Sarcasm aside, it’s unprecedented (and/or unpresidential) for one clown to be charged in criminal proceedings in four different venues and not be held in jail.
The man has multiple passports and owns a private jet. It’s fair to say he’s a flight risk.
Edit: I’m talking more of in the context of shifting populations, not a one-off election. What happens if this is the results of several consecutive elections. Will there just be nothing happening? Indefinite Government Shutdown?
A federal judge has ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services, rejecting the state attorney general’s interpretation of Idaho’s abortion ban.
Good news: here in Newport, WA, our hospital has re-opened the birthing center, and a second clinic is under construction. I assume a lot of the patients that we’ll get will be from Idaho’s Boundary and Bonner counties.
Speaking as a resident in her district, Cathy is a sock puppet for her donors. She’s been well paid and will spout the script that her owners/lobbyists have provided for her. I’d be surprised if Cathy has personally filled up a gas tank in the last 10 years. She’s a reliable tool for the billionaires.
The answer is tricky, according to legal experts. Generally, politicians cannot spend campaign money on legal expenses unless they are tied to a campaign, but many of the investigations involving Trump relate to his conduct as president and as a political candidate....
Only a crap president loses their re-election. Nixon won his re-election in a landslide. Even W won his re-election. Trump, well, he grabs failure by the pussy.
It’s no secret that the relationship between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert has never been worse. The two U.S. representatives yelled at each other on and off the House floor. Greene recently called Boebert a “little bitch” to her face. And Boebert supported Greene’s removal from the Freedom Caucus.
I wish the mouthpieces of rich assholes, like these tools from NNU, would support teaching factual history. It’s nice that a Scotsman from the 1770s thinks parents need to pay for school or else they won’t care about educating their kids. I don’t find Smith’s opinions binding, or particularly actionable in 2023.
When I went through Idaho public schools, our history class never mentioned the fighting and midnight flight of the Idaho state capital from Lewiston to Boise in the 1860s. No mention was made of the Army called out to illegally imprison hundreds of miners in the 1890s to help break the many strikes. No mention was made of the mining union, or the IWW, organizing thousands of Idahoans for fair wages and treatment. No mention was made of former governor Stuenenberg being blown up with a bomb in his mailbox in 1905.
The monied interests have been corrupting politics, exploiting workers, rewriting history, and lining their pockets in Idaho as long as there have been monied interests. They continue to do so today, as witnessed by these 3rd tier Chicago-school pudknockers from Nampa.
The monied interests are still here, fucking over the Idaho political and education systems. It’s no wonder that 2/3 of the U of Idaho students leave the state after graduation.
A Capitol riot suspect who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former president Barack Obama’s Washington home has been indicted on federal firearms charges, authorities have said.
A First Amendment group sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott and others on Thursday over the state’s TikTok ban on official devices, arguing the prohibition – which extends to public universities – is unconstitutional and impedes academic freedom.
Y’all should read the article. The issue is that a professor who studies digital media can’t search TikTok, and can’t have her grad students search videos on TikTok. This ends her research because TikTok is where people post videos.
If you want to fix broken policing, the answer is civil tort law:
mandatory personal malpractice insurance for each cop
abolish qualified immunity
Let victims sue, and make insurance pay huge settlements.
Implications:
cop salary will have to go up to cover basic insurance premiums. That’s ok - it’s good incentive for cities to find alternatives to cops, the way paramedics are an alternative to licensed doctors
after a few lawsuits, bad cops will have their premiums go up; that’s less take home pay for them, and that history will follow them if they try to change departments; really shitty cops will find they can’t afford to be cops and find new careers
insurance companies will get good at cop lawsuits like they are with medical lawsuits; there will be a lot of out of court settlements, and over time, insurance companies will know which departments and which policies lead to lawsuits, and set premiums accordingly
This is how society turned barbers into surgeons; it’s not rocket science.
One company I worked at had more full-time collections people than sales people. Our products were a lot cheaper than our competitors, and it attracted a lot of customers with no money.
Another company I worked at ignored all “first notice” bills they ran up. CFO told me that if a company wanted paid, they needed to send a second notice.
Well, those yield gains are from capitalism subsidized with government-sponsored ag research at hundreds of college campuses, and subsidized by intellectual property protections for patents and copyrights, and government price supports, and government crop insurance, and government land-bank programs to pay farmers to not overuse the land, and ag labor subsidized by special exemptions for minimum wage and citizenship verifications, as well as tight border controls and political vilification of the immigrant labor force to keep the wages low.
But yeah, when society throws enough money into capitalism and soaks up the external costs, it sometimes delivers results.
