Overnight it was reported that actor Powers Boothe passed away. He passed away in his Los Angeles home from natural causes. He was best known for roles in Sin City, Agents of Shield and Deadwood.
The Emmy-winning actor passed away on Sunday.
He was 68 years old.
His death touched many in the entertainment industry.
The veteran actor won an Emmy in the 1980 movie Guyana Tragedy. The movie was a biographical drama about the American cult leader Jim Jones. He was the ruthless saloon owner Cy Tolliver in the HBO series Deadwood.
He did voice acting as well. He was on Justice League and played Gorilla Grodd, a major villain to The Flash and the League.
MSNBC's ratings surged in the age of Trump. Now the CEO of the network is trying to disrupt that by letting Lawrence O'Donnell go.
Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnell, Joy Reid, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Chris Matthews and Chris Hayes are fiercely critical of Donald J. Trump. They are putting it down and ratings are up at MSNBC. But under the radar, their boss Andy Lack is trying to disrupt that.
It's causing progressive outrage.
There's rumors of cannon fire. Progressives are mounting a war against Andy Lack, the president of MSNBC because the possible cannon fire of O'Donnell despite the ratings.
Trump has personal ties to Lack. The leader of this once great country called Lack to complain about O'Donnell's program. Lack is trying to swing the network to be more balanced. This is calling a major backlash.
There's talk that he's trying to clean house with Hayes, O'Donnell, Reid and Rev. Al Sharpton.
O'Donnell's contract with MSNBC is about to end. There's word that Lack is trying avoid renewal despite him clobbering the competition in ratings.
O'Donnell was told to move his show to 6pm. O'Donnell felt comfortable in primetime and it angered Lack. Now the two are feuding and the disgraced Brian Williams is willing to take the spot.
There's calls to protest MSNBC for their swing to the right.
He's already pissed off Black journalists with the sudden replacement scandal on Today.
They are the voices of the resistance. With the addition of Brian Williams and Greta Van Susteren, the network is leaning to the right and it's pissing off progressives.
Lack hired Megyn Kelly, a former Fox News agitator who said "Jesus and Santa Claus were White." Kelly left Fox News after 10 years with the network. She and Gretchen Carlson were the key factors to the cannon fire of Roger Ailes, the former president and co-founder of the network. They hired her and fired Tamron Hall, a famed Black journalist. They downsized weatherman/celebrity agitator Al Roker's Today spot and moved her into the 9am spot.
Lack found replacements in Greta Van Susteren, Hugh Hewitt, Nicolle Wallace and George Will. These replacements are conservative. These agitators played upon the worse fears of America and they've done it on Fox News Channel.
Andy Lack, CEO of MSNBC.
Now that Fox News is sputtering with the sudden cannon firing of Bill O'Reilly, MSNBC seen its ratings boost with Rachel Maddow with Lawrence O'Donnell coming in next.
The Rachel Maddow Show has finished first for the first time since O'Reilly's cannon firing.
The Last Word came second beating Sean "Softball" Hannity's right wing carnival.
AM Joy is doing exceptionally well and always trending on social media. Reid replaced Melissa Harris-Perry. The former host of weekend program, Harris-Perry feuded with Lack after she was bumped for political coverage. She wrote an email to her friends saying that "purging" is happening and Lack is inept.
PoliticsNation did far better than For The Record with Greta Van Susteren. Sharpton held the 6pm weekday spot for nearly five years before he was demoted to Sundays.
Ed Schultz was then the 5pm weekday agitator. After tense conflict with Lack, Schultz was fired out the cannon on MSNBC. He would join RT America and promotes Russian propaganda and Trump.
We've seen major shakeups over at MSNBC before with the firing of Keith Olbermann.
Do you believe that Andy Lack is trying to turn MSNBC into Fox News?
Jayson Negron was another unarmed person of color killed by the law.
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I am getting fed up with this! I am getting tired of hearing about these incidents where police officers use deadly force on people of color. I am fed up with trolls trying to justify murder on the grounds of petty criminal acts. When a person of color is shot and killed by the police, usually the victim is unarmed.
The city of Bridgeport, Connecticut is bracing for potential violent protests. The fatal shooting of an unarmed teen by a White cop has sparked outrage in the community.
Jayson Negron was killed by a Bridgeport officer named James Boulay this past week. Police claim that Jayson and his friend were joy riding in a stolen car. They claimed that the car hit an officer.
A family member posted a video of Jayson being cuffed on the ground. The video shows that the officer shot him in the head and left him for dead.
The family member named Giovanni Rivera is disputing the police account of the tragic shooting.
The video footage provided by The Daily Mail is graphic. It shows Jayson's head pointing in a different direction. The bag 'em ups said that Jayson was shot in the chest.
