News Ryan Coogler Ryan Coogler’s Supernatural Horror Thriller Starring Michael B. Jordan Expands Its Cast Jordan might be playing twins? Their might be vampires? The important part is that we get Delroy Lindo By Vanessa Armstrong | Published on April 3‚ 2024 Comment 0 Share New Share The details around the new supernatural horror thriller that Black Panther writer-director Ryan Coogler has in the works at Warner Bros. have been kept very hush-hush. News has been leaking out‚ however‚ with The Hollywood Reporter sharing that the movie takes place in the Jim Crow South and may or may not include vampires and/or “Southern supernatural traditions.” We also have some casting news. Michael B. Jordan (pictured above in Black Panther; other credits include Creed and Fahrenheit 451) is set to star in what THR is reporting may be dual roles. We also found out today from THR that Delroy Lindo (Get Shorty‚ playing Mr. Nancy in the upcoming Anansi Boys series) is on board to play a character with “a musical element‚” and that (via Deadline) Jack O’Connell (Unbroken‚ Ferrari) will play the villain. This isn’t the only project that Coogler has in the works. Last March‚ we found out that the writer-director is also working on a reboot or revival of The X-Files. Where that project stands‚ and whether Coogler is doing more than producing it is unknown‚ though we do know that there has been talk of a Black Panther 3 and that his production company is behind the upcoming Marvel series‚ Ironheart. As for this new (to us) Warner Bros. project‚ THR reported that it will go into production in New Orleans later this spring‚ and that the studio currently has it set to release on March 7‚ 2025. Hopefully we’ll get more details about the film‚ including its title and what the story is‚ before then! [end-mark] The post Ryan Coogler’s Supernatural Horror Thriller Starring Michael B. Jordan Expands Its Cast appeared first on Reactor.

President Joe Biden’s Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had filed a lawsuit accusing the state of Utah‚ and its Department of Corrections‚ of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act in failing to give a man hormones for his gender dysphoria. The prisoner‚ who identifies as a transgender woman‚ is said to have requested to purchase women’s clothing and “personal items in the commissary‚” such as women’s underwear and makeup. He also wanted to be housed with female prisoners‚ the DOJ said. The Utah Department of Corrections assigns prison accommodations based upon sex at “commitment‚” when staffers conduct a visual search of genitals‚ according to the Justice Department. The Utah Department of Corrections did not grant those requests‚ the DOJ said‚ accusing the Utah agency of causing the man’s gender dysphoria to worsen. “Twenty-two months after entering custody‚” the DOJ said‚ the trans-identifying prisoner “performed dangerous self-surgery and removed [his] own testicles.” complaint-utah_department_of_correctionsDownload “People with gender dysphoria‚ including those held in jails and prisons‚ are protected by the Americans with Disabilities Act and are entitled to equal access to medical care‚ just like anyone else with a disability‚” Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division said in a statement. “Delays or refusals to provide medical treatment for people with gender dysphoria can cause irreparable harm‚ including debilitating distress‚ depression‚ attempts at self-treatment and even death by suicide‚” Clarke added. “The Civil Rights Division is committed to protecting the rights of all people with disabilities in our country‚ including those who experience gender dysphoria—and those rights are not given up at the jailhouse door.” The DOJ also accused the Utah Department of Corrections of “imposing unnecessary eligibility criteria for assessment and treatment for gender dysphoria that it does not require for other conditions.” A letter of findings to the Utah agency states that the prison system routes requests for “medical care” for gender dysphoria through its gender dysphoria committee. If a man in the Utah Department of Corrections self-identifies as a transgender woman‚ he will have to request an evaluation by the agency’s mental health staff‚ and these staffers then present their findings to the gender dysphoria committee. The committee will decide whether or not to refer the man to a health care provider for a diagnostic evaluation for gender dysphoria‚ and if the committee approves the evaluation‚ the Department of Corrections will refer the individual to its contract psychologist‚ according to the letter of findings. letter_of_findings-utah_department_of_correctionsDownload “If the committee denies the evaluation‚ the incarcerated person must wait one year before they are eligible to request diagnostic services again‚” the letter said. “After a diagnostic assessment‚ [the Utah Department of Corrections] medical staff will consider the psychologist’s recommendations and may order treatment with hormones‚ but not ‘[c]osmetic or elective surgical procedures for the purpose of sex reassignment.’” The Justice Department claims that the committee included people who were reluctant to prescribe hormones for gender dysphoria‚ calling that “overt bias against the individuals seeking care.” When the Department of Corrections finally allowed the prisoner identified in the Justice Department’s lawsuit to start hormonal medication‚ the DOJ claimed‚ the prisoner’s Department of Corrections doctor tried to talk him out of taking hormones. The DOJ claims that the doctor then failed to take “basic steps to ensure that it was provided safely and effectively‚” such as conducting routine laboratory testing. The Justice Department is calling on the Utah agency to adopt‚ revise‚ and implement new policies that let men who think they are women or women who think they are men to obtain “health care services” for gender dysphoria‚ and to “reasonably modify UDOC policies‚ practices‚ and procedures when necessary to ensure that individuals with gender dysphoria have equal access to all UDOC services‚ programs‚ and activities including commissary‚ pat and visual searches‚ housing‚ and required and optional programming.” The Utah Department of Corrections said in a March 12 statement that it is working to address the “complex” issue and described itself as “blindsided” by the DOJ’s announcement regarding its findings in March. “We have also taken steps on our own‚ and as a state‚ to address the needs of inmates while maintaining the highest safety standards‚” Executive Director Brian Redd said in a statement. “We fundamentally disagree with the DOJ on key issues‚ and are disappointed with their approach.” The post Biden DOJ Targets Utah Prison Agency’s Policies After Trans Prisoner Cut Off Testicles appeared first on The Daily Signal.

