President Trump called the woman pictured below a “loser” for being captured. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and DOGE ordered her service history to be deleted from the Department of Defense archives because she was “DEI” and “woke.”
Ruby Bradley was serving as an Amy nurse in the Philippines when she was taken prisoner just weeks after t…
Sometimes, when he fails badly enough, Trump can be forced to do the thing he says he never does: back down.
Today is just one more turn on the roller coaster - but it is more evidence of why we can't give up or let up.
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I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
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It’s about damn time. AOC is a hero. She’s one of the best out there, fighting daily against Trump’s fascist bullshit.
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We live in a time that people are more inclined to obey an unlawful executive order than they are to follow a court order 🤦🏾♀️.
Dictators are created due to cruelty, cowardice, & compliance! IF THEIR ASSES will ignore the Supreme Court, we can definitely IGNORE HIM!
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You hit publish, and there’s no reaction.
No likes. No shares. Just silence.
But writing isn't about receiving praise.
It’s about leaving parts of yourself for others to discover.
It may take days.
It may take years.
But keep writing, regardless…
The NYT rejected my latest comment:
Manhattan District Attorney Bragg’s closing down the grand jury proceedings on possible Trump criminal activities reminds me of Pulitzer-Prize-winning Jesse Eisinger’s book, THE CHICKENSHIT CLUB.
The title came from Southern New York Federal Attorney James Comey’s first meeting with his prosecutorial staff. He asked his prosecutors “Have any of you ever lost a case? If so, please raise your hand.” Not a hand came up. Then Comey said “You are all members of the …
Keith, thanks. Explaining away Trump's routine escape from prosecution after a lifetime of criminal activity, including sedition in an attempt to overthrow the American government with prosecutorial ambition is a partial explanation.
The most important part of the this story is how two career lawyers spent FIVE years pursuing charges and were in the final grand jury indictment process. That would have wound up pretty soon and the fact that the new NY DA short circuited it is of great impor…
Mike, your arguments make no sense, and as Fern said, you provide no evidence. Heat but no light. The last thing the new DA wants to do is drop the case against Trump. Unless he sees that the case is weak. It lacks hard evidence, as the NYT explained in detail today. There are no emails or correspondence from Trump (he doesn’t use email for this reason, and he tears up all the notes from his meetings) stating that he knows he was cheating on his taxes or on loan applications. There is no credib…
JR, I think your opening line needs qualification. Mike's comment makes perfect sense, as does yours, which opposes Mike's conclusion. This is exactly why many (if not most) conspiracy theories work. The heart of any conspiracy theory is, "Here is the truth, which makes perfect sense. However, there is no evidence for this truth, because it has been deliberately concealed. And there is no evidence for the concealment, because the people who concealed it were good at their job."
Or the evidence i…
You say Mike's comment makes 'perfect sense'. Can you present an argument for that Joseph that will not take up more that two legal size pages and make sense as well?
Fern is correct; it`s called an "Opening Argument" which must resonate with a Jury & be supported by copious amounts of admissible evidence. Note, jurors have done their own property evaluations.
Bryan, Thank you for the amicus brief. Can I take you with me?
Jury questionnaies, jury selection & necessary disqualifications are Trial skills. Sidebars with prospective jurors saves a lot of the limited number of DQ's.
Oh, those Sidebars are intoxicating.
The other day I tried to respond to an email and my brain answered in dial-up noises.
That’s when I knew: time to log out.
Not forever. Just long enough to stop buzzing like a cracked phone left charging on a window sill—overheating, glitching, and whispering “I’m fine” when it’s clearly not.
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I dunno about anyone else but as soon as the White House went after National Public Radio I made the largest donation I’ve ever made to them. I can’t afford it, not really, but we cannot afford to lose THEM.
Donate, if you can. Shit, stop supporting ME and donate. It will go farther.
Enjoying my wife's delicious swordfish steaks for dinner last night. As we were eating, I mentioned how the swordfish has no natural predators to fear in the ocean...except perhaps the penfish, which is supposedly mightier than the swordfish.
