Posts posted by TwiceHorn
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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:
What if I told you that there are FBI agents/DOJ officials who dislike Trump and this bullshit and deliberately made sure, at least as much as they could, that we could find Trump in the files, and get at that redacted text as much as possible, while pretending to redact that information to please their bosses?Or we can believe that dozens or hundreds of agents who work with PDF files every fucking day just absolutely whiffed something this simple in a case this high-profile?
Probably some truth to this. The one thing normal FBI agents are better at than your average cops, it's preparing evidence/a case for trial.
Even the feebs, if not the DOJ lawyers, should know how to produce flattened or image pdfs with proper redactions. They may well have sandbagged.
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54 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:Both the NYT and NBC reported within the hour that SCOTUS said “no” to turnip on the issue of National Guard troops in Illinois. No idea about the particulars, and of course this but a data point amidst fluidity,
Shadow docket decision on application to stay the trial court's injunction. Unsigned opinion for the Court, Kavanaugh concurring in judgment.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf
Alito and Thomas, of course, dissenting.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf#page=8
Gorsuch dissenting on separate grounds.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf#page=24
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56 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:
Didn't they do the same thing in the dotard's first term?
It's a common lawdog rookie mistake when producing documents.
Also don't send a redline version of a word doc to opposing counsel unless you intend to (the redlines really never go away unless you strip metadata).
Once you've seen the mistake made, it sticks with you.
Unless you're a bunch of fucktards hired by Trump.
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2 hours ago, ROFL BOX said:
That art looks like the box for LEGO's or a Revell "Snap Tite" model. Knowing his capabilities, Trump would fuck up aa kit with only 2 pieces & they wouldn't even be able to get them off the parts tree.
Didn't any of his idiot sycophants bother to say "Ummm... ¿sir?
"Battleships aren't really much of a thing anymore. It's all aircraft carriers & drones (aerial & submersibles) these days."
No, of course they didn't.
(shhhh... once he gets an idea, we don't wanna piss him off with actual logic."

I shit you not, when I first saw this I had to double check to see if I wasn't looking @ an article from The Onion (America's Finest News Source).What godawful room is that?
And does the Liberace estate know he has one of their pianos?
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1 minute ago, Dahobbs said:
Stop being dense. I don't care if he is deported. I really truly don't. But I absolutely know people should not be forced to stay in jail because ICE requested a hold. There is absolutely zero due process associated with that. Again, you could be arrested for a traffic violation tomorrow and ICE could request you be held indefinitely. Do you think that is proper? Do you think that is due process?
And they don't have a great record of accuracy in their determinations of who should be held or not.
Funny thing, though. The detention request does say its only 48 hours. So, if that were routinely followed, this would be less offensive. https://immigrantjustice.org/for-attorneys/resources/form-1-247a-immigration-detainer-sample/
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I don't think anyone's saying this guy shouldn't have been deported. That's not the issue here.
The tweet implies that if they's just honored the immigration hold, he wouldn't have committed murder.
So, people have offered legitimate reasons for not honoring immigration holds.
People have also questioned whether the narrative that this guy is a dangerous criminal is accurate, apart from any other bases for deportation.
And, if it's so important to deport criminals instead of making a public spectacle out of deporting otherwise innocent people, they could have sent a couple of guard people down from DC to pick this guy up. Or a couple of ordinary ICE agents.
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31 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
It is very depressing to see the ensouled and virtuous warhorse, even if Russian, destroyed by the sterile and anodyne FPV drone. Like the flower of French nobility falling to arrows loosed by coarse English yeomen at Avignon.
One more reason to despise the Kremlin.
Fuck the French nobility, but that horse shit is cruel, evil even.
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That's a bit of a straw man.
The premise is that this guy is a dangerous criminal and should have been detained by ICE, else he wouldn't have committed a murder.
The first part is debatable until after he committed the murder. Whether an ICE detainer would have stopped it is also speculation. All of it an amazing application of hindsight bias, like most bail decisions that come under fire.