When people couldn’t afford housing during the Great Depression‚ they built shantytowns from scrap construction supplies and named them “Hoovervilles‚” after President Herbert Hoover. Today‚ Americans increasingly live out of their cars because they can’t afford housing. If history is any guide‚ will parking lots full of Americans soon be known as “Bidenvilles”? The problem has gotten so bad that Sedona‚ Arizona‚ recently set aside a parking lot exclusively for these homeless workers. The city is even installing toilets and showers for the new occupants. Apparently‚ the City Council thought installing temporary utilities was cheaper than solving the area’s cost-of-living crisis. And what a crisis it is. The average home in the city sells for $930‚000‚ while most of the housing available for rent is not apartments‚ but luxury homes targeted at wealthy people on vacation. With such a shortage of middle-class housing and with starter homes essentially nonexistent‚ low- and even middle-income blue-collar workers have nowhere to go at night but their back seat. Much like America’s Great Depression in the 1930s‚ this marks a serious regression in our national standard of living. But shantytowns were not prevalent in the 1920s (a decade that began with a depression) or the 1910s. Nor were they ubiquitous following the Panic of 1907‚ which set off one of the worst recessions in American history. Indeed‚ Americans in the Great Depression faced such a cost-of-living crisis that many were forced to accept a standard of living below what their parents and even their grandparents had. Fast-forward about 90 years‚ and countless families are in the same boat. Many young people today don’t think they’ll ever be able to achieve the American dream of homeownership that their parents and grandparents achieved. The worst inflation in 40 years‚ rising interest rates‚ and a collapse of real (inflation-adjusted) earnings mean a huge step backward financially. That inflation has pushed up rents so much that young Americans are moving back in with their parents at rates not seen since the Great Depression because they can’t make it on their own. Sometimes‚ they can’t even make it with multiple roommates. But many people cannot move back in with family‚ so the car it is. The housing problem is not limited to wealthy towns in Arizona‚ however. It is systemic. The monthly mortgage payment on a median-price home has doubled since January 2021‚ and rents are at record highs. Like the Great Depression‚ this disaster stems from impolitic public policy. For the past several years‚ the government has spent‚ borrowed and created trillions of dollars it didn’t have. The predictable result of this profligacy was runaway inflation‚ followed by equally foreseeable interest rate increases. The deadly combination of high prices and high interest rates has frozen the housing market and reduced homeownership affordability metrics to near-record lows. In several major metropolitan areas‚ it takes more than 100% of the median household after-tax income to afford a median-price home. Since rents and virtually all other prices have risen so much faster than incomes over the past three years‚ even renting is unaffordable today‚ so many people have to go into debt to keep a roof over their heads. And for some‚ that’s a car roof. This is the kind of story you might expect from a Third World country or somewhere behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War‚ not the largest economy in the world—at least not outside of a depression like the one in the 1930s. Hoover certainly deserved some blame for the Great Depression‚ but so did the progressives in Congress‚ who came from both parties and repeatedly voted to meddle in the economy instead of allowing it to recover from the initial downturn. Similarly‚ President Joe Biden deserves blame for constantly advocating runaway government spending. But today’s multitrillion-dollar deficits are also made possible by the big spenders in Congress‚ who come from both parties. If this bipartisan prodigality of Washington continues‚ Bidenvilles will only become more widespread as the housing affordability crisis worsens. Originally published at WashingtonTimes.com The post Automobile ‘Bidenvilles’ Are the New Shantytowns Amid US Housing Affordability Crisis appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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