Under Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan government seized assets from some American oil companies after the country nationalized oil fields in 2007.

Pathetic.

Some of the Epstein files released. Bondi already said earlier today that they wouldn’t make the deadline for all the files.

Ice ice baby …

So … Half a dozen eggs?

And this is why 22 states and DC have refused to turn over their voter rolls. And now four states [Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas and Wyoming] have agreed without the Memorandum Of Understanding, while two more [Colorado and Wisconsin] have rejected it. Eleven more states have expressed an interest: Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, Utah and Virginia.

The DoJ says that they need the info to “verify that only eligible people are voting” - except that the Constitution explicitly says that running elections is up to the states, and DoJ has already said they’re going to share those lists with Homeland Security.

And “Homeland Security” runs ICE, which has the ability to kidnap people out of their homes and off the streets, decide that you’re not a citizen if you don’t have proof with you [and claim that your valid papers are “fake” if they want to], then throw you into a “camp” before sending you to a foreign country you have no connection to.

Why is it always suspected trans women? Paxton probably uses ED pills, which are gender-affirming care, we can start there.

A 12oz Diet Coke is 46mg caffeine. A cup of coffee is about 150mg.

Could you tell me what you like about Vivaldi over Firefox? Or what advantages it has? Genuinely curious.

Also, even if you’re carrying your ID with you, there are multiple cases of ICE deciding the papers are fake and arresting you anyway.

Also it’s raining , so I can’t go now or I’ll get wet.

Lol

I don’t see where his wife is a gold digger. According to the article, he’s fallen for repeated scams and, the way they work is that once you’ve fallen for one scam, they sell your information to other scammers as an easy mark. As her spouse, he probably has access to all her money; if they get divorced, she’ll at least be able to protect her half of their assets.

[Notice that it doesn’t say his wife wants to leave him, just get divorced.]

Because it’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s free!

As the investigation into the fatal shooting continued, MAGA conservatives pushed out unsubstantiated theories about the tragedy.

Lol, they do that with every shooting, they’re a bunch of paranoid conspiracy theorists and if you believe them, then every shooting is done by a trans person targeting conservatives. It’s so predictable by now, you’d almost thing there were a bunch of robots just primed to spread anti-trans conspiracy and hatred at every opportunity …

I’m so sorry for everyone involved here :(

I wonder what mental poison “Dr Oz” fed RFK Jr …

I’m holding my celebration until they actually (a) stop voting for Republicans, (b) express public contrition for their vote, © start actively and publicly working against the political party that brought this into being, and (d) continue until that political party is dismantled because it wasn’t just “Trump” that brought this into being, it was the entire Republican party who deliberately stacked the federal and Supreme Court, who gerrymandered maps to keep their extremists in power, and who’s “moderates” still toe the party line (except in a few cases where their votes don’t matter, but only so they can have a couple things to point to, showing how “independent” and “Washington outsider” they are when they go home to campaign for yet another term).

He’s a rural Montanan whose way of life and livelihood depend on public lands.

Translation: he depends on socialism to survive (not that he’ll ever see it that way, of course).

Hunting season had yet to open when we spoke, but Zink was already hearing from fellow hunters who had to cut their own way into trails to hunting camps after Forest Service trail crews were laid off en masse.

Oh, no - work?!

Ranchers and farmers use public lands for agriculture; outfitters and guides take guests into them; hunters access them regularly to put food in the family freezer; and forestry, timber and sawmill workers fulfill contracts on them for wildfire mitigation and lumber.

Party of small government sure likes to suck the government teat.

I spoke to people across Montana, from different professions and down the political range from independent to staunchly conservative

Helluva range there, considering that (on a global scale) Democrats have right-wing views.

A ranch this size, 700 private acres, could still operate without a public land allotment by leasing other private land, but that’s much more expensive — prohibitively so, for most ranchers. Down in the Southwest, he said, many ranches are a whopping 90 percent federal land allotments; it’s often much less than that in western Montana.

Yeah, I don’t care enough to finish the article.

Edit typo.

Weiss reiterated a question to [Erika] Kirk about whether political leaders are responsible for turning “the temperature down right now.”

“Well, I think everyone has a responsibility to do that and I’m doing my part,” [Erika] Kirk answered.

See, I’d have an easier time believing that if she hadn’t vowed to continue Charlie Kirk’s “legacy” and said:

“If you thought that my husband’s mission was powerful before, you have no idea,” she continued. “You have no idea what you just have unleashed across this entire country and this world. You have no idea. You have no idea the fire that you have ignited within this wife. The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.” source

Not OP, but People magazine.

Or, y’know, it could just be their son.