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Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film Kristen Stewart declares "state of emergency" over gender inequality in film

She's absolutely right. As a producer with several films in development with female directors, I can say it is an absolute uphill battle to get execs to fund their projects. Great scripts are sitting on shelves while a generation of our most talented women sit idle.

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Also a special place in Trump's ballroom

42 million Americans are being starved, and billionaires spent $40 million to help Andrew Cuomo lose by almost 200,000 votes.

Trump take sky! Why Trump take away sky?

Holy shit. Reading the transcript, Sauer sounds about 10X more batshit that he did listening live.

FWIW, I said ... I don't know, 6 days ago, I thought we were within two days or two months of Trump's people starting being held in contempt.

I was thinking Bovino in the very short term.

I stand by that.

Katyal quotes Justice Robert Jackson, head Nuremberg lawyer as his final bow:

he may not have a choice in this based on staffing and security regulations, but i appreciate the administration's commitment to making sure everyone thinks it's a choice they're making

An American Tail poster with lil ol mouse immigrant Fievel

It’s hard to believe but there was a cartoon about an immigrant mouse and it was seen as totally fine and not controversial and not woke because it was an aspirational and nice thing about America that people could come here and find a better life

Way more.

AI and Crypto data centers need to be the first ones to lose power in a brown out.

Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

You cannot base your state-sponsored response to someone based on what you think is in their head.

This is why you DON'T stop the shutdown. Clearly the voters know who's responsible for the shutdown and now it's gonna be even worse. Since the news isn't willing to be honest with Americans about what Trump was and is, this will have to do so they can get the message.

Bovino appears in the video seated in front of a microphone and water bottle. He's wearing his green Border Patrol uniform.

When he's asked his role in Midway Blitz, Sarmad Khojasteh of DOJ can be heard objecting. Eventually, Bovino says he's the "commander" of the operation.

Lawyers play a video that was played for Bovino. In it, he tells agents "everybody fucking gets it if they touch you."

"This is OUR fucking city," Bovino tells them.

Back to the deposition. Bovino is asked, "the instruction that you gave your officers was that they had full reign to arrest anyone who so much as touched them?"

Bovino: "No."

Bovino was asked in his deposition if that was still true — that all use of force in Chicago had been "exemplary."

Bovino says "no."

Then he's asked if some force had been "less than proper?"

Bovino: "All uses of force have been MORE than exemplary."

Bovino is asked, "have you ever taken any agent under your command aside and said, 'I see you firing pepperballs from a rooftop … that is a violation of policy, you shouldn't do that'?"

Bovino: "I have never said that."

Bovino is asked if he remembers the name of the Rev. David Black.

Bovino said he did not.

Now the courtroom is viewing footage of Black being hit with pepperballs.

A lawyer asked Bovino several times if he tackled "an older gentleman" in that video. Bovino repeatedly denied it.

Bovino said he was "imploring" that person "to comply with leaving the area and to comply with instruction." And, he acknowledges, "there was physical contact."

Bovino is asked if he'd seen "any evidence your men were confronted by violent rioters in Old Irving Park?"

Bovino: "Yes."

Bovino is asked how he would define a "protester."

Bovino: "An individual that is exercising their constitutional right to speak, to speak their opinion, to speak their mind in a peaceful fashion."

But someone being "assaultive" is someone who "wishes to perpetrate violence of threats, or some overt violent action toward another individual, in this case it would be us in law enforcement," Bovino says.

Planned Parenthood of Maine calls out Susan Collins for shepherding an extremist anti-abortion judge through confirmation

#mesen #mepolitics

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

N.J. Gov.-elect Mikie Sherrill tells Democrats: ‘Move quickly and actively, not passively’ Sherrill joined “Morning Joe” to discuss her “juggernaut” of a campaign and what lessons she thinks her party can take from her win Tuesday.

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I missed this story – somebody accused Mamdani of using AI to fake his Spanish-language ad, so the campaign put out a video of the outtakes.

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Private prison industry is booming.

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