With all eyes on the expected Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade will impact the 2022 midterm elections, GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) offered his thoughts on what could happen in January if Republicans win back the Senate.
“Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is similarly reluctant to discuss the issue, calling it premature, but said a national abortion ban is possible if the Supreme Court overturns Roe,” USA Today reported Saturday.
The newspaper interviewed McConnell following a lead to Politico of an opinion by Justice Samuel Alito which would end the right to abortion across America.
“It would depend on where the votes were,” McConnell said of a vote for a national ban.
Use your vote to keep these repulsive Nazi cunts out of power
The Republican party is a fucking disease and the single worst evil to exist in the entirety of modern day America
Star of stage and screen, Ncuti is best known for his critically acclaimed performance in Sex Education as the iconic Eric Effiong, for which he was awarded Best Actor Award at the Scottish BAFTA’s in 2020 as well as numerous nominations including Best Male Performance in a comedy programme at this year’s BAFTA’s.
Russell T Davies, Showrunner adds: “The future is here and it’s Ncuti! Sometimes talent walks through the door and it’s so bright and bold and brilliant, I just stand back in awe and thank my lucky stars. Ncuti dazzled us, seized hold of the Doctor and owned those TARDIS keys in seconds. It’s an honour to work with him, and a hoot, I can’t wait to get started. I’m sure you’re dying to know more, but we’re rationing ourselves for now, with the wonderful Jodie’s epic finale yet to come. But I promise you, 2023 will be spectacular!”
Charlotte Moore, Chief Content Officer said: “Ncuti has an incredible dynamism, he’s a striking and fearless young actor whose talent and energy will set the world alight and take Doctor Who on extraordinary adventures under Russell T Davies’ new era.“
:D
I am all kinds of excited to see what his take on the Doctor will be like
I’m also REALLY relieved to see that they didn’t just cast a white dude as if to go “Okay we had a woman as the Doctor, now back to him always being a cishet white guy”
So, this is how I expect the announcement of the new Doctor to drop, not Sunday’s banal little twitter thing.
It irks me that after the leadup and fanfare the greeted the debut of Capaldi and Whitaker, Gatwa’s ascension to the role is so low key.
(Also, I would have loved if they could have kept it under wraps until Jodi’s regeneration. But the series is so starved of any sort of genuine impetus in the media you can see why they decided to undercut her last outing with this)
The new Doctor has always been annouced before the previous Doctor’s last story. We’ve never had a surprise regeneration scene, alas.
I suspect yesterday’s announcement was to forestall a media leak.
Just because something hasn’t yet been done doesn’t mean it can’t.
We were meant to get a surprise regeneration at the end of series 1 until some idiot at the BBC, following the leak of ‘Rose’ basically pre-empted its official release with news that Chris was leaving at the end of the season.
I agree with you. The sudden tweet drop on Sunday stinks of damage control of another premature announcement fuck up. That it again has happen on RTD’s watch is… something…
After the U.S. Supreme Court overturns women’s constitutional right to abortion this summer, one Arizona Republican candidate for U.S. Senate thinks judges should also take aim at the right to buy and use contraception.
Blake Masters, a Tucson-based venture capitalist, boasts on his website that he will only vote to confirm federal judges “who understand that Roe and Griswold and Casey were wrongly decided, and that there is no constitutional right to abortion.” Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey, decided in 1973 and 1992, respectively, both upheld a constitutional right to abortion access.
But the ruling in Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965 protected a married couple’s right to buy and use contraceptives without government restrictions. The case centered on a Connecticut law that banned the use of contraceptives, which the court determined violated a married couple’s constitutional right to privacy, establishing the basis for the right to privacy with respect to intimate practices.
“ Other media reports have noted his past praise for the UnabomberandHermann Goering, one Hitler’s top military leaders and one of the most prominent members of the Nazi Party. Other media reports have noted his past praise for the UnabomberandHermann Goering, one Hitler’s top military leaders and one of the most prominent members of the Nazi Party. “
In case you needed further proof that it’s vital to vote Democrat in the upcoming senate elections and prevent the Senate from being infested with republicunts like this literal neo-nazi who has voiced his support for the Nazi’s and terrorists who brutally murdered american citizens in terrorist attacks
the connection between this attack on the right to abortion in the US and sweeping anti-trans laws can’t be overstated. theyre both conservative attacks on body autonomy that come from the same root. how much more obvious can it be that gender liberation has to be a connected movement between all marginalised people. Sending a lot of love to everyone who’s feeling scared. Solidarity ❤️
I just realized that Dracula Daily is a perfect encapsulation of why VIP systems—seeing the finale early on iQiyi, getting books a month early in Choices, etc—in media are such a bad idea from a fandom perspective. Fandom isn’t created by exclusivity, it’s created by everyone being on the same part of the story together and the feeling of journeying through it. I mean, the book is in the public domain and just about every library, you could easily get it and read ahead. But there’s a sense of community in reading about Jonathan Harker reaching the castle and then coming on here to see people talking about that very thing.
When you sell early access to media, it creates a desynchronization within the community. People who buy early access can’t talk about it for fear of posting spoilers, and people who don’t can’t go into those spaces for fear of seeing spoilers. Even if you use the appropriate tags and blacklist the appropriate spoilers, it creates a fission in the fandom. The theory someone posted about the newest episode is already outdated by 10 episodes. That amazing artist’s fanart is completely inaccessible until you either wait out the public release or cave and shell out. At best, it leads to confusion and frustration (as with many iQiyi shows as they approach the finale). At worst, it leads to a complete desiccation of an exhausted community (as with Choices).
