.@ManhattanDA issues a statement after the House Judiciary committee wraps up its 4 hour hearing:
“For outside politicians to now appear in NYC on the taxpayer dime for a political stunt is a slap in the face to the dedicated NYPD officers, prosecutors and other public servants” https://t.co/J52XeEAnAn
— Morgan McKay (@morganfmckay) April 17, 2023
New internet acronym: Just Asking Questions, aka: JAQing Off. If the meeting had lasted longer than four hours, they’d had to consult their medical providers…
Jim Jordan’s “field hearing” in New York City on violent crime — an attempted clap back against Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s recent indictment of Donald Trump — got off to a chaotic start on Monday. And it didn’t get better from there. https://t.co/ykpIkdM9dL
— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) April 17, 2023
… Jordan may have been expecting the hearing to play out a bit more like they typically do in the halls of the Capitol, where most attendees stay quiet like their jobs depend on it — in large part because they do. But the people in New York City were not political professionals on the clock, and they weren’t constrained by the D.C. decorum that endeavors to keep politics as tame as possible, no matter the life-or-death stakes of what’s being discussed…
The messy denouement this morning was among the many ways Jordan’s peacocking proceeding against Bragg was weird, not to mention disorganized. The hearing suffered from seemingly selective access for the public and press. Even though members of the public who wanted to attend were told to get in a specific line, it was not clear that any who’d queued up as told were admitted, including an 80-year-old who was there first.
The committee staffer who handled these issues claimed that members of the public had been admitted, which was true — among them was a Trumper who got escorted out after shouting about violence. Since Rolling Stone was not among those anointed for the main hearing room, it’s not clear whether those escorted out hailed from both parties…
The video feed in the overflow press room repeatedly cut out, including during testimony from victims and advocates. The solution from a judiciary staffer at one point was to put the YouTube livestream on the TV that provided the feed. This stream also cut out, in what could best be described as early-2000s-level buffering.
The staffer’s solution was ultimately to play the hearing from a cellphone, placing it on a table at the front of the conference room where audio could be heard. It eventually came back, with repeated dips in volume, but overall seemed to work. “What the fuck is going on here?” one reporter whispered to a colleague.
Indeed, that was also the question of the hour, given crime statistics in Manhattan. New York Police Department data indicates that homicides are down nine percent in Manhattan year-to-date. Shootings have dropped 14 percent in the same period, and robbery and burglary are down in the borough by 10 and 23 percent, respectively.
Bragg’s office has said it pursued nine percent more gun prosecutions in 2022 compared with 2021, and has upped its hate-crime prosecutions by 229 percent compared with 2019. To be fair, crime stats go up and down, especially over short periods of time, but the long-term trend for New York City is far better than the “old New York” days of decay and disorder…
“They brought us here to attack a district attorney [Bragg] who has actually seen a decrease in violent crime during his tenure,” says Cicilline.
“All because he dared to hold Donald Trump accountable.”
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 17, 2023
Lots of b-roll footage for future campaign ads, not all of it by Republicans.
Judiciary Committee ranking member Jerry Nader at Jim Jordan’s Manhattan hearing, “It is shameful that the Republicans of this committee would use the pretext of violent crime as an excuse to play tourist in New York and bully the district attorney.” pic.twitter.com/xufXBvEaWq
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) April 17, 2023
Part 2 pic.twitter.com/LRa6PNjbT5
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) April 17, 2023
Among the sideshows:
Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) encourages people to kill someone who threatens them:
“That means pulling out a weapon, and put two at center mass. You’ll reduce recidivism, won’t you? And you won’t have a repeat offender.” pic.twitter.com/K0cLutqd2Z
— The Recount (@therecount) April 17, 2023
Amid a tirade about Bragg lowering some crimes to misdemeanors, Nehls says to one of the Dems’ witnesses, Jim Kessler of Third Way:
“How do you feel about that, Mr. Kessler? What if I come over there and put my pistola, screw it in your ear, and I don’t say anything bad to you?”
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) April 17, 2023
With antisemitic tropes emanating from House Republicans, it’s unsurprising, but no less vile, to see the Republicans bringing this antisemitism to New York outside today’s Stunt Hearing in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/lBXs62aDQk
— Rep. Nadler (@RepJerryNadler) April 17, 2023
Mr. Jordan punched back in characteristic fashion, details of which have not been previously reported, calling a wrestler’s aging parents and asking them to persuade their son to back off the charge that Mr. Jordan knew about the abuse and did nothing… https://t.co/he9umeBZ1T
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) April 17, 2023
Also, Rep. Jordan gave the NYTimes a bigger audience for their latest profile:
… Mr. Jordan, the right-wing Ohio Republican, has propelled his rise in Congress, where he has made a name for himself with bare-knuckled partisan tactics and a penchant for picking fights with his adversaries, then used his higher profile to raise campaign funds and amass power.
