the departure of decency
https://digbysblog.net/2025/01/08/psychotic-nihilism/
oklahoma may ban renewable energy
https://www.commondreams.org/news/biden-death-row
President Joe Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row, preempting an expected killing spree by President-elect Donald Trump—who ended his first White House term with a string of executions and campaigned on expanding the death penalty.
Biden’s decision empties federal death row with the exception of three people: Dylann Roof, Robert Bowers, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
The 37 people whose sentences were commuted will receive life in prison without the possibility of parole. One of the individuals whose sentence was commuted was Billie Jerome Allen, who has spent more than half of his life on federal death row after being convicted at 19 years old of a crime he says he did not commit.
“These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder,” said Biden.
The president added that he is “more convinced than ever” that the U.S. must “stop the use of” capital punishment at the federal level.
“In good conscience,” Biden said, “I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”
latest use of his clemency power in the waning days of his White House term came after a monthslong pressure campaign by principled opponents of the death penalty, including progressive lawmakers, human rights organizations, religious leaders, and former federal judges.
Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU, applauded Biden’s move Monday as “a historic and courageous step in addressing the failed death penalty in the United States—bringing us much closer to outlawing the barbaric practice once again.” “By commuting the sentences of 37 individuals on death row, President Biden has taken the most consequential step of any president in our history to address the immoral and unconstitutional harms of capital punishment,” said Romero. “President Biden’s actions also remove 37 individuals out of harm’s way—as President-elect Trump has a proven penchant and track record of conducting rushed executions. In the last six months of his first term, President Trump executed 13 individuals—more than any administration in 120 years.”
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) said Monday that Biden’s move “marks what could become a turning point in the history of capital punishment in the United States.”
“Thirty years ago, then-Sen. Joe Biden championed the death penalty and took personal credit for dramatically expanding the number of crimes for which the death penalty could be imposed,” the group said in a statement. “However, over the last three decades, troubling errors have emerged surrounding the use of capital punishment. Scores of wrongful convictions of innocent people, dramatic evidence of racial bias, and sometimes torturous executions have come to define the death penalty.”
“There are now 200 people who have been proved innocent and released after being sentenced to death in the United States, some facing execution for decades before their exoneration,” EJI added. “For every eight people executed in the last 50 years, one innocent person has been identified and set free. It is a shocking rate of lethal error that would likely be unacceptable in any other area of public safety, public health, or government oversight.”
means just three federal inmates are still facing execution. They are Dylann Roof, who carried out the 2015 racist slayings of nine Black members of Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina; 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev; and Robert Bowers, who fatally shot 11 congregants at Pittsburgh’s Tree of life Synagogue in 2018, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S history. “I’ve dedicated my career to reducing violent crime and ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” Biden said in a statement. “Today, I am commuting the sentences of 37 of the 40 individuals on federal death row to life sentences without the possibility of parole. These commutations are consistent with the moratorium my administration has imposed on federal executions, in cases other than terrorism and hate-motivated mass murder.“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,
Martin Luther King III, who publicly urged Biden to change the death sentences, said in a statement issued by the White House that the president “has done what no president before him was willing to do: take meaningful and lasting action not just to acknowledge the death penalty’s racist roots but also to remedy its persistent unfairness.”
Donnie Oliverio, a retired Ohio police officer whose partner was killed by one of the men whose death sentence was converted, said the execution of “the person who killed my police partner and best friend would have brought me no peace.”
“The president has done what is right here,” Oliverio said in a statement also issued by the White House, “and what is consistent with the faith he and I sharhoiliday spirit
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/matt-gaetz-ethics-rep…
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican who briefly stood to become President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to be attorney general, was found by congressional ethics investigators to have paid numerous women — including a 17-year-old girl “Victim A,” had just completed her junior year in high school.— for sex, and to have purchased and used illegal drugs, including from his Capitol Hill office, according to a final draft of a comprehensive investigative report obtained by CBS News
Those were among the findings of the long-running investigation by the House Ethics Committee into Gaetz, which concluded the former Florida congressman violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office.
“The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape,licit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the 37-page report concludes.licit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the 37-page report concludes.
allegations that Gaetz violated House rules “prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress” ― as well as basic rules of conduct.A draft of the final report, first obtained by CBS News and other outlets, was made public following a committee vote earlier this month to release the panel’s finding
sure lets make him countrys top law enforcement guy
ilRep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) offered perhaps the most blunt answer when HuffPost asked for his initial reaction to the Gaetz nomination: “Are you shittin’ me?”
