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Tuesday, December 24, 2024

Washington Post: “Former president Bill Clinton was hospitalized Monday afternoon in Washington 'for testing and observation after developing a fever,' a Clinton spokesman said. Clinton was admitted to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Angel Ureña, deputy chief of staff for Clinton, wrote on X.” The NBC News report is here.

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Washington Post: "Americans can again order free rapid coronavirus tests by mail, the Biden administration announced Thursday. People can request four free at-home tests per household through covidtests.gov. They will begin shipping Monday. The move comes ahead of an expected winter wave of coronavirus cases. The September revival of the free testing program is in line with the Biden administration’s strategy to respond to the coronavirus as part of a broader public health campaign to protect Americans from respiratory viruses, including influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), that surge every fall and winter. But free tests were not mailed during the summer wave, which wastewater surveillance data shows is now receding."

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New York Times: "Neil Cavuto, a business journalist who hosted a weekday afternoon program on the Fox News Channel since the network began in 1996, signed off for the final time on Thursday[, December 19]. Mr. Cavuto could be an outlier on Fox News, often criticizing President Trump and his policies, and crediting the Covid-19 vaccination with saving his life."

Have Cello, May Not Travel. New York Times: “Sheku Kanneh-Mason, a rising star in classical music who performed at the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in 2018 and has since become a regular on many of the world’s most prestigious concert stages, was forced to cancel a concert in Toronto last week because Air Canada refused to allow him to board a plane with his cello, even though he had purchased a separate ticket for it.... 'Air Canada has a comprehensive policy of accepting cellos in the cabin when a separate seat is booked for it,' it said in a statement. 'In this case, the customers made a last-minute booking due to their original flight on another airline being canceled.' The airline’s policy for carry-on instruments, outlined on its website, specifies that travelers must purchase a seat for their instruments at least 48 hours before departure.”

Here are photos of the White House Christmas decorations, via the White House. Also a link to last year's decorations. Sorry, no halls of blood-red fake trees.

Yes, You May Be a Neanderthal. Me Too! Washington Post: “A pair of new studies sheds light on a pivotal but mysterious chapter of the human origin story, revealing that modern humans and Neanderthals had babies together for an extended period, peaking 47,000 years ago — leaving genetic fingerprints in modern-day people.... [According to the report in Science,] Neanderthals and humans interbred for 7,000 years starting about 50,500 years ago.... Modern humans, Homo sapiens, originated in Africa about 300,000 years ago. Somewhere around 50,000 to 60,000 years ago, a key group left the continent and encountered Neanderthals, a hominin relative that was established across western Eurasia but went extinct about 39,000 years ago.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: Maybe you parents were upset when you told them you planned to marry someone of a different race or religion. But, hey, think how distressed they would have been if you'd told them you were hooking up with a person of a different species!

There's No Money in Bananas. New York Times: “A week after a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur bought an artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape for $6.2 million at auction, the man, Justin Sun, announced a grand gesture on X. He said he planned on purchasing 100,000 bananas — or $25,000 worth of the produce — from the Manhattan stand where the original fruit was sold for 25 cents. But at the fruit stand at East 72nd Street and York Avenue, outside the doors of the Sotheby’s auction house where the conceptual artwork was sold, the offer landed with a thud against the realities of the life of a New York City street vendor. [Even if it were practicable to buy that many bananas at once,] the net profit ... would be about $6,000. 'There’s not any profit in selling bananas,' [the vendor Shah] Alam said.”

Jeremy Barr of the Washington Post on what's to become of MSNBC: “In the days that followed [the November election], MSNBC began seeing a significant decline in viewership (as has CNN), as left-leaning viewers opted to turn off the channel rather than watch the aftermath of Donald Trump’s victory. One of the network’s most valuable franchises, 'Morning Joe,' faced backlash after hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski revealed Nov. 18 that they had traveled to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in an effort to 'restart communications.'... Questions about the future of the network picked up considerably Nov. 20, when parent company Comcast announced that it would spin off MSNBC and some of its other cable channels into a separate company.... The fear inside the building is about whether the move could portend a less ambitious future for MSNBC — with a smaller, lower-compensated staff and a lot less journalism, considering the network will be separated from the NBC News operation that contributes much of the reporting.”

The Washington Post introduces us to Lucy, the small, hominid ancestor of humans who lived 3.2 million years ago. American paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson discovered her skeleton in Ethiopia exactly 50 years ago, beginning on November 24, 1974. Eventually, about 40 percent of Lucy's skeleton was recovered.

