Gillian Branstetter

Well also www.thedartmouth.com/article/2024...

A pink box on a store shelf labeled "anti-anxiety puzzle"

As opposed to all those high-stakes jigsaw puzzles

Caribbean LGBTQ+ activists celebrate as court strikes down colonial-era laws ‘Stride in the right direction’ as Eastern Caribbean supreme court rules St Lucia’s laws on gay sex unconstitutional

“We’re not asking anyone to change their beliefs. What we are asking for is fairness. These laws were outdated and violated the basic human rights of LGBTQ+ people.”

Mario's brother Luigi in a striped shirt and blue pants with a gondolier hat with a green ribbon

Why did no one tell me about gondolier Luigi

This is what actual cancel culture looks like

This artificial victimhood is how they manufacture consent for the actual censorship being perpetrated by the administration. They're very confident Twitter discourse about Sydney Sweeney justifies what they're doing to campuses, journalists, and protesters like Mahmoud Khalil

'Confusion' over who's in charge of Alligator Alcatraz underlies lawsuit hearing A federal judge said he wants more clarity on "who is running the show" at Alligator Alcatraz, following a lawsuit over attorney access to clients detained at the immigration detention center in the E...

“This is unprecedented. We have not ever seen a situation where hundreds of people are held without charge ... under legal authority that has not been explained," ACLU attorney Eunice Cho said on Monday.

The joystick broke on the Switch Lite I bought at the start of the pandemic so earlier this week I talked myself into splurging on a Switch 2 so of course the economy immediately collapsed under the weight of my excess

Or somebody important. To be honest I don't really know how Canada works

Arriving in Toronto and demanding an audience with Tim Horton

While Giuffre's family was giving this statement, Trump was in the White House briefing room with former Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor, arrested in 2010 for raping a 16-year-old

Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew

This has always been the case but its usually noise; what stands out now is they're creating panics about "cancel culture" while literally jailing dissidents, taking over campuses, and forcing comedians off the air

Houston gay bar sues landlord over lockout, alleges harassment The bar closed earlier this month and was seen with its doors boarded up.

NEW: Just weeks after shuttering, Houston gay bar Eagle has filed a lawsuit against their landlord, alleging that the landlord unlawfully locked them out of the property and engaged in a "campaign of harassment" against staff and ownership.

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U.S. Department of Energy @ENERGY She's an icon She's a legend And she is the moment✨

"Hunter Schafer is a man but this lump of coal is a pretty lady"

Horrifying all the more!

The People Being Arrested By ICE That No One’s Talking About The Trump administration’s deportation machine is detaining immigrant women at record numbers — and they've become invisible targets.

Harrowing report about an undocumented mother of two (including a nursing 3-month-old) who called the police on her boyfriend for assaulting her, only for her to end up detained in ICE custody with 30 other women in a men's facility notorious for sexual abuse and medical neglect.

Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Chatbots Are Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries

my landlord has been claiming i owe over $4,000 in missed rent payments for months, and when i asked for receipts they sent me the rental history of a person from a different building w/ all their personal info. when i pointed this out they apologized & said their chatbot generated this.

meanwhile:

Looking at this weather forecast like a WWII bomber pilot looks at a photo of his wife back home

Importantly this is how the Times leadership justifies changing nothing--"if both sides hate us then we must be doing something right"

Why in the years after 9/11 did millions of American children play with a model of the Kaaba

I told him that such a potentially incendiary statement, involving siting a version of the most significant Islamic religious site on the planet at Ground Zero, directly adjacent to the footprint of the Twin Towers, was nearly unbelievable, and would certainly require some kind of further proof. “How about the fact that the corner of the building points directly to Mecca?” my friend asked me. That would likely be something more than a coincidence, I avowed. Within minutes, my friend sent me back a Google Earth map, showing that the off-kilter corner of the Perelman Performing Arts Center that Kimmelman had noted in his review points directly at Mecca, where the Kaaba is located. When I wondered aloud about whether my friend might have been tipped off by someone with insider knowledge, he demurred.