When a sexual abuse scandal at Ohio State University threatened to derail his political career, Mr. Jordan punched back in characteristic fashion, details of which have not been previously reported, calling a wrestler’s aging parents and asking them to persuade their son to back off the charge that Mr. Jordan knew about the abuse and did nothing, according to interviews conducted for this article.
When a Republican speaker, John A. Boehner of Ohio, wasn’t conservative enough for his liking, Mr. Jordan, who co-founded the Freedom Caucus, led the band of hard-right lawmakers who pressured him to resign. Mr. Boehner referred to Mr. Jordan as a legislative and political “terrorist.”…
When Mr. Trump needed a band of loyal foot soldiers to question and undermine faith in the 2020 election results, Mr. Jordan led the charge in Congress in the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 mob attack on the Capitol.
Now Mr. Jordan, 59, is using his perch on the judiciary panel to defend his most important political patron, Mr. Trump, and to attack his adversaries, including the Biden administration, Democrats and Mr. Bragg, who has brought 34 criminal charges against the former president…
Over eight terms in the House, Mr. Jordan, who served for a decade in Ohio’s Statehouse before winning election to Congress, has not been the lead sponsor of a single bill that became law, earning him a perennial ranking from the Center for Effective Lawmaking as among the least effective members of Congress…
During the darkest weekend for Mr. Trump’s 2016 campaign, after he was caught on tape boasting about grabbing women, Mr. Jordan and his wife, Polly, publicly doubled down on the Trump candidacy. As other Republicans rushed to distance themselves, Mrs. Jordan flew to North Carolina to join a Women For Trump bus tour.
Mr. Jordan was also there for Mr. Trump after he lost the 2020 election and began searching for ways to cling to power. The Ohio Republican helped devise a communications strategy to undermine public confidence in the election results and became a key planner of the congressional objections to Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s victory…
There’s a Repub campaign slogan for our times. Gym Jordan: Concierge to the rich and powerful for more than a generation.
Baud
Wait is he still talking about Trump?
Jeffro
“put two at center mass” – ooo ooo, so manly and cop/soldier-y of Nehls!
bar
I’m sure that talk like that will impress
all the other kids in middle schoolFox Newssame thing.scav
@Baud: No, I think that’s a contender for the end-line of the current Official Republican Knock-Knock joke.
JPL
It will not come as a surprise that Manchin thinks Kevin has some good ideas and Biden is being unreasonable.
Ohio Mom
New Yorkers don’t have much patience for tourists anymore. When I was growing up, yes but nowadays there are entirely too many of them and they generally don’t know how to comport themselves in the big city (e.g., don’t stop in the middle of the sidewalk).
MattF
Jordan apparently thinks chaos is good for his agenda (whatever it really is). Or maybe it’s just an incompetent stunt. We shall see.
raven
“You are give that god-given right!” What a fucking moron.
JoyceH
@MattF: My vote is for incompetence. These clowns went around bragging about all the great things they were going to do (basically all the petty revenge they were going to get) if they were in charge, and now that they are in charge, turns out they suck at it.
raven
@MattF:
Jordan
apparentlythinksThat was your first mistake.
bbleh
@Ohio Mom: … and for heaven’s sake, where the sidewalks are narrow (eg the Village), leave room for people to get by as you amble slowly and randomly along. It’s usually possible to dodge around by stepping out into the street, but not always, and it can be downright dangerous
@MattF: @JoyceH: yeah this is just more performance for the rubes. Hee hee they took it right to ’em, in Noo York City! That’s showin’ ’em!
Cameron
As disturbing as these creatures are, it’s even more disturbing that they can find a public that will elect them to office.
narya
I don’t think he has one, at least not in the “actually accomplish something” sense of “agenda.” I think a lot of them are seriously high on their own supply–they maintain themselves in this RWNJ bubble, have no sense of how it is playing more broadly, and, more to the point, they aren’t actually DOING anything. Contrast this BS with the J6 committee: the hearings were tight, focused, and were about things that people had seen on their own televisions. Not to mention, Gym and Friends just get pantsed in public on the regular–another thing that did not happen w/ J6 committee.
