Patel says he’ll sue Atlantic for defamation over report on heavy drinking FBI Director Kash Patel said Sunday that he will sue The Atlantic for defamation after the magazine published a Friday story detailing his alleged drinking habits and absences from the bureau. “Abs…

SLAPP SLAPP SLAPP SLAPP.

That's the sound of Patel, umm, fantasizing over successfully suing the Atlantic.

Blackstone and The Fight for New Mexico’s Energy: A community conversation and Q&A YouTube video by 505OMATIC

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Oregon Voters Have Zero Choice in DA Races Each of the state’s 15 district attorney elections is uncontested this year, shutting the door for public debate around prosecutors’ policies and power over people’s lives.

Every single DA race in Oregon this year is uncontested.

A candidate who narrowly lost the 2022 DA race in Washington County says that “the default has been that these races are uncontested.”

So we're still going by postmarks for taxes, eh? That's still a reliable method for dating things, making sure they're done on time? Huh...

Flow chart showing the U.S. spends $445 billion on mass incarceration each year.

Happy Tax Day. Just a reminder, as you potentially owe Uncle Sam: Mass incarceration costs the U.S. $445 billion every single year.

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

I respect expertise where I see it. I don't try and lecture the experts about their respective fields. Show some humility!

Vance Says the Pope Should Be More Careful When Talking About Theology

Look, man. I don't tell you how to fuck a couch. I have no idea which supple cushions merit a fondle, which are prudish teases, and which beg for full coitus. I have no idea if you prefer firmer, Ikea models over your more familiar, curvy La-Z-Boys next door; that's your thing.

Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal Residents of a St. Louis suburb turned out in droves to unseat four incumbents just days after the council approved a development agreement for a $6 billion data center.

Voters in a small Missouri town, unhappy with the city council’s approval of a $6B data center, ousted all four incumbent council members running for reelection

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HRC be like

Also, as a Catholic, is it really JD's place to tell the Pope what to do?

I'm no theologian, but it seems off to me.

He sure did. It went super well for him, too.

Not recommended.

I want to talk about the CA Governor's race for a moment.

We can all agree that Swalwell should obviously drop out.

But that doesn't mean Becerra deserves the votes of progressives in California.

Here's why. 🧵

Swalwell drops #CAGov bid x.com/ericswalwell...

Opposition leader Péter Magyar at a rally.

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise.

He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media.

The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

Now, I don't know about you all, but what I think is almost treasonous is gutting all of the government programs that improve our society while forcing us into a war we didn't need and couldn't win at a cost of billions of dollars and thousands of lives.

But hey, what the fuck do I know?

Mayonnaise-people problems. Fuck right off, Dale.

#OTD in 1968, the Fair Housing Act was signed, banning housing discrimination. It was a major step toward equity, but housing inequality and segregation persist. #TheMarchContinues

USS John P. Murtha heads out to sea ahead of Artemis II splashdown The USS John P. Murtha has departed from San Diego to support NASA’s Artemis II mission, which is a 10-day lunar flyby mission that will be the first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years, an…

Big historical footnote: The Navy amphibious vessel recovering the Artemis crew this evening is named for John Murtha, the first Vietnam vet in Congress, who ultimately opposed the Iraq war and sought accountability for U.S. war crimes fox5sandiego.com/news/local-n...

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Everyone knows the best Winnie the Pooh was the Soviet one, Vinni Pukh.

Defense lawyer who frequently handles sex-offense cases, here. I've got to agree.

New Mexico Attorney General to propose mandated child safety protections in Meta bench trial • Source New Mexico New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez announced a plan to mandate child safety protections across Meta's social media platforms.

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez said it paves the way for "the most comprehensive court-ordered child safety protections ever imposed on a social media company."

Just one strategic victory for the US after another! We're the fucking best. /s

*ask me

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Yeah, you've gotta be careful what questions you ask. All me how I know..........

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*He* would like a word....

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Indeed. Excellent name, btw

Theirs didn't, but those of any number of other countries, including the US, did. To paraphrase Wayne Gretzky, you can't donate 100 percent of the Patriot Missiles you have to use up fighting off an enemy you didn't need to engage just this minute.