VogueMusic
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7 hours ago, XXL said:
It's funny how about everyone who has been initially chosen by Trump is now leaving the shit show, or made to leave, little it matters, they are calling it out and calling him out for what he is
He must be insufferable to work for with the tantrums and lack of awareness and preparation
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Ex-Defense Secretary: White House Is ‘Leading Us Down The Trail Toward A Dictatorship
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/william-cohen-donald-trump-dictatorship-081355341.html
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Have spent the whole week just watching endless footage shot from folks on the ground at these protests of cops going nuts. Truly fucking nuts. The sadism is off the charts. Every American should be scared shitless right now.
23 minutes ago, Raider of the lost Ark said:But who is opposing all the measures? The police unions. It becomes more and more obvious that the police unions are the dark force here. Their main interest appears to be the protection of the bad apples. Of course that makes it very hard for the good ones to go against them, if they know they cannot expect the union to help them. There really seem to be mafia like structures in place.
Bingo. Great reports on just that the other day on MSNBC. Nothing can truly change until you address the corruptions with the police unions.
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Retired top general joins Mattis dissent from Trump, warns of 'beginning of the end' for democracy if troops are used against protests
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5 hours ago, Kurt420 said:
Sooo is everyone in the "black book" and that went to the island necessarily even involved in child abuse of any sort? I find it hard to believe Joan Rivers or Barbra Walters would be but I guess stranger things have happened. I'm sure there was just a lot of straight up partying and elite schmoozing that went on as well.
1 hour ago, jonski43 said:I agree. I think he liked impressing celebrities and mixing in those circles and holding big parties. I expect that's how he found out who shared his passion for the younger types too. I sure many celebrities have been at parties and been aware of activities going on but not been part of them.
It's funny how Ghislaine Maxwell has just managed to disappear. She knows so much there must be a price on her head.
Naomi!
https://en.as.com/en/2020/06/01/other_sports/1591000911_332154.amp.html?__twitter_impression=true
There are some really fascinating/disturbing recent articles exploring who Epstein was. Not from the pedo angle, but from his professional and personal associations. Lots of the elite from all fields were targeted by him...many of whom may have attended one of his notorious dinners or shmooze events, but who often eventually walked away when they realized how bizarre he was...and that's not even getting into his predatory sexual practices. He was notorious for trying to get everyone into his hooks, in some way... Look into the conversations he was known for having at his dinner parties about social/political/economic ideologies and whatnot...guy was just straight up weird. The exposés on him read like a Bond villain.
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25 minutes ago, jamesshot said:
Nope, not since the 1% told us to get back to work that the virus is a nothing burger. Trump doesn't want small businesses or workers to get govt money until we had a true, adequate lockdown. So of course those workers and small businesses are desperate to get back to work. All by design. Instead of just giving them money to live on they would rather put their lives on the line for big business and billionaires. Nobody acts like the virus is a thing now. Why? We started reopening and the message from Trump is it is over. You're a pussy if you social distance or wear a mask. Some dumbass Republican was on TV a few weeks ago saying businesses would never put their employees or customers in jeopardy (what a fucking joke) so let them reopen if they want. Right when the GOP Supreme Court struck down Wisconsin's lockdown orders BAM bars were packed to the roof. No masks. Nothing.
Yep. Don't even get me started...
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6 minutes ago, eroticerotic said:
didn't say one negates the other, but no one is talking about the other.
Fair enough. But no one's really talking about Covid-19 that much either. And cases are now surging once again.
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4 minutes ago, eroticerotic said:
Today was a big voting day in many states, but people decided to post black squares on social media instead.
How does one negate the other? People can show solidarity on their social media platforms with the black square...and vote too.The black square does not mean 'stay home, do nothing'.
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1 hour ago, Nightshade said:
Our Republic needs to be saved. Can it be? I honestly don't know anymore. It feels like the end.
It sure feels like it.
But then I'm reminded that it essentially ended the day he won the election.
