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News Peacemaker Let’s Boogie! Peacemaker Season 2 Will Have a New Opening Dance Number The scoop comes directly from choreographer Charissa-Lee Barton’s husband, Alan Tudyk. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 17, 2024 Screenshot: Max Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Max If you’ve seen the first season of Peacemaker, you’ve borne witness to the oddest opening dance number to ever grace a comic book TV adaptation. In it, John Cena as Peacemaker leads the rest of the show’s characters in hypnotic herky jerk choreography that captures the neurotic kookiness of the series from James Gunn. Peacemaker is coming back for a second season, and with it, according to Alan Tudyk, will be a new opening dance sequence. Tudyk has an inside scoop about it because the show’s choreographer, Charissa-Lee Barton, is also his wife. And in a recent interview with Collider, Tudyk teased that she was working on “a new dance number” for Peacemaker season two. The new opening will have a lot to live up to: the first, set to Wig Wam’s “Do You Wanna Taste It,” was a viral sensation and also featured strong commitment from Peacemaker’s pet eagle, Eagly. It is, to put it simply, a joy to watch. Sadly, we’ll have to wait a bit to learn what song will kick off season two, and what dance moves Cena and co-stars will bring to the small screen; we don’t know when exactly the new episodes will premiere, but Gunn has said that it will come out after Superman: Legacy flies into theaters in July 2025. In the meantime, we can watch the first season on Max and bask in the dancing prowess of Peacemaker getting down to “Do You Wanna Taste It.” [end-mark] The post Let’s Boogie! <i>Peacemaker</i> Season 2 Will Have a New Opening Dance Number appeared first on Reactor.

News The Nightbeast Tatiana Maslany to Star in Pilot Order for The Nightbeast Having an affair with a monster in your closet sounds like an ideal set up, to be fair. By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on June 17, 2024 Screenshot: Disney+ Comment 0 Share New Share Screenshot: Disney+ Tatiana Maslany, whose previous credits include playing She-Hulk on She-Hulk (pictured above), a “clairvoyant” on the first season of Perry Mason, and many, many different characters Orphan Black, is set to star in a horror comedy called The Nightbeast, which Amazon MGM Studios has just greenlit for a pilot episode. Here’s the official logline for the series, per Variety: A young mother unsatisfied with her seemingly perfect suburban life begins an affair with the boogeyman in her son’s closet—a surprisingly sexy man called the Nightbeast. But this harmless affair she thought to be a figment of her imagination begins to have unexpected consequences, as her two worlds increasingly begin to collide in this seductive, darkly comedic tale. The show’s creators are Leah Rachel and Travis Jackson, whose previous credits include the Netflix horror series, Chambers. That show got mixed reviews—it currently holds a 42% critics score on Rotten Tomatoes though the audience score is 71%—and lasted one season. In addition to starring, Maslany serves as a producer on The Nightbeast. She is also attached to the horror movie, Keeper, which comes from Longlegs writer-director Osgood Perkins. It’s not clear what project is next on her dance card, but it looks like we’ll see Maslany in at least one horror production in the near future. Amazon MGM Studios has only given the go-ahead for the pilot episode of The Nightbeast, so there’s no guarantee the project will get a full-series order and make its way to a screen near you. [end-mark] The post Tatiana Maslany to Star in Pilot Order for <i>The Nightbeast</i> appeared first on Reactor.

