Ohferfuxsake, I'm into US #Politics, #health issues, social justice issues and the furthering of our #democratic republic. Gave up on trying to understand the ignorant #MAGA#cult members.
For years we've been told that grand juries in the US are just a rubber stamp for prosecutors (i.e. that they will indict even pork-based comestibles). But increasingly what we're seeing is that grand juries are the last line of defense against an administration that is hellbent on perverting the justice system. From the NYT:
"Federal prosecutors in Washington sought and failed on Tuesday to secure an indictment against six Democratic lawmakers who posted a video this fall that enraged President Trump by reminding active-duty members of the military and intelligence community that they were obligated to refuse illegal orders, four people familiar with the matter said."
"It was remarkable that the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington — led by Jeanine Pirro, a longtime ally of Mr. Trump’s — authorized prosecutors to go into a grand jury and ask for an indictment of the six members of Congress, all of whom had served in the military or the nation’s spy agencies."
"But it was even more remarkable that a group of ordinary citizens sitting on the grand jury in Federal District Court in Washington forcefully rejected Mr. Trump’s bid to label their expression of dissent as a criminal act warranting prosecution."
Trump thinks the plan to help convicted felon Jair Bolsonaro escape from Brazil worked, and appears to tell the press that Bolsonaro is coming to the US to meet Trump.
The press then informs him that Bolsonaro was caught trying to escape, to which Trump replies, “Is that what happened? It’s too bad.”
That doesn't seem odd to me at all. That's a #MAGA#President#Trump doing the crimes that MAGA expects in order to keep MAGA happy. Everything in #America is quite MAGAishly corrupt and the #RepublicanParty just loves them some MAGA corruption.
Trump has now set a deadline for Thursday next week, where he demands Ukraine signs an agreement to meet Putin’s demands:
— No NATO membership
— A reduction of its military to just 600,000 troops
— Accepting the loss of Donetsk, Luhansk, Crimea, and most of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia
— Forcing Ukrainian elections within 100 days
While Russia will
— Reenter the G8
— Have all sanctions lifted
This is not a peace agreement. This is capitulation.
I occasionally think about self-hosting some apps and start looking into installing the bits and pieces to get it running. Then I get confused and just give up.
I'd love to have a cloud server that I own to store maps and documents, but the learning curve and many nagging questions that I'm too ignorant to even figure out how to ask is quite a barrier to self-hosting.
Voluntary ignorance is really just stupidity.
Just so we're clear, ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever. And to be more clear, they will readily choose to support a bunch of pedophiles.
100% Verified Idaho Fact:
It's maybe not so lucky that #Idaho didn't hunt Leprechauns into extinction during the famine. #Leprechauns now make up 100% of Idaho's Executive branch offices, 90% of the Legislative Branch and all federally elected officials. Oh, and Idaho Leprechauns are the most ignorant and ugly human being ever born or hatched.
@RememberUsAlways
Why is that? I have zero knowledge of soybeans but would like to read about how and why farmers are being owned by China. And this reply certainly doesn't mean I disagree ... I'm just not educated on the issue.
#OnThisDay, 4 Oct 1936, women join the Battle of Cable Street, in London's East End, protesting against a fascist march through the area. Of the 79 protestors arrested, eight are women, including Blanche Edwards (pictured).
Didn't our lovely Republican MAGA crew tell us the Biden's were extremely corrupt for receiving financial gains from the Chinese? I thought they did, at least.
Colored pencil sketch playing with color on toned paper! This medium requires a lot of patience and tons of layers of colors. Was a challenge to make the colors pop with the toned grey paper, I was going for a luminous look!
Colored pencil drawing of a redheaded woman looking at the viewer and facing to the left. She has a vibrant red bob and is wearing a dark green collared shirt. The date 9/7/25 is written on the left of the drawing.
Please don't worry about this issue. The "American Conservative God" fully supports this type of behavior. #KingDonald, #JesusDonald and #GodDonald are the new #Christian Trinity, so all is moral and Pius.
FYI: My Christian and highly devout neighbor told me all this, and it must be true as he had a #MAGA hat on his head.
I suppose we don't need "secret police" in this authoritarian government anymore. These traitor cops are out of the closet and ready to the bidding of #KingDonald.
"Charlottesville, nothing was done wrong," says former President Trump in remarks to reporters in California criticizing the ABC News debate moderators.
The Venn diagram of people who say 'facts don't care about your feelings' and people whose entire worldview is based on feelings is the most geometrically perfect, beautiful and flawless circle ever known to humankind
Trump is to appear at a "press conference" this hour at Mar-a-Lago. (It's only a press or news conference if the speaker takes questions). One of his former White House press secretaries, Stephanie Grisham, says Trump hastily scheduled the event because "he's panicking. I’ve seen this play many times. He thinks his team is failing him & no one can speak better/“save” his campaign/defend him but him. He hates the coverage Harris is getting & thinks only he can fix it."
The #GOP is frightened by vials of blood but believe senior citizens and minimum-wage workers should gladly do their job during a pandemic that KILLED 1.1 million Americans. Heck, it's just blood and the #Republican don't really believe there is any need for the human body to have such a thing inside their bodies, right? Science and medicine is a hoax.
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