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mariacallous · 7 months

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Dianne Feinstein, California’s longest-serving U.S. senator who led San Francisco through its darkest and most violent days as mayor in the 1970s and later authored a federal ban on assault weapons that lasted a decade, died Thursday night, according to multiple reports.

At 90, she was the oldest member of Congress and the longest-serving female in the chamber’s history.

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At the start of her career, Feinstein was a trailblazer for women and gay rights, and after the 1978 assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, she emerged as a reassuring leader and formidable force who pulled together the city that was still reeling from the Jonestown Massacre in Guyana 10 days earlier, where 900 people connected to the San Francisco-based People’s Temple died.

In what would become known as “The Year of the Woman” in 1992, she shared a historic moment with Barbara Boxer when they were both elected to the U.S. Senate and California became the first state with two women senators. Feinstein won in a special election and was sworn in first.

“She had tenacity. She never gave up,” especially in passing the Assault Weapons Ban in 1994, Boxer said in an interview with the Bay Area News Group. “I will always remember how proud I was when she stood her ground on the floor of the Senate, when some of the men said, ‘Well, you don’t even understand what an AR-15 is,’ and she said, ‘I understand what gun violence is. I had to put my finger through a hole in the wrist (of Harvey Milk).’ It was very emotional.”

Feinstein also pioneered a number of other firsts: first woman mayor of San Francisco, first woman to chair the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and the first woman to chair the Senate Judiciary Committee, a watershed moment after public outrage over the handling of Anita Hill’s testimony during the male-dominated Supreme Court nomination hearings of Clarence Thomas in 1991.

In 1994, the same year she passed the weapons ban, Feinstein wrote the California Desert Protection Act that established Death Valley and Joshua Tree as national parks. After the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as chairwoman of the Intelligence Committee, she publicly released the “Torture Report” that exposed the CIA’s interrogation program that failed to work on terrorist suspects and, along with the late Sen. John McCain, authored legislation outlawing the CIA’s use of torture.

For those old enough to remember the shocking assassinations at San Francisco City Hall in 1978, however, it was her brief videotaped news conference and its aftermath that launched her national political career. Standing outside the supervisors offices, news cameras illuminating her face, she delivered the shocking news: “As president of the board of supervisors, it’s my duty to make this announcement. Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed,” she said as the media erupted in gasps and shouts. “The suspect is Supervisor Dan White.”

She would later detail her actions that morning, that when she heard the shots, she raced into Milk’s office. “I tried to get a pulse,” she said, “and put my finger through a bullet hole.”

Duffy Jennings, a former San Francisco Chronicle reporter who was in the crowd when Feinstein made the announcement, said her leadership through a tumultuous era would come to define Feinstein.

“She was incredibly resilient, strong and decisive,” Jennings said in an interview with the Bay Area News Group. “It wasn’t just Jonestown and Dan White. The ‘70s had the Zodiac killer, Patty Hearst, the SLA, the New World Liberation Front, counterculture extremism. It was a horrific decade in San Francisco and the Bay Area. And politically, she was as strong as anybody in holding the town together.”

At one point, New World Liberation Front – an anti-capitalist terrorist group – planted a bomb on the windowsill of her daughter’s bedroom. It failed to explode.

Born in San Francisco in 1933, Feinstein was the daughter of a prominent surgeon. Feinstein was Jewish but attended the prestigious Convent of the Sacred Heart Catholic girls school, where she acted in plays and – because of her 5-foot-10-inch height – often played male roles. She attended Stanford University in the early 1950s, where she was elected vice president of the student body.

When Feinstein entered San Francisco politics in the late 1960s, “nobody took her seriously,” said Jerry Roberts, the Chronicle’s former executive editor who wrote an early biography called “Never Let Them See You Cry,” named for one of Feinstein’s tips for businesswomen.

Early media reports of her campaigns, he said, were “unbelievably sexist,” and often characterized her as a “raven-haired beauty” with a “slender figure.” Her husband at the time, Dr. Bertram Feinstein, was widely mocked as a “first husband.”

“Just in terms of the cultural obstacles that she had to overcome to be taken seriously and to win is something people don’t think a lot about now,” Roberts said. “She was never a movement feminist, but she was a feminist.”

