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"I Was Told to Approve All Teen Gender Transitions. I Refused."

Via The Free Press:

Perhaps you read the long investigation about detransitioners published in this weekend’s New York Times. It is comprehensive and sober and we highly recommend it.

It’s also a piece we are confident would never have made it into the paper were it not for independent publications like ours taking the journalistic and reputational risk over the past few years to pursue the subject of “gender-affirming” care and the subsequent harms inflicted on vulnerable young people. In this, we are proud to stand alongside Hannah Barnes, Lisa Selin Davis, Hadley Freeman, Helen Joyce, Leor Sapir, Abigail Shrier, Jesse Singal, Kathleen Stock, Quillette and others, who took the arrows so that the mainstream press could finally start reporting on what’s really happening.

What is immensely clear is that individual testimonies—whistleblower accounts like those we’ve published by Jamie Reed and Dr. Riittakerttu Kaltiala—have made the change we are now beginning to see.

And that change is now impossible to deny: witness the arrival of lawsuits from young people who say they have suffered the consequences of these life-altering treatments.

Today, therapist Tamara Pietzke adds her voice to those of our other whistleblowers, and tells how she could no longer go along with the pressure to transition her patients.

By Tamara Pietzke

February 5, 2024

For six years I worked at a hospital that said all teenagers with gender dysphoria must be affirmed. I quit my job to blow the whistle.

I know from firsthand experience what hard times are. Though I had a happy childhood, raised as the middle child by working-class parents in Washington State, my mom died of ovarian cancer when I was 22.

After that, my family fell apart. I felt lost and alone.

I decided to become a therapist because I didn’t want anyone to go through what I had, feeling like no one on this planet cares about them. At least they can say their therapist does.

I earned my master’s in social work from the University of Washington in 2012, and I have worked as a therapist for over a decade in the Puget Sound area. Most recently, I was employed by MultiCare, one of the largest hospital systems in the state.

For the six years I was there, I worked with hundreds of clients. But in mid-January, I left my job because of what I will go on to describe.

The therapeutic relationship is a special one. We are the original “safe space,” where people are able to explore their darker feelings and painful experiences. The job of the therapist is to guide a patient to self-understanding and sound mental health. This is a process that requires careful assessment and time, not snap judgments and confirmation of a patient’s worldview.

But in the past year I noticed a concerning new trend in my field. I was getting the message from my supervisors that when a young person I was seeing expressed discomfort with their gender—the diagnostic term is gender dysphoria—I should throw out all my training. No matter the patient’s history or other mental health conditions that could be complicating the situation, I was simply to affirm that the patient was transgender, and even approve the start of a medical transition.

I believe this rise of “affirmative care” for young people with gender dysphoria challenges the very fundamentals of what therapy is supposed to provide.

I am a 36-year-old single mother of three young kids all under the age of six. I am terrified of speaking out, but that fear pales in comparison to my strong belief that we can no longer medicalize youth and cause them potentially irreversible harm. The three patients I describe below explain why I am taking the risk of coming forward.

Last spring, I started seeing a new client, who at 13 years old had one of the most extreme and heartbreaking life stories I’ve ever heard. (For the sake of clarity, I am referring to all patients by their biological sex.)

My patient’s mother has bipolar disorder and was so abusive to my patient that the mother was given a restraining order. My patient was sexually assaulted by an older cousin, by one of her mother’s boyfriends, and also once at school by a classmate. Her diagnoses include depression, PTSD, anxiety, intermittent explosive disorder, and autism. She is being raised by her mother’s ex-boyfriend (not the one who assaulted her).

The year before I started seeing her, when she was 11, she was hospitalized for talking about committing suicide. Later that year, a pediatrician diagnosed her with gender dysphoria after she started to question her gender. The pediatrician referred her to Mary Bridge Children’s Gender Health Clinic, whose clinicians recommended she take medicine to suppress her periods and that she think about starting testosterone.

Mary Bridge, MultiCare’s pediatric hospital, runs the gender clinic for minors and employs nurses, social workers, dietitians, and endocrinologists, who provide gender-affirming care, which includes prescribing hormones to young patients who question their gender. In order to get that prescription, patients first need a recommendation letter from a therapist. Because Mary Bridge is a part of MultiCare, their patients were often referred to therapists like me who were in their system.

In an April 2022 blog post, a Mary Bridge social worker wrote that the gender clinic’s referrals increased from less than five a month in 2019 to more than 35 a month in 2022. In May 2022, the clinic received a $100,000 donation from Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute “to study health care disparities” in transgender youth.

The clinic operates in Washington, one of the states with some of the most lenient legislation on gender transition for youth. In May 2023, the state legislature passed a law guaranteeing that youth seeking a medical gender transition can stay at Washington shelters—and the shelters are not required to notify their parents.

Because of my patient’s autism, it was difficult for us to engage in introspective conversations. During our first visit, she came over to my desk to show me extremely sadistic and graphic pornographic videos on her phone. She stood next to me, hunched over, hyper-fixated on the videos as she rocked back and forth. She told me during one session that she watched horror and porn movies growing up because they were the only ones available in her house.

She showed up to our therapy sessions in disheveled, loose-fitting clothes, her hair greasy, her eyes staring down at the ground, her face covered by a Covid mask almost like a protective layer. She went by a boy’s name, but she never raised gender dysphoria with me directly—though one time she told me she would get mad at the sound of her own voice because “it sounds too girly.” When I asked her how she felt about an upcoming appointment at the gender clinic, she told me she didn’t know she had one.

In between scrolling through videos on her phone, she told me how she cried every night in bed and felt “insane.” She described a time when she was eight years old and her mother nearly killed her sister. She remembered her mother being taken away. At times, she would “age-regress,” she told me, by watching Teletubbies and sucking on pacifiers.

When she started seeing me, she had recently threatened to “blow up the school,” which resulted in her expulsion.