OverTwistWillie
The totality of his Trump fluffing = has to be stuffing sweat soaked Benjamins into his socks.
delphinium
With apologies to monkeys and poo.
delphinium
@narya: Yeah, I think these types of ‘revenge’ hearings and antics only play to smaller and smaller audiences, especially given that there is the Debt Ceiling negotiations that they should be working on instead.
narya
According to Terri Kanefield (on Mastodon), Fani Willis is moving to dismiss one of the attorneys for the false electors scheme, because the attorney did not convey the offer of immunity as instructed by the court and then LIED about that.
sab
@narya: And he keeps getting reelected. Fun fact: Gym Jordan’s districr is shaped like a duck.
schrodingers_cat
@Cameron: The privileged don’t want to lose their privilege so they are throwing a collective tantrum by electing morons and knaves like Jordan.
Dangerman
That’s not sweat.
schrodingers_cat
OT: My first page from the Worlds Within Worlds. Critiques and comments welcome. Thanks.
eclare
@Dangerman: I guess that’s better than Hope Hicks having to steam TFG’s pants.
sdhays
@sab: I think that means he’s a witch.
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: Fascinating.
Josie
@sab:
Every time I see or hear Jordan, I try and fail to imagine a person who would vote for him. Stupid and venal times ten.
Ruckus
@schrodingers_cat:
It’s actually worse than that. I mean yes you are correct but they are trying to destroy our government which like everything else where humans are involved is not perfect – it is still not bad at all. It just has gotten so far out on a limb what some rich individuals are paying for and if they weren’t paying for that they would still have a lot of money to pay for the things they want to purchase, even with increased taxes. Some/most of the extremely wealthy seem to not mind throwing money at asinine concepts so that they don’t have to be seen to be 3 cents less wealthy.
It must be a disease or something.
schrodingers_cat
@Ruckus: That’s why I said it’s a tantrum, they’re rather destroy everything than share.
schrodingers_cat
@eclare: You like?
Mike S
Nehls threatened a witness? Would that witness have been within his rights to defend himself by shooting Nehls on the spot if they were in Texas?
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: Yes! Lots of intriguing detail.
Captain C
@Mike S: I suspect that if the weapon was properly licensed, a New York City jury (grand or petit) would have let the threatened witness off on grounds of Entirely Reasonable Self-Defense.
Captain C
@Ruckus:
Probably paying more to accountants, lawyers, and lobbyists than they save in taxes in some cases, which makes no sense from a financial standpoint but is understandable, if reprehensible, from a selfish/status standpoint.
schrodingers_cat
@schrodingers_cat: * they would rather destroy..
gene108
Nehls seems like the sort of gun owner, which is becoming more common IMO, who just wants an excuse to murder someone.
schrodingers_cat
@eclare: I love this Kerby Rosanes’ work. I have bought 2 of his books so far. This is my first attempt at coloring it.
WaterGirl
@narya: Have these attorneys not even watched a single episode of TV, ever? Everybody knows you are legally obligated to pass on all offers to your clients, even if you recommend against them.
Make attorneys get attorneys.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
What’s the context? Are you writing a book?
Ruckus
@Josie:
I have the advantage of having been in the military and seeing a lot of people close up and how shitty they can make their own lives, and often other lives in the process. One example, in boot camp we had a guy from the town next to mine so he decided he wanted to be friends. But he was the guy that wouldn’t take a shower because everyone took a shower at the same time. I’m not sure why, I have suspicions, but no actual idea why. Which of course meant that he never took a shower. Try living with 79 other humans in a room, marching most of the day with someone who doesn’t take a shower. He finally took a shower, with the help of 5 or 6 others. In the bathroom were bars of lye soap and that day we found out what it was for. That and the very, very stiff brushes sitting next to the soap on the shelf. The soap and brushes are for a very thorough cleaning of the skin of a person who declines to wash themselves. Administered by a group of persons with less than delightful intent. This gentleman announced every day for the rest of boot camp that he was taking a shower. I believe that no one spoke or listened to a word to or from him for the next 2-3 months. It must be lonely being an asshole.
rikyrah
@JoyceH:
They were never interested in governing. Never have been.
eclare
@schrodingers_cat: I just googled, very good interpretation.
JPL
@WaterGirl: It depends on who the attorney is working for, I guess. (just kidding) From the AJC
Prosecutors said they had been told by Debrow and her then-co-counsel, Holly Pierson, on Aug. 5, 2022, that none of their clients were interested in immunity. But during interviews with the electors last week, some electors “told members of the investigation team that no potential offer of immunity was ever brought to them in 2022, which is in direct conflict with … Ms. Pierson’s representation to this court,” prosecutors alleged.