Like do editors just salivate at the thought of someone openly experiencing psychosis

Tablet Magazine @tabletmag The Perelman Performing Arts Center was unveiled in September 2023, steps from the footprint of the Twin Towers. Critics called it “glamorous” and “a retort to terrorism.” But no one mentioned something almost too strange to believe: It’s a ringer for the Kaaba, Islam’s holiest shrine. The cube-shaped building is even veiled in marble that recalls the Kaaba’s black kiswa, and one corner points directly toward Mecca. This is not an internet conspiracy theory. It’s a thing anyone could see. But not a single one of the dozens of distinguished art and architecture critics and urban planners who commented on the site for dozens of high-level newspapers and magazines ever so much as noted the similarity to the Kaaba, even in passing. Standing on a site visible to hundreds of thousands of people, the building has somehow rendered itself invisible.

Are the people who fly airplanes into buildings themselves amenable to such solutions? I guess it depends on what those solutions are. If one were an architect, for example, one might seek to discourage certain types of people from flying an airplane into your building by designing it in the shape of the Kaaba. Or perhaps that would make an attack by those certain types of people more likely. Who knows. Would the Islamist fanatic Mohamed Atta, piloting American Airlines Flight 11 and the 92 people onboard into the World Trade Center on 9/11 in the furtherance of Osama bin Laden’s considered plan to spur the United States into invading the Middle East, in order to humiliate it there, and thereby cause it to withdraw its support for local despots, who could then be more easily toppled, have stopped short when he looked out of the cockpit and saw the Kaaba below him? Again, who knows.

This is among the most insane things I've ever read

Model who lost molestation suit against Jewish billionaire charged with stealing underwear Maximillia Cordero, 33, arrested for breaking into Victoria's Secret store; had accused Jeffrey Epstein of pressuring her into sex as a teen

She later sued the New York Post for defamation, chiefly over claims she ran a MySpace page that published lewd sexual fantasies (i.e. slut shaming) but lost. The last public record I can find is (strangely) from The Times of Israel in 2018 noting she was arrested for shoplifting

I don't know. The last instance I can find of media coverage of her is a 2018 arrest for shoplifting.

The news this morning that Jeffrey Epstein accuser and tranny Maximilia Cordero filed a similar suit against another older man for making her his underage “sex slave” back in 2002 prompted William Unroch, Cordero’s lawyer-boyfriend, to send Daily Intel yet anothermissive, complaining about how the Post is choosing to “discredit this young woman” over focusing on the “child molester.” A copy of his revised complaint against Epstein was also attached. We’re not going to reprint it here, because for one it is really, really, really gross, but suffice it to say that if Unroch wants the focus shifted back to Epstein’s misdeeds, well, then, naming Victoria’s Secret and Limited Brands founder Leslie Wexner as a defendant because the company “knowingly allowed the defendant Epstein to use the glamour and lure of their names to harass and trap young models and teenage girls in performing sex acts with defendant Epstein” and sprinkling your complaint with colorful scenarios like “plaintiff told defendant Epstein ‘I’m Old Yella’ and began barking like a dog” and “Jeffrey Epstein went into the bathroom and came out several minutes later wearing red lipstick and wearing a matted red wig and said to plaintiff ‘Call me Janice’” is probably not the way to do it. It is, however, a good way to prove you are completely and fully batshit insane.

This didn't stop the media from roundly mocking her. Here's New York Magazine, for example, in 2007 calling her "batshit insane" for making claims about Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner that we now know. She was too "insane" to be believed, but not insane enough to have her claims heard in court.

Cordero v Epstein Cordero v Epstein - 2008 NY Slip Op 28391

She sued Epstein in 2007 for abuse she says occurred in the 1990s, but the statute of limitations had expired. She justified her delay to the court on the grounds she was legally insane, a claim the NY state supreme court ultimately rejected thus ending her claim.

Pages of the NY Post from 2007 featuring Ava Cordero under the headlines "GENDER BENDER SHOCKER" and "S(HE) HAS A HISTORY"

So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed

Learning the NYT published their Mamdani college app story in part to get ahead of Chris Rufo was honestly so clarifying about who their leadership sees as their competition, namely people openly delighting in how bad faith they can be