And another one…
Former North Dakota Sen. Ray Holmberg has signed an agreement indicating he will plead guilty to a child sex tourism charge.
It sounds like he repeatedly went to Prague on state funded trips with the intent to have sex with young (pre pubescent) children.
He was caught when he was corresponding with another convicted child predator trying to procure child porn.
He got a sweetheart deal to plead guilty to just the one charge and only get 3 years in prison despite the charges calling for 30. More two tiered justice with the Republican millionaire getting the kid glove treatment.

Again, ANOTHER TOP REPUBLICAN has ADMITTED to being an ACTIVE CHILD RAPIST.
How many high level Democrats have been convicted of child rape this century? Why have SO MANY top level Republicans plead guilty to child rape this century?

Uh oh….leaked transcripts of the felon’s lawyer’s notes show he knew for certain having the stolen classified documents was a crime and repeatedly tried to get his layer to go along with lying to the DOJ and saying repeatedly “wouldn’t it be better if there are no documents” “shouldn’t we just say there are no documents” “wouldn’t turning over the documents open me up to prosecution or more searches”.
Blows up his “I didn’t know stealing classified state secrets and keeping them in rooms open to the public and lying to theDOJ and FBI about it was wrong” defense…not that that would be a defense in any unbiased court…but he’s got Cannon so it’s a tossup.

It got cut off so early!!

23 needed medical attention, 6 hospitalized, because as he said “I don’t care about you, I just want your vote, I don’t care.”. - DJT
As if to prove that fact after he left his comfy air conditioned green room to speak he said the media shouldn’t be worried about the crowd in the heat they should worry about him because he’s sweating, then got back into his air conditioned limo to ride to the luxury private jet and flew away in total comfort.
That just might have something to do with over half the crowd leaving DURING THE SPEECH.

The campaign has no plans to reimburse the city for the costs.
One more fact you will ignore.

Republicans just killed their chances of even holding seats in November by twice voting against a national right to contraception, because their plan is to ban contraception. This is hugely unpopular, and they just went all in on it publicly. It’s going to be really hard to pretend this isn’t their plan for 2025 when they already tipped their hand today.
For decades they claimed abortion should be a states rights issue, and now that there’s no national right, they are clear they intend to ban it nation wide. Contraception is exactly the same thing, they are already banning contraception in red states and talking about a national ban behind closed doors. Todays votes to preserve their ability to ban contraception nationwide prove it.

Polls are showing fully 1/3 of Republicans don’t support convicted felon Trump to be president, say he’s the wrong candidate…that was before his convictions and before telling the nation to prepare for no contraception and an outright ban on recreational sex…unbiased non partisan polls of Americans done from Canada.

18-37 year old Republican voters are worse, 47% say he shouldn’t be on the ballot.

Hannity tried to feed him answers in a kid glove softball interview and he still couldn’t answer questions, or did answer them by saying “yes, I’m not joking, I do plan to be a dictator for at least a day (then we’ll see if I like it) and I do seriously plan retribution against my political enemies.” (which include my own supporters if they ever question my plans).

Starting next month convicted felon Trump won’t be able to campaign outside his state (Florida?) without getting prior permission from his probation officer! But he’s still the best you’ve got!

Those numbers are going to get worse as reality sinks in that he’s a felon, with all the restrictions and conditions of a felon, and is not only not the best but likely the worst possible candidate, and a loser, who can’t vote, travel between states, leave the country, has to report to his probation officer (if he’s not in prison), etc, and all the bluster about how he can run the country from prison is suddenly reality and they see that’s insanity, and only an actual cultist would be so delusional as to think they couldn’t find a better conservative candidate (Haley likely would have beaten Biden)…too bad for them those cultists have total control of the party. 😂

Oof…convicted felon Trump held a mid day rally in Arizona (so he could go to a San Francisco fundraiser in the evening) during a heat wave and a dozen maga were hospitalized with heat stroke. More proof you are nothing but a vote for him, and you suffering to near death doesn’t even register to him. Guaranteed he won’t be reimbursing the Phoenix fired department that had to use up its resources taking care of convicted felon Trump’s mess.

Comer busted in huge illegal marijuana deal with China, illicitly using his position as Kentucky’s agriculture commissioner to fast track the import of what he claimed was hemp but in fact was potent thc producing marijuana that failed multiple tests before disappearing instead of being destroyed.
Thousands of emails released under foia prove the intent to hide the deal, the fraud in the importation, the failed testing, the missing thousands of plants, the emails indicating the plants/their descendants are currently still in use and emailed instructions directly from Comer to the grower to never allow their testing.
Shocker! More maga crimes in collusion with our enemies (China) to subvert the laws of America and the stance of their own party (anti drug) for personal gain…because hypocrisy is the main trait of maga.

