Lawrence Allan
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Midwestern as f@!k! Award winning and Shamus Finalist! Mystery/crime writer of tales involving heroes using humor to cover emotional turmoil. https://linktr.ee/lawrenceallan
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Setting aside the absolute ethical breach for a moment, Nuzzi is a terrible writer.
November 17, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Setting aside the absolute ethical breach for a moment, Nuzzi is a terrible writer.
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Jeffrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton
Jefrey Epstein’s brother says the ‘Bubba’ mentioned in Trump oral sex email is not Bill Clinton
Mark Epstein wanted to ensure that “speculation does not unfairly implicate people who are not actually being referenced in those communications,” he said in a statement to The Advocate.
www.advocate.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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The Democrats called out racist shitbags and serial sex offenders.
If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ.
The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.
If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ.
The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.
Dems didn't brand "white dudes" as the "bad guy" as Portnoy suggests. We branded people who support a toxic, hate-filled convicted felon who abuses women and lies constantly about everything as the bad guys, and they just happen to be disproportionately white men.
www.mediaite.com/politics/dav...
www.mediaite.com/politics/dav...
Dave Portnoy Says He Turned on Dems Because They Branded 'White Dudes' Society's 'Bad Guy'
Barstool Sports boss Dave Portnoy said he flipped to supporting Republicans because Democrats branded "white dudes" as the "bad guy" in America during the Biden Administration
www.mediaite.com
November 16, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Democrats called out racist shitbags and serial sex offenders.
If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ.
The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.
If you heard those attacks and felt they were calling *you* out personally, then that's entirely on you, champ.
The rest of us white guys didn't hear that. At all.
The fact that Republicans are at “odds” at all tells you everything about the Republican Party. They don’t mind Nazis.
Republicans are at odds about how to handle the white-nationalist influencer Nick Fuentes’s encroachment into their ranks, @alibreland.bsky.social writes. He asked Fuentes about being the center of a crisis in American conservatism:
The Nick Fuentes Spiral
The reckoning with the white-nationalist influencer’s rise is only getting messier.
bit.ly
November 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
The fact that Republicans are at “odds” at all tells you everything about the Republican Party. They don’t mind Nazis.
Every accusation is a confession. And Bondi is protecting him.
Pam Bondi said the Justice Dept will probe Jeffrey Epstein's alleged ties to prominent Dems, including Bill Clinton, after Trump demanded an investigation
After Trump Demand, Justice Department To Probe Epstein Ties With Democrats
The Epstein scandal has been a political thorn in Trump’s side for months, partly because he amplified conspiracy theories about Epstein to his own supporters.
www.huffpost.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Every accusation is a confession. And Bondi is protecting him.
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The same people who claim we don’t know what a “woman” is are having a real tough time defining a “child”.
November 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
The same people who claim we don’t know what a “woman” is are having a real tough time defining a “child”.
JFC.
True comedy is watching Dave Portnay trying to use a hammer
November 14, 2025 at 6:28 PM
JFC.
Change a letter; make a singer less appealing
Tom Tones
Tom Tones
Change a letter; make a singer less appealing
Lady Maga
Lady Maga
Change a letter; make a singer less appealing
Willy Joe Armstrong
Willy Joe Armstrong
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Change a letter; make a singer less appealing
Tom Tones
Tom Tones
What a Nazi weirdo.
Nothing he says is true.
Nothing he says is true.
JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."
November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
What a Nazi weirdo.
Nothing he says is true.
Nothing he says is true.
They aren't taking jobs. They are given jobs.
Bovino: "Whether they were criminals or individuals that were taking jobs from Americans -- you name it, that's what they were doing. And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. We're gonna go even harder on the streets. If he releases those 650, we're gonna apprehend 1,650 on the streets of Chicago."
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
They aren't taking jobs. They are given jobs.
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
November 13, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I see the “technically it’s ephebophelia” crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the “irredeemable creeper” basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
JFC. It's still rape, Megyn.
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:36 PM
JFC. It's still rape, Megyn.
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Also, somewhat tangentially, I think these emails underscore the extent to which accumulating extreme wealth is fundamentally incompatible with living an ethical life.
November 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Also, somewhat tangentially, I think these emails underscore the extent to which accumulating extreme wealth is fundamentally incompatible with living an ethical life.
Pope Sideburns I
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck?
It's the Pope in 1982.
It's the Pope in 1982.
November 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Pope Sideburns I
So it's a situation? A situation worthy of the situation room?
Yeah, that's not sus at all.
And the GOP continues to cover for him.
Yeah, that's not sus at all.
And the GOP continues to cover for him.
Q: "Why are White House officials…meeting with Rep. Boebert in an effort to try to get her to not sign this petition calling for the release of the [Epstein] files?"
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
Leavitt: "I'm not going to detail conversations that took place in the situation room."
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
So it's a situation? A situation worthy of the situation room?
Yeah, that's not sus at all.
And the GOP continues to cover for him.
Yeah, that's not sus at all.
And the GOP continues to cover for him.
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Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
November 12, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Trump Still Polling Well With Working-Class American Pedophiles https://theonion.com/trump-still-polling-well-with-working-class-american-pedophiles/
It's a great example of Don't Tell Me Your Values, Show Me Your Budget.
What you pay for ARE your values.
What you pay for ARE your values.
Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 12, 2025 at 7:12 PM
It's a great example of Don't Tell Me Your Values, Show Me Your Budget.
What you pay for ARE your values.
What you pay for ARE your values.
I’m not surprised that billionaires are incredibly unhappy and miserable.
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m not surprised that billionaires are incredibly unhappy and miserable.
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Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
November 12, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Paid a Colombian tea grower $1,500 for a shipment. Got billed $150 by the Trump administration at the border. *I* got billed. Not the tea growers. Not the Colombian government. Me. The American business owner. I paid the Trump tax.
Maybe they have hired bad writers?
Like, no one has ever cared that much about continuity with the Bond franchise.
It's a reboot. Just get on with it.
Like, no one has ever cared that much about continuity with the Bond franchise.
It's a reboot. Just get on with it.
James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:
“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."
radaronline.com/p/james-bond...
November 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Maybe they have hired bad writers?
Like, no one has ever cared that much about continuity with the Bond franchise.
It's a reboot. Just get on with it.
Like, no one has ever cared that much about continuity with the Bond franchise.
It's a reboot. Just get on with it.
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Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
November 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Today in #404DeepDive: People are modding Meta Ray-Bans to spy on you. Already, there are videos with millions of views of men using the glasses to film massage workers, asking for happy endings. What's Meta's response? @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
More here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
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We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.
This is why they were in downtown Chicago today.
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
"one agent shouted, “Everyone say, ‘Little Village!’”"
Nuremberg Trials are the moderate stance
blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
We cannot let “haunted ICE agent regretfully explores his feelings/past/guilt” become a genre the way we did with every bad actor since the Confederates.