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The Pursuit of Love is a new series based on the 1945 novel by Nancy Mitford of the same name. The original novel is the first in a trilogy about an upper-class English family during the interwar period. The new BBC series boasts a big name cast, including: Lily James, Emily Beecham and Dominic West. Opening up about his casting in the show, Dominic revealed what he loves most about his character Matthew Radlett.

Lily plays the adventurous young Linda Radlett, while Emily stars as her more timid cousin Fanny Logan.

Dominic is taking on the role of Lindas father and Fannys uncle Matthew Radlett.

Matthew runs an old fashioned household and is insistent that the girls in the family should not receive an education.

The drama follows Linda and Fanny on their quests for love, but the cousins have very different approaches.

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Fanny chooses to go down a more conventional path, meanwhile Linda opts to follow her heart and see where it leads her.

Speaking about his characters backwards way, Dominic said: Hes so outrageous and so politically incorrect.

"His attitude to life is so not what most people think today in regards to political opinions

How to raise children, the role of women in society they are all so backwards, Dominic explained.

Speaking to the BBC, screenwriter, director and star of The Pursuit of Love, Emily Mortimer revealed what attracted her to take on the book.

Emily explained: "The experience of reading the novel is just as exciting in this day and age, and the book still feels quite shocking and radical.

"Its quite bracing and liberating to read which is amazing as it was written in 1945. It is full of love and romance but it has an edge.

"To me, it felt cool and it feels like there is a place for this now. This isnt just a dusty book from the 1940s, it feels relevant, she concluded.

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The Rutherford Institute has asked a federal court to prohibit Facebook from censoring and de-platforming critics of the COVID-19 vaccine in violation of the First Amendment.

In an amicus brief filed in Childrens Health Defense v. Facebook, Rutherford Institute attorneys argue that Facebook acted in concert with U.S. government officials and agencies to suppress and punish Childrens Health Defense for sharing information critical of the dangers of the COVID-19 vaccine.

We should all be alarmed when prominent social media voices are censored, silenced and made to disappear from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Instagram for voicing ideas that are deemed politically incorrect, hateful, dangerous, extremist or conspiratorial, said constitutional attorney John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of Battlefield America: The War on the American People.

At some point, depending on how the government and its corporate allies define what constitutes extremism, we might all be considered guilty of some thought crime or other and subjected to technocensorship.

Founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Childrens Health Defense (CHD) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ending childhood health epidemics by exposing causes, eliminating harmful exposures, seeking justice for those injured, and establishing safeguards to prevent future harms.

CHD, an outspoken critic of the proliferation of childhood vaccines, seeks to inform the public about vaccines and the health dangers posed by vaccines and wireless technologies. CHDs mission has brought it in conflict with the pharmaceutical industry, which obtains huge profits from the sale of vaccines, the United State government, which accepts millions of dollars in funding from the pharmaceutical industry, and big-tech internet companies that profit from expanded wireless technologies.

Crucial to CHDs mission of educating the public is its use of social media, including Facebook, to provide links to studies and information provided by experts on public health that exposes the dangers of vaccines; however, since January 2019, Facebook has repeatedly posted labels and overlays on CHDs Facebook page labeling information provided as false, prevented persons visiting CHDs Facebook page from making donations to CHD, and otherwise asserted that CHD violated Facebooks terms of service by posting false information.

In August 2020, CHD filed a lawsuit alleging that Facebooks actions, in retaliation for CHDs speech critical of vaccines and wireless technologies, violated the First Amendments guarantee to freedom of speech. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook acted at the behest of and in concert with the U.S government, asserting that Congressman Adam Schiff had pressured Facebook to suppress vaccine misinformation and that officials threatened to repeal a statute providing Facebook with immunity from liability.

Facebook moved to dismiss the First Amendment claim arguing that it is a private entity and not subject to the First Amendment. In its amicus brief, The Rutherford Institute argues that CHDs lawsuit must be allowed to proceed in order to protect the free speech rights of all citizens, which are threatened by the increasing collaboration of the government and social media giants to censor speech that challenges the status quo.

The Rutherford Institutes amicus brief in Childrens Health Defense v. Facebook is available at http://www.rutherford.org. Affiliate attorney Julie A. Esposito assisted The Rutherford Institute in advancing the First Amendment arguments rebutting Facebooks attempt to censor COVID-19 vaccine critics.

