An operation is underway by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) to arrest those responsible for the murder of General Hospital actor Johnny Wactor.

“Rust” filmmaker Joel Souza finally broke his silence and spoke out publicly for the first time since the 2021 fatal shooting on the New Mexico set that left cinematographer Halyna Hutchins dead and him injured. Speaking to Vanity Fair, the 51-year-old director said that the shooting “ruined” the man he was as he recalled how it felt to be shot that day on the western film set where a gun Alec Baldwin was holding discharged a bullet that hit Hutchins and Souza during rehearsals. Baldwin has always maintained that there was “no trigger pull.” The filmmaker said that being shot “felt like a horse kicked me in the shoulder or someone hit me with a bat. The whole right side of my body went numb, completely numb, but it also hurt excruciatingly at the same time, if that makes sense.” Joel Souza, the ‘Rust’ director who Alec Baldwin shot during a rehearsal of a scene, is breaking his silence on the fatal day that took the life of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins https://t.co/dS3AyoBZuQ — Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) August 15, 2024 “It’s just like everything went tingly and numb but hurt like hell all at once,” he added. “And I staggered back and was either on my knees or on my a**—and just…yelling. I don’t even know what the hell I was yelling.” Tickets for “Am I Racist?” are on sale NOW! Buy here for a theater near you. “It’s bizarre to have been shot,” Souza continued. “And then, who was holding the gun? That’s bizarre. I had this weird thought, like, God, I remember watching ‘The Hunt for Red October’ in the movie theater when I was a kid. It’s like your older self whispers to your younger self, ‘Hey, that guy…someday…’ Life can take you down some very bizarre roads.” But Souza said he was not grateful to have survived after Hutchins died. “When I tell someone it ruined me, I don’t mean in the sense that people might generally think,” Souza said. “I don’t mean that it put my career in ruins. I mean, internally, the person I was just went away. That stopped.” “I remember specifically going to sleep that night and hoping I didn’t wake up the next morning. I hoped I would just bleed out overnight because I didn’t want to be around anymore,” he added. “It was a very difficult moment. I remember just thinking, ‘Maybe I’ll just sort of bleed to death — that would suit me just fine.'” He also talked about returning to the film set and finishing the film Hutchins was shooting, making it clear the fatal scene she had shot has vanished “in its entirety.” “Gone. Not just that, but also a few things leading up to it,” Souza said. “Everything needed to be entirely reconceived there. There were a few things that came before that now wouldn’t make story sense. So we just sort of eliminated it and came up with something entirely different.” “I’m not going back to that,” he added. “I’m glad you asked. I don’t want anyone who ever does see this to be waiting for that. No one ever pushed to keep anything like that.” Related: SAG-AFTRA Defends Alec Baldwin In ‘Rust’ Shooting As Actor Prepares To Defend Himself Against New Charge

If you think just because she’s all grown up, Jodie Sweetin’s lost Stephanie Tanner’s classic moves, we have two words, “How rude!” At 42, Jodie can still kill it on the dance floor, and a new video posted to Instagram proves it. Jodie and Mitchell Gerrard Johnson teamed up for a remake of the iconic Steph moment from her Full House days. The pair didn’t stop with relearning the moves to a hip-hop number set to Motownphilly. They went all out and recreated the outfit, too. Jodie told Today in 2018 that the dance sequence was one of her favorite memories on the set of Full House. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Mitchell Gerrard Johnson (@mgjohns) “All of the girls in the background were girls I actually danced with at my dance studio. And my dance teacher came in and choreographed the number for that week and everything. So these were all my friends, ’cause I did grow up dancing,” Jodie said. Full House ran from 1987 to 1995. And Jodie co-starred in the Netflix reboot Fuller House from 2016 to 2020, alongside other original cast members Candice Cameron Bure and Andrea Barber. Jodie Sweetin’s Throwback Dance Was A Hit It’s no surprise that fans of the original loved the remake. A fan cheered, “Iconic song. Iconic dance. Iconic episode. This makes me happy. Thank you for recreating.” It’s a top-of-mind moment for this person. “I think about this episode a lot hahaha!” Thankfully one Instagrammer asked the burning question on all our minds, “Did you still have the dance memorized or did you have to relearn it all?” Jodie replied, “It weirdly came back after watching it a couple times! I even learned the WHOLE thing! But… we decided to not die in the heat and just do the first half. For now… hahaha.” Color us impressed. Thanks, Jodie, for the sweet dose of nostalgia. We might have to relearn this dance ourselves for our next family gathering…..Maybe not. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Jodie Sweetin & Friend Perfectly Recreate The Iconic “Full House” Dance appeared first on InspireMore.

