Happy Birthday Filly!

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Filly—you’re the best! You make us laugh, you entertain us and you educate us!  I’m so glad I “met” you!!!  Hope you have a wonderful birthday!

Happy Birthday to a great friend!

THIS^^^^ is a birthday cake!

I was gonna post some pictures of handsome, sexy cowboys for you, but we have different ideas there (and most of them look gay somehow…lol)…so I thought I’d stick with horses!

Hey! Here’s a cowboy who’s not gay and not all slicked up and shirtless…LOL

Love you Filly! Have a great birthday!!

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  1. Morning All!

    We’re sitting at 30* this morning–such a change from yesterday!

    I’ve got a haircut appointment this morning and have to stop at the post office since we never made it out this weekend so I’ll be gone for a little this morning. 

    praying for Sally Q and GA today!

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    1. Oh, my, Pat! I knew you’d post a meme or two but the entire open??!!?? You rascal, you! And the pictures are PERFECT – I’m not the least bit interested in the male half of the human species these days but horses…THEY are forever in my heart!!!! 

      Hmmmm….good choice but my absolute #1 Dream Man will always be…..

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        1. Well, as always with me, there is a story…..I always liked him but 4 years after that song/movie (Pure Country) came out in 1992, I fell for the last great love of my life, Phillip Fachan in 1996. Phil was also tall and built a lot like Strait, with that oh-so-sexy walk, and not only a real cowboy (owned a ranch in NM) but also an environmental engineer – sexy and smart all in one! He was also traveling and gone for extended periods, hence, “carrying your love with me.” Oh, did we dance to that, and many other of his songs.

          The last scene in the movie:

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            1. Yes, it did. We loved each other – yes, it was mutual – but his wife had died some years before and he still had young teen children who simply refused to accept another woman in their Dad’s life. I went to visit him in TX and before I left, I told him if he ever decided that he also had the right to be happy, to give me a call. Needless to say….that never happened. I gave up on love after that….

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              2. Oh, heavens! I expect he’s moved on by now and probably married someone else. I still have the pics, tho, and the NM t-shirt he gave me.

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    2. Hopefully, your package will be there. We hit 70 yesterday, sitting at 38 this morning. You’re a good friend and I appreciate you soooo very much!

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      1. our post master is only there in the mornings and we didn’t get out at all this weekend. I’m going to stop before i go to my hair appt…i’m so excited to see what you sent me…thank you!
        I appreciate you too!!!

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        1. Well, don’t get too excited – it’s not a biggee, but you’ll see – it’s especially applicable to you and your “hobby!”

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  3. Te𝕏asLindsay™

    @TexasLindsay_

    NEW: Google’s AI Response Alludes a Member of Congress is a P*d•phile This response came from Google AI after simply asking for for a poem to be written in the style of This makes it the second time a prominent Conservative has received such an arguably defamatory warning from my research on Google’s Gemini. The arguably defamatory warning that Google’s AI gave after asking for a poem in the style of prominent political commentator,

    @catturd2

    , was the same response given when prompted to write a poem in the style of Congressman

    @Jim_Jordan

    Out of the hundreds of tests I’ve run so far on Google’s Gemini for people from both sides of the political spectrum—so far only Conservatives have received such an explicit and unfounded warning as a result of asking the A.I. for a poem. In my opinion, these results show an exhaustive effort by the team at Google to train their A.I. to sway public opinion to discredit and smear Conservatives by going as far as to train its AI to associate Conservative views as the most vile accusations that one can make—the type of accusations that get people ousted from society. Leaving one to wonder if the people training this AI have chosen to use data to villainize Conservative ideologies to the point they’re deemed unfit for the societal norms they’re aiming to create. A.I. is progressing at a more and more rapid pace every day. There’s no time for anyone to drag their feet in addressing these issues since it will only get worse and more impactful as it becomes something society and governments rely upon for use. I’m honestly shocked that Google is continuing to allow the public to have access to a machine that gives such defamatory outputs & warnings such as these.

