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melancholicumsomnia · 4 years ago

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[FIC] A Little Miracle In The Volume Part 6

A/N: Here’s Part 6 of my fic contribution to PEDRO PASCAL APPRECIATION WEEK 2021 of @pedrohub! The #ppaw2021 theme of Day 6 is Pedro + Color, and of course the color is BROWN.

To @pedrocentric, here’s the next part! To those few folks who have been following this fic, my humble thanks to you all! Last part will go up tomorrow!

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A Little Miracle In The Volume

Rory

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Part Six

There was something about a battle scene – the potential for carnage and mayhem – that could draw out the bloodthirstiness in a man, even if it was a make believe one.

That particular thought crossed Bill Burr’s mind as he watched crew members bustling with excitement as they set up the MBS Media Campus backlot for the filming of the climactic confrontation between Mando and his comrades against Moff Gideon and his Stormtroopers on Nevarro.

After what he could only dub as the “Ceremonial Turnover of the 501st Legion” by Deb Chow to Taika Waititi, Bill gaped with some trepidation as a seemingly demented Taika jumped about and cackled in glee, “I’ve got my own Stormtroopers! Oooh, so many things I can do with them!” Noticing the comedian standing near one of the small buildings, Taika waved to him. “Hey, Bill! Nice to see ya! Care to join my band of merry Stormtroopers?”

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“Uh, I don’t think so,” Bill called back. “I just got done with a meeting with Rick about our episode. I’ll be getting my share of action soon, I guess. But thanks for asking, by the way.”

“Your loss, my friend,” Taika exclaimed as he hurried off to direct the men and women of the 501st Legion, who judging from their delighted faces never imagined that they’d actually be on set filming a Star Wars show.

The only person who didn’t seem too happy about the goings-on was the helmeted figure sitting in the cool shadows of a narrow alley. For some reason, Bill found himself gravitating toward that lonely figure.

“Hi, there! I’m Bill,” he introduced himself, reaching out his hand. “You must be Pedro.”

Pedro removed his helmet then, revealing the most expressive brown eyes that Bill had ever seen in his life. Judging from the glimmer in those doe-like orbs, he must’ve been thinking of something sad. Nevertheless, Pedro gave the comedian a nice smile and greeted, “Hi! It’s a pleasure to meet you. You’ll be playing Migs Mayfeld, right? How do you feel about being in a Star Wars TV show?” He asked the last with a teasing tone in his voice.

“Frankly, I don’t know what I’m doing here,” Bill declared, a bit embarrassed. “I must be nuts to let Jon rope me into this.”

“Don’t worry. It’ll be fun. It’s just too bad that I won’t be around to do your episode with you. I’ll be going back to England to finish shooting Wonder Woman 1984. Then again, you’re pretty lucky because you won’t get to work with….”

Pedro’s voice trailed off then.

Feeling left hanging, Bill gently coaxed, “Work with who?”

In answer to his question, puppeteer Jason Matthews approached Jon. “I already fixed the puppet as you have suggested. But Mr. Herzog won’t give him to me. He told me to tell you that you should send someone to inform him when you’re ready to start shooting.”

“Unbelievable!” Jon groaned. “How can we set up and rehearse when he’s keeping the Child in custody? Never mind. Tell Taika that we’ll focus on filming the skirmish for today. Depending upon how the action goes, we can figure out how we can CGI in IG-11 and the baby.”

Hearing that exchange, Bill turned to Pedro. “Herzog? They’re not talking about Werner Herzog, are they?”

“They are. Herzog’s playing the Client. He actually finished all of his scenes but he’s still hanging around the set because he developed this crazy fixation over the Child.”

“Having not seen the Child in question, I’d like to know if he’s really so cute that he has tamed a guy like Herzog.”

“Oh, he’s not just cute,” Pedro said with undisguised fondness. “There’s something magical about him. You’d understand once you see him.” He then sighed. “It’s just too sad that I didn’t get enough time with the baby off-screen. Werner just won’t let the kid out of his sight and, for some reason, he doesn’t like me.”

Bill straightened up with arms akimbo. His Boston accent grew thicker on his tongue as he declared in outrage, “That ain’t right! That baby should be with you, not him! He’s playing the bad guy!”

“You should try telling him that. A lot of people have tried talking to him, but he’s just too pigheaded.”

Bill snorted in strong disapproval. “Hmph! Looks like the time for talking is done. What we need is action.”

“Bill, it’s okay. I’ve already accepted it. After all, there is going to be a Season 2. I didn’t make any commitments, so I’ll get to spend more time with the Child then.”

“It still ain’t right that you’re not bonding with the kid as you should.” Bill made his decision in an instant. “That’s it! I’m goin’!”

“Going where?” Pedro asked in growing alarm.

“Where else? I’m gonna get back the kid.”

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“Now, just sit there, little one, while I get some milk and cookies for you. Maybe a pair of headphones so you won’t get startled by all the explosions.”

As Werner went into the kitchen, the head of a sneaky figure slowly rose to peek through the trailer window.

Bill saw the Child at once, sitting at the small dining table. “What the fuck? Is that Baby Yoda?”

At his muffled exclamation, Grogu slowly turned to him. The Child gave him a broad grin and waved his little hand.

“Aww! Ain’t ya a cutie!” It never even occurred to the comedian to ponder why the puppet moved by itself.

Carefully, Bill pushed the trailer door open and tiptoed inside. Picking up the baby, he whispered, “Come on, kid! I’m bringing you back to your Daddy.”

In reply, Grogu made happy cooing noises.

“You like that, huh? Let’s go now.”

“Who are you?”

Bill felt his blood run icy cold at that angry voice. His head slowly moving to the left, he found himself gaping at Werner, now red in the face and carrying a glass of milk and a plate full of cookies.

“I…uh…” the comedian stammered, unsure of what to say. In the end, both he and the Child raised a hand and waved to the German filmmaker. “Bye!”

Bill darted out of the trailer before Werner could stop him. As he dashed off, he heard the German director shout, “Baby snatcher! Somebody stop him!”

Bill thought he was going to get away with the baby. Surely, an old man like Werner Herzog wouldn’t run after him. However, as he turned at the corner and onto the street leading to the backlot, he saw Werner giving chase. To make matters worse, he saw the old man grab an enormous gaffi stick from one of the props men.

“Give that baby back or I’ll kill you!”

“OH SHIT!!!” Bill exclaimed, realizing that his very life was now in jeopardy.

Unknown to the comedian, as he rushed into the backlot, the shooting of the Nevarro skirmish scene had already commenced. There was a loud pop as a Stormtrooper shot a blaster right at him.

“Hey!” he yelled, cradling the Child protectively. “I gotta kid here!”

Rather than calling “Cut!”, from his director’s chair, Taika called out, “Hey, Bill! Fire back, man! You’re being attacked by my Stormtroopers!”

“WHAT?”

Taika made shooting gestures with both hands. “Pew pew!”

Rolling his eyes, Bill did as he was told, running straight down the center of the backlot while “Pew pew-ing” every extra that got into his path. At one point, there was an explosion at his left, so that he dodged to the side. Werner was relentless though. He followed the comedian in small, but swift strides, waving the gaffi stick menacingly in the air. Through it all, the Child crooked under Bill’s arm laughed and squealed.

At that moment, Pedro took his cue to step outside of the building to confront Moff Gideon’s troops. Great was his shock when he saw Bill hurrying toward him, baby in tow, and with a rampaging German director behind him.

Bill even raised the baby high up in the air and cried, “I got the kid!”

In his fright to get away from Werner, Bill didn’t notice the large rock sticking out of the dirt. Suddenly, he tripped on the rock and the Child flew out of his hands. Grogu spread out his little arms and screamed, “Wheeeeeeee!”

Gasping, Pedro leaped up high, his arms stretched out in front of him. That sudden movement caused the helmet to slip from his head. As his body started to fall, he caught the Child easily and hugged him protectively as they hit the ground.

“Are you okay, Grogu?” Pedro asked the Child worriedly, but the baby only laughed and flapped his arms like a bird, indicating that he wanted more.

Bill stared at Pedro and Grogu. Dazed as he was, he couldn’t help blurting out, “You two really look like father and son. You have the same pretty brown eyes and…”

Whatever else he was going to say, the comedian never got to finish because a dark shadow loomed over him.

“Evil baby snatcher!” A breathless but visibly tear-filled Werner rapped him on the head with the stick.

“Owwww!” Bill grabbed his head, feeling the growing lump.

Seeing Pedro staring at him, it was Werner’s turn to be flustered. There was no mistaking the tears that fell from his eyes as he stammered, “I’m sorry. I left the Child for just a minute to get snacks for him, but…this baby snatcher…”

Pedro nodded. As Bill looked on, he gaped as the actor entrusted the baby back to the crying director. “Please keep an eye on him, Werner. Okay?”

Werner hugged the struggling baby in his arms. “I will. I promise I will. And I’m so sorry.”

To the German filmmaker’s shock, Grogu pushed his face when Werner tried to kiss him. Whirling toward Pedro, Grogu reached out to him with his little arms, making desperate whining noises.

At that very moment, Werner’s face turned pale when he saw the group of puppeteers who had joined the onlookers. This time, all the puppeteers were present and accounted for, having come out of the small building where the scene with the puppet was to be filmed. None of them had their controls. And, yet, the baby was wriggling and crying in his embrace.

By then, Pedro had already put the helmet back on. Walking toward the struggling Child, he caressed Grogu’s little head.

“Go with your grandpa, Grogu,” Pedro whispered. “It’ll only be for a little while. We’ll be back together to film a scene before you know it.” Raising his helmet a bit, he kissed Grogu in the spot between his eyes. Werner saw the teardrop hanging from Pedro’s jaw.

“Thank you, Pedro,” Werner could only stammer. “I’ll bring him back once you’re ready to shoot.” He then walked off with a crying Grogu in his arms, heading back for his trailer.

As Pedro helped him to his feet, Bill demanded, “Why did you do that for? I thought you wanted the kid?”

“I did, but…seeing how he chased you...” Pedro then confessed, “…I never realized how much Werner cared for the baby. It isn’t right to take the Child away from him like that.”

At that moment, a very happy Taika called out to him, “Great work, Bill! You got the action sequence I wanted for IG-11 just right. All I have to do is edit you out and I can CGI in the robot with the kid.”

Meanwhile, the members of the 501st Legion were all abuzz at seeing the Child for the first time. An exasperated Jon had the unit directors hand out an additional page of the non-disclosure agreement for them to sign.

When one lady in Stormtrooper armor gushed out, “Oh my God! I just saw a Baby Yoda! I can’t wait to tell my kids!”, Jon ordered Kim Richards, “Have her sign TWO NDAs!”

Hearing Jon’s order, Bill and Pedro laughed. When their laughter subsided, the comedian smiled warmly. “You’re a real nice guy, Pedro. I just hope I could get to work with you and the kid someday, although it doesn’t seem likely after this.”

“Who knows?” Pedro said reassuringly. “Maybe we will still have a need for a sharpshooter like Mayfeld in Season 2.”

“Maybe…” Bill trained his gaze toward Jon who was gathering signed papers. “Hey, Jon! If ever you want me back to work for ya, make sure this guy,” he then pointed to Pedro, “doesn’t have a helmet on.” Grinning at his fellow actor, he said, “I’m gonna call him ‘Brown Eyes’.”

Pedro’s lips curled up in a wry pout. “Next time, please don’t drop the baby!”

Bill crossed his heart and raised his right hand while cupping the lump on his head with his left. “I swear that I will never drop the baby ever again!”

TO BE CONCLUDED

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rebelsofshield · 5 years ago

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Star Wars The Mandalorian: “Chapter 14: The Tragedy”- Review

The Mandalorian shakes up its status quo in a tight and tense episode.

Having arrived on Tython, Din Djarin prepares Grogu for a Jedi ritual that will hopefully bring the child a future and also part them forever. But other forces have tracked the unlikely pair to this ancient planet. Boba Fett (Temeura Morrison) and a revived Fennic Shand (Ming-Na Wen) hold Grogu hostage in the hopes of retrieving Fett’s family armor. Before this standoff can resolve itself, the Empire arrives as well and soon this unlikely trio must band together against an onslaught of enemy soldiers.

Phew. We waisted no time at all, huh? For such a short run time (”The Tragedy” runs just a little over a half hour), director Robert Rodriguez and writer Jon Favreau don’t waste a single minute. After weeks of pit stops and distractions, there’s something oddly liberating about heading right to our next destination. No fetch quests. No favors to guest stars. Din and Grogu arrive on Tython and set out to do what they were meant to do. Of course there are complications. Big complications. But this is the sort of character testing, plot pushing devevlopment that the show needs.

Even before the fireworks start, “The Tragedy” strikes a clear emotional ground for our main duo. Din is getting used to Grogu’s new name, but also preparing himself for the fact that the end of his partnership with this special child is coming near. Pedro Pascal does a great job of selling this moment of interaction between Mandalorian surrogate father and Jedi child. Din is not an overt man with his feelings, but it’s clear here that in trying to talk Grogu into accepting this future, that he’s actually preparing himself for this eventual farewell. It’s the most emotional vulnerability we’ve seen from this character and it ends up giving this episode a melancholy push.

But of course, a quiet goodbye just isn’t in The Mandalorian’s nature. Yes, Boba Fett arrives and he brings the delightfully badass Fennic Shand along with him. After weeks of waiting and teasing, there’s a definite thrill to seeing Slave I break through Tython’s atmosphere and even more in seeing Temuera Morrison really get to play an adult Boba for the first time. Morrison commands an incredible visual presence and even before he dons his iconic armor, there’s a feeling of dangerous legacy playing beneath his dialogue and physical performance. Yes, the simple presence of Fett plays to fan service, but this is the meatiest material we’ve gotten for the character in some time and it’s sure as hell entertaining.

It’s also just a joy seeing Ming-Na Wen back in The Mandalorian. One of the biggest disappointments of last year’s lackluster “The Gunslinger,” was the quick dispatching of such talented actress and the potential of her character. Her return here is arguably even more exciting than Fett’s, coming as a real surprise and the chance to see someone new really get their chance in the spotlight.

The initial meeting between these three is a great recreaton of a nailbiter Wild West standoff and for once even uses a desire for fan service as a source of tension. Yes, we don’t want Din or Grogu harmed, but, come on, almost every viewer wants Boba to get that armor back.

