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"The former aide to Ron DeSatan is the highest-paid adjunct professor at UF's Levin College of Law in at least a quarter century, according to compensation records dating back to 1997. His salary is eight times higher than what the median law school adjunct earns, and comes as the DeSantis administration leans on Florida's 40 public universities and colleges to justify their spending practices.

Combined with his attorney general paycheck, the under-whelming James Uthmeier's teaching stipend at this spectacular sinecure pushes his total state-funded salary to $240,000 " nearly $100,000 more than the governor's annual pay.

In his first year as attorney general, good-for-nothing Uthmeier has focused heavily on headline-grabbing lawsuits targeting corporate diversity programs and LGBTQ+ initiatives. Among them are cases accusing Starbucks of unlawful race-based hiring practices and alleging Target violated federal law through what his office described as "radical LGBTQ+ activism."

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Florida is also the national leader in capital punishment and has been for decades. The Sunshine State houses the largest death row population in the country for states that continue executions. In recent years, Florida has consistently imposed the highest number of death sentences in the country. Ron DeSatan also wants more ICE gulags built in Florida. The Sunstate State has the some of the weakest gun laws in the US. In an average year, 3,172 people die and 6,358 are wounded by guns in Florida, like a warzone without a foreign enemy.


... USAG Pam Bondi ...

Steeleye Span - Alison Gross (1973)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
Alison Gross that lives in yon tower
The ugliest witch in the North Country
Has trysted me one day up to her bower
And many a fair speech she made to me

She stroked my head and she combed my hair
She set me down softly on her knee
Saying if you will be my lover so true
So many good things I would give to you

[Pre-Chorus]
Away, away, you ugly witch
Go far away and let me be
I never will be your lover so true
And wish I were out of your company

[Chorus]
Alison Gross she must be
The ugliest witch in the North Country
Alison Gross she must be
The ugliest witch in the North Country
...



@#14 ... Well, there you go again. Trump, Trump, Trump. Why not make the same argument that you wanted Bush, Obama, and Biden too? ...

Your left out fmr Pres Clinton.

Here's an interesting article ...

The one weird court case linking Trump, Clinton, and a billionaire pedophile (2017)
www.politico.com

... A woman who claims in a lawsuit that she was lured into a sex-trafficking ring run by billionaire Jeffrey Epstein contends that the depravity began at a Florida resort now known as the winter White House: Mar-a-Lago.

Virginia Giuffre's civil suit, scheduled to go to trial here later this month, threatens to expose new details of a long-running saga tying together President Donald Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta, and other prominent figures, including Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz.

Epstein, a well-connected Manhattan money manager and philanthropist, was once a regular at Mar-a-Lago and an active supporter of the Clinton Foundation"repeatedly lending his 727 jet to Clinton for trips overseas. Dershowitz defended Epstein amid an investigation into his involvement with underage girls more than a decade ago, and it was Acosta"then the U.S. attorney overseeing south Florida"who allowed Epstein's case to be resolved in state court in 2008.

The scandal has spawned a series of drawn-out civil suits, including Giuffre's.

Giuffre, formerly Roberts, claims she was 15 and working as a towel girl at Trump's posh Palm Beach club when she was recruited nearly two decades ago into sexual slavery by socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, then Epstein's girlfriend.

A lawyer for Trump says the president was unaware of any wrongdoing by Epstein. ...



More from the article ...

... The Saturday disclosure was designed to be the Justice Department's last word on the files, explaining why any documents were withheld and providing the legal basis for shielding any names.

Instead, lawmakers say the department skirted its legal obligation for greater transparency and muddied the waters by releasing an extensive list of names, ranging from celebrities to politicos, with little explanation accompanying them.

"This is once again the DOJ covering up the truth," Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) wrote Tuesday afternoon on the social platform X.

The list, totaling more than 250 names, includes a number of well-known figures, from Mick Jagger to Queen Elizabeth, as well as political figures on both sides of the aisle.

