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mariacallous · 2 months

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In November 2023, the Russian Supreme Court ruled to ban the “international LGBT movement” as an “extremist organization” — despite the fact that no such formal entity exists. Soon after the decision was passed, Russian security forces began conducting violent searches of private parties. In February alone, the authorities have raided parties, forcing attendees to lie face-down on the floor and asking them if they belong to the LGBTQ community, at least three times. In some cases, party guests were beaten. Journalists from the outlet Mediazona spoke to attendees of these events about what happened. Meduza summarizes their reporting in English.

On February 21, the Russian TV network REN TV aired a segment about how security officials had raided a cottage in the town of Koltushi near St. Petersburg. According to the newscaster, the agents “shut down a provocative party” after finding “several dozen young people who couldn’t immediately name their own gender.” The report also said that items with “symbols of the LGBT movement, which is banned in Russia,” were found on the premises. Footage included in the segment showed about 10 people lying on the floor with their hands behind their heads. It also showed police interrogating people arrested at the party, asking questions such as “Do you consider yourself part of the LGBT movement?” and “Are you a boy or a girl?”

One of the attendees who spoke to Mediazona said that there were 16 people at the party and that they had gathered to celebrate a friend’s birthday. According to the source, the police burst into the cottage early in the morning on February 18 and forced everyone to lie on the floor. The officers lifted attendees up “by the hair and by the neck” before interrogating them on camera, according to the source, and the attendees ultimately spent five hours lying on the floor.

They made disgusting jokes, calling us obscene words, idiots, that kind of thing, and saying they wished we would die. They walked around asking each person, “Are you a boy or a girl?” And if they weren’t sure about somebody’s sex, they would send them to an investigator, where they were forced to show their body parts. They asked one girl to lift her skirt and tighten her leggings. My friend had to show scars from [surgery]. The whole time they were asking questions like, “Oh, where’s your penis? Where did you put it?”

That same day, law enforcement officials also raided a party that was dedicated to “openness and sexuality” at a cultural center in the city of Tula. According to the Telegram channel Ostorozhno, Novosti, police made some of the attendees go outside, where they proceeded to beat them. A video published by the channel shows a man who is reportedly a plainclothes officer beating a person lying in the snow. “Who are you talking to like that, you piece of shit?” the attacker says.

Another video published by the channel shows security officials bursting into a building and shouting, “Everybody on the floor!” and “Come here, you son of a bitch!”

One attendee described the raid to Mediazona:

They beat them, including people lying on the ground, with fists to their face, and kicked them. They interrogated them, while filming what was happening. They stripped them naked and made them squat, do push-ups, and sing the city anthem of Tula. They threw them face-down in the dirt, tased them, and poured water on them. The officers forced everyone to state their full name and educational institution, if they were studying, on a recording. They searched everyone and took photos of everyone’s passports, and they were constantly shouting about ‘LGBT.’

The person also said the party was “small” and that it “wasn’t positioned as an LGBT gathering.”

According to the local news outlet Tula Press, several people who attended the event were charged with spreading “LGBT propaganda.”

Another party was shut down by the authorities on February 9, but the raid wasn’t reported publicly until February 20, when an article titled “Activity of large LGBT community curbed in Petrozavodsk” appeared on a local news site in Russia’s Republic of Karelia. The report says that a “female resident of Petrozavodsk is suspected of organizing a community united by affiliation with LGBT culture” and that only “known representatives of the LGBT community” were allowed into the party: “The shocking list includes both men and women. It includes both married and divorced people. It also includes mothers, including some with three children.”

Additionally, on February 4, police raided a club in Yekaterinburg that was hosting a BDSM party called Blue Velvet. Only guests who purchased tickets in advance were allowed to attend the event, and a password was required for entry. The authorities said the raid was carried out for the purpose of “stabilizing the operational situation” in the city.

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everybxdy-dies · 11 months

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Are They Jigsaw's Protégés?!?!?

As you woke up, you were greeted by a barrage of blinding, uncomfortable fluorescent lights. It took a moment for your vision to come back to you, but when it did, you realized you were chained to the floor by a metal collar with a Monokuma face on it. The Monokuma pulsed with lights and beeped occasionally, the threat of what it could do to you alone very present. As you looked around, you spotted three people around you, you in the center of a circular table with the middle cut out, similar to what newscasters use, but full circle.