This doesn’t last long before a surprisingly large armor of stormtroopers arrives with the intent of capturing the child. What follows is a gleeful and vibrantly directed montage of bucket head slaughter. It really does feel like every director was told to go crazy with the stormtrooper murder this season, and Robert Rodriguez definitely pulled ahead here. Whether it’s Fett’s nonstop smacking of enemy troopers with his scavenged Gaffi stick or Shand’s acrobatic gunplay, it’s some of the flashiest action we’ve seen this season and it effectively straddles that ground of excess without losing sight of the tension at play.

And Favreau isn’t content letting this be a consequence-less showdown either. Boba gets his armor back in a flurry of explosions and blasterfire. The Razor Crest, the series’ most familiar setting, is obliterated. And the Dark Troopers arrive taking Grogu with them. After a season that even when it was offering exciting plot developments felt like it was treading water, this quick succession of shakeups feels liberating and thrilling and puts forward a new uneasy status quo.

My only real worry here is that it does feel that we are potentially covering familiar ground. As much as I love the dynamic here and I’m even a bit excited to see the return of Bill Burr’s Mayfield, this set up of Din gathering a team of former allies and rivals to rescue Grogu feels a bit like a replay of last season’s ending. We have two episodes left so any number of twists and turns could occur to shake this up, but at the moment we seem to be heading to a fun but not exactly revolutionary final stretch,

Also, as a lore junkie, it’s just nice to finally get some resolution to the unnecessarily long debate of whethr Boba Fett and his father were Mandalorians. They are. Maybe not in the traditional sense, but Din’s acceptance of Jango as a foundling is a thankful period on this long and winding answer.

“The Tragedy” is the shot in the arm we’ve been waiting for all season. It’s quick, fun, and game changing and puts us on fun ground for the future. Also! Din gets to be in a ship with other characters! That he can talk to! I’m ecstatic.

Score: A-

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imagineclaireandjamie · 6 years ago

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Imagine sweet moment before John Willie and Murthagh came to diner. Some romantic scene …

Here is a quiet missing moment from the episode where Jamie meets his son Willie for the first time (4x06). I hope that this fits the bill, anon.

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If asked to swear (hand upon Bible, before God or a Court of Law), I would be able to say two things about John Grey.

First, John Grey was a preternaturally handsome enigma.

Second, my husband’s friendship with the man baffled me utterly. I knew of Jamie’s appreciation of John’s inclination towards self-sacrifice and honor early in life. They were traits exhibited in abundance one night when John attacked my husband. (After his botched attack, a soft-faced, virginal John fell prey to Jamie’s manufactured threat to ravage a True English Rose. Over the years, we had often laughed about the situation –– the frightened look in the eyes of a young man, no a child, Jamie’s extraction of information through sleight of hand manufactured by my decision to barge into the interrogation, the way John could laugh of it now.)

I also grasped (though failed to understand) Jamie’s sense of obligation and friendship arising from John’s decision to commit Jamie to serve Hellwater instead of into some other form of indentured servitude.

(The quietness in Murtagh about those missing years were the only thing that helped me see how Jamie gleaned some appreciation for the arrangement, notwithstanding the horrible things that happened while he was there. Chief among them, the circumstances surrounding the conception and loss of yet another child, Jamie’s taking of yet another life even in the service of saving a son he would hardly know.)

But then there was Ardsmuir. The man was my husband’s jailer. Although things certainly could have been worse for Jamie, my husband had bartered his companionship for the lesser incidents of humanity and scraps of subsistence from John. Medical attention in exchange for another prisoner a token offered for Jamie’s companionship over pot roast and chess. (Though he drew the line at losing his Queen to appease John.) A holding of court in the warden’s chambers over the need for blankets and explaining with startling calm (according to him) the prisoners’ needs for nutrition from some source other than the meat of rodents infesting the prison. But what John gave (what he was able to give) consisted of hardly more than meager scraps. John was still cloaked in red, a man designated to administer the Jacobites’ punishment for the mere exercise of seeking self determination.

I also could see from this young boy (a son) that Jamie had a well of appreciation that he was raised well. Comfortable. Not on the run.

Despite all of this confusion over their friendship, I had to give John credit.

He could read a room.

John. Murtagh. Jamie. Me. Willie.

(Oh. Willie. The conversation in the print shop, the tremble in Jamie’s hands as he passed me the pocket-sized portrait of a son he would never raise. The son who he entrusted to his jailer. “An honorable man,” Jamie had asserted then.)

No, it was not the Willie in the printshop portrait that stood in my home.

It was William.

Everyone, save the child, felt it.

The way he was clay made half of Jamie’s body and half of someone else.

There was talk of dinner.

Of stretching the rabbit stew that I had meant for just the three of us –– Jamie, Murtagh, me –– to cover the Lords Grey and Ellsmere.

Our conversation faded into nothing.

The dead space between words became static.

The moments between topics buzzed with awkwardness.

Talking became impossible because secrets pressed against lips, and speaking (even a breath) would let them break free from a dam, to flood the earth between us. Certain truths were shared only among a sampling of the company. Chief among them, the paternity of the small boy in his ostentatious, silky breeks the color of emeralds and coat of crushed sapphire with broad brass buttons.

In the static, Jamie turned to the fire, touched the mantle, bowed his head.

“Jamie…” I started, turning to him and stopping mid-step as tension tightened in his shoulders.

And at that, John had cleared his throat and taken William by the shoulder. “It’s best that we go tend to our horses, William.”

And in that moment, I found a certain unlikely appreciation for John Grey.

His transition out of the static was so natural.

A diversion spoken in a way that would have made me hug him in any other circumstances.

(Had I liked him more. Had I not developed, unbidden, a hot seed of hatred deep in my womb for him the moment I crossed the threshold of my home to see him standing before my hearth with my husband. Had I not had my hand on his son’s shoulder. John’s son’s shoulder. Jamie’s son’s shoulder. Not my son’s shoulder. Had it not been for the sand trap of disappointment opened beneath my feet, sucking me down for the things that I had missed, that I could not control.)

With a grumble about something or another, Murtagh also excused himself.

And I was again alone with Jamie, the shutters closing me off from a line of sight into his mood. Nothing cast light onto the corners of thought where the feelings dwelled.

“Are you… okay?” My voice skipped, a stone glancing across placid surface of water, having no idea the best approach.

Though he shook his head, he did not say a word. Dropping his hands and turning from the hearth, he simply muttered that he was going to change into more suitable dinner attire.

Having no sense of what to do, other than to be near, I mumbled that I would slip into something else, too. It was there, near our bed, where something about him broke me.

Perhaps it was the quiver in his hands as he reached to the neckline of his shirt, stiff fingers worrying the fabric before he pulled it up and over his head (the sweat and dirt and grime of the labor he poured into making the Ridge our home made it soft and grey).

Perhaps it was the way he had discarded his usual tidiness, allowing his shirt to fall to the floor with a heavy thwap.

Perhaps it was how he undid his breeks, but did not push them off of his hips. As though he had been distracted by some more pressing thought (his fingers all but trembling as he settled his hands at his hips and stared past me, through walls, towards unseeable horizon).

Perhaps it was the hitch of his breath as he sat at the edge of our bed (where that morning he had taken his time with my body, made love to me so tenderly, so slowly, that I had wondered if the basalt wheels of time at the center of the earth were grinding to a halt, his mouth swallowing the moans created by his labor before they could be eaten by the walls created by his labor). The ropes (drawn tight) holding the mattress up squeaked their protest beneath his weight, and he rested a hand on his stomach, like he was about to be ill.

Perhaps it was the distant burr of his mind working overtime, fingers flexing and relaxing into a fist before tapping away at the ridged arc of his muscular thigh.

(I knew the quietest parts of his mind, just as he knew mine. And in the abundance of quiet moments captured not in the four corners of a photo album, but contained within the four corners of an eighteenth century cabin, I knew him better than ever. I could see the rhythm of his children’s names beating like a drum in his head. Faith. Brianna. Willie. No. William. Names that would never belong to Jamie in the way that he longed for –– simply to hear their voices call out whatever iteration of “father” they so chose in childhood.)

Quietly, I gathered the supplies to clean the dirt of the day from his body and brought them to our bedside.

“Make room for me, my lad.”

He dutifully spread his knees to create a space for me, eyes focused on the small stool where I set a basin of warm water, two clean cloths, and a brush.

I touched his face, only for a few moments, drawing his gaze back to me and up. “Talk to me? You know you can tell me whatever is in your mind.”

Sighing, he nuzzled his mouth to my palm. “Tell me about my daughter. More, I mean.”

The request startled me, my eyebrows knitting together. “But Willie––”

“Aye, Willie.”

He stopped, shook his head as though he thought better of it. (It struck me that my husband had never named a child, never conceived of the name that others would call to them. He had given William the name James, but no one would speak it.)

“I’ll never ken Brianna. Just as I dinna ken her sister. He’s here. Now. I’ve laid eyes upon him. But I’ll no’ ever have a dinner wi’ my daughters.”

Faith.

Somehow the single syllable of her name (a word meaning complete trust or confidence, a burden and gift of spiritual apprehension) knocking about in my mind was too much in the moment. He had said it more of late (her name, one that I gave her), and I found myself wondering how often he had thought of her in those twenty years. In our separation, we lost the opportunity to carry one another’s grief, and it still made my heart ache, my stomach go unsettled.

But for this moment, another daughter.

Brianna.

I dipped a corner of the cloth into the basin before wiping gently along his hairline, down his temple. Cloth chased beads of grime as they rolled over his cheekbone. And stories unraveled from my unconscious mind.

Things that I did not know I remembered.

I explained that father and daughter had the same habit of peeling raw tomatoes, asserting rather baselessly I thought, that the flesh was more tender sans skin.

I told him about a young Bree’s disgust for ice cubes in fizzy drinks because she said the cold made her teeth sing.

The dance recital where she missed a step, had a tantrum, and stomped her small tap shoes on the lights lining the stage with such gusto that she sent sparks into the audience and made the recital devolve into some sort of apocalyptic chaos.

The time my towel fell free in the kitchen as I tried to get her off to school, running madly late for work myself, and she asked me why I had a beard between my legs.

The constant rotation of perpetually dying goldfish, my quiet ritual of sneaking into her room to steal away her “sleeping” fish and dispatch it down the toilet when she was not looking, only to replace it. Her indignance when she said “I know what you are doing, mom!” in her most American accent at the age of five, my hands (guilty dead goldfish thieves) holding the bowl over the toilet.

The speech she gave in sixth grade to The Optimist Club. The way she had said that her mother the healer inspired her (though we had fought in the car the entire way to the school), and her prize of a twenty dollar savings bond that she said she wanted to donate to a food pantry.

I fell silent as I turned from his clean face, reached for the brush. Though everything in my being was here with Jamie, without regret over my choice to return to him, my heart ached for the hole left by my daughter’s absence.

“I ken this is hard for ye,” he whispered softly, fingers catching mine as they worked through a stubborn tangle.

He drew my fingers to his mouth. Swallowing, I whispered, “Don’t.” Tears were streaking down my face and when he reached to wipe them, I shook my head. “I love you, and you love him.”

We had missed so much. I would not (could not) begrudge him for missing Willie.

After a time, his hair again laying in well-mannered waves along the back of his neck, ready for me to plait it and tie it there. “He was such a little Lord down by the stream. You wouldn’t believe it.”

“Oh aye?” he asked.

Snorting, I recalled for him the scene that Murtagh and I had happened upon. His son, glowering over some harmless leeches. The turn of his brows and grimace as I popped them free from his shins. His hand found my hip, ran along the curve of it.

“You look perfectly suitable for a dinner with Lord John and your little lord progeny.”

Snorting, he drew me closer by the hip, rested his face against my stomach. “Ye dinna ken the blessing having ye here with me is. I have all I need here in my own arms.”

I dropped to my knees in front of him, taking his cheeks in my hands as I inhaled the musk of him. The odor of the man with whom I was building a life here in the middle of a great, blue-green forest. “I have all I need, too.”

He kissed me then, slowly at first, but developing an intensity that made me burn although our company would surely return to us soon. It was over as soon as it began, leaving my swollen mouth breathless.

“I’ll owe ye,” he said quietly after pulling away, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. “For cleaning me. For pulling me back together afore we sit back down together wi’ John and Willie, Murtagh, too…”

I made a contemplative noise, rubbing the tender nub of my right knee as I rose from the hard floor. “I’ll expect payment with interest. Probably a full bath, a good buffing with the salt scrub that I made.”

With a failed wink, he nodded. “Ye can count on me taking my time wi’ a full bath later.”

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46ten · 7 years ago

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AH’s “much-beloved” Matthew Clarkson

One of the themes I return to on this blog are all the people who get left out, from those who were obviously prominently placed in AH’s life through family ties - Philip Schuyler, John B. Church - to those who are at the margins because lack of letters or lack of fame pushed them there. In the second category, one can include near lifelong friends Nicholas Fish and John Laurance, and then a long line of others: Rufus King, Nathaniel Pendleton, Oliver Wolcott, William Bayard (his tearful display suggests more than a passing attachment to a fellow lawyer), John Mason, William Jackson, Timothy Pickering, Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, Josiah Odgen Hoffmann, Richard Varick, Richard Harison etc. etc. (I think people sufficiently know McHenry, Laurens, Troup, Stevens, and G. Morris.)

Let’s shine the light on Matthew Clarkson for a moment. Here is how John Church Hamilton describes his father’s death scene:

Meanwhile his numerous agonized friends crowded around the mansion where Hamilton lay, waiting through the sad hours each change in his pallid countenance with breathless apprehension. His elder comrades of the Revolution were there - gray, wondering old men, bowed with years - remembering him a youth in the first hours of his glorious anticipations, in the earliest triumphs of his genius and his valor. The loving, sighing companions of his later years, his grateful clients - the many witnesses of his benevolence were there. They sat under the trees in mourning, silent woe, awaiting the issue, as though some judgment was coming upon the earth.

At [AH’s] bedside were his wife and children - the grieving clergy - his tearful physician - and his much-beloved Clarkson.*

*footnote: General Matthew Clarkson. In the Revolution distinguished for his chivalry. In after life, for his piety and eminent virtues. The Life of Alexander Hamilton, vol 7, p. 835.

