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Elizabeth Potter Graham, JD
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Retired family & criminal court attorney
Member, Alabama Reproductive Rights Advocates
Photos were taken in 1978 and c. 1926.
Married with adult children.
Don't follow me just to ask for money or show your naked body.
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My civil procedure professor assigned The Buffalo Creek Disaster to the class in 1980 and I have never forgotten it.
Cover of book The Buffalo Creek Disaster by Gerald M. Stern. How the survivors of one of the worst disasters in coal mining history brought suit against the coal company and won. About the book In February 1972, a catastrophic dam failure at the Pittston Coal Company unleashed a devastating wave of 130 million gallons of water, sludge, and debris into Buffalo Creek hollow, resulting in one of the deadliest floods in American history. The disaster claimed 125 lives, injured over a thousand, and left more than 4,000 people homeless. Refusing to accept minimal compensation from the coal company's insurance, a group of determined survivors united to seek justice through legal action. In "The Buffalo Creek Disaster," Gerald M. Stern recounts this remarkable true story of resilience and the fight against corporate negligence, drawing from his experiences as a young lawyer who ultimately helped the victims secure a significant victory against overwhelming odds
November 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Is Rep. Clay Higgens (R-Louisiana) a creep?
After consulting Wikipedia, my answer is yes.
Who voted against releasing the Epstein files? One Republican, Clay Higgins of Louisiana, voted against the House measure. Three Democrats and two Republicans did not vote. Higgins posted on X why he was against the bill: "If enacted in its current form, this type of broad reveal of criminal investigative files, released to a rabid media, will absolutely result in innocent people being hurt."
November 19, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Yes, he is.
From Wikipedia:
In June 2009, after having disappeared from the state for nearly a week, Sanford publicly revealed that he had engaged in an extramarital affair. He had led his staff to believe that he was going hiking on the Appalachian Trail, but actually went to visit his mistress, Maria Belén Chapur, in Argentina. Although the scandal made national headlines, leading to his censure by the South Carolina General Assembly and his resignation as chair of the Republican Governors Association, Sanford did complete his second term as governor.
November 18, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Churkin's death in NYC was suspicious. Trump's State Department requested a gag order regarding the cause and manner of death.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitaly_...
Death Churkin died in New York City on 20 February 2017, the eve of his 65th birthday.[24] The immediate cause was heart failure, according to Russian diplomat Sergei Ordzhonikidze.[25] The Russian Foreign Ministry noted that Churkin died while at work and expressed condolences to Churkin's family.[citation needed] India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Syed Akbaruddin, also expressed his condolences, calling Churkin a "friend" and a "stalwart diplomat".[26] Former President Barack Obama's UN Ambassador, Samantha Power, tweeted that she was "devastated" and described Churkin as a "diplomatic maestro" who did all he could to bridge U.S.-Russia differences. Britain's ambassador to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, tweeted that he was "absolutely devastated", describing Churkin as "a diplomatic giant & wonderful character".[27] Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, with whom Churkin had met several times from 2015 until 2017, sent an email to tech billionaire Peter Thiel stating, "As you read my Russian ambassador friend died. Life is short, start with dessert."[28] On 21 February 2017, the New York City Medical Examiner's Office released the preliminary results of an autopsy performed on Churkin, which states that the cause of death needed further study, which often indicates the need for toxicology tests.[29] A gag order pursuant to a request of the U.S. State Department and the United States Mission to the United Nations suppressed public disclosure of the cause and manner of death, citing Churkin's posthumous diplomatic immunity; Russia maintained that the information was private and that disclosing details of the autopsy results could hurt his reputation.[30][31] Churkin was posthumously awarded the Russian Order of Courage on 21 February 2017[32] and the Order of the Serbian Flag 1st class.[33] Churkin was the fifth Russian diplomat posted abroad to die unexpectedly, in a remarkably similar fashion, since November 2016, the first such death having occurred on the morning of t…
November 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eswatini
The globe, showing the location of Eswatini in Africa.
November 17, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I knew that the Epstein estate was paying victims who filed claims, went to confirm this and found this article.