I knew I couldn’t solve all of her problems, or make her feel better in just a few therapy sessions. My initial goal was to make her feel comfortable opening up to me, to make the therapy room a place where she was heard and felt safe. I also wanted to try to protect her from falling prey to outside influences from social media, her peers, or even the adults in her life.

With a patient like this, with so many intersecting and overwhelming problems, and with such a tragic history of abuse, it took our first three sessions to get her feeling more comfortable to even talk to me, and to understand the dimensions of her problems. But when I called her guardian last fall to schedule a fourth appointment, he asked me to write her a letter of recommendation for cross-sex hormone treatment. That is, at age 13, she was to start taking testosterone. Such a letter from me begins the process of medical transition for a patient.

In Washington State, that’s all it takes—a few visits with a therapist and a letter, often written using a template provided by one’s superiors—for minors to undergo the irreversible treatments that patients must take for a lifetime.

I was scared for this patient. She had so many overlapping problems that needed addressing it seemed like malpractice to abruptly begin her on a medical gender transition that could quickly produce permanent changes.

The MultiCare recommendation letter Tamara was given for approving the medical treatment of minors with gender dysphoria. I emailed a program manager in my department at MultiCare and outlined my concerns. She wrote back that my client’s trauma history has no bearing on whether or not she should receive hormone treatment.

“There is not valid, evidenced-based, peer-reviewed research that would indicate that gender dysphoria arises from anything other than gender (including trauma, autism, other mental health conditions, etc.),” she wrote.

She also warned that “there is the potential in causing harm to a client’s mental health when restricting access to gender-affirming care” and suggested I “examine [my] personal beliefs and biases about trans kids.”

When Tamara outlined her concerns about giving a patient testosterone to her manager at MultiCare, she was told to “examine your personal beliefs and biases about trans kids.” She then reported me to MultiCare’s risk management team, who removed my client from my care and placed her with a new therapist.

I shouldn’t have been surprised by this. Just a few months earlier, in September of last year, I was one of over 100 therapists and behavioral specialists at the MultiCare hospital system required to attend mandatory training on “gender-affirming care.”

As hard as it is to believe given my work, I hadn’t heard about gender-affirming care before that moment. I needed to know more. So each night in the week leading up to the training, I searched online for information about gender-affirming care. After putting my kids to bed, I sat glued to my computer screen, losing sleep, horrified at what I found.

I discovered that neither puberty blockers nor cross-sex hormones (testosterone or estrogen) were approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for gender dysphoria. In fact, prescribing these treatments to kids can have drastic side effects, including infertility, loss of sexual function, increased risk of heart attack, stroke, cardiovascular disease, cancer, bone density problems, blood clots, liver toxicity, cataracts, brain swelling, and even death.

While gender clinicians claim hormonal treatment improved their patients’ psychological health, the studies on this are few and highly disputed.

I found that those experiencing gender dysphoria are up to six times more likely to also be autistic, and they are also more likely to suffer from schizophrenia, trauma, and abuse.

A risk manager’s job is to minimize the hospital’s liability, but in my case, they deemed that my concerns posed a greater risk to my client than giving her a life-altering procedure with no proven long-term benefit.

While gender clinicians claim hormonal treatment improved their patients’ psychological health, the studies on this are few and highly disputed.

I found that those experiencing gender dysphoria are up to six times more likely to also be autistic, and they are also more likely to suffer from schizophrenia, trauma, and abuse.

The research also implies that the dramatic rise in these diagnoses across the West likely have a strong element of social contagion. In children ages 6 to 17, there was a 70 percent increase in diagnoses of gender dysphoria in the U.S. from 2020 to 2021. In Sweden there was a 1,500 percent increase in these diagnoses among girls 13–17 from 2008 to 2018.

Yet, countries that were once the pioneers of gender transition medicine are now starting to backtrack. In 2022, England announced it will close its only gender clinic after an investigation uncovered subpar medical care, including findings that some patients were rushed toward gender transitions. Sweden and Finland undertook comprehensive analyses of the state of gender medicine and recommended restrictions on transition of minors.

I decided—though it was potentially dangerous to my career and to me—to ask questions about the findings I discovered.

The training I attended laid out an affirming model of gender care—from pronouns and “social transition” to hormone treatments and surgical intervention. In order for children to be diagnosed with gender dysphoria, the training stated, patients must meet six of eight characteristics, ranging from “a strong desire/insistence of being another gender” to “strong preference for cross-gender toys and games.”

Tamara and her MultiCare colleagues were trained to diagnose gender dysphoria among their young patients when they met six of the eight above characteristics. It was made abundantly clear to all in attendance that these recommendations were “best practice” at MultiCare, and that the hospital would not tolerate anything less.

When the leader of the training brought up hormone treatments, I shakily tapped the unmute button on Zoom and asked why 70 to 80 percent of female adolescents diagnosed with gender dysphoria have prior mental health diagnoses.

She flashed a look of disgust as she warned me against spreading “misinformation on trans kids.” Soon the chat box started blowing up with comments directed at me. One colleague stated it was not “appropriate to bring politics into this” and another wrote that I was “demonstrating a hostility toward trans folks which is [a] direct violation of the Hippocratic Oath,” and recommended I “seek additional support and information so as not to harm trans clients.”

In the training, gender-affirming treatment is presented as “suicide prevention.” As soon as I closed my laptop, I burst into tears. I care so deeply about my clients that even thinking about this now makes me cry. I couldn’t understand how my colleagues, who are supposed to be my teammates, could be so quick to villainize me. I also wondered if maybe my colleagues were right, and if I had gone insane.

Later, my boss reached out to me and told me it was “inappropriate” of me to raise these questions, telling me that a training session was not the proper forum. When I tried to present the evidence that caused me concern—the lack of long-term studies, the devastating side effects—she told me she didn’t have time to read it.

“I am speaking out because nothing will change unless people like me blow the whistle,” Tamara writes. “I am desperate to help my patients.” In retrospect, this ideology had been growing in power for a long time.

I remember in 2019 seeing signs of how gender dysphoria arose among many of my most vulnerable female clients, all of whom struggled with previous psychological problems.

