Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Working actress Sally Kirkland has passed away

Why do people have to lie?  Sally Kirkland was a minor actress.  She was never a star.  Shelley Winters worked like crazy to get Kirkland an Oscar nomination for ANNA.  No one saw the movie.  So Kirkland has died and this is the garbage UPI and Karen Butler come up with:

Anna and Charlie's Angels actress Sally Kirkland died Tuesday at the age of 84, her representative confirmed.

The Golden Globe winner and New York native was placed in hospice care in Palm Springs, Calif., over the weekend.

She had been suffering from dementia for about a year and was recently injured in a shower fall.


Charlie's Angels' actress?  Oh, she was Farrah, was she?  No.  She wasn't a lead.  She wasn't a regular.  Oh, she was Kim Basinger then, right?  She had a big role like Kim in "Angles In Chains" and at the end of the episode they announced she was the agency's new receptionist?

No.  She had a minor role in two episodes.  In season four, She played Lonnie in "Caged Angel."  That's the episode no one watched because it was Cheryl Ladd in prison.  Now when Farrah, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith went to prison in the "Angels In Chains" episode?  Everyone watched.  They reran that episode four times before the second season started and they did it because it won the time slot every time.  In season five, she had a bit part (Laurie) in "Taxi Angels."  Season five? After the Angels left Hawaii, no one watched the show.  She was in episode ten, the angels left Hawaii at the end of episode 7.  No one watched.

Some thought she was a great actress.  Maybe so but she was a bit player.  Barbra Streisand worked with her in THE WAY WE WERE -- Kirkland had a bit part.  And Barbra hired her a few years later for a bit part in A STAR IS BORN.  Goldie Hawn hired her to play the bit part of Helga in PRIVATE BENJAMIN.  Helga has one scene.  She's talking to Captain Lewis (Eileen Brennen) in a building in France.  She's Capt. Lewis' lover.   She's Ida in the Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin-Sally Field hit 80 FOR BRADY.  No idea who that is -- and I've seen the film three times.  She's the 17th billed actor in the film.

Again, bit parts. And Anna -- the film that got her an Oscar nomination (thanks to Shelley Winters) and that made $1.2 million at the box office (yes, that is a bomb). Two years later, she followed it up with five films in a single year -- everyone of them bombed.  Back to bit parts. 

If you look at her credits, she was a working actress and that's something to applaud and she did an episode (a few times even two episodes) of some big TV shows.  But she was never a regular on any TV show.  She was a bit player.  She was Cybill's character on Cybill.  Well, without the series that minor actress Cybill (the character) got near the end.  (To be clear, Cybill Shepherd played an actress who was always struggling to break in, CS herself is not a minor actress.)

Instead of celebrating her for what she accomplished -- working steadily from 1968 to 2023 -- and receiving a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination -- they try to act like she was a star.   No.  Never.

But ask any actress who spent five years in Hollywood waiting tables without ever getting cast in anything and they'll tell you getting cast in all those small roles was a career and something to be proud of.

Be sure to read Ava and C.I.'s "Media: Un-American?."

This is C.I.'s "The Snapshot:"


Tuesday, November 11, 2025.  Chuck Schumer needs to step down from party leadership, we need to be pointing out how Chump and his administration can be held accountable, we need to be pointing out how the Supreme Court cannot rewrite the Constitution -- the supreme of the land and a document that makes clear a president can be punished for breaking the law -- and John Roberts can be impeached for violating the Constitution, all that and much more.



I don't know where to start so let's start with Lawrence O'Donnell. 




I don't know why Lawrence said what he said but he's wrong.  Anyone can be wrong.  I'm wrong all the time.  But what bothered me was how he tried to use history as a club.  But he treated history like a buffet where he grabbed some of this and some of that but ignored the bulk of it.


Guess what, I don't want to hear how hare life is from Chuck Schumer.  He's had a pretty good life.  And he's been well paid.   What he's facing now, we're told by Lawrence, isn't like what LBJ faced or what so and so faced or . . .


