The agents entered Mr. Nadler’s office because they had been told that protesters were there and were concerned for the safety of his staff members, according to a statement on Saturday from the Department of Homeland Security.

Ffs

The person you’re replying to is me. I’m probably a partisan hack, but i’m totally consistent. And the part about specifying illegal drugs is specific to the fascist Elmo. Call HIM out for illegal drug use. Prevent him from getting billions in taxpayer money. Send him to jail, whatever. Not Randy down at the Pak ‘n Sav.

And anyway really, it’s about the NYT coverage, not the actual alleged crime and/or subsequent court proceedings. I want them to emphasize the illegal part to get organizations - governmental and otherwise - to understand what a horrible decision it is to put him in charge of vast areas of anything.

NoScript is wonderful

Well exactly. And yet.

Whut

They’re never embarrassed. That would involve shame of some sort which they do not have.

I would really, really like to see that proven. Specifically in this case.

And yet he is, by many accounts. So.

“Stewie Millner”

In the initial press release touting the arrest of Reyes, DHS said Reyes was in the country illegally at least nine times and has a violent criminal history.

“This threat comes not even a year after President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, and less than two weeks after former FBI Director Comey called for the president’s assassination,” Noem said after Reyes’ arrest.

“All politicians and members of the media should take notice of these repeated attempts on President Trump’s life and tone down their rhetoric,” she added.

Eat shit, dogkiller.

Miller told senior ICE leaders that the Trump administration wants to triple the daily number of arrests agents were making up to 3,000 per day, according to sources.

Almost like they don’t even care if it’s legal or Constituional for some reason. Because their oath to defend the Constitution was a lie, plain and simple.

Boom. Just like that.

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As Elon Musk became one of Donald J. Trump’s closest allies last year, leading raucous rallies and donating about $275 million to help him win the presidency, he was also using drugs far more intensely than previously known, according to people familiar with his activities.

Alleged use of ILLEGAL drugs. Say it, NYT, say it. You’re gonna tell me he’s got a prescription for psychedelic mushrooms and ecstasy? And he’ll prove it in court? Well then SAY IT.

It is unclear whether Mr. Musk, 53, was taking drugs when he became a fixture at the White House this year and was handed the power to slash the federal bureaucracy. But he has exhibited erratic behavior, insulting cabinet members, gesturing like a Nazi and garbling his answers in a staged interview.

Okay I’ll give you ‘gesturing like a Nazi’ but still that was a pulled punch.

As a large government contractor, Mr. Musk’s aerospace firm, SpaceX, must maintain a drug-free work force and administers random drug tests to its employees. But Mr. Musk has received advance warning of the tests, according to people close to the process. SpaceX did not respond to questions about those warnings.

Sure. Who’s his clean pee mule?

But last year, as he jumped into the political arena, some people who knew him worried about his frequent drug use, mood swings and fixation on having more children. This account of his behavior is based on private messages obtained by The Times as well as interviews with more than a dozen people who have known or worked with him.

. . . In an interview in March 2024, the journalist Don Lemon pressed him on his drug use. Mr. Musk said he took only “a small amount” of ketamine, about once every two weeks, as a prescribed treatment for negative moods.

“If you’ve used too much ketamine, you can’t really get work done, and I have a lot of work,” he said.

He had actually developed a far more serious habit, The Times found.

Woah you mean the drug addict who’s off-the-charts-narcissism is lying about how much drugs they’re using in a public interview? Damn. I’m not going to hassle the NYT for this one either, it’s unusually feisty for them.

High AF

. . . Mr. Musk was also facing federal investigations into his businesses. Regulators were looking into crashes of Tesla’s self-driving cars and allegations of racism at its factories, among other complaints.

“There are at least half a dozen initiatives of significance to take me down,” he wrote in a text message to someone close to him last May. “The Biden administration views me as the #2 threat after Trump.”

“I can’t be president, but I can help Trump defeat Biden and I will,” he added.