In short, modern US agriculture is hardly a good example of either unfettered markets or unfettered capitalism. Big US ag is privatized profits and socialized losses, like a lot of other US industry, albeit with much better PR than (for instance) the banking industry.
Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers is thought to be the highest-ranked GOP figure to have been interviewed by the FBI in the 2020 election probe.
I honestly don’t think the man has a grand plan. I think he “officially” ran for president partly to step up donations, partly to throw a wrench in the inevitable prosecutions he was facing last fall, and partly just to do something random to stay in the press.
Choking on a hamburder would solve a lot of problems, but I expect one of his creditors will buy off his kids to smother him with a pillow. Trump has done dirt with some shady people, and if Trump was facing jail time, God only knows what sort of embarrassing stories he might tell. I’ve been expecting Putin to send Trump a pallet of novichok Diet Coke for two years now.
Looks Like the Website for Trump's Patriot Legal Defense Fund Just Got Hacked (gizmodo.com)
Trump Claims His ‘Seal of Approval’ Will ‘Protect Loyal Donors From Scammers’ — Here’s What It Looks Like (www.mediaite.com)
The very definition of irony.
What happens if majority of Americans vote for one party and majority of states vote for the other? Would there indefinite deadlock between the [Executive + House of Representatives] vs [The Senate]?
Edit: I’m talking more of in the context of shifting populations, not a one-off election. What happens if this is the results of several consecutive elections. Will there just be nothing happening? Indefinite Government Shutdown?
Stephen Miller’s Legal Group Suing Target Over LGBTQ Pride Merchandise: ‘Propaganda To Children’ (www.mediaite.com)
Idaho health care providers can refer patients for abortions out of state, judge rules (www.politico.com)
A federal judge has ruled that it would violate Idaho medical providers’ free speech rights to sanction them for referring patients to out-of-state abortion services, rejecting the state attorney general’s interpretation of Idaho’s abortion ban.
GOP readies fight against new fuel economy standards (www.rollcall.com)
Explainer: Can Trump use political donations to pay for legal defense? (www.reuters.com)
The answer is tricky, according to legal experts. Generally, politicians cannot spend campaign money on legal expenses unless they are tied to a campaign, but many of the investigations involving Trump relate to his conduct as president and as a political candidate....
Leonard Leo, ‘Free Speech’ Guy, Had Man Arrested for Calling Him a Fascist, Per Lawsuit (jezebel.com)
'Bullhorn Lady' who helped break into Capitol found guilty in Jan. 6 case (www.nbcnews.com)
Rachel Powell, a mother, was found guilty on nine federal charges.
Trump 2024 rivals urge him to bow out of race amid news he’s set to be indicted again (www.independent.co.uk)
Georgia Supreme Court dismisses Trump bid to shut down Fulton County probe (www.cnn.com)
The Standoff Between MTG and Lauren Boebert Is Worse Than You Think (www.thedailybeast.com)
It’s no secret that the relationship between Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert has never been worse. The two U.S. representatives yelled at each other on and off the House floor. Greene recently called Boebert a “little bitch” to her face. And Boebert supported Greene’s removal from the Freedom Caucus.
When it comes to Idaho public education, the most important question is ‘why?’ (www.idahostatesman.com)
by Peter Crabb...
Ron DeSantis fires roughly a dozen staffers in a campaign shake-up (www.nbcnews.com)
The Florida governor has struggled to break into Trump’s lead and his campaign has been burning through money.
Capitol riot suspect arrested near Obama home indicted on firearms charges (www.readingchronicle.co.uk)
A Capitol riot suspect who had guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested near former president Barack Obama’s Washington home has been indicted on federal firearms charges, authorities have said.
RFK Jr. says Trump ‘probably the most successful debater’ since Lincoln (thehill.com)
Trump asks Georgia’s top court to quash grand jury report, disqualify Fulton DA (www.ajc.com)
From the article:...
GOP Congressman says trans people in the military could launch ICBM missiles on everyone (www.lgbtqnation.com)
First Amendment group sues Texas Governor and others over the state's TikTok ban on official devices (apnews.com)
A First Amendment group sued Texas Governor Greg Abbott and others on Thursday over the state’s TikTok ban on official devices, arguing the prohibition – which extends to public universities – is unconstitutional and impedes academic freedom.
Eight ways Dallas police fall short of federal standards when investigating their own (web.archive.org)
Original @ dallasnews.com/…/eight-ways-dallas-police-fall-sh…
What's a company secret you can share now that you no longer work there?
Under capitalism (i.ibb.co)
Trump faces nightmare scenario as top Republicans cooperate with Jack Smith (www.newsweek.com)
Former Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers is thought to be the highest-ranked GOP figure to have been interviewed by the FBI in the 2020 election probe.