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I looked it up :-) Found the country tonite theatre and went from there.
Thought for a moment it was Branson.
(Worked on Queen Mary one summer, and learned a lot about transatlantic liners. I tried id'ing the ship based on the stacks.)

2026-04-02 01:10:25 UTC

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That's the Titanic? They got the number of stacks wrong.

2026-03-25 21:05:59 UTC

Ok, so the award is $3 million, plus $3 million in punitive damages for a total of $6 million.
Still seems low but it's to a single defendant, not a class and
That trial will also enter a second phase, in May, in which a judge will decide whether Meta created a public nuisance and if the company must pay additional penalties to address harms.
https://www.kqed.org/news/12077549/meta-google-ordered-to-pay-6-million-in-social-media-addiction-trial
#nevent1q…ugkw

2026-03-25 17:41:12 UTC

$3 million. Pfft.
https://media.spinster.xyz/ad33c7c4b8f6325afb635dcb589ddf0890c525c0eb7acab83872533f5fa9b6c1.png

2026-03-25 17:27:28 UTC

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Don't burn bridges.
My attitude is actually "I fucking hate being bored." I was doing everyone a favor by not being there 8 hours and 15 minutes and my boss knew it.

2026-03-25 17:23:52 UTC

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I once got laid off with a year's notice. (Then we got a memo that we'd be working an extra 15 minutes every day. LOL.)
I got my transfer my workload to the other office stuff done after 3 months, then showed up at noon, and left at 2...

2026-03-25 17:20:41 UTC

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You know, you have to keep working there until you have another job.

2026-03-22 20:00:22 UTC

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I know. BUT lozenges are less nasty than cigs.
I don't know what your cravings are like. Mine were so bad I convinced myself buying a pack of Malboros was the healthy option...

2026-03-22 19:49:00 UTC

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Vape has nasty ingredients.
The mini lozenges, just pop under your tongue. Lessens the craving. (You're right, they're not fun. That's the point.)

2026-03-22 19:09:06 UTC

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Oh. Lozenges for cravings. Nicotine lozenges.

2026-03-22 19:06:53 UTC

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Welp, not sure if I'd be able to talk them into Cubans right away these days. Might take a while (one of the guys wanted to take me out on a date date). I'd have to hint around a bit.
Dirt as in rich and earthy.

2026-03-22 18:59:45 UTC

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Never did a pipe. I had a cigar when I was in Jamaica, and I know a local smokeshop that sells cigarettes to select clients.
I quit smoking after that, but Cubans might lure me back. Tastes like dirt.

2026-03-22 18:28:22 UTC

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Ever had a Cuban cig?
Tastes like dirt. Amazingly good.

2026-03-20 23:02:57 UTC

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2026-03-10 17:09:00 UTC

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There's a cure for that.
https://featheredfarmlife.com/can-chicken-poop-make-you-sick-risks-prevention-tips/

2026-03-10 05:21:34 UTC

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2026-03-04 19:08:44 UTC

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Did you know that obedience school trains the owner, and not the dog?

2026-03-03 20:57:25 UTC

Only 19.
There were better places to rent videos than Blockbuster.
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2026-02-28 11:59:40 UTC

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If people survive the war, there is the after to come.
I doubt the real estate guy Trump uses understands what happens next. (Or maybe they've made arrangements with another oppressor to run things like they did in Venezuela.)
Rn, just hoping other countries stay out.

2026-02-28 11:48:53 UTC

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I don't know anyone there rn, but I've met a few.

2026-02-28 11:44:29 UTC

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US & Israel launched a "major operation" airstrike against Iran. Trump says he wants "regime change".
Iran has launched counter attacks against US bases and Israel.
All because Trump tore up an agreement because Obama negotiated it.

2026-02-28 11:33:51 UTC

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Ooops. I forgot to mention Qatar.
(I was going to go to bed. Asshat declared war, without congressional approval, and without the eminent threat the War Powers Act requires. So, I'm awake.)

2026-02-28 10:11:54 UTC

Counter attacks in Kuwait, UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Israel.
So far.

2026-02-27 23:00:07 UTC

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Accidently put an angry react on this. I apologize. It's a lovely pic.

2026-02-27 21:17:53 UTC

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I need a learner tool. So far, I'm only squeaking by with cheats.

2026-02-27 21:03:40 UTC

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I hate sudoku.
I need to learn it. (Don't ask.)
Anywhere online you can recommend?

