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

Make your predictions here!

I'd say yes, but there's nuances. "Selling out" exists on a scale, imo.

These days, a lot of people have a "get that bag!" reaction when they see artists doing paycheck gigs. I'm somewhere in the middle.

Nate is pissed lately

He kept the gun. Moron.

The wealthy family owns a radio station that airs right-wing programming.

It seems Luigi went cray cray about six months ago and the family just dropped him instead of trying to get him help.

They are going to face one hell of a civil suit and this makes my heart smile.

The New York Times continues to sink into mediocrity, particularly on the gay sports pages -- the Arts & Leisure section. Here's a sample of the Seventeen Magazine, press agent inspired crap they print now:

Luigi Maggione is his name. He will be popular in prison.

United Health Care shooting suspect.

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

And just like that, she’s literary

This isn't an intended as an eldergay aging thread, although some things can certainly fall under that category. It's also not intended to be about life experiences and learning lessons from them. It can be about important or trivial stuff, general knowledge that everybody except you seemed to know.

Trivial. I just learned that darker roast coffees have less caffeine than lighter roasts. I've always bought French Roast thinking it has more, but it's opposite since the longer process removes more caffeine. I'm 60 and have been drinking coffee since college. All these years...

I wish I could come up with a better title, but I guess the comparatively hottest story right now is whether or not they're going to keep Maybe Happy Ending going. Mea culpa.

joe continues his rise in Hollywood with a major award nomination

I'll post the after version first. A boring ranch style in equally boring Camarillo, CA (at least since the state mental hospital closed). Some of our Tasteful Friends are probably wondering WTF I posted this non-descrpit on the inside and outside "home." Or is it?

Overlook the some of the generic furnishings and the gray and take a look at the small hints. Any guesses what the owners were up to in the house? If you have a guess post it before reading the next part.

Whoo, hoo! Any guesses as to what the skeletons in her closet might be? Every other nominee seems to have at least one. Hiring undocumented labor on the cheap? Well, Trump’s done that at his various clubs, so...

Laura Loomer is not a happy camper right about now.

Looks stupid and Travis Kelce is not attractive. He doesn’t have the face for TV. Sorry.

BEIRUT (AP) — The head of a Syrian opposition war monitor said early Sunday that President Bashar Assad left the country for an undisclosed location, fleeing ahead of insurgents who said they had entered Damascus after a stunning advance across the country.

The events suggested that the end of Assad's regime could be imminent after his bloody 14-year struggle to hold onto control as his country fragmented.

Rami Abdurrahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told The Associated Press that Assad took a flight Sunday from Damascus.

State television in Iran, Assad’s main backer in the years of war in Syria, reported that Assad had left the capital. It cited Qatar’s Al Jazeera news network for the information and did not elaborate.

There was no immediate statement from the Syrian government.

An Associated Press journalist in Damascus reported seeing groups of armed residents along the road in the outskirts of the capital and hearing sounds of gunshots. The city’s main police headquarters appeared to be abandoned, its door left ajar with no officers outside. Another AP journalist shot footage of an abandoned army checkpoint where uniforms were discarded on the ground under a poster of Assad’s face.

Residents of the capital reported hearing gunfire and explosions. Footage broadcast on opposition-linked media showed a tank in one of the capital's central squares while a small group of people gathered in celebration. Calls of “God is great” rang out from mosques.

It was the first time opposition forces had reached Damascus since 2018, when Syrian troops recaptured areas on the outskirts of the capital following a yearslong siege.

The pro-government Sham FM radio reported that the Damascus airport had been evacuated and all flights halted.

The insurgents also announced they had entered the notorious Saydnaya military prison north of the capital and “liberated" their prisoners there.

The night before, opposition forces took the central city of Homs, Syria's third largest, as government forces abandoned it. The city stands at an important intersection between Damascus, the capital, and Syria’s coastal provinces of Latakia and Tartus — the Syrian leader’s base of support and home to a Russian strategic naval base.

The government denied rumors that Assad had fled the country.

Sham FM reported that government forces took positions outside Homs without elaborating. Rami Abdurrahman who heads the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said Syrian troops and members of different security agencies withdrew from the city, adding that rebels entered parts of it.

The insurgency announced later Saturday that it had taken over Homs. The rebels had already seized the cities of Aleppo and Hama, as well as large parts of the south, in a lightning offensive that began Nov. 27. Analysts said rebel control of Homs would be a game-changer.

The rebels' moves into Damascus came after the Syrian army withdrew from much of southern part of the country, leaving more areas, including several provincial capitals, under the control of opposition fighters.

The fall of Damascus would leave government forces in control of only two of 14 provincial capitals: Latakia and Tartus.

Former thread.

Yes, really. Is this the multidimensional chess I keep hearing about or is it the dementia talking? How are staff going to oblige and restrain him? Maybe a cellphone blockers in the White House...

[QUOTE]The Democrats are fighting hard to get rid of the Popular Vote in future Elections. They want all future Presidential Elections to be based exclusively on the Electoral College!

After it was revealed she was the lead cunt on Buffy (Not Geller), as well as being said to be a demanding bitch on the set of How I Met Your Mother, did she just give up and move on?

Oh hi luigi

Martha hates it already

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 love and admire Harry Hamlin for starring in this movie.

It took real courage for a male actor in 1980/1981 to take on a gay role like this.

Kudos to both him and Michael Ontkean.

The feeble President-elect sits down with "Meet The Press" and does what he does best: exaggerates, lies, promises, retracts, feels sorry for himself and hints at revenge.

Musk is running the show now.

A Manhattan jury has cleared Daniel Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city’s mental health system and crime underground.

The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put him behind bars for up to four years — in Neely’s chokehold death aboard a crowded uptown F train in May 2023.

Manslaughter, the top charge against Penny, was tossed on Friday after jurors twice said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.

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

Is he teasing us at this point?

We know that Biden stands firmly with corporate interests, so he will not do it.

This should replace the Western Electric 1925 Christmas Party. What is weird- 1973 is 51 years ago. In 1973 1925 was only 48 years ago.

The Top 10:

1. Beyonce 2. Taylor Swift 3. Rihanna 4. Drake 5. Lady Gaga 6. Britney Spears 7. Kanye West 8. Justin Bieber 9. Ariana Grande 10. Adele

I thought I would share a great recording of Mahler's 8th Symphony, the "Symphony of a Thousand."

What are your thoughts on this symphony?

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.........

Continue your foolishness, DL sleuths.

I know this is a very niche thread.

James Carville, the legendary Democratic strategist, called Joe Biden “the most tragic figure in American politics” Friday, suggesting that had the president bowed out earlier, a Democrat would have won.

During the latest episode of his podcast Politics War Room, Carville said that Biden “knows he f---ed up” by deciding to keeping running, before letting Kamala Harris step late in the cycle in the wake of his disastrous debate with Donald Trump.

“The most tragic figure in American politics in my lifetime is President Biden,” Carville said.

“The different scenario would be, if he would have in September of 2023 or August said that he wasn’t going to run, godd--n, we would have won this election,” Carville added. “And it wouldn’t have been that close because we would have had so many frickin’ talented people that were running.”

Had that happened and a Democrat won, Biden would be leaving office on a “high note” right now, according to Carville, who spearheaded the strategy for Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign.

“He would be the toast of Washington,” Carville said. “It would be a Democratic inauguration coming up, and a new Democratic president could have gotten away with commuting any sentence that Hunter Biden got. And it would have been minimal—there would have been some pushback, but, you know: ‘In the interest of the Biden family and President Biden’s long and distinguished service to the community, I’m going to commute the sentence.’”

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.

"The leader of DHHS should continue to nurture and improve — not threaten — these important and highly respected institutions."

Is he winning the Oscar?

Dayum

Film at 11.

I'm the grating laugh track.

The family of a teenage boy who died after falling from a theme park ride have been awarded a $310 million ( payout.

Tyre Sampson fell from the FreeFall amusement ride at ICON Park in Orlando in March 2022.

He was rushed to hospital but tragically died of his injuries.

Tyre was more than 100 pounds over the ride's weight limit when he slipped out of the safety harness and fell around 100ft. It is believed the teenager's size meant that the fastening on the ride did not secure correctly. A report from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) explained that Tyre appeared to have slipped as the ride descended.

The report claims that a harness sensor in the seat was 'manually loosened, adjusted, and tightened' which resulted in a gap of nearly seven inches.

The ride - which has since been demolished - featured 30 seats attached to a tower in which riders were secured with a shoulder harness before being dropped 430ft.

Julie & her Salemites honor the dashing Doug Williams with a fond farewell.

Comatose Bo's hand began moving when grieving Hope came into his room.

Drama loving big mouth Joy told her secret to Alex who she barely even knows.

The Leo & Javi pairing is over as fast as they began their whirlwind romance.

Rafe gets to replace the now missing John Black at the Black/Patch company.

Mark, Clyde, Nancy, Vivian, Dr. Rolf & Sophia have all done recent disappearing acts.

Discuss.

List them.

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

The couple who run PinkNews, the world's largest LGBT news website, have been accused by staff of multiple incidents of sexual misconduct. I wouldn't have an issue if they were ruggedly handsome but these two....FUGs.

Where can i get one of these?

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?

I dont think there is anybody else in the world who has become a parent to more children via surrogacy than Mr Musk and she has been adamant in legislating in Italy about what she considers to be the evils of surrogacy.

Joan Crawford as Helen Lawson before there was "Valley of the Dolls!" Joan as a singing/dancing superstar who can neither sing nor dance! JC with a "kid" sister who's young enough to be her daughter. Michael Wilding as a blind pianist who recalls Joan as a sweet young thing! Best of all, when Joan's "Hel" rips her own wig off... in blackface! Enjoy my take on "Torch!"

I swear the breaks between shows are so long now it's easy to forget them.

Prince William and Prince Harry’s family feud has lasted so long that even the royal experts are exasperated. The brothers were last seen in public together at the statue unveiling for Princess Diana in July 2021 and the royalists are telling the Prince of Wales that it’s time to stop the nonsense.

At the Diana Awards on Thursday, Dec. 5, the rift was on full display and it is William who is being called out for his behavior, not Harry. The Duke of Sussex appeared in an “interactive video” for the online awards, per The Daily Beast, but William reportedly decided that he couldn’t appear at the same event as his younger brother and wrote a letter to the recipients instead. Now, the criticism is blistering.

“It’s extraordinary how what was essentially a family argument has got completely out of proportion and is now causing immense damage not just to Harry’s reputation, but also to the king, who looks weak for not being able to crack his sons’ heads together, and the future king, William, who looks petty and ridiculous,” a palace insider told the media outlet. “Whether or not it is the case, it looks very much like William refused to attend the awards after hearing Harry was making a video appearance. Is this how he is going to rule the country?”

This isn’t the first time William has been criticized for his lack of leadership in the matter. Royal expert Duncan Larcombe told The Daily Beast in June 2022, “If William wants to be a future king, a great leader giving inspiring addresses about the environment to two billion people, then the public are within their rights to expect him to be able to sort out a frankly pretty minor dispute with his brother.”

Even though the siblings both bear responsibility for the ongoing fight, Harry has less at stake since he’s not going to be the King of England. Still, William is facing a crisis about his future ability to lead even beyond the feud. The BBC called on him to “find his own voice” amid the health crises that Kate Middleton and King Charles III were faced with earlier this year, and that criticism hasn’t waned.

A big part of William’s royal legacy could be to extend the olive branch to Harry and end the feud once and for all, but too many are questioning whether he is up to that challenge.

A Nevada commissioner ruled resoundingly against Rupert Murdoch’s attempt to change his family’s trust to consolidate his eldest son Lachlan’s control of his media empire and lock in Fox News’s right-wing editorial slant, according to a sealed court document obtained by The New York Times.

The commissioner, Edmund J. Gorman Jr., concluded in a decision filed on Saturday that the father and son, who is the head of Fox News and News Corp., had acted in “bad faith” in their effort to amend the irrevocable trust, which divides control of the company equally among Mr. Murdoch’s four oldest children — Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence — after his death.

The ruling was at times scathing. At one point in his 96-page opinion, Mr. Gorman characterizes the plan to change the trust as a “carefully crafted charade” to “permanently cement Lachlan Murdoch’s executive roles” inside the empire “regardless of the impacts such control would have over the companies or the beneficiaries” of the family trust.

St. Jude's, Shriner's, and Easter Seals has launched their 'giving' campaign on us as they parade and exploit their sick patients on every cable channel. Every other commercial on MSNBC is from one of these charities, asking us to 'give' to these exploited children / families on our screen (though cheery Marlo Thomas is missing this season - must know it's not a good look since Phil died a month ago).

So before you go apple picking with your grandkids, before you go for a family hayride, before you plan your Thanksgiving dinner, and before you tag your Christmas tree...won't you remember the less fortunate and write out a hefty check in this robust economy ? Pwease ? For the sake of Caleb and profit margins ?

I can't wait for the middle of October when the Medicare commercials start with Mad Martha...

Donald Trump’s pick for US Surgeon General was involved in a tragic gun accident that killed her father when she was only 13 years old.

Dr Janette Nesheiwat was a teenager when she accidentally knocked a loaded gun over, which fired upon impact and fatally shot her father in the head.

The incident occurred in February 1990 at her family's home in Umatilla, Florida, according to a report by the New York Times.

A police report reviewed by the newspaper states that Nesheiwat was reaching for a pair of scissors in a tackle box on a shelf above her father's bed when the container tipped over and spilled its contents, including a handgun.

The gun discharged, and the bullet hit her father in the head. He died in a hospital the next day.

Though she does not frequently speak about the incident, Nesheiwat said it inspired her to become a doctor. She worked for 15 years as an urgent care doctor for the New York City-based CityMD clinic chain.

She gained some prominence among Republicans when she began appearing on Fox News as a medical contributor during the Covid-19 pandemic.

If she is confirmed, Nesheiwat will replace sitting US Surgeon General Dr Vivek Murthy. He served as the Surgeon General during the start of Trump's first presidential administration but was dismissed in 2017. Joe Biden appointed him to the spot again in 2021.

Murthy has been a proponent for treating gun violence — including accidental gun deaths like the one Nesheiwat experienced — as a public health issue. That stance has left him unpopular with Republican lawmakers, who have gone so far as to ban the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from researching gun violence as a public health issue.

Despite her tragic experience with gun violence, there is no indication that Nesheiwat will break with fellow Republicans on the issue.

In an upcoming memoir she's writing, Nesheiwat mentions her father's death in the opening lines of the book, according to the New York Times.

“When I was 13 years old, I helplessly watched my dear father dying from an accident as blood was spurting everywhere,” she writes. “I couldn’t save his life."

The book, titled “Beyond the Stethoscope: Miracles in Medicine,” does not mention that he died as a result of being shot accidentally by a loaded family firearm, according to the Times.

They are not letting a cash grabbing, mentally ill victim stop their stride.

I posted the video of her hot/slim/good looking passive husband. She's very chatty.

Access to the neighborhood runway included! Dolls will cost you extra.

Last year, Lucinda was appalled at the grease that covered every surface in the kitchen.

Jay-Z, the star rapper and entrepreneur whose real name is Shawn Carter, was accused in a civil lawsuit on Sunday of raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000 allegedly along with Sean “Diddy” Combs.

The anonymous accuser, identified only as “Jane Doe,” said the assault happened after she was driven to an MTV Video Music Awards afterparty.

Currently screening on UK TV. Usual paint-by-numbers gay romcom series with levered-in diversity. I fear I didn't laff once. Suspect also it's too Brit to translate to the US.

DL catnip!!

Katha Pollitt hits it out of the park once again.

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Share your Christmas stories.

Favorite memories, foods, traditions. Crazy relatives, great gifts, awful gifts, sad stuff, regrets, etc.

This kid from Anora, "the Russian Chalamet", is now the male LEAD in Mr. & Mrs. Smith season 2.

Gurl, how? No homegrown talent left, Britain and Canada and Australia mined to death, so we're importing twink actors from Russia now?

Anybody watched it yet?

Just about every charity on television these days - whether for children or animals - asks the viewer to subscribe for just $19 a month which is 63 cents a day.

What is so magical about $19 a month for these charities ? Is know it's less than $20 a month, so are they thinking asking $20 /mo would be 'too much' for viewers to contribute ?

Seems like we finally figured out the distance from Oakdale to Chicago.

From Bay City to Henderson, from Monticello to Springfield, and from Oakdale to Luther's Corners, may you all have the merriest of Christmases!

If you're very lucky, the Pendulous One may dangle something down the chimney for you.

And if you miss anything, just ask Aunt Liz. She'll know ALLLLL the dirt!

The dreadful antics were carried out at an office party.

'They weren’t capable of consenting'

Five former members of staff told the BBC they had witnessed Dr James groping and kissing a junior member of staff, who they said was "too drunk to stand or talk" and "unable to consent".

So what do we all think of the latest Star Trek development? Michelle Yeoh is camping it up in her Section 31 movie. Mary Wiseman is only a guest on the Academy but Tig Notaro and Robert Picardo will be regulars.

A Thoughtful Piece from Caftan Chronicles: “ He was pushed out of TV news in his forties. Then his lover died. Then he entered the field he'd always fantasized about—porn—and started thriving.”

Unfortunately, I do not have a link behind the paywall

For a population whom everybody loves and fetishizes, especially straight men, I just can't make heads or tails over how much they don't struggling and don't exist?

Meanwhile, gay men whom everybody else hates, have thriving businesses, bars, apps, neighborhoods.

What gives?

They had to let her go and replace her with cheaper actors.

Meh:

Pulled straight from the Internet. I'll start.

"Don't Be Racist. I Am A Building.

Which family will produce the more explosive tell all?

You know, instead of endless threads on Trump & Co...

It's a great book, beautifully drawn, and full of of gay wisdom, by my favorer gay artist,

Continue your discussion of each day's game here.

We need more Medicare Advantage Plan Adverts. Martha, Martha, why have you abandoned us???

And I have a Sir.

He has me in chastity.

So sayeth the New York Times: "Beyond its numbers, the Eras Tour has been a mega-event that elevated the already-super-famous Swift to a new level, making her an epochal symbol of cultural saturation on the level of the Beatles in the 1960s or Michael Jackson in his ’80s prime."

And Madonna doesn't even enter the conversation, apparently. I did like "Cruel Summer" though.

A continuation thread for our nattering about Britain's favourite soap.

WASHINGTON — Foreign leaders have lined up to speak with him. He has rattled Mexico and Canada with threats of steep tariffs and warned there would be “hell to pay” for militants in Gaza unless they release the hostages by the time he’s sworn in.

That won't happen for another 45 days, but Donald Trump, the president-in-waiting, isn't shying away from acting like the president-in-reality.

Trump can't sign a bill or issue an executive order yet, but he is crowding out Joe Biden as the sitting president winds down his term and steadily recedes from public view. In two foreign trips since the election, Biden has answered all of two questions from reporters.

He has been left to kibitz about Trump’s pronouncements — “I hope he rethinks it,” he said of Trump’s plan to impose 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico — rather than drive an agenda of his own.

As for Trump, “his view is that he’s not going to follow rules that he thinks are stupid rules,” said a former senior White House official in Trump’s first term. “His view is these are hostages and if he can help bring them home, then why would he follow protocol if it’s going to impact peoples’ lives?”

At this point, Trump is “already basically running things, and he’s not even president yet,” the person added.

Trump’s penchant for plunging into current affairs is testing the one-at-a-time dictum that presidents are supposed to honor but, for reasons of political expediency or practical necessity, usually don’t.

“He would probably argue, ‘I’m more than a private citizen at this point; I’m president-elect, and I’m going to have all the powers of the presidency in a couple of months.’ But that doesn’t mean you get to start before you’re inaugurated,” said Rep. Jared Huffman, D-Calif.

This weekend, Trump will join French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris for the reopening of Notre Dame Cathedral five years after it was devastated by fire. Biden was invited but opted not to attend, a White House official said.

Trump’s return to the world stage after a four-year hiatus, coupled with news about his hires, has overshadowed Biden’s trip to sub-Saharan Africa this week, in which he faced fallout from the sweeping pardon he gave his son Hunter.

“Given the weakness of the current president and the speed at which things develop in the modern world, Trump is, in effect, a presumptive president,” said Newt Gingrich, a Republican former House speaker and a Trump ally. “Certainly, foreign governments are treating him that way.”

If Biden is unhappy about being upstaged, he hasn’t offered any hints. In fact, Trump’s interventions may prove helpful to the degree they complement Biden’s larger goals.

A senior Biden administration official cited Trump’s social media post warning of “hell to pay” unless the hostages are freed from Gaza by Inauguration Day. That message doesn’t hurt the Biden administration’s efforts to secure the hostages’ release in exchange for a ceasefire, the official said.

Previous thread posted below.

Discuss.

The tabletop role playing game is very dark.

Golden Globes 2025 Nominations: ‘Emilia Perez’ Dominates Films With 10 Nods; ‘The Bear’ Leads TV With Five

Carl Spurlin Dekel, who spent his special day on June 29 with friends and family, broke down in tears as he told Fox13 in an interview shared the day after that his fellow soldiers did not die in the war for what America has now purportedly become.

“People don’t realize what they have… the things we did and the things we fought for and the boys that died for it, it’s all gone down the drain. Our country is going to hell in a handbasket,” Dekel said.

According to the Silver Star recipient, he has lived a good life, attributing his longevity, happiness and good health to his appreciation for the small things.

“I sincerely believe in this whole world, that everything is beautiful,” he shared. “If I wake up in the morning and see these plants out here… and all those flowers that are in there, and the green grass on the ground, that’s beautiful.”

While the native of Lakeland, Florida, takes pride in all the awards and recognition he has received, his memories of his friends in the Marines who he lost in the war bring him to tears.

“We haven’t got the country we had when I was raised, not at all,” Dekel claimed. “Nobody will have the fun I had. Nobody will have the opportunity I had. It’s just not the same. And that’s not what our boys, that’s not what they died for.”

While Dekel did not go into details, his dissatisfaction with the country’s current state reflects the views of the majority of the population based on a survey by Pew Research Center published in January.

