Our selection of ten great rock songs about letters dives deep into the varied landscapes of rock music, exploring how different artists have used the written word as a powerful tool for storytelling and emotional expression. From the gritty urgency of The Box Tops’ “The Letter”—a two-minute plea filled with raw emotion and driven by a soulful groove—to the reflective, plaintive tones of Bruce Springsteen’s “Letter to You,” where personal history and memory are poured into every line, these songs capture the vast spectrum of feelings that letters can convey. Fleetwood Mac’s “Blue Letter” brings a different energy, blending folk-rock The post 10 Great Rock Songs About Letters appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

News Timestalker Death Does Them Part Over and Over Again in the Loopy Rom-Com Timestalker Surely it’ll all go differently next time! By Molly Templeton | Published on September 12, 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The trailer for Alice Lowe’s Timestalker has it all: dildos, reincarnation, a very cute cat, perms, fate, heart-shaped wigs, a seemingly evil Nick Frost—okay, so this is a very specific definition of “it all.” But if the idea of a loopy, wry British comedy about reincarnation and love is your jam, this trailer is about as charming as possible. Lowe writes, directs, and stars in the film, the summary of which doesn’t quite do it justice: Follow hapless heroine Agnes (Alice Lowe) through time as she repeatedly falls for the wrong guy, dies a grim death, and is reincarnated a century later, before meeting him again and starting the cycle anew. It is one story told over many periods, all with the messy thrills and spills that come with daring to follow your heart. Or maybe your loins… As Agnes reappears through the centuries, her hairstyle changes, but is ever dramatic; her willingness to die for the wrong guy (Aneurin Barnard) shifts until she tries to convince him it’s his turn to kick the bucket (“It doesn’t hurt that much … That’s a lie, it does really, really hurt”). The people around her seem to recur as well, from a shouty Nick Frost to an amused and/or nauseated Jacob Anderson. Lowe’s work as an actress goes back to the beloved cult series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace; she also wrote and starred in Sightseers, and wrote, directed, and starred in Prevenge. Timestalker, tragically, does not yet have a US release date.[end-mark] The post Death Does Them Part Over and Over Again in the Loopy Rom-Com <i>Timestalker</i> appeared first on Reactor.

News ‘Salem’s Lot The Latest Adaptation of Stephen King’s Salem’s Lot Comes From Some Big Names in Horror Sure, you can go home again, but do you really want to? By Molly Templeton | Published on September 12, 2024 Image: New Line Cinema/Max Comment 0 Share New Share Image: New Line Cinema/Max Once upon a time, Salem’s Lot was going to movie theaters—but now the latest Stephen King adaptation is coming home for the holiday (Halloween, obviously). This one has quite the horror pedigree, hailing from writer-director Gary Dauberman, who co-wrote It and a handful of films in the Conjuring cinematic universe. James Wan, of Saw, Insidious, and Conjuring series fame, is among the producers. Salem’s Lot is the story of a writer, Ben Mears (Lewis Pullman), who returns to his hometown to work on his next book—only to find the town at the mercy of a nasty vampire. There’s a beautiful and spooky old house, and some creepy children; people are killed in terrible and creative ways. Salem’s Lot was previously adapted as a miniseries in 1979, and again in 2004, and the 2021 series Chapelwaite was based on King’s short story “Jerusalem’s Lot,” a prequel to the novel. In honor of that series, Mark Benedict took a look back at the long life of Salem’s Lot in “Vampires on Main Street: A Complete Guide to ’Salem’s Lot.” Along with Pullman, Max’s version stars Alfre Woodard, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp, Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, and John Benjamin Hickey. Salem’s Lot premieres October 3rd on Max. [end-mark] The post The Latest Adaptation of Stephen King’s <i>Salem’s Lot</i> Comes From Some Big Names in Horror appeared first on Reactor.

Amid debate in Congress over requiring proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, federal prosecutors in Alabama charged an illegal immigrant with obtaining a false identity in 2011 and voting unlawfully in multiple elections, including two presidential contests.  The Justice Department announced that the illegal immigrant from Guatemala agreed to a guilty plea after being charged with nine counts. The illegal alien, identified as Angelica Maria Francisco, 42, voted in elections in 2016, 2020, and 2021, the Justice Department said. Francisco most recently lived in Russellville, Alabama, the agency said. According to the plea agreement, Francisco assumed the false identity in 2011 to get a U.S. passport, which she used to travel to and from Guatemala in 2012, 2015, and 2018.   “Using the same false identity, Francisco also registered to vote in Alabama in 2016 and voted in the 2016 and 2020 primary and general elections,” the Justice Department said in a Sept. 5 press release. “And in 2021, Francisco used the same false identity to apply for and receive a renewed passport, which she used to travel to and from Guatemala in 2022.” U.S. Attorney Prim F. Escalona conducted the investigation with Joseph R. Wysowaty, resident agent in charge of the Atlanta office of the State Department’s Diplomatic Security Service. Alabama’s top election official, Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, said the state is focused on making sure that only legal voters cast ballots. “I have been very clear that a top priority of this office is ensuring only eligible American citizens are voting in Alabama elections,” Allen said in a public statement. “I want to thank the U.S. State Department and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of Alabama for their diligent efforts [in] investigating and charging this individual. We will continue to assist law enforcement in every way possible as they prosecute individuals who vote illegally in Alabama elections to the fullest extent of the law.”  In July, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the SAVE Act, which would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.  In July, House and Senate Republicans, led by Sen. Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, signed a letter to U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland asking whether the Justice Department is investigating or prosecuting cases of voting by illegal immigrants.  The lawmakers’ letter notes that South Carolina discovered that voter registration forms were given to noncitizens, that Georgia found in 2022 that 1,600 noncitizens had attempted to register to vote, and that Ohio increased verification efforts after noncitizens were found on voter rolls.  “Plainly, there are opportunities for and instances of noncitizen voter registration, and so the critical question is whether the laws against doing so are being enforced by your department,” Republican lawmakers’ letter to the attorney general says. “There appear to have been few prosecutions by your department under these laws, and there is no indication that you have been pursuing cases in places like Georgia and Ohio where aliens have been caught registering or voting,” the letter adds. The post DOJ Charges Illegal Immigrant With Voting in Multiple Elections appeared first on The Daily Signal.

If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. America First Legal (AFL) initiated an investigative probe on September 12, 2024, into potential complicity between the Biden-Harris Administration and the Brazilian government in censoring speech on social media. This scrutiny targets the involvement of the US Department of State, the US Agency for International Development (USAID), and the US Department of Commerce, marking a significant escalation in efforts to defend digital expression rights. This investigation is partly propelled by concerns that arose after the Biden-Harris White House introduced the National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism in June 2021. The strategy vowed to combat “disinformation,” particularly narratives suggesting electoral fraud in the 2020 US elections. It also outlined plans for international cooperation with governments, tech firms, and NGOs to eliminate terrorist content online. We obtained a copy of the requests for you here. Tensions escalated in July 2021 when CIA Director William Burns, conveying a directive from the White House, met with then-Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Burns urged Bolsonaro to refrain from questioning Brazil’s electronic voting integrity and to cease spreading voter fraud claims. As the 2022 Brazilian elections neared, Brazil’s electoral authority, under Justice Alexandre de Moraes of the Supreme Court, took unprecedented steps. Moraes was granted the authority to command tech companies to delete content deemed misleading by the electoral court, leading to the removal of several posts by Bolsonaro himself. Insights from knowledgeable sources suggest that US diplomatic pressures were crucial in shaping these events. By August 2024, Justice Moraes had extended his reach, blocking the American social media platform X throughout Brazil and imposing hefty fines on users accessing the platform. The current administration’s influence was further underscored with the appointment of Elizabeth F. Bagley, a Democratic stalwart and a seasoned diplomat from previous Democratic administrations, as the new US Ambassador to Brazil. If you're tired of censorship and dystopian threats against civil liberties, subscribe to Reclaim The Net. The post Biden Admin Probed For Alleged Role in Brazil’s Social Media Crackdown appeared first on Reclaim The Net.

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For an event almost no one noticed at the time, this one certainly had a lasting impact.

The Associated Press (AP) fawned over an obvious shakedown attempt by the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in service of a radical leftist discriminatory ideology.  The AP completely ignored major flaws in a CBC report and ran cover for DEI in a Monday article. AP Race and Politics Report Matt Brown covered a CBC report that promoted diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and pressured companies that made leftist promises during the destructive Black Lives Matter riots of 2020. The CBC report at the center of the AP article touted that 189 companies, including 139 from the Fortune 500, had answered questions about corporate DEI. The congressional body claimed that “100% of the companies that responded to the CBC’s outreach went above and beyond to share their progress on advancing equity.”  Throughout the report, the CBC repeatedly called for corporate “accountability,” pressuring them to deliver on financial promises made during the 2020 riots—made when radical activists were ascendant and mobs were burning cities. Brown didn’t call out the CBC for trying to wring donations out of corporations to support the “activism” of “advocacy organizations.” Instead, the AP reporter simply put that corporations were innocuously asked to “work with the CBC to fulfill pledges on racial and economic inequality.” He also ignored that the report still proudly displayed a discredited study by management consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. Citing McKinsey, the CBC argued, “Moreover, the business case for DEI has never been more evident; research makes clear that corporate DEI efforts improve profitability and performance.”  In March 2024, UNC-Chapel Hill Professor of Accounting John R. M. Hand and Texas A&M Associate Professor of Accounting Jeremiah Green debunked the McKinsey study “Diversity Wins." While the letter in the report predated Green and Hand’s work, Brown and the CBC published their respective work on Monday.  The AP article also went to bat for DEI in general, defining the ideology in favorable terms. “DEI policies are official guidelines and programs meant to welcome people of various backgrounds into an organization and create a culture where they feel included to do their work,” Brown wrote. “Such policies can be as broad or narrow as an organization decides and can focus on any demographic.” Not even close. What is DEI? DEI includes leftist employee training, dividing employee groups by race and capitulation to radical LGBT organizations such as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC). These measures have been so widely condemned that companies such as Ford, Molson Coors, Tractor Supply, Harley-Davidson, Lowe's, Jack Daniel’s parent company Brown-Furman and others have abandoned them and similar practices.  The implementation of DEI also constitutes using racial discrimination in hiring, promotions and choice of vendors/suppliers. A report by Bloomberg News, owned by leftist billionaire Michael Bloomberg, laid out how this worked in 2021. Merely six percent of jobs at major companies analyzed by Bloomberg went to white individuals in 2021. Simultaneously, white people made up 68.5% of layoffs at the studied companies that shrank that same year. Notably, Bloomberg attributed this massive shift to some of the same promises demanded by the CBC.  Related: Jeremy Carl, Author of The Unprotected Class, Exposes DEI Initiatives in Exclusive Interview The AP made no mention of racial discrimination stemming from the CBC-endorsed DEI initiatives.  Conservatives are under attack! Contact ABC News (818) 460-7477, CBS News (212) 975-3247 and NBC News (212) 664-6192 and demand they report on the dangers of leftist DEI ideology infecting corporate America.

