Mike Leavitt, Norm Bangerter, Spencer Cox, Jon Huntsman Jr., Gary Herbert, George Dern, Cal Rampton, Charles R. Mabey, Henry H. Blood, George Dewey Clyde, Simon Bamberger, Herbert B. Maw, Scott M. Matheson, J. Bracken Lee
MAGA media figures are preparing their audiences to believe that the upcoming presidential debate on CNN will be unfairly biased against Donald Trump.
While Trump has already begun saying that the June 27 debate will be rigged against him, right-wing media attacks escalated this week after an interview with Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt was cut off on CNN’s This Morning when she refused to stop attacking network anchor Jake Tapper. Right-wing media seized on the incident as supposed evidence that the CNN debate will be unfair, and some called for Trump to cancel the debate if the network does not officially apologize.
Right-wing media had a meltdown over CNN’s Kasie Hunt cutting off Trump spokesliar Karoline Leavitt on Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning.
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Live from the Apex in Las Vegas, Nevada; the UFC presents UFC Fight Night: Krylov vs Spann. Number sixth-ranked Nikita Krylov will throw down with Ryan Spann in a Light-Heavyweight feature bout.
Also on the card, undefeated Flyweight Tatiana Suarez will return from a two-year layoff to fight Montana De La Rosa.
UFC Fight Night Krylov vs Spann
Main Card
Nikita Krylov vs Ryan…
We got some new BTS this week! Ross Duffer posted a picture of the cast and crew at a sound stage and captioned it “Week 24. Happy halfway to the best cast and crew ever.” Two people at the front of the picture were blurred out and people have been speculating on what this could mean. The best guess I’ve seen is that it could be two cast members in costume that they don’t want us to see.
He also posted a video of Finn Wolfhard at the sound stage dropping a marble into the marble bowl with producer Hilary Leavitt behind him. It’s nice to see him joking around with Ross and it looks like we’ll be getting a lot of Mike scenes this season! This also gives us an idea of when filming will wrap as another 24 weeks puts us into December of this year. Season 4 took almost a full year to film so it’s not surprising that the final season will too. So it looks like we’ll get Season 5 in mid-2025 at the earliest.
A group of dozens of Polish American Wisconsinites, including current and former Democratic elected officials, released an open letter Wednesday criticizing former President Donald Trump's comments about Russia's war with Ukraine and backing Vice President Kamala Harris."Earlier this year, Trump said he would encourage Russia to 'do whatever the hell they want' to our NATO allies, and during the debate last week he twice refused to answer a question about whether he wanted Ukraine to win their war," the letter reads. "Polish people in the U.S. and around the world know that our future is tied to Ukraine’s — because after Ukraine, Putin’s next target is Poland."
The letter was signed by more than 60 Polish American Wisconsinites, including Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski, Stevens Point Mayor Mike Wiza, Oak Creek Mayor Dan Bukiewicz, Milwaukee County Board Supervisor Justin Bielinski and Portage County Board Supervisor Shaun Przybylski.
The letter comes as both Harris and Trump are working to win support from Polish American voters.
During last week's debate, held in Philadelphia, Harris appealed to the 800,000 Polish-Americans who reside in Pennsylvania as she criticized Trump's relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin and comments about the war in Ukraine.
And this weekend, Trump and Polish President Andrzej Duda are scheduled to attend the same event in Pennsylvania.
The Trump campaign responded to questions about the letter by criticizing Harris' foreign policy experience and saying she and President Joe Biden had “emboldened our adversaries" and worsened conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border.
"Kamala Harris is dangerously liberal and there is zero doubt that America will be a more dangerous place if she was our Commander in Chief," Karoline Leavitt, Trump Campaign press secretary, said in a statement.
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery / Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, July 3 – August 15, 2008
Feat.: Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, Merlin Carpenter, Mathew Cerletty, Wojciech Fangor, Katharina Fritsch, Gelitin, Isa Genzken, Poul Gernes, Daan van Golden, Jack Goldstein, Rodney Graham, Wade Guyton, Richard Hawkins, Mary Heilmann, Sophie von Hellermann, Charline von Heyl, Ull Hohn, Sergej Jensen, Mike Kelley, Ellsworth Kelly, Karen Kilimnik, Martin Kippenberger, Michael Krebber, William Leavitt, Michel Majerus, Bjarne Melgaard, Laura Owens, Blinky Palermo, Stephen Prina, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Paul Sharits, Josh Smith, Reena Spaulings, Lily van der Stokker, Atsuko Tanaka, Paul Thek, Anne Truitt, Kelley Walker, Christopher Wool, and Katharina Wulff
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
Credits: TheMovieDb.