When LBJ was Senator Majority Leader, he faced many new problems.  The way Chuck does now.  Stop pretending otherwise.  This nonsense of, "It was easier for LBJ"?  No it wasn't.  Yes, I'm sure it bcomes progressively worse for each person in the position but none of them had it easy.


And don't give me the hearding cats nonsense -- we've heard forever and a day.


How about some real history?  In 2017, Schumer became the Democratic Party leader of the Senate.  In 2017.  And he's been that -- whether as Majority Leader or Minority Leader -- ever since.


That's 8 years.  Lawrence, you know history, you know that's not normal.


It wasn't normal for LBJ to do it either.  LBJ did it for 8 years.  It's time to phase Schumer out.  Since LBJ's been out of the Senate, we've seen some struggle through ten years.  They weren't ten glorious years.  Leadership needs to rotated.  Schumer has reached his sell-by date.  


Lawrence wants to offer the Estein vote in the House as a good thing.  I noted that in yesterday morning's snapshot.  



We also need to grasp that there's a positive to this sell out.


That's not an excuse for it.  This was a betrayal, absolutely.  


But stream the video below.

 

 


I believe it's 48 days.  That's how long  ago Adelita Grijalva was elected to the US Congress.  And Speaker of the Closet Mike Johnson refuses to seat her still.


The cave means the House will have to go into session.  That means Johnson has to swear Adelita Grijalva in.  Which means she becomes the needed signature on the petition to force a floor vote in the House on releasing the Epstein files.


That's not why the betrayers sold us out over the weekend.  Don't let them after-the-fact try to pretend that it is.  But if one good thing comes of their betrayal, it will be that.


There was talk that Johnson was going to wait until the first week of December to bring the House back in session to protect Chump from the Epstein scandal.  December 2nd, the 7th district in Tennessee holds a special election to fill a Congressional seat.  The GOP thinks Matt Van Epps is going to beat Democrat  Aftyn Behn.   If that happens, Epps would cancel out Grijalva's signature.


I'm not trying to sell anyone on the betrayal being a good thing.  But I am trying to point out one bright -- and unintended by the betrayers -- spot in this.


We need hope in these dark times.  And I was happy to point out something hopeful.  But I wasn't going to lie and pretend that's why Senate Dems betrayed us.  Lawrence, via his presentation last night, appears to link the two as though they were a planned if-then action.  They weren't.  


Lawrence then wanted to insult every other Democrat in the Senate.  When you claim no one else is qualified, no one can replace Schumer, that's what you're doing.  


Senators Patty Murray, Ron Wyden, Sheldon Whitehouse, Amy Klobuchar, Tammy Baldwin, Jack Reed, Richard Blumenthal, Tammy Duckworth, Ruben Gallego . . .  I'm sorry, I'm seeing 25 US senators who could easily slide into the position of Senate Majority Leader and do the job.  


Schumer's had 8 years.  And he started this year with people calling for him to be put out of that post.  He knew that.  He cancelled a book tour -- that's part of the deal, grasp that, a publishing house puts out your book because you've agreed to promote it -- because he was being called out by members of the Democratic Party.  


He knew how they felt and he led the cave and don't give me that he didn't.  He led it and he allowed it and it was what he wanted. 


Voters want him gone and tht needs to happen.  The party just stabbed us in the back.  We need to see some accountability for that in order to restore any trust in party leadership. 


He's had eight years, time to go.  Step down.  Let someone ele bring in some new ideas and try to offer better leadership.  


What leadership has he offered?

He enjoys the title Democratic Party Leader of the Senate.  He enjoys it as a yearbook credit.  But he doesn't want to work for it or works as it.  So step aside and let someone else step forward.


I disagree 100% with Lawrence on this and that doesn't make me happy.  But we did put his video at the top and you can hear what he says.  