“From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use,” noted the report, which lists payments totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women.
violated multiple state laws related to sexual misconduct while in office.”The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the 37-page report concludes.”substantial evidence” Gaetz engaged in rampant illicit drug use. The committee said it obtained text messages he sent where he referred to drugs as “party favors,” “rolls” or “vitamins.” It also said he created a fake email from his Capitol Hill office “for the purpose of purchasing marijuana.” Taccepting gifts of luxury travel in excess of permissible limits
brings to a close — at least for now — Gaetz’s incendiary tenure on Capitol Hill, where he became one of the most vocal and provocative members of the pro-Trump faction in Congress. Gaetz has denied any improper conduct and asserted the claims were a “smear” invented by his political enemies. The committee said the congressman refused to sit for sworn testimony, t
told conservative personality Charlie Kirk last month that he plans to spend the coming years “fighting for President Trump.” “I think that eight years is probably enough time in the United States Congress,” Gaetz said, though last week, he floated in a post on X the idea of returning to participate in the election for House speaker.also mebbe senate sure why not
Among the report’s most lurid findings were the allegations of sex- and drug-fueled parties and travel, including a 2018 trip to the Bahamas where witnesses say he took ecstasy and had sex with four women.
“From 2017 to 2020, Representative Gaetz made tens of thousands of dollars in payments to women that the Committee determined were likely in connection with sexual activity and/or drug use,” noted the report, which lists payments totaling more than $90,000 to 12 different women.
his then “girlfriend” sometimes acted as intermediary between him and the women, or participatd w/him and other women on website or involved sex for money arrangement, one noted the guys (him and greenberg) are a liittle limited in their cash flow this wkend …matt was like, if it can be more of a customer appreciation week
Gaetz rescinded his acceptance of the nomination. His upcoming confirmation process, he claimed, was “unfairly becoming a distraction” to the Trump transition team’s work.
smug slimy pseudo christian maga mike argued shld be released cuz gaetz resgined and congress shld not investigate a private citizen
also maga mike: it doesn’t matter that hunter biden is a private citizen , the amer people deserve to know
also trump musta known yet still nominated: – also tons of gop buddies: in what world
failed to outrun investigators hauling pesky law, includ mealy mouthed mike johnson saying dont release cuz VERY important protocol per non0-members of house once they rush to resign to escape being held accoiuntable, watch all the magas rally around the guy who drugged and raped a child
I guess this Ethics Committee report on Matt Gaetz puts in context why he was the only vote against the 2017 Human Trafficking Bill… somewhere kevin mccarthy is reading this and smiling
also:paid for sex w/minors, did drugs in public,used his influence to gain favor, so elgible run as gop nomineee potus 2028
report is everything repubs dreamed hunter bidens laptop would be
https://x.com/mattgaetz/status/1871207714665197718
super lame responses cuz c’mon what can you say
Gaetz himself quickly took to X, formerly Twitter, to contest various parts of the report. In one post, he insisted that the money he gave the women didn’t count as paying for sex:
Giving funds to someone you are dating – that they didn’t ask for – and that isn’t “charged” for sex is now prostitution?!? There is a reason they did this to me in a Christmas Eve-Eve report and not in a courtroom of any kind where I could present evidence and challenge witnesses. This is testimony from one of the alleged “prostitutes” that you won’t see in the report! i never charged anyone anything. like i said, it was just given, q: ok her: and it wasn’t spoke about
Giving funds to someone you are dating – that they didn’t ask for – and that isn’t “charged” for sex is now prostitution?!?
On Monday, Gaetz submitted a restraining order in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a bid to halt the congressional committee releasing its findings.
On Monday, Gaetz filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the release of the report, saying that he is now a private citizen and not subject to the jurisdiction of the committee.
https://www.threads.net/@miketrose/post/DD7M0-OxnjL?xmt=AQGzqcNkt8aJmBYSOHmYPnqatcnrN4_SQOkNjdr6rP7DNT0
also: former nominee for ag is bad at this law stuff:
shortly after filed emergency motion to stop ethic from relase report, fed district court clerk posted note online said he posted it improperly, spozed to submit complaint and temp request restrain order separately: this case will not proceed any further until all errors are satisfied
he also proudly posted a missive from his ungreat leader on his transgressions, who shrieked Unfair! to the law
same ungreat issued a standard lunatic holiday greeitng that again makes us think we’re living in monty python land
“Merry Christmas to all, including to the wonderful soldiers of China, who are lovingly, but illegally, operating the Panama Canal (where we lost 38,000 people in its building 110 years ago), always making certain that the United States puts in Billions of Dollars in “repair” money, but will have absolutely nothing to say about “anything,” tbash Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by mockingly calling him “governor”, whose Citizens’ Taxes are far too high, but if Canada was to become our 51st State, their Taxes would be cut by more than 60%, t“Merry Christmas to the Radical Left Lunatics, who are constantly trying to obstruct our Court System and our Elections, and are always going after the Great Citizens and Patriots of the United States but, in particular, their Political Opponent, MEWrapping up his less-than-jolly 2-part note, Trump saved his final blow for President Joe Biden as he criticized him for commuting the sentences of 37 out of 40 federal death row inmates,They know that their only chance of survival is getting pardons from a man who has absolutely no idea what he is doing,” he added. “Also, to the 37 most violent criminals, who killed, raped, and plundered like virtually no one before them, “refuses to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls,’” he said, “instead, [I] will say, GO TO HELL!.”
