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

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

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

Known for several TV characters including Dynasty's chauffeur, but best known as Roman Brady on Days of our Lives.

For whatever reason that are personal to you. Don't feel inclined to say why if you don't want to, just name them at least.

I'm watching Star Trek: Next Generation. It's the one where Data creates Lal, his daughter, and when she actually starts to FEEL, she shorts out and dies.

I'm not sure why, but it makes me cry any time I come across it.

Donald Trump was quick to react to news of Hunter Biden’s presidential pardon on Sunday night, blasting the decision as “an abuse and miscarriage of Justice.”

In a short post to his social media platform less than an hour after the official announcement, the president mused over pardons for those convicted in the violent insurrection on January 6 2021.

“Does the Pardon given by Joe to Hunter include the J-6 Hostages, who have now been imprisoned for years? Such an abuse and miscarriage of Justice!” he wrote.

Many commentators have speculated that Trump will pardon many of the people who were arrested for their role in the riot at the Capitol in 2021 as soon as he returns to office in January.

More than 1,500 people have been charged in connection with the incident, during which Trump whipped a group of his supporters into a frenzy nearly four years ago.

Trump launched his general election campaign in March by not merely trying to rewrite the history of that riot, but positioning the violent siege and failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House.

As part of that, he called the rioters “unbelievable patriots” and promised to help them “the first day we get into office.

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

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

In a statement the president said that his son had been “selectively, and unfairly, prosecuted” by the Justice Department and that he hoped the American people would understand his decision as a father.

The pardon comes less than two weeks ahead of Hunter’s sentencing on December 12 for his conviction on federal gun charges back in June. He was also set to be sentenced in a separate criminal case on December 16, after pleading guilty in September to federal tax evasion charges.

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

Lucky girl, born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

[Quote]The real truth about my life and sexuality is that, man I’m just figuring it out like everyone. I don’t really know sometimes and I know other times. It feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that.

I'll start.

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

Isn't it festive.

I have a small apartment. I keep a bat next to the front door as it’s less stabby than a knife.

I’ve put a long sock on the end of the bat as recommended and it makes me feel safe.

Please remember; we stab with a bat. Swinging requires space and gives intruders time to do other stuff.

The sock keeps them from grabbing our pokey stick.

Remember: stab at the gut. They will grab. Let them have the sock and then stab again repeatedly.

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.

Is he not the best actor of his generation? He just has IT.

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

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

Previous thread posted below.

.....of lake effect snow!

Holy shit.

Looks amazing!

A pizza doesn’t scream when it goes through the oven.

Birds & bees, etc.

We gays fought for ourselves and our right to live with our same sex partners without discrimination. We didn’t fight for your right to annoy everyone with your pronouns and gender identity. We don’t care about you, never have, and never will!

Their influence and media footprint seem to be rapidly fading. It seems like people are really indifferent and uninterested in them now. Their old tricks aren’t working anymore, no one cares. The witch spells are waning. No one is going to follow butch North’s every move.

Democrats want Vice President Kamala Harris to stop asking her supporters for money after she reportedly raised $1.4bn for her campaign and ended it with $20m in debt.

“I understand that the Harris campaign is in a very difficult position with the debt that they have, and so sometimes you just have to make practical decisions,” Mike Nellis, founder of the Democratic digital firm Authentic, told Politico. “But yeah, I think that stuff like that erodes trust.”

It’s not uncommon for presidential candidates to end their campaigns in debt. Hillary Clinton ended her 2008 campaign with $25m in debt and Barack Obama ended his 2012 campaign with $6.8m. The debts were settled in 2013 and 2018 respectively.

Harris’s campaign is attempting to raise funds for costs associated with ending the presidential bid, like maintaining staff, closing offices and ensuring financial reports are in compliance, the outlet reported.

Some of the emails being sent out by the campaign state: “Even a quick donation of $50 is enough to help us in this fight” and “And with only hours left to hit our goal today, NOW is the best time to rush your support.”

Canceling out campaign debt can come with some challenges due to limits on campaign contributions. It’s been reported that Harris’s campaign spent $551m on digital and TV ads.

The emails to supporters are raising cash for a joint fundraising committee affiliated with her campaign. The money will first go through the DNC, then the campaign’s recount account, and then to state parties, according to Politico. The committee will pay for expenses before the transfers happen.

Democratic watchers worry that Harris could be destroying relationships with donors by asking them to give her money after she raised millions within the first week of her campaign, eventually bringing in more than $1bn.

James Zogby, a DNC member who is vying for the committee’s vice chair position, said that the messages were not a “good look” and that the party’s donation solicitations can have a “begging” tone.

I really like her.

I'm not sure why, but I just find her fascinating.

A very unlikely and improbable world leader.

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

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.

I am color television!

Months after running an internal pressure campaign that nudged President Joe Biden out of the 2024 election, former House Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is plotting another ouster within the Democratic Party.

The representative for California’s 11th congressional district—who stepped down as Leader of the House Democratic Caucus last year after two decades—is targeting the top member of her party on the Judiciary Committee, Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), the New York Times reported.

Pelosi is among a group of Democrats privately urging 61-year-old Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to challenge Nadler, 77, for his post. Raskin is thinking about it, though hasn’t made up his mind and must weigh the fact that he and Nadler are friends, congressional colleagues told the Times.

Pelosi’s effort is part of an existential rethink among congressional Democrats, who are concerned their oldest members are not best suited to take on President-elect Donald Trump’s vociferous MAGA allies in Congress.

While Nadler has no apparent health issues, Democrats are still shaken by the decline of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died at age 90 last year, months after taking a leave of the party’s top Judiciary post in the Upper Chamber and long after she had exhibited signs of cognitive impairment.

Trump’s MAGA acolytes in Congress will be expected to help carry out the president-elect’s combative approach to law and order. The top Republican in the House Judiciary Committee is Jim Jordan (R-OH), a founder of the populist and MAGA-friendly Freedom Caucus.

The Times said Raskin, am off-the-cuff debater compared to the talking points-wedded Nadler, is viewed by disgruntled Democrats as better positioned to lead the opposition on the all-important committee.

Nadler isn’t the only ranking Democrat under the microscope. The Times reported Rep. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), 76, the top party member on the Natural Resources Committee, and Rep. David Scott (D-GA), 79, the top party member on the Agriculture Committee, are facing challenges from younger house members.

According to Jonathan Alter’s book American Reckoning, Pelosi “wasn’t happy that the only bloody fingerprints on the knife were hers“ after she played a key role in ousting Biden. She did so first by pressuring him behind the scenes and, when that didn’t work, by making public a cryptic message that time was ”running short" for Biden to make up his mind about staying in the race.

After he dropped out, Pelosi trashed his team. “I’ve never been that impressed with his political operation,” she said, in an interview with The New Yorker. “They won the White House. Bravo. But my concern was: this ain’t happening, and we have to make a decision for this to happen.”

Our poor brothers & sisters to the north can't even get their mail delivered from inside Canada.

He gave it a bad haircut and might have even killed it.

The neighborhood is stunned and angry!

Dead of pancreatic cancer just one day shy of his 71st birthday.

Family statement: “It’s with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Drake Hogestyn. He was thrown the curve ball of his life when he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, but he faced the challenge with incredible strength and determination. After putting up an unbelievable fight, he passed peacefully surrounded by loved ones.

He was the most amazing husband, father, papa, and actor. He loved performing for the Days audience and sharing the stage with the greatest cast, crew, and production team in the business.

We love him and we will miss him all the Days of our Lives.” -The Hogestyn Family

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

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.

Anybody watched it yet?

They don't all have to be Christmas movies.

During the month of December my favorite movies to watch are (in no particular order):

1-Planes, Trains & Automobiles

2-Uncle Buck

3-White Christmas

4-Home Alone

5-Home Alone 2

6-Mary Poppins

7-National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

8-The Polar Express

9-Mrs. Doubtfire

10-Ratatouille

I can see why.

Doug Savant is opening up about the off screen challenges he faced during his time on Melrose Place.

"When we were shooting all those things and the trailers for the show, I said to Sam, our publicist, 'Do you care to talk about how we're going to handle this going forward, that there was a gay character?'" he told his former costars Laura Leighton, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Daphne Zuniga on their Still The Place podcast. "I knew it was exceptional, and I thought people would be interested. But she goes, 'Well, no, it's not a big deal. You're an actor, you're just playing a character.' And I said, 'Oh, clearly she doesn't get it.'"

Savant played the gay character Matt Fielding on six of Melrose Place's seven seasons, but in real life, he's straight. He intuited before anyone else that therein might lie a problem. Eventually, he was called into a meeting with Melrose Place creator Darren Star and the show's PR team, who told him, "'We don't see why it's a big deal. Why wouldn't you just say, 'Well, it shouldn't matter, but I'm heterosexual.' I said 'No.' I was not going to make my living playing a gay man, but then say, 'Oh, I would never be associated with that.'"

Matt Fielding avoided some of the stereotypical issues that plague queer characters in media — his storylines weren't racked with tragedy, he wasn't a self-hating closet case, and he wasn't the undeveloped gay best friend. But Savant was notoriously never given a love scene — his character never even kissed another man across six seasons. A same-sex kiss was planned for a 1994 episode, but the network reportedly got cold feet at the last minute, and cut away to another character's reaction to the kiss to illustrate the kiss itself.

Savant provided crucial context for the contemporary pressure surrounding this character, noting "he was the only gay character at that time in television. We had had Billy Crystal [in Soap], we were about to have Mitchell Anderson on Party of Five, and Bill Brochtrup, a friend of mine, on NYPD Blue. But at the time, [Matt] was the only one. So there was an enormous amount of interest."

Savant is forgetting a few other notable predecessors, like Al Corley's character on Dynasty and Wilson Cruz's character on My So-Called Life, which was the first queer character to be played by an openly queer actor. But his point is well-taken; with so few representatives of a vulnerable demographic in the TV landscape, the pressure was on to accord the character his requisite dignity.

How did Savant go about that? "I went out and I was asked, in every conceivable way, whether I was straight or gay. And I would then say, 'Well, it's interesting, just that that's the assumption... No one asked [Andrew Shue], 'You're playing Billy, does that mean you're straight?'" Then when asked "'What do you have in common with the character?' I'd say, 'Well, we're the same height and we both have a sense of humor.'"

Savant feels that the show's handlers and producers thought "it would be somehow more palatable to the American public if they could avail themselves of the reality that I was actually a straight man. And I thought that was morally reprehensible... I just couldn't morally bring myself to say, 'I'm going to come to work and I'm going to play this character, but I should distance myself from it.' My intention with Matt was to say he is your son, he is your brother, he is your friend. He is every man, he's your neighbor. He's a regular guy who happens to be gay."

Despite having a relatively barren love life, Fielding was given some of the series' most impactful storylines, from facing workplace discrimination to seeking justice for a hate crime.

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

¯_(ツ)_/¯

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

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)

He's expected to make the announcement tonight.

Very entrepreneural with a love for the bright lights and stardust of Hollywood. Her need for star fucking also checks a couple of DL boxes. Such a shame she was killed by an unknown assailant...

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

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.........

I'm the grittiness

I've always wondered why...

I’m looking for a serious discussion here, not a “bash the young people” thread.

I’m guessing it was just that society progressed to a point that people got too comfortable and now they can’t handle anything. My mother didn’t care if I got beaten up at school, but it wasn’t until long after I was out of high school that anti-bullying became a thing.

When I did my MBA a few years ago we had to take sexual assault prevention training. There was a section about “sexual assault” where the narrator literally said “if this topic makes you uncomfortable, you can skip to the next section.” I couldn’t believe it. If you’re going to be an adult, you need to accept that things happen. And what if your friend is sexually assaulted and they come to you for help because they don’t know what to do? Don’t you need to know what to do to help them?

She makes some valid points.

They are best friends and she fears their relationship is like one of those books about a male and female being best friends and people thinking they are a couple but they aren’t.

Everyone in her comments is telling her she better bag that before someone else does and she looks back and regrets it because your best friend usually makes the best partner in the long haul. Plus he’s a cutie. They also feel he probably likes her which is why he’s always doing these friend dates but isn’t sure if she likes him.

I agree.

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.

Well?

Then, in an odd exchange, Putin mentioned Sergei Lavrov, his chain-smoking, hard-line foreign minister. “Lavrov just returned from London and had problems with his cheeks and lips being swollen,” Putin told Bush. “We might need to take a closer look at what Condi did to him.”

Bush, awkwardly, played along with what seemed to be a bizarre form of xesual innuendo. “Condi is not blind,” he joked.

“And she is a very attractive lady,” Putin replied.

“She is a wonderful lady,” Bush said, then tried to move the conversation along. “Listen, I’d like to get this WTO stuff done in the next couple weeks before we get to St. Petersburg.”

We need a distraction from our current catastrophe. What are your most hated commercials? Are Christina and her Jacuzzi bath remodels still annoying the hell out of you?

The ones that bug me the most right now are the life insurance commercials where the wives are always nagging the husbands to get life insurance.

What's wrong with you doing it, bitch? You too fucking lazy? Fuck right the hell off!

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?

I'm Basic Instinct 2

A trio of blockbusters — “Moana 2,” “Wicked” and “Gladiator II” — are fueling a record-breaking Thanksgiving bounty.

Overall domestic box office receipts between Wednesday and Sunday amounted to $420 million, the biggest Thanksgiving haul in history.

It obliterated the previous benchmark of $315 million, set by 2018’s slate of “Ralph Breaks the Internet,” “Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald” and “Creed II.”

Since the pandemic, though, Turkey Day has been all famine and no feast at the box office. The holiday hasn’t topped $200 million since 2019 and plummeted in 2023 to a record low of just $125 million across all films, including Disney’s “Wish,” “Hunger Games” prequel “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and Ridley Scott’s historical drama “Napoleon.”

Box office experts believe the rebound in attendance is thanks to effective counter programming — and notably of movies that audiences actually wanted to watch in theaters.

“Moana 2” brought out families in droves while “Wicked” appealed to women old and young, and “Gladiator II” mostly courted men of all ages.

For a while, one-off successes like March’s “Dune: Part Two,” June’s “Inside Out 2” and July’s “Despicable Me 4” and “Deadpool & Wolverine” were steamrolling the movie theater landscape. (“Barbenheimer,” the nickname for last year’s phenomenon of back-to-back screenings of “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer,” was more the exception than the rule.) So it’s encouraging to see that not just one or two but three major movies have managed to sell a meaningful number of tickets over the holiday. Positive reviews and strong word-of-mouth are benefitting the triumvirate of films.

“Since the pandemic, we’ve seen that every demographic has come back to the movies. This indicates that every demographic will come back to the movies at the same time,” says Disney’s head of global theatrical distribution Tony Chambers.

Disney’s sequel to 2016’s “Moana,” which was originally developed for streaming before pivoting to theaters, devoured the competition with $135 million over the traditional weekend and $221 million during the five-day holiday frame. That registers as the biggest Thanksgiving frame by a nautical mile, overtaking 2019’s Disney sequel “Frozen II” ($125 million over the five days) and 2013’s “Hunger Games: Catching Fire” ($109 million over the five days).

Universal’s big-budget adaptation of the musical “Wicked” wasn’t too far behind on domestic charts with $80 million over the traditional weekend and $117.5 million during the Wednesday-to-Sunday stretch. The film, starring Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, has grossed $262 million domestically and $359 million after 10 days in theaters.

“Gladiator II” took the No. 3 spot with $30.7 million over the traditional weekend and $44 million during the five days. The movie, directed by Ridley Scott and led by Paul Mescal, has generated $111.2 million domestically and $320 million worldwide so far.

Combined ticket sales for the three films accounted for 75% of all showtimes and helped to shrink the year-to-date deficit from 10.6% to 6.4% compared to 2023, according to Comscore. Overall revenues remain behind 2019 by roughly 24%, though this week narrowed the gap by 2.5%.

“It’s an encouraging sign that if you have the perfect combination of films at the right time, the marketplace will expand to accommodate them,” says senior Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. “This runs counter to the traditional wisdom of the industry that generally likes to put some breathing space between blockbusters, even those that seemingly have little in common. But this may change after the events of the past week.”

Hollywood needs that momentum to offset a potentially muted December at the box office. The 2024 film calendar is lagging in terms of the volume of new releases after last year’s dual labor strikes halted production and pushed major movies into 2025 and beyond.

I paid to watch this Russell Crowe film online last night and this movie is trash. If you do watch this prepared to be bored out of your mind.

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

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

She looks great! Didn’t age a bit. What’s her secret?

Who are your favorite sexy male wrestlers?

Post your favorites.

Go.

As Americans continue to grapple with the results of the 2024 election, "Full House" actress Candace Cameron Bure is leaning on her faith in God and encouraging others to approach policy issues from a "biblical perspective."

In an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, Cameron Bure further detailed what it means to "vote like Jesus" – a personal motto she shared on social media ahead of the election that helped her navigate which direction she should cast her vote in on Nov 5 of this year.

"You have two candidates that are really the viable options you can write in, of course. But God's not going to be surprised either way, no matter who wins. So let God's will be done. That's what I mean by it," she said.

The actress took to social media to encourage others to "look at the policies" rather than "pick apart" each candidate's character.

