Is it men’s turn now?

Hey. Straight. Men. They. are. coming. for. you.

I think it should read because of pen*s and not hate. pic.twitter.com/cbiNnDRAIN

— Kalesi Wolf (@Kalesi_wolf) August 24, 2020

Awwww look at that poor sweet sad little girl sitting holding her knees and trying not to cry because 98% of straight men are unwilling to date her. (She looks way too little to be dating anyone, at only 6 or 7, but whatever.) How could straight men be so mean that they make her mouth turn down and her eyes close – look at her sitting there all alone instead of “dating” (they really mean fucking) a nice straight man.

(Wait, if the sweet little girl wants … Read the rest

The New York Attorney General explains what they’re up to with that subpoena:

I took action to force the Trump Organization, and specifically EVP Eric Trump, to comply with my office’s ongoing investigation into its financial dealings.

For months, the Trump Organization has failed to fully comply with our subpoenas in this investigation.

— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) August 24, 2020

We are seeking thousands of documents and testimony from multiple witnesses regarding several Trump Organization properties and transactions, including from Eric Trump, who was intimately involved in one or more transactions under review.

— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) August 24, 2020

Nothing will stop us from following the facts and the law, wherever they may lead.

These questions will

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Another one summarily fired for crimethink.

Another woman summarily dismissed by a literary agency for daring to tweet her opinions on sex and gender. pic.twitter.com/gyUgWPhxOP

— Anya Palmer (@anyabike) August 24, 2020

By “parted ways with Sasha” they mean “fired Sasha for crimethink.”

What terrible thing did she say?

pic.twitter.com/V7rvpaYe6a

— Anya Palmer (@anyabike) August 24, 2020

Does that look like a firing offence to you? To anyone? Really?

It does to this unpleasant inquisitor:

I can't call myself a trans ally and withhold info that protects trans authors from transphobic agents. Do not query Sasha White (@sashasemyonovna). Her TERF account is @iamGrushenka. While she's within her right to post whatever she likes, STAY AWAY FROM HER.

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Golly.

I’m still bugging over this, BTW. https://t.co/qJERcUgIXJ

— Nope. (@JoyAnnReid) August 24, 2020

One wonders what number would be NOT ACCEPTABLE.… Read the rest

Sir, sir, just a moment sir, not so fast sir, we have some questions for you sir, we have a subpoena for your records sir.

New York state’s attorney general has filed a new lawsuit against U.S. President Donald Trump’s company and several other defendants, according to court records.

The complaint against the Trump Organization and the other defendants was filed with a New York state court in Manhattan, the court records show.

Trump is at the Republican convention at this very moment, telling the assembled worshipers how awesome he is. Law-abiding no, but awesome yes.

A copy of the complaint was not immediately available, and its subject matter could not immediately be determined. A letter filed with the

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Eastern Airlines 1967:

Sure, we want her to be pretty…don’t you?

Oh yes, definitely, I want her to look like a Barbie doll, thank you sir.

That’s why we look at her face, her makeup, her complexion, her figure, her weight, her legs, her grooming, her nails and her hair.

What about her breasts? What about her bum? Do you check her between the legs? Best to be safe about these things. Do you check her teeth, including the back ones? Her tongue? Her armpits?

Anyway at least they’re all very white.… Read the rest

Jeez. Be careful out there, mind how you go, soyez sage. Don’t forget (let alone refuse) to wear a mask.

The number of COVID-19 cases connected to a wedding reception in Millinocket continues to climb, with state health officials saying on Saturday that they could trace 53 confirmed cases of coronavirus to the reception. That’s up from 32 confirmed cases on Friday.

53! From one wedding! Some were secondary or tertiary.

Millinocket Regional Hospital has reported that it tested 366 people who attended the reception or came in contact with those who did. Of the 53 cases linked to the reception on Saturday, 13 were secondary and 10 were tertiary, Maine CDC spokesman Robert Long said Saturday evening.

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Originally a comment by Nullius in Verba on All our fault.

Fun things here:

1) Wokeness/CRT views people as “racialized” rather than being of a particular race. This is neither typo nor poor word choice on her part. Rather, it is exactly the way the woke understand the world: as interacting systems of discourse that impose “race” (among other things) on groups of (not individual) people. It is the discursive systems that racialize. There is nothing, literally nothing, outside of the discourse.

2) White women’s fears drive policing, the economy, and politics. White women are apparently the most powerful force in the nation. Why did the DJIA jump? White women. Why did Trump win? White women. Why did … Read the rest

It’s all Karens’ white women’s fault. All of it.

Here is a little thread on white women's fear. Nothing that hasn't been said before, but COVID has really made it clear just how much of white supremacy is maintained by white women's fear.

My Facebook feed has been a non-stop parade of white women's fear.

— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) August 21, 2020

This fear drives policing. It drives the economy. It drives politics. White women's fears become society's collective fears and we divert from the real issues; the real fears that people should have.

— Nora Loreto (@NoLore) August 21, 2020

Stupid bitches. Who cares what happens to us?

White women who find this disgusting need to challenge white women's

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The Guardian reports:

Police are investigating after a sign at Oradour, in the Haute-Vienne region of south-central France near Limoges, was defaced with the word mémoire (memorial) sprayed over and replaced by menteur (liar).

The desecration has caused national outrage across France, where Oradour remains a potent physical symbol of Nazi brutality.

On 10 June 1944 – four days after the Normandy landings – a 200-strong detachment of the 4th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment, part of the notorious Das Reich division, marched into the village.

In retaliation for the reported kidnapping of a Nazi officer and attacks by the French resistance in the region, they rounded up the village’s 652 inhabitants and ordered everyone into the village square.

