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Well, from his first term as POTUS, they knew (or should have known) that Trump is lacking the emphathy gene and is completey indifferent to human suffering - so, in a sense, that is what they voted for, although they certainly never expected the consequences to directly impact them. No they don't deserve to suffer but what is playing out was foreseeable IMO.

If the driver had been Caucasian, it is doubtful that Max would have started a thread at all.

The whole point of this special election was to leave the decision up to the voters of California.

https://x.com/CouncilmanViera/status/1987469566235042062 (video clip of the speech at link) Tampa City Council Chair Alan Clendenin led Tampa City Council members and Hillsborough County Commissioner Harry Cohen in a moving speech last night at a vigil at Bradley’s on 7th in Ybor City. Friday evening, 4 were killed and 13 injured on Saturday after midnight when a driver fleeing police lost control of his vehicle and veered onto the busy sidewalk and crashed into Bradley’s. Bradley’s is a mainstay in Tampa’s LGBT community, and many members of the LGBT community were there to mourn. We mourn with them.

Which is what they did before, for those with pre-existing conditions who they actually offered policies to. I had a pre-existing condition and was unable to get affordable insurance until the ACA was passed.

https://x.com/AdamSchefter/status/1987577498876723336 NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell released the following statement on the passing of his predecessor, Paul Tagliabue: “All of us in the NFL are deeply saddened by the passing of Paul Tagliabue, whose principled leadership and vision put the NFL on the path to unparalleled success. Throughout his decades-long leadership on behalf of the NFL, first as outside counsel and then during a powerful 17-year tenure as commissioner, Paul served with integrity, passion and an unwavering conviction to do what was best for the league. Paul was the ultimate steward of the game—tall in stature, humble in presence and decisive in his loyalty to the NFL. He viewed every challenge and opportunity through the lens of what was best for the greater good, a principle he inherited from Pete Rozelle and passed on to me. During his Hall of Fame NFL career, Paul fostered labor peace with our players, oversaw the expansion of the league to 32 teams, ushered in an era of state-of-the-art stadiums and laid the important groundwork of establishing the league as a global brand. He helped modernize the structure of the league office and its business operations, providing the playbook for the NFL’s strategic embrace of his era’s emerging technologies including cable, satellite and the internet. Paul was a fierce advocate for diversity and inclusion and guided the league through the challenges of 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina. I am forever grateful and proud to have Paul as my friend and mentor. I cherished the innumerable hours we spent together where he helped shape me as an executive but also as a man, husband and father. Jane and I extend our heartfelt condolences to entire Tagliabue family, especially Chan, his wife of 60 years, and their children Drew and Emily.”

As The Real Tim asked in the Shutdown thread: How can anyone defend this?

One would think that, wouldn't they?

I don't see how this is supposed to be calling Schumer's bluff.

Per the NYT, The Trump administration told states to undo any steps to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, threatening financial penalties if the states do not comply. It was unclear how that would affect the program. Note: link is to subcriber content: https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11/09/us/trump-news?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes

https://x.com/kylegriffin1/status/1987553364821807316 Democrats' 2025 election wins go far beyond the big races: In Pennsylvania, Democrats swept the top "row offices" in Bucks County, electing the county's first-ever Democratic district attorney and defeating an incumbent Republican sheriff. Democrats notched commanding victories in county executive races in Erie, Lehigh and Northampton counties. At the state legislative level, Mississippi Democrats have broken a GOP supermajority in the state Senate after flipping two seats in that chamber plus another pickup in the state House. Democrats have vastly expanded their control of the Virginia House of Delegates and in New Jersey's General Assembly, the party gained a supermajority. In many local races across the country, Democrats touted victories that will reshape their communities, like the flipping of all three city council seats in Georgetown, S.C., the unseating of the last remaining Republican city council member in Orlando, Fla., and winning back mayoral races in Connecticut.

This keeps getting worse: Trump Administration Officials Demand States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps

The first criminal trial of a former President begins today in New York with jury selection. Post any trial news, updates or your commentary on the proceedings in this thread. https://www.npr.org/2024/04/15/1238536885/trump-hush-money-trial Trump's criminal trial, a first for a former president, begins Monday For the first time in U.S. history, a former president will sit in a courtroom for the first day of his criminal trial. Former President Donald Trump faces 34-count felony counts alleging that he falsified New York business records in order to conceal damaging information to influence the 2016 presidential election. Monday kicks off an 18-person jury selection for the trial that is expected to last about six weeks — even as Trump campaigns to be president once again. The trial begins after a 20-day delay was granted by New York Judge Juan Merchan to give both legal teams time to review 31,000 records provided by the U.S. Attorney's Office. In recent weeks, Merchan also issued a gag order on Trump that specifically bars him from making, or directing others to make, public statements about witnesses, prosecutors or jurors. He later extended the order to cover the families after Trump went after the judge's daughter by name on the former president's social media site. [...] The district attorney hopes to make this case about 2016 election interference A grand jury indicted Trump in the spring of last year, marking the first time a former or sitting president faced criminal charges. Republicans quickly dismissed the indictment as an overreach of power by District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who had brought the charges. Trump has pleaded not guilty. At the center of the trial are 11 "hush money" payments to adult film actor Stormy Daniels who, at the time Trump was first running for president, threatened to go public with accusations she'd had an affair with him not long after he married Melania Trump. The lawsuit alleges that payments were made from Trump's flagship Trump Organization to Michael Cohen, then a vice president and counsel at the company. The payments were described by the Trump Organization falsely as "legal retainers"; they were, in fact, reimbursements to Cohen for paying Daniels. Cohen transferred that money to Daniels less than two weeks before the 2016 election. After Trump won, he reimbursed Cohen, including with his own personal checks. Trump has denied an affair with Daniels, but in 2018 he admitted reimbursing Cohen for money paid to her, arguing it had nothing to do with the campaign. The indictment also includes a separate $150,000 payment to another woman – the Playboy model Karen McDougal, who has spoken openly about her experience – who claimed to have had an intimate relationship with Trump. The fact of the payments and the false records isn't in dispute. What Bragg has to prove is that Trump made them in order to further other crimes, such as violating campaign finance law and mischaracterizing the payments for tax purposes.

Hell Toupee is lying as with just about everything else he says here.

After the gem, stand down sounds more appropriate.

Corruption Field has a nice ring to it.

And an even weirder thing to post in this thread, particularly seems it appears that Disney wasn't reponsible for any of the deaths.

It is hard to imagine any worse optics for Trump, Mike Johnson and Republicans than what we have seen in the last week. Start with the multi-million dollar Great Gatsby themed party held at Mar-a-Lago, the same evening that Trump cuts off SNAP benefits. The Great Gatsby? Really? Who came up with that idea? Had any of them actually read the book and understood that was a critique of the moral emptiness and carelessness of the wealthy during The Roaring Twenties? And that was followed by Trump flying down to Florida again this weekend to play golf amid airline flights being cancelled in around the country because he is trying to force Democrats to capitulate and give him everything he wants. The actions of Trump and Republicans seem really callous and tone deaf to the hardships they are causing Americans. Do they really think their antics will be popular with most Americans? I just can't see it, and maybe I'll be wrong, but this looks likely to blow up in their faces with negative short term and long term consequences (2026 elections).

I thought that maybe Adam Schefter's Twitter account had been hacked by a prankster, but the story is legitimate. https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46892115/trump-wants-commanders-stadium-named-him Sources: Trump wants Commanders' new D.C. stadium named for him President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders' ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the domed stadium in the nation's capital bear his name. The new stadium is being built on the old RFK Stadium site that served as the team's home from 1961 to 1996. "That would be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible," White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told ESPN on Friday night via email. Leavitt declined to answer additional questions, but the senior White House source told ESPN: "It's what the president wants, and it will probably happen." A Commanders spokesperson declined comment Saturday. However, a team source said the organization has spent days preparing for Trump's attendance at the Commanders' home game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday afternoon. Trump will attend the game as Harris' guest and is expected to participate in halftime activities honoring the military. The team source said that while the Commanders anticipate possible conversations with Trump about the new stadium during the game, there have been no formal conversations to date. The Commanders own the new stadium's naming rights, presumably to be sold to a corporate sponsor. But a source with firsthand knowledge of the process said that would be a separate decision from also commemorating an individual in the stadium name. That decision would likely rest with the District of Columbia Council, which will lease the stadium to the Commanders, and the National Park Service, which manages the federal government land on the old RFK Stadium site where the new stadium will be built in time for its scheduled opening in 2030. "The team doesn't have the authority. They can't name the stadium ... on their own," the source said. "The city would be involved in that decision, and the Park Service would be involved." [...]

The tried that with AOC but that talking point never really caught on (although a few folks here still keep saying AOC will challenge Shumer for the leadership of the Democrats, but that seem laughable to me). Mamdani's support, like AOC's, will probably be just those on the "fringe left" of The Democratic Party, although his charisma may garner support from more moderate Democrats who will at least want to see how his tenure as Mayor plays out.

And the photo, where he is standing indifferently and staring off in space, while someone with a medical emergency is being attended to, should figure prominently in many of those ads. For those that may have missed it.