classy
https://www.salon.com/2025/01/07/why-mike-johnsons…
mike johnson makes up a jefferson prayer every day tho jefferson didnt believe in prayer
landry when car killed many went out to dinner
https://www.commondreams.org/r/entryeditor/2670751…
classless racist dumb gop husband will get cooties fr black lady
After Vice President Kamala Harris swore in MAGAt Sen. Debra Fischer yesterday, she shook hands with her and then offered her hand to Fischer’s husband Bruce — who put his hand in his pocket and refused to look at her likebed a 6yr old who just wet huis bed
jeff tiedrich oh fuck we forgot to have a war on christmas, commies, Bill’s just trying to do you a favor by restoring you to God’s graces. it’s right there in your Bible, heathens, in Zealots 4:20 — “thou shalt only say Merry Christmas, lest I smite ye blaspheming fuckheads.”
his acolytes follow sordid suit
feckin “john kennedy
In case no one told you this year—it’s okay to say ‘Merry Christmas!’”
and tommy tuberville:“Thanks to President Trump, Christmas is back in America.”
mtg: merry christmas eve everyone! its the last christmas under democrat communist control. ((I think we can all agree that Democrat Communist Christmas is the worst kind of Christmas. remember when we had to wait in line for hours just to buy a potato to put under the Generic Holiday Statue of Michelle Obama all of us were forced to have in our homes) freedom is coming!in 2025, we’ll have the freedumb to buy a $90 Christmas ornament from Dear Leader’s Slovenian trophy wif
if you’ve got 90 green ones to waste on tacky ornaments from the woman who whined ‘who gives a fuck about Christmas,’ don’t you dare complain about the price of eggs.
it’s Friday night, and the wealthiest person in the universe is having a perfectly normal one.
“The reason I’m in America along with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that made America strong is because of H1B.
$22977.69 a hour for 24 hours a day for 365 days a year for 2024 years equals $407.4B
Take a big step back and FUCK YOURSELF in the face. I will go to war on this issue the likes of which you cannot possibly comprehend.”
imagine being so obscenely rich that your world is one of limitless opportunities. the Space Nazi could be doing anything on the planet right now. he could be experiencing delights far beyond the reach of we mortal peons. but instead, he’s hunched over his phone, arguing with literal dipshits, telling them to “FUCK YOURSELF in the face.”
imagine being that broken inside.
not just this week, the move to china guy
https://digbysblog.net/2024/11/15/i-suggest-you-mo…
What is a man like this doing in “public service”? He wouldn’t last a night as a waiter.
Jessica Valenti posted a TikTok that’s gone viral from a North Carolina a constituent response from a Republican state senator.
https://x.com/JessicaValenti/status/18567585562104…
its already happening. awesome.
RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — A viral email from a North Carolina lawmaker’s office is raising eyebrows, after allegedly telling a North Carolina woman to leave the country for raising concerns about our state’s abortion laws.Video of the email has been circulating all over social media, seen over 200 thousand times on TikTok. It all started from a North Carolina TikTok user Lindsay Talley, who shared an email from her friend who she says has a genetic condition creating life-threatening abnormalities. Her friend wrote to her Republican State Senator Danny Britt concerned about the state’s abortion laws and her ability to expand her family.
And in response, his official email back told her to leave the country. The email says “Thank you so much for the email, I am not quite certain how we are preventing you from expanding your family. I suggest you move to China immediately and see how that works for you. If for some reason that fails Russia is nice in the winter and Venezuela in the summer.”
The email is signed by Senator Britt but appears to be sent from Senator Britt’s legislative assistant, Camille McDougald. In a follow-up email to Talley, McDougald replied “I responded how Senator Britt wanted to me to. No further comment.”