She kept a firefighter’s turnout jacket and helmet in her trunk to race to fires, and once gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a man she saw collapse in the Tenderloin. She listened to a police scanner in her office.

Although she opposed domestic partnership legislation for the city in 1982, when the AIDS epidemic broke out, Feinstein “got right on it. I mean, instantly,” said Louise Renne, whom Feinstein appointed as San Francisco’s first woman City Attorney. “The folks at San Francisco General were pulled in to deal with the AIDS epidemic, and San Francisco took a leadership role in solving that problem.”

Feinstein was considered moderate politically, supporting environmental causes but also encouraging commercial high rise development in downtown San Francisco. She is credited with completing the Moscone Convention Center project, renovating the city’s cable car system and retrofitting Candlestick Park before the Loma Prieta earthquake struck during the third game of the 1989 World Series.

Feinstein ran for governor of California in 1990 and lost to Republican Pete Wilson, whom she would replace in the Senate. In 1996, she was one of only 14 senators who voted against the Defense of Marriage Act that prevented the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages.

Feinstein’s leadership opened doors for two San Francisco women who would become the most powerful female politicians in the country – Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House and Kamala Harris as vice president.

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Looking back, Boxer recalls when she and Feinstein were first elected to the Senate, her colleague sat her down and told her, “You’ve got to stick with this. The longer you stay, the better you’ll feel, the more you’ll get done.”

Feinstein stuck with it on Capitol Hill for three decades, perhaps summing up why in her final acceptance speech before her re-election in 2018, years before the political implications of her frail health in her final years threatened her legacy.

In the speech, she called serving in the Senate “the greatest honor in my life.”

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madamspeaker · 7 months

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Senator Dianne Feinstein (1933-2023)

As mayor, Feinstein proposed a ban on handguns after the assassinations of Moscone and Milk, sparking immediate backlash. The White Panthers, a political collective that opposed Feinstein’s gun control measure, launched a recall campaign to remove her from office in 1983 and amassed enough petitions for a vote. Feinstein overwhelmingly won the election. “I don’t think this will stop anyone from filing against me, but I think anyone who does is going to be creamed,” she boasted to The New York Times after her victory.

#dianne feinstein #rest in peace difi

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the-cricket-chirps · 8 months

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Judith Calson, cover photograph, Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vedgetables, Photo c. 1979, (Album cover 1980)

The official black cover, (L) and orange cover, (R) originally released without consent from the band.

[The photo of a row of police car in flames was taken by Judith Calson on May 21, 1979, documenting the ‘White Night Riots’, the San Francisco queer community’s response to the minimal sentencing of murderer Dan White, after he assassinated openly gay city official Harvey Milk of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, and San Francisco’s Mayor, George Moscone.]

Winston Smith (b. May 27, 1952) American graphic artist & illustrator, Dead Kennedys Logo, c. 1979/80

Fallout Productions, Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (Collage poster)

1980

Album artwork: Annie Horwood Artwork [Poster Assistance] Winston Smith, Artwork [Poster], Sleeve [Sleeve Concept] Jello Biafra

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petit-papillion · 11 months

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In case you don't know who Harvey Milk was:

Harvey Milk served almost eleven months as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisor, the first openly gay person to hold a high public office in a major American city. He sponsored a bill banning discrimination in public accommodations, housing, and employment on the basis of sexual orientation. The Supervisors passed the bill by a vote of 11–1, and it was signed into law by Mayor George Moscone. On November 27, 1978, Milk and Moscone were assassinated by Dan White, a disgruntled former city supervisor who cast the sole vote against Milk's bill.

Source: Wikipedia

If you have any children in your life, there's a lovely picture book that tells the inspirational story of Harvey Milk and the significance of the Rainbow Flag (designed by Gilbert Baker).

#thank you seb #love is love #promote tolerance #sebastian vettel #harvey milk #rainbow flag #lgbtq history

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unknownworlds4 · 10 months

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As we near the end of pride month, I would like to celebrate a number of LGBTQ+ figures that may be unknown to some.