Of all the people who could be named by JCH, Clarkson? Why?

Matthew Clarkson (b Oct 1758) was a native New Yorker from a prominent family with long-established ties (See Clarksons of New York, A sketch for a history). His family intermarried with the De Peysters and Van Cortlandts in the first half of the century.

Clarkson volunteered for the Army (or according to the source above, was sent by his father to fight when not yet 17). It’s not clear to me when he and AH first met, but considering that Clarkson was staying with William Livingston on 18July1777 (Gen. Nathanael Greene writes to him there), they may have met as early as 1773. In August 1777, Clarkson was given the rank of major and became an aide-de-camp to Maj. Gen. Benedict Arnold. As Greene wrote to him: “I have the pleasure to acquaint you there is an opportunity now present for you to join the army, I hope to your liking. General Arnold is on his way to the Northern Department, he is in want of an aid-de-camp and I have taken the liberty to recommend you to the General. He is pleased to honor the recommendation and offers you the appointment. You will put yourself in readiness as soon as possible and follow the General to Albany, where you will join his family. Make my compliments to the Governor’s family.” Clarkson was present at the Battle of Saratoga (he’s in the painting as the second to last person on the right; Ebenezer Stevens is the dark haired gentlemen in front of him; Philip Schuyler is a couple of people to the left in brown jacket, non-military dress). He served as Arnold’s aide-de-camp until March 1779, and then became Maj. Gen. Benjamin Lincoln’s aide-de-camp.

Clarkson was taken prisoner upon the capture of Charleston on 12 May 1780, paroled to Pennsylvania, and exchanged that fall. He was present at the surrender of Cornwallis, and in June 1782 requested an extended leave of absence from the army. Clarkson obtained a brevet as lieutenant colonel upon the completion of his military service in late 1783. x

From G. Washington:

Major Matthew Clarkson commenced his military Services as a Volunteer early in the present War. In the Year 1777 he received a Majority in the Army of the United States, and was present at the Surrender of Lieut. General Burgoyne at Saratoga, having been active in all the principal antecedent Engagements, which produced that Event—In the Year 1779 was appointed Aide de Camp to Major General Lincoln (now Secretary at War) then commanding Officer in the Southern Department, & in that Character served at the Siege of Savannah. In 1780 he acted as Major of a Corps of Light Infantry during the Siege of Charles-Town. In 1782 He returned to his former Situation as Aide de Camp to Major General Lincoln, and was present at the Reduction of the British Posts of York and Gloucester under the Command of Lieut. General Earl Cornwallis. Soon after this, when Major General Lincoln became Secretary at War, he was appointed his Assistant. In all which Stations, from my own Knowledge and the Reports of the General Officer under whose immediate Orders he has served, I am authorised to declare that He has acquitted himself with great Honour. Given under my Hand And Seal at the Head-Quarters of the American Army the twenty-fourth Day of June in the Year 1782.

Clarkson then worked as a merchant, but mostly did what wealthy and prominent men (”the rich and well-born”) did back then: held a series of prestigious positions, elected and otherwise. I’m just going to copy Wikipedia:

As a Regent of the University of the State of New York he was presented at the court of French King Louis XVI. He served as a Federalist member of the 13th New York State Legislature in the New York State Assembly for one term from 1789 to 1790, where he introduced a bill for the gradual abolition of slavery in the state. From 1791 to 1792, he served as U.S. Marshal. In 1793, he was elected to fill the vacancy, in place of Philip Van Cortlandt, as State Senator in the 17th New York State Legislature representing the Southern District, which consisted of Kings, New York, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk and Westchester counties. He served until 1795 after being reelected to the 18th Legislature, and resigning before he completed his full four year term.He was also a member of the commission to build a new prison 1796-1797 and President of the New York (City) Hospital (1799). In 1802, Clarkson was the Federalist candidate for U.S. Senator from New York but was defeated by DeWitt Clinton. He became President of the Bank of New York in 1804.

In February 1795, Clarkson was appointed commissioner of loans for New York. (See H to George Washington, January 14, 1795). He resigned this position in September 1801.

On May 21, 1796, Washington nominated Clarkson as the United States commissioner under Article 21 of the treaty signed at San Lorenzo el Real (Pinckney’s Treaty) on October 27, 1795, between the United States and Spain, and on May 24, 1796, the Senate confirmed the appointment.

In 1798 Clarkson became a director of the New York branch of the Bank of the United States. He was also on the committee of the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.

Clarkson’s first wife was the niece of William Alexander, Lord Stirling. His daughter with her married her cousin, the oldest son of John Jay and Sarah Livingston. (Clarkson first married in 1785, which again fits my pet theory that these men generally did not marry until their military service was complete - AH was the outlier among his friends in doing so.) After Mary Rutherfurd’s death in 1786, he married Sally Cornell in 1792. She died in 1803. Clarkson had eight children total; he didn’t name any of them Alexander, though he did name one William Bayard. Matthew Clarkson died in 1825.

So what was the relationship between Clarkson and AH like? He’s one of those we don’t get many letters to/from in part because they’re all usually living in NYC. From Founders, we only have two letters, both professional, from AH to Clarkson. There’s only one letter from Clarkson to AH:

Dear Sir, I have reflected maturely on our conversation of yesterday. The result is, as far as I can with propriety I decline, at present, any military appointment. The duty I owe my Family seems to demand this of me, nor can I believe I give too great weight to this consideration when I consider the very small probability there is of any serious military operations taking place in this Country and the real injury I should sustain by being called from my present pursuits. These however are my reflections, if they are wrong, counsel me otherways, at any rate believe me with the greatest Regard and Esteem Dear Sir Yours very sincerely. 20August1798, Clarkson to AH, Here’s a digital copy of the letter.

In preparing for his duel with Burr, while AH gave Church power of attorney, he named Church, John Laurance, and Clarkson as trustees for his property (except his books of Divinity). Founders notes that on April 11, 1805, Church, Laurance, and Clarkson purchased the remaining land, an additional 17 acres, that comprised the Grange property.

Clarkson was one of the pallbearers at AH’s funeral, alongside Oliver Wolcott, Richard Harrison, Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Richard Varick, William Bayard, and Laurance.

From the Hamilton side, the strongest statements of the friendship between AH and Clarkson come from JCH and EH, oddly enough. She wrote to Clarkson:

“...As you have always been the friend of my dear husband, I now pray you may be the friend of his Son [Alexander Jr.]....could you permit him sometimes to accompany you in your walks, that he might hear from you thou just sometimes of Religion as well as thou on Other subjects that have always marked your character. ” 17Sept1804, EH to Clarkson; credit: runawayforthesummer

And 25 years later:

I introduce to your kindness and civilities the sons in law of your respected Friend General Clarkson [a] particular friend of my Hamilton.” 10Apr1830, EH to Marquis de Lafayette, credit: runawayforthesummer

I have not searched for Clarkson’s letters to others to see if more can be ascertained there. I’ll continue to wonder why JCH specifically noted Clarkson’s presence, and what he meant to the Hamilton family. Here’s a pic of the Stuart painting of Clarkson from 1794; he’s wearing his Society of the Cincinnati badge. (Looks like Trumbull based his figure of Clarkson on this one.)

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Emily Swallow, The Mandalorian‘s Armorer, supports Gina Carano following her sudden firing earlier this year. Carano played Cara Dune in the first two seasons of the Disney+ series The Mandalorian. A former Rebel shock trooper who came to be one of Din Djarin’s biggest allies, Cara was a fan favorite character who was poised to make the jump to additional Star Wars projects. However, following fan backlash to some of Carano’s social media posts, Lucasfilm severed ties with the former MMA fighter back in February.

Carano had long been under fire for tweeting out things that were transphobic, anti-Semitic, and against masks amid the coronavirus pandemic. After the controversy swelled once again, Lucasfilm confirmed it had fired Carano from The Mandalorian and has no intention of recasting Cara. Carano has since moved on to an upcoming movie based on the novel White Knuckle, though she has spoken out at length about her firing, most notably in an interview with divisive political commentator Ben Shapiro.

Related: Why Lucasfilm Cutting Gina Carano Was The Right Decision

Swallow, who appeared in The Mandalorian season 1 as the Amorer Din seeks out for his gear, recently appeared at Dragon Con 2021. During her panel (via The Direct), Swallow shared her own thoughts on Carano’s firing, starting off by explaining, “All I can say is that Gina, and working with her personally, what impressed me about her from the beginning is that she is so interested in other peoples’ opinions, and is so welcoming of other peoples’ opinions.” She reiterated that Carano is “very giving, she’s very gracious.” On the subject of the actual firing, Swallow seemed to fall more on Carano’s side, particularly when it comes to cancel culture. She explained:

“I know so little about what happened. I experienced it like you did. I don’t know anything about the inner workings of it. I can only speak about Gina being a lovely person, which she is.

“I am thoroughly baffled by a lot of what we’re dealing with right now with cancel culture and I think that it’s… oh man. There’s so many layers to it that are important to look at, but I think that the hatred that comes into it and when people start refusing to listen to the other side, no matter which side they’re on, I think that that’s really dangerous. One of the things that is so beautiful about our country is we have free speech. We can hear things that we don’t like, and we can disagree, and that’s fine.”

Carano’s firing from The Mandalorian and the Star Wars universe at large was controversial to say the least. While a large portion of the fanbase had been calling for her firing for some time, there were others who felt Carano shouldn’t have been let go for speaking her mind. For his part, Mandalorian lead Pedro Pascal hasn’t spoken out about her departure, though Carano said at the time that she holds no ill-will towards Pascal.

One could argue that, since Carano still has jobs coming in, she isn’t actually a victim of cancel culture. She was let go from The Mandalorian, yes, but she isn’t out of the public eye. As Swallow knows Carano personally, it makes sense that she would be more supportive of the actress. For the fans who only know Carano through her views, though, it’s difficult to support her if their opinions don’t align. The Mandalorian will continue on with season 3, and it remains to be seen if it will make any mention of Cara. It might be better for the series to simply move on and focus on the future.

More: The Mandalorian Can Replace Gina Carano With Bill Burr’s Mayfeld Return

The Mandalorian will return in 2022.

Source: Dragon Con 2021 (via The Direct)

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Blog #6: Coast to Coast

6/29/2021

The homeland of the rich, the famous, and the homeless junkies of Los Angeles, California will always have my heart.

With my first near death experience, I have come to see life in a new light… YOLO!

Remember that term? Yah, it was one of those fads that had meaning to it but no longer holds a place in fashion... thank god.

Everything on this coast is slow, even the way people talk is dragged out. No one J-walks here. They seriously wait for that little white man to pop up on the cross walks before walking, even if there is not a car in sight.

Yet everyone here has a serious addition to coffee.

Hangovers are even more dragged because everyone is so uber healthy here, they straight up do not have greasy food.

I made the mistake of ordering an egg and cheese, knowing it’ll only be a disappointment compared to a New York BEC. It was beyond disappointing, especially being hungover as fuck.

Everyone here is stoned all the time and have been for years. I truly believe the whole city moves so slow because everyone is high all the time.

No wonder they can survive with the shitty food- they are too high to realize.

They do have some fire weed here, so it makes sense, but damn… they are so slow and ditsy.

There is so much art here, from music, to painting, to theater, to creativity, everyone comes here with a dream. Some make their dreams come true, others end up addicted to crack, but everyone originally came here in hopes of making something of themselves.

That energy runs through the streets, it is so lively and so filled with hope. It is truly an inspiring place to live.

Who

Who have you become…

The people on the west coast are just genuinely nicer. We had a conversation that consisted of outrageous hand gestures with a random man in his car.

He had blocked an intersection accidently so I couldn’t make a left turn, where he then proceeded to see me raging about it and trying to mouth to us how sorry he was. We straight up had a conversation with this guy and were joking around while waiting for the light. We left mouthing, “We are from New Yorkk, move outta the way” as a joke, and he just understood and left us with a peace sign.

There is a surplus of homelessness here, and it is sad to see but also so interesting to watch them set up communities on the sides of highways and all along the beach.

There is never just one homeless dude posted up under a cardboard box. It’s always 15+ people posting up together in nice ass tents they probably stole or making cardboard houses with tarps for extra coverage.

They get super creative with their homelessness; it is fascinating to watch.

This one guy was zipping down the road in what looked like a decked-out bike, with high handlebars and a motor. He was moving with traffic and was looking cool while doing it.

As he got closer, we realized his get-up was made from an ironing board he bent into a seat, a plastic crate holding up the ironing board to a lime scooter he probably stole a month prior. Topping it off, he added tall handlebars for that 70s badass look. That man mastered one man’s trash, into another man’s treasure.

The saddest part is knowing majority of them came out here looking for their big break and got so hooked on drugs, they could never make it farther then that last $10 in their pocket for drugs.

On the other hand, some of these people have money to their names, but choose this lifestyle.

They really enjoy the life of nothing. This one woman was offered a job and a home, and she politely turned it down because this was her home. She loved the community around her and wouldn’t trade it for any material. What a way of life.

My family was so generous to let us three, stay with them here in Venice Beach. My Uncle Greg is my mom’s brother. He moved out here with his family to further his comedic career. Unfortunately, that meant I couldn’t see my cousins often.

My cousin Owen is a year younger than me and in the same grade as my brother. My other cousin Jojo is four years younger but grew up so fast. I always said the water in California was cracked out, because she always appeared older than my brother and I.

Since COVID I hadn’t been able to see them in two years, so I was so excited to hang out with them.

Jojo just graduated high school, so she is finally old enough to do drugs with!!

We also got to meet up with our friend Izzy from Oneonta. She is living out here for the summer with her sister. What a life.

Izzy is thriving here with her job at this night club and is living in her sister’s cute ass apartment in Echo Park. She has the total LA vibe and even knows all the local spots to hang. Shout out to you for sneaking us into a random hotel’s rooftop pool! Confidence never gets questioned.

We love meeting up with friends from school, it makes the trip feel more homie.

What

What’s hanging dude…

Joshua Tree National Park was something out of another planet. It seriously looked like Jurassic Park and a dinosaur should be appearing at any second.

It was very different from anything we had ever seen before, but it was still a desert and was hot as fuck.

We did some gorgeous hikes through all the massively large, rounded rocks that somehow were placed on top of each other ages ago.

