In 6-3 decision issued today, the Supreme Court ruled that 1) a jury must be unanimous in its findings on criminal convictions, and 2) sentencing enhancements cannot be arbitrarily implemented by judicial fiat.
… implications for both the illegal Bragg witch trial against Trump in New York City and the bogus J6 1512(c) charges and sentencing enhancements that corrupt federal judges have announced they will implement if the Supreme Court nukes 1512(c).
[NYPOST] Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos faces growing unrest from the newspaper’s staffers — and the latest casualty is a British editor who had been slated to become their next boss.
Robert Winnett, the deputy editor of the UK broadsheet Telegraph, will not be taking the helm of the Washington Post, the paper said on Friday. That’s after former Washington Post editor Sally Buzbee abruptly was defenestrated stepped down earlier this month after just three years at the paper.
Washington Post Chief Executive William Lewis confirmed the change in a note to staff, adding that the paper will launch a formal search for a new editor.
"It is with regret that I share with you that Robert Winnett has withdrawn from the position of Editor at The Washington Post," Lewis wrote. "Rob has my greatest respect and is an incredibly talented editor and journalist."
A CNN ...formerly the Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for... report on Friday indicated that Washington Post staffers are growing impatient with Bezos’s hands-off leadership style — particularly amid the uproar over his decision to entrust the paper to Lewis. They oughtta pick a new owner, by gum.
Bezos on Tuesday sent a terse, 138-word memo to top editors at The Washington Post in which he expressed his "full commitment on maintaining the quality, ethics and standards we all believe in."
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Why would you take the job of running a hostile kindergarten? At this point, Bezos' best choice is to turn out the lights.
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Inmates running the asylum. Will Bezos let them pick some DEI box checker who will be no help at all turning around the current financial train wreck or will he let a bunch of the whiners resign enmass?
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his "full commitment on maintaining the quality, ethics and standards we all believe in."
Mordor Gazette decides to stay rudder amidships.
Posted by: Super Hose ||
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The good news is that DEI hires are incompetent, and can't do their jobs.
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Opens history book.
The part when a sympathetic oligarch plays along with mommy issue revolutionaries ultimately to be left alone and is turned on happens here, and here, and here, and here,.....
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WaPo is a gummint organ. Soon it will be taxpayer supported unless the swamp actually does get drained.
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Absolutely, its a whole another critter than a coffee shop operation.
OCF can sell at their discretion as a turn-key or just good property location, which after studying that case I think is the situation. Fancy Lad neighborhood with minimal walking homeless, at least until corporate comes in and opens the bathrooms and menu out to the walking homeless.
The point of owning a newspaper is to push the owner's agenda couched in entertainment, and maybe make some money on advertising. Think plot point in Count of Monte Cristo.
Here, the WaPo employees staged a successful mutiny and now control the ship. What is to stop them from running articles against Bezo/Owner will from now running editorials about their view of the Gazoos and Bezo investments in Israeli projects?
Outside of purging just to take back control of the ship, if WaPo is to be dumped nobody will buy, even if the current staff aligns with a prospective buyer's views, the employees have shown to be insubordinate and therefore a liability.
I am not a fan of WaPo in any means, just trying to put on paper the difficulty of overcoming this current atmosphere and Faust getting out of the contract.
IMHO, I don't think Bezos, inc. has not the fortitude, but even the will to make that change, demonstrated by this squish move. It will be interesting to see if other Bezos, inc. associates pick up on this now that they have shown their....quality.
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I don't think Bezos is particularly hands on with WaPo and even hemorrhaging money it's a financial nuisance to him.
We are all better off if he invests his money and effort in Blue Origin as the US needs more than one commercial heavy lift rocket company and it looks less and less likely that company will be ULA.
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IMHO, News Papers, News Media, is a loss leader, but that does no good if not promoting the other profit leaders.
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Soon, a generation will arrive with zero attention span and no remote hope of disposable income. That will spell the end of digital media and the last leg propping up what's left of legacy media will be gone.
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Not to mention the millions of illegally imported replacements who simply cannot read above a 3rd grade level, if at all. Tough to sell insightful, informed journalism to those.
