#Nancy Gonzalez

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House on Fire - Episode 5: 'Know Your Moves'

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Nancy Gonzalez Crocodile Clutch Bag in Black ($232)

Courrèges Lamb Leather Trench Coat in Black ($895)

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Cupid's Match

➣ 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒐 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑪𝒂𝒔𝒕

        Cupid's Match follows a 16-year-old soc girl named Rosalie Moore who has learned to not care what others think about what she says, does, or who she likes; She navigates her junior year of high school with a newer mind from last year and her own opinions of people around her. She is a huge flirt when it comes to a certain T-bird - Richie Valdovinos - and will take any chance she gets to flirt with him. She becomes one of five outcasts throughout her junior year with some of her best friends - Olivia Valdovinos, Nancy Nakagawa, Cynthia Zdunowski, and Jane Facciano - and making new friends along the way and causing some light chaos. 

         Asher Valdovinos is the brother of Richie and Olivia, and he is not afraid to fight in order to protect his friends and family. He is a T-Bird who puts up a wall to find out who he can truly trust within his walls. He is a very joking and loving person with his friends and family, and very flirtatious when it comes to a certain pink lady - Jane Facciano - to where he wants to be there for her. He is truly one of the kinds who tend to be very protective and is one of the first ones to put up a fight. He grows close with Rosalie Moore in his junior year and becomes best friends who tell each other everything. With his fellow T-Birds he messes around, drinks, and has some friendly competition with each other. 

Rosalie Moore played by 

➣ Sabrina Carpenter

Aubrey Moore played by

➣ Aubrey Plaza

Christian Moore played by

➣ Christian Bale

Asher Valdovinos played by

➣ Jake T. Austin

Richie Valdovinos played by

➣ Johnathan Nieves

Gil Rizzo played by

➣ Nicholas McDonough

Potato Gonzalez played by

➣ Alexis Sides

Shy Guy played by

➣ Maximo Salas

Jane Facciano played by

➣ Marisa Davila

Olivia Valdovinos played by

➣ Cheyenne Isabel Wells

Nancy Nakagawa played by

➣ Tricia Fukuhara

Cynthia Zdunowski played by

➣ Ari Notartomaso

The Rest of The Characters played by

➣ Their respective Cast

Description:

Rosalie Moore is a soc eventually turned outcast, who has learned during the summer to do what she wants and says what she wants and not what others want her to be or do. Over the summer she had started flirting with a certain T-Bird not caring about her so-called "friends" thoughts on who it is, and throughout the year makes a new group of friends who appreciate her more. Her junior year goes a way she never expected and can't wait to see where it goes. How does her junior year end up?

This story includes:

➣ Cursing

➣ Mentions of Sex, Weed, Alcohol, etc.

➣ Violence

I do not own the characters or rights of Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies, I just own Rosalie Moore and Asher Valdovinos.

I hope you love Rosalie and Asher as much as I love them!

Also posted to my Wattpad

➣ Ohshc22

Authors Note:

I'm very sorry to @cyansadness for the sad scenes and the heartache, thank you for talking through scenes and about Asher and Rosalie with me! I can't wait for you to read it !

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Democrats have notched their biggest victory since taking full control of Washington 19 months ago. The November fragrance of their late political bloom remains to be seen.

Every House Democrat on Friday evening gave final approval, along party lines, to a health care, climate and tax bill, delivering on a key campaign promise of Joe Biden’s presidency and capping more than a year of talks on the Hill.

The legislation represents the largest investment in addressing climate change in U.S. history, allows Medicare to negotiate with pharmaceutical companies on the costliest prescription drugs and extends health care subsidies through the 2024 election. Biden is expected to swiftly sign the bill.

Minutes after voting, progressive Rep. Chuy García (D-Ill.) summed up the day like this: “Just when you thought nothing big would happen, turned out that something big could happen ... it’s a great day.”

Republicans sharply opposed the package, which is financed largely by tax increases on large corporations and would reduce the U.S. deficit over time, according to nonpartisan analysis.

“I’ve been saying for a long time now that Joe Biden is to this country what Harry Truman was back in the 1940s,” House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) said, while acknowledging that the bill isn’t everything Democrats wanted: “But I’ve always said a half loaf is better than no loaf. You come back and get the other half if we can have a successful election in November and get the numbers we need.”

House Democratic Caucus Chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) was more blunt in his Friday floor speech: “It’s a big effing deal.”

Of course, it’s uncertain whether one bill is enough to turn around the historic headwinds and inflation angst that have put the House majority out of reach for Democrats this fall and imperiled their control of the Senate, according to most polls. And the party must now sell the bill to voters who won’t see much of its benefits for years — not to mention its own progressive base, where there’s keen awareness of how many priorities got dropped.

Even so, three months before Election Day, many party lawmakers are the most upbeat they’ve been in months about their chances to defy, or at least temper, the GOP’s advantage.

“I do think we have a really good story to tell. And we need to sing it from every rooftop over the next couple of months,” said Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.).