New York Times: “Chris Wallace, a veteran TV anchor who left Fox News for CNN three years ago, announced on Monday that he was leaving his post to venture into the streaming or podcasting worlds.... He said his decision to leave CNN at the end of his three-year contract did not come from discontent. 'I have nothing but positive things to say. CNN was very good to me,' he said.”

New York Times: In a collection of memorabilia filed at New York City's Morgan Library, curator Robinson McClellan discovered the manuscript of a previously unknown waltz by Frédéric Chopin. Jeffrey Kallberg, a Chopin scholar at the University of Pennsylvania as well as other experts authenticated the manuscript. Includes video of Lang Lang performing the short waltz. ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: The Times article goes into some of Chopin's life in Paris at the time he wrote the waltz, but it doesn't mention that he helped make ends meet by giving piano lessons. I know this because my great grandmother was one of his students. If her musical talent were anything like mine, those particular lessons would have been painful hours for Chopin.

New York Times: “Improbably, [the political/celebrity magazine] George[, originally a project by John F. Kennedy, Jr.] is back, with the same logo and the same catchy slogan: 'Not just politics as usual.' This time, though, a QAnon conspiracy theorist and passionate Trump fan is its editor in chief.... It is a reanimation story bizarre enough for a zombie movie, made possible by the fact that the original George trademark lapsed, only to be secured by a little-known conservative lawyer named Thomas D. Foster.”

Washington Post: “Comedy news outlet the Onion — reinvigorated by new ownership over this year — is bringing back its once-popular video parodies of cable news. But this time, there’s someone with real news anchor experience in the chair. When the first episodes appear online Monday, former WAMU and MSNBC host Joshua Johnson will be the face of the resurrected 'Onion News Network.' Playing an ONN anchor character named Dwight Richmond, Johnson says he’s bringing a real anchor’s sense of clarity — and self-importance — to the job. 'If ONN is anything, it’s a news organization that is so unaware of its own ridiculousness that it has the confidence of a serial killer,' says Johnson, 44.” ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I'll be darned if I can figured out how to watch ONN. If anybody knows, do tell. Thanks. ~~~

     ~~~ Update: With the help of contributor Forrest M., I found that probably the easiest to get the Onion's latest videos is by entering into your search box: https://www.youtube.com/@TheOnion

 

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The Conversation -- September 28, 2024

⭐ "They're Bringing Drugs. They're Bringing Crime." Natalie Kitroeff & Robert Gebeloff of the New York Times: "Since 2019, when Mexico overtook China to become the dominant supplier of fentanyl in the United States, cartels have been flooding the country with the synthetic opioid. The amount of fentanyl crossing the border has increased tenfold in the past five years. Mexico has been the source of almost all of the fentanyl seized by U.S. law enforcement in recent years.... Donald J. Trump and other Republicans have blamed President Biden's border policies for the fentanyl pouring into the United States, playing on a widespread belief that undocumented immigrants are responsible for bringing it in. In reality, the largest known group of fentanyl smugglers is not made up of immigrants traversing the desert or moving through secret tunnels -- they are Americans coming through legal ports of entry. More than 80 percent of the people sentenced for fentanyl trafficking at the southern border are U.S. citizens, federal data shows.... Mexican drug cartels are turning thousands of Americans into fentanyl mules, deploying a torrent of couriers who can easily cross back and forth...." Emphasis added.

Kenneth Vogel & Susanne Craig of the New York Times: Soon after Donald Trump granted clemency to fraudster & scammer Adriana Camberos -- who had obtained access to Trump via well-placed acquaintances & a $50,000 campaign contribution from her brother -- "she and her brother Andres embarked on a new fraud, federal prosecutors in California said.... Ms. Camberos is among six people granted clemency by Mr. Trump and known to have been charged with new crimes after they received a second chance.... Other recipients of Mr. Trump's clemency grants have been investigated but not charged, The Times found. And at least three additional people have been convicted of crimes that predated their clemency grants.... According to an analysis in a law journal focused on criminal justice, only 25 of the nearly 240 clemency grants issued by Mr. Trump were vetted and recommended by the pardon attorney's office." MB: And it seems the Trumpy explanation is that the new charges are the results of vindictive prosecutors set on undoing Trump's pardons to deserving people.

