Good news: Fani Willis can remain on the Georgia election interference case, as long as Nathan Wade is removed.
This is a victory for Willis; it means the case against Trump will continue.
The highly anticipated ruling follows a contentious, monthslong disqualification effort spearheaded by Donald Trump.
Just bought tickets to see Dweezil Zappa, he is starting his new tour in Phoenix on August 1. This tour is the Rox(postroph)Y tour, with selections from Apostrophe and Roxy and Elsewhere albums.
Woo!
The only defense that DJT can summon is a contrived “Deep State witch hunt” and Presidential Immunity claims.
Beyond that, he got nothin’ and the evidence is piling up against him.
re: #2 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The only defense that DJT can summon is a contrived “Deep State witch hunt” and Presidential Immunity claims.
Beyond that, he got nothin’ and the evidence is piling up against him.
His best defense so far is time, as in he can’t be convicted if the case never makes it to trial.
re: #3 Targetpractice
His best defense so far is time, as in he can’t be convicted if the case never makes it to trial.
He also can’t be convicted if he’s dead, so he should save us all the time and money. ///
Bologna, mayo, American cheese, and tomatoes on Brioche bread doesn’t pair well.
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
Bologna, mayo, American cheese, and tomatoes on Brioche bread doesn’t pair well.
That sounds like a really good lunch, actually.
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
Bologna, mayo, American cheese, and tomatoes on Brioche bread doesn’t pair well.
I think the taste & mouth feel would be better without the cheese.
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
Bologna, mayo, American cheese, and tomatoes on Brioche bread doesn’t pair well.
you needed to test that theory?
This is wild. The first sentence of the paper. Everyone involved needs to be let go. @sciencedirect The point of scientific publishing has completely been lost. https://t.co/xkpt31YleA pic.twitter.com/VLUr5Xqc64
— Life After My Ph.D. (@LifeAfterMyPhD) March 14, 2024
re: #10 Dangerman
you needed to test that theory?
My go to comfort food is white bread with bologna, cheese and catsup. I thought I would go upscale today. The flavor of the Brioche is throwing me off. I choked it down, definitely would have tasted better if it was made with love. Macadamia nut cookie with white chocolate chunks as dessert.
just a bunch of lying liars
this one, the gofundme of the promise of trickle down economics
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) “boasted shortly after he began soliciting private donations for his controversial migrant busing program that there would likely ‘be no cost to the state’ given the outpouring of support from concerned citizens across the country,” CNN reports.
“But after nearly two years of fundraising to offset the program’s costs, Abbott’s operation has collected less than half of 1% of the roughly $150 million spent on busing migrants to sanctuary cities.”
re: #12 Shropshire Slasher
My go to comfort food is white bread with bologna, cheese and catsup. I thought I would go upscale today. The flavor of the Brioche is throwing me off. I choked it down, definitely would have tasted better if it was made with love. Macadamia nut cookie with white chocolate as dessert.
i would never shame someone else’s food preferences…but…
i knew there was something wrong with you ;-) (said completely in fun)
bologna, which is already adulterated meat needs rye. whole wheat in a pinch
and mustard. definitely not catsup. or worse mayo
and for heaven’s sake, no cheese
just one danger’s opinion
off to go meet a client
re: #5 Shropshire Slasher
Bologna, mayo, American cheese, and tomatoes on Brioche bread doesn’t pair well.
mortadella and a nice hard cheese would go fine with some tomatoes and mayo on brioche
re: #7 Dangerman
I encourage Paxton to devote his time 24-7 to a crusade against smut.
re: #13 Dangerman
just a bunch of lying liars
this one, the gofundme of the promise of trickle down economics
He assumed that everyone in Texas is as big of a racist shitbag as he is. Unfortunately for him, there are still some actual humans left.
re: #16 jaunte
I encourage Paxton to devote his time 24-7 to a crusade against smut.
It’ll keep him occupied until his trial begins next month.
re: #17 Nerdy Fish
He assumed that everyone in Texas is as big of a racist shitbag as he is. Unfortunately for him, there are still some actual humans left.
Unfortunately for us, a majority of those allowed to vote in Texas are racist POS like him.
re: #17 Nerdy Fish
He assumed that everyone in Texas is as big of a racist shitbag as he is. Unfortunately for him, there are still some actual humans left.
I’m a bit more of a cynic, I think it’s more a case that Ironside’s buddies in the private sector have been so successful as “capitalists” that there simply isn’t much money left in the hands of the unwashed masses to “donate” to the cause.
re: #7 Dangerman
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hey ken, do think it was texan ‘children’ using all that bandwidth?
The puritanical right’s morale crusades are always in the name of “the children,” as though Pornhub was shipping every kid in the state of Texas a computer or laptop with a web browser set to their site and forcing “the children” to view porn.
re: #20 Targetpractice
I’m a bit more of a cynic, I think it’s more a case that Ironside’s buddies in the private sector have been so successful as “capitalists” that there simply isn’t much money left in the hands of the unwashed masses to “donate” to the cause.
The percentage of Texans who despise Hispanics is tiny. Our neighbors are nice, our lawn mowers are nice, even if they understand just enough English to do the job. Yes, they hate the mythical migrant, but they haven’t met one.
re: #21 Targetpractice
I think they’ve settled on this as a sneaky way to make their male voter base tenser and more susceptible to agitation.
re: #23 jaunte
I think they’ve settled on this as a sneaky way to make their male voter base tenser and more susceptible to agitation.
