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One morning in 2000, she kissed her fiancé and headed to a movie set. She thought she was coming home to the man she would marry. Instead, by the time she returned, she no longer had a fiancé—and she didn’t even have a boyfriend.
While she was away working, Billy Bob had traveled to Las Vegas and married Angelina Jolie.
This was the brutal reality for actress Laura Dern. There was no breakup talk, no long-distance argument, and absolutely no warning. She simply went to work as a woman in a committed, long-term relationship and returned to find that her partner had traded her engagement ring for a wedding band with someone else. It remains one of the most ruthless and public betrayals ever seen in the spotlight.
For years, Laura and Billy Bob Thornton had shared a life. They lived together, they were a fixture on red carpets, and their engagement was common knowledge. They were building a future, or so she thought. But while she was busy filming, Billy Bob was busy planning a whirlwind wedding with a woman he had just met.
The shock of the situation was almost impossible to process. Laura later famously described the experience as a ghosting on a massive, global scale. She said,
“I left our home to go and make a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I’ve never heard from him again.”
Imagine the silence that followed. There was no explanation and no apology. To make matters worse, she couldn’t even mourn in private. Within days, the entire world was obsessed with the new couple. Billy Bob and Angelina Jolie were everywhere, famously wearing vials of each other’s blood and flaunting their intense romance in front of every camera lens.
Laura was left to watch this media circus from the sidelines. Her heart had been dragged through the mud for public entertainment. It would have been easy for her to become bitter or to sell her story to the highest bidder. Many people in her position would have lashed out or tried to humiliate the man who had treated her with such total disrespect.
Instead, Laura chose the high road. She refused to participate in the tabloid wars. She didn’t beg for him to come back, and she didn’t try to win a fight against a man who had already shown his true colors.
She chose to focus on herself and her career. She realized that if someone has the capacity to discard a person they claim to love without a single word, they are not a person worth keeping.
In the end, the story didn’t end with her heartbreak. While the marriage between Thornton and Jolie eventually fizzled out and ended in divorce only a few years later, Laura Dern’s life reached new heights.
She didn’t let the betrayal define her.
She went on to win an Academy Award, star in some of the most iconic television shows of the century, and earn a reputation as one of the most dignified and talented women in Hollywood. She proved that your character is truly forged in how you handle your darkest, most embarrassing moments.
When someone leaves you without the courtesy of an explanation, they are handing you the most honest version of themselves. You cannot build a stable life with someone who lacks the integrity to be honest in the present.
The most effective way to respond to a betrayal is to become so happy and successful that the person who hurt you becomes an irrelevant detail in your history.
Your value does not decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth. When someone walks away without a word, let them keep walking—they are simply making room for a future you were meant to have.

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THIS IS DISGUSTING! 🤬
Vinay Kanani, the so-called safeguarding trainer who teaches child protection in UK schools, nurseries, and care homes, was just caught red-handed arranging to meet a 14-year-old girl at a hotel to abuse her.
Look at this monster nodding along casually like he’s ordering a takeaway, completely unfazed. No shame, no panic, just blank denial while the evidence is shoved in his face. He even asked the child if she wanted to travel and admitted he wanted to take her abroad.
Think about that for a second. This predator had access to vulnerable kids every single day, training staff on safeguarding while grooming a child and planning to spirit her out of the country.
What the hell would have happened if those hunters hadn’t caught him? How many others has he targeted?
This is pure evil. A man in a position of trust, paid to protect children, betraying everything for his sick desires. The system failed. Vetting, checks, everything. Heads should roll.
Lock him up for life and throw away the key!
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Holy shit, why is no one talking about this?
MAGA cultist, former Trump house aide, and sitting U.S. House Representative Max Miller has again been accused of domestic abuse.
This marks the third time he’s faced such accusations from two different women.
The first came from Trump’s former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham in 2021, when she accused him of physical abuse during their relationship.
Then, in 2024, he allegedly threw a pot of boiling water at Emily Moreno (daughter of Senator Bernie Moreno). The incident reportedly left visible burns and redness across her body.
And again, in 2026, he allegedly hit her during a custody drop-off.