"It's our duty as Americans to go out and vote," she wrote. "And, you know, there's never going to be two perfect candidates. And everyone is flawed, not just our presidential candidates, but every single one of us."

The actress revealed that she resorts to the Bible for navigating policy issues, saying that she turns to the Scriptures to "break it down."

"I look at the issues from a biblical perspective. So, that's why I said 'vote like Jesus,'" Cameron Bure added.

According to a poll taken earlier this year, a whopping eight out of 10 Americans believe religion's influence in America is declining.

That means as much as 80 percent of U.S. adults think religion is losing its influence on American life, The Pew Research Center's 2024 survey discovered.

Another Pew poll, released the some month, suggested that while Trump voters don't necessarily believe he's very religious, they believe he fights for religious communities.

Fox News Digital posed a significant question to the "Full House" star, asking if the results — including Donald Trump's White House victory and Republicans taking full control of Congress — were "proof" that faith is making a comeback.

"Yes. I think everyone was blown away by this election. It was just a red sweep and more shocking than a lot of people realized," she said.

"I think that a lot of people have had a hard time in the last four years trying to buy groceries. So, there's a lot, a lot of things. I mean, I could go off on it," she added. "I kind of put my political opinions aside in a more gentle way since co-hosting 'The View.'"

President-elect Trump's announcement of Kash Patel being nominated as the new FBI director continued to elicit strong opinions from experts and lawmakers on the Sunday shows.

In a Truth Social post on Saturday, Trump announced his intent to replace current FBI Director Christopher Wray, who Trump hired during his first term. Since then, media outlets have labeled Patel an "extremely controversial pick" because of his opposition to the "deep state."

Left-wing commentators showed concern over the politicization of the FBI and whether Patel would be a Trump "enforcer" who’d "dismantle" the agency.

Former Obama administration official Juliette Kayyem claimed Patel was chosen only to go after Trump’s political enemies.

"Patel has no other agenda but revenge. I mean, it‘s not like he has a theory of law enforcement, a theory of reducing crime or financial crimes. He exists for one reason, and he‘s close to Trump for one reason, which is he will be the enforcer of what might be called sort of the revenge tour of this second term. So it‘s not really a matter of, what do I think or what should people think. He is appointed for this purpose," Kayyem said.

Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., accused Trump of being resentful of Wray showing too much "independence" and "objectivity" in his job and denied any politicization by the current administration.

"I haven‘t seen what the proof is that the FBI has been weaponized against a political party or the Department of Justice. Of course, this Department of Justice has brought charges against a Democratic U.S. senator in New Jersey, a Democratic congressman in Texas. And so some people just seem to think that it should go only in one direction. And if it doesn‘t, then somehow it‘s politicized. And I think that‘s what they mean when they talk about politicization in the deep state. I mean, the deep state? Nobody‘s ever defined it. Apparently, it just means anybody who doesn‘t do the will of Donald Trump," Raskin said on CNN’s "State of the Union" Sunday.

White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan also denied any politicization within the FBI and criticized Trump for wanting to replace Wray before he finished his term.

"The current FBI director, Chris Wray, was actually appointed by Donald Trump. Joe Biden didn’t fire him," Sullivan said to Kristen Welker on NBC’s "Meet the Press. "He relied upon him to execute his responsibilities as the director of the FBI, and allowed him to serve out the fullness of his term over the course of the Biden administration. That’s how we approach things, and we would like to ensure that the FBI remains an independent institution insulated from politics."

Republicans, however, had a more positive response to Patel’s nomination.

On Saturday night, Andrew McCabe, who briefly served as acting FBI director under Trump in 2017 and was deputy director, went viral after he called Patel's nomination "a plan to disrupt, to dismantle, to distract the FBI."

"It's a terrible development for the men and women of the FBI and also for the nation that depends on a highly functioning, professional, independent Federal Bureau of Investigation," McCabe said on CNN. "The fact that Kash Patel is profoundly unqualified for this job is not even, like, a matter for debate."

Wray is currently serving a 10-year appointment as FBI director that is set to end in 2027. Wray will either need to resign or be fired for Patel to take his place. In a statement to Fox News Digital, the FBI gave no indication Wray is planning on resigning.

"Every day, the men and women of the FBI continue to work to protect Americans from a growing array of threats," read the statement. "Director Wray's focus remains on the men and women of the FBI, the people we do the work with, and the people we do the work for."

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.”

The man chosen to be Donald Trump’s defence secretary has come under further pressure over his private life after the emergence of an email from his mother calling him an “abuser” of women.

In the email to Pete Hegseth from his mother Penelope, she accused him of “lying, cheating, sleeping around and using women for his own power and ego”.

The email, sent at the time of Mr Hegseth’s divorce from his second wife in 2018, also describes the father of seven as “despicable and abusive” in his treatment of women.

“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say...get some help and take an honest look at yourself”, Mrs Hegseth wrote.

“It’s time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behaviour and call it out, especially against women.

“We still love you, but we are broken by your behaviour and lack of character.”

Republicans criticised the New York Times for publishing the private correspondence, with both Mrs Hegseth and the Trump campaign calling the decision to do so “disgusting”.

Mrs Hegseth told the newspaper that she had written the email at a turbulent time in the family’s private life and insisted her son was “a good father and husband”.

Mr Hegseth, 44, is one of Mr Trump’s more controversial cabinet picks because of allegations of sexual assault, and because of his lack of experience at the top level of the US defence establishment.

An officer with the Minnesota National Guard, who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, he is best known as a former news presenter on Fox News, the conservative broadcaster.

In a country where Christian morality still plays a central role in public life, he is due to be grilled on his alleged infidelity at a Senate confirmation hearing at the US Senate next year.

Moral codes in the US army are so strict that active-duty service members can be put on trial on adultery charges in front of a military court, a fact that has led critics to claim that Mr Hegseth does not have the requisite character to run the defence department.

His second marriage broke down after he got a co-worker pregnant. She later became his third wife and they remain together today.

A woman also filed a rape claim against him in 2017, although no charges were ever brought. Mr Hegseth has said the encounter was consensual.

Aside from concerns about his private life, Democrats in the Senate have expressed concerns about whether a TV anchor would have the experience to manage one of the largest bureaucracies in the federal government.

Everyone always has something to say about men being gay or even acting slightly feminine, but not much is said about women’s presumed sexuality, until they’re driving a fork lift while wearing overalls. Why are women given such a wide berth? I would argue that women have more flexibility in gender roles now than men by far. Men have a pretty narrow spectrum to operate in comfortably. Women run the gamut, while men are allowed to be either knuckle-dragging providers or feminine gay gal pal accessories. What gives?

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

How many of you bitches have seen this hilariously sick movie? I was just reminded of it thanks to the Molly Shannon thread! "Dad?" "Yes, Billy?"

Ever encountered someone you thought was possessed?

She dated the entire football team when in college. Rick Upchurch, John Dubenetzky, Wayne Bullock and Gene Washington, etc. Why are people always implying she’s a lesbian, alluding to the Bean and Rice relationship? She’s at least bisexual. And what was going on between her and Bush btw?

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.

Now on CNN-LOL

There has to come a point where our current leadership recognizes this was not an election but an act of war by a foreign power. A foreign power that bought Americans and colluded with them in the midst of several wars.

Marissa Bode is trying to change attitudes toward her Wicked character's disability for good.

The actress, who uses a wheelchair in real life and on screen, has addressed ableism she has observed in discussions surrounding the new musical film, in which she plays Nessarose, the sister of Cynthia Erivo's protagonist Elphaba.

"There's something that's made me a bit uncomfortable, and as somebody who's disabled with a platform, I just wanted to talk about it really quick," she began in a five-minute TikTok she posted on Friday.

Bode noted that it's completely appropriate and understandable to dislike Nessa as a character and make jokes about her, as she's a complex figure with shortcomings who makes poor decisions over the course of the musical. "That's the beauty of art and Wicked — these characters and the movie wouldn't be what it was if there weren't different opinions on the characters and who's truly wicked or not," she said. "And not liking Nessa herself is okay, because she is fictional. That's totally fine."

However, the actress added that she has no patience for jokes and criticisms of her character that center around her disability. "Aggressive comments and jokes about Nessa's disability itself is deeply uncomfortable, because disability is not fictional," she said. "At the end of the day, me, Marissa, is the person that is still disabled and in a wheelchair. And so it is simply a low-hanging fruit that too many of you are comfortable taking."

Bode explained that she's heard countless variations on the most basic ableist jokes. "Before even being cast in Wicked, I had received comments — just as me, as Marissa, not Nessa — around the words of 'stand up for yourself,' 'I guess you can't stand him,' et cetera," she said. "These comments aren't original, and when these jokes are being made by non-disabled strangers with a punchline of not being able to walk, it very much feels like laughing at rather than laughing with."

She went on to express why she felt afraid to speak up about her discomfort in the first place. "The most frustrating part about all of this is how scared I am to even post/talk about this, which is also the bigger reason as to why I'm making this video in the first place," Bode said. "This goes so far beyond me, Marissa, just needing to avoid comments on the internet.

These comments do not exist in a vacuum. Aggressive comments of wanting to cause harm and push Nessa out of her wheelchair or that she deserves her disability are two really gross and harmful comments that real disabled people, including myself, have heard before."

The performer said she's witnessed other disability advocates experience serious discomfort as a result of similar comments. "I am scared, also, because I have seen firsthand what has happened to my disabled peers who are outspoken online when it comes to calling out ableism and why jokes of standing and being a vegetable — which is a derogatory term, by the way, for disabled people, and a comment that I saw about Nessa — these disabled creators' comments are flooded with ableist comments," she said.

"When speaking on ableism, they're told to just take a joke, and that they're asking too much, and to stop complaining, to the point where some of my disabled peers, these disabled creators, have needed to take a break online for their own mental well-being. To state the obvious, that's not good."

Or female gays?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If the main stream media had done their job, this would have been a big story.

According to a friend in military, he was in Saudi Arabia during Obama and the president was scheduled to be there for a 3 day visit. Him and Susan. They were staying at one of the palaces that was VERY remote. No westerners within 20 miles. His team got all the advance itineraries (he was part of the "Country Team" at the Embassy) and were starting the planning. Then they got a complete change of plan that came directly from the Office of the First Lady. Suddenly Mrs. Obama was coming and Susan was going to be in Jeddah - hundreds of miles away. Doesnt take a rocket surgeon to figure that out.

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

Don’t go to that other thread, that OP has an “agenda”, likely works for Lin Wood or some such shit.

Keep it going here, we stick to “just the facts, m’ame” detective work, and we bring receipts, because our lives *are* that lame. Escapism is better than news, don’t you dare judge us, bitches.

Carry the fuck on. First thread linked below.

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?

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

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

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

Obviously choosing a Palestinian woman was going to be controversial. Choosing a transgender sex worker migrant would have been less controversial.

How could the academics not see that, for the good of the school’s reputation and in their obligation not to embarrass the many people who paid obscene tuition rates to go there, that it would simply be better to choose someone else? Are their heads really that far up their own asses?

Some young actors are able to parlay their initial stardom into long careers. Peter Barton was not one of them, though he had the looks and was offered the lead in The Powers of Matthew Star, beating out other actors like Tom Cruise. Barton, now 68 and never married, was in demand in the 80s, but then . . . nothing. He retired from acting after a couple of stints in soap operas. Was it a question of talent, or lack of ambition? He definitely had the looks.

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

Beans and Rice.

Proving the party attracts a significant number of masochists.

Hope the ole cunt has an enjoyable day.

Lost in the woods

I’m a septum piercing.

What are these gentlemen doing here?

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.

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

This year marks the 40th anniversary of the iconic Cold War thriller "Red Dawn," a film by a Hollywood conservative that showcased patriotism, a love for the American military and warned of the dangers of gun control. Yet, it also taught the man behind the movie a deep lesson about the mentality of liberal Hollywood.

Regarding the film’s unabashedly patriotic stance, Amanda Milius the daughter of the film’s director said "I don't think Hollywood liked that too much."

The younger Milius, a filmmaker and former Trump administration official, related what her father learned from making the movie.

"The lesson that he told myself and my brothers … was Hollywood says all they care about is if the thing makes money, like they'll, you know, support it," she said. "Not true. That movie made a great deal of money and they were like, ‘You're never getting your hands on a camera again until you calm down.’"

She added, "A lot of people claim that ‘Red Dawn’ is the reason that he never got to really finish his career in as prolific of a way as he should have because of its politics … It was not the kind of movie that Hollywood was interested in putting out at that moment."

John Milius, who also co-wrote "Apocalypse Now," and directed "Conan the Barbarian," suffered a stroke in 2010. Asked about his health, Amanda told Fox News Digital that he "can't speak as well as he used to." But overall, "He's doing well … He is doing his thing. He is stable, happy."

"Red Dawn" premiered on August 10, 1984, and stars Patrick Swayze, Jennifer Grey, Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson and Powers Boothe. The film revolves around a mostly high school-aged bunch of teens who fight back after the Russians invade.

Asked to define why the film struck a chord and has resonated for more than a generation, the younger Milius referenced a line from the movie where Swayze’s character sums up why the young people are fighting so desperately to defend America against steep odds. "Because we live here," he simply explains.

"That [scene] means, ‘We have to do this. We have to take care of the country… This is our responsibility,'" she said. "It's like this very American idea of, I'm going to go and I just know in my bones that if somebody were to invade my land, I would go and protect it in whatever way I could with my high school friends in a truck."

John Milius is a former board member of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and "Red Dawn" featured a scene where the Soviets use gun registration lists to confiscate weapons. The younger Milius said of her dad and that scene: "I think ‘Red Dawn’ is the movie where he got to do the most of what he wanted without interference, because there's so many things that he gets away with in that movie that you could never do today. I mean, just never."

She called the gun confiscation moment her dad’s warning to "watch out for government overreach" and added, "I think most people love that scene. I love it. I think it was, you know, pretty on point."

The film instantly created a bond with many conservatives. Former Secretary of State to Ronald Reagan Al Haig complimented the movie, saying to the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner on August 15, 1984, "It captures the stresses of patriotism, the emotions of love and, above all, the futility of war."

But liberal Hollywood did not respond so well. Famous critic Roger Ebert seethed in his review at the time: "I think this movie is corrupt from beginning to end. And one of the problems I had with it is that it makes a very definite political statement … There was a whole right-wing ideology that the picture itself doesn’t deserve."

Regarding that take, Amanda Milius wondered, "Can we even imagine a movie that is so left-wing Hollywood would have a problem with it? I mean, I can't even think of a movie that would be too left wing for Hollywood." As for the film’s disdain from the left, she added, "That's exactly what Hollywood thought of the whole thing. Way too patriotic."

Timothee Chalamet

Taylor Swift

Glen Powell

Nicole Kidman

I hear this buzzword constantly, with these people all the time saying things like “I exist” and “my right to exist” and “I keep having to prove that I exist.”

What exactly does this mean? If I can see you and I can hear you talking, clearly you exist.

Woof. His dad is sexy! I’d let him destroy me.

Cute family.

I’ve never gotten it but am thinking of getting it around my eyes. Thoughts?

No Bay views, but on a lovely street between College and Claremont. As usual in the East Bay, underpriced do it will go for much higher.

Well, it wouldn’t be any worse or weirder than who was just elected.

What would a Bonnie Franklin presidency look like?

We need some levity on this Sunday evening.

John Levin had no idea what he’d stumbled upon at first. About 10 years ago, the collector paid about $100 for a box of wax cylinders at an auction in Pennsylvania coal country. Those cylinders - the oldest commercial medium of recorded music - sat in his house for years until Levin put one of the unlabeled, decaying brown tubes onto his custom player and heard an old country song. Like 133 years old.

Levin immediately knew what he had.

“A true unicorn,” he says now.

In the world of early recordings, unicorns are cylinders that are reputed to exist but that have never been found. A session with cornetist Buddy Bolden, say, or a monologue from Mark Twain. What Levin heard coming out of his player was another name on his undiscovered list, New Orleans performer Louis Vasnier. The unlabeled cylinder he’d bought contained Vasnier singing and braying his way through “Thompson’s Old Gray Mule,” a song later recorded by hillbilly masters Uncle Dave Macon and Riley Puckett.

This month, Archeophone, a specialty label devoted to restoring recordings dating back to the 19th century, released a 45-rpm record of the 1891 performance. Label co-founder Rich Martin’s research on Vasnier comes with a revelation: The oldest country recording in existence was recorded by a Black man.

“It might be the most important thing we’ve ever put out,” says Meagan Hennessey, his wife and co-producer.

That’s saying something. Archeophone, founded in 1998, is a tiny label known for its impressive discoveries. Six years ago, Martin and Hennessy released another Levin find, a song by Charles Asbury determined to be the oldest existing banjo recording. Like Vasnier, Asbury was Black.

Martin wants to revisit the complicated relationship country music has had with race. Credit and record deals have typically been hard to come by for Black musicians. It took until 2000 for the Country Music Hall of Fame to induct its first Black artist, Charley Pride, and only two others have joined him. (There are 155 members in total.)

“Black artists by and large, who were the ones who performed and recorded, get wiped out of the picture because they say, ‘Well, it’s not really country,’” Martin says. “So ours is partly a project of reclamation.”

