#michael dobbs

[dadsinsuits]

Michael Dobbs

#suitdaddy #suiteddaddy #suit and tie #suited daddy #silverfox #daddy #men in suits #british man #british men #suit daddy #suitedman #suited men #suited grandpa #suited man #three piece suit #Michael Dobbs #uk conservative party #house of cards #member of parliament #house of lords

[danteskygod]

Why do I feel a sudden urge to rewatch House of Cards.

#Francis urquhart #House of Cards #Ian Richardson #Michael Dobbs

[flipjack]

More stills from “Transatlantic”

#Transatlantic #Gillian Jacobs #Cory Michael Smith #Lucas Englander #Community #Britta Perry #Gotham #Edward Nygma #Love on Netflix #Mickey Dobbs #Invincible #Atom Eve

[contemplatingoutlander]

Cartoonists passionately take on the Supreme Court’s abortion decision

Above are two cartoons by one of the cartoonists (Pia Guerra) featured in this Post article. Below is an excerpt about those cartoons:

Pia Guerra drew two cartoons: In one, a Republican elephant pops champagne in celebration while standing over a bleeding woman’s motionless body; in another, Death as apocalyptic horseman grips a scythe topped by a coat hanger — that symbol of unsafe abortions that visual artists employ as shorthand for imperiled reproductive rights.

Watching the news, Guerra saw “conservatives actually celebrating this ruling” with “not even a little pretense of solemnity — just full-on laughing in the faces of women. They don’t give a crap about those who need this health care, that there are women right now being diverted out of state for lifesaving treatment because hospitals don’t want to risk being sued.

“That level of callousness only says this is in no way about ‘protecting the unborn,’” the Vancouver, B.C.-based artist adds, “but about punishing women for daring to claim autonomy. It’s disgusting.”

#us politics #women's reproductive rights #dobbs v. jackson women’s health organization #gop #cartoonists #pia guerra #cartoons #michael cavna #the washington post

[theoscarsproject]

Romancing the Stone (1984). A mousy romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.

I've never really enjoyed Michael Douglas as a romantic lead, but man, he crackles in this one, in no small part because he and Kathleen Turner have such great chemistry. She gets the richer character arc, but he gets satisfying beats to play opposite her and it makes them a pretty fun dynamic to watch. The movie definitely falls into era-typical sexist and racist tropes, which can be jarring, but outside of that, it's the sort of adventure-rom-com I wish Hollywood was still making. 7/10.

#romancing the stone #1984 #Oscars 57 #Nom: Editing #Robert Zemeckis #diane thomas #Howard Franklin #lem dobbs #michael douglas #kathleen turner #danny devito #zack norman #holland taylor #7/10 #america #american

[doppel-dean-er]

this picture of Michael Bublé looks like if you asked a police sketch artist to draw Dean Dobbs and Gerard Way's child

I'm not making fun of him i'm just stating a fact

#michael buble #dean dobbs #my chemical romance

[letterboxd-loggd]

The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) Michael Powell

May 5th 2024

#the boy who turned yellow #1972 #michael powell #emeric pressburger #mark dightam #robert eddison #helen weir #lem dobbs #brian worth #laurence carter #esmond knight #powell and pressburger #children's film foundation

[movie-titlecards]

Romancing the Stone (1984)

My rating: 4/10

The romance stuff is fine, I guess, but boy are there a lot of incredibly broad ethnic stereotypes.

#Romancing the Stone #Robert Zemeckis #Diane Thomas #Lem Dobbs #Howard Franklin #Michael Douglas #Kathleen Turner #Danny DeVito #Youtube

[arcticdementor]

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#michael tracey #twitter #screenshots #twitter thread #europe #dobbs v jackson #european politicians commenting on american politics #while apparently not knowing much about it #emmanuel macron #pedro sánchez #alexander de croo #jonas gahr støre

[celticcrossanon]

Celta, talk about a freudian slip. Camilla's new pick for her book club is a 2007 novel entitled "The Lords' Day" by Michael Dobbs, which is about Charles & Camilla being taken hostage inside Parliament during the State Opening. Some people say it's Camilla's sense of humor on display in picking this novel but from the readings you & MWT have done, I think it's also a subtle way of Camilla saying "I don't want to be Queen!" If Camilla didn't want to be Queen, why did she marry Charles? Baffling.

Hi Nonny,

My goodness. That seems like a very odd choice for a book club pick. It strikes me as rather egocentric to pick a book that has you in it as a character, However, it could just be Camilla's sense of humour, as you mentioned.

I believe that while Camilla is loving the power of being Queen (as per her PR articles last year that were all about how wonderful she is, something that she could not do before). she does not like the work involved with the position of Queen Consort and would have been much happier if she had remained the King's mistress for all of her life.

As for why Camilla married Charles when he was the Prince of Wales, knowing that she would be Queen Consort one day? I don't know.