The Rutherford Institute, a nonprofit civil liberties organization, provides legal assistance at no charge to individuals whose constitutional rights have been threatened or violated and educates the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting their freedoms.

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by GARRY SOUTH posted 05.10.2021

Republican recall candidate John Cox, who Gavin Newsom demolished in the 2018 governors race, is so desperate hes started campaigning with a 1,000-lb bear. But theres a different animal stalking the campaign of Caitlyn Jenner.

The elephant in the room quite literally with the Jenner candidacy is how willing Republican voters are to vote for a transgender person, famous or not. Maybe its considered politically incorrect, and thats why media is not addressing it, but its a topic that needs to be confronted.

The California GOP is down to an historic low of 24% of registered voters. That means whats left is basically the racist, misogynistic, anti-LGBT dregs at the bottom of the barrel.

The anti-gay stance among California Republicans is not a new phenomenon and not just a factor of Trumps ascendancy in the party

And especially the T part of LGBT. It offends the moral sensibilities of conservative, evangelical (my religious background as a kid) Republicans perhaps even more than gays and lesbians. In their view, transgenderism violates the biblical statement in Genesis, Male and female created he them. Hey, stay in your lanes, everybody, God put and wants you there.

Trump summarily threw all transgender service members out of the military, regardless of their distinguished records. Fully 48 of the 50 GOP senators and every one of the males voted in March against confirming the highest-ranking openly transgender person ever to serve in the federal government, Dr. Rachel Levine. GOP-controlled legislatures all over the country even as we speak are passing bill after shameful bill to egregiously penalize and discriminate against transgenders including transgender teens. Theyd be doing it here, too, if the GOP controlled the Legislature.

The anti-gay stance among California Republicans is not a new phenomenon and not just a factor of Trumps ascendancy in the party. In the last two state ballot measures over the past two decades that banned same-sex marriage, GOP voters overwhelmingly approved both of them. With Proposition 22 in 2000, Republicans supported it 85-15%. 2008s Prop. 8 won 82-18% among GOP voters. So homophobia is not a recent development among Republicans.

In addition, having managed numerous campaigns in California over the last 30 years, one of the most common GOP whispering campaigns against Democrats is to start the rumor that they are secretly gay as if that is the most pejorative thing that could be said about a Democratic candidate. The rumor followed the Jesuit-trained former seminarian Jerry Brown for years, despite his very public dalliance with Linda Ronstadt. The same whispering campaigns followed Gray Davis as well, in spite of tabloid revelations about steamy trysts he reportedly had with actress Cybill Shepherd on a beach in Hawaii in his 20s.

Arnold Schwarzeneggers win in 03 was fueled by young male voters and even older male voters who bought into his machismo and his blow-em-away movie persona. He was a he-mans he-man. So does anyone in their right mind really think that the very conservative, mostly middle-aged-white-male base of the Republican Party in CA is just dying to vote for a transgender woman and perhaps the best-known such person in the world currently for governor?

Dont get me wrong, I admire and respect Jenner for going through the (in her case, very public) travails of becoming who she wants to be. I have a transgender nephew who I love dearly, and helped through his transition.

Just put me down as skeptical that Republican voters are prepared to abandon their biases and homophobia and vote for a transgender woman. All of Jenners Hannity interviews and TV biopics are less critical to her candidacy than the answer to this question.Editors Note: Garry South is a veteran Democratic strategist who managed Gray Davis 1998 and 2002 gubernatorial campaigns and was senior political adviser to Gov. Davis.

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Loves new season two trailer, Death + Robots (out May 14), has just been released and will be posted on NSFW.

In 2019, Netflix subscribers were introduced to the world of Tim Miller, creator of the Love, Death + Robots miniseries, which explores topics such as love, new technology, death and more, especially human-machine relationships in an apocalypseous future.

After a first trailer that was released recently and was supposed to be dark and strange, Netflix only released a second trailer three days before its release. And this one is not at the top. This trailer is bloody and disturbing and has a heavy NSFW accent which shows up in many very trashy and politically incorrect scenes.

If the first season served as a starter, this second season which will take the format of a miniseries of 8 independent episodes of each other seems to push the cursor much higher and should be discussed.