Democrats walked a winding and occasionally treacherous path to this moment, pressing past months of internal tension between liberals and centrists over the scope of the bill once called “Build Back Better” and now redesigned as the “Inflation Reduction Act.” Now that their legislation is on the verge of becoming law, the terrain ahead could be similarly tough without an aggressive push to promote it.

Lawmakers have already warned that the party’s previous sales jobs, such as last year’s effort to promote the $550 billion bipartisan infrastructure law, fell flat.

And privately, many Democrats are looking to Biden for a clearer plan this August — perhaps even the kind of nationwide tour that never happened to promote Obamacare a decade ago. Biden’s administration has pledged to House Democrats that they’ll dispatch Cabinet officials to barnstorm during this month’s abbreviated break from Washington.

But such plans for the president have yet to be announced as he embarked on a week-long post-COVID vacation in South Carolina.

Whatever messaging Democrats mount to tout their bill will compete against a bevy of GOP attack ads targeting their vulnerable incumbents in November. So far, Republicans are feeling most confident about their attacks on the bill’s credits designed to promote “luxury” electric vehicles; Democrats slam that as a lie, since only people below certain income levels will qualify for the credits.

Top Democrats, meanwhile, argued the party-line bill wasn’t designed to protect their majorities this fall. Asked about whether it would help the party in the midterms, Speaker Nancy Pelosi insisted that the bill’s policy measures are most important: “This probably could be helpful [in November], I don’t know. But I do know that it will be helpful to America’s working families and that’s our purpose.”

When the Dems officially got the votes, a huge group of activists outside the Capitol burst into cheers. Earlier, Democrats including Reps. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and Sharice Davids (D-Kan.) were running up and down collecting high-fives from supporters

Pelosi and her leadership team rounded up every single Democrat to back the package, a notable achievement for the sprawling caucus. Two moderates that leadership was most concerned about — Rep. Jared Golden (D-Maine) and Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas) — both ultimately voted yes.

The removal of a narrowed tax break for investment managers known as carried interest, at the behest of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), “angers me,” Golden said in an interview before the Senate passed the bill on Sunday. “At least they’re not doing” the repeal of limits on state and local tax deductions, he added. “I’ll give ‘em credit for that.”

Extended subsidies for insurance buyers under the Affordable Care Act had been a key priority for a group of moderate Democrats who worried that, without action by Congress this month, insurers would start warning of price hikes just before the midterms.

The bill’s health care provisions — including allowing the U.S. government to negotiate the costs of the priciest drugs in Medicare — are among its most popular elements, according to polls. But the negotiated prices won’t start to kick in until 2026, underscoring the dilemma for Democrats.

“One of the top issues we hear from folks is the cost of prescription drugs. I think people have been talking about that for years and wanting to see progress there,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene (D-Wash.), who chairs the moderate New Democrat Coalition, urging her party to make health care one of its chief selling points for the bill heading into November.

The GOP has focused its attacks, so far, on charges that the bill’s spending will spark higher taxes and inflation at a time when spiking prices remain a major concern for voters. They’ve also hammered Democrats over the bill’s new Internal Revenue Service funding to hire additional enforcement personnel, which they say will result in more tax scrutiny for regular Americans. Democrats counter that the increased IRS enforcement will focus on large corporations and wealthy Americans.

“Do they not understand the concept of pouring gas on the fire?” said Rep. Bob Good (R-Va.), who railed against the bill in a floor speech and then proceeded to argue that climate change was a “hoax,” that fossil fuels are “a wonderful thing” and that Democrats wanted to hire thousands of armed IRS agents.

The speech prompted a raucous rebuke from House Budget Chair John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), who called the remarks “lies.”

But in the battle over lower health care costs, Democrats have their own midterm pitch to go up against Republicans’ inflation-minded message heading into November.

“I wouldn’t want to go home and explain to my constituents why I voted against lowering their prescription drug costs. If they want to do that, if that’s their platform, then have at it,” Rules Committee Chair Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said.

“November is a long time away,” he added. “But clearly I think this is something that’s very, very popular.”

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Here Are The ... *Checks Notes* ... EIGHT House Republicans Cool With You Using Birth Control

Here Are The … *Checks Notes* … EIGHT House Republicans Cool With You Using Birth Control

Yay, uterus-havers! You can relax because it turns out everybody was wrong and the Republicans aren’t really coming for contraception next, and everything will be fine because … Wait what? What did you say? You said the House of Representatives held a vote to make sure the right to contraception was guaranteed nationwide and how many Republicans voted for it? Eight? How many voted against that?…

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Introduction of New Proposed Afghan Adjustment Act

On July 13, 2023, U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (Dem, MN) with five co-sponsoring Democrat Senators and six co-sponsoring Republican Senators introduced a new proposed Afghan Adjustment Act (S.2327). The Democrat co-sponsors are Senators Coon (DE), Blumenthal (CT), Shaheen (NH), Durban (IL) and Menendez (NJ), and the Republican co-sponsors are Senators Graham  (SC), Moran (KS), Mullin (OK),…

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Pelosi'nin eşine saldırmıştı: 'Çocuklarına cinsel istismarda bulundu' iddiası

