#Ruby Cramer

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Washington Post "Deep Reads: The Nurse in the NYC Subway" (2025)

Ruby Cramer voices her story on a psychiatric nurse doing assessments in the New York City subway.

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RWBY (Behind the Voice Actors)

MAIN RWBY CAST

Ruby Rose: Lindsay Jones

Weiss Schnee: Kara Eberle and 1 other

Casey Lee Williams

Blake Belladonna: Arryn Zech

Yang Xiao Long: Barbara Dunkelman

Jaune Arc: Miles Luna

Nora Valkyrie: Samantha Ireland

Lie Ren: Monty Oum and 1 other

Neath Oum

MAJOR ROLES

Qrow Branwen: Vic Mignogna and 1 other

Ernesto Jason Liebrecht

Oscar Pine: Aaron Dismuke

Professor Ozpin: Shannon McCormick

Cinder Fall: Jessica Nigri

James Ironwood: Jason Rose

Emerald Sustrai: Katie Newville

Sun Wukong: Michael Jones

Pyrrha Nikos: Jen Brown

Penny Polendina: Taylor McNee

Mercury Black: J.J. Castillo and 1 other

Yuri Lowenthal

Winter Schnee: Elizabeth Maxwell

Salem: Jen Taylor

Neopolitan: No Voice Actor

Dr. Arthur Watts: Christopher Sabat

Tyrian Callows: Jessie James Grelle

Hazel Rainart: William Orendorff

Bartholomew Oobleck: Joel Heyman

Peter Port: Ryan Haywood and 1 other

Anthony Sardinha

Maria Calavera: Melissa Sternenberg

Adam Taurus: Garrett Hunter

Robyn Hill: Cristina Valenzuela

Roman Torchwick: Gray G. Haddock and 2 others

Billy Kametz

Christopher Wehkamp

Neptune Vasilias: Kerry Shawcross

Glynda Goodwitch: Kathleen Zuelch

Jacques Schnee: Jason Douglas

Raven Branwen: Anna Hullum

Clover Ebi: Christopher Wehkamp

Elm Ederne: Dawn M. Bennett

Marrow Amin: Marrow Amin

Harriet Bree: Anairis Quiñones

Vine Zeki: Todd Womack

Ghira Belladonna: Kent Williams

Whitley Schnee: Howard Wang

Ilia Amitola: Cherami Leigh

Kali Belladonna: Tara Platt

Taiyang Xiao Long: Burnie Burns

Vernal: Amber Lee Connors

Little: Luci Christian

Somewhat: Luci Christian

May Marigold: Kdin Jenzen

Joanna Greenleaf: Marissa Lenti

Fiona Thyme: Michele Everheart

Dr. Pietro Polendina: Dave Fennoy

Klein Sieben: J. Michael Tatum

Corsac Albain: Derek Mears

Fennec Albain: Mike McFarland

Leonardo Lionheart: Daman Mills

Curious Cat: Robbie Daymond

Coco Adel: Ashley Jenkins

Velvet Scarlatina: Caiti Ward

Yatsuhashi Daichi: Joe MacDonald

Cardin Winchester: Adam Ellis

Caroline Cordovin: Mela Lee

Jabberwalker: Richard Norman

Jinn: Colleen Clinkenbeard

Flynt Coal: Flynt Flossy

Neon Katt: Meg Turney

Saphron Cotta-Arc: Lindsay Sheppard

Terra Cotta-Arc: Jamie Smith

Blacksmith: Kimlinh Tran

Lil’ Miss Malachite: Luci Christian

Willow Schnee: Caitlin Glass

The Hound: Ernesto Jason Liebrecht

Hei “Junior” Xiong: Jack Pattillo

Miltia Malachite: Maggie Tominey

Melanie Malachite: Maggie Tominey

Zwei: Penny Layne Matthews

Ozma: Aaron Dismuke and 1 other

Shannon McCormick

God of Light: Chase McCaskill

God of Darkness: Bruce DuBose

Ambrosius: Valentine Stokes

Jinxy: Brendan Blaber

Red Prince: Michael Malconian

Herbalist: Christopher Guerrero

Creatures of Grimm: William Orendorff

MINOR ROLES

Announcer: Jeff Williams

AK-130 Android: Shane Newville

Shopkeep: Patrick Rodriguez

Goons: William Lopez and 1 other

Isaiah Torres

