Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy, 10/29

[enslaved1]

One-Quarter Of Young Americans Cut Off Their Parents And Call It ‘Boundaries’

King Charles and Prince Harry recently made news when they shared a cup of tea after two years of estranged silence. That should give many American families hope. Going “no contact” or little contact with a parent is a disturbing trend, one sure to add fuel to already record-high levels of loneliness and isolation in post-Covid life.

Ten years ago, a parent who had not met a grandchild or had been cut out of an adult child’s life was a rarity in counseling offices like mine. I still remember the wrenching grief on the few faces I saw.

Now the experience is becoming far more common. Where I live, couples flock from around the country, enjoying the quiet sanity of the Blue Ridge Mountains. You learn quickly who you can’t ask about their children or grandchildren. It’s too painful. They aren’t on good terms with an adult child. They may not know his or her children. Hints of parent-child estrangement litter the social landscape now.

The most recent data shows that 38 percent of American families report at least one family member estranged from the rest. About 1 in 4 adult kids has reportedly gone “no contact” with a parent. The numbers are large and growing, enough that advocates have begun a concerted effort to normalize and destigmatize the practice. Groups such as Stand Alone are springing up to support adults going solo into the future.

Divide and conquer, baby.  No foundations equals nothing that can stand.  However, the chaos may be more than the power brokers expect.

[enslaved1]

Trans Teen Admits to Planning Valentine’s Day High School Shooting

An 18-year-old transgender teen has admitted to plotting a school shooting at an Indiana high school on Valentine’s Day, reports the IndyStar.

Trinity J. Shockley, 18, who is being held in the Morgan County Jail in Martinsville, Indiana, without bond, will plead guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder, a Level 2 felony, according to court documents.

Shockley’s attorney is requesting the teen serve no more than 12.5 years in jail and no more than five years on probation as part of the plea agreement.

Shockley, who identifies as a transgender man and often goes by Jamie or Dex, was charged last Thursday with the highest-level felony count of conspiracy to commit murder and two low-level felony counts of intimidation with a threat to commit terrorism.

Shockley’s sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 24.

Several articles omit an important word, any guesses what word that is? 

[SVPete]

Let me guess ... the "T-word"?

Sudan’s paramilitary killed hundreds including hospital patients in Darfur, residents say

https://srnnews.com/sudans-paramilitary-killed-hundreds-including-hospital-patients-in-darfur-residents-say/

CAIRO (AP) — Sudan’s paramilitary forces killed hundreds of people including patients in a hospital after they seized el-Fasher city in the western Darfur region over the weekend, according to the U.N., displaced residents and aid workers, who described harrowing details of atrocities.

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director general of the World Health Organization, said in a statement the 460 patients and companions were reportedly killed at Saudi Maternity Hospital in el-Fasher, the provincial capital of North Darfur. He said the WHO was “appalled and deeply shocked” by the reports.

The Sudan Doctors Network, a medical group tracking the war, said fighters from the Rapid Support Forces on Tuesday “cold-bloodedly killed everyone they found inside the Saudi Hospital, including patients, their companions, and anyone else present in the wards.”

Sudanese residents and aid workers described some of the atrocities carried out by the RSF, fighting since 2023 to take over Africa’s third largest nation, after they seized the army’s last stronghold in Darfur after over 500 days of siege.

Africa is swiftly becoming a Hell-Continent, made such by its inhabitants, not European colonizers.

[enslaved1]

Let me guess ... the "T-word"?

Winner winner chicken dinner 

[SVPete]

An MSM that cared about reporting news would report all the facts and let readers and/or hearers draw their own conclusions.

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This Is How One Secret Service Agent Dealt With That 'Mysterious' Bag of Cocaine in the Biden White House

https://redstate.com/mike_miller/2025/10/29/that-mysterious-bag-of-cocaine-in-the-biden-white-house-how-one-secret-service-agent-dealt-with-it-n2195609

We all knew from the get-go, didn't we? I mean, all signs pointed to former President Joe Biden's former crackhead son, Hunter Biden, as responsible for the "mysterious" bag of cocaine found by a member of the Secret Service near the Situation Room in the West Wing of the White House in July 2023.
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While we'll likely never know for sure, much less see Joe's wayward son fess up, actions by the former head of the Secret Service — followed by the reaction of a peeved Secret Service agent — suggest that either our boy Hunter was indeed responsible for the dastardly deed, or various members of Team Biden thought he was and were hellbent to make sure the public never learned the truth.

Now, as reported by RealClearPolitics national political correspondent Susan Crabtree on Tuesday, Secret Service agents who guard the White House weren't exactly happy campers about what several agents described as a "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" cover-up (emphasis, mine):

The @SecretService Uniformed Division officers who guard the White House were so pissed off that they were forced to be part of a cocaine cover-up in 2023, as several Secret Service sources referred to it, that one officer made a "see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil" commemorative challenge coin about the ordeal to lighten the mood and improve morale within the ranks, according to the photos below and several Secret Service sources.