The study reveals that 21 percent of Americans are satisfied with “the way things are going in the country today,” while 78 percent feel dissatisfied. The study also noted that the majority of the public view the country’s current economic situation in a negative light.

In addition to accelerating inflation, the U.S. also faces rises in mass shootings, hate incidents and other violent crimes.

“I want the young kids to realize that freedom comes with a heavy price,” Dekle said in an interview with Plant City Courier & Tribune in 2009. “It isn’t given to people out of the goodness of others. It’s something you have to fight and sometimes die for.”

Should someone who killed another person, really be celebrating?

Such bad taste.

This was the pair stolen twenty years ago from the Judy Garland Museum in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, and then returned much later.

If you've ever seen these or the ones at the Smithsonian, they're very disappointing, IMO. but how could they ever possibly equal the fabulousness they have when lit by MGM's best designers in the movie?

When did he turn into Jesus

I’ve always had colored lights, ever since I was a child. My snottiest friends say that colored lights are tacky and they should be white.

Just because I love this picture...

Cute dancing gay twins. I think they work on Disney Cruises.

Lost in the woods

I’m watching House Hunters and a single woman needed a “get ready” room as part of her house hunt.

I thought it was a made up thing. But maybe not.

"Requiring federal employees to come to the office five days a week would result in a wave of voluntary terminations that we welcome," Ramaswamy and Musk write in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece. Part of the job cuts sought by DOGE and Trump could come by way of a strict in-person work requirement.

Ramaswamy told Carlson the 8am-6pm, five-day workweek could produce a "25% thinning out of the federal bureaucracy." Trump has said that "as many as 100,000 government positions can be moved out — and I mean immediately — of Washington."

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a month after a devastating election loss that exposed cracks in the very foundation of their party, Democrats remain deeply divided over the extent of their political problem — or even if they have one.

A number of Democratic leaders are downplaying the strength of Donald Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris as the inevitable result of an inflation-fueled anti-incumbent backlash that shaped elections worldwide. But others are convinced that the Democratic Party is facing an acute crisis that requires an urgent overhaul of its brand, message and economic policies.

Trump swept every battleground state on Nov. 5, becoming the first Republican candidate to win the national popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004. Yet nearly half the country voted against him. With the final votes still being counted in some places, Trump won the popular vote by just 1.6 percentage points. He carried the seven top swing states by about 760,000 votes combined out of more than 151 million cast nationwide.

“The glass is half full. It was close. If we get another 2% or 3% of American voters, it would have successfully led to victories from the presidency on down,” says Colorado Gov. Jared Polis, who is leading a group called Governors Safeguarding Democracy.

But for Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Labor-Farmer Party and a candidate to lead the Democratic National Committee next year, the election represented “a damning indictment” for the Democratic Party.

“People do not believe that the Democratic Party is fighting for them or for their families or gives a damn about their lives,” Martin told The Associated Press. “We lost ground with almost every group except wealthy households and college-educated voters.”

The internal debate over the health of the party comes at a critical moment.

Trump will return to the White House on Jan. 20, claiming a mandate to enact a dramatic “Make America Great Again” agenda led by the mass deportation of millions of immigrants in the country illegally; an overhaul of the federal departments of health, education and justice, and major import tariffs that threaten to strain the U.S. economy and international alliances alike.

Democrats, even diminished and divided, stand as the only organized resistance to Trump and his emboldened MAGA allies. But for now, at least, the Democratic Party has no leader and no agreement on the political problems that need to be fixed or how to fix them.

Many Democratic groups and leaders are working through post-election analyses to better understand what went wrong on Nov. 5, but few are working together. And already, some fear that the disparate post mortems will produce competing recommendations likely to be lost in a rush to leave the pain of 2024 behind.

Priorities USA, one of the Democratic Party's leading super PACs, is set to unveil its post-election findings this week. The group will recommend, among other things, that Democrats do a better job listening to voters instead of pollsters, while offering a more forward-looking positive alternative to Trump's MAGA movement.

If they do not make significant changes, according to a preview of that briefing, Priorities believes there is no guarantee that key elements of the Democratic base — especially young people and voters of color — will return to the party in future elections.

Some of the loudest voices calling for dramatic changes represent the party's far-left wing, which is often ignored by establishment Democrats who control the party's messaging, strategy and policy platform. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders irked some party leaders the day after the election with a scathing critique: “It should come as no great surprise that a Democratic Party which has abandoned working class people would find that the working class has abandoned them.”

“While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change,” Sanders continued. “And they’re right.”

That last thread filled up, continue on.

She looks like Salome dancing for Herod, very uncharacteristic.

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.

Your Persnickety, Picky Porn Preferences 🧐

What are some super-niche, super picky, ridiculously particular preferences that really bother you? I don't mean something most people will agree on like (I don't like it when the guys aren't into it or when one of them doesn't cum etc.)

I have what I think is an odd one: I don't quite know why, but I find it kind of a turn-off when I see a scene with two unmistakably white guys and one of them has their natural skin tone (whether that's pale as a ghost or bordering on olive) and one of them is tanned within an inch of his life -- you know what I mean, you can practically smell the bronzer coming off the screen, or, he's definitely spent the past two weeks just lying in the sun in Mexico.

And, NO, I am not talking about interracial scenes. Interracial scenes are hot, guys with melanin are hot. Latino, Asian, Black, Arab, Indian, Australasian, Mediterranean guys are all hot. I'm just talking about obviously white guys who are overly tanned.

Although I don't have a preference for it, I don't even mind it if both of the white guys are similarly tanned, but if one of them looks like it's the middle of winter in Minnesota and the other looks like he's been bronzing on a balcony in Cabo in June my brain gets scrambled. The paler guy ends up looking sickly (even though he isn't) and the tanned guy looks unnatural.

I told you this was persnickety! Okay, let's hear 'em.

Come for me bitches.

What "low rent" food do you like?

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

Coco wins the WTA year-end championship.

Shapo won in Belgrade.

"Chief among the Christian right’s values is “biblical marriage,” the idea that any union other than that between a heterosexual biological male and female is against God’s will. Charismatic Christian leaders repeat these ideas often, and they’ve made it into the political mainstream. Christian broadcaster Mario Murillo, who partnered with fundamentalist Christian superstar Lance Wallnau in hosting a series of pro-MAGA religious rallies, said at a Colorado conference of Christian leaders in 2022, “We should never have permitted gay marriage to be legalized in the United States of America.”

In the coming months, watch for an intensification of the campaign by leading right-wing Christian groups to reverse the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision that legalized same-sex marriage. The powerful think tank Family Research Council says on its website, “Properly understood, ‘families’ are formed only by ties of blood, marriage, or adoption, and ‘marriage’ is a union of one man and one woman.” Perhaps most significantly, Project 2025—the blueprint for Trump’s second term that Trump supporters finally admit really “is the agenda”—calls for the US government to “proudly state that men and women are biological realities” and that “married men and women are the ideal, natural family structure because all children have a right to be raised by the men and women who conceived them.” Naturally, another priority for these groups will be a continued attack on transgender rights. "

- From Mother Jones

I’m a rude, thoughtless, little pig.

That is a pretty rough 65- Am I crazy?

He had nice skin and the type that would normally age well-

He must have gotten a lot of sun and never used sunblock-

Well, he’s one of the stars who cover it for the 2024 Men of the Year issue, where he was awarded as one of the men of the year.

Brad Pitt’s daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt is making moves in court to have a judge quickly sign off on her request to drop his famous last name, In Touch can exclusively reveal.

According to court documents obtained by In Touch, Shiloh, 18, recently took out a spot in The Los Angeles Time announcing the petition she filed.

Angelina Jolie's daughter required to place the notice in the local paper before her petition can be approved by the court.

The newspaper notice explains Shiloh filed a petition for a decree changing names from Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt to simply Shiloh Nouvel Jolie.

The notice told all persons interested in this matter or anyone who believes the petition should not be granted should show up to court later this month.

As In Touch previously reported, Shiloh submitted her petition in Los Angeles on her 18th birthday, May 27.

She told the court the reason for dropping her last name was “personal” but she did not expand on the answer.

A source close to Angelina, 49, told Entertainment Tonight that Shiloh hired her own attorney and paid for everything herself. The insider told the outlet, “Angie doesn’t know and can’t speak for it.”

Insiders told In Touch that Brad, 60, was "blindsided" by the decision, but he "wasn't surprised."

“He feels that Angie has slowly but surely turned their kids against him. She absolutely influenced their decisions to distance themselves from their dad,” the source said.

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!

Prince Harry took on a question head-on about his relationship with his wife, Meghan Markle, at The New York Times' 2024 DealBook Summit, responding to recent reports about their separate endeavors.

On Dec. 4, the Duke of Sussex, 40, hit the stage in New York City to join NYT columnist and Dealbook founder Andrew Ross Sorkin for a wide-ranging conversation about the mainstream media, misinformation and efforts to make the digital world a safer place.

Towards the end of the interview, Sorkin, 47, asked Prince Harry about how he grapples with the public fascination surrounding every aspect of his life — a scrutiny that not only highlights the positive causes he advocates for but also casts a harsh spotlight on his personal relationships.

"I was looking, even as we were in the race coming up to this day, I Google Newsed you, and there were people fascinated by everything you're doing, all the time. They're fascinated by Meghan is in California right now, and you're here," Sorkin said, seemingly referencing the Duchess of Sussex's planned solo outing at the Paley Honors gala in Beverly Hills on Dec. 4. "And there's articles left and right about, you know, 'Why are you making, doing independent events? Why aren't you doing them together?' "

"Because you invited me, you should have known!" Prince Harry interjected, which made the audience laugh.

Sorkin then replied, "Is that normal for you? The second there's an article — she's in California, you're in New York — they say, 'Well, what is happening with these two, right?' Is that a good thing for you, in a way, that there's so much interest in you?"

The Duke of Sussex, who grew up in the royal spotlight as the son of the future King Charles and the late Princess Diana, emphasized that the attention was "definitely not a good thing."

"No, that's definitely not a good thing. Apparently we've bought or moved house 10, 12 times. We've apparently divorced maybe 10, 12 times as well. So it's just like, what?' " Prince Harry said with a laugh.

"It's hard to keep up with, but that's why you just sort of ignore it. The people I feel most sorry about are the trolls," he continued. "Their hopes are just built and built, and it's like, 'Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,' and then it doesn't happen. So I feel sorry for them. Genuinely, I do."

Acknowledging the attention on him, Prince Harry added that he had "no doubt" his conversation with Sorkin "will be spun or twisted somehow against me, and maybe you yourself will be trolled relentlessly."

"For that, I can only apologize, but you did invite me, so it's not my fault," Prince Harry joked, and the audience laughed.

The Duke of Sussex reflected on painful aspects of the past and his focus on the future at the 2024 DealBook Summit, from the Parents Network initiative from the charitable Archewell Foundation he helms with Meghan to his "main goal" — "being the best husband and dad that I can be." The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are parents to son Prince Archie, 5 and daughter Princess Lilibet, 3, who they are raising in Montecito, California.

Of his life in the U.S., he said, "I very much enjoy living here and bringing up my kids here," adding that there are activities he can do here with his children that he “undoubtedly wouldn’t be able to do in the U.K."

Superhero cum gutters for days

Now, he shares his experience of being incarcerated for one year, and on house arrest (with ankle monitor) for two years.

He's hot and well spoken.

I wonder if he's single, and ready to mingle?

Gorgeous!

They are really leaning into the American Psycho vibe

A girl matched him on Tinder. However, his Tinder profile said he is bi

Found this on YouTube,

This is the golden thread that never ends.

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

Trouble exploding at the worlds largest Gay News media organisation.

That's what the reaction to the CEO shooter is telling us. It wasn't based on party. Most of America agrees on the issue of greedy health insurers and soaring healthcare costs. Watch the sketch and you'll see.

She is going to be 6ft 2 or 3 when she's fully grown.

Avengers Doomsday budget is probably close to $150 million already just paying four people (Evans, Downey Jr. and the Russos.)

How is this sustainable? This is going to end up being a $600 million budgeted film. (The most expensive movie budget ever is The Force Awakens at $447 million, a decade ago, about $600 million today).

Sells bad paintings of Capri Suns on Etsy these days.

Pump.Fun is what the kids do now, they make a memecoin crypto for news events, random shit etc. I would bet this crypto hits a billion market cap soon.

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.

Not one catchy or hummable tune.

I saw a reference to British actress Kathy Burke in a recent thread. I wondered if the British version of Will and Grace, Gimme,Gimme,Gimme in which she starred with Tom Dreyfus had made it across the pond?

Holy shit, this guy is the real life Vincent from Collateral. He completed the job and has already fled the country.

It's also revealed what a backwater country it is.

Food and the holidays are forever intertwined. Beyond the bountiful table, it is often the little treats and traditions that are integral parts of holiday memories. Like many people, Lacey Chabert recalls how that box of Russell Stover Chocolates was part of her traditions. Through a recent partnership, she hopes that more people can make some happy, sweet holiday memories.

While the holiday season might sparkle brightly, many people welcome Lacey Chabert and her numerous Hallmark channel movies into their homes all year round. Those movies tug at the heart strings and delight with the promise of happily ever after. From the girls night in to the new version of family movie night, the reality is that any and all ages enjoy those whimsical movies.

Lacey Chabert is ready to spread some holiday cheer off the screen with her partnership with Russell Stover Chocolates. Currently, the candy brand is encouraging people to share their own happy holiday memory as part of its Make Happy promotion. From a special gift to a little treat that was the first bite on Christmas morning, there are plenty of traditions involving those classic chocolates.

As part of this partnership, Lacey Chabert graciously took some time to speak with FoodSided. Like many other people, Chabert shared how food has flavored many of her holiday traditions and memories.

She shared, "Russell Stover Chocolates was a huge part of our family traditions growing up. I remember walking into my grandparent’s kitchen and there would be a box in the middle of the dining room table. I was always so excited to break open that box. I’ve carried that holiday tradition into my own family. From stocking stuffers to having a box on my own dining room table, it is always part of our holiday celebrations.”

Let's talk about this goddess!

This compromise is acceptable.

Rest in power.

And how was it?

Drama

THE BRUTALIST

A COMPLETE UNKNOWN

CONCLAVE

DUNE: PART TWO

NICKEL BOYS

SEPTEMBER 5

Comedy/Musical

ANORA

CHALLENGERS

EMILIA PEREZ

A REAL PAIN

THE SUBSTANCE

WICKED

Until very recently, American culture has operated on the flawed notion that teenage dating and sex required little encouragement. Teenage romance was once seen as a natural part of American adolescence. This, it turns out, is completely wrong. Teenage dating is not inevitable and it’s a rapidly disappearing part of the American teenage experience. These relationships often served as inspiration for Hollywood’s tragedies and comedies, but in real life they are frequently formative and incredibly valuable for young people. Moreover, the decline of teen dating may be having an especially pernicious impact on the development of young men.

In the late 1990s, Monroe County, NY, where I grew up, launched the “Not Me, Not Now” campaign to encourage teens to abstain from sex. Sex education classes in my high school offered little information, and conversations about healthy relationships and dynamics were absent. Much of the public and political attention was focused on reducing unfortunate outcomes of teenage sex. The local campaign in my community was part of a national movement to reduce teen pregnancy. The Clinton administration made addressing teenage pregnancy a priority in their first term, proposing a “national mobilization” to combat it. In 1996, the Department of Health and Human Services launched “A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.”

It worked. Teen pregnancy fell steadily during the 1990s and continued to fall over the next two decades, mostly because more teens avoided sex altogether. Governmental surveys have recorded double-digit declines in teenage sexual experiences since the late 1980s.

For most Americans, the decline of teen pregnancies is a reason to celebrate; and for many, falling rates of teen sex represent an equally positive development.

But it’s not just sex that’s declined among teens; it’s romantic relationships overall. Teens are dating less. A survey conducted by the Survey Center on American Life found that only 56 percent of Gen Z adults—and 54 percent of Gen Z men—said they were involved in a romantic relationship at any point during their teenage years. This represents a remarkable change from previous generations, where teenage dating was much more common. More than three-quarters of Baby Boomers (78 percent) and Generation Xers (76 percent) report having had a boyfriend or girlfriend as teenagers.

Forty-four percent of Gen Z men today report having no relationship experience at all during their teen years, double the rate for older men.

Let’s share interesting, little-known facts about entertainment productions.

I’ll start — SoongeBob SquarePants was originally named “SoongeBoy.” The creator of the show was a marine biologist who wanted kids to be aware of tidal animals, so he named his sponge protagonist “SpongeBoy.” The entire first episode was recorded.

Then Legal at Nickelodeon discovered the name “SpongeBoy” was copyrighted.

So they either had to go back and redo the audio for the entire episode, or figure out some way to patch over it. Boy became Bob, an easy fix in editing. It’s a very strange name but was created out of need, not quirk.

More from Walford here.

Conservative Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) on Monday pointed to what he called the “anti-capitalist” views of the 26-year-old man named as a person of interest in the investigation of the shooting death of a UnitedHealthcare executive to argue “leftism is a mental disease.”

Cruz linked to a New York Post story about the arrest of a person of interest in the shooting while condemning “leftists” who have voiced sympathy with the masked shooter or expressed satisfaction over the executive’s brutal killing in midtown Manhattan.

“Leftism is a mental disease,” Cruz wrote in a post on social platform X, saying the person arrested by police “subscribed to anti-capitalist and climate-change causes, according to law-enforcement,” quoting the New York Post story.

In his post, Cruz also wrote that the person who killed the UnitedHealthcare CEO “has been widely celebrated by leftists online. Tragic & sick.”

The killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has fueled a broader political debate after many people expressed sympathy with the suspect and frustrations with the health insurance industry on social media. Thompson was shot by an assailant outside a New York City hotel where UnitedHealthcare was to hold a conference.

Police on Monday announced the arrest of Luigi Mangione as a person of interest. He was arrested in Altoona, Pa., Monday morning and reportedly had a manifesto criticizing health care companies.

The health care executive’s killer left a message on some of the shell casings at the scene. The spent brass had the words “deny,” “delay” and “depose” inscribed on it, echoing the title of a 2010 book that’s critical of the health care industry.

Mangione was taken into custody but has not yet been charged in the killing.

Otherwise she just keeps talking and talking and talking about how she's been cancelled.....or hasn't been cancelled....or whatever other nonsense comes to her cock-laden mind and gets belched out of her dick breath mouth.

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.

What was she going to tell him?

Jay-Z better get this mess together quickly before he ruins the Queen’s reputation. And yes I believe he is innocent.

I lost my wallet yesterday. I'm thinking about going completely walletless. It feels weird, like walking out the door naked. It seems everything, including my state driver license, when the replacement arrives, can be stored/used in an app like Google Wallet. If you go walletless, have you encountered any problems or issues?

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

Look at all those 80s fashions! Malls were the center of everything back then. When was the last time you were in a mall?

Barron Trump prefers to stay out of the limelight compared to his father, Donald Trump, so we are not sure how he feels about being the hottest trend on TikTok right now. CNN recently resurfaced a clip of young Barron talking to his mom, Melania Trump, about his suitcase.

Barron has the Daily Mail to thank for putting the clip on TikTok because it was his preschooler baby voice that had everyone jumping on the trend. “I like my suitcase,” he said in the video while holding his father’s briefcase. He then asked Melania, “I have to go to school now?” It’s rare to hear the now-18-year-old speak, but as a young child, he had a Slovenian accent similar to his mother.

Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump arrives to speak with former first lady Melania Trump and Barron Trump during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center on November 06, 2024 in West Palm Beach, Florida. Americans cast their ballots today in the presidential race between Republican nominee former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as well as multiple state elections that will determine the balance of power in Congress. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

In true internet form, there is also a remix version of “I like my suitcase,” (or “sootcase” on TikTok) which came at the perfect time for the Thanksgiving holiday. As travelers headed out for the long weekend at the airport, they’ve been using the audio sound for themselves, and yes, their cats as they get into their pet carriers.

The video originally aired in 2010 on Larry King Live when Barron was only four years old. He was dressed just like his dad in a blue sports coat and white shirt. Melania was heard sweetly interacting with her son after he asked, “I have to go to school now?”

You have lunch, and then you go to school,” she responded.

He asked again, “Now I’m gonna go?”

“First you will have lunch, then you will go to school,” she reassured him while he clutched his briefcase.

During the interview, King noted Barron’s accent to his parents. Melania revealed, “He spends most of the time with me.”

King asked Donald Trump, “What do you think of that?”

“I think it’s great,” Donald Trump said “Anything he does is OK with me.”

“He speaks three languages, actually,” said his proud mom.

“Smart one,” concluded Donald Trump.

Her wit is hilarious. Love this chica.

There's a chance the 29-year-old controversial comic has popped up on your FYP in the last year or so, and you've asked yourself, who is this polarizing guy with a well-defined jawline?

While his comedy has gone viral, it hasn't been without backlash. Rife has faced scrutiny for his considerably offensive jokes in his stand-up routines and comedy specials, which include mocking women and people's appearances.

In his memoir "Your Mom's Gonna Love Me," Rife discussed rumors that he's had plastic surgery, some accusations that have surprisingly come from actual doctors.

Rife said, "Over a few months, I went from looking like a 13-year-old to looking like, you know, my actual age. Like an actual grown-ish man," per a book excerpt obtained by People.

"My face got wider, my features became more prominent, I grew a few inches taller."

According to the memoir excerpts, Rife explained that his "bizarrely stunted journey through puberty" led to a "million-and-one internet conspiracies about all this elaborate plastic surgery I somehow had the time and money to undergo."

"Even actual doctors and surgeons have made alleged claims about Rife's appearance. When plastic surgeon TikToker @manyfacesofchicago, Dr. Benjamin Caughlin MD, FACS, posted a video suggesting he created the "greatest jawline ever seen" for a "canceled" celebrity, the internet assumed he was talking about Rife — including Rife.

In the memoir, Rife revisited this moment, writing, "Straight up — if you are an actual doctor actually going on Tik-Tok to proclaim a guaranteed diagnosis about a dude you've never even met before, much less treated, how the hell do you not lose your license?"