Cyril Ian: Patrick Rodriguez

Lisa Lavender: Jen Brown

Student: Kerry Shawcross

Russel Thrush: Shane Newville

Police Officers: Burnie Burns and 1 other

Joel Heyman

Sailors: Isaiah Torres and 1 other

Daniel Fabelo

White Fang Goon: Chris Martin

Penny’s Driver: Alan Abdine

Tukson: Adam Ellis

CCT AI: Megan Castro

Schnee Corp Operator: Emily McBride

Atlas Soldiers: Jon Risinger and 19 others

Patrick Rodriguez

Shane Newville

Kerry Shawcross

Josh Flanagan

Jeb Aguilar-Kendrick

J.D. Arredondo

Kirk Johnson

Alena Lecorchick

Tony Salvaggio

César Altagracia

Quentin Holtz

Nicholas Swift

Ed Whetstone

Cody Hawkins

Andrea Ratsos

Noël Wiggins

Dalton Allen

Nick Cramer

White Fang Lieutenant: Gray G. Haddock

“Deery”: Maggie Tominey

Student: Jacob Strickler

Perry: Kyle Taylor

White Fang Goons: Austin Hardwicke and 3 others

Miles Luna

Dustin Matthews

Josh Ornelas

Councilman: Gray G. Haddock

Reese Chloris: Erin Winn

Bolin Hori: Jon Risinger

Brawnz Ni: Blaine Gibson

Roy Stallion: No Voice Actor

Nolan Porfirio: Aaron Marquis

May Zedong: No Voice Actor

Bartender: Markus Horstmeyer

Nebula Violette: Kate Warner

Scarlet David: Gavin Free

Dew Gayl: Kim Newman

Sage Ayana: Josh Ornelas

Gwen Darcy: Mylissa Zelechowski

Octavia Ember: Claire Hogan

Video Game Announcer: Gray G. Haddock

Ciel Soleil: Yssa Badiola

Salesman: César Altagracia

Woman: Kate Warner

Man: Robert Reynolds

Large Man: Alex Leonard

Inn Keeper: Joe MacDonald

Crying Child Illusion: Maggie Tominey

Amber: Laura Bailey

Paramedic: Jon Risinger

Atlas Security Guard: Jonathan Floyd

Haven Tourist: Robert Reynolds

News Reporter: Tyler Coe

Broadcast Op: Cole Gallian

Warning Announcer: Kate Warner

Atlas Ship Captain: Travis Willingham

Blue Three: Andrea Caprotti

Mayor: Mike McFarland

Blacksmith: Christopher Guerrero

Dying Huntsman: Alejandro Saab

Captain: Bruce Carey

Reporter 01: Tyler Coe

Reporter 02: Amber Lee Connors

Reporter 03: Jason Douglas

Crew Member 1: Yunhao Zhang

First Mate: Derrek Ziegler

Crew Member 2: Chris Kokkinos

Oscar’s Aunt: Marissa Lenti

Higanbana Waitress: Kim Newman

Businessman: Scott Frerichs

Businesswoman: Amber Lee Connors

Henry Marigold: Alejandro Saab

Angry Businessman: Nick Landis

Waiter: Kyler Smith

Trophy Wife: Felecia Angelle

Husband: Chris Kokkinos

An Ren: Dawn M. Bennett

Lie Ren (young): Apphia Yu

Young Blacksmith: Connor Pickens

Tall Boy: Scott Frerichs

Short Boy: Marissa Lenti

Medium Boy: Amber Lee Connors

Li Ren: Kaiji Tang

Nora Valkyrie (young): Kristen McGuire

Mistral Pilot: Stan Lewis

Atlas Pilot: Richard Norman

Train Announcer: Alena Lecorchick

Mistral Pilot: Reina Scully

Menagerie Guard: Gio Coutinho

Bartender: Zane Rutledge

Shay D. Mann: Clifford Chapin

Sienna Khan: Monica Rial

Bandit One: Chris Kokkinos

Saber Rodentia: William Ball

Bandit Two: Billy B. Burson III

Worried Mother: Victoria Holden

Mata: Scott Frerichs

Yuma: Nick Landis

Ramen Shop Owner: Nick Landis

Small Girl: Emily Fajardo

Trifa: Emily Fajardo

Menagerie Guard 1: Stan Lewis

Menagerie Guard 2: Jenn K. Tidwell

Faunus 01: Willem W. Keetell

Faunus 02: Ariel LaCroix

Young Faunus Woman: Christine Stuckart

