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October 10, 2022
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/movies/the-empress-corsage-sisi.html
https://archive.ph/jaKod
Vicky Krieps as the empress in “Corsage,” a film by Marie Kreutzer that opens in the United States in December.Credit...Felix Vratny/IFC Films
VIENNA — The 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria is everywhere in Vienna: on chocolate boxes, on bottles of rosé, on posters around the city. The Greek antiques she collected are at Hermesvilla, on the city outskirts; her hearse is at Schönbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Hapsburg royal family; and her cocaine syringe and gym equipment are on display at the Hofburg, which was the monarchy’s central Vienna home.
These traces paint an enticing, but incomplete, picture of an empress who receded from public life not long after entering it, and spent most of her time traveling the world to avoid her own court. She had a tattoo on her shoulder; drank wine with breakfast; and exercised two to three times a day on wall bars and rings in her rooms. These eccentricities, combined with her refusal to have her picture taken after her early 30s, fueled an air of mystery around her.
Philip Froissant as Emperor Franz Joseph II and Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth in “The Empress,” a new Netflix series.Credit...Netflix
Now, nearly 125 years after Elisabeth’s assassination, at age 60, two new productions — a new Netflix series called “The Empress” and a film called “Corsage” that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May and will hit American theaters on Dec. 23 — offer their own ideas. “Growing up in Austria, she was the main tourist magnet, aside from Mozart,” said Marie Kreutzer, who wrote and directed “Corsage.” Nevertheless, she added, Elisabeth, who was married to Emperor Franz Josef I, is largely a mystery. “Her image is one you can reimagine and reinterpret and fill with your own imagination, because we have a lot of stories about her, but you don’t know if they’re true,” Kreutzer said.
The moody, intellectual and beauty-obsessed empress has had many reincarnations. While alive, Elisabeth, who also went by “Sisi,” traveled constantly, often to Hungary, Greece and England, and was rarely seen by the Viennese public. In private, she wrote poetry, rode horses and hunted, hiked high into the Alps, read Shakespeare, studied classical and modern Greek, took warm baths in olive oil and wore leather masks filled with raw veal as part of her skin care routine.
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An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment
A Netflix series and a new movie explore the life of Elisabeth, the 19th-century Empress of Austria who had a tattoo, worked out daily and wanted more from life than just producing heirs.https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/07/movies/the-empress-corsage-sisi.html
https://archive.ph/jaKod
Vicky Krieps as the empress in “Corsage,” a film by Marie Kreutzer that opens in the United States in December.Credit...Felix Vratny/IFC Films
VIENNA — The 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria is everywhere in Vienna: on chocolate boxes, on bottles of rosé, on posters around the city. The Greek antiques she collected are at Hermesvilla, on the city outskirts; her hearse is at Schönbrunn Palace, the former summer residence of the Hapsburg royal family; and her cocaine syringe and gym equipment are on display at the Hofburg, which was the monarchy’s central Vienna home.
These traces paint an enticing, but incomplete, picture of an empress who receded from public life not long after entering it, and spent most of her time traveling the world to avoid her own court. She had a tattoo on her shoulder; drank wine with breakfast; and exercised two to three times a day on wall bars and rings in her rooms. These eccentricities, combined with her refusal to have her picture taken after her early 30s, fueled an air of mystery around her.
Philip Froissant as Emperor Franz Joseph II and Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth in “The Empress,” a new Netflix series.Credit...Netflix
Now, nearly 125 years after Elisabeth’s assassination, at age 60, two new productions — a new Netflix series called “The Empress” and a film called “Corsage” that debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in May and will hit American theaters on Dec. 23 — offer their own ideas. “Growing up in Austria, she was the main tourist magnet, aside from Mozart,” said Marie Kreutzer, who wrote and directed “Corsage.” Nevertheless, she added, Elisabeth, who was married to Emperor Franz Josef I, is largely a mystery. “Her image is one you can reimagine and reinterpret and fill with your own imagination, because we have a lot of stories about her, but you don’t know if they’re true,” Kreutzer said.