2026-02-27 01:55:25 UTC

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WF killed Mrs Gooch. Took it over, and killed a natural food store.
And Trader Joes is cheaper.
https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/ucla-library-acquires-sandy-gooch-papers-natural-foods-pioneer-educator

2026-02-27 01:47:20 UTC

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I hate Whole Foods. Makes it simpler.

2026-02-24 02:32:55 UTC

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I know it's a pop culture phenom, and I thought should be more aware for cultural literacy, but I just couldn't. I couldn't finish the first book. Never watched the movies.
I have also never watched any of The Hunger Games stuff.
Dipping out of pop culture has, overall, been good.

2026-02-24 01:16:06 UTC

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Came out about the time Buffy was peaking, and I assumed it was Buffy without the social commentary.
(I didn't get very far into the books, skipped the movies altogether.)

2026-02-24 00:12:01 UTC

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I haven't listened to it, but I always figured Twilight started as a Buffy fanfic.

2026-02-20 16:08:47 UTC

Took a year for SCOTUS to say that a blatantly unconstitutional policy was unconstitutional.

2026-02-20 00:30:14 UTC

Prince Andrew's Arrest
Across the pond in Britain, accountability is a serious matter
Interestingly, Andrew’s arrest is not concerning the 2011 sexual assault allegations that were brought against him by Virginia Giuffre — but it was recent stories in the British media about him passing on financial information to what the British press called “his pedo mate.” (Epstein)
It’s astonishing how much accountability seems to be possible once you cross the Atlantic.
Julie K Brown
https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/p/prince-andrews-arrest

2026-02-19 23:49:27 UTC

Both California and Indiana have introduced social media minimum age laws, citing Australia as an example. Good step forward, IMO.
https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article314732891.html

2026-02-14 06:43:18 UTC

Authorities arrested Kebin Dong, 38, and Wei Nei, 40, who investigators say owned and operated a website that openly advertised sex services.
“At one point, detectives identified more than 30 residential and hotel brothel locations operating throughout the state of California,” the sheriff’s office said. “Detectives also identified more than 60 female profiles on the website, believed to be commercial sex workers operating at the advertised brothel locations.”
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-brothel-network-with-30-locations-dismantled-in-major-bust/

2026-02-06 23:59:01 UTC

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UPS just laid off a ton of people preparing for it.
(I'd use Lysol, Tamiflu, anything I could get hands on if I worked in a drug store during flu season)

2026-02-06 22:05:59 UTC

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Personally, I'm looking forward to the complete divorce between UPS and Amazon. Think it will improve the deliveries to my address tremendously.
Only place I see masks down here are the occasional clerk at the drug store. That makes sense tho. Bad flu season and a lot of sick people go in there.

2026-02-06 19:16:31 UTC

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Still waiting for all espionage and kompromat info to be pieced together.
I don't know if most will ever understand the pain, but they may be able to grasp the political sleaze.

2026-01-31 03:26:19 UTC

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2026-01-31 01:10:10 UTC

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2026-01-25 04:22:23 UTC

It was never about immigration. It was about election rigging.
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2026-01-24 21:11:31 UTC

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He has no power to take over an arts center and rename it after himself even though federal law designates it's name.
He has no power to take over an independent agency not answering to the president, fire the employees and establish a new version of that agency named after himself and requiring a billion$$ entrance fee.
He has no power to start a war with Venezuela or Iran.
He has no power to issue executive orders that change congressionally passed law.
He has no power to do 95% of what he has done.
It's about power. The Insurrection Act sends the US military into US states to take over the power they wield over elections, which is the only real power opposing him.

2026-01-24 20:46:56 UTC

He wants provoke an uprising so he can invoke the Insurrection Act as a pretext to cancel the midterm elections. People will go to jail, and MAGA is over after November if we have free and fair elections.
Lincoln didn't cancel the 1864 elections, mind, so he's playing the dishonest chickenshit.
https://media.spinster.xyz/39858d13f6101115975a1a30bd7806f7eac9c36312d861a3b51bc3040ef247f1.png

2026-01-21 21:48:36 UTC

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It was indeed. My dad arranged 3 job interviews within a week, 2 in California and 1 in Hawaii.
I came with a breath of being LostInHawaii.

2026-01-21 21:24:02 UTC

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We moved to California after the snowdrifts covered the attic windows of our 2 story colonial house.
Rent is too damn high, but Nevada and Arizona are still cheap.

