Hasta La Gadget!

We’re used to seeing post-credit scenes in Marvel’s superhero movies. They build up anticipation nicely for the next installment in the franchise which can take anywhere from one to two years to arrive. Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is going to be out in a few weeks and the film was screened for the press last night. Those who saw it confirm that the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 post-credit scenes will be more than you expect.

There’s normally one or two post-credit scenes after a Marvel movie ends but there will be a lot more with this particular movie. Those who attended the screening last night have revealed that the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 post-credit scenes number four in total.

That might not be where Marvel puts the full stop. The movie’s director James Gunn has even hinted on Twitter that there might even be a fifth post-credit scene. This is certainly going to put the upcoming movie in a league of its own.

As previously mentioned, most Marvel movies have two post-credit scenes at most. The four scenes that were shown last night include two that tease future events. The fifth scene that Gunn is hinting at wasn’t played for critics so it may be a surprise for us all.

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is going to hit the big screen worldwide on May 5th.

@screenrant Well, five, actually. 😊

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) April 18, 2017

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NEW YORK ― An ethics watchdog that sued President Donald Trump in January over violations of the so-called foreign emoluments clause of the Constitution has added new plaintiffs to its legal challenge — all in hopes of putting the case on stronger footing.

The group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed an amended complaint in federal court on Tuesday that now lists as parties the Restaurant Opportunities Center United, a nonprofit restaurant coalition, and Jill Phaneuf, an event planner. Both ROC United and Phaneuf claim they’ve been directly harmed by a loss of business and wages related to the Trump Organization’s dealings with foreign governments that seek its patronage.

Rather than seeking money damages from the president, Phaneuf ― who liaises with embassies and other clients seeking to do business with Washington-area hotels — and ROC United want a declaration from a federal judge that Trump’s ongoing ties to his own properties are unconstitutional.

“So long as violations of the Emoluments Clauses are permitted to continue, ROC United’s members will continue to suffer from unfair competition as foreign states, the United States, and state and local governments divert their business to restaurants in which Defendant has a financial interest,” the amended complaint asserts.

Phaneuf’s portion of the updated lawsuit alleges that her own business is taking a hit “from unfair competition as foreign states, the United States, and state and local governments divert their business to hotels in which Defendant has a financial interest.”

These are real businesses suffering real injury.
Deepak Gupta

Critics of the initial CREW lawsuit said the case was likely to get thrown out of court because the ethics organization by itself had a weak case of “standing” — that is, it would have a hard time showing that its pro-transparency advocacy work was “harmed” by Trump’s business ties.

In a statement, Deepak Gupta, a member of the legal team behind the emoluments challenge, argued that now the group’s “standing” is beyond reproach.

“These are real businesses suffering real injury,” Gupta said. “Our standing to bring this suit is now irrefutable. That means that Donald Trump will have no choice but to defend his unprecedented conflicts of interest in court.”

Even some skeptics of CREW’s earlier claim to having a right to sue, such as Fordham law Professor Jed Shugerman, welcomed this new development in the case. 

Both ROC United and Phaneuf “have solid claims that they are injured by President Trump’s emoluments, using his office as an illegal market advantage over his competitors by drawing business from foreign entities and from federal and state spending,” Shugerman wrote in a legal blog.

As part of the lawsuit, CREW and the new parties hope to obtain financial records showing that Trump is no longer engaging in business practices that should be out of bounds for the presidency. That may include his still-undisclosed tax returns.

More broadly, the case could offer courts — including, eventually, the Supreme Court — an opportunity to clarify the scope and meaning of the obscure emoluments clause.

By its plain terms, the constitutional provision states that “no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

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Good lord.

In news that could only be explained by the use of witchcraft, Netflix released its Q1 earnings report on Monday, and it features quite the interesting tidbit.

Believe it or not, viewers have apparently spent nearly half a billion collective hours watching Adam Sandler’s fine cinematic offerings on the streaming service.

Seriously.

That’s 500 million hours chock-full of humor like this … 

The news may explain why Netflix’s original four-movie deal with Sandler (which the comedian said he signed because the company’s name rhymed with “wet chicks”) was bumped up to four more movies in March 2017.

Sandler, who’s known for his lowbrow humor featured in ’90s movies like “The Waterboy” and “Big Daddy,” has made three original movies for Netflix so far — “The Ridiculous 6,” “The Do-Over” and the newly released “Sandy Wexler.”

All three were panned by critics, but apparently Netflix users gobbled them up.

