Judge Jeanine is officially stiffing her 2006 campaign vendors out of nearly $600K, per a new filing with the FEC https://www.thedailybeast.com/judge-jeanine-pirro-stiffs-campaign-vendors-out-of-nearly-dollar600k
Laura Loomer and Jacob Wohl are together for some reason and claim they're riding around Minneapolis in armoured cars because Rep. Omar might put out a hit on them, or...something, which is not news itself and is just dumb but has a high likelihood of turning into something unbelievably pointless we'll all have to contend with sometime in the next few weeks
not to mention that if someone is going to put an assassination contract out on conservative media personalities, they're going after laura loomer and jacob wohl first? really? not the countless more powerful or influential people like diamond and silk?
"Two participants in the rally told the outlet that they'd responded to a Craigslist ad promising to pay $30/hour if they held signs decrying Amazon's departure outside the company's retail location on 34th Street."
http://gothamist.com/2019/02/22/pro-amazon_protesters_reportedly_pa.php
A Florida mayor accused of shooting at deputies trying arrest him on allegations of practicing medicine without a license has been removed from office. http://apne.ws/9EMfyaI
I also resisted Facebook for a long time which in retrospect should have stuck with it
Tucker Carlson, who regularly claims the Russia probe is a hoax and conspiracy theory, pushes a conspiracy theory with his guest that Roger Goodell is behind Robert Kraft's arrest in a prostitution sting. https://t.co/SOUwgWvSR3
"We are now spending more electricity mining bitcoin than is produced by all the worlds solar panels combined. So we have eliminated all the progress that we made on green energy, just through bitcoin use."
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/opinion/sunday/fear-panic-climate-change-warming.html
Kushner Cos., the real estate firm owned by the family of Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner, has sought financing from federally owned lenders for its biggest purchase in a decade https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/kushner-cos-said-to-seek-federal-loan-in-biggest-deal-in-decade
Earthquake early-warning system will mean false alarms. Still worth it, experts say https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-earthquake-early-warning-false-alert-20190222-story.html
> At least 93 people have died and about 200 people have been hospitalized after drinking tainted liquor in two separate incidents in India's northeast, authorities said Saturday.
NOW: Mueller's office has filed its redacted sentencing memo for Paul Manafort in his DC case. They're not taking a position on how much prison time he should get, or whether it should stack on top of whatever he gets in his Virginia case https://www.scribd.com/document/400335128/2-23-19-US-Sentencing-Memo-Manafort-DC
Robert Lighthizer had to explain a memo of understanding to Trump in front of Chinese Vice Premier Liu He.
Trump: "They don't mean anything." RL: "It's a legal term. It's a contract."
Trump: "By the way I disagree."
The Vice Premier laughed out loud. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-22/trump-s-trade-chief-lectures-his-boss-and-gets-earful-in-return
@TimStone tl;dr "We don't take a specific recommendation on sentencing but there's definitely no factors to consider for leniency, he did more crimes while under indictment ffs!"
Prosecutors say Manafort lied to:
-tax preparers
-bookkeepers
-banks
-Treasury Department
-National Security Division of DOJ
-FBI
-Special Counsel’s Office
-grand jury
-his own legal counsel
-Members of Congress
-executive branch of US government
Israel gives pharmaceutical firms permits to test out medicines on Palestinian prisoners https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190220-israel-pharmaceutical-firms-test-medicines-on-palestinian-prisoners/