5. Taylor Swift, because her life's work is now in the hands of a "bully."

The latest Taylor Swift drama doesn't involve a girl squad or boy troubles, by copyright and contracts law.

Yesterday, Swift wrote a Tumblr post about her frustration and disappointment that her old record label, Big Machine Records, had been bought by Scooter Braun's company. That means that the rights to her first six albums belong to a man who has subjected her to "incessant, manipulative bullying" over the years.

Swift described Braun's history of bullying her:

Like when Kim Kardashian orchestrated an illegally recorded snippet of a phone call to be leaked and then Scooter got his two clients together to bully me online about it. (See photo) Or when his client, Kanye West, organized a revenge porn music video which strips my body naked. Now Scooter has stripped me of my life’s work, that I wasn’t given an opportunity to buy. Essentially, my musical legacy is about to lie in the hands of someone who tried to dismantle it.

She explained how she felt betrayed by Big Machine Records' founder Scott Borchetta, who was aware of how Swift would feel about her life's work thus far being handed over to Braun. Swift wrote on Tumblr that he hadn't heard about the Braun merger until it was reported in the press, an accusation that Borchetta has publicly objected to.

Things continued to get messy as Justin Bieber has defendsed Braun, and Braun's wife Yael Cohen Braun blasted Swift, saying, "Girl, who are you to talk about bullying? The world has watched you collect and drop friends like wilted flowers."

This whole thing could have been avoided if the music industry wasn't so fundamentally imbalanced and women were just allowed to own their own stuff?

4. Ivanka Trump, because she's the laughingstock of the world.

Speaking of blonde celebrities with Nazi fanboys, Ivanka Trump pretended to be a world leader at the G-20 summit over the weekend. She was as unwelcome among Prime Ministers as she was at Karlie Kloss and her brother-in-law's wedding.

The French presidential palace shared a now-viral video of the unelected Trump trying desperately to contribute to a conversation between French President Emmanuel Macron, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, British Prime Minister (for now) Teresa May, and International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde.

The heads of state who either had to win elections to attend the conference or was appointed by a committee of experts did not seem impressed by the presence of White House staffer who got her position by being born.

It was the side-eye seen 'round the world.

Ivanka also posed as a diplomat, crossing into the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea, and offered her expert analysis on the decades-long conflict and effective strategies of denuclearization.

Just kidding, she just shared a glamor shot of a Charlie's Angels walk.

Actual diplomats were baffled by her presence, humiliated that it gives off the impression that the United States in a monarchy.

"It’s increasingly problematic in terms of our credibility. It says to our allies, to everyone we do business with, that the only people who matter are Trump and his family members," Christopher Hill, a former ambassador to South Korea, told the Washington Post.

The United States is not, in fact, a monarchy—there was a whole war about it, which happens to be celebrated this very Thursday!

It wasn't just foreign service alumni who didn't think that Ivanka deserves to represent America on the world stage. The meme "Unwanted Ivanka" popped up thanks to writer Erin Gloria Ryan, and hilariously inserted the interloper into other great moments of history.

The White House called criticism of Ivanka's diplomatic cosplay "absolutely pathetic," which should be her campaign slogan when she runs for president in 2024.

3. Joe Biden, because women are creeping up behind him, for once.

Former Vice President Joe Biden jumped into the 2020 election promising to Make America 2015 Again, insisting that he is the one to beat Trump by "bringing everyone together."

When he could be enjoying a plushy retirement full of ice cream cones and Obama-Biden fanfiction, jumping back into electoral politics has opened his record up to scrutiny, especially his record on race.

According to a HuffPost/YouGov survey, Ye Olde Centrist White Man is no longer seen as the most "electable" choice after Senator Elizabeth Warren and Senator Kamala Harris slayed their respective debates. In Harris' case, her debate ownage came explicitly at Biden's expense.

Sucks to have people breathing down your neck, doesn't it?

2. The Uber driver who screwed off of work to jerk off.

Jerking off at work is a no-no, even if you don't have any coworkers.

The police department in Monroe, Connecticut were dispatched because of reports of a suspicious vehicle, and when they approached the car, the guy in the driver's seat promptly pulled his pants up. On the passenger's side there was an open case of beer.

When asked to recite the alphabet, the driver Eliot Buenano-Andrade, 48, "started at 'D' and ended at 'K.'

Then things got weirder, somehow:

Ordered from the car, Buenano-Andrade got out and began reaching into his pants, police said. Fearing he had a weapon, police said, they struggled with him before bringing him to the ground.

Buenano-Andrade began yelling that the object he was reaching for was a sex toy, which he then pulled out of his underwear, police said.

Sorry you missed Bring Your Dildo To Work Day.

1. The Canadian newspaper cartoonist, who was fired for his viral illustration of Trump's apathy towards immigrants' deaths.

Michael de Adder was an editorial cartoonist for New Brunswick newspapers from seventeen years ago up until this week.

His viral illustration of Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his 23-month-old daughter drowned in the Rio Grande River was shared widely on social media.

De Adder explained on Twitter that on Friday, he was informed that his contract wouldn't be renewed. Brunswick News Inc. insisted that he wasn't fired because of his anti-Trump content, but a man who identified himself as the president of the Association of Canadian Cartoonists wrote that the timing wasn't a coincidence:

“Michael told me once that not only were the J.D. Irving-owned New Brunswick newspapers challenging to work for, but there were a series of taboo subjects he could not touch. One of these taboo subjects was Donald Trump.

Michael [de Adder] has drawn many well-documented cartoons on Trump, they have however, systematically never been seen in the NB papers.”

De Adder is the latest cartoonist to be fired for criticizing Trump, and the first person to be fired for a matter relating to America's concentration camps.

P.S.: It's too horrific to put in this listicle, but the people having the absolute worse Mondays (and Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Thursdays, etc.) are the kids concentrated in camps by the Trump administration.Consider making a donation to RAICES or calling your elected representatives.

Taylor Swift is proving that 2019 is the year she's no longer messing around.

When she posted a letter on Tumblr explaining how she lost the rights to own music to a man (Scotter Braun) who has repeatedly bullied her, fans were immediately on her side.

Taylor was essentially taken advantage of as she was a 15-year-old artist when Scott Borchetta discovered her. A powerful man trying to cash in on the talents of a young woman with star power? Tale as old as time...

Regardless of how you feel about Taylor Swift or her music, her influence is undeniably powerful. When Kanye violated her by using her naked body as revenge porn in his music video, he proved that using women's bodies and sexuality as a weapon is still a fair game. Kanye, you're an as*hole.

In November of 2018, Taylor posted that she was officially leaving Big Machine Records and signing with Republic Records and Universal Music Group. She announced that she would own all of her future masters, but Big Machine would still own the masters of all her own recordings. Rather, Scott Borchetta, who found her when she was a teenager playing guitar in Nashville, would cash in on all sales and use of vintage T-Swift forever. Then, Borchetta sold her collection to Scooter Braun (Kanye's manager during the 2016 Tay vs. Kayne feud)...