“The Ridiculous 6,” for instance, was the company’s most-watched movie opening ever. That’s despite a 0 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and the fact that a dozen Native Americans walked off the film’s set due to racist jokes.

C’mon guys. Let’s stream better.

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The Southern Poverty Law Center, a leading watchdog group monitoring hate and extremism, has filed a federal lawsuit against the publisher of The Daily Stormer, a top white supremacist website. The group says Andrew Anglin is responsible for a “coordinated, repulsive, threatening campaign of anti-Semitic harassment” directed at a Jewish real estate agent living in Whitefish, Montana.

The SPLC is filing the lawsuit on behalf of Tanya Gersh, who was one of several Flathead County residents who Anglin mentioned in a Daily Stormer article written in December. She, her husband and 12-year-old son received about 700 emails, phone calls and text messages filled with anti-Semitic language and even death threats, according to the suit. 

“In the old days, Anglin would have burned a cross on Tanya’s lawn to intimidate her. These days he launched a troll storm against her with vile emails, text messages and phone calls,” SPLC President Richard Cohen said Tuesday morning on a call with reporters announcing the lawsuit.

Anglin published his story following reports that Sherry Spencer, the mother of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, was considering selling a building in Whitefish because of local protests of her son’s extremist views. She and her husband have tried to distance themselves from their son’s extremism. In December, they wrote an op-ed denouncing racism and saying that their son and his organization, the National Policy Institute, “have never had, do not have, and will not in the future have any office or professional activities” at their building.

Anglin’s article, which was riddled with anti-Semitic slurs, listed phone numbers and email addresses of multiple Jewish residents of the county and called on readers to “take action” and “just make your opinions known.” He also included photos that had been altered to show some residents wearing yellow stars similar to those Nazis forced Jews to wear in concentration camps, but those images have since been removed from the site. Anglin wrote that he was not advocating for “violence or threats of violence or anything even close to that.”

In a follow-up post, Anglin said the “lying Jew media” had mischaracterized his original story as advocating for violence against Gersh and the other Montana residents identified in his story. But in January, he called on his followers to arm themselves and march on Whitefish. He referred to the event “James Earl Ray Day Extravaganza,” in honor of the man convicted of murdering civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. It was later canceled because Anglin didn’t properly fill out permit paperwork. 

In the old days, Anglin would have burned a cross on Tanya’s lawn to intimidate her.
SPLC President Richard Cohen

An audibly shaken Gersh told reporters that the horrific threats haven’t completely stopped. She also said she is having medical issues, losing her hair and going to therapy. She said she still does not feel safe.

“This was so far beyond harassment,” Gersh said. “This was terrorism.” 

She and her family were constantly afraid that someone would come after them, she said. Gersh recounted coming home one night to find her husband sitting in the house with all the lights off, suitcases packed. He wanted to “run for safety in the middle of the night,” she said.

Gersh also recounted some threatening phone calls she had received. “You really should’ve died in the Holocaust with the rest of your people,” Gersh said someone told her. Another time, she picked up the phone and “all I heard were gunshots,” she said. 

Gersh said she decided to file the lawsuit “because Andrew Anglin and his white nationalist supporters have terrorized me and my family for months and my life has changed.” She is claiming they invaded her privacy, intentionally inflicted emotional distress against her and violated Montana’s Anti-Intimidation Act. The SPLC said it hasn’t put a specific dollar amount to the damages it is seeking against Anglin.  

This was so far beyond harassment. This was terrorism.
Tanya Gersh

The Daily Stormer, which Anglin started in 2013 and named after the infamous Nazi paper Der Stürmer, is now the top hate website in America, according to a recent SPLC report. Alexa rankings indicate that it has even eclipsed the traffic of Stormfront, a large white supremacist online forum founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader Don Black in the mid-1990s. The Daily Stormer has become known for using overtly racist, anti-Semitic language and imagery in its articles. It frequently features white supremacist symbols or leaders on its front page.

SPLC has sued, and crippled, white supremacist organizations before. In 1999, the group filed a civil suit against the Aryan Nations after armed security guards chased down and fired upon Victoria Keenan and her son when their car stopped outside the sect’s sprawling headquarters in northern Idaho.

The SPLC filed suit on behalf of the traumatized family. A jury awarded a $6.3 million verdict against the Aryan Nations and their leader, Richard Butler, for gross negligence in the selecting and supervising of the guards. By the late 1990s, the Aryan Nations’ influence had already begun to wane, but the multimillion-dollar judgement against the hate group would prove to be a critical blow. It forced Butler to turn over the 20-acre compound to the Keenans, severely depleted its finances and further hobbled the sect.

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