocking event in a now-deleted post on Reddit’s "mildlyinfuriating" forum. “I joined an internship, and an hour later, the entire team got fired,” the original user wrote.

“For those of you who did not show up to the meeting this morning, consider this your official notice: you’re all fired,” Oddson wrote in the all-team Slack. “You failed to do what you agreed to, you failed to complete your part of the contract, and you failed to show up for the meetings you were supposed to attend and work for.”

Oddson then instructed the group, who all work remotely, to sign out from all accounts, return any company property, and consider any contracts terminated.

“I gave you an opportunity to make your life better, to work hard, and to grow. Yet, you have shown me that you don’t take this seriously,” he went on. “Out of 110 people, only 11 were present this morning. Those 11 get to stay. The rest of you are terminated. Get the f–k out of my business right now.”

Many workers fired from the Musicians Club were unpaid remote part-timers (jobs are marketed toward classical music students looking for work experience). A job listing from earlier this year for an unpaid operations manager role with the company received 51 applicants.

The listing said the job would provide “in-depth understanding of e-commerce operations within a competitive market,” “practical experience in managing and optimizing online sales platforms,” and a “high potential for full-time paid conversion in 2025.”

The Musicians Club is essentially a lean startup, the former intern wrote on Reddit, adding that Oddson’s company “relies on remote interns” willing to work for free.

Evidently, Oddson got what he paid for—workers who are essentially volunteering likely don't hold themselves to the same standards as those with a salary and benefits.

“Internally, everyone was put into a frenzy,” the intern wrote. “There were some workers that had worked with the CEO for literal years and had no warning about something like this. A big problem was that because all of the workers are unpaid and remote, they all had different schedules, so apparently it was difficult to set a specific time for attendance, which was what the CEO was so mad about.”

For his part, Oddson posted about the event on LinkedIn with neither shame nor apology last week. (His LinkedIn shows that he founded the Musicians Club in 2022, and also teaches trumpet at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.)

“While some attempted to ‘cancel’ me, it has completely backfired,” Oddson wrote. “Our traffic has surged to over 20,000 views, sales are at an all-time high, and we’re receiving hundreds of applications daily.”

“I stand by my decisions and the values we uphold,” he went on. “Firing those individuals was the right move for our organization, and we are stronger than ever.” (Oddson didn’t immediately respond to Fortune’s request for comment.)

Even so, Oddson’s LinkedIn profile picture is framed by the ubiquitous purple #HIRING banner.

Do you have any dirt? Spill.

You can get anything you want.

Which of these gay icons, listed chronologically, will be the next headliner to croon at the Pearly Gates?

(Didn't list "Other" - just add your own in comments)

Hi, everyone. I know there are many threads on Ozempic, Wegovy, and the like, but there are way too many threads/posts to weed through to find what I'm looking for. I'm trying to help my friend who has Kaiser for insurance, and was told by her doctor that they have a "policy" that they don't prescribe these drugs for their patients, regardless of whether they have pre-diabetes or not (how fucking ridiculous, and yes, my friend will be changing insurance plans when the enrollment period rolls around). I'm trying to help out by finding out where any of you have gone to do your consult and also get your meds online.

If you would be so kind as so to share, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'd like to help my friend before it develops into something more severe.

I'll start:

"I can't find my phone."

He played the lead role of Scott Carey in the 1957 film "The Incredible Shrinking Man." Total hottie! Gorgeous eyes, beautiful hair, handsome face. The movie is a schlock classic, but if I found this three-inch-tall guy duking it out with a spider in my basement, I'd save him and keep him in my shirt pocket. I'd do anything to return him to a normal size so I could look him in the eyes while I fuck him.

He's one of those guys who looks better and better the more he looks like shit. He was a veteran of the Korean War, and died in 1985 at 53 of peritonitis. Anyone know why he didn't get more, better roles? He was kind of "discovered" by Rosalind Russell. Maybe she kept him in HER pocket (or a gilded cage at home - MEOW). Was he a sister?

For the moment, I'm obsessed.

“Do your own research.”

Paramount+ series. How does Nicole find the time to shoot so many series?

Season 1 kind of sucked, at the B-/C+ level, but a few special agent guys are hot.

And handsome Dave Annable gets a gig and I get to look at him.

Anybody else going to see this?

I like Vatican intrigue, whether in real life or a movie.

Have They broken any homes up lately?

Jamie Chua, the ex wife of an Indonesian business tycoon, and friend explain why elephant leather is so coveted and durable. Skip to 6:45 to see.

Previously it was stagnant or dropping. I now have a net worth of over 7 figures. That includes my liabilities such as my mortgage. I have no other debt.

Is it planned that way?

This sounds like a fun idea for a sitcom

A white woman in Florida was sentenced Monday to 25 years in prison for fatally shooting her neighbor, a Black mother of four, in a case that sparked outrage and yet another national reckoning over gun violence and racism.

