Someone should ask Usha Vance about that too. It is unclear if her immigrant parents were citizens when she was born either.
Trump’s Executive Order eliminating birthright citizenship isn’t retroactive so they are safe. For now. It wouldn’t take much of a shift for Trump to decide that he wants to deport American citizens, so anything could happen. In fact, he’s already said he wants to do that.
“The homegrowns are next, the homegrowns. You’ve got to build about five more places,” Trump said to Bukele, an apparent reference to prison space that would be needed in El Salvador to house U.S. citizens.
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales mused on Fareed Zakaria this morning that the Supremes may have taken this case originally with the intention of deciding it on the merits but found they didn’t have a majority to overturn so negotiated a change to the procedural issue. It’s possible that this explains why the Sotomayor and Jackson were so angry although they could also have been reacting to the whole “unitary executive” bs and the fact that they know which way the wind is blowing on this. (Meaning they intend to overturn eventually.)
Who knows? The Court is so opaque that all you can do is try to read tea leaves. I wish I could feel confident that Gonzales’s suspicions are correct. Unfortunately, the Roberts court has shown its true colors and it would be foolish to get your hopes up.
Gonzales said that he is a fan of the Unitary Executive but acknowledged that it requires a president with integrity for it to work and that Donald Trump doesn’t have integrity. Yeah, no shit:
Bartiromo: Then they hack into our telecom system, they’ve been stealing intellectual property, fentanyl, covid, all of this stuff. —
Trump: You don’t think we do that to them? You don’t think we do that to them? We do,.
Bartiromo: So that’s the way the world works?
Trump:That’s the way the world works. It’s a nasty world.
Trump’s stickin’ up for all his tyrants and war criminal buds:
He’s king of the world:
Trump: "Vladimir Putin made some very nice statements today. Look, he respects our country again … President Xi respects our country. Kin Jong Un respects." pic.twitter.com/F9GgUPV0hl
McConnell says “they’ll get over it” but if GOP voters ever wake up, the Republicans are going to be in trouble over this.
The economy is on shaky grounds and it’s not getting steadier. If it does go south, at this point the Democrats need to point to this hideous abomination of a bill no matter the reason. They have to take back the congress. It’s our only hope.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million- $8 billion for hiring/retention- Billions more.
Several communities in Los Angeles County have called off or postponed their previously scheduled Independence Day and July events, citing resident safety amid ongoing immigration enforcement raids.
The El Sereno Bicentennial Committee was one of the first organizations to announce the cancellation of its 66th Independence Day Parade in a June 20 statement on Facebook.
“We stand with our community. The safety of our participants, spectators and volunteers is always at the forefront,” according to the post.
The celebration is typically composed of numerous local organizations, schools and entertainment groups along with more than 1,200 people marching in the parade, according to the committee.
However, many groups withdrew their entries from this year’s parade, which ultimately led to the committee’s decision, according to the post.
This is what they want, of course. Independence day is for Real Americans who vote Republican, not for immigrants or the citizens who tolerate them.
I would guess that many more public events will be cancelled all over the country in order to avoid being rousted by the masked marauders who are rampaging through our neighborhoods and workplaces. No one is safe.
*By the way, that 8 billion is for huge bonuses for the current masked marauders and the hiring of many more. Authoritarian violence doesn’t come cheap these days.
“I’m going to tell you how the people in charge of my country made the truth a crime,” Belarusian photo journalist Pasha Kritchko begins his New York Times essay. His country may be Belarus, but he resides in Poland now. In exile.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Belarus had a brief window in which it might have democratized. Instead, pro-Russia Alexander Lukashenko won the presidency in 1994 “promising to drain the swamp.” And there he remains to this day:
Belarusians tried to fight back. In the 2020 election, a stay-at-home mother, Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, unexpectedly ran for president after her husband, a popular blogger, was arrested (he was only very recently released). When it was announced that Mr. Lukashenko would again be president, with official results awarding him more than 80 percent of the vote, there were massive protests.
And Lukashenko remains.