See also: season-dumping on streaming platforms. What episode are you on? Oh, I haven’t gotten that far yet, guess we can’t talk about it. Well, maybe just about the ones we have in common? No, sorry, I can’t talk about this theory with you because I know if it’s right. Well, I guess that’s fine, it’s not as much fun to speculate anyway when I know I’m going to watch the rest of it tonight anyway. Hey, I finally got around to watching that show you said was so great! Oh, it’s been like six months since it dropped and I don’t remember any of these details and have kind of moved on.
It’s very hard to share an experience with a community when nobody actually had the same experience to begin with.
JJ Abrams showing naked disdain for Star Trek, and openly stating he really was only doing them in the hopes of getting to make Star Wars one day, only to get his chance to make Star Wars & making it even worse, so bad he killed off Disney’s scheme to release a new Star War every year into eternity…truly iconic
I love how blatantly the last shot is “are you thinking what I’m thinking?” and not “um, how dare, my latent feelings for you mean you’re not allowed to look at anyone else That Way”.
Yes! Sometimes it’s so great that they canonically have a telepathic link. Like in “Masterpiece society” where Deanna flirts some guy and decides to stay on the planet. Riker and her just exchange glances, Riker Gets It and beams away.
No posturing, no fighting, just “You’re sure? Right, see you later”.
I like it as a safety net too. Since they can discuss their relationships openly with each other, the other one can check in and make sure everything is ok when needed without it being interpreted as an act of control or jealousy.
The ongoing mission of two bisexual idiots to fuck across the galaxy <3
It is really important to me that all of you learn about Al Bean, astronaut on Apollo 12 and the fourth man to walk on the moon, who after 20 years in the US Navy and 18 years with NASA during which he spent 69 days in space and more than 10 hours doing EVAs on the moon , retired to become a painter.
He is my favorite astronaut for any number of reasons, but he’s also one of my favorite visual artists.
Like, look at this stuff????
It’s all so expressive and textured and colorful! He literally painted his own experience on the moon! And that’s just really fucking cool to me!
Just look at this! This is one of my absolute favorite emotions of all time. Is Anyone Out There? is like the ultimate reaction image. Any time I have an existential crisis, this is how I picture myself.
And then there’s this one:
The Fantasy
For all of the six Apollo missions to land on the moon, there was no spare time. Every second of their time on the surface was budgeted to perfection: sleeping, eating, putting on the suits, entering and exiting the LEM, rock collection, setting up longterm experiments to transmit data back to Earth, everything. These timetables usually got screwed over by something, but for the most part the astronauts stuck to them.
The crew of Apollo 12 (Pete Conrad, Al Bean, and Dick Gordon) had other plans. Conrad and Bean had snuck a small camera with a timer into the LEM to take a couple pictures together on the moon throughout the mission. They had hidden the key for the timer in one of the rock collection bags, with the idea being to grab the key soon after landing, take some fun photos here and there, and then sneak the camera back to Earth to develop them. They had practiced where they would hide the key and how to get it out from under the collected rocks back on Earth dozens of times.
But when they got to the moon, the key was nowhere to be found. Al Bean spent precious time digging through the collection bags before he called it off. The camera had been pushing their luck anyways, he couldn’t afford to spend anymore time not on the mission objectives. Conrad and Bean continued the mission as per the NASA plan while Dick Gordon orbited overhead.
Fast forward to the very end of the mission. Bean and Conrad are doing last checks of the LEM before they enter for the last time and depart from the moon. As Bean is stowing one of the collection bags, the camera key falls out. The unofficially planned photo time has come and gone, and he tosses the key over his shoulder to rest forever on the surface of the moon.
This painting, The Fantasy, is that moment. There have never been three people on the moon at the same time, there was never an unofficial photo shoot on the moon, this picture could never have happened.
“The most experienced astronaut was designated commander, in charge of all aspects of the mission, including flying the lunar module. Prudent thinking suggested that the next-most-experienced crew member be assigned to take care of the command module, since it was our only way back home. Pete had flown two Gemini flights, the second with Dick as his crewmate. This left the least experienced - me - to accompany the commander on the lunar surface.
"I was the rookie. I had not flown at all; yet I got the prize assignment. But not once during the three years of training which preceded our mission did Dick say that it wasn’t fair and that he wished he could walk on the moon, too. I do not have his unwavering discipline or strength of character.
"We often fantasized about Dick’s joining us on the moon but we never found a way. In my paintings, though, I can have it my way. Now, at last, our best friend has come the last sixty miles.” - Al Bean, about TheFantasy.
little comic i made when I finished 11s era last year during my first official rewatch,,
ID: A comic with the eleventh doctors regeneration speech used as captions. The panels on the first page include: The eleventh doctors tardis, fourth doctor running, tenth doctor feeling snow, war doctor with his hand over the Moment, the TARDIS in the time vortex, the first doctor in his console room. the second page includes: a wide shot of the rolling hills of Vincent and the Doctor + the crew, Eleven and River getting married, and finally the eleventh doctor with his hands glowing about to regenerate.
I was legit in tears at this scene ;-;
Honestly at the end of this whole special
And I fully expect that the upcoming Regeneration story will break my heart all over again
