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On the other hand, 22 white women accused a prominent black man of rape, only for his conviction on *one* unrelated incident to be overturned by his state's Supreme Court.

Congress could ban CEOs from serving on the compensation committees other companies' boards hire to decide what their CEO should be paid. There's a *lot* of backscratching going on there.

‘Can We Extradite Him?’ How U.S. Officials Grappled With the Release of a Triple Murderer

So ... the same administration rounding up law-abiding Latin immigrants at home has no problem bringing home a Spanish man (and U.S. citizen) convicted of a triple murder in Spain from Venezuela because it believes he was "wrongly imprisoned."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

That sums up Trump ...

But all the same, any serious effort to amend or repeal the 22nd Amendment would have to have started by now to have a remotely realistic chance (even with a widely popular president) of being ratified by 2028.

‘He fumbled this 1,000%’: How Ron DeSantis keeps making powerful enemies in Trump’s GOP | CNN Politics Ron DeSantis keeps picking fights that come back to haunt him, most recently with Trump’s pick for RNC chair.

The DeSantis Administration: A reminder, I suppose, that there may be another timeline somewhere where even Bluesky is wishing Trump had gotten re-elected instead.

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This city could run dry ‘within weeks’ as it grapples with an acute water crisis | CNN Vital reservoirs are shrinking, authorities are scrambling to reduce demand and stave off catastrophe and residents are desperately trying to conserve water.

With Wikimania looming, this reminder of the situation in Cape Town when we were all there in 2018.

It could only be much worse in a larger, drier city like Teheran.

www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/c...

Hamas Wants Gaza to Starve Starvation only helps Hamas end the war in a way that advances its aims.

It takes two to tango:

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I went on a whitewater rafting trip with him once ...

When even Newsmax isn't letting you off easy ...

Trump’s Bad-to-Worse Options on Epstein There are no good solutions — but some are better than others.

What I've been saying, at much greater length:

www.politico.com/news/magazin...

ICE efforts to poach local officers anger some local law enforcement leaders An email to officers whose agencies partner with ICE has even some sheriffs who support the Trump administration and its immigration crackdown seeing red.

You know, ICE *could* have just walked into these police agencies' headquarters, picked the people they wanted to hire, and dragged them out.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

If Democratic cities or states really want to make a point about ICE with the power they do have, they can forbid any of their police officers from attending, in uniform, on municipal time, funerals of any ICE personnel killed in the line of duty.

Trump Has Turned House Freedom Caucus Into a Total Laughingstock The embarrassing nickname is a sign of how much power Donald Trump wields over the Republican Party.

Well, here's one Trump accomplishment that, even if he wasn't trying, we can all get behind.

"House Folding Caucus": BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

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To me his face looks like what you'd get if you asked an AI to generate a photo of a man who looked like they could have been drawn by Charles Schulz.

I have always thought Epstein's version was a smokescreen for the story Trump's told about him hitting on a teenager at Mar-a-Lago.

Now it seems like this might also be a truth Trump doesn't want to acknowledge.

MAGA Official Says Everyone Investigating Him for Porn Should Resign Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters had an interesting response to being investigated for accidentally playing porn at work.

It's not surprising that MAGA appointees react to being investigated like immature teenagers (because that's who they are).

But saying that his investigators should "resign in disgrace" is a new one in that department for me.

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YouTube video by Inside Edition Momma Bear and Cubs Caught Having a Pool Party in Backyard

The bear and her cubs having the pool party in exurban New Jersey would still have been better even if this one was real:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMRm...

Pete Hegseth for Governor? Someone Wants Him Out of the Pentagon. The Defense secretary is eyeing the exits — or perhaps someone else is doing it for him.

Adroit analysis of the Hegseth-for-TN-governor reports.

Either he's looking to get out, or someone's looking to get him out.

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Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Worsens as Dems Suddenly Find Big New Weapon Senate Democrats are using a 1928 law to pressure Trump to release the Epstein files. The White House will ignore them. Here’s what could happen next.

This has some interesting possibilities. As TNR notes, the earlier effort to use this "rule of five" ended when GSA surrendered, but the appellate precedents holding the law valid are still in place.

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I hope that some day someone makes her run for it, in an entirely different sense of the term.

IIRC in 2022 the GA GOP actually redrew her district to make it a little *less* safely Republican, in the hope that someone a little saner would primary her (they did, but she still won).

She actually sued them over this.

She grew up in the northern Atlanta area (Cummings), and then moved out to Deliverance country so she could get elected, an area I've heard more than one other Georgian describe as "where God goes when He needs to take a shit".

You'd think someone would at least have taken him aside at some point and told him that McGeorge Bundy was not the best person to model his look on ...

Branding, you mean.

Making Election Day a Holiday Might Hurt More Working-Class Voters Than It Helps Every Election Day, millions of Americans try to wrest enough time away from work to vote. And millions of them fail. According to the Census Bureau,...

Yes, until you think about what would really happen and how it would become something the progressives of the 2080s will be smacking themselves in the forehead over why we ever thought this was a great idea ...

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NXIVM - Wikipedia

That already happened in an office park outside Albany years ago ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM

Pete Buttigieg pins down reason Democrats lost to Trump in 2024 Joe Biden’s transportation secretary says it’s ‘wrong to imagine that we should have just kept everything going along the way it was’ or to dismantle everything Republican president is now doing

Some people here won't like reading this, but Buttigieg has a point here.

Unfortunately the conundrum is that the more Trump tears down the status quo, the more those who depended on it flock to Democrats to restore it.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Zelensky Learned the Wrong Lesson From Trump Trump withdrew from the fight against kleptocracy, and other countries have absorbed that fact.

Sad but true accounting of the policy area where Trump has done the most damage so far, damage not easily undone.

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