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Cake day: April 8th, 2026

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  • For folks who are out of the loop:

    An IRS contractor leaked parts of Trump’s tax returns (the same tax returns he promised to release himself), and it was discovered that Trump and the Trump Org had defrauded the government and investors for decades. Criminal investigations were launched and the Trump org was found guilty on 17 counts. Trump himself was found guilty on 34 counts.

    For their crimes, the Trump org was made to pay the maximum allowable fine of 1.6 million dollars, even though the crimes committed were in the range of hundreds of millions of dollars.
    Trump’s sentencing was delayed until after the election. He faced up to 136 years in prison. A judge discharged the sentence.

    The leaker was sentenced and convicted by the Biden administration to 5 years in prison.

    Trump, now in control of the IRS and the DOJ, then sued the IRS (represented by the DOJ) for ‘allowing’ someone with the correct access and credentials to access Trump’s tax information. (Which he leaked to the press.)

    The IRS settled with Trump for 10 billion dollars, the creation of a 1.7 billion dollar fund to give money to people who had been “victimized” by the DOJ that was more or less under Trump’s control, an agreement to never audit Trump, his family, or his businesses.

    Since then, the anti-weaponization fund has been more or less killed.

    This latest turn is that a judge has called the lawsuit an exercise in self dealing, and has referred the lawyers for discipline. She said she believes the deal is corrupt and unlawful, and has formally killed the anti-weaponization fund.
    While she has questioned whether the immunity part of the deal will hold up, she has not gone farther than that. As far as I know, the 10 billion dollars to Trump and the immunity are still in place.

    The only losers here so far are Trump’s lawyers, and the J6ers who think Trump is going to pay them.









  • Perfect username for this comment.

    But also, it just depends. Sometimes it’s about the party, place, and people.

    I don’t talk about it much in normal spaces, but a subset of my friends group is fairly routinely naked or (with consent) randomly and casually sexually interacting with others.

    At the most recent party with this group, they had to explicitly say the party was kid-friendly until a certain point, to avoid pink bits and inappropriate demonstrations from happening while children were there. (And also to ensure parents knew to get their kids out of there.)

    Examples of things that routinely occur -

    Some of the women wear dog toy squeakers in their bra to encourage interaction with their boobs.
    People just compare undergarments and anatomy. Folks just get partially/fully naked and hang out.
    People get tied up on the suspension point in the living room.
    The same mount point can also mount to a pole, and the pole can be swapped in if someone is feeling acrobatic.
    Sex sometimes randomly happens. I’ve been involved in an impromptu threesome. (A twosome spun up and we had a guest appearance.) People leave doors open.
    There’s a hot tub. People use it. (The rule is no bodily fluids in the hot tub.) I mean, it’s kinky people at a party. Not a kink party. But just people at a party that negotiate consent and things happen.

    Different rules for different groups, though. The point isn’t to make people uncomfortable or to play power games (doing that probably would lead to a conversation at minimum and possibly a loss of invitation to future parties), it’s to revel in the physical pleasure of interacting with others and to have fun with folks who like to express their exhbitionist tendencies. While also bitching about work and life and all the other things people do at parties.