Pelosi’nin eşine saldırmıştı: ‘Çocuklarına cinsel istismarda bulundu’ iddiası

Inti Gonzalez adındaki 20 yaşındaki bir kız, Facebook’ta ve bir blog yazısında, ABD Temsilciler Meclisi Başkanı Nancy Pelosi‘nin eşi Paul Pelosi‘ye çekiçle saldıran 42 yaşındaki David DePape‘in “karanlığa çekildiğini” iddia etti. 20’li yaşlarındaki Gonzalez, “Nancy Pelosi’nin kocasına yapılan bu saldırı, bana ve kardeşlerime uyguladığı cinsel tacizi düşündüğümde, çok olmasa da benim için de bir…

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EE.UU: NANCY PELOSI USA INFORMACIÓN PRIVILEGIADA Y CONFIDENCIAL PARA SU PROPIO BENEFICIO.

EE.UU: NANCY PELOSI USA INFORMACIÓN PRIVILEGIADA Y CONFIDENCIAL PARA SU PROPIO BENEFICIO.

"Ningún hombre honesto se hace rico de un momento a otro" "No honest man gets rich overnight" Mel González (Refrán Popular) Popular saying SANTOS MIGUEL GONZALES Columnista Nancy Pelosi Presidenta de la Cámara de Representantes de los Estados Unidos de América, tiene sus objetivos bien claros y no es exactamente para ayudar al pueblo norteamericano. Ella usa y adquiere información privilegiada…

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“When Mary Magdalene meets the resurrected Jesus, she looks right at him, but does not recognize him, “supposing him to be a gardener.” Only when he addresses her does she realize who he is. She turns toward him. John does not describe the action, only the dialogue, so it is left to us to imagine what leads Jesus to say, in the Latin that has become metonym for the scene as a whole, Noli me tangere, usually translated as “do not touch me” or “do not hold me.” The noli me tangere encounter is another one artists cannot resist. There are myriad arrangements of Jesus and Mary Magdalene: his hand stretches out in refusal, she kneels, he bends, they both stand, they look at each other, one looks away. Almost always she reaches for him. Sometimes she makes contact. The multitude of portraits reflects the ambiguity of the simple phrase, which opens a range of possible relations. Perhaps he rejects her touch because he cannot bear the shock of intimacy, divided as they are by the fact of the resurrection. Perhaps, even as he speaks, he touches her, to hold her away from him. It’s possible, the philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy argues, to translate the phrase as “do not wish to touch me.” If you do, then it becomes an exhortation to love the death too, because it is intrinsic to every life. Meanwhile, Mary’s hands hang in the air. Resurrection is Dante’s eternal rotation, “spurred on by flaming love”: it is the ongoing allegiance to keeping in sight the appearance of disappearance. It is living as if. It is a game of hands, an everlasting reaching after what escapes, what you love.”

— Elisa Gonzalez, in “Minor Resurrections: On failing to raise the dead”

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Over one year on from Dobbs, please remember the victims of abortion bans in America. These are just the ones that made it to the news:

Marlena Stell

Amanda Zurawski

Mylissa Farmer

The 10-year-old from Ohio

The 16-year-old from Florida

The 15-year-old from Florida

Nancy Davis

Elizabeth Weller

Anya Cook

Kelly Shannon

Jessica Bernardo

Kierstan Hogan

Taylor Edwards

Kylie Beaton

Gabriella Gonzalez

Samantha Casiano

Lauren Van Vleet

Austin Dennard

Lauren Miller

Jaci Statton

Kristina Cruickshank

Tara George

Kailee DeSpain

Deborah Dorbert

Mayron Hollis

Kristen Anya

Heather Maberry

Melissa Novak

Kayla Smith

Lauren Christensen

Beth Long

Anabely Lopes

Christina Zielke

Kaitlyn Joshua

Lauren Hall

Carmen Broesder

Jill Hartle

Brittany Vidrine

Jane Doe from Massachusetts, who had an ectopic pregnancy rupture because a pregnancy crisis center told her it was viable

The Jane Doe had an ectopic pregnancy rupture after an anti-abortion pregnancy center told her she had a normal pregnancy

Emily Doe, whose fetus had lungs that wouldn’t develop and had no kidneys. The pregnancy had the potential to endanger her health…but it wasn’t endangering it yet. So she had to flee Missouri for an abortion.

Victoria Doe from Louisiana, who had to go to Oregon

Ashley Brandt

Anna Zargarian

Reverend and Doctor Love Holt

Michelle Mitchenor

Brooke High

Ashley from Mississippi, who was raped and forced to give birth to her rapist's baby. She's 13.

Nicole Blackmon

Allie Phillips

Jennifer Adkins

When we do win back our right to bodily autonomy, forced birthers will forget these people. Some have absolutely no idea who these people are. But when you tell them you hope what they force on others gets forced on them, they gasp and say you're evil. Because they recognize that what they force on others is wrong, and they think they deserve better than their victims.

If you think the "abortion debate" is merely a difference of opinion, you haven't been paying attention.

