Hermione Gingold

@hermionegingold.bsky.social

Sharp-tongued, eccentric character. (Actually a delicately aging AZ girl who faked my way into every job I ever had & still working my ass off in tech. Mainly a re-poster with occasional wild life stories to tell.)

At 17, I was taken to the Golden Nugget, played Blackjack, and raped for 2 days. Fertitta Entertainment (TX) is owned by Tilman Fertitta. Landry's, Houston Rockets, and the Golden Nugget casinos. 🎯 Rainforest Café, Del Frisco's, Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, Morton's Steakhouse... delivery app ASAP.

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New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Mamdani Is Shunning New York Business Leaders Who Are Used to Calling the Shots

The mayor fired corporate leaders from a city fund’s advisory board in the latest sign that he is changing the way such power brokers access City Hall.

on.wsj.com

An indie game bundle put together to raise money for laid-off game developers in North America has raised more than $100,000 in three days. The bundle, organised by the Communication Workers Union, is available on Itch.io for $10 (though you can pay more) – it includes 127 games

Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others

Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00

itch.io

Q: The president has publicly criticized Pirro for her decision to drop the reflecting pool case. Do you agree with the move to dismiss the charges? BLANCHE: *stammering word salad that doesn't answer question*

Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards has stopped his bid for reelection in the face of sexual harassment allegations. 2 young female staffers allege that Edwards gave them unwanted attention with excessive gifts like puzzles, ice cream, hand guns, and more.

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Attorneys for David Hearn, who was alleged to have vandalized the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, filed a motion in D.C. Superior Court, citing "exceptional facts and circumstances" to have the indictment against him dismissed with prejudice. abcnews.com/US/former-ol...

Former Olympian David Hearn's attorneys want Reflecting Pool vandalism case permanently dismissed

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro filed on Friday a motion to dismiss the case without prejudice.

abcnews.com

Senator Blumenthal responded: "Your failure to basically speak truth to this committee I think indicates that you will fail to speak truth to power if you are confirmed as a judge on the court of appeals. The rehearsed and regurgitated language that you've given us today, I think, is disqualifying."

NEW: 5th Circuit nominee Anna St. John was just asked who won the 2020 election. She provided a canned response about Joe Biden being certified as the winner. She would not say that the Capitol was "attacked" on January 6 but said she would adopt the Supreme Court's language that it was "breached."

The Trump admin said it has refunded about $100 billion of the $166 billion in tariff revenue to corporations that were collected through Trump’s 2025 “liberation day” duties. The Supreme Court scrapped those IEEPA tariffs, & a federal judge ordered the money to be refunded. But companies are ⬇️