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1 week ago | 
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His wife stands accused of doing some bad stuff with a minor male. He’s sticking by her. Is that so bad? If you are unfamiliar with this case, it’s out of Downers Grove, Illinois. Here is the body cam of a teacher named Christina Formella getting arrested in her driveway a few months back:She was 30 at the time of this arrest. Law enforcement says that when she was 28, she was having a sexual relationship with a 15 year-old at the school she worked at.
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1 week ago | 
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Two such cases of late. I generally believe 2–3 indices of “a thing” can make it border on “trend,” so much like a period in 2023–2024 when it seemed like a few young women in New Mexico were taken to throwing their babies in the trash, we have now identified a new mini-trend whereby women in the Midwest run over their husbands with their cars, killing them.
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1 week ago | 
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Incels, but also more than just that. Mark Manson did a good newsletter this morning (link) on loneliness in modernity, which I’ve covered off on a few times as well: I actually wrote this post right when I was getting divorced three+ years ago, and I once exhorted us to stop ignoring loneliness as a topic.
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1 week ago | 
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We saw this quite a bit during COVID. Obviously COVID was going to be very interesting for white-collar knowledge work. A couple of weeks back, I argued that it created a “Fight Club” situation in white-collar work, where executives are basically making employees brawl for resources and available jobs relative to layoffs.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Alexis Von Yates. Basic facts on this one: Alexis Yates was 33 years old and living in Florida. She had young kids with a guy who had been married before, and said guy had a 15 year-old from a previous relationship. The 15 year-old did not live in Florida, but visited them for a part of the summer, roughly about a month.
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2 weeks ago | 
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Uplifting, in a way. We will have some nice moments with video in a second, but let me paint this for you first. We have a woman named Daniela, from Colombia. She’s living in Florida, apparently working for a consulting company. In June ’24, she met a guy named Walter on Bumble, and they went on “five or six dates,” according to her.
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2 weeks ago | 
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The Melissa English tale. Melissa English, who lived north of Jacksonville, was seemingly born Melissa Ganey, and for a long portion of her adulthood she was Melissa Rhoden. I believe the guy in the photo above is Richard Rhoden, and those are their kids, although I am not positive if all three kids are biologically those two parents. Probably, though. Sometime around June of 2019, per Florida court records, it seems as if Melissa Rhoden initiated a divorce from Richard.
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3 weeks ago | 
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Killed his dad over “riding his ass” to get a job. Our brother-in-Christ here, Joseph Voigt, was a 24 year-old gamer dude living somewhere between Orlando and Tampa. He lived, as you’d predict, with his parents. Joe had some issues with violence and recklessness in the past — he randomly shot into a wall A/C unit at some point, and maced two people once for asking him why he was walking in their neighborhood. In short, the elevator quite possibly didn’t reach the top floor, ya know?
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3 weeks ago | 
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Say it from the rooftops. Because nowadays everyone must have a take on everything, insofar as anyone ever finds or reads this, I just want to be clear upfront that I am not victim-blaming in any way. The men in these stories are horrible and they deserve the shame and punishment. In both cases, they received the latter. I am not sure about the former, as I do not reside within the brains of incarcerated males.
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3 weeks ago | 
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This topic comes up a lot lately — what can we add? You can probably figure out the term from “context clues,” but it’s a form of personal incompetence you “weaponize” (that part is probably the wrong word) so that you don’t have to do something, usually because you don’t want to do that thing. This has been a TikTok craze a few times in the last 18 months, and full-ass YouTube videos have been made about it too.