“Save the children!” is their battle cry against transgenders while one child abuse case after the other piles up, all perpetrated by upstanding hetero pillars of the community.
Remember when ‘sleep with the fishes’ was a bad thing?
perfectsquish.com
Originalism except for the Bill of Rights I guess
NEW: Supreme Court declines to lift ban on Texas college campus drag show. No dissents/no explanation:
nbcnews.com
File under “Well, that’s gonna leave a mark”:
As usual, @waltermasterson pulls no punches! #justicefornex pic.twitter.com/mChiMVTldW
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) March 15, 2024
re: #12 Shropshire Slasher
My go to comfort food is white bread with bologna, cheese and catsup. I thought I would go upscale today. The flavor of the Brioche is throwing me off. I choked it down, definitely would have tasted better if it was made with love. Macadamia nut cookie with white chocolate chunks as dessert.
Cream cheese, bacon, banana and lettuce. On challah. (since cooking the bacon is time-consuming, bac-o-bits are an acceptable substitute.) Berries on the side.
Democrats Are Hemorrhaging Support with Voters of Color
This will be the big narrative now - Democrats are losing the minority vote that they require to win. No reasons given for why this is but no matter. So no more on Biden’s age but on how Biden just barely holds any minority vote and many of them simply see no reason to vote at all.
Of course the same polls show Trump losing a lot more white voters but we will not see any discussion of that.
re: #29 sagehen
Cream cheese, bacon, banana and lettuce. On challah. (since cooking the bacon is time-consuming, bac-o-bits are an acceptable substitute.) Berries on the side.
Ham / Swiss /Rye - spicy brown mustard and mayo.
re: #27 Teukka
It’s fun to hear a school board being confronted like that, but they don’t actually believe any of the religious rules they recite. Those are to control the people below them.
The Right’s War On America’s Children
oliverexplains.com
“…The right wing in America killed 16-year-old Nex Benedict. They may not have personally bullied this child or even known of Nex’s existence, but the conservative movement’s collective decision to demonize transgender and non-binary people - not a new position for the intolerant - led to the hostile culture that precipitated Nex’s death.
It is not an isolated case. The conservative movement has had America’s children in its crosshairs for decades and it long predates the openly crude and cruel rhetoric of Donald Trump. Trump wasn’t around in politics when Ronald Reagan singled out Black mothers for his attacks on “welfare queens.” It wasn’t Trumpism that has pushed Republicans in Congress and the White House to push for cuts to health care, school lunch programs, and education.
re: #11 Teukka
LLMs are the destruction of the academy, but some are in denial.
re: #30 silverdolphin
Democrats Are Hemorrhaging Support with Voters of Color
This will be the big narrative now - Democrats are losing the minority vote that they require to win. No reasons given for why this is but no matter. So no more on Biden’s age but on how Biden just barely holds any minority vote and many of them simply see no reason to vote at all.
Of course the sname polls show Trump losing a lot more white voters but we will not see anydiscussion of that.
Biden’s not just getting older, he’s getting whiter!
re: #12 Shropshire Slasher
My go to comfort food is white bread with bologna, cheese and catsup. I thought I would go upscale today. The flavor of the Brioche is throwing me off. I choked it down, definitely would have tasted better if it was made with love. Macadamia nut cookie with white chocolate chunks as dessert.
Brioche is sweet. I made ham and cheese sandwiches with it and they were not good at all.
re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅
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It’s funny because he fits in as well with that crowd as he does with America’s greatest presidents or the world’s best business men or women.
re: #37 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Brioche is sweet. I made ham and cheese sandwiches with it and they were not good at all.
disagree, brioche with roast cured pork and honey mustard…mmmm
re: #30 silverdolphin
Democrats Are Hemorrhaging Support with Voters of Color
This will be the big narrative now - Democrats are losing the minority vote that they require to win. No reasons given for why this is but no matter. So no more on Biden’s age but on how Biden just barely holds any minority vote and many of them simply see no reason to vote at all.
Of course the same polls show Trump losing a lot more white voters but we will not see any discussion of that.
Another retread from 2012, when Obama was increasingly doomed in November because black voters who were “key” to his election 4 years prior were abandoning him in droves because (according to Beltway pundits) he’d failed to deliver on “racial justice” and those voters were losing faith in him. And, as we all remember, those pundits were proven absolutely right when Romney won in a landslide as black voters either switched to him or stayed home by the millions in “protest.”
re: #33 jaunte
And just as an aside: how many here buy the explanation that Nex Benedict killed themself with an OD?
Minus one (me) anyway….
Total knee replacement surgery day 15. Graduated from walker to cane at the end of last week and now am approved for totally unassisted walking. Had my last in home PT appointment today. Achieved a Range of Motion of 105%. First PT appointment at the clinic is Tuesday. Therapist took me out to walk outside on the sidewalk and in the yard - she was pleased that I didn’t fall on my ass. So was I. Haven’t had a single fall. Scar looks much less gnarly and seems to have closed up completely at this point. It’s still a visible ridge down the middle of the knee, but according to the PT, it looks really good for being only two weeks post-op. Still icing and elevating. Pain management is ibuprofen and herbal supplements. Probably won’t be cleared to drive until my f/u appt with the Ortho.
