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Especially Vera Bradley luggage, available dirt cheap at Targets everywhere. Why not Louis Vuitton or Balenciaga?
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This has nothing to do with style or fashion. Not that "non binary" people necessarily have any sense of style anyway, anymore than Black people are all good dancers.

What this is is a symptom of deep seated anxieties which manifest in compulsive behaviours. If they go to his home they will likely find, hidden away, multiple examples of luggage that he has stolen over the years. It's just like a British TV Chef who was caught shoplifting food from a supermarket a few years back. On the face of it, it makes no sense at all.

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Mon 9 Jan 2012 04.50 EST Celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson has been arrested for shoplifting cheese and wine at a supermarket, police have said.
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Many years ago Winona Ryder had some issues with stealing from stores. I think it was some kind of emotional difficulty that caused her to do such a thing.
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Thanks for the "explain", all. I have moved from confuzzled to compassionate.
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Female Energy Secretary Claps Back After Nevada Governor Questions Whether She 'Actually Understands' Science

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Fri, February 10, 2023 at 6:15 PM GMT+1

Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm offered a subtle dig at newly elected Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo after the Republican questioned whether she "actually" understood the science behind battery recycling at an event on Thursday.

Granholm — who has served as the nation's energy secretary since 2021 — and Lombardo both spoke at an event announcing a $2 billion green energy grant from the Biden administration for a Nevada-based battery recycling company, which will help the U.S. establish its own electric-vehicle supply chain in its fight against climate change.

Following Granholm's remarks at the podium, Lombardo, a Republican, praised what he called a "science lesson," but added: "Do you actually understand this science or do you just memorize that?"

After the moment began making the rounds on social media, Granholm, 64, offered a thinly veiled response on Twitter.

"Big words can be intimidating, I understand. All the Governor needs to know is that $2 BILLION and thousands of good-paying jobs are coming to Nevada thanks to @POTUS," Granholm wrote.




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Does he?
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Senate confirms Colleen Shogan as permanent head of National Archives
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The U.S. Senate on Wednesday confirmed historian and political scientist Colleen Shogan to head the National Archives and Records Administration, a position that has been open for a year as the Archives faces increasing and partisan scrutiny.

The National Archives, responsible for safeguarding government records, has been at the center of efforts to recover records from former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and former Vice President Mike Pence.

Shogan most recently worked for the nonprofit White House Historical Association under Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden and formerly worked for the Library of Congress. She will be the first woman to hold the job.

Her rocky path to confirmation started with a heated hearing in September, just days after the FBI searched Mar-a-Lago for documents that belonged to the National Archives.

President Joe Biden re-nominated her just before his own possession of classified documents became public.
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Why is this a big deal? Because...
Languishing nomination: With National Archives under fire, senators show little urgency to confirm Biden's pick to lead agency.
What's the holdup? Veterans wait months for records from National Archives needed for benefits.
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:torches:
Personal debts said to scuttle nomination of Biden’s acting cyber director
The rationale for not permanently nominating Kemba Walden to be national cyber director has stunned colleagues

The acting White House national cyber director was told in recent weeks that she would not be considered to serve in a permanent role, despite endorsements from key lawmakers from both parties and her predecessor, because of personal debt issues that would make her difficult to confirm, according to four people familiar with the matter.

Kemba Walden, who has been acting director since mid-February, was told five weeks ago that her high debt load would create an opportunity for senators to “give her a rough time,” said one person, who, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the matter’s sensitivity.

The reason given to Walden stunned friends and colleagues who heard about it. They said she was eminently qualified and pointed to her shepherding of an implementation plan for the new national cyber strategy in just six weeks. She has received endorsements from the Congressional Black Caucus, Sen. Angus King (I-Maine) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) as well as former national cyber director Chris Inglis, who was the first to hold the position and retired in February after delivering the national strategy.

Walden and her husband, a lawyer at the Commerce Department, have two young children in private school and a mortgage — like many middle-class Americans, said the person, a friend who does not work at the White House. “She’s a public servant. He’s a public servant,” the friend said. “They don’t have generational wealth. They’ve taken on debt to put their kids to private school. And most importantly, they pay their bills. If the requirement to take a job like this is that you have to be independently wealthy, then it will be a poorer place because you’ll be cutting out a lot of great talent.”