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please do something with nancy wheelr i miss my baby

-🧞‍♀️

SAVE ME FROM WHAT I WANT - nancy wheeler

author's note: my beautiful jean genie anon, i love you so much for asking for this and i hope to god you like it. this honestly maybe might be a prologue to something bigger i'm toying around with (spot the references l o l) but-- let's just get into it, shall we??? content warning: nancy wheeler being semi in denial about her sexuality, nancy wheeler is a lesbian, mentions of pussy eatin but no actual pussy eatin, references to complicated stancy and jancy, mention of parent illness, a little angst and a little fluff word count: 1.7k

The first time Nancy Wheeler kissed a girl was not a light bulb moment.

There were no choirs of angels singing, no great and fantastic revelation about who she is. 

Because it’s not like she hadn’t thought about it before.

Nancy, a student of the human scene, has entertained the curiosity the same way one might like, want to see what happens when they throw a watermelon off the top of an eleven story building. The fall and the impact will surely be thrilling, but then there’s the cleanup. Did you know it’s illegal to throw watermelons off buildings in most US states? So theoretically, if she were to throw the watermelon, she could always toss and run. But then she’d have to live with the guilt of not going back and owning up to her mess. It could have really hurt someone. Maybe it did! 

But the temptation to throw is still there. 

Anyway, she doesn’t think about it that much. So it’s fine. 

She only thought about it when her feminist lit professor paused at her desk, returning the paper she’d written about Gloria Steinem infiltrating the Playboy Club. Professor Gonzalez, who Nancy can’t quite bring herself to call Flo despite her insistence, has sleek black hair that tumbles over her shoulder like dark and deadly sand through an hourglass. It fell in a sheet then too, almost hitting Nancy in the face as Flo told her, “This is great. I know Gloria, and she would totally love this.” 

Despite Nancy’s best friend derisively protesting that Professor Gonzalez does not know Gloria, are you shitting me, Nancy entertains daydreams where she and Flo and Gloria Steinem meet up in a dark bar for a gorgeous, stimulating meeting of the minds. In some versions, Flo goes home first, leaving Nancy and Gloria alone. In other versions, the versions that throw heat on Nancy’s cheeks even just thinking about them, Gloria goes home first and Nancy and Flo are staring at each other through the brine-heavy buzz of dirty martinis. 

Nancy doesn’t even like dirty martinis. 

She discovered this at some dorm get together or another, where one of her similarly-affected-by-pretentiousness coursemates attempted to mix them. Badly, she assumed, because they tasted like crap. She winced on every sip. 

“Someone once told me these were supposed to taste like pussy,” her best friend had said from the common area couch, to which Nancy had snorted, Jesus!, a little gin and vermouth and brine coming out of her nose. 

“And?” That came from a girl in a smart ponytail, who was wearing smart suit slacks and a smart sweater in ultra smart, muted colors. She had taken a seat next to Nancy on the floor by the fire, and Nancy found herself awkwardly adjusting her off-the-shoulder sweatshirt. She should have dressed up for this, right? But these common room salons were always happening, and it felt like it was so hard to gauge the dress code. 

“How does that flavor profile match up?” 

Nancy realized that the low tone this girl was speaking in wasn’t meant for the room. It wasn’t even meant for her best friend, who’d posed the question. It was just meant for her. 

Ah, Nancy mouthed. “Um. I don’t know. I’ve never… tried it.”

Oh, the girl mouthed back, her head cocked toward her shoulder. “Maybe you should think about expanding your palate.” 

Nancy’s stomach had jumped and she had drunk the rest of her shitty martini way too fast. By the time she had figured it was time to head to bed, her head felt like it was floating a couple of inches above her neck, and she was hand-in-hand with the smart girl from the fire. 

Back slumping against the door in a clumsy stumble. Nancy giggled. The girl, who said her name was Sal, which Nancy thought was very glamorous, leaned against the door next to her. 

“I wish I dressed like you,” Nancy said, reaching out to finger the arm of her sweater. Cashmere. Something expensive. People were always wearing expensive things here. They looked so grown-up, so continental, compared to Nancy’s department store skirts and pastel shades. 

“We can swap outfits,” Sal hummed, the words coming from low in her throat as she tilted her head towards Nancy’s, “if your roommate isn’t home.”

Nancy Wheeler, even four crapshoot dirty martinis in, is not obtuse. Seeing double might make it a quadruple entendre, but she still knows one when she hears it. 

“I… have a boyfriend,” she’d whispered, almost into Sal’s mouth. That was, at the time, only half true. She and Steve were still navigating long distance in a post-Jonathan-breakup world. It wasn’t perfect yet, so no promises were made. But history weighed heavy on them.

Sal reached out to pluck at Nancy’s old sweatshirt, the one she’d cut the neck out of to make it drape around her shoulders like Jennifer Beals in Flashdance. It was a comfort thing, an old blanket, a teddy bear. “A Hawkins Tiger, no doubt?”

“Used to be.” 

“And what does a Hawkins Tiger know about pussy?” This, Sal had whispered into the shell of her ear, arm tightening around her waist. Her lips met that spot of skin behind Nancy’s ears that she liked to have touched, how did Sal know that. Giggling lowly, Nancy tilted her head to meet Sal’s lips, the kiss so small and so delicate that it hardly felt like launching anything at all. No great pull, no absolute passionate urgency. 