Deadpools director hits hard with this real bomb. Especially since we learn that several celebrities have played the motion capture game. Will this second season be more disruptive than its predecessor? Reply to Netflix on May 14th.

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So how does art express itself today? Its hard to say what great pandemic works of art will come out of all of this. Maybe we will also have our masterpieces to look back upon, to help us remember how it was.

But times are different, and the people are different. We are not likely to have new versions of the Ars Moriendi fluctuating on Pinterest. Lets face it. For now, its mostly about the memes. And there are thousands of them. One of the reasons I believe memes are so popular is their ability to pass censorship and algorithms powered by artificial intelligence.

If you want to be blunt, offend, have a politically incorrect laugh. Then what better option do you have than using a meme? Most younger people spend their lives online anyway. They dont spend their time working on the details of an oil canvas. Memes can be funny, and still so simple it borders on the ridiculous.

That this generation would turn to memes is not all that surprising. After all, this is how we are trained to live and act. Laugh quickly and forget about it just as quickly. Memes are not for contemplation, and maybe a majority of people living today have never learned to contemplate because they have never learned how to be bored. The memes are a natural expression of this quick culture".

Memes are easy to glue together, as long as you have a phone. Theres no need for talent or eloquence, a creative idea will get you far enough.

Still, there is real talent out there, and I am sure more will be emerging before all of this is over. Maybe we will be remembered as the meme generation"? Or maybe our memes will die with us? The blunt truth is, most of the popular memes are not found in books or art galleries. Instead, they are circulating randomly online, and if they are preserved or not, depends solely on technology, and whether or not they will survive all the solar storms and unexpected cloud storage shutdowns or not.

One thing is certain, the memes are helping people get through their fears and sorrows, caused by the media thriving on our addiction to bad news, and the unprecedented lockdowns and loss of freedoms. Memes are keeping us alive, they are the edge of opinion and emotion, and they provide us a sense of freedom when it seems as if all liberties are lost.

I thought I would close this article with some talent I recently discovered in Copenhagen. It was painted on a city wall, by the artist Welinoo and is called Covfefe-19. I dont know if he used spray cans or not, but if he did, I am impressed.

Theres no doubt in my mind, the corona will continue to stir up emotions and inspire more artists and hobby members in times to come. Feel free to share more pandemic art in the comment section below.

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Pandemic Art Re-Emerges. The memes and the masters | by Iselin Aspen | The Collector | May, 2021 - Medium

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A schism could be in the offing.

With the Jaguars reportedly planning to sign quarterback outfielder tight end Tim Tebow, theres a chance not everyone in the locker room will roll out the red carpet for a guy whose job opportunity seems to be more about hype and revenue than Xs and Os.

Via Jeff Darlington of EPN, not everybody in the Jaguars building is thrilled with the looming arrival of coach Urban Meyers former Florida protg.

Thats a point Simms made on PFT Live. How will the other players react to a player who is more sideshow than serious football player? Then, how will Meyer who has always been the unquestioned emperor of his football team react to that?

Earlier this year, Meyer made a controversial coaching hire. He quickly parted ways with Chris Doyle after facing strong pressure and scrutiny. Although its unlikely that Meyer will suffer a similar external reaction to signing Tebow, Tebow could end up being a tough sell internally.

How Meyer sells it, whether other players buy it, and what Meyer does about it will remain to be seen. At some point, Tebow will have to show that he belongs. If he cant, but if he then isnt abruptly cut, Meyer could have a credibility issue in his locker room.

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THE harrowing of Hartlepool was a long time in the making for the Labour Party but, lost in their acquiescent complacency under Sir Keir Starmer, they never saw it coming.

Its taken 57 years but finally the voters registered their absolute despair at Labours ineffective and aloof stewardship. And how. The winning Tory candidate in Thursday nights by-election gained twice as many votes as the sitting Labour MP.

To portray Hartlepool as belonging to Labours heartlands doesnt really tell the story: this town is at the heart of the heartlands. It takes some amount of neglect and entitlement to lose it to the Tories by such a margin.

If the swing from red to blue were to be repeated in the 2024 UK election, another 38 Labour seats, once considered to be their natural terrain, would also fall to the Tories. The Labour Party, north and south of the border, can now be considered destitute: last orders have been called and they have no home to call their own.