A jury convicted Susan Lorincz, 60, of manslaughter in August for killing Ajike Owens outside of her home in Ocala on June 2, 2023. Owens, who went by the name A.J., was 35. Ocala is a small city located about 80 miles northwest of Orlando.

Lorincz faced a maximum sentence of 30 years imprisonment on the charges originally brought against her after the shooting — one count of manslaughter with a firearm and one count of assault — Bill Gladson, the state attorney for Florida's fifth judicial district, announced later in June that year. In Florida, the lead prosecutor in each district is called a state attorney.

On Monday, Judge Robert Hodges said Lorincz had ample time to call law enforcement and that there was no real risk that Owens was trying to break into her home. "The shooting was based, I find, more in anger than in fear," Hodges said before the sentencing.

The authorities and prosecutors involved came under scrutiny in the wake of Owens' death, in part because of the choice to charge Lorincz with manslaughter instead of second-degree murder, as well as the fact that Lorincz was not immediately taken into custody after the shooting occurred.

Florida's "stand your ground" law, a controversial doctrine adopted in multiple U.S. states that allows individuals to use force in self-defense scenarios, played a role in those decisions.

"In making the filing decision on this case, my office carefully examined the viability of both second degree murder and manslaughter with a firearm, both first degree felonies," Gladson's office said in a statement once Lorincz's charges were revealed. A second-degree murder charge required "evidence of hatred, spite, ill will or evil intent toward the victim at the time of the killing," which the Marion County sheriff's criminal investigation did not sufficiently find, according to the state attorney.

"As deplorable as the defendant's actions were in this case, there is insufficient evidence to prove this specific and required element of second degree murder," that statement continued. It noted charges for second-degree murder and manslaughter with a firearm are both first-degree felonies.

Lorincz shot Owens during an ongoing dispute between them over children in the neighborhood, including Owens' children, apparently playing in the area around Lorincz's residence, according to trial testimony and the arrest affidavit for Lorincz.

Authorities said Owens approached the door of Lorincz's home the day of the shooting to confront her, after learning the older woman had engaged in an argument with the children outside, shouted, and threw a roller skate at one of them.

Owens' 10-year-old son accompanied her to Lorincz's residence, where she knocked on Lorincz's door and demanded she come outside. Lorincz proceeded to fire a .380-caliber handgun through the door, striking Owens in the upper chest. Owens was unresponsive by the time authorities arrived at the scene and later pronounced dead at a hospital.

The door to Lorincz's home was locked when she fired the shot and Owens was unarmed.

This was a horrific story, and the family has been put through so much.

Alabama really is a shithole state.

You'll never get justice there.

She’s going to use her man hands to pound the gavel hard on liberals as DOGE Committee Chair.

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.

The landmark federal prosecutions of President-elect Donald Trump effectively came to an end Monday, as Special Counsel Jack Smith asked a judge to dismiss felony charges against Trump for trying to overturn the 2020 election and dropped a fight to reinstate classified document charges—ending the historic saga before Trump retakes office.

U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan accepted Smith’s request Monday afternoon and dismissed the case without prejudice.

He was later on a show called LOVE OF COCK.

The actress playing his mother- I remember her ( much older of course) in several guest starring roles on Law and Order/Criminal Intent.

LOL.

They gave us both Trump and Joe Rogan.

I've heard weed is helpful but I don't want to smoke anything. Has anyone used CBD (in any form) to help with alcohol withdrawal?

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NEW: The audience exodus from CNN and especially MSNBC since the election is staggering. CNN and MSNBC have seen totals decline by 27% and 38%, respectively. In 25-54 demo, CNN has averaged 70,000 while MSNBC has averaged 53,000.

Even long running artistes like Ronn Moss were recast.......

Like the disgraced congressman George Santos before him, Matt Gaetz has joined 'Cameo' - the app where he will embarrass himself and wish you or someone you know a personal message of congratulations, birthday wishes, get well wishes, etc. for just $500.

They changed her hair. The new intro song is awful. What the fuck happened? It’s even worse than what happened to Laverne and Shirley once they moved out west. I saw the early episodes as a kid, but season 5 is senseless harassment.

Will it finally be the year for Oliver Jackson Cohen?

Or someone else?

Make your guesses here!

Once again there are NO good threads.

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.

Where are your Turkey Day travels leading you?

Did Zac Efron blackball him for being better looking and more talented?

Let's discuss this gorgeous and tragic man...

The dogs may rejoice initially, too, but I have a feeling a lot will be making visits to emergency vets this holiday season

[QUOTE]The limited-edition lickable paper reportedly tastes like KFC’s Original Recipe Chicken - but there’s a twist.

[QUOTE]Alongside the original chicken taste this festive find has “a refreshing hit of cranberry sauce and an aromatic pinch of sage from the sage and onion stuffing patty," according to the product description.

[QUOTE]However, fast food fans should be aware of the fine print, as KFC warned that the novelty wrapping paper is “not intended for human consumption.”