The

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Hilarity break.

https://twitter.com/LabelFreeBrands/status/1297521958389571584

It’s hilarious because every single element of it screams “FANTASY.” I keep saying the whole trans Doctrine is based on fantasy, and this is a classic of the genre.

One, an actual woman in a store parking lot looked at a man’s fake tits and decided to comment on them? No.

Two, the woman was jealous of his fake tits? No.

Three, our hero “turned to her”? But he was already facing her, or how could she have looked at his “latest configuration” of fake tits? So no.

Four, he looked her up and down? That’s a classic of the kind of self-flattering stage business narcissists include in their stories about themselves. No.

Then smiled at the … Read the rest

Don’s sister knows what he is.

Maryanne Trump Barry was serving as a federal judge when she heard her brother, President Trump, suggest on Fox News, “maybe I’ll have to put her at the border” amid a wave of refugees entering the United States. At the time, children were being separated from their parents and put in cramped quarters while court hearings dragged on.

“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Barry said in a conversation secretly recorded by her niece, Mary L. Trump. “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Not do this.”

Not so much religious as … Read the rest

But “Karen” is definitely not the new “bitch” or “cunt” no no no no it is strictly limited to evil women with evil suburban haircuts.

https://twitter.com/R_McCormack/status/1297254547715391488 https://twitter.com/R_McCormack/status/1297255888412200966… Read the rest

Another Republican admitting how terrible in every way Trump is – not only incompetent and lazy, but also criminal and authoritarian, and also vindictive and brutal.

NEW: Testimonial ad from Trump's Former DHS Chief of Staff @MilesTaylorUSA, declaring his support for Joe Biden and describing Trump's presidency as "terrifying" and "actively doing damage to our security."

WATCH & go to https://t.co/Nz2NiSCquN for more. pic.twitter.com/iChqOdIIew

— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) August 17, 2020

LA Magazine transcribed the worst bits:

“On a phone call with [FEMA], he told [them] to cut off the money and no longer give individual assistance to California,” says Taylor, who served as chief of staff to Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from 2017 to

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It’s all a bit of a clusterfuck apparently.

President Trump generated a good deal of drama over the past few months when he moved the convention to Jacksonville, Florida in attempt to get around pandemic restrictions in the original host city of Charlotte, North Carolina. But when COVID-19 cases shot up in Florida, events in Jacksonville were called off, and some party business was moved back to Charlotte.

“We’re leaving.”

slam

knockknock

“We’d like to come back.”

Now the convention has been pared down considerably and will be somewhat virtual – but it appears Trump hasn’t totally abandoned his dreams of a massive, mask-free crowd.

Which is a dream of a mound of corpses three or four weeks … Read the rest

The narcissism is so off the charts it’s almost funny.

Half of the convention’s key speakers are the president and his family members? pic.twitter.com/293IJbsk80

— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) August 22, 2020

“Me, and My wife, and My daughter, and My son, and My son, and My daughter.” He thinks of all of them as fragments of himself, and the next best thing to His Awesomeness In All His Splendor.… Read the rest

From the cheerful news column – a successful gorilla birth at Bristol Zoo:

Keepers arrived to find the new arrival nestling in the arms of its mother.

Photographs taken just hours after the birth on Wednesday show Kala – a nine-year-old western lowland gorilla – cradling the newborn. Staff said both were “doing well”.

They say “its mother” because the zoo doesn’t know the sex yet and won’t for a while. Kala’s first infant was via emergency caesarian section and didn’t survive.

Lynsey Bugg, the zoo’s curator of mammals, said: “We knew we were having a baby gorilla due and we’ve been on baby watch for a little while.

“On Tuesday Kala looked nice and comfortable and not causing

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There seems to be a lot of irritation about the Rose Garden. I share it, not least because I hate that cold colorless dull aesthetic.

https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1297236373401931781

So they are – I mean were – crabapples.

Remembering the White House Rose Garden pic.twitter.com/OD1FOQuHPJ

— RiotWomenn (@riotwomennn) August 22, 2020

Again, to be fair, tulips are spring flowers, but there are plenty of August flowers that could be there instead of the Big Empty.

Here is the colorful, happy Rose Garden under Obama, and here is Melania's unveiling of the new garden, entirely devoid of color or joy. pic.twitter.com/j9cNXC63tC

— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) August 22, 2020

Ooof. That is ugleee.

Wow. Looks so different. I once played catch with Obama in the

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Trump again pretending to think Democrats are mean to “God” and that he gives a shit:

Before playing golf on Saturday, Donald Trump took time to spread a false claim about God on Twitter.

“The Democrats took the word GOD out of the Pledge of Allegiance at the Democrat [sic] National Convention,” the president wrote.

“At first I thought they made a mistake, but it wasn’t. It was done on purpose. Remember Evangelical Christians, and ALL, this is where they are coming from – it’s done. Vote Nov[ember] 3!”

It should be where they’re coming from, but it isn’t. It should be because school children are forced to say the pledge, and nobody should be forced to make avowals … Read the rest

I saw something yesterday saying Melania Trump would be saying something for the Republican convention from “the newly renovated [by her] White House Rose Garden.” Uh oh, I thought, what’s she done to it.

Before and after photographs of newly renovated White House Rose Garden:
courtesy #Getty and @marycjordan pic.twitter.com/w6bzoNHMjC

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 22, 2020

Ew.

To be fair, the one on the left is obviously spring – the crabapple* trees would not be flowering even if they were still there. But they’re not still there. They’ve been swept away. The vibrant various colors have been replaced by icy blue and white.

It’s funny, in a way, because the minimalism is so unlike the vulgar garishness of that … Read the rest