Congresswoman Maxine Waters Talks About Why She’s Dedicated To Trump’s Impeachment Clap it up for Congresswoman Maxine Waters. The 78-year-old politician continues to speak out publicly against Donald Trump and a new Washington Post article hones in on her newfound status amongst millenials who are just as determined to see him impeached. The outlet details a recent open mic appearance Waters made at Busboys & Poets in D.C. where she spoke fervently against Trump: “Donald Trump is someone that found his way to the presidency of the United States of America — I still don’t know how,” she said, drawing boos at the mention of the president’s name. “But he’s someone that I’m committed to getting impeached!” “He’s a liar! He’s a cheat! He’s a con man!” she said, each declaration punctuated by cheers. “We’ve got to stop his a$$!” “I’ve been criticized because people said, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t use the impeachment word.’ But I have a deep and strong feeling about what I’m hearing and what I’m seeing and what I’m learning,” Waters said in an interview with The Washington Post. “This involvement with so many of the people in his Cabinet with the Kremlin, with Putin . . . worries me and it bothers me,” she said. It bothers us too! Unfortunately it seems we have yet to reach our breaking point, both publicly or within the branches of government. Trump’s camp a;sp continues to be unfazed by Waters determination: Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House principal deputy press secretary, said of Waters: “Her calls for impeachment are baseless and ridiculous.” Be careful what you say about Rep. Waters though. We all see how Bill O’Reilly ended up riiiiight? WENN
Yet another hate crime against a gay man. SMH. 23-Year-Old Man Raped And Tortured To Death According to Raw Story A 23-year-old man has been tortured to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday, amid growing fears by rights groups that anti-gay sentiments are on the rise in the country. The victim’s battered and naked body was found in the courtyard of an apartment building in the southern city of Volgograd on Friday morning, said a spokeswoman for regional investigators. The young man had suffered numerous injuries, including to the genitalia, and had been sexually assaulted with several beer bottles. “He was raped with beer bottles and had his skull smashed with a stone,” Natalia Kunitskaya, a spokeswoman for the Volgograd region branch of the Investigative Committee, told AFP. She confirmed the attack was believed to have been a hate crime, in a rare admission from Russian law enforcement agencies on the sensitive issue of homophobia in the country. Two men aged 22 and 27 have been detained in connection with the attack, the Moscow-based Investigative Committee said in a statement on Saturday. One of the suspects has a criminal history, investigators said. The victim was said to have been drinking with the two men, apparently while celebrating Victory Day which Russia marks on May 9. Regional investigator Andrei Gapchenko told Echo of Moscow radio on Saturday that two men started beating the victim after he told them he was gay. The Investigative Committee’s tersely-worded statement said investigators had opened a murder probe, without commenting on possible motives for the killing. Russia decriminalized homosexuality in 1993 and officially removed it from the list of psychiatric disorders in 1999. But homophobia remains widespread and socially acceptable, and almost no public figures have come out as gay. Several Russian regions have outraged rights campaigners by approving local laws banning “gay propaganda” among minors, in legislation which is now being discussed at the federal parliament. President Vladimir Putin, who prides himself on his macho image, has repeatedly denied that Russia was violating gay rights. But he recently warned that Russia could change agreements for the adoption of Russian children with Western countries that are legalising gay marriage, such as France. Nikolai Alexeyev, the head of Gay Russia, a group working to raise the profile of gay rights, expressed concern that the Kremlin’s official rhetoric and recent legislative initiatives could be fuelling intolerance. “Homophobic hysteria is being increasingly promoted in Russia,” he told AFP. He said attacks against homosexuals are widespread in the country but are almost never investigated as hate crimes. This homophobic hysteria is so 1983. Shutterstock
First sneak peek at Tom Cruise’s fourth ‘Mission’ teases death-defying stunts. By Kara Warner Paula Patton and Tom Cruise in “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol” Photo: Paramount Pictures If there is one thing we can count on from Tom Cruise in a “Mission: Impossible” movie, it is mind-blowing action and stunt sequences. From his first foray into the spy-tastic world of Ethan Hunt to his fourth, the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” Cruise has been one-upping himself in the stunt category. And judging from the first official trailer, which was released Tuesday evening (June 28), his work on the fourth “Mission,” directed by “The Incredibles” helmer Brad Bird, is no exception. The trailer opens with the ominous words of Tom Wilkinson, whose character name we have yet to learn, essentially laying out the nuts and bolts of the plot. “An hour ago, a bomb blew up the Kremlin,” he says, as footage of the Kremlin blowing up appear onscreen. “The president has initiated Ghost Protocol, the entire IMF has been disavowed,” he explains of Ethan Hunt’s (Tom Cruise) spy organization. “Now, I’ve been ordered to take you to Washington where they will hang the Kremlin bombing on you and your team, unless you were to escape after assaulting Brandt and me,” says Wilkinson, shown seated in a car with Brandt (played by Jeremy Renner) and Hunt. “But if any of your team is caught, they’ll be branded as terrorists.” “So what happens now?” Hunt asks. “Your mission, should you choose to accept it,” Wilkinson begins, recalling the series’ famous line before being cut off so he won’t spoil the plot entirely (although, if were to guess, the mission is probably to prove his team’s innocence in the Kremlin bombing). His words are followed by a series of quick cuts that showcase and introduce the various castmembers, potential villains, etc. Renner as Brandt, Paula Patton, a serious-looking Josh Holloway, Cruise as Hunt in a series of wardrobe changes ranging from dapper formal wear to more rugged leather. Then we see snippets of those famous Cruise-brand action sequences: car chases, underwater escapes, machine-gun fire, hand-to-hand combat, lots of running, more fighting and martial arts, more running, and plenty of spy-associated breaking and entering, which all leads up to a potential character reveal about Brandt. “Who are you really, Brandt?” Hunt asks, in a scene where the two characters apparently come to blows. “We all have our secrets,” Brandt responds. “Don’t we, Ethan?” Cue the famous bars of Lalo Schrifin’s “Theme From Mission: Impossible,” which plays over Hunt looking out over Dubai, standing on the world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa. This is followed by a quick cut to a previous scene wherein tech master Benji Dunn (played by Simon Pegg) shows Hunt how to use a pair of fancy gadget gloves, which we soon see help him scale the Burj. “You’re not going to make it!” Brandt yells to Hunt, who is climbing and jumping up and around the side of the building. “You’re not helping,” Hunt says, before the final shot, which shows the superspy repelling away from the Burj with a rope, which he loses midair and looks to plummet to the ground. Fade to black and the film’s official titling. Cruise’s wife, Katie Holmes , told MTV News recently that she was privy to a sneak peek of the film and that it’s “amazing.” “The movie is going to be very cool and intense and the best ‘Mission’ yet.” First-time live-action director Bird echoed Holmes’ sentiments , adding that Cruise did a lot of the craziest and most dangerous stunts himself. “It’s big and it is crazy,” he said. “I think the craziest thing is that [the stunts] are real they’re not digital. That’s Tom Cruise on the tallest building in the world, he’s doing all that stuff,” Bird said of Cruise’s death-defying stunts. “People won’t believe it, but we shot it in IMAX so it’s there for everyone to see.” Check out everything we’ve got on “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol.” For breaking news, celebrity columns, humor and more — updated around the clock — visit MTVMoviesBlog.com .
