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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Thought this was kind of interesting... but then I got jumpscared by the most ghoulish troon I've seen in a while.

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‘If you don’t marry me I will kill all 5 of us’: He dumped her, so she shot his teen relative, San Ramon police say
The Mercury News (archive.ph)
By Nate Gartrell
2026-01-12 21:02:14GMT
SAN RAMON — Police here say a brief relationship between a man and a woman nearly ended with the murder of the man’s 17-year-old relative.

Xiaojie Zhang, 40, of Union City, only dated her ex-boyfriend for five months after they met through mutual friends. But after he broke things off in September, she began to obsessively try to rekindle the flame, leading to stalking and eventually a chilling threat that police allege she attempted to make good on.

“If you don’t marry me, I will kill all five of us,” Zhang allegedly told her ex, which he believed was a reference to the two of them and three family members, according to police.

On Nov. 23, Zhang allegedly followed her ex-boyfriend’s 17-year-old relative down a residential neighborhood in San Ramon, as the boy walked his dog. He later reported seeing a woman following him, then increasing her speed, followed by a loud bang. The boy looked up, initially unaware that he’d been shot, and his first thought was to ask the woman if she was ok, police said.

Then he felt the blood trickling down his neck and ran for help. Zhang was quickly identified as a suspect based on her allegedly increasingly disturbing behavior. Police learned from her ex-boyfriend that she’d been showing up to his home and workplace unannounced, banging on doors and windows, then appearing at relatives’ youth sporting events. She also let him know she got a gun and was training with it, police said in court filings.

Her threats seemed centered on her desire to marry her ex, authorities allege.

After the shooting, police had two problems: locating Zhang, and tracking down another underage family member of the victim who they feared would be targeted next. The youth happened to be out of town that day, authorities said.

Zhang was arrested at her Union City home on Famoso Plaza, court records show. Her name and home address are listed on a daycare registration site, advertising it as a place for “safe, loving childcare” for local kids.

Zhang remains jailed on attempted murder and stalking charges, with bail set at $3.3 million. She is next due in court on Wednesday, records show.
 
A mentally retarded Australian woman texts a nutritionist asking for advice regarding her diet plan. Nutritionist doesn't respond.. Woman then butt-dials the nutritionist later. Nutritionist again doesn't respond and lets it go to voicemail. Retard is charged with an antisemitic hate crime for the butt-dial because the nutritionist is Jewish. Link

What the actual fuck.
 
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A mentally retarded Australian woman texts a nutritionist asking for advice regarding her diet plan. Nutritionist doesn't respond.. Woman then butt-dials the nutritionist later. Nutritionist again doesn't respond and lets it go to voicemail. Retard is charged with an antisemitic hate crime for the butt-dial because the nutritionist is Jewish. Link

What the actual fuck.
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Probably something to post as an article, no?
 
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I'm drunk and too lazy to do a proper search, but I only know of the 9 News Australia clip about it -- haven't seen a proper article. Feel free to post one if you find it.
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I found a mainstream media publication and posted it.
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Wątek 'Sydney woman charged over ‘anti-Semitic voicemail’ says call was pocket dial'

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Left Serena Tonuri outside court (9News). Right, (((Mandy Sacher))) (Facebook).
An intellectually disabled Sydney woman charged over an “anti-Semitic” voice message received by a well-known Jewish nutritionist has pleaded not guilty, saying the call was an accidental pocket dial.

Bunnings worker Serena Tonuri, 26, who is on the NDIS, faced Burwood Local Court on Thursday accused of sending a voicemail containing gunshots to child nutrition expert and author Mandy Sacher, 49, last month.

Ms Sacher contacted NSW Police saying she had...
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From the Hindustan Times
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I love how troons can't agree on whether their "KILL WHITES! SHOOT STRAIGHTS!" chants are serious or not, and then every now and then someone acts on it and the rest go "uhhh bro?"
 
And now a 2026 update on Britney Spears
Who knew the South Park episode would have been the humane ending?
 
The ever more unhinged Ohio man is fighting for Florida man’s place for the funniest/most bizarre headlines:
Ohio man visits luxury dealership for test drive, abducts saleswoman to run errands: docs
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MARYSVILLE, Ohio (WKRC) – An Ohio man was indicted after he allegedly took a Jeep Wrangler out for a test drive and abducted a saleswoman.

According to WBNS, Todd Marrs was taken into custody after he allegedly took a Jeep Wrangler for a test drive, then went to run errands while a dealership employee was inside.