The first presidential debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump was painful to watch, and it has very little to do with Trump’s performance — and a lot to do with Kamala and the ABC moderators. “I have never seen as many lies in any debate, maybe multiple debates combined,” Glenn tells the BlazeTV panel, adding, “The moderators were completely useless.” Both moderators interrupted Trump multiple times to argue or “fact-check” him, while Kamala went unscathed. “She looked at Donald Trump with absolute disdain, she couldn’t even hide it,” Glenn continues. “I think overall it’s not going to change anybody’s mind. If you were voting for Donald Trump, you’re still going to vote for Donald Trump.” Kamala routinely laughed, smiled, and nodded condescendingly while Trump spoke, which Glenn thinks will appeal to low information voters who think “she’s going to end all of this division.” “They’re doing exactly the same thing they did with Joe Biden. ‘He’s a moderate, he’s going to bring us back to normalcy.’ That’s what they’re doing again and I think in a very effective way for stupid, uninformed people. And that’s the campaign they’re running,” Glenn says. Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” agrees. “I would say it was a disgusting production but a very valiant effort by the ABC moderators to try to push Kamala and give her every opportunity that they could,” Gonzales says, noting that Project 2025 was brought up as Trump’s policies — when that couldn’t be further from the truth. “Nowhere did they fact check her on that,” she says. “She said no question Trump will sign a federal abortion ban, which is just funny, it’s laughable, because he gets hit from the left on that and while he’s getting hit from the right about not being pro-life enough.” Kamala also claimed she wouldn’t ban fracking, which she has stated many times in the past that she would ban fracking. “So you just see what turned out to just be a three-on-one pile on,” Gonzales says. “It turned into a character assassination back and forth.” Want more from Sara Gonzales?To enjoy more of Sara's no-holds-barred take to news and culture, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign dropped a new political ad on Wednesday: video of her debate with Donald Trump."Our newest ad just dropped," the campaign boasted on social media.'She just started by saying she's going to do this, she's going to do that, she's going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn't she done it?'Harris campaign officials posted the debate video as their "newest ad" because they think Harris not only won the debate but that she bested her opponent and made him look bad. Giving the debate as much oxygen as possible, they think, will help Harris.But there is a curious omission of approximately three minutes in the video the campaign posted: Trump's closing statement.Instead of including Trump's closing statement, the video cuts it out completely and ends with Harris' closing argument, even though Trump was allowed to give his closing remarks second. It's not clear why the Harris campaign cut out Trump's remarks, but examining Trump's words gives clues as to the motivation.While even conservative commentators believe Trump's overall debate performance was not his best, his closing statement was widely applauded. That's because Trump asked an important question — arguably the one that will define the election — that Republicans believe should be at the center of Trump's campaign message."So, she just started by saying she's going to do this, she's going to do that, she's going to do all these wonderful things. Why hasn't she done it?" Trump said. "She's been there for three and a half years. They've had three and a half years to fix the border. They've had three and a half years to create jobs and all the things we talked about. Why hasn't she done it?" the former president continued. "She should leave right now, go down to that beautiful White House, go to the Capitol, get everyone together, and do the things you want to do. But you haven't done it. And you won't do it. Because you believe in things that the American people don't believe in."Not only did Trump emphasize that question, but he knocked Harris for her secretive policy flip-flops — before returning to that critical question."We can't sacrifice our country for the sake of bad vision. But I just ask one simple question: Why didn't she do it?" he reiterated.Debate moderator David Muir opened the debate by posing a form of the same question to Harris — "When it comes to the economy, do you believe Americans are better off than they were four years ago?" — but Harris dodged it completely.It's likely that Trump and Republicans will continue to emphasize those two questions over the final 53 days of the election. If Americans begin to answer them, Democrats likely won't like their conclusions.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!