2026-01-14 22:32:09 UTC

FACT FOCUS: Trump repeats false claims when discussing Greenland’s security in the Arctic
Experts have repeatedly rebuffed Trump’s claims of Chinese and Russian military forces lurking off Greenland’s coastline. Experts say Russia instead operates in the Barents Sea, off the Scandinavian coast, and both China and Russia have a presence in the Bering Sea south of Alaska.
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-greenland-denmark-trump-arctic-security-russia-china-6346aa8e86be594e467e8cc18f98357b

2026-01-11 20:58:45 UTC

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Yes.
i'M A cIa ToOl bECaUSE i'M bETTeR rEAd THAN yOu ARe.

2026-01-11 20:53:30 UTC

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And the POTUS is the one making the judgement call.
When I hear about medical experiments in Guatemala, I don't blame the CIA. I blame the fucker in charge who let it happen.
When I hear about Russians kidnapping Ukrainian children, I don't blame the CIA. I blame the fucker in charge who let it happen.
And only one of those is from the USA.

2026-01-11 20:40:34 UTC

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Yer, we have SoMEtHINg To LeArN ABoUt ThE BAy oF PiGS!!
Your example: Let's explore.
A POTUS about to leave office arranged for an invasion of Cuba, to be led by exiles from Cuba. The next POTUS tried to stop it, but the Cuban extremists went ahead. It failed.
The lesson here is "do not listen to Cuban exiles" just as "do not listen to Iraqi exiles" was the lesson this century.
The one thing it has in common were non CIA officials in DC who were willing to listen to extremists and order to the CIA to come up with a plan, just as Putin himself was the extremist who ordered the FSB to come up with a plan in Ukraine.
You feel comfortable? Sprouting any shrooms under that shit?

2026-01-10 20:19:42 UTC

I don't know who needs to hear this, but being pro Trump / MAGA is not anti imperialist.
Pro Trump / MAGA about collapsing the republic so an empire can rise in its place.

2026-01-09 02:16:33 UTC

So, finally stream a tv show I've been interested in.
Not only is it hokie, but the star isn't even cute.
Sigh. Been a rough couple of days.

2026-01-08 19:25:16 UTC

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Massive crowd in Minneapolis last night, but no George Floyd.
Governor told them "do not take the bait" -- any violence would lead to Trump invoking the Insurrection Act and putting US military into every state.
They seem to have listened (and didn't burn Waymos to make a lot of smoke like they did in LA).
OTOH, feds have excluded state authorities from the investigation and declared the killer has full immunity.

2026-01-08 19:11:09 UTC

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Also, there's a close up
He was not in any danger whatsoever.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2026/01/08/video-ice-shooting-minneapolis/
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2026-01-08 18:37:03 UTC

So, both her mother and her ex husband both say the woman killed yesterday wasn't participating in the protest in anyway shape or form.
https://media.spinster.xyz/c9259fb7a0595a1011875200d49107a938c25be8e04f9ca244d464075358a103.png

2026-01-08 18:26:08 UTC

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They did. Obama gave it the good old college try to get them out, but the GOP insisted that "parents had to have control over their kids lunches", even if SNAP paid for those lunches (like kids eat what mom wants when mom is out of sight).
Meanwhile, Pepsi Frito Lay paid for a lot of Congressional lunches.

2026-01-08 18:00:23 UTC

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Now, she needs to apologize for her network championing potato chips in public schools. Not just only having them available for sale, they insisted that the government pay for them in free lunch programs.

2026-01-06 22:04:29 UTC

Stephen Miller has the tiniest penis in the wolrd.

2026-01-06 21:35:04 UTC

Just got off the phone trying to get through automated call service. Did not answer my question, and misunderstood what I was trying to do. And they think AI will work?
Had another customer service chat with an AI bot. "She" kept saying "I understand" then repeating instruction to do something other than my request. That was a retailer -- I deleted my cart and went somewhere else.
OMG.

2026-01-05 20:26:00 UTC

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They can, and for any old bullshit.

2026-01-04 01:48:48 UTC

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It mentions cocaine. Trump made his case on fentanyl.
And my I add, Trump making the case that it was election fraud takes some orange colored balls.
Yes, Maduro cheated. Trump just as fuck tried to cheat, and failed to go to jail only by lawerly tricks.

