traitor

it increasingly feels like the only reasonable explanation is: - the grand jury formally issued no true bill, regardless of handwritten notes from later in the day - [UNEXPLAINED TWO HOUR GAP] - the second indictment was never voted on - Comey never actually indicted

note: the "witness" saying this is a psycho repeat-congressional-loser conservative activist, Christine Bish, who was conspiring with Pulte/Martin to set up Schiff. so, uh, grain of salt!

feel like this validates my "this is happening because it's hard to fire Kelly Hayes due to 28 U.S.C. § 546" theory

saw @gpetersen.bsky.social randomly on here, clicked through to find a surprisingly compelling blue collar progressive campaign for NY-02 that doesn't seem to be falling into the "so blue collar means conservative" trap either

"He doesn't even know what he's looking at, he has no idea what's going on..." [lengthy pause] "... with the kickoff rule"

what is this guy talking about? thanksgiving is cheaper than ever

this comes up in opioid treatment too: they used to call drugs like suboxone "medication-assisted treatment" and now doctors have to push back because, no, the medication is in fact the treatment itself. They'll literally say "we don't call diabetic use of insulin medication-assisted treatment"

I think it’s good that Dems are competing re how aggressively they can denounce Trump

he does have one thing in common with jerry seinfeld, being a pedophile

not prepared for Jojo Angela

i don't think that's accurate. they think it's a good hate symbol.

The other members of the quadumvirate (Stephen Miller, Russ Vought, and, currently, SOUTHCOM) have not assented to this policy, so it is not valid.

he actually wants to hang OUT with them. common mistake

Economists of all professions should understand that complex systems (like the economy) fail slowly and then all at once. So we have the current slow ongoing deterioration and an economy that has made a huge leveraged bet on a industry that doesn't make $ and has no theory of how to do so (AI).

It's not so much that I want economist to say the economy is in shambles as wanting them to use a system analysis to take the "deteriorating but pretty slowly so far" to its logical conclusion. Don't know *when* but its clear that the current trend is accelerating and is not a stable equilibrium.

oh right it is literally a career prosecutor appointed by the court because they refused to get a real USA confirmed by the senate

gotta admit i literally do not understand how this is possible given the present DOJ. did they somehow fuckup and nominate a US attorney in Maryland that would actually enforce the law

Wow! Jesse Welles performed his song “Join ICE” on the Colbert Show last night. 🏆

okay but they're right, it doesn't even make sense to have proconsular authority when that's an *extension* of your consulship, anyways this is why Zohran can never govern

bsky: wow liberals hate the left liberals: attaining proconsular authority over a province before having served a term as consul or even just praetor is unheard of. has she even held a position as quaester or aedile? no?? the gods will surely be displeased by this

the funniest thing about it is still that trump thinks no one says "groceries" anymore and comments on it literally every time he mentions a grocery store

"We should just stay silent and trust the people who have as a profession allowed purges of extremely qualified personnel and obviously illegal strikes to happen without any public pushback to do the right thing, which we are assuming they are doing quietly in the background."

Chris Murphy, one of the most boring white guys in the Senate: "it's time to pick a fucking side"

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

Buzz Grambo is the most Star Wars name I've ever heard. I love everything about this.

I’m howling.

also "i can drink 20 ounces of coffee and it makes me want to go to sleep"

Look at broader measures of unemployment—including people who want a job but aren't in the labor force or who are working part-time but want a full-time job—and the labor market is nearly in the worst place since the pandemic.

life is a fucking RNG and -- due to genetics, environmental factors, and sometimes just simple bad fucking luck you end up disabled. all things being equal you *will* be disabled at some point before you die simply due to the ravages of old age

i remember when i got a telehealth diagnosis and the psychiatric nurse was like "just call around to all your CVSes/Walgreens and ask if they have Adderall and let me know" like that was a totally reasonable thing for a patient to do to get their medications

for real. like "a PA on a first visit 'diagnoses' your 3 year old with ODD" is actually the problem here!!

so like, i fully agree with this: all the concerns in this piece about antipsychotics among kids are valid! i know many people who need to be on antipsychotics and dealing with side effects/figuring out what meds work is a huge part of the process but that's a whole different thing than adhd drugs

ah yeah classic trojan skyscraper falling over. love that bit

trump leaves the meeting with mamdani and announces he's declaring war on Idi Amin

real life boss baby tweet lol

zohran's gonna play him so hard lmao

Exactly. Halligan's belief that the grand jury had returned on Counts 2 and 3 was based *solely* on the foreperson's verbal assertion made after the grand jury had been released. That's insufficient. (And of course, the original indictment is not the operative one.)

This is what I’m talking about. The magistrate was handed the original 3-count indictment along w/ report stating that 12+ jurors failed to concur “in finding an indictment in this case.” Nothing indicated that the no bill was only Count 1. The foreperson added notation at magistrate direction.

cancel culture is back. i will be waiting for thomas chatterton williams' column in defense of summers

in fact, i think if the Founders wanted judges only removeable by a procedure where the standard is 'high crimes and misdemeanors' they wouldn't have used the words 'good behavior' to mean that

the existing pseudo-doctrine that the Founders always intended "good behavior" to mean "you cannot ever remove someone except by impeachment" is ahistorical and fucking ridiculous

update: this extraordinary and outrageous misconduct is whining about office politics and how they wouldn't wait to issue an opinion while he attended a funeral and didn't finish his dissent

J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.

So an invalidly appointed prosecutor brough an unvoted indictment, based on evidence violating the 4th amendment, attorney client privilege, and the 5th amendment. Against "false claims" that were literally true, all on direct order of a vindictive president? Is this the most dismissable case ever?

so the deal remains "Zelenskyy gets murdered by his own people if he accepts"

"my clerks still have to figure out if there's literally any precedent for prosecutors fucking up a grand jury this bad"

CHAT IS THIS GOOD. CHAT

lol