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  1. It's not on this thread, but one of the others regarding the effective dissolution of the United States Department of Justice. It's infuriating and sad. It has never been a perfect institution, by any stretch of the imagination, but what Trump and his cronies are doing is fucking disgusting.
  2. California is likely not stupid enough to create an inference of racial gerrymandering, which is the problem here. And you have a Trump appointee and a GHWB appointee finding racial gerrymandering. It must be pretty blatant.
  3. Good shit. https://www.texastribune.org/2025/11/18/texas-redistricting-ruling-lawsuit-el-paso-court-2026-midterms/ “The public perception of this case is that it’s about politics,” U.S. Judge Jeffrey Brown, a Trump appointee, wrote in the ruling striking down the new lines. “To be sure, politics played a role in drawing the 2025 Map. But it was much more than just politics. Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map.” Yeah, it might not survive SCOTUS, but they'd have to rule by December 8, when candidates have to register. And they can't just do it on the shadow docket, I don't believe.
  4. You left out the asylums! All the claims to asylum!
  5. Also, because you, Joe Six Pack, can negotiate a better deal with the insurance companies, than I, worlds best businessman and POTUS can negotiate for you. Art. Of. The. Deal.
  6. Also, I'm not going to give the big bad insurance companies money. I'm going to give it to you. To give to the insurance companies.
  7. https://www.michaelcaseywwoolf.com/ He's an ordained pastor of American Baptist Churches USA, a denomination with which I was unfamiliar. It is essentially what was left of the Baptist polity after the Southern Baptist Convention left because of . . . wait for it . . . slavery.
  8. Very true. The DOJ/Trump's personal law firm, is in possession of the files. Whether he lawfully has the authority to direct their disclosure, he can assert it and is willing to do so in other contexts. It is actually less clear that Congress can order the DOJ to release investigation files.
  9. I have to believe that if there was a smoking gun against anyone, there would have been indictments and prosecutions. Epstein's original deal is fairly inexplicable with respect to federal involvement (I verily believe that state authorities tend to be more manipulable than federal in the case of child sexual abuse). Federal child sex abuse prosecutors are jihadists. They truly believe they are doing God's work (maybe they are), and Epstein was going to be and Maxwell was prosecuted in the aftermath. They didn't leave convictable sex offenders unprosecuted.
  10. CDC is an idiot. Seriously, though, if Sark missed something "big" like that, it was not unexplained to the AD and CDC under any circumstances, but especially with a coach that has a history of substance abuse. It may have been kept on the QT, down low, and very hush-hush because it was very personal. As in, man, I need to take some personal time to deal with Loreal or whatever, or my health.
  11. Especially if the cup size derives from polymeric substances.
  12. Fun piece from Wittes/Lawfare on this. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-situation--malevolence--incompetence--and-the-strange-case-of-lindsey-halligan Oh. ETA: Also like Wittes' conclusion here. All of this evil incompetence would be comical, except for the real world effects—incompetent evil being funny only in the movies. Because what is the point of all this abuse and rake-stomping? It is all intended to deploy the legal system to establish a falsehood, which is that James Comey lied to Congress eight years ago and then doubled down on that lie, and thus obstructed a congressional investigation, five years ago. And why is it important for the United States federal government to establish this lie as official truth? Because if Comey is not a liar, then a lot of things are true that aren’t allowed to be true—like, for example, that Donald Trump had, and may still have, an untoward relationship with Russia and its president that warranted serious investigation in 2017 and still warrants scrutiny today, that the Russia investigation and its progeny were not a witch hunt, that Trump has tried to rig the justice system from the earliest days of his presidency, and that an entire political movement has eagerly lied to itself, and to the public, to deny these reality. And that it has been doing so—however incompetently and malevolently—for eight years and counting. Just like Lindsey Halligan.
  13. Another kind of amusing thing. In the government's response to the motion to dismiss for selective/vindictive prosecution, they spun a factual narrative of Comey's communications with Richman and Richman' communications with the press. But it ignored the timing of the communications, that is when Richman was (and was not) a "special employee" of the FBI, and the fact that Richman's communications with the press were never anonymous and never reported as such. The magistrate judge's recitation of the facts strongly contradicts that. It doesn't really matter who is right on that (the magistrate is), but that it can be interpreted both ways strongly indicates reasonable doubt.
  14. He protects them by grabbing them by the pussy, Nance? Even these toadies that host on channels like Newsmax are increasingly giving the "what the actual fuck" face when presented with this nonsense.
  15. Also, the "new media" sphere of Twatter, etc. has to be confounding for someone whose job requires "image management" with the press and public. CDC can't credibly respond to every rumor that pops up on Twatter or Reddit or whatever. It's an impossible task for starts and would lend credibility when it's not deserved. I don't think Desmond Howard is particularly credible, but maybe him repeating a rumor that started with another journo, whatsherface, puts it above CDCs threshold.
  16. It seems that most elected officials aren't really privy to the outre plans of the Trump administration, except to the extent they require legislative action (which is not many, by definition). So, they know probably about as much as we do about Trump's plans to run for a third term. And yes, they'll sell their souls, the question is will there be a post-Trump future or what? Also, regardless of Trump's plans for a third term, I think it's becoming increasingly apparent that he will be dead or an artichoke by 2028.
  17. I think psychologically what you're talking about is "reprocessing trauma." The idea is you went through this as a child without the tools or support to process it and it comes back to you as an adult the same way. And one of the big bugbears on it is you feel it is somehow your fault. A counselor with experience in the area, and yeah, from what I have heard EMDR can be useful, helps you think through it as an adult.
  18. This is just scurrilous bullshit. A guy doesn't go from showing up at practices and team events shitfaced to controlling his drinking in a manner that he can coach games and hold press conferences stone-cold sober and clear-eyed.
  19. Read lots of things along this line that it's bad and at the FBI, too.
  20. Correct. The opinion, if anyone cares. https://media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/files/202212792.pdf This appeal arises from the federal convictions of Travis McMichael, Gregory McMichael, and William Bryan for their involvement in the tragic shooting death of Ahmaud Arbery. In Georgia state court, defendants were convicted of murder and other charges and given life sentences.1 Following their state trial, they were tried and convicted in federal court of interference with rights, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 245(b)(2)(B), and attempted kidnapping, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1201(a)(1). Because the Georgia prosecution and judiciary did its job here, I object on principle to federal charges, trial and conviction.
  21. I think we're talking wild, probably made up, bull shit.
  22. Dude, quit pussy footing around with innuendo. Lay it out on the table, including sources. If you're not willing to do that, then STFU.
  23. Not sure I'm a defender, per se. First, I think he's got next year, at least, to correct course. So we probably ought to get used to that. Second, I think he "deserves" that opportunity and may well seize it. If he were farther along in his contract, and his tenure, year six or seven, and more than a year removed from some pretty good seasons, I'd think this season might possibly be fire-worthy. I have a hard time conjuring fictional scenarios that might justify his firing for cause. I mean, I could just go wild on ketamine-fueled monkey orgies with Jeff Banks and Pole Assassin. Or a domestic violence situation. Who fucking knows. To some extent, I think personal issues that are legal and don't involve his moral turpitude should be mostly off-limits as "cause" for termination until the connection between personal issues and work performance becomes irrefutable and not a matter of wild-ass internet speculation. It's also part of my personality or constitution that I try not to overreact to adverse events.
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