"Oh, good! You're awake!"

A cheerful young man giggles, leaning slightly over the table excitedly to face you.

"Welcome, welcome! Make yourself comfortable, as comfortable as you can with a bomb around your neck!"

This statement came from a light-haired man with an obscenely normal smile for the statement he's just made.

"Here's the issue, my dear... You've been a thorn in our sides and a pain in our necks. So we've willed you dead. However, merciful as we are, and for the thrill alone, we have decided to allow you to choose who determines your fate. You can choose me, Celestia Ludenberg, Ultimate Gambler and Despair, with my cards... You can choose Nagito Komaeda, Ultimate Lucky Student and Despair, with his beloved wheel of fortune... Or you can choose Kokichi Ouma, Ultimate Supreme Leader and Despair, with his favorite dice. However, if you wish to contest your fate, you may decide to play a game of our choice against someone of your choice for your life. Do you understand? Good. Make your choice, so says your queen."

(( Feel free to ignore, interact if not tagged, or ask for your tag to be removed! MODS that play Kokichi or Kotoko on ANY blog in ANY capacity DNI!!!!!!! ))

@human-monokuma @pizza-for-my-friends @little-miss-succubus @non-verbal-kiddo @iroha-painter-missing, and others, mod is lazy. ;w;

#♠️ Pick A Card‚ Any Card — Celestia Ludenberg 🃏#🎰 What Conclusion Will The Wheel Of Fortune Reach? — Nagito Komaeda ☘️#🎲 Sickly Grinning Downward‚ Tosses Out A Pair Of Dice — Kokichi Ouma ♟️

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femininenachos · 1 year

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I’ve Got News For You

(Or the 80s rival TV newscasters AU no one asked for…)

It’s 1987, and Lexa Woods is a serious, austere news anchor, always delivering the news with smooth, measured gravitas. Nicknamed “the perfumed menace” she’s renowned for being a tough and exacting interviewer, a household name with the plaudits to back it up. Meanwhile, Clarke Griffin is a plucky reporter on the ground with a megawatt smile and disarming manner, who’s carved a niche for herself with frivolous, crowd-pleasing fluff pieces and lighthearted human-interest/animal segments. Lexa doesn’t hide her disdain for the rival outlet’s content and tone, yet it consistently beats her own channel in the ratings, to her supreme annoyance.

So she’s furious and indignant when station manager Indra tells her they’re poaching Clarke from their competitor.

“I won a Peabody for my coverage of the opioid crisis in Mount Weather!”

Lexa’s rant gathers steam.

“We’re a respected news source. This,” she gestures at the freeze frame of Clarke reporting from a feline beauty pageant, “is not news.”

Lexa stabs a finger in the air, oblivious to Indra’s subtle eye roll.

“I won’t stand here and watch my reputation for high-minded broadcast journalism be washed down the drain. I’ll walk.”

She also learns they plan to bring in a male anchorman, some eye candy for the housewives. The focus groups find Lexa too severe and haughty.

“I’m the anchor. No one reads the news but me.”

“Well,” Indra tells her firmly. “Things have to change or there won’t be a show to anchor. Would you prefer they take us off the air entirely and replace us with compilations of idiotic home video mishaps? They’re cheap and everybody loves them.” (The “unlike you” goes unsaid). “I’ve heard grumblings from the board.”

Lexa stares, aghast at the notion.

It takes a lot of placating to calm her down, vague promises of a primetime special on a hard-hitting topic of her choosing.

When she’s introduced to Clarke the following week, Lexa is frosty, aloof, giving the cold shoulder. Later that day, they butt heads during a pitch meeting. Lexa dismisses Clarke’s ideas, leaving her fuming, and everyone else stepping on eggshells.

Record scratch cut to Lexa’s dressing room...

Clarke kisses her hard, nipping sharply at Lexa’s bottom lip, an undercurrent of rebuke in her voice when she tells Lexa, “You could dial it down a notch, you know? For someone who wants to get under my skirt, you could stand to be a lot nicer.”

Lexa soothes Clarke by trailing kisses along her jaw to that spot behind her ear that makes her knees buckle slightly. “I promise I’ll make it up to you.”