Per the report, Marrs walked into Performance Luxury in Marysville, Ohio, on December 19, 2025, and asked to take a Jeep Wrangler out for a test drive. While out on the road, the employee informed Marrs that he had taken a different route than usual, according to the station.

Court documents reviewed by WBNS state that Marrs drove to a warehouse near railroad tracks and sat in a parking lot for five minutes. The employee then told Marrs to return to the dealership, but the suspect reportedly responded, “No, now you’ll sit there and wait like a good girl,” per WBNS.

The saleswoman then began sending text messages to the rest of the dealership’s employees and shared her location, the report states. After making a call to the business, however, the suspect allegedly took her phone and threw it on the floorboard, according to the station.

Marrs then reportedly drove the Wrangler to an area hospital, where he picked up a friend, then allegedly refused to take the vehicle and the saleswoman back to the dealership until all of his errands were complete, WBNS reported.

Marrs, his friend, and the saleswoman eventually all returned to the dealership in the Wrangler, per the report.

Marrs was arrested and indicted on the following charges, according to the station:

  • Abduction
  • Disrupting public services
He was arraigned in the Union County Court of Common Pleas and is being held on a $250,000 bond.
 

If You Want Different Outcomes, You Have to Do Different Things​

I don't know what else to tell you​

Freddie deBoer
Jan 25, 2026

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A couple years back I published a book called How the Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement. (I really didn’t care for the title, but then I never do.) The book was represented by many as an attack on the 2020 protests, a rejection of the reaction to the George Floyd murder, and a dismissal of #BlackLivesMatter, but it was none of those things. Much as with my first book, this social media summary was a misrepresentation of the book’s central premise. The point of the book was that the rage and desire for change and calls for justice and protests were all righteous, which made it even more tragic that nothing really changed as a result. People try to lawyer this point, argue that a lot was actually accomplished, and I do think that there’s been at least a new level of self-defensive awareness about the use of force among police departments, and that’s good. But the protestors themselves were telling you that their goal was a total reimagining of how race functions in American society, and that did not occur. The positive permanent changes were few and feeble.

I wrote the book not to mock the effort but to call attention to how it had been betrayed by the leaders and institutions who should have done their part to achieve real and durable change, and to lay out the structural ways in which the American left-of-center has become unable or unwilling to turn street protest and public outrage into meaningful material outcomes. I could have been wrong in any number of parts of that effort. But I assumed that people would agree with the basic concept that any moral duty we have to political action is first and foremost a moral duty to perform that political action well. That doesn’t mean that the ballot box and partisan politics are the only valid approaches, not at all; it doesn’t even mean violent action could never be part of the answer. It does mean that there is no such thing as righteous but unfocused anger, no such thing as a moral movement for social justice that does not ruthlessly engage in self-criticism and strategic thinking. And I think that’s what was lost in the whole scrum of 2020. The movement was courageous but directionless, everyone got mad if you pointed this out at the time, and when the fire inevitably burned out, nothing had changed. Then everyone was too embarrassed to do much introspection about why.

So now I watch all the rage and horror unfolding over another execution in the streets of Minnesota and I see so many of the same bad ideas and misguided attitudes, and I do feel a kind of despair. People call for violence against state forces, and I think that’s a terrible idea; you can’t beat them, and the more damage you do, the more the Trump administration will respond with military force that will effortlessly overwhelm you. People call for general strikes, and I think that’s naive; a general strike only works in an environment of class consciousness, healthy unions, and a populace that understands how to use its labor power; we have none of those things. But those are, at least, tactical approaches, ideas about how to create change. They’re thinking about the how. What I find truly destructive is those who say that it’s wrong for me to respond to righteous rage by calling for clear thinking, who get angry when some of us insist that protestors and activists and resisters must be strategic if they’re to be a force for good, those shouting that we shouldn’t “tone police” people reacting with horror towards a state execution of an innocent man in the streets, that to call for smart tactics and effective methods is to equivocate about the justice of that killing and the broader scenario. There is no equivocation - this was a brutal act of murder and ICE and Trump are agents of horrific injustices. That is precisely why I demand that you stop acting like anger is action and strategy a form of capitulation. We tried all of that last time. I can think of no better time to demand clear thinking, effective tactics, and informed strategy than right after the state has executed an innocent person in the street.