Rhiannon Giddens, the musician and historian whose banjo playing opens Beyoncé’s No. 1 country-chart hit “Texas Hold ’Em,” says she wasn’t surprised by Martin’s discovery. But she’s also not a normal listener. Her research has shown that there’s often a difference between who created music and who is credited with that creation. Country music, she notes, is merely a marketing tool invented to help sell records.

Early in the 20th century, recording companies created the term “race records” to compartmentalize the sound and try to attract Black listeners to buy certain songs. (Vasnier himself was advertised as “The only Colored comedian who can do it.”) In reality, country, blues, folk and bluegrass are intertwined in American culture and the Black experience.

“We shouldn’t have to do this at all,” Giddens says. “Like, this should have been part of the story all along. But fine, we spend the energy doing it because you see what’s happening right now in the United States, the divisions and how even a discussion of whether Beyoncé is allowed to make country music becomes a political part of a political agenda.”

Vasnier’s story fits right in with the mission of Archeophone, which Martin and Hennessey run out of their home in Champaign, Illinois. They seek to uncover and share the real history of recorded sound.

David Hogg, who was a fervent Biden supporter until he stepped down, apologized to his social media followers.

He admits that when he was granted an audience with Biden this year, Biden asked how he could win the youth vote. Hogg privately felt Biden could not win, but did not tell him.

Unfortunately apologies like this will never make up for the damage that has been done. If anything, it makes these people look even worse. Trumpism returned because Biden embraced an identical parallel political culture to it; more outwardly respectable but it was still the same: an imperial Presidency. And those who defended it should NEVER be allowed to complain about Trump.

They were warned exactly what would happen; they knew themselves what would happen; and they did not try to stop it.

La Belle Quisling.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What you say Datalounge?

Bearrific!

There is a five inch long carrot on the plate. Why is there a five inch long carrot on the plate, seriously? This is one step above nursing home meal.

The kitchen at MaL must be staffed with interns or amateurs. Remember the gay wedding reception earlier in the year where the cake was tilted and the icing sloppy and uneven? I think they tried to pass it off as "rustic." Nah.

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?

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss.

When I was 15 yrs old….

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

I don't like it. It's only slightly better than the 70's when they'd say, "My lover".

Shocking

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?

Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Sally Kellerman, Howard de Silva (Emmy Winner)

A movie I'd never seen until now. It came up on my YouTube feed.

When being an American used to actually mean something. An absolute gem!

This movie destroyed me.

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

Totally normal.

The GOP and MAGA are morally and ethically bankrupt.

I just remembered that Kris was the husband in Ringer, the TV show where Sarah Michelle Gellar played twins.

Share your Christmas stories.

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

Is Trump going to establish a Department of Erection Expectoration (DEE) just so she can run it?

I assume she will need to “debrief” him daily.

All the childless gays out there, how could you NOT want a twink son that is as hot/cute as Oliver Muhl?

They are a hot daddy/son duo.

But if that were my son, and I was doing those poses him, I’d be getting so hard and aroused!

Do straight men ever get sexually turned on by their daughters? I wonder if gay dads ever get turned on by their sons?

Regardless, that is one super lucky father!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Why does America love sociopaths?

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

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

October 11th.

OK, I’m drawing a blank on those two young Brits who were popular on YT a few years ago. The guy was gay and the girl was originally from Malta or Greece or somewhere similar. They would do videos from places like Harrods Food Halls.. I wonder what’s happened to them. .Can anybody out there please refresh my memory? TIA.

In 1991, Tim and Mark went on Supermarket Sweep and introduced themselves as "business partners." In reality, they were romantic partners of almost a decade -- but as Mark said, "back then you had to keep things quiet."

In this second episode of The Knot's Soulmate Stories series, Tim and Mark reflect on their incredible 41 years together and examine the bond that's kept them together. After they rewatch the famous clip, we quiz them separately to see how well they know each other. Then, they interview each other - discussing when they knew they were in love and the most difficult moment of both of their lives -- when Tim had cancer. The episode concludes with a heartfelt vow renewal, where they rewrite their promises to each other, all these years later.

Tim and Mark got married in 2008, the same day same-sex marriage was legalized in California (albeit briefly, for the right was later taken away again before being federally recognized in 2015). Strangers clapped as they declared their love.

Mark said: "I think there's a reason we found each other. We're soulmates." Tim said: "You're my net. When I fall, you're always there."

Which candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination has the best chance of winning the general election in November 2028?

You cost us the election. Now vengeance is ours! You wanna harass women in women’s restrooms, then we’ll chop off your balls and make you eat them! The lesbians are gonna chop of your cocks and make you choke on them! Oh it’s gonna be a great 2025! It will once again be the gay and lesbian community, and your pronouns will be gone/dead.

He needs more attention!

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

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

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

so, do you?

He was born in 1937 to Harlem to a shipping clerk and a seamstress. His first job was working for Jewish furniture store, where he picked up Yiddish. He then obtained a geology degree from City College of New York, where he had a C-average and joined the ROTC, which changed the trajectory of his life.

For almost 50 years, he gave his life to public service. In 1987, during the height of the Iran-Contra Affair, President Reagan tapped him to be his National Security Advisor. President George H.W. Bush asked him to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, where he helped oversee the "cleanest war in American history" and became a household name and one of the most trusted men in the world. Because of his impeccable reputation, President George W. Bush asked him to be Secretary of State. While at State, he was an opponent to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, but gave a notorious factually-deceptive U.N. speech in support of the war, which hurt his credibility. In 2005, he retired from public service and became a speaker and lecturer, before he succumbed to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021.

He is looked at as one of the last few true Republicans, along with his former colleagues-James Baker, Robert Gates, Mitt Romney, and Condoleezza Rice, let's discuss the American General Colin L. Powell.

College football was a combat sport on rivalry Saturday.

Rivalry week matchups are always heated with tensions and resentments building. But four annual clashes ended with fights between opponents when the winning road team attempted to plant a flag on the home field of their adversary to punctuate a victory.

Each scuffle was notable for different reasons. But they were all provoked by similar sentiments. The victors wanted to make a statement, while the defeated wanted to protect their home turf and prevent further indignity.

The melee receiving the biggest spotlight occurred at the end of Michigan's 13-10 win over Ohio State in Columbus. Wolverines players brought a maize flag bearing the block "M" out to midfield and thrust it into the Ohio Stadium turf. The Buckeyes took exception to the gesture and confronted their opponents, resulting in several players pushing and shoving each other, with punches being thrown.

Unfortunately, what made the Michigan-Ohio State fight stand out was coaches, security personnel and police getting involved to break up the conflict. In the process, law enforcement officers used pepper spray to subdue players, with several bystanders also being affected.

Ohio State University Police issued a statement on social media saying the matter was being investigated.

"Following the game, officers from multiple law enforcement agencies assisted in breaking up an on-field altercation," the statement read. "During the scuffle, multiple officers representing Ohio and Michigan deployed pepper spray. OSUPD is the lead agency for games & will continue to investigate."

A similar scuffle broke out after North Carolina State's 35-30 win over North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Following the victory, which made the Wolfpack bowl eligible, NC State players brought a red school flag to the middle of the field with the intention of planting it into the turf.

However, Tar Heels players confronted their opponents to stop them from spearing the flag into Kenan Memorial Stadium's field. Pushing and shoving quickly resulted and North Carolina's Tylee Craft eventually took the flag and attempted to throw it into the stands. Wolfpack players DK Kaufman and Jacarrius Peak shoved Craft before coaches stepped in.

Coaches were more directly involved in the skirmish after Florida defeated Florida State, 31-11. Gators defensive end George Gumbs Jr. planted a black Florida flag into the grass at FSU's Doak Campbell Stadium. Florida State players led by Jeremiah Byers and Julian Armella ran to midfield to pull the flag out, which led to the two teams fighting.

Seminoles coach Mike Norvell got his hands on the flag and tossed it aside. He then confronted Florida coach Billy Napier and let his counterpart know that he didn't like what happened.

“I told him what I thought. They won the game — they have the right to celebrate just like we have in previous years,” Norvell said afterward, via Tomahawk Nation. “If you want to come do that, that is your decision you can have within the team — but I told him what I thought.”

Flags weren't the only object planted by the victorious road team in a rivalry game on Saturday. After No. 16 Arizona State's 49-7 win over Arizona, Sun Devils defensive lineman Jacob Rich Kongaika — who played his previous two seasons with the Wildcats — took their mascot's signature pitchfork and stabbed it into the midfield logo at Arizona Stadium.

Arizona receiver Montana Lemonious-Craig ran over to pull the pitchfork out of the grass and away from Kongaika. That brought over several other Arizona State players to help their teammate and protect the pitchfork.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Wildcats running back Quali Conley said Kongaika's actions were "disrespectful."

"That's our field. Just doing that was disrespectful," Conley said. "I just feel like that was uncalled for."

I'm those Weapons of Mass Destruction

The sun is awake.

In recent months, Earth’s star has ramped up activity, with giant flares erupting off the surface and belching streams of plasma and charged particles into space. Several of the solar storms have been aimed at our planet, and they triggered severe geomagnetic storms and supercharged dazzling displays of the northern lights.

The sun’s flurry of outbursts, coming after years of relative quiet and calm, is a sure sign that the star has entered a busy phase of its natural cycle, according to experts: solar maximum.

The active period is likely to continue over the next year, which means more solar storms and spectacular auroras could be in store.

“This is definitely the season for big solar storms,” said Kelly Korreck, a program scientist in the heliophysics division at NASA. “I expect we will see the skies lit up with auroras again.”

Later this month, NASA will get an up-close view of the high solar activity as the agency’s Parker Solar Probe makes its closest-ever approach to the sun on Dec. 24.

The spacecraft is on a path to swoop within 3.86 million miles of the solar surface — closer than any other human-made object in history. It is expected to fly through plumes of the sun’s plasma and potentially dive into active regions of the star.

“If you think of an American football field, and Earth is on one side and the sun is on the other, this is like going to the sun’s 4-yard line,” Korreck said.

The solar cycle generally lasts around 11 years, as the sun transitions from periods of low to high magnetic activity. As the star moves out of its calm phase — solar minimum — and reaches the height of the solar cycle, its magnetic poles flip, ushering in solar maximum, when activity is heightened and eruptions become more frequent and intense.

The main way scientists can tell that the sun has reached its maximum is by monitoring sunspot formation. As the sun spins, its magnetic field becomes roiled, warping and tightening in some areas, Korreck said. That's what creates the sunspots that appear in telescope images as dark patches.

“The sun is a magnetic ball, but because it doesn’t move as a solid object, its magnetic field gets all twisted up as it turns,” Korreck said.

The number of those sunspots steadily increases as the star moves toward solar maximum. Once there is a notable decline, researchers can define the start and end of the active period.

In some sunspot areas, the magnetic field can be about 2,500 times stronger than Earth’s magnetic field, according to NASA. Over time, sunspots can release enormous amounts of pent-up magnetic energy in the form of solar storms.

Auroras occur when clouds of charged particles that spew from the sun during solar storms slam into Earth’s magnetic field and interact with atoms and molecules in the planet’s upper atmosphere. The colorful displays are a beautiful byproduct of that process, typically visible only at high latitudes. But during periods of intense solar activity, the lights can wander much farther south than usual.

But there can be negative consequences, as well. Strong geomagnetic storms can cause problems for astronauts in space, along with GPS systems and satellites in orbit.

Eruptions from the sun also have the power to disrupt communications and power grids on Earth because the atmosphere is being bombarded with charged particles, Korreck said.

Both NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration monitor the sun's activity, but Korreck said space weather forecasts are still in its infancy.

“We are where terrestrial weather forecasts were 30 years ago,” she said. “We can’t really predict out the long term very well.”

Rachel Maddow’s former mentor has hit out at the MSNBC host after she reportedly renewed her contract for $25 million a year.

Keith Olbermann, whom Maddow has previously credited with starting her television career, claimed that his former protege had abandoned her principles for her lofty salary.

Maddow is reported to have negotiated a $25 million salary in a five-year deal with MSNBC for a weekly show, even though her viewership has plummeted following Donald Trump’s election win earlier this month.

Olbermann, who hosted Countdown with Keith Olbermann for eight years until 2011, made the remark after a social media user suggested that MSNBC, a liberal network, might have to “change its identity” if sold off by parent company Comcast.

They added: “Or maybe [Rachel Maddow] should leave and build a new operation.”

Olbermann replied: “She just re-signed for $25 million. If you think she’d do anything for principle, I’ll light a candle for you.”

While MSNBC is not for sale, it is being spun off from Comcast’s NBCUniversal cable television arm, alongside CNBC, USA, E!, Syfy and the Golf Channel.

Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla founder, had joked that he could buy the network after news of its planned separation from NBCUniversal circulated online.

An unnamed executive told The Ankler that the network agreed to the deal because “no one else can do what she does” and “you can’t build a brand like it overnight”.

Mr Musk publicly mused about cancelling Maddow’s contract and cancelling her five-year deal if he bought MSNBC from Comcast.

The broadcaster, who hosts her self-titled The Rachel Maddow Show on Monday nights, has long been criticised for the high salaries she commands.

Her reported $25 million would represent a pay cut since 2021, when she agreed to a $30 million-a-year-deal while reducing her commitments from five days a week to a weekly show.

“They’re really taking a gamble there,” Jeffrey Sconce, a professor at Northwestern University, said at the time.

“I’m kind of surprised that they are willing to pay that much to go from five nights a week to once a week.”

A network source claimed the reported $25 million salary was inaccurate.

Olbermann and Maddow were once close, with the 65-year-old claiming to have hired Maddow as a contributor “out of my own pocket” because the network refused to pay her enough.

He was eventually dropped from the network after donating to multiple political campaigns and speculating that his then-boss, Jeff Zucker, was about to be sacked by Comcast.

Maddow paid tribute to Olbermann after his departure, telling viewers: “I wouldn’t have this show without Keith directly nudging the network to give me a try.”

However, relations between the pair since appear to have soured.

Olbermann claimed in March that he was in talks with executives to take over Maddow’s 9pm slot while she took a hiatus, but she stepped in to veto his appointment.

“I offered to have her production company ‘produce’ the show. Would give her some proxy control and a f---kton of money but she and [former MSNBC boss] Phil Griffin refused,” he told the Daily Beast.

MSNBC declined to comment when approached by the news outlet at the time.

Olbermann has previously criticised Maddow because she did not call for the sacking of Kristen Welker, the Meet the Press host, in February.

He was among several liberal commentators who believed Welker should not have caveated her remarks.

“For [Maddow] to have any credibility going forward, she has to risk $1 for once in her life and publicly demand this,” he claimed.

immediately

This article from the Washington Post says that Hunter's legal team looks to be angling for a pardon in a legal filing related to Hunter's sentencing: "The document at times seems aimed directly at President Joe Biden, who has repeatedly said that he will not pardon or commute the sentences of his son."

I don't care if Hunter is pardoned. Trump will almost surely make political hay out of it. And he'll overdo it, thus neutralizing any political advantage he might otherwise obtain.

So just do it and get it over with.

A shame he only made 1 movie!

Vote here!

Yes, I type old.

I don't ask for much in this life, but a little peace and quiet at the public library doesn't seem like too much to ask.

However, I regularly encounter: patrons watching TikTok without headphones, patrons YELLING their conversations at each other, patrons listening to music -- again, without headphones, patrons YELLING into their cellphones, etc. It's terribly distracting. I understand that many public libraries are de facto daytime homeless shelters, but I really don't mind the homeless patrons as long as they are reasonably non-disruptive. And I am not convinced the loud patrons are always necessarily the homeless ones. But given that so many places in public life are loud and getting louder, quiet is becoming a luxury. And it's unfortunate. Everyone deserves some respite from our noisy world.

I’m the most beautiful bride…who is 9 months pregnant.

List your top 10 films you would take to a desert island/Your favorite films of all time. Here is mine:

1. Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

2. Casablanca (1942)

3. Babette's Feast (1987)

4. Fanny and Alexander (1982)

5. The Remains of the Day (1993)

6. The Maltese Falcon (1941)

7. The Last Emperor (1987)

8. Gosford Park (2001)

9. The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)

10. The Sound of Music (1965)

He looks ill

likes to penetrate and dominate anyone

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.

Is Sheila really dead?

When will Steffy and Liam get back together?

When will Hope tell Douglas to hit the road?

Are Ridge and Brooke ever going to be an interesting couple again?

Continue your discussion of the show here.

If a prosecutor belongs to a subhuman group, like niggers, kikes, dagos, or spics, why should they be able to have power over civilized white poeple?

Is it "mommy"? "Mama"?

Something else?

And if it exists, what happens? Is the older lesbian driving a dildo into the younger lesbian who screams out all kinds of maternal things like "breed me mommy!" and that kind of thing?

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

If you directed the video for Spandau Ballet’s True, please bypass this thread.

Fuck joy.

That's a wrap on the Vanderpump Rules we used to know, and the series new arch villain Tom Sandoval along with it.

Last week, Bravo announced that the hit reality series and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills spinoff will do a complete cast swap-out, a la Real Housewives of New York, following the earth-shaking drama of season 11. Tom Sandoval, the hunky SUR bartender who'd been a series regular since season 1, was at the epicenter of the drama, and has finally addressed the show moving forward without him, or any of his former castmates.

