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athos77 , to Politics in Jan. 6 Rioter Tackled by Feds While Attempting to Flee Court

From a different article, with more details:

Sent harassing and threatening messages to a DC Police detective assigned to the FBI task force that worked on Gossjankowski's case, including antisemitic, homophobic and racist epithets and suggested the officer should be violently sexually assaulted

Instagram posts referring to FBI agents and law enforcement in antisemitic and homophobic terms and called them "animalistic subhumans." The posts also contained the names, email addresses and phone numbers of prosecutors, law enforcement and even court staff involved in the case. At least one post urged Gossjankowski's followers to "inundate" Valentini's inbox with messages.

bedrooms , to U.S. News in Pop Star Pink to Give Away Banned Books at Florida Tour Stops

This from a person with traumatic experiences in school days. I like her even better now.

TheFriendlyArtificer , to U.S. News in Pop Star Pink to Give Away Banned Books at Florida Tour Stops

They say that history is written by the victors.

But what the idiots in charge of Florida, Texas, et al. forget is that it can only be written by people who have the ability to write.

BeardedSingleMalt ,

The “idiots” leading those places are usually educated so they can write the narrative to keep the real idiots uneducated so they’ll keep voting them in

drwho , to U.S. News in Pop Star Pink to Give Away Banned Books at Florida Tour Stops
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“As a famous person once said, ‘You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.’ And as I - another more famous person - once said, if you don’t teach them to read, you can fool them whenever you like.” –Max Headroom

dingdongmetacarples , to Politics in OpEd: Henry Kissinger, War Criminal Beloved by America’s Ruling Class, Finally Dies

🥳

queermunist , to Politics in Michael Cohen Pulled Fake AI Court Cases for a Very Real Legal Motion
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he thought it was a “super-charged search engine.”

Dumbasses like this never have to work for a living while I have to bust my ass welding car parts to pay off loans. 🫠

crsu , to Politics in Michael Cohen Pulled Fake AI Court Cases for a Very Real Legal Motion
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Wow corrupt and dumb

jonne ,

He only got the job with Trump because it’s the only place that would hire him. There’s that saying that definitely applies here: A’s hire other A’s, B’s will hire C’s.

mo_ztt , to Politics in Michael Cohen Pulled Fake AI Court Cases for a Very Real Legal Motion
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“It did not occur to me then — and remains surprising to me now — that Mr. Schwartz would drop the cases into his submission wholesale without even confirming that they existed,” Cohen said. “Accordingly, when I saw the citations and descriptions I had sent Mr. Schwartz quoted at length in the draft filing, I assumed that Mr. Schwartz had reviewed and verified that information and deemed it appropriate to submit to the court.”

Bro:

Even if this is true, don’t throw your goddamned lawyer under the bus. Just say we’re very sorry, we fucked up, I was the one that researched it initially, we won’t do it again. This whole statement does 0% good and a whole lot of bad.

I like Cohen because he manned up and admitted he was wrong but this was a little reminder to me that POS is still in his DNA.

000 ,

This isn’t exactly something you can simply apologize for and move on. His lawyer filed a motion with obviously false case references, and could wind up facing disbarment.

HumbleFlamingo , to U.S. News in The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. Border Patrol agents access to the area

On Thursday, Abbott was subject to widespread criticism when asked where the line was for him in terms of border enforcement mechanisms he suggested the only reason Texas is not shooting migrants crossing the border “is because of course, the Biden administration would charge us with murder.”

uhhh what?

alyaza Mod ,
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the Texas GOP is basically a fascist party and has been for awhile, and this permeates even its upper echelons. its members even meet with fascists like Nick Fuentes at this point

Deceptichum ,
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Someone should shoo them.

dylanmorgan , to U.S. News in The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. Border Patrol agents access to the area

Dang, two awful groups at odds with each other. I find myself more and more frequently wondering “is there a way both parties can lose here?”

sonori , to U.S. News in The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. Border Patrol agents access to the area
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The best part is from my understanding their new law allows cops to arrest anyone out walking their dog without ID as a possible ‘illegal’ until their family or the cops can break into their houses, shoot the dog, and then maybe find their birth certificate or passport.

That’s right, the same people who freaked out about private companies checking vaccines cards during a pandemic are now raving about how the courts are blocking them from arresting anyone who leaves their house without government permission. But of course, the leopards will know to only eat the brown peoples faces.

May I present the party of ‘small government’ ladies, gentlemen, and others, the party of small government.

TigrisMorte ,

Don't worry, they'll only use it against brown people so no problem, right? /s

Moira_Mayhem ,

Can we please stop pretending republicunt hypocrisy is new or funny?

sonori ,
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No. That the Republicans are just populist with no consistent moral or policy positions is too important to just leave unsaid.

Moira_Mayhem ,

Ok I have to admit you are right on that fact. Just I wish the articles weren’t written as if this was some recent development in an otherwise moral party with reasonable differences in perspective that was willing to work on common ground.

Because republicunts are not that at all and the framing makes it seem like ‘well they used to be up until this shocking moment’, and we get those moments 2 or 3 times a month these days…

LallyLuckFarm , to U.S. News in The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. Border Patrol agents access to the area
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So, arrest them?

It is a felony under 18 U.S.C. § 111 forcibly to assault, resist, oppose, impede, intimidate, or interfere with Federal law enforcement officers, including Secret Service agents, in the performance of their duties.

justice.gov/…/criminal-resource-manual-1562-obstr….

Eventually Texas will run out of national guardsmen willing to commit felonies

tardigrada OP , to U.S. News in The Texas National Guard has seized control of Shelby Park in Eagle Pass, Texas, and is denying U.S. Border Patrol agents access to the area

Three migrants drowned near Eagle Pass park after Border Patrol was denied access

A woman and two children drowned trying to cross the Rio Grande, near the Eagle Pass park that Texas troopers have taken control over, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection confirmed on Saturday.

TTimo , to Texas in Ted Cruz Is Getting Nervous He's Going to Lose His Senate Seat

Can only hope.

ccunning , to Texas in Ted Cruz Is Getting Nervous He's Going to Lose His Senate Seat

For those that don’t know (I didn’t) iHeartMedia is the company formally known as Clear Channel.

I guess Clear Channel sullied their name so badly they had to rebrand.

elbarto777 ,

What did Clear Channel do?

ccunning ,

They were kind of the Sinclair Media of the mid-1990s - 2010s

Basically after the 1996 Telcom Act lifted restriction, they started consolidating and monopolizing terrestrial radio markets and enshitifying the airwaves. They brought back payola and started destroying local and regional diversity and pushing homogenous playlists and centralized DJs.

Looks like the rebrand happened a decade ago

elbarto777 ,

Interesting. I knew the enshitifying consolidation happened, but I learned it with the new name, not the old one.

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