The price of gas under Biden was 600% lower.

How long after Warsh is confirmed will they wait to reopen it?

More: "My response is that I stand by every single word of this report," she said. "We were very diligent. We were very careful. It went through multiple levels of editing, review, care.

"And I think one of the things that has been most gratifying, after " immediately after the story published was, I have been inundated by additional sourcing going up to the highest levels of the government, thanking us for doing the work, providing additional corroborating information."

Fitzpatrick said that she used more than two dozen sources for her original report, characterizing the officials she spoke to as "people who felt that not only was this conduct embarrassing, unbecoming, but that it was a national security vulnerability, and that Americans were perhaps less safe as a result."

Asked about some of the more shocking details in her report, she said: "I had never heard anything like this as a reporter, and I think I spent a very long time, a very diligent amount of time checking it out because it was so explosive.

"And I think the fact that this was known throughout the FBI, throughout the Justice Department, that it reached the White House is because it was so alarming. And people were really frightened."

She said some of her sources were not merely panicking but profoundly emotional in expressing their concerns to her, describing them as "grown men who have done nothing but counterintelligence and solving some of the worst-of-the-worst crimes who are not easily scared, intimidated, concerned."

"They were frightened," she said. "And that really stuck with me."

Hunting accidents are the best accidents.

More: In fact, the US president is bound by the 1973 War Powers Resolution, which limits his ability to wage war without congressional approval to 60 days.

That deadline passes on May 1, 60 days after his formal notification of the war to Congress on March 2.

It will compel him to choose one of four options " seek congressional authorisation to continue the war, start winding down US involvement, buy some breathing space or ignore the law.

Some Democrats say the war is illegal and dismiss Mr Trump's justification that it was necessary for the US national interest and "collective self-defence of regional allies, including Israel".

But several Senate Republicans have made it clear that they will not support a war without congressional approval past the 60-day mark.

Brian Mast, the representative for Florida and chairman of the House foreign affairs committee, warned that the vote could be different next time after the last of five Democratic efforts to stop the offensive failed.

Honey traps are one of the the first things they warn you about when you get a high level clearance. This woman has serious judgement issues.

Just a lot of hot air from Carlson. He has no integrity. He'd do it over again in a heartbeat of he thought he'd turn a profit.

More: "The Iranians measure the timeline in months for themselves, and in weeks for the Trump administration and the global economy," said Ali Vaez, the Iran project director for the International Crisis Group. "They think Trump can't tolerate the strait remaining closed for another three weeks."

"The Iranian regime only cares about its survival, not about its people suffering, and it does still see this as an existential battle with the United States," said Mr. Vaez of the International Crisis Group. "And that's why it's not going to blink, regardless of how much the Iranian people suffer."

Readiness? What's that?

Glad this reminded me to donate.

I hope they publish everything they find during discovery.

Going to need way better sourcing on this.

More: The publication of what appears to be a 22-point manifesto comes at a critical time for Palantir, which faces global criticism for its support of US President Donald Trump's controversial immigration crackdown and its backing of the Israeli military's actions in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

Many have expressed alarm at the book's emphasis on cultural hierarchies and what it calls "regressive" cultures.

Eliot Higgins, the founder of the online investigations platform Bellingcat, sarcastically pointed out how "completely normal" it was for a tech company to post what he said was a manifesto attacking democratic norms. "It's also worth being clear about who's doing the arguing," Higgins added. "Palantir sells operational software to defence, intelligence, immigration & police agencies. These 22 points aren't philosophy floating in space, they're the public ideology of a company whose revenue depends on the politics it's advocating."

Mark Coeckelbergh, a Belgian philosopher of technology who teaches at the University of Vienna, described Palantir's messaging as an "example of technofascism", while Greek economist and former Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis said Palantir had effectively signalled a willingness "to add to nuclear Armageddon the AI-driven threat to humanity's existence".

Posting on social media, Arnaud Bertrand, the entrepreneur and geopolitical commentator, claimed that Palantir had revealed a dangerous "ideological agenda".

"They're effectively saying our tools aren't meant to serve your foreign policy. They're meant to enforce ours'," he wrote.

This happened in MAGA Mike's district. Sadly, "nothing can be done."

This is what the IDF does when it's not busy committing genocide and/or raping prisoners.

I spent around 4 months floating around in the Gulf back in 97-98 and we ate pretty well. Chow hall food is never going to be a great culinary experience but we ate way better than what you see in those photos.

More: The legal hook is the Roberts court's own "history and tradition" test, introduced in the Dobbs decision that overturned Roe. Under that framework, government powers must be grounded in founding-era practice. And the founding era, Kennedy noted, had no national draft, only local militias designed for community defense.

Kennedy acknowledged the current legal landscape cuts against him.

"The question is simple: Is the draft itself constitutional? Under Supreme Court precedent, the answer is yes," wrote Kennedy. "At the same time, the Roberts court has given significantly less weight to precedent than previous courts."

When Secretary of War James Monroe proposed national conscription during the War of 1812, Rep. Daniel Webster called it "not warranted by any provision of the Constitution." Chief Justice Roger Taney later wrote an unpublished opinion agreeing, but no case ever reached the Supreme Court.

"The historical record simply does not support current precedent. Rather, it points to the same conclusion that held for almost the first hundred years of the nation"that the federal government may raise an army, but it may not force anyone to serve in it. And while there is no active draft now, perhaps the transition to automatic registration will inspire some young person to bring the legal challenge that this moment begs," he concluded.

If he only had the mental capacity of said two-year-old child...

The film quotes statistics and research by the following sources: American Immigration Council, American Civil Liberties Union, Inside Higher Ed, National Coalition for Homeless Veterans, US National Library of Medicine, US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), Privacy International, FactCheck.org. Viewers seeking further information or wishing to take action are encouraged to visit aclu.org, veterans-aid.net, immigrantdefenseproject.org, and freedomforimmigrants.org.

Lyrics:

Big legs dangle from a helicopter hole
Big chug rhythm it's gotta be now ho!
Brown, mean and young
Dumb and full of ---
What can you use a marine for
This is a ------- ass machine gun war

With your boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground

We trim your hedges, we fight your wars
Wait in the trenches, and we ---- til we're sore

Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground

Born shiny bullets in an army of ants
Blow that horn, we sleep in our pants
Big -------, big -------
Well we holler and we burn down cities

Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground

Shootin up the town
Stayin in the hole until Jimmy Hoffa is found
With my boots on the ground

Well something goes tink when the cartridge is spent
Where do you think all your cartilage went

Boots on the ground
Boots on the ground

Now who the hell are these federal ------?
Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick
Air conditioned --------- loafers
Sittin in a room full of army posters

A coal to a diamond, a vote into law
They Campaign up all the blood they can draw
Mold your world, a soldier's just clay
How much does every soldier weigh?
Cut you off at the ankles and they throw that away

Boots on the ground

It's cold and hot, as Satan's .hoof
Spinning on the world I'm hiding on a roof
I kill a brown man I never ass knew
Choked on spit and then he turned blue
He spattered black blood, he rolled fin out
He died right here I got the pearl from his snout
A puff of gray smoke from the tongue of a cloud
He rotted in the sand and all that they found was his
boots on the ground, boots on the ground, boots on the ground

All that they found was his boots on the ground, boots on the ground

Smart TVs are for dumb people. Use an old (or a new one if you've got one on hand) PC as a media device hooked up to your TV. Most modern graphics cards will have an HDMI out port. You can stream from any service and use an ad blocker to get rid of those ridiculous ads they are trying to shove into something you're already paying for. No need to replace the TV just don't hook it up to the internet, problem solved.

Smart devices like TVs and apps in general only exist to steal your data and limit your access to their approved partners. I never use an app when a website will work just as well or better.

Yes, ALL cops.

Loved that book. If you get the audio book the people who wrote the individual sections read their parts.

#7,

Nice! I saw X last time they came to Charlotte, they still put on a damn good show. Billy Zoom sat most of the show but he's earned the right. I've had a bit of a crush on Exene for the last 40 or so years.