In hindsight, 2020 was a turning point. The regime sensed the danger of the moment and the ensuing crackdown was violent and swift. Tens of thousands of people were arrested, a local human rights group estimates that there are more than 1,000 political prisoners, and, according to U.N. estimates, more than 300,000 people have left the country in the time since.
People like Pasha Kritchko. He concludes:
Belarus is a warning that democracy is fragile and that authoritarianism is not a wrecking ball but a hatchet, which slowly chips away until everything is broken beyond recognition.
It has long been a requirement that U.S. politicians regurgitate that hoary patriotic cant about American exceptionalism. It’s like that old Chevrolet license plate from the 1970s bolted to the front of muscle cars owned by people who never set foot outside the U.S. It’s easy to wave the flag and boast when that faith is untested. It’s being tested now more than at any other time in my life. We are going to find out in the next few years just how exceptional we are, or are not.
The four worst parts of the budget bill, or just among the worst parts?
Jacob S. Hacker and Patrick Sullivan peer into the budget bill now before the Senate so you don’t have to. It even has a section titled “Working Families Over Elites.” How populist is that? Not very. They call it “the most regressive, least populist policy package in memory.” Voters will dislike the medicine in it (New York Times gift link):
We know, because we asked them. In a survey we ran after the House version of the bill passed, we showed a random selection of voters how the bill would affect the take-home income of less affluent Americans versus the top 1 percent. Opposition exploded, with only 11 percent of Americans supporting the bill — one-third the level of support seen among those not shown the distributional results. Among Republicans, the shift was even larger: Support and opposition flipped — to nearly 3 to 1 opposition from nearly 3 to 1 support.
As unpopular as the bill is, however, Americans have yet to fully understand the special alchemy of inegalitarianism that defines it. Break through the deception and misdirection, and Republicans’ signature policy bill, which President Trump and G.O.P. lawmakers call the One Big Beautiful Bill, seems more aptly named Elites Over Working Families.
The pair outline four worst ways that the bill is especially bad. Since it’s Hacker, he focuses on the economic impacts, although the last is the Medicare cuts Republicans have tried to masquerade “in so much duplicitous rhetoric.”
And then there’s the immigration enforcement portion. Aaron Reichlin-Melnick of the American Immigration Council believes the bill will hand Trump’s ICE secret police more money “for detention than the enrire federal Bureau of Prisons.”
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million- $8 billion for hiring/retention- Billions more.
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
The group sent the warning in a letter that also went to Majority Leader Steve Scalise and GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician who has also raised concerns about the cuts.
The health systems said the Senate’s revised text hits states like Louisiana even harder than previous iterations and would slash more than $4 billion in Medicaid funding for the state’s health care providers.
Johnson won’t flinch. He’ll vote for it if it makes it back to the House.
Trump is threatening Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina with a primary challenge after Tillis failed to kiss and vote to advance the text of the Senate bill.
With the mercury continuing to soar in many sections of the country I thought I would curate a Top 15 “hot” noirs festival. Hot-as in sweaty, steamy, dripping, sticky, sudoriferous crime thrillers (get your mind out of the gutter). If you’re like me (and isn’t everyone?) there’s nothing more satisfying than gathering up an armload of DVDs and spending a hot weekend ensconced in my dark, cool media room (actually, I don’t have a “media room” nor any A/C in my apartment…but I can always dream). Enjoy!
Ace in the Hole – Billy Wilder’s 1951 film is one of the bleakest noirs ever made:
Charles Tatum: What’s that big story to get me outta here? […] I’m stuck here, fans. Stuck for good. Unless you, Miss Deverich, instead of writing household hints about how to remove chili stains from blue jeans, get yourself involved in a trunk murder. How about it, Miss Deverich? I could do wonders with your dismembered body.
Miss Deverich: Oh, Mr. Tatum.Really!
Charles Tatum: Or you, Mr. Wendell-if you’d only toss that cigar out the window. Real far…all the way to Los Alamos. And BOOM! (He chuckles) Now there would be a story.
