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Deavan Clegg Slams Accusations She Kept Ex Jihoon Away Amid Taeyang’s Childhood Cancer Battle


"Instead of commenting ignorant things on my post, go comment on his page why he hasn't helped," Deavan, 26, slammed one troll after they said they "hoped" she allowed Taeyang to "see his dad" following his release from the hospital on Friday, December 23.

Hours earlier, another social media user commented on Deavan's Instagram saying, "I feel terrible for what’s going on with this child," under a photo of Taeyang and sister Drascilla meeting Santa. “How could you take your son to see Santa, over finding away for his REAL DAD to come see him? [sic]”

The mother of three did not take kindly to the user’s remarks as she responded, “That’s Jihoon’s responsibility not mine. We did our part times 100!”

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Wanted: Two lighthouse keepers for tiny island in San Francisco Bay. Must have 'high-quality culinary experience' and a captain's license.


Two custodians for a historic lighthouse and hotel in San Francisco Bay are being recruited.

The two-year posting starts in April, pays $140,000 a year – but two people must apply jointly.

The successful applicants' duties will include being a boat captain, chef, and gift shop attendant.

Tech giants might be shedding thousands of staff, but there's one job in northern California still up for grabs — as long as you have a partner or friend to apply with.

The East Brother Light Station is looking for two people to become lighthouse keepers for two years on the tiny island just off Point San Pablo in Richmond.

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...Not to mention, lots of healthy nutrients in it...:

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Singaporean mother drinks gallon of her own breastmilk to avoid waste


A mother vacationing in Hokkaido, Japan, went viral on TikTok for drinking almost 4.5 liters (1.2 gallons) of her own breast milk.

Uploaded by Singaporean Jemie Lim (@jemielimtiktok) last week, the one-minute video documents the mother’s journey from Singapore to Hokkaido. During her trip, Lim can be seen drinking her own express breast milk (EBM) as “unexpected circumstances” prevented her from freezing it all.

@jemielimtiktok I drank 4450ML of my own breastmilk in Hokkaido🥹 My initial plan was to store my expressed breastmilk (ebm) in hotel freezer but unexpected circumstances happened so only first day of my ebm being stored and brought back to Singapore successfully🎉 #Motherhood #Breastmilk #Travelpumping ♬ original sound - Jemielimtiktok

“I drank 4450ML of my own breastmilk in Hokkaido,” the video’s captions read. “My initial plan was to store my expressed breastmilk (ebm) in hotel freezer but unexpected circumstances happened so only first day of my EBM being stored and brought back to Singapore successfully."

In an interview with Must Share News, Lim shared that she was on vacation in Hokkaido from Dec. 7-12. Although Lim had previously contacted the hotel to use their freezer to store her EBM, the hotel had warned that they would be unable to guarantee the quality of the milk. After the first day, the mother discovered some of her milk had not been frozen.

“I was worried all my milk would be spoilt by end of the trip,” Lim said, deciding to drink her EBM rather than let it go to waste.

At the start of the video, Jemie films herself drinking her EBM on the flight and at her hotel. After arriving at Hokkaido, the mother notes the lack of nursing rooms, consequently pumping in a “random place.”

By the end of her trip, Lim was only able to freeze and bring home her EBM from the first day of her vacation.

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Far Right Turns on ‘Faker’ & ‘Liar’ Marjorie Taylor Greene

The far right is out to destroy one of their own.

Over the past week, far-right pundits have begun lining up to take shots at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) as the congresswoman reportedly vacationed in Costa Rica.

As for why fellow extremists are upset? That’s three-fold—and it involves Greene’s vocal support for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be the next Speaker of the House, her public spat with onetime friend Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO), and the finalization of her divorce.

“MTG wants to protect McCarthy from being removed if he is elected Speaker,” Jan 6th organizer Ali Alexander wrote on Telegram, seething over Greene. “There is something so odd about what is going on between McCarthy and MTG. I’ve only ever once before seen anything like it. It may be time for me to intervene.”

The “Stop the Steal” leader—once an ally of Greene’s—subsequently returned to Telegram to tear into the Georgia Republican, who he referred to as a “trailer park hoodrat,” for “attacking” Boebert earlier this week after the Colorado congresswoman ignited a public feud with Greene.