On Friday, Walden told The Washington Post she recently withdrew from consideration for the nomination. She declined to comment further. Walden is also one of the few Black women leaders in a field traditionally dominated by White men.
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Dealin' and wheelin'.
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Andrew Desiderio @AndrewDesiderio wrote: News — There’s a deal in the works between Sen. Rand Paul and the State Department to confirm at least some of the three dozen ambassador nominees he’s blocking before the Senate leaves for August recess.

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Vance sends a ‘wokeness’ questionnaire to State nominees
Holds from Sens. J.D. Vance and Rand Paul are a major reason dozens of U.S. ambassadorships and other State Department roles are vacant.

Republican Sen. J.D. Vance has sent questionnaires designed to figure out whether some nominees for top State Department jobs are, in his estimation, too “woke.”

The Ohio lawmaker confirmed the questionnaires and that his office has sent them to some nominees on which he has placed a hold.

He declined to provide a copy, but he said the point was to establish whether would-be ambassadors and others had personal “radical” views they were using to shape U.S. foreign policy.

“If you are injecting your own personal politics in a way that harms American national security and diplomacy, that’s not fine,” Vance said in an interview. “The questions all try to get at those issues.”

Vance said he’s recently lifted some holds after getting the filled-out questionnaires, but didn’t say which ones. He said he may release other holds before Congress leaves town for the August recess this week.

Holds from Vance and Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) are a major reason dozens of U.S. ambassadorships and other State Department roles are vacant. The nominees for the positions are primarily career diplomats with long Foreign Service resumes who have worked under both Republican and Democratic presidential administrations, not political appointees brought in from the outside. Some have been waiting for confirmation for well over a year.

Paul has a broad hold on State nominees because he’s seeking more information from the Biden administration about the origins of the Covid pandemic. Paul confirmed Thursday that he and the State Department are close to a deal that could free some or many of the nominees from his holds.
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Finally.
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Frank Thorp V @frankthorp wrote: News: Rand Paul lifted his holds on State Dept noms after getting assurances he will get access to the COVID origins docs he asked for.

“There were 38 that we released,” he says, “There may be some other people that are in the way of some of those.”

Rand Paul says he’s of the holds he had on State Dept noms he thinks “at least a dozen or two will go probably tonight”
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Vance needs to go back to being a fake hillbilly.
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I'm really, really getting tired of individual Reps and Sens being able to single-handedly hold appointments and such hostage.
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:torches:
J.D. Vance @JDVance1 wrote: No more banana republic stuff from Joe Biden. So long as he goes after his political opponents, I will hold nominations to the Department of “Justice”
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Fake hillbilly says what?
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So basically copycatting Tubberville?
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Yep.

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say you only want to serve one term without saying....
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US defense secretary says he takes ‘full responsibility’ for secret hospitalisation
Lloyd Austin apologises for lack of disclosure but questions about medical procedure and the secrecy surrounding it remain unanswered

Guardian staff and agencies
Sun 7 Jan 2024 18.47 CET

US defense secretary Lloyd Austin has said he takes “full responsibility” for secrecy surrounding an ongoing, week-long hospitalisation for a still-unspecified medical condition.

Austin, who is 70, was admitted on New Year’s Day to Walter Reed national military medical center for what the Pentagon has said were “complications following a recent elective medical procedure”, a fact the defence department kept under wraps for five days.

The Pentagon has yet to detail why Austin is being treated, whether he lost consciousness over the past week or offer details on when he might be discharged from the hospital.

“I recognise I could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. I commit to doing better,” Austin said in a written statement on Saturday.

“But this is important to say: this was my medical procedure, and I take full responsibility for my decisions about disclosure.”

Austin’s statement came as the Associated Press news agency reported that senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that Austin had been hospitalised.

The Pentagon did not inform the White House national security council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Austin’s hospitalisation until Thursday, according to two administration officials who were not authorised to speak publicly about the matter and spoke to AP on the condition of anonymity.



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