I think part of it has to do with how she was brought up, in the days when marriage was considered to be the life goal of every woman and divorce marked you as a failure and a disgrace (think of other women you know who are her age, born around 1947, just after the end of WW2 and when rationing was still in effect in the UK). Those values don't change as the world around you changes unless you make a concerted effort to change them.

Part of it may also be a genuine affection for King Charles and not wanting to lose him from her life, which imo is what would have happened if she had turned down his marriage proposal.

Part of it may also be that being Queen Consort was something that was going to happen in the distant future, while being the Duchess of Cornwall, a role she could manage very nicely, was what would happen when she married.

Whatever the reasons were, and only Camilla knows them for sure, she is now Queen Consort and she has to make her peace with that and find some way of carrying out her role that works for her and the general public.

EDIT: From the comments, this makes a lot of sense:

"Reportedly she wasn't being treated with respect as a mistress, go figure, so they married..."

[cacowboysblog59]

The Stop Trump Summit comes to Philly.

With the former president polling at the top of the Republican field, and the danger of a catastrophic second term looming on the horizon, we are gathering some top thinkers and commentators in politics for urgent conversations. We’ll examine the disasters of Trump’s first term, what a second term would mean to the state of our democracy, discuss important issues—abortion rights, voting rights, weaponizing the government, and the messaging and polling on the Trump and Biden 2024 campaigns—everything concerned American citizens want to know as we head to the polls.

The summit will gather TNR’s readers and area supporters to join us in an informal strategy session with some high-profile personalities and commentators.

WORKING AGENDA

Welcome/Why American Democracy Is in Crisis Right Now

Featuring: Michael Tomasky, editor, The New Republic

The Weaponization of Government and the threat of Authoritarianism

With

Joe Spielberger, policy counsel, POGO Action

Moderator: Skye Perryman, lawyer, advocate

This panel is sponsored by POGO Action

Whither Pennsylvania?

With

Kadida Kenner, CEO, the New Pennsylvania Project and the New PA Project Education Fund

Senator Vincent Hughes, Pennsylvania state Senate

J.J. Abbott, executive director, Commonwealth Communications

Moderator: Will Bunch, national opinion columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Getting Inside Trump's Head

With

Rick Wilson, co-founder and board member, The Lincoln Project

Moderator: Walter Shapiro, staff writer, The New Republic

Abortion Post-Dobbs

With

David Cohen, professor, Drexel Kline School of Law

Lizbeth Rodriguez, community engagement coordinator, Philadelphia Women’s Center

Moderator: Amanda Marcotte, senior politics writer, Salon

How to Stop Trump

With

Molly Jong-Fast, author and political commentator

Mary Trump, psychologist and author

Randi Weingarten, president, AFT

Moderator: Michael Tomasky, editor, The New Republic

[plumbogs]

a new family in brookton... time to investigate

This is Nick Dobbs and his wife, Tracy. He works in the medical career as a resident. Their house isn't fully decorated yet, but they take some time to play a few rounds of chess anyway. They aren't as piss-poor as the other families, but they're not quite rich by any means.

They're both pretty serious people, but Tracy actually cares about doing things like making friends. As you can probably tell, they have children.

Celeste is their eldest daughter. She's going through her emo phase and spends every morning frying her hair to a crisp. Starla is the second daughter. She hasn't tried that yet.

The girls aren't very similar to each other. Celeste is a very curious and energetic shy girl while Starla is a lot more friendly like their mother. She doesn't really care much for popularity despite that.

They go back and forth on whether they get along, but that's how sisters go. Celeste thinks that any job that involves working in an office sounds like a bore. Starla argues that office jobs have their own interesting culture with many chances to get ahead.

And this is Derek. He's about halfway through childhood.

He's a bit of a grumpy kid, but he takes closely after their father otherwise.

The very first thing that happens is the entire neighborhood showing up to shove their noses into their business. Tracy has to quit the chess game early to meet them.

Michael Tyler beelines for their violin, which he absolutely sucks shit at playing. Camila argues with a townie behind him. Tracy immediately wants to start befriending these people.

The kids come home from school and get to meeting the neighbors as well. Michael tells Derek about how he can fix basically any coffee machine, which gets him some real perks at work. Tracy pulls the lame "how was school?" conversation out on Starla. Celeste ignores them all in favor of painting.

Derek is a fan of chess. He plays it by himself after Michael confesses that he doesn't actually know how chess works and chooses to sit at their computer instead.

Tracy corners him to tell him jokes about jewelry. He reacts in a similar way to a stinkbug and then goes home. Nick has to go to work in the evenings, which cuts into the family time he generally wants.

#ts2 gameplay #nick dobbs #tracy dobbs #celeste dobbs #starla dobbs #derek dobbs

[dhaaruni]

Michael Hobbes is mad about this (which makes sense given it's directly @-ing him), but I completely agree. A whole lot of people on the left were very clearly raised in religious families and haven't unlearned that black and white mentality even if their views changed!

