(Detective Andrew) Aug. 22, 2026: Commentator Drew Baxter is a retired police lieutenant and former detective with nearly 29 years of law enforcement experience at the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Florida. He worked in 911 dispatch, undercover narcotics, informant handling, and wiretap investigations before retiring as commander of the communications center. He is a self-described "expert" instructor in interviews and interrogations and courtroom testimony and demeanor.
Want a deeper dive? Drew Baxter co-hosts The Comm Center with active 911 dispatcher Jon, breaking down real 911 calls, bodycam footage, and full investigations from the inside
We were all taught to believe that the people of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) destroyed themselves by destroying their environment until the last tree was chopped down, bringing that civilization from decline to a perilous end. But that's not quite what happened. The only people in the South Pacific to develop their own language and writing system used incredible technology we do not understand and probably cannot mimic today to create moai (activated statues) with eyes made of iridescent shells watching over them, somehow buried so deep in the ground that only their massive heads stick out. It was the Europeans who arrived and possibly brought vermin and disease with them, to say nothing of their greed, malice, and eagerness to enslave and exploit the Natives that ruined this distant outpost of humanity.
Andrew stripped of 'prince' title and will move be forced out of Royal Lodge | BBC News
Prince Andrew hosted Israeli spies Epstein and Maxwell at Royal Lodge after warrant issued.
He's an embarrassment to us. Why doesn't he Di?
(BBC News) Oct. 30, 2025: Mr. Andrew M. Windsor will lose his title and is being forced out of Royal Lodge by the King of England, a statement from Buckingham Palace has said.
Buckingham Palace says the King "has today initiated a formal process," and his brother will now be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.
As well as the title, the Palace says, "formal notice has now been served to surrender the lease" on Royal Lodge, and Andy will move to the royal estate in Sandringham, Norfolk.
"These censures are deemed necessary, notwithstanding the fact that he continues to deny the [child molestation and BDSM brutality] allegations against him," the Palace said.
Andy "gave up" [was stripped of in private but allowed to say he had himself voluntarily given up] his other royal titles earlier this month after more questions about his private life [as a womanizer using royal grounds and guards to facilitate his liaisons as if he were Pres. Bill Clinton or something].
Yeah, I know he raped her. I helped. -Maxwell
In a posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre confirmed allegations that, [as an old man, Prince Andrew raped and brutalized her when she was sex trafficked to him by Jeffrey Epstein and blackmail partner and Mossad Agent (Israeli asset) Ghislaine Maxwell] on three separate occasions.
Prince Andrew has always [very shoddily] denied the claims [humiliating himself and the Crown by trying to do so on TV and coming off as a complete liar and incompetent stuttered who was as guilty as guilty could be].
At least WE survived the scandal, Jeff.
Also this month, emails from 2011 re-emerged, showing Prince Andrew in contact with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein months after he claimed their [beautiful secret] friendship ended. [Who does he think he is, Pres. Donald "John" Trump?]
I'm royally f*****d. And the House of Windsor can naff off! The Queen, too!
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(NewsChannel 5) He thinks German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler was right. Now he wants a "whites-only community" (conceived of as a private "club" with a whites-only policy and perhaps a blood draw to test for "impurities" such as 1/16th Jewish or Black or colored "cooties") in the Deep South of Tennessee.
Frank Sinatra addresses some American Neo-Nazis. - How to talk to nice ICE officers.
Russian Pres. Putin has Epstein's recordings of Prince Andrew, royal biographer claims | Andrew Lownie
Could Mr. Putin release the tapes to Pornhub?
(Times Radio) Aug. 12, 2025: “Putin, according to this story, has the [child molestation sex] material [that was used to blackmail the British royal and the UK].”
Recordings from Jeffrey Epstein’s home [or his "Pedophile Island" Li'l St. Jeff's in the U.S. Virgin Islands] were given to the Kremlin [Russian capital], Andrew Lownie alleges.
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(Revolutionary Change) Carnegie Hall pro-Israel Zionist Jews attack Free Palestine anti-genocide silent demonstrators in New York as blind NYPD cops look the other way
Hi, Karen. Please put your clothes on, okay? We won't hurt you.
Brentwood, Los Angeles is a ritzy Westside neighborhood, where the LAPD uses kid gloves on violent criminals, perps, and suspects because here, unlike the rest of the megalopolis, everyone is innocent until proven guilty by a court of law. Civil rights are respected, at least for the white population, not all of it, but certainly the rich and entitled. All Karens welcome in this playland.
