Usual stuff re: food banks, community pantries, etc. However -

I’ve been a member of Community Supported Agriculture farms for a couple decades now. People pay at the start of the year to buy a share of the farm’s produce over the growing season, and the farmer operates secure in the knowledge that his farm isn’t dependent on banks or a good harvest. CSA members usually get about 3/4 of a bushel per week, plus pick-your-own.

I’m bringing this up because some CSAs offer work shares, and this would be the right time if year to apply for one. It’s a small commitment of hours each week, say, 4-5 hours a week over the course of the season, and you get a full share of the produce to take home. I don’t know if a work-share CSA exists in your area, it if you’d be willing to do it, but it can supply a pretty decent percentage of your food if it’s something you’re interested in, especially if you make and freeze dishes or ingredients, or can, pickle or dehydrate produce.

Another person inside the home reported the garage was always locked, documents said. A person also reported to investigators that the garage contained three refrigerators and that the room smelled “like a hospital – not like a clean hospital but more of a foul, stale, stagnant air smell.” Several days after entering the garage, two people became “deathly ill,” and they “could not get out of bed,” documents said. A tipster also told police the house contained “many dead crickets” and several people had gotten sick.

Maybe they shouldn’t have entered the locked, foul-hospital-smelling room then …

SC®OTUS does not up operate in good faith.

Later that day, Jon received an email from Google notifying him that an administrative subpoena had been sent to them from the Department of Homeland Security “compelling the release of information related to your Google Account.” Federal agencies can issue such subpoenas without an order from a judge or grand jury, and Google gave Jon, who withheld his last name to protect his family from the government, one week to challenge it.

Laws are supposed to restrict the use of administrative subpoenas, but DHS has used the tool against dissent protected under the First Amendment to the Constitution. Jon could not find who in the agency issued the subpoena, let alone a record of it to show an attorney.

Days later, DHS agents showed up at Jon’s door. A naturalized U.S. citizen originally from the U.K., Jon was worried about potential violence. The agents showed him a copy of the email and asked to see his side of the story. They didn’t know about the administrative subpoena but said they received orders to interview Jon by DHS headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Eventually, the agents agreed that Jon had committed no crimes after he told them he found Dernbach’s email address through a simple Google search. Jon secured pro bono representation by ACLU attorneys, who argue that the government is violating a statute that limits how administrative subpoenas can be used for “immigration enforcement” and that the government targeted Jon for protected speech.

He is so fucking pissed he wasn’t born in this country.

A small toolkit that didn’t get yeeted around the car when you had your accident.

One of his “defending” him, lol.

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Pretty sure were a group who bought out the theatre for their own private showing.

The thing is, the longer you’re out of work, the more they pressure you to apply for jobs outside your regular qualifications. It may be unthinkable to you now, but: rise of misogynist techbros, AI programming “matching” candidates to openings (with all the inbuilt biases and hallucinations that come with that), AI and unthinking automation in government services, cutbacks and deliberately programming for frustration in customer service - I can definitely envision people on unemployment being encouraged to work as a prostitute.

You just know they’re going to deputize CBP and ICE to “protect the integrity” of the elections next fall.

think it should be legal, properly regulated, taxed and viewed as a profession.

A hesitant yes to this. I have two main concerns (I’m in the US). First is that protection for the workers should be paramount, and I’m not sure how that gets enforced with all the corporate fuckery that goes on. I’d give it perhaps three seconds before someone Ubers the idea, making everyone on their list an “independent contractor” and enshittifying the entire thing.

My second concern is that “game of telephone” story several years ago. Someone pointed out that in Germany, job agencies could technically require women on unemployment to apply for jobs in brothels. Again, with the current state of things, with red-pilled incels on the rise and fringe elements suggesting the government should assign them a girlfriend, I’m not sure this is something I would feel safe implementing at this time.

Trump ran an international “modeling agency” and multiple international beauty contests. Do you really think he wasn’t recruiting and trafficking people as well?

I thought of that, but he really wants it on the Mall itself.

I think Trump is shutting it down to prevent more stories of how quickly he’s ruined this institution for the arts.

Well, there’s that. Plus he fucking hates the OG Kennedys and how revered they are. Plus now he gets to destroy the building and grift the rebuilding. He sees it as all wins.

In 2012, Mette-Marit told Epstein he was “very charming” and asked if it was “inappropriate for a mother to suggest two naked women carrying a surfboard for my 15 yr old sons wallpaper?”

Høiby is facing 38 charges, including the alleged rape of four women as well as alleged assault and drug offences. […] Høiby has denied the most serious charges, including those of sexual abuse.

“This momentum is an important first step in what we see as a long-tail lifecycle for both the film and the forthcoming docuseries […] The First Lady previously announced a spin-off series for her documentary, which she said was coming in a “few months.”

Oh God, they’re making a series!

First off, blatant bribe here. Secondly, I’m guessing, from Melania’s perspective, this is her trying to set herself up for a relevant and glamorous life once her husband dies (you know he won’t have left her much, if anything). And even if she doesn’t make it into Hollywood, it at least gets her some of her own money.

They said that reviewers had to buy their own tickets, instead of the free tickets or previews that they usually get. One reviewer in New York said there were 5 people in his audience and at least two of the others were also reviewers.

That’s how most of the deaths in the labor camps (as opposed to the extermination camps) happened. Overcrowded, not enough shelter from the elements, drastically underfed, minimal if any medical treatment available, and disease just rips through the camps, killing people.

Per Wikipedia:

Authorized by the National Cultural Center Act of 1958, which requires that its programming be sustained through private funds, the center represents a public–private partnership.

So it sounds like the government pays for building maintenance, and donors pay for programming.

I remember reading a ?WaPo article saying that attendance was down to about 57%, with almost half the seats unfilled. And that was just from Trump taking control of the board, before the renaming. And that attendance was that low, despite staff having access to an unprecedented number of free tickets for family and friends and other giveaways. The article said that staff would close off the upper levels and relocate people to disguise half-filled houses, and that attendees were repeatedly encouraged to move closer to the stage.

And of course, since he stuck his name on it, things have only gotten worse, with many artists cancelling their performances. I suspect the closure is petty retaliation for all the artist cancellations.

Having read the announcement, it also sounds like he’s planning on tearing down the entire thing, and putting something hideous in it’s place. I’ve been there and the Kennedy Center has a quiet elegance; I have no doubt that anytime this uncultured bore makes will be tasteless, flashy, and built to the cheapest possible standards.