She sucks a kiss at the top of Clarke’s neck. The pressure light, not enough to leave a mark, conscious of how that might reflect poorly on Clarke, professionally speaking. Half the station already thinks she’s a ditzy airhead (a false impression that Lexa did nothing to discourage, she acknowledges to herself with a tiny stab of guilt), and a visible hickey would only provide more fodder for snide gossip.

“Anya was in the room and I overcompensated. She’s too savvy not to be suspicious of me suddenly singing your praises.”

“Oh, yeah?” Clarke hoists an eyebrow as she leans back, out of range of Lexa’s roving mouth. “Been trash talking me to your producer?”

Lexa‘s throat bobs. “I… might have expressed some strong reservations about the new editorial direction.” For some reason her mouth keeps moving and words, the wrong ones, keep spilling forth, as though she isn’t actually someone who’s built a storied career on being an excellent communicator. “I’m just not convinced by the pivot from hard news to a magazine format, or that our two styles will successfully mesh.”

Her heart plummets as Clarke pulls away and starts to tuck in her blouse. “Well, you definitely won’t be meshing with me now.”

“Clarke, wait. Come on, can’t we talk—”

“No. You’re such an ass, Lexa. Beautiful, sexy beyond belief, but an ass all the same.” Clarke strides across the room, ignoring Lexa’s pleas, and lays her hand on the doorknob. Pauses to look over her shoulder, not fully able to mask the hurt and betrayal in her expression. “Let’s just do one another a favour and stay out of each other’s way, alright? And a word of warning: don’t try to get me fired. I will lawyer up and sue this station into oblivion.”

“I—”

Lexa stares at the empty doorway, bewildered at how a sizzling secret makeout session went so far off the rails so quickly, and left wondering how she can possibly repair the damage.

#clexaweek23 #Clexaweek23 day 6 #day 6 workplace romance #clexa moodboard #clexa #clexa au

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homomenhommes · 3 months

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THIS DAY IN GAY HISTORY

based on: The White Crane Institute's 'Gay Wisdom', Gay Birthdays, Gay For Today, Famous GLBT, glbt-Gay Encylopedia, Today in Gay History, Wikipedia, and more … January 19

1863 – Ogden Codman, Jr. was an American architect and interior decorator in the Beaux-Arts styles, and co-author with Edith Wharton of The Decoration of Houses (1897).

Codman spent his youth from 1875 to 1884 at Dinard, an American resort colony in France, and on returning to America in 1884, studied at the MIT. Wharton became one of his first Newport clients for her home there, Land's End. Subsequently she introduced Codman to Cornelius Vanderbilt II, who hired him to design the second and third floor rooms of his Newport summer home, The Breakers.

In 1907, Codman built the Codman-Davis House in Washington, D.C. for his cousin Martha Codman, one of the few intact homes that he designed. This included a carriage house, now the Apex Night Club, ironically a gay club.

Although a noted homosexual, on 8 October, 1904, Codman married one of his commissioners, Leila Griswold Webb, widow of railroad magnate H. Walter Webb, who died unexpectedly in 1910.

In 1920, Codman left New York to return to France, where he spent the rest of his life at the Château de Grégy, wintering at Villa Leopolda in Villefranche-sur-Mer: it is his masterpiece, the fullest surviving expression of his esthetic.

1897 – The Missouri Supreme Court upholds a conviction for assault to commit sodomy of a St. Louis police officer who attempted sodomy with another male after threatening to arrest him unless he accompanied him to a lumber yard, where the attempt was made.

1900 – An Ohio newspaper reports that a man was arrested for sex with his 13-year-old male companion. Both claim that the younger partner's mother "gave" him to the other.

Ray Stevens & Pat Paterson (R)

1941 – Born: Pierre Clermont, better known by his ring name Pat Patterson, was a Canadian former professional wrestler (d.2020). Pat was 17 when he started wrestling. He soon became one of the biggest names in the sixties and seventies. He worked for WWE as a creative consultant. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 1996.

Outside of the wrestling ring, Pat was really timid and shy. He was soft-spoken, with a cute French accent. Surprisingly, Pat was a former altar boy and candidate for the priesthood. He was a deeply religious man.

Pat Patterson debuted in Montreal, Quebec in 1958 as "Pretty Boy" Pat Patterson, an effeminate wrestler who wore red lipstick and pink trunks and was accompanied by his pet Poodle.