Older Faunus Man: Patrick Rodriguez

White Fang Members: Luis “Paco” Vazquez and 2 others

Willem W. Keetell

Jenn K. Tidwell

Mistral Police Captain: Jamie Smith

White Fang Guards: Christine Stuckart and 2 others

César Altagracia

Connor Pickens

Dee: Alex Mai

Dudley: Christopher Guerrero

Mistral Woman: Lauren Aptekar

Newscaster: Ethan Marler

Body Guard: Jenn K. Tidwell

Frightened Man: Richard Norman

Eldest Daughter: Jenn K. Tidwell

Youngest Daughter: Lauren Aptekar

Tock: Ruth Urquhart

Adrian Cotta-Arc: Lucella Wren Clary

Nubuck Guards: Kyle Phillips

Red Haired Woman: Jen Brown

Terminal Soldier: Connor Pickens

Argus Air Control: Danzer Koehler

Manta Two-Two: Noël Wiggins

Manta Three-Four: Dalton Allen

Manta Two-One: Melanie Stern

Manta Two-Four: Joe Clary

Atlas Air Traffic Female: Alena Lecorchick

Drunk Mann: Joel Mann

Drinking Buddy: Dustin Matthews

Forest: Eric Baudour

Pilots: Billy B. Burson III and 1 other

Todd Womack

Fria: Luci Christian

Newscaster: Scott Morgan

Mantle Citizen: Kirk Johnson

Mantle Patrol: Quentin Holtz

News Broadcaster: Kyle Taylor

AK-200 Driver: Ed Whetstone

Patrol: Connor Pickens

Waiters: Kirk Johnson and 1 other

Christine Stuckart

Female Dinner Guest: Lauren Aptekar

Councilman Sleet: Chad James

Councilwoman Camilla: Anairis Quiñones

Mantle Child: Brooke Olson

Citizens: Quentin Holtz and 5 others

Nikita Steele

Nicholas Swift

Jenn K. Tidwell

Alena Lecorchick

Ed Whetstone

Manta Team Delta: Richard Norman

Atlas Pilots: Ed Whetstone and 1 other

Alena Lecorchick

Atlas Commander: Zoe Terhune and 1 other

Kate Daigler

Atlas Technician: Alena Lecorchick

Reporter: Nick Schwartz

Mother: Jenn K. Tidwell

Disgruntled Grandmother: Christine Stuckart

Fiona’s Uncle: Gus Sorola

Crimson: César Altagracia

Mechanical Voice: Andrea Ratsos

Operator: Nick Schwartz

Madame: Linda Leonard

Step-Sisters: Amanda Lee

Rhodes: Christian Young

Commanders: Billy B. Burson III and 2 others

Kdin Jenzen

Zack Watkins

Child: Alexia Cruz

Father: Matthew Cruz

Computer Terminal: Alanah Pearce

Atlas Officer: Billy B. Burson III

CCT Voice: Jackie Izawa

Civilian: Chris Demarais

Summer Rose: Morgan Lauré Garrett

The Bird: Richard Norman

Mouse: Brendan Blaber

Mouse Leader: Jamie Battle

Townsperson: Jamie Battle

Toy Soldiers: Nick Cramer and 4 others

Billy B. Burson III

Kdin Jenzen

Cody Hawkins

Michael Malconian

Toy Guard: Brendan Blaber

White Pawns: Brandan Blaber and 3 others

Billy B. Burson III

Jamie Battle

Michael Malconian

Hawker: César Altagracia

Teapot Lady: Kdin Jenzen

Blue Paper Pleaser: Connor Pickens

Yellow Paper Pleaser: Dalton Allen

Green Paper Pleaser: Dustin Matthews

Red Paper Pleaser: Paula Decanini

Purple Paper Pleaser: Yssa Badiola

Genial Gem: Paula Decanini

Alyx: Shara Kirby

Vacuan 1: Eddy Rivas

Vacuan 2: Melinda Bonifay

ADDITIONAL VOICES

Austin Hardwicke

Blaine Gibson

Daniel Fabelo

Dustin Matthews

Harley Dwortz

Jeff Yohn

Kris McMeans

Kristina Nguyen

Luis “Paco” Vazquez

Maggie Tominey

Megan Castro

Shane Newville

Sheena Duquette

Stefanie Hardy

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Birthdays 10.27

Beer Birthdays

Thomas Kerns (1965)

