I’m on vacation and I just spent the past hour in a hammock my feet in the sand giving myself the occasional push. I want everyone to be able to just do this, get away feet in the sand hydrate and relax.
So, I looked up her experience. Graduated from U Michigan Law with honors, clerked for a federal District judge, 3 years at a top law firm, 7 years as a federal prosecutor. She ain't dumb. She ought to know the law, and I see nothing in her background that would suggest she doesn't, or doesn't have the ability. She's making outcome-based decisions, which aren't legally supportable. So she seems dumb, because her decisions are wrong, contrary to the law and to the facts. But that's the only way she can decide in favor of Trump, or at minimum slow things down.
She is, like many other seemingly capable people, sacrificing her own reputation in service to Trump. That's all it is.
She maybe an idiot, but she is also a savant. She's managed to delay the trial into the next decade without, apparently and because our court system suuuuuuccckks bigly, giving Smith sufficient cause to have her removed.
Why did I spend so much time paying attention in school when I could have simply failed upwards? Is having a conscience and ethics what's held me back all this time? Dammit.
I'm pretty sure she's not stupid. Every time the Meidas Touch gang whoop with joy, because "Jack has painted her into a corner", out she walks without a smear of paint on her souls. Maybe "analysis paralysis" is a factor, but my inclination is her aim is simple delay. Either through fear or bias. And I'd go with bias. But who knows!
It would be very interesting to know more about her time as a prosecutor. Was she good, bad, indifferent? What did her co-workers think of her. Certainly her time as a prosecutor doesn't seem to have nurtured any empathy for Jack Smith and his team. Maybe she was a brilliant prosecutor and isn't impressed with how Jack and co are going about it? Teaching them a lesson - on how a "proper" prosecutor should do it? Whatever the reason, she's definitely not giving them any breaks - or the tiniest bit of leeway.
But most puzzling of all... doesn't she care how this looks? i.e. that she is biased and incompetent. And, basically... shouldn't be a judge.
I'm not looking forward to today. My partner has a meeting with her supervisor and her supervisor's supervisor and is catrastophizing accordingly. The landlord's realtor is coming to assess the property today and I'm sure she'll have some opinions about how I've kept the space, and how it is generally.
Eh. It's *my* home, at least for now. I keep it reasonable enough considering the occupants present until yesterday. Not that she knows any of that.
Give her a hug and tell her that Internet strangers can rightly deduce that she is wonderful, and that her value and worth is not defined by the outcome of this meeting.
On the subject of overly biased judges, Jamie Raskin has a great piece in the Times on what can be done if Herrs Alito and Thomas refuse to recuse. Gift link (copy and paste and pass it on!):
“Any justice, judge or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
Turned out to be a sensor in the car, so while we did not have 350 bucks, it coulda been worse and at least we had nothing on the CC so could pay for it.
Also, the fridge comes today and just in the nick of time too cause the compressor on the old one sounds sorta like the part in titanic when they were doing the underwater metal stress sounds
At least 30 candidates have been slain before Sunday’s elections. Analysts blame cartels seeking to rule towns.
By Patrick J. McDonnell
MEXICO CITY — Noé
Ramos was chatting with voters, sharing breakfast with supporters of his mayoral reelection bid in his hometown in northern
Mexico. “It’s something very special that people give me a glass of water, that they invite me to have a taco, to have a tamale,” Ramos said in a Facebook livestream last month featuring him at an outdoor table in El Mante in Tamaulipas state. “It motivates me to keep on working to make things better. … I will not defraud them.” An hour later, Ramos was
dead. An attacker approached him on the campaign trail and stabbed him multiple times. The same day, April 19, a
mayoral candidate in the southern state of Oaxaca was found dead, two days after he was reported missing. The slayings of at least 30
candidates have provided a chilling backdrop to Mexico’s elections on Sunday, as criminal gangs seek expanded control in states where cartels already wreak havoc.
Fresh off a red-eye flight from California, Cynthia Frybarger dropped off her luggage at the Margaritaville hotel in Midtown early Wednesday and boarded a downtown Q train, bound for the hottest pop-up spot in Manhattan.
Her destination: Collect Pond Park, the square plot of cement and trees across Centre Street from the front doors of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where a few hours later a group of 12 New Yorkers began deliberating whether to convict Donald J. Trump in the first criminal trial of an American president.
“I didn’t come strictly for this, but it fit in perfectly,” Ms. Frybarger, 73, said, holding up the “Lock Him Up!!!” poster she had made back home in San Jose...