Considering how shitty I felt the first two days post-op, I’m feeling better about knee number two later this year.
re: #41 Jay C
And just as an aside: how many here buy the explanation that Nex Benedict killed themself with an OD?
Minus one (me) anyway….
Just a little too f*cking convenient, that story. Wonder who got how much for that one to come up?
re: #37 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Brioche is sweet. I made ham and cheese sandwiches with it and they were not good at all.
A good sourdough will save the day.
Trump v Biden: who’s leading the polls?
This is the most recent aggrehator of polls. And it shows something not mentioned anywhere: a bug shift towards Biden since the end of February.
There has been a 4% shift towards Biden in national polling in just a couple of weeks. Let’s hope this continues.
re: #29 sagehen
Cream cheese, bacon, banana and lettuce. On challah. (since cooking the bacon is time-consuming, bac-o-bits are an acceptable substitute.) Berries on the side.
Uhm… What? Banana, bacon and cheese?
re: #44 Semper Fi
A good sourdough will save the day.
I have a locally made whole wheat sourdough loaf in the fridge. My day is saved.
re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
disagree, brioche with roast cured pork and honey mustard…mmmm
Honey mustard is sweet. That goes with sweeter breads.
re: #33 jaunte
From a thousand feet up, kids exist to reproduce the status quo.
If you’re asshole of any political stripe, you take this idea as so important that you can discount that kids are people with their own perspective and context, and simply view the kids being different and loud as “ingratitude” or “naivety” as opposed to a direct consequence of the world you made for those kids to live in (and the contradictions you didn’t notice, or chose to omit).
But if you’re a conservative, you’re working with decades and decades of emphasis on “culture war” such that if your kids aren’t reproducing your values, it’s offensive to God, rebellion against your natural authority, and a harbinger of various secular and sacred apocalypses. The correct way to make a child is to capture it within your ideology totally, and failure is not just a difference of opinion but the extinction of their worth.
I’ve lived forever with the musing that “the real problem” is simply not hitting kids enough and everything else extends from that point. You beat your child to be compliant; you expect your fellows to similarly beat their kids. The vast arrayed inferiors of the domestic and global community cannot be trusted to discipline their children correctly, so there must be enforcement structures that permit conservatives to either perform proper punishment or simply excise Bad Types Of Children.
The failure conditions of dead children, discarded children, and permanently damaged children are spillage. Dead kids that probably wouldn’t sign on to reproduce their preferred hierarchy and ideology are mourned not as people, but as failure to capture that value…and if the child in question had no perceived value then their death is a unremarkable as weather.
(The inverse proposition of this is a pronatalism that insists that every child must be given the chance to be useful to the hierarchy…which does not mean the child should be unconditionally loved or allowed to individuate, but instead must be thoroughly pinned to their owner’s ideology. This produces anti-abortion rules, but also Quiverfull, but also trafficking babies for adoption.)
re: #42 dharmamark
Total knee replacement surgery day 15. Graduated from walker to cane at the end of last week and now am approved for totally unassisted walking. Had my last in home PT appointment today. Achieved a Range of Motion of 105%. First PT appointment at the clinic is Tuesday. Therapist took me out to walk outside on the sidewalk and in the yard - she was pleased that I didn’t fall on my ass. So was I. Haven’t had a single fall. Scar looks much less gnarly and seems to have closed up completely at this point. It’s still a visible ridge down the middle of the knee, but according to the PT, it looks really good for being only two weeks post-op. Still icing and elevating. Pain management is ibuprofen and herbal supplements. Probably won’t be cleared to drive until my f/u appt with the Ortho.
Considering how shitty I felt the first two days post-op, I’m feeling better about knee number two later this year.
Hey! Good on ya.
re: #42 dharmamark
They don’t call it (P)ain (T)orture for nothing. My best wishes to you.
re: #42 dharmamark
Great news.
Joint replacement is no fun, but it’s worth it to get increased mobility and reduced pain.
Keep up with the PT!
“My dad used to beat me all the time and I turned out just fine!”
Tussle on a subway, man shot in head, no charges will be filed. Sounds terrifying.
I would like to take a couple minutes to remind my fellow Lizards that it is still Caucus/Primary season. There has not been a convention yet. Yes we do know who the contenders from each party are and yes they are most likely the nominees for their individual parties. So please do not pin too much on these “polls” that are being taken currently.
re: #55 PhillyPretzel ✅
I would like to take a couple minutes to remind my fellow Lizards that it is still Caucus/Primary season. There has not been a convention yet. Yes we do know who the contenders from each party are and yes they are most likely the nominees for their individual parties. So please do not pin too much on these “polls” that are being taken currently.
You’re really bad at the “doom” part of this whole “doomscrolling” thing, aren’t you?///
Texans scramble for VPNs after adult sites go dark: Here are some great ones https://t.co/fE9zvRhZjf by @BradChacos
— PCWorld (@pcworld) March 15, 2024
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
“My dad used to beat me all the time and I turned out just fine!”
I’m gonna steal that one.
re: #56 Nerdy Fish
You’re really bad at the “doom” part of this whole “doomscrolling” thing, aren’t you?///
Yeah, how am I supposed to live in a state of constant anxiety and fear if people keep pointing out the flaws in the “BIDEN IS DOOMED!!!” narrative?
////
Yet you let children be slaughtered in their classrooms. What a guy.