I spent thousands of hours of my life doing organizing work against the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, for grad student labor interests, and for housing justice. A good deal of that work involved organizing and attending street protests. The insistence that I am a critic of all such protests is very strange; I have been the named permittee of large street protests, in my life. We protested to create change and right now, with this fight over the future of immigration and its enforcement in this country, that means changing policy.

“Policy” is not a word that feels satisfying right now, but that is the only way this ends in anything durable and good: better immigration policy. I find the fixation on abolishing ICE odd, for this reason. Yes, abolish ICE, sure. But if you abolish ICE and don’t fix the broader immigration policy then the FBI will enforce cruel immigration law, or the local cops will, or they’ll start some other brutal agency. ICE is only the fever that accompanies and announces the disease. We have to have a clear set of demands for immigration policy. The problems are twofold: one, the Democrats do not have anything like a coherent agenda for immigration, and two, while I’m convinced most Americans are disgusted by this cruel spectacle, every bit of political information available to me suggests that large majorities in this country support a restrictionist immigration policy, and Joe Biden’s addled and stumbling half-measures enflamed the country against migrants while failing to actually enshrine legally-enforceable rights for them. We are operating from a position of immense disadvantage on this issue. But we are always operating from a position of immense disadvantage, and I assure you, starting a half-assed guerilla war in the streets of the Twin Cities or loudly calling for a general strike that will not be joined by vast majorities of working people put as at an even greater disadvantage. Keep protesting, defend yourselves in the streets, and also do politics and do it well. Again, I laid out my vision of how to do such a thing in my second book. Maybe my prescriptions are also naive or misguided, but they represent an attempt to think clearly in the face of injustice.

There’s a kind of moral infantilism, in contemporary left-of-center culture, that pretends that feeling angry is the same thing as doing politics, that catharsis is indistinguishable from strategy, that letting people vent their righteous rage is itself a form of justice. But justice only lives in the material world, the world of things. If a political project is genuinely a moral imperative, if we claim that human suffering obligates us to act, then we are equally obligated to pursue that project intelligently, strategically, and with ruthless attention to what actually works. Passion that is not disciplined by goals is self-indulgence. The core of real political passion is obsession with outcomes: what must change, how power actually moves, what tradeoffs are unavoidable, and which tactics advance the cause rather than merely advertise our virtue. Those outcomes can be minor, the business of getting to them can be agonizingly slow, the wins achieved can look insubstantial in the moment, the remaining distance towards true victory can still be vast, all of that is fine. No one is saying that you have to move mountains overnight. But you do have to say “We are going to move this mountain, and we are dedicated to moving this mountain in the most effective and fastest way possible, and here is our plan for how we will move it.” You have to have a plan.

To insist otherwise is to treat politics as therapy and the oppressed as props in your emotional drama. If we truly respect the victims of the injustices we invoke, if we want to get justice for Alex Pretti and save future victims of ICE, if we want to build a humane immigration policy, then we owe them all our relentless self-criticism, constant recalibration, and a willingness to abandon tactics that feel good but fail. Anything less, anything that prioritizes our rage over results, is an abdication of everything we claim to stand for.

Normally I like Freddie, but he picked a fight with Jesse Singal and then pussied out after bragging about how much of a bad-add he is at debating, so I'm going to make fun of him.

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“It does mean that there is no such thing as righteous but unfocused anger”

Here is what you keep getting wrong, Freddie. That’s almost all of what these movements are. That’s why Renee Good – sadly - died. She was cosplaying as a righteous hero, and didn’t understand there was real shit happening.

“What I find truly destructive is those who say that it’s wrong for me to respond to righteous rage by calling for clear thinking, who get angry when some of us insist that protestors and activists and resisters must be strategic if they’re to be a force for good”

Nope. The vast majority of the people exhibiting the righteous rage are in it solely to feel the righteous rage, and they don’t want to hear they’re doing it wrong, because they really don’t care if they are a force for good.

We’ve been over this several times. I don’t know if you are willfully misdiagnosing the motives of the ICE protesters, or earlier, the George Floyd protesters, or if you really believe they just happen to always do the most TikTok-able thing instead of the things that will actually help. And I do, I think, understand that it can seem kind of crass to psychologize away behavior one finds distasteful, but . . . your point, which is well taken and certainly true, is that these protesters are wildly ineffectual. So, why are they? I think the most parsimonious explanation is that – again, most of them - really don’t care to do the work, and they really don’t care about making things better. We don’t listen to what people say to determine their motives, we watch what they actually do, right?
 
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