Richard Brewer-Hay (1974)

Damian Fagan (1972)

Meghan Storey

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Cleese; comedian, actor, writer (1939)

Fran Lebowitz; writer (1950)

Roy Lichtenstein; artist (1923)

Ivan Reitman; film director, actor (1946)

Dylan Thomas (1914)

Famous Birthdays

Enid Bagnold; English writer (1889)

Roberto Benigni; actor, film director (1952)

Jack Carson; actor (1910)

James Cook; explorer (1728)

Kenyon Cox; artist (1856)

Floyd Cramer; blues pianist (1933)

Ruby Dee; actor (1924)

Erasmus; humanist (1466)

Peter Firth; English actor (1953)

Lee Greenwood; country singer (1943)

Veronica Hart; adult actress (1956)

Kata Karkkainen; Finnish model (1968)

Ralph Kiner; Pittsburgh Pirates LF (1922)

Maxine Hong Kingston; writer (1940)

Lee Krasner; artist (1908)

Walt Kuhn; artist (1877)

Simon LeBon; English pop singer (1958)

Niccolo Paganini; violinist, composer (1782)

Sylvia Plath; poet, writer (1932)

Emily Post; etiquette writer (1862)

Theodore Roosevelt; 26th U.S. President (1858)

Harry Saltzman; film producer (1915)

Isaac Singer; inventor (1811)

Carrie Snodgress; actor (1946)

Charles Spencelayh; English artist (1865)

Dylan Thomas; Welsh writer (1914)

Scott Weiland; rock singer (1967)

Teresa Wright; actor (1918)

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The 12 Best Articles of 2024 by Jacob Feldman of The Sunday Long Read

The Sunday Long Read is a weekly roundup of the week's best longform journalism delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday morning. We asked SLR founder and editor Jabob Feldman to pick the best articles of the year, and he didn't disappoint:

Priscila, Queen of the Rideshare Mafia by Lauren Smiley - She came to the US with a dream. Using platforms like Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash, she built a business empire up from nothing. There was just one problem.

A Family Ranch, Swallowed Up in the Madness of the Border by Eli Saslow - Desperate migrants. Cartel violence. It’s all happening in the Chiltons’ backyard.

I Always Believed My Funny, Kind Father Was Killed by a Murderous Teenage Gang by Tracy King - Three decades on, I discovered the truth

The Ramen Lord by Kevin Pang - At Chicago’s buzziest new restaurant, Mike Satinover is obsessed with one goal: making the perfect bowl of Japanese noodles.

The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates by Ryu Spaeth - The Return of Ta-Nehisi Coates A decade after “The Case for Reparations,” he is ready to take on Israel, Palestine, and the American media.

Guns. Knives. Bats. Hammers. Hatchets. Spears. by Ruby Cramer - As incidents of road rage escalate across the country, aggressive drivers in Texas try to understand what triggers anger.

Seventy Miles in Hell by Caitlin Dickerson - The Darién Gap was once considered impassable. Now hundreds of thousands of migrants are risking treacherous terrain, violence, hunger, and disease to travel through the jungle to the United States.

The Unbranding of Abercrombie by Chantal Fernandez - The problematic mall brand pulled off the most exciting makeover in American retail. How?

I Don’t Know If I Can Call Myself a Mom by Jess Mayhugh - After enduring infant loss and years of fertility challenges, I still don’t have a child.

Will Hezbollah and Israel Go to War? By Dexter Filkins - Months of fighting at the border threaten to ignite an all-out conflict that could devastate the region.

Racing to Retake a Beloved Trip, Before Dementia Takes Everything by Francesca Mari - My dad always remembered his childhood journey through Europe. Now, with Alzheimer’s claiming his memories, we tried to recreate it.

From Heartbreak to Hope by Catherine Elton - A Maine father’s unlikely journey, one year after the Lewiston massacre

For more great journalism, check out the SLR Best of 2024 Edition and, of course, subscribe to the newsletter!

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The Post is promoting the hell out of this; they've run it in digests three times in two days.

We are not buying that paper. Stall them while you call in Bezos, publisher William Lewis, reporter Ruby Cramer, Hillary Clinton, and ALL publications in which the Clintons and Obamas are invested.

