my heart breaks for the woman in the centre of this whoâs entire life was ruined because she spoke up against sexual harassment and abuse in the workplace. her story was dismissed and mocked, people with immense power in the industry she worked in defended him and protected him. her lived experience became a pawn for rich men to one-up each other in petty arguments and bids for more power while she was left completely alone.
internal investigations carried out by her colleagues found what he done was acceptable to them, attempts to take it public were impossible because a gag order was placed on the british press to protect his name and the reputation of the team, evidence of her abuse was memeâd and manipulated to give him a sympathetic netflix edit. his treatment of her wasnât reason enough to take a stand, yet 12 mid races and suddenly they know how to end a contact with immediate effect.
i hope she takes some comfort in this news and knows sheâs supported, believed and understood.
there are people who started following f1 after watching the movie and witnessed a messy rainy race as their first gp, a backmarker car on the podium and a team principal randomly being fired all in the span of 10 days
Read and buy books on feminism, anti-racism, pro-lgbt
Attend drag shows
Don't skip any of your classes
Read and buy history books
Find your out-of-state networks
Learn to carry cash
Get birth control solutions
Support the Biden/Harris administration
Postpone large purchases and save money
Be careful of what you say online, like un-ambiguous attacks against the incoming administration, especially in spaces that contain your full name or personal information
wow! as a broke college kid, i wish there was a way to access books and movies as well as scientific articles that the new administration isn't necessarily a fan of. man. If only there was a free and trusted vpn ( up to 10 gigs of downloadable data) to use in conjunction with an anonymizing router (also free up to 10 gigs) to safely, er, permanently borrow media in an untraceable way as well as share files. Man, what's that browser that keeps your online activity anonymous? I'm awfully attached to firefox, personally. If only i had a browser extension that would throw a smoke screen over my browsing data while blocking ads at the same time.
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Some states like California allow you to check with the Registrar of Voters on-line to verify both if a ballot has issued and if it was received to help prevent voting errors.
Remember, the most common forms of voter fraud are 1) gerrymandering, 2) voter suppression and 3) foreign participation through both lobbying and online misinformation.Â
Seb and Nico should make some kind of podcast or show where they sit after every race weekend and discuss anything and everything. Results, rumors, teams, drivers, gossip, contracts and everything in between. Forget f1 media forget sky. I want these two Germans' unfiltered opinions on everything in this sport.
imagine you have just watched 2 hours of the most stressful f1 race in recent history. you turn on the fe race. there are two sc in the first few laps. everyone has gone a little insane. a championship contender is crashed out of the race. the other 2 miss attack mode the first time. you're getting flashbacks to the f3 2020 final race. nick cassidy is begging to be apologised to on the radio. evans does not manage to activate attack MODE again. whoever ends up in front wins the championship and everyone fucks up. jaguar might take the biggest team fumble of the day from mclaren. somehow the indycar race is starting in 4 minutes
Brad Pitt's new movie released it's first poster!!!!Wow! So cool!!! Anyway reminder that Brad Pitt physically assaulted Angelina Jolie and his kids on a plane (deliberately so that they had nowhere to run) he choked multiple of his children when they tried to defend their mother and spent the next few hours emptying the planes bottles of beer and red wine on their fucking heads. His kids are literally filing to have his last name dropped before they even turn 18.
Also reminder that Brad Pitt, who both stars in and is producing the film, is banking on YOU as a motorsport fan to be a built-in audience for this project. Don't do it. Seeing a cameo of the drivers for a few seconds is not worth the moral forfeit of giving this literal monster your money and support.
Okay, so I need to do a bit of a ramble about one of the biggest couple goals in recent motorsport.
I am, of course talking about Will and Liz Power
Now youâve gotta understand that they basically started at Team Australia/Walker Racing within a couple of months of each other with Will doing the last two races of the â05 Champ Car season and Liz joining as part of the PR team in February â06. They had met and interacted but it wasnât an easy start for Liz.
You see, between Long Beach and Houston, which was to be the first race she would attend in person, her Dad, Bo, had a stroke and required quadruple bypass surgery. It was only at the last minute that she felt she could do the race only just making it in time for the team bus leaving for the airport.
Will sat beside her, making sure she was okay (apparently all he really wanted to do was hug her).
Eventually Liz was asked by team boss Derrick to befriend Will for two reasons:
He basically knew nobody
Australian media wasnât happy that Australian driver at Australian back team wasnât dominating series he had only just started in.
Part of the way Derrick sold this to her was by describing Will as a lost puppy but, at the same time, she wasnât to date Will or sheâd be at risk of losing her job.
Well within a couple of months they were dating because what do you expect when you take two people in emotional vulnerable situations and tell one of them to get close to the other.
It should be noted that around the same time Will had already asked mutual friends if Liz was seeing anyone.
Simon Pagenaud knew from the start and was even Willâs wingman from time to time and helped them hide the relationship while Lizâs family became part of Willâs rock in America. Lizâs mum Kathy is Willâs PA lady and basically the only person he trusts to buy and choose his outfits (cause left to his own devices you will know he is colourblind).
Of course it got found out but between how well Will was doing by the end of the season and how professional Liz had been in her role all was good.
Over time their careers would split, Will moving to KV Racing then Penske (with Liz being heavily involved in helping him prep for the interview) while Liz had stayed with Walker Racing until the end the going on to Dreyer & Reinbold Racing before calling time as she found it was too much to do PR at one team while your husband races at another.
And, honestly, if I was a racing driverâs partner Iâd probably be in a similar state to Liz, murdering all the bottles.
Their son Beau, named in honour of Lizâs dad who had sadly passed away in 2007, was born in 2016 but after the birth there were complications which resulted in Liz having to go back into hospital in Christmas Eve, luckily she was able to recover.
Towards the end of 2022, as Will won the championship for a second time, Liz again was starting to get ill. Come January 2023 she had a fever of 106 and Will had to call an ambulance.
It turned out that she had a staph infection that had settled in her spinal column and the only way to save her was to do an operation.
She almost didnât make it.
Will pulled out of the Daytona 24 but he almost retired full stop.
He had to be there for his family.
She got better though she was back in the hospital just before St Pete.
I think you had to be an idiot to not see that Will was off balance last year. This was a man who was doing everything he could to take care of his wife and then going to races by himself.
The support system that he has depended on since his first full season racing in America was gone.
For the first time since 2007 he failed to win a race.
It wasnât until the final races last year, with Liz finally back that he relaxed. He even said he was just happy the season was done.
This year everything is back to normal or as normal as it could be after going through something like that.
But, most importantly, Liz is back.
Thereâs already been a couple of weekends, be it after practice, qualifying or the race where you can see Will come out of the car hot and all it takes is Liz being there a couple of words and he calms, ready to speak to the team and media.
We already know if Liz hadnât gotten better when she had then we donât have Will leading the championship right now because he would have chosen her and Beau over another season.
Heck, if he wins the championship this year I wouldnât be shocked if he decides to end his career on that high so he can spend more time with the one who stood by him through it all.
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