The moody, intellectual and beauty-obsessed empress has had many reincarnations. While alive, Elisabeth, who also went by “Sisi,” traveled constantly, often to Hungary, Greece and England, and was rarely seen by the Viennese public. In private, she wrote poetry, rode horses and hunted, hiked high into the Alps, read Shakespeare, studied classical and modern Greek, took warm baths in olive oil and wore leather masks filled with raw veal as part of her skin care routine.
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October 10, 2022
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senator-tuberville-racist-comment-reparations_n_63433220e4b0e376dc02ec98
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.”
The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of a broader critique in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, when control of Congress is at stake, about how Democrats have responded to rising crime rates. But Tuberville’s remarks about reparations played into racist stereotypes about Black people committing crimes.
“They’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said of Democrats. “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” He ended his appearance with a profanity as the crowd cheered.
Tuberville is falsely suggesting that Democrats promote crime and that only Blacks are the perpetrators. In fact, crime has slowed in the last year and most crimes are committed by whites, according to FBI data. The Democratic Party has not taken a stance on reparations for Black Americans to compensate for years of unpaid slave labor by their ancestors, though some leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden, back the creation of a national commission to study the issue. Some Republicans on Sunday struggled to defend Tuberville’s comments.
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1579154748866908160
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Watch Trump Crowd Eat Up Sen. Tuberville’s Bizarre Racist Tirade
The senator said Democrats "want crime" and "want reparations because they think the people that do the crime are owed that"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tommy-tuberville-crime-reparations-trump-rally-1234607858/
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1578910976740536320
GOP Senator Makes Racist Comment Equating Black People To Criminals
Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Democrats support reparations for enslaved people's descendants because "they think the people that do the crime are owed that."https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-senator-tuberville-racist-comment-reparations_n_63433220e4b0e376dc02ec98
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville asserted that Democrats support reparations for the descendants of enslaved people because “they think the people that do the crime are owed that.”
The first-term Alabama Republican spoke at a Saturday evening rally in Nevada featuring former President Donald Trump, a political ally. His comments were part of a broader critique in the final weeks before the Nov. 8 election, when control of Congress is at stake, about how Democrats have responded to rising crime rates. But Tuberville’s remarks about reparations played into racist stereotypes about Black people committing crimes.
“They’re not soft on crime,” Tuberville said of Democrats. “They’re pro-crime. They want crime. They want crime because they want to take over what you got. They want to control what you have. They want reparation because they think the people that do the crime are owed that.” He ended his appearance with a profanity as the crowd cheered.
Tuberville is falsely suggesting that Democrats promote crime and that only Blacks are the perpetrators. In fact, crime has slowed in the last year and most crimes are committed by whites, according to FBI data. The Democratic Party has not taken a stance on reparations for Black Americans to compensate for years of unpaid slave labor by their ancestors, though some leading Democrats, including President Joe Biden, back the creation of a national commission to study the issue. Some Republicans on Sunday struggled to defend Tuberville’s comments.
https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1579154748866908160
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Watch Trump Crowd Eat Up Sen. Tuberville’s Bizarre Racist Tirade
The senator said Democrats "want crime" and "want reparations because they think the people that do the crime are owed that"
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/tommy-tuberville-crime-reparations-trump-rally-1234607858/
https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1578910976740536320
October 9, 2022
Electronic - Get The Message (12" Mix)
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix In Two Halves)
Primal Scream - Loaded
DNA - Tom's Diner
EMF - Unbelievable (The Cin City Sex Mix)
Happy Mondays - Step On (Stuff It In Mix)
Stereo MC - Connected
Mock Turtles - Can U Dig It? (Steve Proctor Remix)
World Of Twist - She's A Rainbow (12" Version)
Real People - Window Pane (Extended Version)
MADCHESTER
https://nostalgiacentral.com/music/music-genres/madchester/
Madchester (so named because it originated in Manchester in the north of England) was the dominant force in British rock during the late 80s and early 90s. A fusion of acid-house dance rhythms and melodic pop, “Madchester” was distinguished by its loping beats, psychedelic flourishes, and hooky choruses, but while the song structures were familiar, the arrangements and attitude, and even the retro-pop touches (namely the jangling guitars and swirling organs) were modern.