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  6. they got married to JOIN their asylum cases and look more sympathetic

    Feisty Hayseed

    February 26, 2024 1:18 am

    Laken Riley murder suspect Jose Ibarra was free because the system is broken

    Laken Riley is dead because America failed to protect her.

    For every crime her suspected killer committed, he was let free.

    Every chance to prevent the tragedy that unfolded was squandered.

    Police say the killing of the Augusta University College nursing student was a “crime of opportunity,” but it was an opportunity provided again and again by a callous Biden administration and a justice system gone mad.

    The suspect, Jose Antonio Ibarra, illegally crossed the border into El Paso in September of last year. Yes, illegally.

    Despite what activists might claim, he was not an “asylum seeker.” That’s a designation for someone who is fleeing religious or political persecution.

    They cross the border, then, coached by charity groups, make bogus claims of asylum.

    Ibarra’s wife admits that’s why they got married, “so we could join our asylum cases,” she told The Post, and look more sympathetic.

    https://nypost.com/2024/02/25/opinion/laken-riley-murder-suspect-jose-ibarra-was-free-because-the-system-is-broken/

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  9. Anna Bower Profile picture

    Anna Bower

    @AnnaBower

    14h• 4 tweets • 2 min read •

    Read on X NEW: Trump’s team pushes back on the district attorney’s argument that Nathan Wade’s cell phone records are inadmissible and irrelevant.

    Trump says that Judge McAfee should admit the evidence & allow the defense to call a witness to testify on the data.

    The state argued that Trump’s team didn’t provide sufficient notice of their intention to introduce the phone records through expert testimony.

    Trump, however, says the prospective witness, Charles Mittelstadt, would not testify as an expert–he would just summarize the data.

    Trump also argues that the cell phone data is admissible as “extrinsic impeachment” evidence and as relevant substantive evidence.

    Specifically, Trump says, the cell phone records tend to show that the romantic relationship between Willis and Wade began before they say it did.

    As for the state’s suggestion that the cell phone data was obtained unlawfully, Trump’s attorney, Steve Sadow, writes in a footnote that the claim is “patently frivolous.”

    “The records were obtained by valid subpoena issued to AT&T,” according to the filing.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761868044526100913.html

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    1. Thank you, Super Mom! I’ll be keeping Sally Q in my thoughts today…. my biggest hope is that it goes smoothly and she comes thru it well.

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  16. R Green

    February 26, 2024 7:40 am

    BREAKING: Ronna McDaniel Officially Announces Her Resignation From the RNChttps://redstate.com/jenvanlaar/2024/02/26/breaking-ronna-mcdaniel-officially-resigns-from-the-rnc-n2170573

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  17. GGGGGggggrrrrrrrrrrr

    February 26, 2024 7:24 am

    Special Counsel Robert Hur could not determine who had access to Joe Biden’s stolen classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center because security deleted all the visitor logs from 2017-2021.

    According to Hur, Joe Biden kept more than 600 pages of classified documents in unlocked drawers/closets at the Penn Biden Center and stored some of them in dilapidated boxes in his Delaware garage and other unsecured locations.

    The FBI identified numerous folders, including many labeled “EYES ONLY VPOTUS” which contained highly classified material related to intelligence sources and methods…

    “[In] October 2017, Chung relocated the 15 boxes a few blocks away to the newly built Penn Biden Center on the sixth floor of another D.C. office building, where she unpacked Biden’s White House documents – including some marked “top secret” – and placed them into a three-drawer filing cabinet in her outer office adjoining Biden’s office, which was designed to resemble his old West Wing suite. Other documents were left in boxes stacked in an unlocked storage closet, refuting initial White House claims they were stored in a “locked closet.” Remarkably, the entire office suite was never locked up, which meant virtually anybody who got past the security guard in the lobby of the building had access to the classified files stored there.” [snip] “Mr. Biden’s office did not lock,” Hur said in his 345-page report, “and the adjoining outer office where Mr. Biden’s executive assistant maintained his files was always accessible through Mr. Biden’s office.” In a footnote, Hur added that “the Vice President’s office could only be locked from the inside using a panic button.”

