IKEA Monkeyhashtag so brave
Shell has around 25,000 branded gas stations in the United States according to the internet and for International Women’s Day, which is today, they are putting themselves out there in a big, big way. For today and today only, Shell will be changing the branding on exactly one of those gas stations to reflect a new…
IKEA MonkeyHow sad! And he was so young. Kept his cancer a secret from the public just so he could keep working. You're Next is a great movie and he's very good in it. RIP.
Nicholas Tucci, best known for his roles in genre fare like You’re Next and Channel Zero, has died. His father confirmed his death in a post shared on Nicholas’ Facebook page, saying the actor died of an unspecified illness this past Tuesday. He was 38.
IKEA MonkeyHave that kid, Grimes. You're set for life.
Grimes, currently known by the moniker c, is the subject of a new Rolling Stone digital cover story that I don’t expect her to like very much. Little time is spent on her dynamic new album Miss Anthropocene, but the piece does offer an interesting portrait of an artist in her particular predicament: indie musician,…
IKEA MonkeyShe's 37?
Also, I can't stop staring at the lower lip.
If there’s one thing Lara Trump wants you to know about her, it’s that she just loves dogs. She’s a “crazy animal lady,” she said in December while on stage at Politico’s “Women Rule” conference, held by chance on the same day that Nancy Pelosi solemnly announced the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump. Lara,…
IKEA MonkeyHere's what's even crazier. She's the daughter of Paul Merage, who donated so much money to UC Irvine they named their business school after him in 2005 (I got my MBA from that school.) So she could have likely just sent all of her kids to UC Irvine for free forever. And that's a very good school. But she lied and bribed her way into getting her kids admitted to other schools. Jesus christ how dumb can you be.
Michelle Janavs is the heiress to the vast Hot Pockets fortune — a fortune she owes almost entirely to broke college students — and she is set to appear today for sentencing in a Boston federal court for having paid California college admissions consultant William "Rick" Singer to create fraudulent college applications and ACT test scores in order to give her daughter an unfair advantage in getting into college.
Lady Hotpockets is one of 53 people, including Felicity Huffman of "Desperate Housewives" and Lori "Aunt Becky" Loughlin, to participate in the scheme.
Instead of having her daughters take ACT tests like everyone else has to, Janavs paid Singer $100,000 to have his associate take the test for them. They also say she gave Singer another $200,000 to be used to bribe an official at the University of Southern California to pretend that one of her daughters was being recruited to play beach volleyball for the school.
Janavs pleaded guilty back in October, and prosecutors are asking for her to be sentenced to 21 months in prison. She has since apologized for having "caused harm to other students who have worked so hard to apply and gain admission in a fair fashion."
Yeah, she did cause harm. At least when other rich people buy a wing or a library for the school to get their kids in, the school actually gets something in return. I'm not saying it's good, but in the grand scheme of things, this is certainly worse. These are kids who already have all the advantages in the world.
For kids like these, "getting into a good school" is just another luxury their parents wanted for them and felt they ought to be able to purchase. Quite frankly, they could have skipped college altogether and lived comfortably on that sweet, sweet Hot Pocket money for the rest of their lives. They could have gone to a school with a more lenient admissions policy, they could have gone to a community college for a year to get their grades up. There were lots of things they could have done to get into college without Lady Hotpockets coming in and bribing a bunch of people so those girls could take the spots of more deserving students who were, perhaps, actually really good at beach volleyball. That's not cool.
Just in case you weren't fully in eat the rich mode after this, may I please draw your attention to what came up when I Googled "hot pockets" today for this post. It is a $5,695 clutch bag shaped like a piece of pizza.
Sure! It's probably there either because I like to check out all the weird rich people Christmas gifts during the holidays and Judith Leiber clutches are always particularly batshit or because I bought a coat on sale at Neiman's this year, but the important thing here is that it exists. And probably someone has purchased it.
[Reuters]
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IKEA MonkeyHelen Rosner's going to be on an episode! I love her.