“I’ve been aligned with Marjorie and accused of believing a lot of the things that she believes in,” Boebert said Monday at a Turning Point USA conference—which kicked off the feud. “I don’t believe in this, just like I don’t believe in Russian space lasers, Jewish space lasers, and all of this.”

Greene responded on Twitter by accusing Boebert of engaging in “high school drama” and generating “media sound bites.”

Since then, far-right radio host Stew Peters has also gotten in on the Greene bashing.

“I see you’ve stopped talking about dildos and butt plugs,” Peters fumed on Twitter after Greene fired back at Boebert. In a phone interview with The Daily Beast, Peters said that Greene was “actually a threat to national security” and declared that she would “burn in hell” one day.

“Marjorie is NOT America First, but regrettably a faker and a liar who raised millions claiming she would impeach Biden, and now backs a man for Speaker who refuses to impeach Biden,” he said Friday evening. Additionally, Peters—like many other far-right pundits—engaged in an extremely sexist attack referencing the allegation that Greene had an affair with a “tantric sex guru” ahead of her recent divorce.

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General Discussion / Asians helping out Black folks??
« on: December 24, 2022, 12:19:19 AM »
More than 70 Asian American groups urge Biden to create Black reparations commission

A force of 76 Japanese American and Asian American organizations has demanded President Joe Biden to create a reparations commission for African Americans before 2023.

In a letter sent to the White House on Wednesday, the groups — led by the National Nikkei Reparations Coalition (NNRC) — called for an executive order to establish the commission, which would study “the legacy of enslavement and racist government policies with the intent to develop and implement practical solutions for reparations.”

The push comes as H.R. 40, which proposed the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, is slated to expire at the end of the year.

H.R. 40 was first introduced in 1989, a year after the Civil Liberties Act was passed to create a commission that provided reparations for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.


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Arizona to remove shipping container wall from Mexico border


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Why it costs $1 million a day to run one of the world's biggest cruise ships

It takes a staff of 2,400 people working day and night to keep Royal Caribbean's Symphony of the Seas sailing. From tiny cruise-ship kitchens, chefs whip up 30,000 meals a day. All waste onboard is dealt with in secret, crew-only areas of the ship. And the engine room and captain's bridge work together to power and move the floating city. We go below deck on one of the world's largest cruise ships

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GOP starved IRS of resources needed to crack down on rich

The GOP Gutted the IRS — and the Rich Made Out Like Bandits


For much of the last decade, the Republican Party has branded itself as a champion of fiscal responsibility and the rule of law — while doing everything in its power to help rich people steal from the Treasury.

Since taking Congress in 2011, the GOP has forced through a series of aggressive cuts to the Internal Revenue Service budget. Between 2010 and 2016, the number of individual tax returns filed in the U.S. increased by 7 percent, while IRS funding fell by 18 percent. That funding cut was exorbitantly expensive. Every $1 the government spends on enforcing tax compliance, it gets $6 back in recovered revenue, according to Treasury Department estimates.

And the spending cuts that Republicans imposed on the IRS fell disproportiona tely on tax-enforcement operations. Today, the IRS audits tax returns at a 42 percent lower rate than it did before Republicans took Congress in November 2010. Meanwhile, criminal referrals for tax evasion are becoming an endangered species: In 2012, the IRS referred 589 tax violations for criminal prosecution; in 2016, it referred just 328.

Much of this decline is a product of the massive reduction in the IRS’s enforcement staff. But that isn’t the whole story, as ProPublica reports:

Over time, crimes only tangentially related to taxes, such as drug trafficking and money laundering, have come to account for most of the agency’s cases.



“Due to budget cuts, attrition and a shift in focus, there’s been a collapse in the commitment to take on tax fraud,” said Chuck Pine, who used to be the third-ranking criminal enforcement officer at the IRS and is now a managing director at BDO Consulting. “I believe there are thousands of individuals who have U.S. tax obligations and are not complying with U.S. tax laws.”



…It doesn’t help that many agents prefer chasing flashier crimes than tax evasion. Rob Warren, a research associate at Catholic University who previously spent a quarter century at the IRS, interviewed 30 former special agents. He asked each agent which of their cases had been their favorite. The answers, Warren said, typically were only tangentially related to taxes.



“It was usually narcotics, Ponzi schemes, some public corruption,” Warren said. “Agents loved Ponzi cases because there was a real victim, an old lady or something like that.”