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THE CAT CREATURE (1973) Reviews of fun TV movie - free to watch online

The Cat Creature is a 1973 American supernatural horror film made for television and directed by Curtis Harrington (Ruby; The Dead Don’t Die; The Killing Kind; Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?; Night Tide; et al) from a screenplay by Robert Bloch, based on a story by producer Douglas S. Cramer and Wilford Lloyd Baumes. The TV movie stars Meredith Baxter, David Hedison and Gale Sondergaard. Composer…

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Zuckerberg should Should be Arrested Right Now!

Zuckerberg should Should be Arrested Right Now!

Armstrong Economics Blog/Opinion Re-Posted Jan 2, 2021 by Martin Armstrong We are now dealing with Facebook is deliberately interfering in elections. They shut down the page for Republicans raising money in Georgia 2 days before the election claiming they violated their community guidelines. I am sorry, but Zuckerberg should be dragged out in chains. He is now violating everyone’s civil rights…

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Apparently now is the time to find a way to contact Judy Craymer and beg her to make the dads as gay as possible - or at least give them something to do in the third film that she's in the early stages of developping...

Ahhh, right you are, dear anon! I sometimes kick myself for ending a relationship a few years back that had a slight bit of a connection to Judy Cramer through the said person I was in a relationship with, as it’s fun to pretend that would have given me any sort of ground to be like “OH HI, CAN YOU MAKE BILL AND HARRY A THING.” 🤣

I digress, but yes, I wish there was a way to successfully get the message across to Judy that we need the gay dads. In reality, in knowing the likelihood of them going down that path is tragically low, I agree, I wish fans could collectively let it be known we just want the legacy cast to have center stage this time. (Please, not Ruby and Fernando, PLEASE.)

We waited 10 years for the first sequel, how many more for the third installment if it ever comes to pass, and I will forever complain that the original cast (sans Amanda to an extent) were horrifically underused in HWGA, and the plot re: the characters were… insulting at times, infuriating at others. When I saw Judy claim she knew there was a way to bring Meryl back, it’s just like, yeah, duh, you had better, because killing off *THE* Mamma in the Mamma Mia franchise, in such a careless way needs to be rectified. (Although who wants to take bets now it could possibly be another flashback film where this time we actually get to see Donna’s demise. I actually think that would be the best way to go about it, because they did such a huge plot point so haphazardly in HWGA, it’s flummoxing. Like Donna was just some throw away character you could just be like “she died a year ago.” and have that be okay. They have to fix that, right?) Actually anon, that reminds me, I have a whole rant about that article saved, which I should post and not turn this response into a rant. For now I will say, let what made the first film work so well in the first place actually get the care it deserves, in what, if it really happens, would realistically be the final installment… and give us gay dads. 😏

In short, I try to temper my expectations, because I know how the world works when it comes to big movies and the community, and in the grand scheme of things it seems most people just don’t see Bill and Harry as a serious possible paring, but darn, if any of you know to make the potential seen by the higher ups that be, GODSPEED AND PROSPER. Or at least please let them know to do better by the ���legacy cast.”. And if you need to spam my blog 10,000 times, I give you permission because I swear, sometimes I make persuasive arguments. If not, you guys, please tell me to shut up and stop making a fool of myself. 🤣)

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In March, 2021, Kari Lake, who for twenty-two years had been the co-anchor of the 5 P.M. and 9 P.M. local news at Fox 10 Phoenix, recorded a two-and-a-half-minute goodbye of sorts, and posted it to social media. Lake had been off the set recently, having taken a personal leave, and she said that she wouldn’t be coming back. “Sadly, journalism has changed a lot since I first stepped into a newsroom,” Lake said. “And I’ll be honest—I don’t like the direction it’s going.” She went on, “It is scary walking away from a good job and a successful career, especially in difficult times. I know God has my back and will guide me to work that aligns with my values.”

Lake is now the Republican nominee in the race for governor of Arizona, and a very quickly rising figure within the national Party. The National Review editor Rich Lowry wrote in a column on Thursday that, if Lake wins her race, she “would have to be considered the favorite to become Donald Trump’s vice presidential pick should he win the Republican nomination again in 2024.” She has done this without much of a traditional campaign operation. She has not commissioned a single poll, and according to Politico’s Alex Isenstadt, when a supporter asked Lake whether she had hired certain high-priced consultants, the candidate said, “I don’t know who those people are.” She then called over a young aide and told him to “show off his ‘MAGA’ tattoo,” which he did by pulling back his lower lip. Lake’s rise has been unsettling for reporters in particular, since she is bluntly antagonistic toward many of them. The Washington Post’s Ruby Cramer, interviewing the candidate for a recent profile, found that Lake and her husband, an independent producer named Jeff Halperin, record their press encounters. (If it all “goes great,” Lake told Cramer, it needn’t be cause for concern.) She taunts reporters about their audience size; the clips go viral.