In 2019, I started seeing a 16-year-old client after her pediatrician referred her to me for anxiety, depression, and ADHD. When I first met her, she had long blonde hair covering her eyes, to the point you could barely see her face. It was like she was going through the world trying to be invisible.

In 2020, during the pandemic, she told me she had started reading online a lot about gender, and said she started feeling like she wasn’t a girl anymore.

Around this time, her anxiety became so debilitating she couldn’t leave her house—not even to go to school. After taking a year off school during the pandemic, she enrolled in an alternative school for kids struggling with mental health. I was relieved that she was making friends for the first time, and seemed to be feeling a lot better.

Then she started using they/he pronouns, identified as pansexual, and replaced the skirts and fishnet stockings she often wore with disheveled and baggy clothes. Her long hair became shorter and shorter. She started wearing a binder to flatten her breasts. She tried out a few different names before settling on one that’s gender neutral.

The official diagnosis I gave her was “adjustment disorder”—an umbrella term often applied to young people who are having a hard time coping with difficult and stressful circumstances. It’s the type of diagnosis that doesn’t follow a child forever—it implies that mental distress among kids is often transient.

She came out as transgender to her family in 2021. Her mother was supportive, but her dad wasn’t. Regardless, she went to her pediatrician seeking a referral to a gender clinic.

In 2022, she went to Mary Bridge Children’s Gender Health Clinic for the first time, where the clinicians informed her and her parents that if she didn’t receive hormone replacement therapy, she could be “at increased risk for anxiety, depression, and worsening of mental health/psychological trauma,” according to her patient records. Her dad refused to start his daughter on testosterone, and so all the clinic could do was prescribe birth control to stop her period due to her “menstrual dysphoria,” or distress over getting her period. Which is something I thought all teenage girls experienced.

Five months later, she swallowed a bottle of pills and her mother had to rush her to the emergency room.

By early 2023, my client logged on to our weekly session, which we started doing by Zoom, and she told me she identified as a “wounded male dog.” She explained to me that this was her “xenogender,” a concept she had discovered online, which references gender identities that go “beyond the human understanding of gender.” She said she felt she didn’t have all of the right appendages, and that she wanted to start wearing ears and a tail to truly feel like herself.

I was stunned. All I could do was silently nod along.

After the session, I emailed my colleagues looking for advice. “I want to be accepting and inclusive and all of that,” I wrote, but “I guess I just don’t understand at what point, if ever, a person’s gender identity is indicative of a bigger issue.”

I asked them: “Is there ever a time where acceptance of a person’s identity isn’t freely given?”

The consensus from my colleagues was that it wasn’t a big deal.

“It sounds like this isn’t something that’s ‘broken,’ ” one colleague wrote me back, “so let’s not try to ‘fix’ it.”

“If someone told me they use a litterbox instead of a toilet and they were happy with it and it’s part of their life that brings them fulfillment, then great!” she continued. “I might think it’s weird, but then again, not my life.”

After learning that one of Tamara’s patients identified as “a wounded male dog,” a colleague replied: “If someone told me they use a litterbox instead of a toilet and they were happy with it and it’s part of their life that brings them fulfillment, then great!” I was baffled and alarmed by her unquestioning affirmation. At what point does a change in identity represent a mental health concern, and not something to be celebrated and affirmed? Fortunately, my client never brought up her “xenogender” again. She also isn’t on testosterone due to her father’s disapproval. So I kept these thoughts to myself, and ultimately, in order to keep my job, I let it go.

Another female patient, who transitioned as a teen, serves as a warning of what happens when we passively accept the idea that gender transition will entirely resolve a patient’s mental health issues.

This client, who I started seeing in 2022, is now 23 and rarely leaves the house, spends most of the day in bed playing video games, and envisions no path to working or functioning in the outside world due to a variety of mental health problems. In 2016, this patient was diagnosed with autism, anxiety, and gender dysphoria. Later the diagnoses grew to include depression, Tourette syndrome, and a conversion disorder. In 2018, at age 17, the Mary Bridge Gender Health Clinic prescribed testosterone, despite the fact that this patient is diabetic and one of the hormone’s side effects is that it might increase insulin resistance. The patient’s mother, who has another transgender child, strongly encouraged it.

This patient now has a wispy mustache and a deepened voice, but does not pass as male. It turns out that testosterone, which will be prescribed for life, did not relieve the patient’s other mental illnesses.

My biggest fear about the gender-affirming practices my industry has blindly adopted is that they are causing irreversible damage to our clients. Especially as they are vulnerable people who come to us at their lowest moments in life, and who entrust us with their health and safety. And yet, instead of treating them as we would patients with any other mental health condition, we have been instructed—and even bullied—to abandon our professional judgment and training in favor of unquestioning affirmation.

I am speaking out because nothing will change unless people like me—who know the risks of medicalizing troubled young people—blow the whistle. I am desperate to help my patients.

And I believe, if I don’t speak out, I will have betrayed them.

(note: previously posted this with a lot of repetition because of copy/pasting. This is the fixed version. But if you see any repetition or mistakes please let me know!)