Rife challenged the "lack of common sense" from the doctors in his memoir. "Can the medical board please just issue an official certificate telling you to get a life? Something to help these people get their priorities straight, because they desperately need it," he continued.

The comedian has credited criticism of his appearance because he's self-proclaimed "good-looking," which he stated in the book, "If anything, as a comedian, it actually made shit harder."

"It turns out that pretty people are fucked-up, too. Who knew? I'm in therapy. I've had multiple anxiety attacks," Rife continued. "I struggle with clinical depression, and I have complicated feelings about life, about my mom, about loneliness."

Rife's conversation surrounding the plastic surgery rumors is interesting, considering his brand of comedy has been rooted in controversial takes on people's appearances. While the negativity Rife faces isn't justified, it begs the question of whether his viral jokes foster an online environment that even the comic has fallen victim to.

From r207 of "The United Healthcare Killer Could Be a FOREIGN ASSASSIN" thread.

[quote] I want a DL poll to find out how many hope he gets away clean, how many want him caught

Take my poll please.

This better be a next-level stunt for her upcoming album. He is MAGA trash.

[bold]The more attractive they are, the higher the price.[/bold]

Wendy Chen decided to challenge herself by climbing Mount Tai, a well-known mountain in eastern China.

But there was one obstacle in her way: she couldn’t find a friend to join her for the five-hour trek.

Rather than forgo her plans, the 25-year-old hired a “climbing buddy,” a young man with extensive outdoor experience, to accompany and support her to the 5,000-foot peak.

Known in Chinese as “pei pa” (meaning “accompany to climb”), these are young Chinese men who join strangers on their journeys up popular mountains for a price. The trend has gained momentum this year, as hashtags related to “climbing buddy” have had over 100 million views on Chinese social media.

Young, athletic individuals, often university students or even military veterans, advertise themselves on social media platforms like Xiaohongshu and Douyin, with profiles featuring their height, fitness level and hiking experience. They usually charge between 200 to 600 yuan ($30 to $85) per trip.

During the climb, these “buddies” will do anything to distract their clients from feeling exhausted and push them to keep going: from singing, telling jokes, playing music, verbal encouragement, going so far as carrying their bags, holding their hands, and pulling them.

Chen and her climbing buddy’s adventure began at around 8:00 pm so she could arrive at the peak in time for the famous sunrise. After assessing her fitness level, her climbing buddy planned a moderate route and carried her backpack the whole way.

When they faced chilling winds at the peak, Chen’s climbing buddy rented a thick coat for her while directing her to a walled shelter.

At the moment the sun rose, Chen’s climbing buddy was already prepared with a national flag and other props so that she could take a memorable photo. Though she felt his photography skills still had room to improve, she rated her climbing buddy as “satisfactory.” The service cost her 350 yuan ($49).

Though Chen paid a typical price for a climbing buddy, she acknowledges that more good-looking buddies can command higher rates.

“Attractiveness is also part of their strength,” she says.

Climbing buddies’ main customers tend to be single young women, but that’s slowly changing.

A video of a strong male university student carrying a three-year-old effortlessly up a steep mountain — while the toddler’s mother trailed far behind — went viral this summer.

Chris Zhang, a 20-year-old university student, seized on the opportunity this summer. While some of his classmates opted for traditional internships, Zhang had a go advertising himself online as a climbing buddy.

With national holidays driving up demand, Zhang has already earned over 20,000 yuan ($2,800) in the past three months. In the same period, some of his classmates were on a mere 2,000 yuan ($280) monthly wage doing a customer service internship.

Zhang says being a climbing buddy gives him not just a higher salary but also more freedom to be outside instead of sitting in front of a computer all day.

Other buddies, like Chen Wudi, have taken it as a serious job.

After quitting a stressful sales role in April, the 27-year-old embraced his love for hiking and became a full-time climbing buddy.

Currently, Chen is taking nearly 40 bookings and earning around 20,000 yuan ($2,800) per month. That’s more than double the average monthly salary in China, according to recent government data. Business is so good that he has moved to Tai’an City, right by the foot of Mount Tai.

“Basically, I’m climbing mountains every day. Sometimes twice a day or even three times a day,” says Chen.

Popular climbing buddies like him get orders for mountains all over the country, and he will go climb any mountain if the transportation is covered by clients.

Despite the attractive income, Chen admits the work may not be sustainable because it is physically taxing.

“It hurts my knees very much, so I may only be able to keep doing this for a few months or half a year.”

He’s not handsome. He’s not as good looking as Charlie Puth or Justin Bieber or Shawn Mendes or Benson Boone.

He can’t sing. He doesn’t play any musical instruments.

He can’t pronounce proper English.

His music sucks and sounds terrible.

Why is he debuting at No. 1? I don’t understand.

I was only 7 when this happened, but I remember so clearly the big PTL Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker scandal. I had to watch the stupid show from as early as I can remember (thanks Mom). I was obsessed with seeing it all crumble in the late 1980s.

What's the earliest scandal you really remember?

Roughly 60% of the federal government’s budget comprises what’s known as mandatory spending — primarily Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. It would be political suicide to dramatically cut funding for those safety-net programs, which is why there is no appetite in Congress to do so. Trump has promised to protect Social Security.

Another 10% of the budget is spent on paying interest on Uncle Sam’s mountain of debt. That can’t be touched either, at least not without setting off a cataclysmic debt default and market meltdown.

That leaves around 30% of the budget that’s discretionary — but roughly half of that goes to defense spending, another area that would be challenging to dramatically cut.

Danny Penny’s light shines upon us all.

The fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a midtown Manhattan hotel on Wednesday morning was a shock to the city and the nation. But as police hunted for the missing gunman in what they called a “premeditated, preplanned, targeted attack,” social media erupted with contempt for the health insurance industry he represented — and his company in particular.

“Saw mainstream news coverage about the killing of the CEO of United Healthcare on TikTok and I think political and industry leaders might want to read the comments and think hard about them,” wrote political activist Tobita Chow in a post on X, formerly Twitter. In screenshots he shared, TikTok users reacted to the story with blistering references to the costly and often unnavigable for-profit U.S. health insurance system. “Sending prior authorization, denied claims, collections & prayers to his family,” wrote one.

“As someone covered under UnitedHealthCare I can completely understand the actions taken,” wrote an X user replying to a news link about Thompson’s murder “being investigated as a possible hit,” according to a statement from law enforcement. “Did he have a pre-existing condition?” asked another. And under an ABC News TikTok on police officers’ efforts to find the killer, a user asked, “Why are they investigating this?”

“Got a push notification to exercise caution because the United Healthcare shooter is still at large,” noted standup comic Samantha Ruddy in her own X post. “I personally do not feel like I am on the shooter’s radar because I am not the CEO of a highly divisive multi billion dollar insurance company.”

Thompson’s violent death outside a hotel where UnitedHealthcare was hosting an investor conference didn’t just prompt scathing jokes but heated criticism of the insurer he had helmed since 2021. One image that made the rounds online was a chart from the personal finance website ValuePenguin, which found that UnitedHealthcare denies 32 percent of all in-network claims relating to individual health insurance plans — twice the industry average.

Some pointed to headlines describing how UnitedHealthcare has used an allegedly faulty AI algorithm to assess claims and deny care for seriously ill patients on private Medicare Advantage plans, as described in an ongoing class-action lawsuit brought by the estates of two deceased people who were denied coverage for their care at an extended-care facility.

Among those who amplified that story was right-wing podcaster Tim Pool, suggesting that Americans across the political spectrum can find rare consensus when it comes to disdain for their free-market health care system. “It’s actually kind of touching that the one thing that can bring together our fractious and disunited country is celebrating the assassination of a health insurance CEO,” wrote University of Virginia historian David Austin Walsh on X.

Another ongoing lawsuit against UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group, named Thompson along with two other top executives. A pension for firefighters in the city of Hollywood, Florida, filed the securities fraud class action earlier this year, accusing Thompson and his colleagues of selling $120 million of their UnitedHealth shares after learning of a U.S. Justice Department antitrust investigation of the company — but before the probe became public.

Between coverage of such alleged profiteering, UnitedHealthcare’s grim reputation, and disclosures of the millions the company spends on lobbying and Thompson’s $10 million salary, there was hardly a shortage of material for vicious riffs. “It’s no surprise that gallows humor is responding to the assassination of a gallows business model CEO,” observed Dr. Steven Thrasher in a post on X.

A professor at Northwestern University, Thrasher is the author of The Viral Underclass, a book about inequalities in health care that determine who has privileged access to medical resources. “Health insurance lets ghouls decide whether live or die based upon how much your life or death will affect shareholder value.”

Look at his blond curly locks, like a Greek statue.

Danny Penny is the hero that we want, but don’t deserve.

just on my mind this morning

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

Happy 66th!

Lots of info.

JFC! WSJ:

More than 180 people were killed in Haiti’s capital as a powerful warlord ordered the slaying of elderly slum residents he suspected of giving his son a severe illness through witchcraft, the United Nations and Haitian human-rights groups said Monday.

Gang boss Monel Felix directed his followers to kill residents with guns, knives and machetes after he was advised by a voodoo priest that elderly people practicing sorcery had caused his son to be stricken with a fatal sickness, the National Human Rights Defense Network, a Haitian rights group, said in a report. The ill child died Saturday as Felix’s gang carried out the killings, the group said.

Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. secretary-general, said 127 of the 184 people killed in the latest attacks were elderly men and women. About 5,000 people have been killed by gang violence in Haiti in 2024, according to the U.N.

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?

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.

Doing Yard work or working out.

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

Olivia de Havilland, who lived to 104.

The Food Institute talks about the exploding trend of Mexican cuisine in America.

It's becoming an integral part of the American dining experience.

The socialite tragically fell to her death while smoking. Ms. Featherston was known for being the life of the party. She had no husband.

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour team put in the work — and she rewarded them generously.

Over the past two years, Swift gave out $197 million in bonuses to everyone working on her tour — including truck drivers, caterers, instrument techs, merch team, lighting, sound, production staff and assistants, carpenters, dancers, band, security, choreographers, pyrotechnics, riggers, hair, make-up, wardrobe, physical therapists and video team — PEOPLE confirms.

In August 2023, as Swift wrapped the first North American leg of the tour, PEOPLE confirmed she’d given out more than $55 million in bonuses.

On Sunday, Dec. 8, Swift, 34, took the stage at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver for her final show of the Eras Tour, which kicked off in Glendale, Ariz., in March 2023.

During her opening Lover set, Swift shared her appreciation for fans and concertgoers.

"We have toured the entire world,” she said. “We have had so many adventures. It has been the most exciting, powerful, electrifying, intense, most challenging thing I've ever done in my entire life.”

Then later, before performing “Karma” (the last track of her setlist) and taking her final bow, Swift told the crowd: “I want to thank every single one of you for being a part of the most thrilling chapter of my entire life to date — my beloved Eras Tour.”

After her 149th and final show, Swift’s production company, Taylor Swift Touring, confirmed to the New York Times that 10,168,008 people attended the Eras Tour — and that it sold $2,077,618,725 in total tickets, making it the bestselling tour of all time and “double the gross ticket sales of any other concert tour in history.”

Swift is ending 2024 on an unprecedented high note. In addition to her record-shattering tour, she scored big with its accompanying Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour Book, which sold a reported 814,000 copies in its first two days, making it the most successful publishing launch of the year. Additionally, Spotify, Apple Music and Amazon Music each announced that Swift was the top-streamed artist of 2024, and her 11th album, The Tortured Poets Department, was the top-streamed album of the year.

While she’s reached the end of her Eras Tour era, Swift has plenty to look forward to in 2025. The 14-time Grammy winner is up for six more golden gramophones at the award show, including album of the year for TTPD.

The Aryan subway strangler vs. the Italian-American Anarchist who thinks he's the new Unabomber?

For a while, MAD TV was better than SNL or any of its copycats. They said it was cancelled because of low ratings (couldn't prove it by me) and the fact it was an expensive show to produce. Too bad. They really had some brilliant characters and memorable moments. Post your faves here.

Lame duck President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden ignored a beaming Vice President Kamala Harris — who was applauding enthusiastically for the couple — as they entered the Kennedy Center Honors to a standing ovation, awkward video shows.

The Bidens didn’t greet or acknowledge Harris as they entered the 47th Kennedy Center Honors, even as they took a spot standing right next to the vice president her husband, Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff.

Do you focus on the same few organizations each time ot spread the love?

Get a whiff of this: For $199, you can smell the sweet scent of victory.

And who can resist that? Not even your enemies, according to President-elect Donald Trump, who is hawking his "Fight Fight Fight" line of men’s and women’s fragrances.

In a Truth Social post on Sunday, Trump shared a picture of himself having a pleasant exchange with first lady Jill Biden with a tongue-in-cheek caption: “A fragrance your enemies can’t resist.”

The photo was taken Saturday at the reopening of the gothic masterpiece cathedral Notre-Dame in Paris where they were seated one seat apart.

The duo’s smiling visages stood in stark contrast to the months of acrimony and bitter takedowns on the campaign trail, where Trump said her husband, President Joe Bide, was “thrown out like a dog” after he withdrew from the race amid a chorus of criticism about his presidential debate performance.

Biden has been quick to offer an olive branch to the president-elect, meeting with Trump for nearly two hours in the Oval Office just one week after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second term as president. First lady Jill Biden gave Trump a handwritten letter to deliver to his wife, Melania Trump, who did not join her husband for his post-election visit to the White House.

In a video describing his perfume, Trump says they make a great Christmas gift.

“I've named them fight, fight, fight because they represent winning. We all wanna be winning. We have to win,” he says. “This fragrance is all about strength and success and confidence for men and for women.”

"Fight" was one of the first words Trump mouthed after he survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. The words have graced many Trump products from T-shirts and mugs to gold coins.

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Repressed lesbians everywhere! (And gays too!) Hiding in the roles of straights!!

There ought to be a comedy where a straight couple discovers they're both actually gay, then bi, or cuck, or enm, poly whatever, mono, pan all, it's a rollercoaster of role exploring these days!

He was fucking hot, a great top, and a wonderful rimming bottom.

Gorgeous grisly unsettling rendition of the classic story

Visually sublime. An endless parade of brilliantly conceived shots lit and executed to perfection with stunning production design.

Lily Rose Depp does things I’ve never seen an actress do. It’s definitely the definitive female performance in Dracula tale and will surely launch her as a major star.

Nicholas Hoult Willem Dafoe and Emma Corrin also superb. Hoults work in the castle scenes and Corrin’s sickbed scene are great.

I was disappointed not to have the brides and for some reason the vampires victims do not turn into vampires they just die. That felt like a missed opportunity.

Aaron Taylor Johnson gets the Keanu award for being the weak link acting wise.

Yes you see Nosferatu peen.

4.5/5 stars. Loses half a star for lacking vampire brides and Lucy in a crazy lace headpiece

A Manhattan jury has cleared Henny Penny of criminal wrongdoing in the chokehold death of Turkey Lurkey on a crowded subway — a caught-on-video killing that sparked fierce debate over the city’s mental health system and crime underground.

The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put her behind bars for up to four years — in Lurkey’s chokehold death aboard a crowded uptown F train in May 2023.

Manslaughter, the top charge against Penny, was tossed on Friday after jurors twice said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.

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.

She hit it big in 1995 and took over country music, before becoming the biggest female pop act of all time with her crossover in 1997. She had 3 huge albums, then she disappeared and could barely get a single to chart. What happened?

When thieves made off with Darcie Bell’s rented U-Haul truck, the San Francisco woman put out a call for help on X: “If you see a 26 foot uhaul truck with the Arizona plate AL50003- would you let me know because it had like everything I own on it.”

The post went viral, but not for the reason she hoped for. Bell spent years posting left-wing “defund the police” views — and users across the site blasted and mocked the activist.

“Anti Police activist begs the police to help,” jeered the X account Bay State of Mind, which comments on San Francisco Bay Area politics.

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.

Omg, all this time I thought she killed that girl. Netflix finally set the record straight.

That poor woman went to her grave with people thinking she murdered her own daughter. May she Rest In Peace.

Holy shit! The guys are hot as fuck on Grindr

List them! I feel like there aren't as many as there should be.

If you were an Eldergay living in LA, you were probably at the opening night of 'Sunset Boulevard' starring the one and only Glenn Close. Yes, Glenn Close accepted the role in the revamped musical (the London version was getting panned), after first choice Shirley Maclaine backed out, as did Diana Ross and Michele Lee. ( Those three actresses were spotted in the audience on opening night).

Unlike the West End production starring Patti Lupone which opened five months earlier, this production and Close won rave reviews. Critics loved Close in the role, and loved the changes made to the show. It was no surprise when Close was named as the actress who would be opening the Broadway production the following year, and not Lupone (ALW insisted it was at the directions of his investors as to why he made the change).

The rest is history.

Did any of you visit these Catskills resorts back in the day?

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

I’m cooking split pea soup tonight, and handling ham hock for the first time. Some recipes say just throw it in the soup and cook, and some say brown and boil it a little before adding it. I’d like to just throw it in, but would the soup be too greasy and fatty?

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

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

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

Tippi Hedren, 93

Mark Consuelos proudly shared that his eldest son, Michael, now “communicates” normally with him after he allowed his children to “bring partners home,” regardless of gender: “Michael showed me how happy I’d be with another son instead of a daughter-in-law!”

Pretty amazing movie and a musical, to boot.

Phenomenal acting and storyline

Hilarious reading comments on various website— with conservatives calling it too woke!

Welcome to Nazi America. He should have been prosecuted. Oh well.

Free this hot hung Italian twinky-twunk immediately! Contribute now at link below

And does it even matter at this point?

For whatever reason the "celebration in our Marvelous Midwestern Town!" thread won't let me post and I'm too big an Another World fan to be left out of the discussion...so here's a new thread, for all Another World fans, all the time!

(Plus, with "Another World" in the title, this thread will also be easier to search for in the future, so that helps.)

I'd love to hear more from the person who worked in the Another World production offices and was speaking about how wonderful Charles Keating was...only my question is this: supposedly Vicky Wyndham was cool with the Justine storyline when it began and then grew to hate it later on. Is that true? Was there any sense of that around the studio? Did people feel it went off the rails?

I mean, I get it - she went from being an unhinged Victorian Countess to a wacko in a nun's habit with a hook hand, LOL, but still, I'm curious about how that evolved. I think you said you worked on the show during that time....

And given the Anne He he snub at the Oscars last week, I've been rewatching some of her Vicky/Marley scene and DAMN, her work is even better than I'd remembered it. Here's a montage from before she left the show:

A true gem nestled in Gramercy Park. It’s unique, dramatic, and packed with character, no boring white box.

And as if the house weren’t enough, wait until you see the agent – talk about curb appeal! Woof.

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

We need a general thread for figure skating news and discussion so I thought I'd start one.

Gracie Gold has a new memoir coming out called, wait for it, “Outofshapeworthlessloser” and in it she writes that she was raped at 21 by a fellow skater in a hotel suite where she and her sister held an event after-party. Five years after her alleged assault was reported to the U.S. Center for Safesport, she has no idea about the status of her complaint. She hasn't heard from the center in three years. (Via @WSJSports)

O Cum, O Cum, Emmanuel

We Wish You a MARY Christmas

Auld Jessica Lange Syne

That was some quick thinking!

If he was still in his seat when the coaster started going down, he would have fallen off.

Absolutely terrifying.

And all he was offered was a "refund." OMG.

Beginning with a hot guy with stupid hair

"This is my last day on air at CNN."

Sorry to see her go. I like her very much. Why is she leaving?

Just got a Google alert. Remember those tile fish that had been washing up on the California coast?

I found this clip from the end of the 1986 Emmy Awards. Betty had won the Emmy for Lead Actress in a Comedy literally just minutes before, which by all accounts, pissed off Bea to no end. There is no evidence of hostility in this clip. Either Bea is acting for the cameras, or she's still in denial and the anger hadn't had time to settle yet.

Also, why does Bea get to sing the whole first part of the song by herself, and the other three just get a line or two? Poor Rue just gets a few words.

Ivy League grad to boot.

Well?

Who are your favorite sexy male wrestlers?

Post your favorites.

Go.

I'm afraid it's starting to happen to me and I'm scared!

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?

I guess she really hates him. She must know it’s true and she be telling Bey to get out now.

Silk Sarees & Family Huddles.

I wonder what MAGA thinks of this?

Move over Kamala...

To those who say he cannot alter the constitution - he is already planning to -

The definition of ugly hot.

His role to lose.

There’s something that happened specifically in the pronoun conversation too. I use he/him pronouns at this point. You [his wife Bethany C. Meyers] use she/her pronouns. Not to say that we’re opposed to they/them pronouns. I just really don’t care about it in the same ways that I did back in the day. Call me whatever you want, just make sure you call me a type of thing. I don’t mind it [they/them pronouns]. I truly don’t care.

I feel like a man more than I ever have in my entire life right now you know and I f***ing stand by that. It’s such a great feeling. It’s not to say that I won’t feel more fluid in the future, right? I can still f***ing sass out from time to time, but I’m in my truth right now and it’s real.

But there’s something that happened in our infertility where we were just experiencing roadblock after roadblock after roadblock and the pronoun conversation was this unnecessary roadblock that we were continuing to just face head on and I just had to let it go. I just had to move on. There was too much coming at us at once and that was part of just the release. There’s so much release that needs to happen to create life.

We are different people since having our first daughter Kilmer Dove … but shift happens and it’s real.

Actor Nico Tortorella, who previously came out as gender fluid and used they/them pronouns, speaking on his new podcast ‘Full of Shift’ how parenthood changed how he identifies.

Huge, unidentified, drones are being reported flying over NJ for past few weeks at night. Focusing over infrastructure such as New Jersey water basins, military weapon installations, Trump frequented golf course. FBI are asking public for help reporting. FAA has issued no fly zone label over areas.

No condiments (sweeteners), stir sticks, milks etc. out anymore. The stores look like barren corporate fallout shelters. The price is sky high. The drinks taste like shit. Only basic bitch troglodytes go there anymore. Find a local coffee shop.

