home

Tuesday Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Tue Dec 09, 2025 at 02:19:00 PM EST
Tags: (all tags)
Share This: Digg! StumbleUpon del.icio.us reddit reddit

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.

< Thursday Open Thread

  • The Online Magazine with Liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news

  • Contribute To TalkLeft


    • Display: Sort:

    Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment

    Jeralyn, I look forward ... (5.00 / 1) (#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?

    The Trump Gold Card (5.00 / 1) (#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.

    Question (none / 0) (#11)
    by jondee on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 01:32:19 PM EST
    How bad does a person have to be, for the 'respect for the recently deceased' rule to be waived?

    Parent
    As I understand it, for your $1 million (none / 0) (#12)
    by Peter G on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 01:41:59 PM EST
    you get to skip the normal seven-year wait (while maintaining some other lawful immigration status) to become a legal permanent resident.

    Parent
    So alleged (none / 0) (#17)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 03:15:43 PM EST
    drug mule gets murdered and convicted drug king pin gets citizenship.

    Parent
    Seriously (5.00 / 3) (#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.

    What about a U.S. citizen ... (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Dec 12, 2025 at 02:26:59 AM EST
    ... who's a longtime permanent resident of France, e.g., my older sister? Does the new directive apply to her? She's already been questioned by U.S. border officials at LAX during an earlier visit this year about content on her cell phone.

    And what happens to her liberal brother, with whom she's maintained an extensive and longtime online correspondence, none of it complimentary of our Lord God King Creamsicle? Inquiring attorneys will want to know for purposes of prospective litigation.

    I can't even fathom how they think they're going to enforce this.

    Parent

    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.

    Parent
    Affordability (5.00 / 3) (#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.

    The country is run by 14-year old boys. (5.00 / 1) (#14)
    by KeysDan on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 02:04:34 PM EST
    At a Christmas party at the Vice President's residence, J.D. Vance told a bizarre story from a meeting with Trump.

    He, the Secretary of State and an unnamed politician were in the Oval Office discussing something "really, really important," when Trump stopped the discussion to say, "there is something much more important: shoes." Trump looked over the Resolute Desk to the men that they all have "sh***y shoes".

     Vance's party attendees roared with laughter.  "We got to get you better shoes," bleated Trump, and pulled out a shoe catalogue and promised to gift each of the men, four pairs of shoes--so he asked shoe sizes.

     "He says, Marco, what's your shoe size?" Marco claimed to be size 11 and a half. J.D. responded as being shoe size 13, and the politician, who remained unnamed so as not to embarrass him, says size 7."  

    Trump leaned back on his chair and says, "you know you can tell a lot about a man by his shoe size." Vance ended the Oval Office anecdote by turning to Mrs. Vance who was beside him, and said, "We won't ask the Second Lady for comment on this particular topic."

    This story is problematic on several levels. (1) Why did Vance tell this story?, (2) what does this reveal about Trump's attention span? (3)was he even listening to this "really, really important matter or just looking at their shoes? (4)who are these guests who laughed at this story, (5)who keeps a shoe catalog in his office, let alone the President of the USA, and (6)what are the odds that these men never received these gift shoes?

    It's everybody that you hated in high school (5.00 / 4) (#16)
    by desertswine on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 03:01:46 PM EST
    running the government. When I look at the trump administration, all I see is corporations and billionaires and everybody else gets screwed.

    Parent
    And not just billionaires (5.00 / 1) (#18)
    by jondee on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 03:16:59 PM EST
    and corporations, but the most uniquely asshole-ish billionaires and corporations.

    People who stepped out of an R Crumb comic strip.

    Parent

    LOL! I would characterize it ... (5.00 / 1) (#23)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Dec 12, 2025 at 02:41:34 AM EST
    ... as the country being taken hostage and held in a locked classroom full of obnoxious 7th graders, with school principal John Roberts having issued a public statement saying, "You know, those crazy kids have raised some good points."

    Parent
    Dementia Donny. (5.00 / 1) (#19)
    by Chuck0 on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 04:10:30 PM EST
    I watched my mother's demise due to dementia first hand. She became someone I did not know. I am not a doctor nor do I play one on TV, but the current occupant of 1600 PA shows every single sign of dementia. The increased vitriol, the inability to understand numbers or arithmetic and the inabilty to focus. I would wager any amount he has dementia. In my opinion.

    Thank you for your attention to this matter.

    Parent

    No experience (none / 0) (#20)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 05:26:01 PM EST
    With dementia but I have had mentally ill family members. When you would try to have a serious discussion they would wander off into crazy nonsense. This incident reminded me of my schizophrenic relatives

    Parent
    Milo Yiannopolus (none / 0) (#15)
    by jondee on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 03:00:32 PM EST
    thinks about d*cks and their significance less than Trump does.

    Parent
    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.