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Presidential Race

Nicholas Nehamas, et al., of the New York Times: "On her first trip to the southern border as the Democratic presidential nominee, Vice President Kamala Harris delivered one of her party's toughest speeches on immigration and border policy in a generation. Even as she did, she tried to paint ... Donald J. Trump as a feckless chaos agent without the ability to deliver the hard-line results he has promised. Ms. Harris vowed to carry on President Biden's crackdown on asylum and to impose order on the southern border, demonstrating how much the politics of immigration have shifted for Democrats. Just one presidential cycle ago, Ms. Harris and most other candidates in the party's primary race had promised to decriminalize illegal border crossings." The Guardian's report is here.

     ~~~ Thanks to RAS for the link. Via digby, who is of the view that the Orange Jesus is "The Greatest Embarrassment in American History." ~~~

~~~ Jonathan Swan, et al., of the New York Times: "As [Ukraine's President Volodymyr] Zelensky stood silently beside him, Mr. Trump presented the Russia-Ukraine war as one that both sides wanted to end, including its instigator, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Mr. Trump did not fault the Russian leader for the invasion or for the illegal seizure of territory or for the thousands of Ukrainians he has bombed out of existence. Instead, the former president described the situation as if it were a dispute between two parties operating in good faith that could be resolved in a 'fair deal,' but only if he returns to the White House." MB: The reporters are kindly enough not to mention that Trump suggested that it was important for both parties to come to the table because it takes two to tango." I just can't think why digby sez Trump is "The Greatest Embarrassment in American History."

The Incredible Shrinking Trumplethinskin. David Moye of the Huffington Post: As people began walking out of a rally when Trump was speaking in Walker, Michigan, Friday, Trump insisted from the podium that the people who were leaving were not really leaving. Trump "became agitated during a Sept. 10 presidential debate when ... Kamala Harris bluntly said that 'people start leaving his rallies early out of exhaustion and boredom.'" Trump said the rally-goers Friday were just lining up in the back of the hall in hopes of getting a photo with him. Right.

Maggie Haberman, et al., of the New York Times: In a post on his failing social media site, "... Donald J. Trump threatened Friday to prosecute Google if he was elected to the presidency a second time, claiming that the tech company had been 'illegally' showing only 'bad stories' about him and only 'good' ones about Vice President Kamala Harris. It was the latest instance of Mr. Trump threatening to prosecute his perceived opponents should he return to office. This month, he called for the prosecution of lawyers, political donors and operatives if they engaged in 'unscrupulous behavior.' Mr. Trump said at a news conference on Thursday that the former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi should be prosecuted in connection with the security lapses by which a mob of his own supporters attacked the Capitol during the transfer of presidential power on Jan. 6, 2021. And on Friday, in Michigan, he called for an attorney general 'somewhere, like in a Republican territory' to investigate Ms. Pelosi and her husband over reports that Mr. Pelosi had sold Visa stock ahead of the Justice Department's filing an antitrust lawsuit against the company.... Google said it did not manipulate search results to favor any candidate." A CNBC story is here.

Marie: I have overstayed my nonpaying welcome at TPM, but Scott Lemieux in LG&$ has republished a part of two of Josh Marshall's posts:

     ~~~JayDee Wants Goons to Monitor Your Periods, Ladies. Josh Marshall of TPM (republished in LG&$): "JD Vance is a major menstrual surveillance hawk. When the Biden administration pushed for updated HIPAA regulations to prevent sheriff's departments and other law enforcement agencies from pulling women's medical records for their menstrual surveillance programs (which they termed 'compassionate laws protecting unborn children and their mothers'), Vance was one of only 28 members of Congress (and only 8 senators) to sign a letter protesting the new regs, which, per the letter, 'interfere with valid state laws protecting life.' (You can see the letter here. It's a doozy.)" ~~~