trustcounsel.com/2025/07/when...
The Epstein Victims’ Compensation Fund (EVCF) In 2020, Jeffrey Epstein’s estate launched the Epstein Victims Compensation Fund, a voluntary, non-adversarial program designed to compensate survivors outside of court. Overseen by independent administrator Jordana Feldman, the fund distributed more than $121 million to over 150 survivors before closing in 2021. The fund, fully financed by the estate, was criticized for mandating that victims waive the right to sue the estate in order to participate. While it helped streamline hundreds of claims while preserving survivor dignity, many saw the fund’s waiver requirement as an attempt to continue blockading transparency
November 17, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Quick request of American readers: Do not use this word. You aren't British, so it doesn't mean "stupid." It's a vile term for one or two female body parts, possibly unclean.
The sexual violence of being called a “cunt”
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Trump pardons more miscreants.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
President Donald Trump on Friday issued a second pardon to Daniel Edwin Wilson, whom he had previously pardoned for participation in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, but was in prison on a separate gun charge. The action was announced Saturday morning. Trump also pardoned Suzanne Kaye, who had been sentenced to 18 months in prison for threatening FBI agents who wanted to speak to her about her whereabouts on Jan. 6. And, in a case unrelated to Jan. 6, Trump also pardoned Joseph Schwartz, a former nursing home executive who pleaded guilty last year in a $38 million tax fraud scheme.
November 16, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Should I be concerned that the message I am responding to was written in Chinese? Is this a bot?

In any case, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and Maryland were settled by Puritans, Quakers and Catholics.
Virginia and the Carolinas were settled by people seeking economic gains.
November 16, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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Most of the items in the Vatican collection were sent to Rome by Catholic missionaries for a 1925 exhibition in the Vatican gardens. The Vatican insists the items were "gifts" to Pope Pius XI, who wanted to celebrate the church's global reach, its missionaries and the lives of the Indigenous peoples they evangelized. But historians, Indigenous groups and experts have long questioned whether the items could really have been offered freely, given the power imbalances at play in Catholic missions at the time. In those years, Catholic religious orders were helping to enforce the Canadian government's forced assimilation policy of eliminating Indigenous traditions, which Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission has called "cultural genocide." Part of that policy included confiscating items used in Indigenous spiritual and traditional rituals, such as the 1885 potlatch ban that prohibited the integral First Nations ceremony. Those confiscated items ended up in museums in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, as well as private collections.
November 15, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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I hadn't heard that, thanks. I read some articles and learned that Rep. Sean Casten (D-Illinois) posted emails between Faith Kates & Epstein.

I can see why people would infer that Epstein was at Mar a Lago, but I think the messages were too vague.
tinyurl.com/ycyxz5nh
What To Know On Wednesday, U.S. lawmakers released more than 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate. In the emails, published as part of the new disclosures, Kates wrote, “Where are you having thanksgiving?” Epstein replied, “eva,” an apparent reference to his former girlfriend Eva Andersson-Dubin. Kates responded, “That means glenn check out his red hair!!!!” Andersson-Dubin is married to investor and philanthropist Glenn Dubin. When Kates asked, “Who else is down there,” Epstein replied: “david fizel. hanson. trump.” According to White House records and news reports from the time, Trump spent his 2017 Thanksgiving at Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach resort. The newly released documents also included emails between Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell in which Epstein called Trump “that dog that hasn’t barked.” In an email to author Michael Wolff, Epstein said Trump “knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop.”
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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I live in Alabama and have been consistently voting for the losing sides since 1972. A lot of my fellow white people will not vote for Democrats because that word is a synonym for the N word. That is why Tuberville defeated Jones in 2020.