There were two distinct sides to the Madchester sound, as evidenced by The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. The Stone Roses were a traditional guitar-pop band, and their songs were straight pop tunes, bolstered by baggy beats – it was ostensibly modernised 60s pop. Happy Mondays cut and pasted like rappers sampled, taking choruses from The Beatles and LaBelle and putting them into the context of darkly psychedelic dance.
Despite their different approaches, both bands shared a love for acid-house music and culture, as well as the hometown of Manchester. As the group’s popularity grew, the British press tagged the two groups (as well as similarly-minded bands like The Charlatans and Inspiral Carpets) “Madchester” after a Happy Mondays song. The movement was also known as “baggy,” since the bands and their fans wore very baggy clothing.
Madchester was enormously popular for several years in the UK before fading, largely because the bands (and their fans) fell prey to laziness and drug abuse. The genre never made much impact in America outside of alternative circles, but Madchester’s offspring – bands like Oasis and Pulp that were heavily influenced by the mix of contemporary and classic pop – became international stars in the mid-90s.
Madchester Mix - The 100bpm by Shoegazer
Electronic - Get The Message (12" Mix)
Saint Etienne - Only Love Can Break Your Heart (A Mix In Two Halves)
Primal Scream - Loaded
DNA - Tom's Diner
EMF - Unbelievable (The Cin City Sex Mix)
Happy Mondays - Step On (Stuff It In Mix)
Stereo MC - Connected
Mock Turtles - Can U Dig It? (Steve Proctor Remix)
World Of Twist - She's A Rainbow (12" Version)
Real People - Window Pane (Extended Version)
MADCHESTER
https://nostalgiacentral.com/music/music-genres/madchester/
Madchester (so named because it originated in Manchester in the north of England) was the dominant force in British rock during the late 80s and early 90s. A fusion of acid-house dance rhythms and melodic pop, “Madchester” was distinguished by its loping beats, psychedelic flourishes, and hooky choruses, but while the song structures were familiar, the arrangements and attitude, and even the retro-pop touches (namely the jangling guitars and swirling organs) were modern.
There were two distinct sides to the Madchester sound, as evidenced by The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays. The Stone Roses were a traditional guitar-pop band, and their songs were straight pop tunes, bolstered by baggy beats – it was ostensibly modernised 60s pop. Happy Mondays cut and pasted like rappers sampled, taking choruses from The Beatles and LaBelle and putting them into the context of darkly psychedelic dance.
Despite their different approaches, both bands shared a love for acid-house music and culture, as well as the hometown of Manchester. As the group’s popularity grew, the British press tagged the two groups (as well as similarly-minded bands like The Charlatans and Inspiral Carpets) “Madchester” after a Happy Mondays song. The movement was also known as “baggy,” since the bands and their fans wore very baggy clothing.
Madchester was enormously popular for several years in the UK before fading, largely because the bands (and their fans) fell prey to laziness and drug abuse. The genre never made much impact in America outside of alternative circles, but Madchester’s offspring – bands like Oasis and Pulp that were heavily influenced by the mix of contemporary and classic pop – became international stars in the mid-90s.
October 9, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/teachers-nurses-child-care-job-burnout-crisis/671563/
https://archive.ph/CRpQs
The country is in the midst of a burnout crisis. In a recent American Psychological Association Work and Well-Being Survey, large proportions of American workers said that they felt stressed on the job (79 percent), plagued by physical fatigue (44 percent), cognitive weariness (36 percent), emotional exhaustion (32 percent), and a lack of interest, motivation, or energy (26 percent). Such measures are up significantly since the pandemic hit.
Nowhere is this burnout crisis worse than in the caring professions. An untold number of nurses, teachers, and child-care workers are asking themselves Is this worth it? and deciding that it is not. Nurses are walking off their jobs and quitting in droves, while those still at the bedside are experiencing high rates of depression. Shortages of teachers are prompting some school districts to institute four-day weeks and hire educators without a college degree, and more than half of educators report wanting to quit. The child-care workforce is shrinking, spurring parents to camp out overnight to win coveted day-care spots and pushing mothers out of the workforce.
