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Not joking at all.
But it won’t come to pardons. You don’t have to pardon what you never prosecute.
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(excerpt) As a new election season begins, the Republican Party is struggling to navigate the politics of abortion.
The GOP can adjust and fine-tune their message on abortion as much as they need to in order to survive this next election cycle, but that doesn’t mean that the GOP’s true anti-choice fanatics will keep their promises. Proof: Gorsuch, Thomas, Barrett, Kavanaugh and their obfuscations and lies during their confirmation hearings and those who promoted them through the process. Leading up to and through 2024, the Dems need to remind everyone of that over and over again.
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It’s still a long way to sine die on 29 May, and it ain’t over 'til it’s over.
In a previous decade I was paid to proofread legislation for the Texas House of Reprehensibles Representatives. That session, I read a bill that proposed to chop a finger off of each person convicted of a drug crime. I watched Senator Gonzalo Barrientos try to hold the line, fillibustering for the last time (he was an old man by then and the process is grueling)… can’t remember right now what for.
https://voces.lib.utexas.edu/collections/stories/gonzalo-barrientos
It is amazing how many bills die in committee, at the state or federal level.
Even if it makes it outta committee, a bill can die on the floor. Either floor.
I regret to say the craziest red-meat-legislation, should it make as far as Abbott’s desk, will probably get signed into law. There’s always the possibility someone will challenge truly stupid law (for that, one needs time, money, more money, and some decent lawyers) but these days Ken Paxton is likely to defend anything up to and including unconstitutional crap just to see what he can get away with and score more points with his Texas base.
Still the lege session can be used to gauge which way the winds are blowing; the data points every two years are not without value.
Thank you for the good you bring.
I’ve donated to Casa Marianella and to Refugee Services of Texas–Austin.
Disclosure: Both my parents were refugees just after World War II.
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Some strong indication that they will proceed to court. If true, then it would seem to show that Dominion will not settle. Why lower your requested damages and then settle? (Note that there are estimates that Fox has 2 to 4 billion in ready cash on hand):
This from Raw Story.
(excerpt) The lawsuit was originally seeking $1.6 billion in damages, but a Fox email over the weekend indicates Dominion may no longer pursue the $600 million lost-profits component of the damages at trial.
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Gonzalo Barrientos
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Yeah- they have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholders. Who may prefer to just go with the settlement.
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Ah yes… the shareholders… the only people who actually matter in America! /s
Let’s hope they do not settle… I feel like we’re this close to actually seeing some consequences and am afraid of what happens if that slips away…
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“Does this make your life better, or does it just make someone else’s life worse?”
There it is.
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The good news: they are privately held by the company’s management team.
The bad news: …along with a private equity firm…
The maybe good-again news: Staple street Patners (that PE firm) appears to focus on longer-term investments and semi-activist companies.
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Excellent- they can decide to go to court - whether because they don’t want to take the sure bet over a gamble - or just because they’re incredibly pissed of over what Fox assholes did to them.
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And they are going to get a big payout if they win the case, regardless.
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With no cameras or audio devices allowed in the courtroom, Davis sternly noted that no photographs were to be taken. Unfortunately, that advice apparently came too late for Fox News spokesperson Caley Cronin. “My understanding is they’ve moved somebody,” Davis told the courtroom, referencing the Fox flack being escorted out for snapping pics. Washington Post media columnist Erik Wemple later tweeted that prior to the start of Tuesday’s proceedings, Cronin had been told to move to an overflow area that features audio and video links to the trial.
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Building where, ya big fucking Mo’Ron?
Disney already owns all the buildable land near it, so any construction would literally need to float on swamp water.
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Comrades- see your joyous state amusement park!
Kids will definitely pick DeSantisLand over Disney.
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After several months of feuding with the Walt Disney Company’s lawyers, Florida governor Ron DeSantis doesn’t seem to recognize when he’s being outgunned. He’s proved that he’s willing to use everything within his arsenal to punish a corporation that opposes the “Don’t Say Gay” law—including theme park rider safety laws.
On April 17, the Orlando Sentinel reported that the governor announced that he would be putting forward a proposal that strips Disney of “special privileges” that allow the corporation to inspect the safety of its own theme park rides and self-report injuries sustained on those rides, rather than being inspected by Florida’s agricultural agency (like state fairs currently are). According to one Sentinel reporter, parks such as Universal, Legoland, and Seaworld would still retain exemptions from safety regulations. Kotaku reached out to the governor’s office to ask why Disney was singled out, but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
This move is objectively a good thing for consumers. Floridian regulators have been trying to reform rider safety laws for years, since the current rules allow theme parks to handle injury reports themselves. This led to incidents such as Universal Orlando labeling a broken neck sustained on one of its racing ridesas “numbness” and a child’s broken bones as “foot pain.” If government regulators start inspecting Disney rides, the megacorp will be subject to more independent oversight. Sorry if you visit any other major theme park in Florida, though—the odds of recourse for rider injury are going to be lower.
Senator Geraldine Thompson praised the initiative for raising the safety standards for Disney’s rides. “We want people to know that amusement rides in Florida are safe,” she said. Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson felt that the proposal didn’t go far enough. “Where a person is injured should not determine how the state responds. Everyone should have to play by the same rules,” he said.
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Don’t give him any ideas. If anyone could come up with an even more inhumane prison than Angola in Louisiana, it would be DeSantis.
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Not so fast. You just know that if this goes through, MoRon will use it as a weapon to shut down Disney through stupid assessments. Ordinarily I would agree with something like this, but in a situation where the state has declared war on a corporation for political reasons, any question of objectivity is thrown out. It will be used to enforce mindless obedience. Period.
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I guess the question is: how much do we trust the professionalism and diligence of the inspectors at Florida’s agricultural agency?
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