If she’s able to tour and do a Vegas residency, then there’s no justification for the level of control Britney describes. This isn’t just fans filling in the blanks. The fact that her team felt they could even ask her to perform at that level undermines the argument that she’s too sick to be able to make basic…

It’s a gross conflict of interest. Theoretically I’m not against doctors talking to some people in her life, because sometime you do need to talk to people who have be there to observe your patient outside of the office to assess their current state. But it’s sketchy as fuck to include input from people whose primary…

Agreed. I have had great experiences in therapy, and found it more effective in treating my depression than medication. But it was only that effective for me because I had a therapist who I trusted and had great rapport with. Finding the right therapist is crucial, and it’s not just finding someone with great…

“during these proceedings, Jamie Spears has sold the family home and is currently living in an RV parked in a warehouse full of Britney Spears memorabilia in her hometown of Kentwood, Louisiana.”

Update: Variety has published the full transcript of her statement.

It’s been 13 years!  I think this is the same judge who denied her request to have her father removed from her conservatorship last year so I’m feeling a little pessimistic about her prospects, but I’m hoping that her actually speaking on her own behalf instead of her attorney will move the judge.

“Ms. Spears seems like she could live with the notion of a conservatorship if only her father were removed from any control.”

The forcing the IUD on her is what really killed me. That’s essentially forced sterilization (since they clearly have no plans to let her remove it), and regardless of whatever concerns someone might have about whether having another kid would be good for her mental health I thought we had agreed decades ago that…

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/entertainment/britney-spears-conservatorship-court-hearing/index.html

We’re getting a new Britney Spears post at some point right?  Because her statement meant in court today was heart breaking and basically confirmed a lot of the stuff people have been speculating about her conservatorship.

Curious if your opinion remains the same after her statement to the court today.  It more or less confirms the worst of the speculation everyone’s had about her situation ( or at least as she perceives it).

I agree with you about the punishments, but I’m not sure I agree about the cause. It’s not like we haven’t seen the same mask related altercations on land. Plus while flights may have been cheap, but they haven’t been low volume since very early on in the pandemic. Most of the airlines had stopped keeping the middle…

“Although it worked out for her, since Newt got to be ambassador to the Vatican under Trump, so she got to live there for a few yea”

Just to be clear, Adam West’s Penguin shouldn’t smell of sewers and fish. That part of penguins character was all Tim Burton. Before that, Penguin was just a portly mob boss and it’s his beaky nose and fashion sense that earned him his nickname not his diet, habitat or physical deformatity.  Burton’s character…

I assume part of it is that there’s a lot less overhead than with TV so you don’t need ads to be that high to turn a profit. Plus ads aren’t their only revenue stream. PreCovid, live shows were a big money maker for a lot of popular programs.  A lot of them also have subscription options for ad free version of their…

Sure, but TV ads are significantly more expensive than podcast ads and the sorts of niche brands that advertise on podcasts may not even be able to handle the demand if they caught fire from a TV ad buy. Sometimes smaller can be just right.

Yay! Hope it helps! If you find you miss the abrasive action of baking soda but want something safer, they do make proper exfoliating powders these days. They’re not nearly as cheap as plain old baking soda, but you should be able to find one in the $15-20 dollar range and at the rate you use them, they should last…

Talking about mentally ill as some sort of “other” part of society whose rights are privileged at the expense of everyone else, and suggesting that they’re more dangerous than other members of society when statistically that’s not even close to being true. Using that stereotype as the premise for the idea that they…

But couldn’t the same thing be said for TV? How many things do you buy from TV ads?

It’s so fucking disheartening to see someone both advocate for the expansion of desperately needed psychiatric care and be so callous about the people who need help. Yang’s right in that we badly need more available beds in psych hospitals. I know from personal experience what a nightmare it is to find out that…