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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:23:24 GMT -8
If a Deaf Boy Signs Bad Language, Will His Mother Wash His Hands With Soap? Why Couldn't He Redact the Whole Picture?Always the intellectual, Donald Trump Jr. on Friday came up with an innovative way to respond to the public release of the affidavit supporting the FBI’s search of Mar-a-Lago. He posted a photo of his dad, Donald Trump, in his golf duds with a long black bar over his crotch, and said: “Redact this!” The former president’s thumb is hooked in his belt in the shot.  |
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:25:37 GMT -8
Double Jeopardy
Two decades after her release from prison, Teresa Beatty feels she is still being punished.
When her mother died two years ago, the state of Connecticut put a lien on the Stamford home she and her siblings inherited. It said she owed $83,762 to cover the cost of her 2 1/2 year imprisonment for drug crimes.
Now, she's afraid she'll have to sell her home of 51 years, where she lives with two adult children, a grandchild and her disabled brother.
“I'm about to be homeless,” said Beatty, 58, who in March became the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit challenging the state law that charges prisoners $249 a day for the cost of their incarceration. “I just don't think it's right, because I feel I already paid my debt to society. I just don't think it's fair for me to be paying twice.”
All but two states have so-called “pay-to-stay” laws that make prisoners pay for their time behind bars, though not every state actually pursues people for the money. Supporters say the collections are a legitimate way for states to recoup millions of taxpayer dollars spent on prisons and jails.
Critics say it's an unfair second penalty that hinders rehabilitation by putting former inmates in debt for life. Efforts have been underway in some places to scale back or eliminate such policies.
Two states — Illinois and New Hampshire — have repealed their laws since 2019.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:31:00 GMT -8
Of Course He Did
Families of the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting said in a court filing Thursday that Alex Jones has “systematically transferred millions of dollars” to himself and his family while claiming bankruptcy to avoid compensating the families in the several lawsuits he faces.
The families of nine Sandy Hook victims asked the federal bankruptcy court judge to order that Jones relinquish control of Free Speech Systems, the parent company of Jones’ far-right, conspiracy theory website Infowars.
“Since the Sandy Hook Families filed their lawsuits, the Debtor has systematically transferred millions of dollars to Alex Jones and his relatives and insider entities,” the filing said. “It claims to owe a massive, secured debt to an insider that was first documented as a loan when the Sandy Hook Families were securing key wins in Connecticut and Texas, but no records show that an actual debt existed before the Sandy Hook Families sued.”
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:32:42 GMT -8
They're Not Jumping Anymore
AUkrainian regional governor says the country's soldiers have killed 200 Russian airborne troops in an assault that toppled a base in Ukraine's occupied east.
Serhiy Haidai, the governor of Ukraine's Luhansk administrative district, said on Friday in a Telegram post that Ukrainian troops had successfully attacked the Russian base set up in a hotel in the occupied city of Kadiivka. Haidai's claim to victory comes as Russia's advance in Ukraine's eastern regions has reportedly stalled as the conflict reaches six months.
Welcome to the Hotel Kadivika. Such a Lovely Place.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:36:16 GMT -8
Spy vs Spy Moron
Inventing Anna
A Chinese woman recently arrested at President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago club lied repeatedly to Secret Service agents while carrying computer malware unlike anything a government analyst had ever seen and had more than $8,000 in cash at her hotel room, along with an electronic device that detects hidden cameras, federal authorities told a judge Monday.
He said the FBI is investigating whether Zhang is a spy.
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:37:31 GMT -8
This is Worse Than "Both Sides" Reporting
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:40:46 GMT -8
Which is Worse? Rudy Having Access to Where the Secrets Were or the Fact That There was a Secret Tunnel?
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Post by mhbruin on Aug 27, 2022 8:43:47 GMT -8
Arizona, Arizona, Arizona
After the secretary of state, county recorders and a lower court certified the Arizona Fair Elections Act for the November ballot, the state Supreme Court, at the urging of groups including Carl Rove and Bill Barr, ordered an additional review that excluded just enough signatures to keep the measure off the ballot.
“The high court's order ended a technical legal battle that raged for most of the past week, capping a stunning reversal by a lower-court judge who ultimately concluded the Arizona Free and Fair Elections Act fell 1,458 short of the needed 237,645 valid voter signatures to qualify for the Nov. 8 ballot,” the Arizona Republic wrote.
"The court’s decision to invalidate the Free and Fair Elections Act is unprecedented — even in Arizona," Stacy Pearson, a spokesperson for the committee, said in a statement.
The Act would have guaranteed voting rights for the state’s Native voters and others, while preventing the Legislature from stealing the state’s electoral votes.
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Post by hasben on Aug 27, 2022 14:14:17 GMT -8
After the secretary of state, county recorders and a lower court certified the Arizona Fair Elections Act for the November ballot, the state Supreme Court, at the urging of groups including Carl Rove and Bill Barr
So Bill Barr is still being the fascist pig that he is. He should be in prison!
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