Tatum (played to the hilt by Kirk Douglas) is a cynical big city newspaper reporter who drifts into a sun-baked New Mexico burg after burning one too many bridges with his former employers at a New York City daily. Determined to weasel his way back to the top (by any means necessary, as it turns out), he bullies his way into a gig with a local rag, where he impatiently awaits The Big Story that will rocket him back to the metropolitan beat.
He’s being sarcastic when he exhorts his co-workers in the sleepy hick town newsroom to get out there and make some news for him to capitalize on. But the irony in Wilder’s screenplay (co-written by Lesser Samuels and Walter Newman) is that this becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy for Tatum; in his attempt to purloin and manipulate the scenario of a man trapped in a cave-in into a star-making “exclusive” for himself, it’s Tatum who ultimately becomes The Big Story. Great writing, directing and acting make it a winner.
The Big Easy – “Aw…come on, chère.” I can’t reckon why, you… but dey wuz a mess of swampy Louisiana neo noirs bag daer in the 80s- Southern Comfort, Angel Heart, No Mercy, Cat People, Belizaire the Cajun, Down by Law, and (my favorite of the bunch) Jim McBride’s slick 1986 crime drama.
Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin star as a NOPD detective and a D.A., respectively who become enmeshed in a police corruption investigation. Initially adversarial, the pair’s professional relationship is quickly complicated by a mutual attraction (what…you’re going to cast Dennis Quaid and Ellen Barkin in a film and not let nature take its course? I mean, come on, chère!).
Admittedly, the twists and turns in Daniel Petrie, Jr.’s screenplay may not hold up to scrutiny, but you’ll be having too much fun watching Quaid and Barkin heat up the screen to care. Great supporting cast, featuring Ned Beatty, John Goodman and Grace Zabriskie.
Body Heat – A bucket of ice cubes in the bath is simply not enough to cool down this steamy noir. Writer-director Lawrence Kasdan’s 1981 Double Indemnity homage blows the mercury right out the top of the thermometer. Kathleen Turner is the sultry femme fatale who plays the late William Hurt’s hapless pushover like a Stradivarius (“You aren’t too smart. I like that in a man.”) The combination of the Florida heat with Turner and Hurt’s sexual chemistry will light your socks on fire. Outstanding support from Richard Crenna, Ted Danson, J.A. Preston and an up-and-coming young character actor named Mickey Rourke.
Chinatown – There are many Deep Thoughts that I have gleaned over the years via repeated viewings of Roman Polanski’s 1974 “sunshine noir”.
Here are my top 3:
1. Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.
2. Politicians, ugly buildings and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.
3. You may think you know what you’re dealing with, but, believe me, you don’t.
Of course, I’ve also learned that if you put together a great director (Polanski), a killer screenplay (by Robert Towne), two lead actors at the top of their game (Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway), an ace cinematographer (John A. Alonzo) and top it off with a perfect music score (by Jerry Goldsmith), you’ll likely produce a film that deserves to be called a “classic”, in every sense of the word.
Cool Hand Luke – “Still shakin’ the bush, boss!” Paul Newman shines (and sweats buckets) in Stuart Rosenberg’s 1967 drama. Newman plays a ne’er do well from a southern burg who ends up on a chain gang. He gets busted for cutting the heads off of parking meters while on a drunken spree, but by the end of this sly allegory, astute viewers will glean that his real crime is being a non-conformist.
Highlights include Strother Martin’s “failure to communicate” speech (Donn Pearce and Frank Pierson’s screenplay is agog with classic lines), Harry Dean Stanton singing “The Midnight Special”, that (ahem) car wash scene and George Kennedy’s Best Supporting Actor turn. Also in the cast: Ralph Waite, Dennis Hopper, Wayne Rogers, Anthony Zerbe, and Joy Harmon steaming up the camera lens as the “car wash girl”.
Detour – Nothing good ever happens on a dark desert highway. Many consider Edgar G. Ulmer’s artfully pulpy 1945 programmer as one of the greatest no-budget “B” crime dramas ever made. Clocking in around 70 minutes, the story follows a down-on-his-luck musician (Tom Neal) with whom fate, and circumstance have saddled with (first) a dead body, and then (worst) a hitchhiker from Hell (Ann Savage, in a wondrously demented performance). In short, he is not having a good night. Truly one of the darkest noirs of them all.