And we're not talking about whether the guy should have been deported, vel non.
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19 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:
Clearly much better, and it all worked out so well. I didn’t realize they were just following policies. There should be a policy where illegals immigrants are not allowed to shoot people after being let out of jail for the seventh time. Fairfax needs to look into that.
Immigration holds, by their very terms, are only supposed to last 48 hours.
Not at all clear that this would have prevented it. Seems like he went home and shot a family member.
A lot like second-guessing bail decisions.
An interesting note not reported in that article, there apparently was a mental-health warrant issued for his arrest shortly after his release, but apparently last only eight hours.
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The real story on his prior charges, not filtered through ICE or right-wing Twitter.
https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/12/19/man-charged-with-murder-for-fatal-reston-shooting/
According to online court records, Morales-Ortez had previously been charged with six different crimes, though the charges were later dropped in each case.
Among other cases, he was arrested in June 2020 as a 17-year-old for the June 23, 2019 murder of Jose Lorenzo Guillen Mejia, a 24-year-old Reston resident whose body was found on the footpath behind Hunters Wood Plaza.
After more than a year in jail, Morales-Ortez was ultimately released from custody and the charges against him were dropped in 2021 when “it became clear that he was ultimately not the perpetrator,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office spokesperson Laura Birnbaum says.
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Most recently, Morales-Ortez was arrested on Sept. 14 on charges of malicious wounding and brandishing for an incident that occurred two days earlier, online court records show. The charges were dropped on Dec. 15 — the day before this week’s fatal shooting — because prosecutors had “insufficient evidence to move forward” with the case, according to Birnbaum.
“The victim told police that they had moved out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings, regardless of timing,” she told FFXnow. “Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward.”
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told WJLA that it had sought to detain Morales-Ortez prior to the incident, claiming that he’s a native of El Salvador illegally residing in the United States.
A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told FFXnow that, without a court-issued warrant, the jail had no grounds to keep him in custody, but ICE could’ve picked Morales-Ortez up upon his release.
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4 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:Is there anything more obsolete in modern warfare than a battleship?
Yeah, the need for anything bigger than a DDG is highly questionable. The Ticonderoga class CG, now obsolescent, was originally considered a DDG and is to be replaced by more Burkes.
Cruiser-class replacements have been canceled twice.
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On 12/18/2025 at 5:15 PM, 956 Worldwide said:The logical response to that is “refusing to charge people for crimes and then letting them go do more” is a basic failure of governance.
Well, that tweet doesn't mention the guy's immigration status. If he has no status, he can be deported on that basis alone. No criminal charges or convictions necessary.
If he has some status, depending on what it is, he can only be deported upon conviction of a crime.
"He's been charged for seven crimes since 2020" . . , ok, where are the convictions?
Now, I suppose you could argue that already deportable immigrants should be prioritized once they've racked up a few criminal charges, but as far as I know, charges alone are not the basis for deportation.
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8 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:
Nah--this won't get to SCOTUS anytime soon. By the time it gets to the, it'll be the Newsom Administration's problem.
If it did, it would be a helluva thing.
Takings have been a big Bundy-wing conservative shibboleth for a while. The cognitive dissonance on the court would be audible from here. Not that that would stop them from ruling in Trump's favor.
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Didn't see it posted anywhere, but the Milwaukee judge, Dugan, was convicted on one felony count of obstructing federal agents. She was acquitted on the misdemeanor count.
Appeal incoming.
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8 minutes ago, Sawbonz said:
This is just dumb. It is nowhere close to 9B the assertion is absurd on its face. That number was picked, and placed as it was in the CBS headline the way it was, and posted here by GRU, to fan anti Somali hatred and resentment. Don’t fall for the banana in the tailpipe
Yep, it's like a lot of things Trump. Somewhere buried in all the bullshit, there's a nugget of truth.
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