    Visitors from all walks of life, including dangerous actors from China and Ukraine had access to the classified documents stored at Penn Biden Center.

    https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/robert-hur-couldnt-determine-who-had-access-bidens/

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  18. Hmmm…this is interesting.

    ENTIRE ARTICLE @ NationalPulse: “STUDY: Women More Likely to Vote Trump During Most Fertile Point of Menstrual Cycle”

    A new scientific study indicates women are more likely to vote for former President Donald Trump during the most fertile period of their menstrual cycle. According to researchers from the New School for Social Research, led by psychologist Jessica L Engelbrecht, women, when at their most fertile, are drawn to the former President’s intelligence in comparison to his political opponents. 

    The research occurred between July and August 2020, observing 549 women to identify changes in their political opinions over time. Each was asked to select their preferred candidate in a series of hypothetical match-ups drawn at random. Candidates included Kamala Harris, Corey Booker, Barack Obama, Mike Pence, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Mitt Romney.

    A significant correlation was noticed between women at their most fertile and expressing positive opinions towards former President Donald Trump. An earlier 2010 study by the research team found that women overwhelmingly preferred Barack Obama during periods of ovulation. 

    The researchers concluded at the time that women were drawn to Obama through physical attraction. However, the 2020 study indicated that women, while ovulating, were drawn to former President Trump because of his high degree of intelligence, not physical attractiveness. 

    Former President Trump has seen a resurgence in support among women and college-educated voters as the 2024 general election cycle kicks off in the United States. A vast majority of recent polling shows him leading incumbent President Joe Biden among those likely to vote in the November election.”

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  20. Sure thing! Of course we believe you! NOT!!!!

    AT&T said Friday that the 12-hour-long outage to its U.S. cellphone network Thursday didn’t appear to be caused by a cyberattack, blaming it on an “incorrect process.”

    On Thursday, numerous customers reported that AT&T and Cricket, its subsidiary, were down for hours. Some 75,000 customers reported to DownDetector.com they were without cellphone service, texting, or internet access across the country, although that number is likely quite higher.

    “Based on our initial review, we believe that today’s outage was caused by the application and execution of an incorrect process used as we were expanding our network, not a cyber attack,” AT&T said in a statement Friday.

    The company did not reveal the exact cause of the service disruption. The firm said Thursday that the disruption was fixed.

    Amid the outage, iPhone users with AT&T saw an “SOS” message and were told that they could only make emergency or Wi-Fi calls. Android users saw a similar message that they could only make emergency calls.

    But some local police and sheriff’s departments wrote on social media that some AT&T users were not able to make 911 calls, while some law enforcement officials, who were AT&T customers too, couldn’t use their devices. — The Epoch Times

    https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/att-reveals-cause-of-major-outage-not-caused-by-cyberattack-5593676

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  21. Payment required for the full article….
    “Why Wikileaks Matters — The lesser-known Wikileaks scoops, from Honduran drug cartels to Hillary Clinton’s private acknowledgement that American allies are hotbeds of fundraising support to al Qaeda and ISIS.”
    LEE FANG
    FEB 26, 2024

    EXCERPT: “Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, as of this writing, faces a final attempt to appeal his extradition from the U.K. to the U.S. If he fails, he faces Espionage Act charges that could lead to living out the remainder of his life in federal prison.

    The case is a flashpoint for the future of journalism. Press freedom groups around the world argue that if Assange is extradited and successfully prosecuted for espionage, it would create a dangerous precedent for the government to suppress future reporting.

    I absolutely share these concerns. If you’re a reader of this Substack, you know that I often publish inside government, corporate, and political files that shed light on the powerful. What separates us from authoritarian states is our ability to question the decisions of our government, even those deemed as classified or confidential. And that’s not possible without protections for journalists and the right to publish.

    Every major publication is at risk. The New York Times has a long and storied record of publishing classified materials going back to the 1971 Pentagon Papers, which showed the true history of the Vietnam War. More recently, the Washington Post and other outlets reported on the Discord intelligence leaks, revealing that Pentagon officials had suspected that the Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russia would fail to gain significant territory, among many other revelations.