CBS17 received a note explaining her predicament from the woman who contacted Britt. She requested to remain anonymous:
“We appreciate the support and understand the outrage from Senator Britt’s response. We want to expand our family, but do not feel the laws in North Carolina are inclusive for those who experience rare and uncommon genetic disorders that cause ‘life-altering’ and ‘life-threatening’ abnormalities. These abnormalities that are not compatible with life without extensive medical intervention.
“Many people will think of the common genetic disorders that are tested for early in pregnancy such as T18, Down Syndrome, etc. However, the rare disorders that are uncommon cannot be tested for until 16-weeks and beyond. The doctors are unclear if these types of genetic disorders are considered ‘life-threatening’.
“We are not the only family who is experiencing this type of scenario and want to bring awareness and changes for other families across North Carolina. We respect that some may not agree or fully understand this situation, however we want to emphasize the importance of relying on your doctors, your personal values, and your faith to determine what is best for your family and to do so without government interference.
“We hope that with the collaboration of our governor and local and state representatives, that we can adjust the verbiage of these laws to include genetic abnormalities so families like us can expand their family without fear of retaliation or prevention of medical care. Our intent is to bring awareness and change to better the families of North Carolina.”
Britt’s voters did their own research.
terrorism las vegas: game of gotcha with bodycounts
Radical Islamic Terrorism, and other forms of violent crime, will become so bad in America that it will become hard to even imagine or believe,” Trump
“New Orleans terrorist attacker is said to have come across the border in Eagle Pass TWO DAYS AGO!!! Shut the border down!!!” Marjorie Taylor Greene wrote in a now-deleted post on Xitter.
urned out, of course, that Shamsud Din Jabbar, the perpetrator of the attack, was a Texas native and US Army veteran.So yes, he was a Muslim, he had radical fundamentalist beliefs, but he was also a US citizen who served in the armed forces — because we are just as capable of producing violent psychopaths as any other country on earth, perhaps even moreso.
posts on tesla:obvious leftist extremist, isis bought and paid for by amer left, left wing terrorism in response to dt elect except of course he was a trumper: uncle: was 37-year-old Matthew Livelsberger, an active duty Green Beret who loved Trump and was described by his uncle as “a 100 percent patriot” who was “like a Rambo-type, for lack of a better word.”
all told: this is def some democratic terrorist organization, gotta be dem cuz tesla
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/01/oklahoma-school…
For his part, Ryan Walters, the Oklahoma schools chief who has been trying to Jesusify the state’s entire public school system, put Trump Bibles in state’s classrooms.e’s hired the Libs of Tik Tok psycho Chaya Raichik “to advise the state on school library policies.”was pretty sure these men committed these acts because the US school system taught them to hate America — so much, they both joined the Army. Like big America-haters often do.connecting” a native Texan US Army veteran to…THE TEACHERS’ UNION!
What a terrible day when we see terrorist attacks on American soil. It’s absolutely tragic and we’ve got to look as a country on how these things happen. We absolutely have to shut down the border, we can’t allow terrorists to come across the border. We also have to take a look at how are these terrorists coming from people that live in America?
You have schools that are teaching kids to hate their country, that this country is evil, you have the teachers unions pushing this on our kids, the radical Left wants people to hate this country. They’ve completely destroyed the integrity of the FBI by making them more concerned about DEI than about protecting Americans. It’s a major part of this.
And look, this is a real uncomfortable truth, and I know the Left is going to lose their mind, but listen: We cannot allow our schools to be terrorist training camps. We cannot allow our schools to teach our kids to hate this country. We cannot allow our kids to be taught that this is an evil country.
That’s why we’re getting back to the basics in Oklahoma, to make sure that our kids love this country, understand American values, understand the role that the Constitution, the Bible, the Declaration of Independence played in American history. Because we want patriots, and that’s going to be the focus of our schoolhttps://crooksandliars.com/2025/01/go-fck-yourself…
Just after a U.S. army veteran from Texas intentionally drove a white pickup truck with an ISIS flag into a New Year’s crowd in the Bourbon Street area of New Orleans early New Year’s Day, killing at least 15 people and injuring at least 35 others, the Republican Governor, Jeff Landry, posted a photo of himself with friends in front of a fancy pants restaurant in the area.We’re glad you’re eating well, you fucking Yahoo, after Americans were just murdered on the streets in New Orleans.
pic of yahoos w/thumbs at at bon ton prime rib did not go down well on the Bad App.