Alan Turing (1912 - 1954)

Alan Turing was British mathematician, cryptologist, and computer scientist who is credited as the founder of modern computer science and artificial intelligence. During World War II, he worked for Britain’s Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park, leading the effort to decrypt German naval intelligence. Turing created a number of methods and devices that helped crack the German Enigma Code and allowed the allies to read German intelligence and allow allied ships to avoid U-Boat ‘Wolf-packs’. Turing’s work was pivotal in helping the allied victory in the war. Sadly, Turing was arrested in 1952 for homosexual acts and convicted of ‘gross indecency’. He accepted chemical castration as an alternative to prison. In 1954, was found dead from suicide by cyanide poisoning. It’s believed that Turing’s work helped shortened the war by several years.

Harvey Milk (1930 - 1978)

Harvey Milk was a politician and the first openly gay man to serve in public office in the United States. Milk moved to San Francisco in 1972 and took up residence in the Castro District, a neighborhood that was heavily populated by lesbians and gay men, and opened a camera store called Castro Camera. Milk became involved in politics because of civic issues and policies that drew his ire. Homosexuality was still heavily persecuted in the city at the time. In 1973, he announced his declared his candidacy for city supervisor. However, he faced a negative reception from the established gay political scene and lost the election. He lost his second election two years later. By this point, Milk had become a leading figure in the gay community, known as the “Mayor of Castro Street”, and had allies that included Mayor George Moscone, Assembly Speaker Willie Brown, and future Senator Diane Feinstein. Finally, in 1978, Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, inaugurated January 8. During his tenure he was involved in a number of issues including childcare, housing, and police reform. Sadly, he only served eleven months in office before he, along with George Moscone, was assassinated by former supervisor Dan White, who was against many of Milks policies. Today, Harvey Milk is considered an icon of San Francisco and a martyr of the LGBTQ movement.

Rose Cleveland (1846 - 1918)

Rose Cleveland was the sister of U.S. President Grover Cleveland and, as such, acted as First Lady of the United States from his inauguration until he married Frances Folsom in 1886. After leaving the White House she became a teacher, writer, and lecturer in Indiana. At age 44 she started a romantic relationship with wealthy widow Evangeline Marrs Simpson. They exchanged numerous letters, some with explicitly erotic imagery. The relationship cooled after six years after Simpson married Episcopal preacher Bishop Henry Whipple, despite Cleveland’s protests. After Whipple died in 1901, their relationship resumed. Cleveland and Evangeline moved to Bagni di Lucca, Italy in 1910, where they cared for Evangeline’s ill brother and settled there after his death. They lived there together until Cleveland died during the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. After her death, Evangeline wrote “the light has gone out for me…the loss of this noble and great soul is a blow that I shall not recover from”. Evangeline died in 1930 and is buried in the cemetery in Italy next to Rose. Many of their letters remain an important part of LGBTQ history.

Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)

Andy Warhol was an American artist, director, and producer who was a leading figure in the pop art movement of the 1950’s to 1970’s. This movement focused on combining fine art with elements of popular culture, hence the name pop art. Warhol’s paintings focused on mass produced consumer goods and celebrity portraits. Warhol’s most famous pieces include Campbell’s Soup Cans (1962), Green Coca-Cola Bottles (1962), Marilyn Diptych (1962), and Mao Tse-Tung (1972). He also directed and produced experimental films including Empire (1964) and Chelsea Girls (1966). His New York City gallery, The Factory, was a popular gathering place for artists, musicians, actors, socialites, and celebrities. In 1966, he became the manager of rock band The Velvet Underground, which became the house band of The Factory. In 1969, he created Interview magazine, which features interviews with celebrities, artists, musicians, and other creatives. Warhol lived openly as a gay man before the gay liberation movement and had a series of male partners. He said his sexuality was a major influence of his work. Warhol died on February 22, 1987 due to complications from a gallbladder surgery. Andy Warhol is regarded as one of America’s most famous visual artists.

Gladys Bentley (1907 - 1960)

Gladys Bentley was an American blues singer, pianist, and entertainer during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s and 1930’s. Her career took off after performing at Harry Hansberry’s Clam House, a well known gay speakeasy in New York City. She gained popularity as a black, lesbian, cross dressing performer. She performed in men’s clothes and was backed up by a chorus of drag queens. She sang with a deep, growling voice, and took popular songs and added her own raunchy lyrics while flirting with women in the audience. Despite being openly lesbian in the beginning of her career, she later started wearing dresses and married during the more conservative 1950’s in order to adapt to the mindset of the time period. Bentley died of pneumonia in 1960 and is remembered as an icon of both the LGBTQ and Black communities.