The one and only (Christina Randall) Tiffany Gomas cover up. Now a body-double has stepped forward to say, "I was in my feelings" to utterly dismiss what really happened. "What did you see, Tiffany?" Oh, come on, you guys already know! "No, we don't." I didn't see anything. It was just a figure of speech, you know, like how when you say someone/something is not real? You know? BS. What a better excuse it would have been to claim you spotted Carrot Top in first class. That, at least, would be believable. But as compromised Harvey Levin's TMZ is involved, it's just an insult to say, "Move it along, nothing to see here, it was all a misunderstanding." B to the S.
Women of Crime: nepotism from corrupt cop (police chief) dad who got her five felony charges knocked down to three misdemeanors for his beautiful, fine and upstanding princess.
(Democracy Now!) March 29, 2023. Journalist Alissa Quart (author of Squeezed), executive director of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, talks about her new book, Bootstrapped: Liberating Ourselves from the American Dream, which examines myths about individualism and self-reliance that underpin the U.S. economy and the inequality it fosters. Banks get welfare bailouts in the billions, but we don't shame them the way we do a single parent living on scraps. Quart says a focus on "succeeding through hard work" obscures the degree to which many rich and powerful people have benefited from social support, resulting in a cycle of "shame and blame" [and severe racial inequality] for those who fall short.
An unsparing, incisive, yet ultimately hopeful look at how we can shed the American obsession with self-reliance that has made us less healthy, less secure, and less fulfilled.
The promise that we can “pull ourselves up by our bootstraps” is central to the story of the American Dream. It’s the belief that if we work hard and rely on our own resources, we will eventually succeed.
However, time and again we have seen how this foundational myth, with its emphasis on individual determination, brittle self-sufficiency, and personal accomplishment, does not help us.
Instead, as income inequality rises all around us, we are left with shame and self-blame for our condition.
BOOK
Acclaimed journalist Alissa Quart argues that at the heart of our suffering is a do-it-yourself ethos, the misplaced belief in our own independence, and the conviction that we must rely on ourselves alone.
Looking at a range of delusions and half solutions — from “grit” to the false Horatio Alger story to the rise of GoFundMe — Quart reveals how we have been steered away from robust social programs that would address the root causes of our problems.
Meanwhile, the responsibility for survival has been shifted onto the backs of ordinary people, burdening generations with debt instead of providing the social safety net we so desperately need.
Insightful, sharply argued, and characterized by Quart’s lively writing and deep reporting, and for fans of Evicted and Nickel and Dimed, Bootstrapped is a powerful examination of what ails us at a societal level and a plan for how we can free ourselves from these self-defeating narratives. Bootstrapped
In celebration of her 50th birthday, leading actor and elite Hollywood royalty Gwyneth Paltrow sat down with Vogue to reflect on this milestone.
Ahead of the celebration the actor turned [Goop.com] wellness mogul was feeling calm, which she explained was a change from how she had felt in previous decades [particularly when endangering her child on a scooter without a helmet while lecturing others on how to parent or consciously decoupling from ex-husband Chris Coldplay Martin].
Goop Mogul Gwen? Ha, she has some nerve posing nude holding her[self] shiny in gold glitter.
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Paltrow discussed how her sense of style has — and has not — changed over the years, what it’s like to see images of her younger self canonized in fashion history, and what she’s most grateful for that she did in her 20s.
Vogue: Happy early birthday! How do you feel approaching this milestone?
Gwyneth Paltrow: I feel great. I feel very happy and fulfilled and not scared and weirdly not freaked out about it. I remember turning 30 and feeling like there was so much pressure to be married and have a baby. I was not in a serious relationship when I turned 30, and I remember just thinking, I’m disappointing my parents. I haven’t married my stockbroker or a lawyer, and I’m this weird artist. When you’re in your 20s, you’re really a kid, and I think there’s this expectation that when you’re 30, you are going to really start to have a handle on your life. And then when I turned 40, I really freaked out.
Really?
Largely because I had a very strong relationship to my livelihood and importance being tied to my image and relevancy in the world. Rightly or wrongly, I really felt that way. When you’re kind of rewarded for being attractive and then you build a living and a livelihood, it’s predicated on that.
Bhikkhu Bodhi (trans.), Mahāpariḷāha Sutta — Saṁyutta Nikāya
Connected Discourses on the Truths (SN 56.43), "The Great Conflagration" edited by Wisdom Quarterly
The Buddha, Gandhara (Afghanistan/Indo-Pakistan)
(SC 1) “Meditators, there exists a hell named the ‘Great Conflagration.’ There, whatever form one sees with the eye is:
undesirable (sn.v.451), never desirable;
unlovely, never lovely;
disagreeable, never agreeable.
"Whatever sound one hears with the ear…
"Whatever odor one smells with the nose…
"Whatever taste one savors with the tongue…
"Whatever tactile object one feels with the body…
"Whatever mental [object] phenomenon one cognizes with the mind is:
undesirable, never desirable;
unlovely, never lovely;
disagreeable, never agreeable.”
