Hetty Green was, by the reckoning of nearly every newspaper in America, the richest woman alive, and she chose to live like she had nothing at all. Born into a Quaker whaling fortune in New Bedford, she turned an inheritance into one of the largest fortunes in the country through decades of shrewd investing. She ran that empire from a desk at Chemical National Bank, arriving each morning like any other clerk. But when the workday ended, Green did not go home to a mansion. She rented cheap rooms in boarding houses across Brooklyn Heights and, later, Hoboken, so New York could never pin down where she lived. That mattered, because legal residency in New York would have meant taxes on a fortune large enough to make the bill enormous. Green wore the same black dress until it wore through, and legend holds her laundress washed only the soiled hems to save on soap. Newspapers mocked her as the Witch of Wall Street, a miser hoarding millions while sleeping in rented rooms. Yet she was also fighting a bitter legal battle over her aunt's estate, a will contest that put a mathematician on the stand to testify about the vanishing odds of a signature being genuine. The numbers he offered the court were almost meaningless in size, and Green still lost. She died in 1916, having outmaneuvered bankers and courts for most of her life. A fortune, it turns out, does not need comfort to grow, only discipline most people cannot keep up for sixty years. #History #GildedAge #WallStreet
Tennessee files both of these offences under the one felony class. Sleeping on public land is a Class E felony in that state, carrying one to six years in prison. A first domestic violence conviction there is only a Class A misdemeanour, carrying up to eleven months and twenty-nine days. It takes a third conviction before that charge becomes a Class E felony as well. The state code itself says so in plain words, and it has said so for years now. So a third conviction there and one single night spent outside land in exactly the same class of crime. Only one of those two offences has a victim at all. Sources: NPR, WPLN News
heard the stupidist fucken shit on twitter before they banned me some right wing straight fuck was saying oh they are just going to tack on pedos to the LGBTQA2+ tag and I am like hell no -no gay person or anybody in the acronym would ever fucken allow kids to be harmed in ANY way and we will drag the people that try and tack on that label to us into the street by their hair if they even try not going to happen gays are actually really awesome parents and uncles and aunts its just these fucks that are scared of their own shadow see us posting a hot twink 19 and assume we are all pedos when its the closet cases that have shit on them that they are hiding from not us we have healthy boundaries like not gonna say there is no gay pedos but most of them are straight and right wing republican closet cases into snuff flims and shit so leave us all alone like honestly an asexual or intersex or 2 spirit will not have any part in that shit so fuck off now
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Tallywackers: A Brief Chapter in Dallas Gay History | By Kat Haygood Tallywackers opened on Lemmon Avenue in Oak Lawn in May 2015, billing itself as the male answer to Hooters. Its young, muscular male servers wore revealing uniforms, with shirtless service in the evenings. The restaurant quickly became a novelty in Dallas’s gayborhood, drawing gay men alongside bachelorette parties, straight couples and curious diners. It was part restaurant, part nightlife spectacle, and very much a product of the mid-2010s. But the novelty didn't last. Tallywackers closed in 2016 after roughly fifteen months, leaving behind little more than memories, photographs and a colorful footnote in Oak Lawn history. It may have been short lived, but Tallywackers captured a particular moment in Dallas gay culture, when being visible, playful and unapologetically sexual could itself become a business model
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I’ve been following this incredibly bizarre case out of Harvard Medical School since it first came to light back in 2023, and three years later, there’s been a pretty major development. A 53-million-dollar settlement has now been reached in the civil case tied to former Harvard morgue manager Cedric Lodge and his wife, Denise. If you missed this one the first time around, Cedric was the longtime manager of the morgue at Harvard Medical School. Federal prosecutors said that beginning in 2018, he removed portions of human remains from the school without permission and, with Denise, sold them to people in several states. Investigators said some buyers were even allowed inside the morgue to choose what they wanted. And yes, the Lodges were every bit as memorable as the case itself. The couple owned a pumpkin-orange Subaru with the New Hampshire vanity plate GRIM-R, as in Grim Reaper. They also had a second Subaru with DKSHDWS, a nod to the retro soap opera Dark Shadows. A lot has happened since I first told you guys about this one. Cedric pleaded guilty and was sentenced in December 2025 to eight years in federal prison. Denise was sentenced to 12 months and one day. Several other people connected to the larger network also pleaded guilty. But the criminal cases weren’t the end of it. Families also pursued Harvard in civil court, alleging the university failed to properly safeguard the people entrusted to its medical school. Those lawsuits were initially dismissed, but Massachusetts’ highest court allowed them to move forward last fall. Now, Harvard has agreed to the sizable settlement, which still requires final court approval. As part of the agreement, Harvard Medical School will also formally acknowledge what happened and establish an annual scholarship honoring anatomical donors.
WH aide begged Trump to “punish” her & “cuss her out” when she “deserves” it in bizarre letters
WH aide begged Trump to “punish” her & “cuss her out” when she “deserves” it in bizarre letters: "I want things to always be right between us," Natalie Harp wrote Trump. "I never want to bring you anything but joy."
Conversion therapy is evolving. Here’s how the religious right is reaching modern youth.
Conversion therapy is evolving. Here’s how the religious right is reaching modern youth.: Purity Culture 2.0. is here, and it has a new message.
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