Two mutually reinforcing trends are at play. Occupations that were always difficult have gotten only more so because of coronavirus-related safety concerns and disruptions, as well as pay that is not keeping up with the rising cost of living. And the tight labor market has provided an opportunity for workers to switch to better, less fraught jobs—straining their colleagues who remain and spurring still more workers to consider leaving.
Given that care workers are the people making sure that babies thrive, sick people heal, and children learn, as well as allowing parents to remain in the workforce, the burnout crisis among them is a crisis for society writ large. For decades, these positions have often required some degree of self-sacrifice, asking workers to accept modest pay and tolerate emotionally grueling duties for the greater good. The pandemic and the strong economy have made the sacrifice too much for too many, and that is ultimately putting all of us at risk. In particular women: When shortages occur in these female-dominated “pink-collar” industries, other women typically are the ones to quit their jobs, reduce their hours, or reshuffle their priorities in response.
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related
The Burnout Crisis in Pink-Collar Work
Plus: A housing revolution is coming.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/the-burnout-crisis-in-pink-collar-work/671668/
https://archive.ph/P5bFS
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Teachers, Nurses, and Child-Care Workers Have Had Enough
The burnout crisis in pink-collar occupations puts everyone’s well-being at risk.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/teachers-nurses-child-care-job-burnout-crisis/671563/
https://archive.ph/CRpQs
The country is in the midst of a burnout crisis. In a recent American Psychological Association Work and Well-Being Survey, large proportions of American workers said that they felt stressed on the job (79 percent), plagued by physical fatigue (44 percent), cognitive weariness (36 percent), emotional exhaustion (32 percent), and a lack of interest, motivation, or energy (26 percent). Such measures are up significantly since the pandemic hit.
Nowhere is this burnout crisis worse than in the caring professions. An untold number of nurses, teachers, and child-care workers are asking themselves Is this worth it? and deciding that it is not. Nurses are walking off their jobs and quitting in droves, while those still at the bedside are experiencing high rates of depression. Shortages of teachers are prompting some school districts to institute four-day weeks and hire educators without a college degree, and more than half of educators report wanting to quit. The child-care workforce is shrinking, spurring parents to camp out overnight to win coveted day-care spots and pushing mothers out of the workforce.
Two mutually reinforcing trends are at play. Occupations that were always difficult have gotten only more so because of coronavirus-related safety concerns and disruptions, as well as pay that is not keeping up with the rising cost of living. And the tight labor market has provided an opportunity for workers to switch to better, less fraught jobs—straining their colleagues who remain and spurring still more workers to consider leaving.
Given that care workers are the people making sure that babies thrive, sick people heal, and children learn, as well as allowing parents to remain in the workforce, the burnout crisis among them is a crisis for society writ large. For decades, these positions have often required some degree of self-sacrifice, asking workers to accept modest pay and tolerate emotionally grueling duties for the greater good. The pandemic and the strong economy have made the sacrifice too much for too many, and that is ultimately putting all of us at risk. In particular women: When shortages occur in these female-dominated “pink-collar” industries, other women typically are the ones to quit their jobs, reduce their hours, or reshuffle their priorities in response.
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related
The Burnout Crisis in Pink-Collar Work
Plus: A housing revolution is coming.
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/the-burnout-crisis-in-pink-collar-work/671668/
https://archive.ph/P5bFS
Isabel Fattal: How did the pink-collar crisis come about?
Annie Lowrey: Measures of workplace strain and burnout are increasing across the entire country. COVID, the economic fallout from COVID, inflation, perhaps geopolitical strife—all those things are playing in. In the caring professions, which tend to be majority-female workforce, there’s evidence that the on-the-job situation for a lot of these workers has gotten worse. They are being worked harder. Nurses are looking after more patients. Hospitals and clinics are understaffed. They’re encountering more threats, violence, and political pressure on the job. Jobs in child-care and other pink-collar fields are very low-compensated. But at the same time, the labor market is strong and the unemployment rate is low, which is giving people the chance to leave for other positions. And that puts strain on the people who remain. So there’s this kind of flywheel.