    While Assange is accused of providing technical assistance to his sources, similar methods are relatively common. Reporters routinely help sources and whistleblowers. Look at this page from the Times that offers detailed ways to provide tips to the newspaper while avoiding detection.

    Even voices within the U.S. Justice Department have conceded that the Assange case rests on the “New York Times problem.” In 2013, DOJ officials noted that the legal theory used to prosecute Assange would apply almost equally to most major newspapers with a history of reporting on government secrets, such as the many news outlets that covered Edward Snowden’s disclosures about warrantless NSA mass surveillance of Americans.

    Assange is an unorthodox figure, no doubt. I disagreed with his decision to go forward with data dumps that often included sensitive personal information. Sometimes, Wikileaks seemed too willing to publish documents before carefully vetting them for news value. But his contributions to the public interest are absolutely undeniable. Wikileaks has provided a vital view of how the world really works with almost no modern parallel.

    Most major news items about Assange in recent days recount his biggest releases, including 2007 footage of a U.S. military helicopter gunning down 12 people, including 2 Reuters journalists, in Baghdad. But that barely scratches the surface.

    I’ve utilized Wikileaks documents for at least fifteen different news articles and investigations over the years. I was looking through my old reporting that cited Wikileaks and was reminded of many lesser-known revelations worth revisiting.

    Take the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia, an ally that American policymakers herald as crucial for U.S. interests in the fight against terrorism. When she served in office, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton praised the Saudis, thanking them as champions in the fight to “deny terrorists safe haven and access to funding, particularly in Afghanistan and Pakistan.” Over the last two decades, the U.S. signed multiple arms deals agreements with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and supported Saudi-led initiatives throughout the Middle East.

    Yet behind closed doors, there was another view. In 2010, diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks showed a memo signed by Clinton that noted, “Saudi Arabia remains a critical financial support base for al-Qaida, the Taliban, LeT,” a reference to Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistan-based Islamist terror group. “Donors in Saudi Arabia constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide,” she wrote, according to the cable. The candid observation contrasts sharply with Clinton’s public remarks about the Saudi Kingdom.

    During the height of power of the Islamic State, when the Sunni terror group won significant territory in Iraq and Syria and began launching attacks on Western targets, Clinton privately revealed that U.S. allies backed the militants. In 2014, Clinton wrote to a trusted political adviser about her concern that Qatar and Saudi Arabia were “providing clandestine financial and logistic support” to ISIS and “other radical Sunni groups,” according to a 2016 release of Democratic emails by Wikileaks.

    The cables provide a fascinating window into U.S. foreign policy for other regions still plagued by instability and conflict. Wikileaks, for instance, shows a more complicated view of Ukraine-Russia relations than what is popularly portrayed in most Western media. High-level diplomats had long warned that U.S. involvement in Ukraine, particularly the push to bring the nation into the NATO alliance, would threaten Russian security and provoke conflict.

    The diplomatic cables released by Wikileaks reveal that French and German officials repeatedly warned that such measures could lead to war, and many encouraged caution. America’s top diplomats were also well aware of the danger. In 2008, then-U.S. ambassador to Russia William J. Burns, now serving as President Biden’s CIA chief, warned that Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov feared Western encirclement and viewed Ukraine’s move towards joining NATO as a “potential military threat.” The memo listed various reasons for Lavrov’s concerns, including Russian military-industrial assets within Ukraine. Burns declared the threat was serious, calling it a “redline.”

    “While Russian opposition to the first round of NATO enlargement in the mid-1990’s was strong, Russia now feels itself able to respond more forcefully to what it perceives as actions contrary to its national interests,” Burns wrote, discussing Ukraine.

    The Wikileaks diplomatic cables on Honduras show another fascinating contrast between purported U.S. interests and private concerns that undermined the public narrative. The small Central American country maintains close relations with the American government, and the conservative National Party of Honduras and its leadership has been praised as a regional partner by President Barack Obama and President Donald Trump.

