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Jilly_in_VA's Journal'Bad Sisters' Proves How Much Fun It Is to Kill Bad Men
I’ll never forget the feeling of being 7 years old and realizing that The Chicks’ “Goodbye Earl” was about three best friends murdering their other friend’s abusive boyfriend.
A babysitter of mine used to play the song from the stack of CDs in my parents’ collection, and I had listened to it 50 or more times without it ever registering. I hadn’t yet mastered the concept of attaching meaning to song lyrics. When it finally clicked, it was like my mind had been thrust through an Interstellar-level wormhole. I could see everything around me with 20/20 vision. Every sense was heightened. The concept of women banding together to gleefully kill an evil man changed everything for me.
In the years that have passed, women killing men for the greater good of the world has become my favorite genre of media. Give me a revenge film and I’m there. A true crime doc about an abusive adulterer meeting his demise? I’ve already seen it. I hold Quentin Tarantino’s Death Proof and Taylor Swift’s “no body, no crime” in equal reverence.
So imagine the childlike delight that washed over me when firing up Bad Sisters, the new Apple TV+ series about, you guessed it, some very bad sisters.
Almost immediately, I recalled that old, familiar feeling of my “Goodbye Earl” days. Bad Sisters is just like The Chicks’ song, except there are four culprits. And they’re related. And they’re Irish. So maybe not just like the song, but all of the same gratuitously enjoyable, novel-like plotting is still there—now turned up to an 11 for one of the single most boisterous shows of the year.
Adapted from the 2012 Belgian series Clan, Bad Sisters stars Catastrophe’s Sharon Horgan as Eva Garvey, the voice of reason among her four other sisters: Ursula (Eva Birthistle), Grace (Anne-Marie Duff), Bibi (Sara Greene), and Becka (Eve Hewson). Though Eva is slowly spinning out and teetering on the edge of full-blown alcoholism, she’s still somehow the most put-together of her sisters, who have all been bound together by the early-in-life death of their parents. Though each sister has since been crawling through her own layer of muddy discord, no one has been suffering more than Grace.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/apple-tvs-bad-sisters-proves-how-much-fun-it-is-to-kill-bad-men-review
We started watching this last week. I love it and can't wait for the next episode!
Texas Judge Accused of Calling Immigrants 'Wetbacks'
A Texas judge who came out of retirement to take part in the state’s controversial police and military crackdown on undocumented immigrants was reported last week to an ethics panel for allegedly complaining to lawyers about “wetbacks.”
The Daily Beast has obtained a copy of the formal accusation, which is laid out in a sworn complaint that was submitted to the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct.
Judge Edgar Allen Amos now faces a potential ethics probe, which if substantiated, would call into question every ruling he’s made in local Texas courts. Amos routinely adjudicates cases involving arrests of Spanish-speaking people who fled Mexico and Central America, illegally crossing the U.S. border to find refuge here.
In the complaint, defense lawyer Emily Miller recalls crossing paths with the judge on July 26 at the McCulloch County Courthouse, where Amos stations himself at a computer to conduct virtual court hearings on Zoom while arrestees remain 150 miles south at a courthouse near the border.
“He mentioned he did not think people understood how hard ‘we had it’ in these hearings. As the hearings are technologically, logistically, and emotionally difficult, I agreed,” Miller wrote in the complaint. “He went on to say that these people (meaning the defendants) are not ‘your regular wetbacks. They have phones and clothes and all kinds of other things.’”
“I took that to mean that he believes the defendants are affluent and not really indigent, and are not like the migrants making their way into the U.S. in years or decades past. I was dismayed and disappointed,” Miller continued, noting how his comment “raises substantial questions about his impartiality and the quality of justice being served in his court.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/texas-judge-edgar-allen-amos-accused-of-calling-immigrants-wetbacks?ref=home
Another one of Abbot's awholes, sounds like
Massachusetts student receives uniform violation for hijab
A Massachusetts charter school where an eighth grade student was written up for a uniform infraction for wearing a hijab says it understands its “handling of the situation came across as insensitive.”
A family member of the Mystic Valley Regional Charter School student posted on social media a picture of the “School Uniform Compliance Form” the student received from a teacher for the hijab on Thursday. In the description of the infraction, the headscarf worn by Muslim women was misspelled as “jihab.”
