The president's comments to NBC News were a reversal from his December statement that he would be involved in the approval process for Netflix's deal.
CEO Ryan Lance said on Thursday in a call with investors that the oil major will focus on recovering money owed under existing legal judgements in Venezuela.
It's been a couple of weeks, or so, since I last posted these polling results ... read more
Iran has demanded that this week's talks with the US be held in Oman rather than Turkey, with the agenda narrowed to nuclear issues only, a regional source said on Tuesday. The move adds new complications to an already delicate diplomatic effort amid heightened military tensions in the region. read more
Lawmakers rejected huge health cuts President Donald Trump requested. Kennedy's diverting the funds to pet projects and red states. read more
@#2 ... I think it was 60 out of 61. ...
First of all, thanks for that correction.
OK, here's what I found ...
Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election
en.wikipedia.org
... After the 2020 United States presidential election, the campaign for incumbent President Donald Trump and others filed 62 lawsuits contesting election processes, vote counting, and the vote certification process in 9 states (including Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin) and the District of Columbia.[1][2]
Nearly all the suits were dismissed or dropped for lack of evidence or lack of standing,[3][4]:4,10"14[5][6][7] including 30 lawsuits that were dismissed by the judge after a hearing on the merits.[8] Among the judges who dismissed the lawsuits were some appointed by Trump himself.[9] Judges, lawyers, and other observers described the suits as "frivolous"[10] and "without merit".[11][12] In one instance, the Trump campaign and other groups seeking his reelection collectively lost multiple cases in six states on a single day.[13] Only one ruling was initially in Trump's favor: the timing within which first-time Pennsylvania voters must provide proper identification if they wanted to "cure" their ballots. This ruling affected very few votes,[14] and it was later overturned by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.[15]
Trump, his attorneys, and his supporters falsely[16] asserted widespread election fraud in public statements, but few such assertions were made in court.[17] ...
So it may be 60 out of 62.
Again, thanks for the fact check.
@#77
Wish I knew the answer.
But currently, I see things like this ...
Texas stunner: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips Republican state Senate district Trump won by 17 points
www.keyc.com
So, what might that say about the votes in Maverick Couty going forward?
@#5 ... So, several ICE officers for every criminal, undocumented that they continue to not be able to find ...
Instead, ICE seems to be trying to reach Stephen Miller's deportation quotas be going after immigrants who are acting and working within the law and even American citizens.
So much for the "only the violent" mantra.
A preschooler was taken away by ICE (January 2026)
www.cnn.com
Gotta meet Stephen Miller's quota.
Jeffrey Epstein Describes Donald Trump as His Closest Friend for 10 Years' in Latest Michael Wolff Tape (November 2024)
www.yahoo.com
... Disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein called Donald Trump his "closest friend" in the latest recordings released by author Michael Wolff.
Wolff began releasing tapes on Thursday via The Daily Beast from interviews recorded as he wrote his book, "Fire and Fury." The book covered the first months of the Trump administration.
As part of that research, he spoke several times to Trump's longtime friend, Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time only had a record of Florida state charges of one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution from someone under the age of 18. Epstein served 18 months for those charges in a work-release program, leaving jail during the day and returning at night. ...
@#1
So how much does Venezuela owe to ConocoPhillips?
Found this ...
World Bank arm says Venezuela owes nearly $9B to ConocoPhillips (2019)
www.houstonchronicle.com
... Venezuela must pay Houston's ConocoPhillips nearly $9 billion for the government's expropriation of the company's oil assets in Venezuela more than a decade ago, an international arbitration panel ruled Friday. ...
@#5
Bill Gates accuses Elon Musk of killing poor children by cutting foreign aid and says he's giving away his wealth (May 2025)
www.nbcnews.com
... In a wide-ranging interview with the Financial Times, Gates addressed Musk's recent cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the federal agency responsible for distributing foreign aid around the world. Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, effectively shut down the agency in February.
Gates, 69, criticized the shuttering of the agency, accusing Musk of risking a resurgence of diseases such as measles, HIV and polio.
"The picture of the world's richest man killing the world's poorest children is not a pretty one," he told the Financial Times.
"I'd love for him to go in and meet the children that have now been infected with HIV because he cut that money," Gates said of Musk. ...
Gates, who co-founded Microsoft, also announced that he would give up his remaining wealth to his nonprofit foundation over the next two decades in the FT interview, an interview published in The New York Times and a lengthy blog post on the Gate Foundation's website, all published on Thursday, the nonprofit's 25th anniversary.
The billionaire philanthropist also said that the foundation would be ceasing operations on Dec. 31, 2045, sooner than originally projected.
"People will say a lot of things about me when I die, but I am determined that 'he died rich' will not be one of them," Gates wrote in the blog post. "There are too many urgent problems to solve for me to hold onto resources that could be used to help people." ...
@#3 ... As a fuel, coal sucks. It's only advantage is there is lots of it. ...
...and, in the eyes of Pres Trump, another apparent advantage is that it kills the miners who work for the wealthy mine owners.
Does Pres Trump have more concern about the wealthy mine owners, or the workers in the mines?
Coal Worker's Pneumoconiosis (Black Lung Disease)
www.lung.org