The trees that are all around are Joshua Trees, also considered Trees of Life.

This means they produce a way of life for other creatures at all stages of its growing/dying process.

While in beginning stages of its life, Yucca moths use the trees pollen to lay their eggs in and produce pollen scatter, creating more trees. When the trees are gown, the caterpillars use the tree for habitats and provides food sourcing for a lot of other desert species. When the tree dies, the bark is used to create habitats for humans and used to wove baskets and other materials.

These trees look like a palm tree and a cactus went to TOWN together.

Los Angeles is the other city of dreams. It is not comparable to New York City besides the homelessness and the traffic.

The Ocean really makes the whole city’s surfer aesthetic. Everyone, even the rich and famous, dress like they are in last weeks outfit.

The style is so different from New York. People really don’t dress to impress but spend half their life savings on their wardrobe.

Visiting my family here has always been the ideal way to do this city, since they take us to all the local shops, and we do fun activities like surfing. It’s not just another tour bus showing us where Kurt Cobain shot up some heroin for the first time.

They also show us the best food joints. We got these sushi balls, and it was the greatest -post beach snack- imaginable. A little hit of the wax pen and a bite of this ball is comparable to an orgasm.

Where

Where are all the famous people…

Joshua Tree was so beautiful, it is a place I will be re-visiting, considering we were only there for one night.

Los Angeles is where I have always wanted to live, ever since a young girl. Whenever we would come out here to visit my uncle, he would take us to the coolest places, and we would meet the coolest people.

One year I was here on my birthday, and his buddy stopped over to say hi, when I came downstairs in was Zach Galifianakis chilling there with a $20 bill and my name on it as a birthday gift.

You could imagine my teenage self shitting a tiny bit in my pants as he handed me $20… However, in my head I was thinking, “I know you’re rich, give me more you cheap fuck.”

This year for graduation I only got a phone call from him… how rude.

My Uncle is a popular comedian, if you know him you know him, but if you don’t, he is very irrelevant to you.

When we arrived, he took us out to a show he was preforming at in West Hollywood, featuring other comedians you might know or might also be very irrelevant, including Bill Burr, Anthony Jeselnik, Pete Holmes and Beth Stelling.

It was a cool venue, and a fun time. My favorite part was being called out for attempted DUI’s in every state we have been in due to my funneling addiction, thanks Uncle Greg, that was supposed to be a secret.

After the show he dropped us off at this bar that his friends said was the “it” spot. When we walked in, the bar itself was perfect, expect it was populated by older rich men trying to find their next sugar baby.

We had some contenders, but they were asking for too much… No, I don’t want to go back to your house and sneak past your wife and kids as we dart to your hot tub.

When

When will we leave…

When we first got to LA we had full intensions of staying only four nights and getting out of my family’s hair, but then plans fell through.

Because I love it here so much, we decided to stay!!

Just kidding, I wish we could stay longer… One day I’ll move out here though.

COVID restrictions are back at it again, ruining our plans of going Yosemite. They are the only National Park that requires a whole ass separate pass just to enter the park, on top of the $30 day pass we already have.

The only reason our route was heading inland California was to see that park. So, we did a little digging and decided to just send it up all the way up the coast and do the legendary Pacific Coast Highway.

This is what we originally wanted to do before we found out about Yosemite. Guess we will have to come back to see the park, aw shucks!

Why

Why can’t I afford this…

California is fucking expensive; I can see why the population of homelessness is so high… Even gas is $1.00 more than it is back in New York.

And for Why? They are on a coast, it’s not like the desert where there is a gas station every 100 miles.

They know people here have the money, so they overprice literally everything. A fucking water bottle is $7.00. Sorry didn’t realize paying for survival would be this expensive.

The older man at the bar loved to throw the fact he had money around (as do most people with money around here). He kept saying he works on wall street, but wall street is literally a street in New York City.

He just wanted to flex he works in finances and has a hot tub, okay we get it you have a small dick.

How

How we almost died…

This is my favorite part of the last week, but also the most traumatizing.

So, have you ever heard of cowboy camping?

Well, neither had we until our friend that had just camped in Joshua Tree told us about it and how legendary it was in that specific spot.

Cowboy camping: you don’t pitch your tent, you just post up with your sleeping bags under the stars.

Since Joshua Tree is known for their stars, we thought fuck it, we are here for less than 12 hours, the weather is perfect let’s do it.

That night was a full moon, and it was a killer sunset (all pun intended). We cooked up a nice rice bowl for dinner and then laid in our sleeping bags watching the stars.

The moon was almost too bright, it was taking away from the illumination of the stars, but it was legendary because I’ve never seen such a big and bright moon before.

But you know what they say about the full moons, it brings out the crazies. And in our case, coyote crazies.

After drifting off to sleep under the peaceful star and moon lit sky, I was rudely woken up to really loud growling and whimpering.

It was not something that was off in the distance, it was right next to us… barebone in the wild.

I quickly and quietly turned over to grab my bear spray that I keep next to me when camping. I started thinking, “Alright this is the only thing keeping me from getting mauled by whatever the fuck is next to me.”

Not knowing what we were dealing with, I slowly popped my head up hoping the animal didn’t catch my movement… I saw about 5 feet in front of us was a pack of about 10 coyotes, running around chasing animals.

We happen to be the center of their circle and were surrounded by their pack. Thankfully their attention was diverted to our asshole neighbor’s whose food was left out. Thanks for that.

We just laid their paralyzed in fear of death. As we laid there, I saw two shooting stars and wished for life… Shoutout to those shooting stars.

We tried to stay as quiet as possible, so we didn’t become their next victim. Maya was not having it though and couldn’t stop shaking. There was a moment when her shaking was so loud, and I could see a coyote right next to us, so I had to hold her body so it would stop moving.

We laid there for about 20 minutes until the noises stopped… then we booked it for the car. We slept in the car until the sun rose.

As the sun was rising all the coyotes simultaneously howled for the rest of the pack to meet up and disappear before daylight. That was one of those, “holy shit that was the coolest most terrifying moments of my life”, moments.

We left the next morning as fast as possible, running on no sleep and fear… we headed for the city. I had never been more grateful to be in a city.

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Top Movies Released on Online Streaming Platforms

Online streaming platforms are turning out to be personal theatres. There is an extensive collection of movies and web series available on these platforms already, and recent circumstances throughout the world have forced the film industry to collaborate with these platforms. Many movies, which were supposed to hit theatres with a bang were released on online streaming platforms. The list of such movies is long, which were released on online streaming platforms during the crisis, and they played a significant role in refreshing the content of the platform they were released on. Many of these movies have turned out to be massive hits. This article lists the top movies that bypassed theatre release due to the big crisis and became a great hit on the streaming platforms. Let’s scroll down and find the latest picks for you to watch.

Greyhound

Greyhound is one such movie that Tom Hanks’ fans were waiting to watch in theatres, but they had to content themselves by watching it on a smaller screen. The story of this movie takes you back to the early phase of World War II, where an inexperienced captain of the US navy has to lead the fleet, which is being followed by Nazi U-boat submarines. This film is based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester. Tom Hanks (Commander Ernest Krause), Stephen Graham (Charlie Cole), Elisabeth Shue (Eva Krause), and Rob Morgan (George Cleveland) are starring in this film. Aaron Schneider has provided his brilliant direction to the film. The audience appreciates Greyhound, and it has received a rating of 7 on IMDb. You can watch this film on the Apple TV Plus streaming service.

The King of Staten Island

If you want to watch some great comedy that involves a bit of drama, then you should watch The King of Staten Island. This film is about an aimless guy who dreams of becoming a tattoo artist while living with his mother and hanging out with his friends on Staten Island. He has lost his father during 9/11, and we witness him entering the world of stand-up comedy as the movie progresses. Judd Apatow has directed this film while Pete Davidson (Scott), Bel Powley (Kelsey), Marisa Tomei (Margie), and Bill Burr (Ray Bishop) are starring in this movie. This film has received 7.1 stars on IMDb. You can watch The King of Staten Island on Amazon Prime Video.

The One and Only Ivan

The One and Only Ivan is a good Disney movie that was supposed to be released in theatres but was released on Disney Plus. This movie is about a gorilla named Ivan, who is turned into a piece of amusement in a mall in the city after being taken out of the wild. There he finds an elephant named Stella and makes a plan to break away from the cruelty. Thea Sharrock has directed this film, and Sam Rockwell (Ivan), Bryan Cranston (Mack), Angelina Jolie (Stella), and Danny DeVito (Bob) have decorated this film with their performances. This film has received an IMDb rating of 6.7.

Run

Run is a thriller that could sweep people off their feet with its release in theatre, but now it can do so on Hulu streaming app. The story of this film is about an overprotective mother of a homeschooled teenager. Her daughter suspects that she is keeping some dark secrets from her after observing her overprotective behavior. This psychological thriller is directed by Aneesh Chaganty. Sarah Paulson (Diane Sherman), Kiera Allen (Chloe Sherman), Onalee Ames (Crying Hands), and Pat Healy (Ted Sherman) have played important roles in this film. This film has received an excellent IMDb rating of 7.7.

Wonder Woman 1984

Wonder Woman 1984 is yet to hit the theatres or any media streaming app, but this is one of the most awaited films. This film will be available on HBO Max from 25th December 2020. The delay in the release of this DC Comics superhero sequel has only added more to fans’ excitement. This film’s story is going to be about Wonder Woman fighting against Maxwell Lord and the Cheetah. Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman, Diana Prince), Chris Pine (Steve Trevor), Kristen Wiig (Cheetah), and Pedro Pascal (Maxwell Lord) are part of this film.

Challenging situations worldwide have delayed the release of many long-awaited films, but streaming platforms have saved the day for some. This article lists the top movies directly released on various streaming platforms instead of theatres and became hits of their time.

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A BuzzFeed report says President Trump directed Michael Cohen to lie to Congress, prompting the talk of impeachment even before the special counsel finishes his probe.

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Late Thursday night, BuzzFeed News published a report that, if true, could prove historic: President Donald Trump allegedly directed his then–personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, to lie to Congress about a real-estate deal he was pursuing in Moscow during the 2016 election. Trump immediately denied the story, but for many Democrats, including those who had previously cautioned against impeaching the president before Special Counsel Robert Mueller produces his findings in the Russia investigation, the report was cause to consider proceeding with impeachment before the Russia probe is finished.

“If the @BuzzFeed story is true, President Trump must resign or be impeached,” Democratic Representative Joaquin Castro, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, wrote on Twitter. Democratic Senator Chris Murphy weighed in, too. “If Mueller does have multiple sources confirming Trump directed Cohen to lie to Congress, then we need to know this ASAP,” he wrote. “Mueller shouldn’t end his inquiry, but it’s about time for him to show Congress his cards before it’s too late for us to act.” Democratic Senator Jeff Merkley followed up on Friday morning: “If this report of Trump suborning false testimony is confirmed, then Trump committed a felony and must resign or be impeached,” he wrote. “This is obstruction of justice,” Democratic Representative David Cicilline, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told CNN. “If the facts are true, this is suborning perjury. It’s an impeachable offense.” Representative Jamie Raskin, a member of House leadership, told CNN, “This is a completely impeachable offense, if this report is true.” He said Congress would need to hear from “everybody who was involved” in the alleged conspiracy before moving forward with impeachment.

The comments mark a noticeable shift in what had been the standard party line on the possibility of impeachment—that Democrats should wait to act until after Mueller issues his final report. But Attorney General nominee Bill Barr’s refusal to commit to providing Mueller’s findings to Congress and to the public, combined with BuzzFeed’s implication that the president committed a felony while in office, has given Democrats a new sense of urgency—and they won’t necessarily wait to hold Trump accountable, I’m told, if they conclude that he knowingly obstructed justice to hide his involvement in business negotiations with the Kremlin during the election.

“The conduct alleged by BuzzFeedis consistent with other, independent evidence of Donald Trump as candidate instructing others to lie and Donald Trump as president obstructing justice,” Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell, who sits on both the House Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, told me. “Evidence is not a conclusion. It must be tested. We should do all we can in Congress with the subpoena power and oversight responsibility to see if Trump acted this way. I don’t think anyone will be surprised if it’s confirmed.”

A White House spokesman, Hogan Gidley, told Fox News on Friday that the allegation was “ridiculous.” “I’m not going to give any credence or credibility to Michael Cohen,” he said. But Mueller has documentary evidence to support Cohen’s claims, according to BuzzFeed, and its reporting is not the first piece of evidence that Trump has sought to obstruct the federal and congressional Russia investigations. The FBI opened an obstruction inquiry after Trump fired former FBI Director James Comey—who was leading the investigation into his campaign at the time he was ousted—and told the Russians that dismissing Comey took “great pressure” off him. Trump’s decision to draft a misleading statement on his son’s behalf about a meeting with the Russians at the height of the election to obtain dirt on his opponent, Hillary Clinton, has factored into the obstruction probe, too, according to The New York Times.

But the allegation that Trump asked Cohen to lie to Congress, which would be a federal crime, is “the most serious to date,” says Democratic Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “These allegations may prove unfounded, but, if true, they would constitute both the subornation of perjury as well as obstruction of justice,” Schiff said in a statement. “Our committee is already working to secure additional witness testimony and documents related to the Trump Tower Moscow deal and other investigative matters. As a counterintelligence concern of the greatest magnitude, and given that these alleged efforts were intended to interfere with our investigation, our Committee is determined to get to the bottom of this and follow the evidence wherever it may lead.”

Representative Jerry Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee—the panel with the power to begin impeachment proceedings against the president—also promised to “get to the bottom of it.” And even Barr, Trump’s attorney-general nominee, who wrote a 19-page memo arguing that Mueller’s obstruction inquiry is “fatally misconceived,” acknowledged in that same memo that obstruction is an impeachable offense. “If a president knowingly destroys or alters evidence, suborns perjury, or induces a witness to change testimony, or commits any act deliberately impairing the integrity of availability of evidence, then he, like anyone else, commits the crime of obstruction,” Barr wrote. “Indeed, the acts of obstruction alleged against Presidents Nixon and Clinton in their respective impeachments were all such ‘bad acts’ involving the impairment of evidence.”

