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Maxwell Lobs Grenade Naming 29 ‘Protected’ Epstein Friends ( www.thedailybeast.com )

Buried in a habeas petition that Maxwell recently filed in court, hoping to void her conviction, the convicted associate of Jeffrey Epstein references four potential “co-conspirators” and “25 men” who allegedly reached “secret settlements” connected to Epstein’s abuse—and were never indicted

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Feel free to find a better source and post it

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With respect, if all you can add is criticism maybe you have nothing to add.

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Lindsey Halligan, the former Trump White House aide who went on to spearhead short-lived criminal cases against a pair of the president’s perceived adversaries, is stepping down from her Justice Department position.

Halligan’s departure was announced Tuesday night by Attorney General Pam Bondi, capping a fraught four-month tenure during which she served as the driving force behind the Justice Department’s prosecutions of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

A former personal lawyer for Trump, Halligan was installed as the top federal prosecutor in eastern Virginia after her predecessor was forced out. Soon after, she almost single-handedly secured indictments against Comey and James that the president had demanded. Both cases were later dismissed by a judge who ruled she was unlawfully appointed. The Justice Department has appealed those rulings.

Her departure came as the federal judges of eastern Virginia increasingly questioned the legitimacy of her role within the Justice Department.

Earlier on Tuesday, the chief judge of the federal district court in eastern Virginia issued an order soliciting applicants to replace Halligan, noting that her interim appointment expired after 120 days and that the Senate hadn’t voted to confirm her.

Another judge separately excoriated Halligan for continuing to identify herself as U.S. attorney, despite the November ruling that found her appointment unlawful. “In short, this charade of Ms. Halligan masquerading as the United States Attorney for this District in direct defiance of binding court orders must come to an end,” wrote Judge David Novak, a Trump appointee who was confirmed in 2019.

Novak also criticized the tone of a recent filing, cosigned by Bondi and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, in which Halligan accused him of abusing his power. That response, Novak wrote, “contains a level of vitriol more appropriate for a cable news talk show and falls far beneath the level of advocacy expected from litigants in this Court, particularly the Department of Justice.”

Before Halligan’s appointment, the Trump administration had taken similar steps to install handpicked prosecutors atop offices from New Jersey to California by sidestepping the customary confirmation process. Among them was another former personal lawyer for Trump, Alina Habba, who resigned in December as the top federal prosecutor in New Jersey after an appeals court ruled she was unlawfully serving in the role.

Bondi called Halligan’s departure a “significant loss for the Department of Justice” and said the “circumstances that led to this outcome are deeply misguided.”

“Despite multiple, unnecessary legal obstacles placed in her path, Lindsey stepped forward at a critical juncture for our Nation and fulfilled her responsibilities with courage and resolve,” the attorney general said.

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Which is what the article says. Maybe don't start your critique of the article and the "rag" with an admission that you didn't even read it.

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"First let me insult you, but then I'd like to say yeah I didn't read it but I was right anyway"

Vomiting your opinion without even reading the source is the reason some of us left other platforms, please stop.

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Dude, I posted an article. You said it was trash but also that you didn't read it. I said I hate it when people already have an opinion before they read the article. Everything else is in your head

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Impeach. Noem, Bondi and Trump.

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ICE no doubt redacting their faces like an Epstein file

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Windows 10 decided to update a machine in a client's office. The update took 4 hours and the employee could do zero during that time. A few weeks later a Win 10 machine at the same office crashed and would not start. I was left googling error codes from the BSOD. Nothing worked and I had to reinstall. I decided I needed to get my own work stack off of windows. I installed Kubuntu. 2 years later and I like KDE, I like the Debian base, I hate snap, but mostly I'm working and productive.

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So this is "the worst of the worst"?

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Gross. It's almost like we maybe should have brought this case in one of the 4 years they had before he was reelected 🙄

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7 hard drives at 12TB each in your luggage?

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It's a chip fab?

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Wait so the Japanese are gonna produce IKEA meatballs?