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Why do you call yourself a "marxist feminist?" your analysis is closer to mainstream reactionary narratives and radical feminism in general - why the obfuscation and lies?

i became a communist, specifically a marxist leninist, at about 15. i educated myself on Marx, Lenin, Engels, Mao, Stalin, Ho Chi Minh, Castro, Che Guevara, Kwame Nkrumah, Thomas Sankara, Kim Il Sung — id say most of the fundamentals necessary to developing a communist understanding.

from my own Black upbringing i already knew Malcolm X, but i read further about the civil rights movement's Black leaders and revolutionaries, such as the Black Panther Party, Black Liberation Army, Fred Hampton, Huey P Newton, Kwame Ture, George Jackson. read Black scholars like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, bell hooks, Du Bois, Fanon. also read Parenti, Said and Freire. i made sure as a Black woman to learn from Black women and marxist women, so i both read about and read the works of Rosa Luxemburg, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, Kathleen Cleaver, Nawal El Saadawi and Angela Davis.

so i was a marxist leninist in marxist circles for a very long time, and for all that time i was very pro-trans. now, there's been a rising tide of misogyny in the mainstream for the last couple of years, and i noticed men of all races in marxist circles were either failing to address it or addressed it only with reactionary, backwards analyses. many started voicing outright misogyny themselves under the guise of criticizing "bourgeois white women". it seemed they'd only read the works of marxist men and hadn't paid any attention to the women as i had. even other marxist leninist women, though their analysis was solid, were not focusing on women's issues directly. there's this tendency among marxists to treat feminism as some inborn component of marxism though they're not doing any direct study nor work on it at all. they think a class revolution will resolve everything when that's not entirely true. we will have to restructure society around gender/sex, race and many other inequalities, not just class.

so i turned to feminism. i went back to the aforementioned marxist women, who cover topics such as anti-imperialism, anti-capitalism, prison abolition, Black nationalism and so on, but for the first time focused exclusively on the situation of women. this time i read marxist women for their marxist feminism, incorporating also Evelyn Reed, Silvia Federici, Ellen Willis, Clara Zetkin, Sharon Smith. as you may have noticed from the name, marxist feminism is sourced from feminism (yes, radical feminism) as much as it is marxism. many of these marxist feminist women drew from radical feminist women, both to further their own marxfem theory as well as to contrast it.

& i wanted to read what they were referencing for myself, so i began to read radfem works for the first time. i was surprised that what marxists had always dismissed as "white bourgeois feminism" was actually incredibly intersectional and insightful. and that even the white radical feminist authors were accounting for race and class, with many directly interrogating marxist theory and building upon Engels' analysis in Origin of the Family. i now firmly believe that to wholly understand the oppression of women you must understand our position under the intersection of both capitalism and patriarchy.

so!!!! i arrived at marxist feminism but with heavy influences of radical feminism. i would say my politics are a combination of the two (which some would call socialist feminism) but i prefer to keep the marxfem label owing to my marxist leninist origins (socialist is too broad a term), and also because my approach is still generally that of a more marxist leninist structural analysis, first and foremost [edit: this was true but i now prefer socfem]. where marxist feminism provides a materialist, anti-capitalist analysis of the exploitation of women, radical feminism scrutinises the interpersonal relations between the sexes under patriarchy and its gender hierarchy. radical feminism also covers a lot more ground pertaining to women: women's history, feminist anthropology, women in media, science, psychology & so on. im particularly interested in radfem deconstructions of Judeo-Christian theology as of late.

thus it was with this new radical feminist understanding of women's oppression, and the analysis of other radfems of the trans rights movement, that i realised The Terfs Were Right All Along: gender identity ideology is regression masquerading as progression and will never liberate women from our degraded position so long as the female body continues to be exploited and abused. our oppression under both capitalism and patriarchy is the oppression, exploitation, and regulation of our female biology. after all, it's only women who are able to produce workers for the capitalists and the state, and children for the men and the society. this is the origin of women's oppression that began thousands of years ago. the oppression of women today is the systemic exploitation of the human female.

i went back and recalibrated my marxism as well and in doing so realised dialectical materialism doesn't lend itself to gender identity theory whatsoever (something a lot of other marxists have realised too). a liberation movement has to address the situation of women, it has to address our material reality. it cannot work off of idealism. i find mao really great on dialectical materialism, so let's look at his writings. according to Mao, "Idealism considers spirit (consciousness, concepts, the subject) as the source of all that exists on earth, and matter (nature and society, the object) as secondary and subordinate" whereas "Materialism recognizes the independent existence of matter as detached from spirit and considers spirit as secondary and subordinate.... [Idealists] cannot point out the materialist truth according to which consciousness is limited by matter, but believe that only consciousness is active, whereas matter is only an inert composite entity."

marxism is alternately termed "scientific socialism" for a reason. we are not idealists like the utopian socialists. we do not deal in idealism, we analyse reality through the scientific method of dialectical materialism. as Mao writes "Materialist dialectics is the only scientific epistemology, and it is also the only scientific logic. Materialist dialectics studies the origin and development of our knowledge of the outside world. It studies the transition from not knowing to knowing and from incomplete knowledge to more complete knowledge; it studies how the laws of the development of nature and society are daily reflected more profoundly and more extensively in the mind of humanity."

to "[belong] to the materialist camp" in Mao's words, we must "[recognize] the independent existence of the material world, separate from human consciousness — the fact that it existed before the appearance of humanity, and continues to exist since the appearance of humanity, independently and outside of human consciousness. To recognize this point is a fundamental premise of all scientific research.... what we call consciousness is nothing else but a form of the movement of matter, a particular characteristic of the material brain of humanity; it is that particular characteristic of the material brain which causes the material processes outside consciousness to be reflected in consciousness."

in essence, the internal is a product of the external. not the reverse. this does not support the supremacy of "gender identity" over sex, nor does it support the extreme position assumed by some in the trans movement, of the subjectivity or non-existence of sex altogether. we have to transform society in order to transform ourselves, which in this context would mean the abolition of gender throughout the whole of society— not the promotion of individualist self-identification with ascientific microlabels. gender identities do not liberate anyone from the confines of gender—they further lock you in, making you an ardent defender of the tool of your own repression. evidently, supporting gender identity ideology would not only be the betrayal of the proletarian woman and the fight for her liberation, and the liberation of everyone repressed by this system, it would be the betrayal and the distortion of marxism itself. a vulgar materialism.

if you want a more thorough breakdown of my ascent to terfdom or anything more about marxism leninism that'll probably have to be another post. let me know! i'll leave you with this from Mao on dialectical materialism: "The world is nothing else but the material world in a process of unlimited development.... If the proletariat and all revolutionaries take up this consistently scientific arm, they will then be able to understand this world, and transform the world."

