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A former US Postal Service worker was convicted of stealing around $1.6 million in checks to fund a “lavish lifestyle that included international travel, stays at luxury hotels, and purchases at gentlemen’s clubs,” federal prosecutors said. Hachikosela Muchimba, 44, of Washington, DC, was found guilty by a federal jury last week on charges of mail theft and bank fraud, according to the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. “According to court documents, between December 2020 and March 2023, Muchimba was an employee of the US Postal Service when he executed a scheme to steal US Treasury checks and...

I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders. My worldview has deeply shaped my career. I have spent my professional life providing counseling to vulnerable populations: children in foster care, sexual minorities, the poor. For almost four years, I worked at The Washington University School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases with teens and young adults who were HIV positive. Many of them were trans or otherwise gender nonconforming, and I could relate: Through childhood and adolescence, I did a lot of gender questioning myself. I’m now married to a...

Kerry Positioner... The Boston Globe reports on the two new ads out of the Bush and Kerry campaigns:   The image was simply too much for senior Bush media strategists to resist: Senator John F. Kerry windsurfing off Nantucket, his boat twisting back and forth in the gusty air, the very maneuver Republicans have accused the Democratic candidate of making on important policy issues for months. ''I thought it so perfectly conveyed the message," said senior adviser Mark McKinnon, who quickly grabbed the footage of Kerry, shot by news crews during the Republican National Convention, to turn it into...

A Hot Wind is Blowing in This NationTim Robbins Warning to AmericaThe Gulag Americana(The Gangly Boob Has Found A Cause)On April 15, 2003 Hollywood actor and part time political activist Tim Robbins addressed the National Press Club. Robbins spoke eloquently of how after "the ugliness and tragedy after 9-11" there was a brief period where he held out a "great hope" that "in the midst of the lethal air we breathed as we worked at Gound Zero" (note Robbins' use of the word "we" instead of "they". He makes it sound as though he was right there in the midst of the tragedy, sifting through the rubble looking for survivors, helping to...