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12/18/2024

"None of you is obliged to stay here," Rhodes-Conway continued. "You're free to leave. You don't have to be sitting in this room if you don't want to."

Check out this article from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Madison mayor during press conference today on school shooting pleads for 'human decency' about those impacted

When media pressed for more information on Monday's school shooting, including about the victims, Madison's mayor got heated, saying it's "absolutely none of y’alls business."

12/17/2024

WINONA, MINN. – The man convicted of killing Madeline Kingsbury will spend the rest of his life in prison.
Adam Fravel was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for murdering the mother of his children. Her disappearance at the end of March 2023 sparked nationwide interest and a search that drew thousands of volunteers before her remains were found almost 10 weeks later.
“It is impossible to fully understand the pain you have caused, not only for those who have loved Maddi, but also your own family,” Winona County District Court Judge Nancy Buytendorp said to Fravel before sentencing him.

He was convicted last month of four counts of murder for killing Kingsbury, the mother of his young children, and hiding her body in a rural area.

12/17/2024

The suit — which names the newspaper’s parent company, Gannett, its former pollster J. Ann Selzer and her polling firm — centers on a Selzer poll released three days before the presidential election that showed Trump trailing Vice President Kamala Harris.�The poll, released by what has been considered one of the nation’s most respected polling firms, caused a national stir and buoyed some Democrats’ hopes, as it showed Harris leading Trump in the red state by three percentage points and had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 percentage points. Trump ended up winning Iowa by about 13 points.

Trump’s lawsuit claims a poll by Ann Selzer for the Des Moines Register that incorrectly found he was behind in Iowa amounted to consumer fraud.

12/17/2024

Merry Monday Edition

12/16/2024

Well, Trump never succeeded in opening up those libel laws. Then again, maybe he didn’t need to: In a stunner news blast on Saturday afternoon, ABC News agreed to settle a defamation case from Trump, a deal that included this statement from the network: “ABC News and George Stephanopoulos regret statements regarding President Donald J. Trump made during an interview by George Stephanopoulos with Rep. Nancy Mace on ABC’s This Week on March 10, 2024.”�The crow-eating statement wasn’t the most gobsmacking aspect of the settlement. That would be the $15 million that ABC News agreed to pay toward a “Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for [Trump], as Presidents of the United States of America have established in the past.” ABC News will also shell out $1 million for Trump’s legal fees.�Meaning: ABC News, a founding member of the mainstream media, will also serve as a founding member of the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library, or some such. That’s how big a chest-beating, lectern-pounding, crowd-pleasing victory the president-elect scored on an otherwise sleepy December weekend.

ABC News not only settled a defamation suit with Trump. It paid out $15 million. What?

12/16/2024

Milwaukee Bucks Coach Doc Rivers opened a news conference Monday by calling the shooting at Abundant Life Christian School “a shame.”�“Kids can’t go to school safe, and it just seems like we don’t do anything about it,” said Rivers, a veteran coach who was hired by the Bucks in January. “I’m not going to get up here on the podium and give a long speech except for it’s just bad, you know, and that we’re thinking about them.”

The juvenile shooter was also dead at Abundant Life Christian School on Monday, Madison Police Chief Shon F. Barnes told reporters Monday.

12/16/2024

• A teacher and a student are dead after a shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin, Police Chief Shon Barnes said Monday. Six people were injured, including two who have life-threatening injuries, according to Barnes.

• The female shooter, 17, is believed to have died from a self-inflicted wound, according to a law enforcement official. The police chief said the suspect was a student at the school.

• Abundant Life Christian school is a K-12 school that serves about 390 students, its website said. It planned to close for Christmas vacation after this week.

12/16/2024

“Donald Trump won. He won overwhelmingly. He said what he was going to do, and that’s what he’s doing,” Romney said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I mean, people are saying, ‘Oh, I don’t like this appointment or this policy that he’s talking about,’ but those are the things he said he was going to do when he ran.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5041075-romney-you-cant-complain-if-trump-does-what-he-says-he-would-do/?tbref=hp

12/12/2024

Person of the Year?!?

President-elect Donald Trump reacted to being named TIME’s 2024 Person of the Year before ringing the New York Stock Exchange opening bell.

12/12/2024

The Murdoch family are unlikely to get together this Christmas amid “bad blood” stemming from a Succession-style feud over who will run the show when Rupert Murdoch is gone. The patriarch, 93, ruffled the feathers of his children James, Elisabeth, and Prudence when he attempted to consolidate power around his oldest son, Lachlan. Just like in the hit HBO show, News Corp shareholders are reportedly jittery as the rifts in the family trust could lead to instability over the future direction of the business, which includes Fox News, among other media giants. A Nevada probate commissioner ruled this week that Rupert’s attempt to amend an irrevocable family trust in Lachlan’s favor, reportedly in a bid to keep his media empire’s conservative bent, was unfair. But sources say the pair won’t give up, and that could make Christmas a bit awkward. “The chances of the Murdochs gathering around the tree this year appear vanishingly small,” the Financial Times reported, citing sources close to the family.