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'Shoot the FBI first and ask questions later'

Vice President Kamala Harris visited San Francisco on Sunday to hold a fundraising event at an elitist venue in one of its richest neighborhoods. Her event was at the Fairmont Hotel on Nob Hill. If you visit that hotel’s website, you will see that its cheapest room on a weeknight this time of year is $264. However, it also offers a three-bedroom suite for $15,432 a night. Going to the Harris fundraiser there, however, could have cost you far more than that. The San Francisco Chronicle posted a story on Sunday with this headline: “700 at Kamala Harris’ S.F. fundraiser, with tickets up to $500,000.” “Kamala Harris held a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday where attendance cost as much as $500,000, according to an invitation obtained by the Chronicle,” the newspaper reported. “Donors needed to spend at least $3,300 to enter the fundraiser; tickets costing less than $250,000 were sold out as of Thursday morning,” it said. “The top ticket was $500,000,” said another story by the Chronicle. The Nob Hill neighborhood where Harris held this fundraiser is sometimes called Snob Hill. A description of it posted on the website of a local tour company provides some sense of why this is the case. “One of the oldest and most illustrious of San Francisco’s neighborhoods sits on Nob Hill,” says Real San Francisco Tours. “It’s also one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the whole world, in terms of per capita income (and real estate value), which isn’t that surprising when you consider how expensive the Bay Area generally is in every way.” In fact, as this column has noted before, the seven wealthiest counties in this country—when measured by median household income from 2018 through 2022—were all suburbs of San Francisco and Washington, D.C. San Francisco itself was the 11th wealthiest county—with a median household income of $136,689. So, what did Harris tell these individuals who paid up to $500,000 to meet with her on Snob Hill? “Harris promised Sunday to ‘put middle-class families and working-class families first. … When the middle class is strong, our whole nation is strong,'” the Chronicle reported. Seven years before this Nob Hill fundraiser, Harris gave her first speech on the Senate floor—and it was not about working-class and middle-class Americans. It was about then-President Donald Trump’s actions aimed at stemming illegal immigration. “By fiat, we have seen the president stick taxpayers with a bill for a multibillion-dollar border wall, without regard for the role of the U.S. Congress under Article 1 of the Constitution,” she said. “By fiat, we have seen a president mandate the detention of immigrants, both documented and undocumented, creating a dragnet that could ensnare 8 million people. “By fiat, the president has ordered the creation of what essentially will be a 15,000-member deportation force,” she said. “But the truth is,” she said, “the vast majority of the immigrants in this country are hardworking people who deserve a pathway to citizenship.” Legal immigrants, of course, already have a pathway to citizenship. It is only those who have come here illegally or who have overstayed their visas who do not. What is the impact of illegal immigration on the working-class families that Harris told the crowd on Nob Hill she would put first? On April 26, 1979, United Farm Workers of America President Cesar Chavez testified in a hearing at the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee held in Salinas, California. Chavez argued that illegal alien workers hurt the efforts of legal workers to earn better wages. “For so many years we have been involved in agricultural strikes; organizing almost 30 years as a worker, as an organizer, and as president of the union—and for all these almost 30 years it is apparent that when the farm workers strike and their strike is successful, the employers go to Mexico and have unlimited, unrestricted use of illegal alien strikebreakers to break the strike,” Chavez told the committee. “Lawbreaking begets more lawbreaking, and when these illegal aliens come in to break a strike they have to be harbored; they have to be transported; and labor contractors have to be used to direct them and supervise them,” said Chavez. “What about other laws?” asked Chavez. “What about the contributions the employers have to make to Social Security and unemployment insurance? How are those contributions made? These men do not have Social Security numbers.” How would Vice President Kamala Harris have answered Cesar Chavez? COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Kamala Harris on Snob Hill appeared first on The Daily Signal.

DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Several asset managers leveraged Idahoans’ pension funds to support a racial and climate agenda in 2022 and 2023, according to a report from a conservative watchdog group, the American Accountability Foundation. The Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho used six asset managers—Adelante Capital Management, AllianceBernstein, Brandes Investment Partners, Fiera Capital, Longview Partners, and Mellon Capital Management—that handled more than $5 billion of the pension system’s stock portfolio, according to its investment report. These managers used Idahoans’ pension funds to support over 150 environmental, social, and governance shareholder resolutions on issues including race, gender, climate change, and politics, according to documents obtained by the American Accountability Foundation through a public records request and shared exclusively with the Daily Caller News Foundation. As public asset owners diversify into new asset classes and integrate ESG into their investment process, find out how BNY Mellon can help manage new risks and new data sets for greater insights. https://t.co/xXCS4oE2ww pic.twitter.com/IbIlVMl19F— BNY (@BNYMellon) October 18, 2022 “The people of Idaho never voted for racial equity audits or strangling American energy, yet these ESG money managers are leveraging Idaho’s pension funds to push for these policies anyway,” American Accountability Foundation President Thomas Jones said. “This is just another example of how ESG seeks to subvert the will of the American people and impose their radical agenda whether we like it or not.” There were 153 examples of these asset managers voting in support of what the watchdog refers to as “woke” shareholder proposals using funds from the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho. They include “racial and gender pay gap reports, efforts to defund conservative candidates and pro-business trade associations, radical climate policy, and pro-abortion initiatives,” the American Accountability Foundation said. For instance, AllianceBernstein in 2023 used PERSI’s pension funds to vote in support of a “racial equity audit” proposal at Comcast, which shareholders didn’t approve. The resolution, introduced by the Service Employees International Union Master Trust, advocated that the board of directors “oversee an independent racial equity audit analyzing Comcast’s adverse impacts on nonwhite stakeholders and communities of color and describing the steps, if any, Comcast plans to take to mitigate those impacts.” AllianceBernstein also voted in 2023 to support a resolution at Wells Fargo for a “Report on Congruency of Political Spending,” to evaluate how the banking giant’s political contributions align with its corporate values of supporting ESG. The proposal, which shareholders also rejected, particularly takes issue with Wells Fargo’s backing the State Financial Officers Foundation and the Republican Attorneys General Association because they oppose ESG policies. In 2022, Mellon leveraged PERSI’s pension funds to vote to back a resolution at Chevron for the oil giant to publish targets to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions to align with the Paris climate agreement and “limit global warming,” according to the proposal. The asset manager in the same year used the system’s funds to vote in support of a resolution for AT&T to publish a report on its political expenditures and how they line up with company values, including “carbon neutrality,” according to the resolution from As You Sow, a nonprofit that assigns ESG scores to companies. Shareholders ultimately didn’t approve the resolutions at Comcast, Wells Fargo, or Chevron. But Mellon voted in support of a resolution at The Walt Disney Co. in 2022 pushing for a “Pay Equity Report” at the company, which shareholders approved. “Actively managing pay equity is associated with improved representation and diversity is linked to superior stock performance and return on equity,” it states. “Black employees represent 8% of Disney’s workforce, but only 5% of executive leadership. Women account for 51% of Disney’s workforce and 42% of executive leadership.” The Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho managed retirement and benefit plans for over 65,000 public employees in that state as of 2017, according to the National Institute on Retirement Security. “The PERSI fund (DB plan) does not have any investments in funds with an ESG mandate,” a spokesperson for the state pension system said, referring to a defined benefit plan. PERSI’s “investment managers are responsible for voting all proxies in a manner consistent with the best economic interest of the system for the exclusive benefit of the system,” its investment policy statement said. However, critics argue that ESG investments fail to serve shareholders’ best fiduciary interests. “It would be outrageous for PERSI asset managers to advance their own personal political agendas using the property of Idaho workers and families. Even to suggest doing so indicates sufficient grounds for termination,” Idaho economist JD Foster, former chief economist at the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, told the Daily Caller News Foundation, adding: “Asset managers should have one agenda and that is to maximize the value of the assets under management subject to the normal guidelines of fiduciaries.” The S&P Global Clean Energy Index has plunged by about 10% this year, while the S&P 500 Energy Index, which features many oil and gas firms, rose over 7%. Asset managers also used Nevadans’ pension funds to push similar proposals, the Daily Caller News Foundation previously reported, based on another public records request by the American Accountability Foundation. Nevada Public Employee Retirement System enlists the services of asset managers such as BlackRock, AllianceBernstein, Mellon, and State Street Global Advisors, who collectively manage over $30 billion of the system’s stock portfolio. Adelante, AllianceBernstein, Brandes, Fiera, Longview, and Iowa state Treasurer Julie Ellsworth didn’t respond to requests for comment. Mellon declined to comment. Originally published by the Daily Caller News Foundation. The post Asset Managers Leveraged Red State Pension Funds to Back ‘Racial Equity,’ Climate Agenda, Report Finds appeared first on The Daily Signal.