For years, Donald Chump palled around with sex traffickers and pedophiles Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.  Epstein's dead now but that doesn't mean Chump can't play footsie with Maxwell
Maxwell was convicted in New York federal court in 2021 on five counts related to sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison.   Erin Mansfield (USA TODAY) notes, "Maxwell was convicted in New York federal court in 2021 on five counts related to sex trafficking and sentenced to 20 years in prison."  But in July,  she ended up being transferred to Camp "Fed."  Beatrice Peterson (ABC NEWS) observes, "The transfer followed Maxwell's two-day meeting in July with Blanche in Tallahassee, where her attorney said the two discussed 'about 100 names' associated with Epstein."  Her story has only gotten more outrageous.



Documents provided by a whistleblower show Ghislaine Maxwell has asked President Trump to commute her sentence as prison employees suggest she has received “concierge-style treatment” at a new facility where she is being given custom meals and access to staff facilities.

The request, revealed to House Judiciary Committee Democrats, comes after Maxwell was transferred to a lower-security prison after she sat for two days of questions with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche amid increasing scrutiny of Trump’s relationship with the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

The documents also show Maxwell has received unusual perks within the prison system since she was transferred out of a maximum-security facility in Tallahassee, Fla., with one Bureau of Prisons employee complaining they were “sick of having to be Maxwell’s b–ch.”

Among the documents is an Oct. 5 email appearing to be from Maxwell to one of her attorneys noting she is organizing a “commutation application.”


If she's applying for her sentence to be commuted, someone in the administration (Todd Blanche) has most likely indicated to her that this was a possibility to pursue.

MAGA you told the world Chump protected women -- in the face of all the evidence to the contrary -- and you insisted he would release the Epstein files and that he would provide justice for the victims of sexual slavery, assault, et al.  He lied to you.  How's that feel?


Annie Grayer (CNN) reports  US House Rep Jamie Raskin is demanding answers:

According to information Raskin says was provided to him by a whistleblower, Maxwell’s meals have been customized and delivered to her, and the warden has awarded her special privileges – including arranging guests to visit with computers, a security risk not typically allowed – and is sending documents and emails on Maxwell’s behalf. For other inmates, mail can take weeks to arrive or is often lost, Raskin said in the letter, which was reviewed by CNN.

The whistleblower also said Maxwell was given a service dog in training to play with even though inmates and staff are not typically allowed to pet service dogs in training, and she has been escorted to the prison exercise area after hours by prison guards, according to the letter.

The whistleblower told Democrats that one of the top officials at the prison has complained that he is “sick of having to be Maxwell’s b*tch.”



The white glove treatment being extended to convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell at a minimum security prison in Texas should prompt an investigation into the facility’s warden, suggested MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian on Monday morning.

Reacting to an NBC report and a letter from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) that revealed that the former associate of both pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump is being given privileges that sound more like an extended resort stay and less like criminal detention, the justice and intelligence correspondent admitted he had never seen anything like it.


And let's jump to this section:

“This letter says that she is being waited on hand and foot in the minimum security prison camp where she is right now in Bryan, Texas,” Dilanian began.“And let's remember she was moved to this prison camp after she sat down for a bizarre and unusual interview with the Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche, Donald Trump's former defense lawyer, where he debriefed her about the Epstein case, even though he had no background in that case.”

There are rules and regulations.  That they are being violated for her means the order came down from on high.  Chump has no respect for the law.  Few crooks do.  Maxwell is a pedophile and a sex trafficker and she's "being waited on hand and foot"?  Makes you wonder exactly what she's covering up for Donald to get these perks. US House Rep Jamie Raskin, in fact, asks that question:  “What information is Ms. Maxwell agreeing to suppress in order to receive such outlandishly favorable treatment as a federal prisoner and convicted sex offender?”



Jamie Raskin spoke with Lawrence last night.  That segment has not been posted to YOUTUBE.  He also spoke to MS NOW's THE WEEKEND yesterday and we'll note that.







