Beautiful day for a bike ride if you bundle up.
- We’re disproportionately arresting Native youth.
- Gaps in the bike lanes are quite frustrating.
- The City of Seattle sure decided to screw up the budget going forward.
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That news is best where the presenters of the news use as few adjectives and adverbs to report the day’s events.
These Epstein leaks are much worse than I expected. I guess I really should have been a lot more guarded and careful before I threw my support behind a pedophile. I guess I’ll have to just live with that.
use as few adjectives and adverbs to report the day’s events.
So babbles the Murdoch of his day. How easily we forget “yellow journalism”.
Rooooseeeebuuud..
I guess I’ll have to just live with that.
It will NEVER “think” on its sins. It will DIE getting off to them.
Jubilee for the kids! Its own babbling says so.
Secretary Kegsbreath.
“We have opened an investigation into Senator Mark Kelley for sedition for uh well stating US Law? and well this is embarrassing the wording of the Pentagon’s Universal Code of Military Justice. Fuck.
BUT WE’RE GONNA NAIL HIM FOR BEING NOT MAGA!
Cocktails?
Gonna be a tough day for Pam.
James Comey and Letitia James cases tossed. Halligan isn’t actually a US Attorney and has no standing to present for the government.
Good luck with the job hunt Lindsey.
@3: You miss the point.
On the eve of the invasion of Venezuela for basically no reason, an important public service announcement:
The Trump Family has no record of military service in five generations, 2 world wars, and over 150 years.
And Donald J. Trump is a draft dodger.
5,
Wildly reckless of Whiskey Pete to pick a fight over duty and honor with that man. It’s not just the booze talking. It’s the basic stupidity.
@1&7
Cool so verboten.
Suspect is a black man.
Suspect is a man
The Trump administration is arresting illegal immigrants
The Trump administration is arresting immigrants.
Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Mayor Zohran Mamdani
Christmas is a Christian Holiday
Christmas is a Holiday
The White House claims Senator Kelley acted Seditiously
The White House claims Senator Kelley acted
@ 8
The Trump Family has no record of military service in five generations, 2 world wars, and over 150 years.
This implied standard is going to be a problem for first-generation Americans wishing to become president.
6,
Best citation in many years in footnote 14 of that order.
“Three days after Congress enacted the 1986 law, an Office of Legal Counsel (“OLC”) memorandum authored by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General Samual Alito concluded the statute does not allow “the Attorney General [to] make another appointment pursuant to [subsection (a)] after the expiration of the 120-day period.”
Eat Shit MAGA
11,
Sure, pedophile.
5,
I’ll give Whiskey Pete points for being the team loyalist most willing to publicly drop trou, and ass-fuck himself in order to distract der Führer from the latest humiliating defeat he just suffered in court.
Go ahead. Make Mark Kelly, an otherwise fairly self-effacing guy, into a gigantic national hero for duty, honor, and the rule of law. The nominating primaries begin in just two years. Fuel him up.
-Miserable Failure of a President
This is fake concern, they know there will be no elections or fraudulent elections.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5618168-republican-midterm-election-concerns/
@4 The poster @2 must be an imposter; that can’t be the actual dumbfuck doctor.
@6 I wish Lindsey better success in her new career as a waitress or WalMart greeter:
https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-halligan-disbarment-comey-james/
She’ll be no loss to the legal profession, and this is as good an instance as any to commence disbarring the dictator’s unethical lawyers.
The Ragin’ Cajun finally comes around and drives the final spike into the corpse of Third Way/DLC sellout bullshit:
“This offers Democrats the greatest gift you can have in American politics: a second chance.. Yet it is abundantly clear even to me that the Democratic Party must now run on the most populist economic platform since the Great Depression.
It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss.”
Oh my gosh! A $15 federal minimum wage! Gad zoooks!
@11 It’s not an implied standard, it’s a record of non-service.
17,
So you don’t think that is a fair reflection of his state of mind?
Or you find that kind of simple honesty outside of his character?
Does it even matter?
@20,
Barron has not registered for Selective Service.
Which is a family tradition.
@21 Due to inflation, the discussion now is about a $20 federal minimum wage.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT
BREAKING
The promised TrumpCare plan releasing today!
But it’s not ready.
Godot is going to enter stage left before we see this plan.
If I were a stupid drooling MAGAt I might be asking myself right about now, why in the high holy fuck didn’t Pam Bondi just name Halligan as a Special Attorney under 28 U.S.C. § 515.
If she had then both these indictments would still be going strong today.
