That’s Kadgien's (SS) Lady, painted on the wall, Looking as if she weren't stolen by a Nazi. I call That piece a wonder, now; the Gruppenführer's hands Stole busily a day, and there she stands. Will’t please you sit and look at her?
… as in, out of what possible world does this parody arise, take a look at this description of the August meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America.
[Membership] include[s] an inchoate collection of activists, and the organization [has become] a big tent for all manner of leftist tendencies—including many that lack any commitment to [founder Michael] Harrington’s democratic tradition, some even holding that elections [are] a capitalist-state apparatus that socialists should not use to come to power... Red Star, a self-avowed “Marxist-Leninist caucus” … openly supports Hamas and emphasizes “the role of the vanguard in organizing the revolution.” Whereas the likes of [Bernie] Sanders have long lauded the New Deal, this group condemns that model as “extending concessions to the white working class to secure their loyalty to the capitalist state.” Similarly, it faults the Green New Deal that Sanders and AOC have championed for failing to articulate “a clear commitment to dismantling the settler-colonial and American imperialist projects.” Another caucus, Marxist Unity Group, calls for DSA “to free itself from the Democratic Party” and “fight to overthrow the Constitution,” in an effort to “destroy every institution that denies the people an authentic popular democracy, abolishing the Senate, the Electoral College, the Supreme Court, and the independent presidency.” …
Harrington … once complained about a “vocal, and regularly televised, fringe of confrontationists, exhibitionists, and Vietcong flag wavers who could plausibly be dismissed as freakish, or sinister, or both.” Democratic socialists who seek to run mass campaigns and attain power with elections are now encumbered by sharing an organization with “confrontationists” who hold fundamentally antidemocratic beliefs.
‘After Dershowitz Dustup, Islanders Line Up for Pierogi‘
‘Hundreds of people attended the West Tisbury Farmers’ Market this week to show support for the pierogi vendor who refused to sell dumplings to prominent attorney Alan Dershowitz at the market last week…‘
‘Norway grants full pay, capped at a level higher than the average wage, for up to 12 months of continuous sick leave, part of what the International Monetary Fund has called a “costly and distortionary social benefit system.”‘
The Tom and Daisy Award goes to Ellen and Portia.
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres and her wife, Portia de Rossi, are preparing to list their sprawling U.K. farmhouse for a staggering $30 million—after living there for just one month …
[J]ust one month after moving in, the duo ha[s] already decided to move on—having snapped up a much more extravagant dwelling … [In the earlier house, now on the market, they enlisted] a team of 70 workers to rush through renovations so it would be ready … as soon as possible.
… DeGeneres and de Rossi [faced] objections from neighbors over their proposed development of the abode, with three local councilors raising concerns that an extension might “increase flood risk in the village” and “disturb Roman remains.” [O]ther residents expressed concern that the hedge and wire fence at the comedian’s home could lead to flooding if trash gets “caught in the fence” and limits the “flow across the field.”
Rep Cory Mills (FL) certainly spreads it around: He lives in a super-luxury DC apartment with spectacular views, his rent an astonishing $20,000 plus a month.
And this is fine, fine: Dems like Schumer can boast they rent a room in a sorry little Capitol Hill townhouse, but mega-rich MAGAs like Mills are under no such populist compulsion. Go for it.
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But… is he, like his role model, mega-rich?
D.C. Landlord Seeks to Evict Congressman, Alleging $85,000 in Unpaid Rent headlines the Washington Post, which never makes its articles free, but made this one free.
‘Mills suggested that he was unable to pay rent because of a technical problem with a processing platform.‘
Cory seems unaware that he could get a check, which he could fill out, and send in the mail… Or, given the amenity-rich building in which he lives rent-free, he could probably just hand his rent to one of the toadies in the lobby.
But UD‘s thinking the problem isn’t technical – a review of Cory’s rather fucked up life suggests he’s low on cash, plus way-distracted by personal and political problems, so that he, amazingly, didn’t notice that yet another part of his existence was going down the tubes.
I can’t do justice to this story, which makes the Murdaugh thing – three hours away in the same great state of South Carolina – look like small potatoes. Pretty girl done shot her ex in cold blood — and I mean like really cold like she just sat there at her trial and it took the jury less than two hours to convict her cuz in broad daylight with her coroner bf she jest drove over to the victim’s place took out her gun and blasted and blasted til he were daid daid daid. Fuck the four kids they had together.
What makes this one amazing is the killer and her bf work as coroners/body transporters! They make a living driving all over Horry County picking up people after they die. (Headline, Independent: “A coroner and his mistress met while moving corpses.”) Body calls, death calls, removal technicians, the language is rich indeed and so is the aspect of the thing where after they did the guy they just shoved his bloody bod in the same van in which they trundle all over town all day waiting for the body call. Expertly they bound him but instead of the funeral home or hospital they dumped him in the Little Pee Dee River. Could that name be any cuter?
A lot more good shit in this one. I can’t keep up with it, as I said, and W Faulkner and A Rice are dead, and J Berendt’s 85, and who else is equal to this multilayered deep south squalidity? The trial “consisted solely of witnesses called by the prosecution,” cuz why bother man. Her daughter trembled and wept through the most grotesque testimony about one’s mother – any mother – imaginable, and then wrote this eloquent victim statement.
This crime has torn apart my family, others’ families and friends beyond any measure. My siblings and I have all suffered greatly, not only from the loss of my father but the loss of a mother, too. This trial and getting up on the stand has been one of the most heartbreaking and painful things I’ve ever had to do. It has also been one of the most relieving and rewarding things. I finally got to say what has been sitting in my brain the last four and a half years.
Sitting in my brain is very good.
There’ll always be a South Carolina.
He wanted to win, see.
He now has three years to launch a Head of Prison Library campaign.
… but you cannot deny that he will fit right in. He clearly speaks the very same language as the French political establishment.
The disgraced CEO of Nightingale Properties says he “learned a valuable lesson” about how he shouldn’t be trusted with other people’s money after admitting to a $63M fraud scheme.
Elchonon “Elie” Schwartz is hoping to avoid jail time after pleading guilty to one count of wire fraud in February, which carries a maximum 20-year sentence.
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Good boy, Elie! You learned a lesson.
And now you may go.