Landry tried to contain the backlash in a follow-up post, but he worsened things.
https://x.com/LAGovJeffLandry/status/1874625250400…
Ate dinner tonight in New Orleans. Proud to be a part of this incredibly resilient city. See everyone at the game tomorrow!
follow up worse:It’s important to understand that we have many visitors in the city of New Orleans right now. Safety is our top priority and we want our guests and the world to know that Louisiana does not cower to radical islamic terrorists. Our restaurants and all New Orleans has to offer remain open for business!
radical Islamic terrorist” was a military vet from Texas. You are an absolute walnut, but do go off while you gorge yourself with steak
his constitutents: A truly disgusting, disgraceful human being. People were gruesomely run down by a suspected terrorist flying down Bourbon Street in a truck. One of the worst events in the city’s history. And you’re on here talking about steak and a fucking college football game?
my gods. read the fucking room, you should be beat with hammers,Bragging about a steak dinner with 15 people that cost more than many people in your state make in a year, after a dozen people are run down. The blood hasn’t even washed off the sidewalks of new Orleans. What the literal FUCK is WRONG with you?, are you serious wihthis shit?this is incredibly tone deaf. go fuck yourself
always brilliant almost ag matt gaetz
apart from fitting right in with shitshow of rapists,
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/18752399070080…
s korea’s pres instituted Marshall Law (sic what a moran)for a day and they re trying to iarrest him. fauci basically instituted Marshall Law (ditto) for months
Are you fucking kidding me?! – JoJoFromJerz
https://www.jefftiedrich.com/p/elderly-golfer-is-w…
elderly golfer is wrong about everything, sub
it’s so easy to solve the world’s problems when you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about
per terror attacks, also fuckin holman:
Fox: “as this investigation carries out in Las Vegas, I believe you just said you believe they will find a [terrorist] connection. do you have any other information other than what we just directly heard from the police there in Las Vegas?”
Homan: “no I don’t. this is a gut feeling.”
Tom Homan has a gut feeling. that’s wonderful. know who else used to have a lot of gut feelings? the guy who clownfucked us into decades-long quagmires in Afghanistan and Iraq, that’s who.
In the wake of the horrific New Orleans attack and the Vegas cybertruck explosion, President Biden has done all he can to soothe a still reeling nation. Understanding the tinderbox of the times we live in, he has been extremely careful in making sure what he was telling us was accurate. As always, in moments of uncertainty such as these, Joe’s calm, compassionate sincerity.the incoming dumpster fire felon-elect has predictably, been spreading blatant, intentionally incendiary disinformation about the suspects and “the border.”facts owe:both suspects were American. thought Nipple and Button were the names of countries, that the moon was a part of Mars, or that Charles was the Prince of a place called “Whales”. Didn’t matter that he said there were airports and rammed manparts during the Revolutionary War. embodies the worst of us.Biden was asked what one thing Donald Trump could learn from Jimmy Carter in the wake of his passing, and his answer was “Decency. Decency. Decency.
s in times like these, times of national tragedy — from fires and floods to school shootings and racial unrest — that this nation so often looks to its leader, not just for practical assistance but also for spiritual reassurance. biden a President who is capable of compassion, decency and empathy in times of crisis.what’s inexplicably coming in to replace him is about as warmhearted as a tapeworm.The Temu Oompa Loompa makes yeast infections look compassionate by comparison.we are losing a deeply moral President n exchange is an apathetic at best, amoral, serial-sexual abuser who doesn’t give a single flying fuck about any of us, never has and never will.
For good measure, that was not the only thing that Trump was whining about on Friday morning. He also complained about President Biden awarding Liz Cheney and Bennie Thompson the Presidential Citizens Medal for their work co-chairing the January 6tWhile he also promises to pardon his criminal StormTrumpers.
Biden gave Liz Cheney a Medal yesterday, even though she has proven to be totally corrupt. She, ‘Bennie’ Thompson, and the rest of the Unselect Committee, destroyed and deleted all evidence from their crooked investigation of January 6th.”
Fact: No evidence was destroyed or deleted, and it is still available online.Trump: “Liz Cheney, Cryin’ Adam Kinzinger, Bennie Thompson, and the rest of these dishonest Thugs have gotten away with horrible things under the pretense of January 6th. “They have destroyed the lives of many people, and are rewarded by getting Biden Fake Medals. This is not America.”
saturday monster still whining: stilli illiterate as fuck
there has never been a prez who was so evilly and illegally treated, also corrrupt judges and prosecutors gone agnst him at levels of injustice never seen before just like everything else thats at levels never seen before, wjudges making a mockery of the judical system and the World is watching in disgust,derange jack smith, dumb as a rock sleepy joe biden
memorial for jimmy carter
Jason Carter called his grandfather’s life a “love story, about love for his fellow humans
jimmy carter 1979 “malaise” speech:
“We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure.”
Yep. That’s the path we picked alright.
This post was originally published on Common Dreams.