The long-awaited release of the Epstein files appears to be one step closer, after Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced on Monday that Adelita Grijalva, the Representative-elect from Arizona, will be sworn into office before the upcoming vote on legislation to reopen the government.
Punchbowl News’ Jake Sherman was first to report Johnson’s announcement, and suggested that the House could reconvene on Wednesday.

Grijalva’s swearing in is expected to secure the 218th signature on a discharge petition to release the long-awaited files. Johnson has been accused of keeping the House in recess and not swearing her in to delay the release of the files.

Grijalva was elected nearly seven weeks ago. Last week on Tuesday, observing the six-week mark, she accused Speaker Johnson of “obstruction.”


Chump may very well pardon Mawell.

That would be an abuse of power.  I think you can make that argument regarding many of his pardons that he's already made.  But the optic with Ghislaine Maxwell?  Especially poor.  And he can be punished for it.  

The ludicrous claim that presidents can break laws?  The Crooked Supreme Court didn't know what they're doing.  Pardoning a convicted sex trafficker with no remorse?  Letting her out into the public?  That's a crime.  And what the Supreme Court's forgotten is that they're not the final judge and jury of the president.  John Roberts would love to be so he could continue to break the law on behalf of Chump.

But the Supreme Court can't impeach and they can't vote for removal from office.

Chump pardons Maxwell or commutes her sentence?

That's a high crime and misdemeanor.  Maxwell's a pedophile.  The rate of recidivism for child molesters if off the charts.  So releasing her puts the public in jeopardy.  It also is corruption.  And all it takes is for enough members of the House to agree with that and to impeach him.  Then the Senate can remove him from office.  

Provided we have control of the Senate.  I don't see that happening with Schumer as minority leader of the Senate.

The American people need to feel listened to and they need to feel represented.  

Schumer has failed at that repeatedly this year. 

And, by the way, when a group of attorneys want to challenge the Supreme Court's illegal verdict saying Chump can commit any action in his official duties and it's not a crime?  All they need to do is point to the Constitution and point out that high crimes and misdemeanors are noted in that document, our supreme law of the land.  That right there refutes their verdict.  The Constitution itself acknowledges that the President of the United States can be charged with and punished for crimes.


D-d-d-did the Justices not grasp that?

Well that's grounds for impeachment of John Roberts.  If he doesn't understand that the Constitution is a higher authority than he is, then he doesn't understand his job and isn't fit for it.

If he does understand that the Constitution is the supreme law of the land, that means he willfully disregarded it and he can be impeached for that as well.

People need to be put on notice of what can happen.  And the American people need to know that as well because these bleak times right now will end at some point.  And those breaking the law right now can be punished regardless of what John Roberts and the five other crooks on the Surpeme Court say.

Chump's war on immigrants is addressed by Ava and myself in "Media: Un-American?" which went up at THIRD last night.


Let's wind down with this from Senator Patty Murray's office:


Murray on voting NO on legislation that doesn’t address premium hikes: “I believe we do need to address health care costs before we move forward. There is simply no time left to kick the can down the road when it comes to saving the ACA tax credits… No one should doubt for a single second who is to blame for skyrocketing health care costs: Republicans and Republicans alone.”

Senator Murray has been sounding the alarm on the looming health care cost cliff and calling on Republicans to work with Democrats to extend the ACA tax credits for YEARS—FULL TIMELINE HERE

***WATCH: Senator Murray’s remarks***

Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, spoke on the Senate floor about President Trump and Republicans’ refusal to prevent Americans’ health care costs from spiking and about the bipartisan continuing resolution (CR) and three-bill appropriations package that was released on Sunday and is expected to be voted on by the full Senate shortly.

Because of Republicans’ refusal to extend the ACA tax credits, 22 million Americans—including over 216,000 in Washington state—are seeing their health care costs for next year skyrocket. Premiums are more than doubling on average for people who buy health coverage on the exchange marketplaces (Washington Healthplanfinder in Washington state), and these higher costs will push 4.8 million people off their health insurance coverage over the next decade. A Washington-state specific fact sheet on the ACA enhanced premium tax credits is HERE.