— Ron Fancy (@RonFancy) March 14, 2024
Plenty of quality responses to Kens boasting…like this one.
re: #57 Captain Ron
Texans scramble for VPNs after adult sites go dark
It’s just playing whack-a-mole but Ken Paxton can sell it as a Triumph of Decency
re: #29 sagehen
Cream cheese,bacon,banana and lettuce.On challah.
You’re not going to heaven.
My goto comfort food is mac and cheese.
re: #63 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
You’re not going to heaven.
My goto comfort food is mac and cheese.
homemade mac and cheese
re: #49 The Ghost of a Flea
Ghost is correct.
After my oldest sister and her husband became “Born Again” they went all in with Dobson and The Pearls “Beat the shit out of your kids” crap for the slightest offense.
End result—one niece drank herself to death. The other nephews and nieces are all dysfunctional but PRAISE JAY-ZUSS they’re hard core Republicans…
So, back from the outpatient surgery and all my lithos (left side) have been tripso’ed.
The nice nursing assistant who wheeled me to the car had not registered to vote, so I peeled a VR form off the back of my fogy- med clipboard. This is the year to let our fanaticism fly, kiddos.
re: #11 Teukka
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I’ve asked my brother, and my friends who have PhDs if they ever read their dissertation subsequent to receiving their PhD.
The answer has always been a quick no.
re: #70 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Oh, not some cheeses.
True…ish. Maybe not actual blue cheese but Gorgonzola with pasta? Mmmmmmm.
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
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Plenty of quality responses to Kens boasting…like this one.
Pornography of any kind is immoral, and they would ban it completely if they could. Killing children, on the other hand, is just the cost of a free society.
Nathan Wade has resigned, so the Georgia case against Trump will proceed.
re: #15 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
mortadella and a nice hard cheese would go fine with some tomatoes and mayo on brioche
mortadella is the bee’s knees. I think it’s unpopular because it sounds like it’s latin for “death flower” or something.
Has Navarro settled into his upper bunk yet?
re: #76 steve_davis
mortadella is the bee’s knees. I think it’s unpopular because it sounds like it’s latin for “death flower” or something.
Doesn’t it also have cute little blobs of fat, and chunks of peppercorns in it? I’ve sliced a few pounds in my day, but don’t recall ever eating it.
re: #45 silverdolphin
Trump v Biden: who’s leading the polls?
This is the most recent aggrehator of polls. And it shows something not mentioned anywhere: a bug shift towards Biden since the end of February.
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There has been a 4% shift towards Biden in national polling in just a couple of weeks. Let’s hope this continues.
and there are trillions of bugs in the world, many citizens here in the U.S. If we get THEIR vote, this will be a shoe-in, or even possibly a shoe-fly in.
re: #58 Shropshire Slasher
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Britain has really managed to beclown itself militarily. They’ve got ships with no ship-to-ground capability because they couldn’t afford it. They’ve got their Minister of Defense riding around in a jet with no anti-jamming or military-level hardware “because the MOD couldn’t afford that when they purchased the plane two years ago.” You want to at least provide the illusion of being a world power? That comes with a price.
re: #79 wrenchwench
Doesn’t it also have cute little blobs of fat, and chunks of peppercorns in it? I’ve sliced a few pounds in my day, but don’t recall ever eating it.
and pistachios. it’s delicious grilled up with cheese on some good white bread.
re: #41 Jay C
And just as an aside: how many here buy the explanation that Nex Benedict killed themself with an OD?
Minus one (me) anyway….
I can believe the kid swallowed the pills. It was still murder.
re: #61 Eclectic Cyborg
You know who’s really good at vpn’s? Kids.
re: #86 steve_davis
and pistachios. it’s delicious grilled up with cheese on some good white bread.
I think I worked in the last deli in town that sold it. It may have been discontinued with the head cheese. Loyal customers for that stuff, but fewer and fewer of them.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
The very young RN who chatted me through the recovery room had a great name—her father was a Stevie Nicks freak. So this goes out to Nurse Rhiannon.
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I’ve been obsessed with this clip since I found it a few years ago. I’ve always preferred live performances to the records for the most part, and this version is usually Exhibit A.
re: #81 steve_davis
and there are trillions of bugs in the world, many citizens here in the U.S. If we get THEIR vote, this will be a shoe-in, or even possibly a shoe-fly in.
Yeah, I wrote that up after a short night of 4 hours sleep and then 3 hours of taking care of the grandkid. Amazing I got anything correct (The “u” is right next to the “i” is my excuse). Got her down for a nap and slept 90 minutes an fel muh bettre ;-)
I am glad they saved the kitties!
Cara Delevingne’s $7million mansion in Los Angeles has been left virtually destroyed after a huge blaze tore apart the property in the early hours of Friday morning.
The 35-year-old British supermodel - who has overcome some personal struggles recently - was not staying at the residence at the time of the dramatic blaze as she is currently in the UK playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret on London’s West End.
After fearing that her two cats had perished in the fire, Cara took to her Instagram on Friday to confirm that her pets had in fact been saved by firefighters.
re: #90 Mattand
I’ve been obsessed with this clip since I found it a few years ago. I’ve always preferred live performances to the records for the most part, and this version is usually Exhibit A.
