Special counsel Jack Smith has turned over to Attorney General Merrick Garland the completed final report on his two investigations that resulted in felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump ... read more
Jan 8
After Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor in 1933, he promptly packed the government full of loyalists and used Weimar Germany's constitution to turn himself into an absolute dictator.
President-elect Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to call off Friday's sentencing in his hush money case in New York.
Trump's lawyers turned to the nation's highest court on Wednesday after New York courts refused to postpone the sentencing by Judge Juan M. Merchan, who presided over Trump's trial and conviction last May on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Trump has denied wrongdoing.
There's been drama in MAGA world recently, and Trump is as insane as ever; what else is new. read more
The federal judge who oversaw the classified documents case against President-elect Donald Trump issued an order Tuesday temporarily blocking the release of special counsel Jack Smith's report on his investigation. read more
SO now Agent Orange is asking for Emergency Powers to Impose Tariffs Immediately without them being vetted for National Security concerns.
it would make a good thread
- Slang changes.
I learned some new slang today, and already used it, too.
- not sure what it was called in the 70s.
It was California then, before then, and after then in the 80's when I lived near Stanford and frequented San Francisco.
Where I was one day walking down Castro Street near Market and was pinched on the butt by a Black Leather, Harley-looking silver chain and make-up wearing guy.
For po' straight boy from Texas at the time it was a shocker... but we both laughed and walked on.
But I was going to Haight and Ashbury to see then decade old hippy places. They of course, weren't what they used to be, as many were forced to work for corporations in the new Reagan Era.
What Joni said in 1970 in the song linked above is true about California and America as EARLY as that date:
[Verse 1]
Sitting in a park in Paris, France
Reading the news and it sure looks bad
They won't give peace a chance
That was just a dream some of us had
After that in 2000 it was, "Californication". Which was apt.
What struck me about CA when I was there was the great beauty of the landscapes and shores.
Also that for most practial purposes the state with the very best weather (until recently) was also 'already taken', even back then.
"'Cali Dreaming" by the Mammas and the Pappas?"
"'Cali" by Joni Mitchell?
I don't think so!
That was the California theme song for YEARS after it was recorded. And there's a reason for that, just listen.
SO it turns out that one reason Drumpf is fighting this sentencing is that it could effect his holding the liquor licenses at his clubs and golf resorts.
What a great reason to give the SC... Kavanagh alone prolly contributes profits immensely.