Willem Arondeus (1894 - 1943)

Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch artist and writer who fought for the Dutch resistance against Nazi occupation during World War II. Prior to the war, he wished to work as an artist, but he found very little popularity, so he turned to writing instead. After Germany occupied The Netherlands, Arondeus joined the Resistance Movement, publishing underground periodicals and forging documents. His most famous endeavor, was his involvement in the bombing of the Amsterdam Civil Registry in 1943. The Civil Registry was established following the German invasion and occupation of the Netherlands in 1940 and was used to keep records of all residents of the country and identified those who were Jewish, resistance members, and those who could be called up for forced labor. On March 27, resistance members, including Arondeus, entered the building by disguising themselves as police officers and sedating the guards. They then piled all the documents on the floor and set of explosives. They fire department delayed putting out the fire and then doused the whole building with water. 800,000 ID cards were destroyed in total. Unfortunately, someone betrayed Arondeus and he was subsequently arrested, tried, and sentenced to death. Before his execution, his last words were “tell people that homosexuals are not cowards”.

Gilbert Baker (1951 - 2017)

Gilbert Baker was an American artist and designer who is the original creator of the LGBTQ Rainbow Pride flag. He joined the anti-war movement in the 1970’s where he met, and became friends with, Harvey Milk. Milk commissioned Baker to create a flag that could represent gay pride. Using the American flag as inspiration, Baker hand sew the original flag, which had eight colored stripes (two more than the modern version). Each color represents a different aspect important to the gay community: (from hot pink to violet) sex, life, healing, sunlight, nature, magic, serenity, and spirit. The flag was first flown in San Francisco on June 25, 1978, for gay pride day. Baker died in 2017, and is regarded as a major figure in the pride movement. Today there are many different variations of the Pride flag, with each one representing a different group from the gay community

Larry Kramer (1935 - 2020)

Larry Kramer was an American playwright, author, film producer, and gay rights activist, who worked to bring awareness to the AIDS crisis in the 1980’s. He began his career writing scripts for Columbia pictures, winning an Academy Award for the 1969 film Women in Love. After witnessing the disease later known as AIDS spread among his friends, Kramer became involved in gay activism. In 1982, Kramer co-founded Gay Men’s Health Crisis, now known as GMHC, which provides social services for those infected with AIDS, along with testing, legal assistance, and mental health support. It’s currently the largest AIDS assistance organization in the world After, growing frustrated with the government paralysis and apathy towards gay men, he wanted to engage in further action, so in 1987, he helped found the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power (ACT UP). ACT UP is a direct action protest organization that works to change legislation and public policy to end the AIDS crisis. ACT UP soon had chapters in cities all over the United States. The movement then spread internationally, with separate movements being established in other countries including the United Kingdom, Canada, France, India, and Germany. In 1992, Kramer wrote the play ‘The Destiny of Me’, which follows a character from his 1985 play ‘The Normal Heart’ seeking experimental treatment for AIDS. The play was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. The Normal Heart debuted on Broadway in 2011, and was adapted into an HBO movie in 2014. Kramer died of pneumonia on May 27, 2020.

Bessie Smith (1894 - 1937)

Bessie Smith was an American blues singer, nicknamed the ‘Empress of Blues’. She was the most popular female blues singer of the 1930’s. Smith stated her career busking in the streets to help her family financially. In 1912, she auditioned for a music troupe that included blues legend Ma Rainey. She was originally hired as a dancer. Smith began her solo career at the 81 Theater in Atlanta, Georgia. She signed with Columbia Records in 1923. She made 160 recordings for Columbia, accompanied by some of the most famous musicians of the day including Louis Armstrong, Coleman Hawkins, Fletcher Henderson, and Sidney Bechet. She became the highest paid black entertainer of the day. Throughout her career, smith was apologetically herself, having affairs with both men and women. Some speculate her bisexuality was hinted at in the lyrics of her songs, including ‘boy in the boat’: “when you see two women walking hand in hand/Just look ‘em over and try to understand/They’ll go to those parties/Having the lights down low/Only those parties where women can go”. Sadly, her career was cut short in 1937, when she died at the age of 43 due to injuries sustained in a car accident enroute to Chattanooga, Tennessee. Her funeral was attended by more then 5,000 people. In 1989, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with an entry saying her reign was “definitive, unprecedented, and glorious”.