Investigations closed, and his ol pal Peter Theil and he now have all the confidential data they can handle direct from the super-well protected data mines of the gub mint.

. . . Ms. St. Clair said that Mr. Musk told her he had fathered children around the world, including one with a Japanese pop star. He said he would be willing to give his sperm to anyone who wanted to have a child.

“He made it seem like it was just his altruism and he generally believed these people should just have children,” Ms. St. Clair said.

That is several kinds of fucked up.

As he walked onto the stage, he was handed a chain saw from one of his political allies, Javier Milei, the president of Argentina. “This is the chain saw for bureaucracy!” Mr. Musk shouted to the cheering crowd.

Some conference organizers told The Times that they did not notice anything out of the ordinary about his behavior behind the scenes. But during an onstage interview, he spoke in disjointed bouts of stuttering and laughing, with sunglasses on. Clips of it went viral as many viewers speculated about possible drug use.

sigh

qualified to handle slip-and-fail cases

Slip-and-fail cases is great. And they are horrible jurists in the sense that their decisions always hurt the people of the country in favor of moneyed interests.

HOWEVER, they took the classes, they passed the tests, and they know enough about law to act as a competent judge (something I think we’ll see a lot less of) in most cases. The legal system is not about the personal ethics or morality of the judges although it is affected by that.

[Wikipedia]

The process has been alleged by some (including the Federalist Society) to have a liberal bias.[84][85][86] For example, the ABA gave Ronald Reagan’s judicial nominees Richard Posner and Frank H. Easterbrook low “qualified/not qualified” ratings; later, the ABA gave Bill Clinton judicial nominees with similar resumes “well qualified” ratings.[87]

In 2001, the George W. Bush administration announced that it would cease submitting names to the ABA in advance of judicial nominations.[88] The ABA continued to rate nominees, just not before the names were released publicly. During the Obama administration, the ABA was once again given advance notice of judicial nominees for rating. President Trump returned to George W. Bush’s policy of not giving the ABA advanced notice of judicial nominees.[89] Seven of George W. Bush’s nominees received a ‘not qualified’ ranking, four of Clinton’s nominees, zero of Obama’s nominees, and, through December 2018, six of Trump’s nominees were rated ‘not qualified’.[90][91] For recent U.S. Supreme Court nominees, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., Justice Samuel Alito, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Justice Elena Kagan, Justice Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett, and Ketanji Brown Jackson all received the same “well qualified” rating.

Another investigation by The Washington Post found that at least 37 of the 522 citations appeared multiple times throughout the report. Notably, the URLs of several references included “oaicite,” a marker that OpenAI applies to responses provided by artificial intelligence models like ChatGPT, which strongly suggests its use to develop the report.

. . . [Bullshit Barbie] Leavitt described the errors as “formatting issues”

. . . The Washington Post notes that the MAHA report file was updated on Thursday to remove some of the oaicite markers and replace some of the non-existent sources with alternative citations.

And the article finishes off by letting the administration lie openly and unchallenged again.

JD Vance’s Patron, and noted fascist, Peter Theil’s Palantir.

The bribe has been repaid. And we’re all going to get royally hosed for it.

Twenty years from now when one single minor player in this horrific farce goes to house-arrest for every crime the administration commits daily, we’ll think: how could this have happened.

Unilever-still-in-russia-Unilever?

Hm. Well, good for Ben ‘n Jerrys then.

Terrible, yes, but I also wouldn’t say the ABA “admitted” either of those two.

Should they have been thrown out of the ABA? In a perfect world, sure, but that’s a whole different set of questions. And even then they could still have been nominated and confirmed. What would be different is the news orgs and the Senators confirming them would have no information instead of some.

If you’re specifically referring to the sexual assault claims or other malfeasance, that’s the FBI’s job to investigate (which they very notably and obviously did not with Justice Boof), not the ABA.

It’s true, the bucket had a hole in it. But throwing the bucket away means there’s nothing now.

Except possibly the soiled towel that has been declared a “bucket” by executive order, which we might get in the future.

Propaganda works.