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YouTube video by Rep. Al Green Rep. Green Warns Federal Funding Delays Risk Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking During Major Events

Rep. Green Warns Federal Funding Delays Risk Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking During Major Events

You can access Rep. Al Green’s remarks by clicking here:

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Pork Filled Productions and SIS Productions presents INSTANT NOODLES, a 24 hour play festival showcasing Seatlke area Asian and Asian American theatrical talent. Full house, but if you get on the waiting list, you’ll probably get in.

Massie: "Here is an email that was sent by the victims' lawyers to the DOJ. It was a list of names not to release. What did the DOJ do with this email? They released it! Literally the worst thing you could do the survivors you did."

Bad Bunny's halftime extravaganza was fucking awesome, but I've moved on to other things since this afternoon.

Too bad it's going to live rent-free in MAGA heads for the next several weeks (months?)...innit? 😂

i just saw someone say "Kid Rock makes music for the people who have tattoos of their kids but not custody" and hol up i need a minute

The NYT fired everyone who knew that sugar cane is kinda important to Puerto Rico.

They're dumber than dogshit over there. This is so fucking embarrassing.

It does really hit you that American artists of color continue to make these aesthetically incredible, thematically rich works of art and the white supremacists that rule this country are just complete dullards

Wife: [devoted wife and mother, kind, skilled child psychologist, volunteers for church and for foster care system]

Also wife, watching Seahawks trying to tackle Patriots QB: KILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL HIIIMMMMMMMMMMM KILLLLLLL HIMMMMMMM NOWWWWWWWWWWW

Side note: Sinatra’s mom Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa, a midwife by trade, ran an underground free abortion clinic, chained herself to a fence to fight for women’s suffrage and was an extremely influential organizer for the Democratic Party
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/eamo...

A black and white photo of Franz Waxman seated, looking down, with sheet music standing up behind him.

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The history of Hollywood's Golden Age is linked with the story of Europeans fleeing the rise of fascism in the 1930s. This is especially true for some of the film composers of that era. None more so than the great Franz Waxman, whose birthday we celebrate today (1906-1967).
#filmsky #musicsky

Every society that has ever existed has had views that are mainstream and views that are fringe. The free-speech frauds who captured the discourse over the past decade understood this, but their true objection was that they did not unilaterally have the power to define which was which. For example, in a 2018 Times column, Weiss complained that “leftists” were engaged in a “concerted attempt to significantly redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” This was meant to sound sinister, menacing. In fact, this is politics. Every faction is always trying to “redraw the bounds of acceptable thought and speech.” In a free society, the government allows people to have those arguments. Such disputes are not a threat to free speech; they are free speech.

When I say that CBS News’s Bari Weiss understood this, you needn’t take my word for it. In November, shortly after being given the reins to one of the oldest broadcast-news organizations in the country, Weiss used identical language to describe her own project: “I think it’s about redrawing the lines of what falls in the 40-yard lines of acceptable debate and acceptable American politics and culture,” Weiss said at the Jewish Leadership Conference. “And I don’t mean that in, like, a censorious, gatekeeping way.” What’s the difference between her “redrawing the lines” of acceptable speech and other people doing it? What makes one “censorious” and “gatekeeping” and the other not? Well, because she gets to decide. That’s what so much of the free-speech panic was ever about: making sure the right people were in charge of what you see, hear, and read. Notably, this has very little to do with reporting the news, which is supposed to be what CBS News does. But if the point of installing Weiss was to ensure that she would gatekeep on behalf of right-wing interests, that is precisely what she appears to be doing.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

Major Kentucky bourbon maker Jim Beam shuttering distillery for 2026 The move comes as Kentucky’s $9 billion bourbon industry is dealing with a glut of supply and slipping sales.

Jim Beam Whiskey will shut its distillery for 2026 thanks to plummeting sales amid retaliatory tariffs from the European Union after Trump's tariffs and a bourbon boycott from Canada.
www.kentucky.com/news/busines...

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Is that good (no)

A Coast Guard Commander Miscarried. She Nearly Died After Being Denied Care. U.S. service members have long faced strict limits on abortions, even when used to resolve miscarriages. Under federal law, the military will only pay for abortions in cases of rape, incest or to save...

The morning that Cmdr. Elizabeth Nakagawa was scheduled to have a D&C to remove fetal tissue after losing a very wanted pregnancy, she learned the surgery had been canceled because the military’s health insurance plan refused to pay for it.

(Published Dec. 2024)

If Rev. Bautista does, in fact, sue DHS, he would be — by my count — the 11th clergy member/faith leader to file a lawsuit against the Trump admin this year (alongside at least 5 individual religious practitioners).

pay close attention to WHO produces this kind of bullshit, WHERE they get their money, and WHICH OUTLETS launder it

Opening up the new year in Seattle
A world premiere play from SIS Productions, Seattle Public Theater and Yun Theater about a thief who gives more than she takes. #AAPIdrama #AsiansOnStage #Asiananericantheatre

Sounds like how Communism worked.

Well, a bit late. Opened and closed Keiko Green’s EXOTIC DEADLY OR THR MDG PLAY. A sort of Asian American Identity 101 play for the 31st Century. We’ll receive by audience and critics alike. #asiansonstage #aspidtama #asianamericantheatre

Asian American bellydancer as fae with horns and wings.

Danced & spun fire at a brewery's take on the ren faire tonight. (Ren faire but make it fae! And burn a goat effigy. 😂)

(Yes that's beer being made behind me. 😄)

Fun fact: nearly all the Chinese electric cars use LFP batteries, which are super cheap, long lasting, use no toxic cobalt, and have a bit reduced capacity

LFP batteries were developed in the US at UT Austin

But they are only made in China - every one in the US currently is imported

Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play It’s 1999, and Ami is an awkward, Japanese American high school girl, just trying to stay as invisible as possible. But her world comes crashing down with a terrible discovery: her family is responsib...

Part of a mini Keiko Green festival in Seattle as Washington Ensemble Theatre is producing her HELLS CANYON at the same time. Get tickets for EXOTIC DEADLY at www.ticketleap.events/tickets/pork...
#AsiansOnStage #AAPIDrama #AsianAmericanTheatre

Six headshots: Julie Chen, Karissa Chin, Ken Kavin, Maia Low, Joshua Erme, Tim Takechi.

Six headshots of Asian American actors: Karis Ho, Pearl Mei Lam, James Lee, Kathy Hsieh, Josh Kenji, Van Lang Pham,

Pork Filled Productions and SIS Productions announce the cast for EXOTIC DEADLY: OR THE MSG PLAY by Keiko Green, a time traveling, space bending whimsical romp. Coming to Seattle in September. #AAPIDrama #AsiansOnStage #AsianAmericanDrama

Again, you deflect....

Conservatives do not deny. This paper won a prize. And this administration, authoritarian as it is, gets considerable support from conservatives; the overlap is great.

This is a disingenuous argument..

I do not see conservatives disclaiming this.

I do see the current administration supporting this. This paper won.a prize, not condemnation.

You deflect from the seriousness of the post.

White woman, Asian man, black woman reading from scripts on music stands for UNLEASHED (New play festival from Pork Filled Productions)

Opening in Seattle: Three days only, staged reading festival of new plays by Asian American writers: UNLEASHED by Pork Filled Productions
#AsiansOnStage #AAPIDrama #AsianAmericanTheatre

Yeah. Useful for SOMETHING (I'd accept Dem Attack Dog)...but President is not it.