Taylor's post reads as follows:

It's summer, which means the teens are out there having fun and being creative. Those hooligans! Get off my lawn! JK you can stay. Especially if you're doing the "git up challenge," a new viral dance challenge so catchy that even this aging millennial feels inspired to move my tired bones. The viral trend was inspired by country singer/soon-to-be huge star Blanco Brown and his insanely catchy song "The Git Up" which comes with its own choreographed dance routine. You can watch the musical tutorial here, but be prepared, it might make you want to git up, so proceed with caution:

The video went viral, with more than 2 million views in the past two weeks. And now teens are going nuts for the "git up challenge" in which they film themselves doing the dance everywhere from backyards to supermarkets. The videos are going super-viral on TikTok, a website that you use if you were born in the '90s or, even *gasp* the 2000's (I can't believe such a thing is possible but, alas, I am wrong). Here are some of our favorites:

Don't say I didn't warn you this song and dance was catchy. Now you can go ahead and cancel whatever plans you had for the rest of the day. Because it's time to grab your sweetheart and spin out with 'em, do the hoedown and get into it. Woooo Whoooo Whoooooouuu!

Hell hath no fury like an influencer bride scorned. For people who identify and function as influencers, the online social media landscape provides a bevy opportunities for freebies and brand collaborations.

Since many brands offer their products and services in exchange for social media shout-outs (super popular influencers receive payment as well), a lot of self-proclaimed influencers have taken it upon themselves to offer their page's exposure in exchange for free stuff.

This of course, doesn't go over well when it involves asking a small business full of skilled artists to work for free in exchange for "exposure." Asking someone to do $3-4,000 worth of free work is NOT the same as asking Budweiser for some free cases of beer, and yet, entitled influencers persist.

In a recent series of screenshots posted on Imgur, the publicist for an influencer requested free wedding photos and photography in exchange for "exposure."

In the email, the publicist asked Betrothed and Co for a documentary style video an entire hour long and roughly 1,000 photos. They offered payment in the form of "social media exposure" and promised the influencer would post 25% discount codes for wedding services in her social media stories. The publicist ended the email with pressure, noting that they'd sent the same query to four other companies.

Frankie and Laura, from Betrothed and Co wrote back a professional yet pointed email pointing out the influencer's entitlement and how insulting it is to ask for thousands of dollars for free services.

They started by pointing out that 55,000 followers is nowhere near enough to justify losing thousands of dollars in payment. They then went on to say that if the influencer increased her following to 500,000 by the time of the wedding, they'd consider offering their services.

On top of that, they laid out how entitled it was to request a 25% discount code on their services for her followers when she isn't even paying full price. They ended the email by politely slamming the publicist for attempting to leverage the fact that they emailed multiple wedding service companies at once.

The influencers publicist, Melissa, wrote back immediately calling Betrothed and Co's email "abusive."

She also went on to boast that her client has received countless offers from companies willing to pay her in exchange for social media shout-outs, and claimed the wedding would have been a "lucrative" gig due to all the other influencers and "celebrities who will be making TV appearances" present.

She also brought up the fact that the influencer bride's mother has cancer (a fact not brought up in the original email) as a manipulative tactic. The email ended with a not so thinly veiled threat to "name and shame" Betrothed and Co if they sent any more emails.

Frankie promptly wrote back apologizing for any perceived "abuse" while pointing out the racial slurs the publicist used in the previous email.

They went on to say they're perfectly fine forfeiting the opportunity to network with "celebrities who will be on TV later this year" (aka people who haven't been on TV), and joked that they'll try to rebuild their business regardless. Frankie went on to genuinely apologize for the state of the influencer's mom's cancer, and pointed out that leading with that information would have been a much more empathetic angle than promising some Instagram posts.

Beautifully, Frankie ended the email by apologizing for writing back regardless of the publicist's threats to "name and shame."

The cherry on top of this beautiful shut down of entitlement is Frankie's post-script asking who the influencer is. Surprisingly, they never received a response, likely because the publicist and influencer were too busy licking their wounds and claiming legitimate call-outs are "abuse."

If your office thermostat is currently set to temps only experienced in the arctic tundra, you will totally relate to this hilarious list of memes. You might want to show it to HR, or better yet print it out and use the warmth of the fresh copies to get you through the rest of the summer at your freezing cold office.

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Cheaters never win, especially when they get friggin' busted online. Sometimes social media is the worst, but when it comes to exposing cheaters for the scumbags they are, it's kind of the best.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has called out the U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for fostering a "violent culture" after a ProPublica report revealed border patrol agents were sharing violent, threatening posts about her in a popular secret Facebook group.

The posts about AOC came on the heels of her visit today to Trump's detention center/concentration camps, including one in Clint, Texas, where agents have been accused of keeping children in inhumane, neglectful conditions. The ProPublica article included screenshots of sexist, xenophobic and threatening posts and memes from the group, targeting AOC and other congresspeople as well as horrific memes and comments joking about dead migrants. The group, which is called “I’m 10-15”(10-15 is apparently code for “aliens in custody"), has about 9,500 members from across the U.S.) and, according to the intro, is a “funny” and “serious” place to discuss working with the U.S. Border Patrol.

Here's one of the screenshots:

The report prompted an apology from the official Twitter account of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, who called the posts "completely inappropriate and contrary to the honor and integrity" they apparently expect from their agents.

U.S. Customs and Border Patrol, interestingly, has not apologized for the continuing reports of human rights abuses in these camps or the rising death toll of children. They have also not responded to the many people calling for the agents posting in this group to be fired.

The threats did not dissuade AOC from visiting the detention camps along with Congresswoman Madeleine Dean, who called the conditions "far worse than we ever could have imagined" and described the situation as a "human rights crisis."

AOC's tweets about her experience should shake you down to your very core.

This news is horrifying and sickening beyond belief but it's important that we keep reading about it, talking about it, tweeting and yelling and screaming about it. We can't turn our backs on this crisis or we are all complicit.

It's easy to idealize a crush when you don't know them that well. When you're admiring someone you haven't actually dated yet, why not assume they're the best person ever?

Well, because they're probably not. Sometimes, even the longest-held crushes can be gone with the wind because of just one stupid, weird or flat-out racist encounter.

Below, 17 people share instances when they lost a crush quicker than you can say "bad breath."

Someone call the police:

For context: Him- 6’4”, built dude Me: 5’0 non-built lady

We were hanging out at his house when he ‘jokingly’ blocked my way when it was time for me to go and wouldn’t let me pass. I asked him to let me by, when he wouldn’t, I told him I was uncomfortable and he called me a crazy bitch. That was the end of that for me.

-/u/tiny_butt_toucher

This story actually re-virginized me:

Claimed women were only a sex relief for men and couldn't be as smart as them. Then proceeded to ask me to have sex with him.

I asked him if he has a lot of sex.

"Yes, of course."

"Then you can go ask another girl, because I am not going to have sex with you."

We were out. He bugged me two hours and half (I am not kidding you, it was actually that much time) trying to convince me that having sex with him was going to be the best experience in my life. I let him talk two hours, even pretended to almost be interested, then at the end of his rant I repeated "I would rather die a virgin."

