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https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1782169236657357193?s=09

Her mom doesn't earn enough to buy her food? Father can't chip in? Doesn't she have an uncle?

#ilhan omar #isra hirsi #daily beast #the daily beast #palestine #gaza #israel hamas war #israel #hamas #us politics #press #media

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As President Joe Biden mingled on the House floor following his State of the Union address Thursday night, Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) gave the official Republican response, a stern but bizarrely delivered rebuttal that focused heavily on immigration and the economy.

The freshman senator is considered a rising star in the party. But her speech’s intense tone—with an over-the-top dramatic cadence that was delivered in a kitchen—left political operatives and observers struggling to make sense of it.

The performance was so bad that some Republicans watched the high-profile speech with a grimace. A GOP strategist told The Daily Beast that Britt’s delivery quickly became a gossip item Thursday night among operatives connected to Donald Trump—something that could have potential implications for her consideration as a vice presidential pick on the 2024 ticket.

“Everyone’s fucking losing it,” this Republican said, requesting anonymity to discuss private conversations. “It’s one of our biggest disasters ever.”

Several popular social media influencers in the MAGA camp also panned the speech; the account Catturd tweeted Britt was "awful" to his 2.4 million followers.

The setting of the kitchen table—more so the kitchen than the table—for Britt’s speech also left some seasoned Republican strategists confused.

“Senator Katie Britt is a very impressive person. She ran a hell of race in [Alabama],” Alyssa Farah Griffin, a former Trump White House communications adviser and Nikki Haley supporter posted on X. “I do not understand the decision to put her in a KITCHEN for one of the most important speeches she’s ever given.”

Olivia Perez-Cubas, the former spokesperson for Haley’s 2024 presidential bid, also said in a post on X that while Britt “is incredibly impressive, unsure why she felt the need to deliver the SOTU response from a kitchen.”

Tim Miller, the former Jeb Bush aide turned ex-Republican, called the kitchen setting “creepy” and said it made former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s much-maligned response to Barack Obama in 2009 “look like the Finest Hour speech.”

Brendan Buck, a former senior adviser to Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), also acknowledged that Britt’s “delivery was unfortunate.”

“She was clearly overcoached,” Buck said on MSNBC.

Britt went for a dramatic performance with her State of the Union rebuttal, casting Biden as a failed president and arguing that the GOP was the best option for regular working families.

But the senator's delivery turned out to be so dramatic that it ended up being distracting at best and disingenuous at worst.

Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative commentator, posted on X Friday morning that Britt had genuine appeal in coming across like "the moms at the school drop off" and praised the kitchen setting.

"But the delivery was parody-level terrible, and I promise that didn’t sway any of those suburban moms we’re trying to reach," Stuckey wrote.

State of the Union responses from rising stars in the opposing party are notorious for generating awkward, unflattering moments that can follow a politician through an otherwise solid career. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is still remembered for awkwardly taking a sip of water during his response speech over a decade ago.

The GOP strategist who called Britt's performance a disaster likened it to Rubio’s water moment—but they said Britt was actually worse and that she “lowered her stature” in doing it.

A Britt spokesman did not respond to a request for comment.

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NO ITS NOT

#lies #deception #fraud #i can’t stand for this #mizu blue eye samurai #blue eye samurai #the daily beast

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#us politics #news #twitter #tweet #2023 #cpac 2023 #cpac #michael knowles #the daily wire #transphobia #republican homophobia #trans rights #genocide #the serfs #huffington post #rolling stone magazine #the daily beast #transgender #lgbtqia+ #lgbtqia+ rights

[thexfridax]

A year before Raymond Burr first played Perry Mason, he was romantically linked to Natalie Wood. Dates to avoid scandal was a common tactic in Hollywood (and probably still is), and this gossip benefited Burr and Wood. The latter was trying to hide her relationship with Robert Wagner, and Burr would never star in Perry Mason if his sexuality were made public.

More than 60 years later, HBO’s gritty—and queer—reboot of the Erle Stanley Gardner stories features some art imitating life, using similar tactics to link Della Street (Juliet Rylance) and District Attorney Hamilton “Ham” Burger (Justin Kirk) in order to protect their reputations. Set in Los Angeles in the early 1930s, this mutually beneficial arrangement shields Della from prying comments about her lack of a husband—and Ham about his permanent bachelor status—allowing her to pursue a legal career alongside associate Perry Mason (Matthew Rhys).

For a show located so close to Hollywood, the glamorous movie-making biz had so far only existed on the seedy periphery when Perry, in his PI days, took snaps of stars in compromising positions. Tinseltown edges closer when successful and self-assured screenwriter Anita St. Pierre enters the series in a puff of Turkish cigarette smoke, offering Della respite from the dark cloud hanging over the office and the routine of her relationship with hand model Hazel (Molly Ephraim).