Dog Day Afternoon – As far as oppressively humid hostage dramas go, this 1975 “true crime” classic from Sidney Lumet out-sops the competition. The AC may be off, but Al Pacino is definitely “on” in his absolutely brilliant portrayal of John Wojtowicz (“Sonny Wortzik” in the film), whose botched attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank turned into a dangerous hostage crisis and a twisted media circus (the desperate Wojtowicz was trying to finance his lover’s sex-change operation).
Even though he had already done the first two Godfather films, this was the performance that put Pacino on the map. John Cazale is at once scary and heartbreaking as Sonny’s dim-witted “muscle”. Keep an eye out for Chris Sarandon’s cameo. Frank Pierson’s tight screenplay was based on articles by P.F. Kluge and Thomas Moore.
High and Low – Akira Kurosawa’s multi-layered 1963 drama is adapted from Ed McBain’s crime thriller King’s Ransom. Toshiro Mifune is excellent as a CEO who risks losing controlling shares of his company when he takes responsibility to assure the safe return of his chauffeur’s son, who has been mistaken as his own child by bumbling kidnappers.
As the film progresses, the tableau subtly shifts from the executive’s comfortable, air-conditioned mansion “high” above the city, to the “low”, sweltering back alleys where desperate souls will do anything to survive; a veritable descent into Hell.
While the film is perfectly serviceable as an absorbing police procedural, it delves deeper than a standard genre entry. It is also an examination of class struggle, corporate culture, and the socioeconomic complexities of modern society.
The Hot Spot – Considering he accumulated 100+ feature film credits as an actor and a scant 7 as a director of same over a 55-year career, it’s not surprising that the late Dennis Hopper is mostly remembered for the former, rather than the latter. Still, the relative handful of films he directed includes Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Colors, and this compelling 1990 neo-noir.
Don Johnson delivers one of his better performances as an opportunistic drifter who wanders into a one-horse Texas burg. The smooth-talking hustler snags a gig as a used car salesman, and faster than you can say “only one previous owner!” he’s closed the deal on bedding the boss’s all-too-willing wife (Virginia Madsen), and starts putting the moves on the hot young bookkeeper (Jennifer Connelly). You know what they say, though…you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Toss in some avarice, blackmail, and incestuous small-town corruption, and our boy finds he is in way over his head.
In the Heat of the Night – “They call me Mister Tibbs!” In this classic (which won 1967’s Best Picture Oscar) Sidney Poitier plays a cosmopolitan police detective from Philly who gets waylaid in a torpid Mississippi backwater, where he is reluctantly recruited into helping the bigoted sheriff (Rod Steiger) solve a local murder. Poitier nails his performance; you can feel Virgil Tibb’s pain as he tries to maintain his professional cool amidst a brace of surly rednecks, who throw up roadblocks at every turn.
While Steiger is outstanding here as well, I always found it ironic that he was the one who won “Best Actor in a leading role”, when Poitier was the star of the film (it seems Hollywood didn’t get the film’s message). Sterling Silliphant’s brilliant screenplay (another Oscar) works as a crime thriller and a “fish out of water” story. Director Norman Jewison was nominated but didn’t score a win. Future director Hal Ashby won for Best Editing. Quincy Jones composed the soundtrack, and Ray Charles sings the sultry theme.
Night Moves – Set in Los Angeles and the sultry Florida Keys, Arthur Penn’s 1975 sleeper stars Gene Hackman as a world-weary P.I. with a failing marriage, who becomes enmeshed in a case involving battling ex-spouses, which soon slides into incest, smuggling and murder. As always, Hackman’s character work is top-notch. Also with Jennifer Warren (in a knockout, Oscar-worthy performance), Susan Clark, Edward Binns, Harris Yulin, James Woods and Melanie Griffith (in her first credited role). Alan Sharp’s intelligent, multi-layered screenplay parallels the complexity of the P.I.’s case with ruminations on the equally byzantine mystery as to why human relationships, more often than not, almost seem engineered to fail.