    But behind the public embrace of Honduran political figures, especially the center-right National Party, American policymakers have long known about cartel ties. Wikileaks revealed that the State Department was well aware that Miguel Facusse – a powerful Honduran tycoon who helped install a National Party government in the 2009 coup d’état – allowed a private plane carrying 1,000 kilograms of cocaine to land on one of his private airstrips.

    The clues revealed by Wikileaks about the extent of narco-political power in Honduras are now very well known. In 2022, the former National Party president, Juan Orlando Hernandez, was apprehended by U.S. law enforcement and now stands trial in New York for his extensive ties to cartels. While claiming he was helping to crack down on criminal gangs and migrants, Hernandez allegedly used American military assistance to advance his own drug trafficking network, which partnered closely with Mexican cartels.”

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  22. “Stop celebrating. He just reincarnated into another evil elite…Lizards don’t die…”

    STRANGE SOUNDS

    FEB 26, 2024

    “Jacob Rothschild dies aged 87…You know, this was the guy that was pictured with Marina Abramovic standing in front of a painting called: ‘Satan summoning his Legions‘, 1796-1797… How very appropriate.

    As news spreads about the death of Jacob Rothchild, footage has emerged showing his final moments as he is seen surrounded by Klaus Schwab, George Soros and his Globalist friends in the World Economic Forum who look on tenderly…

    Lizards don’t die. He has just been transformed into another evil thing…”

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  35. EXCERPT: “It is clear to me that we are increasingly being governed by an “Administrative State” instead of by our chosen representatives. Indeed, we are more and more becoming a “Regulation Nation” which is a true threat to our Constitutional Republic.

    What do I mean by that? I mean that we are being governed by regulations and rules issued by administrative agencies, instead of being governed by laws duly passed by our elected officials.

    Why does that matter? Because agencies are run by unelected, government bureaucrats who are beholden to nobody but the person who appointed them. They don’t care what the voters think or want or don’t want. They don’t need to care. They don’t need your vote to stay in power. They only have to appease the politician(s) who appointed them. If they just follow the yellow brick road, they will land on the other side of the rainbow.

    Shockingly, some legislators are okay with this, because it allows them to escape any sort of responsibility or blame for an unpopular (or illegal) rule that is implemented by the bureaucrats sitting in the agencies (you know, the ones with no accountability to us voters). But, legislators should not only care, they should actively work to stop the Administrative State, because not only do many of these “regulations” usurp a legislator’s law-making power, but they are wholly unconstitutional!

    You will remember from grade school Social Studies class that our government is comprised of three, co-equal branches: the Legislative branch (senators and assemblymembers who make our laws), the Executive branch (governors and the president who are supposed to enforce our laws), and the Judicial branch (judges and courts which adjudicate our laws). Each branch has its own powers and authorities, as bestowed upon them by our Constitution. Any power that is not delineated in our Constitution is reserved for the people. Remember my long-uttered phrase that, the Constitution was written to keep the government in check, not to keep we the people in check!

    There is no fourth branch of government. There is no branch called the Administrative State. There is no authority in the Constitution to have agencies that make rules/regulations that employ the force of law. And yet, we see at the federal level as well as at the state level, Executive branches that are chock full of bloated, power-hungry agencies that have given themselves an astonishing amount of never-authorized-by-the-people power. In many cases, those powers are unconstitutional, meaning the agency did not have the authority to make the rule or do the thing they are doing (or trying to do).

    Let me give you a few real-life scenarios so it’s easier to digest….”

    https://brownstone.org/articles/the-administrative-state-is-destroying-our-country/

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  37. ROFLMAO – thanks for the card…..but I think I can make do without THAT kind of moon! Since it’s the only one I got, I’m putting it on my bookshelf! LOL

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  40. whoa…AG from Missouri

    Attorney General Andrew Bailey Profile picture

    Attorney General Andrew Bailey

    @AGAndrewBailey

    14h• 16 tweets • 4 min read •

    Read on X

    /1 🚨BREAKING: After receiving reports of religious and race-based discrimination occurring in Missouri schools, I’ve ordered 3 school districts to immediately CEASE and DESIST discriminatory practices against their students and staff.