“This is my lesbian period piece fantasy,” Jen Tullock tells The Daily Beast’s Obsessed about the Palm Springs getaway in a recent episode of Perry Mason. It has been a busy 12-plus months for Tullock, who is currently shooting the highly anticipated second season of Severance—and cannot reveal anything other than saying it is “nothing short of mind-blowing.”

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#The Daily Beast #Perry Mason #2020 #Perry Mason spoilers #Jen Tullock #Anita St. Pierre #Della Street #Juliet Rylance #Enjoying their love story #The threat to their personal lives #is there though #Let them have some joy #Enough drama in the world #real and fictional #Thanks #LGBTQ+

[pedropascal24-7]

#pedro pascal #the uninvited #walton goggins #elizabeth reaser #sxsw #the daily beast

[jbaileyfansite]

The series, which follows two U.S. government employees (played with magnificent aplomb by Matt Bomer and Jonathan Bailey) who enter a torrid relationship amid 1950s McCarthyism, stands to briefly revive the golden age of TV. And it’s for one damn good reason: sex.[...] The eight-episode limited series looks and feels like classic prestige TV, earning all eight hours of its runtime thanks to cunning writing, terrific editing, and some of the best lead performances of the year.[...] I can spot the unique elements that are embedded within real queer relationships in how Hawkins and Tim interact, with Bailey and Bomer conjuring some of the most unmistakable chemistry of any onscreen pair in recent memory.[...] Even for all its showmanship and technical prowess—this is one of the few modern shows that deserves to be described as “cinematic”—it’s Bomer and Bailey who make Fellow Travelers such essential viewing. They have a rare kind of alchemy that helps the show transcend its few weaker moments, elevating it to new heights with each stolen glance and affectionate expression. It’s some of the most realistic acting that I’ve ever seen, true tenderness that glows from the screen and straight into your heart. Forgive me for being a bit saccharine, but it’s not everyday you watch something that makes you remember that television can be more than just good. Sometimes, it can be excellent.

Some excerpt from TheDailyBeast Fellow Travelers's review [x]

#fellow travelers #jonathan bailey #matt bomer #jonny bailey #lgbtq+ #gay romance #political thriller #showtime #paramount plus #paramount+ #ft spoilers #the daily beast #NEW!

[contemplatingoutlander]

“All of us who do abortions see patients quite regularly who tell us, ‘I’m not pro-choice, but I just can’t continue this pregnancy,’” said Dr. Sarah Prager, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington. “We’ve even seen people coming into the clinic off the protester lines to get their abortion, then return to protesting outside the clinic.” [...]

According to Prager, the phenomenon is so common that abortion providers have a name for it: the Me Exception.

“We in the movement often say people believe abortion should be legal in cases of rape, incest and ‘me,’ meaning whatever reason is relevant for that person,” she said. And yet, she noted, of the many surveys describing how Americans view abortion, virtually none reflect that reality. [emphasis added]

#women's reproductive rights #people's reproductive rights #us politics #pro-life people who have abortions #the daily beast

[msclaritea]

1.12 MILLION effing tweets under Taylor Swift for:

1. A song dedicated to Greek aka Classical Cassandra

2. More songs spilling tea about one of her beard relationships MattybHealy

3. Use of black people for promo, when none that I know of, even like her

4. Going after kimvkardashian (and you know I don't care) but it's for Anna Wintour one of the biggest, shadiest 'Handlers' in Manhattan and BFFs with Meghan Markle

5. Trolls bragging that Swifties are being taken advantage of with all of the repetitive albums

6. Joking about Satanism

7. Mocking #Palestine by openly hoping for #WWIII after the #Iran attack

8.Dragging Kim's child, North into the middle of this shite

I have it on good authority that Swift is considered an Apex Predator in the business.

#Taylor Swift #Sony #Warner Music #Penske Media #IAC #The Daily Beast #Rolling Stone #ABC #NBC #Vogue #Teen Vogue #AMC Theater #Drew Barrymore #Sports Betting #Microsoft #Silicon Valley #Kim Kardashian #Anna Wintour #Trafficking In The Modeling Industry #WHY IS THE ABC GUY MAKING THE HEART FINGERS LIKE THE JOURNO WHO CONFRONTED CAITLIN? #Matty Healy #Hollywood Bearding #Israel #Satanism #WWIII Jokes #Meghan Markle #Palestine #Mistepresentation Through Use Of Black Models #1.12 million tweets for this shite

[seumascowan]

We are not a good country filled with good people. Aside our tacit approval — and in many cases explicit support — of the atrocities against Palestinians inflicted by Israel, we here in the USA continue this sort of barbarity without a blink.

Excerpt below from TheDailyBeast, more here. Everyone should read.