The officer was punished (placed on administrative leave for an unknown amount of time) for making and distributing the unauthorized coin. The coin's distribution took place within weeks of the USSS closing the case in 11 days. Many rank-and-file Secret Service agents and UD officers are still angry that they were forced to close the investigation in such a short time + destroy the evidence, as I previously reported. "It made us look inept," one source told me.

Allegations persist that then-Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle and other Secret Service officials pushed to have the cocaine destroyed.

Kimberly Cheatle was also in charge of the USSS when the the failed assassination attempt exposed the ineptly organized protection of then-candidate Trump. Whether at Cheatle's orders or Cheatle showed that protecting Trump was a low priority or Cheatle tolerated sloppiness and ineptitude probably isn't known, but the ineptitude buck appropriately landed on her desk, eventually.

And again, whether at her orders or her toleration of ineptitude, her USSS was all about covering up for LIEden.

[SVPete]

CBS News begins staff cull days after anchor announced his exit... amid ongoing rumors Gayle King's days are numbered

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15238873/cbs-news-paramount-layoffs.html

Brutal layoffs are hitting CBS News after its parent company announced a plan to axe more than 2,000 staff across the organization.

New editor-in-chief Bari Weiss acknowledged the cuts on the network's morning editorial call Wednesday, Semafor's Max Tani reported. 

Weiss called it a 'enormously difficult day' for the network, according to Tani.
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'In some areas, we are addressing redundancies that have emerged across the organization,' he wrote.

'In others, we are phasing out roles that are no longer aligned with our evolving priorities and the new structure designed to strengthen our focus on growth.'
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At CBS News, nearly 100 positions will be eliminated, a person familiar with the matter told CNN. The source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the cuts were planned before Weiss arrived at the network.

Normally I'd have sympathy for people being laid off. BTDTG5T. MSM people who have been calling me a Nazi for 10 or 25 years can F off and take fryolator training.

[Ralph Wiggum]

CBS News begins staff cull days after anchor announced his exit... amid ongoing rumors Gayle King's days are numbered

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/media/article-15238873/cbs-news-paramount-layoffs.html

Normally I'd have sympathy for people being laid off. BTDTG5T. MSM people who have been calling me a Nazi for 10 or 25 years can F off and take fryolator training.

Somewhere this week, I read that the newly minted CBS News chief Bari Weiss is considering hiring back Catherine Herridge (who was fired because she even veered a little bit to the rational) AND an odd rumor that she was looking into making a big splash by hiring away Bret Baier from FoxNews to anchor the CBS evening news. The latter sounds highly dubious.

For those how haven't been following along, Bari Weiss is a leftist but she's at least rational. Formerly of the NY Slimes, she committed a moral sin by assisting with the "Twitter Files" and was recently hired on to run CBS, which has rankled the elitist leftists media types everywhere. She's not only liberal, but she's also a lesbian and a Jew.

Legacy media normally adores members of the LGBTQ community and women, but her Judaism and somewhat sane news reporting have gotten them all clutching their pearls. Screw these pretentious pricks.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Could go into Mind-numbing stupidity, but I'll put it here instead. Just the dumbest thing I've read all day, and that includes some of the DUmmy threads which have been brought over.

Woman Blames Donald Trump for Her $40,000 Debt

A 31-year-old hairstylist said during a recent episode of Caleb Hammer's Financial Audit podcast that she believes President Donald Trump’s return to the White House is the reason why she is $40,000 in debt.

On his podcast, Hammer, a financial expert, audits the finances of guests who have found themselves in difficult economic situations and helps them create budgets. He disagreed with the hairstylist, identified as Lynn from Missouri, that her $40,000 in debt is "because of the last election

Lynn explained that concerns about a recession under Trump and inflation have impacted her business. Lately, people are choosing to spend their money on groceries rather than hair appointments. She said that her boyfriend's work in the construction industry has also come to a halt.

Hammer said it has more to do with high interest rates than with any policy enacted by Trump, and described her explanation as a “cope.” He said he understands the argument that people may pull back on services like hairstyling, but that he feels she was “overexaggerating the potential impact of what things are like in this exact moment.”

“This isn’t Great Recession,” he said.

Hammer said that people “think the president has a lot more impact than they do.”

https://www.newsweek.com/woman-blames-donald-trump-40000-debt-10955302

No where in the damn stupid story from worthless Newsweek (who knew they still were publishing?) does it explain or even attempt to rationalize precisely HOW she "lost" her 40k. I wonder what her DU screenname is...