A Young Pat Patterson

Patterson wrestled frequently for affiliates of the National Wrestling Alliance throughout the 1960s, and was a ten time tag team champion in San Francisco with a variety of partners. His most famous pairing was with Ray Stevens, the two of them forming the heel tag team, the Blond Bombers.

Patterson was openly gay, although he had never stated so. It is rumored that Pat and Gerald Brisco, another of his wrestling partners, were lovers. In 1992, Patterson was accused of sexual harassment by former ring announcer Murray Hodgson and released from the company until the charges were dropped, when he was promptly rehired. After dropping the charges, Hodgson's attorney referred to Hodgson as "a lifelong con man."

In August 2006, Patterson underwent emergency heart surgery. In October, Patterson recovered from his operation and was released from the hospital.

On June 12, 2014, Patterson officially "came out" on TV. The video link is below:

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Although Patterson was openly gay, having come out in the 1970s, his sexual orientation was never directly acknowledged on television until 2014 when he spoke about it on a WWE-produced reality TV show.

Louie Dondero, Patterson's longtime partner of 40 years, died of a heart attack in 1998. Patterson himself died in December 2020.

1950 – Randy Price is a television newscaster with WCVB-TV in Boston, Massachusetts, after being the lead anchor at WHDH-TV from 1998 to 2009. He is considered the U.S.'s first openly gay newscaster.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Price attended Louisiana State University, where he began his broadcasting career in college radio, which continued with a stint in the U.S. Air Force, with Price working for the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

He worked in television in Bakersfield, California (KERO-TV) and Toledo, Ohio (WTVG), before moving to Boston's WBZ-TV in 1983 where he anchored for 12 years. He left WBZ in 1995 due to alcohol problems which included a drunk driving conviction.

Price joined WHDH-TV in 1996 as a freelance reporter, and in 1997 was made a full-time anchor. He moved into the morning anchor chair and then was promoted to anchor the 5, 6 and 11 p.m. newscasts. On February 6, 2009, Price was let go from WHDH-TV. His last newscast was on Wednesday, February 4, 2009. On February 7, 2009 The Boston Globe quoted Price that station owner, Edmund Ansin, had told him "we need to move in different directions."

On June 2, 2009, Price was named morning anchor at WCVB-TV, Channel 5 in Boston.

Price is openly gay and on January 3, 2007 he married longtime partner Mark Steffen in a ceremony on the steps of the Massachusetts State House in Boston, Massachusetts. They live in Kittery, Maine.

The Johns Committee in session

1959 – On this date investigators summoned the University of Florida Geography professor Sigmund Diettrich to the Manor Motel in Gainesville, Florida for "interviewing". Soon after, he was fired from his job and lost the life he loved as a beloved teacher and dean. He attempted suicide the same day he was let go from U.F. Hundreds of other professors and students across the state were also terminated or expelled because of their sexuality. Many people are familiar with the McCarthy hearings but do not realize that Florida had its own committee designed to weed out communism and homosexual activity. State Senator Charley Johns started the investigations to "protect Florida's children."

The Johns Committee pursued people in academic institutions, courthouse bathrooms and bus stations. The committee's investigators went so far as tapping phones in motels, interrogating children as young as 10, and breaking up a teenage girl's slumber party looking for evidence of moral misconduct. In 1993 more than 30,000 pages of secret documents became public, including a University of Florida administrator's statement that there was no way to prevent Gay men from lingering in university bathrooms "unless you pour sulfuric acid on the floor to make people go fast."

1982 – Pete Buttigieg is an American politician and candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. He is the first openly gay person to seek the Democratic nomination, and has built his campaign around the idea of generational change. He launched his campaign on April 14, 2019, after forming an exploratory committee in January. Initially considered a long shot, he gained significant momentum in mid-2019 when he participated in several town halls, forums, and debates. As of December 2019, several media outlets consider him one of four "top-tier candidates".

Buttigieg served as the 32nd mayor of South Bend, Indiana from January 2012 to January 2020. Before running for office, he worked on the political campaigns of Democrats Jill Long Thompson, Joe Donnelly, and John Kerry. He was defeated in the 2010 election for Indiana State Treasurer before being elected mayor of South Bend, Indiana the following year, becoming the youngest mayor of a city with a population of over 100,000. In 2015, Buttigieg publicly came out as gay. Later that year, he was reelected with over 80% of the vote. In 2017, he ran for chair of the Democratic National Committee.