#you didn't ask for my life story but i gave it to you anyway #marxist feminism #dialectical materialism #radblr #mao #radical feminism #marxism #marxfem #terfblr #marxism leninism #original posts #edited

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Canons

These are our major canons on the site with activity monitored more closely as they're either part of our site subplots or will be in the future

Avengers

Tony Stark - taken by Kathleen

Steve Rogers (on MAC)

Sam Wilson

Bruce Banner

Natasha Romanoff (on MASH)

Clint Barton

Thor

Scott Lang

Hope van Dyne

Wanda Maximoff - adoptable NPC

Vision

Media

Christine Everhart

JJJ

Trish Walker

Mitchell Ellison

X-Men

(minor canons will be approved on a case by case basis as there are many X-men whose powers will not fit the site)

Charles Xavier - adoptable NPC (on MAC)

Jean Grey - played by rue

Scott Summers - played by kathleen

Hank McCoy (on MAC)

Bobby Drake

James Howlett - played by kathleen

Brotherhood

(same with the X-men, minor canons will be approved on a case by case basis)

Erik Lehnsherr - adoptable NPC (part of MASH)

Raven Darkholme

Lorna Dane

Amara Aquilla (part of MASH)

Hellfire

Warren Worthington III (part of MASH)

Sebastian Shaw - admin NPC (part of MASH)

Emma Frost - adoptable NPC (part of MAC)

Regan Wyngarde

Roberto da Costa

Government

Maria Hill

Nick Fury - admin NPC

Phil Coulson

Bobbi Morse

Daisy Johnson

Melinda May

Al Mackenzie

Everett Ross

Valentina de Fontaine

Sharon Carter

Stark Industries

Pepper Potts - played by rue

Happy Hogan

Leopold Fitz - played by kathleen

Jemma Simmons - played by rue

Street Teams

Peter Parker

MJ Watson - played by rue

Matt Murdock - played by rue

Frank Castle - played by kathleen

Danny Rand

Jessica Jones

Luke Cage

Young Avengers

(not yet a team but can be on the site)

Kamala Khan

Kate Bishop

Cassie Lang

Eli Bradley

America Chavez - admin NPC

David Alleyne

Fantastic Four

Reed Richards - played by rue

Sue Storm

Johnny Storm

Ben Grimm - played by kathleen

Victor von Doom - adoptable NPC

AIM/Villains

Aldrich Killian

Justin Hammer

Helmut Zemo

John Walker

Bucky Barnes - admin NPC

Alexander Pierce

Ophelia Sarkissian - adoptable NPC

Wilson Fisk

Billy Russo

Maya Lopez

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The SIGNING of THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT #OBAMACARE

The FIRST PRESIDENT to SUCCEED Where 7 Presidents Failed

The SPEAKER of the HOUSE #SPEAKERNancyPELOSI #FOREVER

SENATE Majority Leader HARRY REED, SENATOR James CLYBURN,

VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN, Ted KENNEDY’s Widow, Steny Hoyer,

Kathleen SEBELIUS Cabinet HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES, And...

SENATOR Dick DURBAN, WITNESSED by Marcelas Owens the Kid.

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If Peter Lorre were in "A Christmas Carol"...

...what role would he play?

(This picture is from The Mask of Dimitrios but I felt his somber expression was apt.)

First, I feel compelled to say that for me, Alastair Sim is "the" Scrooge. He's exceptional. His face is so reflective and nuanced. His voice is resonant and gorgeous. His eyes are like great, luminous soul-windows.

So I'm not replacing Alastair at all, I am just inventing yet another Christmas Carol movie...

But would Peter play Scrooge? I like him as the lead in anything, and this would be no exception; Peter could pervade the atmosphere with remoteness and disdain, a curl of the lip, a sardonic glint in the eye, the unholy amusement at all the poor fools (literally and figuratively) surrounding him. Humanity! Bah! HUMBUG!

And then the gradual dethawing of his icy, padlocked heart, chip by chip, key-twist by key-twist, the torment and loss and longing churned up by the Ghost visits, the final terror-stricken howl, and then - ah, and then! - the utter joy (leavened with care and mindfulness) and rush to make up for all that lost time. It's delicious to contemplate.

But I also find myself quite strongly seeing Peter as Bob Cratchit. The mournful expression as he tries to warm his fingers by the single candle on his desk. The unshakeable good cheer and good personhood that pervades him. The unconditional love for his family and fellow human beings. The heart-wrenching scene over Tiny Tim. The fact that Peter would, indeed, steal every scene he was in. ❤

Let's make a list! Idle musings with creative attention to timelines include:

Scrooge - Peter Lorre or Boris Karloff or ? Marley - Karloff or John Carradine Cratchit - Peter or ? Cratchit's wife - Kathleen Lockhart Tiny Tim - Freddie Bartholomew Nephew - Nephew's Wife - Scrooge's sister, Fan - Gene Tierney Scrooge's lost love, Alice - Donna Reed Fezziwig - Sydney Greenstreet complete with his "sir" this and "sir" that Ghost of Christmas Past - Ghost of Christmas Present - Eugene Pallette (okay maybe not :D) Ghost of Christmas Future - Scrooge's housekeeper - Elsa Lanchester

Feel free to disagree & completely jumble up the list!

Incidentally about Peter & the Cratchit role, another reason is because of this anecdote from the biography:

[Vienna, 1933, under martial law. 8 o'clock curfew. Lorre is with his friends & actors in the Majolica Hall, a subterranean Bohemian wine place where they had to get their food after curfew. To keep their spirits up against hearing all the shooting outside and police cars racing around…]

Composer Robert Stoltz said to Peter that it was funny how they always gave him parts where he plays a monster or a Greek chorus kind of thing. Why couldn't he play an important classic part?

Peter: "You are thinking of Hamlet. I know the whole play from beginning to end, all the parts."

Another person urged Lorre to recite some of the play, yet the others felt funny about that. Screenwriter Walter Reisch said, "After all, he with his shoulders hanging down and the fat face. He was very, very overweight at the time. He looked much older than he really was."

