“freindzone” is a self-inflicted wound. Nobody can make you cower in the corner waiting for your “opportunity”. Nobody made you look at friendship with the opposite sex as something that must be suffered so as to be due a reward.

A female guard replied “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up and he’s going to have an alibi – my officers,” the FBI notes said. The inmate claimed the whole wing overheard the exchange.

My favorite part is not where the phrase “cover up” is explicitly used, it’s the part where the female guard clarifies that it’s “my officers” who are going to get an alibi. As if she was worried their’d be confusion over the pronoun “he’s”.

In context, this reads like a bad SNL sketch.

Your life must be going pretty well if you’ve got the bandwidth to worry about Trump wearing a hat.

If you read the article, only the victims were from Utah. The murderer is from Iowa.

The official rationale coming from the administration is no more coherent than this.

This is probably not related to the Iran War, which makes it twice as ironic.

Lebanon’s relationship with Hezbollah is complicated. As in Hezbollah has assassinated Lebanese PM’s for in the past for trying to control Hezbollah.

Maybe Hezbollah’s weakness has something to do with the timing, you think?

I got a lot of badges when I was a scout. Didn’t have to use my penis for any of them.

I don’t understand why people drag on sugar-babies like they’re the stupid ones in the situation.

Safe, clean, and renewable. It’s the energy source of the future.

I can not be created, only confirmed.

Conspiracy theories can be a coping mechanism that allow people to feel like they understand a complicated and scary world. The Epstein scandal is complicated and scary.

The reason circumcision is common in the US has more to do with people like RFK jr. than it does with people like Epstein.

Sulfuric Acid isn’t ideal for dissolving bodies, because it doesn’t dissolve bones well. It has many legitimate uses such as water purification, which the article points out.

Honestly with all the terrible shit we know happened, I don’t understand the urge to turn this into an episode of Dexter. Is child-abuse island it not interesting enough?

Gary Webb killed himself. He was divorced, unemployed, and his professional reputation was ruined. His reporting on the CIA importing cocaine was retracted after it was fact checked, and his editor would not stand behind the reporting.

But his article was published and is still available to read. The idea that the CIA assassinates people 20 years after they “spill the secrets” stretches credulity. Makes since he’d punch his own ticket.

The idea that he was shot twice “in the back of the head” is a myth. He did shoot himself twice, but that’s not so unusual. 42% of gunshot and penetrative wounds to the brain are survivable.

This meme irritates me because it depends on the misinformation that suicides are unusual or suspicious. Suicides are common as dirt. To the tune of like 40K people/ year in the US. It’s a major public health crisis but gets ignored because of taboo and because it’s a gun issue.

Wow IS is almost as incompetent as the CIA.

I want to cook these motherfuckers as much as anyone. But if there is universal political motivation, then maybe the best use of it would be policies and international agreements to aggressively pursue sophisticated and connected abusers of children.

These files have exposed society wide failures of indifference, corruption, and tolerance for rank criminality. If after all that we’ve learned, kids aren’t made to be safer, then we’ve failed again.