     ~~~ Scott Lemieux: "This should also be a reminder that Alito's repeated assertions in Dobbs that the right to choose to have an abortion can be neatly separated from the entire well-established framework of personal autonomy rights is nonsensical on every level. And Dobbs did not return the country to the pre-Roe status quo; given the different surveillance capacities of the state and the greater fanaticism of the anti-abortion mob, it will be much worse." MB: The purpose of the surveillance, of course, is chilling, but the methodology is downright creepy. I doubt even the church-lady president of the Republican Women's Club would want sheriff's deputies rifling through her files at her OB/GYN's office. And, Dear, that's what will happen if JayDee gets his way.

Peter Jamison of the Washington Post: "Vice-presidential nominee JD Vance has a go-to explanation for his evolution from outspoken critic to impassioned defender of Donald Trump: He says he was converted by Trump's achievements in the White House.... But ... in the direct messages -- sent during Trump's final year in office to an acquaintance over ... Twitter -- Vance harshly criticized his future running mate's record of governance.... 'Trump has just so thoroughly failed to deliver on his economic populism (excepting a disjointed China policy),' Vance wrote in February 2020.... 'I've already turned down my appointment from the emperor,' Vance wrote ... after his interlocutor referred to the possibility of a government appointment by 'Emperor Trump.' Pressed by his acquaintance about what job he had been offered, Vance replied, 'I'm not going to say over twitter messenger.' Neither Trump nor Vance has ever disclosed that he was offered a role working [in the Trump administration." ~~~

     ~~~ Marie: I'm sure you're not surprised, but what we have in JayDee is not just a liar but a "practical politician," where "practical" means willing to roll over & repeatedly defend the indefensible if that is in his self-interest. JayDee is as trustworthy as Trump.

Mark Sherman of the AP (republished by Yahoo! News): "The Supreme Court on Friday refused an emergency appeal from Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s presidential campaign seeking to have his name added to New York's ballot. Kennedy has been trying to get his name off ballots in key battleground states since he suspended his campaign in August and endorsed ... Donald Trump. But he has simultaneously tried to stay on the ballot in states like New York where his presence is unlikely to make a difference in the battle between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris."

Ha Ha. Ashleigh Fields of the Hill: "California Rep. Adam Schiff (D) introduced a bill on Friday that would prevent sitting presidents from dismissing criminal prosecution against themselves, including through coercion of an attorney general or anyone acting on the president's behalf. The Investigative Integrity Protection Act seeks to require a three-judge court hearing before any charges against a president are dropped, according to a release."

Alan Feuer & Charlie Savage of the New York Times: "The special counsel, Jack Smith, has asked a federal judge to make public a substantial amount of the evidence that he and his deputies have collected during nearly two years of investigating ... Donald J. Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, according to a court filing unsealed on Friday. In the filing, Mr. Smith described the sorts of information about Mr. Trump that he would like to reveal in a public version of a lengthy secret brief that he submitted under seal on Thursday evening to Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is overseeing the election interference case in Federal District Court in Washington.... Mr. Smith told Judge Chutkan that the public version of his brief should include quotations and summaries of grand jury testimony from -- and interviews with -- several chief witnesses in the case, including top White House officials like former Vice President Mike Pence. But to protect lesser-known witnesses from harassment, Mr. Smith said the names of people not already identified in the indictment should be redacted." An ABC News story is here. ~~~

