if the courts are willing to do so

That’s a big “if.”

Thank you, kind bot.

@remindme@mstdn.social 4 years

regretted everything

Including paying prostitutes with checks. The bank was not amused.

• From The Vault: Jerry Springer paid checks for sex

Twenty-four hours later, the 30-year-old Springer was testifying at the trial of three men accused of operating the Northern Kentucky “health club” where he admitted going twice for sex – once the previous December, once in January. On the stand, he identified a $50 check he made out to 26-year-old Norma Jean Hall.

“It was in exchange for an act of prostitution,” Springer said.

LOL oops. I’m drunk.

!shirtsthatgohard@lemmy.world

It took me too long to figure out that you meant to say “protect” instead of “pretext”.

We’ve seen that before.

For those who don’t know:

• Right-Wing Groups Target Pride Events Amid Rising Anti-LGBTQ Rhetoric (time.com, June 2022)

At least 11 different LGBTQ Pride events across the United States have been disrupted by right-wing protesters or delayed due to threats of violence in the past two months, according to research by TIME and the progressive media watchdog group Media Matters. Those numbers reflect a “step up in aggressive activity targeting LGBTQ people,” compared to recent history, according to Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow with Right Wing Watch, a project by the progressive group People For the American Way.