"Where do I begin… I’m overwhelmed with so many emotions right now," he wrote on a Nov. 30 Instagram post. "The unbelievable series of events that brought this group together still blows my mind to this day. From a random meeting with [Jax Taylor] while modeling in Miami, to responding to a Craigslist ad for another Tom looking for a roommate. Who would’ve thought that a stop along the way while chasing our dreams would turn into the cultural phenomenon that is Vanderpump Rules."

Sandoval continued, "We were unaware as to the effect this show would have on our lives. The foundation of Vanderpump Rules was built on pure honest raw emotions… triumphs, struggles, and love that happen between a group of real friends and our relationships. As soon as we started filming s--- got real and never turned back. It’s been a roller coaster ride and you’ve been with us though every step of the way."

The reality star thanked the network; Lisa Vanderpump, the former RHOBH cast member around whose West Hollywood restaurant the spinoff revolves; and the crew "who busted their asses with us in the trenches." Most of all, Sandoval expressed thanks "to each and every fan, THANK YOU ALL for believing us and being part of this 12 year journey.... Despite the difficulties, I’m filled with gratitude for the learning experience and forever grateful for all of the memories."

This is what America voted for.

This is what we are going to get.

Happy fucking New Year.

Enjoy your last normal holiday season.

It's all downhill from here.

Anyone remember Australia’s greatest export?

Anyone watching it these days?

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

Or is he just enjoying being a creep?

I detest them although every smart phone has them now.

I can’t write a full sentence without making major mistakes going back over the phrases to get spelling right.

I miss the blackberry style keyboard—never made a mistake with physical keys. Typing was way faster

The 2024 season is set to start on September 17.

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

Easy to debunk as this young guy takes apart this MAGATs illogic.

Hollywood comedian, who was in sitcom I Love Lucy with her husband, told singer: ‘You’re the one with the talent’

It was the showbiz breakup that set the stage for a decades-long music career and entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now, the singer Cher has revealed what finally made her leave Sonny Bono and strike out on her own: the Hollywood legend Lucille Ball reminded her she was the talented one.

The singer told BBC One’s Graham Norton Show she resolved to break up the onstage and marital union unless Bono agreed to an equal split. But she still needed a final push to take that step. “I didn’t know what to do and leaving was a hard thing for me. [Lucille Ball] was on television and part of a couple [with Desi Arnaz], so I went to her, and she said: ‘Fuck him, you’re the one with the talent.’”

Sonny and Cher met in a coffee shop in 1962. He was a successful songwriter and she was an aspiring singer. They soon married, and would form one of the most influential showbiz couples of their era.

But Cher learned Bono had effectively made her his employee, rather than his partner, in their professional life; setting up a company named Cher Enterprises of which he was the majority shareholder. Cher, therefore, had been subjugated to Bono professionally.

“We had a strange relationship, and when I learned that he and his lawyer owned everything and I was just an employee, I said I wanted to be 50-50 partners, otherwise I would walk,” she told Norton in an episode due to air on Friday, as she promoted her autobiography The Memoir, Part One.

I think it would be Marsha P. Johnson, Harvey Milk, Judy Garland (I read "The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway" and holy crap did the gays love her), and Matthew Shepard

What should I watch???

Any recommendations?

They offered a "Black Friday" deal of $2.99/month for six months, so I just couldn't pass it up.

As 2024 comes to a close, anxiety seems to be hanging in the air.

From a whirlwind election season to increasing concerns about climate change, global unrest and a fragmenting sense of community both on and offline, people are feeling uneasy.

“It really does feel like we’re on the brink of multiple crises around climate change but also growing global unrest and a fractured political landscape here in the United States, but also elsewhere,” said Jessa Lingel, a digital culture professor at the University of Pennsylvania. The mood on the internet reflects this.

“Not only do you have in the media landscape, people turning away from platforms like Twitter [aka] X, but you also have people just turning away from the news,” Lingel explained, adding that news networks like CNN and MSNBC are seeing a dip in viewership following the 2024 election. “I think a lot of people are coping with their disappointment and frustration in the election by turning off legacy media like the news and also sort of disengaging from some of the mainstream platforms.”

Disruption appears to be the overarching sentiment going into a new year. According to the trend forecasting agency WGSN, one color effectively captures this mood. It’s called future dusk.

“Future dusk is a dark, moody and intriguing hue, sitting between blue and purple,” Urangoo Samba, WGSN’s head of color, told Yahoo Entertainment. “It has a sense of mystery and escapism, and feeds into themes of transition — whether it be moving from dark to light, or dusk to dawn — making it perfect for a period of immense change.”

Upon analyzing “millions of data points,” the WGSN’s Global Color Workshop selected future dusk as the color of 2025. When choosing a color of the year, Samba said versatility across all industries and regions is essential. Future dusk meets the mark.

The color is said to offer “reassuring stability” during what WGSN describes as today’s “era of polycrisis.” There’s also a “celestial, otherworldly” quality to future dusk, which Samba said is influenced by “the second space age” and rise of “synthetic creativity,” like AI-generated art.

Evan Collins, an architectural designer and founder of the Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, an online database that catalogs design aesthetics from the late midcentury, told Yahoo that the “dusty, celestial” color of future dusk is prominent in the “whimsigothic” aesthetic that existed primarily from the late ’80s to the mid-’90s. Melding both whimsical and gothic elements, the term, coined by Collins, is anchored by dark purples and blues that are similar to future dusk.

“In times where there’s a lot of strife and stress, especially [when] people are struggling with all sorts of big societal issues, they’ll look to the mystical,” he explained. “[Whimsigothic] is not so future, space-oriented. It’s more looking back into the past to give some comfort about an uncertain future.”

There’s a sterility associated with technology that Collins said is absent in future dusk. The WGSN’s descriptors of the color as being “futuristic” and inspired by “science and technology” are more in tune with the sleek, cold aesthetics of the ’80s, said Collins.

Future dusk, as Collins understands it, is more a color of nostalgia and familiarity than it is of futurism and technology.

“It’s celestial [and] otherworldly, but not in a synthetic, high-tech, space way,” he said of the color. “I actually think there’s a lot of negative stuff towards that and the popularity of a moody, celestial color is kind of a way of actually taking it back. That’s [why] ‘whimsigothic’ is popular and maybe even dark academia, and the trending towards darker tones that hearken back to older spaces, that are cozy and have more traditional design vibes to them as opposed to cold, synthetic ‘tech bro’ stuff.”

Lingel, like Collins, believes future dusk is a color that acknowledges the uncertainty of these times — be it politics, climate change or the continued push for AI — and how it affects the way we articulate ourselves online.

The man who outed Khalid as gay last week is blaming “years of emotional abuse” from the singer as the catalyst that led him to expose the “Young Dumb & Broke” star on social media.

Rapper and bisexual adult content creator Hugo D Almonte shared his side of the contentious story via a lengthy Instagram Stories post on Thursday, expressing remorse for his actions while claiming there was more to the situation than the public was aware of.

In his post, Almonte, who never mentions Khalid by name, claims he was introduced to “this person” at a party in L.A. several years ago.

Though he wasn’t aware who the singer was, the two would hit it off via exchanges on social media two months later.

“They reached out to me on Twitter, saying they loved my energy and wanted to get to know me better,” Almonte shared.

“I was flattered and curious. They told me they had been watching me for a while, even bookmarking my photos, but they were waiting to contact me because they were involved with someone else [at the time].”

Khalid would open up early in their connection, which Almonte says started as a friendship. The singer would purportedly share details of “someone they loved” stealing $100,000 from them, despite never being in a relationship with the alleged thief.

Almonte says the story made them “cautious,” but as he never “used anyone for money, fame, or influence,” he assumed Khalid knew he had no intent of doing anything similar.

Over time, the friendship grew romantic, with Khalid eventually asking Almonte to move in with him. Almonte agreed and went house hunting with the star, but chose to keep his apartment.

“I didn't want to give up my independence because I knew how [things] like this could turn,” he expressed.

“I didn't want to be controlled or manipulated - but things took a darker turn.”

Almonte doesn’t note how long his relationship with Khalid lasted - but professed he soon began to hear rumors of him breaking into the singer’s home.

“Out of nowhere, I started hearing rumors,” Almonte relayed, “false accusations that I had broken into their house and stolen from them. At first, I stayed silent, hoping it would pass. I even saw them at a party two years ago.”

“When they saw me, they ran out of the club, pacing back and forth. I knew they were nervous because they were spreading lies they couldn't back up,” the rapper continued, “but I still said nothing.”

Four years later, the whispers regarding Almonte’s alleged break-in were still getting back to him. Almonte then supposedly heard from Khalid.

“They sent me a message directly [that said], 'Good luck with your career. You're lucky I don't get the cops involved!'” Almonte recalled.

The accusation sent waves of fear through Almonte.

“Imagine being accused of something so serious — something you know you didn't do, and then being threatened on top of it,” he wrote.

Almonte would later connect with Khalid’s manager to stop the rumors. According to him, the manager was already aware of his innocence.

“Their manager confirmed what I already knew: I didn't do it,” Almonte says. “They found out who really broke into [Khalid’s] house. And yet, even with the truth out there, the lies didn't stop.”

After years of “carrying the weight” of “constant lies, manipulation, and threats,” Almonte lost control and took to social media last Friday to reveal his relationship with Khalid, subsequently outing the singer.

DJB was counting down the Top 30 hits of 1991 yesterday on Sirius XM's 90s on 9 and I heard this song again for the first time in decades.

Wasn't really a big GnR fan in high school but I have to admit this song is just beautiful and hits totally different as a middle-aged adult.

November Rain gets the glory (rightfully so) but this is another gem. Song features backing vocals from Blind Melon's late Shannon Hoon.

Any other fans of this song or songs that hit you differently as an adult vs your childhood?

They really should make more children’s films in line with Final Destination. It’s like Michael Bay directed it.

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

It's been so long but I want recommendations!

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.

Elton John shared a recent health update, revealing how he's recovering and thanking those who've helped him. Elton John, 77, revealed on social media that he has been grappling with an eye infection that has impacted his vision.

“Over the summer, I’ve been dealing with a severe eye infection that has unfortunately left me with only limited vision in one eye,” the EGOT winner shared in a statement on Instagram. “I am healing, but it’s an extremely slow process and it will take some time before sight returns to the impacted eye.”

Over the past several years, the “Benny and the Jets” singer has experienced some trouble with his health.

Last year, John slipped at his villa at Nice, France and visited a local hospital as a precaution but was able to recover at home and was “in good health,” according to TODAY.com reporting.

In 2022, fans became worried when tabloids reported that the “Rocket Man” star was using wheelchair. He responded on Instagram to explain why he needed a wheelchair during his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour, which ended in July 2023.

“After another rousing 2.5 hour show, we arrived at Leipzig airport, just before curfew to find part of the airport had closed,” he said at the time. “It was an extremely long walk to get to the plane, so my team kindly laid on a wheelchair so I could rest my hip after the show. That’s all folks.”

John had undergone hip surgery after he “fell awkwardly on a hard surface,” in September 2021. After that procedure, he postponed some of his farewell tour dates.

He also delayed his tour after contracting COVID-19 in January 2022. The Associated Press reported at that time that John experienced “mild symptoms” during his infection and had been vaccinated and boosted.

For this recent eye infection, John says that he spent much of his summer “recuperating at home,” and feels grateful for the “excellent team of doctors and nurses and my family.” He says he's optimistic about his future health.

“(I) am feeling positive about the progress I have made in my healing and recovery thus far."

And that's a fact!

“Do your own research.”

Doing Yard work or working out.

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!

Over the last few weeks, I've gotten together with friends I don't connect with that often. In both cases, these "friends" rambled on and on and on about their lives, their problems, their triumphs, their disappointments, etc., without once asking about me or how my life is going. I basically sat there nodding my head while they spilled their guts.

In one case, I tried to steer away from the constant "me me me" trajectory of the conversation by opening up my phone and showing my friend some pictures of a recent weekend trip I had taken. They barely acknowledged the pictures, then went right back to talking about themselves.

I'm a pretty private person and don't share a lot about my life with others, but sweet jeebus! I felt like I could've just propped up a cardboard cutout of myself and walked away; they probably wouldn't have noticed.

Shouldn't real friends actually take a breath from talking about themselves once in a while and check in on the person they're sitting next to?

Their dreams are drenched.

Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi’s English farmhouse has flooded following torrential rain, a bombshell new report claims.

The couple recently purchased a multi-million pound property in the Cotswolds, about two hours outside of London, and are allegedly attempting to settle there permanently following Donald Trump’s election win.

But the 43-acre grounds are now underwater after the River Thames broke its banks in the wake of Storm Bert earlier this week, the Daily Mail reports.

Numerous roads in the Cotswolds have been left impassable after being saturated in five feet of water

Many locals are trapped in their homes, with one resident who lives near the couple telling the outlet: “The flood waters are rising by the hour. This is the worst I have seen it in years.”

The flooding comes after DeGeneres and de Rossi reportedly relocated to England in the wake of Trump’s presidential election victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.

Sources previously told the Wrap that DeGeneres and de Rossi packed up and moved to the UK and are gearing up to put their Montecito, Calif., mansion on the market to start afresh abroad.

The duo, who wed in 2008, will likely “never” return to the US on a permanent basis, one source claimed.

Separate insiders told TMZ that the duo decided to “get the hell out” of the country immediately following the president-elect’s victory, which left them feeling “very disillusioned.”

During election season, DeGeneres was vocal about her support for Harris, and reportedly donated $3,300 to her campaign.

DeGeneres and de Rossi had reportedly been settling into their new abode before the floods, recently pictured having a night out at a local pub in Burford, UK earlier this month.

In a video shared to The Farmer’s Dog’s Instagram page, a band plays as the camera pans to a table with the former talk show host rocking brunette hair while her wife sits beside her.

The Cotswolds is a picturesque and wealthy part of England, with many British celebs boasting country houses there.

Among DeGeneres and de Rossi’s new neighbors are David and Victoria Beckham, Kate Moss and Elizabeth Hurley.

If it's real, then wow!

I had one today and it was delicious, although I love Eastern European food.

Cuz that nasty skank gave me a blister

She threw me some sass

So I jammed it in her ass

And I chopped off her lips and kissed her.

Will they go to prison too?

I fear I’m asking for trouble posing this question here, but how do you pull yourself out of a mild depression, or feeling of sadness at the futility of life? Is it possible?

I’ve been feeling a bit lost this year. I feel really sad and pessimistic, and then I feel guilty for feeling that way. My problems seem so minor compared to those of many others, i have work which I enjoy, a nice home, family and friends who I love and who love me.

But I feel a great sense of futility. Everything seems to be declining slightly, including my health and I’m not even 50 yet. Work is ok, but I am never going to progress there. And my job could well be wiped out by AI long before retirement.

I feel like every year is much the same as the last, just slightly worse. And I’m exhausted. And yet I used to be an optimist. I hate feeling the way I do at the moment. I feel as if my grip on things has loosened. I’d never take a walk off a cliff, but the thought of not being here doesn’t really bother me.

How do you keep happy, optimistic? How do I get back to that?

DARLINGTON COUNTY, S.C. (WMBF/Gray News) - A mayor in South Carolina died in a car crash while being “pursued” by law enforcement days after his town’s entire police department resigned.

Mayor George Garner, who had recently been reelected, died after the 2:40 p.m. crash on Highway 34.

Coroner Todd Hardee revealed in a Facebook post that a deputy with the Marlboro County Sheriff’s Office was following Garner at the time of the crash.

“The pursuit was not related to any laws being broken,” Hardee wrote. “The pursuit was taking place in an effort to protect the well being of Mr. Garner.”

Garner was driving a Chevrolet Tahoe heading west when he veered over the center line and crashed into a tractor-trailer.

Garner and the tractor-trailer driver were taken to a hospital for treatment, however, Garner died from his injuries. He was 49 years old.

The coroner said he will make a ruling on the manner of Garner’s death in the coming days.

“Please keep this family, and the fine folks in our neighboring Marlboro County in your prayers,” Hardee said.

The news of his death comes after residents were notified last week that the Marlboro County town would be without a police force after the entire department resigned.

I am 45 and where has this lovely lady been all of my life?

You want the epitome of grace and the word "lovely"?

I think it is this chick.

I just watched her Netflix documentary as well.

Just lovely-

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.

I don't want to hear conservatives complain about "DEI" ever again, when they appoint people like this based on nepotism

Seriously, what did France do to deserve this?

I had an epiphany over Thanksgiving, and it hit me like a freight train. My family finally said what I think they’ve been biting their tongues about for years: now I think might have that right-wing coined “Trump Derangement Syndrome”.

It started innocently enough. Someone mentioned gas prices, and before I knew it, I was knee-deep in a monologue about the lasting effects of the Trump administration. My uncle interrupted me, half-laughing, and said, “You know, not everything has to go back to Trump.”

I was taken aback, but then my sister chimed in, “Seriously, you’ve brought him up like four times already, and we’re only at the appetizers.” My mom, in her calm, diplomatic way, said, “Sweetie, you do talk about him a lot. Maybe it’s time to let it go?”

The kicker came when my dad—who barely says a word about politics—added, “You sound like you’re still living in 2019.”

