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Virginia Giuffre dies by suicide at 41 in #Australia following a brutal car accident earlier this year that damaged vital organs.

Ms Giuffre made worldwide headlines after her teenage sexual servitude as a "masseuse" to Jeffrey #Epstein and clients like #PrinceAndrew was revealed in court cases and press accounts. The ensuing scandal led to Epstein's apparent #suicide in a federal lockup and the eventual prison sentence for newspaper magnate Robert Maxwell's daughter #Ghislaine.who was a wrangler of girl's pimped in the internationally notorious case.

#WaPo #WashingtonPost #SharedLink #FreeLink wapo.st/42PoYYv

#WaPo #editorial by Catherine Rampell who is headed to #MSNBC to co-host the evening edition of "The Weekend" details #Drumpf's petty purges of accessible govt #data that " have been faster and more sweeping — picking off not just select #factoids but entire troves of public information." "deleting #taxpayer-funded data — information that Americans use to make sense of the world. In its absence, the president can paint the world as he pleases."

wapo.st/3XF0wqH #Gov #FOIA #Opinion #FreeLink #SponLink

The Washington Post · How Trump is hiding government data to reshape realityBy Amanda Shendruk, Catherine Rampell

Scion of Wealthy #Saratoga CA family who lived in their $6m mansion msg'd his sex assault victim on Facebook: “So I raped you...” followed by " I’ll pray for you.”

After returning to #SiliconValley , graduating from a "religious" college in #SantaClara & working for Elon's #Tesla, he fled to #France where, from what I've gleaned, #rape is apparently an unofficial national pastime ... this week, only 11 yrs later, the 31 yr old #fugitive was #extradited to USA, and denied bail.

Thankfully #DJT, who likes that sort of activity, is coming into office... anyone wanna bet on Prez #Pardon?

wapo.st/3E1ZmyQ #FreeLink #SharedStory #WaPo

RIP Sugar Pie DeSanto

I'm a little late to the memorial, time having been consumed by holiday travel, and then news of wildfires sweeping areas I just returned from, but just saw notice that at the end of the past year, we lost #SugarPieDeSanto

I was lucky I had the fortunate opportunity to see her perform memorable sets live a couple times earlier in this century in #SanFrancisco , and despite her age, she was still feisty, acrobatically bawdy & hilarious.

A relative of fellow #ChessRecords recording artist Etta James, and part Filipino (born Umpeylia Marsema Balinton ) ... , she was perhaps less renowned, but certainly worth checking out for any fans of authentic old school #RhythmandBlues music.

"I was one of the toughest women you would find, and a big mouth, and I didn’t take anything from no one,” she said in an interview in the 2011 book “Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll: Conversations With Unjustly Obscure Rock ’n’ Soul Eccentrics”

I recall in more recent times, her being burned out in a 2006 fire that swept the apt building where she lived in #Oakland, and killed her husband.

But she was a tough cookie and soldiered on for many more years ...stay safe out there folks...

nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/mu #SharedLink #FreeLink #NYTimes #BluesMusic

During his #GOP Presidential campaign #DJT threatened to withhold #FederalAid from #California unless the state changed how it approached water management.

Sen. John Barrasso of #Wyoming, the No. 2 ranking #Republican in the upper chamber, blamed #CalFire disasters on “policies of the liberal administration out there” adding " I expect that there will be strings attached to money that is ultimately approved"

In bipartisan votes, #Congress recently approved billions of dollars in new disaster funding for #Florida, #Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, #Tennessee and #Virginia with no specific conditions on those states federal assistance.

wapo.st/42eedQQ #GiftLink #FreeLink #WAPO

Angry Small Town Muricans In Seymour #Indiana Can't Wait For King #DJT's Promised Deportations, Expecting #DayOne As Definite Deadline.

Other residents in the 22k population community seeking to utilize or integrate #SouthOfTheBorder arrivals are clashing with others calling for #migrants to be rooted out and detained.

wsj.com/us-news/for-many-peopl #LinkShare #FreeLink #WSJ

“The rule of the worst.”

TheEconomist word of the year “has the crisp, hard sounds of glass breaking.”

“‘Kakistocracy’ is not found in ancient sources; it seems to have been coined in English as an intentional antonym to aristocracy, originally ‘rule by the best’.”

#USPolitics

economist.com/culture/2024/11/

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The Economist · The Economist’s word of the year for 2024By The Economist

If you don't know about the right wing Wellness-Trump connection:

1. Lucky you!
2. You've got some catching up to do.

One extreme example:

#WaPo -- "Her billionaire marriage broke up. Her VP campaign fizzled. Now she’s a Trump-world star."

wapo.st/4fbqvMM

The Washington Post · Her billionaire marriage broke up. Her VP campaign fizzled. Now she’s a Trump-world star.By Elizabeth Dwoskin