James Baldwin (1924 - 1987)

James Baldwin was an American writer who gained critical acclaim across multiple forms, including essays, novels, plays, and poems. In 1953, he published his first book ‘Go Tell it on the Mountain’, a semi-autobiographical novel which tells the story of a young African American man who grew up in Harlem, New York City, and his relationship with his family and the Pentecostal Church. In 1998, Modern Library ranked the book 39th on its list of 100 best English language novels of the 20th century. In 2005, Time Magazine included the book in its list of the 100 Best Novels from 1923 (when Time was first published) to 2005. In 1956, Baldwin wrote ‘Giovanni’s Room’ whose main character was a gay American man living in Paris, France, who began an affair with an Italian bartender named Giovanni, whom he met at a Gay bar. Gay and Bisexual men are also frequently featured in his other works. His unfinished manuscript Remember This House was expanded and adapted in the 2016 Oscar nominated documentary I Am Not Your Negro, which won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. His 1974 novel ‘If Beale Street Could Talk’ was adapted into a movie in 2018, which won Best Supporting Actress for Regina King at the 91st Academy Awards, where the film was also nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Original Score. King also received Best Supporting Actress at the 76th Golden Globe Awards and 24th Critics Choice Awards. Both the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute included it in their top 10 films of 2018. Today, James Baldwin is considered one of the most famous LGBTQ writers in American history.

#history #queer pride #pride month #queer stuff #queer history #lgbtq #bisexual #homoseuxality #gay pride #pride 2023

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antoine-roquentin · 1 year

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corollary to the prior post:

The New Yorker article notes that William Newsom III, the father of the current governor, was also advisor to the son of the richest man in the world in the 1950s, Gordon Getty. In fact, Gordon and William (and John Paul Getty Jr.) grew up together and went to the same Jesuit prep school, St Ignatius. 4 years above them was future San Francisco Mayor George Moscone, 4 years below was future California governor Jerry Brown. Newsom III owed his appointment as judge to Brown in 1975 a year after Brown’s electoral win, where he quickly made good on the governor’s hippie style by ruling the Bohemian Club in violation of anti-discrimination statutes by not hiring women as employees, calling to mind Nixon’s famous remarks (the Grove is the Club’s yearly camp).

William Newsom III in turn owed his fortunes to his father, William Newsom II’s, patronage of a young Pat Brown, Jerry’s father, whose 1943 run for San Francisco District Attorney he financed to the tune of $5,000 obtained from his construction magnate father. In turn, he was Pat Brown’s campaign manager for his 1962 victory over Richard Nixon. This was a repayment for the 1960 transferal of expensive land in the Squaw Valley from the state to Newsom II, which Brown engineered with his gubernatorial powers.

Another St. Ignatius classmate was Paul Pelosi. His brother Ron ended up marrying Newsom III’s sister, Barbara, while he, of course, married the scion of a prominent Baltimore political family, Nancy D’Alesandro. Over the decades, these families became quite intertwined, sharing board memberships on charities and companies around the state. In turn, Billy Getty, son of Gordon, became quite close with current California governor Gavin, who was his best man at his wedding and opened a wine store with him. The duo are seen here with another Getty grandchild, Peter:

And while Gavin was mayor of San Francisco, he was a patron of then-District Attorney Kamala Harris, godmother of Billy Getty’s son.

Of course lots of people have discussed monopoly capitalism and interlocking boards of governance and how they restrict the functioning of creative destruction. It’s a straightforward contradiction that capital becomes more closely tied in a few hands even as it spreads outwards and decimates traditional social relations. However, I do think it’s important to talk about in the context of an article that gives the impression of the Getty family and the California government as opposed when in fact they are closely aligned in numerous hypocritical ways.

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whatevergreen · 4 months

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Anti Dianne Feinstein/San Francisco Police (SFPD) cartoon by Moscoso and Crumb, 1985.