I brushed it off at the moment, but later that night, I couldn’t stop thinking about it. Was I obsessed? I mean, sure, I followed the news, but I wasn’t that bad. Was I?

Then I remembered something my therapist said a few weeks ago. She’d pointed out how often I brought Trump up during our sessions. I laughed it off at the time, saying, “Well, he’s everywhere!” But now I was starting to realize: maybe I’m the one keeping him everywhere.

I went back through my recent conversations in my head, and the pattern was undeniable. Somehow, every topic—from weather to pop culture—would circle back to Trump. It was as if he had set up camp in my brain and wasn’t paying rent.

And for what? Why am I giving him so much free real estate in my head?

Last night, I made a decision. I can’t keep letting Trump dictate my mental energy, my conversations, my therapy sessions—my life. I’m not saying I’ll stop caring about politics or the state of the world, but I need to reframe. There’s more to life than one man, no matter how polarizing or consequential he’s been.

So, this is my moment of clarity: Trump doesn’t own me anymore. He’s a chapter in the book of history, not the book of my existence. Maybe now, I can finally reclaim some peace—and tonight I will enjoy Thanksgiving leftovers, and later this month Christmas without turning it into a debate.

Which actors have held up relatively well?

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

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

So by the early-mid 2000s, Judge Judy starts to look more how she did for most of the shows run. around then, she obviously starts to have some work done. her hair is lighter, and her face starts to look more pronounced. do we think she did just botox or more like fillers?? they definitely started doing lighter makeup on her too

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

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

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

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

I feel like absolute shit.

So bad the cops have to intervene. Just watch.

Can you imagine being a cop today? Call after call featuing crazy, entitled, violent people like in this video.

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

Enty Lawyer the blind item king from Crazy Days and Nights has been outed and he isn't even practicing law if he is even an actual attorney. He is a fifty something year old podcaster and blogger who is in Indio, CA, He doesn't even live in LA. He is allegedlgy a very sick person and has done horrific things to women. His whole thing where he exposes predators is rich as he is also one. I have been in communication with a woman he has done terrible things to! He recorded hours of her when they were in a "relationship" together. She found out later on that he was married with 2 daughters. He love bombed her and gaslit her into believing they were going to live together in California and get married and have children. He told her he loved her and was coming to be with her and 1 hour later she was served with stalking papers. The court saw his texts to her and said that the stalking complaints were not valid but by making the papers so public he put her at risk from her ex husband who she escaped from getting beaten by. This man needs to pay the price -- the same price he's been putting on other predators in Hollywood. Now that I know this, I know that this man knows no celebrities, is probably not a lawyer, isn't practicing law, is married with kids but victimizes other women. He got into a huge fight with his wife which somehow he left a voicemail of the other woman. His former cohost for true crime was apparently treated the same way.

Well?

He has been here most of the day. He said he wasn’t looking forward to going back to our friend’s house this evening because he enjoyed my company so much. I asked him to stay hee tonight. He accepted. Now he wants to go to bed - with me. It’s only 4:30 pm.

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.

Beginning with a hot guy with stupid hair

Post it here. Give us your best.

[quote]The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character.

[quote]“On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get some help and take an honest look at yourself,” Penelope Hegseth wrote, stating that she still loved him. She also wrote: “I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.”'

Contacted by the New York Times, she said it wasn't true and she regretted sending it, probably because Pete would knock her down and kick her in the cuntbone unless she recanted.

A Mr. Jacob Feder from Ft. Lee, New Jersey asks why, why? Actually, Miami but I wanted to invoke Roseanne Roseannadanna. The Feder name is correct, though.

Tesla Cybertruck Owner Says Carrying Hay Killed His Truck’s Air Suspension, Now His Cybertruck is Slowly Sinking into the Ground.

So weird, all of it. A Jewish guy hauling hay in a show pony "pickup?"

Jacob Feder, a Cybertruck owner from Miami, Florida, says his truck’s air compressor stopped working after he used the bed to carry hay. In addition, since the compressor powers the air suspension, Jacob’s truck is now sitting lopsided after the rear suspension started to sink to the ground.

Everyone talks about what a powerhouse of talent she was.

Was she truly?

The Bond, James Bond go up into the man for the first time in the Des Moines cinema.

Vanessa Williams flipping out in Soul Food when she reveals that the skanky cousin fucked her husband is a favorite.

Will it bomb? Francis poured all his money into it.

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

Continue your discussion of each day's game here.

The straights still don't get it.

[quote]She's a phenomenal actress and among one of the greats. She was beyond convincing and disturbingly iconic in Fatal Attraction and the fact that she lost to Cher?? I love Cher so nothing against her, but come on now :/

[quote]She also lost (she was nominated for Dangerous Liasons) to Jodie Foster in The Accused, which i also don't get?? I saw The Accussed and thought it was a mediocre Tv-movie. To think it was more deserving than Glenn in Dangerous Liasons? Absolutely ridiculous.

Justin Timberlake has called off his next concert, which was scheduled for Dec. 2 at Oklahoma City’s Paycom Center, after suffering a back injury. It’s the eighth date to be postponed this fall on Timberlake’s The Forget Tomorrow World Tour, which launched in April.

“I’m so sorry Oklahoma CIty… I have to cancel the show on 12/2. I hurt my back in NOLA and my doctors have instructed me to rest a little bit longer. Thank you for your support – y’all know I hate doing this,” he wrote in a statement shared via an Instagram Story on Saturday (Nov. 30). A rescheduled date has not yet been announced.

In late October, Timberlake canceled six concerts (Columbus, Detroit, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Grand Rapids) on The Forget Tomorrow World Tour, citing a bout of bronchitis and laryngitis, and rescheduled those performances for 2025.

That illness came after canceling a Newark, New Jersey, show in early October due to an injury that he said prevented him from performing. Fortunately, he was able to reschedule and perform there just a week later.

Currently, Timberlake is set to return to the stage for his concert on Dec. 4 in Houston, Texas.

Former thread.

Anyone else watching? The first scenes are so disturbing to me. Mob violence by anti-intellectual zealots against a physics professor. I just started it. Yikes.

On Peacock? It is about Elisabeth Finch, the Grey's Anatomy writer who faked cancer among other things. It is fucking INSANE. Destined to be a DL classic.

Jeez.

Can't they afford to pay these performers better??

They need to earn a living wage!

Fascinating story.

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

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

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

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

She looks like Karen Carpenter’s corpse in cheap drag.

Eat a sandwich, bitch!!!!!!!!!!

Estonian popstar Synne Valtri repeats the phrase "Cocks Taste Good" at the 2m50s point.

Do you still take it in the face? If not, what age did you stop?

"I called your boyfriend or fiancé a budget Ryan Gosling and ya cancelled."

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Anyone else sick of this balloon-headed bitch constantly appearing during Pluto commercials? God forbid they stopped her commercial - she'd "bleed their accounts dry".

Bring back the Brendan Schaub one...at least he was cute.

I'm Justin Bieber, ball-gagged, on all fours!

How did Anderson Cooper jump from being a reality show host (The Mole) to a news anchor seemingly overnight?

I remember when he was a nobody on The Mole and the Hollywood publicity machine made him out to be the second coming.

Willem Defoe

Bob Hoskins

Donald Sutherland (got sexier as he aged)

Kiefer Sutherland in Lost Boys

Daniel Craig

Sam Elliott (as an older man)

Jeremy Renner

Jeremy Allen White

Elliot Gould

Alan Rickman, especially in Die Hard

Seiji Miyaguchi (the taciturn master swordsman of The Seven Samurai)

I mean, god made him black. Sad!

Time to come clean.

I had a crush on Bonnie Franklin.

I shall most certainly be taking a nap 😴 later.

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!

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

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

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

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

For high brows only

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

Finally saw the perfect couple, and was intrigued for two episodes but finally recognized the very hot Billy Howle. He is still cute but seems extremely aged. Does he drink and smoke awfully?

Also saw Nobody Wants This and Timothy Simmons, of Veep fame, looked so much older.

Speaking of which, in the same series, Kristen Bell seems haggard and to be recovering from plastic surgery (though am loving the series and the aged like wine Brody).

But which actors are now aging quicker than expected?

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.”

Is he winning the Oscar?

Great talent. Attractive. But she’s lying. She just is.

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

What is your take on this show?

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.

Gia Coppola's latest is an atmospheric and sympathetic drama about the showgirls on the Vegas strip, featuring "sharply drawn characters" and outstanding performances from Jamie Lee Curtis and Pamela Anderson.

Pamela Anderson is a revelation and Jamie Lee Curtis is funny and heart-rending in Gia Coppola's poignant, Las Vegas-set

The Last Showgirl. Anderson plays Shelley, a dancer who has been in the same revue for 30 years, and has just learned the show is closing. She has not just lost a job she adored, at an age when she is unlikely to get another like it; she has lost her very identity.

In a supporting role, Curtis is her friend, Annette, once a showgirl and now hanging on as a cocktail waitress at the same club. That's not an ideal job for someone like her, with a gambling problem. Although Las Vegas is known for glitz, Anderson and Curtis's lack of vanity in the roles is among the film's most powerful features. Coppola depicts their lives with sympathy but also with clear-eyed honesty about the dreams they never achieved and the youth that's impossible to reclaim.

Tyrese says that he “ain’t never been gay,” and never engaged in “no devil worshiping.”

Tyrese wants the world to know that he’s neither gay nor a “devil-worshipping” Satanist, which he seems to believe are the same thing?

In a since-deleted social media post, Tyrese hit back at apparent allegations of satanism and being a closeted gay man by assuring his followers that he is neither, Hot New Hip-Hop reported. “I’m not gay, ain’t never been gay,” The Fast and Furious franchise actor stated firmly. “I’m not a part of a secret gay, or a public gay.”

“What y’all not gonna do is y’all not gone put no devil on me,” Tyrese continued, then affirming his Christian faith. “Listen to me, the Lord Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior. You understand that? Ain’t no devil worshiping over here, ain’t no gay, aint no down low, ain’t no secret society, ain’t no Illuminati. I cast demonic spirits away from me every day. I walk strongly with my beliefs.”

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

We never talk about her. Why not?

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I bought a monitor and some wireless earbuds.

This should be interesting.

What does DL know about this town? It must have a history and places of interest. It certainly is more than a pawn in an incendiary conspiracy theory.

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

Jon M. Chu’s big-screen musical raked in $114 million in the U.S. this weekend, with 'Gladiator II' slashing at its heels in second place.

Moviegoers got Wicked this weekend, driving the long-awaited adaptation of the beloved Broadway hit to the top of the box office charts around the globe.

Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande’s green and pink magic conjured up $114 million in ticket sales in the U.S., averaging $29,321 in ticket sales across the 3,888 theaters.

Jon M. Chu's eye-popping film, which also stars Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey, Jeff Goldblum, and Bowen Yang, has earned $164.2 worldwide as of Sunday.

Audiences were also feeling festive this weekend, with the Chris Evans/Dwayne Johnson Santa bounty hunter comedy Red One landing its sleigh in the No. 3 slot. An additional $13.3 in ticket sales gives director Jake Kasdan’s film a nice-not-naughty overall domestic haul of $117 million after two weeks of release.

At No. 4 on the box-office list, the literally named Bonhoeffer: Paster. Spy. Assassin. — seriously, it’s all right there in the title! — earned $13.28 million in its debut weekend across 1,900 theaters nationwide. Bonhoeffer tells the story of a preacher at the center of a plot to assassinate Hitler. (See? Pastor, spy, assassin.)

Rounding out the top five films of the weekend was Venom: The Last Dance. As it entered its second month of release, the R-rated Tom Hardy super(anti)hero sequel earned another $4 million for a total haul of $133.8 million.

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

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

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

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

Let's discuss DL fav Kim Cattrall

I am going to make American scholars great again.

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

I'll start us off:

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

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

There was a gay pornstar 2000-2015 with two star tattoos on his upper chest. Very popular at one time think he had blond hair and for sure blue or green eyes. Anyone remember who this is?

I think he was sitting in front of me during the football season.

Continue here...

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

Betty Grafstein alleges that her gender-fluid husband punched and pushed her down a flight of stairs

I learned something new today…

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?

Duke Fakir, 88, passed today. He was the last living member of the Four Tops. Another piece of classic Motown is now gone. This will bump any coverage of Sandy Posey’s passing like poor Farrah vs MJ.

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

Network: MSNBC

Executive producer: Alex Korson

Release: April 9, 2007 –; present

Past or present.

that he hasn't already done.

We used to say to each other “I don’t care, cuz yo momma’s pussy don’t have no hair.” I have no idea why we said this or where it originated. Maybe one’s mother having a bald beaver was a sign of being a slut?

Remember when he was considered the new Robert De Niro? Aside from his need to take over projects, what hurt him was his lack of a certain star quality.: He was lanky and had a lisp.

NOW can we talk about the eating disorder?

Egads. UK is as bad as America worshipping dumb MAGA cunts.

Clips of the blowjob video are sometimes posted on 4chan /pol/ and I heard on that new zealand farm site, where the churchhill shooting was leaked 5 years ago, you can see the full videos with sound.

You can clearly see that it is Destiny who blows but does the penis belong to Nick Fuentes? I don't know if it is allowed to link these sites here, so we have to go with what is posted on X.

In one of the videos, you can see the peron's fingers/hand. This way you can compare if those have the same size/shape as Fuentes'.

Streamer Destiny is openly bi and he and Nick Fuentes met in 2022 (there is video evidence).

I for one am relieved since I know many green-skinned people who have been traumatized by discrimination.

I loved him.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aleve lasts far longer so I’m surprised that so many still stick with Advil.

What do you prefer?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There are actors where the first time I saw them in roles of significance, I ran to IMDb to check their names. Some people are simply talented.

However.

There are many, many, more I thought would go on to get great roles but didn’t. Sure, many have enviable careers that 99% of actors would kill for. But I expected more. That they would have more buzz surrounding them. Maybe that they would be more be bigger stars, or work consistently with world class or be competing with A-Listers for the highest quality shows or movies. Certainly, that they would have good roles in stuff that I like.

Harry Lloyd from Great Expectations.

Jason Dohring from Veronica Mars.

Natalie Dormer from The Tudors.

Matthew Lillard in Serial Mom.

Michael Biehn in The Terminator

Mischa Barton in Lawn Dogs.

Romola Garai from I Capture The Castle.

Shailene Woodley in The Descendants

Coming soon to Netflix.

The thing that grates on me the most is that he will actually have gotten away with everything.

He will never go to jail, much less prison.

He will never be hung, electrocuted, spend a moment behind bars, none of it at all.

So the Trump legacy continues... The final grift is going to come true.

He will live and die on this earth having never paid a price for all of the shit he has done. He will have gotten away with ALL of it, ALL.

To the others out there that have paid hefty prices for mistakes, misdeeds, mayhem and murder, there is nothing left to say, is there.

How will Teacake die?

What does it consist of?

It's a close call...

I know DL loves to hate on Small Wonder, but really, It's About Time MUST be the worst sitcom in history.

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!

A deposit of high-quality gold ore containing around 1,000 metric tons (1,100 US tons) of the precious metal has been discovered in central China, according to Chinese state media.

Valued at approximately 600 billion yuan or US$83 billion, the discovery could be considered the largest and most lucrative reservoir of gold ever uncovered, surpassing the 900 metric tons estimated to lie within the mother of all gold reserves, South Deep mine in South Africa.

The Geological Bureau of Hunan Province announced the detection of 40 gold veins within a depth of 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in the northeast Hunan county of Pingjiang.

These alone were thought to contain 300 metric tons of gold, with 3D modeling suggesting additional reserves may be found to a depth of 3 kilometers.

The massive find was made in Pingjiang County, shown here, along with its location in China. (Philg88/Wikimedia Commons) "Many drilled rock cores showed visible gold," says bureau prospector Chen Rulin.

Core samples suggest every metric ton of ore could contain as much as 138 grams (nearly 5 ounces) of gold – an extraordinary level of quality considering ore excavated from underground mines is considered high grade if it contains more than 8 grams.

China already dominates the world's gold market with reserves considered to be in excess of 2,000 tons earlier in 2024, its mining industry contributing around 10 percent of the global output.

Announcements of the findings have contributed to a further increase in the already skyrocketing gold price as demands for the resource continue to rise amid global uncertainty.

Just how many bonanzas of the valuable ore remain yet to be discovered around the world is unclear, with experts divided on whether we've reached peak gold.

After her father killed her mother, sister, and cousin while driving drunk, she was raised by an old spinster aunt who sent her to private Catholic school. She left Cleveland for New York, where she worked as a hostess and acted in low budget horror films.

Then, at aged 30 she became a household name when she landed Saturday Night Live. There, she hilariously deglamorized herself while playing the likes of Courtney Love, Monica Lewinsky, Mary Catherine Gallagher, or Sally O'Malley.

Since leaving SNL, she continues to work in showbusiness, with one hilarious role after another.

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.

I had a bit of sex but nothing spectacular. This young guy with longish hair and some tats- slim body. He was attractive overall in spite of the fact that I don't like tattoos. He lingered at my door but I was not biting then he moved on. He was naked and advertising the fact that he was a bottom. A young-ish guy with a beard appeared at my door and chit chatted with me then asked if I had poppers. I told him no then he moved on- I'm supposed to supply other guys with poppers- I'm not into drugs at all. Later he stood against the wall opposite my room. I did not respond this time. He moved on again. So that was my night at the bathhouse.