[Rev. Dr.] Hood became emotional as he described the execution as “the most horrible thing I think I’ve ever seen” in a CNN interview, a video of which was shared online by nonprofit The Woods Foundation. “We prayed together, we were able to spend time together briefly,” Hood said. He added that he told Smith he loved him and made the sign of the cross “letting him know that he’s not alone.” Hood then paused and appeared to become emotional before describing what happened when a gas was fitted to Smith’s face and the execution began. “When they turned the nitrogen on, he began to convulse,” Hood said. “He popped up on the gurney over and over and over again. He shook the whole gurney.”

“I could see the corrections officers that were in there—they were… I think they were very surprised that this didn’t go smoother,” he added. One of the state officials in the room, Hood claimed, was “so nervous she was tap dancing—I could hear her feet tapping over and over again because they wanted it to be over.” He also claimed that Smith kept breathing for “what could possibly have been around nine minutes, ten minutes.” “An unbelievable evil was unleashed tonight in Alabama,” Hood added.

#TW: execution #free gaza #palestine #israel #alabama #execution #torture #the daily beast #npr

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#fark #the daily beast #twitter

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#us politics #news #nbc news #the daily beast #2023 #gun control #gun rights #gun violence #Kansas City #Missouri #new york #Ralph Yarl #Kaylin Gillis #Kevin Monahan #Andrew Lester #second degree murder #first degree assault #armed criminal action

[knithacker]

ChatGPT Keeps Imploding Because of Crochet. (Seriously.) via The Daily Beast: 👉 https://buff.ly/3Y5xYEZ

#ChatGPT #The Daily Beast #crochet #amigurumi

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Lauren Boebert's Husband Went Completely Nuts When Served With Divorce Papers | Farron Balanced

It was revealed this week that Congresswoman Lauren Boebert has filed for divorce from her husband, and The Daily Beast is reporting that the serving of the divorce papers to Jayson Boebert did not go well at all. The report says that Jayson became belligerent as the process server attempted to do his job by refusing to accept the papers, yelling curse words, threatening to call the police, and eventually setting his dogs loose against the server. Lauren says that this doesn't sound like Jayson at all, but that's what's in the documentation, as Farron Cousins explains.

#us politics #news #republicans #conservatives #gop #republican family values #2023 #Farron Balanced #youtube #videos #Farron Cousins #Jayson Boebert #rep. lauren boebert #the daily beast #divorce

[houseofbrat]

Nigel Cawthorne, a biographer of Prince Andrew who wrote the book Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace told The Daily Beast: “It all seems to keep coming back to this whole thing about whether the photograph is fake. It is not. It was given to the FBI for goodness sake. All the legal minds say he hasn’t a hope in hell of overturning this settlement with Virginia Giuffre.

“I suspect that the real motivation may be to discredit Virginia ahead of the gagging order on her expiring next month. They may be getting their retaliation in first.”

#the daily beast #Tom Sykes #Nigel Cawthorne #the disgusting one doesn't get his name in a tag #epstein shit

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

No Prager U.

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A PragerU video project has now been approved for use in Florida public schools. And the people who made it are blatant racists and white supremacists. Surprised? A racist post by the PragerU staffer Aldo Buttazzoni that claimed Black people have “never been told no before” has caused a firestorm at the right-wing advocacy group, with colleagues calling out the conservative influencer both publicly and behind closed doors. The internal strife stems from a tweet fired off by Buttazzoni on Monday in response to a video claiming to show a “racist Target employee” calling the police on and shutting down an in-store flash mob that appeared to be made up mostly of Black women. Buttazzoni, who is white, replied: “Black people are so used to being coddled by society that any time they’re reprimanded, they can’t help but perceive it as racially motivated. It’s the societal equivalent of never disciplining a child. They’ve never been told no before.”

[The Daily Beast]

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Key to the DeSantis video indoctrination project: see, whites really are superior, and they have defined America and its culture. Everyone else is irrelevant. If you mourn the loss of Columbus Day, want less focus on the evils of slavery, and think climate change is overrated, PragerU is for you. The brainchild of conservative talk show host Dennis Prager, its catchy videos just won approval from the Florida Board of Education for use in all the state’s K-12 public schools, making Florida the first of what the nonprofit PragerU expects will be more red state adoptions of its rightwing ideology. Prager’s prime audience is kindergarten through fifth grade, with animated portrayals of historic figures like Christopher Columbus, who is shown explaining to future generations that slavery is “as old as time,” and that people should not be judged by standards that change over time. In another video, an animated Frederick Douglass explains slavery is “wrong and evil,” but compromise was necessary “to achieve something great.”

The conservative slant and America First boosterism are obvious and well within bounds, but do they belong in public schools? Gov. Ron DeSantis banned racial equity policies and programs where he could, saying he’s for “education not indoctrination.” Meanwhile, Dennis Prager says in a promotional video, “We are in the mind-changing business, and few groups can say that.” Addressing criticism he received at a Moms for Liberty convention this summer, he said, “It’s true we bring doctrines to children.” He then asked, “But what is the bad of our indoctrination?”

[The Daily Beast]

#indoctrination #racism #idiocy #Florida #Prager U #public school #The daily beast