Suddenly, as Sal flushed her chest against Nancy’s and deepened the kiss, she had a vision of splattered watermelon. 

Projectiles are so dangerous. 

“They know… more than you’d think,” Nancy said, and smiled, and slipped away from Sal and into the darkness of her bedroom. 

Better to be safe than sorry. 

The second time Nancy kissed a girl, she didn’t even look like herself. 

She had come stomping into her best friend’s off-campus apartment (this girl being one year her senior) with her makeup kit in hand, like she was cashing in a makeover coupon that was about to expire. “Please, help me out here. I need to– it needs to be different this time.”

Now, that statement could have meant anything; it being New Years Eve, which they were about to celebrate, it being the most recent iteration of her breakup with Steve, it being her entire vision of herself. 

Nancy was fashioned into a vixen of epically out-of-her skin proportions, but she loved it. And maybe it was the bottle of cheap champagne they’d indulged in while getting ready, but she couldn’t quit gazing at her sparkling sapphire eyelids, the dress with chains for straps draping over her lithe little frame, the body waves her perm had been gelled into. She felt so far away from the hardheaded provincial do-gooder she’d admonished herself for being, a tiny bumpkin of a fish in the humongous, rushing, risque pond of college life. She felt alive and mischievous, like a nymph, her blood sparkling in her veins like the bubbles in her coupe.  

She and her best friend set off out to a party, shivering against the sub-zero temperatures and whooping like hyenas all the way there. Arms linked, sharing what little body heat they had, their mood soon flatlined as they settled into the festivities– average college fare, you know, with all of their other friends already paired off for their New Years’ kisses. They were the only two single people there, it seemed– she, recently liberated and her best friend, taking her seasonal sabbatical from mistletoe-themed hookups. It reminds her too much of a boy she knew in high school, though she’d never admit that. 

But Nancy knows. And Nancy loves her, despite the collegiate wild streak that has alienated her a little bit. And Nancy wanted to show her as much. 

Before the countdown even began, Nancy entwined their glitter painted fingers and said, “Hey! Promise me something?”

“Anything, Pants.” 

“Promise me we’ll always be as fun as we are right now,” she said, beaming. “Promise that no matter what happens, we’ll never lose it.” 

Aw! her best friend had mouthed, and took Nancy’s heart-shaped face in her hands. She leaned in, lips pulling Nancy’s in. Like tulip petals, Nancy had thought, but hadn’t exactly known why. They kissed and kissed, as the countdown raged and the ball dropped into sparkling smithereens. And as she felt her best friend’s tongue try and brace against her lips, Nancy pulled away. They stood together, forehead-to-forehead, giggling again. 

When their bubbles finally flattened, they spent the rest of the night and much of the morning talking about what life would be like if they could be together– because as much as Nancy loved her, and as fun as kissing her was, it was no watermelon. “It was a gas,” her best friend said, in that Fitzgeraldian way she had about her. 

They would celebrate the anniversary of what could have been, if they only worked out every year after.

Her first year out of college, Nancy spent her nights praying for a thrill. Six months filled with pulling doubles at a college bar in Indianapolis, hospital rooms, speaking to doctors when her mother couldn’t, fighting against her brother’s sullen silences and explaining to her sister what remission meant. Misery metastasized into monotony. She started staring down watermelons at the market. 

And she knows that’s a terrible thing to say and think, but it’s true. Even with all the support she had from Steve, who never knew exactly what to do when she’d report on her father’s diminishing health with the cadence of a newscaster, or even the help she was getting from Eddie, who took her on as a roommate in his shithole apartment. He got her a job in that divey college bar so she could be closer to her family as they all fell apart, shuttling her back and forth to Hawkins in his van. He was a better sibling to Mike than she ever was, she thought. Mike certainly seemed to like him more. 

The first time Nancy Wheeler realizes she really, really, really wants to kiss a girl, she stinks of fryer grease and spilled beer. And she should have expected it.

Expected to see her, anyway. 

Steve had told her about it weeks ago, but she had smoked half a joint of Eddie’s without telling either of them and zoned out. Very unlike the Nancy Wheeler that Hawkins had once known. 

She should have expected to see her, but here she is. Like a shock to the system, a last alarm. Nervous hands curved around a glass of Pilsner. Baseball cap on backwards. Cheeks ruddy with the chill of the city. 

“Oh! Hey– hi, Robin.”

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A luxury handbag designer has been jailed after pleading guilty to smuggling purses made of the skins of protected reptiles, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Nancy Teresa Gonzalez de Barberi, found of the luxury handbag company Gzuniga, was sentenced to 18 months in prison on Monday for illegally importing merchandise from Colombia to the United States that was made from protected wildlife, authorities said.

Mauricio Giraldo, an associate of Gonzalez, was also sentenced to prison, according to the Department of Justice.