The FBI began investigating whether Trump was a Kremlin agent in the chaotic days following Comey’s firing in May 2017, opening a counterintelligence probe into the president to determine whether he was acting in Russia’s interests rather than in America’s, according to the Times. FBI leaders believed that Trump’s attempt to obstruct the Russia investigation—he told NBC’s Lester Holt that he fired Comey because of “this Russia thing”—was itself a serious national-security issue.

But the first in-court evidence that Trump might have been compromised by Russia while Russian President Vladimir Putin was waging a direct attack on the election didn’t come until last November, when Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the timing of his negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow—and about how often he discussed the deal with Trump during the campaign. Cohen contacted the Kremlin “asking for assistance in connection with the Moscow Project” in January 2016, and was encouraged by Trump to travel to Moscow to clinch a deal during the election, according to BuzzFeed. He is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee on February 7 before he begins a three-year prison sentence in March.

With Democrats in control of the House, Trump could well be impeached. But removing him from office, which would require an affirmative vote from the Republican-controlled Senate, is another question entirely. A spokesman for Republican Senator Richard Burr, the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, declined to comment on the BuzzFeed report, but indicated that the committee still wants to hear from Cohen on this and other issues. “Mr. Cohen has had, for months now, a request to return to the committee to provide additional closed-door testimony,” the spokesman, Ben Khouri, said. “I will let the House members comment about impeachment or not,” Democratic Senator Mark Warner, the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, told reporters on Friday. “Our investigation, which is the only remaining bipartisan investigation, is continuing, to try to get all the facts and get them out to the American public.”

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Censorship Has Mutated During Coronavirus Pandemic

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Censorship, Pandemic Style Censorship is unfortunately alive and well during this pandemic madness, taking on a variety of mutated forms as it participates in the various rights-trampling parades going on in America. We have seen the petty tyrant governors and mayors use this time to overreach and cavalierly brush aside constitutional rights in the name of safety. The First Amendment has been particularly roughed up, with the free exercise of religion, free speech, and the right to peaceably assemble all taking major hits. Matt Taibbi — not exactly a rightwing stalwart — warned last month of what he called the “Inevitable Coronavirus Censorship Crisis.” He was responding to a rather insane and disturbing article in The Atlantic that was basically making the case for adopting a more ChiCom approach to dealing with internet speech. That’s right, a venerable American publication was advocating for more censorship. The ChiComs themselves aren’t letting the crisis go to waste. Pro-commie establishment members of Hong Kong’s parliament are pushing legislation to censor and punish any language mocking the mainland’s national anthem. As I wrote last weekend, social media platforms are using the pandemic as an excuse to censor any voices that run counter to the preferred narrative. There is to be no real free speech or debate about how we should proceed through each new phase of dealing with the pandemic. Each of the major platforms has opted to be tools of the various states and prop up whichever arbitrary shutdown rules are in place. The media bias we’ve seen during all of this is a perverse sort of self-censorship that the MSM hacks are doing to themselves. They’ve been running with whatever the official word from China is, and surely they know that the censoring is kind of baked into the cake with that deal. It’s always amazing to see American “journalists” be drawn to the types of ideologues who would be the first to shut them down. This may not be directly related to the coronapocalypse, but it happened on Monday. The United Nations took some time to offer the great unwashed a list of words that we should no longer say. I’m not really sure which part of the UN’s charter lays out why it should be in the censor game, but then I still haven’t figured out what in the hell they have to do with climate change. The shutting down of church services is a form of censorship as well, and I can’t help but believe that the Democratic governors have enjoyed keeping the church folk away from worship just a little too much. Thankfully, saner legal heads seem to be prevailing on that front in the last couple of weeks. The policing of speech had become worrisome long before this pandemic hit us. The danger now is obviously having some of these more tyrannical types make some new permanent censorship rules. Speech that’s censored today may very well remain censored when we emerge from this rough patch. I’ve been fighting censorship since I first started doing stand-up and it’s a battle I’m willing to wage until they find a way to shut me up. PC Police Step Up Efforts to Completely Ruin Stand-Up Comedy This Ought to Work Out Well Many low-wage workers earn more on unemployment than in their former jobs https://t.co/jMwBs9efgG pic.twitter.com/7iKO5Hq9KX — CBS News (@CBSNews) May 19, 2020 PJM Linktank My Tuesday column: My Last ‘Obama Is the Worst’ Column This Month (I Think) HILARIOUS: Trump Campaign Mocks Biden. Journalists Don’t Get the Joke Texas Reopens. What’s Really Happening With Its COVID-19 Numbers? Sheriff Revolts Against Lockdown: ‘We Are Not Stormtroopers. We Are Peacekeepers’ And not just for fun. Wow! Guess Who’s Taking Hydroxychloroquine? Donald Trump! God wins. Again. Hallelujah! Church Lawsuit Forces Oregon Governor to Re-Open EVERYTHING Ben Sasse Picks the Correct Fight With His Democrat Challenger Shock! Pensacola Shooter Turns Out to Be Al-Qaeda Operative Who Plotted His Attack for Years SANITY: New Jersey Gym Owner Defies Lockdown Order and Cops Refuse to Stop Him The Real Coronavirus Timeline Liberals Don’t Want You To See China Threatened Dan Crenshaw. Now He’s Demanding Sanctions. Attorney General Barr Just Made Major News on ‘Obamagate.’ You’ll Want to Sit Down for This Trump Didn’t Botch the Coronavirus Response, Andrew Cuomo Did VodkaPundit: China Orders New Wuhan Virus Lockdown Because They Beat COVID-19, Honest Quarantine them in a jail. Why Did New York Infect America With Coronavirus? 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Ohio Governor Reveals How State Will Respond to Businesses Not Complying with Restrictions WATCH: Crowd Cheers New Jersey Police After They Refuse to Cite Violators of Lockdown Order Trump to the WHO: I’ll Permanently Pull U.S. Funds From the Organization Unless… James Woods: Trump ‘Loves America More Than Any President in My Lifetime,’ Obama Admin Was ‘Scum and Villainy’ Twitch Thots are Horrible but They’re a Symptom, Not a Disease When Even CNN Gets There’s a Problem in the Flynn Case, But the Judge Doesn’t, You Know It’s a Problem LA County Public Health Director Isn’t an M.D.; Why Do These Official Websites Say She Is? Petty Tyrant Update II. Bill de Blasio Threatens Fences Around NYC Beaches and Warns Swimmers They’ll be ‘Taken Right Out of the Water’ Kira Davis: I Don’t Want To See One More Damn Coronavirus Commercial #MouthBarf: Who’s Ready For Michelle Obama’s “Prom-Athon” With MTV? 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Chris Cillizza calls Trump ‘an unlikable jerk that gets stuff done’ and the Left breaks out pitchforks and torches Oh. 2 professors warn using wedding pictures as Zoom background is a “microaggression” Poland marks centenary of St. John Paul’s birth Bee Me Back To Normal: Conservatives Go To Work While Liberals Stay Home https://t.co/GKabQNFVrM — The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) May 18, 2020 The Kruiser Kabana pic.twitter.com/cq0yyGR9yy — Archillect (@archillect) May 19, 2020 Let’s treat Taco Tuesday with the reverence it deserves, people. ___ Kruiser Twitter Kruiser Facebook PJ Media Senior Columnist and Associate Editor Stephen Kruiser is the author of “Don’t Let the Hippies Shower” and “Straight Outta Feelings: Political Zen in the Age of Outrage,” both of which address serious subjects in a humorous way. Monday through Friday he edits PJ Media’s “Morning Briefing.” His columns appear every Tuesday and Friday.

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The Perfect Daily Grind Holiday Gift Guide 2019

Getting someone the perfect gift isn’t always easy. And with so many celebrations taking place in December, your shopping list is probably growing by the minute. If you work with, live with, or spend time with someone who loves coffee, we’ve got you covered. It doesn’t matter whether they’re a producer, home brewing enthusiast, or roaster – as there’s something for everyone in this year’s Gift Guide. Keep reading to see the products that have made our list for 2019.

You may also like How to Pour & Etch Christmas Latte Art: A VIDEO Guide

Have you done your festive season gift shopping yet? Credit: Ana Valencia

Coffee Brewers And Brewing Tools

Who doesn’t love exploring new brewing methods or adding another gadget to their collection? Here are a few brewing devices guaranteed to take pride of place in any kitchen.

AeroPress Go

US $31.95, €28.99, £24.80

The AeroPress Go by AeroPress is designed to go everywhere. It’s smaller than the regular AeroPress but still features a filter cap, holder, stirrer, scoop, mug, and filters. For added convenience and space saving, the mug doubles as a container where you can store everything together.

With its lightweight design, you can brew delicious coffee anywhere you happen to be. Plus, you can also use it to cold brew coffee in a single serving in minutes.

The AeroPress Go is perfect for brewing coffee on the road. Credit: Fernando Pocasangre

Manual Goods Coffeemaker Nº4

US $90, €81.67, £69.88

The limited edition Coffeemaker Nº4 from Manual Goods follows its predecessors, the Nº1 and Nº2. It’s been improved with the addition of a ceramic base. This provides a space for the carafe to sit, while anchoring the glass dome and catching errant drips of brewed coffee.

If you want to manually prepare a pour over coffee with as little mess and fuss as possible, the elegantly designed Nº4 has you covered. It’s easy to use, and features measuring markings to ensure the correct brew ratio, every time. It also comes with cone and wave filters.

If you know someone this gift would be perfect for (or would like to get it for yourself), pre-order it today.

Coffee being brewed in the Coffeemaker Nº4. Credit: Manual Goods

The Ratio Six Coffee Maker

US $345, €313.07, £267.87

The Ratio Six Coffee Maker by Ratio Coffee is the perfect gift for coffee lovers looking for a brewing machine combining simplicity and automation.

Press one button and its die-cast aluminum heating element will let water flow evenly through its stainless steel head and over the coffee grounds – simulating the skills of a professional barista in the comfort of your home.

Place your pre-order today to reserve your own before it’s officially released in December.

The Ratio Six Coffee Maker brews coffee at the touch of a button. Credit: Ratio Coffee

ONA Coffee OCD: V3

US $129.91, €117.88, £100.86

Just like its previous versions, the OCD: V3 from ONA Coffee helps baristas evenly distribute coffee grounds in a coffee basket for consistent extractions.

The new V3 comes with a static-reducing coating in its base to help prevent the build-up of coffee grinds, ensuring additional consistency. Plus, it also weighs 100g less than previous models.

The OCD: V3 from ONA Coffee helps with consistent extractions. Credit: ONA Coffee

Acaia Pyxis Ultralight Weighing Scale

US $250, €226.85, £194.08

The Pyxis scale is the newest member of the Acaia family. It’s light, precise, and can weigh anything from 0.01 percent of a gram up to 500 grams. It’s also small and compact, making it easy to bring along when you’re travelling.

For added longevity, the Pyxis is made of aluminum and acrylic material, and its battery can last up to seven hours. It also comes with a carrying case, micro USB charging cable, and 100g calibration weight.

The Acaia Pyxis Ultralight Weighing Scale is small enough to fit in your hand. Credit: Acaia

Baratza Virtuoso+ Grinder

US $269, €244.10, £208.83

The Virtuoso+ coffee grinder from Baratza is equipped with a conical burr set and has 40 settings, making it easy to experiment with a wide range of brewing methods. It’s a good choice for anyone looking to expand their brewing techniques at home.

This new edition features a 40-second digital timer that’s adjustable to a tenth of a second, for repeated dosing. It also has a LED-backlit grounds bin to help you dose your coffee grounds accurately.

Order yours online from a variety of international or US retailers.

The new Baratza Virtuoso+ grinder has 40 different grind settings. Credit: Baratza

Cupping Spoons And Bowls

Whether you’re experimenting with coffee tasting or are a professional Q-Grader, you can never have too many cupping tools. Thankfully, 2019 has brought with it several innovative and functional products that fit the bill.

Umeshiso Cupping Spoons

From US $4.50, €4.08, £3.49

These rainbow cupping spoons by Umeko Motoyoshi are a colorful and fun gift for the professional or amateur coffee cupper in your life. They were first conceptualized in 2018 as a way to disarm Umeko’s fears during her cupping sessions as a Q-Grader.

Big Dippers and Little Dippers can be purchased in a variety of colors, and if you order over 25 spoons, they can be engraved.

The Big Dipper and Little Dipper rainbow cupping spoons by Umeshiso. Credit: Morgan Eckroth

Loveramics Modern Colour Changing Cupping Bowls

From US $36.41, €33.07, £28,26

These color changing cupping bowls designed by Loveramics turn white when you pour water above 95ºC in them. The change in color helps cuppers to visually time their sessions, without having to use thermometers or actual timers.

When four minutes have passed, the water will be around 70ºC and the vessel will turn light grey. At eight minutes, the water will be about 60ºC and the vessel will turn dark grey. Finally, when the water is around 55ºC or colder, it will turn black.

The Loveramics cupping bowls change colours at different temperatures. Credit: Loveramics

Gifts For Roasters

Keep the coffee roaster in your life up to date with the latest in equipment, as well as an experience that will help them connect with coffee producers in a meaningful way.

The Behmor 1600AB Plus

US $399, €362.08, £309.76

This customizable drum coffee roaster from Behmor is perfect for home use, as it allows you to choose your own roast settings or opt for one of five pre-programmed heat profiles. It also features patent-pending smoke suppression technology for a better indoor roasting experience

The1600AB Plus has a roasting drum that holds up to a pound of green coffee beans. Plus, it’s easy to use and clean. Find your nearest retailer here.

The Behmor 1600AB Plus can roast one pound of beans at a time. Credit: Behmor

Producer & Roaster Forum & Origin Experience

From US $575, €525, £447.96

The fourth edition of the Producer & Roaster Forum will take place Honduras in March 2020. Roasters are invited to attend, and gifting someone with a ticket means you’ll be helping them connect with over a thousand producers, as well as coffee professionals from over 50 countries.

For a truly unforgettable gift, purchase them an all-inclusive ticket that includes a three-day Origin Trip Experience. This will see them sleeping on (or near) a local coffee farm, with a small group of international roasters. With this package, the hosts will take care of the in-country transport, airport transfers, accommodation (for all four nights), and meals. They’ll also take care of the farm tours and the Producer & Roaster Forum entrance.