    THREAD:

    /2 I’ve received reports that Lindbergh School District has instituted a race-based criteria for students seeking to enter the gifted program.



    /3 The program’s traditional pathway to entry requires a student to score in the 95th national percentile on at least one screener or standardized test (math or reading) and in at least the 85th percentile on the other.

    /4 The school is allowing students who are part of an underrepresented racial or ethnic population to achieve standardized test scores in the 84th percentile on one test (math or reading) and in the 50th percentile on the other.

    /5 The district’s policy states that its goal is to reach a 20% equity index for underrepresented student populations.

    /6 If these reports are true, Lindbergh School District is discriminating on the basis of race, in direct violation of both state and federal law.

    I’ve put the district on notice.

    /7 I’ve also received reports that Parkway School District is preventing students from forming religious-based clubs like Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

    /8 Reports indicate this includes prohibiting students from using the campus announcement system, hanging posters, or holding FCA meetings on campus.

    /9 State and federal law prohibit religious discrimination in schools.

    I’ve put the district on notice.

    /10 I’ve also received reports that Webster Groves School District has instituted race-based criteria for its employees and applicants.



    /11 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevents an employer from refusing to hire, or otherwise discriminate, against employees or candidates because of their race.

    /12 Classifying employees and applicants based on race and using this information to make hiring decisions would violate the law.

    I’ve put the district on notice.

    /13 This is about protecting the constitutional rights of all Missourians to be free from discrimination.

    /14 As the chief legal officer for the State of Missouri, I am prepared to exercise my office’s full authority under the law to ensure no Missouri school district discriminates against its students or staff.

    /15 As long as I’m Attorney General, discrimination will be dead on arrival in this state.

    https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1761949657964367930.html

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    1. He is a good one. This is waiting on a SCOTUS decision…it was originally filed as Missouri vs. Biden but was joined with this one.

      ENTIRE ARTICLE: “On December 22, 2023, the Knight Institute filed an amicus brief in Murthy v. Missouri, a Supreme Court case alleging that the Biden administration violated the First Amendment by pressuring—or “jawboning”—the social media companies into removing apparent misinformation relating to, among other things, public health and the U.S. elections in 2020.

      The Fifth Circuit largely affirmed a district court ruling in favor of the plaintiffs, holding that the Biden administration had coerced or significantly encouraged the platforms to take down constitutionally protected speech.

      The Institute’s amicus brief, filed in support of neither party, urges the Supreme Court to clarify the First Amendment limitations on government efforts to pressure speech intermediaries like the social media platforms into suppressing speech.

      Specifically, it argues that the Court should (1) make clear that jawboning claims should be evaluated under the test from Bantam Books, which has been interpreted to draw a line between coercion (unconstitutional) and persuasion (constitutional); (2) articulate the First Amendment interests at stake in jawboning cases, to guide courts in determining whether governmental conduct was coercive; and (3) resolve the case narrowly, without contorting jawboning doctrine in a prophylactic effort to address all of the many challenges created by the centralization of private power over public discourse.

      Status: Oral argument will take place in early 2024, and a decision is expected by June 2024.

      Case Information: Murthy v. Missouri, No. 23-411 (Supreme Court).

      https://knightcolumbia.org/cases/murthy-v-missouri

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  45. NF: they are changing the internet address on a lot more of these pics now so that they can’t be posted on their own. Asswipes!

    “Exploiting the Dead—Alexei Navalny Is the New Great Hero of the West”
    RYAN DELARME
    FEB 26, 202

    EXCERPT: “Arguably the biggest story being parroted and commodified in the corporate media these last couple weeks is the death of Russian “opposition leader” Alexei Navalny. I think it’s worth asking why, in a time where there are no shortage of domestic issues, are our media institutions dedicating so much time and energy to the death of a foreign activist?

