Lee Fink

Go on.

I hear these news exec morons claim the public doesn't trust the media--but those claims are based on a small cadre of rabid cultists that the media consistently refuses to fact-check.

In response they take actions that destroy their organizations and actual credibility, so that no one trusts them.

I only regret that I have but one @washingtonpost.com subscription to cancel for my country.

(And I did that more than a year ago.)

To the extent this is the case (and there is some truth to it, I suspect), the irony is that the Epstein Files would probably have not become an issue if Harris had been elected. The Epstein Files was a fairly minor public point and not become a cause celebre until Trump made it one.

ICE is a rouge agency. It is rancid and corrupted. It must be abolished to bring its lawlessness to an end. The persons responsible for this must also be held to account. Only then can a responsible replacement be established.

That is to say that ICE has violated 3.5 different Court orders each day this month.

Any individual who had committed a fraction of this type of defiance of the Courts would be in jail. The officers of any private entity engaged in this sort of contempt would be in jail.

"Attached to this order is an appendix that identifies 96 court orders that ICE has violated in 74 cases.  The extent of ICE’s noncompliance is almost certainly substantially understated. This list is confined to orders issued since January 1, 2026."

Back when Frank McCourt, Jim Tracy, and Paul DePodesta were screwing up the Dodgers, we'd say "for Tracy, fire the guy who hired Tracy, fire the guy who hired the guy who hired Tracy."

In that spirt, I say "fire Noem, fire the guy who hired Noem, fire the toadies who enable the guy who hired Noem."

Does he think he's the acting President of China too? Like Venenzeula?

If you believe that the Second Amendment gives you the right to carry a gun, then simply exercising that right can never be the justification for any government agent to take any action against you.

It's important to understand that the organizing principle of NATO was that the US would come to the aid of NATO allies.

The value for the US is that it is critical to have allies between us and a hostile foreign power to ensure that we never are directly attacked.

Better idea: Katie Porter.

This is said to a viewing audience watching TV between 9:30 AM and 4 PM EST. (Note the stock ticker moving.)

Do THOSE people have jobs????????

There were only 226 homicides in LA last year. The homicide rate of 5.9 victims per 100,000 residents marked the lowest since 1959 when it was 5.5.

“However, there were 47 officer-involved shootings in the city in 2025 compared to 29 the prior year, an increase of 62%.”

Pre. (There may have been a post too, but I was thinking pre.)

(Post-reboot L&O is not as good; I showed my wife an arraignment scene from Season 2 and Season 22, and she said about S2 "that looks like the DMV." Exactly.)

Do you have a definitive cite for this? (CA Law preferred.)

By the way they put out the cell phone video that the shooter was holding WHILE he shot her, because they know it’s incriminating and they think they can control the narrative by releasing it and saying “it proves our side.”

There's one where he is DA where the POBA rep told him to stop being so hard on the boys in blue and got behind an election challenger.

The riots were still likely if an LA jury had acquitted, and that was still possible. But it was a lot less likely if it had been tried in LA (as the federal case later proved).

A very important thread about why charges against the ICE agent must be planned and meticulously executed. It will take time.

It's also going to be very difficult. No one should expect a guilty verdict. But it is important to do this, so that every effort is made to bring justice to this matter.

Yes. Part of the lies that Noem and Vance are spewing are *precisely* about this. They are not *that* dumb (well, Vance isn't). They know it was wrong. But they also know that they can work the jury pool quickly by spewing that this was a violent paid terrorist. They are working the jury pool.

A big part of that was the trial was moved to Simi Valley. An LA jury would have convicted just as an LA jury acquitted OJ (and arguably, part of why an LA jury acquitted OJ).

Both Adam Schiff and Jack McCoy get into political trouble in several episodes for prosecuting cops.

(But, yeah.)

"I've had passionate notes in my inbox from Bari Weiss that wants to see people killed in the streets by ICE agents because she is even dumber than me."

Look at the bright side; it probably was a recession year!

Unquestionably markets moved on this.

Federal government statistical agencies restrict this information to non-networked data rooms that are locked until the data release.

An employee releasing this information would be fired. Trades based on this information would be prosecuted.

Even if true, it's not that the courts must stop working; it's that they are supposed to give preference so the process finishes on time (Judge Sanders dragged the matter out). Even if the Legislature wants to take advantage of the safe harbor, it does not mean that courts will act quickly enough.

The only reference to this point by the Florida Supreme Court was a footnote in the *dissent* that stated "There is no legislative suggestion that the Florida Legislature did not want to take advantage of this safe harbor provision."

There is not the same doctrine as to other state's or federal laws, and there really was no reason to believe that the state knew or cared about the safe harbor.

The law presumes that the legislative branch is aware of judicial decisions. In reality, that's often true in Congress, but not states. It's a made up doctrine to try to square issues. It works poorly in practice (in fairness, it might work better than assuming the the Legislature's ignorant).