It’s been a long time since I’ve watched it, but I think think they did Ally Sheedy’s character dirty. The other characters got some kind of deep revelation about life, the universe, and everything, and pretty much all Ally Sheedy got was a new shade of lipstick. Her whole story arc basically boiled down to: just change everything about yourself and maybe the star football player will pay attention to you, because that’s what really matters in life.

Thanks for linking to an actual journalistic news outlet. All the other posts I’ve seen relating to this were for trash rags like TMZ, the NY Post, and the Daily Mail.

I think I would have been a lot happier if I’d never learned that.

“She got a sentence that was harsh. It was a 9 year sentence,” Polis said in March.

It actually wasn’t harsh though. MAGA is just pretending like it was because they’re pissed that one of them had to face any kind of consequences for their criminal behavior. The maximum penalty allowed by statute for each count she was convicted on was double what she actually got. Despite her showing absolutely zero remorse or contrition, the judge still gave her half the sentence they could have.

I can’t imagine why Polis would ever think pardoning her was a good idea, but I suspect he’s looking ahead to when he leaves office next year, and this is the beginning of his heel turn into becoming a right-wing grifter.

There really isn’t a trend of warehouse fires. The It Could Happen Here podcast did an episode on it the other day. Warehouse fires are just really common. They happen on average of four times a day in the US. But now you have a ton of content creators trying to paint every new one as a WaLuigi copycat to get those social media clicks. And since these fires are a daily occurrence, there are tons to choose from. They’re conflating events that are almost certainly not connected at all.

While I’m sure we’re going to get a WaLuigi copycat at some point in the future, there is no evidence that’s happening right now. A lot of people desperately want to believe that it is, though. I would like to believe that it is. But there just isn’t any actual evidence that it’s true.

Not that that’s going to stop lawmakers from clutching their pearls and passing some new draconian laws that further put the screws to the working class. I’ve been paying attention to politics for over 30 years and I don’t think I’ve ever seen Congress pass up a chance to screw over poor people when the opportunity arises.

Boy, you sure don’t hear the words “deeply researched” used in reference to the Daily Mail very often.

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I think the real reason is that the bleeding second that people’s access to healthcare is no longer tied to their employer there’s going to be a mass exodus from the workforce as people go out and start their own businesses, or move to a job with a better work/life balance, or to a job that just isn’t soul-crushing. This will make it much harder for businesses to underpay their employees, and I think there are very powerful business interests who see Americans having unrestricted access to healthcare as an existential threat to their profitability.

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Just throwing up any kind of chaff they can find to distract from Epstein.

“We were going to win this,” said the former senior ATF official. “These things are not like bump stocks."

Forced reset devices are actually exactly like bump stocks in that they’re legal because they force a distinct action of the trigger for every round fired. The legal definition of a machine gun is a firearm that fires more than one round per single action of the trigger. They haven’t bothered to amend or expand that definition, so these types of devices keep skirting by on a technicality.

I suppose the argument could be made that forced reset devices work in a very similar way to a machine gun’s auto sear, the difference being that they act on the trigger of the gun rather than the hammer, but it still doesn’t meet the government’s own definition of a machine gun.

Gonna be even more fun when all the empty trucks leaving from the empty west-coast ports I’ve been reading about for the past few days become empty shelves over the next few weeks. The real pain hasn’t even started yet.

Yes, comrades, Emmanuel Goldstein has struck again. Obviously this is all his doing.

There’s going to be a lot of that. I live in the Southwest, and the number of Trump-voting Latinos is shockingly high. There are a lot of conservative Latinos who straight up consider themselves to be white. Gonna be a real shock for them when it finally sinks in what the rest of their party thinks about that.

There needs to be a worker’s party. It doesn’t have to be the Democrats.

That there are only going to be two viable parties in this country is a mathematical inevitability of how our voting system works, but there’s no reason why the Democrats have to remain one of those parties. If what they’re doing right now is the best they’ve got then they shouldn’t be difficult to replace. A damp sandwich could do a better job.