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  1. The X Art Show Brings 60 Years of Mutant History, X-Men Creators and Live Fan Events to Los Angeles
    The immersive North Hollywood exhibition features talent...
    comiccrusaders.com/comics/comi
    #X-Men #X-Men ’97 #The X Art Show #Marvel Comics #Jake Castorena #Scott Koblish #Steven E. Gordon #Krakoa #Krakoan Gate #Giant-Size Productions #Moby’s Coffee & Tea Co. #Nerds Vote #Los Angeles events #North Hollywood #comic book art #fan conventions #cosplay #Marvel animation

  2. The podcast problem: what Steven Bartlett’s two glasses of wine can teach us about self-love

    We’ve all heard it, judged it and likely heard other people judging it too. To be fair, I don’t particularly want to scoff at someone who …
    #dining #cooking #diet #food #Wine #about #bartletts #can #glasses #Of #podcast #problem #selflove #steven #teach #the #two #US #what
    diningandcooking.com/2675040/t

  3. @evan @cbcnews @politics-cbcnews As the old saying goes, 'you have to stand for something or else you'll fall for everything'. Good for #Steven Guilbeault for standing up for #climateAction. How many other #LPC MPs have a spine to stand up to this Thatcherite/Harperite #MarkCarney?

  4. Iran and U.S. Consider One-Page Plan to End Hostilities, Iranian Officials Say

    Three senior Iranian officials say Tehran and the United States are discussing a one-page plan for both sides…
    #NewsBeep #News #BreakingNews #breakingnews #DonaldJ #Iran #IslamicRevolutionaryGuardsCorps #jared #Kushner #Nuclearweapons #steven #StraitofHormuz #tehraniran #Trump #witkoff
    newsbeep.com/526018/

  5. This is a hilarious production with amazing fake fight sequences a definite must watch

    #Steven #He #Fun #movie #sketch #humour #stream #DoubleOSeven

  6. 𝗚𝗲𝘇𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗲𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗷𝗸𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝘃𝗼𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗞𝗮𝘇à𝗻 𝗻𝗮 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝘂𝗸 𝗺𝗲𝘁 𝗝𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗲

    Steven Kazàn richt zich na de breuk met zijn vrouw Jamie Kames op zijn gezin. Dat zei de goochelaar voor de camera van RTL Boulevard. "Het belangrijkste waar ik nu op focus is het gezin", aldus Kazàn.

    rtl.nl/boulevard/artikel/55224

    #Gezin #Steven #Breuk

  7. "When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government,
    that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism,”

    said #Steven #Levitsky,
    a professor of government at Harvard and the co-author of the influential 2018 book
    “How Democracies Die.”

    nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/poli

  8. In recent months, Voice of America’s parent organization, the U.S. Agency for Global Media, has opened human-resources investigations into Voice of America journalists
    -- for reporting on criticism of Trump
    -- or for making comments that were perceived as critical of him.

    At least a couple of articles that included criticism of Trump and his administration were not published or were watered down after publication in recent months

    And on Friday, the Agency for Global Media informed one of Voice of America’s highest-profile journalists,
    #Steven #Herman,

    @w7voa
    @newsguy.bsky.social

    that he was being placed on an extended “excused absence” pending a human resources investigation.

    Mr. Herman confirmed receiving the letter, which said the investigation was into whether his “social media activity has undermined V.O.A.’s audiences’ perceptions of the objectivity and/or credibility of V.O.A. and its news operations.”

    nytimes.com/2025/02/28/busines

  9. Others in the Trump inner circle who made their fortunes via privately held ventures include treasury secretary
    #Steven T. #Mnuchin, who got a great deal during the financial crisis on IndyMac, a mortgage lending bank,
    thanks to our government’s penchant for the socialization of risk and privatization of profit when entities considered “too big to fail” go into a state of distress.

    Mnuchin and his fellow investors, a group that included liberal donor and hedge-fund honcho George Soros, changed the company name to #OneWest and began to aggressively foreclose on homeowners.
    The bank earned Mnuchin and his partners a profit of $1.6 billion in its first year of operation,
    even as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was preparing to take a hit of nearly $11 billion “on bad loans that the Pasadena institution made before it was sold last March and renamed OneWest Bank,” according to E. Scott Reckard of the Los Angeles Times.

    Then there’s commerce secretary #Wilbur #Ross, worth $2.5 billion according to Forbes, who started a second career in 2000 with the creation of his eponymous investment company,
    which he later sold to Invesco for a reported $375 million.

    #Reed #Cordish, special assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives, is a scion of the family that owns privately held Cordish Companies,
    involved in gaming and entertainment.
    He’s said to be tight with Jared Kushner.

    #Sonny #Perdue, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, founded the private company Perdue Inc., a trucking outfit,
    with his wife, Mary, who was reported in 2005 to be the company’s sole shareholder.
    (An official at Perdue Inc. declined to confirm to The Baffler whether this is still the case.)

    And, while not a rich guy himself, CIA director #Mike #Pompeo founded a private company called #Thayer #Aerospace in the late 1990s with help from Koch Venture Capital, an arm of Koch Industries.
    A Pompeo aide told the Washington Post that the Koch investment amounted to only 2 percent,
    but there’s no way to really know, since the transaction took place between two privately held companies.
    He later became president of #Sentry #International, another private company, before his 2010 run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, which he won, again with an assist from the Koch brothers.
    He’s also a climate-change denier—an appealing trait in a public official if you’re a fossil fuels magnate looking to buy one

  10. The two finalists to become Trump’s Treasury Secretary
    — the person will have a major hand in cutting taxes for the wealthy and raising tariffs so everyone pays more
    — are #Howard #Lutnick, who’s CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and Trump’s co-transition chair,

    and #Steven #Bessent, the founder of the investment firm Key Square Capital Management.

    Lutnick had been in the lead but a few days ago, according to the The Wall Street Journal, he heard from Trump’s allies that he might not get the nod.

    So Lutnick turned for help to #Elon #Musk, who now calls himself Trump’s “First Buddy.”

    Bessent’s supporters also reached out to Musk to endorse Bessent, which tells you alot about the palace intrigue going on now in Mar-a-Lago, and how much power Musk is now wielding.

    Yesterday, Musk, posted on his X that Lutnick would be a better choice for treasury secretary than Bessent:
    “My view fwiw is that Bessent is a business-as-usual choice, whereas @howardlutnick will actually enact change. Business-as-usual is driving America bankrupt, so we need change one way or another.”

    Musk’s and Trump’s criterion for filling high-level positions
    (besides unbridled fealty to Trump):

    ⚠️The picks don’t need to know anything or share any large vision of the public good.
    They just have to be bomb-throwers who’ll shake things up.

    The worst that can be said of any candidate is he’ll govern as usual.

    🔥Trump is well on his way to “crush the system,” as he promised
    — which most Americans appear to want because the “as usual” system has for decades been rewarding big-money donors, monopolists, CEOs living off government contracts (like Musk)
    and fat-cat denizens of Wall Street (like Lutnick and Bessent)
    — all of whom have been siphoning off most economic gains for themselves.

    🆘 But if the new system that Trump installs
    (with or without Musk’s help)
    siphons off even more of the gains for those at the top, while destroying what’s left of our democracy,
    most Americans will find themselves even worse off and more resentful.
    robertreich.substack.com/p/tru