@hrjaffe.bsky.social

@hrjaffe.bsky.social

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A blue baseball hat with white text describing the arc of a relationship from friends to lovers to breaking up and being just friends again. The 'o' in the word Baltimore is a tiny Baltimore Orioles logo. Full hat text: We struck up kind of a, I would say a friendship, and it became clear to me that you wanted more than that and the friendship was so significant to me that I was worried if there was a rejection that I would lose the friendship, and that was something that I didn't really want, and I have a heart made out of rotten peat and bog moss, and so I can't really feel romantic love but I knew that there were, that there was a cookie that would allow you to sort of feel love, a sort of love spell, and so I know a lot of people sort of use love spells on other people to make them fall in love, I used it on myself to make myself fall in love because I wanted to experience that, and I did fall in love and it worked, but what's so fascinating about a relationship is I discovered that they can fail even if there is genuine love there, that there are parts of compatibility that even live outside of genuine feeling. In other words, I thought feeling alone would be enough, and even though I fell deeply in love with you, the fact of the matter is, you know, you’re a, you’re a 43-year-old man who sort of got a late start, you, you want to have a family, I, I'm not interested in having a family, I want to teach you skateboarding and cool tricks and get you to bite tender lumps of flesh out of the calves and thighs of those who wander into the mall and, you know, you were sort of like, 'Would you ever want to go to Baltimore?' which is where I'm from, it's where my family's from, and I was like, 'I don't... eh... and I... ah...' It ended up being this thing where even though the affection was completely genuine and the feeling was totally sincere, for a relationship to work, it's not just about the affection, it's also about, do your lives make sense together?
Sesame Street's Two-Headed Monster [sic], light purple Muppet monster conjoined (dicephalic parapagus) twins. "The right-hand head has purple hair and a black beard, with upturned horns, whereas the left-hand head has black hair and a purple beard, with downturned horns." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-Headed_Monster)
In childlike handwriting: MISTER HOLLYWOOD YOU COULD HAVE OPTIONED HER I GAVE YOU ALL THE CLUES Below the text is a doodle of an eldritch monster made of eyes and mouths and arms.
An open book with the inscription "This girl is the nastiest skank bitch I've ever met. DO NOT TRUST HER. She is a fugly slut!" The writer has just finished underlining "fugly slut."
A book cover featuring lit up Vegas-style signs sunken at the bottom of the ocean, surrounded by marine life--including several long, mysterious tentacles. The signs read: Boys Weekend Mattie Lubchansky A Novel "Sensitive and fraught without sacrificing fun or black magic, with a winsome heroine one wants to root for and wipe blood off of in equal parts." -Daniel M. Lavery
Your message to the Office of the Attorney General Dear Attorney General Raoul, I am grateful for your commitment to protecting access to gender-affirming care in the face of the Trump administration’s executive orders claiming to "protect children." We are lucky to live in a state where the legislation like the Illinois Human Rights Act requires health care providers to provide health care to all residents and prohibits unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex and gender identity. As such I've been disgusted to hear about Illinois hospitals capitulating to these hateful, illegal, and unconstitutional executive orders and cutting trans healthcare for patients under age 19. UIHealth, UChicago Medicine, Rush University Medical Center and Lurie Children's Hospital have all stopped offering trans surgical care to minors, and Rush, UChicago Medicine, and Advocate Health Care have stopped providing trans medication care to patients under 18. You have spoken eloquently and forcefully about your support for health care policies that respect the dignity and rights of all people, about the necessity of lifesaving medical treatment that supports individuals in living as their authentic selves. Please enforce the IHRA per the guidance of the Illinois Department of Human Rights and compel these hospitals to restore the trans healthcare they have rescinded. Very truly yours, Harold Jaffe
Twenty-one people in a Mexican standoff, most with guns trained on each other. At the top, text reads "Kyle Starks," "Erica Henderson," and "Assassin Nation." At the bottom, text reads "Number One With A Bullet."
A neck-up line drawing of a young man with short kinky hair and a young woman with short messy hair looking at each other fades into a neck-up line drawing of a young woman with long wavy hair and a young woman with short slicked-back hair looking at each other and then back again in a loop. Between them, text reads: there is still time
A caterpillar with the face of a grouchy ladybug. Text reads: The Very Hangry Dershowitz (with apologies to Eric Carle).