The comments on YT are manic—all the Rhiannons came out of the forest.
re: #92 Shropshire Slasher
She’s also an actress, and she’s 31
re: #92 Shropshire Slasher
Yeah, the house is a total loss. At least they saved her cats though, and she’s grateful about that.
FWIW, Pence said on Fox News that he’s not going to endorse Trump for POTUS.
re: #96 JC1
FWIW, Pence said on Fox News that he’s not going to endorse Trump for POTUS.
Flying ketchup.
re: #77 Decatur Deb
Has Navarro settled into his upper bunk yet?
Isn’t he supposed to be turning himself in on Tuesday?
re: #99 Hecuba’s daughter
Isn’t he supposed to be turning himself in on Tuesday?
I thought today—could be wrong.
re: #87 Decatur Deb
I can believe the kid swallowed the pills. It was still murder.
Driven to suicide by the appalling and cruel treatment they received at the hands of their fellow students.
While Sotomayor goes out on tour to profess her friendship with the other justices…
Supreme Court declines to lift ban on Texas college campus drag show, with NO DISSENTS.
I guess it’s definitely March—the sun is peeking through the clouds and there’s a thunderstorm with a lot of rain rolling through right now.
re: #11 Teukka
What is the sentence?
re: #11 Teukka
“Certainly, here is a possible introduction for your topic:”
re: #92 Shropshire Slasher
I am glad they saved the kitties!
She has historically had a tremendous support group that included Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Margot Robbie, Rhianna and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So hoping she has some of that now. Always tough to have a house burn down, no matter how expensive it is.
re: #106 silverdolphin
She has historically had a tremendous support group that included Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Margot Robbie, Rhianna and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. So hoping she has some of that now. Always tough to have a house burn down, no matter how expensive it is.
She’s in London currently, doing a stage production of Cabaret (IIRC, she’s playing Sally Bowles). That’s gotta be a homeowner’s nightmare…your house burning down while you’re out of the country. Like you said, she’s got a good network of supportive friends.
re: #106 silverdolphin
She was in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets.
re: #102 Charles
While Sotomayor goes out on tour to profess her friendship with the other justices…
Supreme Court declines to lift ban on Texas college campus drag show, with NO DISSENTS.
and then….
I’m on the plane that’s taking me to Tahiti. When I checked in, the app said it was a full flight, but now that I’m aboard, I can see that my section is less than half full. Passengers have already taken advantage of that.
Flying can actually be pleasant when you’re not packed in like sardines.
CNN Business: The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
By some estimates, real estate commissions are expected to fall 25% to 50%, according to TD Cowen Insights. This will open up opportunities for alternative models of selling real estate that already exist but don’t have much market share, including flat-fee and discount brokerages.
No doubt they’ll figure out a way to make up for it with undisclosed rubber chicken fees. It’ll be interesting to see how all this shakes out, including whether it puts some headwinds against rising home prices.
re: #110 A hollow voice says: Abort SCOTUS
Enjoy the Flight. :)
re: #102 Charles
While Sotomayor goes out on tour to profess her friendship with the other justices…
Supreme Court declines to lift ban on Texas college campus drag show, with NO DISSENTS.
What a load.
Donald Trump’s supporters wanted to hang Mike Pence and it took him only three years to say, “ya I’m not gonna endorse him.”
Yes, Navarro gets to keep his shoelaces until the 19th.
nbcnews.com
re: #114 jaunte
Profiles In Courage, part 234,980
Blackhead is being sincere. I’ve seen his twitter feed.
Listen to Hitler’s speeches, he’s a brilliant man.
— Johannes Blackhead (@JohannesBlackh1) March 15, 2024
— Johannes Blackhead (@JohannesBlackh1) March 13, 2024
She presents a doomsday scenario - that Aileen Cannon might be able to accomplish. At trial, after all the evidence is heard by the jury, the defense usually asks for the case to be dismissed. A corrupt judge could apparently do just that, before the jury renders a verdict, and the prosecutor would have very little chance to appeal at all.
If so, perhaps the longer the trial is delayed the better.
re: #102 Charles
While Sotomayor goes out on tour to profess her friendship with the other justices…
Supreme Court declines to lift ban on Texas college campus drag show, with NO DISSENTS.
So what you’re saying is we now have effectively zero progressive support at SCOTUS?
re: #119 Eclectic Cyborg
So what you’re saying is we now have effectively zero progressive support at SCOTUS?
Right. And we’re supposed to shut up and like it, because the justices are all good friends.
re: #71 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
Isn’t that the point? Just like Twitter.
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probably why the goal of what they passed is pressure to sell it, not ban it
re: #121 Dangerman
probably why the goal of what they passed is pressure to sell it, not ban it
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to believe a US company would be any better at protecting users’ privacy.
re: #123 Charles
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to believe a US company would be any better at protecting users’ privacy.
exploiting user privacy is for capitalists not communists
just as baby Jesus intended
re: #123 Charles
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to believe a US company would be any better at protecting users’ privacy.
They’d be worse, because a US company would sell their data to the police in the name of preventing abortions.
re: #123 Charles
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to believe a US company would be any better at protecting users’ privacy.
at the moment i am neither for nor against this fiasco crusade
i am for accuracy.
it’s a ridiculously low standard for “the news media” i know, but here we are
re: #120 Charles
Right. And we’re supposed to shut up and like it, because the justices are all good friends.
