Board petition to mods to reinstate his original handle and let him post again. People can ignore/unignore him for the intervals during which they feel like watching this pony do his trick. Before the one trick era, he was sometimes a fun poster to follow. This is a much better solution than banning every account he registers to react and never be allowed to say anything before being banned again for ban evasion. I say let this crank back in the mix. At least one out of every twenty posts will be like a normal person is back there. Let him have his say

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He clearly was shot at but NOT shot.

I actually support this.

He wants to limit landlords to a 5% increase year over year. Seems reasonable to me.

Anyway, when I moved to Florida in 2017 rent prices were already going up. Got a 2 bedroom 1200 sq ft apartment for $1850 a month. Bought a house in 2022 and they rented out my apartment for $3000.

Pretty crazy.

Apartment was in Destin FWIW.

It's not being widely covered due to other events.

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And from a Manhattan jury, no less. Are we living in a Bizarro world all of a sudden?

You all know I've repeatedly heard that Chris Tadjo 'could start' during his freshman year with Iowa.

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Just take a little break from all the politics.

I'm sure the first pic will be a Pitt or Clooney or someone like that.

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Makes more sense than Go Iowa Awesome.

Nice job for once Rivals.

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It is one of you.

Beth Goetz, Lisa Bluder and Jenni Fitz all here this morning? A pleasant surprise.

The rest of the roster, including all of the newcomers, will be available after practice.

(They’re just shooting free throws so far, nothing to report otherwise.)

The last time he won, it was a pure shock (don’t even pretend you thought he was gonna win leading up to it). And many of our local nutties here are still not over it.

Now it’s pretty much a done deal. How are you planning on handling the reality of another Trump presidency?

There is no question that Donald Trump took documents marked classified with him when he left the White House in January 2021. Trump argued that he did so because they had all been declassified (through some unidentified and undocumented process) and/or that he had determined that they were personal, not presidential records (a determination he didn’t have power to make). But he didn’t deny having them.


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Those excuses emerged only after the FBI conducted a search of his Mar-a-Lago home to recover the documents. Before that, Trump rejected multiple opportunities to return the material as the government had demanded. A number of boxes were returned to the National Archive, reportedly sorted by Trump himself. A subpoena demanding the return of any other documents marked as classified led to a handover in June 2022 — and an attorney for Trump signing a document attesting that no other such documents remained at his home. They did.
The indictment of Trump and his aide Walt Nauta obtained by special counsel Jack Smith included charges related both to his retention of those documents and to alleged efforts to prevent the government from learning about them. A later, superseding indictment detailed an alleged effort to block the government from seeing security footage that would show boxes of documents being moved before attorneys began searching for documents responsive to the subpoena.



In other words, the case was solid, which is why Trump’s arguments centered on rationalization, not denial. Of the various charges Trump faced, this one was often identified as the most dangerous for the former president.
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And then it got assigned to Judge Aileen M. Cannon.
Cannon is a Trump appointee, joining the District Court for the Southern District of Florida the month Trump lost his reelection bid in 2020. She had no judicial experience before doing so. In short order, though, she was tasked with adjudicating the initial collection of evidence from Mar-a-Lago, earning a rebuke from the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals for her acquiescence to arguments made by Trump’s legal team.

That she got the case again once Smith obtained an indictment was a matter of chance — a particularly lucky one for Trump. From the outset, Cannon has slow-walked the process, repeatedly granting Trump’s legal team an unusual benefit of the doubt and ensuring that the case wouldn’t go to trial before the November election. Should Trump win, it is almost certain his appointed attorney general would end the prosecution.


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On Monday, Cannon got ahead of that possibility, dismissing the case entirely.
Her reason for doing so was rooted in an argument that has been popular within Trump’s orbit for some time: The appointment of special counsel Jack Smith was illegitimate from the outset. The lengthy decision offers a careful parsing of the verbiage of the Constitution, assessing the meanings of words used in an effort to undercut the idea that Attorney General Merrick Garland had the authority to make the Smith appointment. The Washington Post’s Aaron Blake outlined this argument last month.

The more influential articulation of it, though, came from Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. Thomas, joining the majority in granting American presidents sweeping immunity from prosecution for their official acts, wrote a concurring opinion in which he explicitly argued that Smith’s appointment was illegitimate. As Lawfare’s Anna Bower noted, Cannon cited Thomas’s concurrence multiple times in throwing out the classified documents case, even as she shrugged at a conclusion from the actual decision in Nixon vs. United States.


By repeatedly pointing at Thomas, Cannon made obvious that her decision carries on the ideology demonstrated in the most recent Supreme Court session.
The immunity decision most clearly articulated the court’s willingness to empower Trump, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. (who wrote the decision) bolstering the right’s argument that the novelty in the moment was Trump’s being charged, not his doing things that warranted indictment. (In his concurrence, Thomas took the same tack, writing that "f this unprecedented prosecution is to proceed, it must be conducted by someone duly authorized to do so by the American people.”)

But that decision also followed the court’s curtailing the deference government officials had long been granted in implementing the letter of the law. In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the Supreme Court granted more power to the courts in determining how laws should be implemented — opening up the door to more successful challenges from those affected by the laws and shifting power to the judiciary. Instead of having experts from the Fish and Wildlife Service (for example) decide what species deserved protection under a federal statute, the determinations could instead be made by judges like Cannon.


