It’s the duct tape that makes suicide seem unlikely to me. I could even believe duct taping your own hands to prevent yourself from trying to swim after but taping yourself to your sister face-to-face at the waist? I don’t even know HOW they’d do that themselves, nevermind why. And taped like that, how do they enter…

ok so this is horrific no matter how it went down, totally agree that the family looks super sketch, but i think this is an opportunity to ask ourselves the question: why do we say “honor killing” when the victims/perpetrators are muslim, but call it domestic violence when it happens to anyone else?

“suicide is still the leading theory” no one believes that. They are reporting that LE gives no fucks, will do nothing, because they have rape kits to ignore while they police black kids.  What bastards.

This reminds me of a method the Nazis used to kill husbands & wives - they would tie them together and place them at the edge of a bridge.  One of the pair would be shot, with the momentum from the bullet pushing the couple over the bridge to either drown or die upon impact.  This is terrible.

Yeah, the mother and any other family members look suspicious as hell. And of course Saudi Embassy officials notified the family and sided with them (and maybe more).

It was more of a thing around Brokeback and Milk. But even then the root of the complaint was A-list actors getting praise and awards for taking gay roles in these big, Oscar bait dramas while gay actors struggle to get any roles in a still very homophobic industry. There are people who have a problem with the…

Their mother reportedly received a call from the Saudi Arabian Embassy the day before their bodies were discovered, saying that her daughters had applied for political asylum and asking the family to leave the country. The sisters had also been reported missing last year in December according to CBS News, and when…

“But Kim and I we fell in love, he wrote me beautiful letters” 

Well at least there’ll always be But I’m a Cheerleader.

Nice reporting.

“Over forty years ago I remember making a speech about the problems of plastic and other waste, but at that stage nobody was really interested and I was considered old-fashioned, out of touch and ‘anti-science’ for warning of such things,”...”“If we don’t engage with these issues, and many other related and critical…

I was unconvinced until I read The Sun article and got to the mention of a “secret tunnel” leading back to the palace.

I’d say Encyclopedia is the brother who seems to know everything and always has his nose in a book, but can’t be trifled with things like homework. he still aces the tests though, so he’s at least making honor roll, if only just barely.

Every building built before 1987 was at one point an elaborate sex house.

I don’t think he actively disliked her; I’m sure he thought it was a livable situation: after all, people in his position had married for Not Love for literal centuries (and ended up imprisoning or beheading each other a lot, but.)

It reminds of the case here in Vegas where the post office used the image of the NYNY Casino Lady Liberty on the stamps instead the real lady herself in NY.

I think the Satanic Temple is different than the Church of Satan. The Satanic Temple’s main thing is to try to subvert religious freedom laws or use religious freedom arguments (ie in a challenge against restrictive abortion laws) to challenge the way those laws and arguments almost exclusively mean religious freedom…

There is no humanizing PR campaign that can ever erase the fact that that people and their ancestors spent centuries living high on the public dime and sitting on a throne all because they sincerely believe they’re “ordained by God” to be a selfish asshole. someone needs to run government and Democracy didn’t just…

“One interesting fact is that Camilla is particularly beloved by the royal press, it seems: “She’s my favorite royal, by a country mile,” one correspondent told Reginato.”