Last year, congressional Republicans attempted to divert the IRS’s attention away from policing the one percent’s tax evasion even further, by requiring the agency to invest more of its limited resources into cracking down on working poor Americans who improperly claim the Earned Income Tax Credit.

But even without that abominable proposal, the price of underfunding the IRS — and diverting it from its core mission of enforcement — is gargantuan. According to the agency’s estimates, American business owners are collectively shirking $125 billion in taxes each year.

Which is to say: By sabotaging the rule of law — and helping white-collar criminals move cash across America’s borders illegally — the Republican Party has effectively delivered a second, secret $1.25 trillion tax cut to American corporations.

But the reason this administration is keeping thousands of migrant children locked up in tent prisons is because it cares deeply about the rule of law, and the plight of working-class Americans.

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California county bans landlords from conducting criminal background checks for housing

In an effort to reduce those barriers, Alameda County has become the first in the country to ban landlords from doing criminal background checks for potential tenants.





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Design Student Pens Electric Corvette
ArtCenter student Xusheng Zhao likes Corvettes. Based on his latest school project, you can see he likes the C7 Corvette in particular.



We already know that hybrid and battery-electric Corvettes are coming, but we’re not entirely sure what they’ll look like. Well, here’s one idea.

ArtCenter student Xusheng Zhao likes Corvettes. In particular he likes the C7 Corvette, the one with the engine in the front under a long hood.

“Maybe the mid-rear powertrain in the C8 Corvette is more suitable for the race track, but I like the front-engine C7—just the way it looks, the proportions, the potential for a big frunk. It just gave me a very Corvette feeling,” Zhao said during ArtCenter Grad Preview Night in Pasadena.

When it came time for him to do his senior thesis, naturally, he did it on the Corvette, looking more like the C7 than the more contemporary C8.

Would he put the engine in the front, then? Not an engine. An electric motor.

“This is an EV, an EV gran turismo,” he says.

The smaller space required for an electric motor or motors frees up room for a frunk, while maintaining the long front hood of the C7 and earlier Corvettes. He sees the frunk as a practical feature.

“If you’re in California you want to go to (local ski resort) Big Bear for snowboarding—you can just put the snowboard in the car and just go. You’re driving a car that’s very stunning on the outside at the same time. It’s so practical you can do anything with this car. That’s my vision for this car—you can do everything in it.”

His version would be a gran turismo, more suited for comfortable cruising over long distances. He sees the mid- rear-engined C8 as the track car. So, two Corvettes? If Chevy decides to spin off the brand to include a sedan and even a Corvette SUV, a gran turismo version of an electric ’Vette isn’t so far-out an idea.

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...so wondering how may deers, elk, etc., had this reaction when they lost their male "manhood" characteristic s.. ???:

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A moose shook his head — and his antlers fell off. Watch his startled reaction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txDDfLSIfhc


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A former factory worker sold almost everything he owned to buy an abandoned water tower and turn it into a sleek home. He wants to sell it next year — but won't settle for less than $2.4 million.


















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Hyundai, Now the No. 3 Carmaker, Takes Aim at Toyota and Volkswagen
Electric vehicles, luxury Genesis brand seen fueling growth
South Korean automaker planing at least 17 EV models by 2030





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Woman Blames Priest For Ruining Her Marriage After He Told Her Husband She Confessed To Cheating


If you've never used a confessional, you’ve no doubt seen one in a movie or television show — it's when you step into a wooden stall at church and proceed to confess your sins to a priest in the hopes of salvation.

The expectation is that you drop the burden of your transgressions, take accountability for your actions, and are forgiven for what you’ve done after you finish the penance handed to you.

These experiences are supposed to be private and confidential, between you, your priest, and God.

But one woman found out the hard way that what happened in the confessional doesn’t necessarily stay there.

The woman shared her story of a priest's controversial betrayal after he revealed her affair confession to her husband.
In a post originally written on the subreddit, "r/legaladvice" and then reshared on "r/facepalm," the poster is honest from the start, telling readers that three years ago, during a tumultuous time in her marriage, she made the mistake of cheating on her husband.

The one-night stand happened during a work trip and the woman confessed that she never asked for any intimate details about the man she cheated with, including his last name.

They didn’t exchange contact information, nor did they keep in contact after the encounter.

The Redditor felt justified because at the time, she didn’t feel valued or appreciated by her husband and she describes the marriage as “rocky” back then.

For that reason, up until now, she has had no reason to tell anyone about the affair.

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