It's that time of year again, folks ...

My cousin is quite pleased with herself about something she is certain my mother will like. But no, in reality it's a waste of money on her part as she's sent the same thing for a couple of years already. Another relative sends a magazine subscription that isn't really my mom's thing.

Do you all accept these graciously, and move on? Or, find a tactful way of hinting it might be better to choose something else? My mother is not an ingrate, realizing they have gone through thought and expense on her behalf.

I'm not complaining as I like the scruff.

What do you think?

Am I wrong?

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

📝 📺 💻

Like flowers or like curry and desperation?

Maybe we could clean them out before the midterms.

She’s looking more and more like a gorilla with each passing day. But Jesus Christ! I voted for Kamala but even I got over her loss already. I have more important things to do than think about Trump all day long. Someone please give Joy a banana.

All the things that we can do in outer space, but we can’t put in something that makes it easier to get the top of those mountains?

There is something creepy about those mountains, and the whole thing is just despair.

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

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

Would she have been better than Trump? Of course, but that’s a low bar. She’s intelligent and well-educated, but she has no charisma. When she ran in the 2020 primaries she fell flat on her face. Biden admitted that he only picked her because she’s a black woman (which was a shitty thing to say and unfair to her). She was thrown into the 2024 election at the last minute and did the best she could under the circumstances.

Here’s the truth: if she had won she would have been wildly unpopular and been voted out after her first term.

The resurrection of Notre Dame – the treasured Gothic gem in the heart of Paris struck by a devastating fire in 2019 – has been a closely guarded secret. Few had seen the meticulous work of architects, artisans and master craftspeople who have carefully brought the cathedral back to life. Until now.

On Friday, the world got the first glimpses of the revamped UNESCO World Heritage Site as French President Emmanuel Macron carried out his final site visit ahead of its grand reopening on December 7 and 8.

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

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

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

One less MAGAt!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Coco wins the WTA year-end championship.

Shapo won in Belgrade.

My friend just gave me this book for my birthday and it has some of the most beautiful photos in it. It really captures that golden era of being gay in NY in the late 70s, early 80s before the Reagan years went full throttle. I’m definitely a fan of Tom Bianchi now. I would like a copy of his Fire Island book but it’s a thousand dollars on eBay?! Does anyone have any other gay photography book recommendations?

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Donald Trump has selected his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s father, Charles Kushner, to serve as the next US ambassador to France, the president-elect announced Saturday.

“I am pleased to nominate Charles Kushner, of New Jersey, to serve as the U.S. Ambassador to France. He is a tremendous business leader, philanthropist, & dealmaker, who will be a strong advocate representing our Country & its interests,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.

The president-elect also noted the connection to Jared Kushner, who is married to Trump’s daughter Ivanka. “His son, Jared, worked closely with me in the White House, in particular on Operation Warp Speed, Criminal Justice Reform, & the Abraham Accords,” Trump wrote in his post.

Charles Kushner, a real estate developer, was pardoned by Trump in 2020 following a 2005 conviction on federal charges. Chris Christie, who led the case as the US attorney for New Jersey, said in 2019 that Kushner committed “one of the most loathsome, disgusting crimes” he had prosecuted.

Kushner, who was under investigation at the time for making illegal campaign contributions, targeted his brother-in-law, William Schulder, a former employee turned witness for federal prosecutors in their case against the Democratic donor. As part of the plot, Kushner hired a prostitute to lure Schulder into having sex in a motel as a hidden camera rolled. A tape of the encounter was then sent to Kushner’s sister and Schulder’s wife. Ultimately, the intimidation stunt failed, and the woman turned on Kushner.

Kushner pleaded guilty in 2005 to 16 counts of tax evasion, one count of retaliating against a federal witness and another count of lying to the Federal Election Commission. He was sentenced to two years in prison.

Trump’s announcement comes as Jared Kushner has said he doesn’t plan on serving in the president-elect’s second administration. Kushner said at an event in Miami in February that he’s been “very clear” in his desire to focus on his private equity firm “at this phase” in his life.

Kushner, however, is seen as being pivotal to the incoming administration’s Middle East efforts, even though he is not likely to take a formal job within it, regional diplomats and Trump allies told CNN earlier this month.

Since Trump left office in 2021, Kushner and his wife, Ivanka Trump, have moved to Miami and largely exited politics. Kushner founded an investment fund, Affinity Partners, shortly after leaving Washington with major backing from sovereign wealth funds in the Gulf.

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

I’m a Stanley® cup. The dumb Frau mug - not the hockey championship.

I’m deifying politicians.

Nicole gets candid about mortality and grief.

While most people generally have their favorite go-to restaurants, a Chick-fil-A in Maine sees one man far more than most.

“My wife and I are both workaholics. We work long hours and neither of us cook. So, we came to Chick-fil-A once, and we just loved it,” loyal Chick-fil-A customer Craig Mason said.

The restaurant’s owner said Mason visits the location almost every day – sometimes more than once a day.

“Craig has been one of our very favorite guests,” owner Todd Schultz said.

Mason said he loves Chick-fil-A’s grilled chicken salads.

“They’re just fantastic, and it’s become just kind of a central part of our of our day-to-day life,” Mason said.

Mason made his first visit to the Bangor Chick-fil-A about a year after it first opened in 2016.

A year later, he downloaded their app.

Since then, he’s used hundreds of thousands of loyalty points on his orders, over 500,000 to be exact.

“There’s annual recognition that you can earn levels in, and when we started noticing by the end of January, it already had all the points to reach to maximum level for the year. That was kind of a sign that we must be coming here a lot,” Mason said.

By accruing 500,000 points, Mason has joined a club of less than 200 very loyal Chick-fil-A customers.

“He’s like, ‘Hey, I’m approaching 500,000 points,’ and I was like ‘You got to be kidding me.’ And so, sure enough, I went into our systems, and he was. I was like, ‘Well, we have to do something to recognize him,” said Schultz.

He and his wife were invited to the restaurant Monday where they were presented with a plaque.

He hung it in his home office where he spends a lot of time working as a professor.

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

But why?

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

BFD.

I much prefer Arrabiata or Carbonara.

... and how my hairy ass looks in it 🤤

James Craig, who was charged with murder in the 2023 death of Angela Craig, is now accused of soliciting another killing.

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

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

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

The FBI is aware of the incident.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How many times does this need to happen before people get the message: deep frying turkey is risky and/or can be deadly.

DUH.

Hilarious

What’s our game plan? How do we get out the vote next time?

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

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

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

I'll start with Shawn Mendes

Oh, Datalounge, realm of wit and shade, Where threads of camp and gossip are made. A haven for queens with tongues so sharp, Each post a play, each comment an art.

From Golden Girls to Broadway lore, No topic too niche, no diva ignored. Threads ignite like sparklers in the night, Opinions clashing, but oh, such delight!

In the dim-lit corners of cyberspace, Quippy barbs land with effortless grace. “Who is she?” the eternal refrain, Mysteries linger, yet truths entertain.

Anonymous masks guard secrets so bold, Scandals revisited, tea served cold. The wit is biting, the humor grand, A digital stage, a theatrical stand.

Icons are worshipped, from Judy to Cher, The ghosts of gay culture all linger there. Yet shadows of longing, of life’s raw ache, Peek through the jest, the laughs we fake.

Datalounge, you’re messy, chaotic, obscene, A refuge for queens and the spaces between. Forever you stand, both savage and sweet, The campiest salon on the Internet street.

It's an evolutionary advantage that allows them to put with a frau long term, so yes.

Mark my words! Stellar Lumens (XLM) will be the next cryptocurrency to make a big splash. It has actual technology and use case, with mass adoption in the near future. It’s still an inexpensive price per coin too.

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.

You are the unsung heroes of health care. Please indulge us with your most bizarre, raunchy, and laugh-out-loud tales from your noble profession.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

She’s never satisfied.

I am devastated.

He was feeling puny last week, then was fine over the weekend. I thought it was just a passing thing or he ate something off the cellar floor. He’s gross like that.

He was eating then started acting weird. I tried to make an appointment with my vet, but they were closed on Black Friday (WTF?)

He came downstairs, cried and laid down which scared the shit out of me. Luckily, I had already dressed, ate and had my coat on and was leaving to warm up the car to take him to the ER vet.

I rushed him over and he was literally at death’s door. He had to be given an IV and put in an oxygen chamber. I thought for sure he’d eaten something off the, but the blood test came back as leukemia.

He was supposed to be vaccinated!

He is my sweetest boy - he likes to be carried around in my shoulder like a baby and sits in my lap constantly. I am crushed and haven’t been able to sleep or eat since yesterday. I started ugly crying at the vet and they shut me in a room so I didn’t have to leave through the lobby or drive until I was able.

I had them give him a blood transfusion (I know!) just to have more time. He’s home and quarantined. I am with him now, but I am so scared and anxious. I know the prognosis isn’t good and I’m so scared.

He’s only five years old! I trapped him as a feral and he tested negative for it and FIV, but now he’s infected and I’m in agony.

I know I will sleep more peacefully knowing that Dr Gorka is in charge of our national security apparatus.

Velvet Purple Monkeys

So why does she treat Dorothy so poorly.

I’ve had such an odd life. I’ve bounced from one strange and/or traumatic circumstance to the next, one mistake led me to the next mistake, with two crazy parents with personality disorders, and so on. And now here I am in my 40s, with a master’s degree and a six figure salary, and a nice partner. How the hell did this happen? Why am I not a drug addicted loser in prison? How did all of this craziness work out just right?

Not too long ago, the British-Sri Lankan artist represented the future of music, with innovative productions and groundbreaking political messages. Today, her music has taken a backseat to the headlines she generates

In December 2004, a mixtape titled Piracy Funds Terrorism introduced vocalist M.I.A. and producer Diplo to the world. Although it was an unofficial recording, with thousands of copies pressed on CD and distributed at concerts or over the internet, many publications ended up including it on their best-of lists of that year. The album was an exuberant dance party that included vocal tracks by M.I.A. over (unauthorized) samples of songs by Madonna, Prince, the Bangles, Jay-Z, and Kraftwerk, among others. Where had it all come from?

In reality, Mathangi “Maya” Arulpragasam (London, 1975) had never thought of dedicating herself to music. Her family came from Sri Lanka and belonged to the Tamil ethnic group, persecuted by the government of that country. Her father, who took the nom de guerre Arular, was a leader of the Tamil Tiger guerrilla group, who took up arms seeking independence. But he was also an absent parent while Maya and her mother lived as refugees in the London neighborhood of Acton, in an environment that the artist remembers as “incredibly racist.” Her mother got a job as a seamstress for the Royal Family, and Maya earned a place at the prestigious Central Saint Martins school, where she trained as a visual artist, filmmaker, and fashion designer. At that time, Maya was trying to make social films and began to exhibit her pictorial work (collages influenced by graffiti, Tamil culture, pop art and a strong political tone) under the pseudonym M.I.A. She was even nominated for the alternative Turner Prize and the actor Jude Law was one of the first buyers of her art.

But her course changed when she befriended Justine Frischmann of Elastica, who persuaded her to design the cover art for the band’s album The Menace and film a documentary about her 2001 North American tour. The opening act for those shows was electro-lash singer Peaches, who taught M.I.A. how to use the Roland MC-505 synthesizer and encouraged her to make music. A couple of years later she recorded her first track, Galang, on a limited edition of 500 vinyl singles on a small independent label, Showbiz Records, which was later followed by another single, Sunshowers. Word began to spread on small radio stations, in some underground clubs, and, above all, through file-sharing on the internet. In 2004, she posted several songs on her Myspace page, record labels went after her and she ended up signing with the prestigious label XL Recordings to release her first album, Arular.

I've been getting more texts than prior to the election. I guess they want us to pay.

Did you cook a huge meal?

Seriously, why not? I did an internship with the federal government years ago and I had to get fingerprinted and undergo a background investigation, including an interview. All for an internship. They even asked me if I had any ties to terrorist groups or adversarial governments. Why is this not required for the office of the president?

It seems like increasingly the most successful box office flicks are those that come in pairs. Two vastly different genres or topics, big budgets, but marketing themselves as “must see events”. Wicked and Gladiator are the Barbieheimer of this year.

Caitlin Jenner uses the women's room at Mar-a-Lago

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

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

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

I am a 50-something pleasant looking type, but in the last couple of years, I have developed a double chin significant enough that it was even visible on my driver’s license picture. My father had one when I was a kid (he died young).

This really destroys the look of my face, which is otherwise pleasant. And yes, I am sixty pounds overweight. If I lost the weight, might the double chin vanish?

I can’t afford lipo.

My grandparents lived in North Jersey and I used to go visit them all the time before they died. There was a local scandal that erupted there with this prosecutor named Sam Stern. Apparently, America’s favorite Republican fatso Chris Christie received donations from Sam Stern’s father for the governor’s race and in return hired Sam as a federal prosecutor just as he (Christie) was about to leave his position as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey.

About a year or so later Sam Stern was “forced to resign” and ended up in Florida. The official story was that his fellow prosecutors hated him and felt he was wildly unqualified. There were also rumors circulating that the real reason he was fired was because he had a proclivity for underage boys, and that the US Attorney’s Office kept it under wraps because they didn’t want to piss off Christie, but i have no idea if those claims were ever substantiated.

In any case, looks like he tried running for Attorney General in Florida.

The number of censored titles tripled in just one year, according to research by the organization PEN America

Book bans are growing at disturbing levels. In the 2023-2024 school year, cases jumped from 3,362 to more than 10,000, according to a report by PEN America. This organization advocates for human rights and free expression, focusing on access to literature. Florida and Iowa are leading the way in restrictions, with about 8,000 bans stemming from state laws. School districts in other states have also restricted a greater number of books this year, such as Elkhorn, Wisconsin, with 300 titles vetoed in just a few months.

The numbers presented in the study may be lower than real numbers because bans of this type are not usually reported. Also, not included are the numerous reports of soft censorship, such as ideologically motivated restrictions on the purchase of books by schools, the removal of collections from classrooms, and the cancellation of visits by certain authors and other activities linked to the promotion of reading.

“Following trends from previous years in which books were targeted for including diverse perspectives, book bans from the 2023-2024 school year overwhelmingly featured stories with people or characters of color and/or LGBTQ+ people. We also observed how cases of book bans increasingly target stories by and about women and girls and/or that include depictions of rape or sexual abuse,” says PEN America’s report.

As in recent years, there are two key factors behind this movement: state legislation and the influence of conservative groups. “Coordinated campaigns by a vocal minority of groups and individual actors place undue pressure on school boards and districts, resulting in a chilled atmosphere of overly cautious decision-making regarding the accessibility of books in public school libraries. Attacks on literature in schools persist despite the unpopularity of ‘parent’s rights’ groups and polls that show broad opposition to school book bans,” research reveals.

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.

Those of us who were teenagers in the 90s had our young lives intrigued (or ruined depending on how you look at it) by this show. The show primarily featured fat, unattractive naked people in “sex class” scenarios where they would all get in a room and have sex with their partners under the instruction of some teacher. I don’t think I ever actually learned anything of value watching that show, but damn was it entertaining..

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

Early on the guy all the way on the right dancing behind Goldie is Denis Stewart who had the scorched face and was Travolta's nemesis in Grease 1978.

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

I want to post a photo for the thread about holiday gifts for our beloved Dataloungers. Every time I try I fail. Can someone explain to me how to post photos? My son has tried but said but said because the site is old he doesn't know either. So, can someone help me?

I thought the movie would be terrible junk but it wasn’t. It was a fun popcorn blockbuster just like the 1996 film, only I found this one more enjoyable overall outside of the final twister. I like how this film is still set in Oklahoma and now they have to track tornados even harder because all that empty land that used to be Oklahoma (like we saw in the 1996 film) is now filled with apartment buildings and businesses etc. as new buildings keep getting built all over, so now that more people live in those areas it’s important to keep up with tornadoes harder.

Daisy Edgar-Jones was phenomenal. She is the true lead of the film! She is literally the first thing we see when the movie starts and the story focuses on her. Glen Powell is getting the heavy push but he has the least screentime out of the trio (Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos). The film focuses on Kate, and follows Kate. Whenever we see Tyler, Kate is there. It isn’t his film. He is also probably the weakest link of the three, but what he has over the other two is he’s a good looking white man with abs.

The film is fun though and worth the watch.

It’s a standalone sequel.

Brittany Murphy dies under mysterious circumstances after years of drug abuse, Stacey Dash is MAGA and Alicia Silverstone is an anti-vax loon who thinks Robert Francis Kennedy Jr is the cats pajamas.

Well, what say you DL?

The two they did were so good.

But I noticed the Witt Thomas shows weren't big on them. It's a Living had none, Empty Nest and Nurses only had one each.

The campaign begins today.

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

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

I want him deeply inside me

Airlines typically spent three to four months trying to reunite lost suitcases with their owners. If they can’t, they sell the bags to Unclaimed Baggage, which separates items into batches to be sold, thrown away or donated to charity, said Bryan Owens, the store’s owner. Bargain hunters then scoop up the store’s merchandise at discount prices.