But Peter said: "I want to do it, really. It has been deep in my heart ever since I was twelve. Ever since I ran away from home. Ever since I saw Hamlet with all the great stars of Europe, it has been the great dream of my life. If you will really keep quiet, I will give you a bit.”

Reisch and the others thought it would be nothing but a disaster.

But then:

"He didn’t start with 'To be or not to be,'" said Reisch. "He started reciting the first gravedigger from beginning to end."

After finishing, Peter scolded his audience:

"You sons-of-bitches, you thought I was going to play Hamlet and make a fool of myself. My part is the gravedigger and if I had ever played it on the stage I would have stolen that play. There would have been no Hamlet and no Claudius, no Polonius, no Laertes and no Ophelia. It would have been me."

Reisch said: "It was terrific. After the first lines he got up and took a knife, as if it were the gravedigger’s spade, and he started to dig into the earth. You forgot the shooting outside, you forgot the Majolica Hall, you forgot everything. You forgot Hitler. You forgot Hamlet. You saw Peter Lorre as the gravedigger and that showed to me this guy knew his limitations, and at the same time made the best of his shortcomings, his figure, his funny face, his reputation as a monster."

I'd be inclined to say Peter didn't really have limitations, just what others put upon him.

Incidentally, I saw this: "According to an essay by Dave Duggins on the Web site Horror-Wood, 1947 nearly brought us A Universal Horror Christmas Carol, which would have featured such stars of classic Universal Pictures horror movies as Boris Karloff (playing Scrooge), Bela Lugosi (as the Ghost of Christmas Past) and John Carradine (as the Ghost of Christmas Future, aka the Grim Reaper). For script excerpts, go to www.horror-wood.com/carol.htm." Source - of the quote; the website referenced doesn't seem to exist anymore.

I leave you with a PSA: There is ample time to subscribe to A Dickens December, created by @warrioreowynofrohan, which releases a portion of the book each day from December 1st to December 26.

It's really, really lovely to read this as a serial. No offense to Dickens, who went through a small slice of hell to publish it solely as a novella; my enjoyment is possibly because I'm oversaturated with unrestricted binge access to just about everything else. (I am appreciating "The Peripheral," which is awesome, being a weekly release.)

I had completely forgotten so many devilish lines that you don't get in dramatic readings/movies:

"Don't be angry, uncle. Come! Dine with us to-morrow."

Scrooge said that he would see him—yes, indeed he did. He went the whole length of the expression, and said that he would see him in that extremity first.

And the beauty of lines such as:

The brightness of the shops, where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed.

#peter lorre #a christmas carol #peter lorre musings #peter lorre meta

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Odd Man Out

Director Carol Reed Stars James Mason, Kathleen Ryan, Robert Newton UK 1947 Language English 1hr 56mins Black & white

IRA man on the run in one, long, very strange day and evening in Belfast

This is a much stranger film than I thought it was going to be. How? Maybe two-thirds of the way through what could be described as a man-on-the-run thriller, we get the arrival of the second-billed actor, Robert Newton, playing a hugely eccentric and obsessive painter of fevered, El Greco-ish portraits. He lives in a vast, seemingly semi-abandoned house with two other weird guys. At this point, the film started reminding me a lot more of After Hours than I would have expected.

Or how about the fact that this is a British-made film from 1947 whose central character – one who seems to be treated as something like a religious martyr – is an Irish republican freedom fighter/terrorist, and the antagonist is an officer in the Royal Ulster Constabulary.

Or that you’ve got a big star actor, but for important sections of the story, he’s slumped passed out in one of various hiding places.

There’s more, but that would go heavily into spoiler territory.

The film starts during the final preparation of a heist. The man in charge is Johnny McQueen (James Mason), the leader of something referred to in the film as The Organisation but which I think we can understand as the IRA. This is to be McQueen’s return to action after escaping from prison and then laying low for six months. There’s scepticism from various characters about whether Johnny is ready for a mission, and he privately expresses some doubts about whether the armed struggle is the way forward, but he insists on leading the raid anyway.

Of course, it goes wrong and Johnny is ends up wounded and alone on the streets of Belfast. Based on the idea of the film and what I remembered from having seen bits of it, I thought Odd Man Out would mostly follow McQueen as he tries to stay alive and free. Instead, we cut between that and the attempts to find him by the other members of organisation, by the RUC, later by the inhabitants of the big strange house, and (most importantly) by Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan), who is in love with him.

Odd Man Out was directed by Carol Reed, who two years later would make what’s generally accepted as the greatest British film noir, The Third Man. This is recognisably the work of the same director plus cinematographer (Robert Krasker). It opens with a long aerial shot flying over Belfast and then for a few minutes, it looked older than it is and a bit stagey. But it doesn’t take long to reach full noir mode, with some great shots of alleyways plus inventive moments of Johnny’s hallucinations.

This is not a lean, taut thriller. For instance, we get what felt to me a very long discussion between Kathleen and Father Tom (WG Fay), which broadly pits a noir existentialism versus the teachings of the church. And, as I mentioned, there’s all the stuff with Lukey (Newton), who arrives with enormous camera-hogging energy just at the point where you might anticipate the story coming to an end. But I think it is atmospheric enough, immersive enough, to keep the audience hooked.

Maybe my biggest gripe is that this isn’t the best use of James Mason – I think he’s at his most effective when deploying his charm (whether acting for or against the forces of good) and we don’t get much of that here

This is a film about Belfast, but not one made by people from Belfast. The director and the writers were English.* The cast is mostly a mixture of actors from southern Ireland and Brits, with the ones playing locals seemingly aiming for southern Irish accents too. The exceptions are a group of children who hang out on the pavements and who you can tell instantly actually did come from Belfast.

I have a major weakness for movies that take place over a short space of time. I’m a big fan of film noir, and of James Mason. Which is to say, I was massively predisposed to like Odd Man Out, and I did enjoy it, but it is so much weirder than you might think.