I coin this one “Nonbinary David Lynch.”

Hottie Father Mike says NO.

Asshole.

A rockin' anthem for 2025 by a Miss. left wing atheist.

The Glam version of this tune will be posted inside this thread.

Enjoy!

I usually fly home every year to spend Christmas with my immediate family. Most are MAGA twits, and in the past, I've done a remarkable job of keeping my mouth shut and holding in the urge to scream when they invariably begin talking about illegal immigrants, "libtards," the gay and trans people who are taking away their rights, and how Trump has been unfairly targeted by the justice system.

But this year, in the wake of that orange asshole winning again, I just can't do it. Instead, I'm going to spend December 25th quietly and alone, far from the maddening hatred and ignorance.

Anyone else doing the same?

Well?

Which actors have held up relatively well?

I saw Tony Goldwyn on Law and Order recently and he looked great. Silver fox.

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?

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — As bitcoin reached historic highs, surpassing $100,000 for the first tim e, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele was triumphant on Thursday about his big bet on the cryptocurrency.

The adoption of bitcoin — which has been legal tender in the Central American nation since 2021 — never quite matched the president’s enthusiasm, but the value of the government’s reported investment now stands at more than $600 million.

Bitcoin has rallied mightily since Donald Trump’s election victory last month, exceeding the $100,000 mark on Wednesday night, just hours after the president-elect said he intends to nominate cryptocurrency advocate Paul Atkins to be the next chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Just two years ago, bitcoin’s volatile value fell below $17,000. Bitcoin fell back below the $100,000 by Thursday afternoon, sitting just above $99,000 by 3 p.m. E.T.

Bukele on Thursday blamed his beleaguered political opposition for causing many Salvadorans to miss out on the bonanza.

There were street protests when the Congress made bitcoin legal tender in June 2021, though that move was not the only motivation for the protesters.

The tiny Central American country has long used the dollar as currency, but Bukele promised bitcoin would provide new opportunities for El Salvador’s unbanked and cut out money transfer services from the remittances Salvadorans abroad send home. The government offered $30 in bitcoin to those who signed up for digital wallets.

Many did so, but quickly cashed out the cryptocurrency.

“It’s important to emphasize that not only did the opposition err resoundingly with bitcoin, but rather, differently from other issues (where they have also been wrong), this time their opposition affected many,” Bukele wrote on Facebook.

Bukele drew an "impressive” comment from Elon Musk on the social media platform X Thursday.

El Salvador’s former Central Bank President Carlos Acevedo pointed out on Thursday that while there has been a gain, it remains an unrealized one until the government’s bitcoin is sold. That said, he credited Bukele’s administration with doing well on the bitcoin move, especially in light of Trump’s election.

Acevedo said “the markets’ optimism that a Trump administration will be friendly with the markets and particularly with bitcoin” explained its sustained rally over the past month.

But the cryptocurrency’s volatility was a persistent risk, he said.

“The average Salvadoran doesn’t use bitcoin, but obviously there are Salvadorans with economic resources who even before had already invested in bitcoin, but it is a small group,” Acevedo said.

Esteban Escamilla, a worker in a clothing store in Santa Tecla, outside the capital San Salvador, said he had cashed out the original $30 of bitcoin offered in 2021.

“I don’t use bitcoin because I don’t have (money) to invest and speculate with, but I know it has gone up a lot,” he said, recognizing that he would have more money now if he had kept it in bitcoin.

Josefa Torres, 45, said as she was doing her grocery shopping that she didn’t have any bitcoin either. “I took out the money and used it for household expenses,” she said.

At the conclusion of meetings between the International Monetary Fund and El Salvador’s government in August, the IMF issued a statement that mentioned the country’s bitcoin holdings.

“While many of the risks have not yet materialized, there is joint recognition that further efforts are needed to enhance transparency and mitigate potential fiscal and financial stability risks from the Bitcoin project,” the IMf said.

Back in her heyday, was she someone the average person listened to on the radio?

DeuxMoi revealed he cheated on Sabrina Carpenter who is like the new Taylor Swift or something, and her fans are stinging mad

He’s so miserable why did he bother to come.

I used to live by the Art Museum in Philly, and it was a great area to watch sunsets.

This sounds like a great idea to make home buying affordable.

Why don't we have more of these in the U.S.?

I didn't even know it existed.

People are super sick for 1-2 weeks. Massive congestion and fatigue with the thickest mucus I’ve ever seen. Stay safe out there.

The American Film Institute (AFI) is planning a salute and tribute to Miss Helen Lawson, Hollywood's most reviled and known anti-doyenne. What are your favorite performances and moments from such a career? Share with us in this thread!

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.

And they did it really well. I am sure that the insurer for the team freaked out seeing the little flip at the end though.

Any fans? As I find myself drifting to the right politically he’s starting to make sense, which sort of scares me. He’s an atheist pro-Israel anti-woke homosexual fop.

It's Juan Soto to the New York Mets via the richest known deal in the history of sports.

The former New York Yankees slugger received the most anticipated payday of the offseason on Sunday, agreeing to a 15-year, $765 million deal with the Mets, according to multiple reporters, including MLB Network's Jon Heyman and ESPN's Jeff Passan.

Shohei Ohtani's 10-year, $700 million deal shattered all conceptualizations of how much a player can make last offseason, but his record stood for only one year. He will make more than Soto on an average annual value basis, but not if you account for the heavy deferrals in Ohtani's contract. After accounting for inflation, MLB sees the Ohtani deal as a 10-year, $460 million contract in its CBT calculations.

Per Passan, Soto's deal includes no deferred money and has escalators that can inflate the contract's value to $800 million. The deal also has an opt-out for Soto after five years. Per multiple reports, the Mets can void the opt-out by escalating the average annual value of the contract from $51 million to $55 million over the last 10 years of the deal.

Soto's is also the longest contract in MLB history, passing Fernando Tatis' 14-year, $340 million contract with the San Diego Padres. By most standards, Soto is the new high point of MLB contracts.

Soto has been expected to reach a new level of riches since before he could legally drink in the U.S., and those expectations only increased as he developed over the past seven seasons into one of the most productive young hitters the sport has ever seen.

By every objective metric, Soto projects to be not just a Hall of Famer but also an inner-circle one. Players such as that rarely hit free agency — and almost never do so at Soto's age of 26 years old. Hence the hundreds of millions of dollars now awaiting the Santo Domingo native.

Soto joins a Mets team that rallied late in the season to make the postseason as a wild card and advanced to the NLCS against the future World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers. In signing Soto, the Mets won a reported bidding war with the crosstown rival Yankees, who lose Soto's services after a single season in the Bronx that ended with a trip to the World Series.

Mel Gibson - years before "sugar tits" I remember reading on the DL that Mel's family man image was bull and that he was a bigot who cheated on his wife all the time

Trump - even before he ran for president, DL thought he was a grifter and a dirtbag. I remember hearing good gossip about Don Jr and Ivanka and what assholes they were, too

Fabian Basabe - DL said he was a closet case and a grifter asshole. Now he's being accused of sexually harassing male interns

Who else was the Datalounge totally right about?

I’ll start with mine:

“Thou”

Let’s see the abs on your killers, London.

I wanna know….

Unbelievably rude, unless you can further her career. She’s a nasty woman. She deserves none of the acclaim she is receiving.

Business is bound to increase, so you may want to see if it's worth the visit.

Where's the adopted black son?

Madonna dancing with her latest boy toy

Talented actor and very handsome man. I had no idea he was a recovered heroin addict.

Sue them all. Dismiss the school board. Fire the teachers. Jail the kids. And beat up the kids’ parents.

Take my poll.

I started watching old episodes of "The Love Boat" on Pluto (thanks to a recommendation on here) and noticed that occasionally, extras sitting around the pool will have nipple or dick areas blurred out. I thought it was just an odd circumstance. Maybe there was an accidental nip slip. However, now that I've noticed it, it happens a lot. Especially in the much older episodes.

Then, I started watching "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" on some channel called "Charge." CI was always my favorite of all of the Law & Orders. I noticed, after watching a slew of episodes this Sunday that words like "Whore" and "Bitch" are taken out. And then, I watched two different episodes where cocaine was being used, and the snorting noise was edited out.

The Love Boat episodes are forty-odd years old. The Law & Order episodes are twenty years old.

Are we getting more delicate as we go forward?

Are we clutching pearls tighter now than in the past?

Only in America.

Stupid, cringe jingoistic patriotic garbage.

I would have been pissed if I were sitting on that plane.

Get me the fuck off!

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.

Like many uniforms......a suit really does make almost every man look his best, doesn't it?

“Real Housewives” star Brandi Glanville has blamed a “parasite that jumps around my face” that might be responsible for the dramatic change in her appearance. Glanville shared a selfie on social media and wrote, “Some Dr.’s say I have a parasite that jumps around my face.”

Glanville wrote in full on X, “What happened? I wish I knew I’ve been in &out of the hospital this passed year 1/2 spent almost every dollar I have trying to figure it out. Some Dr.’s say I have a parasite that jumps around my face. Some say it’s stress induced edema. I personally say it’s Bravo.”

Fans were shocked and concerned after Glanville posted a selfie in which her face appeared to be swollen. In October 2023 Glanville revealed she had been diagnosed with stress-induced angioedema. Entertainment Tonight reported one of her sons called 911 after she collapsed at home.

The outlet also said Glanville’s “face blew up like a basketball, so much so that her eyes were swollen shut, reducing her vision to the point she couldn’t even see her own hand.”

A source told the outlet, “Brandi’s been under so much stress since ‘The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip’ drama started with Caroline Manzo. She hasn’t been able to work since the false claims were brought against her, and now it’s taking a toll on her physically. She is back home and resting after spending the night in the hospital.”

Glanville herself wrote on X, formerly Twitter, at the time, “I collapsed at home this am and my SON had to call 911 for help! You guys have no idea the amount of stress I’m dealing with.”

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.

Blond and beautiful.

Kate Beckinsale blasted critics telling her she’s too “thin” following her recent health scare.

The actress was forced to stand up for herself after trolls flooded the comment section of an Instagram clip showing her preparations for her forthcoming 1990s-based film, “Stolen Girl.”

The video showed Beckinsale donning a slew of retro-styled fits and hairstyles while goofing around in her trailer.

Has Ryan Seacrest presented her hole to him?

If not, then who?

New thread for a new year.

I'm the novel the film is based on

Calgary, which has endured ten years of worsening dental health and is reversing its decision, is a cautionary tale for Robert F Kennedy Jr

I don’t make any exceptions at all. I don’t think any of them qualify as art. Even one small tattoo is one too many. And ordinary people can’t afford to have anything but the crappiest work done. What is the drive to get one? It is incomprehensible to me.

Keira Knightley, DL fave Ben Whishaw, Sarah Lancashire, and the beautiful Andrew Koji.

Six episodes, out December 5th.

Apparently Netflix has a bargain basement version of the Full Monty AND it's holiday themed.

But haaaayyyyyyy, Chad Michael Murray......

His most famous book, In the Name of the Rose, was made into a successful film starring Sean Connery. The author, however, is hardly a populist.

For most of his adult life, he was a professor of semiotics at University of Bologna, and his output was mainly academic before he turned to novel writing at the age of nearly 50. He has written ten other fictional works, including Foucault's Pendulum and The Island of the Day Before. These, and his journalist writings in his Italy have earned him the title as "The Most Famous Intellectual in the World."

Let's discuss the life and works of Umberto Eco.

Does anyone else love Wallace Shawn?

He can do almost anything; My Dinner with Andre, The Bostonians, The Princess Bride, Prick Up Your Ears, Toy Story, A Late Quartet, A Master Builder, and countless other film, television, and theatre roles.

He is the type of actor you just can't help but smile when he is on the screen.

It's no Western Electric party, clearly lower budget.

I'm the first one sitting on the left, with the dark dress and near unibrow, judging all you bitches.

What are your thoughts on the band. Mick Hucknall was considered sexy back in the day.

He reminds me of Susan Sarandon in this video...

Click image to see her comment.

This year’s supporting actor contenders feel a bit thinner than usual, but that could easily change before the Academy finalizes its five nominees. With so many potential contenders still waiting to make their mark, it’s safe to say that surprises could be lurking around the corner.

We’re still waiting on some official category confirmations and first looks for films like Kieran Culkin’s turn in “A Real Pain,” Gabriel LaBelle in “Saturday Night,” and the ever-dynamic Denzel Washington, who’s suiting up for his villainous role in “Gladiator II.” John Magaro and Peter Sarsgaard are also in the mix for their work in “September 5,” depending on where the actors decide to campaign.

In breaking news, Variety can now confirm that both Mike Faist and Josh O’Connor, the heartthrobs from Luca Guadagnino’s tennis-throuple love story “Challengers,” have decided to submit as supporting actors. This could add some unexpected heat to the competition. With their palpable chemistry on screen, their double entry might be the spark the supporting actor race needs this year.

Also in the wings is Edward Norton’s performance in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown.” There is no word yet on whether Norton’s portrayal will have the impact we expect, but it’s definitely worth keeping an eye on with three previous noms (“Primal Fear,” “American History X” and “Birdman”). Meanwhile, fans of the “Wicked” musical adaptation will be eager to see if Jonathan Bailey and Jeff Goldblum can enter the conversation.

In the meantime, Clarence Maclin continues to pop up in the awards discussion for his stellar performance in Greg Kwedar’s prison drama “Sing Sing.” At the same time, we can’t overlook Stanley Tucci, a true veteran, who’s delivering what could be one of his best performances yet in Edward Berger’s thriller “Conclave,” which premiered at Telluride. Tucci’s a familiar face at the Oscars, and the Academy will likely not miss the chance to acknowledge his work.

Then there’s Guy Pearce, whose buzzworthy role in Brady Corbet’s epic “The Brutalist” could remind us why he’s a Hollywood mainstay. With a runtime that spans four hours, it’ll be interesting to see if the Academy’s Actors Branch has the patience (and the time) to appreciate the scale of his performance fully.

Veteran actor John Turturro, who has been overlooked for an Oscar nod despite standout performances in films like “Quiz Show” (1994), could finally find himself in the mix for “The Room Next Door.” Turturro plays Damian, a passionate climate change advocate and former lover to both women in the film (Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton), delivering a climactic scene near the end that could secure his spot in the conversation.

Finally, don’t count out Brian Tyree Henry. Known for bringing depth and emotion to every role he takes on, Henry could land another nomination, this time for his portrayal of Jason Crutchfield, coach to Olympic boxing champion Claressa Shields, in the inspirational film “The Fire Inside.” With past Oscar-nominated boxing coaches like Paul Giamatti in “Cinderella Man” and Burgess Meredith in “Rocky,” Henry could find himself joining the ranks of memorable mentors who received the Academy’s invitation.

As always, the supporting actor category remains unpredictable. With a mix of familiar faces and exciting new contenders, this year is shaping up to be interesting.

I was looking through shit on Netflix, and I saw a listing for a recent movie with her and Marky Mark and it looked AWFUL. Then I asked myself... "Have I ever seen a good Halle Berry movie?" And the answer was, I don't believe I have.

OMG.

Using a toaster oven and an air fryer.

No stove or microwave.

Blowtorch to melt things.

Full Thanksgiving dinner.

This was pretty incredible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The A-lister’s big screen comeback follows Hammer’s career crashing down amid a number of sexual misconduct allegations.

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)

This woman posts videos of her shopping expeditions to Costco , Sam's Club and other places. I only really like to watch the Costco videos since that is the only shopping club I go to every month. Her husband appears in some of the videos. He is SO good looking to me. He looks cool and good looking and rather adolescent- the way his belt is unlooped and his pants are kind of falling down. I'm so attracted to him for some reason. Does the datalounge find this DAD/Husband is good looking/hot? At 13 minutes he appears.

On a packed day of conference championships, college football fans have already faced what might be the biggest shock of the day: Timothée Chalamet knows ball.

Chalamet joined the desk of ESPN's "College GameDay" in Atlanta on Saturday ahead of the SEC title game between Texas and Georgia. The Oscar-nominated actor then proceeded to make a series of well-researched, well-informed picks, much to the shock of fans and analysts.

During his spot, Chalamet rattled off specific statistics and referenced teams' progress in relation to previous seasons. He name-checked lesser-known players like Ohio quarterback Parker Navarro and SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings.

"I wanna go 6-0," Chalamet said before making his sixth pick, of seven total.

TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET ELITE BALL KNOWLEDGE 😤 😂 @RealChalamet — College GameDay (@CollegeGameDay) December 7, 2024

Chalamet's selection as guest picker, which was announced earlier this week, had raised some eyebrows: The Hollywood A-Lister seemingly had no connection to either Texas or Georgia, and has not previously shown a public interest in college football. His appearance on the show seemed largely set to promote his upcoming movie, "A Complete Unknown." (ESPN and the movie's distributor both have the same parent company, Disney.)

But Chalamet proved all of the haters wrong with a successful guest picker spot, showing off the in-depth knowledge and research he had done to prepare for it.

Chalamet's picks for the day included: Jackson State over Southern (SWAC championship), Louisiana over Marshall (Sun Bet championship), Arizona State over Iowa State (Big 12 championship), SMU over Clemson (ACC championship) and Oregon over Penn State in the (Big Ten championship). He was the only person on the show to pick underdog Ohio over Miami (OH) in the MAC championship; Ohio ended up destroying Miami, 38-3.

So far today, Chalamet is three-for-three, with wins from Ohio and Jackson State and with Arizona State getting a dominant win of its own. We'll have to see how the rest of his picks work out.

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.

Box Lunch is going to get sued

Donald Trump has set his first network interview since winning the 2024 election. “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker will sit down with the president-elect in an episode of of the NBC News series scheduled to air on Dec. 8.

This will not be Welker’s first conversation with Trump. She most recently interviewed him for NBC News in September 2023, marking his only network sit-down during the 2024 campaign cycle. Additionally, she moderated Trump’s October 2020 debate with Joe Biden before the current president won the election the following month.

Welker’s interview with Trump will be taped on Dec. 6, and highlights will be released across NBC News, NBC News Now and NBC News online in advance of the Sunday airing.

“Meet the Press with Kristen Welker” is consistently a high performer in the public affairs category — No. 1 among adults age 25-54 on Dec. 1 for the third week in a row. Compared to “This Week” on ABC, “Meet the Press” has won for six weeks in a row.

No further words needed.

Previous thread below.

Who would you choose?

I was mildly a fan of Designing Women back in the day, but it felt like it was trying to be something more than what it was. Dorothy Zbornak always felt like she was naturally a strong woman, whereas with Julia Sugarbaker, it kind of seemed forced. It also seemed like the producers were trying to make Bernice sort of like the equivalent of Sophia Petrillo, but she just didn’t have the same kick.

Jack Depp, the 22-year-old son of Johnny Depp, has been working as a bartender at a Lebanese restaurant in Paris, though he has since taken a break from the gig, according to a report from The Daily Mail.

The outlet reported on Saturday, Dec. 7, that Johnny's son has been quietly working at restaurant L'Area as both a bartender and in the location's downstairs kitchen.

Owner Edouard Chueke told The Daily Mail that Jack had been working at L'Area for two years before leaving recently. He said he expects Jack to return sometime next year.

"Jack is a great guy. He keeps out of the limelight, but worked here behind the bar and in the kitchen," Chueke said. "He was a good employee, he left a few months ago, but I expect him back later next year. Good staff are hard to find."

Chueke added that the restaurant is "very popular with the fashion and music crowd," with Jack's mother Vanessa Paradis and sister Lily-Rose Depp being "regulars."

"Lily was mixing caipirinhas behind the bar and really getting into the swing of it, she was enjoying herself," the owner said.

Johnny shares both Jack and Lily-Rose with Paradis. The pair were together for 14 years before their split in 2012.

Paradis previously explained to Belgium's Weekend Knack magazine in 2007 why she chose to raise Jack near her hometown after welcoming her son in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, five years earlier.

"For my children I secretly choose France. Even though Los Angeles is great too," she said at the time. “Only, in the south of France you can live much more anonymously. And that's a bliss, especially when the children are still young."

Jack has stayed relatively out of the spotlight. In 2014, his dad told The Philippine Daily Inquirer that Jack was not interested in following in his on-screen footsteps. “Aside from school plays and things, he hasn’t shown any desire to become an actor. Whew," Johnny said.

While promoting The Idol in a 2022 interview with ELLE, Lily Rose also shared some rare insight into her relationship with her younger brother, revealing that they were "super close" and spending time at home together between work.

Lily Rose revealed in an interview with Interview magazine this month that her brother was "the coolest person ever" while speaking with Natalie Portman about the vampire horror film Nosferatu.

"This one in particular was big for me, because my brother and I both were super obsessed with Dracula when we were younger. My brother used to dress up like Dracula when he was a kid for school," Lily-Rose recalled.

"I was like, 'Wow, if I get this part my brother’s going to finally think I’m cool,' " she added. "... It’s the classic thing of when you have a younger sibling, they think you’re so cool when you’re kids, and then when you get older, now I think he’s so cool, and I’m like, 'Let’s hang!' And he’s like, 'I’m busy.' But yeah, I think I got some points with this one."

They’re 20% of the US population but I hardly see them on TV or in movies. What’s the deal?

Title: Lucy and Ethel Play Matchmaker

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Cue the audience's laughter and applause!

Plot: After months of isolation, Isherwood "Ish" Williams, learns that most of the world has fallen to a mysterious illness. Yet despite his instincts to further isolate, Ish leads the charge to develop a new civilization.

Based on George R. Stewart's novel by the same name.

I watched the first episode and it was much better than expected. Anybody else watching?

In praise of eccentrics...

The rasta-ed, be-ringed, tunic-ed 81-year-old seems harmless and amusing in small doses, a refreshingly more benign sort of fame whore.

She’s a voice.

Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald Trump, set to return to the White House.

Among those possibilities is replacing Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, whom Trump tapped to be the next secretary of state. If Rubio is confirmed, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis will choose who takes the seat through the remainder of Rubio’s term, which expires in 2026.