From 2009 to 2017, he served as a naval intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant. In 2014, he was deployed to Afghanistan for seven months and was awarded the Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Joint Meritorious Unit Award. From 2007 to 2010, he worked as a consultant at management consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Buttigieg is a graduate of Harvard College and Oxford University. He attended the latter on a Rhodes Scholarship.

In a June 2015 piece in the South Bend Tribune, Buttigieg came out as gay. By coming out, Buttigieg became Indiana's first openly gay elected executive. He was the first elected official in Indiana to come out while in office, and the highest elected official in Indiana to come out. Buttigieg is also the first openly gay Democratic presidential candidate, and the second overall, after Republican Fred Karger, who ran in 2012.

In December 2017, Buttigieg announced his engagement to Chasten Glezman, a junior high school teacher. They had been dating since August 2015 after meeting on the dating app Hinge. They were married on June 16, 2018, in a private ceremony at the Episcopalian Cathedral of St. James. As of April 2019 Chasten uses his husband's surname, Buttigieg.

Buttigieg announced that he and his husband had become parents on August 17, 2021. Buttigieg announced that they had adopted two newborn fraternal twins on September 4, 2021.

In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, a watershed moment in the LGBTQ rights movement, Queerty named him one of its "Pride50" people identified as "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people."

President-elect Biden named Buttigieg as his nominee for Secretary of Transportation in December 2020. His nomination was confirmed on February 2, 2021, by a vote of 86–13, making him the first openly gay Cabinet secretary in U.S. history. Nominated at age 38, he is also the youngest Cabinet member in the Biden administration and the youngest person ever to serve as Secretary of Transportation.

2004 – Ian Iqbal Rashid releases his movie Touch of Pink. Multi-talented Rashid is a poet, screenwriter and filmmaker known in particular for his volumes of poetry, for the BBC TV series This Life and the feature films Touch of Pink and How She Move.

Of Indian ancestry and Ismaili Muslim religion, Rashid's family lived in colonial East Africa for generations. Ian was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Different years of birth are given for Rashid in different sources, but academic work gives the year as 1968. In 1970, his family was forced to leave Tanzania. After failing to secure asylum in the UK and US, they settled in Toronto.

Rashid began his career as an arts journalist and critic and events programmer, particularly focussed on South Asian diasporic, Muslim and LGBTQ cultural work.

In the early 1990s, Rashid returned to London, Britain, where he lives today with his partner, the writer, curator, and academic Peter Ride.

In the late 1980s, Rashid was a regular contributor to the Canadian LGBT magazine Rites. Rashid published his first poetry collection, Black Markets, White Boyfriends and Other Acts of Elision, in 1991. Two more followed: the chapbook Song of Sabu in 1993 and The Heat Yesterday in 1995.

His poems "Another Country", "Could Have Danced All Night", "Hot Property" and "Early Dinner, Weekend Away" appear in John Barton and Billeh Nickerson's 2007 anthology Seminal: The Anthology of Canada's Gay Male Poets, and others were included in the 2009 anthology Forbidden Sex, Forbidden Texts: New India's Gay Poets.

Self-taught as a film-maker, in 1991, Rashid made the short film Bolo Bolo! with Kaspar Saxena. The film, part of an HIV/AIDS cable access series called Toronto Living With AIDS, resulted in the series being pulled from Rogers Television after complaints about sexually suggestive content, though it had a long and healthy life at film festivals.

Rashid went on to write two award-winning short films, Surviving Sabu (1999), and Stag (2001).

Touch of Pink, Rashid's first feature film, spent 12 years in development. In 2003, he finally had the chance to direct the project as a Canada-UK co-production. It premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim, a bidding war, and eventually, a sale to Sony Picture Classics. The film has attracted extensive scholarly commentary.

How She Move received a similar reception at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Rashid in 2007, the film is set in the world of step dancing. It was nominated for a Sundance World Cinema Grand Jury Prize and purchased by Paramount Vantage. The film opened to positive reviews and strong box office.

Rashid began working as a writer in UK television in the late 1990s. His credits include the soap London Bridge (Carlton Television for ITV) and the cult hit BBC2 series This Life, for which he received the Writer's Guild of England award.

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botslayer · 2 years

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Finally watched Brightburn... Anyone else notice the thumbnails at the end?