As two anti-Trump demonstrators, Kathleen Zea and Julie DeLaurier, ventured into a warren of Trump supporters, a group of shouting men and women wearing “Make America Great Again” garb surrounded them, attempting to block them from view with Trump flags. Ms. Zea said a woman had grabbed her anti-Trump sign and jabbed her with a pro-Trump flag, causing bruising and a laceration.
“I’ve never had that happen,” said Ms. Zea, an activist who lives in Astoria, Queens. “We yell at each other, but I never had a hand put on me — I was being attacked.”
The police intervened and broke up the fracas. They escorted Ms. Zea and Ms. DeLaurier out of the park as a battery of pro-Trump demonstrators followed, shouting insults and wishing them deportation and death. A similar scene unspooled across the afternoon with at least three other anti-Trump demonstrators.
Ms. Frybarger, too, got into a shouting match with pro-Trump demonstrators on the other side of the park, but her experience ended peacefully — or at least not in violence. She wandered over to talk with some of them, and a crowd formed around her, with a police officer ordering the demonstrators not to touch her sign. After some tense exchanges over Mr. Trump’s and President Biden’s respective policies in office, Ms. Frybarger and the pro-Trump protesters seemed to agree on some points, and the crowd calmed.
“That’s how you do it,” the officer said. “Dialogue.”
I’m on vacation and I just spent the past hour in a hammock my feet in the sand giving myself the occasional push. I want everyone to be able to just do this, get away feet in the sand hydrate and relax.
So, I looked up her experience. Graduated from U Michigan Law with honors, clerked for a federal District judge, 3 years at a top law firm, 7 years as a federal prosecutor. She ain't dumb. She ought to know the law, and I see nothing in her background that would suggest she doesn't, or doesn't have the ability. She's making outcome-based decisions, which aren't legally supportable. So she seems dumb, because her decisions are wrong, contrary to the law and to the facts. But that's the only way she can decide in favor of Trump, or at minimum slow things down.
She is, like many other seemingly capable people, sacrificing her own reputation in service to Trump. That's all it is.
She maybe an idiot, but she is also a savant. She's managed to delay the trial into the next decade without, apparently and because our court system suuuuuuccckks bigly, giving Smith sufficient cause to have her removed.
Can we PLEASE replace this photo of Cannon with maybe a kitten or a puppy?
Can we PLEASE replace this photo of Cannon with maybe a kitten or a puppy?
Why did I spend so much time paying attention in school when I could have simply failed upwards? Is having a conscience and ethics what's held me back all this time? Dammit.
I'm pretty sure she's not stupid. Every time the Meidas Touch gang whoop with joy, because "Jack has painted her into a corner", out she walks without a smear of paint on her souls. Maybe "analysis paralysis" is a factor, but my inclination is her aim is simple delay. Either through fear or bias. And I'd go with bias. But who knows!
It would be very interesting to know more about her time as a prosecutor. Was she good, bad, indifferent? What did her co-workers think of her. Certainly her time as a prosecutor doesn't seem to have nurtured any empathy for Jack Smith and his team. Maybe she was a brilliant prosecutor and isn't impressed with how Jack and co are going about it? Teaching them a lesson - on how a "proper" prosecutor should do it? Whatever the reason, she's definitely not giving them any breaks - or the tiniest bit of leeway.
But most puzzling of all... doesn't she care how this looks? i.e. that she is biased and incompetent. And, basically... shouldn't be a judge.
Most excellent typo...
Does Aileen Cannon speak English fluently?
Probably no better than Trump.
Maybe??? The woman is a disaster as a judge - and probably does it on purpose for Trump.
I'm not looking forward to today. My partner has a meeting with her supervisor and her supervisor's supervisor and is catrastophizing accordingly. The landlord's realtor is coming to assess the property today and I'm sure she'll have some opinions about how I've kept the space, and how it is generally.
Eh. It's *my* home, at least for now. I keep it reasonable enough considering the occupants present until yesterday. Not that she knows any of that.
Give her a hug and tell her that Internet strangers can rightly deduce that she is wonderful, and that her value and worth is not defined by the outcome of this meeting.
On the subject of overly biased judges, Jamie Raskin has a great piece in the Times on what can be done if Herrs Alito and Thomas refuse to recuse. Gift link (copy and paste and pass it on!):
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.v00.vEju.hzo5niCGxTwc&smid=url-share
“Any justice, judge or magistrate judge of the United States shall disqualify himself in any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.”
How bout it, Loose Cannon?
Can we haz President Raskin now pleez?