The Night of the Hunter – Is it a film noir? A horror movie? A black comedy? A haunting American folk tale? The answer would be yes. The man responsible for this tough-to-categorize 1957 film was one of the greatest acting hams of the 20th century, Charles Laughton, who began and ended his directorial career with this effort. Like many films now regarded as “cult classics”, it was savaged by critics and tanked at the box office upon initial release (enough to spook Laughton from ever returning to the director’s chair).
Robert Mitchum is brilliant (and genuinely scary) as a knife-wielding religious zealot who does considerably more “preying” than “praying”. Before Mitchum’s condemned cell mate (Peter Graves) meets the hangman, he talks in his sleep about $10,000 in loot money stashed somewhere on his property. When the “preacher” gets out of the slam, he makes a beeline for the widow (Shelly Winters) and her two young’uns. A disturbing (and muggy) tale unfolds. The great Lillian Gish is on board as well. Artfully directed by Laughton and beautifully shot by DP Stanley Cortez.
The Postman Always Rings Twice – A grimy (but strapping) itinerant (John Garfield) drifts into a hot and dusty California truck stop and” last chance” gas station run by an old codger (Cecil Kellaway) and his hot young wife (Lana Turner). Sign outside reads: “Man Wanted”. Garfield wants a job. Turner wants a man. Guess what happens.
An iconic noir and blueprint for ensuing entries in the “I love you too, baby…now how do we lose the husband?” sub-genre. Tay Garnett directs with a wonderfully lurid flourish. Harry Ruskin and Niven Busch adapted their screenplay from the James M. Cain novel.
Touch of Evil – Yes, this is Orson Welles’ classic 1958 sleaze-noir with that celebrated and oft-imitated tracking shot, Charlton Heston as a Mexican police detective, and Janet Leigh in various stages of undress. Welles casts himself as Hank Quinlan, a morally bankrupt police captain who lords over a corrupt border town. Quinlan is the most singularly grotesque character Welles ever created as an actor and one of the most offbeat heavies in film noir.
This is also one of the last great roles for Marlene Dietrich (“You should lay off those candy bars.”). The creepy and disturbing scene where Leigh is terrorized in an abandoned motel by a group of thugs led by a leather-jacketed Mercedes McCambridge presages David Lynch; there are numerous flourishes throughout that are light-years ahead of anything else going on in American cinema at the time. Welles famously despised the studio’s original 96-minute theatrical cut; there have been nearly half a dozen re-edited versions released since 1975.
The Wages of Fear / Sorcerer -The primeval jungles of South America have served as a backdrop for a plethora of sweat-streaked tales (Werner Herzog’s Fitzcarraldo and Aguirre: TheWrath of God come to mind), but Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 “existential noir” sits atop that list.
Four societal outcasts, who for one reason or another find themselves figuratively and literally at the “end of the road”, hire themselves out for an apparently suicidal job…transporting two truckloads of touchy nitro over several hundred miles of bumpy jungle terrain for delivery to a distant oilfield.
It does take some time for the “action” to really get going; once it does, you won’t let out your breath until the final frame. Yves Montand leads the fine international cast. Clouzot co-scripted with Jerome Geronimi, adapting from the original Georges Anaud novel.
If you’ve already seen The Wages of Fear, you might want to check out William Friedkin’s 1977 action-adventure Sorcerer, which was greeted with indifference by audiences and critics upon initial release. Maybe it was the incongruous title, which led many to assume it would be in the vein of his previous film (and huge box-office hit), The Exorcist. Then again, it was tough for any other film to garner attention in the immediate wake of Star Wars.
At any rate, it’s a well-directed, terrifically acted “update” of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s 1953 film noir (I refer to it as an “update” in deference to Friedkin, who bristles at the term “remake” in a letter from the director that was included with the 2014 Blu-ray).
Roy Scheider heads a superb international cast as a desperate American on the lam in South America, who signs up for a job transporting a truckload of nitroglycerin through rough terrain. Tangerine Dream provides the memorable soundtrack.
