I’m so sorry about your friend you lost to Heaven’s Gate. Knowing this about your life experiences, in re-reading your comment, I find it less dismissive, yet still problematic.

Damon Young at the Root summed this up pretty well in his piece on Monday.

While I understand that some people have jobs and lives and stuff going on that won’t tolerate nudes floating about, how is it that not one person (that I’ve heard of anyway) hasn’t just gone- fuck it, release my nudes, have fun with that. I never hear of that in cases like this. Sia once I think released them…

No, that was required to gain admission to DOS, which is the sex slave stuff. But before that there was introduction to Jness, which was the all female wing of Nxivm. So, there was a very long period of grooming and trust building while these women were in Jness before they got to the collateral and branding involved…

The DOS sex cult part was operating within Nxivm, which had a somewhat questionable, but fairly benign reputation to the general public for awhile (like major corporations would send employees for executive retreats). From other articles about Nxivm, it sounds like the only women recruited into the sex cult were…

I am too because I don’t think I knew anyone in high school or college that didn’t own a copy of the Unplugged album. Even people who weren’t big Nirvana fans.

With all the DNA testing stuff readily available to the public, it is a little uncomfortable to consider your hair and such being sold without your consent. Wouldn’t it be really weird if someone got Madonna’s genetic ancestry report and just shared it with the world?

My brother has been missing for a couple months and I suspect he felt similar.** Just quit his job, made some bad choices, and headed out without telling anyone. Now, we’re not a close knit family but dear god, my poor mom. I wish my brother had just sent a message that said, “hey, going out to find myself. be back…

As a parent, I can’t get behind the idea of my kid picking up and leaving at 15 without telling anyone. I’d be devastated if I had no idea where he was.

From what I have read, we have the most refugees now that we’ve ever had in world history (in pure numbers, not necessarily as a percent of the population). There has been massive destabilization through war, trade, climate change, etc. At the same time, the opening up of the global trade has led to destabilization in…

Teacher from her school here. Her rapist WORKED FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a fact that makes me need to scream into a pillow with rage. My first day of education classes our professor warned us that no one with a felony would ever, EVER be able to work in schools. WHAT THE HELL. So disgraceful. Mujey was bright and kind…

Thanks for posting this. That was pretty much my childhood, so you saved me the typing.

Lol. Gin & tonic was one of the first “recipies” I learned! I was probably 8 or so.

Gawd, I hate demonic epiphanies.

And the only reason they started to care about the AIDS epidemic was because of Liz Taylor.

She was a vain, self-absorbed, spendthrift and her husband had likely forgotten he was President by the time he was in his second term. They both sucked.

THANK YOU!

“whose answer to the growing drug epidemic was ‘Just Say No.’” Don’t forget the mass incarceration and the demonization of black men as nothing more than predatory crack heads!

I couldn’t even finish the article, because all I could think of was had despicable she and her miserable husband were when the AIDS crisis began. I’ll never forget or forgive!

I thought we’d hear more about Harriet Lane, Jane Buchanan’s niece bc of the whole Ivanka is the real First Lady thing we had going on for awhile. Harriet Lane was the first person called the “First Lady” because she was that wildly popular. She seemed fun. I’d like to hear more about obscure First Ladies.