This is the biggest takeaway: billionaires live in a society apart. They know their money will insulate them from consequences, and so do their sycophants.

The tastes of the duke were peculiar. He had a fine eye for colors and effects. He disregarded the decora of mere fashion. His plans were bold and fiery, and his conceptions glowed with barbaric lustre. There are some who would have thought him mad. His followers felt that he was not. It was necessary to hear and see and touch him to be sure that he was not.

-The Masque of the Red Death

This video is the first thing I remember her from. I don’t think she’s fundamentally different now.

FLARED USERS ONLY
FLARED USERS ONLY
FLARED USERS ONLY

Get out into nature. Take frequent walks.

Be social, even if you don’t want to in the moment.

Have a goal to work towards that doesn’t have anything to do with employment (learn to draw, or play piano, or cook).

Be patient with yourself and others. It’s rough out there.

It used to be that they’d put baseball games on broadcast TV.

Now you basically need a subscription to watch the team in my area. It’s like they don’t want anyone to see the games.

And hey, Mike Johnson is keeping the Epstein investigation files sealed during this shutdown. So chin up little MAGA, your pedo president is being protected by you getting stranded in the Des Moines airport.

I sized her up when she covered for Trump for his first impeachment.

She’s a lying, manipulative, amoral climber who will do anything to advance her profile.

Her helping try to overthrow the government on Jan 6 showed that I had her figured right.

She’s one of the worst vipers in the whole nest.

I’ll bet $500 that she used the phrase “don’t you know who I am?!”

The only reason he would stop a Trump administration policy is that the owner class is upset. They clearly are.

It isn’t; the Privileges and Immunities clause of the constitution has been interpreted by previous SCOTUS decision to mean that people can move freely between the States without restrictions.

However, reactionaries like Abbott know they have ideological allies in the current SCOTUS who are eager to overturn case law in order to advance their shared conservative project.

Anyone want in on this spliff?

This must be the “art of the deal” I’ve heard so much about.

Divisive? Like, more so than a corrupt nepo-baby sex pest?

This is why I believe that building up community spaces is truly the way forward.

Mutual aid is the foundation of society, but we Americans have let that part of our culture deteriorate and instead promoted the “self-made individual” as the heroic ideal.

Although it doesn’t seem vital, promoting pro-social spaces is critical to getting people to engage with their community and expand the “tribe” to include more degrees of separation.

The Infowars host had argued that a judge was wrong to find him liable for defamation and infliction of emotional distress without holding a trial on the merits of allegations lodged by relatives of victims of the shooting, which killed 20 first graders and six educators in Newtown, Connecticut.

Alex Jones and his lawyers were repeatedly warned that if they did not participate they would receive a default judgement.

From a contemporary article:

Connecticut Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis cited the defendants’ “willful noncompliance” with the discovery process as the reasoning behind the ruling. Bellis noted that defendants failed to turned over financial and analytics data that were requested multiple times by the Sandy Hook family plaintiffs.

It was so much fun fucking around, Alex, but the time has come to find out.

Trump on Maxwell: “I wish her well.”

Interesting that this is the only occasion where this blowhard shitheel doesn’t pretend to know everything about the subject.

Ray refused to participate in this plan, believing it would be inappropriate and highly unusual for a white-collar defendant like Comey, according to the source. He was then suspended for insubordination.

So it’s fine to parade a person around after an arrest for political reasons so long as they’re a lower-class peasant.

Even when the FBI does the right thing they do it for the wrong reasons.

86 percent of the white supremacy party still loves the white supremacist in chief. Gross.

An Arizona Republican lawmaker on Wednesday called for the execution of a Democratic congresswoman because she urged people upset with President Donald Trump to protest in the streets.

The post Gillette responded to claimed that Jayapal was making a call to violence because she said protesters should be “strike ready” and “street ready.” The Arizona Mirror watched the video in its entirety and found no calls to violence or advocating for overthrowing the government; it was focused on “non-violent resistance” to Trump and advising people on how to do that.

In contrast, Gillette has expressed support for the Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol in January 2021, who violently assaulted police officers and broke down doors and windows in order to access the building so they could stop Congress from certifying the 2020 election. In several posts on X, he called the 1,600 or so people who were prosecuted — and since pardoned by Trump — for their actions that day “political prisoners.”

He refused to answer questions when the Mirror reached him by phone on Thursday.

Coward.

Well, he’s had a little stroke so I guess he does too.