This satirical cartoon was one of a series that condemned Dianne Feinstein (as SF Mayor) and the San Francisco Police during the mid 1980s.

"... the department’s public troubles trace back several months before the convention, to the first reports that a police rookie attending a private party had been forced to perform a sex act with a prostitute while handcuffed to a chair.

The party (in April 1984), which took place in a back room of the Rathskeller, a restaurant popular with police officers, had been arranged to honor the police academy’s graduating class. It developed that two veteran police officers, members of the department’s vice squad, had solicited the prostitute and paid her $55.

The ''Rathskeller incident'' attracted much unwanted national attention, even becoming the basis for an episode of NBC-TV’s ''Hill Street Blues.''

Five of the officers involved were discharged, but repercussions in the department have continued. Two weeks ago, the female officer who reported the incident to her superiors filed an $8 million lawsuit, accusing other officers of having harassed her since and the police brass of failing to stop the harassment.” (LA Times)

During this period there was a series of SFPD scandals which also involved openly homophobic and violent attacks by police officers, as well as the harrassment of journalists critical of the police, and of sex workers, and a lot else besides.

Of course by the mid 1980s these were only the latest in a series of SFPD scandals, of harrassment, homophobia, racism, corruption and incompetence going right back to the beginning of policing in San Francisco.

And it was a former policeman Dan White who assassinated Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone in 1978, with likely support from the SFPD:

And this isn't just history, only a few years ago there was an investigation over anti-LGBTQ and racist behaviour by SFPD officers.

#san francisco #police #dianne feinstein

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gnar-slabdash · 1 year

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Leverage Mark Showdown Masterpost

RESULTS ARE IN! JACK HURLEY IS THE #1 FAVORITE MARK!

2nd Place: Damien Moreau

3rd Place: Victor Dubenich

4th Place: Meredith

What we’re looking for:

The “favorite” Mark out of the original five seasons. “Favorite” here means the mark you ENJOY the most. That could mean you love them, love to hate them, like their style, like the actor, or even sympathize with them.

So it’s pretty personal and pretty open. But what we’re NOT looking for is like, the biggest baddest mark: the one with the objectively best plan, or the one who does the most harm, or anything like that. It’s not “who could beat up whom.” We’re also not looking for the best episode or con. We’re just looking at the characters themselves.

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FIRST HEAT CONTESTS (COMPLETED)

***MARK DOYLE (The Bottle Job) ***v. David Lampard (The French Connection Job)

Mayor Brad Culpepper III (The 3 Strikes Job) v. ***IAN BLACKPOOLE (The 1st & 2nd David Jobs)***

Mark Vector (The Morning After Job) v. ***GREG "THE MAKO" SHERMAN (The Boiler Room Job)***

***VICTOR DUBENICH (The Nigerian Job, The Last Dam Job)*** v. Judge Roy (The Bank Shot Job)

Gabe Erickson (The Real Fake Car Job) v. ***MARCUS STARKE, CHAOS, MIKEL DAYAN, and APOLLO (The Two Live Crew Job)***

Scott Roemer (The Very Big Bird Job) v. ***JACK HURLEY (The 12-Step Job)***

***MONICA HUNTER (The 3 Days of the Hunter Job)*** v. William Quinn and Tobey Earnshaw (The Juror #6 Job)

***EDDIE MARANJIAN (The Order 23 Job) ***v. Caroline Cowan (The Low Low Price Job)

SECOND HEAT CONTESTS (COMPLETED)

Jack Lattimer (The Last Dam Job) v. ***JIMMY FORD (The 3 Card Monte Job)***

**DR. ANNE HANNITY (The Inside Job)*** v. Dalton Rand (The Future Job)

***NICKY AND HEATHER MOSCONE (The Wedding Job)*** v. Alan Foss (The 2 Horse Job)

***DAMIEN MOREAU (The Big Bang Job, The San Lorenzo Job) ***v. Henry, Dennis, and Randy Retzing (The Snow Job)

***MEREDITH (The Lonely Hearts Job)*** v. James Kanack (The First Contact Job)

***MITCHELL KIRKWOOD (The Studio Job) *** v. Hugh Whitman (The Gone Fishin' Job)

***LARRY DUBERMAN (The Reunion Job)*** v. Wendy Baran (The Gimme a K Street Job)

***ANDREW GRANT (The Miracle Job)*** v. Irina Larenko (The Stork Job)

SECOND ROUND CONTESTS (COMPLETED)

