Trump allies suing to allow election officials not to do their jobs? LOL.
Refusing to certify an election without clear and convincing evidence in hand that the results are illegitimate should lead to the firing and official sanction of election officials.
Naturally, Trump thinks he'll lose, so he wants to reward officials who obstruct the vote to favor him.
Trump is lying again, when he says the "real vote" is in November. His jury voted on his guilt on 34 state crimes. They found him guilty, because the evidence was considerable, and his demonstrated conduct was so consistent with the charges.
In November, voters will vote on something completely different. Their vote will have no bearing on whether Trump is a convicted felon. It will determine only whether the great entrepreneur becomes just another public employee again.
If you own a Tesla, your car is covered in cameras that take images reviewed by Tesla employees, who share them with each other, joke about them, and make them into memes.
Presumably, Tesla knows which cars cameras took which photos, so pairing them up with the car owner wouldn't seem hard. Unless, that is, the owner takes seriously Tesla's claim that the cameras are there "to assist driving" and are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”
Reuters's list of examples included a lot of faces. I don't suppose anyone at Tesla or elsewhere in Elmo's organization have access to facial recognition software. No?
"Companies aim to release more treated oilfield wastewater into rivers and streams"
It's a crime that oil producers are allowed to pump "produced water" - contain unknown chemicals in unknown amounts - into the ground, where it contaminates aquifers.
It would be another crime to allow them to release "treated" oilfield water directly into surface waterways. How long will oil companies practice the immunity that Donald Trump claims belongs only to a president?
"Robert Jenrick calls for nationality data scheme to prevent UK ‘importing crime’
"Ex-immigration minister proposes bill amendment to collate visa and asylum status of people convicted in England and Wales"
Big data loves every govt program to collect data, regardless of whether it improves policing or ANY policy. It improves their algorithms, their govt contracts, and their revenue, which is about all that Jenrick's scheme will improve.
🚨NEWS: The company that chartered the ship that destroyed the Key Bridge was just sanctioned by regulators for silencing whistleblowers raising safety concerns.
Companies silence whistleblowers. They demote them, give them poor job ratings or jobs that make them quit, and fire them for unrelated reasons. That works well in "right to work" states, which are really right to fire at will states.
Companies don't often get caught with evidence obvious enough to draw regulators attention. Getting fined for it is a big deal. It's also a red flag that cost cutting and other intentional conduct might have contributed to a predictable tragedy.
Tech Bro billionaire, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of today's hot stock, Nvidia, thinks we need pain and suffering. Without it, "there's no resilience....without resilience, there's no greatness....character isn't formed out of smart people. It's formed out of people who suffered."
Huang seems to confuse the inevitable with the desirable. What's missing from his formulation are empathy and humility. They are not much in evidence in today's business schools or C-suites.
Ian, you're wrong. I watched the speech. Eric unpacks the relevant context here. It's a very odd look to be spinning for #Trump like this.
Eric Columbus:
Wise conway thread below about Trump's "bloodbath" remarks. And per @metzgov transcription Trump said the effect on the car industry would be "the least of" the effects of the "bloodbath for the country." This is the opposite of just talking about cars.
When Donald Trump uses Hitlerian language like "bloodbath," he's not talking about economic damage to an American industrial sector. That's a defensive PR ploy, to persuade supporters that Trump is not as nuts and violent as his words and manner indicate.
He is that nuts and even more violent. If he wins, he will exact retribution on everyone who's ever spurned him - and he has a long memory. If he loses, his need to inflict pain on others, to ease his own, will be even greater.
Having told his GOP competitors to avoid campaigning to end Social Security and Medicare, Trump is now campaigning on it.
Let me repeat. Trump would end Social Security and Medicare, sending a hundred million more Americans into poverty and early death.
Trump's supporters say the retirement age of 65 is too low. Not for anyone who's done manual labor or lived on a public employee's salary. It's too early only when compared to the average age of congresscritters.
Office cleaner employed by the UK's "Total Clean" to clean a London law office has been sacked for eating a one pound fifty pence, warm, leftover tuna sandwich, found on a platter she was about to throw out.
Heavens, the pilferage! This sets no standard other than Total Clean's willingness to intimidate its mostly female immigrant employees. I hope she wins her lawsuit for unfair discrimination. The client law firm could help by finding another cleaning firm.
"English councils need £4bn to prevent widespread bankruptcy, MPs say"
The govt's solution to a crisis it manufactured is to withhold aid and force local authorities to sell state-owned assets at fire-sale prices. Because sovereignty...and Brexit. Naomi Klein would call it Disaster Capitalism 101.