It's unclear what ties, if any, several of the figures have to Jeffrey Epstein. Many appear to simply be referenced in media clips sent by the convicted sex offender or by the FBI as it shared a roundup of news reports that also included clips referencing Epstein.

"To have Janis Joplin, who died when Epstein was 17, in the same list as Larry Nassar, who went to prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of young women and child pornography, with no clarification of how either was mentioned in the files is absurd," Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), one of the sponsors of the bill that required the public release for the files, wrote on X.

"DOJ violated the law by not providing a reason for the redactions, has protected people like Sultan and Les Wexner and many other powerful people Rep. Thomas Massie and I are exposing, and then chose to unredact the names without context," Khanna added. ...


@#8 ... Trump still thinks his name has a high dollar value. ...

Like this?

Judge Sides With Residents Who Want Trump's Name Off Their NYC Building (2018)
www.npr.org

... A judge in New York has ruled that residents of Trump Place, a condominium building on Manhattan's West Side, have the right to remove President Trump's name from the building if enough of them approve of it.

The ruling by New York Supreme Court Judge Eileen Bransten marks a defeat for the Trump Organization, which had argued that removing the name would violate the building's licensing agreement.

The company has had to contend with a growing number of commercial and residential buildings, including several outside the country, that want to remove Trump's name.

In New York, several other apartment buildings along the Hudson River have taken the same step. The Trump Soho, a condo hotel opened with great fanfare a decade ago, has been rechristened the Dominick. ...


This song popped up on a playlist here recently ...

Association -- Never My Love (1967)
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Lyrics excerpt ...

genius.com

...
[Verse 1]
You ask me if there'll come a time
When I grow tired of you
Never, my love
Never, my love

[Verse 2]
You wonder if this heart of mine
Will lose its desire for you
Never, my love
Never, my love
...


The MAGA cult's adulation of Pres Trump?

Looks that way ...



Reminds me of ...

drudge.com

a.k.a., leaving early because of politics.

Another view...

Lagarde to leave ECB early to prevent Le Pen from picking successor
www.yahoo.com

... Christine Lagarde is poised to quit as European Central Bank (ECB) boss early over fears Marine Le Pen could pick her successor if she wins the French election.

Ms Lagarde's term expires in October 2027 but the French presidential election falls six months earlier in April.

Polls suggest that National Rally's Ms Le Pen or her deputy Jordan Bardella are on course to win, raising fears they might use the ECB selection process to undermine the central bank's independence.

Ms Le Pen no longer calls for France to ditch the euro as its currency. But Mr Bardella has said the ECB should bail out the indebted French government by buying more of its bonds.

Ms Lagarde, who once served as finance minister in a centre-Right French government, is expected to quit early because of these concerns, the Financial Times reported.

Leaving her post before France goes to the polls would keep Emmanuel Macron in control of France's input into the ECB decision.

"The intent would be to future-proof the ECB from the far Right, under the assumption National Rally win the French presidential election," said Andrzej Szczepaniak, an analyst at Japanese investment bank Nomura. ...


I found this ...

Shia LaBeouf demands 'free me' after battery arrest in Mardi Gras meltdow
www.foxnews.com

... Shia LaBeouf broke his silence Wednesday, nearly 24 hours after he was arrested on simple battery charges in New Orleans.

"Free me," LaBeouf wrote on social media just after 2 a.m. Earlier in the day, the "Transformers" actor was spotted celebrating Mardi Gras and dancing on Bourbon Street with his release papers in his mouth, WGNO reported.

Prior to his arrest, LaBeouf showed off an arsenal of colorful Mardi Gras-themed baubles in a selfie shared on X.

LaBeouf's whirlwind day began with an early-morning bar fight in the Faubourg Marigny district of the city. Authorities responded to a simple battery on the 1400 block of Royal Street at approximately 12:45 a.m. Tuesday where two male victims reported being assaulted, according to the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD). ...



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