Ugly Delicious is finally returning to Netflix with a second helping of international middle- (and lower-) brow culinary delights. David Chang, the genius behind the Momofuku family of restaurants and the chef featured in the first season of PBS’ The Mind Of A Chef, is joined by various celebrity guests—from both the…
IKEA MonkeyI may have bought this
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IKEA Monkey"Prospective residents in the new building can expect their rents to start at $1,895 for a studio, $2,395 for a one-bedroom, and $3,495 for a two-bedroom, according to Block Club Chicago"
yikes
Leasing is underway at Logan Apartments. | Logan Apartments
The 220-unit project is expected to welcome residents this spring
After three years of construction, the luxury apartment development at the site of former Megamall in Logan Square has begun leasing efforts as it prepares to welcome its first renters this spring. Known as Logan Apartments (previously known as Logan’s Crossing), the massive project will bring 220 rental units and new retail space to the 2500 block of North Milwaukee Avenue.
Prospective residents in the new building can expect their rents to start at $1,895 for a studio, $2,395 for a one-bedroom, and $3,495 for a two-bedroom, according to Block Club Chicago. The latest numbers aren’t too different from the figures quoted by the developers last year: $1,975 for a studio, $2,495 for a one-bedroom, and $3,295 for a two-bedroom.
In discussion since at least 2015, the seven-story development replaces the demolished Megamall market. The new Antunovich-designed building features a fitness center, coworking area, a conference room, and 110 parking spaces. On the ground level, a small format Target store is joined by other retail tenants like Jeni’s Ice Cream, Big Wig Tacos, and Jersey Mike’s Subs.
Developer Fifield Companies and partner Terraco Real Estate expect the apartments to open in March, according to the Block Club report. More info and images can be found on the project’s official website.
The Logan Apartments is the latest Logan Square development to charge rents rivaling that of downtown areas like River North or West Loop. For comparison, the median rent for a studio apartment in Logan Square was between roughly $1,100 to $1,230 in 2019, according to data from Zillow.
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IKEA MonkeyThis is amazing
In this recent TED Talk, lawyer, musician, and technologist Damien Riehl talks about the rapidly diminishing number of melodies available to songwriters under the current system of copyright. In order to help songwriters avoid these melodic legal landmines (some of which are documented here), Riehl and his pal Noah Rubin designed and wrote a program to record every possible 8-note, 12-beat melody and released the results — all 68+ billion melodies, 2.6 terabytes of data — into the public domain.
It’s interesting that the litigious nature of the music business and the finite number of melodies (and the even smaller number of pleasing melodies) has turned an artistic endeavor into a land-grab — whoever gets to a certain melody first owns it forever (or at least for dozens of years). (via @tedgioia)
Tags: copyright Damien Riehl legal music Noah Rubin videoIKEA MonkeyEat the rich part 1
The California Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that Apple must pay employees for time spent waiting for their bags and personal electronic devices to be searched when they leave work. The decision means that the tech giant will have to pay millions of dollars to more than 12,000 hourly workers at California retail stores who fall under the mandatory bag-search policy. According to court documents, Apple employees are required to clock out before submitting to an exit search which can take from five to 20 minutes.
IKEA MonkeyEat the rich part 2
Actor Kirk Douglas died yesterday at the age of 103. I am not a massive Kirk Douglas fan. In fact, I am still mad about the time this guy took me to see Paths of Glory at a revival theater, as I will never get those 87 hours of my life back. As far as old Hollywood male stars go, I am much more personally invested in Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, and Paul Newman.
Yesterday, as happens when a big star dies, Douglas trended on Twitter. Soon after, Natalie Wood started trending as well. I am, in fact, a big Natalie Wood fan, so that I paid attention to.
And I was horrified. Because the reason she was trending, I saw, was because loads and loads of people — some very prominent people whom I generally respect — were chastising those celebrating Douglas's life and career, because he "brutally raped a teenage Natalie Wood for hours." This was entirely new information to me. Sure, I knew at least one of Wood's biographers and her sister had said she was raped by a big Hollywood executive, but as far as I knew, no one had given an actual name.