Their motion said Debrow’s representation of the 10 electors has become an “impracticable and ethical mess.”……..
The state GOP spent more than $220,000 last year to defend the electors in court, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution previously reported. Debrow’s firm received $170,000 in legal fees in 2022, while Pierson has been paid at least $52,000. Debrow received another $87,000 in February, according to campaign finance filings.
narya
@WaterGirl: And it sounds like some of the fake electors want to TAKE that immunity and spill alllll the beans–and apparently one of the fake electors did some OTHER illegal things, and some of the others want to rat him out!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: It is the first page of this coloring book for adults.
My very first attempt at coloring in a Kerby Rosanes book.
I think the monkey represents humanity and the worlds within worlds are worlds in our collective imaginations, past, present and future
This illustration reminds me of Balinese temples. In India there are plenty of old temples that are ruins and people may still light a lamp in a part/s of the temple.
That was my inspiration for this
Mostly done with colored pencils and Pitt pens by Faber Castell and the background is with gel crayons and magic pencils.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
Trump is like a one-man multi-level marketing scheme for attorneys.
eclare
@Baud: Hahaha, so true.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Oh, cool. I thought you were writing a Hanuman fanfic or something.
There should be a more sophisticated name for coloring books for adults. Like when they say graphic novels instead of comic books.
StringOnAStick
I’m never here when there’s s good spot for it, so here is an OT post about the western snowpack. If you click on this link to the USDA division that maintains these maps (the Natural Resources Conservation Service), then click on the map so you get a page you can zoom in on and move around, you can see each basin in the US west and what percentage of normal snowpack they are at right now: https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/
There’s a basin in AZ that is just under 1000% of normal, though I suspect it is one that doesn’t usually get much snow so a little makes a big difference. The numbers for CA are of course impressive. Look at how the basins just across the border into Canada are still in the 80’s and the part of CO that is usually below 100% (the Rio Grande basin in SE CO) is still not there.
Anyway, I thought this would be of interest and now is when I was here to be able to post it, so I beg the pardon of those who don’t like going off topic.
Roger Moore
@JPL:
It’s not a joke. This is a problem when the attorney isn’t being paid by their nominal client. They have a huge ethical issue, because they have split loyalties. On the one hand, they’re supposed to be loyal to their clients, but the people paying the bills don’t have identical interests. On top of that, they face a potential conflict if/when one client decides to take a deal and testify against the others, which they have attempted to avoid by not letting their clients know such a deal was even available.
This is a mess of the first order, and I hope the judge takes it very seriously. The state bar association, too.
JPL
@Roger Moore: yup
Tony G
“Nehls moved to Fort Bend County, Texas, in 1994, and joined the police department of Richmond, Texas.[5] In 1998, he was fired for reasons including destruction of evidence.” A former crooked cop. What an amazing surprise. Considering how much malfeasance cops usually get away with, it’s noteworthy that this guy was fired after only four years. Too crooked to be a cop in Richmond, Texas! It’s also noteworthy that he made his little fake-macho pronouncement a day or two after a young man was shot for ringing the wrong doorbell and after a young woman was shot for pulling into the wrong driveway.
Ruckus
@Captain C:
Extremely likely that if you have enough money to purchase a supreme court justice you have accountants and money managers anyway, so the cost of paying taxes or buying off supreme court justices are likely at least roughly equal. Thing is though you likely can get even wealthier if you have a supreme court justice in your pocket so it’s still the way some are going to go.
I have a wonder here. I do not condone the paying off of a person who gets paid by all of us to the tune of approximately 1/4 of a million a year, and Thomas is well educated but he is an older man of color. Is it possible that he’s trying to collect what he thinks he’s owed as a human while being his color in this country? I’m not saying he is or isn’t owed it, I’m asking, is it possible he thinks he is?
Or am I being an ass here, even saying/thinking it might be possible? This is a rather successful man, no matter his color, what I’m asking is he just a normal greedy person or does he think he’s owed this?
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: If I ever write fiction inspired by the Indian epics. It will be Mahabharat, Ramayan bores me to death. Ramayan’s characters are such goody goody two shoes, they all feel like cardboard cutouts without any complexity.
raven
@schrodingers_cat: Hey, do you know about this show? It’s only 4 episodes but we really enjoyed it and it hits a lot of issues familiar to you.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
Anyway, it’s beautiful. I sometimes play around with the drawing app that comes with my phone, which has coloring too, but I don’t have an eye for it.
