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Aaron Sorkin calls Biden dropping out of presidential race a ‘West Wing’ moment as cast visits White House
With President Joe Biden away from the White House, it was left Friday to another man with Oval Office experience to stand at the front of the Rose Garden and give a rousing call to service.Martin Sheen and others from the cast of “The West Wing,” the hit drama about a liberal president and his staff, were invited by first lady Jill Biden for an event to mark the 25th anniversary of the show.Sheen exhorted the crowd to find something worth fighting for, “something deeply personal and uncompromising, something that can unite the will of the spirit with the work of the flesh.”His voice and hands rose, his cadence matching perfectly that of President Jed Bartlet, the character Sheen played for seven seasons.“When we find that, we will discover fire for the second time, and then we will be able to help lift up this nation and all its people to that place where the heart is without fear, and their head is held high,” Sheen said.“The West Wing” remains a favorite of many who now work in Washington, both liberal and conservative. Among those spotted in the Rose Garden were House Foreign Affairs Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Joe Walsh, once a tea party-aligned Illinois congressman who is now a sharp critic of former President Donald Trump and supporting Vice President Kamala Harris.Asked to name his favorite character, Walsh replied, “I’m partial to Martin Sheen because I want to be president one day.” (Walsh ran and lost a longshot Republican primary challenge to Trump in 2020.)It was clear in the speeches and the party’s touches that at least a few “West Wing” fans work in the White House.There was the US Marine Band playing the opening notes to the show’s theme as Biden and the cast walked out.
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Former ‘Bachelorette’ star Josh Seiter describes ‘abuse’ since coming out as trans: ‘I fear for my safety’
A former Bachelorette star who came out as transgender since the show says she doesn’t need surgery or hormone treatment to “be a woman.”Josh Seiter, 37, who was born male, and appeared on season 11 of TV show in 2015 as a cis male competing with others to match with a single woman.But she came out as a trans woman in May 2024 and has faced death threats since.Josh has now revealed she is not on hormone medication and is unsure if she will get surgery.She says she’s now realised she “doesn’t need to take anything to be a trans woman”.But this hasn’t stopped trolls cruel comments over her decision to turn down surgery and keep traditionally-male features like facial hair.She says some abuse has even come from trans people who say she is not trans or part of the LGBTQ+ community.Josh, a influencer, from Chicago, Illinois, said: “I fear for my safety all the time.“If I am in a restaurant, a park or in downtown Chicago I get nervous.“I am looking behind my back and wondering if someone is going to stab me or hurt me.“The abuse I have been getting is pretty awful – I have been met with intolerance, bigotry and gatekeeping.”Josh said she has struggled with his identity for as long as she can remember.Aged seven she would often go into her parent’s bedroom while they were out and put on her mum’s dresses and jewellery.Josh said: “I couldn’t articulate what I was going through but I knew I felt comfortable.“I was homeschooled in a very conservative Christian family.“It was only in college that I was given the freedom to explore my gender identity.“It was during that time that I knew I was trans but 18 years ago there wasn’t that vocabulary.”Josh came out as pansexual in January 2021 but it wasn’t until his dad died in April that

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