So I Googled. And the only thing I was able to come up with was one Gawker article from eight years ago regarding an anonymous comment on a blind item gossip blog by someone that people commenting on the blog speculated was Robert Downey Jr. Are you fucking kidding me?
So I went on Twitter and, cautiously, asked for some other source. I tread lightly because I know that I tend to be a very skeptical person and that I have an innate aversion to bandwagons of any kind. Also because I figured it seemed that if everyone was so passionately stating it as an absolute fact, there must be something I was missing. There was not.
The whole entire story was that there had been speculation for years that Douglas (among several others) could have been the man who raped Natalie Wood, and that in 2012, someone who commenters at the gossip blog Crazy Days and Nights believed was secretly Robert Downey Jr. posted a comment saying that it was definitely him. Gawker picked up the story and determined that there was no way to confirm it, that whoever it was, it probably was not Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Downey Jr.'s spokesman denied it was him.
The "proof" in the comment was that the commenter said he had starred in a movie with Wood's daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner and Heather Graham (just like Robert Downey Jr. did!) ... and that he then left her phone number in one of the comments so people could call her to confirm it.
I know a lot of you have speculated that I'm some nobody nut-case pretending to be someone else. Pretending to be a movie star when in fact I'm not. I think that's kind of hilarious. But if you want to call Natasha and ask her the name of the male actor she co-starred with in a movie with Heather Graham, then go for it. Call her at home if you want to but be polite. Her number is: ac 310 Four [last six digits redacted]. And remember, she's NOT in on this so don't blame or interrogate her.
Pretty sure there are less objectively horrible ways of confirming you are Robert Downey Jr. than leaving a woman's phone number on a gossip blog! Gawker found that the number posted did appear on several internet sites for someone named Natasha Wagner who was the same age as Wood's daughter. But also, the person pretending to be Robert Downey Jr. probably also had Google.
After reading all of this, I tried to do the whole, "Oooh, not sure I feel super comfortable accusing Kirk Douglas of being a brutal rapist based on this information, not that anyone who believes it is wrong to believe it, I'm just not there yet" deal. I was then pointed to a New York Post article -- about how the proprietor of the Crazy Days and Nights blog was a known bullshit artist -- by Mike Redmond, former proprietor of the celebrity gossip blog The Superficial (he currently writes for Pajiba and is great). Redmond told me that the site "also used the 'RDJ is secretly spilling tea' thing to peddle clicks towards a story that Hayden Panettiere and Amanda Bynes' parents pimped them out as children."
And still I tried to do the whole mealy-mouthed, it's fine if you believe it but I'm just not sure thing.
But you know what? I woke up this morning and I was mad. So mad that it is my day off and I asked Rebecca if I could come in and write this anyway.
I am sorry, but this is fucked up. This is really, really not OK. It's wrong. What are we, the QAnon people now? (Crazy Days and Nights, by the way, is now pretty lousy with QAnon-ers.) It is one thing to believe victims. It is another thing to believe "people who pretend to secretly be Robert Downey Jr. on the internet." After all, literally anyone could pretend to be Robert Downey Jr. on the internet. I could pretend to be Robert Downey Jr. on the internet.
Can I categorically say that Kirk Douglas did not rape Natalie Wood? Of course not. I have no way of knowing that. But rape is something I take very seriously. It's one of the worst things anyone can do to a person, if not the worst thing. It's also a horrible thing to falsely accuse someone of without any evidence. It feels like people have gotten into this mindset where that doesn't matter anymore, and that it's not actually a big deal to ruin someone's reputation in that way if it's not true. It is a big deal. Look at the way people's lives were ruined during the Satanic Panic. If we say it's not a big deal to ruin someone's reputation by saying they did a thing we have no evidence for, we are also saying that thing isn't that big of a deal anyway. That worries me.