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@TheUltimator5 @TheRoaringKitty Even if someone did, I seriously doubt a hacker changed RK’s profile pic to a kitty with a bandana. Let’s go
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@Kick_Champ Even though it’s fake, he’s clearly autistic. So now it’s just even more fucked up.
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HE SHITS HIMSELF IN PUBLIC SEVERAL TIMES EACH WEEK 🤷
HE SPEAKS AT A 3RD GRADE LEVEL AND CANT COMPLETE A SENTENCE 🤷
HE'S CLEARLY DETACHED FROM REALITY AND FUCKING DELUSIONAL 🤷
HE HAS THE INTELLECT OF A ROTTEN GARDEN SALAD 🤷
HE HAS LESS KNOWLEDGE THAN MOST 2ND GRADERS 🤷
HE'S CORRUPT 🤷
HE'S A LIFELONG CRIMINAL 🤷
HE'S A SEXUAL PREDATOR 🤷
HE HAS ZERO POSITIVE QUALITIES 🤷
HE'S CONTROLLED BY ISRAEL AND RUSSIA 🤷
HE FALLS ASLEEP WHEREVER HE IS 🤷
COULD ANYONE PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY HE'S STILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE 🤔
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@Zack_magaig Horrific - this case aside. ALL Adults should be tried as adults as well.
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Imagine sending your little girl to a friend's house and she comes back violated and scarred forever.
3 juveniles in Miami are being charged as adults for the horrific sexual assault of a 12 year old girl.
The boys grabbed the victim as she was walking home, held her down, violated her and shoved rocks in her mouth when she tried to scream for help.
The Coalition for Juvenile Justice says these boys shouldn't be tried as adults because their brains aren't fully developed.
➡️ Do you think they are too young to understand their actions, or should they be tried as adults for this?

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Admitting he's done things he should have been jailed for.
It's a start.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."
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@RJ74120113 Hacked or not, he is active and wearing a red bandana :) in spirit
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@RJ74120113 He changed the kitty on his profile pic to one wearing a bandana. I agree.
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It's hard to believe he actually said this
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "We have a man who is doing a great job. I knew it! Because he kept me out of jail for years. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail."
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@rnewton7777 This is why. Thank you to Jeremy on budget for life, always grounding youtu.be/wXYCkW0i1SQ?si…

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@rnewton7777 Why wouldn’t it make sense to convert all GME shares to eBay then? Seems like a better deal. 🤷🏻♀️
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As anticipated, the Proxy (Vote) Materials were released and contain an ask for an increase to the Authorized Shares. I believe I had said I expected the Board to ask for something like 3-5 Billion. They asked for 2.5 Billion.
Right now there are 1 Billion Authorized, of those:
~448m Outstanding
~144m Senior Convertible Notes
~59m Warrants
= ~651m Total
These items are upcoming:
+ ~171m Compensation Package
+ ~800m to 1.2b Ebay Deal (Depends on Conversion Rate)
= Up to 2 Billion or so
So the board actually only asked for 500m over which surprised me a bit. You generally want more Authorized Shares to have forward flexibility.
This is a necessary step for GameStop to buy eBay.
If the deal is agreed to, the day it is official, every eBay holder of record will log into their accounts and instead of seeing 1 EBAY they will see $62.50 and 2.x GME (x to be determined at a later date).
The "dilution" (if you want to call it that) occurs at deal close when that conversion happens so the Board is preparing the way for that moment.
As I said before, this is why the lady on CNBC was so shocked. This is a very large issuance of stock because we need ~$27 Billion worth of stock to close the deal... that's a lot of GME. Half cash, half stock.
I would encourage everybody to not let anybody tell you how to vote. Voting should always be a private, individual, and most importantly, very informed decision. I also won't be telling anybody how I'm voting.
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This is the final photographs of Phillip Herron 34, crying in his car, literally minutes before taking his own life.
He was a single Dad with three kids, struggling with crushing debt of over £20,000 and was desperately waiting for a Payday loan he'd applied for. But it was paid in arrears, with a 5 week wait time. That wait drove him even deeper into debt, and when he died he had £4.61 in his bank account and clearly couldn't see any other way out.
Like a lot of people, especially men, he kept all of this to himself, nobody else knew how bad things were getting. This poor man even had to tell his children that Santa Claus wouldn’t come this year, and in his suicide note he wrote that they'd be better off if he wasn't around any more.
And now he isn't.
We need to talk more. We need to be kinder. And we need to be a country that helps each other when we need it the most.

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