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Kangaroo Court News
Law & Order: New Jersey Democrats
A Manhattan federal judge has blocked prosecutors from introducing text messages related to a 2019 debate about aid to Egypt in the trial of Sen. Bob Menendez — exchanges the government has called “critical” to their case.
US District Judge Sidney Stein agreed with the New Jersey Democrat’s defense team Friday that allowing the messages between an Egyptian government official and Menendez co-defendant Wael Hana into evidence would violate the Constitution’s Speech or Debate Clause, which holds that members of Congress cannot be held criminally or civilly liable for actions related to their legislative duties.
Stein also ruled that prosecutors could not introduce another exchange from 2022, in which Menendez’s wife Nadine allegedly forwarded a link to Hana about two military sales to Egypt worth about $2.5 billion, writing, “Bob had to sign off on this.”
h/t Melinda Romanoff
The Decline And Fall Of The American Empire
Operation Save Hamas: “Pier operations suspended after piece breaks off”
You Can’t Cheat Father Bell Curve
[N]ew investigative reporting shows that the anti-meritocratic ideology of “diversity, equity, and inclusion” has even infiltrated some medical schools — to disastrous results.
These revelations come from the Washington Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium, who just published a remarkable exposé on the University of California, Los Angeles, medical school. It alleges that the university has systemically violated laws prohibiting race-based admission and held applicants of different races to wildly different standards, all in an effort to boost diversity, while instead producing incompetent and unqualified doctors.
More: Over 50% of UCLA med students failed standardized tests on family medicine, internal medicine, emergency medicine, and pediatrics.
None Of Your Business
Stop asking.
Blacklocks- Keeps $8B A Secret From MPs
The Department of Industry is refusing MPs’ order for terms of billions in federal climate subsidies to manufacturers. Deputy Minister Simon Kennedy called it “highly sensitive confidential information to be safeguarded.”
Deputy Kennedy in reply said terms must be concealed to protect corporations that received subsidies. “Disclosure of sensitive business information without prior consent of the third party including commitments found in contribution agreements would put the government in violation of its contractual obligations,” he wrote.
Oil and gas isn’t a sunset industry yet, despite what many think
Kangaroo Court News
On Friday, special counsel Jack Smith asked the judge to issue a gag order on Donald Trump in his classified documents case. Taking a page out of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s playbook, Smith thought he could successfully prevent Trump from being able to freely express his opinions about the case.
Unlike Bragg, who has a Biden donor as a judge, Smith had to convince Judge Aileen Cannon, a fair-minded, Trump-nominated judge, to buy into his argument that Trump should be silenced.
Cannon refused, calling Smith’s demand for a gag order “wholly lacking in substance and professional courtesy.” […]
It gets better. Cannon didn’t just refuse to silence Trump the way Judge Juan Merchan has in New York, but she also warned Smith that she’s not going tolerate future ridiculousness from him.
Good.
Related: The probability that the last three Trump-related cases in New York would randomly be assigned to the same judge is one in 15,625.
The law is being trimmed to fit the man. Much of America is now institutionally rotted to the core: millions of citizens seem to have internalised that but reckon that, if they just keep their heads down, maybe it’ll be the guy three doors down who catches the state’s eye. You’ll understand that, after twelve years in the DC Superior Court, I’m less sanguine about that.
Still, if there is a “verdict” by 3pm Eastern, we shall certainly discuss it.
Only Liberals Bleed
The Libranos: Bam Bam Bambiscam
Employing foreign sharpshooters in helicopters to cull deer inhabiting a small coastal B.C. island could cost taxpayers over $12 million, suggest newly released government documents.
According to figures unearthed by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation via an access-to-information act, Parks Canada has earmarked $12 million to fund a multi-phase “Fur to Forest” program, which employs non-Canadian helicopter-mounted sharpshooters to eradicate an invasive herd of European fallow deer from Sidney Island — a nine-square-kilometre tract of land off the coast of Vancouver Island.[…]
A total of 84 deer were killed during last year’s cull between Dec. 1 and 11.
As well, Parks Canada confirmed a little under a quarter of the culled animals weren’t actually invasive deer, but species native to Sidney Island.
Someone in the deep bowels of Libranos Inc. cashed in on that contract. Count on it.
Wednesday On Turtle Island
Dementia Joe’s America: AMC places a trigger warning. Disney cancels Tinkerbell. Saint George Floyd. FBI Director met with Hamas supporters. Biden’s Black Lies Matter. The Biden campaign shows up at the Trump trial.
Blackie’s Canada: The Indians are upset again (Warning: CBC). Education in Doug Ford’s Ontario. CBC concealed bonus.
Today In Islam: Two Muslim girls. Interfaith dialogue in Egypt.
Your morning meme. Another meme. A cartoon.
May 29, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening, we present an interesting video entitled Why we’re Moving our Family of Five to Start a Homestead in Arizona from Scratch.
Do share your best rural or urban tips!
Solidarity Forever
Honey, I Finished The Internet
Wonders of Life with Brian Cox
One Ringy Dingy…
Two ringy dingy…
Blacklocks- 91,000 Cellphones Fell Silent
Auditors counted 91,237 mobile phones issued to employees that were unused. Phones may have gone dormant as more employees used videoconferencing to work from home, said the report.
Evaluation complained there were now more government-issue cellphones and landlines than there were employees on the federal payroll. Auditors counted more than 840,000 phone lines and 375,000 employees. Costs of telephone lines totaled $339.6 million a year, “a 73 percent increase since 2019,” said the report.
(Biological) Sex Matters
When you have more administrators than health care professionals…
Rage In America
Victor Davis Hanson gives a lengthy but interesting review of a book on white rural rage.
The Sound Of Settled Science
Why is American archaeology so heavily debated?
Stories You Won’t Find At Justin’s CBC
Tuesday On Turtle Island
Today In Islam: Appeasing Islam. Bishops condemn conversion of church.
Dementia Joe’s America: The Trump verdict. Biden honours veterans by talking about his son.
Blackie’s Canada: Hamas supporters vandalize statue. Only 100% opposed safe supply. Cabinet minister trashes supporters of Israel.
Your morning cartoon. Another cartoon.
May 28, 2024: Reader Tips
This evening, we present the musical stylings of Lauren Watkins performing Ole Miss.
This is your golden opportunity to not miss (see what I did there) elucidating the rest of us with your best news tips!