A person films the lifeless body of 15 year old Jayson Negron. The Bridgeport Police rookie killed him.
Regardless of what happened, some questions remained. How the hell could an officer put a bullet in a handcuffed suspect?
Where the officers wearing body cameras when this happened?
Will the police and state prosecutor release the video footage of the chase and officer firing upon the suspect?
Why didn't they notify emergency aid to treat the victim?
And why the hell didn't they cover the body?
It was told that Jayson's lifeless body was exposed and not removed for hours.
A shaky camera phone video shows Jayson on the ground with his hands cuffed not moving.
People were shouting, "They shot him. They shot that man."
Bridgeport Police Chief Armando Perez is disputing the claims that his officers murdered an innocent man. He wants to clear up why the police failed to cover a dead body. He claims that the officers would have messed up evidence being gathered.
There were no guns, drugs or illegal substance inside the vehicle. The passenger Julian Fyffe was injured. He is speaking through his lawyer. He is disputing the claim he and Jayson were in a stolen ride.
The family attorney for Fyffe spoke out against the claims that police justified the shooting.
James Boulay is 30 years old. He is in the freezer pending an investigation. He will likely contact the police union and his lawyers. The police union will automatically disspell the belief that Boulay may have used excessive force. They will try to look into the previous history of Jayson and not Boulay.
The police unions will appear on local and national junk food media shows to get the officer's side of the story. If the video footage and possible body camera footage show a different side of what happened, the cop could be fired and indicted on murder or manslaughter charges. Conservatives and that so-called "All Lives Matter" crowd justify the deaths of unarmed suspects on the grounds of a criminal history. Regardless of the criminal history, if the suspect isn't armed, why the hell are the police shooting them? For every bad cop, there will be a dead cop! The good cops will be the ones who are killed. They do their jobs responsibly without bias or judgment of character. Good cops often serve their communities for the good of all citizens. They do not hide behind the "blue wall of silence."
No one is saying being a police officer is a stressful job. But with those with lack of training make it difficult to get information from witnesses.
With Jefferson Beauregard Sessions in the top cop position, you're likely going to see a cop get away with murder. Even with video camera evidence, cops are often acquitted of murder.
For the blood that is spilled, I expect a retaliation attack from the mentally insane. Think about it!
We just got past Jordan Edwards being gunned down by former Belch Springs, Texas cop Roy Oliver after leaving a party. Then a few weeks later, Kirkersville police chief Eric DiSario was murdered by this terrorist named Thomas Hartless. Mind you these events made national news coverage.
No telling how many other acts of violence occurred in the United States that didn't make the national headlines.
GUN VIOLENCE IS THE NUMBER ONE THREAT IN THE UNITED STATES.
The bad cops always sees criminal through the lens of what they've seen on television. Obviously, I don't want to sound political, but White extremists are infiltrating police departments. These types hide their bigotry behind the badge.
In Charlottesville, the white extremists are protesting the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.
The independent city of Charlottesville, Virginia is the flashpoint of a huge debate. The debate is the removal of a statue. The statue is a part of ancient history. The statue is a part of the losing side of the Civil War.
There were White extremists protests the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue.
The group surrounded the statue in Lee Park.
White extremist (and alt-right provocateur) Richard Spencer was there in attendance.
The city's vote to remove the statue has earned them death threats and possible terrorist attacks.
The statue is 93 years old and council voted overwhelmingly to remove the Confederate general statue. Lee was pro-slavery and led the South to defeat. The city rather devote their history to the slaves and Native Americans who died under Lee, Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford Forrest and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
The removal of Confederate memorials has gotten White extremists upset.
The white extremists are bugging out over a relic being removed.
Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in the Atlantic about this preservation of White extremism.
"The Confederate flag's defenders often claim it represents "heritage not hate." I agree---the heritage of White supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse towards plunder. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. An entire people are poorer for his action. The flag that Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, does not stand in opposition to this act --- it endorses it. That the Confederate flag is the symbol of white supremacists is evidenced by the very words of those who birthed it."
Southern Republican lawmakers have tried to pass bills that banned the removal of these relics.
Oftentimes, it's the very same Republicans and conservatives who bemoan about the Democratic Party being the founders of the Klan.
But the Republicans are embracing the Klan by electing Donald J. Trump and Mike Pence. The Republicans want to play on the fears of Black, Hispanic, immigrant, Muslim, and gay individuals.
Robert E. Lee is a part of ancient history. They need to place the statue in a museum.
Republicans rather be in your bedroom, your vagina, your pocketbooks and your recreational lifestyle.
Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is an example. Sessions is now trying to impose mandatory minimums for individuals convicted of non-violent drug offenses. He will place more non-violent offenders in the private prisons. Sessions is more willing to defend cops who murder unarmed people of color.
