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#EndorseThis: Remembering Carrie Fisher, The Bad-Ass Cosmic Princess

#EndorseThis: Remembering Carrie Fisher, The Bad-Ass Cosmic Princess

Today’s passing of Carrie Fisher — actor, author, screenwriter, producer, inspirational speaker and beloved Hollywood icon — has bereaved her multitude of friends and millions of fans around the world. While her creative life led to deep explorations of her own often difficult life, her screen persona was established forever as Princess Leia — the role she embodied with such unforgettable charisma, power, and humor in the first three films of the Star Wars franchise.

The feminist Leia belied her royal title, rising to become General Organa in the new Star Wars series that began with the release of The Force Awakens last year. The second episode in that series was shot before her untimely death,  but while we await that coming opportunity to appreciate her once more, we can still enjoy her wonderful, tartly comic performance in the first series.

Above all she was — as depicted in Stormcab’s compilation of classic moments — a serious bad-ass.

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Marjorie Taylor Mouth Makes Another Empty Threat

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Marjorie Taylor Mouth Makes Another Empty Threat

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene

I’m absolutely double-positive it won’t surprise you to learn that America’s favorite poster-person for bluster, blowhardiness and bong-bouncy-bunk went on Fox News on Sunday and made a threat. Amazingly, she didn’t threaten to expose alleged corruption by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy by quoting a Russian think-tank bot-factory known as Strategic Culture Foundation, as she did last November. Rather, the Congressperson from North Georgia made her eleventy-zillionth threat to oust the Speaker of the House from her own party, Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA), using the Motion to Vacate she filed last month. She told Fox viewers she wanted to return to her House district to “listen to voters” before acting, however.

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Trump Campaign Gives Access To Far-Right Media But Shuns Mainstream Press

Trump Campaign Gives Access To Far-Right Media But Shuns Mainstream Press

Trump campaign press pass brandished on air by QAnon podcaster Brenden Dilley

Trump's Hour On CNN Was A Profile In Cowardice

Vanity Fair recently reported that several journalists from mainstream publications, including The Washington Post, NBC News, Axios, and Vanity Fair, were denied press access to Trump’s campaign events, seemingly in retaliation for their previous critical coverage. Meanwhile, Media Matters found that the campaign has granted press credentials to the QAnon-promoting MG Show and Brenden Dilley, a podcaster who has promoted the QAnon conspiracy theory and leads a “meme team” that creates pro-Trump content.

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