Blue indicates areas where Black voters predominate.
Map showing which party won each Alabama county in 2020. Red is for fascists and blue is for antifascists.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Look at that ugly old train.

Look at these Chinese trains. The blue one is a Chinese double decker train which will travel to Europe. The red one is a freight train which travels from China to Europe.
Chinese double decker train which will travel to Europe. A freight train which travels from China to Europe.
November 15, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Why believe Epstein? His former friend had become president and had not invited him to the White House.
November 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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I looked him up. Here is what he says about himself.
www.nytimes.com/by/jacob-ber...
Jacob Bernstein I am a New York Times reporter who writes narrative features for the Style section. What I Cover I report on what might pretentiously be described as the intersection of power and privilege in New York City, but I don’t have a conventional beat where there’s one person or subject I’m covering all the time. Sometimes, I’m digging through databases for documents about prominent people in the worlds of finance, entertainment, art, or philanthropy. Other times, I’m attending at after parties for major events like the Oscars or the Met Gala, buttonholing those people with questions that range from the pointed to the absurd. But I also look for stories about the triumphs and tribulations of those who have pressed on from the periphery, among them: a ball scene paterfamilias, a group of performers who revolutionized the adult entertainment business, and a Manhattan psychiatrist who committed suicide shortly before the publication of his first self-help book. My Background I am a native New Yorker and graduate of Vassar College who has been a features writer for The Times since 2013. Before that, I did stints at New York Magazine, The Daily Beast and Women’s Wear Daily, where I wrote a column about the media industry. In 2016, I directed the documentary “Everything Is Copy,” which is on HBO and was nominated for two Emmys. (If you want to know more about me and where I come from, please watch it.) Journalistic Ethics I do a job with a rigorous set of ethical guidelines. Underlying them are principles about treating people fairly and being open minded about what I don’t know. I do not take payment or gifts from profile subjects or their representatives. I do not endorse political candidates. If I am seated at a show I’m not writing about, the ticket has been paid for by me. (Unless it is a fashion show, in which case it is generally free for everyone, and more likely than not very, very late.) I also try to remember on a daily basis that good people sometimes tell lies, bad ones sometimes tell the truth, and the most arrogant thing a reporter can say is “I’m writing your story.”
November 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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I think the first woman president will be a Republican. Republicans dislike and distrust women in general, but like some women because they are Republicans who serve the patriarchy.

Perhaps the first woman POTUS will be the first POTUS from Alabama.
Alabama's US Senator Katie Britt. She's a graduate of the University of Alabama (BS in PS; JD), where she was a member of The Machine which helped her become SGA President and get a job with her patron, Richard Shelby, who had been a member of The Machine. Britt was Shelby's pick to replace him in the US Senate. Britt is a member of a United Methodist Church although she has adopted evangelical Christian traits. She is intolerant of LGBTs and legal abortion, unlike the UMC. Britt exhibits few mainline Christian values: she doesn't welcome immigrants or want to feed the hungry or care for the sick.
November 13, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_S...
Peggy Siegal (born July 17, 1947) is an American entertainment publicist who advertises new film releases to an audience of media providers and critics.[2] She owns the Peggy Siegal Company, based in Manhattan, which was described as one of the top 12 media marketing firms in 2018.[3] Siegal was involved in a controversy which damaged her business when it was made known she had promoted Jeffrey Epstein.[4] Marketing strategy Connected with New York City's elite, Siegal organizes and hosts private events, including film screenings, to which she invites prominent guests to help the film's reception. Her services are in highest demand in the season before award nominations, in particular the Academy Awards.[5] Her reputation in the industry has been attributed, by her and others, to carefully selecting the guests she invites to these events.[2] According to Siegal, she keeps a list of 30,000 contacts divided by nationality, including filmmakers, artists, writers, and finance professionals.[5] Jeffrey Epstein controversy In July 2019, after the New York Times reported Siegal's business connection with Jeffrey Epstein,[6][7] some of Siegal's clients, such as Netflix and FX, canceled their contracts as a result of the Epstein scandal and larger Me Too movement.[4] In 2011 Siegal organized an event at Epstein's mansion whose guests included notable people such as Prince Andrew, George Stephanopoulos, Katie Couric, and Chelsea Handler.[8]
November 13, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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No, that's now how it works. The VP's role is ceremonial. Someone else played the VP's role when the position has been vacant before. When John Tyler was replaced by Polk, when there was no VP.
The 25th A did not change that.
Eight U.S. presidents have died in office: William Henry Harrison - Died in 1841 of pneumonia. Zachary Taylor - Died in 1850 of illness. Abraham Lincoln - Assassinated in 1865. James A. Garfield - Assassinated in 1881. William McKinley - Assassinated in 1901. Harding - Died in 1923 of a heart attack. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Died in 1945 of a cerebral hemorrhage. John F. Kennedy - Assassinated in 1963
November 13, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Kenn Starr represented Epstein in his 2008 sweetheart plea deal. Starr previously was independent counsel who exposed the Clinton-Lewinsky affair when his job was to investigate a land purchase. Starr died in 2022.