And I remember this little encounter between DL Hughley and Megyn Kelly.
DL Hughley made a critical statement about White extremism. He said that white extremists are willing to infiltrate organizations of power. The police, the military and state legislation are usual places where White extremists are willing to infiltrate.
This debate in Charlottesville and many southern cities will intensify.
Conservatives have told liberals to get over the election. I guess they need to get over the Confederacy, Ronald Reagan and being in the majority. This is ancient history. They should put those statues in a privately funded museum. In my honest opinion, they should melt them down.
Shad Moss, the semi-retired rapper and actor was catching a lot of flack this week.
Moss (known as Bow Wow) is being taken to the woodshed over his boasting of ownership of a private jet.
Well it turns out that the rapper is now labeled the biggest frauds in entertainment says celebrity agitator DJ Akademiks.
He posted that he was boarding a private jet onroute to New York to do a presser. It turns out that he was spotted in economy class heading to New York. The person who caught him had to get second glance of the rapper and check social media to verify it.
Very soon, the #BowwowChallenge was born. The meme is mocking the rapper for lying about his wealth.
The entertainer responded on social media.
"You don't live my life. Everybody like talk about the plane, I didn't know that was news. That ain't news. What is there to talk about?" he explained in video obtained by I Love Hip Hop TV. "Ain't nothing to talk about. I don't got nothing to explain to niggas. I been doing this shit for too long. It take a second to hate but it take you a lifetime to make 500k nigga, make 500 thousand talk to me. I'm bout to go get some food."
The autobiographical drama about Tupac Shakur is coming to theaters soon.
Benny Boom is directing All Eyez On Me. Demetrius Shipp Jr. will play Shakur in this movie. It will show the rise and fall of one of the most popular and controversial rapper in the world.
Here's the trailer of the movie.
It will be released in June.
It will detail Shakur's life growing up in Brooklyn. His talented for theater in Baltimore. His rise to fame in Oakland with the hip-hop group Digital Underground. Of course, Shakur's debut into the mainstream.
The film includes his rise to superstardom, as well as his imprisonment and prolific, controversial time at Death Row Records.
The movie was filmed in 2015 on a $45 million budget. Besides Shipp, Jr., the film features co-stars Kat Graham, Lauren Cohan, Hill Harper and Danai Gurira.
Are you going to see the movie?
Early thread: Tupac Shakur - Dear Mama, an ode to his mother Afeni Shakur. She passed away in 2016 and endorsed the idea of a movie based off her son.
The Republican Party's outlook for 2018 is still good. I predict the Republicans will retain control of the House and Senate. All that could change if we can encourage Americans to vote. Many Americans are discouraged to vote.
The Republicans count on low turnout from normally Democratic voters. That's why Republican governors are signing off laws to suppress voter turnout.
Donald J. Trump is looking like he can survive a second term. Even though its early in the first term, the conditions are good for him to win reelection.
Trump is more polarizing than Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
He is deeply unpopular and yet Trump can win reelection by the electoral college. The healthcare debate, the promises broken and of course the recent firing of James Comey from the FBI has made Trump a toxic figure.
These Republican special district elections in Montana and Georgia could be a precursor to the potential uprooting of the Republican majority.
Republicans are extremely nervous about the election. They know that unhappy constituents could make it difficult for them to win reelection.
Republican House members were met with fierce criticism over their support for the American Health Care Act (aka Trumpcare).
Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC), Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD), Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA), Rep. Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) and most recently Rep. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) faced brutal town hall gatherings.
Out of the 217 members who voted for the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, 20 members held town halls. Of the 238 members of the Republican House about 36 of them are in districts that could swing. It's hard to determine how Congress is going to handle business. They haven't really done anything spectacular since they took office.
But taking numerous recesses and facing rowdy town halls could rattle safe Republican and yes, Democratic districts.
Republicans have no real plan to repeal the ACA (Obamacare). They just threw together proposals and took the whim of the "do-nothing" House Freedom Caucus to fully repeal the law. They gutted regulations to the law. They threw out postitive results of Obamacare. Their version of a health care law could throw 24 million off affordable coverage. It could eliminate mandate that require insurers to not reject individuals with pre-existing conditions. It could head to state governments that could weaken the law itself.
Republicans beware. You spent 8 years dogging Barack Obama's presidency.
Democrats are furious and are willing to oppose everything Trump does. Even though they have the minority in Congress, they will instigate voters to oppose Republicans.
You Republicans stole a Supreme Court seat. You played on the fears of immigrants, Muslims, Blacks and gay people. You were the "Party of No."
You better know that its going down. The changing demographics assure that Republicans hold on the future will certainly be unraveled.
