"How would selling off public lands to the fossil fuel industry benefit our children? Our beautiful public lands need protection so that we and future generations can enjoy them. How does privatizing roads, bridges, and water systems, and possibly charging increased tolls and fees benefit our children? It makes no sense to allow big business to profit from our basic safety needs.
How does potentially giving authority to one man to green light pipeline projects benefit our children? Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has repeatedly demonstrated that he represents the oil and gas industry. Imagine even more pipelines crisscrossing our public lands—all of them just waiting to leak and spill.
How does weakening clean air and water standards benefit our children? Trump’s plan would allow projects to ignore bedrock environmental safeguards like the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and National Environmental Policy Act. This puts our health and the environment at risk.
Trump’s infrastructure plan is yet another attempt to weaken our checks and balances, to sidestep protections for workers, and to cut out public input on decisions that will affect our air and water. Trump wants to line the pockets of his billionaire friends at the expense of the rest of us. He’s not streamlining anything; he’s simply making it easier for big businesses to bulldoze through environmental, worker, and public safety standards.
Why aren’t we investing in improving our crumbling infrastructure? Why not improve our electrical grid to support more clean energy? Why not invest more in resilient transportation systems that are better for the environment like public transit? Why not make sure we’re ready for more extreme climate-related weather events, like hurricanes and wildfires? Climate change is already happening—we should be preparing right now.
Nothing in Trump’s plan would benefit my children or yours. Trump and the GOP need to stop playing politics. We need leaders who will put people before profits and deliver a real plan to invest in infrastructure nationwide that doesn’t sacrifice our health or the environment. The future of our children depends on it. To show your support, join me and the Sierra Club in telling our representatives in Congress to reject any infrastructure plan that doesn’t create family-sustaining jobs, invest in clean energy, and protect our air, water, and health.
Alyssa Milano is an activist, actress, UNICEF ambassador, Sierra Club ambassador, and the CEO of Patriot Not Partisan."
"Milano will join Moser on February 24 - four days after early voting starts - to meet campaign volunteers, to block walk in west Houston neighborhoods and to speak at a "Vote Your Values" rally, according to Moser's campaign. It's not the first time for the politically active Milano to get into a big political fight. In December she participated in get-out-the-vote efforts in the Alabama U.S. Senate race won by Democrat Doug Jones.
Milano and activist Tarana Burke are largely credited with invigorating the #MeToo movement on social media following the revelations about Hollywood movie producer Harvey Weinstein.
"If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote 'Me too' as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem," Milano wrote in a Tweet on Oct. 15.
About 20 minutes later, her Tweet had already had 10,000 responses. More than 68,000 people have responded and it is seen as one of the starting points of the movement."
"Judge Georgina Chapman said, “I love your take on the New York t-shirt,” and Isaac Mizrahi thought it was “racy” without being “vulgar.” But some of our readers begged to differ.
McKinley has pushed the envelope this season with his sexy looks, including a peekaboo “Ball” gown during an unconventional-materials challenge and a lingerie-inspired “Superhero.”
For designers who like to walk on the wild side there’s always the risk that sexy will cross over into tacky in the eyes of the judges — Ari South was eliminated in “Perfect Pairings” in part because of an exposed bellybutton — but McKinley has consistently gotten the judges’ seal of approval.
However, one “Runway” fan commented that “he never learned taste,” while another didn’t understand his use of “that weird white underwear thing with the strap that looked like some kind of medical support garment.” What do you think? Are McKinley’s designs high-fashion or low-taste?"
"The description continues:
"Funny, mellow, in touch with his emotions, totally on board to follow his lady across the country for her dream job. An aspiring filmmaker who has yet to catch the break he's sure is just around the corner."
Macy and her two sisters - Madison and Mel - are going to replace Prue, Piper and Phoebe to make up the Power of Three.
A pilot episode of the series was ordered by The CW last month, after previously having been scrapped by the network early last year.
The series synopsis reads:
"This fierce, funny, feminist reboot of the original series centres on three sisters in a college town who discover they are witches.
"Between vanquishing supernatural demons, tearing down the patriarchy, and maintaining familial bonds, a witch’s work is never done."
The reboot series will be based on a story created by Jane the Virgincreator, Jennie Snyder Urman."
"Luckily, Project Runway All Stars is taking a week off. A new episode, featuring avant-garde fashion returns on Feb. 22. Based on a small clip at the end of last week’s episode, the upcoming episode will have lots of catty comments.
It seems strange that there is a week break for this show. Sure, New York Fashion Week is happening now, but that event doesn’t impact the current season. February 15 isn’t a holiday. There doesn’t seem to be a big reason to have a week break.
Of course, the Winter Olympics are on the must-see watch list, but sometimes people don’t want to watch curling again. Granted, the Winter Olympics happen every four years. Still people can have a little sports overload and could want to see some designer backstabbing.
This season has been a little low on the drama. Some designers have their cliques, but that happens in every season. No one has really thrown another designer under the bus. Helen made some crappy comments, but they weren’t horrible. In last week’s episode, everyone seemed to be getting along again.