***MARK DOYLE (The Bottle Job)*** v. Ian Blackpoole (The First and Second David Job)

Greg "The Mako" Sherman (The Boiler Room Job) v. ***VICTOR DUBENICH (The Nigerian Job, The Last Dam Job)***

Marcus Starke, Chaos, Mikel Dayan, and Apollo (The Two Live Crew Job) v. ***JACK HURLEY (The 12 Step Job)***

***MONICA HUNTER (The 3 Days of the Hunter Job)*** v. Eddie Maranjian (The Order 23 Job)

***JIMMY FORD (The 3 Card Monte Job) *** v. Dr. Anne Hannity (The Inside Job)

Nicky & Heather Moscone (The Wedding Job) v. ***DAMIEN MOREAU (The Big Bang Job, The San Lorenzo Job)***

***MEREDITH (The Lonely Hearts Job)*** v. Mitchell Kirkwood (The Studio Job)

***LARRY DUBERMAN (The Reunion Job)*** v. Andrew Grant (The Miracle Job)

QUARTERFINALS (COMPLETED)

Jack Hurley (The 12 Step Job) v. Monica Hunter (The 3 Days of the Hunter Job)

Mark Doyle (The Bottle Job) v. Victor Dubenich (The Nigerian Job, The Last Dam Job)

Meredith (The Lonely Hearts Job) v. Larry "Doucherman" Duberman (The Reunion Job)

SEMIFINALS (COMPLETED)

Victor Dubenich (The Nigerian Job, The Last Dam Job) v. ***JACK HURLEY (The 12 Step Job)***

***DAMIEN MOREAU (The Big Bang Job, The San Lorenzo Job)*** v. Meredith (The Lonely Hearts Job)

FINAL ROUNDS (COMPLETED)

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND: Damien Moreau (The BIg Bang Job, The San Lorenzo Job) v. Jack Hurley (The 12 Step Job)

THIRD PLACE ROUND: Victor Dubenich (The Nigerian Job, The Last Dam Job) v. Meredith (The Lonely Hearts Job)

#leverage #favorite mark poll #bracket poll

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Senator Feinstein was a true trailblazer and a legend of California politics. The past couple of years have been a sad end to her career, but she should be remembered for her many, many remarkable accomplishments -- from steering San Francisco through the dark days following the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone of Supervisor Harvey Milk to her ceiling-shattering service as the longest-serving woman in the history of the United States Senate.

#Dianne Feinstein #RIP #Senator Feinsten #U.S. Senate #Politics #History #Congress

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californiastatelibrary · 10 months

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On November 27, 1978, angered that he wasn’t to be reappointed to the Board of Supervisors slot he resigned from on November 10, Dan White enters San Francisco City Hall at 10:30 a.m. through a basement window.

Mayor George Moscone agrees to meet with White, who shoots the mayor four times at point-blank range with a .38 Smith & Wesson revolver.

Leaving the 49-year-old father of four dead, White reloads and then walks to where the supervisors’ offices are located and asks Supervisor Harvey Milk, the state’s first openly gay elected official, if he can speak with him in private.

White ushers Milk into White’s former office and kills him with five gunshots, two to the back of his head.

A stunned and tearful Dianne Feinstein, president of the board, announces the murders: “Both Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk have been shot and killed… The suspect is Supervisor Dan White,” she tells reporters.

Tens of thousands of mourners form an impromptu candlelight march, beginning in the Castro District and ending at City Hall. Joan Baez leads the assembled in “Amazing Grace.” Moscone and Milk lay in state at City Hall. Moscone’s funeral is attended by 4,500 people.

Feinstein becomes mayor – the first woman to hold the office. She is mayor until 1988 and wins election as a U.S. Senator for California in 1992.

White surrenders to police officers one hour after the shootings. He is tried for first-degree murder, but his lawyers convince the jury that White’s depression creates “diminished mental capacity,” which prevents the premeditation necessary for first-degree murder.