“It is something I would seriously consider,” she told The Associated Press in an interview. “If I’m being completely transparent, I don’t know exactly what that would look like. And I certainly want to get all of the information possible if that is something that’s real for me. But yeah, I would 100% consider it.”

Elected as RNC co-chair in March, Lara Trump was a key player in the Republicans retaking the White House and control of the Senate while maintaining a narrow House majority. What she does next could shape Republican politics, given her elevated political profile and her ties to the incoming president.

The idea of placing a Trump family member in the Senate has been lauded in some Republican circles. Among the people pushing for her to replace Rubio is Maye Musk, mother of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.

“The Senate is an old man’s club. We desperately need a smart, young, outspoken woman who will reveal their secrets,” she posted on X. Lara Trump is 42.

Elon Musk, who was with Lara Trump on election night at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, responded to his mother’s post: “Lara Trump is genuinely great.”

Led by chairman Michael Whatley and Lara Trump, the RNC invested heavily in recruiting roughly 230,000 volunteers and an army of lawyers for what it called its “election integrity” effort, four years after Donald Trump lost his reelection bid to Democrat Joe Biden, citing false or unproven theories about voter fraud. Outside groups such as Turning Point Action and Musk’s America PAC took a greater responsibility for advertising and get-out-the-vote efforts.

While Whatley will remain RNC chairman, Lara Trump said she felt she had accomplished her goals in the co-chair role.

“With that big win, I kind of feel like my time is up,” she said. “What I intended to do has been done.”

Lara Trump praised Musk’s new endeavor, the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, a nongovernmental task force headed by Musk and and fellow entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. They’ve been tapped to fire federal workers, cut programs and slash federal regulations as part of Trump’s “Save America” agenda for his second term.

“I really don’t think we’ve seen movement like this in our federal government since our country’s founding in many ways,” she said. “And I think if they are successful in what they plan to do, I think it is going to be transformative to America in a great way.”

She said she expects a different presidency this time, beginning with the structure of the administration: While Trump’s daughter Ivanka and son-in-law Jared Kushner served as White House advisers in his last administration, Lara Trump said she doesn’t see any family member taking any position in the White House this time around with her father-in-law.

“He really wants to get in there and do a good job for the four years, and that’s all he wants to serve,” she said. “Four years, and he’s out.”

Lara Trump also says she expects the Republican Party to be more unified than it has ever been. When she became co-chair in May, the Trump campaign and the RNC merged, with staffers fired and positions restructured. She said the result could spell trouble for GOP lawmakers who do not agree with Trump’s agenda.

“The whole party has totally shifted and totally changed,” she said. “I think people are feeling a little more bold in coming out with their political views.”

Will she be best remembered from Cagney & Lacey or Queer as Folk?

Elon Musk warned lawmakers Thursday at the Capitol that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force would be keeping a “naughty or nice” list of members who do and don’t support his federal budget-cutting efforts.

DOGE, heading by both Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to work with the White House Office of Management and Budget—headed by incoming director Russ Vought, who held the same role during Donald Trump’s first term.

The majority of attendees of Thursday’s question-and-answer session were Republicans. Florida Rep. Aaron Bean told ABC News that Musk and Ramaswamy “said everything has to be looked at” regarding cuts.

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene told reporters afterwards that the event was “just what I’d hoped for.”

And as for Musk’s Christmas-themed effort to keep track of—and presumably whip—support, she said: “I think that would be fantastic.”

“There’s a massive amount of waste, fraud and abuse that we have to tackle, and I will be doing that with my subcommittee,” said Greene, who will chair an oversight committee on DOGE’s agenda when the next Congress begins. “I am looking forward to exposing every single unelected bureaucrat, every single agency that is wasting the American people’s money.”

Who lives here?

What birthday messages does DL have for her?

Donnie Wahlberg's no longer hanging so tough.

The New Kids on the Block member and Blue Bloods actor was reduced to an emotional mess after watching Wicked, as his wife Jenny McCarthy shared on social media.

In a video taken as the end credits rolled for the mega movie musical, McCarthy asks the camera, "Which one of us is bawling their eyes out?" as Wahlberg weeps audibly next to her.

"Don't do it," Wahlberg appears to tell McCarthy through tears. "It was so good."

When asked by McCarthy if he's doing okay, Wahlberg responds, "Yeah, I'm okay. Oh my god, it was so good."

Dabbing his eyes, Wahlberg again reassures McCarthy that he's doing okay, laughing and crying through it all.

The Saw actor, however, is not alone as the comments section is filled with commiserating reactions, with a lot of folks replying, "Same."

Of course, Bowen Yang tried to warn y'all. The Saturday Night Live breakout, who plays Pfannee in the new big-screen musical, said that a private screening with his SNL cast mates in October left them all feeling like Donnie Wahlberg.

"All of us were in shambles by the end," Yang told PEOPLE. "Sarah Sherman was sobbing, and she was like, 'I didn't expect to love it this much.'"

He continued, "It will get you. It flattens every demographic. Everyone gets bowled over no matter what they're going into it with, and I've never been a part of something like that. I don't think I've seen a movie ... have this universal impact."

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

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

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

I think either JayZ will clear it up pretty quickly or the NFL will create some separation between the halftime show and the ongoing allegations.

"I think there must be something wrong with me, Linus. Christmas is coming, but I'm not happy. I don't feel the way I'm supposed to feel. I just don't understand Christmas I guess. I like giving presents, and sending Christmas cards and decorating trees and all that, but I'm still not happy. i always end up feeling depressed." Has there ever been a more brutally honest opening to a Christmas TV special? And the show itself is brilliant and DARK - The skies are properly wintry and grey and nighttime black. And the show's humor is mostly dry. It's the most perfect representation of the childhood pain and adult neuroses that was the lifeblood of Peanuts through the mid-seventies. Later Peanuts specials became progressively more 'kid-like'. And like the strip, in A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS Charlie Brown gets humiliated time and again. From Violet's typically smug "I didn't send you a Christmas card, Charlie Brown" to Lucy's last line "Charlie Brown is a blockhead, but he did get a nice tree." Thee is something grim and joyless about the whole show, which is one of those things that make it so unique and unforgettable. In a good way. Santa Claus is barely mentioned. Of course by the time "Charle Brown's Christmas Stories" appeared a few decades later, cartoon cuteness took over with Snoopy in a Santa suit as "Snoopy Claus" . Though the anti-commercialism message of the show was ignored by Charles Schulz himself licensing Peanuts ornaments and Christmas cards, after his death, his wife and kids cashed out licensing the most Commercial " Christmas crap. This Nativity set offered by the "official" Peanuts store features Lucy as the Virgin Mary (!!!) and Woodstock as the Baby Jesus.

Just watched Muppets Christmas Carol and it’s not very good. The main muppets (Kermit, Miss Piggy, Fonzi) are barely in it and instead they create new puppet characters for the Ghosts of Christmas Past and Present. It would have been so much better if Miss Piggy had been the Ghost of Past and Fonzi Present. Plus, the songs aren’t very good and it’s just kinda sad. Michael Cain is good tho.

I remember really enjoying the Albert Finney musical “Scrooge” from the 70s when they showed it to us in school one year so I’m watching that one now.

Also liked the Mickey version as a kid but haven’t seen it in years. It did give us the now iconic Scrooge McDuck.

Any other recs? I want to watch Scrooged with Bill Murray next.

A poor man's Bonnie Franklin?

Discuss.

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."

It's been 43 years since Natalie Wood died under mysterious circumstances. What do you think happened to her?

Denzel Washington, phenomenal. Paul Mescal, phenomenal. Pedro Pescal…..beautiful gowns.

Mariah Carey is denying claims that her 2024 Spotify Wrapped video message to fans was AI-generated.

Carey, dubbed the "Queen of Christmas," addressed the viral video that caused a stir among fans.

"Bad lighting and a red lip have you all thinking this is AI??" Carey, 55, declared on X. "There’s a reason I’m not a fan of either of those things!"

In the Spotify Wrapped video message, Carey was seen wearing a red and white Santa Claus dress, with Christmas lights in the background.

"Thank you so much for listening to my music on Spotify. Your support through the year is the greatest gift I could ask for," she shared in the video.

"This year we're celebrating the 30th anniversary of my album ‘Merry Christmas.’ I hope you enjoy listening to it and I can't wait to share new music with you soon."

She concluded her personal Spotify video message by blowing a kiss and wishing her fans a happy holiday season.

Several fans were convinced that Carey’s video was AI-generated.

"For half a second, I literally thought this was AI earlier… you just look so perfect!" one fan wrote.

Another comment read, "I thought it was AI too… But I’m glad you did the message!"

"Wait it’s not AI?…" others questioned.

Comments continued to point out that Carey criticized the staff responsible for "bad lighting."

"Not the shade at the lighting crew," a fan added.

Carey’s comments come amid a fight that broke out in the middle of one of her Christmas concerts.

While the Grammy winner was in the middle of performing, "All I Want for Christmas is You" two men shoved each other in the audience during the heated exchange.

In the video, a woman attempted to hold one of the men back, while Carey appeared unphased during the brawl.

The fight seemingly began after a woman sitting close to the stage shoved another woman sitting in front of her. The blonde woman who got pushed turned and threw her drink at the brunette behind her, according to video shared online. The two men presumably then got involved.

"Where's the f---ing security???" someone off-screen can be heard saying.

Meanwhile, Carey kept performing her hit Christmas song to close out the show.

Carey's Christmas hit has been a holiday staple since it was released in 1994. "All I Want for Christmas is You" topped the Billboard Hot 100 and has sold more than 10 million copies.

Crawled through this book again, it's so juicy, but Lorna seems to reserve the most vitriol for the gay friends Judy had in her last couple of years. She believes them to be just users trying to piggyback off Judy's fame, which they probably were. She lumps them all together -- they wear eye-shadow, they are effeminate, and she hates them, these betrayers of women. It cracks me up because,, meanwhile, Judy's dad is gay, a few of her ex-husbands are gay, Liza's husband is gay, and then during her coke and party days she falls deeply in love with . . . Barry Manilow! Lorna seems bright enough in the book yet she doesn't see the hypocrisy of her homophobia. #Rant Over

The actor Barry Keoghan is asking people to treat him and his family with respect.

The Saltburn star took to X on Saturday to post a message, seemingly referring to the backlash he has suffered in the wake of his reported split from his girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter. Keoghan did not mention Carpenter by name, but rumors that he had allegedly cheated on the “Espresso” singer flooded social media after news of their split surfaced.

“I can only sit and take so much,” Keoghan wrote in the screenshot of a message he posted to the social media app. “My name has been dragged across the internet in ways I usually don't respond too [sic]. I have to respond now because it's gettin to a place where there are too many lines being crossed.”

Keoghan, who said he “deleted” his account in recent days — apparently referring to his Instagram — called the messages he received included “absolute lies, hatred, disgusting commentary about my appearance, character, how I am as a parent and every other inhumane thing you can imagine.”

“Dragging my character and everything I worked extremely hard for and stand for. Talking about how I was a heroine [sic] baby and how I grew up and dragging my dear mother into it also.”

He claimed that people were knocking on his grandmother’s door, as well as sitting outside the home of his 2-year-old son, Brando, whom he shares with his ex Alyson Sandro.

That, he wrote, is “crossing a line.”

“Each and every day I work harder to push myself on every level to be the healthiest and strongest person for that boy,” the Eternals actor wrote. “I want to provide opportunities for him to learn, fail and grow. I want him to be able to look up to his daddy, to have full trust in me and know I will have his back no matter what. I need you to remember he has to read ALL of this about his father when he is older. Please be respectful to all.”

Keoghan and Carpenter began dating in 2023, and appeared together at the Met Gala that May. The two also starred in Carpenter’s “Please, Please, Please” music video in June.

A woman who alleges she was sexually assaulted by Sean “Diddy” Combs has amended her lawsuit to include allegations that she was also assaulted by Jay-Z at the same party.

The lawsuit was initially filed against Combs in October, but on Sunday the woman added Shawn Carter, the rapper and businessman known as Jay-Z, as a defendant in the civil lawsuit.

Carter is the first celebrity to be accused of sexual assault in connection to Combs.

In a statement addressed to CNN, Carter called the allegations “so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?”

Combs was indicted on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and prostitution related charges. Combs pleaded not guilty to the charges and has denied all wrongdoing in roughly 30 civil lawsuits that have been filed against him.

The woman, who is identified as a Jane Doe, says she was 13 years old at the time she was allegedly assaulted by Combs and Carter at an after party following the Video Music Awards in 2000. The woman alleges she began to feel woozy after consuming a drink at the party and wandered into a nearby bedroom. The woman alleges Carter raped her first, followed by Combs. The woman says she hit Combs and ran out of the party, according to the amended lawsuit.

Carter was identified in the initial lawsuit as Celebrity A.

News of the lawsuit was first reported by NBC.

According to the lawsuit, the Doe’s attorneys reached out to Carter to request “a mediation to resolve this matter.”

“Upon present information and belief, Jay-Z responded to said letter by not only filing an utterly frivolous lawsuit, but by also orchestrating a conspiracy of harassment, bullying and intimidation against Plaintiff’s lawyers, their families, employees and former associates in an attempt to silence Plaintiff from naming Jay-Z herein. This effort was meant to scare Plaintiff and to discredit her counsel. That effort failed. Indeed, Plaintiff chose to file this amendment as a result of the egregious conduct perpetuated by Carter,” according to the lawsuit.

In his response sent to CNN on Sunday – which was addressed to Doe’s attorney – Carter called the mediation request a “blackmail attempt.” Carter also said this lawyer, “who I have done a bit of research on, seems to have a pattern of these type of theatrics!”

In a statement from Houston-based attorney Tony Buzbee on Saturday, he wrote, “The pleading speaks for itself. This is a very serious matter that will be litigated in court.”

CNN has also reached out to Jay-Z’s wife Beyoncé Knowles for comment.

Throughout her campaign, Harris raised more than $1 billion, a stunning figure that mirrored the quick rise of her campaign.

But Trump, now the president-elect, defeated Harris in the general election, with the vice president coming up short in the swing states.

New federal filings show that the Harris campaign had $1.8 million remaining in the bank after spending over $1 billion against Trump in the presidential race.

In the filings, the Harris campaign also reported that it had no debts.

The filings reveal the pace of spending for the Harris campaign, which began with heightened enthusiasm from Democrats and major donors who had grown despondent over Biden's chances after a disastrous debate against Trump raised questions about his ability to mount a robust reelection campaign.

From October 17 through November 25, which included some of the most frenzied stretches of the campaign through the postelection period, Harris raised $160 million and spent over $270 million. The Trump campaign raked in nearly $87 million during that same period and spent $113 million, the president-elect's campaign filings indicated.

Harris held large rallies in swing states like Georgia and Pennsylvania throughout her campaign, especially in the immediate weeks leading up to the election. And despite the vice president's financial advantage over Trump, she had to boost her profile to an electorate that had long expected Biden to be the nominee and was uncertain about her positions on various issues — from tackling inflation to her approach to foreign policy.

The new FEC report also seemingly puts to rest any talk that the Harris campaign is heavily in debt, a notion that the campaign rejected last month when it told The New York Times that "there will be no debt" on the filings.

But in the weeks since the general election, Democrats have still received fundraising appeals from the Harris operation. The "Harris Fight Fund" is the postelection operation of the general election "Harris Victory Fund" and is touted as a way to help provide accountability for the Trump administration.

The Democratic National Committee's newest filings revealed that it had over $47 million in cash on hand, while its rival, the Republican National Committee, had nearly $43 million in the bank.

1926-1927 and attributed to John Byers, who worked in traditional materials such as adobe and shunned the opulence of the Spanish Revival.

La Mesa Drive is magical - lined with Morton Bay fig trees and studded with historic houses that include the only domestic design in North America by Oscar Niemeyer and a late work by Lloyd Wright (Frank's son). Possibly one of the most beautiful such streets in the world and certainly the US.

Proving the party attracts a significant number of masochists.

Let's discuss the film that continues to win the worldwide affection of millions since it's premier almost 60 years ago.

Released in 1965, the musical follows an eccentric nun as she governs the seven children of a strict captain in the months leading up to the Third Reich's annexation of Austria. Based on the stage musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Directed by Robert Wise

Starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer

With Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Ben Wright, Anna Lee, Marnia Nixon, Charmian Carr, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, Kym Karath, Daniel Truhitte, Gil Stuart, and ELEANOR PARKER as the Baroness

Lord John Grey (David Berry) and Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) are now officially husband and wife.

But if audiences thought their marriage would remain in name only, the latest episode of Outlander had even more surprises up its sleeve. As Claire and Lord John continue to mourn Jamie's (Sam Heughan) death, absolutely wracked with grief, they find a raw comfort in an unexpected place — each other.

Drunk and disturbed by Claire's own screams, John storms into her bedroom, going full Rhett Butler, and informs her, "I will not mourn him alone tonight."

"He was not yours to mourn," Claire hisses back, before the two claw at each other, clothing shredding in the process. We see flashes of skin and passion before it fades to black, and then, the sun rises the next morning with Claire and John waking up beside each other, having officially consummated their marriage.

It's an improbable and surprising moment, one that Berry says he is still trying to wrap his head around. "The essence of their conflict in that moment is the selfishness of Claire saying that Lord John has no right to his profound feelings of grief, and Lord John really needing someone in that moment," he notes. "He's so alone. No one's there for him, and he's shouldering all this grief and also trying to shoulder it for her. He reaches a breaking point where he is like, 'I just need someone to hold me and to get me through this.'"

Still, the scene relies more on implication than most Outlander sex scenes, leaving much of this intimate moment to viewers' imaginations (in the novels, the love-making is described with far more detail). "There were a lot of really difficult conversations," Berry admits, as to the choices they made in filming and editing the scene.

"On the page, it was written a lot more. I was really interested to explore that a bit further, and I would've been happy to push it a little further. We ended up in a negotiated position where we didn't do that, and I do feel a sense of curiosity and even regret that we didn't challenge ourselves to do that a bit more."

For Berry, he's still not sure the scene really fully explains or allows the space to understand why this moment occurs between Lord John and Claire. Though he understands why they chose to limit what was depicted. "It was always going to be a weird sex scene," he adds. "I was excited by it because it was something that I'd never seen on TV before. The things that really excite me about Outlander are these moments of, 'What the hell? How do you inject a humanity into this?'"

"This was going to be my first Outlander sex scene," Berry continues. "For this to be my first Outlander sex scene was a massive challenge because there is consent, but what is the passion? What was written on the page is that there's an animalistic passion, and unfortunately, I don't really think that is translated to screen.

There was definitely a passion component that I'm not sure that we quite captured in that moment. There is something that will forever haunt me — how do these two end up in a moment of intimate passion and union? It still confuses me, and I don't know that we completely solved it. "

Much of that is dealt with in the post-coital heart-to-heart that Claire and John share the next morning. They admit that neither of them were making love to each other, but instead to Jamie. Lord John also confesses that it's been 15 years since he last slept with a woman, while also revealing that Jamie once offered his body to him — an offer that Lord John refused because it mattered more to him to preserve their friendship.

Berry is far from finished pondering the scene and its motivations. "I'll forever be thinking about it as an acting challenge," he says. "The challenge that was set up in the episode is so cool and curious and a cool thing for the series to contend with. It is a real pivot moment for these characters. It will have massive ripple effects moving forward."

“Get Pete Hegseth on the phone!”

It was March 2018, and then-President Donald Trump was meeting with his Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary, Dr. David Shulkin, about how to reform veteran health care. But it was Hegseth, then a Fox News personality, whose opinion Trump really wanted.

Hegseth, now Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of defense, had been a vocal and persistent advocate for veterans having unfettered access to private health care, rather than having to go through the VA to keep their benefits. He’s also lobbied for policies that would restrict VA care and believes veterans should ask for fewer government benefits.

“We want to have full choice where veterans can go wherever they want for care,” Hegseth told Trump on speakerphone as Shulkin listened, according to Shulkin’s 2019 memoir.

Trump’s pick to serve as the next VA secretary, Doug Collins, has also expressed support for greater privatization of veteran health care, which advocates characterize as giving veterans greater choice over their doctors. If veterans “want to go back to their own doctors, then so be it,” he told Fox News last month.

For Shulkin, a rare “holdover” from President Barack Obama’s administration to Trump’s, this was “the worst-case scenario” for veteran health care, and one he had repeatedly warned Hegseth against.

“Your version of choice would cost billions more per year, bankrupting the system,” Shulkin recalls telling Hegseth in his memoir. “How can we responsibly pursue this? Unfortunately, he didn’t want to engage at the level of budget and other aspects of day-to-day reality. He seemed to prefer his sound bites on television.”

If confirmed, Hegseth and Collins will have the opportunity to push for a dramatic overhaul of the military and veteran health care system, one that could significantly cut government health benefits for service members and veterans – many of which Hegseth says veterans should not be asking for at all.

Veterans groups “encourage veterans to apply for every government benefit they can ever get after they leave the service,” he told Fox News’ “Fox and Friends” in 2019. “To me, the ethos of service is, I served my country because I love my country and I’m gonna come home and start the next chapter of my life. If I’ve got a chronic condition – mental, physical, otherwise – the government better be there for me, but otherwise I don’t want to be dependent on that.”

CNN has reached out to Hegseth and the Trump transition for comment on this story.

In case you missed it, on Tuesday night, Matty became embroiled in a brutal X fight with Azealia Banks, which culminated with him threatening to “slap” her “so hard” that he will get a Guinness World Record after she insulted his fiancée Gabbriette.

For reference, the tweets came from the now-deactivated X account, which appeared to be Matty’s personal account as it went by his alias Truman Black.

And it all started when Azealia tweeted an old clip of Charli and insulted her appearance, with Matty quote-tweeting her and writing: “Azealia you seem to have a blind spot when it comes to your ‘reads’. All the women you attack seem to be culturally relevant, attractive, and NICE people. I think this makes you jealous cos you’re so talented but everything else about you is a failure. Just rap bro.”

