![]() ![]() ![]() The Canadian government also stopped advertising on Breitbart News after declaring that its content "did not align with the Government's Code of Value and Ethics". The list of advertisers includes Allstate, AT&T, Autodesk, BMW, Deutsche Telekom, HP Inc., Kellogg's, Lenovo, Lyft, Visa, Vimeo, Nest, and Warby Parker. By May 2017, thousands of advertisers had stopped advertising with Breitbart. Īs of February 2017, 820 companies had joined the campaign and stopped advertising on Breitbart News, according to statistics provided by the organization. The organization primarily operates from its Twitter account, and also has a Facebook account. Jammi later left Sleeping Giants, saying that Rivitz "gaslighted me out of the movement we built together". ![]() Other reports identified Jammi as "co-founder". Shortly afterward, a New York Times profile of Rivitz and freelance copywriter and marketing consultant Nandini Jammi said the two ran the campaign's Twitter account "along with other still anonymous contributors". The American campaign operated anonymously until The Daily Caller identified freelance copywriter Matt Rivitz as the founder, a story confirmed by Rivitz. The campaign has sections in Australia, Brazil, Canada, France and Germany. The campaign started in November 2016, shortly after Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 United States presidential election, with the launch of a Twitter account aiming to boycott Breitbart News. Sleeping Giants is a social media activism organization aiming to pressure companies into removing advertisements from conservative news outlets. ![]()
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In 1964, Richard Avedon published “Nothing Personal,” a lavish coffee table book with gravure-printed portraits of individuals who do not fit into any single classification: Allen Ginsberg standing naked in a Buddhist pose opposite George Lincoln Rockwell, the founder of the American Nazi Party the puffy-eyed Dorothy Parker, her bags containing a lifetime of tears, side by side with a sullen and deflated, if still-shimmering, Marilyn Monroe a young and earnest Julian Bond among members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and the grizzled William Casby, who had been born into slavery about 100 years earlier. ![]() ![]() Michaelides decided to set his novel in a psychiatric unit as he had worked at a secure psychiatric facility for teenagers while he was a psychotherapy student. 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The successful debut novel was published by Celadon Books, a division of Macmillan Publishers, on 5 February 2019. ![]() ![]() The Silent Patient is a 2019 psychological thriller novel written by British–Cypriot author Alex Michaelides. ![]() ![]() ![]() (pnr, contemporary, fantasy, erotica, romance, shifter mp Brea Alepoú realized her dream was to write and tell stories after spending five years in college getting a degree. Love is passionate, hot, needy, confusing, painful, fulfilling, and all-consuming. She believes that everyone deserves love even if not all of her characters get it right away. With her wild imagination, expect lots of different stories, from fairies ruling to vampires killing everyone, to the sweet loving between two men, passion between two fierce women, or the love of multiple partners. ![]() She thought she would only write contemporary at first but soon found her love for making worlds. She has since been writing and letting her imagination free. 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In the early 1980s, a series of ritualistic murders take place in Southeast Asia in which the victims have their eyes and ears removed, and are each found with a playing card placed in their mouth bearing the word "KOKO". It was the winner of the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel in 1989. Koko is a horror- mystery novel by American writer Peter Straub, first published in the United States in 1988 by EP Dutton, and in Great Britain by Viking. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Irina constantly belittles her aspiring writer son Konstantin (Billy Howle), perhaps because his existence as a grown man reminds her that age is catching up with her. Irina is imperious, narcissistic and selfish, and anxious about holding on to her star status and the affections of her younger lover, Boris Trigorin (Corey Stoll), a successful writer of short stories. The estate is owned by Sorin (Brian Dennehy), a retired government employee, and his sister Irina (Annette Bening), a legendary actress of the Moscow stage. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, fame, human folly, and the eternal desire to live a purposeful life. ![]() One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. ![]() ![]() ![]() Eight and a half ounces in a Baccarat crystal flask became available at a cost of more than ten thousand dollars. Sillage de la Reine ("In the Wake of the Queen") was designed by premier French perfumer Francis Kurkdjian and contains a number of essences, including jasmine, tuberose, rose, vanilla, musk, lavender, ambergris, orange blossom, cedar, sandalwood, and iris. Her studies led her to the discovery of recipes for the perfumes favored by Marie-Antoinette and were the inspiration for the release of a new scent. 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