“Gzuniga was ordered to forfeit all handbags and other previously seized product, banned for three years from any activities involving commercial trade in wildlife and sentenced to serve three years of probation,” officials said. “Gonzalez was sentenced to 18 months in prison with credit for time served, a supervised release of three years and to pay a special assessment. Giraldo was sentenced to time served, approximately 22 months based on incarceration in Colombia and the United States since his extradition, a year of supervised release and to pay a special assessment.”

Another co-conspirator, John Camilo Aguilar Jaramillo, had previously pleaded guilty on April 8 and is set to be sentenced on June 27, authorities said.

Gonzalez, Giraldo and Jaramillo are Colombian citizens and were extradited to the United States to face the charges brought against them.

The caiman and python species the company was making bags out of are protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), to which both the United States and Colombia are signatories. The trade in caimans and pythons is not completely banned but is strictly regulated under CITES rules.

“The United States signed on to CITES in an effort to help protect threatened and endangered species here and abroad from trafficking,” said Assistant Attorney General Todd Kim of the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division in a statement released by the Department of Justice on Monday. “We will not tolerate illegal smuggling. We appreciate the efforts of our many federal and international partners who have helped with the investigation, extradition and prosecution of this case.”

The conspirators brought “hundreds of designer purses, handbags and totes into the United States by enlisting friends, relatives and even employees of Gonzalez’s manufacturing company in Colombia to wear the designer handbags or put them in their luggage while traveling on passenger airlines,” authorities said.

Once the merchandise was in the United States, the bags were delivered or shipped to the Gzuniga showroom in New York to be displayed and sold.

“The United States, in company with the international community, has established a system for overseeing the trafficking in protected species of wildlife. That system relies on a system of permits and oversight by many agencies and demands strict compliance by all those engaged in such trade,” said U.S. Attorney Markenzy Lapointe for the Southern District of Florida. “The press of business, production deadlines or other economic factors are not justification for anyone to knowingly flout the system and attempt to write their own exceptions to wildlife trafficking laws. In cooperation with our international partners, our Office will continue to require strict adherence to laws that protect our endangered species.”

An indictment charged Gzuniga, Gonzalez, Giraldo and Jaramillo with one count of conspiracy and two counts of smuggling for illegally importing designer handbags made from caiman and python skin from February 2016 to April 2019.

“The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is deeply committed to combatting wildlife trafficking in all its forms. The Gonzalez case underscores the importance of robust collaboration with federal and international partners to disrupt illegal wildlife trade networks,” said Assistant Director Edward Grace of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) Office of Law Enforcement. “This investigation uncovered a multi-year scheme that involved paid couriers smuggling undeclared handbags made of CITES-protected reptile skins into the U.S. to be sold for thousands of dollars. The Service will continue to seek justice for protected species exploited for profit, and we will hold accountable those who seek to circumvent international controls meant to regulate their sustainable trade.”

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NYCDA Nationals ‘23 Senior Solo Results

Placements 21-30 Under “Keep Reading”

1. Sophia Cobo - Stars Dance (Score above 298!)

2. Skai Llorente - Encore PAC (Score above 297)

3. Addison Leitch - Dmitri Kulev (Score above 297)

4. Jonathan Paula - Canadian Dance Unit (Score above 297)

5. Sophia Springer-Iannantuoni - Inspire School of Dance (Score above 297)

6. Ayla Rodriguez - Artistic Fusion (Score above 297)

7. Reagan Stafford - Next Step Dance (Score above 297)

8. Avery Hall - Danceology

9. Ella Querrey - Inspire School of Dance

10. Suvannah Hunter - Elite Dance Academy NJ

11. Aiden Cook - KJ Dance

12. Eden Galloway - WNC Dance Academy

13. Antonia Gonzalez - Stars Dance

14. Drew Rosen - Danceology

15. Abigail Weber - The Dallas Conservatory

16. Kaiden Currie - Nancy Chippendale’s

17. Alessandra Gonzalez - Collective Dance Artistry

18. Tegan Chou - Westside Dance

19. Marcello Perez - Xplosive Dance Academy

20. Samiyah Norris - Estreet Dance

21. Sayler Nguyen - Starstruck PAC

22. Isabelle Harris - Utah Dance Collective

23. Madison Morita - Collective Dance Artistry

24. Keira Fleming - Kanyok Arts

25. Jackson Koressel - Sweatshop

26. Emma McLaughlin - KJ Dance

27. Lela Dye - Dye’n 2 Dance

28. Hayley Wilson - Renner Dance Company

29. Tucker Nance - Performance Edge 2

30. Marissa Lazovick - Broadway Dance Theatre

[ladygonzalez123]

Which Best of Mother's Day of Disney Channel Characters

Who Can Best of Mother's Day of Disney Channel Characters.

We Moms Now! Disney Channel Characters

Every Kinds of Moms 👩

Happy Mother's Day everyone! 😁

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 2.27

Beer Birthdays

Albert Braun (1863)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Howard Hesseman; actor (1940)

Donal Logue; actor (1966)

Ralph Nader; lawyer, activist (1934)

John Steinbeck; writer (1902)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; poet, writer (1807)

Famous Birthdays

Marian Anderson singer (1897)

Adam Baldwin; actor (1962)

Joan Bennett; actor (1910)

Ray Berry; Baltimore Colts WR (1933)

Hugo Black; U.S. Supreme Court justice (1886)

Constantine; emperor of Rome (280 C.E.)