The school said in an emailed statement that it allows students to wear religious attire “as an expression of their sincerely held beliefs,” but asks students to provide a letter “expressing this desire from a member of their clergy.”
School Superintendent Alex Dan said there were no consequences given to the student and that the form sent home was meant to start the conversation with the family about obtaining a religious accommodation. But Dan acknowledged that the situation was mishandled.
“While we would like to reiterate that the well-respected staff member overseeing the process should bear no responsibility for what has transpired, we understand how our handling of the situation came across as insensitive and look forward to using this moment as a learning opportunity to improve our policies and procedures,” the school’s statement said.
https://apnews.com/article/religion-massachusetts-charter-schools-trending-news-6e63c101a1b294116a02d0f2b53e8c86
Idiots
Louisiana woman faces 'horrifically cruel' abortion choice over fetus missing skull
A pregnant Louisiana woman faced with either carrying a skull-less fetus to term – for the baby to likely die within hours – or traveling several states away to obtain an abortion has hired a prominent civil rights attorney as she weighs how to move forward.
Nancy Davis has retained lawyer Ben Crump as she becomes the latest to embody the gut-wrenching decisions some women are being forced to make after the US supreme court’s decision in June to strip away nationwide abortion rights, according to a statement from the attorney’s office.
Davis’s home state is among those that have outlawed abortion with very few exceptions. Davis, from Baton Rouge, said publicly that she tried to have her pregnancy aborted after a 10-week ultrasound revealed that her fetus was missing the top of its skull – a condition known as acrania, which kills babies within minutes or hours of birth.
But because acrania was not explicitly included on Louisiana’s list of conditions justifying an exception from the state’s abortion ban, the hospital that treated Davis turned down terminating her pregnancy, which, as of Friday, was in its 13th week.
The medical center, Woman’s Hospital in Baton Rouge, directed her to an abortion clinic. But Louisiana’s abortion clinics have announced plans to leave the state amid legal battles over its the ban’s enforcement, the New Orleans news outlet Gambit reported.
The state senator who authored Louisiana’s abortion ban, Katrina Jackson, insisted to Baton Rouge TV station WAFB that the hospital should have authorized the termination of Davis’s pregnancy, because the statute contains exceptions for fetuses which are not viable outside a mother’s womb.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/20/louisiana-abortion-woman-nancy-davis-benjamin-crump
Lousyanna, sucking harder than ever.
The high cost of gas and food make life on the reservation even more difficult than usual
During a hot, hazy morning on Oregon's Warm Springs Indian Reservation, resident Jake Billy leans on his car and tells a story. Once a long time ago there was someone special in his life.
"I almost married that girl," he says. "It was very close. It was iffy."
Things didn't work out. But Billy stayed in touch with his ex and her family. When his ex girlfriend's sister died recently, he wanted to go to the funeral a three hour drive away. But he just didn't have the money for gas. "I said my goodbyes from here," he says.
These kinds of heart wrenching decisions illustrate the quiet assault of inflation on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, located about 100 miles southeast of Portland. Had Billy been able to go to the funeral, he would have been able to offer emotional support to the family. "Which is something that natives do," says Billy. "It's our culture."
o other single group in the country is feeling as much financial strain right now as are Native Americans. A recent poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found inflation has caused a staggering 69% of Native Americans significant financial problems.
According to census data, close to 27% of Native Americans live in poverty. That's significantly more than the rest of the country, which averages close to 15%.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1117689118/poll-69-of-native-americans-say-inflation-is-severely-affecting-their-lives
The high cost of gas and food make life on the reservation even more difficult than usual
During a hot, hazy morning on Oregon's Warm Springs Indian Reservation, resident Jake Billy leans on his car and tells a story. Once a long time ago there was someone special in his life.
"I almost married that girl," he says. "It was very close. It was iffy."
Things didn't work out. But Billy stayed in touch with his ex and her family. When his ex girlfriend's sister died recently, he wanted to go to the funeral a three hour drive away. But he just didn't have the money for gas. "I said my goodbyes from here," he says.
