It would be easy to say, no excerpt - it speaks for itself.
THE TRUTH: No excerpt - I have to go to the toilet and vomit after watching the Trump presser on the SCOTUS opinion where he said he liked the Kavanaugh part and intends to not change a thing but might. In a more aggressive/stupid way or set of ways.
Retch on in uncertainty, nation and world. It will be as it turns our. Reason subverted to - you name it.
Citizens of the USA paying more at the store. And then some. Ain't it is not over until 2028, when JD gets a due comeuppance.
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There's a link in the EmptyWheel reporting where you follow it and get full access to an item behind a subscription wall, but where the pre-wall teaser says enough.
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER
12: (L-R) Brandon Lutnick, Chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald,
Howard Lutnick, US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, and
Daniel LaVecchia attend Annual Charity Day hosted by...MORE
This is not new. But I at least hadn’t heard any of these dots
connected. I wasn’t even aware of the dots. A friend mentioned to me
over the weekend that he’d heard about Wall Streeters buying up the
rights to tariff refunds from big corporate importers. So the idea is
that a Wall Street firm goes to an importer and says, you’ve now paid
$10 million in tariffs. I’ll pay you $2 million right now for the right
to collect the refund if courts ever end up deciding the tariffs were
illegal. My friend had also heard that one of the most aggressive buyers
was Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm until recently headed by Commerce
Secretary Howard Lutnick and now run by Lutnick’s sons. Twenty-something
Brandon Lutnick, pictured above on the left in a 2016 photo, is the
current chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald. (He must be hella talented!)
Damn, I thought: That’s a hot story, crooked as the day is long. But
I’m not sure how I or we would track it down without better finance
world sources. Still, it was worth some quick googling. It turns out
this is happening and Cantor’s role has already been reported. Wired and others reported this more than a month ago.
In mid-July, according to Wired, Cantor was buying up the rights to
your potential tariff refund at between 20 and 30 cents per dollar. [...]
Business as usual, among some. If you think it stinks, how did you vote, 2024; Harris or the other of the two party candidates?
For me it was another of those lesser evil elections and I went with Harris. When I say "those" I mean every presidential election since I reached voting age. Each time going Dem. Clinton, Obama on those two even thinking it a positive choice - at least for the first term, each, but not the second term, each, where it was good old lesser evil one more time. It has been where at some point I came to fully understand the low approval values citizens in polls gave to Congress. Gave, give, and will give.
FURTHER: I also came to think Malcolm was a stronger voice than King, and was proven right by the fact he was shot dead sooner.
In Texas, Jasmine Crockett will try to win and push through true reform, including healthcare reform. With the guy Colbert boosted, you get Jesus reform, a dump on the Christian nationalists, but nothing else but same old insurance company love of the old cash flow.
That said, weigh Carville as correct on sniping at Trump when he does that, but wrong on same-old do nothing Dem candidates being best for you. Know your casual friends from your true friends who want the best for you. The casual ones want the best for themselves, and make good money from it. Think of it that way.
Says he's not a TACO, more or less. We suffer. He reads his speech. Did Stephen Miller write it? Who? 2028 is a number with promise.
He seems to be saying the citizens getting the pass through hurt from his mischief is something he intends to continue under a repaint. We take it in the gut, gut punched by a fraud in the White House, while the importers await their lawsuits outcomes.
He says "billions that have come into our country." That's us, via the pass through, taking the hit. Not overseas people, they mark up the goods. Not the importers, they mark up the goods. Go figure what the bloviating reduces to. Why can't we buy Chinese electric cars that a better and cheaper than an Elon Musk Tesla. Figure that one out, as to whether Elon and Trump are anything but tight like-minded fascists, left hand washing the right.
He'll be his own Albert Speer. Already there with the White House stuff. Jackie's rose garden done in, and the ballroom-envy thing he has after dining with the Brits.
And internal gold-plated White House super-kitsch.
For suitable background context; See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe875iKBmrw --- That YouTube statement fleshes out time and place, of a key church/ICE protestor speaking about the issue of the protest and it's motivating factors, in her view.
Lemon contends he was not part of any planning of the event, but had prior notice and hence reported it, as news. As contending freedom of the press, set that apart from Levy Armstrong, solely contending freedom of speech.
In the past a bill was passed in Congress, against impeding access to abortion clinics and some congress critters tacked on "Churches too."
That's the bill the "conspiracy to disrupt" prosecution of the protesters is based.
IS IT CONSTITUTIONAL TO PUT CHURCHES ABOVE ANY OTHER PLACE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SUCH AS A RESTAURANT?
That likely will be the key question arising from the protest of the ICE pastor's being protested inside the church. Had it been outside picketing the church without impeding entry, on the sidewalk, not inside, it would have gotten less coverage and likely would have not been prosecuted - picketing peacefully outside an abortion clinic without impeding entry (churches too?) is allowed. Free speech.
