“It doesn’t matter whether the ship is sinking or not, the important thing is that we stick together!” he said pleadingly to his fellow rats

They’ll try all these things, but who knows if they’ll be successful. They’re less powerful than they used to be.

Let’s not forget the “How together does my shit really need to be anyway?” phase, that’s my favorite

It was a state trial

Nope, just quoting from the above article (bolds added),

On Tuesday, Elizabeth was sentenced to 50 years in federal prison … Their attorneys announced their intention to appeal, but many supporters are doubtful that anything short of a presidential pardon from a future administration would free them.

It’s shit like this one minute and then bawling your eyes out over Sniper Wolf talking growing up as an orphan during the second Iraqi-Kurdish war the next

No, I think their complaining and lobbying is a bullshit pretense to keep everyone talking about this legislation that doesn’t solve the problem (and creates a few new ones) instead of talking about policies that would actually do something

They need to be on the lips of anyone who wants the Democratic party’s nomination for president, immediately preceded by “I hereby pledge on my first day in office to immediately pardon”

This bill is becoming law whether he supports it or not. It’s also quite popular (with everyone who is not in Private Equity).

I don’t buy any Private Equity whining about this, all they need to do is spin up a few corporate shells and they’ll be able to keep each one of them under the limit on single family home ownership, but they’ll still be cashing subsidies for construction and enjoying the gutting of environmental regulations that came with this

The real housing reform we need is more public housing on the market owned and administered by municipal or state governments, anything short of that is just going to be putting money back into the pockets of the land barons

Also, it passed with a veto proof majority, so unless he’s able to brow beat Republicans into switching their votes when he sends it back to them it’s a done deal

Huh, every single state court system does things differently so maybe there was no limit in your case, but there is definitely a limit in federal trials, see Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 24, part (b) here - https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/frcrmp/rule_24 (arc)

If that page isn’t loading for you, try this archive of it - https://ghostarchive.org/archive/ESGd6

“He was also having trouble hearing, asking people to repeat questions they had just asked,” Haberman and Swan wrote. “Joint press conferences with world leaders were more often held in the Oval Office than in the East Room, in part because the acoustics were better, and he didn’t have to stand for an hour.”

And while the president has always been known for speaking his mind, “whatever thin verbal filter he had in the past was gone,” the book continued. Some of Trump’s aides began saying privately that for the first time he was beginning to seem old to them.

“Those who spent time with him could see the signs—the moments of fatigue, the cupped hand behind the ear,” according to Haberman and Swan.

The book also sheds new light on a symptom the Daily Beast has long reported on: his bulging ankles, which his doctors have said is the result of chronic venous insufficiency.

The condition occurs when the legs don’t pump blood properly back to the heart.

According to Regime Change, Trump was upset about the press coverage of his “cankles” and demanded that his press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, address it during one of her media briefings.

Seems like everything else in this article is just Trump and his cronies whining about the news accurately reporting on his appearance and behavior going downhill

Yeah, also maybe explains a bit about the guilty verdicts in the first place - I bet every single one of those prospective jurors got rejected and the prosecution didn’t have to spend any of their challenges to do it because being opposed to ICE meant they were “biased”

Again, everything you’re saying right now would be very easy for you to just make up. If there are so many links you should actually contribute something to the community by sharing one instead of conditioning people to accept bullshit assertions.

Better article - https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-abortion-law-exceptions-confusion-access/71102195 (arc)

Pretty easy to just make that up right now, got a link?

There are a lot more people than me who I am worried about being able to access information

Recipients have 30 days to read the article before access is revoked.

https://help.nytimes.com/360060848652-Gift-Articles-for-New-York-Times-Subscribers (arc)

How many clicks/days until it expires?

Love to find out about attempted martial law months after the fact as part of a book publicity tour /s

And the people who ARE paying for news media tend to be the boomers oligarchs

No number of subscriptions to the Washington Post I could pay for will stop them from reporting what Jeff Bezos wants