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Former top Justice Department official warns Trump may 'not cede power'
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I know some may write all this off as if it's the same as to what has come before and sadly will again...but something about all this feels different this time around. Truly. Even the response from those not black, or a minority (of any kind), feels different. It feels like a real awakening is finally happening in this country right now. Well, at least a start. People have had enough. Combine that with everyone trying to also survive a plague at the moment, locked away in their homes with no end in sight, unprecedented massive job loss, an oncoming depression, an absolute failure of leadership on trying to just survive this disease, etc. Nearly 4 years of Trump insanity, racist dog-whistling, constant gaslighting, and straight-up GOP fascism. People have had enough. It's time.
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FUCK TRUMP.
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HOLY FUCKING SHIT
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Larry Kramer Calls Donald Trump ‘An Indigestible Cauldron of Rotten and Poisoned Ingredients’
https://www.vulture.com/2016/08/larry-kramer-shames-steven-roth-for-supporting-trump.html
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Larry Kramer, Playwright and Outspoken AIDS Activist, Dies at 84
He sought to shock the country into dealing with AIDS as a public-health emergency and foresaw that it could kill millions regardless of sexual orientation.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/27/us/larry-kramer-dead.html
Larry Kramer, groundbreaking author and Aids activist, dies aged 84
- Kramer founded pioneering Gay Men’s Health Crisis group
- Playwright and author died Wednesday morning in Manhattan
Larry Kramer: a titan of gay rights and literature whose prophecies live on
The award-winning writer of The Inheritance pays tribute to the life and works of the acclaimed author and activist who died at the age of 84
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/may/27/larry-kramer-death-activist-gay-rights
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Larry Kramer, AIDS Activist, Culture Critic, Playwright & Author, Dies @ 84
Following many years of ill health, Larry Kramer, the nation's most iconic AIDS activist — and rattler of cages — died of pneumonia Wednesday at 84.
Mr. Kramer's husband, David Webster, reported that the cause was pneumonia. Kramer was a long-term survivor of HIV and also underwent a liver transplant in 2001, which he — of course — wrote about.
Kramer was born on June 25, 1935, in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and grew up in Maryland. Gay from a young age, he attended Yale, where he attempted suicide. That life-changing event would inform his rage against homophobia going forward.
Freshly graduated, he worked at Columbia Pictures, first in the Teletype department and then as a story editor. He was credited with dialogue for the teen flick Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968), then adapted D.H. Lawrence's Women in Love (1969) for the screen. It was an acclaimed production that netted him an Oscar nomination, but his follow-up — a hokey musical take on the 1937 classic Lost Horizon (1973) — earned him infinitely more money, yet was a colossal bomb. He rarely wrote for the screen thereafter.
Kramer's first play was the gay-themed Sissies' Scrapbook aka Four Friends (1973), but, disappointed by the highs and lows of the theater, he turned to writing his first novel. Upset after ending a relationship with the man he would marry decades later, Kramer crafted an acidic novel, Faggots (1978), which was an incendiary hit. A brutally frank and witheringly critical look at gay life, it turned off both mainstream critics and gay readers, the latter of whom had by then decided Mart Crowley's considerably less caustic play The Boys in the Band of just 10 years prior was already too negative for their taste. But it sold, sold, sold.
Its opening line:
There are 2,556,596 faggots in the New York City area.
By 1980, Kramer, who was disinclined to be politically active, was living and loving on Fire Island, where he noticed acquaintances becoming sick, some even dying. The onslaught of the AIDS epidemic — and, later, in 1988, his own diagnosis — radicalized Kramer, who took it upon himself to hold meetings about the emerging health crisis. The meetings led to the 1982 formation of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, which would become one of the leading groups to tackle AIDS head-on.
When Kramer disagreed with his own group's members, preferring to fight for city recognition and funding rather than simply focus on caring for the sick, he wrote a controversial 1983 essay in The New York Native condemning the health care establishment, the government and Mayor Ed Koch (a closeted gay man), and telling gay men they needed to curtail their sex lives to combat AIDS.
