#karen lynch

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Oh the rich are REAL scared

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Look at "Top 10 Most Powerful Women Of The World 2024" in short

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Karen Lynch

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Stock market today: Wall Street sets more records and closes a 6th straight winning week

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks closed their latest winning week with more records on Friday. The S&P 500 rose 0.4% to squeak past the all-time high it had set early this week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 36 points, or 0.1%, to its own record set the day before, and the Nasdaq composite gained 0.6%. Netflix helped drive the market with a leap of 11.1% after the streaming giant reported…

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CVS names new CEO: David Joyner replacing Karen Lynch

CVS Health announced Friday that David Joyner has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer, effective as of Oct. 17. Joyner replaces Karen Lynch, whom the company said “stepped down from her position in agreement with the company’s Board of Directors.” Joyner has also joined the Board of Directors, and the current Chairman of the Board, Roger Farah, will now be Executive Chairman,…

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Various Degrees of Con-Artistry

I dropped in to my local CVS recently because while I don't need more toothpaste at the moment I know I will soon.

Though instead of just picking up a tube and checking out, I had to hit a button to call for assistance because all the toothpaste – and deodorant. And skincare products – are locked up behind plastic, see-through cubicles.

Now, CVS and the other stores that engage in this little bit of theater like to tell you that they do so because of a theft problem.

And that's not to say that people don't steal, but people were stealing BEFORE the current moment and it apparently wasn't so much of a problem that products needed to be locked up behind plastic.

So what changed?

Staffing levels.

CVS and numerous others stores have reduced store staff as much as possible in the name of profit.

And when there's less staff, you open yourself up to more theft because just the presence of someone who works in a store reduces theft, I'm willing to wager.

So, typical for the United States, the ramifications of corporate greed are passed on to working people because if you think the CEO of CVS wasn't doing particularly well despite all the cuts in personnel – in 2022 Karen Lynch earned $20.4 million – I have a bridge to sell you, cheap.

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Book Review: Queen

Title: Queen [Fae Games 3] Author: Karen Lynch Genre: Urban Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult Rating: 4 Stars Description/Synopsis: Jesse recovered the missing ke’tain to keep her parents safe, but it came at a high price. In the weeks after her brush with death, she struggles to adapt to her new life, while burdened with the terrible secret she learned about her brother Caleb. On her first visit to…

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Image dump of cute images of the She-Ra Princesses of Power cast and crew that I stole from Twitter because I'm worried we'll lose them otherwise.

Source tweets (and context) below!

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Lauren Egan at The Bulwark:

Money over morality THE FRUSTRATION THAT DEMOCRATIC OFFICIALS have felt as some of the country’s most prestigious law firms have cut deals with Donald Trump to avoid his retribution is quickly morphing into anger that top Democrats at these firms won’t quit in protest. That anger has been directed at a cadre of individuals, including former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, as well as recent second gentleman Doug Emhoff—all of whom continue to hold posts at firms that have cut deals with the White House. Democrats argue that their refusal to leave those cushy posts is an act of selfishness that has undercut the party’s argument that the country is facing an existential crisis and that institutions and their leaders must be compelled to stand up to Trumpism.

“I think people of principles should quit these law firms,” said Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress and a former senior official in the Biden White House. “If you are a lawyer who makes $20 million a year, I appreciate the sacrifice that you might make less money because you might lose some clients. But how do you look at yourself?,” said Tanden, who once worked at one of the firms (Paul, Weiss) that settled with Trump. “Everyone’s grandchildren are going to ask them what they did in this moment. What were you doing? People have to look at them with a straight face and ask what they did. Signing off on a $40 million or $100 million payout strikes me as pretty pathetic.”

The ire directed at big-name lawyers for not resigning from their firms is the latest fissure to erupt inside Democratic circles over what type of protest this moment calls for. Only in this case it’s not about whether Joe Biden should drop out in order to save democracy or whether Sen. Chuck Schumer should support a Republican funding bill to avoid a government shutdown. It’s about whether party leadership can continue to preach to voters about the importance of fighting fascism—all while some prominent figures in the party refuse to trade a multimillion-dollar annual paycheck for a not-quite-as-comfortable (but still multimillion!) paycheck at a firm not kowtowing to Trump.