I have people asking me all the time, "God, Robyn how do you think these QAnon/Pizzagate people can believe this stuff? How can people believe that Hillary Clinton is trafficking children out of non-existent pizza parlor basements?" But how are we any better than those people if we cannot be bothered to Google before accusing someone, definitively, of being a rapist? If we see a tweet, assume that it's true, and then go and share our own tweet piggybacking off of that tweet? That's pretty much what they're doing. They're assuming that things are true just because someone on the internet said they were true.
I get that we are all very jaded right now as far as men with power and sexual assault are concerned. I know I am. But we need to make sure things are actually true, that we are not just participants in a messed up game of telephone, before we open our mouths. If we don't, we give credence to the "Has #MeToo Gone Too Far?" people, which should be the last thing we want to do.
Call me crazy, but I need more than gossip and innuendo and the joys of being on a self-righteous bandwagon to believe that someone is a rapist. So should we all.
[Gawker]
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$2$25$5$50$10$100$15$500$20$1000IKEA MonkeyLimiting travel is necessary in the imposition of a fascist state
Tuesday night, Donald Trump gave his torchlit State of the Union address in which he warned that scary sanctuary cities are stockpiling criminal illegals to come rape and kill you all. Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security sent a nastygram to New York state officials, informing them that effective immediately, no New York residents would be able to use most of DHS's popular programs that let travelers get through airports more easily. Because national security, you see, and also good old revenge against any state that doesn't buy into Trump's Deport Everyone agenda. The letter, first reported by Fox News, insists that since the state won't let DHS paw through driver's-license databases in search of undocumented immigrants, then it's just not safe to let anyone from New York use the expedited-travel programs. You know how it is, with those MS-13 guys putting their machetes in their checked baggage and then flying executive class to do crimes.
While the timing of the new policy and Trump's latest bloody shirt attack on immigrants may be coincidental -- chaos and weaponized incompetence being key strategies -- the policy itself is the sort of evil manipulation of everyday government operations that reeks of Stephen Miller's nasty little mind. New York pissed off all the anti-immigration howler monkeys last year by allowing undocumented people to get licenses; the law also shields driver's license records from DHS snooping without a court warrant.
New York said that, just as "sanctuary" laws encourage migrants to report crimes and be witnesses without fear, the so-called "Green Light" law would make the roads safer by allowing people who would be driving anyway to do so legally. But the Excitable Boys in rightwing media howled it would surely lead to illegals VOTING, like even more than how four-fifths of all votes in America are already cast by illegals who just vote 40 times under different names. (Do we need to say that's bullshit? It's bullshit.)
Politico 'splains which programs for airborne elitists will be affected:
New York residents will be prohibited from enrolling in DHS programs including Global Entry, NEXUS, SENTRI and FAST. The letter does not refer to TSA's PreCheck program.
The first three are CBP programs which help expedite security for travelers upon arrival to the U.S., and FAST is a commercial clearance program for low-risk shipments.
In the letter, (acting) Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf claims New York's failure to let ICE go rummaging through the state's data "compromises CBP's ability to confirm whether an individual applying for [trusted traveler] membership meets program eligibility requirements," because apparently there's simply no way to verify the identity of anyone. Somebody should alert the State Department, which somehow manages to process passports without also going on warrantless fishing expeditions through state ID data.
The letter even claims that by making DHS get a warrant, New York's law will hinder the fight against child traffickers. WHY U PROTECTING CHILD TRAFFICKERS, NEW YORK?
Here's the whole disingenuous mess:
DHS Letter to NYS by Fox News on Scribd
If DHS's primary concern really is protecting New York from "menacing threats to national security and public safety" and the agency needs state-collected data to do it, it could act like grownup law enforcement agencies and get a fucking warrant.
Still, as with other Stephen Miller Joints, we do have to at least acknowledge the low cunning of it all. Remember how last year's government shutdown really started falling apart when TSA lines backed up, air traffic controllers got the blue flu, and Important Business Travelers couldn't fly off to do their Important Business?