[NYPOST] A Minnesota farmer claimed victory in a lawsuit filed against the state in January that said his race and sex placed him at the back of the line to receive grants to buy farmland.
Gov. Tim Waltz recently signed legislation that rolls back the state’s policy of prioritizing "emerging farmers" based on characteristics such as race and sex.
"Thanks to the courage of a small farmer, equality before the law has been restored in Minnesota," Pacific Legal Foundation attorney Andrew Quinio said. "Because Lance Nistler stood up for his right to equal treatment, the state will no longer disadvantage farmers based on their race and sex. We are thrilled that Gov. Walz and the state legislature responded to Lance’s lawsuit by amending the Down Payment Assistance Grant Program so that it does not unlawfully discriminate against Minnesota’s hardworking small farmers. We encourage other states to follow Minnesota’s about-face and stop violating the Constitution’s guarantee of equality before the law."
[Politico] Under persistent questioning from U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the prosecutors declined to divulge details and seemed caught off-guard by the inquiries.
At one point, Smith deputy James Pearce said he was "not authorized" to discuss the level of communication that occurred between the attorney general and the special counsel.
"I don't want to make it seem like I'm hiding something," Pearce then said.
[NYPOST] The state of Missouri has filed a lawsuit against the technology giant, International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), for unlawful practices in allegedly requiring racial and gender quotas in its hiring and promotion structures for employees.
Missouri Republican Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed suit Thursday against the company, alleging that such practices are a violation of the Missouri Human Rights Act.
“It has come to my attention that IBM has adopted an unlawful policy that blatantly favors applicants of a certain gender or skin color over others, and that managers within the company who refuse to comply with said policy faces adverse action, including and up to, termination. Discrimination in the workplace violates both state and federal law, which is why I am filing this lawsuit,” Bailey said.
“Missourians deserve answers as to why one of the largest technology and consulting companies in the world, with offices based in Missouri, is discriminating against both prospective and current employees,” he said.
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I guess he didn’t run to sit on the sidelines.
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We have had serious equal employment / EEOC laws enforced in the USA for what? 3 generations (60 years).
The setting Quota's only re-enforces the racist idea that certain minorities cannot do the job unless given a EXTRA unearned break.
Any company is justified in hiring the best qualified to do the job. Anything less, discriminates against those that got off their butts to work at, learn and earn a better position in life.
[Mil.com] More than a month after a news report revealed that the Combat Infantryman Badge Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, wears on his lapel was revoked since he was never eligible for the award to begin with, the congressman refuses to take the pin off.
Nehls' stubbornness has garnered growing criticism from veterans and others in the community of stolen valor researchers, who say the issue is simple: The rules for the CIB are clear, and Nehls did not qualify.
"The veteran community is starting to get to the point now where there's no room for forgiveness at this point because now they see, ’Hey, this wasn't an error. He's doubling down now,’" said Anthony Anderson, an Army veteran who runs Guardian of Valor and was instrumental in uncovering Nehls' revoked award. "He knows he didn't earn this award."
CBS News and Anderson's Guardian of Valor first revealed in May that the Army revoked Nehls' CIB in March 2023 because at the time he was awarded it in 2008 he served as a civil affairs officer, not an infantryman or Special Forces soldier.
So he was awarded it — it’s not something he picked up at a pawn shop or on eBay.
The Combat Infantryman Badge originated during World War II, both as a means of establishing the infantry as a prestigious role in the Army to help with recruitment and to reward soldiers who saw combat. Enlisted recipients of the badge at the time were paid $10 extra per month. The law establishing that bonus was rescinded in 1948.
"He gets in the infantry, we build his ego, his pride in his branch," Maj. Gen. Miller White, who oversaw Army personnel policy at the time, said to lawmakers during a 1944 hearing on the badge.
The establishment of the badge also came with the Expert Infantryman Badge, an accolade for showing a high level of proficiency in combat tests such as marksmanship, grenade handling and physical fitness. In effect, infantrymen who did not see combat still had an opportunity to identify themselves and distinguish themselves from the non-combat roles in the Army.