He then referenced Gabbriette, who he got engaged to earlier this year, writing: “And on that point if I see one little shit bag twitter barista say ONE thing about my Gabi, EVER, I will use my mental illness to full affect and I will dox and fuck you up I’m so over pretending to have different standards online cos it’s ’not real’. Well, a fuckin slap is.”

But when Azealia retaliated by saying: "The bitch look like Frankenstein to me. You both look like you share needles," Matty tweeted: “I know you think your life is some episode of the library is open but I am not the one. Talk to me like that I’m not gonna side eye you at an awards do I’ll fucking slap you so hard I’ll get a Guinness world record for the highest a rat some bitch calls a wig has ever flown.”

Almost immediately afterward, the singer started to backtrack. He tweeted: “Nah I can’t be saying I’m gonna hit a girl that’s insane I’m sorry. You just can’t keep being so mean about my mates and my mrs it’s really hurtful gets me well defensive.”

“I was just trying to match your vibe im scared now im sorry bro, i was just sticking up for my mates. Im not tough lol.”

The whole thing left social media users totally stunned, and one of Matty’s fans reposted his first tweet defending Charli as they called him out for always taking things too far.

They wrote: “this is literally what I was talking about when I said how annoying it is that matty Healy is often correct about things. Like he really gets on my nerves as a person but every so often he comes out and says something that I just… completely agree with. and it PISSES ME OFF.”

Matty then surprised this follower by asking them for some constructive criticism. He replied: “I see this a lot and I’m genuinely curious if you would mind expanding on what you mean. Like obvs yes I made a tasteless porn joke on my mates podcast and I have done some things I would take back, like we all have. I’m just trying to keep learning. Could you give example?”

“Please just be yourself. I get that it was all for performance art but it went too far that it was genuinely confusing for alot of us & pissed off alot of us black 1975 fans that have been here since the beginning we love you & just wanna see u win.”

“Yeah I understand that,” Matty replied. “I was really inspired by the essay ‘Dirtbag’ at the time and found NY very interesting. I’m not gonna say Adam and Nick aren’t my friends tho cos they are and I love them a lot. No excuses. I can’t just stop taking my meds when I choose. I’ve learned that.”

And as Azealia tweeted that she plans to sue Matty for his violent threat against her, Matty opted to deactivate his X account, writing: “Guys I don’t have the right kind of intelligence / emotional maturity etc for social media I literally just end up saying stuff that immediately regret etc. I’m actually just gonna stick to music cos I’m good at that. Having manic episodes on twitter at 35 is kinda pathetic.”

He then reflected on the entire situation in a post to his fans on the official Reddit forum for his band, The 1975. A message from Matty's verified account reads: “What a bad day, I really let myself down. I have worked so hard to move past these impulsive self destructive and honestly quite volatile outbursts I have."

Starring Donald Trump as the Piglet. Carry on!

Previous thread below.

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

“so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree?” - Quote from the official statement

I didn’t realize the amendment of her lawsuit was done so AFTER he filed criminal complaint of extortion against her law firm.

New series from Brian Jordan Alvarez about a gay high school teacher. DL's gonna love this one, I can tell already.

Starts September 2nd.

1. Warm All Over

2. The Boys In the Backroom

3. They're Either Too Young or Too Old

4. I Believe in You

5. Adelaide's Lament

6. Once In Love With Amy

7. On A Slow Boat To China

8. Inchworm- I was a kid once too.

Thom Christopher, the actor best known for playing mobster Carlo Hessler on ABC’s One Life to Live, has died. He was 84.

His death was confirmed by his former OLTL co-star Anthony Crivello on Facebook, who posted pictures of their time together on the soap. Crivello played his son. “It was a wonderful time, difficult hours and long days, but joyful each minute,” wrote Crivello.

A New York City native, Christopher got his start in the soaps in the 50s by playing Noel Douglas on The Edge of Night. He went on to become a journeyman actor in TV with roles in Cannon, Kojak, The Eddie Capra Mysteries, T.J. Hooker, Hunter, Murder, She Wrote and Simon & Simon. In 1990, he signed on to ABC’s OLTL as the mobster Carlo Hessler. The character was killed off two years later, but the work didn’t end for Christopher; he then began playing Mortimer Bern, Carlo’s twin, on and off between 1996 and 2008.

Christopher’s memorable time on the sudser earned him a Daytime Emmy.

Christopher went on to play Dante Partou on Loving from 1993-94. He also had an arc as Col. Dax on Guiding Light at the start of the aughts. He was preceded in death by his wife Judith Leverone, who died in 2019. “May Thom fly on wings of angels to be beside his beloved Judith, and may they enjoy each other’s company once again, beside the pearly gates of heaven,” Crivello wrote on Facebook.

This thread is for movies that are apparently popular unbeknownst to you. I watched a movie called Predestination- 2014 - a time traveling mindfuck thriller starring Ethan Hawke. A woman has a sex change and becomes a man and then goes back in time to have sex with herself to produce a child. And then goes on to killing 10,000 people in New York City to prevent the deaths of thousands more in the proverbial trolley problem. This happens over and over and over in a time loop paradox.

I had never heard of this movie and yet it almost has 400,000 ratings on IMBD and good ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. How the hell did I miss this?

What other movies did you somehow miss?

If so, what have you manifested (money, jobs, relationships etc.) and which techniques did you use?

What are your favorite LOA books?

I'm a Neville Goddard fan and I've also used some techniques from Florence Scovell Shinn, Joseph Murphy and Geneviève Behrand.

while they were undressing

You’re still wearing a N95 mask outdoors and definitely by yourself in the car.

Jay-Z has issued a statement after his name was added in a civil lawsuit that accuses both the rapper and Sean “Diddy” Combs of allegedly raping a 13-year-old girl in 2000.

According to a NBC News report, the lawsuit filed by the Texas-based Tony Buzbee was originally filed in October in the Southern District of New York and listed Combs as the defendant. NBC News reports it was refiled Sunday to include Jay-Z, whose full name is Shawn Carter.

The accuser is ID’ed as Jane Doe in the suit. The assault allegedly happened after she was driven to a party after the MTV Video Music Awards.

In a statement posted on his Roc Nation account on Instagram, Jay-Z accuses Buzbee of blackmail in what he deemed a “demand letter” from the attorney.

“What he had calculated was the nature of these allegations and the public scrutiny would make me want to settle. No sir, it had the opposite effect! It made me want to expose you for the fraud you are in a VERY public fashion. So no, I will not give you ONE RED PENNY!!

“These allegations are so heinous in nature that I implore you to file a criminal complaint, not a civil one!! Whomever would commit such a crime against a minor should be locked away, would you not agree? These alleged victims would deserve real justice if that were the case.

In the pre-internet era, I once received in the mail a blank greeting card featuring a pic of a nude, muscular man with an erect penis. The sender added a personal message: “I WANT YOU!” I never discovered the identity of my secret admirer.

It's either a White man, or suicide? Is the Japanese dating market that bad? What a shame. Every race of women are happy with their men--except Asian women. They want someone else's man. It's like they feel they've been cheated; given scraps or crumbs.

But the dating market was divinely created by a higher power. One only needs to have faith and patience.

God created Asian men for Asian women. When Asian women reject Asian men in favor of White men, they're calling God's gift garbage.

Inspired by another thread.

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

“Played by Erika Christensen ('Traffic'), Cate is sweet and passive, while the Heath of Mike Vogel ('Grounded for Life') is more whiny than wild. Isabel, played by Katherine Heigl ('Roswell') steals the movie as a sexy, scheming high-school Alpha girl. (Best moment: Isabel takes Heath to live with her at a fancy girl's boarding school dorm, where she happens to keep a small recording studio by her bed.)

The casting is a problem. Both Ms. Christensen and Mr. Vogel are blond, well fed and even beefy -- they look less like tormented lovers than evidence that European fears about American genetically modified foods may not be entirely groundless.

Mr. Vogel's bland surfer looks make it all the harder for him to convincingly play a brutish lowlife who embarrasses Cate when she is with the rich, sophisticated Lintons. In scruffy hair and faded jeans, he looks as if he belongs there more than she does. A more nuanced actor with a more smoldering, ethnic look would have been more persuasive.

Still, even Emily Brontë would not disagree with one of the lyrics that make Heath a rock superstar: 'Maybe you're better off dead.'”

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.

If he is innocent he must certainly should fight this and drag this woman through the mud. And if he’s guilty, fry em.

KNOTS LANDING is coming to streaming Aug 13 on the new Primetime Soaps by WB channel.

The 24/7 ad-supported channel is live now on @Plex w/ FALCON CREST. Eps stream in order, not on-demand.

Watch on streaming devices w/ the Plex app or online: watch.plex.tv/live-tv/channe… #SoapOpera

If Trump is going to be President again we may as well embrace the era of bad taste.

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.

Do you agree?

Here's a hint: It's before a lot of you were born. Scroll down for the answer.

1976

He was having a moment there for awhile!

I've been watching clips from her talk show, and I find it very entertaining in a bizarre but good way sometimes.

I know she gets criticized a lot on here, but there's something about her that I find very endearing. Stuff that I would think is phony coming from other people just seems real coming from her. Maybe it's because she had a rough upbringing, or that we're in the same age range, but I've always rooted for her. She's the type of person that you just want to give a hug too.

Is on hella roids.

Just watched the first episode.

WOW!!

Murder mystery staring Colman Domingo. So far, it’s fantastic!!

Elections are over. Steve is now doing football stats and predictions. Khakis are apparently versatile enough for both politics and sports. Who knew?

This article on mid-tier chain restaurants.

CNN’s Harry Enten said Monday that Democrats have “no real light at the end of the tunnel.” (Watch the video below.)

In a chat with “News Central” anchor John Berman, Enten, CNN’s senior data reporter, broke down the history-making vulnerability of the Democratic Party after last week’s election. It will likely be one of just a few times in the last 90 years that Democrats don’t hold power in either the White House or any chamber of Congress, he said. What’s more, President Joe Biden has the lowest approval rating of any departing Democratic incumbent since Jimmy Carter in 1980.

“When you make the comparison to Jimmy Carter on popularity, you know that you’re in bad shape,” Enten said.

It all adds up to gloom and doom for a party reeling from Republican Donald Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, a Republican flip in the Senate and a likely continuing majority in the House.

“The bottom line is, everywhere you look, the Democrats are in this deep, dark state because they have no heir apparent, the incumbent president’s unpopular, and they hold no levers of power in Washington, most likely come January,” Enten said.

“For Democrats, there’s no real light at the end of the tunnel,” he added.

Enten and Berman mentioned that the party has at times rebounded from weakness fairly quickly, but right now any sliver of optimism is sunk in a pit of despair.

“It’s always darkest before it’s pitch-black, as John McCain once said,” Enten said.

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

I've just discovered this on YouTube. It's so charming and funny.

About a middle-aged housewife who fantasizes about having an affair with a mysterious stranger. She has a priggish conservative husband and two cute teen sons who do little but smoke pot and get laid, so they spar about morals, goals and values.

It's more sophisticated about sex and relationships than most of what American network TV has managed 40 years later. Anybody else enjoy this show?

I had one who would fuck one of the other employees in the office during office hours, behind a closed door of course.

I got a holiday card from a friend whom I haven’t seen in a while.

Although her parents were crazy religious, she and her gay brother are no religious and progressive. She is very vocal about an abortion she once had.

Her card has her two kids pictures on the front. On the back is a short “wishing you well for the holidays” message. But in it she says “MAGA is back!!”

WTF?!! It’s not like she’s saying it in anger and disgust. She seems to say it with glee. Did she suddenly go nuts??

My Dinner with Andre is one that I’ve been wanting to see forever, but never seems to work out.

Also, Leave Her to Heaven is one I want to watch.

I need someone on my cock asap

Every fucking business wants me to do a survey about how they can improve their service.

I’m done

Past or present.

Yummy

She's known for recycling outfits from years past, but this time she's really outdone herself by wearing a nearly 40 year old gown to the State Banquet for the Emir of Qatar. She probably only had to have it taken out a bit on the sides, if at all.

What surprises me is that it's a totally suitable look for a 75 year old. Was it considered frumpy back in 1985?

It's not the gown in the preview window which looks very girlish for Anne.

He looks ill

A big jackpot too, a couple hundred million.

Host: Paul Mescal

Musical Guest: Shaboozey

I'm watching an episode with Mariska Hargitay as a student right now.

Lori Petty played a high school runner who was decapitated when the finish line caught her throat a few episodes back.

A black Snape? People are gonna lose their shit.

Sarah Horgan as McGonagall would be lovely. She has the range, but can she do a Scottish accent?

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.

Every product they sell has 4 or 4.5 stars. The reviews that show up may be the product you are considering, or another model, or even a competing product by another manufacturer, all mixed together. You can’t even tell unless the reviewer includes a photo.

That’s what happens when we allow monopolies.

Who's had her?

He was hailed as the big-dicked master thespian of his generation, with two Oscar nominations. A decade later, he’s starring in a Paramount+ for Showtime procedural. What happened?

Yes, all the gimp from the “estate” at 4027 Markham is being auctioned off this Sunday. You can see some of the items in the original HAR posting.

[QUOTE]The 42 year old described his dark, secret life of cheating and struggles with alcoholism and porn addiction in a book from 2022. Canales also calls himself a “recovering narcissist.”

Burnett is TCM's guest programmer Sundays this December, with Dave Karger. Fun to see Carol discuss the film, see the film, then her spoof. First up: @ 8 p.m./ET is Joan Fontaine's "Born to Be Bad." Joan raises eyebrows as the sweet-faced conniver Christabel, knocking leading men Zachary Scott & Robert Ryan over like bowling pins! Followed by Carol's "Raised to Be Rotten!" Here's my fun look at the film & the take-off:

It’s on TCM now. Turn it on and reply!

I’m the pissy attitude when no one trades for my candle, scented like a mechanic’s used jockstrap

The only problem was they were a bit niggardly with the collard greens. All of the other serving sizes were excellent.

Post it here. Give us your best.

Moana 2 was cobbled together from an aborted Disney Plus series with many people pointing out it retains the feel of tv episodes jumbled together.

Widow of historian and longtime Kennedy hand Arthur Schlesinger.

After a few drinks they started going at it. We were all in shock! I guess the alcohol made all those urges come to light 😂

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.

This is fun

3 seasons ended in 2022. OK old series. Has anyone seen it?

Matthew Goode is very handsome and shows some real vampiric malice. The actress Teresa Palmer, in the main role as witch Diana Bishop, is 5x worse than any actor on the show!

Gregg Chilingirian is sexy!

Look at those eyes and that smile.

Do you get tired of diva and actress worship of gay men?

Why doesn’t somebody tell him to stop? Did he marry Jill Biden?

I love this video. I think this might have been the jumpstart for the Just Say No craze in the 80's, but it was a huge deal at the time. Producer Robert Evans organized the whole song. Predates We Are the World, and all the other all-star celebrity songs.

Love how Paul Newman and Bob Hope get their own introductions before recording. Newman sounds like Lucy in Mame. Is that Angie Dickinson next to Bob Hope?

I think I spot the following in the chorus: Kristy McNichol, Dinah Manoff, Victoria Principal, Carol Burnett, Muhammad Ali, Mark Hamill, Henry Winkler, Kate Jackson, Jayne Kennedy, Magic Johnson, Dana Plato, Scott Baio, John Davidson, Leif Garrett.

You may have seen on her on TV at your parent’s house! 🤡

Part 2.

It’s about time.

First of all, the republicans launched a witch hunt against Hunter and combed through every aspect of his life until they found something.

Second and much more importantly, why the fuck are insurrectionists lecturing us about the “rule of law?” Why are democrats held to one standard and republicans to no standard at all?

Tracy Whitney was last seen leaving a Burger King after an argument with her ex-boyfriend in August 1988. Less than 24 hours later, fishermen found her body in a river near Sumner, Washington, about 12 miles east of Tacoma. She was 18 years old.

An autopsy revealed Tracy had been sexually assaulted and died of strangulation, according to a statement from the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. Her death was ruled a homicide.

Detectives collected DNA samples from her body that presumably belonged to the killer, interviewed people of interest and administered polygraph tests. No suspect was identified, and the case grew cold. Tracy’s sister, Robin Whitney, was 11 years old when the murder took place. Following the loss of her “protector,” Robin vowed to avoid talking about Tracy – not to her friends, her father or eventually to her daughters. “I didn’t want to think about what had happened to her, and what her last moments were like and how scared she must’ve been,” Robin told CNN. “I’d also have to think about everything we missed out on as sisters, how unfair that was.”

She believed the case would likely never be solved, and thinking of all the “what ifs” only brought fresh waves of grief and frustration. But roughly 10 years ago, Robin’s father, who had avoided speaking of Tracy for decades, told her the police had recovered a DNA sample from the crime scene in 1988. The news gave Robin hope. And she slowly began sharing stories of her sister with her daughters. Robin also learned her father had visited the sheriff’s office several times since the murder, hoping to revive the investigation.

In 2005, the sheriff’s office renewed efforts to solve the crime by uploading the DNA sample to the FBI’s national genetic database, CODIS. They decided to resubmit Tracy’s DNA swabs after new technology became available, the sheriff’s office said, but the effort yielded no results. The first breakthrough came in 2022, after the sheriff’s office received a grant from the state attorney general’s office. With this funding, they sent the DNA sample to Parabons NanoLab in Virginia for genetic genealogy testing.

Thirty-six years after Tracy’s death, the sheriff’s office used lab data to identify John Guillot Jr. as her killer.

Sheriffs, however, could not make an arrest. Guillot Jr. died eight months before authorities could connect him to the killing, Pierce County Det. Sgt. Lindsay Kirkegaard said in a video released Sunday. Genetic genealogy, a combination of DNA analysis and family tree research, finally led detectives to Guillot Jr. A relatively new field of study, genetic genealogy gained prominence as hobbyists began looking into their family history. It has since expanded into a forensic method used by law enforcement to crack cold cases.

(con't inside)

The River Oaks home of late billionaire Fayez Sarofim.

He's a sexy guy.

Is he gay? Straight? Bi?

I have quite a crush on him.

Will you be seeing this?

Now we can see him in more short sleeves than we saw at Nebraska.

RIP

His Oz books were all about girl power. The main character is Dorothy. The man she goes to seek help from turns out to be a charlatan. In the end, it’s Glinda, the Sorceress of the South, who helps her get home.

Book Two has an apparently male protagonist named Tip. Book Two also has an all female army who dethrones the Scarecrow from ruling the Emerald City. But at the end of the book, Glinda saves the day and reveals that Tip is really a girl, Princess Ozma.

The rest of the books all seem to be about Dorothy and Ozma having adventures and Glinda showing up to save the day at the end.

The Oz books didn’t really have a lot of strong male characters. It was all princesses.

Saturday Night Live tonight imagined a world where, influenced by the success of Wicked and Moana 2, Gladiator II decides to add 50 minutes of musical content to become an even bigger hit.

That was the plot of a skit featuring host Paul Mescal “reprising” his Gladiator II role as Lucius, except this version croons about his feeling misunderstood as a killing machine when “they don’t know that far below I’m so much more.”

It all kicked off with Kenan Thompson singing how there’s “No Place Like Rome” with Mescal agreeing that “I’m gonna like it here.” From there, the skit went on to explain how an extra 50 minutes of songs were added to the sequel that still promised to be the “same violent epic.”

Several SNL players joined in on the mini-musical, with Mikey Day as Rome’s emperor rapping a ditty that supposedly came courtesy of Lin-Manuel Miranda. “I don’t mean to be a hater, but I don’t like this gladiator,” he sang.

He and Mescal then flossed.

Reviews, the skit admitted, were mixed. One slide came up with a quote from the film’s director Ridley Scott saying, “I was not told about this.” Another read, “Movies are in such a weird place right now.”

The spot ends with Mescal leaving the Colosseum on a broom, belting out a version of the famous battle cry from Wicked‘s “Defying Gravity.”

Trump is old old now. Still won’t concede 2020 btw. Where did 10 million democratic votes go?

Two crazy people fighting on Twitter.

From a young dad about his daughter:

[quote] So, I’m a dad to a 15-year-old girl, and she left used pads lying around her room. I get that teenagers can be messy, but this feels next level. On top of that, I found paper plates with half-eaten food just sitting on her bed. We’ve had issues like this in the past and when I talk to her about it doesn’t seem to get through. Am I overreacting? Am I going about this wrong and if so how else can I approach this?

Why do daytime soaps tend to have so many gay male actors (most closeted unfortunately). And also ironically many right wing/republican actors??

I was recommended this video in a recent YT trip & thought I'd share it with the DL community.

I always wondered how artists drew certain things others just easily take for granted.

Discuss.

to forget you.

Willy's childhood friend, Zeke, comes out. First of all, Zeke is hot. Secondly, that show was like taking a tranquilizer.

Seems ominous that his forces are retreating from the area around Damascus.

Far-right streamer and influencer Nick Fuentes has been accused of battery after allegedly spraying a woman with pepper spray when she appeared at his front door in Illinois last month as his refrain “Your body, my choice” was going viral.

Marla Rose, 57, told police that she went to record Fuentes’ home on Nov. 10 after she saw his controversial social media post and that he pepper-sprayed her, pushed her onto the concrete and broke her phone outside his Chicago-area home in Berwyn, Illinois. According to a police report, which was filed Nov. 11, the woman did not have any visible physical injuries but her eyes were “watery.”

Fuentes was arrested late last month and released the same day. He is set to appear in court on Dec. 19.

Fuentes did not respond to requests for comment Friday.

He posted pictures Friday of his mugshots on X and wrote, “Free me n----”. Rose also took to social media, posting on Facebook: “It. Is. On. 🔥🔥🔥 PS — Civil case pending.”

Rose could not be reached for comment Friday.

Fuentes was doxxed and his address posted on social media after he went viral for an X post that has been viewed more than 99.6 million times since he posted it on Election Day, in which he wrote “Your body, my choice. Forever,” referring to abortion policies.

He told police that since he “posted a political joke online,” he has faced death threats and “people showing up to his house unannounced” and had been “in fear for his life,” the report stated.