Annie Lowrey: Measures of workplace strain and burnout are increasing across the entire country. COVID, the economic fallout from COVID, inflation, perhaps geopolitical strife—all those things are playing in. In the caring professions, which tend to be majority-female workforce, there’s evidence that the on-the-job situation for a lot of these workers has gotten worse. They are being worked harder. Nurses are looking after more patients. Hospitals and clinics are understaffed. They’re encountering more threats, violence, and political pressure on the job. Jobs in child-care and other pink-collar fields are very low-compensated. But at the same time, the labor market is strong and the unemployment rate is low, which is giving people the chance to leave for other positions. And that puts strain on the people who remain. So there’s this kind of flywheel.
Isabel: Why does this hurt women, and women of color in particular, more than other workers?
Annie: You can think about this both in terms of the internal industry strain that a lot of these workers, who are often disproportionately but not exclusively female, are feeling. And when we have shortages and burnout in these sectors, what does that do societally? There, women also pay the price. When we have shortages of day-care slots or special-education programs, very often it’s women who quit their jobs or rearrange their schedules to take care of things at home.
Annie: You can think about this both in terms of the internal industry strain that a lot of these workers, who are often disproportionately but not exclusively female, are feeling. And when we have shortages and burnout in these sectors, what does that do societally? There, women also pay the price. When we have shortages of day-care slots or special-education programs, very often it’s women who quit their jobs or rearrange their schedules to take care of things at home.
Isabel: In general, care work tends to be performed overwhelmingly by women of color and immigrant women, but the care-crisis discourse has been dominated by white and middle-class parents. Is there a tension here that’s holding back solutions?
Annie: It’s important to say that when we have broken markets or broken labor standards, that affects everybody, but it doesn’t affect everybody equally. I think about this in terms of the housing crisis sometimes. It is true that very high-income families living in places like Brooklyn and San Francisco get squeezed by the housing crisis. They pay more than they want to, it’s hard for them to find a place, and maybe they don’t have the number of kids they want. It affects them, but that’s not to say that it affects them in the same way it affects someone who is, for example, undocumented and is in an unsafe living situation, or has gotten priced out such that they commute two hours every day. I think about this crisis similarly. The burnout, the pay disparities, the danger on the job, the lack of child care—who is that affecting most? Immigrant women, low-income women, people who have other societal disadvantages or have been excluded in other ways. But it’s also pervasive. The market for child care, for example, just doesn’t work in the United States unless you’re very wealthy.
Annie: It’s important to say that when we have broken markets or broken labor standards, that affects everybody, but it doesn’t affect everybody equally. I think about this in terms of the housing crisis sometimes. It is true that very high-income families living in places like Brooklyn and San Francisco get squeezed by the housing crisis. They pay more than they want to, it’s hard for them to find a place, and maybe they don’t have the number of kids they want. It affects them, but that’s not to say that it affects them in the same way it affects someone who is, for example, undocumented and is in an unsafe living situation, or has gotten priced out such that they commute two hours every day. I think about this crisis similarly. The burnout, the pay disparities, the danger on the job, the lack of child care—who is that affecting most? Immigrant women, low-income women, people who have other societal disadvantages or have been excluded in other ways. But it’s also pervasive. The market for child care, for example, just doesn’t work in the United States unless you’re very wealthy.
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October 9, 2022
Instead of returning the classified materials he’d taken to Mar-a-Lago from the White House, Donald Trump allegedly wanted to trade them for documents showing the FBI investigated his 2016 campaign ties to Russia, according to reporting from The New York Times.
For more than a year, National Archives officials hounded the former president’s aides and attorneys to return the boxes. Trump insisted they contained nothing important, some just had dirty laundry. But after more pushing from his team, Trump pitched a deal: give the government back its files in exchange for proof that the FBI’s Russia investigation was a “hoax,” the Times reported.
His aides knew the idea would be a “non-starter” and never acted on it. After one of Trump’s attorneys warned him he could face serious consequences if he did not return the classified documents, the former president, who kept insisting the “boxes were ‘mine,’” began going through them last December, the Times said.
The news is the latest in the ongoing saga, which has sparked a Justice Department investigation into Trump's handling of the classified material. Federal investigators still believe he is withholding government documents, the Times reported earlier this week.
