Beyond the disgraceful child sexual abuse charges that ended his career, Hastert also laid the foundation for the modern GOP‘s absolute fecklessness:
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![“Once you’re in the system, you’re in the system,” Peace said. There’s really no way out of it entirely, he added; “If you just say, ‘Stop,’ yeah, that number has to stop texting you, but whether it’s that organization or another organization that’s leveraging that same data, [someone] is going to try to reach you.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tdhhhgsgdcxoqvryp4xey6fy/bafkreia2umez7uja5sbkbfzxa5imf5m3uzlq2diunkwrlr57gx3nlnwnwy)
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“I just listened to the song. It’s appalling. The fact that you were able to do that is insane,” Allison, Lathe of Heaven’s vocalist, told me. “The only thing smaller musicians like us have at the end of the day is recognition for the results of our work — being able to enjoy the process of creating something and putting it out into the world knowing it is distinctly a product of our own hands is essentially one of the last driving forces behind making music. It’s hard enough putting this much time and effort into the band as it is. All the members of LoH essentially tailor our lifestyles around having the time to tour, write records and record. And we do it knowing we will likely not see much money in return. The fact that someone could ruin our reputation by dropping this cringe garbage under our name is insanely disheartening and speaks volumes about distribution and streaming services that allow this to happen.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tdhhhgsgdcxoqvryp4xey6fy/bafkreifttrxaa27cn2csaaurmmg3v5thfxp5t23orxzdlrysonvfjiqq34)
![The outage is causing some harsh complaints. “So you're telling me that a multi-million dollar company doesn't have [a] plan for redundancy? One data center goes out in Phoenix and it takes down their entire system aside from their status page? Hilarious,” wrote one user on Reddit.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tdhhhgsgdcxoqvryp4xey6fy/bafkreia3o5qighgac4kwzjvrg7wyybfwygcr5bhzcskrnfhie6d2m2seya)