He was pretty offended.

-/u/thesmilingpierrot

Someone took the wrong message from "American Psycho":

Guy was academic, hygienic, and sweet. Treated waitstaff appropriately. Spoke formally but still funny. Shared things in common w me. Perfect gentleman. Date ended 10/10

While driving me home, at a stop light, pointed to a homeless man crossing the street, said “I would stop my car for anybody crossing the street, just not homeless men. Where do they have to be? Theyre in no hurry.”

Me thinking: ok...unsolicited and kinda odd

He added another comment: Itd be funny if I run him over.

Me: ghosted him like right after he dropped me off

-/u/chau-a-not-chau-bcdf

The rare case when a crush is instantly killed by reciprocation:

I had a harmless crush on a married friend that I did not signal or act on, ever. I've been the spurned wife before, I kept my distance and did everything short or unfriending him on Facebook.

He slid on in to my DMs right after my separation became public knowledge.

He was still married to his wife.

I didnt respond.

-/u/ryersonreddittoss

Who does this???:

He was making fun of a disabled woman. Instantly not interested.

-/u/Chal00pacabra

We all loved "A Star Is Born" but there's no need to cosplay it.

A guy who was a straight up doppelganger for Bradley Cooper had a massive crush on me. He was funny, smart, educated and accomplished. I could never get over how I had, on two separate occasions, seen him piss himself drunk.

-/u/sagegreenpaint78

There's a fine line between bad boy and giant baby.

I had a crush on a guy in high school who was a little bit of a rebel. Nothing serious but definitely had a bad boy thing going on. One day in class the teacher told him to do something minor and he flipped out, basically had a temper tantrum and refused. Totally killed all interest by being an asshole for no reason.

-/u/sugaratc

You can only have so many pets:

A woman I was talkin to was recently divorced and had moved back in with her parents. She already had a child and a couple pets and was talking about getting another pet and her parents told her no, she chose to go ahead and get another pet anyhow and basically her parents began pushing her out the door. And it was a stressful situation for her and I suggested she talk to her folks. However once she told me she was grown and made her own decisions and did not care about their rules I suddenly understood and quickly lost interest

-/u/olliebrown630

Imagine roofie-ing your own family:

He talked about how he wanted to loosen up some boring family at a wedding reception, so he spiked their drinks with party drugs.

-/u/IguanaTapThatAxolotl

Has he never heard of Ashley Madison:

He let it slip that he was cheating on his SO in getting together with me. Killed that crushy feeling dead.

-/u/SSSS_car_go

Sounds like a chill person:

Gave me a 5 minute lecture on conditions where cheating is okay

-/u/SysWow65

So many questions:

She told me that spanking her teenage daughter didn't work, "because it wasn't satisfying enough."

-/u/OldGuyzRewl

Maybe this would make sense if your hair was literally on fire:

Poured lemonade on my head in the middle of a fireworks show, she thought it was flirty and cute.

-/u/OneFlatHippo

Didn't people stop doing this in the "Mad Men" era?:

We were driving down the road and she threw a Starbucks cup right out the window. Gross.

-/u/airbeat

Nothing like some good old-fashioned racism to thaw a crush out real quick:

I had a huge crush on a girl in high school. I asked her if she wanted to hang out sometime and she was down. I suggested going downtown and she told me that she didn't like going downtown because all of the black people.

I was stunned. I never followed up on hanging out and I was never attracted to her again. I also let the friendship we had die pretty quickly after that.

-/u/corycutstrees

I hope someone checked on his mom:

I was casually dating a 19 year old guy when I was 18. He seemed totally normal until I met him at his house before a date and his mom asked him to take the garbage out before we left. He threw a fit that would embarrass most 3 year olds including crying, yelling at his mom, and punching the floor. I pretended that my parents were calling and needed me to come home, blocked his number, and never saw him again.

-/u/hawkcarhawk

Uhhhh were all the bathrooms full?:

I was having a party and the drinks were flowing. Went to check on her cause she had disappeared for a while. As I open the door, I see her sitting on a small waste basket taking a s*** in my bedroom. I couldnt get that picture out of my head.

I know I've done my fair share of dumb stuff, but still couldn't forget it.

-/u/Bearded_McBeardy

There's nothing better than starting off your day with a laugh, so here are 25 of them. These randomly hilarious memes are proof that not everything that happens in the morning is terrible.

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It's rare and refreshing to come across stories where the good guys win. Since the news is flooded with stories of creeps, bullies and bigots terrorizing everyone else, it's easy to forget that there are indeed times where the jerk in a situation gets what they deserve.

There are whole movie franchises dedicated to stories of the underdog getting in a win, countless songs have been written in honor of the "good guy" in a situation prevailing, but none are as cathartic as a true story of karma being served.

In a recent Reddit thread, people shared the moments they saw creeps, bullies, and jerks try to mess with the wrong person, and it's a beautiful trip into the land of karma.

1. TFKGreySlate saw the bullied kid become the hero.

"Was riding the bus home from school one day. Bunch of assholes messing around in the back throwing food and other junk. A quiet, overweight kid sat in front of them, minding his own business when one of the assholes thought it would be funny to shove an old sandwich in his face and call him fat boy. Quiet kid stood up and knocked him out in a single hit, then grabbed his bag and walked up to the front of the bus and got off at his stop as if nothing happened."

2. TaloneyeMan's dad has no time for thieves.

"Watching my 72 year old father beat the piss out of a guy who tried to steal my mom’s purse."

3. 1Badshot saw the new guy literally flex.

"We had a vendor who showed up once a week and was a bit of a hand masher. Liked to crush your knuckles in your hand."

"The boss had just hired a doughy looking, middle-aged guy for the sales department. I told him to be wary shaking the vendors hand."

"A few days later the vendor shows up, puts his hand out to the new guy with a big smile, and goes in for the kill. At first everyone is smiling. The new guy is looking him in the eye while pumping his hand furiously. Then stops."

The smile melts off the vendor's face.

He had a pained look on his face as his lips pursed together. The vendor yelped a long "Eeeeyah!" and dropped the new guy's hand like it was lava.

"Pulled the new guy aside and asked how he did that. "Ten years I drove a tow truck. Must have changed thousands of flat tires with just hand tools. Nobody crushes my hand."

4. PhreedomPhighter's friends annoying brother got what was coming to him.

"There was this guy who was part of our group in college. He was an ass but he was one of the guys' brothers so he hung out with us a lot. Whenever he would get drunk he would try to pick fights. We would just shake it off and ignore him."

"One of the guys hosted a pretty big NYE party. As it goes, this dude got drunk and tried to pick fights again. People were getting uncomfortable. There was one guy at the party who was about 6'4 and built like a tank who was just not having it. He waited to be confronted and then immediately carried the guy outside and threw him down on a stair and broke his leg."

"He stopped picking fights after that."

5. LegalGraveRobber's dad was NOT about to be screwed over.

"Most of this I learned second hand as it occurred. When I was younger me dad bought some oil field royalties, percentage ownerships of what is produced, that gave a check each month for a few hundred bucks. Well as time goes by the checks begin to dwindle and then stop. At this point he began to look into the company that operated the oilfield and received a significantly less than satisfactory answer."