Read it at The New York Times
Trump Reportedly Pitched Trading Classified Files for Documents Proving Russia Probe was a Hoax
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-reportedly-pitched-trading-classified-files-for-documents-proving-russia-probe-was-a-hoaxInstead of returning the classified materials he’d taken to Mar-a-Lago from the White House, Donald Trump allegedly wanted to trade them for documents showing the FBI investigated his 2016 campaign ties to Russia, according to reporting from The New York Times.
For more than a year, National Archives officials hounded the former president’s aides and attorneys to return the boxes. Trump insisted they contained nothing important, some just had dirty laundry. But after more pushing from his team, Trump pitched a deal: give the government back its files in exchange for proof that the FBI’s Russia investigation was a “hoax,” the Times reported.
His aides knew the idea would be a “non-starter” and never acted on it. After one of Trump’s attorneys warned him he could face serious consequences if he did not return the classified documents, the former president, who kept insisting the “boxes were ‘mine,’” began going through them last December, the Times said.
The news is the latest in the ongoing saga, which has sparked a Justice Department investigation into Trump's handling of the classified material. Federal investigators still believe he is withholding government documents, the Times reported earlier this week.
Read it at The New York Times
October 8, 2022
An image that appears to show U.S. actor Tom Hanks wearing an anti-Trump t-shirt is digitally altered. In the original image, published by outlets in August 2022, Hanks can be seen wearing a plain navy t-shirt. One user shared the altered image on Twitter on Sept. 14, 2022, with a caption that reads: “Is that you tome [sic] hanks?...how about we keep america hanksless!!!!...” (here). The tweet had more than 2,000 likes at the time of writing.
https://twitter.com/helenckh/status/1569827378343591936
Other examples of the image shared on social media can be found (here), (here), (here) and (here). The original photograph was published by various outlets including The Daily Mail (here), with credit to photographer Felipe Ramales of Splash News.
Reuters has previously addressed digitally altered images that appear to show celebrities, including Hanks, wearing t-shirts with political messages (here), (here), (here).
VERDICT
Altered. The original image shows actor Tom Hanks wearing a plain navy t-shirt.
Fact Check-Image of Tom Hanks wearing anti-Trump t-shirt is digitally altered
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check-hanks-trump-idUSL1N30N1RDAn image that appears to show U.S. actor Tom Hanks wearing an anti-Trump t-shirt is digitally altered. In the original image, published by outlets in August 2022, Hanks can be seen wearing a plain navy t-shirt. One user shared the altered image on Twitter on Sept. 14, 2022, with a caption that reads: “Is that you tome [sic] hanks?...how about we keep america hanksless!!!!...” (here). The tweet had more than 2,000 likes at the time of writing.
https://twitter.com/helenckh/status/1569827378343591936
Other examples of the image shared on social media can be found (here), (here), (here) and (here). The original photograph was published by various outlets including The Daily Mail (here), with credit to photographer Felipe Ramales of Splash News.
Reuters has previously addressed digitally altered images that appear to show celebrities, including Hanks, wearing t-shirts with political messages (here), (here), (here).
VERDICT
Altered. The original image shows actor Tom Hanks wearing a plain navy t-shirt.
October 8, 2022
https://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-coming-republican-deep-state
https://archive.ph/c9PK6
Elected Republicans are, by and large, constrained in what they can say because they still have to face the voters. This is why senators don't sound like representatives and why representatives in competitive districts don't sound like Lauren Boebert. As long voters could potentially notice their candidate is a raving lunatic intending them great harm, elected Republicans tend to keep their more extreme plans quiet. This is not true for the media personalities of the right, however. The talking heads of the vast right-wing propaganda machine are a bellwether for where the GOP is planning to go. Right now, one of the things they’re starting to gleefully describe is the full-scale weaponization of the federal government. This should freeze the blood in your veins.
Remember “Schedule F?” You really should
A quick refresher for you because “Schedule F” is a very innocuous name for the single most dangerous idea Republicans have had since “the Southern Strategy” and its natural end result: Donald Trump. Near the end of Trump’s criminal presidency, Trump and his cronies tried to implement something they called “Schedule F.” The plan was to fire thousands of civil servants, and either replace them with loyal Trump sycophants or leave the positions empty. Lawfare explains:
There were two tracks of thought here.