~~~ Spencer Hsu of the Washington Post: A federal judge [Tanya Chutkan] on Friday gave lawyers for Donald Trump four days to challenge the partial public release of a nearly 200-page special counsel filing on why the former president can be criminally prosecuted for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election."

Laurie Brookins of the Hollywood Reporter: "On Thursday, [Donald] Trump debuted a pair of watches available for sale: a dive model ... that is limited to 1,000 pieces and retails for $499 or $799 depending on style, and a seemingly high-end tourbillion design that is depicted as being crafted of 18-karat gold and embellished with diamonds on the bezel. Limited to 147 pieces, that model is listed for an astounding $100,000. All pieces display Trump's name prominently on the dial.... Word quickly spread among the status-watch community, which was overwhelmingly unimpressed. 'This is cobbled together, patently unoriginal and vastly overpriced,' says Ariel Adams, founder and editor of A Blog to Watch.... A marketing director of a well-known Swiss brand..., [said], everyone [in my collectors' group chat] was laughing' ... [at] the more expensive piece. 'When you look at all of them, they scream Chinese-made watch. None of them is worth the asking price.'... '[The tourbillon watch] is as ersatz as the man himself,' added Adam Craniotes, founder ... of ... an international network of watch collectors...."

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Alabama. Hansi Lo Wang of NPR: “The U.S. Justice Department filed a lawsuit Friday against Alabama and its top election official, alleging a state program violated federal law by removing voters from its election rolls too close to this fall's general election.... The National Voter Registration Act sets what's known as a 'quiet period' before federal elections for most states. Alabama and other states covered by the federal law are not allowed to systematically remove names fewer than 90 days before a federal election. On Aug. 13, 84 days before this fall's Election Day, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, a Republican, announced an effort to 'remove noncitizens registered to vote' in the state. According to a press release, Allen identified and instructed county election officials to remove from their voter rolls 3,251 registered Alabama voters who had been 'issued noncitizen identification numbers by the Department of Homeland Security.'... But in a statement, the Justice Department characterized this process as a 'systematic voter removal program' that has ensnared U.S. citizens, both those born in the United States and those who were naturalized...."

New York. Dana Rubinstein, et al., of the New York Times: "A muted but defiant [New York City] Mayor Eric Adams, in back-to-back appearances inside a federal courthouse in Manhattan and outside its granite facade on Friday, professed his innocence of criminal charges including bribery and fraud and stood by as his lawyer railed against the evidence in a case that threatens to topple his embattled administration. 'I am not guilty, your honor,' Mr. Adams said at his midday arraignment before Magistrate Judge Katharine Parker in a 26th-floor courtroom in Lower Manhattan, as reporters looked on from the gallery and via livestreams in several overflow courtrooms." ~~~

~~~ Shayna Jacobs of the Washington Post: "Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty Friday to federal charges of bribery, wire fraud and taking illegal campaign donations, even as state investigators seized the electronic devices of one of his top advisers at the airport -- the latest indication of multiple, wide-ranging corruption probes related to City Hall.... The Manhattan district attorney's office and the New York City Department of Investigation met Adams's top adviser, Ingrid Lewis-Martin, at an arrivals gate at JFK International Airport, Lewis-Martin's lawyer said. The law enforcement personnel intercepted her electronics as part of a separate investigation, said a person with knowledge of the matter...." ~~~

~~~ The New York Times live-updated developments Friday in the NYC Mayor Eric Adams indictment matter: "Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty on Friday in a Lower Manhattan courtroom to five felony counts, including bribery and fraud charges. Mr. Adams is accused of accepting more than $100,000 in illegal gifts in exchange for using his political influence to help Turkey." (Also linked yesterday.)

North Carolina. Ashleigh Fields of the Hill: "The North Carolina Court of Appeals on Friday overturned a lower court's decision to accept the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's mobile One Card as valid voter identification. The ruling supported the plaintiff's argument that the digital ID would make it easier for ineligible voters to cast ballots and violate a state law that prohibits mobile use during voting. An unnamed group of three judges approved the appeal from the Republican National Committee and the N.C. Republican Party unanimously today which can be appealed at the federal level. DNC attorneys say that preventing its use could confuse or even disenfranchise up to 40,000 people who work or attend the school so close to the election according to ABC."

Virginia, et al. Hi, I'm Having a Fabulous Family Dinner with My Fake Wife & Fake Daughters. Annie Karni & Catie Edmondson of the New York Times: "... male Republicans struggling to appeal to female voters ... are unleashing their spouses to make the pitch on their behalf. Their ads often feature women in softly lit living rooms and pristine kitchens vouching for their husbands' characters.... Other times, candidates film footage of a wholesome family gathering around the dining room table. In at least one case, such a gathering includes a candidate at the dinner table in a family-like tableau with a woman and children who are not related. The campaign of Derrick Anderson, a former Army Green Beret who is running in a competitive race for an open seat in Virginia's Seventh District, has posted footage of him posing with a woman and her three daughters in what looks like a photo that might be used for an annual holiday card. In another scene filmed for potential use in a campaign ad, Mr. Anderson is seated around the dining room table with the same woman and three girls, chatting and smiling. But the people ... are the wife and children of a longtime friend. Mr. Anderson, who announced this month that he was engaged, does not have any children of his own. His campaign website says he lives with his dog and does not display any of the photos."

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Israel/Palestine, et al.

The New York Times' live updates of developments Saturday in Israel's wars are here. "Hezbollah on Saturday confirmed the death of Hassan Nasrallah, its longtime leader, in an airstrike on the organization's underground headquarters near Beirut, hours after Israel said he had been killed in a major escalation of its rapidly expanding campaign against the Iran-backed group. After two weeks of back-and-forth attacks that have threatened to spiral into an all-out regional war, Israel said that Mr. Nasrallah was killed in a major airstrike on Friday, when its air force dropped more than 80 bombs on a group of residential buildings in the Hezbollah-dominated area known as the Dahiya."

