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Great, something else to add to the “SORRY!” card I’m taking personally to the Ukrainian embassy tomorrow. Thiessens’s been a self-important apologist jerk forever, but this is a new low. PS: CVS does not have “Sorry Our President Sucks!” section. Definite felt need unmet.

And didn’t you just kinda die a little inside when his hand went up in class? In a world where you’d get tickets for student offenses (“1011.2 toadying compliments of prof’s work embedded in purported question” being way up there) “asking questions that extend class” would be the worst. $500 min.

Found it! First detention then I guess they’ll look at this odd one-off pro se filing separately.

Also where is my “fixer” and my $8000/mo housekeeper that I get to keep paying even while on bail for nonpayment of taxes and of other things creditors are baying at the door for??

Just heard his bail’s been revoked, remanded a couple long ago. Will go find actual filing. Was at two firms same time as he was - just the nicest guy, helped when didn’t need to. I keep reading all the pleadings w/ shock. Pretty clear big gambling got wayyy out of hand but … damn.

/2 you’d sure think he’d know the feds can follow the money. The untethered crypto wallets are unfindable … unless you do loads of texting about them complete w wallet numbers. Then they’re pretty darn findable.

Just saw his bail revoked, remanded to custody. Truly impossible to believe! It’s been years but I worked at two different big firms when he did, he was the nicest guy, would do anything for folks. So incredibly sad, esp for his family - is where a truly off-the-chain gambling addiction can go?

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I’m sympathetic to odd things people do when really excited: sudden cartwheels, jumping up and down, going home and putting on pajamas and going to bed, what have you. I can say with certainty, however, that for no normal, decent person could that include “accidentally” giving *two* Nazi salutes.

This has some great tips for addressing the core problem: Meta gathering your data everywhere and monetizing it. Not using Facebook doesn’t solve it, alas.

Pete Buttigieg told Democrats to not allow themselves to be so outraged by the Trump administration that they would neglect working for their constituents. “We cannot be mesmerized by the worst things that we see happening,” Buttigieg said. nyti.ms/3ZiKILz

I’m shocked, shocked to hear there’s already a big K-2 coloring & writing packet for the world’s most witless would-be dictator to fill in. D’ya think they’ll get Mattel or Fisher-Price to make DT a life-sized McDonald’s playhouse for when he’s good and finishes filling out his homework every day?

Makes it a good bit harder to get your nomination through the Senate (even this one) especially for something like AG. Which, I mean… the more hopelessly incompetent the people selected are, the happier I am on one level, but his confirmation would be a real obscenity, so, there’s that.

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Look everything’s on fire and all but my husband did note today that the current lineup of fools appointed is *no* way to run a dictator-coup situation. Bunch of idjits stuck in way above level of competence and again, it’s not just that they’re no philosopher kings, they’re not even good bad guys.

Just fyi it’s totally been done before in the U.S. I mean, Warren Harding was by all accounts a great guy, pleasant, etc, but his administration was spectacularly corrupt. It’s just amazing what you can do if you have a lot of power and give no shits about anyone but yourself, wealth, and power!

Laden with despair and disbelief, I signed up with the Lawyers for Good Government, volunteering to retrain to be of pro bono help for those targeted for mass deportation when needed. I’m an IP lawyer but did asylum work years ago and it’s something concrete to do. I won’t cede the US to the hordes!

Fashion Retailer Zara Pulls Kids Shirt Resembling Concentration Camp Uniform The company said the shirt's design was meant to look like a sheriff's star from classic Western films. But after popular uproar, Zara decided to pull it from shelves.

BUT I went to leave a 5-star review but Apple Podcasts won’t let me do it! So let me know where you prefer your scrapingly admiring reviews to appear! In exchange I share one of my top 5 fave “trademark fail”s: Zara Baby’s “Sheriff” baby top. Uh, anyone in marketing ever read/watch any history ever?

I have MD friends who have tiredly said, they really only close schools when the ERs and hospitals start overflowing with people in severe respiratory distress. That’s good, if you want people including possibly you not to die. And yes, remote sucks for some kids. It’s not the teachers’ fault.

Gosh, I wish there were a law that allowed us all to *know* about where all the dark money came from! Oh I forgot, money is “speech”. 🙄 IIRC, Ken White said going after PACs is easier if the donors themselves are unhappy about where the $$ is going. Alas! Not the case with a lot of these.

So, just scanning down this lettervomit I wish to call out one thing alleged on ln 15: “as [the Judge’s] wife and friends sat in cordoned off front row seats watching with glee.” If I were Kaplan’s spouse I would 100% be in that area in the front watching with glee. images.app.goo.gl/QKxiuTU2eW4z...

This crap seems to be the same as all the damn Critical Race Theory panic, only stupider. CRT (nor any form of Critical Theory) was not coming to an elementary or even a high school near you and even if it were you don’t fucking understand it because of you did you’d probably embrace it.

Speaking as a scholar of medieval history and a classics junkie, it’s even more fun that having a stick up the butt about the total shocking-ness of an artist popular in that shocked person’s era is something as old as recorded history. ZOMG women on the stage!! Scandal!

When I first saw that story, My BS dial spun instantly to 11. This thing didn’t happen so much, it married razor blades in Hallowe’en candy and birthed a pedophile ring in the basement of a pizza and ping pong joint a mile from where I’m sitting right now. Ugh!

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Thanks! Happy to be here!

Although it’s unclear if the portrait was looted, the “Washington Principles” were nonetheless followed in a settlement between the painting’s last owner and descendants of the Lieser family.

One of Klimt’s ‘most beautiful’ portraits rediscovered after almost 100 years Austrian artist Gustav Klimt’s “Portrait of Fräulein Lieser” is going to auction and is expected to fetch up to $54 million.

Joyous beauty! One of Klimt’s last works rediscovered, the portrait “Fräulein Lieser”, of a young woman from the Viennese high society (Jewish) Lieser family, the style (intense color, open brushstrokes) epitomizing the height of Klimt’s late period.

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Leading, as seems so very appropriate, with my most dedicated co-worker. It’s a fine day for a … zzzz.

Unless he’s actively endangering the life/lives of someone(s) specific (?)

Do we think that (as I remember Ken explaining of various long-suffering judges) judges will tend to just continue letting T***p beclown himself in and out of court to the extent slapping him might either a) offer grounds for appeal or b) oh Jesus slow things down please no?