Gin & Tonic
@StringOnAStick: My daughter and her husband are off taking recreational advantage of the Utah snowpack. I am jealous.
gwangung
@Baud: No, he’s talking about shooting more black teenagers and lost white girls.
JoyceH
Oh shit! Breaking – Settlement in Fox case?
JPL
@JoyceH: fkfkfkfk
Sure Lurkalot
FTFNYT message that Fox settled.
Steeplejack
@JoyceH:
Nicolle Wallace (on MSNBC) is opening with that! Chyron: “Judge: ‘The parties have resolved this case.'”
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
You could write an alternative telling from Ravana’s point of view.
Baud
@JPL:
Fox must have paid through the nose.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Make attorneys get attorneys.
They likely and often do. But this is a thing one is taught (different than learning) early on, that it is not the attorney on trial, they should suggest what’s in the best interest of their client but they do what the client wants. Of course if someone else is paying, who actually is the client? They are taught that also, it’s who hired them, not who pays them the most. But money, likely for some, talks louder and more forceful than original clients do.
Dahlia
Off topic: They settled. (Ooops! I see it’s already been mentioned.)
https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/fox-news-dominion-voting-settle-defamation-lawsuit-1235580530/#recipient_hashed=400a0173bc383cc58f49e2c0e9bf76ead0f8b918df7dee128525ac6e1f2eb82b&recipient_salt=af18eb5209b701ac2e6e7ca347baf7681740929faa0d7461429cfa8c7614fcbd
indycat32
@Steeplejack: I hope it includes an on air confession.
SiubhanDuinne
Looks like Fox and Dominion settled.
Poo.
eclare
@Dahlia: Shit
Funny how the seating of a jury focuses the defendant’s attention.
Baud
@indycat32:
hueyplong
The litigator in me is never surprised when a case settles at go time, when everyone’s focus is laser-like on the downside risk, but man this is disappointing news.
I wanted every day’s news cycle to be what shits they are at Fox.
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
Thomas has made a whole career out of the whole “this country doesn’t owe black people anything” shtick, so it would be kind of odd if he used that to justify taking bribes. I think he’s taking them because he’s a venal person who wants to grab anything he can, and any reason he gives is just after the fact justification.
And yes, I’ll be up front and say this stuff is bribery. He and his buddies on the Supreme Court may have decided that it isn’t bribery unless you can prove an explicit quid pro quo, but we all know what’s going on here.
narya
@Ruckus: Based on what I’ve heard (on podcasts), he simply thinks that disclosure laws or rules ought not apply to him. I believe he also famously disparages any notion of affirmative action–thinks bootstraps are sufficient–and therefore also thinks that he deserves these things.
MomSense
Crazy, scary sad day here in Maine. Started with a blurb about active shooting on I 295 in Yarmouth Maine with residents and businesses told to lockdown. 3 people were shot on the highway – no details about the shooter(s) except that it was connected to 4 people found dead in a home in Bowdoin.
StringOnAStick
@Gin & Tonic: I had the best backcountry powder day of my life this season; I still get a thrill thinking of that last run with the sun behind us, our shadows showing us and the powder flying with every turn on an untouched slope. We’re still getting powder mornings here in central Oregon, climbing up small ski areas that are closed except on weekends right now. We’re 10-13 degrees below normal and having a cold spring. There will be big peaks to ski well into June and we’ve got permits for Mt. St, Helens in late May; I just hope my lingering Covid symptoms resolve soon.
Betty Cracker
Disappointing that Dominion settled. I read somewhere that their case for the damages claim went wobbly at the last minute and was changed from a combination of lost contracts and reputational damage to reputational only. I have no idea how significant that is in this development, but maybe it was a factor? Anyway, this sucks, but let’s see how Smartmatic does. I want to see those mofos under oath!
JPL
@Baud: The money means nothing to them. They just didn’t want to apologize.
Kristine
@schrodingers_cat: It’s really good–did you use pencil or crayon?
I added the Alien Worlds book to my wish list for later.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
I’m interested in seeing if Fox has to admit wrongdoing on the air. I don’t think I would have accepted anything less if I were Dominion’s CEO.
Lapassionara
@hueyplong: yes, it is disappointing news. Now for the Smartmatic case.
hueyplong
@Betty Cracker: If true, that would definitely be a factor.
StringOnAStick
Well, FOX settled with Dominion, but the Smartmatic suit is still out there and they are asking for $2.7 billion, much more than Dominion sued for.