Firstly, if Trump couldn’t hold on to power, he would leave the federal government crippled for Joe Biden. Trump and the GOP loathe the entire concept of a functioning government for the exact same reason bank robbers despise a functioning police department: it is harder to commit crime when someone is watching. There was also the vain hope that Trump could stuff in hundreds of loyalists at the last minute to undermine Biden’s administration, or create his own “Deep State” to do what he claimed had been done to him. Trump holdovers like Louis DeJoy at the USPS and Joseph Cuffari at the Secret Service for example, have been openly working against the best interests of the United States in furtherance of Trump’s agenda. The second idea behind Schedule F is by far the more dangerous. If Trump did manage to overthrow American democracy, he would be able to corrupt the bureaucracy and remove all of the obstacles that had kept him from running rampant for four years. Republicans have not given up on this dream.
“Ideological purity tests”........
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The Coming Republican Deep State
Republican plans to weaponize the federal government should freeze your bloodhttps://thebanter.substack.com/p/the-coming-republican-deep-state
https://archive.ph/c9PK6
Elected Republicans are, by and large, constrained in what they can say because they still have to face the voters. This is why senators don't sound like representatives and why representatives in competitive districts don't sound like Lauren Boebert. As long voters could potentially notice their candidate is a raving lunatic intending them great harm, elected Republicans tend to keep their more extreme plans quiet. This is not true for the media personalities of the right, however. The talking heads of the vast right-wing propaganda machine are a bellwether for where the GOP is planning to go. Right now, one of the things they’re starting to gleefully describe is the full-scale weaponization of the federal government. This should freeze the blood in your veins.
Remember “Schedule F?” You really should
A quick refresher for you because “Schedule F” is a very innocuous name for the single most dangerous idea Republicans have had since “the Southern Strategy” and its natural end result: Donald Trump. Near the end of Trump’s criminal presidency, Trump and his cronies tried to implement something they called “Schedule F.” The plan was to fire thousands of civil servants, and either replace them with loyal Trump sycophants or leave the positions empty. Lawfare explains:
There were two tracks of thought here.
Firstly, if Trump couldn’t hold on to power, he would leave the federal government crippled for Joe Biden. Trump and the GOP loathe the entire concept of a functioning government for the exact same reason bank robbers despise a functioning police department: it is harder to commit crime when someone is watching. There was also the vain hope that Trump could stuff in hundreds of loyalists at the last minute to undermine Biden’s administration, or create his own “Deep State” to do what he claimed had been done to him. Trump holdovers like Louis DeJoy at the USPS and Joseph Cuffari at the Secret Service for example, have been openly working against the best interests of the United States in furtherance of Trump’s agenda. The second idea behind Schedule F is by far the more dangerous. If Trump did manage to overthrow American democracy, he would be able to corrupt the bureaucracy and remove all of the obstacles that had kept him from running rampant for four years. Republicans have not given up on this dream.
“Ideological purity tests”........
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October 8, 2022
St. Germain feat. John Lee Hooker - Sure Thing (OPOLOPO rebounce)
Label: Blue Note – 7243 8 89547 2 3
Format:
CD, Maxi-Single, Digipak
Country: Europe
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Deep House
St. Germain feat. John Lee Hooker - Sure Thing (Original full length version + OPOLOPO rebounce)
St. Germain - Sure Thing (Feat. John Lee Hooker)St. Germain feat. John Lee Hooker - Sure Thing (OPOLOPO rebounce)
Label: Blue Note – 7243 8 89547 2 3
Format:
CD, Maxi-Single, Digipak
Country: Europe
Released: 2000
Genre: Electronic, Jazz
Style: Deep House
October 8, 2022
Label: Ultimate Dilemma – UDR 043
Format:
Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 6 Aug 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Downtempo
Zero 7 - Destiny ft Sia, Sophie Barker (2001) downtempo chill (featured on the Blue Crush 2002 OST)
Label: Ultimate Dilemma – UDR 043
Format:
Vinyl, 12"
Country: UK
Released: 6 Aug 2001
Genre: Electronic
Style: House, Downtempo
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