Everyone has already talked about the end credits scene, so I’m doing that now, if you haven’t watched I DK, just keep scrolling:

Okay, so in this scene, this newscast host talks about a half-man sea creature and a woman who chokes people out with ropes and cables, the top middle pic in the main video is Brandon, the one on the lower left is Crimson Bolt from the movie “Super” and the bottom middle is some kind of Martian/Gray/Dover Demon lookin’ thing. Lord knows what the “?” is about. But has anyone even once noticed the thumbnails/titles to the right being nods to common enough comic tropes? “Aliens in the desert” (An origin for the Dover Demon guy, maybe? More of Brandon’s people? ... The Champions of Angor?) “PROOF: We are being visited by time travelers” (Booster gold? Cable, maybe?) “5 ways to know if you are a clone” (Bizarro, X-23, Spiderman’s veritable horde of ‘em) “What kind of person are YOU in a parallel dimension?” (Earth 3, The Ultimate Universe, The Squadron Supreme, etc.) I know that this is all probably to make the guy look crazy, but he lives in a world where an alien is causing panic and terror and other crazy shit is just happening all over the place. There was A LOT more theoretical set up in this cobble of scenes than I think most people noticed... Or maybe they did, IDK. I just ain’t seen anyone talk about it.

#Brightburn #Theory #Sort of at least #Speculation #Can I please get a sequel?#Crimson Bolt #Super #Superheroes #horror

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 2 years

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'Drunkard,' 'Redneck,' A Few Of The Milder Insults In Brazil Runoff

President Jair Bolsonaro has called his election opponent Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva a "thief" and a "drunkard." Lula counters that the Brazilian leader is a "butcher," and a "redneck."

The insults are flying between the two candidates before the second round of presidential elections.

Here is a timeline of some of the put-downs:

"I talk dirty, but I'm not a thief," Bolsonaro said at a September 7 campaign event on Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, referring to Lula's 2017 conviction on charges of accepting bribes for public contracts while president. A Supreme Court judge annulled the conviction last year.

"If you put a drunkard to run Brazil… who has a trail of corruption, of debauchery, toward the Brazilian family, of attacks on priests and pastors, on the armed forces, on the police, do you think it will work?" Bolsonaro said at a news conference on October 7 at his official residence in Brasilia.

"This butcher who rules this country is not received by anyone and no one wants to visit this country. He is a denialist who doesn't believe in things," Lula said during a campaign event in Campina Grande, Paraiba, on August 2.

"Bolsonaro is a hostage of the national congress... Bolsonaro looks like the court jester," Lula said on August 25 on the TV Globo evening newscast.

"We are facing a man without soul, without heart, a man who did not have the sensibility to shed a single tear for any of the more than 680,000 victims of Covid," Lula said on October 7 in Sao Paulo.

#brazil #politics #brazilian politics #brazilian elections #brazilian elections 2022 #jair bolsonaro #luiz inacio lula da silva #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

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beckleysbooks · 4 months

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Interrupting Regularly Scheduled Programs

I remember as a kid the odd occasion when one of my favorite television programs would simply disappear from the screen, replaced usually by a stern, older man with a grave voice stating, "We interrupt this regularly scheduled program for an important announcement". It was the only means back then to deliver a breaking news event to the country.

Well, it's kind of happening again. Mankind's regularly scheduled programming this week is Christmas, the focus being on all that brings us joy at this time of year. Yet, for the past few days, the important announcement that's on nearly every newscaster's lips is the story of Colorado's Supreme Court declaring that Donald Trump is ineligible to appear on its State Primary Ballots. What I'm hearing over and over is the 14th Amendment's clause of inciting an insurrection.

This blog is as unplanned as the interruption/public service announcement to one's favorite television show, but, all of this chatter about the 14th Amendment has drawn me into the fray.