West of the Rockies
@Betty Cracker:
Yes, I was really hoping to see Fox raked over the coals, their reputation reduced to shards and splinters.
narya
I’m not surprised they settled, tbh. Proving actual malice–which is what they had to do–is really hard, even under the best of circumstances, which these kind of were. I know not everyone likes Popehat/Ken White, but he has pointed out that juries often go with what they “feel,” then find the law/evidence to support that. Even though it was settled fact that the election wasn’t stolen, etc., it could still have gone badly for Dominion. Depending on the terms, this might still be a substantial win.
Ruckus
@Baud:
If they were asking to settle it’s likely that they knew they would lose and given that they are not stupid, just evil, they know that paying off would be better even if they paid what dominion asked, even originally asked. They would spend millions defending themselves and if they were way better than 90% sure they’d lose, cut your loses and move on. They likely have insurance for most of it or at least a large portion so for them it’s not likely as bad as it looks.
Roger Moore
@indycat32:
I guess a Captain Needa apology is out of the question.
Lapassionara
@Betty Cracker: Dominion withdrew its lost profits claim. It still had plenty of damages.
The judge had appointed a master-in-equity to investigate whether Fox had complied with its discovery obligations.
the judge had already ruled that what Fox said about Dominion was false. Dominion had to prove reckless disregard or spitefulness, which some pundits thought might be difficult. I thought it would be pretty easy, but who knows really.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Its probably been done before.
Here is Ravana singing about the glories of Lanka.
Lanka he says, is more beautiful than heaven
Ruckus
@narya:
Don’t doubt it a bit. He’s a man who has risen to the top of his field, and a lot of people that get to that level have some issue with the concept of humility and equality. They are better and that’s the end of that.
JPL
For those not watching MSNBC, Fox acknowledged the judge ruling that stated Fox said false statements.
Also time for the country to move on wtf
schrodingers_cat
@raven: Where is it streaming?
Tony G
@Tony G: Iraq and Afghanistan. I wonder how many unarmed civilians he killed over there?
eclare
@MomSense: Oh how sad. Again.
Tony G
@Roger Moore: Thomas getting massive bribes was his one-man reparations program.
raven
@schrodingers_cat: It’s on PBS Passport which requires as little as $5 a month and give access to a ton of content. I think it will be broadcast in July.
schrodingers_cat
@Kristine: Thanks.
Pencils for the main picture
Crayons for the background
Pitt pens for the details.
JPL
They settled for less than a billion dollars. 750..million
Sure Lurkalot
@JPL: Who said it was time for the country to move on..Fox, MSNBC or the judge? Need to know who to roll my eyes at.
Betty Cracker
@Lapassionara: Thanks for the explanation. I hope the terms of the settlement are disclosed and also that the Smartmatic case makes it to trial. The smarmy Fox News statement announcing the settlement references their nonexistent “journalistic integrity.”
raven
@JPL: 787 at the presser.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
Didn’t remember that shtick, till I saw your comment but yes he’s not actually the good man some thought he would be. He’s a human, just like all of us. Has his proclivities, issues and BS like all of us do, he may just have some of the shitty parts in a higher quantity.
rikyrah
@Roger Moore:
Got everything he’s gotten because he was a token and has wanted to pull up the ladder behind him. Can’t remotely express the level of disgust that I have had with that self-hating clown.
WaterGirl
@Roger Moore: @JPL:
This should be a disbarment level offense.
CaseyL
I’m pretty stunned by the news that Dominion settled.
I had heard Fox reps say that Dominion hadn’t suffered any business loss, but discounted that as something that the Defendant would of course claim.
But Dominion employees endured physical and mental assault, threats to themselves and their families, to the point they needed to hire security details. For that alone, I thought Dominion would want to disembowel Fox.
So I am flabbergasted, and not in a good way.
Lapassionara
@Betty Cracker: journalistic integrity? Seriously?
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat: Beautiful!
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Thanks!
Captain C
@schrodingers_cat: A college friend of mine recently published a collection of poems that has been described as a modern ‘conversation with’ the Ramayana; it’s called After.
schrodingers_cat
@Captain C: Interesting. Any excerpts published anywhere?
Ruckus
@JPL:
Also time for the country to move on wtf
Conservatives will fight hard till push comes to shove and then they will weigh the cost to go on or settle. Because they know they can play their base to accept anything as true as long as they say it. I mean, they can’t be lying, we are on the same side!
SomeRandomGuy
It was around in the 90s. (Sorry.)