2026-01-03 23:05:12 UTC

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2026-01-03 21:25:01 UTC

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2025-12-30 20:51:26 UTC

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I don't think they'd have lives if they didn't flirt with everyone and everything.

2025-12-29 00:08:23 UTC

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If you realize how often I correct someone who pronounces my name wrong, you'd realize you're not paranoid at all. Just practical.

2025-12-28 01:24:19 UTC

Psst. He's not your friend.
https://media.spinster.xyz/62f21d6c401df890b5f05600e0f2af2aff65c014f9fb6e92b9de3c66cbe0b8e5.png

2025-12-27 23:50:51 UTC

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Not all women hate dogs. For that matter, I know a skinny blonde in Orange County who owns a huge pick up ("my dream car" say all the boys).
I just think GM can't win with their advertising strategies (and until things change, I'm okay with them not winning).

2025-12-26 23:15:38 UTC

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(Wrightwood is north of San Bernardino and Victorville, in the Angelus Forest. I mentioned San Jacinto near PS because there is always the possibility you visited it when you were in PS -- if you haven't, you should take the drive next time.
Take the highway from Banning, and stop by Convict Lake (picnic; and admire the rock) then drive on to town and stop by the old fashioned general store and sometimes the music conservancy does a show. Hemet is also nearby, and then there's Fern Valley. The vanilla pine trees, and the Amerindian corn mortars built into the rock --- my gawd, there's a lot to see in the mountains! I'll stop my boosterism now....)

2025-12-26 12:00:46 UTC

Look at that. Mudflow but the table and chairs are still standing.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-26/southern-california-wettest-christmas-extreme-weather-swings
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2025-12-23 22:25:06 UTC

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No. The numbers are overdue, and the usual correction is also overdue.
He's doing a "don't look behind the curtain" push. GDP growth and the sectors involved are usually big news.

2025-12-23 20:44:59 UTC

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That is what BEA does, break down into industries for analysis.
You might just need to eat this one. Sometimes they release numbers to media/professionals before the public, and with Breitbart pushing the "this is good news!" angle right in the middle of the "Affordability Is A Hoax" tour, I'd say that's likely what happened. (NB: I don't use Zero as my source; mine is from an academic. Yet, same industry leads all.)

2025-12-23 20:08:02 UTC

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Read the first paragraph. This report was due in October. Q3, not Q4.

2025-12-18 01:27:51 UTC

There's a reason they didn't want him testifying in public.
Former Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith told lawmakers in a closed-door interview Wednesday that his team of investigators “developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that President Donald Trumphad criminally conspired to overturn the results of the 2020 election, according to portions of his opening statement obtained by The Associated Press.
Smith also said investigators had accrued “powerful evidence” Trump broke the law by hoarding classified documents from his first term as president at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, and by obstructing government efforts to recover the records.
https://apnews.com/article/jack-smith-congress-justice-department-d35557d525fcfe51a20d08c6abb7f71d

2025-12-16 19:43:26 UTC

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sorry you're feeling poorly

2025-12-16 00:44:28 UTC

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I don't think he has "presidential immunity" in a civil case, and he's the ass who filed it.
Probably thought they'd fold.

2025-12-16 00:29:55 UTC

Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery demands on Trump for tax returns, psych records, and 'any' prescription meds history
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/pulitzer-prize-board-members-fight-back-with-wide-ranging-discovery-demands-including-about-trump-finances/

2025-12-15 22:23:43 UTC

Pellman was alarmed, according to the people who attended the hearing. Surrogacy was a tool to help people build families, but what Xu was describing didn’t seem like parenting, the people said.
The judge denied his request for parentage—normally quickly approved for the intended parents of a baby born through surrogacy, experts say. The decision left the children he’d paid for to be born in legal limbo.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/chinese-billionaires-surrogacy-pregnancy-7fdfc0c3
https://archive.ph/07p7k#selection-2377.0-2381.215

2025-12-13 01:03:59 UTC

If your house burns down, and someone finds your family photos at a flea market, that's not a feel good story.
It means someone looted your house.
Jes' sayin'

2025-12-12 14:56:26 UTC

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Because the more outrageous they are, the more people think it's just an act.
Orange Dood did say he loved stupid people.