This is what the political right has wanted to see for some time — a diminution of the power of the federal bureaucracy in favor of being able to pay lots of money to lawyers to try to win a case in court. But this is also what Trump has long wanted to see: a judiciary with pockets of loyalists to whom he and his allies could appeal. The hope going into Jan. 6, 2021, was that a challenge to the electoral vote would be upheld by the one-third of Supreme Court justices appointed by Trump. The odds at the time seemed low even to his allies; perhaps in the wake of the surprising decision on immunity, they would feel more confident.
Cannon long ago lost the benefit of the doubt. Her decisions have been almost unfailingly supportive of Trump’s position, to the point that they have inspired bemusement from legal observers. The dismissal of the classified documents case met with a similar reaction and expectations that the decision would be overturned on appeal (as was her decision on the previous Mar-a-Lago issue).

What is most revealing about the Cannon decision, though, is not that Trump will not face trial before the election. She had already seen to that. What it reinforces, instead, is the way that the system of accountability that the judiciary is supposed to represent can instead serve as insulation. It was made possible by Trump’s first term in office — the Supreme Court majority, Cannon’s initial appointment — and is a preview of what another four years would look like.


Imagine a judiciary more fully stocked with people loyal to Trump’s politics, working alongside a government bureaucracy rebuilt to accommodate more political functionaries. Imagine more people, in more places of power, who see their jobs as protecting one political party or one political leader — or at least, who are willing to help figure out loopholes through which their ideological allies can wriggle.
At some point, such porousness becomes unfixable.

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Deplorable:

The first session of the Republican National Convention opened with the Pledge of Allegiance led by Debbie Kraulidis, an Illinois activist who attended the Jan. 6, 2021, rally on the National Mall that led to a riot at the U.S. Capitol.

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Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald, who seconded Donald Trump’s formal nomination for president, helped organize alternate electors falsely claiming Trump won his state in 2020.

Ed Martin, the deputy policy director of the convention platform committee, was in the mob outside the Capitol on Jan. 6. At least three other people photographed in that mob are serving as delegates. So are five people who previously served as alternate electors, including four who have been charged with fraud, forgery and conspiracy.

Their roles in this convention show how much election denial has permeated the party and its institutional acceptance of the first disruption to the peaceful transfer of power since the Civil War. Even before Saturday’s assassination attempt led leaders of both parties to urge restraint of violent language, the convention organizers were working to avoid making Jan. 6 central to the week’s programming, in contrast to the typical emphasis in Trump’s speeches and interviews.


“The overall viewpoint we have right now is looking forward,” Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Whatley said in an interview last week, before the assassination attempt. Asked whether Jan. 6 would be on the agenda, Whatley said, “No, not at all.”
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Trump’s advisers don’t view Jan. 6 and election fraud claims as favorable issues for the voters Trump needs to win, instead framing the convention around Republican polling strengths such as the economy, crime, immigration and foreign policy. Still, the presence of Jan. 6 participants and critical responses from Democrats are poised to complicate those efforts as the shadow of Trump’s efforts to overturn the last election remains a driving force of his candidacy and party.
“It’s stupid,” said Marc Short, a top aide for former vice president Mike Pence, who refused Trump’s pressure to try to overturn Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. “Don’t do anything at the convention that takes away attention from Biden. Doing something controversial that involves the fake electors does that.”



The Biden campaign and the Democratic National Committee are planning billboards, bus wraps, news conferences and surrogates on the ground in Milwaukee to counterprogram the convention with messages, including about Trump’s pledge to pardon people convicted in the Jan. 6 riot and his threats of further political violence if he loses again.



“Trump’s Republican Party is based on election denialism and loyalty to him over everything,” DNC spokeswoman Hannah Muldavin said. “Trump’s far-right MAGA policies have fully taken over the Republican Party and their platform.”
Trump’s rallies sometimes start with a rendition of the national anthem and the Pledge of Allegiance featuring his voice alongside inmates charged in the riot, including some convicted of assaulting police. Over the years since the riot, he has steadily increased his glorification of the defendants, hailing them as mistreated patriots. His mention of “the J6 people” at a rally in Florida last week prompted cries of “Release the hostages!”
“All of their persecution is only happening because I am running for president,” he said at the Florida rally. About 1,000 people have pleaded guilty or been convicted at trial in connection with the riot, a third of them for felonies and two-thirds for misdemeanors such as trespassing in the restricted Capitol building or on its grounds. Four people died in the melee.



The danger of escalating political violence in America reached another tragic milestone with Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally, narrowly missing the former president and killing one attendee, with two more injured. Authorities are investigating Saturday’s shooting as an assassination attempt but are yet to make any determinations about the shooter’s motive or find evidence of any ideological connection. Trump has responded by calling for unity. Biden has asked to tone down heated political language.
Trump’s call, when he stood up after the shooting — to “fight!” — became a recurring chant during Monday’s convention proceedings.
Monday’s prime-time programming also included a prerecorded video of Trump encouraging supporters to vote early or by mail even as he repeated false claims that the 2020 election was fraudulent and said he ultimately wants one-day voting with paper ballots.

It can be anyone from the BIG or non conference matchup from the past. My vote is Tennessee- I think we did beat them once in a bowl game or one of the Kickoff Classic games back in the day (too lazy to look it up) Washington would be second, however they did get revenge in the Sun Bowl in El Paso I believe.