Lng time SF fan whose major interests incl ST,SW, Indiana Jones, Who, Blakes7 & Dark Shadows. Disc. Torchwood & Arrow in 2014 & became big John Barrowman fan.
@bigfinish I've been listening to your audio dramas since you started doing #DarkShadows in the early 2000s. #Torchwood dramas have been fantastic, gr8 scripts, esp Aliens Among Us. Keep up the good work!
@yasminarmendari@allenanalysis He's always done that- dating back to his days as the coked out spoilt brat son of a crooked slumlord father. Women were always treated like objects he uses while shiwing total contemp for. He's just too far gone mentally to even try and hide it.
@Starstruck09@TheVandalgram@MrPitbull07 Exactly. It was introduced in the mid 60s (I remember trying it at the NYWorlds Fair; I was a chubby kid) and as stated it was the only diet soda of any flavor for many years.
“Trump’s affinity for dictators and autocratic regimes goes back a long away - and became a central part of his business model beginning in the early 1990s.
As his ties with the New York area Italian mob families thinned out due to his bankrupt casinos and failed business ventures, DJT began to launder large sums of Russian cash purloined from the former Soviet Union by various oligarchs and mobsters.
The Russians would wash it through Trump’s properties by purchasing condos from him via anonymous LLCs; a practice Trump made the backbone of his real estate business in New York City and South Florida.
Trump also allowed his name to be licensed by developers looking to launder money through development projects; many of the Trump properties we see today were created in this fashion.
Recently released emails from Jeffrey Epstein speak to this practice and offer a glimpse into the operations that men like Trump and Epstein oversaw when it came to the international money laundering.” https://t.co/Jvc5ay0DJa
Wow. Epstein survivors just released this incredibly powerful PSA. It’s one of the most moving things I’ve seen. Every House member should see this ahead of the vote to release the files.
Today is Remembrance Day, when we pause to remember the horrific sacrifices of war made on our behalf by the generations that came before. Donald the draft dodger has demanded that we do not use that name. As with so much else, he should be ignored.
@JudyB1313@starandseen@BarkJack_ In the states poppies were done 4 both Memorial & Veterans day (only changed from A. day in 1950s), sold by volunteers from Veterans of Foreign Wars in shopping areas & well travelled streets.This slowly faded away with WWI & WWII vets. Younger vets may do different fundraisers
@JohnBarrowman@elaine_paige@scottmale Congrats to Dame Elaine. Glad you and Scott could be there to see that. A happy event to balance your recent sadness.
Remember folks, three months ago Melissa Hortman and her husband were murdered by a Donald Trump supporter and these Charlie Kirk fans didn't give a flying Christian fuck about it
@DrNeilStone You lucked out as I did surrounded by chicken pox in grade school. Dodged it until last month of jr high. Had measles age 6 years also b4 vaccinations were avaliable. Horrible even for a milder case. People routinely died of it pre vaccine.
BREAKING: Hero fighter pilot Amy McGrath goes viral with a BRUTAL takedown of Donald Trump and MAGA Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth after their deranged speech to American generals.
This is what a REAL soldier sounds like...
"Pete Hegseth still has a lot to learn, I think, unfortunately. When I flew my combat missions, there was not a set male standard and a female standard for flying an aircraft onto the back of an aircraft carrier. You can either do it or you can't," McGrath told CNN.
"And so I feel like it's the notion of standing up there and saying to the generals and admirals who all, by the way, know that there were never separate combat standards for males and females, you know, combat jobs have had one standard for a long time," she continued. "And part of when we opened combat jobs to women, those of us who were in those jobs wanted one standard to be set. And it was."
During Hegseth's widely condemned speech, he ranted about ending "woke" efforts in the military, firing "fat" soldiers and leaders, and imposing "male standards" on all troops. The entire event proved to be a total waste of time, yet another case of a MAGA official prioritizing pointless PR over actual policy. These generals were forced to fly in to hear a former Fox News host play-act as a "war fighter" when they should have been at their post overseas, keeping American safe.
"So I think it's kind of ridiculous but honestly, that in comparison to the rest of what we heard in the last hour is really minor," McGrath added. "That speech was bonkers by the president, and everybody sitting in that room knows that we don't have a coherent foreign policy or defense policy. And that, I think, is a bigger issue indeed."
During her CNN appearance, she dug into Trump's remarks—
"There was a lot of rambling. There was a ton of lies. There was a lot of politicization as was just mentioned and some of the craziness that you heard from this speech," McGrath said. "But the scariest part was when the president talked about using the military and using our cities as a training ground for the United States military."
In a separate post on X, McGrath shredded Hegseth some more.
"This morning’s grandstanding at Quantico only solidified what we already know: @PeteHegseth
continues to disparage and lie about women in the military," she wrote. "He claimed the military needs to 'return to the male standard' in combat jobs (of 1990!), but here’s the truth: there has never been a separate male and female standard. When women entered combat roles, one standard was set, and we’ve been meeting it ever since. You can either do the job or you can’t. Period."
Well said!
Please retweet and ❤️ if you think that Amy McGrath would make a far better Secretary of Defense!
You know who actually deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom?
Victor, the 10-year-old hero who jumped on his friend during the school shooting in Minnesota and took a bullet to save him.