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News The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping The Second Quarter Quell Begins in the Trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Haymitch Abernathy’s story is coming to the big screen next year By Molly Templeton | Published on November 20, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share We all remember what a Quarter Quell is from Catching Fire, right? Does anyone need a refresher? It’s when, every 25 years, the ever-so-clever folks in the Capitol put a fun little twist on the Hunger Games! Super nifty! Though in Sunrise on the Reaping, it’s more your garden-variety absolute horror: They send twice as many kids to the arena. That’s 48 young people fighting each other to the death instead of 24. And, because this story takes place long before Katniss comes on the scene, we know who the winner is. It’s the guy who grows up to be Woody Harrelson. Sunrise on the Reaping is the story of the 50th Hunger Games, which were won by Haymitch Abernathy. As a novel, it’s interesting, though the mechanics of the Games and their aftermath—the alliances, the tragedies, the all-powerful hand of President Snow—feel a bit familiar. But reading, it’s impossible not to remember Haymitch in The Hunger Games, and the shattered mess he was as played by Harrelson. So it’s pretty heartbreaking watching this kid take his first major steps down that path. And the spectacle, well, it’ll be a spectacle—especially with this cast. This trailer is mostly a teaser for the Games themselves, focusing on the young tributes, their initial race toward the Cornucopia, and the horrors that follow. But there are brief shots of the movie’s impeccably selected cast, which includes Jesse Plemons as young Plutarch Heavensbee (the role previously played by Philip Seymour Hoffman); a beaming Elle Fanning as young Effie Trinket (previously Elizabeth Banks); Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle (that’s her at the beginning, in yellow); and Ralph Fiennes as a dramatically coiffed President Snow (previously Donald Sutherland). The tributes are largely played by less well-known actors, but that’s Joseph Zada leading the cast as Haymitch (though he looks more like a young, blond Rufus Sewell than he does like Harrelson). Whitney Peak plays his girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird; Mckenna Grace plays Maysilee Donner, another tribute from District 12. Also in the cast but not seen here: Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman; Maya Hawke as Wiress; Lili Taylor as Mags; and Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Betee. And Billy Porter as Magno Stift. If you have read Sunrise, you may notice that this trailer shows a ton of major moments from the novel, though in quickly cut shots that give little away. It’s still a little disconcerting, but not as much as the fact that the trailer never lets Zada speak, relying instead on a line from Harrison himself: “I think these games are gonna be different.” (You can hear him say it in the Catching Fire trailer.) With a lush green arena and also an exploding volcano? You bet they are. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is directed by franchise regular Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Billy Ray, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins. The film is in theaters in one whole entire year; it arrives November 20, 2026.[end-mark] The post The Second Quarter Quell Begins in the Trailer for <i>The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping</i> appeared first on Reactor.

The United States added 119,000 jobs in September, blowing past expectations following a slowdown in hiring over the summer. The Bureau of Labor and Statistics’ September jobs report, which was delayed by the 43-day federal government shutdown, showed an acceleration in jobs from the previous month. Vice President JD Vance said the September jobs report indicates most of the job growth is benefiting “native-born American citizens.” “You’re seeing the job growth go to native-born American citizens, and what happened under the Biden administration, to the extent that there was any job growth at all, is almost all the net job creation went to the foreign born,” he said. “Now, of course, some of those immigrants are legal immigrants to the United States, but that means that a lot of the job creation was actually going to illegal aliens that shouldn’t have been in our country.” “The best thing you can say about the Trump economy is that American jobs are going to American workers for a change,” he continued. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt celebrated that the report “doubled market expectations.” “In stark contrast to the disastrous Biden economy, almost all of these new jobs were in the private sector and went to American-born workers instead of illegal aliens,” Leavitt said. “Wages for workers are continuing to rise, a reversal of the Biden years where private sector wages declined by about $3,000 because of the Democrats’ inflation crisis.” “This strong report is more proof that President [Donald] Trump’s pro-growth, America First agenda is already making great progress, and it will continue to deliver positive results for American families and businesses,” she continued. The unemployment rate rose to 4.4%, according to the BLS data. Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer described the jobs numbers as a “solid report for the American people.” However, she said manufacturing jobs have “not been exactly where we want them to be.” DeRemer predicted this will reverse soon but will “take some time because of the investments the president has done with a lot of these companies as well as the trade deals he has made.” The post Better-Than-Expected BLS Report Shows New Jobs Went to ‘Native-Born American Citizens,’ Vance Says appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Is the next generation of romantic comedy viewers … boys? Two recent surveys suggest that it’s younger men, not women, who are more focused on getting married and having children. Seventy-four percent of 12th-grade boys say they will likely choose to get married, according to a November Pew Research Center analysis. In contrast, only about 6 out of 10 senior girls feel the same way. Of Note: New from @pewresearch 12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday pic.twitter.com/1JzpqwxzMH— The Institute for Family Studies (@FamStudies) November 17, 2025 Meanwhile, when young adults aged 18-29 were asked what they viewed as most important for having a successful life, men ranked getting married and having children higher than their female peers did in a September NBC News Decision Desk poll. That disparity became even more stark when looking at women who voted for Kamala Harris compared to men who voted for Donald Trump. Among men who voted for Trump, having children was seen as the top indicator of success, while getting married was considered the fourth most important (out of 13 options). Young women who voted for Harris had decidedly different priorities: They saw getting married as the 11th most important and having children as the 12th most important indicator of success. Harris’ young female supporters, instead, prioritized fulfilling careers, financial success, and emotional stability. What is going on? Can we expect to see TLC launch a “Say Yes to the Tux” series? Will groomzillas become the new norm? Whatever the reasons, it’s clear there’s a major cultural shift. In 1993, 83% of 12th-grade girls thought they’d be likely to choose marriage, as did 76% of 12th-grade boys. In other words, about 4 out of 5 12th-grade women planned to get married in 1993, and now only 3 out of 5 do. If those 12th-grade girls are accurate Cassandras, it could have massive ramifications. Already, the U.S. marriage and birth rates are in significant decline—and it’s married women who are most likely to have children. The U.S. birth rate is currently 1.6 children per woman, a historic low and one that portends a declining population for our nation, which will bring economic and societal challenges. But are these young women off base to be dubious about marriage? I always wanted to get married—and yet I also always wanted a happy marriage, and to be with a husband I shared religious and moral values with and respected. I ultimately didn’t marry until I was 37. If you had asked me during large chunks of my young adult years if I thought I was likely to choose marriage, I’m not sure how I would have answered. As Reason’s Elizabeth Nolan Brown notes, the survey wording suggests that “most of the 22 percentage point drop in girls saying they want to marry reflects a rise in girls saying ‘no idea,’ not girls saying certainly not or probably not.” When I was younger, I often felt like I was in some cruel numbers game that no amount of hopeful swipes on any dating app could necessarily overcome, just based on the stats. After all, a 2024 survey from Barna Group and Pure Desire Ministries found that 75% of Christian men viewed pornography. I noticed at church that it often seemed young women outnumbered the young men attending. (Although interestingly, new research suggests that men are now going to church more than women.) I was open to dating and marrying a man who didn’t have a college degree, as the number of women with college degrees rapidly outpaced the number of men among millennials. But at least in my experience, I didn’t encounter a lot of men who had forgone college but had steady careers in say, construction or plumbing, and who also possessed a love of reading or podcasts or trivia. And like many women, I was deeply uneasy over the manosphere surge. I completely agree that feminism is highly problematic, and that boys and men often receive unfair treatment in our modern culture. I had no issue with men who raised those flags. At the same time, I could not condone—or stomach—a man who would listen to some of the openly misogynistic blowhards who thrived in the ugly manosphere subculture. The answer to today’s unfair treatment of men is not to degrade and trash women. So perhaps some of those 12th-grade girls are thinking along similar lines. Maybe they would prefer marriage—but not at any price, to any man. A new NBC News poll gave Gen Z a list of choices of how to define personal success:Men who backed Donald Trump in 2024 rated having children at the top.Women who backed Kamala Harris rated it second to last. https://t.co/BDv7SdkKUA pic.twitter.com/0LVMFIVSIn— NBC News (@NBCNews) September 8, 2025 Or perhaps they are thinking along entirely different lines. If the NBC News poll is accurate, maybe this isn’t about a scarcity of good men—but about a true values shift, where women no longer see marriage and