William Demarest; actor (1892)

Peter de Vries; writer (1910)

Lawrence Durrell; writer (1912)

James T. Farrell; writer (1904)

Irving Fisher; economist (1867)

Tony Gonzalez; Kansas City Chiefs TE (1976)

Dexter Gordon; jazz saxophonist (1923)

Alice Hamilton; toxicologist, doctor (1869)

Ted Horn; auto racer (1910)

Clarence "Kelly" Johnson; airplane engineer (1910)

Wendy Liebman; comedian (1961)

Ralph Linton; cultural anthropologist (1893)

Guy Mitchell; singer (1927)

Gene Sarazen; golfer (1902)

David Sarnoff; inventor (1891)

Neil Schon; rock guitarist (1954)

Grant Shaud; actor (1961)

Irwin Shaw; writer (1913)

Grant Show; actor (1962)

Nancy Spungen; Sid Vicious' murdered girlfriend (1958)

Peter Stone; writer (1930)

Elizabeth Taylor; actor (1932)

Johnny Van Zant; rock singer (1959)

Van Williams; actor (1934)

Joanne Woodward; actor (1930)

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

The House on Thursday passed a bill to protect a person's ability to access contraceptives in a 228-195 vote.

The Big Picture: Lawmakers have been introducing legislation in response to Justice Clarence Thomas' concurring opinion overturning Roe v. Wade saying that the court should reconsider "all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents," including those guaranteeing birth control access and marriage equality.

• This week, the House passed a bill to enshrine marriage equality into federal law with a wide bipartisan margin.

• Eight Republicans joined Democrats in supporting the bill. They are Nancy Mace (R-S.C.), Fred Upton (R-Mich.), John Katko (R-N.Y.), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.), Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), Maria Salazar (R-Fla.), Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Anthony Gonzalez (R-Ohio). Two Republicans voted "present."

Details: The bill, known as the Right to Contraception Act and introduced by Rep. Kathy Manning (D-N.C.), is focused on guaranteeing access to birth control measures and protecting health care providers' ability to provide them.

Between The Lines: As more states continue to ban abortion starting at fertilization, it is possible that these could be interpreted to limit access to birth control, since certain forms of birth control, such as intrauterine devices, prevent implantation in the uterus but not fertilization.

• Additionally, medical experts worry that states making abortion illegal could also potentially move to ban contraceptives.

A Republican House lawmaker, Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa), introduced legislation that would let people over the age of 18 access to birth control pills over-the-counter that have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.

• The FDA is currently considering whether to approve over-the-counter contraceptive pills from HRA Pharma.

[kwebtv]

Burke’s Law -  List of Guest Stars

The Special Guest Stars of “Burke’s Law” read like a Who’s Who list of Hollywood of the era.  Many of the appearances, however, were no more than one scene cameos.  This is as complete a list ever compiled of all those who even made the briefest of appearances on the series.  

