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[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Connor Storrie Nation @StorrieNation]

Day 7 of Pride Month and our favorite words from Connor Storrie “…being able to read this or see this makes my existence a little less painful, it’s cool because I’ve gotten that opinion from multiple people, not just gay men, but transgender men and bisexual women. There are too many different people that identify with that sense of OTHERNESS…”
“Take up space, be yourself, be really loud and don’t take shvt from anyone”

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH🙌🏾

[Bentley Midler @Sweet_Bee1972]

@Gianl1974

[mary a martin 💕🎶😉🇺🇸 @BamjcastA]

@Gianl1974 @ProudDoggieMom Quick!
Look over there!

[Tweel Girl @telrlp9]

@Gianl1974 I fucking hate this guy
He is actively destroying our nation and wildlife

[Hitch Rogers @hitchrogers]

@Gianl1974 🤠How Government Works:

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

@AndertonJohn

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.

As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.

These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.

And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.

The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.

The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.

Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.

Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.

Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.

You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.

The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.

Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.

[Hudson Williams Updates @hudsonwupdates]

New photo of Hudson Williams!

(via hallebayly on Instagram)

[Mika (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ | In a Heated Rivalry @_mika60_]

Jacob Tierney talks about Shane & Ilya's relationship development on Ilana Glazer's new podcast episode!

"The sex is when you can be honest."
"[Ilya] might carry himself like a lothario, but he's not."

[Sin Monger Updates @SinMongerHQ]

#TBT Connor Storrie talked about his debut as a director with the film “Transaction Planet”

VMAN: You also made your own film, Transaction Planet, for which you did everything—I saw on a podcast that even the makeup.

CONNOR: Yeah, I’m the sole producer. At first, it was out of necessity. The whole idea came about because I wrapped filming Heated Rivalry and, for the first time in my adult career, in my adult life, I didn’t have work. I’d made some money from HR, so it was the first time I was between projects.

And all my favorite filmmakers talk about having something ready to make a movie: if you want to do it, just do it. So I thought: “Okay, I’ll do it.” I’d probably been carrying this concept in my head for about a year. I wrote the script in about two months, and then we started shooting in October and November. It’s about a young alien spirit, (I don’t know if it’s an alien, a spirit, or both), that inhabits a human body to experience Earth. It’s like the universe, or God, waking up and saying: “Alright, time to head to Earth,” and it lands in a hyperbolic version of Los Angeles.

He denies a dollar to a woman when she asks for a donation, and she rips out his eye. So he embarks on a journey to get his eye back.

VMAN: Of course. A story as old as time.

CONNOR STORRIE: Well, actually, the origin comes a bit from a fairy tale. It’s not an established tale, but a modernized version of that idea: a witch steals a boy’s eye, he befriends a girl in armor, and together they have to fight monsters to get it back. That’s basically the premise.

[Connor Storrie Updates @connorstupdates]

Criminal Minds' cast member Adam Rodriguez talked to Collider about casting Connor Storrie as a guest star for Season 19 of the series.

COLLIDER: Much is also being made of the fact that Connor Storrie is guest starring this season because, all of a sudden, he’s a big deal. Apparently, we’ll meet him in Episode 4, which you also directed.

RODRIGUEZ: Yeah, that is true. I cast Connor from my episode. […] April [Webster, casting director] had sent some tapes and Connor, for me, popped out immediately. I was like, “This guy’s my first choice." I needed somebody that was dangerous in appearance but could also be vulnerable. I really felt like he embodied what I was looking for, not just physically, but in his performance. He gave a great performance. […] And so, we cast Connor, and gladly. He came in and turned out to be a really nice guy. He was just a pleasure to be around. He was very well liked by everybody – make-up, hair, and everybody. He has a great personality. And then, his career exploded like it did, in what seemed overnight. We shot his stuff last summer, and by the fall, his show had come out, and he was just off to the races. It was unbelievable. I’m really happy for the guy. I hope he’s enjoying himself and I hope he is able to sustain that for a long time.

🔗 Read more: https://t.co/veuhbBkL1F

[Phadetheplex @phadetheplex]

@JamesTate121 Cannot be overstated how much conservatives right now need you to believe the $2 trillion deficit is somehow going into the pockets of undocumented people instead of tax cuts for the wealthy, the military, and sustenance living for the elderly and sick as all evidence shows.

[Swimmer @swimmin7270]

@JamesTate121 MAGA makes up all kinds of boogeymen to continue the original message Trump sent to the world when running for President in 2016, that Mexicans (& now all illegal immigrants) are criminals & rapists.

He/the cult always need someone to blame for their lives of grievance & hate.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Stop by a construction sight and you’ll see that they’re actually building the houses.

[Alex Bores @AlexBores]

I just introduced the Anti-Insurrectionist Act in NY. It's simple: If you're a New Yorker who takes from Trump's illegal January 6th slush fund, NY will tax 100% of it.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Conniebaby @connie_babyboy]

This contrast! 2 events organized by SAG. At his first big public appearance, Connor looks emotional, he’s pulling himself together, getting back on his feet, and his eyes are watery. And just a few months later, how confident, playful, and aura-absorbing he has become.

[★ @POPin4k]

'BOOTS' co-stars Miles Heizer and Angus O' Brien reunite in a new post.