children as critical to a fulfilling life. That’s a shame—because there’s plenty of research that suggests women are ultimately likelier to be happy if they are married with children. Among married women with children, 19% were very happy, while among single women without children, only 10% were, according to an August Institute for Family Studies report. That same analysis also found that 47% of married moms found life enjoyable, compared to 34% of single, childless women. Another study, the 2022 General Social Survey, also showed that marriage and children were correlated with happiness. Among women who were married with kids, 40% were very happy and 47% were pretty happy (87% total). Among unmarried women without children, 22% were very happy and 54% were pretty happy (76% total). Of course, these numbers do demonstrate that some single childless women are happy. (I certainly had plenty of joy in my own single years.) Conservatives will only look foolish if they argue that happiness is incompatible with singlehood. But what the data does show is women are more likely to be happy as married moms. That’s the message we should be giving to anxious young women—even as we simultaneously encourage marriage-minded young men to be the best men they can be. The post Why Are Young Women Rejecting Marriage? The Reason Matters appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. Roblox is tightening control over who can talk and share content on its platform by linking access to its communication and social features with facial and ID-based age checks. The rollout begins this week as an optional process and will become compulsory in December in countries including Australia, the Netherlands, and New Zealand, reaching the United States and other regions by early 2026. The company says these steps are meant to make its vast online world safer for younger audiences, restricting how players of different ages can interact inside user-created “Experiences.” To take part in chat features, users must now verify their age either by scanning a government-issued ID or recording a short facial video through Persona, an outside verification company. Conversations are limited to others in the same or adjacent age groups unless users connect through “Trusted Connections,” which verifies they have a real-world relationship. Roblox says the goal is to limit unsafe interactions and hopes the model will become “a new industry standard.” While promoted as a safety improvement, this model also signals a move toward identity-linked participation in online spaces. Digital ID verification effectively removes the anonymity that has long been part of internet culture. More: Texas Sues Roblox Over Child Safety Failures, Joining Multi-State Push for Digital ID It ties access to personal credentials, leaving fewer opportunities for users to interact without surrendering identifiable data. The same technologies now appearing on entertainment platforms are increasingly being discussed by US policymakers as potential requirements for accessing social media, adult content, or even general-purpose platforms. Several US states have already passed or proposed laws mandating age verification or digital ID checks for online activity, a trend that privacy advocates warn could erode personal freedom and create databases of sensitive personal information. According to Roblox, “information uploaded to Persona is retained for a period of 30 days” before deletion. Persona’s privacy policy indicates that it may collect extensive information, including device identifiers, geolocation data, and records from brokers and public sources. This wide net of data collection extends well beyond what is required to confirm age, deepening concerns about how biometric and ID data could be reused or shared. The company has not specified exact rollout dates for all markets but expects global enforcement to be completed within a year. This makes Roblox the first major online platform to require facial age checks for chat participation. The move comes as Roblox faces ongoing lawsuits and public pressure related to reports of grooming and child exploitation on the platform. On the same day the company revealed its latest update, advocacy groups UltraViolet and ParentsTogether Action hosted an online protest, submitting a petition signed by 10,000 parents and grandparents calling for stronger child safety rules. Roblox also introduced a new Safety Center, described as “a dedicated resource for parents and caregivers that provides clear guidance and tools to help them make informed decisions, set up Parental Controls, and support their child’s online experience.” Still, the underlying trade-off remains significant. Roblox’s “Facial Media Capture Privacy Notice” confirms that it may conduct “other facial media processing” for “safety, assurance, or feature-specific purposes,” though the company says “Roblox does not use such facial media to identify you personally.” Yet by normalizing ID scans and biometric checks, the company moves closer to a model of online life where anonymity is the exception rather than the rule, a change that could permanently alter how people experience privacy in digital environments. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Roblox to Mandate Facial and ID Verification appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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