In the foreground, a young Desi woman with long hair that blends into a snake, a young Black woman with a smartphone and lightning bolt earrings, and a young Black man look around searchingly. In the background, a slightly older Desi woman with a spiky jacket and shoes, a guitar, and glowing eyes has her back turned and is silhouetted by a pillar of light. Title text at the top: greater secrets. Author and illustrator names at the bottom: Ananth Hirsh, Tess Stone.
comment by Something Awful forum user greay alien: EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAM A VHS INTO THE SLOT. ITS CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START DOING THE MOVES ALONGSIDE WITH THE MAIN CHARACTER, RIDDICK. I DO EVERY MOVE AND I DO EVERY MOVE HARD. MAKIN WHOOSHING SOUNDS WHEN I SLAM DOWN SOME NECRO BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I MESS UP TECHNIQUE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY ESCAPED THE GALAXYS MOST DANGEROUS PRISON. I CAN. I SAY IT AND I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO PEOPLE IN MY COLLEGE CLASS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE PEOPLE IN COLLEGE CLASS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JEKRS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE LINES AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY APARTMENT LESS LONELY BY SHOUTING EM ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING WIND DOWN EVERY MORNIng
A comic. Two figures stand looking at each other. "if i could stop time" They hold hands beneath a series of rising and setting suns. "i'd spend 100 lifetimes with you" They stand side beside again. "and also" They lie in bed spooning and asleep. "take extra naps"
Panel 1: A woman with a white streak in her hair wakes with a start in a movie theater. Someone in the movie asks, "All right, Dr. Kill, what's your scheme this time?" Panel 2: On the movie screen, the vampiric/cybernetic-looking Dr. Kill replies to the heroes (one of whom has a dollar sign on his lapel): "Oh it's quite simple. I'm going to end homelessness -by blowing up the rainforest!"
I suspect there’s some truth in all of these explanations. But I think there’s another reason, too, one that’s often been overlooked. Over the past few decades, Americans have redefined “harm,” “abuse,” “neglect” and “trauma,” expanding those categories to include emotional and relational struggles that were previously considered unavoidable parts of life. Adult children seem increasingly likely to publicly, even righteously, cut off contact with a parent, sometimes citing emotional, physical or sexual abuse they experienced in childhood and sometimes things like clashing values, parental toxicity or feeling misunderstood or unsupported. This cultural shift has contributed to a new, nearly impossible standard for parenting. Not only must parents provide shelter, food, safety and love, but we, their children, also expect them to get us started on successful careers and even to hold themselves accountable for our mental health and happiness well into our adult years. So I want to suggest that there’s another reason my generation dreads parenthood: We’ve held our own parents to unreachable standards, standards that deep down, maybe, we know we ourselves would struggle to meet.
"The cover of How Could You by Ren Strapp has a dark blue background and water spilling over the page in all directions with the title of the book How Could You in orange-tan letters. Six characters appear between the water and letters, looking in various directions, but almost none at one another. Some look sad or pleased, but most look unsure."
Text of the first third of an email from Delaware Senate President Pro Tempore David Sokola (D-08): Thank you for your follow up email. I apologize for not getting back to you after those questions that you posed. I will share with you an email I sent to constituents closer to the vote on SS1 for SB 21 with answers to the specific questions you raised incorporated within: For the first time in Delaware history, there are many signals that companies are leaving for other states (Texas/Nevada) due to slight imbalances or lack of clarity in Delaware law. Several companies have left (including Meta, Dropbox, and at least four others have considered leaving. This threatens nearly 40 percent of our state budget, including revenues from franchise fees and unclaimed property. Every major company that leaves equates to an approximately $250,000 decrease in our state budget. Because of corporate revenues, Delawareans experience low property taxes and pay no sales tax, not to mention how these revenues enable the state to fund critical services to our communities. Senate Bill 21 – later substituted with SS 1 for SB 21 – updates the Delaware General Corporation Law (DGCL) to affirm longstanding Delaware principles and make our law clear – specifically, clear rules for how corporate leaders can earn the deference of Delaware judges on certain kinds of plans/transactions. SS 1 for SB 21 maintains the law that directors/officers/controllers must act loyally to stockholders. SS 1 for SB 21 will also ensure that stockholders have access to key books and records of the company on short notice and shift all other documents to normal litigation pathways.