When I visited this town in 2016 after it had voted 70-30 in favour of Brexit scores of Labour voters told me the same story: they had waited in vain for more than two decades for someone, anyone, to heed their cries for help.

READ MORE: What will SNP win mean for working class?

In 2012 Hartlepool was listed in the top 2% of Englands most deprived areas in a survey that measured income, health, education and crime. They were resentful at being labelled racist by the elites in their own party for daring to back Brexit.

If Labour strategists had cared enough to listen theyd know why. After tens of thousands of jobs disappeared in fishing and car manufacturing, there was no industrial strategy to help this area recover. The same story was unfolding up and down the Humber Estuary: a wholesale surrender to Europe on fishing rights was followed by an influx of cheap foreign labour undercutting local wage agreements. These stemmed from EU pay regulations which encouraged exploitation of eastern European workers. To oppose this doesnt make you racist.

Jeremy Corbyn understood why, though, and this underpinned his long-held disdain for the EU corporate club. On Friday morning, as the full extent of Labours Hartlepool capitulation became apparent, several of Sir Keirs company men were wheeled out to hang it on his predecessor.

Anas Sarwar

What chance did we have, they whined, citing Labours collapse in 2019, but this was a lame excuse. In these local elections Boris Johnson has surfed the waves of euphoria flowing from the successful vaccination roll-out and the end of lockdown. In 2019, working-class communities, swept up by Brexit and resentful of the Labours elites EU obsession began to rebel. Hartlepool confirmed that Labours Red Wall is now rubble.

In Scotland, the collapse of UK Labour is a watershed moment for the partys leader, Anas Sarwar. In England, the process of surrendering Labour fortresses to the Tories was begun by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. As they were mesmerised by neo-liberalism and corporatism they came to regard communities like Hartlepool and Bolsover as their politically-incorrect uncle Harry: we cant disown them but do we really have to talk to them.

Toryism of the most insidious stamp is now embedded in every corner of England and Labour have made gifts of their former territories. The Labour elites who betrayed Corbyn no longer speak the same language as the working-class communities they once purported to represent. Its a language the Tories have now learned.

READ MORE: The return of Project Fear

England is now entirely under the control of an Etonian kleptocracy who have commandeered patriotism, royalty and gunboats to hoodwink working-class communities that they share their values. These poor people, owing to Labours neglect of them, will learn the harsh truth when the decade of austerity begins and they find themselves once more on the receiving end.

Never has England seemed so distant in its culture, instincts and values. That a dissolute and feckless aristocrat, distrusted by his own party, and for whom 160k-a-year and free accommodation is not enough can triumph in Hartlepool tells its own story.

Mr Sarwar now has a choice to make which will define his leadership. Does he continue to pledge allegiance to a polity now under the eternal dominion of this class? If he chooses to maintain his glib sufferance of such a state then he will make Labour an utter irrelevance in Scotland. If he chooses to lend his weight to a second independence referendum he brings his party back into the game with a chance of forming the first government of an independent Scotland.

English Labours failure to heed the messages coming from their former strongholds mirrors the experience of the party in Scotland. They had a sense of entitlement that their fortresses in Glasgow, Dundee, Inverclyde and North Lanarkshire would always come through. As their grandees were seduced by the leather and lace of the Westminster bordello they simply abandoned these communities. Rather than stay and fight for them Jack McConnell, George Foulkes, George Robertson and Alistair Darling chose ermine robes and the Palace of Westminsters comforting teat.

Mr Sarwar doesnt need me to tell him that many of his partys former supporters voted for the SNP on Thursday against all the instincts and traditions of their families. Nicola Sturgeon has expertly deployed a hard Brexit and the gangsterism of Downing Street to keep them. Her promises of seeking a second referendum are now like confetti and last about as long. Scotlands First Minister merely has to represent something different from the corrupt regime that Mr Sarwars ill-judged Unionism reinforces; she doesnt actually have to make different happen.

If Mr Sarwar maintains his unflinching support for a state destined to be controlled by the hard right for a generation then Labour is finished up here too. In this hell betray those working-class communities who have been locked out of the Holyrood vanity project and its platinum-card lounges since the beginning of devolution.

He talks about a Covid recovery parliament, but Hartlepool means that this concept is already out-dated. Whats required now is recovery from a generation of Toryism. In Scotland that can only begin with a referendum on independence.

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