Shelly Duvall, Nikki Haley, Trump Transition, Jussie Smollett, Madonna, Julian Assange: HOT LINKS

FEELS LIKE EXPLOITATION. Dr. Phill interviews a mentally unwell Shelly Duvall this week. 

NIKKI HALEY. Foreign policy expert has a field day with the thought of the South Carolina Governor as Secretary of State: “I thought it was impossible to find someone with less foreign policy experience than Rudy Giuliani, but bingo. Here is somebody with no foreign policy experience at all, as a governor.”

THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. Is Anderson Cooper normalizing Steve Bannon? And is Glenn Beck protesting that normalization?

BUT SERIOUSLY, EVERYTHING IS FINE. Trump transition power struggle ensues. 

CASTING. Miles Teller says he hates that people don’t get him and that he lost out on the male lead in La La Land to Ryan Gosling. 

EMPIRE. Jussie Smollett covers plus magazine: “[Homophobia] is the brainwashing of society. It’s the poisoning of hate. That’s what it is. One of my biggest mentors, Phill Wilson, after the Charleston shootings, I was so low, and it was right when I was being honored at the Heroes in the Struggle last year. And I was so down, I could not stop. It was one of the first times that I felt just completely defeated. [Phill] said to me and Jeremy, he said it like this: ‘These are extremely, extremely desperate people. They are such desperate people, because hate is so desperate right now, because hate is going to lose.’ When hate is gonna lose, hate starts getting real low, hate starts getting real, trying everything. Well, I’m gonna shoot you; well I’m gonna do this. That’s what hate does. That’s what Donald Trump does.”

BIRTHDAY BOY. Was everyone aware SNL’s Pete Davidson is skinny shredded? 

THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS. Dennis Quaid broke the stock market.

Oops! Actor Dennis Quaid breaks the gavel at Wall Street’s closing bell.
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MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY. An anthem for open relationships?

CARPOOL KARAOKE. Madonna is James Corden’s next guest. 

WIKILEAKS. Is Julian Assange hoping President Trump will pardon him in return for helping influence the election?

TWITTER. Social network cracks down on white supremacists: “Recently Twitter suspended more accounts associated with the alt-right, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as “a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that ‘white identity’ is under attack by multicultural forces using ‘political correctness’ and ‘social justice’ to undermine white people and ‘their’ civilization.” Included among them was the verified account of Richard Spencer, whom The Washington Post described as a leader of the alt-right and “one of the most media-savvy thinkers in the movement.”

HUMP DAY HOTTIE. Model/actor Nitin Chauhan.

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Power Rangers Find Everlasting Love In Mightiest, Morphiest Marriage Proposal Yet

Couples always seem to have a “thing.” It’s annoying, adorable, nauseating and enviable all at once.

Maybe they go fly fishing together, or work through every recipe in The Joy of Cooking.

And when the shared passion is so specific — maybe they absolutely love braiding the hair of vintage dolls, but only ones that have a production defect like an extra thumb or differently sized eyes — everyone who cares about them may look on and say, “yeah, they’re just meant to spend a lifetime together.”

Related: In Uncertain Times, Gay Couple’s Defiant Display Of Love Goes Viral

That’s how we imagine James and Anthony’s friends and family to feel about their relationship.

The two apparently adore making cosplay videos together, as Power Rangers, set to high-energy electronic music.

Reserve judgment.

Don’t think; just feel.

Yes, it seems their love for all things Power Rangers is only surpassed by their love for one another, which is why when it came for Anthony to pop the question, there was only way to go.

Related: Matt Dallas And Blue Hamilton Share The Things Husbands Do

One mighty, morphing, power-way to go, that is.

“You guys know that Anthony and I never do anything mediocre, we always have to be over-the-top! So, with that said, he had to make sure that the next step in our lives was more than special, it had to more Morphinominal! Anthony got down on one knee, in his ranger suit to ask me to be his forever ranger! Today, we are announcement our engagement! I said yes! Rangers Together, Love Forever! #Love #RangersForever #LoveForever,” James posted on Facebook to announce the big news.

Check out their moves, plus the surprise proposal, below (click the speaker icon for audio):

Congrats, fellas!

h/t NNN

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SCOTUS: Cruz Is Out, But Trump Might Appoint Homophobic Judge Who Allegedly Posed for Gay Adult Photos

Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said on Wednesday that president-elect Trump will stick to its previously announced list of SCOTUS appointees when it comes to naming Antonin Scalia’s replacement–a list that does not include Ted Cruz but does include William Pryor, a virulently anti-gay judge who is rumored to have posed for gay adult photographs.

Trump’s campaign released its initial list of potential SCOTUS picks in May, which included Pryor. The campaigned then added another 10 names to that list in September.

However,  rumors began to swirl that Senator Ted Cruz might be appointed to the Court after Senator Lindsey Grahama suggested the nomination following Trump’s win.

Politico reports on Conway’s comments to the press, which suggest Cruz is not in the running: 

“You’ve seen the list of 21. The list has not changed,” Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway told reporters Wednesday. “President-elect Trump has committed to choosing his Supreme Court justices, particularly the vacancy created by the untimely death of Justice Scalia. He’s committed to choosing from that list of 21.”