“Make no mistake: Any Paul Weiss lawyer who leaves now, or soon, will not only be blameless but celebrated for standing on principle. But those who choose to stay and make peace with this betrayal of democracy will either be fools—for thinking this will pass—or cowards—for accepting their firm’s role in undermining the legal profession,” Marc Elias, the prominent Democratic lawyer, wrote this week in his Democracy Docket newsletter. Polls show Democratic voters are frustrated with party leadership. They feel like Democratic leaders’ actions are too often disconnected from their rhetoric about the existential stakes for democracy: that they’ve been talking the talk but not walking the walk. And they’ve watched in horror as institutions they once thought were philosophically aligned with them (including academia and Big Law) have, instead, maneuvered to avoid Trump’s ire rather than confront it.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher, where Emhoff works, recently agreed to a deal with Trump to end its diversity programs and provide $100 million in legal services to the White House to “represent the full political spectrum, including Conservative ideals,” according to a Truth Social post from the president. Paul, Weiss—home to Johnson, Lynch, and Karen Dunn, who led Kamala Harris’s debate preparation for her matchup against Trump—similarly agreed to $40 million in pro bono legal work that Trump said in an executive order would support “veterans, fairness in the justice system, and combating anti-Semitism; and other similar initiatives.” And just this week, Milbank LLP, where Neal Katyal, acting solicitor general in the Obama administration, is a partner, agreed to provide $100 million in pro bono work to causes supported by Trump. None of those principals has resigned, even though they had previously encouraged Democrats to take strong moral stands against Trumpism. Katyal is a fierce and frequent cable-news Trump critic. Johnson urged those in the legal profession to fight against rising authoritarianism in the weeks before the election. Lynch also warned in the leadup to the election that Trump threatened the future of democracy. “The whole episode is just as pathetic as it is dangerous. We’re going to be paying for the cowardice of these law firms for years,” said a Democratic strategist. “It’s a time for choosing, and we need the firms to feel internal pressure for their gutlessness. I don’t see how anyone who cares about the basic foundations of democracy could stay on at any of these places.”

The pressure to resign may be most acutely felt for Emhoff, in part because of his wife’s future political ambitions. Harris is reportedly looking at a run for governor in California. And Democratic strategists in the state said Emhoff’s continued presence at Willkie could complicate matters if it persists into 2026. He will almost certainly be peppered with questions about the pro bono cases his firm takes up on behalf of the Trump administration and be repeatedly asked if he feels like he has a responsibility to publicly resist Trump’s shakedown of the legal community.

[...] PRIVATELY, TOP OFFICIALS AT THESE FIRMS argue that the anger being directed at them is overblown. They insist that they have given up relatively little in exchange for Trump not entirely decimating their practices, as they believe his executive orders would have done. Several have argued that the threat of the president’s actions had a chilling effect on their business, and that competing firms were already trying to poach clients by using Trump’s executive order as leverage. But the legal community, writ large, has widely agreed that Trump’s actions are blatantly illegal. They’ve noted that law firms that have challenged Trump’s actions in court have been successful. In an attempt to demonstrate some resolve, more than 500 law firms signed on to an amicus brief on Friday in support of Perkins Coie—one of the firms targeted by the Trump administration. Still, as long as prominent Democratic figures keep their comfortable perches in law firms that have acceded to Trump, nagging questions will remain.

Time for Democrats at Trump-coddling law firms to take a stand and leave.

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Talking Feds: Fattest Cats Fold First

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pinky, what do you see?

flyin’ down the road

pinky, tell me

are you laughin’ or you cryin’?

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top five coronation street characters please

AHHHHHHHHHHH ok

5. Richard Hillman. the street's greatest villain!!! an icon. when an extended episode meant something. he taught me what gaslighting was and he gave me nightmares

4. Steve McDonald. he just cheers me up. in another life he's a northern club compère

3. Tracy Barlow. gobby dark haired red lipstick ultimate soap bitch florist!!!!! I've always loved her and I always will

2. Jack and Vera. we watched a couple of Christmas episodes from 2006 yesterday for convoluted reasons and they were still there and alive and snapping at each other and SO in love. in some ways it never recovered after they died, their dialogue was of a different era. even Norris and Mary didn't really cut it

1.David Platt. I don't know how to describe it he is family to me!!!! he's got the sharpest tongue on the street, takes just after his gran, and has gone from causing chaos everywhere he goes to loving dad and husband it actually makes me emotional. and he can still wind Gail Platt up better than anyone. I want Jack P Shepherd in the Jungle

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Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to create your dream band! I’ll go first-

Lead vocals: Steve Perry

Lyricist/vocals: Peter Murphy

Lead guitarist: George Lynch

Keyboards: Nick Rhodes

Bassist: Mick Karn

Drummer: Kevin Haskins

Outfits by: David Bowie

Stage choreography by: Alice Cooper

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gah. dreaming is real

Email exchange between Karen O & David Lynch❤️

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tags dump #6

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Next up in the Lynch-a-Thon.

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David Lynch and Karen O "Pinky's Dream"

Yesterday I posted my remembrance of David Lynch. In addition to his filmmaking and art, he was also quite a musician. In 2011, he released his album Crazy Clown Time and the opening track "Pinky's Dream" was a duet with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' singer Karen O. This is literally two of my favorite artists ever collaborating on one song.