It amazes me how Dunning-Kruger just ass-fucks conservatives now that they have all embraced MAGA. They are not just too stupid to get out of their own way. They are too stupid to even know that it’s happening. Dismissing entire realms of human certainty and competence for the sake of vibes and feels will do this to you. And earn you a lifelong case of herpes and neurological damage while you’re at it. Just ask Roger Stone.
@24.
I can’t wait for a roll of gauze and a free pair of scissors for my self care.
@26 Who said it would be free?
Why are we going into Venezuela Rep. Salazar R-FL?
Not an open mic ‘mistake’. Live on fox.
Good luck trying to court-martial a retired military officer, former astronaut, and U.S. Senator for saying, while a civilian, service members have no duty to obey illegal orders.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mark-kelly-trump-gallego-pentagon_n_6924af80e4b054439c6ad91a?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
Kelly’s colleague, Sen. Gallego, got it exactly right when he told Trump and Whiskey Pete, “Fuck you guys.”
Welcome to the Midterm campaign season.
New Fox News poll. 71% of adults say Trump tariffs are causing prices to rise in all major sectors of the economy.
59% of Republicans agree.
And winter heating bills start arriving now. And health insurance.
Bessent, “It’s only in the Blue States. Everywhere else is great!”
Bloodbath.
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-mark-kelly/
Which is fine with me.
I think I was slightly aware that BOTH of Arizona’s Senators are Veterans.
Here’s the other one, USMC, IRAQ deployment to Combat Zone…
Say Pete? Why’d you have to fire the lawyers and the commanders who wouldn’t blast fishing boats out of the water? Fishing Boats with enough range to travel from Venezuela to 300 miles off Puerto Rico? Congress is going to ask you that in 2027. Better get a lawyer.
I saw a farmer on Twatter today, a cattle farmer, I guess they’re upset Cargil and others are merging or doing the local cow farmer bad.
Local Cattle Business not happy. But fuck them.
31,
Were he to become the nominee I would have no problem voting for Sen Kelly over:
Couch Fucker
Dog Killer
Marjorie Space Laser
Lidl
White Go-Go Boots
Zit Face
Ted Cancun
V-neck Sweater
Fuck all these Republicans forever. There is no coming back from fascism.
Why do Republicans insist on people like this guy being allowed to have guns? Are they evil? Or just incredibly stupid? How did he pass a background check to purchase a handgun? Why does he have a concealed carry permit? Didn’t anybody notice he’s crazy?
Sec Def Day Drunk is doubling down in his personal feud with highly decorated Naval Aviator, Test Pilot, NASA Astronaut, and United States Senator Mark Kelly.
Day Drunk posted a still image of Senator Kelly in his Navy uniform accusing him of displaying his medals (Kelly has a lot) “out of order”.
Day Drunk had “inadvertently” reversed the image.🍻🍸 (Hic! 🥴 Burp.) 🍸🍻
They should be voting to Impeach and not abandoning the sinking ship. Coward mother fuckers
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/more-republicans-resignations-prediction_n_6925077ee4b05f521dda468c?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
Can probably guess which Family Values he has.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/missing-virginia-high-school-football-coach-wanted-charges-child-porno-rcna245841
Probably the Family Values of Dumbfuck’s GOPedo Party.
So many people like them young! Like the Mormons.
And Drag Queen Story Hour is the problem. It caused all this!
https://www.today.com/video/porch-pirate-ring-targeted-fedex-packages-with-insider-info-da-252970565884
Fucking Heterosexual Neanderthals are society’s ills.
What’s funa about the Comey dismissL is even if Pam Bondi appeals and SCOTUS decides to allow it there’s still the matter of not presenting the indictment to the grand jury.
Mediocrity rules!
40,
The matter of:
1) not having presented the indictment to the full grand jury;
2) misinforming the grand jury about the Constitutional rights of the accused to remain silent at trial;
3) having presented to the grand jury evidence obtained without a valid warrant constituting privileged communications between the accused and the counsel representing the accused in the present procedings;
4) evidence that the court and the DOJ have characterized as “highly exculpatory” was withheld from Halligan’s presentation to the grand jury, in violation of the law;
5) Halligan having been legally barred from presenting any charges to a grand jury against James Comey after the FBI executed an illegal and warrantless seizure of the communications between James Comey and his attorney in this case, and after which Halligan ordered and received a “comprehensive briefing” on the content of those communications before filing the indictment;
6) the statute that grants the DOJ a possible six months to bring a new indictment “does not permit the filing of a new indictment or information where the reason for the dismissal [is for] some other reason that would bar a new prosecution”.
