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Insecure as Issa Rae’s most quotable friend, Kelli Prenny, CPA and meme machine. Also a writer and producer on the series, responsible for hatching some of those indelible lines, Rothwell earned an Emmy nomination with the show’s 2020 nod for Outstanding Comedy Series.

Step II, which would become a huge hit thanks to disco smashes “You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)” and “Dance (Disco Heat).”“Before the album was out, he was doing shows around San Francisco, and so I opened,” Tracy recalls. “He had never really heard me sing or do a show.

Daily Mail that Black & Decker’s “sole priority should be providing their customer base, professionals and DIYers alike, with the best tools and equipment possible.”“Companies need to focus on serving their customers, not woke politicians,” he said.Consumers’ Research claims Stanley Black & Decker has been prioritizing “race-based hiring, DEI goals, and ESG [environmental, social, and governance] policies” internally, accusing them of hiring and promoting — allegedly at the expense of white employees — people based on racial, religious, or other characteristics, as reported by the right-wing website BizPac Review.The boycott comes at a time when the company has seen its stock value plummet in recent months, and is currently in the process of shuttering plants and distribution hubs to help turn a profit.According to Consumers’ Research, Black & Decker aims to increase business with minority suppliers by at least 10 percent by 2025. The company also plans to donate at least $10.5 million to “racial equity-related organizations” by 2025, and to require compulsory “equity training” sessions for executives.Conservatives also object to the company’s participation in the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index,” an annual survey that ranks companies based on their LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policies and employee benefit policies for same-sex couples, LGBTQ-headed families, and transgender individuals.Stanley Black & Decker earned a 100% rating on the CEI last year for policies like intersectionality training and “gender transition guidelines,” and LGBTQ-affirming employee benefit policies.

Beetlejuice was, in essence, a slyly original movie about ghosts who are stuck in a kind of purgatory. So it’s fitting that a long-gestating sequel to the 1988 classic has been seemingly trapped in development hell as long as the titular bio-exorcist has been, well, dead.Nixed screenplays with titles like “Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian” and “Beetlejuice in Love” have come and gone; the original screenwriters have passed into heaven’s waiting room; Alec Baldwin has long since aged out of playing 30-year-old hunks; and Tim Burton has spent decades teasing the possibility of a sequel while occupied with more pressing projects like, uh… Dumbo.Now, thirty-six years after Beetlejuice became a morbid hit — a gap equal to the passage of time between Citizen Kane and Star Wars — the aptly titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is finally shake, shake, shaking into theaters.

letter, Coors’ company executives said its human resources team began making plans in March to broaden the view of its DEI policies to ensure all employees “know they are welcome.” The beer giant said it would halt all DEI trainings, scuttle requiring suppliers to meet diversity goals, and tie executive compensation solely to business performance rather than “aspirational representation goals.”The company also said it would stop participating in the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index,” an annual survey that ranks companies based on the existence of their LGBTQ-inclusive nondiscrimination policies, as well as employee benefit policies that recognize same-sex relationships, LGBTQ-headed families, or transgender identities as valid.Starbuck has primarily been targeting companies whose consumer base is perceived as socially conservative, including beer and spirit manufacturers, retail chains, automotive brands like Ford Motor Company, motorcycle giant Harley-Davidson, or agricultural-related companies like Tractor Supply Co. or John Deere.But his campaign appears to be aimed at eventually intimidating or forcing all major corporations — even those with liberal customer bases — into dropping DEI policies, which conservatives claim are a form of “reverse racism” that prioritize the hiring and advancement of people from various minority groups over allegedly more “qualified” heterosexual and cisgender white employees.