It shows especially that the liberal ones are strong institutionalists (thus why we get Sotomayer haranguing us to be nicer). This case is under appeal in the 5th circuit. And the 5th has refused to overturn the ban until it hears the case. Thuse the apeal directly to the Court. So, I expect all the Justices want the case to procced as normal rather than insert the SCOTUS into the case now.
Gotta follow the process and not upset anything, especially since their votes would not have made a difference.
re: #111 dat_said
CNN Business: The 6% commission on buying or selling a home is gone after Realtors association agrees to seismic settlement
No doubt they’ll figure out a way to make up for it with undisclosed rubber chicken fees. It’ll be interesting to see how all this shakes out, including whether it puts some headwinds against rising home prices.
The Biden administration has talked about getting rid of “swipe fees,” that is, the interchange fees the merchant has to pay to the credit card processor. Here’s a dirty little secret—the infrastructure (at least in the USA) is *built out*. The fees are, for the most part, gravy. Basically, it’s a fee to be able to take plastic and it hovers around 3 percent.
I can’t find the details of the Biden proposal because the news is absolutely taken up with a discussion of finalization of a rule that capped late fees at $8 (down from an average of $32). This happened last week.
And another dirty secret: the collection apparatus for credit cards is also pretty much built out as well. It’s very elaborate and quite efficient.
I just go with a rule of: Corporations do not give a flying fuck about my interests.
And conduct my affairs accordingly.
re: #129 Eclectic Cyborg
I just go with a rule of: Corporations do not give a flying fuck about my interests.
And conduct my affairs accordingly.
That is a very accurate way to go through life.
re: #125 Nerdy Fish
They’d be worse, because a US company would sell their data to the police in the name of preventing abortions.
Not to the police. To third party groups that would use laws like Texas’ $10K bounty law to hunt down women and anyone who helped them get abortions.
re: #128 mmmirele
Similarly, most wireless providers will charge an activation fee between $20 and $35 when you set up service or add a line.
I can tell you from experience that it costs telecom companies PENNIES to activate a new device on a mobile network. The fees are just a profit booster.
re: #131 mmmirele
Not to the police. To third party groups that would use laws like Texas’ $10K bounty law to hunt down women and anyone who helped them get abortions.
I think “both” is an appropriate answer here. Giving it to the police would effectively give it to the government; I’m thinking in cases like the woman who was charged with seeking an abortion because of her Facebook messages, or Texas AG Ken Paxton’s ridiculous demands to see the records on all Texas transgender kids/teens who were treated out of state.
Only FOUR of Trump’s 44 former Cabinet officials have endorsed him.
His VP won’t endorse him.
It’s insane for any president to even have anything close to 44 Cabinet officials in one term.
He incompetent, insane, unfit, & his own former officials know that better than anyone.— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) March 15, 2024
re: #26 jaunte
the Court declined to issue an injunction pending appeal of the District Court’s order on a motion to dismiss (which was granted in part and denied in part). So did the 5th Circuit and the District Court. The case is far from over - in fact, it has barely begun.
re: #137 GlutenFreeJesus
I have said it before, Chef Jose Andres deserves a Noble Peace Prize.
re: #137 GlutenFreeJesus
José doing the work in Gaza.
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Let’s see if Space-X can stick the landing with a couple metric shit-tons of falafel.
re: #132 Eclectic Cyborg
Similarly, most wireless providers will charge an activation fee between $20 and $35 when you set up service or add a line.
I can tell you from experience that it costs telecom companies PENNIES to activate a new device on a mobile network. The fees are just a profit booster.
Companies charging excessive fees for services that essentially cost them nothing because WTF are you going to do about it? Oh, my!
‘Unlikely pair’ of justices join forces to fight ‘historic lows’ in Supreme Court approval
Talk about misreading the room.Trumpers will never listen to them. Liberals should not. This is not the right moment in history for Kumbaya.
Sotomayer needs to retire so we can get a younger Justice in place.
re: #72 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
True…ish. Maybe not actual blue cheese but Gorgonzola with pasta? Mmmmmmm.
tomorrow its mini gnocchi with fresh spinach and gorgonzola
re: #76 steve_davis
mortadella is the bee’s knees. I think it’s unpopular because it sounds like it’s latin for “death flower” or something.
ever since I had real italian mortar dealer, I can never eat American bologna sausage again.
re: #79 wrenchwench
Doesn’t it also have cute little blobs of fat, and chunks of peppercorns in it? I’ve sliced a few pounds in my day, but don’t recall ever eating it.
it also comes with pistachos.
re: #140 sizzzzlerz
Companies charging excessive fees for services that essentially cost them nothing because WTF are you going to do about it? Oh, my!
It’s the Ticketmaster racket.
re: #134 dat_said
Hat tip to all of you who predicted a victory dance and “I WINI!!!1!”
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re: #16 jaunte
That reminds me. The latest of “I never thought the leopards would eat my face” from Texas.
Did this guy really think Abbot would suffer the slightest deviancy from the faith?
I said half jokingly to a friend the other day that if some corporation could figure out how to charge us for the air we breathe, they’d be all over that shit.
Twitter is nuking every single post that mentions the name Hans Kristian Graebener, even in quotes. Everyone that posts it is getting hit. I’ve never seen sitewide censorship like this done specifically on behalf of a neo nazi.
re: #28 Joe Bacon ✅
So much of ‘The Right’s’ hatred of authoritarianism is based on envy. How they want the same power the people in that picture have.
re: #141 silverdolphin
‘Unlikely pair’ of justices join forces to fight ‘historic lows’ in Supreme Court approval
Talk about misreading the room.
