"In a split opinion filed Tuesday, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the state of Texas and reversed a ruling by a federal judge that prohibited some Texas schools from displaying the Ten Commandments."
You guys call leftists purity testers and all this other shit. You call us pinkos and denigrate us and extremists and all this.
We want your fucking kids to go to school and eat healthy meals and grow up and be safe and have jobs and not be institutionally murdered by the state.
Humble yourselves.
Let's call this policy what this is.
It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.
It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.
It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.
This would be the most fascinating slow motion car crash to watch if we weren’t all inside the car.
We just updated our Trump Admin financial disclosures database with 27 new appointees/nominees including Kevin Warsh, Markwayne Mullin and Steven Witkoff.
We also added a feature to sort names in our database by most recently added. 👉 projects.propublica.org/trump-team-f...
Once again asking people not to post about poll results without links to the surveys, and not to repost anything that cites poll results without links to the surveys.
This is not (primarily) about credit, it's a data credibility check.
![Juries have “wide discretion” to “fix the amount of noneconomic compensatory damages,” Racher, 871 F.3d at 1172, and “[t]rial judges have the unique opportunity to consider the evidence in the living courtroom context,” Gasperini v. Ctr. for Humans., Inc., 518 U.S. 415, 438 (1996) (internal quotation marks omitted). When determining whether attorney misconduct requires a new trial, courts “compare the propriety of the challenged remarks against the weight of the evidence adduced at trial.” Burke, 935 F.3d at 1026. Therefore, “[e]ven if some statements exceeded the bounds of permissible argument, a judgment will not be disturbed unless it clearly appears that the challenged remarks influenced the verdict.” Id. (quoting Racher, 871 F.3d at 1168). Applying these principles, we cannot say the reference to deterrence during the Estate’s rebuttal influenced the verdict given the evidence presented to the jury. See, e.g., RV.1032–36 (stipulating that Mr. Ellis complained of severe back pain, reported having a seizure, was denied water, could not walk, said he had discolored legs, and was “mocked and threatened” for reporting his medical concerns); R.Supp.264.0:01:48–3:08 (video showing Nurse Horn called Mr. Ellis a “dumb ass” and threatened to use the D-ring to restrain him for asking for medical care); RIII.760–62 (discussing Mr. Ellis](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:24vva42nxim6zbcmnozegoef/bafkreig4pghegirp2s25s4bpzlyqsdzklknjduuwyzy44pn3vjz37g74ra)
Juries have “wide discretion” to “fix the amount of noneconomic compensatory damages,” Racher, 871 F.3d at 1172, and “[t]rial judges have the unique opportunity to consider the evidence in the living courtroom context,” Gasperini v. Ctr. for Humans., Inc., 518 U.S. 415, 438 (1996) (internal quotation marks omitted). When determining whether attorney misconduct requires a new trial, courts “compare the propriety of the challenged remarks against the weight of the evidence adduced at trial.” Burke, 935 F.3d at 1026. Therefore, “[e]ven if some statements exceeded the bounds of permissible argument, a judgment will not be disturbed unless it clearly appears that the challenged remarks influenced the verdict.” Id. (quoting Racher, 871 F.3d at 1168). Applying these principles, we cannot say the reference to deterrence during the Estate’s rebuttal influenced the verdict given the evidence presented to the jury. See, e.g., RV.1032–36 (stipulating that Mr. Ellis complained of severe back pain, reported having a seizure, was denied water, could not walk, said he had discolored legs, and was “mocked and threatened” for reporting his medical concerns); R.Supp.264.0:01:48–3:08 (video showing Nurse Horn called Mr. Ellis a “dumb ass” and threatened to use the D-ring to restrain him for asking for medical care); RIII.760–62 (discussing Mr. Ellis
10th Cir. upholds $33 million jury award for estate of pre-trial inmate who died in jail after prolonged suffering while his jailers mocked him and told him to shut up while he pleaded for help, despite improper "emotional displays" during closing argument.
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Substack CEO Hamish McKenzie: "Email is an important distribution channel. It should not be your only one." then he quotes Mills Baker on his team: "I know l've said this a lot, but I cannot emphasize enough that email will continue to change, to become less deterministically reliable as a means for distributing your work; this is a huge part of why we got into the app and feed business, as you may know! You can blame a few things:"
Substack's CEO now trying to scare people into *only* distributing their content through their proprietary app, not email. (The link he posted warns users away from email.) It's not enough that Substack's locking in publishers & readers with "notes" and comments, now they're escalating tactics.
Platnered and Pikered candidates are a cancer on the Democratic Party.
Democrat in key race defended guns after mass shooting and insulted Kaepernick
Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day
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U.S. airports could face a new wave of long security lines as early as May after the nation's homeland security chief said on Tuesday that he will run out of money to pay for 50,000 workers due to a partial government shutdown.
Trump has twice pilfered allocations for barracks and base improvements to divert to border security during first and second admins.
Norm does not really need me to qrt him, but we've talked for months about this family and this is an incredible deed among so many like it. The story of the occupation of the Twin Cities is people putting everything they have into helping their neighbors. Proud to call Norm a friend.
Breaking MS NOW:
The Justice Department has begun withdrawing several subpoenas that had just been issued in the criminal probe of former CIA Director John Brennan — revealing the confusion and disorder within the controversial investigation.
Mask vending machine at JFK
So great to see JFK airport still has mask vending machines, which have 3M Auras!
Polls close in Virginia in an hour, at 7pm ET, and the result could all but decide the fate of four US House seats in November.
And then tomorrow, at 10am ET, the Supreme Court could issue new opinions, and as you know if reading this we’re waiting for what the conservative justices do to the VRA.
Can't help but wonder what percentage of folks up in arms about eugenics in this case threw their masks out [if they even wore them to begin with] the second they heard 'smiles are back'
Ah so they just say the eugenics aloud now
It is almost like the Trump administration has no idea what it is doing, beyond enriching itself of course…
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Parliament speaker Ghalibaf adviser Mohammadi rejects Trump’s ceasefire extension, saying it “means nothing” and that the losing side cannot dictate terms.
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Just a sampling of the ratfucking spam Republicans backed by Peter Thiel have been blanketing Democratic voters in Virginia with on Election Day
Well, she lost her career but you’ve had “difficult conversations” so i guess it’s a wash! www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/...
Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf's Advisor: Trump's decision to extend the ceasefire makes no sense. The ceasefire extension is an attempt to buy time for a surprise attack. Iran currently holds the initiative.
Blanche // Our Indictment alleges Southern Poverty Law Center secretly funneled MORE THAN $3 MILLION IN FUNDS to white supremacist & extremist groaps including: $ 1M + National Alliance affillate $300K+ Aryan Nations affilate $270K + "ente the Right" member $140K+ Elia National Alliance Chairman $73K + Farmer KKK members $19K+ pressient Efelon
Blanche and Patel
BREAKING: DOJ announces charges against the Southern Poverty Law Center based on allegations of paid informants in an indictment in the Middle District of Alabama.
"This investigation is very much ongoing," FBI Director Kash Patel said.
Imagine putting that grieving family through the stress of litigation for nearly a decade before settling.
This is important and shocking news from NYT.
And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.
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flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.
