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This is what one of the things that needs to happen even if results take a lot of time. Flood the zone with lawsuits.
Feds pay $125K after Border Patrol agent pointed gun at Portland hotel worker
The federal government Friday agreed to pay $125,000 after a judge found a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent liable for civil assault for pointing a gun at a hotel maintenance man who came to the agent’s room to unclog a toilet.
“This case makes clear that we can obtain civil accountability for the unlawful actions of rogue federal agents, even if it takes nearly six years,” said attorneys Michael Fuller and Nate Haberman, who filed the lawsuit. “We’re satisfied with the result.”
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As predicted.
Houston oil CEO calls Venezuela ‘uninvestable’ in White House meeting with Trump
Trump emphasized the “speed” with which he’d like to see investments made. Exxon Mobil CEO Darren Woods repeatedly emphasized the need to think carefully before making decisions about investments that “span decades and decades.”
Venezuela as it stands today, Woods said, is “uninvestable.”
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@Scott: it’s cute that the oil execs are asking the lawbreaker in chief for legal protections.
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@Scott: Well, it has been a long time since I’ve felt happy with something an oil exec does/says.
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@becca: I watched a chunk of that meeting, and here’s how I see it: They’re asking him for money. As is all too typical of American corporate wealth, they want to be able to socialize their losses, but privatize their gains. They aren’t going to burn their cash trying to rebuild Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, but they’ll be more than happy to burn ours, and if it all falls apart, the American taxpayer will be left holding the bag.
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@Mikey: that’s the gop mantra. “Privatize the gains, socialize the losses”.
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@CSK:
It is, unfortunately, not the Kennedy Center for the next three years — one of the many casualties of this destructive administration. -
@Eusebio:
Spending bill still refers to the ‘Kennedy Center’
A bipartisan spending package released Monday by House Speaker Mike Johnson includes $32 million for operating expenses at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts through Sept. 30, 2027…
After Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, Congress passed a law the following year naming the center as a living memorial to the Democrat. The law explicitly prohibits the board of trustees from making the center into a memorial to anyone else, and from putting another person’s name on the building’s exterior.
It’s the Kennedy Center until officially renamed by an act of Congress. Absent that, no need for normal, decent Americans to obey in advance.
Trump and his minions issuing a decree reading “1+1 = 3 now,” does not make it so.
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@DK:
@CSK:
I agree with each of you — of course it’s the Kennedy Center. What I meant is that, for the next three years, it will not be used as the Kennedy Center was meant to be used, but as a GOP/maga clubhouse and venue for right-wing performers (in addition to some others willing to perform there). The impact on the livelihoods of Kennedy Center staff and performers is real, as it is with so many due to this job-killing administration. -
@Mikey: That and the high probability there’s going to be a snap-back to Trumpism resulting in a completely different political situation vis a vis Venezuela. Since the oil isn’t sweet crude it’s an investment that’s unlikely, if not impossible, to recoup in only three years -tops. Congress might be extremely anti-Trump in just one.
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Bobby Weir has passed away.
In 2002 I was at the Telluride Blues and Brews festival, high on mushrooms and just wandering around enjoying the most beautiful place on earth. When Weir came out and joined Little Feat on stage. To this day I’m convinced they were jamming for my benefit, alone.
RIP great man. Your music will live on.
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