Private businesses that keep themselves afloat by selling capital assets, rather than by making changes to their operations, are considered badly mismanaged.
"Big five oil companies to reward shareholders with record payouts.
BP, Shell, Chevron, ExxonMobil and TotalEnergies to distribute more than $100bn despite public outrage."
A hundred billion in a single year. The big five are virtually bribing their shareholders, which include the largest investors, into keeping them immune from serious regulation of them, their businesses, their pricing, and their profits. The world be damned. That's a problem that needs addressing.
Again: if Thomas was a judge on any court except SCOTUS, this would be a no-brainer. It's bribery. He and everyone involved, like Harlan Crow, would be indicted.
Thomas bet that the radical right would never let him resign, not for want of a few hundred grand a year in benefits it could easily provide.
It's not just his income. He was overspending dramatically. No one financially stretched "borrows" a quarter million - over 1.5x his annual salary - for a recreational vehicle. He was in thrall to the good life and willing to break the rules to get it. He knew the limits of govt salaries; he'd never had any other kind. He said screw it.
"Trump fraud trial: Allen Weisselberg grilled on financial report discrepancies."
What journalists writes "fudged" when they mean that the court ruled that Donald Trump committed pervasive fraud when he issued his financial statements "to broker deals and obtain favorable loans?" When he found fraud so pervasive, he ruled the companies should put in receivership (wound up) as a threat to the marketplace?" What competent editor lets it through?
"Associate Justice Peter H. Moulton temporarily paused the September 26 summary judgment decision by New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron that set in motion a receivership process and the dissolution of the Trump Organization."
That description by the WaPo is way out over its skis. The appellate court stayed only the cancellation of the business licenses. The trial continues, as does the work of the monitor and all of Engoron's other rulings.
This is standard language to describe historical events, including atrocities, but it needs revision. The error is a form of passive voice, laying blame on an event rather than its perpetrators.
The "early 20th century rubber boom" is not what "enslaved and exterminated Indigenous communities" in the Amazon, the Congo, and elsewhere. It was American and European corporations, and sometimes kings, backed by their govts, that did the enslaving and exterminating.
If he doesn't already have one, the First Dog, Commander, needs a full-time handler. The White House has a constantly changing cast of energetic men and women, full of ambition and hormones, suppressed emotions and other smells. It would drive any dog to distraction.
Then again, maybe his "nipping" is Commander's way of vetting USSS staff loyal or not to the President.
"Little evidence of ‘greedflation’ in UK, Bank of England study finds: Bank report says companies making excess profits confined to certain sectors of economy such as energy and retail."
Only in energy and retail? Apart from housing, that's where consumers spend the vast majority of their money.
Asking the BoE to assess greedflation is like asking an abuse victim whether they are being abused. An unreliable NO is the answer, out of denial and fear of further abuse.
TV lawyers seem determined to insist that Trump is extra-special, as is anyone indicted for a serious felony, who chooses to run for public office.
Being a candidate for public office is purely voluntary. No defendant should be able to manipulate the court system to obtain special advantages simply by choosing to run for office. If nothing else, it's a ploy only available to the well-heeled, who already have enough advantages in the American criminal justice system.
In a conscious irony, Trump's lawyers ask the court to re-establish a SCIF - at Mar-a-Lago - so that his royal highness needn't travel outside his palace to view the USG documents he stole and refused to give back. And by "travel" I mean to another location in the SDFL, which is probably much closer to his lawyers' offices.
Another federal judge would laugh at the irony and observe that the current arrangement presents no undue burden. Judge Cannon? Meh.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), supposedly a moderate Republican - an oxymoron - says that in a toss-up between Donald Trump and Joe Biden, she would vote for Joe Manchin.
"If it's a matchup between Biden and Trump, I know exactly where I'd go. I would go with, I would go with Joe Manchin."
Staunchly Republican, but not moderate. Any vote for a No Labels, third party, spoiler candidate, like the fossil-fueled Joe Manchin, would be a vote for Donald Trump. Moderate my ass.
If one needed to know how officially Neoliberal the UK government has become, look to Rishi Sunak.
Having nothing else to do, the Prime Minister has decided to limit the number of university graduates who major in "low value" degrees. He defines those as anything that doesn't lead to graduate school, an established profession, or starting a business which makes a lot of money. That is, he wants to make his choices everyone's choice. Give him a MAGA hat and T-shirt.
