Tim Kaine made him look like a fool.

The single worst decision made by the SCOTUS since Dred Scott.

More: On Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson told CNN's Manu Raju that there should be "conditions" on the proposed federal aid to California in the wake of the deadly wildfires in Los Angeles County.

"It appears to us that state and local leaders were derelict in their duty in many respects, so that's something that has to be factored in. I think there should probably be conditions on that aid."

Asked whether he planned on conditioning the aid to debt ceiling negotiations, Johnson said that option is on the table. "There's some discussion about that, but we'll see where it goes."

Yeha, takes one to know one.

Who cares what Jamie Dimon thinks, he has no concept of how real people live their lives. They couldn't have found a more out of touch person to ask this question to.

More: After two men brutally assaulted a security guard on a desolate train platform on the outskirts of St. Louis, county transit police detective Matthew Shute struggled to identify the culprits. He studied grainy surveillance videos, canvassed homeless shelters and repeatedly called the victim of the attack, who said he remembered almost nothing because of a brain injury from the beating.

Months later, they tried one more option.

Shute uploaded a still image from the blurry video of the incident to a facial recognition program, which uses artificial intelligence to scour the mug shots of hundreds of thousands of people arrested in the St. Louis area. Despite the poor quality of the image, the software spat out the names and photos of several people deemed to resemble one of the attackers, whose face was hooded by a winter coat and partially obscured by a surgical mask.

Though the city's facial recognition policy warns officers that the results of the technology are "nonscientific" and "should not be used as the sole basis for any decision," Shute proceeded to build a case against one of the AI-generated results: Christopher Gatlin, a 29-year-old father of four who had no apparent ties to the crime scene nor a history of violent offenses, as Shute would later acknowledge.

Arrested and jailed for a crime he says he didn't commit, it would take Gatlin more than two years to clear his name.

Gatlin is one of at least eight people wrongfully arrested in the United States after being identified through facial recognition. Six cases were previously reported in media outlets. Two wrongful arrests " Gatlin and Jason Vernau, a Miami resident " have not been previously reported.

All of the cases were eventually dismissed. Police probably could have eliminated most of the people as suspects before their arrest through basic police work, such as checking alibis, comparing tattoos, or, in one case, following DNA and fingerprint evidence left at the scene.

"Too much feminine energy with this guy. Women hate each other like he is talking. Men can put differences aside."

...wailed boaz as he hated Don Lemon so much that he made a thread about it.

More: "It's legally and ethically dicey to have open conversations about this," says Graham Parsons, a philosophy professor at West Point who urged military officers and troops to consider resisting "politicized" orders in a New York Times op-ed in September. One concern is whether the military could tarnish itself with an incident like Kent State, when four college students were shot to death by jittery and poorly trained Ohio National Guardsmen in 1970.

"Soldiers are trained predominately to fight, kill and win wars," says Brian VanDeMark, a Naval Academy historian and author of the 2024 book Kent State: An American Tragedy. "Local police and state police are far better trained to deal with the psychology of crowds, which can become inherently unpredictable, impulsive and irrational. If you're not well trained to cope, your reaction might be inadequate and turn to force." He adds that at the Naval Academy as well as West Point, "my impression is this is an issue that is being thought about and worried about a lot but it's not openly discussed."

Repubs are so desperate to have Trump seem legitimate they are now using him speaking to a man they absolutely despise as a way to do that.

Really though when haven't people died needlessly from preventable causes in Mississippi?

The problem with the CFPB is it's an unconstitutional institution.

Even Clarence Thomas disagrees with you.

Good, all those freshly homeless extremely wealthy people who lived where they knew they were at extreme risk from fires will have services they can use.

It always circles back to white power with conservatives. No matter what they claim they're concerned with on any given subject it's really just terrified white people under those hoods.