Rupert, 93, ruffled the feathers of his children James, Elisabeth, and Prudence when he attempted to consolidate power around son Lachlan.

12/12/2024

The words Boston allegedly used — “delay, deny, depose” — are similar to those written on the ammunition that a gunman used in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City last week.

The affidavit noted the similarities between the phrases used in both incidents, adding that those words have become nationally recognized as a phrase “directed against insurance companies.”

A Florida woman who is accused of ending a call to an insurance company with the words “delay, deny, depose” was charged Tuesday.

12/12/2024

Trump pardoned 144 Americans in his first term and commuted 94 sentences, according to statistics from the Justice Department’s Office of the Pardon Attorney. Former President Obama — under whose administration Biden was vice president — granted 212 pardons and a whopping 1,715 commutations across his two terms in office.

Biden’s acts of forgiveness this week bring him up to 65 pardons and more than 1,600 commutations total, surpassing Trump’s commutation figures and nearing Obama’s, with several weeks still to go in his single term.

President Biden pardoned 39 people and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 others on Thursday, a sweeping move that comes after pressure from criminal justice advocates over the surprise pardon …

12/12/2024

I should start by saying that I have read worse children’s books. Usually, books conceived as propaganda for children where the Good Donald faces threats from ominous figures inspired by Nancy Pelosi or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez make the mistake of also rhyming, before the author has really considered whether anything rhymes with Pelosi. Patel’s books never try to rhyme, which is wise. The illustrations are colorful and fun to look at; there is a good ratio of words to pictures on each page; every so often, Patel has fun with language.
�None of the books make any sense, though. But they are only broken on the deep, conceptual level that any book you wrote to impress Donald Trump in which you portrayed yourself as a loyal wizard would be broken.

I read the children’s books written by Trump’s choice to head the FBI, so you don’t have to.

12/12/2024

Two days after the “missing kayaker” returned to the U.S. from his plot to fake his death, Emily Borgwardt filed for an annulment/legal separation in Dodge County Circuit Court following 22 years of marriage.

Check out this article from Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:

Wife of 'missing kayaker' Ryan Borgwardt, who staged his own death, files for separation

Two days after the 'missing kayaker' returned to the US from his plot to fake his death, Emily Borgwardt filed for an annulment/legal separation.

12/12/2024

This is a clear attempt to gum up the works of the FBI to frustrate Kash Patel’s takeover of the Bureau," Clark said. "Why aren’t we hearing condemnations of such conduct from the Left? It is conduct contrary to 'democracy.'"

"This is a government wide effort to put sand in the gears of the incoming Trump Administration," said X user Steve Ferguson.

Donald Trump's allies are furious at outgoing FBI director Christopher Wray's final actions overseeing the law enforcement agency.The Trump-appointed Wray announced he would resign at the end of president Joe Biden's administration, but in the meantime he has reportedly begun promoting employees amo...

12/12/2024

“Corporate America is nervous. People are on high-alert,” Keith Wojcieszek, global head of intelligence at Kroll, told CNN in a phone interview.

Corporations are scrambling to protect their senior executives. Boards are reassessing security budgets. And CEOs are being told to delete their digital footprints.

12/12/2024

Holy Sh*t! Kari Lake to be the face of Air America.

STATEMENT FROM PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP

I am pleased to announce that Kari Lake will serve as our next Director of the Voice of America. She will be appointed by, and work closely with, our next head of the U.S. Agency for Global Media, who I will announce soon, to ensure that the American values of Freedom and Liberty are broadcast around the World FAIRLY and ACCURATELY, unlike the lies spread by the Fake News Media.

Kari was a beloved News Anchor in Arizona, which supported me by record margins, for over 20 years.

Congratulations Kari!

12/11/2024

The husband and father of three accused of staging a kayaking accident to fake his death, abandon his family and start a new life has been arrested and is in a Wisconsin jail, records show.�Ryan Borgwardt, 45, was booked into the Green Lake County jail Tuesday afternoon, according to Victim Information and Notification Everyday, a network that allows people to track inmates across the country. In a social media post Tuesday evening, the Green Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced there would be a Wednesday morning news conference about the Borgwardt case but did not specify what would be discussed.

Ryan Borgwardt is accused of staging a kayaking accident so he could abandon his family and start a new life.