Convicted of voluntary manslaughter, White is paroled in 1984 — spending just over five years behind bars for the murders. On October 21, 1985, the 39-year-old White runs a hose from the exhaust pipe of his 1979 yellow Buick LeSabre into the passenger compartment, poisoning himself with carbon monoxide, the New York Times reports.

[This caption is an abridged version of a piece for Cal@170, written by California State Librarian Greg Lucas.]

#Harvey Milk #History #California #San Francisco #LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Gay Rights #Gay History #Pride #Pride 2023 #Pride Month

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On this day, 21 May 1979, the White Night riots occurred in San Francisco when LGBTQ people reacted angrily to the killer of Harvey Milk not being convicted of murder. Milk was one of the first openly gay elected officials in the US, who was shot and killed along with the mayor George Moscone, by former police officer Dan White, using his service revolver. Numerous serving San Francisco police officers wore t-shirts declaring "Free Dan White", and contributed to his defence fund, which reportedly raised up to $100,000. Despite later admitting that the murders were premeditated, in court White used his now-infamous "Twinkie defence", which was that eating junk food showed he was in a poor mental state. So rather than being convicted of murder, he was only convicted voluntary manslaughter. Upon hearing the verdict, a crowd of 500 mostly LGBTQ people began marching down Castro Street calling others to join them and heading to City Hall. By the time they arrived, the crowd had grown to include thousands of people, and they attacked the building, smashing windows. Police waded into the crowd, beating people with batons, and the crowd then began burning police cars. As one man set light to a vehicle, he told a reporter: "Make sure you put in the paper that I ate too many Twinkies." In retaliation for their humiliating defeat, police attacked a gay bar later that night, screaming homophobic abuse, shattering windows and beating drinkers and passers-by, injuring many. By the end of the night's events, 61 police officers and over 100 members of the public had been hospitalised. Dan White ended up serving only five years in prison, but he killed himself shortly after his release. * We have produced some items commemorating LGBT+ struggles against the police like this to help fund our work, check them out here: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/lgbtq-history https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1992944960890644/?type=3

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Dianne Feinstein, the oldest member of the U.S. Senate and the longest-serving senator from California, has died at age 90, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News on Friday.

The Democrat’s passing marks the end of a boundary-pushing political career that spanned more than half a century, studded with major legislative achievements on issues including gun control and the environment.

Feinstein had planned to retire at the end of her current term in 2024.

Feinstein’s death leaves vacant her powerful Senate seat, requiring Gov. Gavin Newsom to appoint a temporary successor.

A San Francisco native, Feinstein cleared a path for women in politics as she rose the ranks of leadership. After two failed bids for mayor, she was elected president of San Francisco’s board of supervisors in 1978, becoming the first woman to hold the title.

Feinstein was made acting mayor of the city later that year, after then-Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, her colleague on the board of supervisors, were assassinated by Dan White, a former member of the same board.

In later interviews, Feinstein recalled finding Milk’s body and searching for a pulse by putting her finger in a bullet hole.

Feinstein was the first to announce the murders to the press. She was appointed mayor a week later, again becoming the first woman elevated to the office.

The tragedy had the side effect of jumpstarting Feinstein’s political career, but the trauma of the day stuck with her even decades later.

“I never really talk about this,” Feinstein said with a sigh when asked about the murders in a CNN interview in 2017.

Her streak of firsts continued at the national level. Feinstein lost a gubernatorial bid in 1990, but two years later won a special election to the U.S. Senate, becoming California’s first female senator.

Weeks later, the state’s second female senator, Barbara Boxer, was sworn into office, making California the first state in the U.S. to be represented in the Senate by two women.

Their 1992 elections helped define the “Year of the Woman,” in which four Democratic women were newly elected to the Senate — more than doubling the chamber’s female representation.

In the Senate, Feinstein clinched some of her biggest legislative achievements. She wrote and championed the 1994 assault weapons ban, both a landmark bill and a continuation of a career-long effort to enact stricter gun controls.

The legislation passed Congress and was signed by then-President Bill Clinton, albeit with major compromises including a 10-year sunset provision. The ban expired in 2004 during the administration of George W. Bush.

She also sponsored bills that protect millions of acres of California’s desert, worked to create a nationwide AMBER alert network, helped reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act and fought for the release of a lengthy report detailing the CIA’s torture practices, among other accomplishments.

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