The jury found that [she] conspired in 2021 to trick the country’s largest bank out of $175 million…

Turns out the thing is “heavy [and] cumbersome [and] impede[s] her work as a fitness instructor… [It causes] Ms. Javice physical pain, has impeded her work as a fitness instructor, and has resulted in delays and complications at TSA screening when she travels.”

Who knew stealing $175 million would have serious implications?

Timothy Snyder, Marci Shore, and Jason Stanley are getting the hell out. Canada ho!

Like perifascist Hungary, we are beginning to experience a brain drain, mes petites.

Corporate larcenist Ira Rennert, this blog’s favorite vile billionaire, found himself in court one day (he often finds himself there), and his lawyer demanded (begged the judge) that jurors be kept from viewing his massively obscene Long Island spread. One look and they’d hand him the death sentence.

UD gets rage at the trashy super rich. Especially now, with so many of them acting out, rage is fine, perfectly fine. Boycott whatever they sell. Rage against them in print. Organize groups to shout and hold signs in front of their headquarters. But retail theft? Really? Talk about trashy. What a disgusting thing to do.

Business Insider chats with the well-heeled Whole Foods thieves and duly collects all the bullshit they say by way of justification, and it’s the same bullshit the ill-heeled thieves who show up on Facebook reels getting arrested in front of Target say. The world is full of asshole police and billionaires and traffic cops and tax collectors and meth dealers all of them cheats out to get me so fuck em the least I can do is steal their goods if they’re in business or spit in their face if they’re cops. I’m a sovereign citizen no laws exist no laws apply to me the world’s rigged against me fuck you all.

Well, this is the way you get San Francisco, if that’s what you want.

“Why doesn’t Jeffrey Goldberg disclose to readers in his stories that he is a registered Democrat?,” [Donald Trump] Jr. tweeted on Tuesday afternoon. “His wife also worked for Hillary Clinton and has donated nearly $25k to Democrats.”

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… “Great question, Don. Why did Pete Hegseth share classified military intelligence with a registered Democrat in an unsecured Signal chat?”

… “[T]op Cabinet officials added a registered Democrat to their war plan chat on an unsecured app?” 

… “So the Trump administration is talking about classified information on a commercial app on their private phones — and they added a registered democrat to the conversation without noticing it?”

… police department?

Good ol’ Jackson.

An official from a Mississippi gun group flatly states that restrictive laws have no effect on injuries and deaths from firearms. She doesn’t give a shit that states with gun control rank highest on safety, while states like hers, Mississippi, with virtually no gun control, rate – er – dead last (except for White Power Wonderland Idaho).

I think when your state, for decades, ranks last or almost last on all measures of education, health, and welfare, a weird inversion sets in, and your abject failure becomes a point of pride. Ole Miss did it again! No other state has our sweet synergy of ignorance, paranoia, and hoplophilia. Y’all come down, y’hear?

The morning sun lights up the late March greening of UD’s forest.

That’s the top of the MARC commuter train, whizzing through a ravine at the end of UD‘s woods.

Well. You get what you vote for.

But lookee here. Their House of Delegates just went up against the know-nothings that run most of the state, and voted down a bill that would have made it easy to exempt your kids from most vaccinations.

Maybe the delegates took a gander at New Mexico, where kids are suffering, and in some cases dying, of measles. Do they know that NM is officially one of the dumbest states in the country? Would they rather not get on board that train?

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And meanwhile: Take a bow, Texas!

RIP Baby’s — but at least they got to shoot people with lots of guns before they had to close.

‘While over 800 IDF soldiers have fallen in battle, a minister in the Israeli government is dancing to the tunes of ‘We Will Die and Not Enlist’ and ‘We Do Not Believe in the Rule of the Heretics.’ This is not a mistake – it is policy. Goldknopf and Netanyahu’s government openly promote the draft-dodging scheme while reservists collapse under their fifth and sixth rounds of deployment.”‘

Sickening but not surprising. Israel has allowed – subsidized! – vile fanatics in its midst, and for the life of me I don’t know how they can possibly overcome them.

UD and her buddy Ellen were doing one of those get there just when it opens and get all the art to yourselves things when, in one of the atria, we happened on a wedding.

A spectacular creekside house built by “world-renowned translators of the works of Søren Kierkegaard” is asking $850,000, which probably means you’ll pay less than that. You can hear the creek from the house.

[It’s] constructed with native limestone, is on 2 acres, and has more than 4,323 square feet. Natural light pours through large windows on the main floor, which has an open floor plan and a walk-out deck. The lower level has stone floors and opens onto a patio.

There are three full kitchens, five fireplaces (a mixture of decorative, wood-burning and gas), a sauna and a hot tub. It contains at least four full bedrooms, along with other versatile rooms.

Northfield (site of St Olaf College) isn’t that far from St Paul/Minneapolis, so urban life is also available…

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Zillow, OTOH, currently lists petite chez UD for over a million, which tells you all you need to know about location, location, location.

In the wake of New Mexico’s latest bloodbath, the governor notes that the “legislature will adjourn today without having a passed a single bill to address juvenile crime or ban assault weapons. Their inaction is appalling and unacceptable.”

The mayor of Las Cruces NM gets points for honesty, as one of those obviously mass murder generating events generates mass murder in her crime-ridden city. Collect a crowd of very young idiots at some idiotic illegal event involving cars and alcohol, and watch the bullets fly.

The violent crime rate [in NM] was twice the national average in 2023, according to the Council of State Governments Justice Center… By August of 2024, violent crime in [Las Cruces] was up 46 percent compared to the same period in 2023.

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