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By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Tue Dec 09, 2025 at 02:19:00 PM EST
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I am having serious computer issues. Every browser is limiting what I can access, and when I write a post and hit "save", it disappears down the rabbit hole.

So instead of reading my thoughts on Alina Habba's (temporary) resignation from the NJ US Attorney's office, or Juan Orlando Hernandez's sudden pardon, only to now face an arrest warrant issued in Honduras, you get another open thread.

Have at it, this is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    Seriously (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 03:20:11 PM EST
    How would you even do this?   How do you share 5 years of Social Media?

    U.S. Plans to Scrutinize Foreign Tourists' Social Media History
    Even visitors from countries like Britain and France, whose citizens don't need visas, would be required to share five years' worth of social media.

    And what happens (none / 0) (#7)
    by jmacWA on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 05:15:02 AM EST
    if you have NO social media presence?  How do you prove this?  TRUMP has gone too far, and the Republicans just let him go where ever he wants.

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    Jeralyn, I look forward ... (none / 0) (#1)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 11:13:50 AM EST
    ... to your perspective and thoughts regarding the U.S. attorney kerfuffle in not only New Jersey with Alina Habba, but also the Easter District of Virginia with Lindsey Halligan, who's still laying claim to the office despite the fact that a federal judge rules her interim appointment invalid. Further, the EDVA judges have appointing authority and had reappointed Erik Siebert as interim USA last May, before Trump forced him out over his refusal to pursue former FBI director James Comey's indictment and then tried to replace him with Halligan.

    And now, DOJ has demoted Brian Samuels as chief of the EDVA criminal division. What happens if DOJ collapses? The question was nonsensical once upon a time before Trump returned. Now, I'm not so sure things are going to hold up. L.A.'s interim USA got the boot by the courts, and they haven't bother to even nominate someone for the post.

    Is anyone else seeing problems where they are?

    Other things are happening (none / 0) (#2)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 03:06:03 PM EST
    "As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela," Trump said during a Wednesday meeting in the White House's Roosevelt Room. "A large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized, actually."

    "And other things are happening, so you'll be seeing that later," he added.

    Very large.. (5.00 / 3) (#5)
    by jondee on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 03:38:20 PM EST
    the largest one ever seized.

    This is the kind of thing that happens when 70 million Americans give you every reason to believe they're idiots.

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    Murder on the high seas, now piracy. (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by Chuck0 on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 08:28:36 PM EST
    Just another day for the current regime/reich.

    There is NOTHING, no crime, they will not commit. They are coming for us next.

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    The Trump Gold Card (none / 0) (#3)
    by CaptHowdy on Wed Dec 10, 2025 at 03:15:13 PM EST

    President Trump just launched the Trump Card, a direct path to citizenship if you can pay at least $1 million.

    Affordability (none / 0) (#8)
    by CaptHowdy on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 07:12:51 AM EST
    Hearing that a lot.  Hearing it about housing,

    8 years ago I bought this house. For 14,000.00
    That is not a typeo, I paid less for this property that you would pay for a good used car.  There was some luck involved but there was several fixer upper type houses that were liveable were available in the 20,000 range.  2016-17

    I've done some work but it's still in the late stages of "fixer upper".  I went to the bank to get a equity loan, I like the idea of taking some equity to live on.

    I was hoping it would be worth maybe 70,000.

    The official appraisal came yesterday

    It's worth 87,500.00

    Woo hoo.

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