If you know (or are) a roaster who wants to participate in a meaningful forum that prioritizes sustainability, then you need to purchase a ticket. It’s a unique event that truly empowers coffee producers and puts them at the forefront – making it a gift that makes a difference.

Previous attendees of the previous three PRF events have come from all over the world.

Gifts For Producers

Coffee producers are indispensable to the coffee supply chain. If you know someone with a coffee farm or work with a coffee producer, here are a few gifts that can help show them your appreciation.

AM Leonard’s Kelway Soil pH and Moisture Meter

From US $146.91, €132.59, £113.58

There are many variables that can impact the success of a producer’s coffee production efforts. One of these variables is soil quality. With the Kelway Soil pH and Moisture Meter from AM Leonard, producers can measure the pH value and moisture level of their farm soil.

It could help them detect problems such as excess water or detect possible negative effects of certain fertilizers they’re using.

This functional tool is pocket-sized, doesn’t use any chemicals, and operates without needing an electric power source. This makes it suitable for the lifestyles of most producers.

This soil and pH meter can conveniently fit in your pocket. Credit: AM Leonard

Victorinox Swiss Army Medium Pocket Knife with Altimeter

US $140, €127.05, £108.68

Whether it’s for cutting a rope to fix a broken branch or opening a fruit to share with companions, a compact pocket knife can be very handy for life on a coffee farm.

This medium-sized pocket knife from Victorinox comes with twenty-eight features. It includes a timer, countdown timer, and altimeter. With the integrated altimeter, producers can know the exact altitude of every point in their farm.

With 28 features, this pocket knife from Victorinox should prove handy for any producer. Credit: Victorinox

Gifts For Coffee Lovers

Looking for a gift for that friend or family who’s known for their love of coffee? The following unusual items would certainly fit the bill.

Finca San Lazaro: Origins 2020

From US$700, €635, £545

The San Lazaro Origins 2020 trip is the ideal gift for someone who’s always enjoyed coffee, and wants to increase their knowledge of where it comes from and how it gets to them. Coffee aficionados looking for an immersive cultural experience will find one here.

The trip will see guests travelling to a remote coffee-producing region in Honduras for three days. They’ll get to tour the coffee farm and get to know people who run it. There’ll be opportunities to pitch in with daily activities, spend time with the local community, and explore the nearby surroundings.

Fellow Carter Everywhere Mug

US $30, €27.22, £23.28

The Carter Everywhere mug promises to keep your coffee hot for up to twelve hours or cold for up to twenty four hours. It was engineered by Fellow to work with the most popular brewing methods, allowing you to brew directly into it.

An added bonus is that its ceramic interior keeps your coffee free of odors, oils, and metal flavors that are often found with stainless steel mugs.

The Carter Everywhere mug comes in three colors. Credit: Fellow Products

Department of Brewology Origin Rucksack

US $100, €90.75, £77.63

This rucksack from the Department of Brewology features a colorful print that depicts coffee branches filled with cherries and flowers. It can be used for origin trips, trade shows, educational courses or simply for running daily errands.

It’s water-resistant, with a built-in padded laptop sleeve and multiple small storage compartments. It means you can use it whether you’re venturing off – or on – the beaten track.

The Origin Rucksack is perfect for work and play. Credit: Department of Brewology

Tens Hundreds Thousands Coffee Playing Cards

US $13.22, €12, £10.26

Tens Hundreds Thousands is a company that creates coffee-related products. They recently teamed up with Art Directors and Illustrators Jose Berrio and Julian Ardila to design this deck of cards. Each card portrays a scene in the life of a coffee producer, roaster, or barista.

These collectible poker-sized playing cards come in green and yellow. Keep in mind that they are a limited edition product, so they won’t be available for much longer!

Decks of coffee playing cards. Credit: Tens Hundreds Thousands

Onyx Coffee Lab’s Coffee Advent Calendar

US $120, €108.87, £93.14

Enjoy a different single-origin coffee every day leading up to Christmas with Onyx Coffee Lab’s advent calendar. For each day, you’ll receive 56g of coffee.

Every coffee portion is carefully flushed with nitrogen, ensuring it won’t oxidize and will be in good condition up until the very last day of your Christmas day countdown. Get yours here.

The Onyx Coffee Lab Advent Calendar box has a coffee for 24 days in December. Credit: Onyx Coffee Lab

Belift Coffee Beans

From $18, €16.33, £13.97

Based in San Francisco, Belift offers a range of coffees from Indonesia. By commercializing these coffees and partnering with Larkin Street Youth Services, they help at-risk youth while providing an income for Indonesian farmers.

Belift Coffee Beans offers workshops and barista training to vulnerable San Francisco teenagers, so they can be offered employment opportunities afterwards.

Coffee bags from Belift Coffee Beans. Credit: Belift Coffee Beans

Enjoy a cup of coffee under your Christmas tree this year. Credit: Ana Valencia

As you can see, there are many great gift options for every coffee lover you know. Remember to keep an eye on shipping and delivery dates so that you don’t miss out on any of these offers. Then get shopping!

Enjoyed this? Read The Perfect Daily Grind Holiday Gift Guide 2018: Part 1

Written by Gisselle Guerra. Feature photo caption: The festive season and coffee go hand in hand. Feature photo credit: Ana Valencia

All pricing listed in this article was converted from US dollars to Euro and Pound currencies using the XE currency converter in November 2019.

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The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now – The New York Times

If the news is too stressful, and you’re looking for some jokes to distract you as the weather gets colder, here are some very funny and varied stand-up specials that have come out this fall and are online right now.

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Jenny Slate, ‘Stage Fright’

It’s currently in vogue to fuse stand-up special and documentary, alternating the comics telling jokes onstage with footage from their lives, including interviews with family members. Only a few weeks after Gary Gulman invited audiences into his childhood home, Jenny Slate does the same in this special, which arrived on Tuesday: She tells jokes before showing interviews with her parents, grandmother and two sisters. (Craig Ferguson adds to the subgenre next month with “Hobo Fabulous.”) These personal scenes echo the humor in unpredictable, even oblique ways. After showing us old notes she wrote about a high school crush named Trevor, that name pops up in a later bit. Slate makes jokes about how her childhood home in Massachusetts was haunted, and there is a clever way that the scenes with her family provide clues to her subconscious. She calls herself an optimist early on, but her peppy charisma has hints of melancholy, an undercurrent that emerges more explicitly when she talks about divorce and dating. At its best, the documentary footage feels revelatory. At its worst, it seems like filler. The special is not dense with jokes, but her fans will be charmed.

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Nikki Glaser, ‘Bangin’’

Nikki Glaser can write a joke that’s so economical and perfectly calibrated that it’s bulletproof. Take this one from her new special: “I was diagnosed as an ugly child by a caricature artist at a Six Flags.” Pretty much anyone can get a nice laugh from that gem.

In the noble tradition of Dave Attell, Glaser specializes in the lean and harried joke. But in her addictive radio show on Sirius, where she conducts juicy conversations with comics about the stuff you usually say in private, the punch lines emerge in a looser mode. In one episode, she explains to an ex-boyfriend, the comic Pete Lee, that only when she had a new ex to loathe could they be friends. “I’m monogamous with hate and polyamorous with love,” she says.

What makes her new Netflix hour, “Bangin’,” so much fun is that she somehow manages to merge these two styles, talking to the audience as if it were an old friend that it’s time to level with. By beginning with a long riff on oral sex, she invites comparisons with Jacqueline Novak’s recent show on the subject, “Get on Your Knees,” which finds laughs by waxing poetic and philosophizing. Glaser is much more down-to-earth. Her setups talk about puberty or sober sex with zero titillation. She’s aiming for giggling sighs, not giddy shocks. As anyone who has seen her ferocious roast of Alec Baldwin will attest, she can go on the attack with force, but her default is warm self-deprecation that occasionally bleeds into vulnerability. (She says one compliment made her do stand-up for 15 years.) She’s built a honed act that feels like a late-night debrief after everyone has left the party.

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Bill Burr, ‘Paper Tiger’

There is a quick but affecting moment in Bill Burr’s new special when he describes how heartbreaking it is to see his 2-year-old daughter notice his anger. He has tried to muffle it. But now, he says, he’s got to change, to avoid passing down the “demon in my family tree.”

It’s startling how much Burr talks about finding calm and forgiveness in “Paper Tiger,” a robustly funny special. Bristling anger has long been his hallmark. (His impromptu rant about Philadelphia is one of the most operatic temper tantrums in comedy history.) But Burr has always been more complex than he appears. Onstage or in his podcast, he comes off as the ultimate macho blowhard at the bar, but his greatest jokes are about the prison of masculinity. His new bit about how men can’t take baths is a fine addition to this genre. “There’s no way as a man to take a bath and not think about killing yourself,” he says. “There’s something about slipping into that coffinlike thing.”

He’s very smart but constantly calls himself dumb. His cockiness pivots into vulnerability. As strong as his point of view is, Burr gravitates toward arguments and shifting perspectives. His jokes are finely engineered, and presented in an order to increase their contradictions, to add incongruities. This comes into stark relief when he addresses #MeToo. He insults feminists, delights in trolling and trots out the predictable complaints about cancel culture and people who are triggered. But listen closely and you can find enough material to argue that he gives a passionate defense of #MeToo, one far more personal than any A-list male comic has. And yet he also delivers a broadside against its excesses that seems to make a case for forgiveness. It’s a sign of the quality of this comedy that it can feel like a polemic and its opposite at the same time.

Comedy Central

Jaboukie Young-White

Straight male comics have been telling gay panic jokes for decades, so it’s only fair that a gay comic has turned the tables. Describing a mixed-martial-arts class, Jaboukie Young-White says his instructor told him that when he’s put in a chokehold, he must do whatever it takes to escape. As he mimes being choked, Young-White moans, “Daddy!” After he explains that this strategy worked, he builds on the punch line with a shrugging delivery: “Sometimes love wins.”

Already a rising star, Young-White makes a breezy and assured stand-up special debut (available online at cc.com) in “Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents,” a series of half-hours. Most of the jokes here will be familiar to his die-hard fans, but for others, this is a winning if low-key introduction that shows off a variety of comic modes, starting in a “bro”-y character and moving into multimedia with the help of a slide show about which insects are gay. The special hits its stride when it gets to the point where he tells jokes in his own voice, without visual aids. Loping around the stage with eyelids at half-mast, he hides his swagger behind an offhand style, but he’s smart enough to let the mask slip periodically. He knows he’s not ugly: “On a 1 to 10 scale, I don’t think I could model, but I could definitely end a Republican senator’s career.”

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Afternoon MAGAthread: YOUR WEEKLY PRESIDENTIAL RECAP!

HAPPY SUNDAY GUNDAY FOLKS!

This is u/ivaginaryfriend here and I'm back with everything spicy and dank from the past week! For those that missed any past recaps you can check those out here!

Sunday, February 10th:

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, just announced that after almost two years, more than two hundred interviews, and thousands of documents, they have found NO COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA! Is anybody really surprised by this?

African Americans are very angry at the double standard on full display in Virginia!

Gallup Poll: “Open Borders will potentially attract 42 million Latin Americans.” This would be a disaster for the U.S. We need the Wall now!

I don’t think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their leaders to make a deal. They are offering very little money for the desperately needed Border Wall & now, out of the blue, want a cap on convicted violent felons to be held in detention!

It was a very bad week for the Democrats, with the GREAT economic numbers, The Virginia disaster and the State of the Union address. Now, with the terrible offers being made by them to the Border Committee, I actually believe they want a Shutdown. They want a new subject!

The media was able to get my work schedule, something very easy to do, but it should have been reported as a positive, not negative. When the term Executive Time is used, I am generally working, not relaxing. In fact, I probably work more hours than almost any past President..... ... ....The fact is, when I took over as President, our Country was a mess. Depleted Military, Endless Wars, a potential War with North Korea, V.A., High Taxes & too many Regulations, Border, Immigration & HealthCare problems, & much more. I had no choice but to work very long hours!

“President is on sound legal ground to declare a National Emergency. There have been 58 National Emergencies declared since the law was enacted in 1976, and 31 right now that are currently active, so this is hardly unprecedented.” Congressman @tommcclintock

The Border Committee Democrats are behaving, all of a sudden, irrationally. Not only are they unwilling to give dollars for the obviously needed Wall (they overrode recommendations of Border Patrol experts), but they don’t even want to take muderers into custody! What’s going on?

Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!

(Retweeting Club for Growth) Agreed! Senate needs to confirm @realDonaldTrump Admin appointees. #SOTU

The U.S. will soon control 100% of ISIS territory in Syria. @CNN (do you believe this?).

Working hard, thank you!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

(D)ouble Standards

god emperor trump

Obama built that...

Donald Trump Jr.: “Are we getting to the PC tipping point yet?”

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Pewdiepie knows what’s up!

The rise of Generation Z, the most conservative generation since "The Greatest Generation" in the 1950's, is scaring the bejeezus out of the Democrats

I never owned any slaves. You never picked any cotton. GET OVER IT.

They came so close to being self aware

Monday, February 11th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence

President Trump Meets with Sheriffs from Across the Country

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

“Fact checkers have become Fake News.” @JesseBWatters So True!

No president ever worked harder than me (cleaning up the mess I inherited)!

The Democrats do not want us to detain, or send back, criminal aliens! This is a brand new demand. Crazy!

The Democrats are so self righteous and ANGRY! Loosen up and have some fun. The Country is doing well!

Will be heading to El Paso very soon. Big speech on Border Security and much else tonight. Tremendous crowd! See you later!

(Screenshot)

40 years of corruption. 40 years of repression. 40 years of terror. The regime in Iran has produced only #40YearsofFailure. The long-suffering Iranian people deserve a much brighter future.

۴۰ سال فساد. ۴۰ سال سرکوب. ۴۰ سال ترور. رژیم ایران فقط موجب #چهل_سال_شکست شده است. مردم ایران که مدتهاست در رنجند شایسته آینده روشن تری هستند

Coal is an important part of our electricity generation mix and @TVAnews should give serious consideration to all factors before voting to close viable power plants, like Paradise #3 in Kentucky!