Beverly Adams, Nick Adams, Stanley Adams, Eddie Albert, Mabel Albertson, Lola Albright, Elizabeth Allen, June Allyson, Don Ameche, Michael Ansara, Army Archerd, Phil Arnold, Mary Astor, Frankie Avalon, Hy Averback, Jim Backus, Betty Barry, Susan Bay, Ed Begley, William Bendix, Joan Bennett, Edgar Bergen, Shelley Berman, Herschel Bernardi, Ken Berry, Lyle Bettger, Robert Bice, Theodore Bikel, Janet Blair, Madge Blake, Joan Blondell, Ann Blyth, Carl Boehm, Peter Bourne, Rosemarie Bowe, Eddie Bracken, Steve Brodie, Jan Brooks, Dorian Brown, Bobby Buntrock, Edd Byrnes, Corinne Calvet, Rory Calhoun, Pepe Callahan, Rod Cameron, Macdonald Carey, Hoagy Carmichael, Richard Carlson, Jack Carter, Steve Carruthers, Marianna Case, Seymour Cassel, John Cassavetes, Tom Cassidy, Joan Caulfield, Barrie Chase, Eduardo Ciannelli, Dane Clark, Dick Clark, Steve Cochran, Hans Conried, Jackie Coogan, Gladys Cooper, Henry Corden, Wendell Corey, Hazel Court, Wally Cox, Jeanne Crain, Susanne Cramer, Les Crane, Broderick Crawford, Suzanne Cupito, Arlene Dahl, Vic Dana, Jane Darwell, Sammy Davis Jr., Linda Darnell, Dennis Day, Laraine Day, Yvonne DeCarlo, Gloria De Haven, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Richard Devon, Billy De Wolfe, Don Diamond, Diana Dors, Joanne Dru, Paul Dubov, Howard Duff, Dan Duryea, Robert Easton, Barbara Eden, John Ericson, Leif Erickson, Tom Ewell, Nanette Fabray, Felicia Farr, Sharon Farrell, Herbie Faye, Fritz Feld, Susan Flannery, James Flavin, Rhonda Fleming, Nina Foch, Steve Forrest, Linda Foster, Byron Foulger, Eddie Foy Jr., Anne Francis, David Fresco, Annette Funicello, Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Reginald Gardiner, Nancy Gates, Lisa Gaye, Sandra Giles, Mark Goddard, Thomas Gomez, Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez, Sandra Gould, Wilton Graff, Gloria Grahame, Shelby Grant, Jane Greer, Virginia Grey, Tammy Grimes, Richard Hale, Jack Haley, George Hamilton, Ann Harding, Joy Harmon, Phil Harris, Stacy Harris, Dee Hartford, June Havoc, Jill Haworth, Richard Haydn, Louis Hayward, Hugh Hefner, Anne Helm, Percy Helton, Irene Hervey, Joe Higgins, Marianna Hill, Bern Hoffman, Jonathan Hole, Celeste Holm, Charlene Holt, Oscar Homolka, Barbara Horne, Edward Everett Horton, Breena Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr., Arthur Hunnicutt, Tab Hunter, Joan Huntington, Josephine Hutchinson, Betty Hutton, Gunilla Hutton, Martha Hyer, Diana Hyland, Marty Ingels, John Ireland, Mako Iwamatsu, Joyce Jameson, Glynis Johns, I. Stanford Jolley, Carolyn Jones, Dean Jones, Spike Jones, Victor Jory, Jackie Joseph, Stubby Kaye, Monica Keating, Buster Keaton, Cecil Kellaway, Claire Kelly, Patsy Kelly, Kathy Kersh, Eartha Kitt, Nancy Kovack, Fred Krone, Lou Krugman, Frankie Laine, Fernando Lamas, Dorothy Lamour, Elsa Lanchester, Abbe Lane, Charles Lane, Lauren Lane, Harry Lauter, Norman Leavitt, Gypsy Rose Lee, Ruta Lee, Teri Lee, Peter Leeds, Margaret Leighton, Sheldon Leonard, Art Lewis, Buddy Lewis, Dave Loring, Joanne Ludden,  Ida Lupino, Tina Louise, Paul Lynde, Diana Lynn, James MacArthur, Gisele MacKenzie, Diane McBain, Kevin McCarthy, Bill McClean, Stephen McNally, Elizabeth MacRae, Jayne Mansfield, Hal March, Shary Marshall, Dewey Martin, Marlyn Mason, Hedley Mattingly, Marilyn Maxwell, Virginia Mayo, Patricia Medina, Troy Melton, Burgess Meredith, Una Merkel, Dina Merrill, Torben Meyer, Barbara Michaels, Robert Middleton, Vera Miles, Sal Mineo, Mary Ann Mobley, Alan Mowbray, Ricardo Montalbán, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Alvy Moore, Terry Moore, Agnes Moorehead, Anne Morell, Rita Moreno, Byron Morrow, Jan Murray, Ken Murray, George Nader, J. Carrol Naish, Bek Nelson, Gene Nelson, David Niven, Chris Noel, Kathleen Nolan, Sheree North, Louis Nye, Arthur O'Connell, Quinn O'Hara, Susan Oliver, Debra Paget, Janis Paige, Nestor Paiva, Luciana Paluzzi, Julie Parrish, Fess Parker, Suzy Parker, Bert Parks, Harvey Parry, Hank Patterson, Joan Patrick, Nehemiah Persoff, Walter Pidgeon, Zasu Pitts, Edward Platt, Juliet Prowse, Eddie Quillan, Louis Quinn, Basil Rathbone, Aldo Ray, Martha Raye, Gene Raymond, Peggy Rea, Philip Reed, Carl Reiner, Stafford Repp, Paul Rhone, Paul Richards, Don Rickles, Will Rogers Jr., Ruth Roman, Cesar Romero, Mickey Rooney, Gena Rowlands, Charlie Ruggles, Janice Rule, Soupy Sales, Hugh Sanders, Tura Satana, Telly Savalas, John Saxon, Lizabeth Scott, Lisa Seagram, Pilar Seurat, William Shatner, Karen Sharpe, James Shigeta, Nina Shipman, Susan Silo, Johnny Silver, Nancy Sinatra, The Smothers Brothers, Joanie Sommers, Joan Staley, Jan Sterling, Elaine Stewart, Jill St. John, Dean Stockwell, Gale Storm, Susan Strasberg, Inger Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Gil Stuart, Grady Sutton, Kay Sutton, Gloria Swanson, Russ Tamblyn. Don Taylor, Dub Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Irene Tedrow, Terry-Thomas, Ginny Tiu, Dan Tobin, Forrest Tucker, Tom Tully, Jim Turley, Lurene Tuttle, Ann Tyrrell, Miyoshi Umeki, Mamie van Doren, Deborah Walley, Sandra Warner, David Wayne, Ray Weaver, Lennie Weinrib, Dawn Wells, Delores Wells, Rebecca Welles, Jack Weston, David White, James Whitmore, Michael Wilding, Annazette Williams, Dave Willock, Chill Wills, Marie Wilson, Nancy Wilson, Sandra Wirth, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, Dana Wynter, Celeste Yarnall, Francine York.