STATISTICS! and COMPASSION!

• our ongoing national nightmare (general American politics)
• 2024: the nightmare continues (shitty stuff about the 2024 presidential campaign, this is a follow up to the great dumpster fire of 2020 and us presidential shitshow 2k16)
• khive take me away (positive Kamala Harris 2024 stuff)
• raise your hand if you've ever felt personally victimized by andrew cuomo (hopefully retired, but it should be self-explanatory)

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• Badly mismanaged the finances of two veteran interest non-profit organizations (allegedly, but doesn't deny it)
• Met with Republican committee members but not Democrats (mentioned by several senators during questions)
• Raped a drunk woman at a conference (allegedly)
• Has Christian nationalist tattoos (like a bunch)
• Responds to Senators' questions in generalizations without giving specific examples, is basically just giving untrue political statements (video from hearing)
• Referred to soldiers as "boys" (video from hearing) and has a history of misogyny - prior to nomination he said that he thought women shouldn't have combat postings
• Refused to comment on whether he'd be willing to submit to a more complete FBI background check (video from hearing)
• Showed up drunk to work (allegedy)
• Claimed that allegations of showing up to work drunk and abusive are anonymous and false, but one of them was from his mother (allegedly)
• Refused to comment on whether he'd comply with an order from the president to shoot protesters (video from hearing)
• Won't commit to maintaining health care policy for servicemembers and dependents to pay for travel for reproductive care and says fed gvt shouldn't be funding abortion (video from hearing)
• "Are you ok with waterboarding?" "Senator, the law of the land is that waterboarding is illegal." He also worked at Guantanamo, and said that we would have an "America First national security policy"
• Has no idea which countries are in ASEAN
• He's a cheater and a messy bitch, which is I GUESS not part of his job but Jesus

How Not to Adapt “Anne of Green Gables”

The betrayal of “Anne with an E,” a new CBC-Netflix adaptation, isn’t in the aesthetics but in the emotion.

The New Yorker|Sarah Larson

Meanness is everywhere in “Anne with an E,” as if life in the rural Maritimes wasn’t hard enough without hissing and insults. During the “Carrots” incident, when Gilbert teases Anne about her hair and Anne, hurt and embarrassed, whacks him with her slate, she doesn’t hit him over the top of his head—she smashes it in his face, with the casual violence of a Mob enforcer. Townspeople taunt her like an angry mob in a dream sequence; classmates say things like “I won’t eat next to dirty trash!”

A realistic but warmhearted “Anne” could have been made, with these actors and these aesthetics, if its creator had had faith in Montgomery’s narrative and had more clearly seen the power of what’s already there. I would have loved to see such an “Anne”—especially now, when we need hope and realism together.