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I both love and hate that this awful woman has become the Republican voice of reason.

More: His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor's objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, "We believe in the federalist system " that's states' rights," adding, "Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration."

Co-worker in Carolina Beach, NC says it's already getting pretty windy there.

ElEcTiOnS HaVe cOnSeQuEnCeS

I know it must be shocking even a bit scary to a resident of a failed state like Florida, but this is what functioning governments do when an infectious outbreak happens.

More: The legal strategy developed by the Center for American Progress"the "Corporate Power Reset""will, state by state, drain corporate and dark money from American politics. It does not overturn Citizens United; it makes it irrelevant.

Corporations are pure creatures of state law. And for more than two centuries, the Supreme Court has affirmed that states have virtually unlimited authority to modify and withdraw the powers they grant to their corporations.

This report explains how every state can use that authority to remove corporate and dark money from its local, state, and federal politics.

"Even if the Supreme Court decreed that humans had a constitutional right to fly, there is no amount of arm flapping that would result in humans taking to the skies, because they would still lack that ability."

Likewise, when a state exercises its authority to define corporations as entities without the power to spend in politics, it will no longer be relevant to discuss whether the corporations have a right to spend in politics, because without the power to do so, the right to do so has no meaning.

Every scrap of corporate speech jurisprudence centers on rights and the authority of government to regulate them"and courts have consistently held that authority to be sharply circumscribed. The jurisprudence regarding states' authority to grant powers to the corporations they create is entirely separate, and for more than a century, courts have consistently held that power-granting authority to be all but absolute.

From the article: "What a buncha ------------ manbabies these "tough" Republicans are."

More: The judge said it "is a miracle to me that no one was more seriously injured" in the incident in which Martinez and Ruiz allegedly followed agents for more than 20 minutes as they drove after conducting an operation in Oak Lawn. But she said the defendants' lack of criminal history and extensive family and community ties compelled her to release them pending trial.

In the charges filed Sunday, prosecutors notably did not mention a loaded gun in Martinez's car that was referenced in a previous statement by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. But in court Monday, Hennessy said Martinez had a loaded firearm on the passenger side of her car but never brandished it. Martinez's attorney, Parente, said she has a valid firearm and concealed-carry license.

Parente also offered to play an agent's body-camera video that shows the shooting, noting prosecutors did not show the video that he claimed disputes the government's version of the shooting.

Parente said the video shows an agent turning a federal vehicle left into Martinez's vehicle, after which an agent says, "Do something b----." The agent then exits the vehicle and shoots at Martinez.

Parente said Martinez had "seven holes" in her from the shooting and that agents were in such a hurry to take her into custody at the hospital that they had to return later when Martinez began bleeding from her wounds.

Parente disputed the government's claim that Martinez is a danger to the community and should be detained, saying instead that the officer who shot her was a threat.

"I think there's a danger to the community, but I don't think it's Ms. Martinez," he said.

MTG being seen as reasonable really shows how insane the Trump administration really is.

Not that that matters to anyone in this criminal administration.

#5,

In Burdick v. United States, the Supreme Court said that a pardon "carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance of a confession of it."

She belongs in a jail cell and she knows it.

They will do these things to American citizens before they're done.

How does he plan to get congressional approval during the shutdown?

The CBS brand may never recover. The big networks are less relevant every year but this terrible decision might be what kills CBS.

I have no time for apologetics.

More: "None of us consented to this. And it's written in the first-person, as if I'm the one conveying this message, and I'm not. I don't agree with it. I don't think it's ethical or legal. I think it violates the Hatch Act," this person said, referring to the law that imposes limits on political activity by federal employees.

"I took the statement that they sent us earlier in the week to use. And I pasted it on top of that " basically has a standard out-of-office," another one of the Department of Education employees said. "They went in and manipulated my out-of-office reply. I guess they're now making us all guilty of violating the Hatch Act."

Housing in the US has become so unaffordable that a coffee company has based a viral marketing campaign on the idea that almost nobody can afford to buy a house.

Maxwell House coffee, a 133-year-old brand, recently launched a marketing campaign rebranding themselves as "Maxwell Apartment Coffee".

"Maxwell House? In this economy?" a narrator asks in a video ad, promising that Maxwell Apartment is "the same affordable coffee you love, now with an even more affordable name".

Trump is bad enough in actual reality. No need to bring up the ridiculous superstitions of bronze age goat herders.

ITMFA

"they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are."

This is how weak men talk to make themselves feel better about themselves. Truly pathetic.

The guardsmen yanked from their real lives and paying jobs to pick up trash for Trump - and everyone else in the military - must be thrilled about not getting paid.