"At this point they really should have just given him the checks each month, because at his point he proceeded to look into the company and peel back a metric shit ton of fraud and other deceptions. Over the course of a 7 year litigation case my dad figured out exactly how they were committing fraud and after working with a few lawyer friends hit them with the bitch slap of god in court which removed their operators license for oil wells and promptly thereafter the went out of business."

"He ruined a $50 million company because they tried to screw him out of a few hundreds bucks a month."

6. usernamesarehard1979 got beat up for a good reason.

"Dickhead bully screwed with a younger kid in high school who was super nice and a really good friend of mine. I didn’t like it so I got in the bullies face and told him I’d kick his ass. Well, we went at it and I absolutely got the shit kicked out of me. Fucker knew judo or something."

"Yeah, I fucked with the wrong person. I’d do it again though."

7. The quiet kid in PrivateIsotope's class knew Judo.

"7th Grade Science. Bully...almost more of a bullys henchman, said something about a quiet kid's mother. Quiet Kids mom was dead. Quiet Kid also apparently studied boxing. Who knew? "What did you say about my mom?" wham What did you say about my mom? wham Bully Henchman was so shocked he did nothing and took the two straight punches to his face. I don't think he got in trouble. Happened before the teacher came in."

8. Fallout541 saw a drummer beat a person's face.

"There was this guy who played drums all the time in Hawaii on the city strip. Nice guy, never chatted much except for a wave and to throw him a few dollars. Some drunk tourist decided it would be fun to mess with his drums. Guy gave him so many chances to walk away."

"Drunk tourist winds up for a punch and the dude just knocked him out in one punch. I just stood there and my buddy had the presence of mind to tell the guy to pack his shit and leave before the cops come. Guy was pretty fucked up and we helped him till the ambulance came. I’m pretty sure with the way that his jaw looked it wouldn’t be a short recovery."

9. carmelacorleone's brother was not about to sit around and watch his sister get hurt.

"My high school boyfriend and my older brother. My freshman year of high school I met "Scotty". He was a little on the weird side, a scene kid, but he was nice enough. Until the day he decided to hit me. I said something he didn't agree with and in retaliation he slapped the bejeezus out of me. If there was an award for best bitch slap then Scotty won it. My head snapped back, saliva flew from my mouth, tears formed in my eyes."

"We had had been in the car, sitting in traffic behind some accident or other. He kicked me out of the car and made me walk home. I sat down on the side of the road and called my brother because I wasn't ready to deal with my mother's reaction. My brother showed up in his Jeep, held up traffic on a Friday afternoon to make sure I was okay."

"He had even stopped at the store and bought me a bag of frozen peas for me cheek. We drove on, the car was deadly silent. My brother was steely faced, white knuckle gripping the wheel, pure-white anger in his eyes. We drove past our road and kept going. He pulled into Scotty's yard and stormed up to the door. I stayed in the car. Scotty came out, five foot seven to my brother's six foot three."

"My brother grabbed him by the shirt and lifted him a good foot off the ground. I didn't hear what was said, all I know is my brother never had to hit the kid, whatever he said to him made Scotty go pale and shaky. Brother laid him down on the front porch, came back down, got in the Jeep and wrecked that boy's front yard. Tore it the hell up. Scotty's dad was one of those guys who won awards for his yard."

"Scotty had to explain to his dad why his yard was messed up. His parents called and apologized for their son's behavior. We never heard another word from Scotty."

10. CappuccinoBoy knows a contractor who put another contractor out of work for ableism.

"This guy (well his subcontractors) does a lot of work for my local smallish city/county (about $5million worth of work last year). He has an autistic son and is a pretty nice, if super cheap, guy. This other subcontractor was kind of a piece of shit, was one of those "I'll say whatever I want cuz muh free speech."

"Well, on his second or third job, the boss stops by to check on stuff and drop off some materials. The sub starts running his mouth about stupid shit, and eventually starts telling "retard" jokes. The boss says "you know I have an autistic son, right?"

"This was his perfect response: "yup, I did, sorry about your shitty luck."

Dude hasn't done a single job for the city since, no other contractors will even toss him some work. Pretty sure his business is going under. He did shit work anyways."

11. Fuct1492 got into a fight they couldn't finish.

"Me drunk af on a party bus for my cousins 21st. Being a complete ass because I was letting my brother who had issues with someone get me worked up on his drama. Got in a huge brawl outside of one of the stops and decided to take a shot at one of the guys I didn't like. Hit him with everything I had. I mean EVERYTHING! I literally broke my fucking hand on his face. He got up, looked at me, and calmly said “You just fucked up."

He was right."

12. ICanHelpU717's neighbors weren't to be messed with.

"There was a family in my neighborhood that fostered a lot of Asian boys. One was in my class, a couple were older. They lived three houses down from my best friend and he became very close with the boy in our class. We can call him John. In retrospect it seems obvious that while he was in our class, he was obviously older and was probably placed with us so he could catch up with his education. He was a great guy. When we were in a high school, a kid from the class ahead of us took a special interest in picking on my friend. He was constantly fucking with him. It escalated to him challenging my friend to fights, and finally showing up in our neighborhood."

"Eventually he shows up one day and confronts my friend in the street. John witnessed this and comes out to challenge the bully, and utterly and completely destroys this kid, who had to 50 pounds heavier. He was one of those big red headed kids, and the much smaller, much faster Asian kid beat the shit out of him before he knew what happened. It was watching a Bruce Lee movie live. Afterwards my friend just walked up to me and said, “Well, I guess that’s the end of my (bully’s name) problem.” It was. Another time, different kid, was fostered by the same family, was getting picked on relentlessly by some upperclassmen."

"They were using racial slurs, running him off the road with their cars when he road his bike around. Finally he had enough one day at school, and gets into with the ringleader of the bullies, through broken English and a lot of Vietnamese swearing he agrees to meet them at the only gas station in town after school to settle things. Kid shows up to confrontation and removes a glass bottle from his bag, promptly breaks it and brandishes the jagged glass like a knife. Cue the bully immediately running to his car and taking off while the kid says that this is how you settle your honor in his country, or something to that effect. No one messed with him anymore after that incident."

13. LegendOfSchellda's looks saved him.

"Scrappy chihuahua man road rages at me, I flip him off and pull into the grocery store parking lot. I needed to get formula for my daughter. He followed me. Oh dear."

"Get out of the car f***ot, I'm gonna kick your ass!" Okay. I'm 6' 5", bald, bearded, and since I lost weight and started lifting, I've been mistaken for similar looking NFL defensive linemen. I got out of my bright green Volkswagen Beetle, crossed my arms, and looked straight at him for about 10 seconds before he got back in his shitty little Honda and peeled out of the parking lot."

"Good thing too, I don't know how to fight lol"

14. lineman77 saw a frat boy get his karma.

"Yuppy frat boy in an econ course I was taking my freshman year got caught cheating. At my university, we all sign a contract agreeing to their honor code policies, and cheating is an automatic expulsion. But, the professor decided to be nice, and was just going to give the kid a zero on the exam."