Miller and company appear to be betting they can enlist pissed-off travelers to pressure the state to reverse its policy. Why do I have to wait in line because some illegal is being protected by -- as Trump put it in his pep rally -- the "radical politicians" who "have chosen to provide sanctuary for these criminal illegal aliens"? People who may not care one way or the other about immigration may get very het up indeed over being inconvenienced at the airport. The idea of using the business class to make war on undocumented migrants is so perfectly Trumpian.
Also too, New York Times reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs passes on this comment from (acting) DHS Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli, who ought to win all kinds of support for invoking 9/11 for the sake of getting revenge on an uncooperative state:
Here we have one of the other targets of 9-11, New York, walking backwards quite intentionally in the other direction to bar the sharing of law enforcement relevant information.
Yup, Cooch is gonna be a popular guy in New York.
Of course, a fair number of the people inconvenienced may be far more angry at DHS for taking away their expedited travel than they are at the state of New York. We're also betting the corporations paying for a lot of that travel will take their gripes to the feds instead of the state, too, since "please deport people so we can travel more easily" would be bad publicity.
And nobody from the state Motor Vehicles department will be at the airport getting yelled at by pissed-off travelers who want to know why the fuck they have to wait in long lines.
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$2$25$5$50$10$100$15$500$20$1000IKEA Monkey*snort*
NEW YORK—Noting the fat paychecks he’d received for his work on Broadway and in Hollywood, Hamilton star Lin-Manuel Miranda announced Thursday that “You people are giving me too much fucking money.” “Holy hell, I wrote one musical about a founding father, and you goddamn lunatics are throwing millions of dollars at me…
IKEA Monkeylol this is wild
Vin Diesel’s Fast And The Furious franchise is the rare Hollywood institution that both contains, and is, Ludacris, something made clearer than ever with today’s release of the trailer for the series’ much-anticipated ninth installment. We can accept many things in these movies’ hyper-stylized world: Cars with rocket…
IKEA MonkeyPic 3 gave me the giggles. It looks like a different top half of a body on another bottom half of someone else's body.
IKEA MonkeyOK I will make this yes
Servings: 4-6
Prep time: 30 minutes
Total time: 3 hours
for the sauce:
¼ cup|53 grams olive oil
2 carrots, peeled and chopped
2 stalks of celery, chopped
1 medium yellow onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed
2 (28-ounce|750 grams) cans whole peeled tomatoes, crushed by hand
2 sprigs fresh basil
4 tablespoons|56 grams unsalted butter
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
for the braciole:
1 ½ cups|70 grams fresh breadcrumbs
½ cup|50 grams grated parmesan, plus more to serve
½ cup|50 grams grated provolone cheese
3 tablespoons basil, finely chopped, plus more to serve
3 tablespoons flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
2 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
2 pounds|950 grams beef chuck, butterflied and pounded ½-inch thick
⅓ cup|80 ml olive oil
1 cup|250 ml dry white wine
cooked polenta, to serve
1. Make the sauce: Heat the oil in a large saucepan over medium-high. Add the carrots, celery, and onion and cook until soft, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook 1 minute more. Add the tomatoes and basil and cook, stirring often, about 15 minutes, until slightly thickened. Cool slightly, then purée in a food processor or blender. Return to the saucepan, stir in the butter, and season with salt and pepper. Set aside until ready to use.
2. Make the braciole: Combine the breadcrumbs, parmesan, provolone, basil, parsley, garlic, salt, and pepper in a small bowl and set aside.
3. Season the beef all over with salt and pepper and drizzle with 1 tablespoon olive oil. Place the breadcrumb mixture on the surface of the meat, covering it completely. Roll tightly into a cigar and secure with butcher’s twine.
4. Heat the oven to 350°F. Heat the remaining olive oil in a large saucepan over medium-high. Add the braciole and cook, turning as needed, until browned all over, about 8 minutes. Add the wine to deglaze, scraping up all the brown bits from the bottom of the saucepan, and reduce by half, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in the reserved tomato sauce and bring to a boil. Cover and bake, basting every ½ hour with sauce, for 2 ½ hours, or until the braciole is tender.
5. Remove the braciole from the sauce and discard the butcher’s twine. Slice into ½-inch thick pieces and serve over polenta with extra sauce, parmesan, and torn basil.
