Acting U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan initiated a Signal chat two weekends ago with Lawfare reporter Anna Bower in which the newly-appointed federal prosecutor tiptoed to the verge of revealing grand jury information in the Letitia James case. After Bower started reporting out the Signal exchange, including by calling Main Justice, Halligan sent Bower a final message late yesterday, more than a week after starting the chat: "By the way " everything I ever sent you is off record. You're not a journalist so it's weird saying that but just letting you know." The entire episode is madness. Halligan " who has no prior experience as a prosecutor " comes off as even less sophisticated than expected. She also seems peevish, self-consciousness, and in utterly over her head, in every possible way.
A pardoned Capitol rioter was arrested last weekend for allegedly threatening to kill House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Court documents obtained by CBS News said Christopher Moynihan was arrested Sunday after saying in text messages that he planned to "eliminate" Jeffries when the top House Democrat spoke at an event in New York City on Monday. Jeffries spoke at the Economic Club of New York on Monday. Moynihan was arraigned Tuesday and entered a plea of not guilty. According to a court filing by prosecutors in the New York state criminal case, Moynihan wrote, "Hakeem Jeffries makes a speech in a few days in NYC I cannot allow this terrorist to live."
There are "no plans" for US President Donald Trump to meet Russia's Vladimir Putin "in the immediate future", a White House official has stated. Last Thursday Trump said he and the Russian president would hold talks in Budapest within two weeks to discuss the war in Ukraine. Read more
At a time when US food prices have been increasing faster than overall inflation, the Trump administration has admitted to enacting policies that put the the US food supply at risk and a continuation of existing policy will drive US farmers out of business. Earlier this month the Department of Labor issued a report which states "The near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens combined with the lack of an available legal workforce is threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers." The report went on to say that without immediate action to correct the situation that "agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations and the nation's food supply will be at risk."
Satellite images, regional Caribbean radar data, and surface observations indicate that invest 98L has developed a well-defined center and organized deep convection to be designated a tropical cyclone. The initial intensity is set at 45 kt, based on a blend of the latest satellite intensity estimates, marking the formation of Tropical Storm Melissa.
During the height of his third campaign for the White House, President Donald Trump was reportedly obsessed with helping one of his recently divorced top advisors find a date, and frequently made objectionable comments about female members of his Mar-a-Lago club. That's according to Zeteo journalist Asawin Suebsaeng, who recently reported that sources close to Trump said he went out of his way to offer "wingman" services to Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought. "By mid-2024, Donald Trump and Project 2025 architect Russell Vought were talking on the phone fairly regularly. But it often wasn't about policy," Suebsaeng reported. "Trump " when he had downtime from campaigning and plotting his fascist presidency " appeared preoccupied with getting the recently divorced Vought laid, two knowledgeable sources tell me." Read more
Antisemitic Paul Ingrassia (30), Dummkopf Trumpf's embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell" and brazenly admits he has "a Nazi streak." Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers. "MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his holiday' should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs," Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, according to the chat. "Jesus Christ," one participant responded. Using an Italian slur for Black people, Ingrassia wrote a month earlier in the group chat: "No moulignon holidays ... From kwanza [sic] to mlk jr day to black history month to Juneteenth," then added: "Every single one needs to be eviscerated." Read more
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is facing questions from lawmakers over the shooting of a U.S. citizen by Border Patrol agents in Chicago after a criminal complaint filed against the victim differed from the agency's initial description of events.
SAN JOSE, Calif. " The San Jose Sharks have apologized after an apparent offensive message seeming to praise Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was displayed on the arena's scoreboard during the team's Hispanic heritage celebration on Saturday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins. Video shared with CNN showed the scoreboard displaying: "SJ SHARKS FANS LOVE ICE !! GET EM BOYZ !" Some fans at SAP Center in San Jose, California, can be heard booing in response. Read more
A standard sheet of paper, bearing a message likely brought into this world by a home printer, carefully laminated and affixed to an orange construction cone. That's what's been greeting visitors trying to enter a dead-end street in San Francisco's Inner Richmond neighborhood since at least Oct. 5. It's also created a stir online. Incredibly thorough, it begins in massive, bold font: "NO WAYMO 8:00PM to 8:00AM." Below the all-caps request reads an explanation of how a quiet residential cul-de-sac has become an all-night autonomous vehicle turnaround point.
Millions of Americans attended the "No Kings" protests throughout the country, and the man they were protesting against responded to them in the most vile way possible.
Hard to be believe that there were more instances of incredible bravery and sacrifice at Wounded Knee than the 6 days of D'Day operations. Read more
Marco Rubio was going to secure a deal for President Donald Trump"even if it meant betraying U.S. informants.
The secretary of state made a secret agreement with the president of El Salvador to hand over legally protected U.S. "informants," so the Trump administration could deport hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to a notorious prison in the country, a new Washington Post report revealed on Sunday.
The backroom deal, officials told the Post, undermined years of work from an ongoing U.S. investigation aimed at apprehending high-ranking members of MS-13, one of the world's most violent gangs, whose acts of brutality have been on display in the U.S. and beyond.
"The deal is a deep betrayal of U.S. law enforcement, whose agents risked their lives to apprehend the gang members," Douglas Farah, a U.S. contractor who worked with federal officials to investigate and help dismantle the MS-13 gang, told the outlet.
The stretch of semi-rural land on No. 6 Road in Richmond, B.C., is home to blueberry farms, multimillion-dollar mansions and an 18-hole golf course. Those Metro Vancouver properties are all now encompassed by a landmark Aboriginal title claim that was successfully established by the Cowichan Nation last week. The ruling in B.C. Supreme Court confirmed Cowichan Aboriginal title and fishing rights over the stretch of land on Lulu Island next to the south arm of the Fraser River, where the nation historically had a summer village and members fished for salmon. Read more
3 hours ago - HINDU KUSH
This is the second part of my ride across the Hindu Kush mountains that turned out to be a lot more challenging than I thought. The scenery is incredible, but every time when I don't expect it, I run into more heavily armed Taliban. ...
I tried posting a new thread, but the posting seems to have been denied. First time for me. What's going on?