“I cannot even imagine where I would be today, were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let’s face it, friends make life a lot more fun.”  So says well-known pastor and author Chuck Swindoll. That quote came to mind as I thought about a good friend of mine and his wife who are currently dealing with taking care of her aging parents. Her mother and father, in their early 80s, are classic loners, with few or no social connections. They do not go to church, they do not participate in neighborhood activities, and they have no family other than their daughter, who lives 700 miles away. They have no friends, and thus, no joy. It’s heartbreaking for my friend and his wife to see her parents rapidly deteriorate, well before others they know in their 80s and even 90s. Both of her parents, but especially her father, have significant memory issues. They also are rapidly deteriorating physically, while others their age remain active. I thought of my friends’ parents when I came across a recent article by Marta Zaraska in The Washington Post on the importance of face-to-face communication in keeping our brains and bodies in good health. Zaraska writes about those who are now in their 80s, 90s, and even over 100, who remain mentally alert and active. While she notes numerous studies showing that those who have high-quality friendships have better health and live longer lives, it is even more important that these relationships are not “long distance” chats over Zoom, but instead a regular part of our daily lives. Virtual friendships are just not the same. Unfortunately, with the rise of remote work, videoconferencing, and then COVID-19, many people moved behind a computer screen. Zaraska cites an American Time Use Survey that shows that time with friends decreased from 60 minutes per day in 2003 to just 34 minutes in 2019, the year before the pandemic. It has likely decreased more since. Zaraska notes, “One study conducted during the coronavirus pandemic, and based on the analysis of blood samples from 142 adults, revealed that meeting friends in person improves the functioning of genes linked to the immune system. Such benefits, however, didn’t materialize for those who only interacted with their friends online.” She concludes, “… while texting our friends or sending them Snapchat photos is certainly one way to keep the relationship going, for a deep connection we need more than seeing a friend’s two-dimensional image on a screen.” Given that evidence, it’s not a coincidence that those who are involved in a faith community, where there is regular interaction and true human compassion for one another, enjoy better mental and physical health, and live longer lives. Last year, psychoanalyst Erica Komisar wrote, “Over the years, Americans have rejected faith, leaving emptiness in its place. The loss of faith has robbed society and its citizens of a sanctuary in the storm of life. … It’s no surprise that loneliness and aimlessness are on the rise.” And it’s not just relationships with people our own age that help keep us young. It has been shown that intergenerational friendships are important and are invigorating as well. Both the young and the old benefit from regular interaction. My friends do just that. They are active in their church and have significant, meaningful relationships not only with people their own age but also with young adults 30 to 35 years their junior who thoroughly enjoy the interactions with the “older generation.” They also understand the importance of faith and its accompanying relationships, so that they don’t meet the same fate as her parents.  It is those relationships that bring them joy and keep my friends active and living lives with meaning. Friendships and faith are the vital connections that are good for both the brain and the soul. Those connections also bring us together as people, rather than isolating us and tearing us apart. Perhaps the next time we choose to sit down behind a computer screen, we will think twice and either pick up the phone, or better yet, get together physically with a friend or go to church rather than watching online. It will do us a world of good, in the present and in the future. So, in the words of Swindoll, let’s have a “lot more fun.” We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Why Connections Are Good for the Brain and the Soul appeared first on The Daily Signal.

The Department of Justice is targeting a Texas whistleblower who exposed Texas Children’s Hospital secretly performing attempted gender-transition procedures on children. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas announced Monday that it had indicted 34-year-old Eithan Haim for “obtaining protected individual health information for patients that were not under his care and without authorization.” If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 maximum possible fine. Texas Children’s had publicly said in March 2022 that it would no longer perform attempted gender-transition procedures on kids. In May 2023, Haim provided journalist Christopher Rufo with documents showing that Texas Children’s was “lying to the public about the existence of its transgender-medicine program,” as Haim later revealed in an explosive January 2024 piece. “I worked at the hospital as a surgery resident, and I knew that these interventions didn’t stop,” Haim wrote. “Three days after the announcement, a surgeon implanted a hormone device in a healthy 11-year-old girl for gender dysphoria. Over the next year, the frequency of these procedures increased, and potentially hundreds more children received hormone interventions for gender dysphoria.” “Meantime, the director of a program that supposedly no longer existed was given the opportunity to speak at the hospital’s most prestigious lecture series in January 2023,” he continued. “I knew that it was my moral responsibility to expose what was happening to these children.” Haim told The Free Press that before he gave Rufo any of the documents, he made sure that the patient’s names and