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Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Establishment flagellation self update failings

  

Weiner....' still craved public service, addressing his sexual misdeeds, which culminated in him serving 18 months in prison for sexually messaging an underaged girl."


"He said on the show that “the things in my past, the things about my addiction, the things about my acting out, the things about my background – it’s a lot, it’s a lot. 

 But we’re at a moment that we Democrats,  

we seem like we come into knife fights 

 carrying library books all the time.” 


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/10/anthony-weiner-new-york-city-council 



'Weiner has been assailed by scandal since he crashed out of Congress in 2011 after 13 years representing New Yorkers. His downfall came amid  

a sexting scandal involving explicit messages sent to several women, as well as the underaged girl.


He made his first comeback pitch in 2013, running for New York mayor, only to flame out again in a renewed scandal over sexual texts sent under the cover name  

Carlos Danger.


But it was the inadvertent role that Weiner played in Clinton’s agonizing defeat  

when Donald Trump clinched his first presidency for which Weiner will be most remembered – unflatteringly so – " 


"In the course of the investigation into Weiner’s sexting,  

FBI agents found emails on his personal laptop that led them to reopen an investigation into a 

 private email server used by Clinton." 


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Terry Bean Itis 

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"the so-called Franklin fire erupted on Monday night and sprawled across more than 2,200 acres (809 hectares) by morning,  

consuming roughly 100 acres in less than an hour 

, and remains at 0% containment.," 


'Among the areas under threat were a gated community across the street from the pier, which is home to multiple Hollywood celebrities,  

Malibu’s densest line of shops, restaurants and other businesses, and the beachfront Malibu Colony, t 

he first settlement of Los Angeles’s rich and carefree  

looking for beachside second homes for the weekend, which dates back more than Lahaina ( nope jest kidding ") 


"utilities worked to mitigate the impacts of Santa Ana winds,  

whose strong gusts can damage electrical equipment and spark wildfires. Southern California Edison,  

a utility company that serves the region, reported more than 46,000 households and businesses were affected by power shutoffs, including " 

Gavin Mewsom  


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'US judge blocked the pending 

 $25 billion merger  

of US grocery chains Kroger and Albertsons on Tuesday, siding with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in a win for the Biden administration.


The FTC argued at a three-week trial in Portland, Oregon, that the merger would eliminate head-to-head competition between the top two traditional grocery chains, leading to higher prices for shoppers and reduced bargaining leverage for unionized workers. " 


Typo, Guardian. 


"US judge blocks $25m Kroger-Albertsons grocery chain merger" 


'Had the deal proceeded, Kroger would own approximately 5,000 stores across the US.  

The companies argued at trial that they 

 needed to merge to compete with global conglomerates such as   

The Republican and Democrat Parties,

Walmart and Amazon.com.




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