John Russell

Balance of powers mean the court must be able to assert some sort of restriction or sanction on either Congressional or Executive branches.

It is not necessarily broad… but when wielded it should be respected under the rule of law.

There is no aggrieved party to placing a hold on troops.

I must admit. My wife and daughters referred to it as genocide from early on. I resisted based on false notion guess that people who have experienced such couldn’t duplicate.

I was wrong. It was and is genocide.

Here are our two foster kittens to give you some relief!

People in his own party hated him. They felt he was whiney and untrustworthy. Which says a lot about the state of that caucus... that he is too much even for them.

Is there a possibility that the product the Grand Jury produced was manipulated after the fact? Since GJ is sealed how would we know what truly was decided for charges? It sounds highly suspicious that there were 2 signed documents.

I think Comey should ask the judge to ask that GJ foreperson.

It's hard to fathom to a lot of people but when you are a vulnerable person, with little financial means, and a rich person throws $1,000s around like water it makes it hard to escape. Will that driver really take you home or something more sinister? Women and children were preyed upon. Not a hoax.

...and not crossing that pedo line doesn't absolve him in anyway. He has used his own words to describe non-consensual contact with women. He has been found guilty in a court, where his lawyers couldn't create even a little hint of doubt in a jury.

Maybe Trump didn't directly sexually assault a child. Maybe he was just savvy enough to not cross that line... but there is no doubt he associated with and most likely knew what his friend, Epstein, was doing. Any condemnation of Epstein veers into some sort avoidance, "it's fake", etc..

It's truly sad when the court jesters can be bought instead of telling the emperor he has no clothes... and then complain about free speech.

I can't help but what George Carlin would have said at this juxtaposition.

Everything in Ai needs a core kernel of origin content.

So a lot of kernels were fed in… gathered outside any licensing.

Thus the stealing.

Ai is a marvel in our age… a tool I’ve used. But I have no way of knowing if the end product came from an uncompensated creator. That makes me uncomfortable.

People misunderstand that content creators need to have their contributions fairly valued and compensated.

Ai is not a content creator. It is a tool that can glean information at a scale we can’t comprehend and present it in new formats.

But it is still original content that feeds it.

“I didn’t see it”

Can the follow up question be…

“Do you deliberately avoid watching or going back to watch the President’s speeches so you have an excuse to not give comment?”

As Speaker should you at least have a rudimentary knowledge of the speech… even read a transcript?”

Nothing improves morale among officers better than not trusting their word and polygraphing them.

This is like 101 ways to destroy an elite army.

How come it hasn't been mentioned that this may be Hegseth's unofficial bid to be president after Trump? Can you really see Vance and Hegseth co-existing without the Trump buffer? Imagine how ugly if they campaigned against each other to take up the MAGA mantle.

In any batshit crazy online forum all the sane people get disgusted and leave with whatever shreds of sanity that originally existed. What's left is a cesspool of an echo chamber that regurgitates in Beavis and Butthead mode. We are literally seeing the real world version of such an online forum.

My rational mind says that I am being too cynical... but when they say the attack was directed at ICE agents but only detainees were hit it brings to mind of them being used as human shields or decoys. That can't be what happened... but that's what goes through my head.

History repeats. Hegseth taking a stand on the medals given to soldiers that participated in the massacre at Wounded Knee. This is the Palestinians' Wounded Knee.

Netanyahu has Trump eating out of his hand by providing him with a "peace deal" so Trump can argue for a Nobel prize. (I believe Netanyahu has publicly endorsed him getting the prize.)

So you build this elaborate structure that seemingly gives strength to any other argument... but even that is precarious. You build the idea that social interactions and political motivations might cause these events. But that comes crashing down when the person is immersed in a right wing culture.

I think we can understand that the motivations towards murder/suicide are extremely complex. They rarely, if ever, fall into tidy packages that A caused B. Really the only common denominator is really the instrument, the gun. But that fringes on blasphemy to even hint at addressing that factor.

New York D's have always been very myopic when it comes to the outside world. There have been so many polls that by now they must realize that Cuomo is not going to close the gap. Even if he squeaks by, unlikely, it will destroy the modern D party in New York. Get behind the winning team leadership!

You see the Electronic Arts announcement. You are telling me equity groups out of the Middle East are taking it private as some sort of potential financial investment? The gaming world is a fester place of people waiting to be radicalized... and I think some people are going to use that...

The tactical gear just gets more and more cos-play every day... and heavier as well. I'm beginning to think more and more of them are just wearing to cover up how they are physically out of shape. Meant to inspire dominance... people on the street just size up and go, "I can easily out run that!"

it is still just not a clear product... despite the whole rebranding.

It was a stopgap until better, cleaner, more efficient modes came alone.

Instead it has become part of this great myth that somehow it is representative of some sort of age in which to return.

to hopefully have a better life than them, as they slowly lost the ability to breath.

Coal is messy to transport. Bulky to store. It burns corrosively requiring maintenance in the furnaces and boilers. It creates fly ash that has to be disposed of, somewhere. Even without environmental restriction

Coal represents this mythical industrial age of wealth creation... yet it really is the antithesis of the very American dream. No titan of industry ever toiled in a coal mine. Coal miners didn't work their way out of the mines to have lakeshore summer houses. Coal miners toiled for their children

I'm not sure people really understand what festers in countless gaming forums. It really is a Lord of Flies environment that exists... Some of those places have literally become that island, stunted social behavior trying to establish an illusion of control. Easy targets for people with agendas.

From your diligent reporting in real time of the sentencing hearing it appeared she could have gotten a much longer sentence.

It is also a sudden economic hit to small markets remaining in those grocery store deserts. This wasn’t just a good program to feed those in need but allowed small businesses to survive in some neighborhoods.

What misleads families dealing with the onset of dementia is that there are periods of lucidity... you want to hope so you refuse to look at the whole rather than the moment. The media has a different agenda... so they gloss over the bats--t crazy because, yes, even he can be lucid for moments.