Film Cast:
Amy Cole: Kristen Stewart
Ali: Payman Maadi
Randy: Lane Garrison
Rico: J. J. Soria
Col. Drummond: John Carroll Lynch
Betty: Julia Duffy
Bergen: Cory Michael Smith
Newscaster: Nawal Bengholam
Mary: Tara Holt
Ehan: Yousuf Azami
Mahmoud: Marco Khan
Detainee #3: Robert Tarpinian
Night Shift C.O.: Kyle Bornheimer
Army Private (uncredited): Holli Dean
Waitress (uncredited): Jennae Hoving
IRF #1: Ladell Preston
IRF #2: Daniel Leavitt
Film Crew:
Producer: Gina Kwon
Casting: Richard Hicks
Second Unit Director of Photography: Adam Stone
Gaffer: Mike Gioulakis
Director of Photography: James Laxton
Editor: Geraud Brisson
Art Direction: Joshua Locy
Set Decoration: Adam Willis
Steadicam Operator: Michael J. Wilson
Production Design: Richard A. Wright
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Michael Perricone
Director: Peter Sattler
Original Music Composer: Jess Stroup
Sound Effects Editor: Jeffrey A. Pitts
Script Supervisor: Cristina Fanti
Visual Effects Supervisor: Tim Carras
Visual Effects Producer: Joshua D. Comen
Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Will Files
Foley: Dave DeCoster
Foley: Sanaa Kelley
Gaffer: Cooper Donaldson
Camera Operator: Alex Kornreich
Costume Design: Christie Wittenborn
Dialogue Editor: James Gallivan
Hair Department Head: Jessica Lou Allen
Key Hair Stylist: Henry Sanchez
Makeup Department Head: Lorraine Martin
Makeup Artist: Jeremy Bramer
Assistant Art Director: Tom Obed
Camera Operator: Eric W. Smith
Still Photographer: Beth Dubber
Still Photographer: Prashant Gupta
Movie Reviews:
Reno: > Right from the beginning events of the scenes are poorly intensified.
It was a one sided narration, that is really a very bad for this kind of sensitive theme. But the prime intention was to bring the Guantanamo Bay detention camp’s atrocity on the detainees by the US military. Well, it actually avoids those strong cruelties, and focuses the unusual relationship between a detainee and a woman guard.
Limited cast, shot mostly in a single location with the budget of just one million USD, and an ordinary opening, but ended strong. I assumed a lot of things likely to happen while I was watching. Like Amy Cole (Kristen Stewart) was in undercover, to make detainees talk and collect the information. Because she was the only woman around, but as usual like most of the time I was wrong. It was so plain and filled with human emotions.
I was strong and confident that they were just torturing the terrorists who deserved it. If you see it from the human perspective that was slightly a over-limit, only if you exclude their crimes. I just felt it was a propaganda to show US in a bad light. That is the reason it will not show terror strikes in the movie that committed by any of the detainee characters, but only the consequences they face.
A Hollywood movie specially made to make feel good for the terrorists and those who support it. Okay, I agree, some were innocents. While fishing, a few other marine animals also gets trapped in the net as well, for that I feel sorry what happened to them. But 95% of them were heartless monsters. Everyone will have their own opinion on this film based on their religion, nationality or sympathetic for simply being a human, and everything are fair.
6/10
I managed to squeeze in a total of 95 books for this month, which is much too long to not have under a read-more. But here's my total stats:
Total: 95 books and 1 short story.
Oldest: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
Longest: Les Misérables (1463pg).
Average Pages: 289.
64% were YA.
56% were read as e-book or audiobook.
56% were written by female authors.
Rep: 28% queer, 35% mental health, 25% POC, 15% disability.