A timeline detailing how Senator Murray has been fighting for years to extend the ACA tax credits, and calling on Republicans to come to the table and negotiate, is HERE.

Senator Murray’s full remarks, as delivered, are below and HERE:

“Mr. President, like so many people in this country, I am outraged by the fact Republicans have refused to lift a finger to save so many families from the skyrocketing health care premiums all year long.

“And I voted no on last night’s vote because I believe we do need to address health care costs before we move forward. There is simply no time left to kick the can down the road when it comes to saving the ACA tax credits.

“We are already ten days into enrollment.  Yet we have Republicans saying, ‘why should we stop premiums from skyrocketing when we never really wanted to lower premiums in the first place?’

“We have Republicans talking about going back to the good ole days of high-risk pools, which meant that people with cancer couldn’t get health insurance.

“We have Speaker Johnson bragging that Republicans strengthened health care by making the biggest cut to Medicaid in history! That’s like saying you strengthened a ship—by throwing the passengers overboard!  

“And when Democrats offered a clean one-year extension of the tax credits—which is truly the most straightforward and common-sense thing we can do for people facing gigantic premium hikes this year—Republicans said ‘never, ever, ever, ever.’ They called it ‘political terrorism.’

“And to really put a fine point on it—they fired up the old bad ideas machine to try and find a new way to repeal the ACA.

“Republicans have gone from saying nothing about health care costs all year long, to saying ‘later, later, later,’ even after we are over a week into open enrollment and wasting every bit of time we had for real negotiations. Then—incredibly—Republicans started saying: ‘let’s scrap the Affordable Care Act altogether, let’s end protections for pre-existing conditions.’

“By refusing to work with Democrats on a solution before open enrollment started, Republicans have already pushed millions of Americans off the health care cliff.

“The only question was—and is—could we throw them a rope back up?  Could Congress get something done and stem some of the bleeding Republicans have already caused?

 

“Yes! By passing a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits. But right away, Republicans said they wouldn’t even consider it.

“I believe that we should keep pressing on that fight, as time is of the essence and the clock has nearly run out.

“The reality is, there is a point where it will be too late to make a meaningful difference on the health care premiums. And I don’t believe there is some magical date set in stone, but Mr. President, that’s coming up pretty fast. It’s pretty much now or never—and Republicans are essentially saying ‘never’ to stopping the worst of the MAGA health care hike.

“Now here’s the important thing: This fight is far from over—because I, and many of us, have no intention of letting Republicans off the hook. No one should doubt for a single second who is to blame for skyrocketing health care costs: Republicans and Republicans alone.

“When families across America are paying the price that they will see for Republican inaction every month, I’ll make sure every single one of them remembers: the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires permanent, refused to even negotiate one year of health care tax credits for our working families, at a tiny fraction of the cost.

“Unfortunately, here we are, and it seems clear Republicans are feeling no urgency to act on health care before it’s too late—even a quick, simple extension to help families.

“But Mr. President, I want to be clear. While I cannot vote for this overall deal today, not when we still need to address health care, I do absolutely support the appropriations bills and CR that we will move forward—which do take meaningful steps to reject drastic cuts and extreme policies pushed by both Trump and House Republicans and make sure that Congress—not Trump—is in charge of federal spending.

“It is important that Democrats were at the table on the CR and our first three funding bills, and used our spot at that table to fight for hardworking families in America.

“The difference is clear in the sharp contrast between the bills we released yesterday, and the bills written by the House Republicans and the budget put forward by President Trump. 

“In our bills, Democrats were able to secure real wins for folks back home, and fight off [painful], senseless cuts, and extreme policy.

“On the CR, we made sure to protect federal workers, both by ensuring that they receive backpay they are owed—something that has been debated extensively—and by reversing the punitive RIFs done by this administration… and blocking them from doing more this year. 

“In the Agriculture appropriations bill, while Trump and House Republicans fought to make steep cuts to WIC that would have seriously cut benefits for millions of women and kids, we successfully fought together to keep WIC fully funded.