To qualify for the CIB, a soldier must be an infantryman or Green Beret, be serving in those roles at the time of the award, and engage an enemy in direct ground combat.
In 2005, the Army established the Combat Action Badge, or CAB -- effectively the same award but for soldiers in all other roles. The award was spurred after tank and cavalry units played a significant role in the invasion of Iraq, but were not awarded recognition as their infantry counterparts were. It was also retroactively awarded to soldiers who qualified for it in any action after 9/11.
Nehls was awarded a CAB in 2006 for a 2004 deployment to Iraq that no one is calling into question.
While Nehls first enlisted in the Wisconsin National Guard in 1988 as an infantryman, his military occupational speciality in 2008 was civil affairs, according to documents published by Guardian of Valor.
CBS and Guardian of Valor also found that Nehls' military record shows only one Bronze Star while Nehls has claimed he was awarded two. After their reporting, Nehls posted certificates for both Bronze Stars on social media.
His refusal to stop wearing the CIB is what has attracted the most criticism a month later.
"It was revoked," Frederick Bourjaily, national commander of the Combat Infantrymen's Association, a nonprofit group that supports CIB veterans, told Military.com in a phone interview. "He should take it off."
While Nehls has the right to appeal the revocation, Bourjaily added, he should not wear the pin while that process is playing out.
"If the Army told me I couldn't wear mine, I'd take it off," Bourjaily said.
Nehls' office did not respond to Military.com's request for comment for this story.
But the congressman has defended himself on social media and in comments to other news outlets, casting himself as a victim who is being targeted for his conservatism and support for former President Donald Trump.
"I disagree with the Awards and Decorations Branch revocation of my CIB, which was awarded by the 101st Airborne Division," Nehls wrote in a letter to the Army he posted on social media. "I further believe this is a concerted effort to discredit my military service and continued service to the American people as a member of Congress."
Nehls has also questioned whether any other CIBs have ever been revoked, rhetorically asking news outlet NOTUS whether it is "just Troy Nehls, Mr. MAGA guy?"
It's unclear how common administrative errors are, but it isn't unheard of for soldiers to be improperly awarded accolades due to poorly trained personnel staff, misunderstandings or fraudulent documentation. But soldiers should also know whether they receive an award they clearly were not qualified for, given how clear service regulations are on most accolades.
"Any soldier that has served a week in the military knows the requirements for the CIB," Anderson said. "Everybody knows the CIB is an award for infantrymen and Special Forces soldiers only. Period."
Those who have made it their life's mission to uncover stolen valor say the Nehls case is egregious.
"We are fed up with politicians doing this and still get accolades, re-elected and having no consequences," Mary Schantag, chair of the POW Network and a historian who verifies accusations of stolen valor, said in an email to Military.com. "He is not the first pol and certainly will not be the last to make headlines over [stolen valor]. It never ends."
Criticism of Nehls is also coming from other Republicans. Several of his GOP House colleagues who are veterans have accused him of stolen valor, including former Trump administration interior secretary and current Rep. Ryan Zinke, R-Mont., who told NOTUS that "if you didn't earn it, you shouldn't wear it."
Anderson was admanent his work on Nehls is not political.
"I've got friends that I visit every Memorial Day that have earned this award, and it's put them in the ground," Anderson said. "That's why this is such a big issue. We have to protect these awards because if we just let anybody and everybody wear them just because they claim them, it waters them down, and it doesn't make them as prestigious, and it just hurts the award system altogether."
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This is why I'm not a fan of politicians pimping their service. The "like-minded military veteran congressmen" spoken of in the comment above are more loyal to their current gig and colleagues than to the branch they served in.
That's why they aren't calling Nehls out.
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Meh,
Those things were handed out like candy to anyone that crossed the Iraqi border during the first gulf war just like bronze stars were to any officer that even thought they heard a shot near them.
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Nehls was Fort Bend County Sheriff, but he thinks the world revolves around him. I consider him very much the same as Dan Crenshaw. He's worthless crap.
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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