Yeah, it has nothing to do with responsible wildlife management and everything to do with emotionally insecure conservatives who can only feel useful and validated if they can live out fantasies of protecting something they own by violently killing monsters

Excellent question, unfortunately it sounds like the courts are yet again trying to squirm out of imposing real consequences on fascists

After that, Summerville filed the contempt charge against Sullivan, which could lead Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden review the case to determine if any charges should be filed.

Also, this seems like a pretty big conflict of interest

During the two-day hearing, Sullivan [the ICE agent charged with contempt] said that the lead prosecution witnessed confirmed that both the Massachusetts State police and prosecutors were aware of ICE plans to arrest Martell-Lebron.

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… a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said “we were dismayed and surprised when our prosecution of Wilson Martell-Lebron was interrupted by ICE apprehending him in the middle of his trial.”

“Any claim that we were aware of an attempt to prevent Mr Martell-Lebron from exercising his right to a trial is false.,” he said in a statement. “It was our intention to try Mr. Martell-Lebron and hold him accountable for the crimes alleged in the complaint. Federal authorities should not have detained him and interfered with our efforts to hold him accountable.”

So the guy responsible for figuring out whether to punish this ICE agent is possibly a co-conspirator with him. Of course, that’s being alleged by the ICE agent who has every reason to lie about it, so I am definitely not saying I buy that allegation, but someone independent of the whole mess needs to investigate.

I’m not opposed to the idea if people can make it happen, but I think a mutiny will be easier than building a whole new boat

We need to get someone in the White House who will pardon them all

Completely agreed, but I’m pretty sure we’ll need new leadership for the Democratic party if we want them to make this happen

Nope, the vast majority of crimes require intent and criminal statutes that didn’t make that a necessary element of the crime were frequently struck down as unconstitutional before our judicial system went to hell

That being said, what “intent” means exactly to a judge gets really complicated and can lead to unexpected results (e.g. if you intended to just stand around as a non violent lookout while your friends robbed a store with an unloaded handgun that probably could be intent enough for you to be convicted of murder when one of your friends gets shot and killed by the store attendant)

Oh yeah, I didn’t say they’d be arrested, I said they’d be an asshole. Not only are there tons of perfectly legal ways to be an asshole in America, it’s usually a very effective way of personally enriching oneself.

Still blows my mind that no one seemed to see how [infuriating bullshit omitted]

Tell it to Tyre Nichols family

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Yeah, unfortunately it’s far from the first time this community’s mods have allowed misinformation to be pushed here

Yeah, I hope that plays out too, and it’s never out of the question with how unhinged and drugged up Musk is, but unfortunately I think this is less Musk stepping back for real and more of a bullshit PR move to get some of the heat off of Trump and Elon both -

The president remains pleased with Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency initiative, but both men have decided in recent days that it will soon be time for Musk to return to his businesses and take on a supporting role, according to three Trump insiders who were granted anonymity to describe the evolving relationship.

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One senior administration official said Musk is likely to retain an informal role as an adviser and continue to be an occasional face around the White House grounds. Another cautioned that anyone who thinks Musk is going to disappear entirely from Trump’s orbit is “fooling themselves.”

The transition, the insiders said, is likely to correspond to the end of Musk’s time as a “special government employee,” a special status that temporarily exempts him from some ethics and conflict-of-interest rules. That 130-day period is expected to expire in late May or early June.

Probably so

Nope, if the patron has chosen to do business in a stupid shitty country like mine they should pay a reasonable tip or they’re an asshole. I agree that it’s a completely stupid system that needs change, but screwing the server for a stupid culture they have no control over is not cool.

Nope, a motion for cloture would end this speech and any other debate and move the Senate along to its next vote

What progress was obstructed here? He started at 7 in the evening and went through the middle of the night, I doubt Republicans had plans to move some critical legislation at 3am.

I mean, giving an extra long speech where you point out all the terrible things Trump is doing and read letters from constituents is doing something, it’s just not a filibuster or anywhere near the level of intensity we need. Telling Republicans they’re hurting people isn’t going to change their minds.

“Booker’s speech is not a filibuster because it is not blocking legislation or a nomination.” (archived)

Also, “can’t” is bullshit, they just don’t want to

Huh, I’d never considered that difference. Every grammar resource I’ve seen online says “in spite of” and “despite” currently have the exact same meaning and the emotional connotations of “spite” (which seems to have just meant “in opposition to” for longer than it’s meant “in opposition to for vindictive reasons”) never got inferred into the phrase “in spite of”, but I actually think your reading makes more sense for how it should be (if only because there’s no point in having “in spite of” and “despite” mean different things).

Then they would cease to be public media and would just be another non-profit news organization/content producer

Also, federal funding is a tiny chunk of NPR and PBS, but the individual member stations that actually broadcast the stuff NPR and PBS produce tend to get a lot bigger chunk of their budgets through the feds (this is what they’re talking about when they say the funding is “crucial to bringing public broadcasting to local communities”)