(Retweeting Don Jr.) Beto trying to counter-program @realdonaldtrump in his hometown and only drawing a few hundred people to Trump’s 35,000 is a really bad look. Partial pic of the Trump overflow crowd below! #AnyQuestions

We are fighting for all Americans, from all backgrounds, of every age, race, religion, birthplace, color & creed. Our agenda is NOT a partisan agenda – it is the mainstream, common sense agenda of the American People. Thank you El Paso, Texas - I love you!

(Retweeting Dan Scavino) 🚨Happening Now: @realDonaldTrump overflow crowd in El Paso, Texas....

(Retweeting Laura Ingraham) It was 45 degrees outside and this was the overflow crowd. #ElPaso @realDonaldTrump

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Paramedic makes a valid point about the entitled $15/hr living wage. Red pills are flying.

High energy in El Paso today!

The case for Russia collusion … against the Democrats

Rasmussen: Presidential Approval At 52%

Donald Trump Jr. reacts to Nancy Pelosi and Democrats pressuring Ilhan Omar to apologize for her anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter: "The forthcoming non apology is going to be awesome."

"TIRED OF BEING A WAGE CUCK? WANT TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT BY NO LONGER DRIVING TO WORK? DECLARE YOURSELF UNWILLING TO WORK TODAY!"

PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:

WATCH PARTY: PRESIDENT TRUMP EL PASO, TEXAS 2/11/2019

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Democrats Continue To Be Shocked By Obvious Things They Vote For

When I realize 75% of the anti-Trump outrage on Reddit is from people who aren't even in the US

Overflow crowd outside Trump's El Paso rally is ABSOLUTELY HUGE

The Emperor Protects

Thank you, Kanye. Very cool!

Tuesday, February 12th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Five Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate

President Trump Hosts a Cabinet Meeting

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Beautiful evening in El Paso, Texas last night. God Bless the USA!

Was just presented the concept and parameters of the Border Security Deal by hard working Senator Richard Shelby. Looking over all aspects knowing that this will be hooked up with lots of money from other sources.... ... ....Will be getting almost $23 BILLION for Border Security. Regardless of Wall money, it is being built as we speak!

Thank you to @MSNBC!

(Retweeting Life On Earth) They are soooo beautiful and magnificent! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

(Retweeting The White House) Americans pay 180 percent of what Europeans, Canadians, and Japanese pay for the exact same drugs! Our seniors aren't going to foot the bill for free-riders abroad any longer, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.

(Retweeting The White House) President Trump's commitment to improving the quality of life for all Americans has led to the largest single decline in drug prices in 46 YEARS.

I want to thank all Republicans for the work you have done in dealing with the Radical Left on Border Security. Not an easy task, but the Wall is being built and will be a great achievement and contributor toward life and safety within our Country!

(Retweeting Dan Bongino) I don’t feel an ounce of empathy for all of the imbeciles who bought into the Russian collusion hoax now that it’s been entirely debunked. You were warned for over a year about this scam & you fell for it anyway. You did this to yourself.

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

President Trump on the congressional deal: "I'm not happy about it. It's not doing the trick."

Ted Cruz wants to confiscate recently-convicted El Chapo’s property to pay for the wall, which means Mexico would pay for the wall.

Still No Collusion.

HAHAHAHAA AHAHAHAHAAAAA HAAAAAA HAHAHAAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

Dowd Nails It – Former Trump Attorney Outlines Insufferable Behavior of Mueller and Rosenstein in Perpetrating Political Russia Hoax…This is a must Read.

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Trump fence bad...my fence good

The Party of Life vs. Death

MFW 52% approval after 2 years of literal Nazi rule, "Russia collusion", peepee dossier, PEACH 45, Creepy Porn Lawyer, muh drumph's tax returns

Kamala Harris claims to have smoked pot in college while listening to Tupac and Snoop. She graduated college in 1986. Tupac's first album came out in 1991. Snoop's first album came out in 1993. Lying sac of shit.

MAGA

Wednesday, February 13th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint Individuals to Key Administration Posts

President Trump Meets with the President of the Republic of Colombia and Mrs. Ruiz Sandoval

President Trump Speaks at the Major County Sheriffs and Cities Chiefs Association Joint Conference

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

The Senate Intelligence Committee: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA!

The Gallup Poll just announced that 69% of our great citizens expect their finances to improve next year, a 16 year high. Nice!

Today, it was my great honor to address the @MjrCitiesChiefs Association and @MCSheriffs Conference in Washington, D.C. We will never forget your service, and we will never, ever let you down! We love you, and we thank God for you each and every day.

"Every American in every community and from every walk of life has a right to live in security and to live in peace. That is my highest priority as President."

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(Article)

(Retweeting Ted Cruz) Report: Texas crude oil production breaks 1970s record

California has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars. They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a “green” disaster!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

BREAKING: Roger Stone Files Motion - Alleges Special Counsel Released Unsealed Indictment to CNN

Ilhan Omar calls for investigation into Trans discrimination by U.S.A. Powerlifting... quickly gets her A$$ handed to her.

California: $33 billion is ok for a train with two stops, but $6 billion is too much to defend our nation.

The Silver Fox, Mike Pence Calls For “Jihad Ilhan” To Be Removed From The Foreign Affairs Committee

Breaking: Convington high school students cleared of all wrongdoing by neutral third-party investigators

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

When you're a leftist and someone disagrees with you about literally anything.

“Signs of Life”

Thanks Guardian Pepe

Kek

"BORDER SECURITY IS SCARY!" [Crosspost from r/funny]

Thursday, February 14th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration Posts

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a “poor little Angel” when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin’ James Comey. I.G. report on McCabe was devastating. Part of “insurance policy” in case I won.... ... ....Many of the top FBI brass were fired, forced to leave, or left. McCabe’s wife received BIG DOLLARS from Clinton people for her campaign - he gave Hillary a pass. McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

Reviewing the funding bill with my team at the @WhiteHouse!

One year ago today, a horrific act of violence took the lives of 14 students and 3 educators in Parkland, Florida. On this somber anniversary, we honor their memory and recommit to ensuring the safety of all Americans, especially our Nation’s children... https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/presidential-message-school-safety-remembering-parkland-tragedy/ …

“After The Flight 93 Election, The Vote That Saved America - And What We Still Have To Lose,” by very talented Michael Anton, is a terrific read. Check it out!

(Retweeting The White House) .@PressSec: President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action—including a national emergency—to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border.

“Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing...which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” Alan Dershowitz. @TuckerCarlson

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

Trump Frees Up $8 Billion To Build The Wall

White House Statement on Government Funding Bill

Jussie Smollett has SCRUBBED his Twitter & Instagram accounts of ANY references of the hoax attack. Sorry buddy you can't make this go away that easily.

McCabe, Rosenstein must testify to explain claim that DOJ discussed removing Trump, GOP leaders say

EATING THEIR OWN! Gov Cuomo blames Donkey Face for Amazon leaving NY 😂

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

Got caught and now calling each other liars.

When you believe in a conspiracy with no proof for more than two years, are you a conspiracy theorist then?

HOLY HOAX ALERT. Two suspects arrested in Jussie Smollett case. African American FRIENDS of Smollett. Worked w. him on Empire. Sussie deleted their #s out of his log.

Just pointing out the obvious

Trump signs the Farm Bill making dog and cat meat illegal in the United States

Friday, February 15th:

TODAY'S ACTION:

Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United States

President Donald J. Trump Signed H.J.Res. 31 into Law

President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration Posts

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

(Retweeting The White House) President Trump Speaks on the National Security & Humanitarian Crisis on Our Southern Border

Great job by law enforcement in Aurora, Illinois. Heartfelt condolences to all of the victims and their families. America is with you!

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

China's REALLY mad now...

He did it! Trump declares emergency on border, eyes $8B for wall as he signs spending package

Thanks Everyone!! I am but a humble memesmith, without all of you enjoying and sharing my work I am nothing

AHAHAHHA TRUMP RETWEETED @CARTPEDONKTUM.. IM DYING... TROLL LEVEL 9999

Twitter took down u/carpedonktum's meme

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

I was the victim of a hate crime today and I don’t know where else to talk about it. I need support

Let's go Ted, We're building a Wall!

The Lying Left

Early morning shitpost by Jr:

Hello, Chicago PD? I'd like to report an ACTUAL murder this time.

Saturday, February 16th:

🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:

(Video)

BUILDING THE WALL!

Trade negotiators have just returned from China where the meetings on Trade were very productive. Now at meetings with me at Mar-a-Lago giving the details. In the meantime, Billions of Dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of Trade Tariffs!

The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them........ ... ....The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100% Caliphate victory!

(Retweeting Real_Defender) Protecting America and putting Americans first. Thank you Mr. President!

THE GREATEST MEME EVER

SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:

THE MADMAN TWEETED MY NEW VERSION!

Twitter has censored POTUS.

Don Jr is shocked

How come Congress never introduces Hate Crime Hoax Legislation?

🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:

That's me in the corner

Aaaaand it’s gone...

R.E.M Meme War: It's the end of the World (TDS remake)

YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!

WEW LAD!

Without further ado, some tunes to help you get through all this WINNING:

Raingurl

Tadow

Gold

Doin' it Right

Crazy

Talk Is Cheap

MAGA ON PATRIOTS!