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IKEA MonkeyI love things like this. That's really beautiful.
This clever stop motion animation by Charlotte Arene features a bedroom taking on the characteristics of an increasingly angry sea, before the morning calm sets in. Pillows, the comforter, a sleeping woman’s hair, candles on the windowsill, they all move like waves washing ashore to a seaside soundtrack.
The name of the short is “La mer à boire”, which Google translates as “unrealizable” but is literally something more like “drinking the sea”.1 “Ce n’est pas la mer à boire” is a French expression that means “it’s not that big a deal” (it’s not like drinking the sea), which is what the Google translation is hinting at, I think. Anyway, good title! (via colossal)
It’s kind of amazing that Google returns the figurative meaning of the phrase rather than the literal meaning.↩
IKEA MonkeyThis is hilarious
After the Popeyes chicken sandwich became the food story of 2019, we've gotta hand it to the fast food chain for actually getting it when it comes to the internet and pop culture. The same can't be said for every brand—like Planters, whose recent "death to Mr. Peanut" stunt I'm sure we can all agree has been extremely Dumb.
So, yet again taking advantage of the online zeitgeist, Popeyes is riding Beyoncé's coattails into an admittedly smart marketing campaign: a Popeyes clothing line that bears an extremely close resemblance to Beyoncé's now-sold out Ivy Park collection. If you couldn't get your hands on the recent release of the singer's Adidas collab, well, the That Look From Popeyes range will look similar enough in your Instagram shot, especially if you manage to cover the little Popeyes logo.
It makes sense for the brand to go this direction, and per CNBC, people on Twitter had pointed out the similarity between the maroon-and-orange colorway of Beyoncé's activewear line and the chicken chain's classic branding.
Displayed through shots that look pretty damn close to the Ivy Park promo photos, but with actual Popeyes' employees for models, That Look From Popeyes sells maroon and orange jackets and crewnecks, as well as the caps and visors of the Popeyes' uniform. One item has already sold out: the $20 Popeyes uniform crewneck T-shirt.
We regret to report that the Popeyes line does not currently include a jumpsuit, however.
IKEA MonkeyForce Majeure was such a wild movie. This is some inspired casting.
Last summer, a shocking viral video began pinging around Twitter. In the clip, a man at a ski resort makes a panicked dash for safety during a controlled avalanche, abandoning his wife and two children to the wall of snow rushing toward them. “Men are unbelievably useless” read one tweet from a verified user. Others…
IKEA MonkeyI made it 26 days on my first trye
Some days, the 9-to-5 creeps along slower than usual. If that’s the case, why not pass the time with a text-based adventure RPG that whisks you to the exotic, fantastical world of...surviving your probationary period at a new, white-collar hell office.
IKEA MonkeyAw, RIP funny man
Terry Jones, director, author, scholar, and founding member of the iconic British comedy troupe Monty Python, has died. Per the Associated Press, the family confirmed that the comedian died Tuesday night “after a long, extremely brave but always good humored battle with a rare form of dementia, FTD.” Their statement…
IKEA Monkeyomg
Billy Eichner is taking on his most challenging role yet—which isn’t a knock on his talents, but we imagine anyone might find it challenging to play Matt Drudge, as Eichner will on American Crime Story: Impeachment. Per Deadline, Eichner has signed on to reunite with Ryan Murphy for the third installment of the…
IKEA MonkeyOscar Isaac is going to be another movie called Ex Machina
It’s an enduring source of frustration for a particular class of comic fan that, despite both the consistency and popularity of his work, only a single one of Brian K. Vaughan’s comic projects has ever been successfully adapted for film or TV. (His youth-oriented Marvel series Runaways, which he co-created with Adrian…
IKEA MonkeyThis is fucking awful. So its better to let a teenager become a parent than give them a chance to finish being a kid? Bullshit.