There is probably lots more. And many of these aforementioned defects, bars, and instances of potentially criminal misconduct in the prosecution are for obvious reasons highly summarized and can be expected to encapsulate multiple individual errors, defects, and criminal offenses on their own, any one of which can be grounds for subsequent dismissal.
The merits decision in this case removing Lindsay Halligan as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia settles only one of what are obviously a large universe of prosecutorial defects and blunders that abused and misled the grand jury and deprived the accused of due process and other important rights. Any appeal of that decision will be limited to that question alone. And any resolution of such an appeal in favor of the obviously vidictive prosecution will not overcome any of the other serious flaws.
I guess they had better invade Venezuela now to distract all their mouth breathing idiot voters from realizing what a bunch of fuckups they all are.
@ 40
What’s funa about the Comey dismissL is even if Pam Bondi appeals and SCOTUS decides to allow it there’s still the matter of not presenting the indictment to the grand jury.
What’s funnier is that even if convicted Comey could still run for president and get elected. Twice.
Like his old boss, TWO-TERM PRESIDENT Donald Trump.
MAHA raised Turkeys?
Hi. Merely six years ago I tried rushing into the office of the governor even though the door was being closed on me, was immediately caught and while screaming like a two year-old was dragged back into the hallway by a state trooper, and then collapsed onto the marble floor and sobbed like I got stood up for junior prom.
I’m now running to be your congressional representative.
Although now that I realize that 2 million people have watched me behave this way, my chances don’t seem very good.
Resurfaced video from 2019
“Aftyn Alyssa Behn has represented the 51st district of the Tennessee House of Representatives since 2023. ”
Wow.. Didn’t know voters in TN were so uninformed.
Bet they know something about how difficult it is for the typical TN voter to make ends meet and repukes just lard munee to Argentina and cut rich people’s taxes.
yawwwn.
@ 45
Wow.. Didn’t know voters in TN were so uninformed.
There are 99 state house reps in TN. Only 9 TN House reps in Congress.
I’m sure there are places in TN where acting like a baby to get what you want is endearing. Probably not many congressional districts would support that behavior.
The Actual Pedophile Fucktard continues to bring us random anonymous updates from the Nazi-saluting microblog site overrun with foreign based bot accounts.
Sure, pedophile.
I’m sure there are places in TN where acting like a baby to get what you want is endearing.
And maybe some in TN are clued in that shopping at Walmart gives you a meager dinner of mostly processed junk for Thursday and the “discount” is measured in shrinkflation.
Behind door number one we have an admission we were working to help a convicted criminal escape home confinement, and seek asylum in the United States.
Behind door number two is dementia
@44&46
January 6th would like a word.
Sec Def Day Drunk’s bitch ass is tripling down.
What other choice does he have? He’s a hair-doo from a television talk show set tasked with running the largest military system on the planet. He knows he’s way over his head. And his only way forward is to do anything and everything to appease his dementia-addled boss.
So he’s got Pamela Jo running interference and sending FBI agents to request interviews with members of the House and Senate. Of course they’ll get nothing and like it. But what makes this remarkable is that in carrying out this performative bullshit for the audience of one, MAGA-turds are outing themselves before a possibly much more important audience of many.
Those would be the officers and enlisted personnel tasked with invading and politically destabilizing peaceful American communities and blowing up innocent fishing boats in the Southern Caribbean.
I mentioned last week how the senior JAG advising SOUTHCOM had advised against the boat strikes last summer, pointing out the liklihood that this would result in extra-judicial murder of civilians in the absence of any named or declared conflict that would probably constitute a war crime. He was reassigned without much notice or media mention. Likewise earlier this summer some Adjutant General in the Oregon National Guard appears to have issued orders authorizing the deployment of troops in defiance of a federal court order in effect at the time declaring such a deployment to be illegal. This also got little attention by anyone.
But today the entire United States is engaging in an otherwise unprecedented exploration of the UCMJ and even a plaque or two displayed at the military academies. And it would be naive as fuck to think that senior command officers in current service are not following along with interest, all the while conveniently being reminded not only of the words they spoke when they took the oath, but also the actual legal consequences for ignoring or forgetting them.
Jeezus. Talk about Streisand effect.
It would have been a whole lot easier for Fat Hitler and his MAGASTAPO to get a National Guard General Jack D. Ripper to take over a state or county election office in Michigan or Ohio in search of “bodily fluids” if they weren’t going to spend the next six months engaging in a theatrical food fight over that general’s duty to refuse the order.
I can hear the gurgling sounds as Bob deep throat’s his Mesiah.
Just kidding, more of a desperate attempt by a desperate individual to own the libs.
