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Lauren Boebert's son made sex tape with fellow suspect: affidavit WWW.NEWSWEEK.COM Lauren Boebert's son allegedly made a sex tape with a fellow suspect, according to a police affidavit.

Even the water wants out of Utah

A man whose tenure will be remembered by making the lives of American’s worse every chance he was given. A true Republican hero!

I’m still waiting for the value of my Trump NFT to take off. Should be any day now!!

Frozen embryos are ‘children,’ Alabama Supreme Court rules in couples’ wrongful death suits WWW.AL.COM The state's highest court reversed a judge's dismissal of the case involving embryos destroyed by a wandering Mobile hospital patient.

The Justice (D)epartment has been weaponized!!

White House Clashed With Justice Dept. Over Special Counsel Report - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Previously undisclosed letters show a testy exchange over whether the Justice Department violated its own guidelines in releasing a report with comments disparaging President Biden.

Has Russian finally achieved their space laser?

The projected 3-5% decline in 2024 for WOTC makes sense given the fact they’ll be comping against LOTR.

I think there’s too much focus on the term ‘insurrectionist’ in the 14th amendment, which has unfortunately become a loaded political term. I think there should have been more focus on ‘rebellion against’ the government. I’m no JD, but I feel like it’s a pretty easy argument to make, and these facts aren’t disputed by Trump’s legal team. 1. The 14th Amendment bars people from serving who rebelled against the US government 2. The counting of electoral votes is government function required by the constitution 3. Trump told Pence not to count the electoral votes, which is required by the constitution 4. This is a rebellion against the required constitutional function of the government and the role of vice president Because these 4 facts are not in dispute by Colorado or by Trump, he is barred from serving via the 14th amendment.

Redeemed. Thank you!

I'm having trouble finding details of the 'expanded' Child Tax Credit. Does this return it to 2021 where you can receive half of the credit as monthly cash payments and the remaining half as a deduction when filing your taxes?

I mean, this was always going to be the outcome, right? This is what happens when you have a system no other presidential democracy in the world has. It’s a relic of slavery and was a concession made to southern slave holders.

If I have to hear “half the country” or “74 million Americans” one more time this election season, I am going to lose my mind (it’s likely I’ll hear it 3-4 more times today). Republicans are so desperate to inflate their popularity. “74 million Americans” isn’t half the country. It’s barely 20%.

That’s unfortunate. I was really curious to get some context on Amy Coney Barrett’s rationale.

Has anyone found a link to the actual SCOTUS ruling/opinion? I tried searching for it earlier today and couldn’t find anything.

I’m very fortunate relative to my millennial (1988) peers. I only completed two years of college and didn’t finish out my bachelors because I got offered a decent entry-level position at a FAANG company. I’ve been with them for 12 years now, and have worked my way through multiple promotions. 2023 was the first year I finished with six figures. My wife and I purchased our home in 2015 for $179k. It was a brand new neighborhood, and now is worth north of $425k. My wife decided in 2018 when she was pregnant with our first child that she wanted to stay home. It has been hard at times with a single income, but we are able to make it work, even with our second child being born last June. We used to joke back in 2018 that we would sound like boomers in 20 years, telling our adult children about how we bought a house for under $200k, and dad worked while mom stayed at home with the kids. We had no idea it would take less than 5 years to sound like that.

I still remember the ludicrousness of people in 2016 saying Democrats caused Republicans to vote for Trump by not sufficiently understanding or placating them. In reality, Republican voters are gun waving hostage takers asking for $2 billion and a helicopter and then getting pissed when you don’t meet their demands.

He just announced on X.

He’s already been found guilty (well, liable since it’s a civil case).

I think approval ratings have largely become irrelevant, a dying grasp from the old political guard.

I was actually listening to a podcast that touched on this. In 2020, Joe Biden wasn’t necessarily the candidate who aligned most the values of the new Democratic Party, but Democratic voters individually and collectively made the decision that he was the best person to win a national election and beat Donald Trump, over the likes of Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth. And Republicans, well, they don’t give a fuck. They’ll vote for Trump no matter what, even though Nikki Haley would likely beat Biden.

I think her only gap, which is largely irrelevant for a VP, is mainstream name recognition. But she really has everything Trump wants/needs in a VP. She is a Fox News darling, she is a woman (and his biggest weakness is suburban women), she has a bit of charisma, but not too much to outshine Trump, she is a loyal foot soldier, she’s had an affair with Trump’s inner circle, she can potentially counter Trump’s 2020 COVID weakness with her record (largely imagined) in South Dakota as governor.