*Minor spoiler: at one point Johnny is taken in by some English people, who eventually work out who he is and who treat him with some sympathy while expressing the idea that the politics of this place is none of their business.

#film noir #james mason

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Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

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“War Criminal and Genocidal Joe Biden” Picked Kamala Divi Harris For VP Because “Beau Biden” Had An Affair With Her @dom_lucre

Between 1994 to 1995 Harris, 30, was dating 60-year-old Willie Brown, who was married. In his capacity as a Democratic Speaker of the California Legislature, Brown appointed her to two political posts - first to the California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, and then to the Medical Assistance Commission. The position paid over $70,000 per year, $120,700 in current money, and Harris served on the board until 1998. The medical commission met twice a month, and Harris, missed about 20% of the meetings each year, according to commission records obtained by the Washington Examiner. "Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker," Brown wrote. Harris: "I refuse to design my campaign around criticizing Willie Brown for the sake of appearing to be independent when I have no doubt that I am independent of him - and that he would probably right now express some fright about the fact that he cannot control me. His career is over; I will be alive and kicking for the next 40 years. I do not owe him a thing. Brown is an albatross hanging around my neck. Willie Brown is not going to be around. He's gone — hello people, move on. If there is corruption, it will be prosecuted. It's a no-brainer, but let's please move on."

"I was prepared for them to come after me, but I wasn't prepared for the person coming at me the way she came at me," Biden told CNN. "She knew Beau. She knows me." Beau was Kamala's beau: Harris: "There were times, when I was getting hot, that Beau and I talked every day, sometimes several times a day," Harris writes. "We supported each other." Hunter had already been kicked out of his marital home with estranged wife Kathleen over his heroin addiction - says he became "close" with Hallie, Beau Biden's wife, after a 2016 trip with her to the Hamptons and began spending most nights at her house while "sharing a very specific grief" over Beau's 2015 death. Yeah I'm sure there was plenty of moaning goin' on. But there has been speculation that while Beau was dying Hunter was having an affair with Hallie. This indicates there was something amiss in Beau's relationship with his wife and he may have looked to Harris for sexual gratification right out of the Kamala Sutra. "On other occasions, Harris and her team would fly to Washington to meet with Biden and his assistants. By the time Beau Biden died on May 30, 2015, at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., his closest staffers had compiled a list of roughly 60 people they thought should know about his passing first. Harris was high on that list." Why fly to D.C?

Their business could have been conducted over the internet or telephonically?

Garbology: the Hallie / Hunter gun incident. @dom_lucre

Kamala wants to have Congress decriminalize prostitution under federal law which means decriminalizing the White Slave Act so bringing children across State line for the purpose of child prostitution will not be a crime. She claims decriminalize, not legalize, but it's just a matter of semantics.

New Sequel

— Carlos Latuff | July 26, 2024

Cartoon: Carlos Latuff, Global Times

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Besides the Ethereal Spheres, Names Replaced With Those From Love's Beginning Whispering Welcome Through The Teeth Of All Of New York As We Met her with our first real kiss as a dance

Alone On The Top Of The Roc as no one but tourists says? Everyone says that Now.

Have To.

Nazis.

Also in that Underground Club To Radiohead's only good Song Creep

In Your New York City, We didn't Ask First and were we supposed to?

Anyway besides that I would dance with you maybe

@bbc6music-blog

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Sans demander, nous sommes venus, sans retenue.

Était-ce une erreur? Un affront? Ou une danse,

Avec l'inconnu, l'aventure qui nous enchante?

Dans tes rues qui murmurent, tes lumières qui dansent,

Avons-nous perturbé, troublé ton existence?

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### Sleepless in Seattle

**Plot Summary:**

"Sleepless in Seattle" is a 1993 romantic comedy directed by Nora Ephron, starring Tom Hanks as Sam Baldwin, a widower who moves to Seattle with his young son, Jonah (Ross Malinger), after the death of his wife. Jonah, hoping to find his father a new partner, calls a radio talk show, which catches the attention of Annie Reed (Meg Ryan), a journalist in Baltimore. Despite being engaged to another man, Annie becomes captivated by Sam's story and sets out to meet him, leading to a series of near-misses and romantic moments, culminating in their meeting atop the Empire State Building on Valentine's Day [[❞]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepless_in_Seattle) [[❞]](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/sleepless-in-seattle-1993) [[❞]](https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sleepless-in-seattle-vm451149).

### You've Got Mail

**Plot Summary:**

"You've Got Mail," also directed by Nora Ephron and released in 1998, reunites Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan in a modern romantic comedy. Hanks plays Joe Fox, owner of a large bookstore chain, while Ryan plays Kathleen Kelly, the owner of a small independent bookstore. Unbeknownst to each other, they develop a close relationship through anonymous emails while simultaneously being business rivals. The film explores their evolving relationship, both online and offline, as they eventually discover each other's true identities and fall in love [[❞]](https://www.allmovie.com/movie/sleepless-in-seattle-vm451149) .

### Wings of Desire Style Movie Poster

The movie poster for this adaptation would draw inspiration from "Wings of Desire," a film known for its poetic and contemplative visual style. Here’s how the poster would be styled:

- **Visual Elements:**

- Black and white imagery with occasional splashes of color.

- Dreamy, ethereal visuals highlighting key romantic moments.

- Overlapping scenes of Seattle and New York, reflecting the dual settings of "Sleepless in Seattle."

- Subtle hints of the digital age, such as glowing email icons, representing "You've Got Mail."

- **Text and Typography:**

- The title in elegant, serif fonts, capturing the timeless nature of the romance.

- A tagline like, "Two stories of love crossing paths in the most unexpected ways."

- Credits and cast names in a classic, understated style.

- **Atmosphere:**

- A melancholic yet hopeful tone, similar to "Wings of Desire," emphasizing the emotional journeys of the characters.

- Soft lighting and shadows to create a sense of intimacy and reflection.