sued Love in April 2022, saying he had defamed them in remarks he made during a hearing on a bill he introduced calling for libraries to conduct background checks on employees and volunteers.The performers contended that the bill — which Love cast as an effort to protect children from being in proximity to sex offenders — was an attempt to block Drag Queen Story Hour events from taking place. Love sought to justify introducing the bill by claiming that “a convicted sex offender” had hosted the Drag Queen Teen Time program in Nashua, N.H., in 2019, comments widely understood to be referring to Champion.He alleged that another performer, understood to be referring to McMahon, had been seen “rubbing butts with children” at a similar event in Derry, N.H.Love repeated his accusations multiple times during that month, including making remarks opposing drag-related events at a Derry Town Council meeting on February 15, 2022, where he introduced himself as a state representative, imploring lawmakers to “leave the kids alone” and “let them grow up normal” by preventing them from being exposed to LGBTQ-related content.According to the lawsuit, Love also told a reporter from Manchester Ink Link that he “hope[d] to God” that Champion wasn’t a sex offender, but claimed to have read that Champion was convicted of sex offenses in a newspaper — though he couldn’t remember which one.“I don’t know if it was a Boston Herald or the Union Leader or what,” Love said at the time.

CNN, Ford Motor Company’s CEO Jim Farley announced to employees last Wednesday that the automotive giant had changed several of its policies.The company’s employee resource groups would stop focusing on identity and halt participation in external surveys, including the Human Rights Campaign’s “Corporate Equality Index,” which rates companies on their LGBTQ workplace nondiscrimination policies and employee benefits.“We are mindful that our employees and customers hold a wide range of beliefs, and the external and legal environment related to political and social issues continues to evolve,” Farley wrote in the email. He noted that the company does not “utilize hiring quotas or tie compensation to the achievement of specific diversity goals,” does not use “quotas [to] develop a dealer body that reflects the communities they serve,” has shifted the focus of employee resource groups to focus on networking, mentorship, professional development, and community service, and does not limit membership in any employee resource group to anyone based on individual characteristics.Farley insisted that Ford remains committed to creating an “inclusive workspace and building a team that leverages diverse perspectives, backgrounds, and thinking styles.”Right-wing activist Robby Starbuck posted a copy of Farley’s email on X, claiming that the company — like others — had changed its policies after he had informed them he was looking into their policies.Here is @Ford’s full statement I received this morning.

The Summer 2024 zeitgeist is, arguably, embracing change of fortune. Presidential polling in early July, for example, had GOP nominee Donald Trump notably, if not comfortably, ahead of Democratic incumbent Joe Biden. Today, it seems Trump may be trailing his new Democratic competition, Vice President Kamala Harris.In Florida, change of fortune may be seen in the lackluster primary showings of school board candidates endorsed by Republican Gov.

As Ben Platt said to Cynthia Erivo, as she joined him onstage in June during a performance of his Live at the Palace stint at Broadway’s Palace Theatre, “It was very clear then that you were destined to the stratosphere.”Platt was referring to a period nearly a decade ago, when Erivo starred in The Color Purple on Broadway, while he starred across the street in Dear Evan Hansen. Erivo is, indeed, well on her way to stratospheric celebrity, three-quarters of the journey to being queened an “EGOT,” shorthand for someone who has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

Naked and Afraid.Currently, viewers can catch the adventurous queer biologist taming the wild terrain on season two of the franchise’s extreme competition series Naked and Afraid: Last One Standing. Link is among the show’s 14 elite survivalists who battle for 45 days in Africa’s vast, punishing Munzwa Valley for a cash prize and the title of ultimate champion.Challenging himself for a fifth time on Naked and Afraid, Link carries the aura of experience and success — he finished second in the inaugural season of Last One Standing. Always methodical and super-competent, the famously fit former fan of the series can make even grueling survival tasks look easy.But, as he shares with Metro Weekly on a video call from the wilds of Fire Island, sticking it out on Last One Standing takes intense training and preparation.

Metro Weekly.The local gym chain, frequented by many members of the gay community, operates six locations throughout the D.C. metro area.

statement.Flamingo eggs hatch after an approximately 28-day period, during which they are incubated on mud pile nests, with both parents taking turns sitting on the nests. The chicks hatched from the eggs are covered in gray, downy feathers, and appear different from their more colorful adult counterparts.Currently, only three other couples — Florence and Flame, Frenchie and Del, and Flossie and Lando — have hatched chicks.