Nearly two-thirds of voters (64 percent) say they prefer giving most undocumented immigrants in the United States a pathway to legal status, while 31 percent say they prefer deporting most undocumented immigrants in the United States, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea-ack) University national poll of registered voters released today.
This is a change from roughly six months ago. In Quinnipiac University’s December 18, 2024 poll, 55 percent of voters said they preferred giving most undocumented immigrants a pathway to legal status and 36 percent said they preferred deporting most undocumented immigrants in the United States.
61% of Republicans still prefer deporting them but that’s less than I would have expected. And the public at large is clearly appalled.
It’s not a lot to hang on to because Trump only cares about that 61% and his administration cares nothing for public opinion at all. So I’m not sure it makes any difference.
Still, we have to take the good news where we can find it….
A decade before he became President Trump’s health secretary, the environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appeared on a talk show hosted by Dr. Mehmet Oz to promote his latest book, “Thimerosal: Let the Science Speak.”
The book, published in 2014, explored an obscure mercury-based preservative, thimerosal, that was removed from most vaccines, but not flu vaccines, more than two decades ago. Dr. Oz noted that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had deemed the vaccines that still contained thimerosal “safe and effective” and said they did “not present a public health risk.”
Mr. Kennedy did not buy it. “We found 500 peer-reviewed studies,” he insisted. “Virtually every one of them said that thimerosal is a potent neurotoxin that should not be in vaccines.”
On Thursday, the new members of the C.D.C.’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, hand-selected by Mr. Kennedy after he fired all 17 members of the previous panel, decided it would no longer recommend annual flu shots that contain it. Thimerosal’s appearance on the committee’s agenda in the first place shocked public health leaders, who have long considered the matter settled.
It is settled. I suspect some of these people know it too. But it’s another way to sow suspicion about vaccines and sell their bogus supplements so it’s all good.
Critics say that in resurrecting an old controversy, Mr. Kennedy could brew mistrust rather than ease it. Numerous studies, including a 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine and a 2010 review of the medical literature, have rejected a link between the preservative and autism. Dr. Oz, who now runs the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, noted on his 2014 show that any link had been “ultimately discredited.”
But Mr. Kennedy embraced the theory, and traveled the country with Mr. Gladen to promote the film. At the time, Mr. Gladen headed an organization called the World Mercury Project. He joined forces with Mr. Kennedy, who later took over World Mercury Project and turned it into Children’s Health Defense, the advocacy group Mr. Kennedy led until he ran for president.
Kennedy and his cronies are fully politicizing health and science. And, apparently, to the Republicans it’s all just fine because it’s good politics with MAGA and various other assorted morons. That’s all they care about now.
Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand. pic.twitter.com/HYAtb1mrhh
— LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) June 28, 2025
ICE slam California man to ground—handcuff him despite major bleeding from the head. Agents shatter car window, drag him & then kept pushing his head into concrete. “He’s bleeding from his head, look!” witness yelled. “But they didn’t care.”
Jose Zuniga had been protected by DACA, until he recently finished school in La Puente, California. His family says he was still complaining about his head hurting when he reached the detention center—pleading to receive proper medical attention.
As we’ve already seen, they are getting, at best, substandard medical care in the gross detention centers.
The local news is inundated with stories like this in LA:
Loved ones are distraught after a father was arrested by immigration agents while he was shopping at a Home Depot store in Burbank.https://t.co/9hhWBy6QD5
Surveillance video capturing the moment federal agents blast off the front door of a residence in Huntington Park and use a drone to search for a man room by room. That man was not home, but his girlfriend and two young children were, leaving them shaking with fear. The man later… pic.twitter.com/Nlo2MTZPMX
Video shows community members rushing in to try and help a street vendor as she was taken by ICE agents in Ladera Heights.
Aleca Le Blanc witnessed the incident and described the agents as: "Ten guys, all jacked up and armed, taking away a woman who probably weighs 100 pounds.… pic.twitter.com/ethn3HLhxX
