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.

More: The institution is increasingly polarizing: Forty-two percent of Americans approve of the job the high court is doing, and there's a massive 65-point gap in its approval rate between Republicans and Democrats. The percentage of Americans who say they have at least a fair amount of confidence in the federal judiciary is also at a near-record low of 49%.

More: "All I've had from them so far, from the people I've talked to, is a combination of disbelief that some of them were made to fly from, some of them, Asia, from all over the world ... all the way to Quanico to listen to the same familiar type of culture war complaints that we've been having since Trump was reelected," she added, calling Trump's remarks a "campaign-style stump speech."

"Nothing that was said today could not have been put in an email or in a directive. So there's that, to begin with. There's also the fact that so much of this was partisan, and this is a military that is supposed to present itself as nonpartisan. So you didn't hear the kind of cheering that we usually get, because President Trump is used to playing for the type of crowds that favor him," Cooper explained. "And so he's not very used to performing in front of an audience that's just giving, looking back stone-faced. But that's what you were getting from these generals."

The other thing she noted is that she's gotten "so many emails from women in the military" who are seeing this as a message "that they are not welcome."

So the "deal" is he's just holding back on his tariffs for the next 3 years for companies that kiss his a55?

More: Trump said he was ready to fire officials who he doesn't like, echoing his Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, who was originally slated to be the sole keynote speaker at the event.

"If you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room," Trump said to some laughter from the crowd of hundreds " nearly all uniformed military brass. "Of course, there goes your rank. There goes your future. But you just feel nice and loose, OK? Because we're all on the same team."

Make no mistake here, this is the US President declaring war on major American cities.

Not a single patriot in the room there at Quantico. Shame.