This is the most bizarre, exonerative framing I've ever seen in a news report.
This is how you start an article in somebody who was falsely convicted and declared innocent.
Al Jazeera reporting that Israel is imposing an information blackout on accurate reporting about Iran/Hezbollah missle strikes, going so far as arresting journalists accused of saying too much on air.
It actually really helps to conceptualize this in terms of dealing with a cult.
Republicans who acquiesce to Trump are either in the cult or scared of those who are (either physically or for their access to power).
This is the exact same nonsense they used to pull to excuse Fox News being a Republican mouthpiece.
"Oh Fox isn't right-wing. It just looks that way because all the other media is so far to the left."
It was bullshit then. It's bullshit now. It will always be bullshit.
Because I've lived in Maine for barely over a year and I recognize my limitations. I don't know the state nearly well enough to run.
Plus I don't know that anybody would vote for my black ass.
I'm in Ellsworth today for court. Gas prices jumped by about 20 cents in two hours and every station has a line of cars waiting.
Thanks Trump (and the spineless Congress that continues to enable him)
It's almost as if the courts allowing (and approving) military abductions of foreign leaders so long as the government pinky-swore it was merely a law enforcement action might have some entirely foreseeable terrible consequences.
In Trump world, surrender is like consent. You know it's given when you decide it's time.
Too dark?
That excuse doesn't hold water. There's an increasing body of evidence that he absolutely knew the significance of the tattoo and sinply ignored it until he ran for office.
Even accepting he's not a Nazi, he clearly lacks good judgement.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
Secret as in you can't tell or secret as in he couldn't tell and don't know?
Maternal: Freelance laborer and craftsman.
Paternal: Longshoreman.
A friend asked what it's like being a public defender. I said some days I feel as if I took a position at the Orphan Eradication Factory but I get paid to try and stop them killing the orphans.
No matter how good I am at my job, I work within a system built specifically so I can't possibly succeed.
Nothing motivates the masses to form a new democracy favorable to US interests like bombing their infrastructure to rubble and killing their entire family.
That's why massive bombing campaigns have brought us to the utopia of alliances we live in today.... Hold on, I'm getting an update.
Oh no.
Yep, and then add we're going on about 50 years of "America bombing Country X" being background news.
A lot of uninformed people think this is just like the other strikes and our major media isn't doing a great job at getting the warnings out.
If Polis grants clemency because Trump and the right-wing loons were mean to him, I hope Colorado voters will throw that bum out on his cowardly ass.
Fuck this entire two-tiered justice system that destroys the indigent and forgives the connected. Burn it all down and let's try again.
Excellent thread here and I'll just add one extra thing:
I have worked on a few clemency petitions for my clients and it's like pulling an impacted tooth. The entire world looks down on them and hates their guts. No amount of rehabilitation or repentance is enough. No works are sufficient /1
If Polis grants clemency because Trump and the right-wing loons were mean to him, I hope Colorado voters will throw that bum out on his cowardly ass.
Fuck this entire two-tiered justice system that destroys the indigent and forgives the connected. Burn it all down and let's try again.
Excellent thread here and I'll just add one extra thing:
I have worked on a few clemency petitions for my clients and it's like pulling an impacted tooth. The entire world looks down on them and hates their guts. No amount of rehabilitation or repentance is enough. No works are sufficient /1
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My money is Trump saw everybody dunking on him, threw a temper tantrum and insisted DOJ keep going.
Sorry. He's from Oklahoma, not Indiana.
Mixed up my mediocre white guys.
Republican Senator Markwayne Mullin of Indiana did the same thing a few days ago.
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When it comes to our courts protecting cops, it can always get worse.
This one is even worse. The courts held that a state officer working on a federal task force magically becomes a federal officer and gets blanket immunity.
I'm sorry, if you're going to make a big show about how you've got a Department of WAR helmed by a Secretary of WAR and staffed by WARfighters, it's totally inane to then claim that your massive bombing of a foreign country constitutes something other than a war.
Look it’s not a war and we have been at war since 1979 and it was defensive because otherwise they would have attacked us in an act of war that we are not in but have been in since 1979 and Netanyahu was going to start a war anyway that was actually started 47 years ago.
Just open oppression and discrimination without even a fig leaf of justification.
Worse. The crusades had a plan for occupation and the leaders cared about logistics.
Boy was I wrong about this one......
I blame the LHC.