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HAPPY SUNDAY GUNDAY FOLKS!This is u/ivaginaryfriend here and I'm back with everything spicy and dank from the past week! For those that missed any past recaps you can check those out here!Sunday, February 10th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Senator Richard Burr, The Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, just announced that after almost two years, more than two hundred interviews, and thousands of documents, they have found NO COLLUSION BETWEEN TRUMP AND RUSSIA! Is anybody really surprised by this?African Americans are very angry at the double standard on full display in Virginia!Gallup Poll: “Open Borders will potentially attract 42 million Latin Americans.” This would be a disaster for the U.S. We need the Wall now!I don’t think the Dems on the Border Committee are being allowed by their leaders to make a deal. They are offering very little money for the desperately needed Border Wall & now, out of the blue, want a cap on convicted violent felons to be held in detention!It was a very bad week for the Democrats, with the GREAT economic numbers, The Virginia disaster and the State of the Union address. Now, with the terrible offers being made by them to the Border Committee, I actually believe they want a Shutdown. They want a new subject!The media was able to get my work schedule, something very easy to do, but it should have been reported as a positive, not negative. When the term Executive Time is used, I am generally working, not relaxing. In fact, I probably work more hours than almost any past President..... ... ....The fact is, when I took over as President, our Country was a mess. Depleted Military, Endless Wars, a potential War with North Korea, V.A., High Taxes & too many Regulations, Border, Immigration & HealthCare problems, & much more. I had no choice but to work very long hours!“President is on sound legal ground to declare a National Emergency. There have been 58 National Emergencies declared since the law was enacted in 1976, and 31 right now that are currently active, so this is hardly unprecedented.” Congressman @tommcclintockThe Border Committee Democrats are behaving, all of a sudden, irrationally. Not only are they unwilling to give dollars for the obviously needed Wall (they overrode recommendations of Border Patrol experts), but they don’t even want to take muderers into custody! What’s going on?Well, it happened again. Amy Klobuchar announced that she is running for President, talking proudly of fighting global warming while standing in a virtual blizzard of snow, ice and freezing temperatures. Bad timing. By the end of her speech she looked like a Snowman(woman)!(Retweeting Club for Growth) Agreed! Senate needs to confirm @realDonaldTrump Admin appointees. #SOTUThe U.S. will soon control 100% of ISIS territory in Syria. @CNN (do you believe this?).Working hard, thank you!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:(D)ouble Standardsgod emperor trumpObama built that...Donald Trump Jr.: “Are we getting to the PC tipping point yet?”🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Pewdiepie knows what’s up!The rise of Generation Z, the most conservative generation since "The Greatest Generation" in the 1950's, is scaring the bejeezus out of the DemocratsI never owned any slaves. You never picked any cotton. GET OVER IT.They came so close to being self awareMonday, February 11th:TODAY'S ACTION:Executive Order on Maintaining American Leadership in Artificial IntelligencePresident Trump Meets with Sheriffs from Across the Country🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:“Fact checkers have become Fake News.” @JesseBWatters So True!No president ever worked harder than me (cleaning up the mess I inherited)!The Democrats do not want us to detain, or send back, criminal aliens! This is a brand new demand. Crazy!The Democrats are so self righteous and ANGRY! Loosen up and have some fun. The Country is doing well!Will be heading to El Paso very soon. Big speech on Border Security and much else tonight. Tremendous crowd! See you later!(Screenshot)40 years of corruption. 40 years of repression. 40 years of terror. The regime in Iran has produced only #40YearsofFailure. The long-suffering Iranian people deserve a much brighter future.۴۰ سال فساد. ۴۰ سال سرکوب. ۴۰ سال ترور. رژیم ایران فقط موجب #چهل_سال_شکست شده است. مردم ایران که مدتهاست در رنجند شایسته آینده روشن تری هستندCoal is an important part of our electricity generation mix and @TVAnews should give serious consideration to all factors before voting to close viable power plants, like Paradise #3 in Kentucky!(Retweeting Don Jr.) Beto trying to counter-program @realdonaldtrump in his hometown and only drawing a few hundred people to Trump’s 35,000 is a really bad look. Partial pic of the Trump overflow crowd below! #AnyQuestionsWe are fighting for all Americans, from all backgrounds, of every age, race, religion, birthplace, color & creed. Our agenda is NOT a partisan agenda – it is the mainstream, common sense agenda of the American People. Thank you El Paso, Texas - I love you!(Retweeting Dan Scavino) 🚨Happening Now: @realDonaldTrump overflow crowd in El Paso, Texas....(Retweeting Laura Ingraham) It was 45 degrees outside and this was the overflow crowd. #ElPaso @realDonaldTrumpSIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Paramedic makes a valid point about the entitled $15/hr living wage. Red pills are flying.High energy in El Paso today!The case for Russia collusion … against the DemocratsRasmussen: Presidential Approval At 52%Donald Trump Jr. reacts to Nancy Pelosi and Democrats pressuring Ilhan Omar to apologize for her anti-Semitic remarks on Twitter: "The forthcoming non apology is going to be awesome.""TIRED OF BEING A WAGE CUCK? WANT TO SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT BY NO LONGER DRIVING TO WORK? DECLARE YOURSELF UNWILLING TO WORK TODAY!"PRESS BRIEFINGS, INTERVIEWS, RALLIES:WATCH PARTY: PRESIDENT TRUMP EL PASO, TEXAS 2/11/2019🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Democrats Continue To Be Shocked By Obvious Things They Vote ForWhen I realize 75% of the anti-Trump outrage on Reddit is from people who aren't even in the USOverflow crowd outside Trump's El Paso rally is ABSOLUTELY HUGEThe Emperor ProtectsThank you, Kanye. Very cool!Tuesday, February 12th:TODAY'S ACTION:Five Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the SenatePresident Trump Hosts a Cabinet Meeting🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Beautiful evening in El Paso, Texas last night. God Bless the USA!Was just presented the concept and parameters of the Border Security Deal by hard working Senator Richard Shelby. Looking over all aspects knowing that this will be hooked up with lots of money from other sources.... ... ....Will be getting almost $23 BILLION for Border Security. Regardless of Wall money, it is being built as we speak!Thank you to @MSNBC!(Retweeting Life On Earth) They are soooo beautiful and magnificent! ❤️❤️❤️❤️(Retweeting The White House) Americans pay 180 percent of what Europeans, Canadians, and Japanese pay for the exact same drugs! Our seniors aren't going to foot the bill for free-riders abroad any longer, HHS Secretary Alex Azar says.(Retweeting The White House) President Trump's commitment to improving the quality of life for all Americans has led to the largest single decline in drug prices in 46 YEARS.I want to thank all Republicans for the work you have done in dealing with the Radical Left on Border Security. Not an easy task, but the Wall is being built and will be a great achievement and contributor toward life and safety within our Country!(Retweeting Dan Bongino) I don’t feel an ounce of empathy for all of the imbeciles who bought into the Russian collusion hoax now that it’s been entirely debunked. You were warned for over a year about this scam & you fell for it anyway. You did this to yourself.SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:President Trump on the congressional deal: "I'm not happy about it. It's not doing the trick."Ted Cruz wants to confiscate recently-convicted El Chapo’s property to pay for the wall, which means Mexico would pay for the wall.Still No Collusion.HAHAHAHAA AHAHAHAHAAAAA HAAAAAA HAHAHAAHAHAAAAA!!!!!!!!!Dowd Nails It – Former Trump Attorney Outlines Insufferable Behavior of Mueller and Rosenstein in Perpetrating Political Russia Hoax…This is a must Read.🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Trump fence bad...my fence goodThe Party of Life vs. DeathMFW 52% approval after 2 years of literal Nazi rule, "Russia collusion", peepee dossier, PEACH 45, Creepy Porn Lawyer, muh drumph's tax returnsKamala Harris claims to have smoked pot in college while listening to Tupac and Snoop. She graduated college in 1986. Tupac's first album came out in 1991. Snoop's first album came out in 1993. Lying sac of shit.MAGAWednesday, February 13th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate and Appoint Individuals to Key Administration PostsPresident Trump Meets with the President of the Republic of Colombia and Mrs. Ruiz SandovalPresident Trump Speaks at the Major County Sheriffs and Cities Chiefs Association Joint Conference🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:The Senate Intelligence Committee: THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF COLLUSION BETWEEN THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN AND RUSSIA!The Gallup Poll just announced that 69% of our great citizens expect their finances to improve next year, a 16 year high. Nice!Today, it was my great honor to address the @MjrCitiesChiefs Association and @MCSheriffs Conference in Washington, D.C. We will never forget your service, and we will never, ever let you down! We love you, and we thank God for you each and every day."Every American in every community and from every walk of life has a right to live in security and to live in peace. That is my highest priority as President."(Screenshot)(Article)(Retweeting Ted Cruz) Report: Texas crude oil production breaks 1970s recordCalifornia has been forced to cancel the massive bullet train project after having spent and wasted many billions of dollars. They owe the Federal Government three and a half billion dollars. We want that money back now. Whole project is a “green” disaster!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:BREAKING: Roger Stone Files Motion - Alleges Special Counsel Released Unsealed Indictment to CNNIlhan Omar calls for investigation into Trans discrimination by U.S.A. Powerlifting... quickly gets her A$$ handed to her.California: $33 billion is ok for a train with two stops, but $6 billion is too much to defend our nation.The Silver Fox, Mike Pence Calls For “Jihad Ilhan” To Be Removed From The Foreign Affairs CommitteeBreaking: Convington high school students cleared of all wrongdoing by neutral third-party investigators🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:When you're a leftist and someone disagrees with you about literally anything.“Signs of Life”Thanks Guardian PepeKek"BORDER SECURITY IS SCARY!" [Crosspost from r/funny]Thursday, February 14th:TODAY'S ACTION:President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration Posts🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:Disgraced FBI Acting Director Andrew McCabe pretends to be a “poor little Angel” when in fact he was a big part of the Crooked Hillary Scandal & the Russia Hoax - a puppet for Leakin’ James Comey. I.G. report on McCabe was devastating. Part of “insurance policy” in case I won.... ... ....Many of the top FBI brass were fired, forced to leave, or left. McCabe’s wife received BIG DOLLARS from Clinton people for her campaign - he gave Hillary a pass. McCabe is a disgrace to the FBI and a disgrace to our Country. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!Reviewing the funding bill with my team at the @WhiteHouse!One year ago today, a horrific act of violence took the lives of 14 students and 3 educators in Parkland, Florida. On this somber anniversary, we honor their memory and recommit to ensuring the safety of all Americans, especially our Nation’s children... http://bit.ly/2DSnqBA …“After The Flight 93 Election, The Vote That Saved America - And What We Still Have To Lose,” by very talented Michael Anton, is a terrific read. Check it out!(Retweeting The White House) .@PressSec: President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action—including a national emergency—to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border.“Trying to use the 25th Amendment to try and circumvent the Election is a despicable act of unconstitutional power grabbing...which happens in third world countries. You have to obey the law. This is an attack on our system & Constitution.” Alan Dershowitz. @TuckerCarlsonSIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:Trump Frees Up $8 Billion To Build The WallWhite House Statement on Government Funding BillJussie Smollett has SCRUBBED his Twitter & Instagram accounts of ANY references of the hoax attack. Sorry buddy you can't make this go away that easily.McCabe, Rosenstein must testify to explain claim that DOJ discussed removing Trump, GOP leaders sayEATING THEIR OWN! Gov Cuomo blames Donkey Face for Amazon leaving NY 😂🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:Got caught and now calling each other liars.When you believe in a conspiracy with no proof for more than two years, are you a conspiracy theorist then?HOLY HOAX ALERT. Two suspects arrested in Jussie Smollett case. African American FRIENDS of Smollett. Worked w. him on Empire. Sussie deleted their #s out of his log.Just pointing out the obviousTrump signs the Farm Bill making dog and cat meat illegal in the United StatesFriday, February 15th:TODAY'S ACTION:Presidential Proclamation on Declaring a National Emergency Concerning the Southern Border of the United StatesPresident Donald J. Trump Signed H.J.Res. 31 into LawPresident Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Individuals to Key Administration Posts🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:(Retweeting The White House) President Trump Speaks on the National Security & Humanitarian Crisis on Our Southern BorderGreat job by law enforcement in Aurora, Illinois. Heartfelt condolences to all of the victims and their families. America is with you!SIGNIFICANT TWEETS AND NEWS:China's REALLY mad now...He did it! Trump declares emergency on border, eyes $8B for wall as he signs spending packageThanks Everyone!! I am but a humble memesmith, without all of you enjoying and sharing my work I am nothingAHAHAHHA TRUMP RETWEETED @CARTPEDONKTUM.. IM DYING... TROLL LEVEL 9999Twitter took down u/carpedonktum's meme🐸 TOP SPICE OF THE DAY 🐸:I was the victim of a hate crime today and I don’t know where else to talk about it. I need supportLet's go Ted, We're building a Wall!The Lying LeftEarly morning shitpost by Jr:Hello, Chicago PD? I'd like to report an ACTUAL murder this time.Saturday, February 16th:🔥🔥TRUMP TWEETS🔥🔥:(Video)BUILDING THE WALL!Trade negotiators have just returned from China where the meetings on Trade were very productive. Now at meetings with me at Mar-a-Lago giving the details. In the meantime, Billions of Dollars are being paid to the United States by China in the form of Trade Tariffs!The United States is asking Britain, France, Germany and other European allies to take back over 800 ISIS fighters that we captured in Syria and put them on trial. The Caliphate is ready to fall. The alternative is not a good one in that we will be forced to release them........ ... ....The U.S. does not want to watch as these ISIS fighters permeate Europe, which is where they are expected to go. We do so much, and spend so much - Time for others to step up and do the job that they are so capable of doing. We are pulling back after 100% Caliphate victory!(Retweeting Real_Defender) Protecting America and putting Americans first. 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22 Animated Shows on Netflix You'll Love . . . Even If You're a Full-On Adult

We’ll be the first to admit we miss waking up on Saturday mornings and spending hours watching cartoons. From SpongeBob SquarePants to Rugrats, it was our favorite animated shows that always gave us something to look forward to. While we might have originally thought adulthood was all about sci-fi fantasy shows and true-crime documentaries, Netflix makes a strong case for the adult animated show. While some of the animated shows leave us laughing so hard our stomachs hurt, others leave us on the edge of our seat. From anime to Netflix originals, there is something for everyone on this list of 22 shows. Some even pack a serious all-star cast.

1. BoJack Horseman

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If you haven’t watched BoJack Horseman yet, you have a lot of catching up to do. Will Arnett, Aaron Paul, and Amy Sedaris voice the main characters, and it will have you laughing so hard you’ll cry.

Watch it now.

2. Big Mouth

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Don’t sleep on Big Mouth. The all-star voice cast is enough to keep you coming back again and again, and it was created by fan favorites Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg. It’s extremely relatable, as it navigates a group of teenagers going through puberty.

Watch it now.

3. One-Punch Man

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One-Punch Man tells the story of Saitama, a powerful superhero who has become bored of his opponents. The animation is top-notch, and the premise is perfect for some good laughs.

Watch it now.

4. F Is For Family

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Netflix original series F Is For Family is all about the mature humor. It’s been compared to Family Guy and South Park, so you know it’s good. It was created by Bill Burr, and it focuses on a family in the ’70s growing up without the technology we know today.

Watch it now.

5. Disenchantment

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From the creators of The Simpsons and Futurama comes Disenchantment. It follows Princess Bean, who is basically the antithesis to all the Disney princesses you’ve grown up with.

Watch it now.

6. Castlevania

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Based off the video game of the same name, Castlevania follows Count Vlad Dracula Tepes whose wife is burned to death on false accusations of being a witch. As a result, no one in Wallachia is safe.

Watch it now.

7. Attack on Titan

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Another anime series for the list, Attack on Titan follows three people whose cities are surrounded by walls because of titans who feed on humans. When the titans invade the town, the three main characters join the Scout Regiment to kill the enemy.

Watch it now.

8. Yu-Gi-Oh!

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We’re sure you remember the card game swept the nation, but the cartoon series is definitely an entertaining anime show. Plus, it gets major bonus points for the ’90s nostalgia.

Watch it now.

9. Pokemon

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We just can’t have an animated show roundup without Pokemon. We spent countless hours watching this in the ’90s, and we think the series still holds up now that we’re adults.

Watch it now.

10. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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While the reboot films have been getting a lot of attention lately, it’s animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars that you should have on your radar. It takes place during the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith era, so it adds a little bit more color the the original prequel films.

Watch it now.

11. Star Trek: The Animated Series

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Fans of the television staple will love Star Trek: The Animated Series. It features the voices of the original cast, and it has a nostalgic vibe everyone will love.

Watch it now.

12. Death Note

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We’ve got another option for our anime fans with Death Note. Some fans say it’s one of the best anime shows ever, and it has one of the most entertaining premises ever. High school students stumbles upon a notebook called the Death Note, which grants him power to kill anyone he or she desires.

Watch it now.

13. Pacific Heat

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Netflix original series Pacific Heat is an animated satire similar to Archer (which, by the way, Netflix should add if it’s listening). It’s about a covert squad of enforcement officials taking on crime in Australia, and it is nothing short of amazing.

Watch it now.

14. Neo Yokio

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Netflix original series Neo Yokio has a surprising celebrity backstory. It was created by Ezra Koenig, the lead singer of Vampire Weekend, and it stars Jaden Smith and Jude Law as the voice actors.

Watch it now.

15. Aggretsuko

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Anime fans will go crazy for Netflix original series Aggretsuko, which follows Retsuko, a red panda, as she copes with the boring, mundane realities of a desk job by singing death metal karaoke.

Watch it now.

16. Trollhunters

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Trollhunters is a cartoon series created by Guillermo del Toro, so you know it’s nothing short of inspired. One day, James Lake Jr. finds an amulet, which opens a world full of trolls and creatures. Plus, it stars Kelsey Grammer, Emile Hirsch, and Charlie Saxton as the lead voice actors.

Watch it now.

17. Paradise PD

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Netflix original series Paradise PD comes to us from the creators of Brickleberry. It’s got touches of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and Reno 911, just in cartoon form, so be prepared to laugh.

Watch it now.

18. Voltron: Legendary Defender

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Cartoon reboot Voltron: Legendary Defender is a nod to the popular animated series from the ’80s. It’s a Netflix original series that follows five Paladin pilots that must learn how to control lion robots in order to form the “Defender of the Universe,” Voltron.

Watch it now.

19. Phineas and Ferb

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Disney Channel classic Phineas & Ferb has never let us down. Each episode, Phineas and Ferb must make a plan to stay ahead of their bratty sister, while their pet platypus saves the world.

Watch it now.

20. The Hollow

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Netflix original series The Hollow tells the story of three teens that come together to build a home after waking up in an alternate universe. It’s a Canadian animated series that combines science, fantasy, and adventure for a nonstop thrill ride.

Watch it now.

21. Home: Adventures With Tip & Oh

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From Dreamworks Animation comes Home: Adventures With Tip & Oh. Developed by Ryan Crego and Thurop Van Orman, it’s a series about Earth’s new human and alien culture, and the friendship that ensues as a result. It’s technically for children, but it’s very enjoyable nonetheless.

Watch it now.

22. Total Drama

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This cartoon series is basically one giant parody of shows like Survivor. It’s made up of different contestants competing with one another to win the prize, and it is sure to keep you laughing over and over again.

Watch it now.

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