New York National Guard troops and New York State Police troopers will be deployed into the subway system to help riders feel safe after a spike in transit crime, Gov. Kathy Hochul said Wednesday.

Select all that belong. I am automatically including: Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin as all voted in at 100%.

Have any of you D's contributed to his defense fund?

I think they got it right this year. The Cobra was a helluva player. Allen was before my time, but his numbers warrant being added.
Incidentally, the 2025 class has at least one first ballot lock in Ichiro Suzuki. The balloting for the regular class will not be released for a few weeks.
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Show that you can bet $1.00 on Kamala, and still walk away with $0.00.

Marine veteran Daniel Penny's defense team is eyeing a malicious prosecution lawsuit against District Attorney Alvin Bragg and others behind the charges, turning the tables after the lengthy high-profile case concluded with an acquittal.

"Just like Danny said in his interview, it was like they wanted to try and get him on something," Penny's defense attorney Steven Raiser said Wednesday, reacting to the acquittal on "Fox & Friends."

"They knew they weren't going to be able to get him, so they had to get rid of that top count in order to get to that second count, just in hopes that maybe they could pull out a win here, and they were unsuccessful, thank God."

Raiser said the suit would target Bragg for "blurring" the "ethical lines" with the case's handling. The filing would also home in on the medical examiner's office, which he alleged colluded with Bragg's office.

"The record was made fairly clear as to the extent of his involvement and what occurred here," he said. "He was appointed by Mayor Adams, [who belongs to the] same political party as Alvin Bragg. There was collusion there, and the collusion began from the very beginning of this case and all the way through. The district attorney needed the medical examiner and needed the medical examiner to act quickly, and he did just that."

Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely's death on a New York City subway after he put Neely in a chokehold for threatening other passengers.

The manslaughter charge was dropped at the prosecution's request on Friday after jurors failed to reach a unanimous agreement twice, setting the stage for deliberations on the lesser, and arguably easier to prove, charge of criminally negligent homicide on Monday.

After a brief return to deliberations, jurors found Penny not guilty.

In a sit-down interview with Fox News' Jeanine Pirro after the trial concluded, Penny said he didn't regret his actions and that he "couldn't live with" himself if he had allowed Neely to hurt someone.

Now that official visit hullabaloo has settled down a little bit, I'm able to return to some 26/27 recruits.

Caught up with Trae Taylor after he picked up an offer from Iowa a couple weeks ago. He talks Tim Lester's new offense, an hour-long meeting with KF, his wild camp tour this summer and more.


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surprised this isn't getting more attention...

Dockworkers likely to strike at East and Gulf coast ports​

It's increasingly likely that thousands of dockworkers at major ports along the East and Gulf coasts will strike on Oct. 1, those close to the parties tell Axios.
Why it matters: Americans would feel this one. A strike would snarl the economy and presidential politics only weeks before the election.

• If it lasts longer than just a few days, a strike raises the prospect of product shortages and higher prices along the lines of the supply chain crisis of 2021 — just in time for the holiday shopping season.
• A strike could cost the economy $5 billion a day, per a JPMorgan analysis.

Between the lines: The situation has the White House in quite the pickle.

• Under the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act, President Biden has the power to step in to avert a strike or stop one once it starts. That's what George W. Bush did in 2002 to avoid a work stoppage at the West Coast ports. Trade groups are begging the White House to step in.
• But Biden bills himself as the most pro-union president in American history. Unions wouldn't look kindly on such a move.
• Meanwhile, voters aren't going to like living in a country kneecapped by a dockworker strike — and they're already in a sour mood on the economy.

Where it stands: So far, the White House has said it won't step in. But once a strike happens, it's hard to see them staying hands-off.

• "We expect the economic impact would be too big to ignore for political purposes and we would be surprised if the strike lasted more than a week," write JPMorgan's transportation analysts.

For the record: "We are monitoring and assessing potential ways to address impacts to U.S. supply chains related to operations at our ports, if necessary," said White House spokesperson Robyn Patterson in a statement.

• "That said, we continue to encourage the parties to continue negotiating towards an agreement that benefits all sides and prevents any disruption."

Flashback: The politics recall a similar snafu in Canada last month. The labor-friendly government declined to step in to prevent a strike of freight rail workers.

• But less than 17 hours after workers went on strike, the Canadian government ordered the parties into binding arbitration.
• The work stoppage provided the cover for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's administration to step in.
• It's possible that the situation could unfold similarly in the U.S.

State of play: The parties have not sat down at the negotiating table since early summer.

• Their current agreement expires on Sept. 30. The two sides are far apart on pay raises and rules around automation. A strike could start as soon as 12:01am Tuesday, Oct. 1.
• "This is very different from most of the other negotiations that I was involved with over the last three years," says John Drake, vice president for transportation, infrastructure, supply chain policy at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. "At this point in time [a strike] will happen."

The best place to begin, as they say, is at the beginning.
President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. He refused (and still refuses) to accept that loss, claiming that the election had somehow been stolen and grasping at anything that might even hint that this was true. Many or most of his supporters believed him.


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By mid-December of that year, his available options had narrowed. States finalized their electoral votes and submitted them to Washington on Dec. 14. So, a few days later and after meeting with his advisers, Trump summoned his supporters to a rally in the capital on Jan. 6, pledging that it would “be wild.”
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Tens of thousands came. Trump urged them to march to the Capitol to protest the counting of those electoral votes. Thousands did. A riot ensued.

What happened on Jan. 6, 2021, is because of Trump, full stop. That’s different than saying “Donald Trump told people to riot” because, while he assembled the crowd and stoked its fury that day, he didn’t tell his supporters to do what they did. But if perhaps he hadn’t stoked them and particularly if he hadn’t assembled them and certainly if he hadn’t lied to them about the election, there’s no riot.

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Because Trump bears the blame, he and his supporters have looked for alternative explanations. In the hours after the riot, some of them latched onto the idea that the violence — which unfolded at multiple locations around the building — had been driven by leftist agitators. This was obviously baseless and got no traction. So Trumpworld turned to another of its favorite bêtes noires, the government itself.
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For example, Trump allies, including Tucker Carlson, claimed that a man named Ray Epps was involved in triggering the violence, at times claiming that he was working for the government. Epps, a Trump supporter, had no link to the government and did not encourage violence on Jan. 6.

The Epps allegation presented a weakness for the conspiracy theorists: It could be falsified. So the most popular story became a nebulous one, that government actors were seeded in the crowd and encouraged the riot to unfold.

We should again stop and note that this explanation is not needed.
Consider Dominic Pezzola, a member of the Proud Boys who was filmed smashing a window at the Capitol and who was one of the first people inside the building. During 2020, the Proud Boys had increasingly centered their actions around Trump and stood ready to back his efforts to retain power. They (and other groups, such as the Oathkeepers) had planned for and discussed violence at the Capitol well before Jan. 6; in fact, several Proud Boys had engaged in violence after a pro-Trump rally in D.C. the month before.

These people needed an FBI agent to tell them what to do? Not that there was any reason for the FBI to want to create a riot. If the bureau’s leaders disliked Trump (even though the FBI director was appointed by him), they only had to wait two weeks for him to be out of office.

Yes, I'd say America dodged a bullet coming straight for her forehead on 5 November! >

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