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I wonder how much a commutation costs these days. I mean, can’t be hard to figure out, all you have to do is look at $TRUMP purchases in the days before it was announced. Since the dude reported to prison and days later was busted out, he probably went in, decided “Hello no!” and paid whatever amount of $TRUMP was required to get back out.

That page is so YouTube comment section that I start understanding why there is a war on archive.org. The idea that this kind of stuff is going to be visible long after it’s deleted must be troubling even to those that post it.

I mean, the hypocrisy of everyone involved is just staggering. Ticketmaster got their monopoly only because artists (through their management and booked venues) let them - nobody is forcing Olivia Dean to use Ticketmaster, and their policies have been known for ages.

Ticketmaster, on the other hand, sells you the resale ticket just as if it were new. I don’t think you can even exclude resale tickets from a search, let alone make it the default, which would be the bare minimum of making tickets more affordable.

And then, sadly, there is also our own hypocrisy. We all want to go to the same three concerts when there is a universe of music to explore. I wanted to see Imagine Dragons, but the tickets were 700 a pop. I went to see Caravan Palace instead - totally different music, but the concert was awesome and cost 50.

That would certainly explain why the administration leaned so heavily on Zelenskyy to allow for elections. It wasn’t (only?) because Putin told them to, but also because the obvious refusal would serve as later explanation for the potential indefinite delay in voting in America.

The fawning was one-sided.

Trump behaved like Mamdani was his grandson about to take over the family business.

Having snowboarded Schweitzer, which is the ski resort just outside Sandpoint, my impression of the town was that it was the bougiest, whitest place I have ever seen. Their repeal of the anti-discrimination ordinance is as meaningful as its institution: going with the zeitgeist in hopes of attracting more visitors?

You speak the truth. These idiots sank trillions into a technology that people are very meh about. If it all comes crumbling down, they really, really have nobody to blame but their own greed.

Does anyone know what Halligan said to the grand jury?

To be fair to corrupt corporations, they already bought the beef and coffee at tariffed prices, so they have to sell that stuff before the prices can go down. Unless they get a refund (not gonna happen), that’s the way things work.

Because it can’t get any worse.

How is this handled by a bankruptcy court and not a criminal court? Thousands of people were prescribed addictive drugs specifically as non-addictive.

It’s really disgusting. Here are people that have done everything right and they are kicked out against their will and their pension is also taken away.

On the other side, people that have perpetrated murder and torture of civilians, were convicted by a military court, and then pardoned by Trump because it was brown people that died. Disgusting all around.

Seems like a slam dunk win for them and a real embarrassment for the government that the courts even have to get involved.

This is pure cruelty on display.

[Police Chief] Cody is scheduled to go to trial in February in Marion County on a felony charge of interfering with a judicial process, accused by the two special prosecutors of persuading a potential witness to withhold information from authorities investigating his conduct.

The county pays $3 million, and the perpetrator of the raid is on the hook not for the raid, but for asking someone to delete text messages in an attempt to cover up.

Again, the tax payer is on the hook for something government officials did in violation of the law.

Every lawsuit is another two years of speaking engagements with far-right Christian outlets!

I am not sure City Hall playing Muslim calls to prayer is different from public schools posting the Ten Commandments in every classroom and forcing every student to read the Bible.

In other words, it’s not Muslim fundamentalism that is the most pressing threat. It’s the Christian fundies that are doing irreparable harm to both the Nation and their own religion.

… and that’s just the warmup act!

Everything about that case was horrifying, from the Koncerned Karen that called the police because he was being too Black on the street to the fact authorities tried to sweep the whole thing under the rug. The cops responsible even went to do selfies mocking Elijah on the anniversary of his death and a violin vigil was disbanded as if it were a looter mob after an earthquake.

And this to a human being that played the violin for shelter cats because they seemed to enjoy it. Elijah’s soul was so beautiful, it breaks my heart that he’s gone.

It’s my moment to remember Elijah McClain. Rest in peace, you beautiful soul.

Soooo… We PAID for this B.S. We paid for the arrest, check the number of uniformed tax-payer funded officers. We paid for the prosecution, we paid for the court, we paid for the jury, we paid and paid AFTER the famously sandwich-indicting Grand Jury wouldn’t touch this case.

Somehow it feels like the DA should be relieved of their duties.