These kinds of heart wrenching decisions illustrate the quiet assault of inflation on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation, located about 100 miles southeast of Portland. Had Billy been able to go to the funeral, he would have been able to offer emotional support to the family. "Which is something that natives do," says Billy. "It's our culture."
o other single group in the country is feeling as much financial strain right now as are Native Americans. A recent poll from NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health found inflation has caused a staggering 69% of Native Americans significant financial problems.
According to census data, close to 27% of Native Americans live in poverty. That's significantly more than the rest of the country, which averages close to 15%.
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/20/1117689118/poll-69-of-native-americans-say-inflation-is-severely-affecting-their-lives
Ex-lawyer Alex Murdaugh now faces about 90 charges after new indictment
A disbarred South Carolina attorney charged with killing his wife and son has been indicted on another round of financial crimes.
This time, prosecutors said Alex Murdaugh stole $295,000 from his brother and the law firm founded by his prominent legal family a century ago.
Murdaugh, 54, faces nine additional charges — four counts of obtaining property under false pretenses, three counts of money laundering and two counts of computer crimes — in indictments handed up by the State Grand Jury on Tuesday and released publicly Friday.
Murdaugh is in jail and set likely to stand trial in January on murder charges for the June 2021 shooting deaths of his wife Maggie, 52, and their 22-year-old son, Paul. They were killed with different guns outside one of the family's homes in Colleton County, investigators said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/08/19/alex-murdaugh-new-financial-charges-south-carolina/7845110001/
Sounds like some of his crimes could be federal too. What a bad ole boy!
Cops Are Now Freaking Out About 'Rainbow Fentanyl'
The latest iteration of fentanyl scaremongering is about what authorities are calling “rainbow fentanyl.” They claim it’s newer, more potent, and targeting kids.
Following the recent seizures of pink, green, yellow, and blue fentanyl—in blocks as well as pills—law enforcement officials including Customs and Border Protection and a California district attorney’s office have issued statements saying the drugs are meant to prey on children.
“This could be the start of a trend with Transnational Criminal Organizations targeting younger users,” tweeted Michael Humphries, a Customs and Border Protection director for the Port of Nogales, Arizona.
“We find this rainbow-colored substance is one of the many tools that dealers are using to make the poison appeal to our kids,” said Placer County, California, District Attorney Morgan Gire in a Facebook statement.
Meanwhile, on Fox & Friends First, Chris Gibson, director of the Oregon-Idaho high-intensity drug trafficking area said he was most concerned about kids overdosing on the colored fentanyl.
In the same interview, host Carley Shimkus repeated another myth about fentanyl. “When some people even touch fentanyl, it can kill them,” she said. A person can’t overdose from simply touching fentanyl.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88q84k/what-is-rainbow-fentanyl
Latest drug panic. And you can't OD from touching the drug or being in the same room with it. 
Regal Cinemas parent company plans to file for bankruptcy protection, per report
The parent company of Regal Cinemas is preparing to file for bankruptcy amid consumers' slow return to movie theaters, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
With its U.S. headquarters in Knoxville, Regal is one of East Tennessee's most prominent national brands.
The company said in a statement Friday that all Cineworld and Regal theaters are open for business as usual.
Regal closed its theaters across the country and furloughed 40,000 employees for months when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Like for all movie theater chains, attendance was slow to bounce back once theaters reopened, and the seemingly endless array of streaming options remain stiff competition.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/2022/08/19/regal-cinemas-parent-company-cineworld-file-bankruptcy/7841613001/
I know we haven't been to a movie theater in over a year. We used to go every couple of months.
Regal Cinemas parent company plans to file for bankruptcy protection, per report
The parent company of Regal Cinemas is preparing to file for bankruptcy amid consumers' slow return to movie theaters, according to a report from the Wall Street Journal.
With its U.S. headquarters in Knoxville, Regal is one of East Tennessee's most prominent national brands.
The company said in a statement Friday that all Cineworld and Regal theaters are open for business as usual.
Regal closed its theaters across the country and furloughed 40,000 employees for months when the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
Like for all movie theater chains, attendance was slow to bounce back once theaters reopened, and the seemingly endless array of streaming options remain stiff competition.
https://www.knoxnews.com/story/money/2022/08/19/regal-cinemas-parent-company-cineworld-file-bankruptcy/7841613001/
I know we haven't been to a movie theater in over a year. We used to go every couple of months.
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