The nation’s debt permanently crossed over to $34 trillion on Jan. 4.
The U.S. debt load is increasing by about $1 trillion nearly every 100 days.
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Pennsylvania progressive Rep. Summer Lee (Pittsburgh district) has bowed out of a speaking engagement with a Muslim group after intense backlash about other speakers’ antisemitic and homophobic comments.
Lee canceled her appearance at an event for the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a national Muslim group. That's CAIR!
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Illness is Entertaining
Leah McSweeney, a former star of Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of New York City,” is suing Bravo, Andy Cohan, and anyone else within reach. The case centers on her alcoholism and her accusation that Bravo thought she was more interesting as a character drunk than sober.
She joined the “Housewives of New York City” cast around the time she had relapsed after nine years of sobriety.
She became sober just before she started filming the show and has alleged that producers developed “artificially close relationships” with her through which they “cultivated a treasure trove of Ms. McSweeney’s dark secrets with intent to place her in situations known to exacerbate her alcohol use disorder and mental health disabilities because they thought that intentionally making these conditions worse would create good television.”
The complaint goes on to allege that producers frequently undermined Ms. McSweeney’s sobriety not only by encouraging her outright to drink but by “engaging in guerrilla-type psychological warfare intended to pressurize Ms. McSweeney into a psychological break and cause Ms. McSweeney to relapse.”
Forces of defense have arisen--there has been a lot of legal action around reality shows--but this story is particularly creepy. Maybe they think it's mainstreaming.
She became sober just before she started filming the show and has alleged that producers developed “artificially close relationships” with her through which they “cultivated a treasure trove of Ms. McSweeney’s dark secrets with intent to place her in situations known to exacerbate her alcohol use disorder and mental health disabilities because they thought that intentionally making these conditions worse would create good television.”
The complaint goes on to allege that producers frequently undermined Ms. McSweeney’s sobriety not only by encouraging her outright to drink but by “engaging in guerrilla-type psychological warfare intended to pressurize Ms. McSweeney into a psychological break and cause Ms. McSweeney to relapse.”
Forces of defense have arisen--there has been a lot of legal action around reality shows--but this story is particularly creepy. Maybe they think it's mainstreaming.
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