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Republicans swat down Democratic offer to end shutdown as impasse continues into 38th day ( apnews.com )

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader John Thune quickly swatted down a Democratic offer to reopen the government and extend expiring health care subsidies for a year, calling it a “nonstarter” as the partisan impasse over the shutdown continued into its 38th day....

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"But Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., made clear he will not make any commitments. “I’m not promising anybody anything,” Johnson said Thursday when asked if he could promise a vote on a health care bill."

He's not even willing to promise a vote. Dems need to hold firm, Republicans are not feeling the pain yet.

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Shower. I do it while the conditioner is "working".

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The graphs in this are terrible

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Political jokes are not allowed anymore?!

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California has always been there leader in environmental issues, I hate seeing them fold under corporate pressure.

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‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother ( www.theguardian.com )

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy and powerful men – and how everyone knew what was going on

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Heartbreaking to read about a 16/17 year old girl, who's already been traumatized, now trapped in this slimy world.

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To summarize further: "An old man fell"

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Every power item he manipulates for himself normalizes it and allows every future president to use it

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But on the positive side, someone is finally attacking the last obstacle to using our expensive hardware however we want to: device drivers. I'm hopeful.

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    Spoiler alert! It's One Trump America News

    Have you ever traveled outside of America? (Not to Canada or Mexico)

    If you don't know less than 50% of Americans have a passport. The ones who don't, I really see the limitation in their thinking. They never saw that most of the world is in fact freer than them, has a better system in place for their people, and doesn't have some of the major problems that America has. I'm currently in a country...

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    Something I really envy is the EU controls on food. Much of what passes for food here in the US is heavily processed, GMO, misleadingly labeled, etc.

    Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. ( www.propublica.org )

    Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the Trump administration has yet to release it.

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    100% agree. It might be PFAS, or plastics, or GMOs, or whatever but we won't find out if we don't look. It's broken because our reps on both sides are all bought.

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    A quick check at amazon shows these costing about $14 each, no doubt much less in bulk but still expensive. Perhaps inquire with the shipper if they would accept them for reuse if cleaned. If the shipper is friendly they might consider setting up a program to collect these from your city and return them for reuse. The shipper could save considerably on costs and you might have found a new business.

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    No doubt he wants to focus on the Epstein files

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    I know I'm going to get downvoted but I use FSD every day. It's not perfect but it keeps getting better, and it's already the best solution out there. If you haven't actually used it then all you have is someone else's opinion.

    Stipulated: Elon still lied about the timetable.

    Stipulated: Eton helping Trump and doing DOGE made me sick to watch.

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    Unlawful stop. Absolutely lost his temper and punched the driver. Sad that authorities can't see it.

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    Florinated plastic makes the best containers for difficult chemicals like pesticides.

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    To me the question of why Acosta gave Epstein a pass on federal charges (and probably recommended very light state consequences) is now clearer: he was told to by the FBI. The investigation can now move up the chain and try to find out the who and why from the FBI side.

    Republicans Issue Subpoena for Epstein Files—With One Big Exception ( newrepublic.com )

    The Republican-led House on Tuesday issued subpoenas to the Justice Department and high-ranking officials for files related to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein. But there was one notable name missing from the list of subpoenas: President Donald Trump.

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    Alexander Acosta is the name I wanted to see. He was giving Epstein amazing deals waaaayyyy back in 2008 - why?

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    Calling these songs gay is offensive to gay and straight alike. Who writes this trash?

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    There's a growing sense in India that Russia invading it's neighbors is far enough away for them to ignore it completely.

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    I signed up immediately, can't wait for one. Tesla's biggest folly was building the stupid cybertruck instead of something small, simple and cheap like the slate.

    Trans toilet rules 'may force Scottish museums to close' ( www.thenational.scot )

    An interim update from the EHRC, published in May, said that “trans women (biological men) should not be permitted to use the women’s facilities and trans men (biological women) should not be permitted to use the men’s facilities, as this will mean that they are no longer single-sex facilities”....

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    But that might mean there's only room or plumbing connections for (as an example) two or three toilets when there was a room that allowed 4 or 6 toilets. And now the reduced capacity runs against the rules set out in other building codes. I'm not going for or against just saying, see the problems?