Now, presume ICE pastor whats-his-name was inside a restaurant, where he dined, and many entered the restaurant and chanted and interrupted his diner and were arguably a nuisance to other diners under local law, chanting and milling about in large numbers. Nothing to make a federal case about it, local nuisance law would be at play.
So if church and state are to be separate, that fucking church was no different than a publicly open restaurant. No notice of "members only" an unlocked door, no posting of "MEMBERS ONLY - TRESPASSERS WILL BE PROSECUTED." A public facility. (Not open 24/7 but when open, open to the public in all appearances even if not so open in fact.)
But A CHURCH! Well, so what? The First Amendment gives me freedom from religion, it's nothing to me but something others do, and they're free to do so, as long as they don't force themselves onto me and don't think themselves special over having a religion I don't, be it Hindu, Christian, Judaism, Mormon, or Islam or whatever. The Native American Church with Peyote rites; Rastafarians with their herb.
Freedom of religion means there is no State religion. Nothing imposed. Nothing curtailed. But it's also freedom from religion having any special status, or rights they have but I would not have if believing in the divinity of a redwood tree. (Since tree worship is not a recognized religion - lacking critical mass, such as that numerically behind the Mormon church - which historically been persecuted as a cult when with lower numbers and headquartered in the Midwest when Joseph Smith lived).
If it goes to the Supreme Court, they gave us Hobby Lobby, a public place for shopping I would never enter to buy a thing there, but somehow special because of Jesus or whatever. Bad law. Bad Court. But a precursor suggesting the type of opinion to expect if Ms. Levy Armstrong takes her case that far and cert is granted.
And - if Levy Armstrong wins at District and Circuit level, cert will be granted, whereas if she loses it's uncertain. This bunch, cert would be granted if she wins and has the Church part of the abortion clinic protection law held Unconstitutional by lower courts.
Because of separation of church and state. In it's logical form an opinion should take. Nothing special, it was a church and not a restaurant, nuisance and trespass local law covering both equally. This SCOTUS pack, rogue as it is, enough said.
Minnesota prosecutors are demanding that federal officials share
evidence in the killing of Alex Pretti and the shooting of Julio Cesar
Sosa-Celis by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced she issued the
“Touhy” demands, which she compared to subpoenas in state court, during a
news conference on Wednesday.
“Hiding evidence and obstructing our investigation is unacceptable
and indicates a total lack of confidence in their agents’ actions,”
Moriarty said.
Moriarty said they gave the federal government until March 3 to meet
their demands for information, including the names of the federal agents
involved; videos and photographs recorded by federal agents; statements
by federal agents; medical records and physical evidence, including
firearms, cartridge casings and uniforms.
“We are prepared to take further legal action should the Department
of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice fail to meet our
deadline and continue to obstruct our investigations,” Moriarty said.
Moriarty’s office has already issued a demand for evidence in the
killing of Minneapolis resident Renee Good by an ICE officer but has not
received anything from federal officials despite giving them a deadline
of Feb. 17.
Emails to the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security were not immediately returned.
The BCA has historically investigated shootings by law enforcement
officials but has been blocked from participating in the investigations
of federal immigration agents killing Pretti and Good, both U.S.
citizens, and shooting a Venezuelan national in the leg, in three
separate January incidents in Minneapolis during “Operation Metro
Surge.”
They, the locals, have the published video evidence, both murders, and available experts to go frame by frame to a jury. They also have put out a public request for witnesses and any publicly held additional evidence, so a good guess is they know the individuals to prosecute, and could without federal involvement get convictions.
Things like Bovino's emails, that would be nice to get, but are not essential. The video publishing has already convinced Congress critters and the general public that the administration lied like a rug and failed to get away with it, because of the video proof of big-time lying. Crabgrass is unaware of online copies of any specific local Touhy request papers.
for putting online a reasonably clear and detailed explanation, which speaks for itself.
From that .../touhy-request link, above, you can gain as much knowledge as Crabgrass has about such a request being the chosen method at law to blast stuff from a federal agency, such as DHS and/or DOJ. Subpoena power is superceded by a body of law on Tohey requests, and as noted in excerpting, Moriority has been stiffed on the Good murder, and will have to litigate to get federally withheld evidence, so it is likely her office will be stiffed too on the Pretti murder.
Your federal government. Trump's minions. I sure as fuck had no roll in putting that bunch of bastards into power, I bit the bullet and voted Harris, but they now hold the power and act as bullshit as they do. Elections are coming soon.
That item is for how the Postal Office handles requests for info -- § 230.10 Demands for records or testimony. It is representative enough to show that each agency may have a CFR posting of procedural and substantive Rules it has promulgated - CFR = Code of Federal Regulations, for those not already aware of the abbreviation.
Readers should be able to find online similar DOJ and DHS stuff via reasonable search skills. Crabgrass did not take that further step of slogging through the CFR, where the LII site is where it would have been done.