And be clear….he never met her, doesn’t know her, but he paid her $130k to keep quiet about something that never happened, and went to such great lengths to hide it that he paid her in a way that cost him over twice the payment amount and put him in jeopardy of multiple felony charges…because he’s such a great and strong businessman that cares about law and order and stands strong against all baseless accusations.….right?
PS- Trump gave a phone interview I think yesterday… he might want to stop defaming Carroll on tv. She’s already got a third case in the works, he’s just giving her ammunition for her third, this time at least a $500000000 defamation case, maybe a billion since $100 million wasn’t enough. He might also think about stopping the gag order violations at least until sentencing. He’s continuing to attack the judges daughter, staff, and the jury despite still being under the gag order specifically barring him from talking about any of them, an order he already violated 10 times. It’s possible he has forced the judge to impose prison time for contempt and consider it for the sentence. How stupid is he?

PPS- Alito’s lie about flying the pro-insurrection flag right after Jan 6 has been proven a lie because the neighbor he had a dispute with made a police record of it, and that dispute was a full month after he flew the pro-insurrection flag in January 2021. The maga Supreme Court is not just corrupt, it’s invalid.

I think the writer and director have done some pretty good stuff recently. I mostly believe it's got a chance. Mostly.

Gave it an upvote but I've got a feeling I'll be sensing Deja vu a lot while watching this film. Still want to call the lead actor Ripley...

"That's It man, game over man, game over!" (for the Alien franchise)

I don’t know if you realized but if you were right, he would be done for, because the appeals court panel has also ruled against him repeatedly when he tried to have the judge removed so must also be bloodthirsty, so he won’t be granted an appeal, and the judge can give him 4 years in New York prison to be served immediately which will kill him for certain, possibly in a week or less.
I expect the exact opposite…no prison at all, just probation and possibly in home confinement (hardly a punishment in his case) because Trump ALWAYS gets special white glove treatment. He got it in this case where he violated the judges orders 10 times but never saw an hour of confinement.
You better hope with all your hope you and he are completely wrong again…what will you do without Epstein 2.0 to save you from progress?

PS- Trump has lost his mind so badly and has become so terrified since his multiple felony convictions he now claims he never once said “lock her up” so nobody should say that about him. You probably believe it despite him continuing to say it and continuing to threaten revenge if elected.

Pay attention…GUILTY ON ALL 34 FELONY COUNTS!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
LOCK HIM UP!
Another witch convicted of witchcraft, right?

This with at least one full OAN believing right winger on the jury.
So clear he was guilty there was no way to skew the evidence even to a reasonable doubt for a maggot. The truckload after truckload of evidence corroborated by Cohen and others. Trump had nothing, one witness that completely fell apart and was much worse for Trump than nothing at all, and lots of bluster and whining.

He will try to appeal. He will lose.

Up to 4 years per count, but he’ll likely get a stay at home order and an ankle monitor even though Cohen got 3 years for the same crime, the EXACT same crime, crimes committed FOR Don, not Cohen.

So yes, he could still be elected by people who would elect a multiple felon, rapist, con man, fraud, charity thief, treasonous traitor, and totally immoral man…and he could be impeached and removed on day one for high crimes.

Had one of those entitled businessmen cut in front of me at the train station barriers, pulling his wife along with him. Since I'm in the UK I did the obligatory "Oi, there's a queue and you join back there!"
His response as he went through the gate was "Yeah jumping the line feels good though, you should try it some time."
"Not for me bud, the world's got enough a-holes already." was my immediate response. At least his wife laughed.

Definitely gonna keep this trick in mind for the shops!

Very nice.

I completely agree about her music. I'm not exactly her target audience and I haven't had a breakup in about 20 years, but she seems like an amazing person and she has got some great tunes.

I've come across a couple with great videos that I'll have to put up here (a cyberpunk one and a quirky dance one spring to mind, but no idea of the titles). Thanks for the reminder.

Divine Comedy described Britain's journalism best, and it's only got worse:

Lovers watch their backs as hacks in macs
Take snaps through telephoto lenses
Chase Mercedes Benz' through the night
A mourning nation weeps and wails
But keeps the the sales of evil tabloids healthy
The poor protect the wealthy in this world

You have got to be kidding me.
Shocking that Brits in the name of long dead British soldiers were some of the original Karens.
Outraged over something they never even took the time to even look at (or they likely would have approved) and causing 100 times the issue they complain about with their ridiculous over the top outrage.

I remember this controversy well, and it's nice to see it portrayed outside the <expletive deleted because even I can't think of one strong enough> british tabloid press.

*promote the succinctly put description of the amazing game. (which I never got to play, thus undermining my moral highground)