"Frat kid doesn't think that's enough, and it turns into an argument. Kid starts saying how "in" his family is at the university, and how none of this matters because he'll just "pull some strings". Long story short, our professor is actually close friends with the chancellor of our school."

"Not only did the kid get expelled from the school, but they somehow got him into legal trouble as well for some of the comments made in class that day. I don't know what was said that could have been used against him, but the kid ended up in some deep shit."

15. pan-orama's grandpa was not going to let anything happen to her.

"I was on the road with my grandpa (he was a truck driver) and we had stopped for the night at a truck stop. We go to do our normal thing of showering, eating, playing a game or two then sleeping. If you don’t know, truck stops have separate room showers. I got out of the shower and was waiting outside for my grandpa to finish his. I go look at the glass figurines that most stops have and wasn’t but 5 feet from the showers. Next thing I know a man grabs my arm and starts dragging me to the door. I was about 10 at the time, but I looked about 6/7."

"Obviously I don’t know this man and I start crying loudly, trying to grab onto something to stop him. Thankfully my grandpa walked out at that moment and heard me screaming bloody murder. He ran and I’ve never seen that man run before, to the guy dragging me, saying “it’s my daughter, I promise, don’t worry!”

"That man flew to the ground so fast and hard. My grandpa’s hand was bloody, blood sprayed when he was hit. The man looked up at him and yelled that I was his daughter. My grandpa said “I’m the grandfather, care to try again?” As he got closer."

"Cops came as my grandpa was straddling him and was about to beat him to a bloody pulp. Workers of the store backed up my grandpa, showed security footage, there were even bruises on my arms."

"If my grandpa had been in the showers another minute, who knows where I’d be or what would have happened to me. I love you grandpa!"

16. nate800's class bully learned not to mess with Dan.

"There was a bully in my high school class who liked to “pants” other guys. His goal was usually to get both the pants and the boxers, leaving the victim’s dick blowing in the breeze."

"After gym, the bully decided his target was a guy named Dan. Dan was a brilliant yet awkward guy, definitely on the spectrum. Dan was a tall gangly guy and an easy target. However, Dan had a secret. He had just received his Black Belt in jujitsu, and was fully capable of absolutely fucking shit up. I think you see where this is going."

"Anyway, the bully struts up to Dan and yoinks his shorts down. Shorts, boxers, everything. Dan is left standing there fully on display with the whole class laughing at him. Dan calmly stepped out of his downed shorts and put the bully into some crazy hold. Once he got the bully to squeal, he flipped him over his back onto the bleachers."

"The gym teacher saw the whole thing. The bully suffered a broken leg, missed out on his entire senior year of athletics, and was suspended. Dan received a warning not to break the legs of any more classmates."

17. jennifershhh knows you don't mess with a cop's son.

"I didn’t witness it, but when I worked for AT&T a gentleman and his wife came in because his son’s iPhone 6 was bent. So, they wanted to get him a new phone."

"How did it get bent? Some turd held the boy up while he was walking home from school, taking his money and his phone. Both of his parents were retired police officers, and his father trained SWAT tactics and hand-to-hand combat. The son went home empty handed and was initially scared to tell his parents because the thief told the boy he knew where he lived and threatened him."

"His parents eventually got him to tell them what happened. The thief was hanging out at a laundromat near their home when the robbery took place. The dad called his cop buddies who immediately rolled up to the laundromat along with the dad where they apprehended the guy who still had the phone in his pocket."

"It got bent during the ensuing scuffle. Dude stole from the wrong kid. The kid was very polite and kind while in the store. He seemed pretty shook up. I was glad for him that his dad had his back."

18. -basedonatruestory- shut it down at their new job.

"This is low key, but I enjoyed it:

My first week at a white collar job (my first such job), and we were in the middle of a department wide meeting - about 17 coworkers and supervisors altogether."

"The person leading the meeting asks a question of no one in particular, and several of us answer. My answer differed from the rest. One guy turns to me and says: “let’s leave these questions to the people who actually have a masters degree, shall we?”

"I looked at him and said: “I have a masters degree.” The room went silent, except for one guy who loudly ‘ooohed.’ I had given the correct answer, to top it off."

19. Vict0r117's grandpa was not one to be messed with.

"My grandpa was a Nam vet, really nice guy, kinda your typical portly boomer type. Well one day we were at the mall and on the way back to the car some frat douche looking guy was walking along singing a dirty song comprised mostly of profanity. My grandpa told him "hey, theres kids around here, watch your mouth." Guy sizes up my grandpa, sees hes kinda old, got a belly, and decides he's going to prove to his two buddies how tough he is by bowing up on an old man. He flexes his cutoff sleeved arms, juts his barbedwire tribal neck tattoo chin out, and kinda tries to chest bump my grandpa."

"My grandpa suddenly is in this perfect boxer's stance and just rocks this guy in the gut. frat dude goes down on his knees winded, and my grandpa says "I said watch yer mouth boy." Guy starts to get up and say "fuck you" but my grandpa puts a left hook into his face and a right punch into his neck under his ear and the dude goes down spread eagle and out cold. My grandpa steps over him walking towards his two buddies, who book it. We got in the car and he made me promise not to tell my mom."

20. Ishitstandinguptoo watched the king of the douches get his comeuppance.

"I was in a bar in Missouri. It was on the outskirts of Jeff city, had a nice mix of customers with various backgrounds. College students, city dwellers, country folk etc. There was a group of white, preppy 20 something guys acting douchey, king of the douches marches up to to bar and tries flirting with the bartender. She smiles and listens to him but clearly doesn't care. He keeps spewing stupid pickup lines while his friends egg him on. Next to him is a thin black guy drinking a Cosmo."

"After the last failed pickup line. The thin black guy says "She really doesn't give a flying fuck about your pickup lines, she's just doing her job." King Douche doesn't like that, starts talking shit about the black guy. Very immature stupid shit. The thin black guy keeps his cool, sipping his Cosmo. King douche calls him a a gay slur for drinking a Cosmo, continues on a homophobic rant."

"Thin black guy finishes his drink and turns to King douche. King douche says " what you gonna do fa-" Thin black guy kicks him in the balls, as he bends down in response to his annihilated testicles, Thin black guy uppercuts him in the throat. While King douche fall tries to comprehend what is going on, his friends come up behind him. Thin black guy kicks king douche into his friends."

"The bartender tells the flock of douches to get the hell out. They help King douche to his feet and leave. Thin black guy goes back to the bar to pay for his drink. The bartender says "thanks Marcus". Marcus replies " No problem, see you later" he walked out to his car and drove off. That is the last time I saw Marcus."

New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a fair amount of haters.

Considering she's only 29 years old, insanely popular among young liberals, and a radical democratic socialist, she's received a truly ridiculous amount of criticism from the right, and even from her own party. Her former job as a bartender has been a target of her trolls as well. If you can hold down a bar three rows deep on a weekend night while making sure everyone is hydrated, safe, and not writing a bad Yelp review--you can be a representative in the United States house. At least when you're a politician they let you eat and sit down at your job...