(SC 2) When this was said, a certain meditator said to the Blessed One: “That conflagration, venerable sir, is indeed terrible; that conflagration is indeed very terrible. But is there, venerable sir, any other conflagration more terrible and frightful than that one?”
“There is, meditator.”
(SC 3) “But what, venerable sir, is that conflagration more terrible and frightful than that one?”
(SC 4) “Those wandering ascetics or [temple] Brahmins, meditator, who do not understand as it really is:
‘This is suffering’
‘This is the cause of suffering’
‘This is the cessation of [all] suffering’
‘This is the way leading to the cessation of suffering’
"— they delight in volitional formations that lead to rebirth, in volitional formations that lead to aging, in volitional formations that lead to death, in volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
"Delighting in such volitional formations, they generate volitional formations that lead to rebirth, generate volitional formations that lead to aging, generate volitional formations that lead to death, generate volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
"Having generated such volitional formations, they are burned by the conflagration of rebirth, burned by the conflagration of aging, burned by the conflagration of death, burned by the conflagration of sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
"They are not freed from rebirth, aging, and death; not freed from sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair; not freed from suffering, I say.
(SC 5) “But, meditator, those wandering ascetics and Brahmins who do understand as it really is:
‘This is suffering’
‘This is the cause of suffering’
‘This is the cessation of suffering’
‘This is the way leading to the cessation of suffering’
"— they do not delight in volitional formations that lead to rebirth, nor in volitional formations that lead to aging, nor in volitional formations that lead to death, nor in volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
"Not delighting in such volitional formations, they do not generate volitional formations that lead to rebirth, nor generate volitional formations that lead to aging, nor generate volitional formations that lead to death, nor generate volitional formations that lead to sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
"Not having generated such volitional formations, they are not burned by the conflagration of rebirth, nor burned by the conflagration of aging, nor burned by the conflagration of death, nor burned by the conflagration of sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair.
"They are freed from rebirth (sn.v.452), aging, and death; freed from sorrow, lamentation, pain, displeasure, and despair; freed from suffering, I say.
(SC 6) “Therefore, meditators, an exertion should be made to understand:
‘This is suffering…’
‘This is the cause of suffering…’
‘This is the cessation of suffering…’
‘This is the way leading to the cessation of suffering.’” Source
(Law&Crime 6/11/22)Caught on Bodycam: Police deal w/ entitled citizens causing a scene in public
Caught on Bodycam: People "causing a scene"
(Law&Crime Network, June 23, 2022) Bodycam footage shows [reasonable sounding] police dealing with [apparently unreasonable] citizens causing a scene in public.
0:00 Police arrested and removed a woman from an Office Depot in Texas City after she allegedly refused to wear a mask per the business's policy. She was not officially charged.
3:45 Police responded to a call about a woman who allegedly assaulted an employee while shopping at a Nordstrom Rack in Austin, Texas. The woman was cited for assault after a dispute over not wearing a face mask at the private business.
8:33 Police arrest a woman in Wildwood, New Jersey after she allegedly refused to give them her name and assaulted [spit on?] an officer when questioned about the presence of alcoholic beverages at the beach. The woman sued the city and won $325,000 in a settlement.
14:57 Fort Collins, Colorado Police arrested a woman after she allegedly tried to leave the area with her boyfriend, who was detained and being questioned by police. She was charged with misdemeanors of obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest.
"The Lifecycle of a Karen" or the racist "entitled white bitch" meme (reddit.com)
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"Boiling Point"
NPR = "white noise."
Rioters, protestors, demonstrators are expressing outrage over police brutality and abuse of authority nationwide. Americans are fed up with racism, except the president who threatens, "When the looting starts, the shooting starts" by tweet.
On The Media follows how this latest chapter of social unrest follows generations of pain and how the "Karen," "Susan," "Becky," "Patty," "Kaelee"... memes are shedding light on white privilege, white supremacy, implicit bias, unconscious racism, white fragility, and white entitlement during the nationwide response to police brutality.
Plus: How do we get to a better place? Bob Garfield examines Twitter's efforts to address Pres. Trump's use and abuse of the platform. LISTEN:
1. Prof. of Sociology Apryl Williams (@AprylW) of the University of Michigan examines "Karen" and other memes and what they tell us about criticism of privilege during the uprising.
2. Jessie Daniels (@JessieNYC) of the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center on the history of white women in racial dynamics.
3. Kara Swisher (@karaswisher) of Record Decode discusses Twitter's efforts this week. Attorney Bradley Moss (@BradMossEsq) on why Pres. Trump can't be sued for tweets.
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