Here's how it goes:

Left wingers have disproportionately high social clout (Hollywood, media, etc.) for their amount of political power

Right wingers hold a disproportionately high amount of political power, but are deeply resentful of #1, which is partly why the Bud Light boycott worked

That said, while I can see how the fratboy Barstool Conservative schtick seemed more "fun" to people than scolding liberals telling people to check their privilege, post Dobbs, for better or worse, "I want the whiny and cringe government to leave me alone" codes Democrat!

This is also incidentally why it's very hard for Democrats to pass a robust welfare state that's also racially equitable. The party is very reliant on racist white people who are pro-choice and don’t want their taxes to go up to win federal majorities!

#politics #media matters lots

[flipjack]

“Transatlantic” silent movie promo

#Gillian Jacobs #Transatlantic #Cory Michael Smith #Community #Britta Perry #Gotham #Edward Nygma #Love on Netflix #Mickey Dobbs #Fear Street

[brostateexam]

Approving an abortion drug is always going to come with a high level of scrutiny and pushback. Dr. Michael Greene knew this well back in 2000 when he was leading the Food and Drug Administration committee that first approved the abortion drug mifepristone for sale in the U.S. 

To Greene, now a professor emeritus of obstetrics and gynecology at Harvard University, that meant his team and the agency as a whole would need to be extremely cautious about ensuring mifepristone’s safety. “Four-plus conservative,” he calls it; an approach that led to an approval process that took more than three times as long as other drugs approved that year. It also resulted in a series of stringent, post-approval regulations that tightly controlled who could prescribe the drug, where patients could take it, what tests doctors needed to perform and even where the drug could be kept. “It had to be stored quite literally under lock and key,” Greene said.

But to abortion opponents who didn’t want to see mifepristone approved at all, those extra regulations seem less like an abundance of caution, and more like an admission that the drug was extremely dangerous. “They needed to use that authority because the FDA at the time recognized the dangers with chemical abortion drugs,” said Erik Baptist, senior counsel for Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal advocacy group that is representing a group of organizations challenging the FDA’s approval of the drug. By “shoehorning in” post-approval regulations, he said, the FDA was “recognizing the dangers [mifepristone] poses to women and girls who take it.” 

Baptist’s clients are charging the FDA with ignoring sound scientific practice and its own guidelines to approve a drug that endangers women. They’re asking for mifepristone, which is currently approved for use during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy, to be taken off the market immediately. The lawsuit hinges on technical details — t’s crossed and i’s dotted more than two decades ago. But a closer inspection of the FDA’s approval process and its continued monitoring of mifepristone reveal flaws in the lawsuit’s argument. Legal experts told us that, under a different judge, this case would likely be thrown out as frivolous. But differences in philosophy — specifically about the value and availability of abortion — change that. There’s a good chance Baptist’s clients could get what they want. And if they do, the most commonly used form of abortion would no longer be available in the U.S., transforming the landscape of abortion access in ways that could be even more far-reaching than the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization last summer.

#long reads #*roe v wade

[ka-tamingoftheshrew-ba]

So back in 2020 I started law school. I moved back to Philadelphia in the midst of a global pandemic (after moving back to my parents house for the first few months of COVID) and was going a little stir crazy living all alone. So within the first month of school, I made a thread of screen grabs from IASIP that, in some way or another, correlate with American court decisions. In honor of season 16 correlating with me studying for the bar exam, here is that SAME tread three years later.

(Disclaimer: these are merely observations I made, this should not be construed as legal advice in any compacity).

Dougherty v. Salt, 125 N.E 94 (1919).

Lucy v. Zehmer, 84 S.E.2d 516 (1954).

Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015).

Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558 (2003).

Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973). (This was made before Dobbs, and honestly this is more fitting for that terrible decision unfortunately).

Michael H. v Gerald D., 491 U.S. 110 (1989).

ACLU v. DOJ, 681 F.3d 61 (2012).

Stewart v. Mitts, 539 Pa. 596 (1995).

Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965).

Palmore v. Sidoti, 466 U.S. 429 (1984).

City of Philadelphia v. New Jersey, 437 U.S. 617 (1978).

Babb v. Wilkie, 140 S.Ct. 1168 (2020).

Hall v. McBryde, 919 P. 2d 910 (1996).

Slayton v. McDonald, 690 So. 2d 914 (1997).

Nelson v. Carroll, 355 Md. 937 (1999).

Parrot v. Wells Fargo & Co., 82 U.S. 524 (1872).

Myhaver v. Knutson, 189 Ariz. 286 (1997).

Arce v. U-Pull-It Auto Parts, Inc., No. 06-5593 E.D. Pa. (Unpublished 2008).

Cervelli v. Graves, 661 P.2d 1032 (1983).

Webb v. McGowin, 27 Ala. App. 82 (1935).

And if for whatever reason you decide you want to see the original thread, thats here: https://twitter.com/877KashNow/status/1305998850021232640?s=20

#always sunny #iasip #dennis reynolds #dee reynolds #charlie kelly #mac mcdonald #mac iasip #it’s always sunny #it’s always sunny in philadelphia #bird law