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... A similar bid was rejected earlier this year, but U.S. District Judge Rodney Smith said he was granting the Justice Department's renewed request in light of the bill that Congress passed last month requiring the DOJ to release all of its records related to Epstein.

The newly passed Epstein Files Transparency Act calls for the release of "unclassified records, documents, communications, and investigative materials that relate to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell," and the specific language of the law overrides the traditional secrecy of grand jury materials, Smith wrote.

It's unclear when the materials will become public. In its motion asking for the materials to be released, the Justice Department said it "will work with the relevant United States Attorney's Offices to make appropriate redactions of victim-related and other personal identifying information." ...

@#3 ... Lewzer is the Joffrey to Putin's Tywin. ..

Game of Thrones citations aside ...

@4 ... So needy. ...

OK, let's go with "needy."

I have other words in mind, but I'll bow to "needy" for the nonce.

.... "And it gives me no pleasure to say what I'm about to say because I worked with Pete Hegseth for seven or eight years at Fox News. This is an act of a war crime, ...

BFD.

So what?

I remember back in the day when Fox News Afternoon News was significant to watch. And I watched it.

Then Pres 1.0 Trump sent AG Barr to ~talk~ with Fox, and suddenly the news Fox presented seemed to have changed.

So, when some prior person of Fox News comes out and says the above, and yeah I may agree with it.

But what is the gravitas of associating the comment with Fox News?

imo, nada.

While a break-in of a business establishment was not involved.

I will say, back in to day (a half decade ago?), yeah, drank too much, and suffered for it.

And learned.

imo, PM Modi is threading a fine needle here.

There seems to be a decades-old, let's say, cooperation between India and Russia.

Will that cooperation survive Pres Trump's attempts to destroy it?

More from the article...

... Putin is on his first visit to India in four years at a time when New Delhi is engaged in talks with the U.S. for a trade deal to cut punitive tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on its goods over India's Russian oil purchases.

Moscow has been India's top arms supplier for decades and has said that it wants to import more Indian goods in an effort to grow trade to $100 billion by 2030 that so far has been skewed in its favour due to New Delhi's energy imports.

Since European countries cut back their reliance on Russian energy after Russia invaded Ukraine nearly four years ago, India has ramped up its purchases of discounted Russian crude.

"India faces a conundrum; by taking steps to strengthen ties with Moscow or Washington, New Delhi risks setting back ties with the other," Michael Kugelman, senior fellow at Washington's Atlantic Council think tank, wrote in Foreign Policy magazine this week. ...

At this point, my main concern is the changing stories that have been issued to substantiate what occurred.

Why, for example has Sec Hegseth's apparent explanation seemed to have changed over time?

If he was aware of what was occurring, why change his explanation over time?

If he was not aware of what was happening, well, as Sec of Defense, he may have other issues.

imo, of course.

@#50 ... creating a thread about Biden? ...

Please provide a link to the thread your current trolling alias (aside: I may need to come up with an acronym for that. Maybe... YCTA?) created that thread.

thx.

@#50 ... I'm a traitor for creating a thread about Biden? ...

Oh, the usual ~I'm a victim~ deflection.

So lame.

What else yer current trolling alias got?

@#46 ... It's because there's more to talk about than just Trump ...

I agree.

Please see the comments I posted on the BackPage this evening.

So, what else yer current trolling alias got?

imo, Spkr Johnson is not in a good place now.

He has issues he must face.

But that is just my opinion.

... payrolls processing firm ADP reported Wednesday ...

Before Pres Trump fired the BLS leader because he did not like the numbers reported (I summarize), the ADP job reports were not rewarded to be appropriate.

Why?

Maybe because they ADP reports are only private, i.e., non-governmental payrolls.

And, another question, does ADP process all non--government payrolls?

So, taking a step back, what do the ADP numbers actually represent?

Aside from a number to to cite because the BLS cannot provide the better number?

And if the BLS does, the BLS leader gets fired?

@#73 ... Way to ignore my argument. ...

What argument was that?

thx.

@#2 ... Cuellar and his wife, both dirty, are precisely the sort of compromised lowlifes to whom Trump.relates. ...

~a comment I wished I was the first to post.~

:)

But there it is.

And I agree.

thx.

@#2 ... I can't imagine why Trump, the pardoner of other massive drug dealers, didn't leap on this deal. ...

Maybe one or some of Pres Trump billionaire friends see a profit in the Venezuela affair?

@#27 ... The article I posted here is NOT about the Democrats. ...

But (for me) it was pay-walled.

So, I reacted to the summary posted, and not the full article..

@#21 ... MAGATS are f**king imbeciles ...

I'm not yet willing to go that far.

But, in a sense, you may have a point.

Why do the MAGA folk seem to shrink into the baseboards, apparently like roaches when the light is turned on, when asked simple questions about what they have stated?

Are they awaiting instructions regarding how to respond from their higher authority?

I wish I knew or understood ....

@#3 ... the sky wasn't so full of orbiting junk ...

Yeah.

Just take a look at the junk orbiting the Planet...

@#17 ... Did Texas put the issue to a popular vote? ...

The usual [crickets] in response.

So lame.

More from the article ...

... The problem came to light on Oct. 30th, when a JetBlue Airways A320 flying from Cancun to New Jersey suddenly dropped in altitude. At least 15 passengers were injured. When investigators dug into the flight-control data, they found that the aircraft's software was vulnerable to "single-event upsets" -- bit-flips caused when a high-energy particle randomly changes a 1 to a 0 (or vice versa), corrupting critical data.

In the A320s, some recently installed software wasn't properly hardened against this kind of glitch so, on Nov. 28th, regulators ordered an emergency rollback before the jets could return to service.

In most cases, the jets were back in the air the next day. ...

@#5 ... But I still ask, what is the purpose -- the end goal, of Pres Trump's current actions in the area? ...

[crickets]

I am not surprised.

Pres Trump has not stated what his end goal is for his actions against Venezuela.

So, I ask again, what is the purpose, the end goal, of Pres Trump's deployment of a such substantial military force in the Caribbean?

... Subsidizing Billionaires to Help Ruin the Environment ...

Also, reducing the taxes billionaires have to pay, via the Large Lousy Legislation.

And to reduce the deficit caused by that, pile costs (tariff taxes and health-care) upon the workers of the Country to pay for those tax cuts.

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