Another woman who had driven by Fuentes’ house called police to report that she had seen a woman shoved by a man outside the home, according to the police report. Rose was still at the house when police arrived, but she and Fuentes were separated while they spoke to officers, the report stated. Police said Fuentes “became uncooperative” with the resource officer on scene and would not answer any additional questions about the alleged altercation with Rose, according to the report.

After his Election Day post, Fuentes’ personal information began circulating online, with many on social media posting his address and pictures of his house, writing, “Your house, our choice.”

In a now-deleted Facebook post, Rose had said that she was prompted to appear at Fuentes’ door given the views he shared online. In her post, she also disclosed Fuentes’ home address several times.

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

Atkins, Stillmans, Scarsdale, Keto, caveman, etc

How about just a “low carb diet”?

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?

Would you like to see the US and Canadian maps redrawn to look like this?

I think it's a FABULOUS idea!!!

And it makes total sense.

House Speaker Mike Johnson intends to cut 75 percent of all federal agencies with the help of Elon Musk’s outside commission known as the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.

“We certainly hope” to slash the number of federal agencies from 428 to 99, as Musk has vowed, Johnson said in response to a question from Fox News host Martha McCallum in an interview Wednesday night. “We want to be willing partners in that,” he added.

He noted he aims to cut all funding for PBS and Planned Parenthood. “I would like to, that’s for sure,” said Johnson.

As for dismantling agencies, “We have the opportunity to go in and really take back control from the administrative state,” he said.

“For a long time they’ve been acting as judge, jury and executioner on the rules that they make on industries and small business owners and the rest,” he added. “We have the ingredients, we have the conditions right now to actually be ablemake really dramatic change.”

Johnson said dismantling the goverment will be part of “the playbook to unleash and unroll in January.”

Johnson added on X on Wednesday night: “Under President Trump, we will take a blowtorch to the administrative state and reduce the size and scope of government,”

He conceded in the Fox interview: “We got to build consensus to have the votes to do that. Where Congress is involved, that’s where it takes the hard work of legislating and getting everybody on the same page.”

But he emphasized that some of the work can be accomplished by executive order. President-elect Donald Trump “has a broad authority to do a lot of that,” he noted

Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the entrepreneur and former GOP presidential candidate who will head up DOGE (the name of Musk’s bitcoin), are meeting with legislators on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

The two billionaires have been tasked with firing federal workers and cutting government programs and federal regulations. Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is set to chair a new House Oversight subcommittee to oversee DOGE.

Attempts to slash the federal government have been resisted in the past as Americans grapple with cuts to programs they know and trust. Millions of Americans depend on these programs for jobs, health care, security, and other needs.

Trump has appointed people to his administration hellbent on slashing the size of the federal government, such as Russ Vought, the former and next head of the Office of Management and Budget.

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published on November 20, Ramaswamy and Musk cited a key Supreme Court case mentioned by Johnson on Fox News that they view as authorization for the draconian cuts.

“In West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (2022), the justices held that agencies can’t impose regulations dealing with major economic or policy questions unless Congress specifically authorizes them to do so,” they wrote.

“In Loper Bright v. Raimondo (2024), the court overturned the Chevron doctrine and held that federal courts should no longer defer to federal agencies’ interpretations of the law or their own rulemaking authority. Together, these cases suggest that a plethora of current federal regulations exceed the authority Congress has granted under the law,” the duo added.

FAFO.

The Shen Yun dance group is facing allegations of forced labor and child labor in a lawsuit filed by a former dancer for the troupe.

Chun-Ko Chang, who lives in Taiwan but formerly danced for the group, claims Shen Yun runs “a sophisticated operation that is designed to identify and recruit vulnerable people to work as Dancers, ensnare them in a system that dominates every aspect of their lives, and force them to work grueling hours through multiple methods of control and coercion,” as detailed in a lawsuit first reported by Seamus Hughes’ Court Watch.

Also listed as defendants are associated entities, Shen Yun’s financial backer the International Bank of Chicago and executives Hongzhi Li, Rui Li and Shujia Gong, who is also known as Tianliang Zhang.

The suit contains numerous allegations, including that those dancers who are perceived to have stepped out of line are subjected to public humiliation and not allowed to leave the group’s compound or speak with their families.

Shen Yun, which advertises itself as a depiction of China before communism, has also made headlines this year after an agent of the Chinese government admitted to trying to bribe an IRS official to go after Falun Gong, which puts on the Shen Yun shows and is a prominent critic of the Chinese Communist Party.

Shen Yun did not immediately return a request for comment.

Local officials say single family neighborhoods are RACIST!! and they discriminate against poor people.

There seem to be millions of porn clips online. How can there be so many porn actors—perfects faces, bodies, cocks, sexual techniques.

Where do all these guys come from??

And why?

I’m the Uggs paired with a Juicy tracksuit.

I'm starting to think about 2025 travel and would like some ideas. Where are some places that you've traveled that you'd love to return to?

I found this video below rather interesting.

Do their reactions mirror the women you know in your life?

Discuss.

Pallbearers for Wyatt Earp included Hollywood film actors.

Are you the type of DLer who inhabits comment boards just to say things to get their own personal psychologies off? You just might be a "Regan"... spewing things that remain only funny in your own head, commenting nothing but the negativity you're pressed into, filled with resentment and bitterness... and, just plain mean.

Discuss your tragedies here.

In the 16th century, China and India has the world's richest economies. Then the West emerged and dominated, particularly with its exploration and colonization.

Now, the West is diminishing, infected by crony capitalism and basically a zero birth rate. Economies work best when the middle class expand, and China and India have growing middle classes.

Never has a dominant economy in the world come back to be dominant again years to centuries later but it seems to be happening in Asia.

A brand new day?

Do you find the womanly-hipped Bashar attractive?

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

1. That they banned lead paint because it blocked the radiation from all the radio waves frying us, not because little kids were eating paint chips.

2. Fluoride is bullshit that calcifies your pineal gland and doesn’t help your teeth, and they started putting it in the water because the chemical and manufacturing companies needed to get rid of the excess.

What else?

The world has lost another social media influencer.

Pity.

Someone at Billboard must dislike her

... but can you guess who she is?

What was your life like there?

What does the datalounge have to say about these vivacious beautiful smart creatures?

Love those tacky fashions

Anyone remember Australia’s greatest export?

Anyone watching it these days?

What was your life like there?

Fuck joy.

Name a Christmas movie you watch every year that most people would not consider a “Christmas movie.”

I’ll nominate “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.”

Describe your dream Xaddy.

Have you never had to be in the closet?

Did you find it easy to be yourself (esp. Elder Gays x Gayzelles)?

Did you find a normal childhood in your gayness- whether gay, les or bi king?

Tell Lana.

[quote] I’ve only ever gone third wave coffee in my town.

Anybody else going to see this?

I like Vatican intrigue, whether in real life or a movie.

BR's population is majority Black. And the result wasn't even all that close: 53 to 47.

I'm just waiting for someone to mention it.

… which mystery would you solve and how did it turn out?

Some bitch REALLY wanted these fuckers!

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A pair of iconic ruby slippers that were worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and stolen from a museum nearly two decades ago sold for a winning bid of $28m at auction Saturday.

Heritage Auctions had estimated that they would fetch $3m or more, but the fast-paced bidding far outpaced that amount within seconds and tripled it within minutes. A few bidders making offers by phone volleyed back and forth for 15 minutes as the price climbed to the final, eye-popping sum. Including the Dallas-based auction house’s fee, the unknown buyer will ultimately pay $32.5m. Online bidding, which opened last month, had stood at $1.55m before live bidding began late Saturday afternoon.

The sparkly red heels were on display at the Judy Garland Museum in the actor’s hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in 2005 when Terry Jon Martin used a hammer to smash the glass of the museum’s door and display case. Their whereabouts remained a mystery until the FBI recovered them in 2018. Martin, now 77, who lives near Grand Rapids in northern Minnesota, wasn’t publicly exposed as the thief until he was indicted in May 2023. He pleaded guilty in October 2023. He was in a wheelchair and on supplementary oxygen when he was sentenced last January to time served because of his poor health.

His attorney, Dane DeKrey, explained ahead of sentencing that Martin, who had a long history of burglary and receiving stolen property, was attempting to pull off “one last score” after an old associate with connections to the mob told him the shoes had to be adorned with real jewels to justify their $1m insured value. But a fence – a person who buys stolen goods – later told him the rubies were just glass, DeKrey said. So Martin got rid of the slippers. The attorney didn’t specify how.

The alleged fence, 77-year-old Jerry Hal Saliterman of the Minneapolis suburb of Crystal, was indicted in March. He was also in a wheelchair and on oxygen when he made his first court appearance. He’s scheduled to go on trial in January and hasn’t entered a plea, though his attorney has said he’s not guilty.

The shoes were returned in February to memorabilia collector Michael Shaw, who had loaned them to the museum. They were one of several pairs that Garland wore during the filming, but only four pairs are known to have survived. In the movie, to return from Oz to Kansas, Dorothy had to click her heels three times and repeat, “There’s no place like home.”

As Rhys Thomas, author of The Ruby Slippers of Oz, put it, the sequined shoes from the beloved 1939 musical have seen “more twists and turns than the Yellow Brick Road”. Over 800 people had been tracking the slippers, and the company’s webpage for the auction had hit nearly 43,000 page views by Thursday, said Robert Wilonsky, a vice-president with the auction house. Among those bidding to bring the slippers home was the Judy Garland Museum, which posted on Facebook shortly after that it did not place the winning bid. The museum had campaigned for donations to supplement money raised by the city of Grand Rapids at its annual Judy Garland festival and the $100,000 set aside this year by Minnesota lawmakers to help the museum purchase the slippers.

After the slippers sold, the auctioneer told bidders and spectators in the room and watching online that the previous record for a piece of entertainment memorabilia was $5.52m, for the white dress Marilyn Monroe famously wore atop a windy subway grate. The auction also included other memorabilia from The Wizard of Oz, such as a hat worn by Margaret Hamilton, who played the original Wicked Witch of the West. That item went for $2.4m, or a total final cost to the buyer of $2.93m.

The Wizard of Oz story has gained new attention in recent weeks with the release of the movie Wicked, an adaptation of the mega-hit Broadway musical, a prequel of sorts that reimagines the character of the Wicked Witch of the West.

Does anyone else appreciate the film Casino? It gets unfairly compared to Goodfellas, despite being more of a tragic opera than a gangster film.

Written by Nicholas Pileggi (based on his book, "Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas), and directed by Martin Scorsese, the film follows Sam "Ace" Rothstein as he balances a casino empire, mafia bosses, and the slow breakdown of his relationships.

With Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci, James Woods, Alan King, Kevin Pollak, Dick Smothers, L.Q. Jones, Melissa Prophet, Frank Vincent, John Bloom, and Don RICKLES

The star of new Lee Miller biopic reveals that though she never publicly called out critics for what was an everyday occurrence at the time, in private she ‘let them have it’

A slice of small town '50s life, "Picnic" has plenty to like: Kim Novak, well-cast as the insecure beauty queen; Susan Strasberg, natural as her smart sister; Betty Field fine as their fretting Mom; & Rosalind Russell, both touching & too-much as their schoolteacher boarder. Despite William Holden's age as sexy drifter Hal, he gives a good performance. Arthur McConnell & Cliff Robertson offer solid support as Roz' & Kim's beaus. A number of famous scenes, plus some lovely smaller ones, make "Picnic" an imperfect pleasure:

On the 83rd anniversary of Pearl Harbor, what other dates will live in infamy for you or otherwise?

1. Be football commentators.

I'm the driver getting his throat slashed on the I-5 freeway, while shooting a gun at the guy slashing his throat, after a 3 hour meth and fentanyl binge in a Tacoma crack den.

Thankfully, I was able to pull over to the side of the freeway, before I bled to death.

Knowing damn well that I have neither the talent nor patience to ever attempt any of the designs, still I watch.

And then I have the gall to think to myself, "Ooh, that's a lovely idea." Some of them overdo it with the frosting, and look more like frosting pottery sculptures, but they're still gorgeous.

Anyone have and other DIY creation videos for guilty pleasures? I need a new one. Hopefully, I can find one that I can realistically attempt with success.

Inspired by a Reddit thread I was reading.

What Christ actually taught, according to the Bible:

• Welcome the stranger to your land and treat him as your own

• Heal the sick

• Feed the hungry, clothe the naked

• Love your neighbor and your enemies

• The kingdom of God is for the weak and poor, not the rich and powerful

• Don't judge others; avoid hypocrites

What he said about abortion and gays: O.

What Christ's teachings have in common with the current GOP: O.

How these evil people have managed to COMPLETELY CO-OPT RELIGIOUS TEACHINGS and convince an entire electorate that day is night and black is white, is beyond me.

BERRRRRWYNNNN!

"Everybody Hurts" by REM sucks. It's not intentionally cheesy bad like "I Don't Want to Miss a Thang". Instead, they acted like they were writing .... what? "Bridge Over Troubled Waters Redux"?

And that video BLOWS. The reporter getting all emo at the end. DUMB.

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 this turbulent World, there's still reasons for fat whores to rejoice.

What other books did you read? Chronicles of Narnia, Harry Potter?

What was his deal? Overworked, suffering from both insomnia and walking pneumonia, taking too many pills, some supplied by MK trollsen. In a rship with Aussie supermodel Gemma ward. Fucking Helena Christensen and doing drugs with her.

Anything else?

I've enjoyed most of his career. And you? He stars in another new series this November - The Landman, with Jon Hamm and Demi Moore.

He keeps chugging along rarely embarrassing himself, with his cool and underplayed acting style. The radical face lift a decade or more ago rendered him dicey to look at for a bit, until it all settled down.

Also, verificatia of size meat?

Lewis Hamilton is going to Ferrari next year!

I didn’t see this coming but it is great news. The sport is stale af and this will shake the teams up. I love Lewis’ bromance with Charles LeClerc. Hopefully Sexy Carlos Sainz gets a seat in a decent team as well.

He's only 28.

At the annual Gotham Awards on Tuesday night, Pamela Anderson arrived on the red carpet in a strapless champagne-hued Oscar de la Renta satin gown. As the “Baywatch” star turned to pose for the wall of photographers, a larger-than-life bow peeped out from the back of her dress. Yet her main accessory was her fresh, barely made up face.

The decision was born out of Anderson’s desire not to overshadow her outfit for the Isabel Marant show, but there was a bigger point, too. In an interview with Vogue published in October 2023, Anderson reflected “I know I wasn’t making strides towards world peace, but I was making a statement…” and added: “In this day and age, do we even know what a face looks like anymore? This is it.”

Lucky girl, born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

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!

What is your opinion on this backpack?

I like the Winter Brown color-

Just curious what the consensus is on this Christmas classic. Growing up in the 80s, this song has always been a favorite for me. Do younger generations like it? I haven’t (yet) been a fan of any of the covers. Do younger generations know Wham!? Maybe they associate the song with Taylor Swift? Add it to your playlist and discuss here.

It's interesting, and sometimes depressing to search out the places where I used to live. 50 years ago, my family moved into a new house - the first and only new house that my parents ever owned. It was on the edge of a (then) new housing development, with miles of open field beyond. Now, the field is nearly all developed. The house was sold just last month, and frankly looks much better than it ever did in our 6 years there.

Sometimes, I think about going back there, or to the other places. I guess I'm lucky that Zillow and such has pictures, so I don't need to show up like a crazy man to see what the place looks like.

The neighborhood was kind of barren back then, but now there are big trees everywhere - I guess 50 years will do that.

I know you've been waiting for this one.

Scientists have detected fentanyl and other drugs in dozens of dolphins from the Gulf of Mexico, which could have large implications on the overall health of the oceans, they say.

The research began in September 2020, when marine biologists conducting a routine boating survey to monitor the dolphin population in the Gulf of Mexico came across a deceased dolphin floating in the water, Dara Orbach, an assistant professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi's marine biology program and co-author of the study, told ABC News.

The scientists could tell that the dolphin had just died because its tail was still moving, Orbach said. So, they decided to tow it back to campus to study.

Years later, when graduate student Makayla Guinn needed dolphin tissue samples for her research on hormones, the biologists retrieved some blubber from that dolphin to study, Orbach said.

The researchers then teamed up with Texas A&M-Corpus Christi biochemist, Hussain Abdulla, who lent out his laboratory for the marine biologists to run an untargeted analysis to see just what was inside these tissues. An untargeted analysis involves an instrument to indicate whether there are chemicals in the tissue, Christiana Wittmaack a toxicologist at Precision Toxicological Consultancy and co-author of the paper, told ABC News.

Although they were just looking for hormones, thousands of compounds were generated within the analysis. The researchers were especially shocked when they selected three specific compounds that they thought would be unlikely to find in a dolphin -- fentanyl, a muscle relaxant and a sedative -- and found that the sample tissue contained traces of all three.

For her honor student undergraduate project, Anya Ocampos then ran 89 dolphin samples through a mass spectrometer -- 83 of which were from biopsies of live dolphins located in Laguna Madre, a shallow lagoon near Corpus Christi Bay in South Texas. Fentanyl was the most prevalent of the drugs tested, found in 24 of the samples, the researchers found.

Not only did all of the dead samples test positive for at least one of the drugs, but some of them were from historic samples taken from the Mississippi Sound in 2013, which suggests that the drugs have been in the Gulf of Mexico's waterways for a long period of time, Orbach said.

In addition, dolphins don't drink water, Orbach said. The marine mammal obtains the majority of its hydration from its prey, therefore those animals would likely also have these contaminants in their system.

"So it's possible that this is a widespread and longstanding prevalent issue that simply has not been addressed," she said.

The drugs and other contaminants could be coming from a number of places, including dermal contact or the water itself, Wittmaack said.

Drugs being thrown overboard, since they are located so close to the Mexican border, agricultural runoff, or human wastewater could also be sources of the chemicals, Orbach said.

He's a hateful, far right douche

Normally I wouldn't want to watch a video like this, because I would be very envious.

However, this guy is actually very nice, and it was cool seeing how it works flying on a private jet.

He's only about 32, and he's Australian.

I wish I knew where he started from, but he ended up in Paris.

Also, he was the only person on the plane + 2 pilots and one flight attendant.

Damn, that really is the life.

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.”

The world is going to shit, fast, so regale us with the simple pleasures that are making your life more enjoyable.

For me, I was gifted a bottle of cardamom bitters by a grind and it’s making my midweek Manhattan a bit special.

This wonderful 90 minute exchange between Brian Tyler Cohen and Hakeem Jeffries has provided me with a comfort and a sense of hope that I have not felt since the election. Jeffries is very clear on what went wrong with the 2024 election and what needs to be tweaked for 2026/2028 so that the Dems can connect to more people and switch more people on. For instance he said, "Republicans speak in headlines; Democrats speak in fine print. Democrats can govern in fine print but we need to be speaking to the American people with clear, catchy headlines." He's nailing it. So many wonderful insights. Jeffries is fantastic. If he ever were to run for president, he's got my vote.

Are they bigger, smugger cunts than Germans or is it vice versa?

They made a fucking mess of Indonesia.

More excitement to come I’m sure! I predict another shocking young star death like Liam Payne

00:48 Protester Demands Justice Amidst Daniel Penny Trial By Rachel Dobkin Weekend Reporter FOLLOW Meghan McCain, the daughter of the late Republican Arizona Senator John McCain, warned "the left" on Friday about how much they are "radicalizing people" over their stance on Daniel Penny's manslaughter case.

Penny, a 26-year-old former U.S. Marine, faced manslaughter and criminal negligent homicide charges in the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man who performed as a street artist. In May 2023, Neely, who was Black, was placed in a chokehold by the veteran from Long Island, who is white, after yelling at other passengers about being hungry in a crowded subway car in New York City.

Witnesses said Neely proclaimed that he didn't care if he lived or died and that he wanted to return to jail. Penny and some others said they heard him say he was also ready to kill. Penny, who was already on the train when Neely boarded, approached him from behind and put him in a chokehold. Several minutes of the altercation were caught on bystander video and was a key piece of evidence in the trial.

Neely's killing sparked a heated debate among progressives who felt Neely was unjustly murdered by a vigilante and conservatives who saw Penny as a hero who intervened to protect his fellow New Yorkers.

On Friday afternoon, McCain—whose father was a prisoner of war (POW) when serving in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War—wrote on X, formerly Twitter, "I don't think the left fully grasps how much they are radicalizing people when a marine who saved a bunch of people on the subway from a violent person with mental illness yelling 'someone is going to die today' is demonized. Daniel Penny did nothing wrong, you lunatics."

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.

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

This is sorta hilarious and mostly sad.

So a married couple launched the Muppet History Insta page. Lots of followers, they got to tour the Jim Henson offices, etc., all that.

These two (a man and woman) were really the king and queen of the unfuckables, both bi and both poly apparently. But okay, whatever....

.....until apparently it's revealed that he's sending sexually charged messages to followers.

La publicite! La publicite!

Let’s share some cute/funny/interesting animal videos!

No sweets 🍭 and frozen pizza 🍕 or anything unhealthy. Unfortunately every time I go to Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods I buy snick snaX and cookies/ cakes etc- I’m hoarding them but not eating them-

YET

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.

What are/were your thoughts on this film? It has been rightfully criticized for being on the preachy side, but I think it's a pretty well-made movie, all things considered. It's also notable for featuring one of Streep's most restrained performances. Cher played a convincing dyke in it, and Kurt Russell was gorgeous (I get a kick out of the fact that the thumbnail for the trailer is him shirtless, though I'm not complaining).

I’ve known a few gay men in my life (not related and didn’t know each other) who were over 40 and were still obsessed with going to Disney Land quite frequently. They had no interest in foreign travel but just had to go to Disney.

What is the appeal of this place for someone over 40 with no kids?

I know this is AI but it's funny

This article on Medium about courtesans.

Mine was this guy who looked like Freddy Kruger. He was a mean asshole and everything about him was ugly, inside and out. Even when he took a shit, the smell was so potent it would waft down the hall.