Attorney Kathryn Ruemmler en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kathryn...
Career Ruemmler clerked for Judge Timothy K. Lewis on the Third Circuit in 1996 and 1997. From 2000 to 2001, she was Associate Counsel to President Clinton. She worked as a federal prosecutor from 2001 to 2007, first as an Assistant United States Attorney in the District of Columbia and finishing as a deputy director of DOJ's Enron Task Force. In 2006, she delivered the government's closing argument in the trial of former Enron executives Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, both of whom were convicted. Lay's conviction was overturned on October 17, 2006, due to abatement ab initio, a legal doctrine which says the death of a defendant during an appeal results in a vacated judgment. Ruemmler returned to Latham in Washington, D.C., in 2007, this time as a partner, but left in January 2009 to be principal associate deputy attorney general at the Justice Department. She was White House Counsel from 2011 to 2014, and then again returned to Latham. In 2020, Ruemmler joined Goldman Sachs as a partner. She is as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel; she was previously Global Head of Regulatory Affairs. She is on the firmwide Management Committee. While she was employed as a partner at Latham and Watkins, Ruemmler met with Jeffrey Epstein on dozens of occasions including lunches and dinners between her time in the White House and her subsequent hiring at Goldman Sachs, according to his schedule, The Wall Street Journal reported. She was also on his schedule for a flight to Paris in 2015, as well as a stop at his home in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2017; she said these trips did not take place and The Wall Street Journal could not confirm that they or other meetings ultimately happened. She said: "I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein." Ruemmler was listed as a backup executor in a January 2019 version of Jeffrey Epstein’s will, a disclosure from Congress showed on September 8, 2025. In November 2025, emails released by the House Oversight Committee revealed that she was in …
November 12, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I love art deco!
Trump destroyed a pair of 15-foot bas-relief art deco sculptures and a nickel-plated grill on Bonwit Teller entryway in preparation for building the Trump Tower. The Metropolitan Museum had been promised them.
The old Bonwit-Teller department store in NYC featured two 15-foot bas-relief art deco sculptures which were destroyed by Trump. They had been promised to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The old Bonwit-Teller store had a nickel-plated grill on its entryway before Trump bought the building and destroyed it to build ugly Trump Tower.
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Britt and Tuberville.

Meanwhile, the State of Alabama promotes the growing of hemp.
agi.alabama.gov/hemp/
I really wanted to share this photo from the State website.
November 11, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Otto, the pilot from Airplane.
November 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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This is odd.
Did you write this in Abkhazian?
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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The terms of divorce from the Daily Mail:
Carolla denied that there was any adultery or gambling, just different people.
November 10, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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No, this pre-teen boy in knickers.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM