The Obamas just signed a multiyear deal to make shows and movies for Netflix
- Barack and Michelle Obama have entered a multiyear agreement with Netflix to produce series and features.
- The Obamas say they hope “to promote greater empathy and understanding between peoples, and help them share their stories with the entire world.”
The Tan Suit Barack and Bawwwdy Michelle are coming to Netflix.
The company announced Monday that the former first couple have signed a multiyear agreement to produce films and series for Netflix. The deal can include scripted and unscripted series, as well as documentaries and features. The content will be produced by Higher Ground Productions.
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Texas governor scraps shotgun giveaway after school shooting
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has scrapped plans to give away a “Texas-made shotgun“ after a gunman used a shotgun in a Friday rampage that left 10 dead in a high school near Houston.
A spokesman for Abbott, a Republican, said Monday the campaign contest is still active, but the winner will now receive a $250 gift card.
The webpage for the contest has been changed from one featuring the governor holding a shotgun to one without any pictures, now advertising the gift card. The change was made over the weekend, the Abbott spokesman said.
Abbott’s reelection campaign launched the shotgun giveaway contest on May 1, prior to the high school murders in Santa Fe, Texas. The contest quickly caught the eyes of Texas gun control activists, who pressed Abbott over the weekend.
“I find this giveaway deeply disturbing for a number of reasons, chiefly among them the fact that Friday’s shooting at Santa Fe HS was carried out with a shotgun,” Jack Kappelman, a student organizer of Austin’s March For Our Lives affiliate, wrote in an email to POLITICO. Kappelman is a senior at the Liberal Arts and Science Academy, a high school in Austin.
The contest also drew the attention of potential gubernatorial challengers, including Andrew White, who is running in the Democratic primary. White posted a picture on Twitter of an Abbott campaign door hanger that advertised the contest with a picture of a shotgun.
“If nominated on May 22, I won’t have to give away shotguns to get people to vote for me. Can you believe this?“ White wrote.
Abbott has promised “swift” action following last week’s school shooting, including a Tuesday roundtable to discuss next steps.
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Construction worker finds noose at Queens home
BROAD CHANNEL, Queens— It’s the last thing Jawuan Blake, a construction worker, expected to see at his Queens job site Thursday.
“I come out, take a few steps, look up and see a noose hanging – my heart just stopped,” he said.
Blake told PIX11, Saturday, it was hurtful to see the noose on the side of the home on East 6th Road in Broad Channel.
The home is part of NYC’s Build it Back program, which launched after Superstorm Sandy.
“No one should have to come to work and see that, it’s 2018,” he said.
He took pictures and when he told his coworkers he said they made insensitive comments and ignored it.
“I feel like it’s not a joke or laughing matter,” he said.
John Kodetsky lives next door to where the noose was found.
“I don’t think it should have been done but I thought the guys were fooling around,” he said, adding he saw the noose.
“As a sign of a death mark, It’s kind of disturbing,” Rob Wilson, an electrician who has also been working on the home responded.
Workers at the site tell PIX11 they want Tishman Construction to take the matter seriously and take appropriate action.
PIX11 reached out to the company for comment and have not heard back from anyone yet.
The workers say they have a meeting with the company Monday morning.
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NRA’s Oliver North blames ADHD drug Ritalin for mass shooting — and then admits: ‘I’m certainly not a doctor’
Newly-appointed National Rifle Association (NRA) President Oliver North on Sunday suggested that ADHD drugs and violent TV shows were to blame for mass shootings at schools.
During a discussion about the recent school shootings in Santa Fe, Oliver told Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace that the NRA had developed a solution.“The problem we’ve got is we’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms without treating the disease,” he continued. “And the disease in this case isn’t [the right to bear arms in] the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they’ve been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male and they’re young teenagers in most cases.”
Mother of boy, 4, who was locked in closet and nearly died sentenced to 25 years
SOME PEOPLE DO NOT NEED TO CONCEIVE CHILDREN
BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The mother of a 4-year-old Michigan boy who was left in a closet and nearly died last year was sentenced Friday to 25 to 50 years in prison.
Megan Schug, 24, said in court she was sorry and, “I love every one one of my children.”
But Calhoun County Circuit Court Judge Sarah Lincoln said as an assistant prosecutor and judge she has confronted rapists and murderers, “yet you stand before me as possibly the most evil person who has ever been in this courtroom.”
“You were attempting to kill him slowly,” Lincoln said. “Had you wanted to kill this child you could have done it quicker and more painless but you subjected him to months if not years of prolonged suffering.”
Schug pleaded guilty in February to a charge of child abuse after taking her son, Maloyd Gaines to Bronson Battle Creek on March 22, 2017. He was lethargic, emaciated, and having trouble breathing and Schug told doctors he was not eating.
More: Witness: Child starved, beaten, kept in closet
Chief Assistant Calhoun County Prosecutor Daniel Buscher said when he saw pictures of the boy he thought there was a mistake……
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Body of ‘severely neglected’ child found in California storage unit
SACRAMENTO – Officers found the body of a child after responding to a storage facility in Sacramento on Tuesday night, according to KTXL.
The body was inside of a storage unit that belongs to Nevada residents Tyler and Averyauna Anderson, according to the Sacramento Police Department.
Sacramento and Reno police departments have opened a joint investigation with Reno as the lead agency.
According to the Reno Police Department, Tyler’s 5-year-old daughter died at some point in the last two weeks inside of Tyler’s and his wife Averyauna’s apartment in Reno.
Reno PD says the couple then rented a vehicle to transport the child’s body from Reno to the Sacramento facility, located on the 1800 block of Glenrose Avenue.
Investigators revealed that the child had been severely neglected prior to her death.
On Wednesday, detectives arrested Tyler Anderson. He was booked into the Sacramento Main County Jail on manslaughter charges. He is awaiting extradition back to Reno.
Investigators say Averyauna Anderson is in custody at the Washoe County Jail in Reno – facing two charges, child abuse and destroying or concealing evidence.
Both Averyauna and Tyler were arrested on Wednesday.
The child’s identity will be released once the corner notifies next of kin. The cause of death was not known as of Friday evening.
Former playboy model jumps to her death with her 7-year-old son
In a most tragic incident coincidentally occurring during Mental Health Awareness Month, a former African-American Playboy model has jumped to her death, taking her 7-year-old son with her.
The former Miss November Stephanie Adams vaulted from the 25th-floor window of a New York City hotel on Friday morning.
Some hotel employees of the Gotham Hotel speculate that Adams first dropped her son, and then herself jumped. “From what (the guests) told me, they heard a light drop and then a heavier drop,” said one, according to the New York Daily News. “I’m still shook up about it.”
Adams was reportedly in the midst of a contentious divorce from her estranged husband, chiropractor Dr. Charles Nicolai, which included custody of their son, Vincent.
Adams recently asked a judge to allow her to take Vincent to Spain but was denied, said William Beslow, her ex’s lawyer.
“Apparently this was a trip for which there wasn’t going to be a return to the United States,” Beslow said. “The court believed that wouldn’t be appropriate given his (the child’s) relationship with Dr. Nicolai.”
The News reports that the NYPD responded to five domestic disputes involving the couple between July 2017 and March 2018. There was an order of protection in their case, although it was unclear which spouse requested it.
Several months ago, the 46-year-old mother tweeted about domestic violence. It wasn’t her first time…..
Netflix and chill Sunday Bobby Kennedy for President
This is a really good documentary!
‘Stunning’ report finds that one-third of Earth’s protected areas are being destroyed by people
Turns out a large chunk of what should be the world’s most protected areas are anything but.
A new study reports that human activities — such as city sprawl, road construction and farming — are wreaking havoc on some 2.3 million square miles of protected land worldwide, an area about twice the size of Alaska.
Forests, parks and conservation areas around the globe are all seeing human impacts, with protected areas in Asia, Europe and Africa — places with massive human populations — seeing some of the worst effects, according to the new research.
The study appeared Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science.
Study co-author James Watson of the University of Queensland in Australia called it “a stunning reality check” for the world’s nations.
“Governments are claiming these places are protected for the sake of nature when in reality they aren’t,” Watson said. “It is a major reason why biodiversity is still in catastrophic decline, despite more and more land being protected over the past few decades.”
Kendall Jones, the study lead author, also of the University of Queensland, said that “we found major road infrastructure such as highways, industrial agriculture, and even entire cities occurring inside the boundaries of places supposed to be set aside for nature conservation.”…..
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‘Deadpool 2’ Is Already Breaking Box Office Records It’s made nearly $20 million before even officially opening.
Well that was quick.
“Deadpool 2” wasn’t even in wide release before it broke a box office record. The Marvel Studios film took in $18.6 million during its Thursday night preview release, setting an all-time record for money made by an R-rated film, according to Box Office Mojo. The film is also debuting in the most theaters ever for an R-rated film.
The highly anticipated sequel, featuring Ryan Reynolds as the “Merc with a Mouth,” easily beat the previous record holder, 2017′s “It,” which had a preview night opening of $13.5 million.
“Deadpool 2” officially hits theaters Friday and is expected to make anywhere between $130 to $150 million in its opening weekend…….
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