When Lake upended the Republican gubernatorial primary this year, she was seen largely as a MAGA candidate who had outflanked the field by insisting that Donald Trump was the true winner of the 2020 Presidential election. But, in the general election, that political strength on the far-right has been compounded by another: perhaps unsurprisingly, Lake is exceptionally good at TV. She speaks concisely and evocatively, and maintains emotional control even while saying very aggressive things. During a televised primary debate, she denounced Joe Biden’s border policies for yielding control “to a criminal element, to dangerous drugs that are killing our young people, and he’s taken away our ability to protect our own state.” When Mark Phillips, a political reporter at the Phoenix ABC affiliate, played a clip of the retired general and Trump political associate Michael Flynn saying that states have the right to declare war and worriedly asked Lake if that’s what she had in mind when she called for militarizing the border, Lake said, “We’re declaring an invasion and we’re protecting our border. That’s what we’re gonna do. You can call it whatever you want.” After the Dobbs decision, a legal battle in Arizona will either leave the state with its current fifteen-week ban or revert it to an 1864 law that banned all abortions in the state except when a mother’s life is at risk. Lake has expressed support for both laws. “I’m pro-woman,” she told Phillips. “And I want to make sure that women have health care. I want to make sure women have access to birth control. And I want to make sure that women are treated with respect.” She went on, “My stance is that I’m pro-life and I want to save as many babies as possible.”

Journalists and liberals have often been alarmed at the growth of right-wing media, which has been a fertile ground for conspiracy theories alleging that the 2020 election was stolen, or that the media is suppressing the truth about the harms of COVID vaccines, or (in the case of QAnon) that the country’s élites belong to a cabal. As Trump’s Presidency has receded, the attention on far-right media has only sharpened, both because Republican political candidates have increasingly used fringe outlets to reach an audience and because reporters and liberals have learned to pay attention to what might be circulating there.

But that isn’t what this election is about. The Republican momentum—and, as I write, it looks very real—is built on a small group of much simpler and less exotic stories: rising crime, chaos at the border, and pain at the pump, each of which has been a standby of local news for a generation. Lake is a talented politician, but less deft campaigners have leaned effectively on these themes, too. The Long Island congressman Lee Zeldin, a staunch Trump supporter who once nominated Jared Kushner for the Nobel Peace Prize, has in recent weeks mounted a serious challenge to Kathy Hochul in the New York governor’s race—one poll last week had him down just four points—in part by following local crime stories with the assiduousness of a small-market TV reporter making an audition tape. On October 18th, Zeldin tweeted an ABC 7 segment of a small event he held outside of a Queens subway station, writing, “I was in Jackson Heights in Queens earlier today outside another subway station where someone was pushed onto the subway tracks and killed.”

There is a reason that the Republicans have seemed to dominate the news ever since Biden took office. These themes are vivid and naturally suited to television news, and they have evoked in their supporters a visceral reaction that Democrats have managed to achieve only on abortion. Otherwise, the Democrats have often relied on statistical information (of the underlying strength of the economy, of the efficacy of the COVID vaccine) to make their case, while Republicans have turned to televisual information to demonstrate the violence in the streets, the migrants running across the border, the soaring prices at the local gas station. (In the education wars that heated up in 2021, images of outraged conservative parents at school-board meetings were up against quotes from tenured academics thoughtfully explaining what critical race theory was and wasn’t.) One of these information types is more powerful than the other. If it bleeds, it leads, in campaigns such as the 9 P.M. news.