2025-12-09 17:14:11 UTC

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she needs are new batteries
https://media.spinster.xyz/a35943f8e2ddd3f39d8b29f7d64e2772aa9494a50b0896d05e41df87577697fe.png

2025-12-03 06:57:56 UTC

Huge shredded cheese recall (sold by Target, WalMart, Aldi's, Albertson's, HEB, and more) due to metal fragments.
https://www.allrecipes.com/cheese-recall-metal-fragments-december-2025-11860234
https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ires/?Event=97827

2025-11-30 05:36:54 UTC

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You bigot!! Humblebragging about your "I need Midol" privilege!!
Drinking lots of water used to help me. Hydrate, hydrate and hydrate.

2025-11-25 16:25:06 UTC

I mean, c'mon. Everyone can see it.
Now the BBC has overcorrected—albeit in the other direction. On Bluesky, historian Rutger Bregman just charged that the broadcaster cut a line from a BBC lecture he delivered in which he described Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/203648/trump-bbc-fury-maga-edit

2025-11-25 15:43:14 UTC

Socialism for me, but not for thee.
Trump turning the US economy into a state run "capitalism" to prop up the fossil fuel industry and other pet projects. (State run economies are not good at innovation, ICYMI)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/us/politics/trump-intel-steel-minerals-china.html?unlocked_article_code=1.308.XIMx.3WcQ8CbWM3Tm
https://archive.ph/WTRHx
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2025-11-21 01:50:29 UTC

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BTW: it was 2 female reporters, not just one.

2025-11-21 01:49:58 UTC

Of course, they do. Making excuses for the inexcusable is what Leavitt does.
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2025-11-16 20:29:19 UTC

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Tyson seems to be one those dudes who's convinced misogyny can be fixed if only women acted correctly (ie, more like men.)

2025-11-15 20:19:50 UTC

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Most of those streets are incredibly safe. Some of the areas to the east are iffy, and there are parts of downtown but the homeless everyone avoids, but its a safer city than you know.
I'd take a companion if I went into the hills, but most of those streets are urban and have other people walking on them.

2025-11-14 16:11:50 UTC

"Anyone but me, damnit!"
"Epstein was a Democrat, and he is the Democrat’s problem, not the Republican’s problem!" he wrote on social media. "They all know about him, don't waste your time with Trump. I have a Country to run!"
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-will-ask-justice-department-probe-epstein-ties-with-bill-clinton-2025-11-14/

2025-11-14 15:39:43 UTC

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I don't toke or chew, but I think the war on MJ and hemp is ridiculous.

2025-11-14 15:03:27 UTC

Conservatives. Bringing back all the hits of the past 50 to 100 years.
President Donald Trump has signed a spending bill that includes provisions to ban most consumable hemp products.
https://www.marijuanamoment.net/congress-passes-bill-to-recriminalize-hemp-thc-products-sending-it-to-trumps-desk/

2025-11-13 21:44:41 UTC

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2025-11-13 21:37:11 UTC

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While pedophilia is not in and of itself a Federal crime in the United States, if this psychiatric disorder causes a person to commit such crimes as child abuse or the acquisition of child pornography, then a pedophile may be subject to arrest and punishment by U.S. Federal authorities.
It's defined as a 9 year age gap in psychiatric lit, and that would be the guidance (until Bondi, et least). The gap is there to distinguish for relationship which might fall under "statutory rape" - an age appropriate relationship between teens vs genuine paedo tendencies.
You have to go to the individual states for specifics.
https://criminal.laws.com/assault/sexual-assault/pedophilia

2025-11-13 21:15:16 UTC

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Also, legal definition of paedophilia is a 9 year age gap.
The men who visited Epstein's island were older than 24.

2025-11-13 19:38:39 UTC

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And so we arrive at the essence of the movement: a collective that knows it is lying, yet believes lying to be its most authentic act.
https://therationalleague.substack.com/p/the-vacancy-of-the-maga-mind

2025-11-13 18:45:59 UTC

So instead of listening to survivors, she listens to a paedo?
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2025-11-12 16:17:31 UTC

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Yer. They're dependent on ad dollars, and companies put their ad money on shows they think will benefit their own bottom line, and fighting over "inclusivity" may not be it.
And we've seen how current people in DC are more than willing to interfere with the "free market" at the drop of a hat. Entertainment execs are rarely brave.
It's not just viewers.

2025-11-12 15:45:38 UTC

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I wouldn't put it past show biz executives to be putting the thumb on the scale in the current atmosphere but I'd guess it was never as popular as social media made it seem.