Without the in-fighting, the fashion really needs to be the focus. Unfortunately, the outfits aren’t memorable. Sure, Joshua’s Betty Boop look for Torrid was cute, it wasn’t earth shattering. Anthony’s gowns have been pretty, but they aren’t draw dropping. Personally, very few, if any, designs stand out as memorable.
The biggest takeaway from this season is that Merline is still standing. While she might have some interesting fashion interpretations, her looks aren’t constructed well. Maybe this season is about a designer who can’t sew but is still a fashion designer."
"Description:
Starting in 1996, U.S. television saw an influx of superhuman female characters who could materialize objects like Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, defeat evil like Buffy the Vampire Slayer and have premonitions like Charmed's Phoebe. The extraordinary abilities of these women showed resistance to traditional gender roles, although these characters experienced infringements on their abilities in ways superpowered men did not.
Supernaturally powerful women and girls have remained on television, including the heavenly connected Grace (of Saving Grace), telepathic Sookie (of True Blood), and magical Cassie (of The Secret Circle). These more recent characters also face numerous constraints on their powers. As a result, superpowers become a narrative technique to diminish these characters, a technique that began with television's first super-powered woman, Samantha (of Bewitched).
They all illustrate a paradox of women's power: are these characters ever truly powerful, much less super-powerful, if they cannot use their abilities fully? The superwoman has endured as a metaphor for women trying to "have it all"; therefore, the travails of these television examples parallel those of their off-screen counterparts."
"Description:
When Piper, Phoebe, and Paige undo a spell that turned a local politician to stone, they enlist the help of their sister, Prue, confined on the magical Nexus, not realizing the powerful magic behind the hex. As attacks on Innocents mount, the Charmed Ones learn that the most heinous of mythical creatures—a Gorgon—is to blame.
Freed from her underground tomb, Medusa joins her sisters in a crusade to avenge womankind, turning those who cross her to stone forever. At the same time, dark magic seems to be undoing all of Phoebe’s good works, distracting her from the impending battle with the Gorgons. With time running out, will the sisters be able to defeat Medusa and restore their Innocents to life?
Inspired by the hit televisions series of Charmed, the new novel Charmed: Let Gorgons Be Gorgons continues the story of the Halliwell witches. With only the Book of Shadows to guide them, the Halliwell sisters are the fulfillment of their ancestor Melinda Warren’s prophecy that three sisters descending from her line would become the most powerful witches of all time. The sisters use the Power of Three to protect the Innocent and banish evil from the Earthly realm."
"Mel is also a “strong-willed feminist” who experiences a tragic accident that leaves her angry and unable to deal with her emotions, which might cause some problems with her time-freezing abilities.
Madison Pruitt is Mel’s younger sister who is “horrified” to learn of her witch abilities — hearing people’s thoughts.
Rounding out the trio is Macy who is described as a “science nerd” in her late twenties with a Ph.D. in quantum physics. However, Macy, seems similar to Rose McGowan’s character in the original series, is not a Pruitt but she “has reason to believe that she is the sister of Mel and Madison.”
This isn’t the first time Combs has expressed her dislike of the Charmed reboot. In January she tweeted, “Here’s the thing. Until you ask us to rewrite it like Brad Kern did weekly don’t even think of capitalizing on our hard work. Charmed belongs to the 4 of us, our vast amount of writers, crews and predominantly the fans. FYI you will not fool them by owning a title/stamp. So bye.”
Combs portrayed Piper Halliwell in the original WB series alongside Alyssa Milano (Phoebe Halliwell), Shannen Doherty (Prue Halliwell) and Rose McGowan (Paige Matthews)."
"Description:
Anger, envy, wrath, and rage
Hold her tightly like a cage,
With bitter tears and lover's sins
My final revenge at last begins!
Phoebe Halliwell thinks taking a college course will add some intellectual excitement to her life. And she is definitely excited when she meets Brett, a gorgeous guy in her class. Too bad he's got a jealous ex-girlfriend, Wendy.
When Brett and Phoebe spend time together on a class assignment, Phoebe starts to receive threatening notes. Wendy's the obvious culprit, so why does Phoebe sense that the notes are from someone else—someone with supernatural powers? "
"“Honestly I’m not proud of this design,” Glover admitted as her dress made its way down the runway, and the judges agreed. “I love the color,” said host Alyssa Milano, “but I have to say that’s it.” Georgina Chapman was even more critical, saying it looked “like something out of a freshman student competition.”
In the end it was a close call between her and Edmond Newton, who the judges thought chose a bad print and whose dress had a front that “looked like saggy balls,” according to Milano.
This result wasn’t just unfortunate for Glover. It also represents the continued depletion of female designers in this season’s competition. After six weeks there have been seven eliminations, and six of them have been women. The only male designer to go home thus far was the very first, Carlos Casanova, who was ousted in the season premiere.
Before this “All Stars” competition Glover competed in season 13 of the original “Runway” series where she was eliminated midway through but saved by Tim Gunn. That allowed her to advance all the way to New York Fashion Week where she finished fourth. But unfortunately Gunn wasn’t around this time."
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