    Parent

    Yep. The largest one ever seized. (none / 0) (#24)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Dec 12, 2025 at 03:01:25 AM EST
    But hey, take a look at the shoe sizes of the guys who did the seizing - real, honest-to-goodness patriotic Americans who know how to keep their women home where they belong, and the capital of Nebraska is Lincoln.

    Parent
    Murder on the high seas, now piracy. (3.67 / 3) (#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.

    Parent

    The American right (none / 0) (#9)
    by jondee on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 12:52:52 PM EST
    is going to have to come up with a new Domino Theory to account for the ripple effect this sh*t is going to have in Latin America.

    Parent
    "This aggression is against (none / 0) (#10)
    by jondee on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 01:01:44 PM EST
    all of Latin America and the Caribbean." - Columbian President Gustavo Petro.

    To all the Rogan bro morons and (so-called) Libertarians who said Trump was the "anti-war candidate," thanks for nothin,' dipsh*ts.

    Parent

    They (none / 0) (#21)
    by Ga6thDem on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 05:30:06 PM EST
    Don't care. Maga world order is we control the Americaa, Russia controls Europe and China controls Asia.

    Parent
    Yet another rather bizarre scandal ... (none / 0) (#13)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Thu Dec 11, 2025 at 01:50:53 PM EST
    ... is unfolding at the University of Michigan involving a football program that had already been beset by multiple serious scandals in recent years, one of which led to former head coach Jim Harbaugh being literally banned by the NCAA last year for repeated recruiting violations, including his alleged tampering with other schools' players.

    This time, head coach Sherrone Moore - who had already been suspended for several games during the 2024 season following credible allegations that his coaching staff had been engaged in illegal sign-stealing from opposing teams - has been summarily fired by the university over an alleged "inappropriate relationship" with a female staffer associated with the football program.

    This was soon followed by the now-suddenly former Coach Moore's apparent arrest mere hours later in Saline, MI for another undisclosed matter, reportedly a physical assault, which may or may not be related to today's firing. He was then turned over by Saline police to their counterparts in Pittsfield Township, where he is presently being held in Pittsfield Township Jail without bond, pending a review of charges by the Washtenaw County Prosecutor's office.

    I noted "apparent arrest" above because as of this writing, Pittsfield Township police have not officially confirmed the identity of the suspect in question. However, both ESPN and ABC News have reported that the person in custody is indeed former Michigan football coach Sherrone Moore, and that he'll remain in jail until a scheduled court hearing on Friday.

    Meanwhile, the emotionally whiplashed Wolverines football team and its baffled players are now under the tutelage of associate head coach Biff Poggi, who has been named interim head coach by university administrators. And three weeks hence looms a date in the Citrus Bowl against the Texas Longhorns.

    (Sigh!) So many scandals and distractions in Ann Arbor, so little time.

    UPDATE: Sherrone Moore has been arraigned. (none / 0) (#25)
    by Donald from Hawaii on Fri Dec 12, 2025 at 01:13:43 PM EST
    He has been charged with felony assault, and his present legal predicament is indeed related to his firing yesterday as University of Michigan's head football coach. Here's what apparently went down, as best as I can piece together from local media.

    Coach Moore, a married father of three, was apparently and improperly engaging in an affair with a subordinate staffer who was employed in the UM football program's administrative office, which is obviously in direct violation of stated university policy. Moreover, the two had earlier been questioned about it by university officials sometime this summer, and both had denied the allegation at the time.

    The matter reared its head again in the past week when the nature of Coach Moore's personal relationship with his subordinate had apparently soured badly and devolved into serious personal acrimony, as these things are sometimes prone to do. This prompted the woman to go to university officials sometime during the last few days and confess that she had misled them earlier in the summer when she had denied the affair with Moore, and she sought their protection from retaliation by Moore.

    Yesterday afternoon, apparently after consultation with University of Michigan President Domenico Grasso and the UM Board of Regents, Athletics Director Warde Manuel called Coach Moore to his office, confronted him with evidence of his earlier lie to school officials about his involvement with the woman. He Manuel then fired Moore with cause effective immediately and further, had campus police escort him from the building.

    Apparently (and understandably) enraged, despondent and humiliated, Moore left campus and immediately drove to his girlfriend's apartment building in nearby Pittsfield Township, whereupon he broke into her place, physically assaulted her and then pulled a knife, threatening to kill both her and himself. She immediately fled from him and frantically called 911 for help. In the meantime, Moore left her building and drove to Saline, where he was arrested and taken into custody shortly thereafter by local police.

    Given his earlier suicide threat, Sherrone Moore remains in protective custody in Pittsfield Township Jail following his arraignment today.

    What a mess.

    Parent

    Go Wolverines (none / 0) (#26)
    by jondee on Fri Dec 12, 2025 at 02:27:12 PM EST
    And I mean actual Wolverines, that are supposedly making a comeback in some parts of the country.

    Parent

    Readers Must Login or Create an Account to Comment