In the 54 years since it started, Unclaimed Baggage has gone international, with online purchases that ship to customers overseas. It’s become one of the area’s main tourist attractions and attracts more than 1 million visitors annually, Owens said.

The vast majority of the store’s inventory is from luggage lost during air travel, although the store receives some unclaimed bags from trains and buses. Unclaimed Baggage also sells items left in seat pockets, overhead bins and in hand luggage.

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

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

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

I'm in coastal Georgia and I woke up to 27° this morning. It's up to 46°now and predicted to get up to 53°. And the same for tonight. Last week it was in the mid 70s almost every day.

Welcome to the sunny warm south!

Who would you feel more sorry for?

Anyone here ever had worms or parasites?

To deworm or not to deworm, that is the question.

Actually, it's a surprising question. You'd think that it'd be a good idea to treat all children with deworming drugs in parts of the world where intestinal worms are a problem.

More than 2 billion people in some of the poorest areas of the world are infected with intestinal worms. These worms — hookworm, roundworm and whipworm — have been around for centuries. They lay eggs in human intestines; when excreted, the worms and their eggs can be spread to others. In those infected, the worms cause intestinal blood loss leading to iron deficiency and malnutrition — and loss of energy and motivation.

I’m moving there from flyover territory next month and I’m looking for the best gym to workout and catch some eye candy, maybe some extra action. After research, I’m leaning towards Equinox or Crunch. I’ll be living in Tribeca and working in the UWS. Any suggestions?

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Anniston didn't speak to her mother for years after she wrote a book during her Friends years.

Jen didn't invite her mother to her wedding to Brad. I think they reconciled shortly before her mother died.

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

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

Hey, DL sex fiends! Can anyone confirm that this place is still open?

Haven’t been since before COVID. Thought of going tomorrow but the website is way out of date. More worrisome: phone number is out of service. But Google shows it as open.

Would love to go but it’s pretty far so don’t want to waste the trip.

TIA

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

This is the prompt I gave it. To preface this, I asked it if it knew what Datalounge was, and it answered that we're known to be witty, irreverent, and brutally honest. It then asked me what I wanted it to post about

[quote]No particular topic, it could be soap operas, or it could be politics, or it could be how white cisgender gay men seem to think that they have primacy in everything. I'll let you pick the topic.

Answer, although not particularly bitchy, as R1.

Susan Lucci and her daughter Liza.

I'd love to know what happened.

I’m the peer pressure to see Wicked and immediately declare it’s the best movie you’ve ever seen.

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

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

Zoe Kazan's performance in The Plot Against America

This scene could be applied to how many people feel in post 2016 United States.

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.

Anyone with a raspy, squeaky or baby voice.

Rene Zellweger

Heidi Klum

Rachel Ray

Ellen Pompeo

Did you watch it? I’ve never watched it before today. Saw it on Pluto TV. It was ok. Who was that ugly girl? She was kind of smug.

I wanted to climb into their wide-track world. They always looked so happy in their Pontiac. Obviously, they were fashionable, so that was a big plus. They liked to make dramatic exits with their innumerable friends looking on approvingly in the background. Two guys named Fitzpatrick and Kaufman drew these pictures with one doing the background and one doing the car. They were my favorite artists when I was a kid. The cars were done in a photo-realistic style, but the people and backgrounds were almost pastel cartoons. They were given human expression, though, and always dressed in the latest styles. They also always seemed to be laughing at the natives of the little European villages they were driving through in their gigantic land yacht. "Look at me ha ha, I'm an Ugly American." Still, I wanted to live in their world and become one of them. My dream was to become a cartoon in the South of France!

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.

I might have to start listening to this podcast by Leighton, Thorne-Smith and Zuniga. Seems like lots of tea gets spilled.

[quote]Savant feels that the show's handlers and producers thought "it would be somehow more palatable to the American public if they could avail themselves of the reality that I was actually a straight man. And I thought that was morally reprehensible... I just couldn't morally bring myself to say, 'I'm going to come to work and I'm going to play this character, but I should distance myself from it.' My intention with Matt was to say he is your son, he is your brother, he is your friend. He is every man, he's your neighbor. He's a regular guy who happens to be gay."

The legendary funnyman debuts 'The Oscars: What Were They Thinking?' on Nov. 11.

She’s 93 yrs old and works the 8 am - 2 pm shift. She enjoys staying busy and being around people. Good for Mary!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I first saw this movie on TV as a child, and it’s still one of my favorite 80s movies. Some great lines too. After Whoopi gets stuck in a closet while burglarizing an apartment while the couple has sex, she relays the story “honey, the bitch knocked holes in the wall.”

The soundtrack was banging too:

Sly Stallone - I’m the Burglar The Jacksons - Time Out for the Burglar Belinda Carlisle - Dancing in the City

Palm Springs, California, awarded the former residents and their descendants a $6 million apology.

He does videos with real guys kissing & also computer-generated stuff like the image down below.

Any fans of his here on the DL?

Have you guys even heard of his site?

Discuss.

The world's oldest living man has died at the age of 112, his family have confirmed.

John Alfred Tinniswood died on Monday at the Southport care home where he lived.

The lifelong Liverpool football fan became the world’s oldest living man in April this year, when Juan Vicente Pérez Mora died at the age of 114.

His family said Mr Tinniswood's final day was "surrounded by music and love". Mr Tinniswood, who was born on 26 August 1912, the same year the Titanic sank, became the UK’s oldest man in 2020.

He was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the world’s oldest man in April 2024.

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

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.

I realized that I do. I grew up in a small town in Maryland and I never really thought of it as a white trash place since both of my parents were educated and so were a lot of my friends' parents. However, Facebook always reveals the truth.

My female high school classmates keep showing off their new tattoos on Facebook. Hell, one of them even got a matching tattoo with her son. The trashiest white girls always end up with the trashiest black guys from high school. Funny, they never seem to be interested in the black guys who went to college. They just want the black guys who were in and out of jail.

A HUGE number of classmates married other classmates and never left. Furthermore, I noticed that all the white guys who moved away got married to women who all look the same: blond and a little chunky, but they all have the same face. It's quite eerie actually.

Can you help this orphan out?

She is infinitely better educated in a traditional sense than a prof of either literature or art history, since either would be hopeless in the other’s discipline. She does write wonderfully and it is always a pleasure and a revelation to read her talking about a text one is already aware of.

However, in video interviews, etc., she seems like a very serious manic bipolar person who is not on medication and may not even have been diagnosed.

Everyone says she is “nuts”, but what does that really mean?

I think that college of hers in Philadelphia has closed down recently.

This is just a quick afternoon announcement for all the other Joan Fans here on DL.

Yes. Really.

[QUOTE]Cheryl Hines, the co-star of Curb Your Enthusiasm, promotes products from her health and beauty line for Black Friday, while her husband, the Secretary of Health and Human Services-designate, Robert Kennedy Jr., showers behind her.

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

In my day growing up in the 90s being gay still felt like a shameful thing. It took me a couple of decades to even be sort of okay with being open about myself, and I still don’t talk about it at work. From what I’ve seen, many younger gays seem to just sashay around like it’s nothing, but I’m sure some still have issues with it.

The other thread was greyed out.

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

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

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

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

I agree it is now the favorite for Best Picture and the two actresses

Director I think they will go with Brady Corbett for The Brutalist because he is a former actor and I remember how Rob Marshall was snubbed for Roman Polanski (oddly also for a film about a Holocaust survivor played by Adrien Brody)

Below the line: Art Direction, Costumes, Hair & Makeup, Sound, and Visual Effects are probably guaranteed.

I’ve dated more n-words than I can count.

Narcissists, nincompoops, nitwits, nutjobs, numbskulls…..

I wasn't there in the 1970's/80's. I'm a 90's millennial. And, the info I have collected about the subject is mostly anecdotal, from one person, and a book titled "Life and Death of the New York Dancefloor". But, because of my imagination and whatnot, this is a thought.

Studio 54 was a lot like Charli XCX LA show night 1 in L.A. It was equivalent to a place where we see today's influencers and celebrities gathered. And, that place was Kia Forum on October 16, 2024.

Charli was so taken off by it, she even asks the audience mid-song, "are you f*cking joking?" because of the crowd's underwhelming energy and lack of presence.

Tik Tok from my perspective made LA night 1 out to be a night of influencers not knowing the lyrics and sort of standing around half-interested in the art and talent right in front of them.

So, as I am listening to sounds of 1977, I'm doing the "12 West Shuffle" in my kitchen. The 12 West Shuffle is a simple 4 on the floor step side to side, with a bit of flourish up top because of the scarcity of space all around. I began to think about what it was like to dance at 12 West. Crowded. The dancefloor was packed, and dancing was not jumping up and down in place. Shoulder to shoulder. Hot, but global warming wasn't like it is today, so probably relative to, but still cooler than, today. No phones. Dancing well into the morning. Most were tripping rather than drinking.

54, however, is what is glorified today when we look back at disco and gay and nightlife. Some might argue 54 was the pinnacle of disco. (The Saint was the pinnacle of disco, the Vatican of disco.) But, in my opinion, back in those years, 12 West embodied disco. And, it was the gathering place of the vanguard of disco. To have seen and been seen at 12 West would have been much more invaluable to those on the scene at that time, than to be seen at 54.

Now, am I comparing apples to oranges while making a vague comparison to bananas? Maybe.

Tldr; Studio 54 is to Charli XCX LA night 1 what 12 West is to Berghain

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. William Frawley was ugly/Vivian Vance

I never get tired of watching this scene.

I'm thinking of Mrs. Garrett's advice on the subject of teen suicide: "Girls when you feel you're getting to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on". Or Ann Romano telling Alex to "just get over the fence". Or however she put it.

Clearly, this era was earnest about tackling these social issues, with their very special episodes. But why were their actual prescriptions for social ills so uniquely unserious?

Viola Ford Fletcher achieved the most rarefied status of becoming a supercentenarian - only one in 1000 centenarians - in May. And her fellow survivor, Lessie Benningfield Randle, is due to celebrate her entry into this exclusive club on Nov. 10. A remarkable sidenote to this tragedy.

Anyone watching ? I was intrigued by this when Colman Domingo was a guest on 'The View' and they all said how good this was. Started streaming on Thanksgiving (Domingo's birthday) and I started watching last night (my birthday). Half way through - seems to have its ups and downs. Some parts are a real heart-stopper, some are more comic at best. Great casting, though.

What are you all thinking ?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We’ve been friends for over 30 years. She found out earlier this week but waited until after Thanksgiving to tell everyone. It’s in some bones and some organs. Fuck. She’s a wonderful person and has been a great friend to me and many others. She doesn’t deserve this.

I’m in shock, I think. She doesn’t have a treatment plan yet, but can chemo or radiation do much at this point? She has a wife who I know will handle all the appointments and things. I don’t know what I can do other than just be there for her. She has asked me to take her to lunch and a movie tomorrow and to just have a fun day. I want to be strong for her but I can’t be sure I won’t burst into tears upon seeing her.

Fuck, fuck, FUCK cancer.

Franz Schubert is one of my favorite composers.

What are your favorite pieces by him? Favorite recordings?

Sad he died at the age of 31.

A former South Korean Navy SEAL, Dalgeun Yu, has become the talk of the news as he knocked out the notorious American streamer, Johnny Somali. This American streamer has built quite a name for his rude stunts in Asian countries. Yu, who has experience serving on South Korea’s elite Underwater Demolition Team, claimed he wanted to “defend national dignity.”

The incident reportedly occurred after Johnny Somali, whose real name is not known, caused outrage by desecrating a monument dedicated to the victims of Japan’s wartime sexual slavery during World War II. The streamer, infamous for his inflammatory behavior across Asia, was live-streaming near the monument when Yu confronted him. Witnesses report that Yu punched Somali after an escalating verbal exchange.

Yu was arrested immediately after the incident and is now under investigation on charges of assault. In a short statement to reporters, Yu showed no remorse, saying he had acted to defend South Korea’s honor. “I could not stand by while someone insulted the victims of history and our nation,” he said.

This is not a maiden controversy for Johnny Somali, who is known for his inflammatory and disrespectful stints. He was indicted recently in South Korea on charges of causing a public disturbance at a convenience store. As many of his behaviors target Asian cultures and historical sensitivities, his actions have drawn massive condemnation online.

The altercation has since sparked an outpouring of online support for Yu, with many South Koreans praising him for standing up to Somali. On social media, some called for harsher penalties against the streamer, who they accused of exploiting freedom of speech for financial gain while showing disrespect for local customs and history.

Authorities have not said whether Johnny Somali will face any other charges over his actions, or whether Yu will be formally indicted on charges of assault. The incident has meanwhile revived debates about the limits of free expression, the exploitation of cultural sensitivities for internet fame, and the role of individuals in defending national pride.

I can’t fap to this

Danny Penny’s light shines upon us all.

Fuck the forced birth states

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

Delta seems to be the only one still trying.

"Harry Potter" star Rupert Grint has been hit with a £1.8 million (around $2.3 million) tax bill after losing a legal battle related to his earnings in the 2011 to 2012 tax year, according to multiple British outlets.

Grint, 36, reportedly received £4.5 million (around $5.7 million as of today) from a company that managed his business affairs in the 2011 to 2012 tax year as "consideration for rights, records and goodwill" from his work.

The actor is said to have claimed this a "capital asset," meaning it was subject to a lower tax rate than it would have been if it had been classed as income — which His Majesty's Revenue and Customs, a department of the UK Government responsible for the collection of taxes, said it should have been.

Following an investigation, Grint, who played Ron Weasley in the eight-film "Harry Potter" franchise, was told in 2019 that he needed to pay an extra £1.8 million in taxes.

He later appealed the decision, but that appeal has now been dismissed by a tribunal judge, who said the fee "derived substantially the whole of its value from the activities of Mr Grint," which was "otherwise realised" as income, according to the reports.

Grint previously lost another, separate legal case in 2016 that resulted in him being denied a £1 million (about $1.3 million as of today) tax refund following an appeal.

During a hearing at the time, the actor reportedly said that his knowledge of his financial affairs was "quite limited," saying he deferred to his father and his accountant on tax returns.

Grint, who was 12 years old when he appeared in "Harry Potter And The Sorcerer's Stone" in 2001, is thought to have earned around £24 million (around $30 million) from the eight-film franchise.

When asked about his net worth in 2018, he told The Radio Times, "I actually don't know how much I have. I couldn't even really guess."

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

Why is there not a new thread? And, yes I did a search.

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

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

So, what is life in Chicago like?

Former President Bill Clinton is blaming Russia for wife Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 presidential election.

In “Citizen: My Life After the White House” (Knopf), Clinton ruminates on what he’s been doing since 2000. One candid excerpt admits his anger at what happened in 2016, when presumptive favorite Hillary Clinton lost the presidential election to Donald Trump.

The ex-president says he “couldn’t sleep for two years” and experienced “outbursts of rage” from those results, creating an atmosphere where he “wasn’t fit to be around.”

“The whole thing is hard for me to write,” Clinton wrote. “I apologize to all those who endured my outbursts of rage, which lasted for years and bothered or bored people who thought it pointless to rehash things that couldn’t be changed,” the 42nd president said.

Clinton blames several factors for his wife’s defeat, including former FBI Director James Comey’s email investigations, a hostile press, and particularly Russian influence on social media.

“Almost two years after the election, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a highly regarded social scientist, said Russia’s cyber attacks piled on top of Comey’s interventions were effective enough to persuade voters in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin to vote for third parties or stay at home,” he wrote.

“If so, Putin’s enablers were Comey and the political press.”

Clinton also addressed his relationship with financier Jeffrey Epstein, a former associate who allowed the former president to fly on his controversial “Lolita Express” airplane. Clinton admits that he took the rides, but never visited Epstein’s island retreat, where underage orgies allegedly occurred.

“The bottom line is, even though it allowed me to visit the work of my foundation, traveling on Epstein’s plane was not worth the years of questioning afterward. I wish I had never met him,” the former president lamented.

“I had always thought Epstein was odd but had no inkling of the crimes he was committing,” he wrote. “He hurt a lot of people, but I knew nothing about it, and by the time he was first arrested in 2005, I had stopped contact with him. I’ve never visited his island.”

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

Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright and Richard Gere star in the Showtime series beginning Dec 1st. Just an FYI.

They remembered Reagan and gave us Trump

Of course, I am biased as we grew up in the 1980s listening to music from Journey, U2, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard and Van Halen; seeing movies such as “Star Wars,” “Back to the Future,” “The Breakfast Club” and “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”; and watching shows such as “Cheers,” “Growing Pains,” “Roseanne” and “Hill Street Blues.”

Most importantly, though, we grew up with Ronald Reagan as our president.

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

Looks fun!

DL, I need your help.

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

Any other advice or insight is welcome!

Kamala Harris has Douglas Emhoff. Jumanji Brown Jackson has Patrick Jackson…….

We warned him Tangier could be dangerous

In your estimation, the main reason(s) he completely lost his marbles.

I'd say "Star Wars (1977)"

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

Agree? Disagree?

