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Monday, October 26, 2026

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A report released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's ties to Jeffrey Epstein included new details from a woman who alleged Trump raped her in 1993.


A judge ruled that the Department of Justice's firing of assistant U.S. Attorney Maurene Comey in July 2025 was unlawful.

Judge Jesse Furman ordered that Comey, the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, be retroactively reinstated to her job.

Maurene Comey had been involved with prosecutions of Jeffrey Epstein, his accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, and Sean "Diddy" Combs.


In 1970, the average American weighed 30 pounds less than today. No diets. No gym culture. No calorie counting. So what exactly happened?

In this video, we explore the real reasons why nobody was fat in 1970s America " from the way families cooked and ate, to the way children played, to the size of a dinner plate, to the moment everything quietly began to change.

This is not a story about willpower. It is a story about a world that made willpower unnecessary.


Sunday, October 25, 2026

By now, it's becoming expected: Guitar phenom Billy Strings was named Entertainer of the Year for the fifth time over the last six years ... read more


Saturday, October 24, 2026

James Talarico releases new ad EXPOSING Elon Musk and Ken Paxton (one min yt short) read more


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Boomers did have the advantage of an economy stoked by the success of defeating Fascism around the world in WWII by the Greatest and the Silent Gens, who to their credit joined in street protests against the moneyed Elite in cities all over the country.

We also grew up with a simple seemingly idyllic lifestyle of fresh food and mostly safe neighborhoods and schools (per the 70's thread).

But we also grew up with the Cold War; visions of nuclear explosions on B&W tvs, school Atomic Bomb Drills; sitting in hallways with hands over heads during the Cold War, as if that would help! (see Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, circa 1964).

The Korean War, the Vietnam War (aka 'Police Action'), and "I am NOT a Crook!" Richard Nixon's pre-Trump Election Rigging.

Heroes (we actually had heroes!) like JFK, MLK, RFK assassinated in the streets.

Which would be like seeing Obama and Bernie and AOC shot dead today.

Not to mention our own college kids murdered by nervous Natl Guards while protesting the War.

But we had other Heroes; Walter Cronkite and Bill Moyers who didn't give a flying F what politicians thought about them. John Glenn et al who braved the Final Frontier. (OK, and Star Trek, lol)

My first college English assignment was to write an essay on Modern Heroes, if there still were any. My subject was one of the survivors, Muhammad Ali, who was eventually offered a Deal to fight exhibitions for the troops if he'd only sign up. He gave up his best years to join, and lead, the Protest instead.

Unfortunately, it was the moneyed Elite who called the shots and elected Reagan, the Tea Party, Nutty Newty, and now Project25.

Of course, it's the whole Gen, who mostly opposed all that, who gets the blame now for what those same moneyed Elite are still doing now.... despite that most of the modern Gens also oppose them.

Well, except maybe in the last election, but many groups; Gens, racial groups, and even farmers and ranchers and truck drivers have now seen enough of these current Nixons their and Elitist backers.

"Judge Jesse Furman ordered that Comey, who is the daughter of former FBI director James Comey, be retroactively reinstated to her job as an assistant United States attorney in the Southern District of New York.

The judge also ordered that she receive back pay from July 16 through December 20, 2025, when he inferred that Comey accepted another job, in the ruling in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.

Furman, in his ruling for Maurene Comey in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, rejected the DOJ's arguments that then-Attorney General Pam Bondi could remove a federal prosecutor "at will" and without cause, and that current AG Todd Blanche could ratify that act after the fact.

Furman also rejected the DOJ's argument that even if the Civil Service Reform Act requires removal of a prosecutor for cause, an attorney general's firing of her constituted an implicit determination that she was removed "for such cause as will promote the efficiency of the service."

"The Court need not dwell long on Defendants' second statutory argument justifying
Comey's removal," Furman said, referring to that claim. "That is because the argument borders on frivolous."

The judge said the DOJ all but admitted that its argument that the attorney general had power to fire Comey under Article II of the Constitution sought "to overturn nearly two centuries of Supreme Court precedent."

"This Court, however, is bound to follow the Supreme Court's precedents unless and until the Supreme Court overturns them," Furman wrote."

Weekend Music Thread??

Make it so, Scotty!

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The Devil Went Down to Deep Gap (Doc Watson tribute)

Bryan Sutton Billy Strings

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