“This bill ensures that seven million moms and babies will get the full nutrition benefits they rely on.

“We also sustained key investments in our rural communities. Because we rejected a Trump funding takeover, we protected housing support in rural communities, and vital agriculture research happening across the country, including in my home state of Washington at WSU.

“We stopped Trump from blowing a truly massive hole in FDA’s budget—which would have slowed drug approvals, and seriously endangered our food supply.

“None of this is inconsequential—all of this matters.

And I want to thank Chair Hoeven and Ranking Member Shaheen for all of their good work on that vital bill for our communities.

In the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs bill we were able to secure funding to ensure that we are taking care of our veterans and our servicemembers. 

“And ensure that this administration keep its promises to our veterans by ensuring staffing of critical services such as the crisis hotline centers. I want to thank Chair Boozman and Ranking Member Ossoff for all their good work on this critical bill for our veterans and servicemembers.

“And lastly, on the Legislative Branch bill, while it is smallest bill, it covers the important needs of this institution.  From protecting GAO, and CBO, the Architect of the Capitol, our Capitol police and other agencies that actually make this place work.

“To make sure our offices have what they need to take care of our constituents and keep our campus safe. We should all appreciate the hard work that went into completing that bill. And I want to thank Chair Mullin and Ranking Member Heinrich for all their work on that important bill and the critical matters within it to every senator in this chamber.

“Now, obviously those are not the bills I would’ve written on my own. I have concerns we were not able to address in these bills, and Republicans were not open to some of them.

“But I still want to do more, Mr. President, when it comes to delivering critical investments for our communities in our country. And I will—as always—keep pushing my colleagues every day.

“But we did secure real wins for folks back home when Democrats and Republicans were able to sit down at the table together on funding. And they are immeasurably better than Trump and Vought holding the pen—which is what the slush fund CR that we have been operating on this year has allowed.

“I am proud of what we have been able to negotiate to protect key programs families and communities rely on, and protect our authority as lawmakers who are here to be a voice for our constituents.

“I want to emphasize that I really appreciate the work of my counterpart, the senior Senator from Maine, Susan Collins, who has done incredible work on all these bills. I want to thank our subcommittee chairs and ranking members, and all of our staff who worked hard to put these bills together.

“And I want to make clear I deeply appreciate the partnership of my colleagues on the Senate Appropriations Committee who’ve all worked in good faith during these very difficult times and these very difficult negotiations.

“No matter what, these bills need to get done—and our staff put in late nights, and our Chairs and Ranking Members held countless conversations to compromise and work towards solutions.

“I hope to continue building on that progress, and showing what it does look like when we come together and put families before politics.

“I look forward to getting our next minibus up on the floor to move multiple needs bills along that we have marked up in the Committee and get those to conference. And I hope we can be on that package as soon as possible.

“And I look forward to the Senator from Maine and working to get those final bills completed so they too can be conferenced with the House as soon as possible. And I want to thank all of our Committee members and our staffs for their incredible work on these critical bills.  We have a lot of work ahead and I know we can get there.

“Passing full-year funding bills ensure[s] that Congress—not Trump or Russ Vought—decides how taxpayer dollars are spent. We should not turn the keys over to Trump and his cabinet secretaries, allowing them to make unilateral cuts and to shift funding around how they please.

“Every day, they prove in some new way how critical it is that Congress assert its authority, and rein in their chaos—and I will continue working to do that on the Appropriations Committee.

“But I will, Mr. President, need to continue fighting to stop the MAGA health care hike for as long as there is still time left on this clock to fix this.

“The reality is, there is a point where it will be too late to make a meaningful difference.

“But until we reach that point of no return—we do have to fight tooth and nail to force Republicans to actually work with us on that issue.

“And because, in this package, Republicans have [refused] to address the health care crisis families are facing right now—a crisis that gets worse, and harder to fix every single day—I will be voting no.

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