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More winning!!! Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit seeking to lift Twitter ban

AP: North Dakota legislator’s home searched after inmate texts Police and federal agents in Grand Forks seized video discs and other items from the home of North Dakota’s longest-serving state senator after he had traded scores of text messages with a man jailed on child pornography charges.... ...Holmberg, a Republican who rose to become one of the state’s most powerful lawmakers in a career that spanned 46 years, announced last month that he would resign June 1. But wait; I thought they told us it was the Democrats who were into child porn!

Musk's $44 billion Twitter buyout challenged in shareholder lawsuit In a complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court, the Orlando Police Pension Fund said that under Delaware law Musk cannot complete the takeover until at least 2025 unless holders of two-thirds of shares not "owned" by him approved. That's a shame. On one hand, I don't mind seeing a rich fool pay a 15% premium (over market cap), on a company that hasn't turned a profit since 2019. On the other hand seeing his buyout attempt fail, could also be satisfying.

Or pardoned by the Orange Moron.

GOP Candidate Accused Of Murdering His Wife Wins Primary Election From Jail

I finished the 2nd episode last night. Seeing Pelosi and Gingrich sitting side-by-side doing a PSA about climate change seemed surreal.

Series about the FUD campaign on climate change that pretty much followed the playbook for the tobacco industry. Biggest surprise for me was that Exxon first learned about AGW from it's own internal research team! Part 1: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-power-of-big-oil/#-video-1 Part 2: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-power-of-big-oil/#video-2 Part 3: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/the-power-of-big-oil/#video-3

Omigawd; I made the mistake of searching Reddit for that, and now I can't unsee it. Meanwhile on my Twitter feed:

LOL! Just saw this an hour ago:

Colbert spent his entire opening monologue on the topic, complete with clips of the liars lying at confirmation hearings:

A former co-workers thoughts on this in a discusssion years go: The government made a mistake when it recognized "marriage", (a religious construct), when it should have recognized "civil union", since the govts only concern is that 2 unrelated people are effectively becoming a family with merged property, contract obligations, and the ability to make medical decisions for each other. His solution: The govt would simply recognize civil unions. Anyone getting married would only need enter into a civil union. If they wanted to get the blessings of a religion as well, they could also choose a church to get married in, but the marriage performed by the church would have no legal meaning.

Don't forget we just had a GOP Neanderthal come out against Loving v. Virginia a few weeks ago, so that could be on their hit list: Senator Says Legalizing Interracial Marriage Was a Mistake, Backtracks Unconvincingly

Susan Collins Shocked That Brett Kavanaugh Would Ever Lie to a Woman

Q1: Guess who returned to Twitter today? Q2: Guess who got banned (again) from Twitter today? MyPillow Guy Mike Lindell Returns to Twitter, Gets Re-Banned

The Obama administration enacted a set of rules to stamp out the for-profit schools scam. Trump/DeVos threw them out. Biden administration (as of the date of this story) has not re-instated them. The New Yorker: For-Profit Colleges Have Made a COVID-Fuelled Comeback

Interesting angle against Putin: Biden Seeks to Rob Putin of His Top Scientists With Visa Lure While they are at it, put out a bonus for members of the Russian Internet "Research" Agency.

Interesting counterpoint on Musk: There's no need to freak out over Elon Musk buying Twitter. He's all hype.

In college, I had a next-door neighbor in the dorm who was working on his PhD in Electrical Engineering. Part of his duties was teaching undergrads, and he was keenly interested in differences in how people learned. For this reason, he made each exam totally different. It drove some of his students nuts because the style of the next exam was never predictable. LOL! One of the exam methods he came up with was quite novel: He gave a lecture on material already covered, with errors sprinkled in. The responsibilities of the students were to listen, and take notes of every error he made, then hand in their notes at the end of the lecture. The exam scored was based on the number of errors accurately noted.

I was thinking the same thing.

He did not launch Tesla; He bought it. The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[12] Eberhard and Tarpenning served as CEO and CFO, respectively.[13] Eberhard said he wanted to build "a car manufacturer that is also a technology company", with its core technologies as "the battery, the computer software, and the proprietary motor".[14] Ian Wright was Tesla's third employee, joining a few months later.[12] In February 2004, the company raised $7.5 million in series A funding, including $6.5 million from Elon Musk, who had received $100 million from the sale of his interest in PayPal two years earlier. Musk became the chairman of the board of directors and the largest shareholder of Tesla.[15][16][13] J. B. Straubel joined Tesla in May 2004 as chief technical officer.[17] A lawsuit settlement agreed to by Eberhard and Tesla in September 2009 allows all five – Eberhard, Tarpenning, Wright, Musk, and Straubel – to call themselves co-founders.[18] Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla,_Inc.#Founding_(2003–2004)

After bullshit Musk has announced before, why would anyone believe what he says? And don't forget the annual "fully-autonomous Autopilot coming next year" announcement he makes every year.

You do know it is already happening, right? NPR: Florida man asks schools to ban Bible following the state's efforts to remove books