post on X.Dawn’s Early Light by @KevinRobertsTX is available for pre-order now!I was thrilled to write the foreword for this incredible book, which contains a bold new vision for the future of conservatism in America.Get your copy here >> https://t.co/nVW14O7BcH— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 19, 2024Dawn’s Early Light: Taking Back Washington to Save America is written by Kevin Roberts, president of The Heritage Foundation, the conservative think tank behind the extreme Project 2025 initiative, seemingly designed as blueprint for Donald Trump’s presidency, should the Republican nominee win.Vance, who has said there are “some good ideas” in Project 2025, is particularly close to Heritage, and specifically Roberts, whom he sees as a kindred spirit, notes in the foreword that both men come from humble beginnings in areas of the country that have been forgotten or overlooked by government and societal elites. Both men are Catholic and both have risen to prestigious positions, both within the conservative movement.Vance has financial ties to many of the individuals at Heritage rumored to be behind the development of Project 2025.

TMZ, the disgraced former Republican U.S. Congressman sought to dispel the notion that Vance was dressed in drag when he was photographed, twice, wearing a blond wig, a black blouse with a flowered skirt, chunky jewelry, and a purse for a Halloween party he attended while studying at Yale Law School.Santos compared the Vance photos to a similar situation that he personally faced last year, when he was accused of being a drag queen by people on the political Left after a former friend leaked a photo of him, dressed as his drag alter ego, Kitara Ravache, at a Pride Parade when he was 16 or 17.

viral online.Duran subsequently apologized, saying in a statement, “During tonight’s game, I used a truly horrific word when responding to a fan,” he said in a statement.“I feel awful knowing how many people I offended and disappointed. I apologize to the entire Red Sox organization, but more importantly to the entire LGBTQ community.

an earlier order he had issued in April blocking state authorities from enforcing the law.He ruled that the ban doesn’t violate the Ohio Constitution’s health care freedom amendment, or an Ohio law requiring legislation be limited to a single subject, reports The Columbus Dispatch. “The court finds the health care ban reasonably limits parents’ rights to make decisions about their children’s medical care consistent with the state’s deeply rooted legitimate interest in the regulation of medical profession and medical treatments,” Holbrook wrote in his decision.Under the law — which Republican lawmakers passed over objections from Republican Gov.

Unhumans: The Secret History of Communist Revolutions (and How to Crush Them) was written by Jack Posobiec and Joshua Lisec. Lisec is a professional ghostwriter, and Posobic is a well-known far-right influencer who promoted the Pizzagate conspiracy theory alleging that Democrats were running a child-trafficking ring out of Washington, D.C.’s Comet Pizza.In Unhumans — which contains a forward written by former Trump advisor Steve Bannon — Posobiec and Lisec argue that the history of left-wing movements shows they are driven by hate and that adherents of such movements wish to “rob” and “kill” conservatives in order to achieve their larger goal of dismantling societal institutions.The two call those on the political Left — regardless of how they identify, including progressives — “unhumans,” whom they alleged are waging an “Irregular Communist Revolution” against American society, claiming they “want an excuse to destroy everything.”“With power, unhumans undo civilization itself,” Posobiec and Lisec write.

Cuckoo. “It’s not necessarily my end goal to be an actress.

Noises Off. Serving as the country home setting of the play within the play — Nothing On — Matthew J.

WPTV.Two minutes later, police received a call from Bereska, saying he and his husband had gotten into a “very bad argument.” He told the police dispatcher that he shot his husband in the chest. The dispatcher directed him to render first aid, to which Bereska responded, “He’s dead.”When officers arrived at the couple’s house, Renwick was naked, on the kitchen floor, covered in blood, with several gunshot wounds. Police found three shell casings in the home — one in the living room and two in the kitchen — and a Taurus firearm on top of the dining room table.Detectives wrote in the arrest report that no furniture had been displaced, no items were in disarray, and there were no signs of a physical altercation.An arrest report claims Bereska was seated on a couch in a room.

faces charges of larceny of over $20,000, using a computer to commit a crime, possession of a firearm by a felon, and three second-offense felony firearm violations — the latter three of which are connected to the premeditated murder, felony murder, and firearm possession charges.Prosecutors had been reticent to charge Burks in the 15 months since Hoover’s murder, primarily because it took a while for police to gather sufficient evidence, according to Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy. But circumstances have changed.“We feel very comfortable, extremely comfortable, at this point in time that we can prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Worthy told The Daily Beast.