identifying information were redacted (to protect himself from violating HIPAA and to protect the patients’ privacy). First lady Jill Biden encourages parents and guardians to vaccinate kids ages 5-11 during her visit on Nov. 14, 2021, at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. (Photo: Yi-Chin Lee/Houston Chronicle/Getty Images) The very next day after Rufo published Haim’s (then anonymous) May 2023 expose, the Texas Legislature banned these experimental gender-transition attempts for minors. A month later, two federal agents came to Haim’s home to speak with him. They told him that he was a “potential target” of an investigation into federal criminal violations related to medical records. “It was clear to me that this was a political investigation; I refused to submit to an interview without an attorney,” he wrote in City Journal. After this, Haim went public with his story. “To these agents, the prosecutor, and their political handlers, I was a criminal because I had told the truth,” he wrote. “It didn’t matter that we exposed the fact that the largest children’s hospital in the world was lying to the public about the existence of a program in which children were manipulated, mutilated, and even sterilized. It didn’t matter that the practice that they were lying about had now become illegal. It didn’t matter that I had committed no crime.” “None of this mattered, I believe, because I had exposed a truth that threatened their ideology,” Haim added. “This was the reason for their frightening show of force. The intent was to intimidate me. If I agreed to stay silent, though, I would be legitimizing their lies and sacrificing the truth. Instead, I decided to fight back.” Haim is now set to make his initial appearance before U.S. Magistrate Yvonne Y. Ho in Houston, Texas. “The four-count indictment alleges Haim obtained personal information including patient names, treatment codes and the attending physician from Texas Children’s Hospital’s (TCH) electronic system without authorization,” says the U.S. Attorney’s Office release. “He allegedly obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to TCH.” Texas Children’s did not immediately respond to requests for comment from The Daily Signal. Haim joined “The Daily Signal Podcast” in March to share his story. “What’s going to happen now is we’re going to do everything we can, [with] every fiber of my being, to hold them accountable,” Haim told The Daily Signal at the time. “We’re never going to stop until we succeed. So they thought they were going to intimidate me. They thought I was going to bend the knee to their evil ideology, like most doctors would have done. But as they were coming to find out, they had knocked on the wrong door.” Haim is one of a number of Americans who have faced DOJ charges related to hot-button culture war issues. Armed FBI agents arrested Mark Houck, a Catholic father of seven and pro-life activist, in front of his children over an incident outside an abortion clinic that had been dismissed by local authorities. The post Texas Doctor Faces Prison for Whistleblowing on Secret Child Gender Procedures appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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House Republicans are now pulling at another thread in the web of the Censorship Industrial Complex that has been directly funded by the American taxpayer. New reporting by Washington Examiner reporter Gabe Kaminsky unveiled that the House Small Business Committee drafted a subpoena demanding that Secretary of State Anthony Blinken appear before the Committee on June 27. The subpoena also requires that the State Department hand over “all documents and communications” related to which organizations the State Department’s Global Engagement Center funded and how much money it gave through grants, awards, or cooperative agreements from 2018 to the present.   The legal document includes a list of specific State Department funded projects that must be included in order to satisfy the subpoena’s requirement. The list included infamous website traffic cops NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index. The GDI was previously exposed by a House Judiciary investigation for authoring a “hate groups” blacklist that primarily targeted conservatives and faith-based organizations.     The subpoena additionally demanded “documents sufficient to identify each of the 366 programs featured on the GEC’s Disinfo Cloud platform, mentioned in the document named ‘2023.02.14 GEC-GDI-BLACKLIST.docx.’” Disinfo Cloud was a technology platform designed to facilitate censorship by providing a testing lab for various censorship technologies. Beyond Disinfo Cloud, the subpoena also required documents listing “the application and approval process of each program” and the aforementioned “BLACKLIST” document.  The Committee is also seeking to learn about any State Department efforts “planning for any successors to the Disinfo Cloud Platform,” which was shuttered in 2022.   The Global Engagement Center has been in the public spotlight for its role in facilitating government censorship. The New Civil Liberties Alliance filed a preliminary injunction in February requesting that a federal court order the State Department to cease funding censorship operations like NewsGuard and the Global Disinformation Index.  NewsGuard in particular, which is now also under Congressional investigation for its ties to the federal government, has been exposed by MRC for a clear and persistent bias against right-leaning outlets. MRC’s latest study found that NewsGuard rated left-leaning outlets an average of 25 points higher than outlets on the right (91 percent versus 66 percent).    Conservatives are under attack. Contact your representatives and demand that Big Tech be held to account to mirror the First Amendment while providing transparency, clarity on hate speech and equal footing for conservatives. If you have been censored, contact us using CensorTrack’s contact form, and help us hold Big Tech accountable.