5 Stars:
Pedro & Daniel by Federico Erebia
The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson
Negative Space by B. R. Yeagar
Head Case by Sarah Aronson
A List Of Cages by Robin Roe
How It Feels to Float by Helena Fox
A World Without You by Beth Revis
The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt
The Vanishing Place by Theresa Emminizer
The Cost of Knowing by Brittney Morris
A Death on the Wolf by G.M. Frazier
4.5 Stars:
Lost Girls by Ann Kelley
Beauty of the Broken by Tawni Waters
Honeybee by Craig Silvey
Bang, Bang, You're Dead! by Narinder Dhami
We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
My Father's Scar by Michael Cart
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hesse
More Than This by Patrick Ness
Born to Serve by Josephine Cox
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick
Howl by Shaun David Hutchinson
You Asked for Perfect by Laura Silverman
4 Stars:
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
A Very, Very Bad Thing by Jeffery Self
Double by Jenny Valentine
Tattoo Atlas by Tim Floreen
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
The Escape by Hannah Jayne
My Abandonment by Peter Rock
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Counterfeit Son by Elaine Marie Alphin
The Escape from Home by Avi
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
Young Pioneers by Rose Wilder Lane
Elantris by Brandon Sanderson
Let's Call It a Doomsday by Katie Henry
Raven Summer by David Almond
The Emperor's Soul by Brandon Sanderson
The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun
The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain
Pandemic by Yvonne Ventresca
Ashfall by Mike Mullin
3.5 Stars:
10 Things I Can See from Here by Carrie Mac
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Calvin by Martine Leavitt
The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan
Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn
Surviving Bear Island by Paul Greci
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli
Rainbow Boys by Alex Sanchez
3 Stars:
They Never Came Home by Lois Duncan
Five and the Stately Homes Gang by Claude Voilier
Five Go On Television by Claude Voilier
Five and the Golden Galleon by Claude Voilier
Ten Mile River by Paul Griffin
Five in Fancy Dress by Claude Voilier
Pig Boy by J.C. Burke
Five Versus the Black Mask by Claude Voilier
The Meaning of Birds by Jaye Robin Brown
Five and the Pink Pearls by Claude Voilier
The Trouble With Half a Moon by Danette Vigilante
I Am David by Anne Holm
I Am The Cheese by Robert Cormier
Five and the Secret of the Caves by Claude Voilier
The Fear by Spencer Hamilton
Five and the Z-Rays by Claude Voilier
Hold Fast by Kevin Major
The Disturbed Girl's Dictionary by NoNieqa Ramos
Five and the Knights' Treasure by Claude Voilier
2.5 Stars:
The Rag and Bone Shop by Robert Cormier
Five and the Mystery of the Emeralds by Claude Voilier
Five and the Missing Cheetah by Claude Voilier
Outside Looking In by James Lincoln Collier
Tears of a Tiger by Sharon M. Draper
The Hobbit by J. R. R Tolkien
Too Soon for Jeff by Marilyn Reynolds
Mine by Delilah S. Dawson
Five And The Cavalier's Treasure by Claude Voilier
Five and the Blue Bear Mystery by Claude Voilier
Supermassive by Nina Rossing
Five And The Strange Legacy by Claude Voilier
2 Stars:
The Island Keeper by Harry Mazer
The Winter Children by Lulu Taylor
33 Snowfish by Adam Rapp
Five and the Hijackers by Claude Voilier
Let The Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist
Paper Covers Rock by Jenny Hubbard
The Story of King Arthur and his Knights by Howard Pyle
1.5 Stars:
Aliens in the Family by Margaret Mahy
The Kingdom By The Sea by Robert Westall
The Nightmarys by Dan Poblocki
The week the Tabernacle choir was here was so exciting and so busy. I began with a meeting at the downtown Marriott with the Choir leaders and the Communications department. Mike Leavitt, is the Choir President, so he ran the meeting. It was fun to think of the upcoming events. The choir arrived on Tuesday, but the first event I was asked to photograph was in Thursday in Toluca. The excitement from the town was a palpable as the 5 choir buses unloaded at the cathedral.
We had a fun visit with Ross Boothe, Elizabeth Willey Marsh, and Alexander Willey. Elizabeth has 9 children and her her sanity is being in the Orchestra at Temple Square. Ross and his partner are involved in designing large concerts, and stye helped with this one.
I was asked to photograph the VIP luncheon before the concert. They had the VVIP's at the head table and they were presented with plates from the choir leadership. They also donated $5,000.00 to a music school, which was accepted by the pastor on the right. The women on the left represented the Governor's office. Sister Lima helped present the gifts to the government and church representatives.
The Concert in the Toluca Cathedral
The acoustics were unbelievable. You could see people look around as the concert began, with expressions of, 'Can you believe what we are hearing.' The baby boy was right by me and the minute the choir and orchestra began, he woke up and looked at his dad like, 'what is happening?