While she is no stranger to the darkest underbelly of internet trolls, there's another hater in the ring who is well, a little smaller than most...

While I think it is important for children to understand and get involved in politics, there are some things that seem pretty manipulative on the parents' part.

Here's mini AOC mocking the real AOC's breakdown on the border.

It feels a little...dirty. And, this would still 100% be my opinion, mind you, if there was a child with a massive internet following for impersonating a conservative politician.

Mini AOC's account has 83.8K followers and features very clearly scripted rants that attack AOC's socialist policies, democratic candidates for president, and Nancy Pelosi.

The account, which is (duh) run by Mini AOC's mother, also features some choice tweets that largely miss the point of the real AOC's beliefs.

It's one thing to be an adult with informed opinions, disagreeing with a politician on the internet. It's another thing entirely to tell your child, who is too young to grasp the very adult world of politics, to read a script that mocks people you personally disagree with to a massive internet following. I highly doubt any of this is actually coming from this little girl...

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Congress is officially out on recess for the Fourth of July, and on the fist day of their vacation, a group of Democrats went down to Texas to see the inhumane immigrant detention centers for themselves.

Here's what they saw.

Rep. Michelle Dean from Pennsylvania:

Rep. Lori Trahan, Massachusetts:

Rep. Joaquin Castro, Texas (not to be confused with his identical twin Julian, who is running for president):

Conservatives and conservative media are content to ignore the atrocities as described by congresspeople who aren't even famous. Thankfully, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on the trip, and it got Fox News's attention.

Here's how she described the nightmare:

Now I’ve seen the inside of these facilities. It’s not just the kids. It’s everyone. People drinking out of toilets, officers laughing in front of members Congress. I brought it up to their superiors. They said “officers are under stress & act out sometimes.” No accountability. After I forced myself into a cell w/ women&began speaking to them, one of them described their treatment at the hands of officers as “psychological warfare” - waking them at odd hours for no reason, calling them wh*res, etc. Tell me what about that is due to a “lack of funding?”

The Democrats made their visits to the facilities after it was reported that roughly 9,500 Border Patrol agents are in a Facebook group where they mock migrant deaths and share sexist memes, including violent posts about AOC.

To President Trump's friends on Fox and Friends, the horrid conditions these people are being kept in against their will is just like a house party gone awry.

"Picture yourself, you're at a house, family of five...maybe you have a big party, you have one hundred people over, and you have two-and-a-half baths," imagined pro-Trump talking head Brian Kilmeade. "Then after 100 people, it would be a little bit taxed, maybe you got to get an outdoor facility. Can you picture 5,000?"

At that point, my dude, you just cancel the party, and let people GO BE WITH THEIR FAMILIES.

I wasn't cool in high school, so I didn't go to a lot of house parties, but the ones I crashed never looked remotely like this.

AOC called out Fox News, tagging Kilmeade on Twitter, asking:

Only Stephen Miller goes to parties that give you mouth sores.

As far as I can tell, the point of organized religion is to make people feel bad about ourselves for no reason?? JK JK JK it's also about picnics and singing! Like so many things, religion seems like it could have the potential to do a world of good, but people tend to ruin it by being jerks. A video circulating on Twitter highlights the pernicious side of religion. Shared by a young woman named Jenna, it shows a leader at her church who followed her into the bathroom and mercilessly criticized her outfit and body. Because that's what Jesus would do?????????

Through tears, Jenna, who was obviously hurt not to mention trapped in a bathroom, defended herself and cursed out the woman. She then shared the video on Twitter where it went viral. You can watch it here:

"This woman followed me into the bathroom and attacked me calling me fat and that I couldn't wear jean shorts because I was too fat," she writes.

Jenna followed up by sharing screenshots with more background information about the woman, who plays a prominent role in the church. This story just gets worse and worse.

Jenna added that she "loved" her role in the church and now feels reluctant to go back. She also shared photos of her outfit. Nothing she could wear would justify that woman's god-awful behavior, but let the record show, this is what Jenna was wearing:

And she revealed that the back of her shirt conveys a very pertinent message:

Jenna followed up to share some of her own backstory, which includes battling mental health issues.

And to make matters even worse, she had gone to the bathroom during the service to check on a family member who was in the hospital:

Let this story serve as a powerful reminder that it's never, ever, ever okay to bully someone for their outfit choice, but especially in Church, a place where many people go to seek comfort and community in dark times. Also you can't open your eyes in a church without seeing Jesus wearing nothing but a dish towel over his private parts so can everyone please chill the f*ck out? God bless.

The spawn of Donald Trump have certainly proven themselves to be the children of Donald Trump this week, with each of the Holy Trinity (Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric) doing something embarrassing and/or dangerous.

Ivanka Trump kicked off her presidential campaign by pretending to be a world leader, hopping into photo ops with heads of state and trying her damnedest to contribute to the conversation. The now-iconic Unwanted Ivanka meme was born.

Donald Trump Jr. shared a racist tweet about Senator Kamala Harris, jumping into birtherism's female reboot.

Eric Trump, who Saturday Night Live portrays as "the dumb one" in a family of dumb ones, tweeted an attempted burn at former President Barack Obama that ended up just being a massive self-own.

My dude tweeted-and-deleted a photo he claimed showed Obama at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea in 2008. If you recall what the world was like just eleven years ago, George W. Bush was the president, and Obama was a mere senator from Illinois.

The photo was taken in 2012, when Barack Obama, the guy with "Commander in Chief" written on his jacket, was indeed a the commander in chief.

Plus, maybe not offering a dictator a propaganda photoshoot for free was a good thing?

It was also unclear what Eric is trying to say that his father accomplished, other than getting Kim Jong Un to smile. He'd be so pretty if he smiled more.

He fixed the post with a fact-check, but it got burned as well.

Eric is on board with Bromance Diplomacy, but other Americans would rather not see the president become BFFs with a guy who tortured an American student to death and fed his own uncle to dogs, Ramsay Bolton-style.

It's okay, buddy. We can't all be experts in history and diplomacy like Ivanka.

If your partner cheats on you, they are the party at fault, not the person they cheated with. Particularly, since many affairs are carried out without the other person knowing they are dallying with a partnered person.

However, there are certainly exceptions. There are those who actively pursue flings with people with spouses, fiances or serious (monogamous) partners, with no empathy or care extended towards the relationship they are wrecking.

If your relationship was torn apart by a partner who cheated with someone who knew you, or knew of you, it's only natural to at some point fantasize about revenge. But when push comes to shove, many of the most obvious forms of revenge will hurt you more than them.

In a recent post on the subreddit Am I The Asshole a woman working in HR asked if she's a jerk for not hiring the woman her ex-fiance cheated with.

"WIBTA if I don’t hire a fully qualified girl for a job because she is the one who cheated with my fiancé? (Cheating was almost 4 years ago).

Taking the side bar advice on using a throwaway account because of potential outside ramifications. I can’t really ask this question at work so here I am."