Bassem Mroue & Melanie Lidman of the AP: "Israel said Saturday that it killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, dealing its most significant blow to the Lebanese militant group after months of fighting. There was no immediate confirmation from Hezbollah. If the claim is true, Nasrallah is by far the most powerful target to be killed by Israel in weeks of intensified fighting with Hezbollah. The military said it carried out a precise airstrike on Friday while Hezbollah leadership met at their headquarters in Dahiyeh, south of Beirut."

Michael Crowley of the New York Times: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamiin "Netanyahu bulldozed his way through his visit [to the United Nations], castigating Israel's critics and the United Nations itself, offering no diplomatic concessions, and ordering an airstrike in Beirut that may have killed Israel's long hunted archnemesis, the Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The strike landed even as Mr. Netanyahu delivered defiant remarks to a U.N. General Assembly hall -- largely emptied after dozens of diplomats walked out in protest -- in which he triumphantly declared of Israel's multiple conflicts: 'We are winning.'"

The New York Times' live updates of developments Friday in Israel's wars are here. (Also linked yesterday.)

News Lede

Washington Post: "Rescue teams raced to submerged homes, scoured collapsed buildings and steered thousands from overflowing dams as Helene carved a destructive path Friday, knocking out power and flooding a vast arc of communities across the southeastern United States. At least 40 people were confirmed killed in five states since the storm made landfall late Thursday as a Category 4 behemoth, unleashing record-breaking storm surge and tree-snapping gusts. 4 million homes and businesses have lost electricity across Florida, Georgia and the Carolinas, prompting concerns that outages could drag on for weeks. Mudslides closed highways. Water swept over roofs and snapped phone lines. Houses vanished from their foundations. Tornadoes added to the chaos. The mayor of hard-hit Canton, N.C., called the scene 'apocalyptic.'" An AP report is here.

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So much for the self defense canard.

The Party of Traitors and its Dear Leader Donald Trump have long cheered the actions of lying murderer Kyle Rittenhouse. At his trial, Rittenhouse claimed he simply had to shoot those people. It was “self defense”. But Oops! Turns out little Kyle had sent numerous text messages prior to that outing in which he promised to “fucking murder” someone.

He also, according to his former spokesman, spent hours “…patrolling the street for months with guns and borrowing people’s security uniforms, doing whatever he could to try to get into some kind of a fight”.

Sounds like self defense to me, right?

September 28, 2024 | Unregistered CommenterAkhilleus

CNN

"Iranian hackers indicted Friday allegedly sought to impersonate Ginni Thomas as they targeted Trump campaign

The indictment doesn’t identify Ginni Thomas by name, but it states that between April and May 2024, the hackers used the persona set up in the name of the justice’s spouse to send spearphishing emails to a former homeland security adviser to a former US president, among other targets.

The hackers had set up a fake email account in Ginni Thomas’ name in April 2020, according to the indictment and law enforcement officials, but it wasn’t until four years later that they used that account in their efforts."

September 28, 2024 | Unregistered CommenterRAS

I wonder how much Gwen Walz is helping with the debate prep seeing as she has been a high school debate coach?

September 28, 2024 | Unregistered CommenterRAS

Giving Trump what he is asking for bringing Johnny Carson back

September 28, 2024 | Unregistered CommenterRAS

Was it just last week that I got duped on a misleading clip about JD having a rent-a-dog? And now we have an actual article about a Republican using his friend's family for a fake family campaign shoot? I think I've heard someone on the Right saying that people who don't have kids should not be in government making decisions for other people, lol. Imagine the surprise when these two guys' friends get their christmas cards this year and they get two that have the same family, but just different "fathers" in them, Happy Holidays from the Anderson Family. Super Freaking Weird.

September 28, 2024 | Unregistered CommenterRAS

About the guy "borrowing" a family since he doesn't have one: IOKIYAR. God forbid a Dem should do that-- so whaddya say, Crappy New York Newsletter? They will lie, fabricate, insult and cheat their way to victory any way they can, hence the efforts to throw people off the voting rolls now... There is simply nothing anyone can say about the GQP that resembles respect or even basic decency. Except that they do love their fetuses, just not the women carrying them, except possibly as sex and housework slaves. They don't even like children once they are "on the ground," so to speak...

The main guy doesn't even know how to read, write or talk. So impressive... He needs to be sent back to Florida to live out his days like the slug he is. Maybe he will take Bushface with him.

September 28, 2024 | Unregistered CommenterJeanne
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