My guess is that the MAGA blogosphere may be a bit active his night.

@#16 ... MAGA'ts just lost the senate too. ...

Woof ...

@#2 ... The call is coming from inside the house. ...

Yeah, I've thought about that aspect as well.

Are democrats now taking cues from MAGA in this regard?

i.e., that political opposition now makes someone an enemy of the US?

imo, the Democrats have some things they may need to deal with before and leading into 2028 ...

But, it's too early to get into that subject now ...

More from the cited article ...

... According to Kasubhai, an ICE officer "fabricated facts in official records to justify an arrest."

The judge, appointed by President Joe Biden, said the court knows this because at an evidentiary hearing on a motion to enforce a preliminary injunction barring warrantless arrests, the ICE officer "testified under oath" that what he wrote in the official records of the arrest "was incorrect."

On the witness stand, the officer tried to minimize the error "as mere oversight," according to Kasubhai.

"This court found he lied after evaluating his live testimony and the documentary evidence," the judge said in Monday's order. "Evaluating live testimony is a time-tested method for truth finding. Written declarations are convenient, but insufficient on their own when witnesses are willing to lie." ...

@#1 ... In a 50-page opinion, U.S. District Judge Mustafa Kasubhai ruled that ICE repeatedly violated an existing court order governing warrantless immigration arrests in the Beaver State, with inaccurate reports, missing records and accounts that did not match what actually happened.

The judge's loss of confidence in the agency was so pronounced that he withdrew the usual presumption that government officials have properly performed their duties. ...

Why might anyone actually be surprised at this opinion?

@#2

Yeah, that would be quite the curious turn of events ...

While I was visiting NewsMax, I also saw this ...

OK, connections to newsmax.com look to be back ...

Now, where was I?

Oh yeah ...

A couple of headlines I find interesting ...

@#9 ... Still a lot of votes to count, but I like where it's heading. ...

Agreed.

Not just votes to count, but results of those counts that must be certified.

This does not bode well.

(for the Trump corrupt administration)

But if the Senate follows, well, OK, game on ...

@#72 ... All because ...

imo, prolly too early to try to start the ~all because~ stuff.

Let's wait for the certified results.

Then we can start with the ~all because~ stuff.

:)

@#80 ... Texas called Blue for Senate and Governor...

Abbott had a 70% chance to win according to the betting sites just days ago...

I have been neglectful in the TX Governor race.

OK, Here's what I see ...

@#74 ... Talarico is slaughtering Paxton. ...

Looks that way ...

@#67 ... And Dems just won a senate seat in SC. ...

Looks that way ...

@#71 ...

Ten percentage points?

Yeah, OK, this is not something that I had thought I would ever post to a discussion site ...

@#58 ... It'll be Vance doing vetoes. ...

I'm not yet convinced of that sofa-hugging person.

But I do want to correct my prior post.

I said in #54 ...

... imo, if the Democrats actually take over both Houses of Congress, they might be in trouble because they will not be able to pass any laws because of the Trump veto. ...

What I had wanted to say was (and your current alias picked up on) ...

... imo, if the Democrats actually take over both Houses of Congress, they might be in trouble in 2028 because they will not be able to pass any laws because of the Trump veto. ...

Yes, I was thinking about 2028 when I posted my #54 comment.

Thanks for picking up on that.

More from the article ...

... For decades now we've documented how while "smart" TV makers are obsessed with making money off of in-home surveillance (which is now more profitable than the actual TV), they do an abysmal job protecting the data they collect. They also routinely don't respect consumer choice when users say they don't want to participate in the full scope of hyper-commercialized mass surveillance.

That latter point is central to a new study out of Northeastern that conducted 5,943 experiments across twelve commercial "smart" TV devices. The researchers found that most smart TVs utilize automatic content recognition (ACR), a technology that captures audio or video snapshots of viewed content and then monetizes that data to help build personalized profiles of viewers.

TV makers insist that users are supposed to be able to opt out, but the choice simply doesn't work across a large segment of TVs. Companies like Vizio simply ignored the consumer requests entirely more often than not:

"We find that the advertised ACR opt-out fully suppresses ACR-attributable traffic on only four operating systems; on Samsung Tizen traffic consistent with ACR activity persists in more than 60% of evaluated scenarios, and on Vizio SmartCast a content correlated endpoint hosted on Amazon Kinesis continues to receive traffic in 100% of opted-out scenarios."

These companies have been awful for a long while now, and U.S. regulation of the sector has varied between soggy and inconsistent ...

@#49 ... If the Democrats actually take both houses of Congress they will be in trouble because it is possible to abuse power, ...

imo, if the Democrats actually take over both Houses of Congress, they might be in trouble because they will not be able to pass any laws because of the Trump veto.

@#1 ... Former officials and outside experts said the disruptions risk leaving policymakers with an incomplete picture of threats facing the country, ...

It almost appears that the Trump administration wants to make it easier for our adversaries to attack us.

But that Reflecting Pool now looks great!

Can you say, "misplaced priorities?"

I knew you could.

@#44 ... Weirdest numbers: 50% mail in votes. ...

... and that is weird ... why?

Maybe because of things like this?