A reporter in the press corps crowd asks the president, "How do you respond to criticisms that your reckless policies have DEVASTATED the national economy and DANGEROUSLY DESTABILIZED GLOBAL SECURITY?"
Text of the first half of an email from Delaware Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19). My original questions are in purple and his replies are in red. Harold, Thank you for the opportunity to answer your questions. They are reflected below in red text. -Brian I've read that typically bills to change Delaware corporate law explicitly state that they don't apply to pending cases. Since, as you say, litigation regarding Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla is currently on appeal to the Supreme Court, can you explain why there is no such language in SB 21? Would you be willing to amend it to explicitly exclude pending cases from this change? Clarifying text to the intent of retroactivity was incorporated into Section 3 of the substitute bill. Retroactivity was also addressed in the testimony during debate, and can be viewed here. [Link: https://sg001-harmony.sliq.net/00329/harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20240109/-1/4912?startposition=20250313150030&mediaEndTime=20250313150613&viewMode=3&globalStreamId=3] Could you clarify what you mean by saying "We reviewed the first draft, made various suggestions and changes, and held the final pen" given that lead sponsor Brian Townsend has said that the final draft of the bill was written by John Mark Zeberkiewicz, a corporate lawyer at Richards, Layton & Finger which is representing Tesla in Delaware lawsuits? (https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/02/19/delaware-corporate-law-change-sb-21/) While John Mark was the scribe of the final version, he did so with input from the lead sponsor (Sen. Townsend), as well as former Chief Justice and Chancellor Leo Strine, Former Chancellor Bill Chandler, and Professor Larry Hammermesh. Additionally, changes were made as suggested by the Corporation Law Council and included in the substitute.
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Text of an email from Delaware Senate President Pro Tempore David Sokola (D-08): Thank you for your both your call on Friday and this email. SB 21 not a bill generated by Tesla or Musk’s lawyers. That narrative appears to have come from a CNBC story, and the story is inaccurate. SB21 is not retroactive and would not affect the litigation regarding Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla, currently on appeal to the Supreme Court. And, since Musk and his companies have left Delaware, no future Musk issues would relate to Delaware and this legislation. SB 21 was drafted by a coalition of experts, at the invitation of the Governor and General Assembly leadership, and with full involvement and reflection of legislative leaders and our attorney. We reviewed the first draft, made various suggestions and changes, and held the final pen. When in 2023/2024 Musk announced he was leaving Delaware, we did not view that as a threat to Delaware; this is about the many companies we have talked to the past few weeks in the wake of January 31 and February 1 who also have frustrations and already are leaving or are considering leaving. This would be horrible from a State revenue perspective and a Delaware jobs perspective. I can assure you, my colleagues and I are focused on everyday Delawareans who depend on this leading part of our economy, and on both sides (stockholders and directors/officers) who all need each other in a balanced corporate framework. We all know, for Delaware corporate law to be sustainable, it must be balanced. Best Regards, David P. Sokola – 8th District
Text of the first half of an email from Delaware Senate Minority Whip Brian Pettyjohn (R-19): Thank you for your email. This is not a Musk bill. That narrative appears to have come from a CNBC story, which is inaccurate due to its incompleteness. SB21 is not retroactive and would not affect the litigation regarding Elon Musk's compensation package at Tesla, currently on appeal to the Delaware Supreme Court. Furthermore, since Musk and his companies have left Delaware, no future Musk issues would relate to Delaware and this legislation. As to your point that SB21 was drafted by Musk attorneys, that is also false. It was drafted by a coalition of experts, at the invitation of the Governor and General Assembly leadership, and with full involvement and reflection of legislative leaders and our attorneys. We reviewed the first draft, made various suggestions and changes, and held the final pen. I will note, CNBC only published an excerpt of the Richards Layton & Finger statement that made it seem that RLF alone drafted it. CNBC (shockingly?) omitted the fuller statement that mentioned the coalition of drafters, not just an RLF attorney. A citation to what appears to be RLF's full statement provides important information. (Example: https://www.delawarepublic.org/politics-government/2025-02-18/del-lawmakers-propose-corporate-law-changes-amid-ongoing-departure-threats-and-musk-litigation)