OP kicked off the post by sharing that she found out about the cheating two months before her wedding, and ultimately it was a deal breaker.

While she had never met the woman her fiance cheated with, OP knew her name and knew the woman pursued him knowing he was engaged.

"For some background I was deeply in love with my fiancé, we were about two months away from the wedding when I found out he cheated on me. I knew of the girl but had never met her but had it on pretty credible authority that she pursued him knowing he was engaged. It was still his fault so while I called off the wedding but tried to reconcile and forgive, I just couldn’t do it. We broke up but it was a year before I could even face the world socially and 2.5 years before I went on another date. I’m past it but will probably never truly be over the hurt."

Currently, OP works HR in a large tech company and is in charge of hiring practices.

During a recent interview she recognized the first name but not the last, but when the woman came in, she knew without a doubt it was her ex-fiance's fling.

"I work HR at a large tech company and am in charge of hiring new people to work in our sales department. The girl in question has a fairly unique first name so when I saw her name I thought it might be her but her last name didn’t match. But when she sat down for our initial interview (me and one other person) we instantly recognized each other. I have to give her full credit, she was nervous for about a minute and then composed herself and gave an amazing interview. Her credentials are spot on and obviously she has the ability to talk and be a good sales person."

While it was mutually awkward for a minute, OP admits the woman knocked the interview out of the park and was clearly the most qualified for the job.

Nonetheless, OP (rightfully) feels conflicted about the situation. She lost a whole potential marriage to this woman, and doesn't want to hire her for a great gig. On the other hand though, OP admits the woman is super qualified - and her coworker agrees.

"But part of me feels like “fuck you, I don’t need to reward you with a Commissioned sales position with an amazing base salary.” My co-interviewer thought she was a slam dunk but the decision still goes to me. We have interviewed 34 people so I can easily hire someone else and raise no red flags, but the key is she is the most qualified and gave the best interview."

After the interview, OP received an email from the woman suggesting they meet to discuss "potential conflicts."

OP is still sitting on the email, wagering what the right thing to do in this situation is.

"She sent a very polite email thanking us for the interview and asked if I would be willing to meet with her again to discuss potential “conflicts.” I have yet to respond. I guess I have two choices, meet with her she probably hire her OR I just hire someone else a little less qualified and no one but me will ever know."

Since OP is the ultimate decider, she could easily hire one of the other dozens of candidates.

But she knows in her gut the woman is the best for the job, so the situation simultaneously presents an ethical and emotional conflict.

"WIBTA if I don’t hire her?

edit: this may be too late for anyone to see this as it's probably dying off but my boss finally got back to me (he works across the country from me) and he basically said that he needs me to handle it, trusts me and expects me to hire the best person. So ya...no help there!"

readinreadin thinks OP should double-check company policies before moving forward.

"I’m not a lawyer nor do I work in HR but...

You may want to consider your own job security. She sent you that email and may have bcc’d your boss or other so that if she doesn’t get the job she can bring a bias complaint."

"If it is possible you may want to withdrawrecuse yourself from the process citing the conflict of interest. If you can do so and mention what the conflict is you may find that your coworkers will find her behavior disturbing too and won’t hire her for that reason."

"Finally as a person in HR are you allowed to use information you know from outside the formal hiring process? That she pursued your fiancé knowing he was engaged says a lot about her character and what it says isn’t good. You obviously don’t want to hire someone whose behavior may create interpersonal problems with her coworkers. Perhaps you can just be open about that as being a reason for not hiring her."

amazzan is shocked the company doesn't have practices in place for this kind of situation.

"I feel like this is so much bigger than a reddit post. This is a huge conflict of interest and I'm surprised your company doesn't have a protocol for something like this. I think you should give the decision making power to someone else in this scenario. "recuse" yourself. if you don't, I feel like you could get your company in big trouble."

ClothDiaperAddicts thinks OP is totally in the right to not hire the woman.

"NTA. You're in a position of authority over her, and you can't be objective. Hiring her would be a mistake. People who are qualified for jobs don't get hired all the time. Sometimes it's something as simple as the interviewer is put off by a tapping pen habit."

"Part of working with people is being able to get along with them. You know this since you're in HR. You also know that you're not declining her due protected class reasons (because boning your fiance is not a protected class). She's just in the position where she's learning that her actions have some real, long term consequences."

sedatemenow pointed out that OP would be creating a hostile work environment for herself if she hired this woman.

"NTA. You’re in charge of hiring. Part of that responsibility is making sure there is good workforce cohesion. If you hire her, you’re creating a hostile work environment for yourself. Is this a position that only she can fill? If I were here, and I fucked someone’s fiancée, I would not expect them to hire me at any point in the future."

sorrylilsis says this kind of situation is more common than it sounds.

"NTA.

It's actually more common than you think and the consensus I've seen everywhere is "why the hell should you hire people with a bloodfeud in my company".

"Plus I mean action have consequences. This one took a lllong time but she's paying her shitty choices."

Breastfeeding should really not be controversial in 2019. But sadly, many, many things are still very wrong with our society in 2019 and one of them is the archaic attitude people still have towards breastfeeding. It's just a boob, people!!!!! You can't turn on a TV without seeing one. And yet, the sight of one providing life-sustaining sustenance to a baby still causes people to lose their freaking minds.

So it makes sense that mom Olivia Cook, from Hanover, Pennsylvania, got frustrated and defensive when she was breastfeeding her 2-month-old son Parker in a pizzeria and the manager asked her to "cover up."

Cook was at The Upper Crust in Gettysburg, PA with her family when the incident occurred. She says a manager suggested she cover up, but her issue is more with the owner, who she claims called her "selfish" over her refusal to comply. Cook was infuriated and went on Facebook to put the pizzeria, and its owner, on blast.

She writes:

On behalf of myself, my son, and my father I want to state how utterly appalled we are at the behavior of the OWNER of this establishment Ms. Linda Atiyeh. I was approached by a so called “manager” and this lovely woman while enjoying a nice Saturday meal with my father, and my son. The reason? Because I happened to be feeding my two month old son uncovered. The so called “manager” stated that it was house policy that I cover myself, and the owner stated that I was selfish and only thinking about myself. I informed them, that what I was doing was legal, and they could contact the police to have us escorted from the building if that’s what they so chose to do. It just so happens that today, of all days, I forgot a blanket, as I usually try to be very cognizant of those around us, but, when my son wants to eat, he will eat, no blanket, or blanket, period. I strongly advocate for feeding your baby regardless of the method. No mother should be discrimated against, or ostracized for tending to the needs of their child at any time. This establishment should be purely ashamed for the occurrence today. I am not one to ever make a fuss in real life, especially not social media. I am standing up for all parents, but especially breastfeeding mothers. Parenting and tending to an infant is stressful enough as it is, without being discouraged by the public.

Cook later updated the post to add some further details, revealing that the owner brought her an apron to cover up:

Ms Atiyeh and the accompanying manager went as far as to bring me an apron to cover with as breastfeeding is supposedly against house policy. I politely declined their offer.