According to new research, up to 13 percent of all teens seeking to get legal approval for an abortion without their parent’s involvement or consent are getting denied by judges in Texas, up from a mere 2.8 percent only a few years before. The study published in the American Journal of Public Health on Thursday is the first research to look at how often judges deny teens’ petitions for abortion, and mostly due to the judges’ personal and political opinions and not the actual merits of the cases, like if the procedure is medically recommended.
Thirty-seven states currently require pregnant minors to get the green light from one or both parents before receiving an abortion. (To put this into perspective, about 350,000 people 18 and under get pregnant in the United States each year, 82 percent of which pregnancies are unintended, and 31 percent of which are aborted.) It’s estimated that, depending on the state, anywhere from two percent to 23 percent of teens seeking an abortion pursue it via judicial bypass, which dates back to a 1979 U.S. Supreme Court decision which ruled that parents do not have an "absolute veto” over a child’s abortion.
In states requiring judicial bypass, an underage pregnant person seeking an abortion without their parents’ or guardians' approval (most commonly, they might fear their guardians will be violent or kick them out) has to go to court. In that case, a judge evaluates the minor’s intelligence and emotional stability and the potential consequences of getting an abortion to decide whether they’re fit for the procedure.
In Texas, judges denied about five percent of cases between 2001 and 2003. Between 2004 and 2015, the rate of denial dropped and hovered around 2.8 percent until, in 2016, Texas adopted a stricter approach that evaluates the minor’s life experiences and whether they explored alternative options to abortion; limits the locations they can file; and requires the judge to make a decision within five days, or else the petition is denied by default. Following the change, the percentage of cases denied nearly tripled, increasing to 10.3 percent. (The study did not cross-reference the rate with any changes to pregnancy rates for teens within the state.)
According to the researchers, judicial bypass “exists to assure that a parent cannot veto a teenager's abortion decision. But instead, it is just giving that veto power to a judge.”
A different report from 2018 that found that the judicial bypass process itself is humiliating and shame-inducing: In some cases, the judges assigned pastors or deacons to guide the pregnant minors on their decision to terminate the pregnancy—or “preach” about the wrongdoings of abortion, as one teen quoted in the study said. In another case, a judge banned an abortion because he felt the pregnancy was too far along, despite the fact that the patient’s physician recommended she get one.
This news comes at a critical point when many states are tweaking parental involvement requirements for abortion. Florida is considering stricter legislation that would require minors to obtain consent from a parent before an abortion. On the other end of the spectrum, Massachusetts is considering dropping this sort of legislation altogether, which would significantly ease the burden of getting safe abortion care by helping minors go about getting an abortion with dignity, according to Advocates for Youth.
Past research has shown that parental involvement laws lower abortion rates and delay care, and we already know delaying or being denied an abortion can come with serious lifelong physical and mental impacts. Though the judicial bypass system was designed to help minors, the research indicates that it's harming young people by dragging them through a process that contradicts the constitutional standards it was meant to uphold.
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IKEA MonkeyOK this is just a clickbaity way to cloak a regular old article about finding creative ways to hide things around your house. But the whole point of "You" is that someone like Penn Badgley, aka a white, blandly attractive man, doesn't NEED to go to great lengths to "hide" - he just blends in and nobody is suspicious when he's around so he can get away with things. It's fucking terrifying tbh
If youre a serial killer, you can just skip this article.
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IKEA MonkeyThis is fucking huge
IKEA MonkeyWhy say anything when you could have just said nothing
We suspect that someone like Jillian Michaels can’t help but be threatened by a body-positive force like Lizzo: After all, the former Biggest Loser trainer makes her living selling books and DVDs featuring meal plans and workouts for people who want to lose weight. She even has a fitness app, My Fitness By Jillian…
IKEA MonkeyEvery now and then I am reminded about Jojo Siwa, and that she is real, and not some fever dream I had
There’s exactly one reason I know about JoJo Siwa and it’s because of this Instagram video. New SNL cast member Chloe Fineman both blessed and cursed my life forever with her impersonation of the teen pop star, and jettisoned me into the dark corner of the pop culture universe inhabited by Siwanatorz (what her fans…