Police released from jail a 77-year-old Oakland homeowner they said fatally shot a break-in suspect last week.The homeowner had been held without bail since early Tuesday on suspicion of murder; he was released from jail Thursday evening without facing any charges, the Mercury News reported, citing Alameda County jail records.'You have a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate yourself. And the fact that you exercise that right doesn’t seem like a reasonable basis to arrest somebody.'Police said the homeowner killed one of three people who were trying to break into his home while wielding a crowbar and a replica gun, the paper said. Jail records said the homeowner was scheduled for a Thursday morning arraignment, but Mercury News reported that the hearing never happened. An Alameda County Sheriff’s spokesperson told the paper the homeowner was released due to a lack of charges in the case.County prosecutors had a deadline to file charges, Mercury News said, adding that the sheriff's office generally doesn't hold suspects for longer than two days when they haven't been formally charged.However, the Alameda County District Attorney’s Office said in a Friday morning statement that “the case is still under investigation by the Oakland Police Department," the paper said.At a Wednesday press conference, acting deputy chief Frederick Shavies said the homeowner “did not provide a statement” when homicide investigators questioned him, after which he was arrested, Mercury News said.“Absent any sort of statement, if ‘A’ shoots ‘B’ without an explanation, we can only go with what we have,” Shavies said, according to the paper. “All we know is an individual lost his life.”Legal experts told Mercury News that the homeowner’s arrest and the police department's reason for jailing him are concerning.“I find it very troubling that the police would arrest someone because they didn’t make a statement,” Mathew Martinez, an East Bay defense attorney who spent 13 years as a prosecutor in Merced County, told the paper. “You have a Fifth Amendment right not to incriminate yourself. And the fact that you exercise that right doesn’t seem like a reasonable basis to arrest somebody.”Daniel Horowitz, a Lafayette-based defense attorney, told Mercury News that it's "really incredible to arrest someone, just simply because there’s someone dead in your yard. If there’s just somebody on your property, and you have a gun and you shoot them, that’s not sufficient to arrest them. It just isn’t.” Oakland police provide details on homeowner shooting possible burglar Monday youtu.be Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

CNN has zero qualms when it comes to deception, but even Glenn Beck is shocked at its latest lie. “We apparently are not a republic,” he says, referencing a recent claim made by the media outlet. “I guarantee your head will explode on this CNN clip.” The footage documents CNN's Donie O'Sullivan asking Trump supporters about Biden being a “threat to democracy.” Many of those he interviewed had a similar message: “America is not a democracy; it’s a republic.” Which, of course, is absolutely correct. But not according to Mr. O’Sullivan. “To hear Americans — people who would describe themselves as patriots — say that America is not a democracy, that stopped me in my tracks,” he told historian Anne Applebaum, who agreed. “America is a democracy; it was founded as a democracy,” she said. “You are hearing people say America is not a democracy because there are people around Trump who want them to be saying that, who've been planting that narrative.” To say Glenn is horrified would be an understatement. “We are a republic and 'to the Republic for which it stands,'” he corrects. So, where’s this confusion about democracy coming from? “We are a democracy on voting day — one man one vote ... but what you're not doing is voting on every single law. You are voting for a representative, and that representative represents you in the republic,” Glenn clarifies, noting that “people don’t understand the difference.” And for those who don’t understand why a republic is infinitely better than a traditional democracy, Glenn has an answer for that too. “A democracy only country will fail every time because all you need is to whip enough people into a frenzy, schedule a vote, and they'll vote the way you want them to vote,” whereas “a republic understands that people can't understand every single issue and be voting on every single issue,” he explains, adding that a republic is designed to “slow the process down” and “give reason a chance.” But unfortunately, the “faceless bureaucrats” in Washington, D.C., don’t like slowing down, using reason, or respecting the constitutional rights of the people. “The EPA, the ATF, the housing people, the FED ... you never elected any of those people, and it's okay if they are hired to be in there to make the system work, but instead, they're making the rules, which become laws,” says Glenn. “Only Congress can make laws, but we don't do that anymore.” “That's why we have to restore the republic.” To hear more of Glenn’s analysis and watch CNN footage that’s bound to make your blood boil, watch the clip below. Want more from Glenn Beck?To enjoy more of Glenn’s masterful storytelling, thought-provoking analysis, and uncanny ability to make sense of the chaos, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.