The list of 21, much like the leaked short list of Trump’s potential cabinet appointees, is a who’s who of bigots who would be dangerous to the LGBT community if put on the Court.

PREVIOUSLY – Trump’s SCOTUS List: Why It’s Bad News for LGBT People

Pryor has been getting heaps of attention given his staunchly anti-LGBT positions — he defended Texas’ anti-sodomy law, compared homosexuality to pedophilia, and has been called the “most demonstrably antigay judicial nominee in recent memory” by Lambda Legal — and because he allegedly posed for pornographic photos intended for gay men while he was in college.
Via blog Legal Schnauzer (work-unfriendly link):

Nude photographs of federal judge Bill Pryor appeared in the 1990s on a gay pornography Web site, a Legal Schnauzer investigation shows.

The photos appeared in 1997 on badpuppy.com, which was in its online infancy, having debuted in mid 1995. Based in Cocoa, Florida, the site has morphed into one of the largest gay porn sites on the Web.

Images obtained by Legal Schnauzer show Pryor posing completely nude, staring into the camera and sporting a noticeable erection. We see no indication that the photos were taken surreptitiously, without Pryor’s knowledge. Sources say Pryor was college age when the photos were taken.

Pryor rose to national prominence in Republican circles on the basis of a staunchly conservative record, including consistent opposition to gay rights.

Blog Above the Law adds: 

Judge Pryor has repeatedly denied any connection with these pictures. He first told Shuler that the accusations are “totally false,” then later stated that the “photos are not of me.”

And Shuler may have an axe to grind against the judiciary. Other posts on his website refer to federal judges as corrupt, and he’s filed and lost lawsuits in Judge Pryor’s court, the Eleventh Circuit (see here and here). There’s a website dedicated to exposing the supposed truth behind some of Shuler’s scurrilous tales, which notes that he has been sued for defamation and accuses him of being a “Wannabe Journalist, Pseudo Court Commentator and Cyber Bully.”

Here’s the list of 21 individuals Trump says he would choose from, including Pryor, to fill the vacancy on the Court:

1. Keith Blackwell
2. Charles Canady
3. Steven Colloton
4. Allison Eid
5. Neil Gorsuch
6. Raymond Gruender
7. Thomas Hardiman
8. Raymond Kethledge
9. Joan Larsen
10. Mike Lee
11. Thomas Lee
12. Edward Mansfield
13. Federico Moreno
14. William Pryor
15. Margaret A. Ryan
16. Amul Thapar
17. Timothy Tymkovich
18. David Stras
19. Diane Sykes
20. Don Willett
21. Robert Young

Watch a video of Conway dispute reports of turmoil amid the transition team today, below.

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Ellen, Diana Ross Among Recipients of 2016 Presidential Medal of Freedom

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WATCH: Jonathan Groff Completely Loses His Mind Hearing Sia’s ‘Hamilton’ Cover

Hamilton. It’s kind of a thing right now.

Sia. She’s sort of a big deal at the moment.

Are you thinking what Lin-Manuel Miranda is thinking? Probably.

Related: Looking Creator Michael Lannan: “People Have To Support Gay Shows”

The Hamilton creator enlisted the help of the pop megastar, along with a bunch of other musical hard hitters, for the “Hamilton Mix Tape,” a collection of covers form the show.

And when original cast member Jonathan Groff heard Sia’s Hamilton vocals for the first time on the track “Satisfied,” he experienced a little-known medical condition called “brain-melting awesomeness.”

Related: Freddie Mercury’s Isolated Vocal Track From “We Are The Champions” Will Send Shivers Down Your Spine

The dramatic moment was caught on video and shared by Miranda.

Watch below (and click the speaker icon to enable audio):

You can find the full track on Spotify:

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Keith Olbermann Decides Whether We Should Give Trump a Chance – WATCH

In the wake of Donald Trump’s election, President Obama urged Americans to give Trump a chance. 

Keith Olbermann, who had heretofore been hosting a web series for GQ titled The Closer, decided to consider Obama’s entreaty. And reject it.

Olbermann’s series will now be called The Resistance and he has offered to take up the mantle of resistance leader until someone more influential, more apropos steps to the fore.

Now that the election has ended, The Resistance will be a “practical guide to what we all can do now for America now that Donald Trump is president.”

Giving Trump a chance is not something we can or should do, Olbermann says:

“Give him a chance? What, in the hope that he will some day grow up enough to be able to see over the top of the Oval Office desk? We do not have time for the White House edition of Celebrity Apprentice starring president-elect pussy grabber. Give him a chance? Because we’re all supposed to pretend that this is a normal man and that was a normal election?

Olbermann adds that giving Trump a chance is equivalent to giving fascism a chance. “Who knows!” he says, “it might be as bad as we think. It might not be a bottomless pit.”

Echoing the sentiment of millions of Americans who took to the streets and social media over the past week, Olbermann said, “This is not my president and judging by the margin by which Hillary Clinton won the popular rate…this is not America’s president either.”

Olbermann said he will do whatever is in his power within legal means to bring down President Trump. “I will even acquiesce to a President Pence just get this man out of here,” he added.

Watch, below.

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The World Has Gone Crazy Because Glenn Beck Is Making Sense

When Glenn Beck and Bernie Sanders are on the same page, things are deffinitely strange, according to Seth Meyers.

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