In my book, "Oh! Susannah" - an historical fiction found on www.beckleysbooks.com - I outline the history of the 14th Amendment in the prelude to Chapter 22, "Postbellum, Petroleum and Prohibition". The inciting of an insurrection clause of the 14th Amendment is nothing more than an afterthought, comparable to a "player to be named later" in a trade of highly touted sports stars today. The 14th Amendment IS about the guarantee of citizenship to all people born in the United States, regardless of race, and the extension of the Constitution's promise of equality to all American citizens. Some people may be aware that John A. Bingham, a congressman from Cadiz, Ohio at the time, is considered to be "The Father of the 14th Amendment. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black went so far to refer to Bingham as "The James Madison of the 14th Amendment". And yet, Bingham had stiff opposition, namely President Andrew Johnson, who varied between ambivalence and provocation stating enfranchisement for "those persons of color who can read the Constitution of the United States in English and write their names and to all persons of color who own real estate valued at no less than two hundred and fifty dollars." The President boasted thereafter, "Not five hundred would be affected."

This is what the 14th Amendment was about back in 1868. The passage of the 14th Amendment became the legal basis for the Supreme Court's subsequent decisions on desegregation of public schools, equality for women and the creation of the right to sexual privacy.

Yes, the 14th Amendment is something worth interrupting your favorite television show for, even at Christmas. Thank you, John A. Bingham.

#beckleysbooks #historical fiction #ohio history #women's rights

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abcnewspr · 10 months

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‘GOOD MORNING AMERICA’ IS AMERICA’S NO. 1 MORNING NEWSCAST IN TOTAL VIEWERS AND ADULTS 25-54

‘GMA’ Grows Over Previous Week in Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49

For the Second Week Running, ‘GMA’ Grows Total Viewers Year Over Year

Season to Date, ‘GMA’ Is the No. 1 Morning Newscast in Total Viewers for the 11th Consecutive Year, Plus Continues To Slash Its Season Margin With ‘Today’ in Adults 25-54 to Its Closest Performance in 8 Years

ABC News/“Good Morning America”*

“Good Morning America” ranked as the No. 1 morning newscast in Total Viewers (2.973 million) and Adults 25-54(579,000), during the week of June 26, 2023, based on Live + Same Day Data from Nielsen Media Research.

“GMA” increased its Total Viewer lead over “Today” by 19% week to week (299,000 vs. 251,000) and by 25% year to year(299,000 vs. 239,000).

“GMA” improved on the previous week in Adults 25-54 (+3% - 579,000 vs. 564,000)and Adults 18-49 (+1% - 369,000 vs. 367,000).

For the second week in a row, “GMA” was up year to year in Total Viewers (+3% - 2.973 million vs. 2.886 million).

Season to date, “GMA” (3.197 million) is ranking as the No. 1 morning newscast in Total Viewers for the 11th consecutive year. “GMA” is leading “Today” (2.874 million) by 323,000, increasing its lead from the same point last season (+49%; vs. 217,000) to its largest in 8 years ― since the 2014-2015 season.

In addition, “GMA” is slashing its season margin with “Today” in Adults 25-54 versus the same point last season (-65% - 16,000 vs. 46,000) to its closest performance in 8 years ― since the 2014-2015 season.

During the week, “GMA” (2.973 million, 579,000 and 369,000, respectively) defeated “CBS Mornings” (2.336 million, 474,000 and 290,000, respectively) in Total Viewers (+637,000), Adults 25-54 (+105,000) and Adults 18-49 (+79,000).

NOTE: ABC’s “Good Morning America” was retitled to “GMA-ABC,” “CBS Mornings” was retitled to “CBS Morn,” and NBC’s “Today” was retitled to “Today-TS” on Thursday (6/29/23) due to the live coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action and again on Friday (6/30/23) due to the 4th of July holiday weekend. The retitled telecasts are excluded from the week and season averages. The weekly averages for “Good Morning America,” “CBS Mornings” and “Today” are based on three days (Monday-Wednesday).

Emmy Award-winning “GMA,” featuring the anchor team of Robin Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Michael Strahan and chief meteorologist Ginger Zee, airs live Monday-Friday (7:00-9:00 a.m. EDT) on ABC. Simone Swink is the executive producer.

MORNING NEWS (Week of June 26, 2023):

Source: The Nielsen Company, NTI Total Viewers, Adults 25-54 and Adults 18-49 Live + SD Current Week (w/o 6/26/23), Previous Week (w/o 6/19/23) and Year-Ago Week (w/o 6/27/22). Most Current Data Stream: Season 2022-2023 (9/19/22-7/2/23), Season 2021-2022 (9/20/21-7/3/22). Beginning 8/31/20, national ratings also include Out of Home (OOH) viewing. Averages based on regular telecasts.

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