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Police talked to the Scholtes' two older children and it was discovered that he "regularly" left the children alone in the vehicle, according to the documents.

The document reveals that the children said Scholtes "got distracted by playing his game and putting food away" while their sister was in the vehicle. ...

@#1 ... Senate Majority Leader Schumer immediately called for his resignation... the Parties not being the same and all. ...

The odd thing about this case is the relative silence of the GOP.

A Democratic Senator convicted of some pretty serious offenses.

Yet a lot of crickets from the GOP.

Maybe the lack of comments is due to this case blowing their "Biden weaponizing the DoJ" baseless conspiracy theory clear out of the water.

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... Le Parisien newspaper, which first reported the arrest of the far-right suspect on Wednesday, said the young man had followers on Telegram who were prepared to mount attacks and had threatened violence against a Paris-based drag queen who took part in the Olympic torch rally at the weekend. ...

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That's not the first time I heard an Dem Congressional up-for-[re]election candidate say something along those lines.

@#2 ... I wish Schiff's analysis was somehow off-kilter.

My guess is that Rep Schiff has been seeing some internal polling that shows Pres Biden affecting (and not in a good way) the down-ticket Dem candidates.

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... In a complaint filed in San Juan yesterday, Puerto Rico's Department of Justice says that the companies violated trade law by promoting fossil fuels without adequately warning about the dangers. The defendants include ExxonMobil, BP, Chevron, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and other energy companies.

It's the latest in a slew of lawsuits attempting to hold fossil fuel companies accountable for the consequences of climate change. Greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels are supercharging storms and other extreme weather events while rising seas eat away at island shorelines. Fossil fuel companies knew for decades that their products would cause global warming and went about business as usual anyway, several studies and investigations have found. ...

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... What they're saying: "We have seen a pattern, a Russian campaign, organized by the security services to conduct hostile actions against NATO allies across the alliance," ...

... He's donating $45 million a month to a pro-Trump super PAC ...

Meanwhile, Justice Thomas may be saying to himself ... ~how do I get a ride on that gravy train?~

imo, he's been a full member of the Trump cult for quite a while now. He just has not been overt about it.

When he bought Twitter so that he could provide a place for right-wing hate speech to fester, his internal leanings seemed to become obvious.

$45 million a month donation to a pro-Trump PAC? He'll likely make that back with the tax reductions fmr Pres trump wants to put into place for the wealthy. To Mr Musk, that $45 million a month is just an investment with thhe possibility of a good retrun on the investment.

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... And on Tuesday, Musk's political leanings spilled over to two of his most prominent companies, with an announcement that he plans to move X and SpaceX to Texas from California. The "final straw," he said, was a new rule in the Golden State that bans school districts from requiring teachers to notify parents about changes to a student's sexual orientation and gender identity.

Musk, the world's richest person with a $269.5 billion fortune, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, has for years been aligning himself with conservative causes such as vaccine skepticism and stopping illegal immigration. But his full embrace of the right-wing ethos marks a radical transformation for a Silicon Valley tech legend who rose to prominence as the visionary behind Tesla Inc., an electric-car company positioned at the forefront of the environmental movement. ...

@#7 ... If AI can bribe, err give a gratuity to Uncle Thomas then all bets are off ...

Yup.

A similar question...

If a self-driving car gets into an accident, who or what is responsible?

Does the car need to get a separate insurance policy for itself?

@#4 ... An AI is not a person. ...

Neither is a corporation. But ... Citizens United.

PM Netanyahu seems to have been trying to prolong the war (and his rule) for a good number of months now, to the point where he looks to be putting the good of himself over the good of Israel.

I'd proffer that Mr Musk had been planning the move for a while now, and just chose this current time and political reason to make a more formal announcement about the move.

... To analyze the case in terms of the nuances of the special counsel law or Cannon's disregard of United States vs. Nixon is to miss what's in front of one's face. ...

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... Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday signed the law, AB 1955, following a contentious and emotional debate in the Democratic-controlled state legislature. The measure forbids school staff from informing parents or any other person if their child's gender identification changes without permission from the child. It also bars districts from punishing employees who support a student's rights.

The legislation was introduced after some conservative California school districts implemented rules that require teachers to inform parents if their child identifies as transgender or goes by a different name or pronoun at school. It comes amid a nationwide debate over the rights of parents and LGBTQ students.

Advocates argue that the school board policies adopted by those California districts forcibly "out" LGBTQ students and adversely affect their mental health. The California Legislative LGBTQ Caucus called the legislation "life-saving."

Nationwide, fewer than half of transgender and non-binary students find their homes LGBTQ-affirming, according to a survey by Trevor Project, an LGBTQ+ non-profit focused on suicide prevention and mental health. The report also found that schools that are more gender-affirming correlate with lower rates of attempted suicide. ...

... Angela Rayner told ITV that Mr Vance had said "quite a lot of fruity things in the past" but said does not "recognise" his characterisation of the UK. ...

Candidate Vance has been living in the Trump Cult alternate reality for a couple of years now. No one should expect Candidate Vance to have a grasp of what is really occurring.

@#8 ... You're exceedingly boring and predictable. ...

As I have noted a few times previously, the humtake alias reminds me of the episode of M*A*S*H where a bumbling pilot they called "5 O'Clock Charlie" showed up each day.

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... Specifically, the decision calls into question whether textural and video content created by genAI can be considered free speech because human beings were involved in crafting the algorithms that produced that content. ...

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... In the fall of 2021, after determining that LoVe had lost a segment of cable, Zhang confronted the next question: Where was it? At that point he still thought that whatever happened had likely been inadvertent. A fishing trawler's net is often framed by weighty metal "doors" that keep it open as it drags through the water. If one of those had snagged the cable by accident and pulled it out of place, the crew might not even have noticed. Nonetheless, if Zhang could identify the ship and trace its path, he might have an idea of where to look for the missing equipment. ...

The maps showed about a dozen ships. Most of them had spent that April 3 tracing long arcs through a fishing ground a little to the southwest of the two relay units bracketing the missing segment. But one ship, a 197-foot-long, Russian-flagged trawler called the Saami, had behaved differently.

Traveling at about 10 knots, it had passed back and forth over the LoVe cable at least four times. "I saw this boat, only this one boat, cross the cable at this time," Zhang says. "I locked my suspicion on this one boat." Once he'd narrowed his parameters to the span of time when the cable disappeared, the paths of the other ships dropped away on his computer screen, leaving just the tight scribble traced by the Saami.

At the precise moment the cable went dead, the ship was right above it.

In late November, Zhang got a chance to trace the Saami's route in person. With the Arctic winter beginning and oil and gas work slowing, he was able to book a drone operator and time on one of the institute's own vessels, the G.O. Sars. He and his colleagues took the ship out from Troms, a city of 78,000 inside the Arctic Circle, and headed for the map coordinates marked by the Saami's AIS track from months before. ...