This combination would capture the essence of both films, blending the modern romance of "You've Got Mail" with the heartfelt story of "Sleepless in Seattle," all within the stylistic framework of "Wings of Desire."

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The cast of the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise Part 2

Aloha everybody, sorry for the delay because i was starting part 2 of the storyline of the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise, but i'll be starting part 2 of the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise. What if Neve Campbell is shown up the 6th installment without pay dispute? But if you liked part 1, here's part 2 of the cast of the Extended Cut of the Scream franchise.

Synopsis: The four survivors of the Ghostface attacks & their new friends leave Woodsboro & headed to New York for a fresh start. Soon they're all about finding themselves in the fight of their lives when a another killer starts a bloody rampage & the other survivors also find themselves in a plot where nobody is safe & beyond suspicion.

Scream VI (Extended Cut) Cast:

Melissa Barrera as Sam Carpenter

Jenna Ortega as Tara Carpenter

Mason Gooding as Chad Meeks-Martin

Jasmin Savoy Brown as Mindy Meeks-Martin

Jack Roberts (me) as Terrence William "Terry" Watkins

Chosen Jacobs as Lawrence James "Larry" Watkins

Meg Donnelly as Lexi Hicks

Olivia Scott Welch as Wendy Hicks

Jacob Bertrand as William "Will" Hicks

Jackson Brundage as Frederick "Fred" Hicks

Emily Rudd as Carrie Tatum Riley-Weathers

Isabelle Fuhrman as Rebecca "Becca" Bishop

Braeden Lemasters as Matthew Bishop

Deja Monique Cruz as Laura "Lori" Sanchez

Ysa Penarejo as Miranda Rodriguez

Joshua Bassett as Connor "Cash" Conway

Joey King as Yvonne Conway

Ross Lynch as Ronald "Rory" Williams

Jade Pettyjohn as Graceland "Grace" Prescott

Emily Meade as Elena Connors

Sophia Lillis as Grace-Lynn "Gracie" Moore

Kathryn Newton as Kathleen "Kathy" Williamson

Julia Rehwald as Katherine "Katie" Jones

Melissa Collazo as Isabella "Izzy" Yales

Hayden Byerly as Damien "Dame" Yales

Akiel Julien as Malik Hubar

Karan Brar as Craig Karbar

Odessa A'zion as Susan Winters

Violett Beane as Eleanor "Ellie" Winters

Madison Davenport as Gabrielle "Gabby" Stafford

Talitha Eliana Bateman as Yolanda Preston

Gabriel Bateman as Philip "Phil" Preston

Megan Stott as Kimberly "Kim" Watson

Charlie Plummer as Samuel Johnathan "Sam" Kincaid

Katherine Langford as Jennifer Annie "Jenny" Kincaid

Rachel Zegler as Emily Jones

Annalise Basso as Andrea Lewis

Jodelle Ferland as Joanna Thompson

Rachel Fox as Angela Stewart

Mackenzie Foy as Luna Stewart

Jimmy Bennett as Andrew "Andy" Anderson

Mickeey Nguyen as Sylvester Bradford

Brandon Soo Hoo as Takahashi Bradford

Courtney Cox as Gale Weathers

Hayden Panettiere as Kirby Reed

Neve Campbell as Sidney Prescott

Joe Keery as Johnny Landry

Jack Champion as Ethan Landry

Dermot Mulroney as Wayne Bailey

Liana Liberato as Quinn Bailey

Logan Lerman as Quentin Bailey

Judah Lewis as Derek Shepherd

Brec Bassinger as Lillian "Lilly" Davis

Jessica Stroup as Riley Davis

Michael Rainey Jr. as Anthony "Anton" Mercer

Peyton Elizabeth Lee as Susie Kayoko

Havana Rose Liu as Hannah Kayoko

Devyn Nekoda as Anika Kayoko

Josh Segarra as Danny Brackett

Kiernan Shipka as Danielle "Dani" Brackett

Anthony Ramos as Nicholas "Nick" Rodriguez

Rachel Sennott as Theresa "Tree" Hicks

Ed Speleers as Alexander "Alex" Miller

Madison Iseman as Alexandra "Allie" Miller

Spencer Locke as Ellen Hoffman

Brianne Tju as June Dawson

Denyse Tontz as Laura Morris

Holland Roden as Gloria Smith

Addison Rae as Natalie Foster

Emily Alyn Lind as Audrey Owens

Sarah Bolger as Simone Martin

Elizabeth McLaughlin as Jessie Crane

Finn Wolfhard as Stanley Lance "Stan" Williams

Natalie Alyn Lind as Natasha Longwood

Taylor Russell as Holly McDaniel

Paige Hurd as Hayley McDaniel

Logan Miller as Lincoln Jefferson

Emily Tennant as Cynthia Cooper

Tequan Richmond as Maurice Lakewood

Zac Godspeed as Tyler Ferguson

Daniel Sharman as Kurt Parker

Jordan Elsass as Taylor Ferguson

Emma Roberts as Jillian "Jill" Roberts

Samantha Boscarino as Elaine Williams

India Eisley as Alivia Williams

Milo Manheim as Zackary "Zack" Feldman

Stefanie Scott as Caroline "Carol" Feldman

Anna Sawai as Alexis Williams

Haley Lu Richardson as Bethany "Beth-Ann" Lewis

Mekai Curtis as Reginald "Reggie" Stark

Kaia Gerber as Taylor Swanson

Jeremy Ray Taylor as Maurice Thompson

Wyatt Oleff as Wyatt Matthews

Jaz Sinclair as Jordan Harris

Jaeden Martell as Landon Andrews

Skeet Ulrich as Billy Loomis

Benjamin Flores Jr. as Edward Baker

Fred Henchinger as Darren Blake

Tony Revolori as Jason Carvey

Samara Weaving as Laura Crane

Henry Czerny as Dr. Christopher Stone

Roger L. Jackson as the voice of Ghostface

The storyline of this (The Extended Cut of Scream VI) is coming soon after this.

Stay Tuned!

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