    In case you somehow missed it, Alexei Navalny, who was cast as the West’s answer to Vladimir Putin, died in a Russian prison under extremely mysterious circumstances with most fortuitous timing. A litany of establishment partisan hacks, and just about every major corporate media talking head, have extensively discussed this event with uncanny emotional intensity, unanimously agreeing that it was a historically significant occurrence of gravity.

    Our readers understand that there is much more to the MSM today than simply turning a profit. Rather than informing the public, the primary function of the media is shaping civil discourse; cable news anchors are less journalists and more social engineers. In my last piece for Badlands, I included a quote by political scientist Bernard C. Cohen from his 1963 book, The Press and Foreign Policy, that I believe is extremely relevant here:

    “The press may not be successful much of the time in telling people what to think, but it is stunningly successful in telling its readers what to think about.” (#)

    What is so significant about Alexei Navalny’s death that it merits dominating American political and media discourse? Why is this instance of a dissident dying in prison any more relevant than when it occurs in U.S.-friendly places like Saudi Arabia, Egypt, or Ukraine?

    The answer? Most likely $60 Billion….
    ——————–
    You know some top-shelf deep-political skullduggery is afoot when the entirety of the American media apparatus joins hands with the uniparty representatives in Congress to feign sincerity over the death of somebody who was completely inconsequential to their lives only yesterday.

    They all read from the same script, deliver the exact same talking points with the same amount of dramatic intensity—all of which is designed to manipulate the emotions of cable news audiences. Whenever you see this level of coordinated messaging, you can rest assured that there is an objective being sought…..”

    https://badlands.substack.com/p/exploiting-the-dead

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  47. I haven’t found anything more on this or even identifying what it means precisely…

    Katy jay

    Katy jay

    Interesting news on Breitbart, Jeff Disantis the Brainchild appointed
    by the Biden administration to run the Fani Willis case against Trump.

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    1. EXCERPT: “The Biden administration planted a Democrat operative inside a Fulton County office to target former President Donald Trump, multiple sources familiar with the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office exclusively told Breitbart News.

      If the Biden administration planted the operative, as the sources say, it would present a strong argument that the administration interfered in the 2024 presidential election.

      Breitbart News granted the sources anonymity to discuss the attorney’s office for fear of retribution. The sources have direct knowledge of the environment at the District Attorney’s Office, which they characterized as “corrupt.”

      One significant figure is overlooked in the Fulton County scandal concerning Fulton County prosecutor Fani Willis and her alleged lover and fellow prosecutor Nathan Wade, the sources said: Meet Jeff DiSantis — the county’s Deputy District Attorney with professional experience far greater than the average county employee. DiSantis worked on Willis’s 2020 campaign, sources told Breitbart News, and was the former Executive Director of the Democrat Party of Georgia with extensive knowledge of campaign finance law. He was also the Deputy Director of Compliance for the DNC, according to his official bio:

      Jeff has also worked for candidates in 30 states running for a variety of offices, including President of the United States, United States Senator, Governor, United States Representative, Attorney General, District Attorney, and Mayor, as well as for a national political party committee. He has served as a campaign manager, media consultant, pollster, press spokesman, research director, and policy advisor.

      https://www.breitbart.com/2024-election/2024/02/26/exclusive-biden-admin-planted-operative-jeff-disantis-fani-willis-office-target-trump-sources-say/

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  48. Sorry, Pat but….not sorry for me! Jake is a happy camper now that I’ve got the patio door open and he can go outside. 72 at the moment, altho with a stiff breeze so I won’t be leaving it open for long.

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      1. Oh, never outside! He hasn’t been outside/outside for probably 5 years at least. I tried it a few times but every single time, he went straight for the corner of the house, where the fence butted up against it, looking for a way out. Why, I have no fricking clue! Just because, I guess. I figured w/o front claws he wouldn’t be able to climb the gates or a tree – au contraire! After I saw him 10 feet up a tree at the back of the yard, where he could easily have jumped down on the other side of the fence, I stopped letting him out.

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