Here's one for A Place In The Sun. :

One of my observations in life has been that people are often willing to tolerate bullshit if it’s not directly affecting them and pushing back is more trouble than it’s worth (like getting cancelled). But once people’s rights or livelihoods are threatened, the tolerance ends.

Trans activists are partly to blame for Kamala’s loss. If the Trump administration or Trump-friendly courts put gay marriage on the chopping block, you’re going to see a lot more gays suddenly being much more vocal about the desire to dissolve the LGBTQ+ union (which was never really voluntary to begin with). “Stronger together” will finally be seen as the farce that it is.

When the number of incoherent social media posts you make to reassure followers you're not crazy reaches double digits, you crazy.

The countdown to 5150 begins here.

Why didn't it work? Were any of the other cast members offered spinoffs?

This is sad. You boys need to rethink your career goals. Most on this list died young.

In this heartfelt tribute, we honor the lives and legacies of 40 gay adult film stars who have sadly passed away. These individuals left a lasting impact on the LGBTQ+ community and the adult entertainment industry. Join us as we remember their stories, celebrate their contributions, and reflect on the influence they had on fans and peers alike.

For Patriots who never back down, Like President Trump. This Scent is Your Rallying Cry in a Bottle. Featuring Trump's Iconic Image and Raised Fist, This Limited-Edition Cologne Embodies Strength, Power, and Victory!

A high-profile violent crime typically sets social media abuzz with tips and theories from amateur internet sleuths, hunting for the alleged perpetrator.

But after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in New York City this week without a primary suspect being identified, a rare occurrence happened in the thriving true-crime world: silence online from highly followed armchair detectives.

“I have yet to see a single video that’s pounding the drum of ‘we have to find him,’ and that is unique,” said Michael McWhorter, better known as TizzyEnt on TikTok, where he posts true crime and viral news content for his 6.7 million followers. “And in other situations of some kind of blatant violence, I would absolutely be seeing that.”

Thompson’s targeted killing has sparked online praise from people angry over the state of U.S. health care. Tens of thousands of people have expressed support on social media for the killing or sympathized with it. Some even appeared to celebrate it.

“The surge of social media posts praising and glorifying the killing of UnitedHealth CEO Brian Thompson is deeply concerning,” Alex Goldenberg, a senior adviser at The Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University previously told NBC News.

In a statement, Thompson’s family said he was “an incredibly loving father” to two sons and “will be greatly missed.”

Still, some of the most popular internet sleuths have sat out the investigation.

“We’re pretty apathetic towards that,” Savannah Sparks, who has 1.3 million followers on her TikTok account — where she tracks down and reveals the identities of people who do racist or seemingly criminal acts in viral videos — said about helping to identify the shooter. She added that, rather than sleuthing, her community has “concepts of thoughts and prayers. It’s, you know, claim denied on my prayers there,” referring to rote and unserious condolences.

Although Sparks, 34, has been tapped by law enforcement in the past to help train officers on how to find suspects online, according to emails seen by NBC News, she said this time she isn’t interested in helping police.

Sparks, who also works in health care as a lactation consultant and holds a doctorate of pharmacy, didn’t mince words when asked if her community was working to find the suspect in Thompson’s murder.

“Absolutely the f--- not,” she said.

Another popular TikTok sleuth, thatdaneshguy, who has 2 million followers on the platform, made a video that was critical of the health care industry, saying that he wouldn’t try to identify the killer. “I don’t have to encourage violence. I don’t have to condone violence by any means. But I also don’t have to help,” he said.

That attitude among some content creators comes amid amplified attention on frustrations with medical care in the U.S. in the wake of the killing.

A Gallup poll released Friday found that Americans believe health care quality is at a 24-year low.

Online sleuths have helped the FBI identify hundreds of Capitol rioters and catch previously arrested Jan. 6 defendants committing crimes that the bureau’s own review had missed, in one case even finding evidence of a Proud Boy assaulting an officer in the middle of his seditious conspiracy trial.

And when Gabby Petito, 22, went missing as she documented her cross-country travels on social media with her fiancé, online sleuths jumped into action. It was later determined that Petito was killed by her fiancé Brian Laundrie, who died by suicide.

At least one person who did try to help find Thompson’s killer was criticized on X, formerly known as Twitter, for doing so.

In a viral post, Riley Walz, a software engineer, said he was “fairly confident” about where the shooter fled to on a bike after scouring data from the Citi Bike’s bikeshare program. He said he shared the information with the police.

Walz declined to comment Friday. Since his post, some X users have called him a “snitch.” McWhorter, or TikTok’s TizzyEnt, said backlash toward those who did try to help might cause others to not want to step in.

I’m a gay woman and when I was 8 years old the dirty old man who owned the corner store sat me on his lap and kissed my mouth. My mother walked in on the scene, screamed at the man and pulled me out of the store and straight to my father’s office. I insisted the man never touched me but my parents forced me to endure a pelvic exam that night by a doctor I didn’t know. I cried and begged them not to but it happened anyway. I then appeared before a Grand Jury and was grilled until I cried, repeating over and over that he didn’t touch me. I’m much older now and lately I’m having the thought that my parents’ behavior was abusive. Does it matter, at this late date? Still, I’d like your opinion, Dl.

President-elect Trump tapped financial software giant CEO Frank Bisignano late Wednesday to lead the Social Security Administration (SSA) in his second administration.

“Frank is a business leader, with a tremendous track record of transforming large corporations,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “He will be responsible to deliver on the Agency’s commitment to the American People for generations to come!”

Bisignano serves as the CEO of fintech and payment processing company Fiserv. In the past, he served as chief operating officer at JPMorgan Chase.

In his announcement, Trump noted that the businessman has a “long career” leading various financial services through “great transformation.”

The president-elect promised on the campaign trail to slash Social Security taxes. However, experts have raised concerns about the costs of scrapping income taxes on Social Security checks and how the program’s finances would be impacted.

The combined trust funds for retirement and disability benefits under SSA are expected to run out in 2035. But experts warn that Trump’s proposals could drain them by 2031 and lead to an increase in the agency’s deficit by $2.3 trillion.

Bisignano secured one of the most coveted positions in New York’s finance world by his late 20s. He became the senior vice president of the former Shearson Lehman Brothers, which was an investment bank that collapsed in 2008 and helped set off the recession, The New York Times reported.

He was listed as the second highest-paid chief executive in the country in 2017, making more than $100 million that year. He made more than 2,000 times the salary of an average employee he oversaw, a previous Times analysis found.

Bisignano has a history of donating to Republican candidates, including former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) — who ran against Trump in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections — the Times reported.

He makes for a great Santa Claus.

Conservatives on social media blasted former President Obama after his first speech since the presidential election in which he lamented polarization in politics.

During a speech Thursday at the Obama Foundation's Democracy Forum, Obama made the case that if "one side" attempts to cement "a permanent grip on power" through "suppressing votes," "politicizing" the military or weaponizing the judiciary and criminal justice system to target opponents, "a line has been crossed."

"Pluralism is not about holding hands and singing ‘Kumbaya,’" Obama said. "It is not about abandoning your convictions and folding when things get tough. It is about recognizing that, in a democracy, power comes from forging alliances and building coalitions and making room in those coalitions not only for the woke, but the waking.

Obama’s speech quickly drew strong criticism from conservatives.

"It’s over for Obama," journalist Miranda Devine posted on X. "The spell is broken. Donald Trump vanquished him, Biden, Harris, the Bushes, the Cheneys. All of them, with a spring in his step."

"Ever since his last minute desperate smear of Trump with the ‘very fine people on both sides’ lie, Barack Obama has been slowing realizing his status as false prophet of the Democrat party is no more," conservative radio host Buck Sexton posted on X.

"Obama turned our politics into ‘if you disagree with me, you are a bad person,’" Republican communicator Matt Whitlock posted on X. "Few people did more to pave the way for Trump. So he can take a seat."

"By voting in a democratic election, millions of people proved they hate democracy," author Jon Gabriel posted on X. "Yes, this Obama fellow is quite the intellect."

"Setting aside the unbelievable hypocrisy here, this is also the guy who’s launching a project to lessen our political divisions. Being the problem — way up on his high horse, looking down disappointedly at the unwashed masses — while publicly lamenting the problem is peak Obama," Fox News contributor Guy Benson posted on X.

Obama, in his remarks, insisted he is "convinced that if we want democracy as we understand it to survive," people must work for a renewed dedication to pluralist principles.

"Because the alternative is what we've seen here in the United States and in many democracies around the globe. Not just more gridlock. Not just public cynicism. But an increasing willingness" among "politicians and their followers to violate democratic norms. To do anything they can to get their way. To use the power of the state to target critics and journalists and political rivals and to even resort to violence" to obtain and retain power.

He seemed pretty gay in the 80s to me, but not gay in an "I'd like to see him naked" kind of way.

I'm not complaining as I like the scruff.

What do you think?

A former Trump administration official thinks Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) could make a formidable candidate for president, warning Republicans not to underestimate her.

Monica Crowley, former assistant secretary of public affairs at the Treasury Department, discussed the progressive lawmaker’s capabilities Friday night on Fox News’ The Ingraham Angle.

Guest host Lisa Boothe first noted how Ocasio-Cortez asked constituents who voted for her but not for Vice President Kamala Harris why they did so. Some mentioned the economy, a need for “change,” and the war in Gaza, as well as the feeling that Ocasio-Cortez and Donald Trump don’t represent “the establishment.”

“She did this Instagram thing where she reached out to her voters and split-ticket voters for Trump, asking them why they split the ticket, and a lot of them said they like her accessibility. She’s doing these Instagram Lives, and we saw that with Donald Trump as well—being willing to sit down with Joe Rogan, going on X, doing these three-hour interviews,“ Boothe said.

“Is it fair to rule her out, or is there something there for her?” she asked Crowley.

Ocasio-Cortez has “tremendous grassroots support,” Crowley responded, adding that the congresswoman “was an early adopter of social media” and that she has continued to “connect directly with voters.”

Crowley framed the 2024 election as the country doing away with “wokeness” and said she doubted that in four years’ time the populace would reverse course.

“However,” she continued, “just a word of warning to the Republicans, to my party: Do not underestimate AOC. She’s young, she’s vibrant, she’s attractive. I think she’s wrong on everything, but she does have real grassroots support, and all of the energy and activism in the Democratic Party remains with the revolutionary left, of which she is a part.”

“So,” Crowley concluded, “every time the Republicans have underestimated the Democrats, we ended up with Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden. So, let’s not do it again in four years.”

OMFG, He's lost it. Ranting and raving about about how everyone else in the media does it. "it's called on background everyone does the same thing, it's all lies" bla, bla bla. Mika snickering at the camera how smart she thinks her soon to be out of a job husband is. "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" Seriously? Quoting Kennedy? Comparing themselves to a president?

These two just don't know how to read the room.

Sad.

The sudden decision by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol to declare martial law on Tuesday made international news, bringing new attention to a controversial legal topic with a long history in the United States.

Though it's not well defined in U.S. law, martial law could be declared in the U.S., and has been imposed relatively rarely in the country's history during times of war, unrest and natural disaster.

While the specifics vary in different countries and localities, martial law generally allows for the military to control civilians temporarily during times of emergency. During these times, people's ordinary rights may be restricted.

Here's what to know about martial law in the U.S.:

Martial law is not defined in the Constitution or in any law passed by Congress, according to the Brennan Center for Justice. Rather, it is a legal theory that usually refers to when "the military has taken the place of the civilian government," the Brennan Center said, not just times when military is deployed to assist civilian authorities, such as during response to a natural disaster.

States and the federal government have imposed martial law 68 times in the nation's history, according to the Brennan Center. But such a declaration at the federal level hasn't been made since the 1940s.

"It's really an alien concept" in the U.S., William Banks, a Syracuse University College of Law Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor, previously told USA TODAY.

The president can also invoke the Insurrection Act, a law that allows the president to deploy the military specifically to curb rebellion. The Insurrection Act is not the same thing as martial law, because it typically involves military assisting law enforcement, not replacing them.

Martial law has been imposed in the U.S. during times of war, natural disaster and unrest. It has been more common at the state level than the federal level, and has included varying levels of military authority, according to the Brennan Center.

In 1814, then Gen. Andrew Jackson declared martial law in New Orleans, the first such declaration in U.S. history. At the time, Jackson was preparing for an invasion of the British army, but continued martial law for months even after winning the Battle of New Orleans. During that time, a senator was arrested after penning an opinion opposing the ongoing martial law in a newspaper. When a judge demanded the senator be either formally charged with a crime or released, Jackson ordered the judge also jailed and later banished him from the city.

During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln invoked martial law more than once, including in Kentucky in 1864, which lasted over a year.

One Colorado governor, James Peabody, declared martial law in several counties during the so-called Colorado labor wars between 1902 and 1904.

Hawaii was under martial law for three years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Beginning in 1941 in the then-territory, courts were replaced by military tribunals, strict curfews were enforced and people were even banned from photographing coastal areas. It was the last time martial law was declared at the federal level.

We just ordered Japanese to be delivered. It's a local, independently-owned restaurant and their food sucks.

My boyfriend wants to leave nuclear posts about the restaurant, and I'm telling him "no". The food didn't taste like it was undercooked or spoiled or anything. And it arrived on time and hot.

I gotta guess it's hard on small, independent businesses. And we can make tater tots and everyone will be happy enough.

in the grip of my hand as I pump my cock. Jacking off to my videos of the guys that suck my dick gets me hot, horny, and ready for me to erupt! I love the attention I'm giving to my cock, ensuring to release huge loads!

Paul Newman is considered to be one of the great sex symbols of all time, but in his posthumous memoir, the actor admitted that women didn't always think so highly of him.

In the mid-'80s, the legendary actor began compiling an oral history about his life and career, conducting interviews with friends, family, and himself where his only rule of thumb was they had to be “completely honest.” Those long-last recordings were eventually recovered and compiled in a new book, The Extraordinary Life of An Ordinary Man: A Memoir, due out later this month. In the memoir, per People, Newman examines his relationship to his own sexuality and his feeling that, despite being viewed as a heartthrob by women everywhere thanks to films like Cool Hand Luke, The Hustler, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he didn't actually feel sexy until he met his wife, Joanne Woodward. He explained, “Joanne gave birth to a sexual creature. We left a trail of lust all over the place. Hotels and public parks and Hertz Rent-A-Cars.”

The Oscar winner goes on to explain how insecure he was growing up in Shaker Heights, Ohio, especially when it came to girls. Newman was so petite as an adolescent that he had to get permission to play on the high school football team, an experience that shook his confidence. “Girls thought I was a joke. A happy buffoon,” he said. But everything changed once he met Woodward. He explained, “I went from being not much of a sexual threat to something else entirely.”

Newman and Woodward first met in 1953 when they were both understudies in the Broadway play Picnic. The Sting star was married at the time to his first wife, Jackie Witte, with whom he had three young kids, Scott, Susan, and Stephanie. But he was unable to deny his attraction to Woodward and the pair began a tumultuous affair that he describes in the book as "brutal in my detachment from my family." Eventually, he would divorce Witte in 1958 and quickly wed Woodward. In the memoir, he describes returning to their new Beverly Hills home one night to discover that she had fixed up a room off the master bedroom with a double bed she bought from a thrift shop and a fresh coat of paint. “'I call it the Fuck Hut,' she said proudly. It had been done with such affection and delight. Even if my kids came over, we'd go into the Fuck Hut several nights a week and just be intimate and noisy and ribald,” Newman wrote. The couple would go on to have three daughters of their own, Nell, Melissa, and Claire, and move to Westport, Connecticut.

But while their romance was one for the history books, Newman and Woodward still faced plenty of ups and downs in their relationship, often due to the actor's heavy drinking. He recalls in the book, “Joanne and I still drive each other crazy in different ways. But all the misdemeanors, the betrayals, the difficulties have kind of evened themselves out over the years.” Their daughter Claire also told the outlet that it's true her parents “fought and it could be dramatic, but they also fought really hard to stay together. They didn't walk. There were times it was pretty close but they worked hard at it. Ultimately they came together.” She added that this memoir gives her late father the opportunity to let others see him how he saw himself, concluding, “He was doing this for us so he could clear up the fairy tale and tell the real story.”

I have a basement full of dead trannies and they’re starting to stink. I need to get them out of here,

- Blue is the warmest colour

- Eli Roth's knock knock

- Call me by your name

What else?

House Speaker Mike Johnson said he wants funding for Planned Parenthood and PBS to be on the chopping block next year as Republicans ramp up their plan to scale back the federal government during President-elect Donald Trump’s second administration. “I would like to, that’s for sure,” Johnson responded when asked during an interview with Fox News host Martha MacCallum whether he was planning to “axe” them.

The party is putting an emphasis on cutting the size and influence of the federal government, including through Trump’s new effort, dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency or DOGE, led by businessmen Elon Musk and Viviek Ramaswamy. Planned Parenthood in particular has long been a target of Republicans for the fact that abortions are one of the many different services it provides. He said that the Trump White House will have “broad authority” to act on government downsizing efforts themselves, predicting some of it will be done unilaterally through executive orders.

194 million views on YouTube. Number 2 in the UK charts.

Go George!

Head, face, hand and back massage. A hair wash and a lovely blowjob of the hair.

That guy must have felt like a million dollars after this.

I don’t see them much. Skinning animals for their fur is utterly cruel.

Men wearing fur coats was always a laughable trend

Continuing our discussion originally started by Voice of the Night.

Prior thread:

Law enforcement reminds the public it's hella hard to find criminals, particularly when no one cares that much.

Apparently breaking into phones isn't that easy anymore, DNA samples are not that easy to obtain, facial recognition software is problematic and Central Park, where the suspect fled to, is the size of Monaco.

Alexander Nicholas Fanjul viciously beat his girlfriend because the two were earlier seated next to a gay couple at a swanky steakhouse, according to authorities. “This is like the worst week I’ve ever had in my life,” he's heard saying while being placed in a cell.

Too bad he's straight!

He was mentioned on the thread "Conservative Pundit Can't Define ‘Woke’ During Interview About Her Book On Wokeness". Surprisingly he's married to a woman.

Do any of you know him or heard rumors about him?

It's only $405 for that special someone!

I wish there was more proof...

Now that Matt Gaetz is gone.

The reason I ask is because my partner is a Filipino nurse and he always says - somewhat jokingly but with some truth behind it - “don’t mess with the Filipino mafia at work because they will come after you and gang up on you.”

I’m not a nurse so I don’t know, but my partner’s sister and all her friends are also nurses and they seem vicious.

I prefer to use clippers on my bush since I’m cut loosely so the long hairs get caught under the skin.

Are your favorites mentioned?

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?

Oh he’s deep in the fashion world, huh?

After nearly 25 years as a New York Times Opinion columnist, Paul Krugman announced Friday that he plans to retire from the gig at the end of the year.

The American economist and Nobel laureate has been a fixture at the paper since his first column on Jan. 2, 2000, where he predicted the beginning of the “Second Global Economy” steered by American ideals and the promise of globalization.

Krugman won a Nobel prize in 2008 for his analysis of economies of scale and their impacts on world trade.

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I can hear them fighting and her yelling and screaming all the time. Should I call the police or should I just let it go because Allah wills it?

Nothing lasts forever.

Gen X was born in the years spanning from 1965 to 1980, making its members between 44 and 59 years old. They’ve traded in skate parks for office jobs, establishing themselves as undeniably grown. Gen Xers are no longer the disillusioned, shaggy-haired rebels they once were. They're now parents who shepherded their kids from school to soccer practice and traded in their flannels for newer flannels. At this stage in the game, many of the things that once commanded respect for Gen X are now almost meaningless.

Technology has advanced so quickly that pretty much anything that was considered cutting-edge during Gen X’s youth is now obsolete. There’s been a sea change in social values. Important cultural markers don’t hold the weight they once did, and now, they’re hidden in Gen X’s collective memory, just like their Sega cartridges, sitting in boxes in their basement along with their hazy recollection of a time long past.

I want to douse as many people with my sperm as possible

Police had to break up a brawl between sex workers from Thailand and the Philippines.

TMZ reports that the incident happened on Monday in Bangkok’s Red Light District when an apparent turf war broke out between the two warring factions. Cops arrived at a popular hotel on Sukhumvit Road after receiving a call about a dispute between some Filipino sex workers, who allegedly stole customers from a Thai sex worker.

When officers brought some of the sex workers out of the building, a large crowd had gathered outside and a clash ensued—with police even getting caught up in the mix. Everyone was fighting each other in the chaotic mess. When it was finally over, all involved came out with a fair amount of bruises and scrapes.

According to the outlet, some of the sex workers were arrested for not having the proper paperwork to work in the country.

Is it not enough that they’ve completely taken over Gay Pride Month and re-written gay history In addition to owning 95% of June they get to have their own exclusive month as well?

Why did Gavin “Kill-Joyle” Screwsom think this was necessary?

Jack Schlossberg wants his followers to know that he didn’t just pass the bar on his first try.

The 31-year-old son of Caroline Kennedy and only grandson of President John F. Kennedy passed the New York state bar exam in February 2023, but in a new social media post on Dec. 5, he elaborated on his impressive results.

“A lot of people ask me if I passed the bar exam on the first try,” Schlossberg wrote on X (formerly Twitter). “I did and I scored 332 in New York state which may have put me in the top 1% of test takers.”

He claimed that while New York doesn’t release the official percentile of those who pass the bar, “based on historical data it’s not unlikely that I was in the 99th percentile.”

According to a graph from the National Conference of Bar Examiners, only 1.1% of test takers from the February 2023 exam received a score of 330 and above, which would suggest that Schlossberg is roughly around the 99th percentile nationally if he received a score of 332.

Schlossberg isn’t the first in his famous family to pass the bar. His mother, now the U.S. ambassador to Australia, passed the New York bar exam in 1989. His uncle, John F. Kennedy Jr., famously failed the New York bar exam twice before ultimately passing on his third try in 1990.

Back in October 2023, Schlossberg spoke with PEOPLE about the accomplishment, saying at the time, “It feels great. Thank you.”

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.

And it's not as bad as you think.

One mall is actually thriving in the center of the city.

He's one of my favorite YouTubers.