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From the website Moviediva about the 1946 black & white French film La Belle et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast): "Or, as Cocteau wrote, 'My goal was to make the Beast so human, so likeable, so superior to man that his transformation into Prince Charming would be for Belle, a terrible disappointment, and would oblige her to accept a marriage of reason.' Greta Garbo attended a screening of the film and reportedly cried out, “Give me back my beast!” after the transformation (Paris)." https://moviediva.com/reviewpages/mdbeautybeast/

This is a recurring theme for Beauty and the Beast adaptations:

Langston Hughes Wrote Fiction That Still Stings How months of harassment and racism at Carmel-by-the-Sea led Langston Hughes to write his landmark story collection The Ways of White Folks.

"How months of harassment and racism at Carmel-by-the-Sea led Langston Hughes to write his landmark story collection The Ways of White Folks" www.altaonline.com/books/poetry...

A number of FEMA employees were told via email that they would be reassigned to ICE. Here's the kicker: If they don’t accept the new position, they could be fired.

The priorities of Trump's administration have never been clearer. Remove immigrants at all costs, disasters be damned.
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clowns, cowards and criminals

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I'll say it again, as this is ramping up: if you gave access to the archives of goverment data and information, it is your moral responsibility to make sure that untouched versions get preserved, now. There are people worh archival expertise who can help you, if you don't have it yourself. Start now

Another horrific series of press rights abuses tonight at hands of LAPD.

Initial reports are 4 journalists injured (several bleeding), 3 cameras broken, 5 put in zip ties.

All in defiance of state law, a judge's order, and chief's signed order.

LAPD can't police itself. Maybe the judge will.

I really hope UCLA is not left to fight this alone.

At a minimum, the entire UC system needs to close ranks around UCLA. Better still, the California state government should step up to defend this major institution.

We have to fight somewhere. Why not here? Why not now?

Texas GOP Uses Emergency Flood Relief to Push Trans Bathroom Ban After deadly flooding in Texas, Republicans used an emergency legislative session called to tackle the state’s most pressing issue: where trans people pee.

1. Texas Republicans are attempting to use the devastating floods to push... a trans bathroom ban.

That's right, the emergency session which has been billed as primarily for flood relief is being used to sneak in anti-trans legislation.

The latest from S. Baum.

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‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion | KQED University of California President James Milliken said President Donald Trump’s proposal would “completely devastate” the system.

Headline writer finally gets it right: ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion www.kqed.org/news/1205152...

Even for him, what the FUCK

Science is effectively dead in the US for at least the next 3½ years, and will then take another several years to even get started again. Canceled research doesn’t just uncancel itself, and scientists who find opportunity elsewhere won’t just come flocking back.

The damage is generational.

Ask your wife how she feels about "F.N.T." ...

So apparently, it may turn out that The Wizard of Oz at the Las Vegas Sphere wasn’t entirely made in AI and Google threw the VFX crew under the bus by claiming it was all done by artificial intelligence.

If true, then fucking yikes.

here's an ICT article on this for more info btw, this is why the US is always trying to remove power from native ppl, because we will fight back even if nobody fights for us or the land, thank you Miccosukee 💕

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a man in a suit and tie talks to two other men Alt: Tim Robbins as the Present of the United States saying, "I want a kajillion-bjaillion dollars" and laughing with his chiefs of staff after a demand from Dr. Evil in the first Austin Powers movies

How I wish Chancellor Frenk could do this, but it's too much to ask. Not capitulating, that isn't too much to ask, though ...

‘They slaughtered us like animals’: the inside story of how one of the biggest atrocities of the Sudan war unfolded in Zamzam As the UK prepared to host a global summit on bringing peace to Sudan, the RSF paramilitary began a ‘genocidal’ massacre in Zamzam refugee camp. But when reports emerged of the killings, London held i...

This is unbelievably horrible and the UK and UAE’s complicity is just astounding

Oh, so that’s my reading schedule for October. Thank you.

ICE Is Denying People Bond to Keep Them Locked Up Incarcerating people before their immigration trials compounds injustice and strains an already crumbling system.

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How to turn your Instagram location on or off It's up to you whether you appear on Maps.

Instagram adding a map feature where you can literally find the address someone is at feels bad!

Anyway... here's an article telling you how to turn that off.

mashable.com/article/how-...

Heinous.

If you're a 1L starting law school in coming weeks, just remember: You're *supposed to* feel a bit confused at first. It's normal. Law is like a language. You learn it best through immersion. You'll take a few weeks to get to speed.

This may help, too:
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This is effectively a ban on trans scientists getting federal funding, straight up. It’s also effectively a ban on all scientific work that includes trans people.

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She Was a Global Superstar—And a World-Class Spy The untold story of Josephine Baker, espionage agent.

This story makes me happy. getpocket.com/explore/item...

Cool cool cool cool and now they got the apps (and I think I saw photos of someone using the Meta AI Ray Bans or whatever) so this is awesome