Fully straight ex- gay pronstar EFinn known for his miserable fucki..PERFORMANCE and torn hairy asshole is also known for Q&A where he spill some tea. One of his more viewed ones was about sexuality of guys working in gay pron. Q: Have you ever work with a straight guy on set? A: Yes, but like I was saying there are very few straight guys in industry; most are bi or gay themselves [insert retarted face].

While for 99.9% of society its obvious that most guys who take dick in their ass with a hardon and cum like gayzer(lol) are not straight we have some [older] guys who will desperately cling to allerged "fact" those guys are 100% HETEROSEXUAL. Just little reality check.

So let's again discuss this already 1 milion times discussed topic cause its funny.... like people discuss about God and afterlife since forever and nobody seems to be bored by this shit.

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?

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

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

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

The title alone...

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

A 4K blu-ray restoration of it is coming out at the end of the month after decades of no release whatsoever

I’ve always heard such good things about this movie but I just can’t get into it. I don’t buy George C Scott in the Lee J Cobb role.

I keep watching and turning it off. Is it worth sticking with it?

Watch out for the flying ketchup, Justin!

I can't imagine how AWFUL this must have been...

It's almost sad!

Musk?

The surplus colons, indulgent misspellings and callback to 70’s/80’s music should be eldergay catnip. The actual production I’m watching right now is crap. Is there anyone else watching this that would like to share their opinion?

anyone want to start with how shocking and unrecognizable Michael McD or Kenny L are?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

He actually seemed halfway normal back then.

Too bad he's a megalomaniac now.

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residents of a small town in Kansas as they continue their daily lives. Dr. Russell Oakes (Jason Robards) maintains his busy schedule at the hospital, Denise Dahlberg prepares for her upcoming wedding, and Stephen Klein (Steve Guttenberg) is deep in his graduate studies. When the unthinkable happens and the bombs come down, the town's residents are thrust into the horrors of nuclear winter.

Anyone know this whore?

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

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

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

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

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

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

I've always thought this tradition was fascinating ever since I learned of it, though it was fairly short-lived and did not last as a cultural norm. It was a semi-common practice in the US and England with the advent of photography and daguerreotypes. I came across one of these portraits in real life at an antique shop once. It was of a dead infant girl, in a frame with notations on the back that had the name, location of death, and date. Macabre? I suppose so, but this specific photograph really looked just like a sleeping child. I found it strangely beautiful, and it kind of made me sad that there were no descendants of the family to keep it and that it instead ended up in some random antique mall.

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

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

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

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

I know many men in their thirties and forties, both straight and gay.

The ones with wives, kids or husbears at home are aging like shit!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I decided to go Christmas caroling in the small, Midwest town where I live last night. It was completely on a whim and I was not under the influence of any substance or off of my psych meds. It was 7 pm when I stood outside my neighbor’s front door while singing “The Holly and the Ivory”. I saw he and his wife peer at me through their blinds but they didn’t come to the door while I sang the timeless carol.

I then walked across the street and proceeded to stand at another neighbor’s front door. This neighbor is a middle aged to older woman who lives alone, I sang “O Holy Night”. She almost immediately turned her lights off. Once again, I was ignored. People are bitches.

Anne Boleyn The Musical will bring the story of England's most bewitching queen to her childhood home at Hever Castle

Masterminded by Eliane Astor and Prince Simon de Merode, Anne Boleyn The Musical is set to make history – literally

When Anne Boleyn returned from the courts of Flanders to her childhood home at Hever Castle, what augury could have foretold the atomic impact that the young woman would have on the very fabric of England? Before long, the beautiful Boleyn girl had won over Henry VIII, who was willing to commit national apostasy to make her his queen. Henry risked not only wars but the wrath of God for Anne – though her transfixing influence on the King left courtiers wondering just how, precisely, she had seduced him so completely. She was a harlot, they said, that much was for sure, but might the bewitching Anne Boleyn actually be a witch? What with the unfortunate lack of heir, her violent delights soon found violent ends, and the girl from Hever Castle found herself quite literally on the Tudor chopping block.

The rise and fall of Anne Boleyn is one of the most dramatic tales in English history. So, isn’t it about time it was turned into a musical? And where better to stage a showstopping biopic of Henry VIII’s second wife than the grounds of Hever Castle itself? Enter: Anne Boleyn The Musical. Masterminded by Eliane Astor, herself the future Lady Astor of Hever, and her brother Simon de Merode, Historalia Productions is bringing this all-singing all-dancing story of Tudor trysts and transubstantiation to the 13th century jewel-box of a castle. The musical delight will be making its world premier on 6 August 2025.

Do you consider her to still be relevant?

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

One of my all time favorite songs. It’s so beautiful and calming. I’ve heard it so many times over the years and it will never get old. Makes me sad in a way too.

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

Grandmother stabs daughter during Thanksgiving argument, police say.

*Shudder*

A special message to assignment supervisors who send their field reporters to malls across the country to tell viewers that shoppers are 'returning' to dying malls this holiday season:

1. Have the good sense to instruct your reporters and camera crew to have the reporter stand in front of any retailer who is still open in the mall. I can't believe on all the networks (local, cable, and national) who had their reporters stand in front of vacant store fronts, with windows all papered up. One camera crew set up in front of a former JC Penney store in a Florida mall, complete with 'label scars' over the papered front entrance. WTF ?

2. If your reporters are going to tell consumers how 'crowded' the malls are, maybe have the camera crew find a busy area of a vacant mall, and not pan the area where all the vacancies are and mostly homeless people are getting out of the cold weather ? Saying the mall is crowded with shoppers isn't too convincing with these camera shots accompanying the report.

3. Speaking of those reporters standing in empty spaces, viewers are not interested in Kardashian Klones beginning their report with, 'It is like LITERALLY packed in here with bargain hunters'. Teach them to speak properly.

killed all the right people.

I went on a first date with a guy I met on Tinder. We talked for 2 hours, which flew by really quickly. 20 minutes before it ended, we were talking about childhood nostalgia and family, and then he blurted out that when he was 11, a family friend fucked him in the ass, which he said is why he's a bottom now. The two statements don't really make any sense. It was so out of nowhere, the bartender immediately walked away, and I noticed that other people sitting at the bar looked alarmed. I didn't know what to do or what to say. I was overwhelmed, so I asked for my check and tried wrapping up the conversation. I had a hard time sleeping last night, because I was thinking about our conversation. I left without asking to see him again and I still haven't texted him back. This is a really really really big red flag, but I feel really bad for the guy. He seemed so normal when we texted on the app and up to the last few minutes of the conversation. What should I do? I was a little freaked out by this, but I also don't want to be an asshole to a sensitive guy who has been through so much.

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

I am about a 6 if I look at the news

Back in the day, Whoopi Goldberg used to make all kinds of good movies like Jumpin Jack Flash and Ghost and Made in America and so on. There were movies like Back to the Future and the like. These were original stories that were highly entertaining and fun. These days almost everything is a remake of a reboot. What happened?

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

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

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

Suppose she showed up to the Al Smith dinner, and made joke about Trump's hair and took off her wig to show that she had no problem being transparent about things.

Would it have swung more people towards her for being human and authentic?

Love can be found in the most unlikely places.

For the Love of DILFs is back for a spicy third season and the hunky cast is already making a splash just one episode in.

Shortly after meeting everyone at DILF mansion, Timmy Hilton is serving main character energy as he has two daddies already looking to pursue a relationship with him

"Fans should expect the unexpected. A lot of people are going to end up with people throughout the season that you didn't expect them to end up with. I will just leave it at that. This season is the most explosive, dramatic season yet and it's insane," Hilton tells PRIDE.

Hilton is not only turning heads on the popular reality show, but he's grateful to be able to celebrate his sexuality with other LGBTQ+ men on camera.

"As a kid, there was never a show of gay men openly talking about their sex lives, romance, and different types of relationships, so being able to be a part of that now is really amazing."

The influencer is hoping his story, along with the rest of the DILFs cast, can resonate with viewers at home.

"I hope kids that were in middle school struggling can watch the show and find some sort of peace. It's definitely a fantasy, but it's a hectic fantasy... chaotic for sure."

It wasn't so bad at first, but I can't stand the dialogue and characters now. I leave the room when my man watches it.

Sold everything and moved to India.

More excitement to come I’m sure! I predict another shocking young star death like Liam Payne

What a dumb shit this movie was.

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

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

I'm 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anyone want to try some ketchup? condiments are good! NO IWANT TURKEY well too bad mister TURKEY well i guess it is thankgivig but it is a burger shop. go to your TURKEY shop you might have some customers POV TURKEY shop:1million customers waiting!

These guys are great.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The entire exchange lasted a matter of seconds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I’m watching Ascension for the first time tonight and don’t know how I missed it when it debuted 10 years ago. It’s 2014 and 600 scientists and their children have been traveling into space for the past 50 years in the largest government conspiracy ever to find a new home for the human population. They’ve missed out on women’s lib, civil rights, 9/11, etc.

Or have they?

I absolutely love the idea and it’s pretty good for a series developed by Sy FY.

BUT…this miniseries is a pilot if there ever was one. I imagine the series creators thought it would be picked up, and they could finish the story as it’s just getting started.

Starring - Tricia Helfer, Gil Bellows, Brian Van Holt, Andrea Roth, Brandon P. Bell, Ellie O'Brien, Jacqueline Byers, Tiffany Lonsdale, P.J. Boudousqué, & Wendy Crewson.

Also, why didn’t Wendy Crewson turn into a diva the gays could worship? That P.J. Boudousqué is a fine specimen of man meat.

He's such a ditzy Twink!

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

But he's so ditzy!

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

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

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

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

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

I’m not a fan of the music of the Manic Street Preachers am interested in the disappearance of Richey Edwards. Does anybody who followed the band and his career have any theories? I know he is presumed dead but has been sighted around the world.

More from Walford here.

So much explicit gay sex... I was so embarrassed watching this with my parents and 10 year old nephew!

The highly-anticipated, nearly ten years in the making memoir by Barbra Streisand which didn't live up to sales expectations when it was released a year ago, is now available in hard-cover for $5.94. The nearly 1,000 page memoir was kept out of the top-spot in 'Non-Fiction Best Sellers' by memoirs by Matthew Perry, Brittney Spears and Liz Cheney. The publisher's price was listed at $47 when it came out.

I wonder if it'll be KFC or McDonald's on the menu.?

The electric car brand was once a liberal favourite – but the CEO’s embrace of Trump has led to an angry backlash

As Elon Musk has embraced Donald Trump and various far-right conspiracy theories, he has left behind an aghast cohort of Tesla owners who suddenly feel embarrassed by their own cars. Many of them are now publicly displaying their dismay at Musk on their vehicles.

Sales of anti-Musk stickers have boomed since the world’s richest man declared his support for Trump and helped propel him to victory in the US presidential election, as owners of Teslas, the car brand headed by Musk, try to distance themselves from the South African-born multibillionaire.

“Sales have really spiked. The day after the election was the biggest day ever,” said Matt Hiller, a Hawaii-based aquarium worker who sells a range of stickers online that denounce Musk. “People saw a billionaire supervillain buy his way into the administration and it rubbed them the wrong way.”

Hiller started the sticker range last year after deciding against buying a Tesla due to Musk’s “amplifying of horrible people and silencing of others” on X, formerly Twitter, another of his companies. Several hundred stickers a day are now being sold, primarily to Tesla owners, Hiller said, bearing texts such as “Anti Elon Tesla Club” or “I Bought This Before Elon Went Crazy”, or a picture of Musk in clown makeup with the words “Space Clown”.

“People keep telling me that they feel they can drive their Teslas again with these stickers,” said Hiller, who has had to set aside part of his house to accommodate the growing operation. Hiller devises slogans such as “Elon Ate My Cat”, a reference to a debunked falsehood about migrants eating pets in Ohio, that are then sold on Etsy and Amazon. “People are shaken up. It’s a relief really to see they are awake,” he said of the surging demand.

Musk, who has an estimated wealth of $314bn, was once considered an environmental hero and technology pioneer by many US liberals after turning Tesla into the most valuable car company in the world while warning that “climate change is the biggest threat that humanity faces this century, except for AI”.

This is the golden thread that never ends.

Great personal essay.

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?

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

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

The Arizona produce company SunFed said the recalled vegetables were sold from Oct. 12 to Nov. 26.

An Arizona produce company is recalling all sizes of its whole, fresh American cucumbers in 26 states and parts of Canada because they could be contaminated with salmonella, it said.

SunFed said in an announcement posted online Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration that cucumbers it sold from Oct. 12 to Nov. 26 were recalled because of the potential contamination, which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems.

The recalled cucumbers were packaged in bulk cardboard containers marked with the SunFed label or in generic white boxes or black plastic crates with stickers naming the grower, according to the company.

The produce was distributed in 26 states: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

Why aren't you?

Whores.

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.

Momma's mussy is bubbling like extra cheese on a stuffed pizza!

He can parole to my hole!

As disliked by conservatives as he is appreciated by young people and progressives, the man who until recently called himself 'Father Matthieu' has decided to hang up his cassock. He explains the reasons behind his decision to Le Monde.

The first time Le Monde met him, he was wearing a Roman collar and a small silver cross pinned to his jacket pocket, and went by the name "Father Matthieu." A year later, he was dressed in a hoodie, gray jeans and sneakers, his hair lightly tousled with gel and sporting stubble. At 39, he reclaimed his birth name, Matthieu Jasseron, after leaving the priesthood last summer. Just before our mid-November meeting at a Parisian café, he lit up a cigarette on the sidewalk, a little nervously. France's best-known priest, with a million and a half followers on various social media sites, has shocked the Catholic world with his "spiritual coming out."

In a 45-minute video posted on October 20, Jasseron explained, against a bucolic backdrop, why he threw in the towel. It had nothing to do with the motives usually invoked by his peers, said the parish priest for Joigny, in north-central France. "It's not about a chick, a guy, sanctions, scandals, sex, excommunication or anything like that, it runs much deeper," he said, in the direct, no-nonsense style that made him a TikTok sensation.

This was nice.

I had no idea they even knew each other.

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

And he's eating it up. How long do you think Trump is going to put up with this?

Musk has about a dozen children but he's spending Thanksgiving with Trump.

This thread will be about:

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

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

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

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

It took them long enough.

Only 5 years.

A celebrity usually dies on New Year's Eve.

My prediction for this year is Barbara Eden.

At least seven Democratic lawmakers said they were notified of bomb threats targeting their homes, but no devices were found.

Most of Connecticut's congressional delegation and two from neighboring states said they were the subject of bomb threats Thursday at their homes as they were preparing to celebrate Thanksgiving, although no bombs ultimately were found.

Connecticut Democratic Reps. Jim Himes, Jahana Hayes, Joe Courtney, John Larson and Rosa DeLauro announced in written statements that they had been targeted. So too did Reps. Seth Moulton of Massachusetts and Seth Magazine of Rhode Island.

The office of Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., confirmed to NBC News that he too was a target, as well. CBS' local affiliate reported earlier Thursday that Murphy received the threat.

Authorities say they are tracking a wave of threats against lawmakers that began earlier this week.

"We’re working that hard with the FBI," President Joe Biden told reporters with him in Nantucket, Massachusetts, where he is celebrating Thanksgiving with his family.

A spokesperson for Murphy said the threat on the senator's Hartford home "appears to be part of a coordinated effort involving multiple members of Congress and public figures."

Free gift article. Please forgive me if someone else has posted it.

Maybe I had some bad food yesterday (only one dog hair and one cat hair on the plate -- could have been worse, I guess), but this article is making me physically ill. I just wanted to share the joy with my friends at DL!

Women don’t care for this.

I had high hopes for this. The three specials with David Tennant were great, the Xmas episode was ok and now this.

Two steaming turds of episodes in a row.

One featuring talking babies and a monster made out of snot.

One featuring a drag queen who destroys all good music (or something because reasons) yet somehow there's still a music industry, an EMI and a Beatles.

On the plus side Gatwa and Gibson have good chemistry.

Hell to the naw naw naw

If only I liked Cruises

Who cooks this for the holidays?

How does it compare to turkey?

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

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

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

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

Going for vacation after the new year. Please give me some tips. What is the best hotel around Pago Pago? What are the best parks to visit? Best places to get Samoan food? Best activities?

You don't say!

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

His name is Andrew Walker.

He's from Quebec, eh.

Zayn looks great.

But Louis looks so old!

I recently went down a Ruby Franke rabbit hole. I didn't really pay much attention to that case until a few days ago after seeing the arrest videos on YT. These two crazy bitches, that murderous Daybell cunt along with a few others make me wonder if this cult breeds people susceptible to crazy demon beliefs. I'm not picking on them solely as I'm not giving a pass to crazy dominionist and fundie bullshit either.

It does seem as if extreme religion breeds all kinds of abuse against children particularly making kids suffer to beat the evil out.

Can't wait for the book and Lifetime movie.

That’s one hardy twink!

He is now a circus acrobat specializing in Rope

His video as an acrobat inside

Some guy on TikTok and Insta that claims to have a big cock.

Is there photographic or video evidence of said cock?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Discuss.

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

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

Feels like I watched the first season a lifetime ago.

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

Out December 26th.

I'm putting mine up on December 1st.

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

How about you?

All the booze, pills, coke and drama

RFK, Jr’s next wackadoo plan

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.