The Pedo has gone weak.
Trump hires another anti-vaxxer to help run CDC.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/controversial-louisiana-surgeon-general-tapped-cdc-leadership-role-rcna245824
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/fbi-seeks-interviews-six-democrats-trump-accused-seditious-behavior-rcna245880
I assume all six will assert the Speech and Debate clause, their First and Fifth Amendment rights, and there’s no need to be polite about it (“Fuck off.”). There’s no benefit in talking to the FBI. No competent judge will issue search warrants based on that video, although Bondi might get a rogue judge to do it, in which case they’ll have a first-rate civil rights cause of action, not to mention a bar complaint against her.
To put this all in context, Trump believes it’s illegal to criticize him, so it’s logical that he also believes it’s illegal to say soldiers don’t have to follow his illegal orders, even though that’s the law enshrined in the UCMJ and elsewhere. And there’s no honest broker at DOJ or the FBI to set him straight.
So, because they’re all sheep, they’ll probably press forward with this, and crash and burn in the courts.
@44 Polling 44% – 52% in a district that normally votes 70% Republican is an accomplishment, although it’s probably more Trump’s accomplishment than yours.
I know this is going to come as a shock but missing Virginia High School football coach who is wanted for child pornography and soliciting a minor online for sex is…
You’re never gonna guess…
Ready…
Not Trans.
Saw an anniversary post on Twitter of the Lacey V Murrow sinking, and one person instead of memories of that day, had to inject modern politics into it. The rebuild, they hired a contractor, probably low-bid, from Indiana. Evansville to be exact. Hydro fans may remember that, Thunder on the Ohio.
I remember the conspiracy theories that the bridge was sunk on purpose, but I guess WADOT did there part by removing the Bulge, signaling the intent to go ahead with the rebuild once the Hadley opened. Although, the Hadley wouldn’t be built if the Bulge was still there, getting I-90 built west of Factoria was already a nightmare.
Erika Kirk wants her boyfriend to be president, so she can be first lady.
https://www.rawstory.com/erika-kirk-jd-vance/
lmao.. Old boob teh dumbfuck once babbled that Obama would be “the next Jimmeh Carter”..
So I dug in “two term.. two term President Obama” every chance I got..
Uh boob.. two CONSECUTIVE term President Obama – just like bonzo and empty suit Bush.
The fat hitler aping Grover Cleveland doesn’t count. Seen its poll numbers lately? heh..
56,
If the MAGA Pedophiles weren’t freaked out about that election their super PACs wouldn’t be spending record sums at the last minute to generate silly smears and the Actual Pedophile Fucktard wouldn’t be bringing them to us.
This is funee:
“The author’s background perfectly positions her to deliver this lively, devastating taxonomy and critique of MAGA’s ideologues. She was originally trained in Straussian scholarship—a reading of classical political thought that criticizes the modern turn away from the sources of moral authority toward liberalism and, in Strauss’s view, nihilism…
Her exodus, as she tells it, began in 2010, when she was a fifth-year graduate student, during a lavish banquet at the University of Virginia where she was seated next to an important member of the host organization’s staff, who described meeting First Lady Michelle Obama: “Very tall, very impressive. I’d really like to fuck her.” Field excused herself to go to the restroom. Gazing in the mirror, she wondered: “What on earth am I doing here?”
She didn’t flee entirely. In the ensuing years she lingered as a sort of spy, attending conferences where speakers took turns denouncing liberalism, secularism, feminism, and modernity itself—until, in 2024, she became persona non grata.”
https://archive.ph/VCk2H#selection-909.0-913.238
She apparently met one of widbee dumbfuck boob’s fellow frat bois.
That’s, uh, not your job.
Reports Witkoff coached Russian Diplomats on how to sell their Ukrainian surrender plan to Trump.
(Bloomberg)
I was looking at the idea to alleviate Sea-Tac’s fuel emergency by mobilizing the Air National Guard. I can see why it has been rejected if it has been pitched to the Governor. Supposedly military and civilian do fuel offloads differently. If true, that is moot if the tankers loaded up in Bellingham would be able to take off from BLI heavy. Some of BLI’s approach paths come over Canada, and probably would not have been a problem in the past.
A third infant in Kentucky has died of Whooping cough in 2025.
The pertussis vaccine was developed nearly 100 years ago.
Of course there have been claims of the vaccine causing encephalopathy in the 1970s but no study has found a causal link and the rate of encephalopathy in vaccinated children was shown to be LOWER than cases caused by influenza infection.
But you people have already done the damage. Condolences to the misled families.