Institutions by their very nature seek to preserve themselves.
It is why we humans invented them.
The downside is that change which is needed is usually delayed.
The real problem is the US Constitution, and we and others are projecting upon the USSC the failures of the Constitution.
A great many Americans look upon the Constitution as a religious document.
Some really do believe some hand of some god brought it about.
Others may skip the god part but still hold the Constitution as so holy that it cannot be changed.
This is just plain weird
The family of the late liberal Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg wants her name pulled off an award after the foundation in charge of doling it out named SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch among this year’s recipients…In addition to Musk and Murdoch, lifestyle icon Martha Stewart, actor Sylvester Stallone and financier Michael Milken are also recipients of the award.
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WHAT?WHAT?
An award to “honor brave, strong and resilient women who have dedicated their lives to create positive change in society” is being presented to four men. And a woman who is a felon.
The sponsoring organization? The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation, which seems to exist in name only, despite annual awards and “galas.”
Brendan V. Sullivan, Jr. is the award chair. Sullivan, 82, may be best known for defending U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North during the Iran-Contra scandal.
Chairing the event: Amy Baier, 46, is married to Bret Baier, Fox News chief political anchor. The Fondation president is attorney Matthew Umhofer, 50 (?), Los Angeles.
RBG made the inaugural presentation in October 2020. It was then called the Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Woman of Leadership Award…
That first award went to civic leader and philanthropist Agnes Gund.
2021, Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth the Second.
2022, Diane von Furstenberg
2023, Barbra Streisand
And now this.
Elon Musk, racist and antisemite
Martha Stewart, a felon
Michael Milken, a felon
Robert Murdoch, owner of the leading source of political disinformation in the United States
Sylvester Stallone, repeatedly accused of sexual assault
Just the people to be receive an award named for the Notorious RBG. Well, they got the notorious right.
Perhaps just as startling:
1. The Dwight D. Opperman Foundation filed its last IRS 990 form in 2020. Assets: $0. According to the Library of Congress, the Foundation donated $1,000,000 that year.
2. Someone registered the domain name for the Foundation in 2012. It is currently active, but the website has been “under construction” since 2021.
3. Surprise! Martha Stewart was a member of the 2023 awards committee! So was Stallone’s wife (h/t abtnatural.bsky.social).
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SCOTUS justices have guaranteed lifetime appointments. They are accountable to no one.
They can do say and do basically anything they want without repercussion.
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
SCOTUS justices have guaranteed lifetime appointments. They are accountable to no one.
They can do say and do basically anything they want without repercussion.
and their “ethics guidelines” are like the Pirates’ Code
re: #153 BeachDem
Disinformation is rolled out via many means.
The use of a person’s legacy to repackage some ideas/people/events/things is a classic of marketing.
re: #141 silverdolphin
‘Unlikely pair’ of justices join forces to fight ‘historic lows’ in Supreme Court approval
Talk about misreading the room.Trumpers will never listen to them. Liberals should not. This is not the right moment in history for Kumbaya.
Sotomayer needs to retire so we can get a younger Justice in place.
I’m constantly complaining about how Rachel Maddow makes a big show about being friends with Nicolle Wallace; “Look, even though she worked for the guy who got thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, and tried to get Palin elected as VP, we FRIENDS, see? No biggie!”
This, however?
Fuck. This.
Man, you just know if they’re going to take questions from the audience, there’s no in hell they’re not going to review them beforehand.
Really, really pissed off at Sotomayor over this. It is seriously fucked up that she can go on a literal buddy-buddy road trip with the woman who helped to criminalize women’s healthcare in the US.
re: #14 Dangerman
i would never shame someone else’s food preferences…but…
i knew there was something wrong with you ;-) (said completely in fun)bologna, which is already adulterated meat needs rye. whole wheat in a pinch
and mustard. definitely not catsup. or worse mayo
and for heaven’s sake, no cheesejust one danger’s opinion
off to go meet a client
but the Macadamia nut cookie with white chocolate restores my opinion
re: #156 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus
Disinformation is rolled out via many means.
The use of a person’s legacy to repackage some ideas/people/events/things is a classic of marketing.
The GOP have been doing that with MLK since the 80’s.
re: #154 Eclectic Cyborg
SCOTUS justices have guaranteed lifetime appointments. They are accountable to no one.
They can be impeached and removed.
Ok, so it’s been 219 years since the last Justice was impeached… but it is possible.
re: #65 Joe Bacon ✅
Ghost is correct.
After my oldest sister and her husband became “Born Again” they went all in with Dobson and The Pearls “Beat the shit out of your kids” crap for the slightest offense.
End result—one niece drank herself to death. The other nephews and nieces are all dysfunctional but PRAISE JAY-ZUSS they’re hard core Republicans…
And the ‘Beat the shit out of your kids’ is, most likely, the reason they became ‘Born Again’. Few people will pass up that sort of power.
Jesus weeps. Satan laughs.
re: #37 Yeah Sure WhatEVs
I guess that’s why brioche is usually suggested for bread pudding. I’m weird. I make bread pudding using leftover cake. Never tried it with actual bread.
mom update
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re: #137 GlutenFreeJesus
Saint Jose strikes again!! It feels as if he’s everywhere. A true angel.