Thank you for sharing this. It’s really encouraging..
First world problems happy ending addition:
Turned out to be a sensor in the car, so while we did not have 350 bucks, it coulda been worse and at least we had nothing on the CC so could pay for it.
Also, the fridge comes today and just in the nick of time too cause the compressor on the old one sounds sorta like the part in titanic when they were doing the underwater metal stress sounds
You might want to get a nice quality recording of that sound for you still have the option to do so. You never know.
My former fridge unfortunately didn't make recordable noises. It just stopped getting cold enough.
Stealth-death
People Are Strange Machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlw64zQnBpk
𝗣𝗮𝘆𝗣𝗮𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗱 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗽𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆
You are the product, after all
https://www.theregister.com/2024/05/28/paypal_ad_network/
So they're gonna sell me even moar wonket?!
Great. Ads for stuff I already bought and no longer need to buy.
I saw car ads almost a year following the last purchase.
More neon, dystopia!
I worried once my credit card bank started getting involved.
Yikes!
fuck me
Yet another reason not to use PayPal.
See what happens when you lose the rule of law??
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At least 30 candidates have been slain before Sunday’s elections. Analysts blame cartels seeking to rule towns.
By Patrick J. McDonnell
MEXICO CITY — Noé
Ramos was chatting with voters, sharing breakfast with supporters of his mayoral reelection bid in his hometown in northern
Mexico. “It’s something very special that people give me a glass of water, that they invite me to have a taco, to have a tamale,” Ramos said in a Facebook livestream last month featuring him at an outdoor table in El Mante in Tamaulipas state. “It motivates me to keep on working to make things better. … I will not defraud them.” An hour later, Ramos was
dead. An attacker approached him on the campaign trail and stabbed him multiple times. The same day, April 19, a
mayoral candidate in the southern state of Oaxaca was found dead, two days after he was reported missing. The slayings of at least 30
candidates have provided a chilling backdrop to Mexico’s elections on Sunday, as criminal gangs seek expanded control in states where cartels already wreak havoc.
Acknowledged, not upvoted.
Can't upfist this. WTF is the Mexican government doing about all this? Do they not have a national guard or similar to get rid of those cartels?
Jesus.
Those poor people
As they say, so close to America, and so far from God.
Oh what Presidential immunity could bring!
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗲𝗻𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗧𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁. 𝗦𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝗼𝗳.
Fresh off a red-eye flight from California, Cynthia Frybarger dropped off her luggage at the Margaritaville hotel in Midtown early Wednesday and boarded a downtown Q train, bound for the hottest pop-up spot in Manhattan.
Her destination: Collect Pond Park, the square plot of cement and trees across Centre Street from the front doors of the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse, where a few hours later a group of 12 New Yorkers began deliberating whether to convict Donald J. Trump in the first criminal trial of an American president.
“I didn’t come strictly for this, but it fit in perfectly,” Ms. Frybarger, 73, said, holding up the “Lock Him Up!!!” poster she had made back home in San Jose...
As two anti-Trump demonstrators, Kathleen Zea and Julie DeLaurier, ventured into a warren of Trump supporters, a group of shouting men and women wearing “Make America Great Again” garb surrounded them, attempting to block them from view with Trump flags. Ms. Zea said a woman had grabbed her anti-Trump sign and jabbed her with a pro-Trump flag, causing bruising and a laceration.
“I’ve never had that happen,” said Ms. Zea, an activist who lives in Astoria, Queens. “We yell at each other, but I never had a hand put on me — I was being attacked.”
The police intervened and broke up the fracas. They escorted Ms. Zea and Ms. DeLaurier out of the park as a battery of pro-Trump demonstrators followed, shouting insults and wishing them deportation and death. A similar scene unspooled across the afternoon with at least three other anti-Trump demonstrators.
Ms. Frybarger, too, got into a shouting match with pro-Trump demonstrators on the other side of the park, but her experience ended peacefully — or at least not in violence. She wandered over to talk with some of them, and a crowd formed around her, with a police officer ordering the demonstrators not to touch her sign. After some tense exchanges over Mr. Trump’s and President Biden’s respective policies in office, Ms. Frybarger and the pro-Trump protesters seemed to agree on some points, and the crowd calmed.
“That’s how you do it,” the officer said. “Dialogue.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/nyregion/collect-pond-park-trump-scene.html
...And they did not arrest the fuckers who attacked that woman why?
You made me go look up the song. What a way to start the day!
Rage Against The Machine - Killing In the Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWXazVhlyxQ