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  1. It's a perfect microcosm of MAGA. Ostensibly, the upright citizens of those cities would be in arms about their horrific crime rates and begging Trump to send troops and the FBI to "take back their cities." But it's not about crime, it's almost never about crime.
  2. 1700 in 19 states. That's fewer than 100 toy soldiers per state. Impressive!
  3. The company's statement said that under the terms of the deal, the government has agreed to purchase 433.3 million primary shares of Intel common stock at $20.47 per share, equivalent to a 9.9% stake in the company. The government will have no board representation or other "governance or information rights," according to the statement, and the government agreed to vote with the company's board on matters requiring shareholder approval, with limited exceptions. https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5509673/trump-says-us-government-will-take-stake-intel I'm not sure what the deal is, really. I guess the gubmint is getting something. But it's not likely Intel's stock price is going to improve anytime soon, and certainly not as a result of domestic manufacturing unless the stock market starts to value something other than short-term earnings. Also, this isn't going to work as any kind of ongoing policy shift. Intel is only doing this because it's in deep shit. Conditioning grants on equity surrenders means no one will take any grants.
  4. Meanwhile. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/21/jh-campbell-coal-power-plant-michigan-trump-administation
  5. One of the better written pieces I've ever seen on ESPN.
  6. That furriner wants your cookie, mate.
  7. Does the transcript get into the quid pro quo for her testimony?
  8. Yeah, like you don't generally release investigation materials, a conventional US government or state doesn't advertise or crow about criminal investigations, other than to announce them, maybe. This government? Maybe not so much, if one is actually ongoing. The target of such an investigation is free to talk/complain about it, although it's usually not in their interest to do so. But people like Schiff and James, and Comey, Clapper, et al., who don't really have much exposure, might well be speaking out about it.
  9. No dammit, it's because they removed the barrel full of darkies that the cracker was minding.
  10. Haha, awesome Judge Berman. Take some performative bullshit designed to place blame on judges -- again -- and throw it back in the fat fuckin turd's face, along with Blondi and fucking guy Patel.
  11. Not sure inheriting a painting company puts you on third. In some cases maybe, but more like safe at first. Democrats do have to own doing very little for the Jameses of the world. Neither have Republicans, though, other than owning the libz. It's Trump's talking point. He thinks it's a bad thing.
  12. He probably is, but getting out from under a performative lege, governor and BOR was a high priority, I'm sure.
  13. Bringing this back to earth, I see that Mazda is making a 3.0 inline six. Those are getting rare these days, even among bimmers. Kind of disappointing numbers, though. https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a43975258/2024-mazda-cx-90-inline-six-engine/
  14. Well, Dallas has more murders ytd (113) than DC (101). So does Houston (112 through May).
  15. Further to this, Royce Lamberth, Longhorn of the DC District Court, found that Bolton probably did disclose information in violation of at least his confidentiality agreement, if not classified information per se. In June 2020, five years and two months ago. I don't suppose limitations can be interposed as a defense to a search warrant, but it's going to make an indictment problematic. Rap/ride and all that. Don't have much pity for Bolton, but the tactics are obnoxious as fuck.
  16. Well, let's also remember that Kash Patel can't issue a search warrant unilaterally. It had to be signed off by a federal judge. The District of Maryland only has one Trump appointee, but it's usually Magistrate Judges that sign off on warrants, and one could be a sleeper agent. Possibly more likely is that someone lied to secure the warrant. Ironically, it would seem any charges here would be related to mishandling of classified information. And the statute of limitations on that is five years and Bolton was out of government by 2020 at the latest.
  17. Back to the Trump civil fraud appeal. The opinion(s) are a divided mess. Being a civil case, AG James is free to appeal it to the ultimate NY court of appeals, which she has vowed to do. Looking at it further, I don't think the NY court of appeals analysis will hold up on further appeal. It doesn't make any sense. On one hand, it says it's an unconstitutional fine or penalty in violation of the 8th Amendment. That's something you find when an award is properly calculated, but the statutory scheme that allows it is over-generous or over-punitive, or as applied to the particular facts and damage award, it's just excessive. It's not something you hold when there are simple errors in the damage calculation. On the other hand, the ruling says the disgorgement penalty was miscalculated, or relied on two things, the Old Post Office lease and the Ferry Point golf course operating agreement, where fraud wasn't proven or proven adequately. That would have knocked the award down by $195M by the court of appeals' own calculation. When damages are miscalculated, or reliant on some element that isn't proper or proven, you remand to the trial court for a recalculation or retrial on those issues. But that's obviously not what they did here. They should have either remitted the disgorgement by the $195M or sent it back to Engoron to do so. I don't think that's going to survive further appeal. Notably, the court of appeals did affirm all other aspects of the judgment, including the injunctive portions where Trump can't own a business chartered in NY. It's possible that the further appeal undoes that, too, but it seems rather unlikely.
  18. Is it really a rebranding if you don't change the word mark?
  19. And knock the fuck out of some Trumpkins on the way to the polls.
  20. I might argue that Cracker Barrel is a strong enough brand that everyone knows what it is. So there's no need for Cletus and the barrel o darkies. It's not like they're starting from scratch and need to inform people what they are.
  21. Well, then, how do the clerks and young attorneys become seasoned attorneys? It's incumbent on us to know our arguments and the counter-arguments. And that's a skill that's honed by doing. If the young and inexperienced aren't doing, I don't know how they'll ever become experienced. I've never been surprised by opposing counsel's argument, sometimes their factual assertions, but rarely or never the argument itself. Maybe it's because I've spent most of my life in federal courts, where the written argument is 90% of it. I can see a lot more surprise in Texas state court, where briefing gets ignored in favor of oral argument.
  22. What an immense turd that guy is.
  23. Some background. Cracker Barrel is changing its logo from this: To this: And MAGA is absolutely losing its shit, calling the above woke. I always thought the barrel was full of crackers, but I guess it must have been full of darkies. Or maybe it's the fact that Cracker Barrel actually treats its LGBTQ employees like human beings, which, of course, has nothing to do with the logo.
  24. Well, I consider having a law that is alternately enforced or not enforced, according to whim of administration to be fucked up and symbolic of a legal scheme that is in bad need of reform. But it's not the biggest fucked up thing, no, you're right there. It appears that a lot of the world is pretty similar to the US, though, misdemeanor first offense, often not enforced, and harsher penalties for repeat offenders. https://www.hsdl.org/?view&did=829757
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