Pence won’t endorse Trump but he will totally vote for him.
re: #157 Mattand
I’m constantly complaining about how Rachel Maddow makes a big show about being friends with Nicolle Wallace; “Look, even though she worked for the guy who got thousands of American soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians killed, and tried to get Palin elected as VP, we FRIENDS, see? No biggie!”
I’ll give Nicole Wallace a pass — the scales fell from her eyes when she tried to work with Sarah Palin, she’s just not the same woman she used to be.
re: #163 Patricia Kayden
I guess that’s why brioche is usually suggested for bread pudding. I’m weird. I make bread pudding using leftover cake. Never tried it with actual bread.
I made bread pudding with donuts once. I had to throw it out it was toooooooo sweet. My teeth hurt it was that sweet.
re: #163 Patricia Kayden
Or Challah. I am told that it makes a very good bread pudding.
re: #141 silverdolphin
Too late now. Biden absolutely has to win.
re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅
Or Challah. I am told that it makes a very good bread pudding.
It would indeed. Yum!
re: #169 PhillyPretzel ✅
Or Challah. I am told that it makes a very good bread pudding.
And French toast.
Sonia Sotomayor is a respected jurist, and has written many good opinions in her career on the Supreme Court. But in this, she is desperately misguided. She has the luxury of a lifetime appointment to the most powerful political institution in this country, a de facto Queen of America, a position of privilege that only nine people at a time enjoy. Her rights are secure. For those whose rights are being revoked one terrible Court decision at a time, though, it’s quite another matter. Even as a middle-age, middle-class heterosexual white man, since I am not an evangelical wingnut, I have to wonder how long it’s going to be before they start removing my rights. Civility is all well and good, when one has the luxury of civilized opposition.
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— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) March 15, 2024
re: #163 Patricia Kayden
I guess that’s why brioche is usually suggested for bread pudding. I’m weird. I make bread pudding using leftover cake. Never tried it with actual bread.
We at the Society for the Preservation of Literal-Mindedness refer to that as “Cake Pudding”.
re: #175 Decatur Deb
We at the Society for the Preservation of Literal-Mindedness refer to that as “Cake Pudding”.
I wonder what can be made of leftover pudding?
re: #173 Nerdy Fish
I wonder if this stupid dog and pony show is part of the hypothetical deal — 9-0 for disqualification in exchange for 9-0 for no immunity.
It’s exactly the kind of smarmy bullshit Roberts lives for.
re: #179 EPR-radar
I wonder if this stupid dog and pony show is part of the hypothetical deal — 9-0 for disqualification in exchange for 9-0 for no immunity.
It’s exactly the kind of smarmy bullshit Roberts lives for.
I’d be surprised if it wasn’t.
re: #55 PhillyPretzel ✅
I would like to take a couple minutes to remind my fellow Lizards that it is still Caucus/Primary season. There has not been a convention yet. Yes we do know who the contenders from each party are and yes they are most likely the nominees for their individual parties. So please do not pin too much on these “polls” that are being taken currently.
We passed the point last week where each of them had accumulated 50%-plus-one of their party’s convention delegates.
Is it possible that someone else will end up as the nominee? Only if there’s a health crisis or something else huge and unforeseen.
re: #109 Randall Gross
The only way this utterly corrupt SCOTUS can be wrenched out of their ivory tower of complete disregard for most of America is to PACK THIS FUCKING COURT TO THE RAFTERS once Biden wins and Congress turns blue.
Of course floriduh is at the forefront. Of something that is not available.
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
Unless Florida governor Ron DeSantis has an unexpected change of heart, it will soon be a crime to sell or make cultivated meat in the Sunshine State. A bill passed by the Florida House and Senate is now awaiting the signature of DeSantis, who has already indicated his opposition to what he calls “fake meat.” If he does sign the bill into law, anyone who sells, makes, or distributes cultivated meat in Florida may be subject to a fine of up to $500 and 60 days in prison.
re: #123 Charles
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to believe a US company would be any better at protecting users’ privacy.
It will be worse but the _correct_ people will be stealing the data and making money from it so that’s ok.
re: #145 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s the Ticketmaster racket.
And the bank overdraft and stop check fees. And the airlines checked bag fee. And the Vegas hotels resort fee. ATM surcharges. There’s more but you get the idea.
re: #186 sizzzzlerz
The bank overdraft and stop check fees.
This why I belong to a Credit Union.
re: #123 Charles
I’m not sure why we’re supposed to believe a US company would be any better at protecting users’ privacy.
Because then the Chinese would have to buy user information from a private middleman, like all the honest God-fearing countries, or purchase spyware on the free market.
re: #177 wrenchwench
I wonder what can be made of leftover pudding?
popsicles.
pancake topping.
raspberry parfait.
re: #184 Colère Tueur de Lapin ✅
Of course floriduh is at the forefront. Of something that is not available.
States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
It’s progress. They’re against it, in any form.
re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg
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This is a BFD. His internal polling must be shit. Nikki et al are standing by.
re: #73 Nerdy Fish
Pornography of any kind is immoral, and they would ban it completely if they could. Killing children, on the other hand, is just the cost of a free society.
just to be clear…pornography is in the eye of the beholder.
I know what *I* consider pornography…but I also know what those fake christian nationalists consider porn..
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