No mom wants to be shamed for breastfeeding in public, which is legal in all 50 states. So it's easy to side with the mom after reading her story. And the majority of commenters did:

However, a local paper the York Daily Record reached out to the pizzeria for comment, and they tell a different story. Manager Peter Bales said he only approached Cook other patrons at the restaurant complained, and that it's the restaurant's policy to "offer a cover" to a mother breastfeeding in case she wants it. "That was a courtesy that we offer and she declined, which was fine...and then it was immediate overreaction like 1 to 1000, that it was a horrible offense that I had offered," he said.

The restaurant's owner, who was called out by name in the post, said: "We are a very loving and welcoming place. We are pro-breastfeeding. We have had plenty of women breastfeed in the restaurant before."

As usual, now that we have both sides of the story, it's a little trickier to know whose side to take. But I'm still leaning in the direction of Team Mom. Knowing how often women get shamed in public for the simple "crime" of feeding their kids, I'd probably go from "like 1 to 1000" too. What do you think?

Honesty is conceptually the best policy, but in real life it can be a lot trickier than it sounds. For instance, if you know about a coworker's unsavory behavior but don't have a close relationship with their wife, is it your responsibility to tell her, or should you abstain from narcing?

When it comes to the concept of "telling" on someone, situations can quickly get dicey and there is rarely a clear answer. Save instances of clear abuse or danger, getting in the middle of other people's business, even if well-intentioned, can often backfire.

In a recent post on the Am I The Asshole subreddit, a man asked the internet if he was wrong for lying to his coworker's wife about his whereabouts.

"AITA for leaving a co-worker stranded in Detroit, and not telling his wife the truth about it?

I've been giving a co-worker of mine a ride back and forth to work for the last couple of weeks now since his car broke down. He only lives a couple blocks away from me, so it's not like I'm going out of my way or anything."

OP shared that he regularly gives his coworker rides, and after work the coworker asked for a ride to Detroit to visit his "sister."

"Today after work he gave me a sob story about his sister needing to borrow some money for rent and diapers, and he asked me for a ride to Detroit. I'm a family man myself I couldn't tell him no, even though it's a bad neighborhood."

However, when they got there, it was clear the coworker was actually in Detroit for a drug deal.

OP didn't feel safe in the situation, and immediately drove off, leaving their coworker chasing them down the Detroit block.

"When we got there, he walked over to a group of guys sitting on the porch of an abandoned house. He gave one guy some money then he put something in his pocket. I know a fucking drug deal when I see one! I was pissed, I took off, and he started running down the street to catch up. I floored it, and let my tires squeal behind me."

When OP got home, the coworker's wife soon came over searching for him. Rather than telling her the truth, OP said the coworker was at his sister's.

Since the coworker had used his sister as a cover, OP assumed there was actually a real sister.

"A couple hours after I got home, his wife came to my house looking for him. I told her I dropped him off at his sister's, and she stormed off pissed. Come to find out he doesn't even have a sister! Now his wife thinks he's having an affair."

OP quickly found out the coworker has no sisters, and now the wife thinks he's having an affair.

Understandably, OP doesn't want to involve himself in this situation, but now that the wife is concerned, he wonders if he should come clean about the coworker's whereabouts.

unusualpersimmon thinks OP did the right thing by bolting.

"NTA he made his choices. He lied that's his own fault."

Kingofearth23 thinks it's unfair to the wife, especially since the coworker could be in danger.

"But what did his wife do to deserve getting lied to? What if her husband was kidnapped and she was frantically trying to find him because he hasn't returned? Valuable minutes that she could alert authorities wasted for nothing."

peithecelt thinks both the OP and the coworker are slimeballs for different reasons.

"Ugh, I hate to say this, but you ditched a guy in a shitty neighborhood? Then lied to his wife about it? Dudes a slime, so ESH."

soph_lurk_2018 thinks OP did the right thing protecting himself from potential felony charges and giving the wife the same cover story.

"OP does not have to let someone into his car with drugs. If the police pull them over and his coworker throws the drugs on the floor of the car, then they are all going to jail! He doesn’t have to take that risk for a coworker. As for lying to the wife, OP simply repeated the same cover story he was told. Any fall out is on the coworker"

depraved_ thinks OP did the right thing and it's not his responsibility to further involve himself, particularly after the coworker put him at risk of going to jail.

"NTA! I don't understand how some people here are saying everybody sucks here. Firstly, he lied about having a sister. Secondly, he was buying drugs! C'mon people, just think! What if he had been pulled over by the police? Then he would be fucked. No, dude, not the asshole in the slightest here. Yes, you probably could have told his wife where you dropped him off."

purpleninjacat thinks OP should have told the wife, for her sake - not the coworker's.

"I'm going ESH just because he should have told his wife where he was. I understand leaving him there, I wouldn't want drugs anywhere near my car. But at least tell his wife so she knows where to look if he goes missing, there's really no reason to lie to her."

The internet is relatively split on this, but one aspect is agreed upon: OP did what they had to do to avoid jail time. Hopefully, for the wife's sake, they end up telling her the truth.

The US Women's National Team is absolutely owning the Women's World Cup, both on and off the field. Not only did they demolish Thailand 13-0, but Megan Rapinoe had the president pooping his pants when she said she "wasn't going to the f**king White House."

The winning streak continued. The team beat England 2-1, advancing to their third straight World Cup final. One of those goals was scored by Alex Morgan, who gave us the most delightful touchdown dance...well, goal pantomime.

You love to see it.

The move became an instant meme, and it's 1776 all over again.

Trolling England with tea is the perfect way to get into the Fourth of July spirit.

It's also part of a grand tradition of tea memes.

Choose your fighter.

Morgan's teammate, Megan Rapinoe, has also done wonders for meme makers.

These women are GOOOOOOAAAAAAAALS. (Sorry)

Sometimes it seems like everything you see on the internet is negative. We could all use a little positivity in our lives. These memes are funny, cute, and will give you all the warm fuzzy feelings.

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It's wrong to call a person crazy when they're on their period or the week leading up to it, or when they're pregnant or post-partum or at all ever, period. Unless you yourself are that person, in which case it's ok to acknowledge that hormones can really f*ck with the human mind (and people without uteri are equally susceptible to hormonal thinking). As someone with a uterus, I can tell you that I have done, said and thought some wildly irrational things while under the influence of PMS (aka PMT - Premenstrual tension). And at least I know I'm not alone. Someone who goes by "Twinks" on Twitter recently shared their story and asked others to share their stories of all the completely irrational things hormones made them do. The results are hilariously and painfully relatable.

This story is gold and prompted some fantastically honest replies. Here are 20 of the funniest and they'll make you laugh. Unless you're pregnant or menstruating or pre-menstrual in which case, who knows what emotions they'll elicit?! Anything is possible when your mood is under the influence of hormones.

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Some of these stories are straight-up motivational. I'm not sure if I should laugh or bow down, but I'm definitely adding some of these to my To Do list for the next time my uterus decides to shed its lining and my sanity along with it. "SOMEONE BRING ME A PIZZA. IT'S FRISBEE TIME."

Feel free to share the craziest things hormones have ever made you do in the comments.