Kramer was already known as a gay traitor, so some of his tactics were brushed aside. When he threw a drink in the face of gay Republican fundraiser Terry Dolan, it was considered shocking. Playwright Robert Chesley wrote that Kramer was a self-loathing alarmist.
Both men died of AIDS.
Though his activism turned many off, he still had his writing as a tool of persuasion, and in 1985 his play The Normal Heart captured the humanity of the AIDS crisis very early on, and to great acclaim. It also fictionalized his relationship with his lawyer brother Arthur Kramer, who butted heads with Kramer many times over activism, but who wound up his biggest backer, emotionally and financially.
Kramer lived to see a fine film version of The Normal Heart — adapted himself for the screen, his last screen credit — produced in 2014 for HBO. He wrote a sequel, The Destiny of Me, that was a success off-Broadway in 1992.
Kramer in 1987 was there at the genesis of ACT UP (the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), which wielded great power as it sought to scare and shame the forces conspiring to brush AIDS under the rug.
As much as he loathed Republicans, he could take on Democrats, too, as he did here with Bill Clinton:
He also attacked The New York Times when he felt the ostensibly liberal publication deserved it, so it's something that the paper of record included prominently in his obituary the thought that he somehow undermined himself by being too abrasive:
Kramer continued to be a loud voice on gay issues, often running afoul of the powers that be — and of other queer people, who objected to what they felt were some of his more dated arguments.
On April 2 of this year, Kramer posted to Facebook a seething critique of Jordan Roth, the powerful theater scion, for his inaction:
Many of us know some one person who is important (and probably a Republican). How can you shame him into action? I’ll give you an example. Jordan Roth, who owns Jujamcyn Theaters, is a friend of mine. Every actor in New York is beholden to him. His father Steven Roth is one of the richest men in the world. He is in business with Donald Trump. They own buildings together. I have tried to shame Jordan into action. “Take off all those dresses you seem to wear, get a haircut, and be a man and beg your father to help us,” I wrote to him. That’s the kind of tactic I’m thinking about. We did stuff like this all the time in ACT UP and it worked. We got the drugs. Go after the important person you name and shame him. Don’t be nice about it. Shame is a powerful tool to use.
In-between screeds, Kramer also wrote the plays A Minor Dark Age (1973), Just Say No, A Play About a Farce (1988) and The Furniture of Home (1989), and along with Faggots published the massive novels The American People Volume 1: Search for My Heart (2015) and this year's The American People Volume 2: The Brutality of Fact (2020). He was also the author of Reports from the Holocaust: The Making of an AIDS Activist (1989; 1994) and The Tragedy of Today's Gays (2005), the latter of which was a searing Bush-era condemnation of LGBTQ inaction.
But it was Kramer's opinions that defined him, his disgust with apathy that fueled him, far more than his creative output.
In 2019, he told Ellen Barkin for Interview:
It’s happening again. People are still dying. And we don’t have any gay leaders. We don’t have a Gloria Steinem or a Bella Abzug.
The title of the piece? “Larry Kramer Is Still the Angriest Gay Man in the World.”
And he was.
Kramer is survived by his husband of nearly seven years, David Webster, who he'd been with continuously since 1991, and whom he had met and dated in the '70s.
Kramer is being remembered by a wide variety of entertainers and political figures on social media:
https://www.boyculture.com/boy_culture/2020/05/larry-kramer-aids-activist-author-dies-84.html
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On 5/3/2020 at 5:28 AM, zephyralexxx said:
Kue Remix is the best from the released remixes.
But I still like this one the most.
I am OBSESSED with this remix!!!! One of my fav Madonna remixes in a long time!
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On 5/4/2020 at 2:22 PM, Suedehead said:
I know right
YES!!!!!
J.K. Rowling Faces Criticism for Transgender Comment
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I'm a bit taken aback by the responses on the first page...I thought more would be calling her out.