At the beginning of these midterm elections, everyone in politics wanted to know whether Republicans were turning back toward Trump or away from him. This question overshadowed what turned out to be a more interesting development—and, for Democrats, a more ominous one. Certain rising Republican politicians—especially Lake and Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis (whose wife, Casey, is herself a former local TV-news anchor)—have managed to fuse a New Right pugnacity with a hyper-attention to the news cycle and their own media presentation. It is a potent political mix, and in the past two years it has meant that Republicans no longer look quite so frumpy, quite so clueless, or quite so chaotic as they usually seemed during the Trump years. They are onto something, and if it sometimes feels like the political news has spent the Biden Administration stuck in one long local television-news cycle, well, it probably will feel that way for a while longer. During Lake’s emergence, she has sometimes been described as “Donald Trump in heels.” But that underrates how much Lake and her generation of Republicans have learned from their predecessors, and how intelligently they are operating right now. ♦

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Several leading figures in Warren’s circle balked at the outreach effort — Sanders and his aides, they said, had months to lay the groundwork for that kind of partnership, but only did so this week from a position of desperation. About a month ago, when it was clear that Warren had little chance to win, one such person said they put out feelers to Sanders’ operation in an attempt to start a running conversation. They showed little interest, the person said, in reciprocating.

“The Week Bernie Sanders Realized He Was Losing,” Ruby Cramer, Buzzfeed News

To wit, Warren offered to endorse Sanders when he was still riding high, he snubbed her, and now his surrogates and stans are demanding her head on a platter because she hasn’t endorsed, and he says nothing.

Sounds about right.

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Birthdays 10.27

Beer Birthdays

Thomas Kerns (1965)

Richard Brewer-Hay (1974)

Damian Fagan (1972)

Meghan Storey

Five Favorite Birthdays

John Cleese; comedian, actor, writer (1939)

Fran Lebowitz; writer (1950)

Roy Lichtenstein; artist (1923)

Ivan Reitman; film director, actor (1946)

Dylan Thomas (1914)

Famous Birthdays

Enid Bagnold; English writer (1889)

Roberto Benigni; actor, film director (1952)

Jack Carson; actor (1910)

James Cook; explorer (1728)

Kenyon Cox; artist (1856)

Floyd Cramer; blues pianist (1933)

Ruby Dee; actor (1924)

Erasmus; humanist (1466)

Peter Firth; English actor (1953)

Lee Greenwood; country singer (1943)

Veronica Hart; porn actor (1956)

Kata Karkkainen; Finnish model (1968)

Ralph Kiner; Pittsburgh Pirates LF (1922)

Maxine Hong Kingston; writer (1940)

Lee Krasner; artist (1908)

Walt Kuhn; artist (1877)

Simon LeBon; English pop singer (1958)

Niccolo Paganini; violinist, composer (1782)

Sylvia Plath; poet, writer (1932)

Emily Post; etiquette writer (1862)

Theodore Roosevelt; 26th U.S. President (1858)

Harry Saltzman; film producer (1915)

Isaac Singer; inventor (1811)

Carrie Snodgress; actor (1946)

Charles Spencelayh; English artist (1865)

Dylan Thomas; Welsh writer (1914)

Scott Weiland; rock singer (1967)

Teresa Wright; actor (1918)

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The Cat Creature - USA, 1973

The Cat Creature – USA, 1973

The Cat Creature is a 1973 American supernatural horror feature film made for television and directed by Curtis Harrington (Ruby; The Dead Don’t Die; Night Tide; et al) from a screenplay by Robert Bloch, based on a story by producer Douglas S. Cramer and Wilford Lloyd Baumes. The TV movie stars Meredith Baxter, David Hedison and Gale Sondergaard.

Reviews:

“At a brisk 75 minutes it’s over quite…

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Hillary Clinton Returns to Fund Raising for The Clinton Foundation

Hillary Clinton Returns to Fund Raising for The Clinton Foundation

If you received that email from Hillary, earlier this month, asking you to sign Bill Clinton’s birthday card, maybe you did notice her name at the bottom. There has been some suspense about what would happen to the foundation, to which all the Clintons are very dedicated, both in the run up to and in the wake of the 2016 campaign. Now that the dust has settled, blueprints for the future of the…

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Biden clashes with Catholic community over abortion

Biden clashes with Catholic community over abortion

President Biden publicly denounced Texas' restrictive abortion bill last week. Now, some Americans in the Catholic community believe the president needs to reckon with his faith and political beliefs. Senior staff writer for Politico Ruby Cramer joins CBSN's Lana Zak to discuss. CBSN is CBS News’ 24/7 digital streaming news service featuring live, anchored coverage available for free across all…

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Does anyone care?

Ruby Cramer | Buzzfeed | Mar 2018