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They found the helicopter and everyone aboard appears to be super dead, reportedly. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05...
Can someone with infrared satellites just tell Iran where this helicopter crash site is already? Feels like the neighborly thing to do.
🚶 www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/u... 🎁
‘We’ll See You at Your House:’ How Fear and Menace Are Transforming Politics
Public officials from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of violence. It’s changing how they do their jobs.
www.nytimes.comThis is where the police budgets are going. Wholesale pants at $80/unit.
YO SCOTTIE YOU OWE ME $80 FOR MY PANTS. NO, I DIDN'T SHIT IN THEM WHY DO YOU ASK
An ESPN reporter phrased it as “the police officer attempted to attach himself” to the car while it was moving.
They put him in the orange prison scrubs for the booking photo. Did you think they’d do that?
Kentucky police arrest and charge the world’s number one golfer with four offenses for trying to drive into the PGA tournament site against an officer’s will. www.wave3.com/2024/05/17/s....
Professional golfer Scottie Scheffler arrested by Louisville Metro police
This reportedly started Friday morning when Scheffler was in a vehicle right outside Valhalla Golf Club for the 2024 PGA Championship.
www.wave3.comThe Justice certainly opened the door to some profiles.
though given how Ginny Thomas has become a complete lunatic, perhaps we haven't heard enough about Mrs. Alito
wild it took this long to come out.
wild the NYT felt they had to get ethics experts to confirm ‘flying the flag of a rebellion as a supreme court justice is bad.’
It’s wild that the Alito family’s attachment to the country that’s given them so much is so thin. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/u... 🎁
At Justice Alito’s House, a ‘Stop the Steal’ Symbol on Display
An upside-down flag, adopted by Trump supporters contesting the Biden victory, flew over the justice’s front lawn as the Supreme Court was considering an election case.
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A remake of True Grit with Mattie Ross and Rooster Cogburn trying to track down Rudy Giuliani.
America’s fugitive. www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/p...
Arizona officials say they can’t find Rudy Giuliani to serve him with indictment notice | CNN Politics
Arizona prosecutors have tried for weeks – and so far failed – to serve Rudy Giuliani with notice of his indictment related to an alleged scheme to overturn the 2020 election results in that state.
www.cnn.comA prisoner escape in France. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/14/w...
Manhunt Underway in France After Prisoner Escapes in Ambush
The French authorities said that armed assailants had attacked a prison convoy, killed two guards and freed an inmate.
www.nytimes.comI’d guess he’s calculating he needs to get a rise out of the witness to damage his credibility with the jury, and so seeking to provoke him, but who knows
First portrait of King since coronation unveiled
First portrait of King since coronation unveiled
Queen Camilla is said to have looked at the painting and told the artist: "Yes, you've got him."
www.bbc.co.ukIf as the court has intimated the next contempt sanction will be jailtime, you might see an appeal or a habeas petition claiming the finding lacked due process. On the other hand, Trump’s public comments are so undisciplined he might well be found to have admitted directing them already.
Using legislators for this purpose is clever. They have a variety of constitutional privileges that would make investigating the extent of Trump’s directions to them difficult or impracticable for the court.
At Trump’s criminal trial in Manhattan, we’ve seen a new defense tactic this week. Teams of GOP legislators have come to the courthouse each day, evidently at Trump’s behest, and held press availabilities to attack the court and the witnesses in an effort to sidestep the court’s gag order.
Most Holy Spirit, who didst brood
Upon the chaos dark and rude,
And bid its angry tumult cease,
And give, for wild confusion, peace,
O hear us when we cry to thee
For those in peril on the sea!
I’m not the NYT/Siena poll or anything, but I’m here to tell you: People really love these orcas and support what they’re doing.
Gibraltar Orcas sink another yacht as owners take refuge on a nearby oil tanker. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Orcas sink sailing yacht in Strait of Gibraltar
An unknown number of orcas have sunk a sailing yacht after ramming it in Moroccan waters in the Strait of Gibraltar, Spain's maritime rescue service said on Monday, a new attack in what has become a trend in the past four years.
www.reuters.comAs I remember it, the content of his expression was very much reflected up top.
“We have to know that sometimes people will open the door for you and leave it open. Sometimes they won’t. And then you need to kick that f——— door down." www.yahoo.com/news/harris-...
Harris utters a profanity in advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders
Vice President Kamala Harris used a profanity on Monday while offering advice to young Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders about how to break through barriers. Harris was particip...
www.yahoo.comThe precise difference, I think, is this: If Trump calls Ted Cruz a pussy, it makes the headline. But if Kamala Harris tells minority kids to kick the fucking door down in response to bigotry, the headline is “a PROFANE OATH has escaped our Vice President” and you don’t see her message til graf 4.
I know it’s dumb to point out that Trump never gets headlines like this but holy fuck Trump never gets headlines like this
That’s interesting. I just remembered she’d already acknowledged the pseudonym by then.
Yeah she wrote the series under the pseudonym robert galbraith. I think she’d already unveiled herself by the time this one came out.
Fair enough. I suspect they would’ve been far better off to put the main saga on hold while they pursued spin offs like house of the dragon etc, until they had more books to work with (if ever), but I can’t prove that.
Certainly fair to dislike the books but objectively the plot of the HBO series was well beyond anything that’s been published by the end.
It’s worse; she wrote Career of Evil nine years ago and still does this tiresome social media demagoguery.
the thing i keep thinking about jk rowling is she's not a good enough writer to actually write a book where thinly veiled stand-ins for trans people are the villains, so she's reduced to being an exhausting dipshit on twitter
perhaps the lesson they should have learned was hacking together a disappointing and trite final act can spoil the longevity of an otherwise valuable franchise
game of thrones unfortunately proved to tv execs that people (prop included) will watch any old bullshit as long as production values are high enough
Opening paragraph for a beach-read paperback thriller:
I keep two chef’s knives at home and one in my knife roll for work, and one of my two home knives is missing. I briefly thought my husband took it to get sharpened, but nope. How did I lose a big sharp knife?!
sorry for disturbing you
random middle-aged man in the vet's waiting room just started talking to me about how he'd love to see the cohen testimony today. then offered that the judge in the documents case is out of control and so is the supreme court and the dems in congress need to do something about it
The people call Michael Cohen, who I still cant believe has 40,000 contacts in his phone.
Paul Manafort is supposedly out at the RNC after newspapers started reporting on his machinations and foreign contacts ahead of the Milwaukee convention. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u... 🎁
Amid Scrutiny, Paul Manafort Leaves Republican Convention Role
Eight years after helping Donald J. Trump get elected — and four years after being released from prison — the longtime political operative was back as a volunteer to advise the G.O.P. convention.
www.nytimes.comJeanette, a dear friend of ours, got devastating news this week; she was diagnosed with a fast growing brain cancer. Her daughter is organizing a fundraiser. If you can spare any dollars for a sweet lady who runs a solo business making granola, I’d be most grateful. www.gofundme.com/f/support-je...
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