More: The CFPB's new rule amends Regulation V, which implements the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), to end this exception and establish guardrails for credit reporting companies, prohibiting them from including medical bills on credit reports sent to lenders, who are banned from considering them. The final rule:

Prohibits lenders from considering medical information: The rule ends the special regulatory carveout that previously allowed creditors to use certain medical information in making lending decisions. This means lenders will also be barred from using information about medical devices, such as prosthetic limbs, that could be used to require that the devices serve as collateral for a loan for the purposes of repossession.
Bans medical bills on credit reports: The rule bans consumer reporting agencies from including medical debt information on credit reports and credit scores sent to lenders. This will help end the practice of using the credit reporting system to coerce payment of bills regardless of their accuracy. Lenders will continue to be able to consider medical information to verify medical-based forbearances, verify medical expenses that a consumer needs a loan to pay, consider certain benefits as income when underwriting, and other legitimate uses.

Today's rule advances the CFPB's work to protect consumers from harms from medical debt and coercive debt collection practices. In October, the CFPB issued guidance clarifying that debt collectors violate federal law when they collect on inaccurate or legally invalid medical debts. Previously, the CFPB published in 2022 a report describing the extensive and debilitating effects of medical debt along with a bulletin on the No Surprises Act to remind credit reporting companies and debt collectors of their legal responsibilities under that legislation.

The rule will be effective 60 days after publication in the Federal Register.

More: Chuckwalla National Monument will span more than 624,000 acres of desert south of Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California. The area is home to rugged mountain ranges and dozens of rare species, including the desert bighorn sheep and the chuckwalla lizard. The Cahuilla, Chemehuevi, Mojave, Quechan and Serrano nations all have ancestral ties to the newly protected lands.

The monument will connect to a series of other federally protected lands running along the Colorado River from the Mojave Desert in California to the town of Moab, Utah.

The White House described the "Moab to Mojave Conservation Corridor," which also includes Grand Canyon National Park and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, as the largest contiguous stretch of federally protected lands in the Lower 48, running a length of 600 miles and encompassing nearly 18 million acres.

More: In other words, the study found that less than 0.1% of teenagers with private insurance in the U.S. are transgender and receive gender-related medicines.

This is what all your histrionics is about, Republicans?

If you bothered to read the article you'd know why, dummy.

More: Most headlines I'd seen in the news report only that he warned of national decline and bore "no ill will toward Mr. Trump," in the words of one of the investigators. That gloss on Donald Trump is, shall we say, a bit of an understatement, as you can see in these excerpts.

Military and vets move on DC starting now. Militias facilitate and augment this activity.
Occupy every major road along fed buildings and the campus of fed buildings by the hundreds of thousands.
Lock the highways around down with semis right after everybody gets in. Hold until the purge is complete.
Try peaceful means first, but be prepared to fight to get the Dems out of the fed government and military by any means necessary. They all must go and a hard reset must occur for our country to avoid collapse.

We must end the war in Ukraine with negotiated settlement. It is the only way.
Focus on strength and winning. Masculinity is good and men must be leaders. Strength is a deterrent and fear is the product.

Stop obsessing over diversity. We are all diverse and DEI is a cancer.
Thankfully we rejected the DEI candidate and will have a real President instead of Weekend at Bernie's.

Consider this last sunset of 24 and my actions the end of our sickness and a new chapter of health for our people. Rally around the Trump, Musk, Kennedy, and ride this wave to the highest hegemony for all Americans! We are second to no one.

His generation freed the world and his children's generation is doing everything they can to undo that work.

Good! The death penalty is barbaric and has no place in a civilized society. It is always about revenge and never actually about justice.

Clarence is the single most corrupt US government official in almost 250 years of American history.

People probably said similar things about gas lights back at the turn of the last century. More efficient and environmentally friendly options should win out in most circumstances. There will always be room for novelty lighting just like you still see gas lamps at a fancy restaurant or in some people's yards.

More: The report quoted an officer who recalled an incident in which a commander had announced that 200 militants were killed, when actually "only 10 were confirmed as known Hamas operatives".

Soldiers meanwhile told Haaretz they received questionable orders to open fire on "anyone who enters" Netzarim.

"Anyone crossing the line is a terrorist -- no exceptions, no civilians. Everyone's a terrorist," a soldier quoted a battalion commander as saying.

The soldiers also described how division commanders received "expanded powers" allowing them to bomb buildings or launch air strikes that previously required approval from the army's top echelons.

Zed, you're arguing with mental midgets. They can't understand anything you tell them.