Charges were dropped and then dismissed with prejudice against Brianna Taylor’s boyfriend for firing at police officers who broke down his door. His defense was that he didn’t know they were police though.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/03/08/kenneth-walker-charges-dropped-against-breonna-taylor-boyfriend/4629371001/

Another story said he wiped it “using a code”, so it sounds like that.

https://atlpresscollective.com/2025/12/05/samuel-tunick-atlanta-activist-arrest/

They have broad latitude to initiate searches, but if there isn’t a specific crime they’re going after you for, you’re not destroying evidence. If they’re just fishing to see what you have in there, then there isn’t evidence being destroyed because they have no way to know whether you erased stuff because you were doing crimes or just didn’t want them to see your nudes.

God damn that’s blatant. Hey journalist, what about MLK Day is not “America-first”?

And the exploitation supposedly began while he was president and surrounded by Secret Service and various aids and grifters. He was golfing all the time, but it seems like quite a bold move to start up new sex crimes when you’re one of the most watched people in the world with nearly infinite resources available should someone come forward with a damning criminal accusation.

He is an audacious piece of shit willing to do crimes in public though. And he hasn’t ever been punished for it.

You gotta wonder if the “friend” did it in collaboration with Gallego. From the relayed conversation it doesn’t sound like he’d be scandalized by misogyny. Arizona Dems seem to have a perpetual hard-on for demonstrating how much they hate their party.

So if she’s not a terrorist and didn’t do anything criminal, that sure sounds like the officer shooting her is a criminal act.

It should. This is straight up eugenics. No one should be making genetic fitness a priority when proposing state policy.

A “generation” of students aren’t prompt engineers. And even if you learned one useless skill in your major during college, you still have the entire rest of the program. I haven’t used many of the skills I learned in college and my industry has changed extensively since then, but learning those things contributed to a larger competency.

That sucks, but we’re not a real economy if we just keep bad companies afloat because people have invested in them. We certainly don’t need to filter any aid to unfortunate retirees in need through the stock market.

There’s a few other fascist states following Texas, so even if Texas fails CA is still necessary.

And Latinos are particularly meaningless. In addition to the oft cited differences in which nation they/their family came from, there are a lot of Latinos that are just white people with Spanish last names.

…Why is the deadline to file for a two year term midway through the existing one?

Her 2020 campaign wasn’t actually that good. She started with the same boost of optimism and then fell apart once she started defining specifics and every other statement was walking things back. She flamed out for a reason.

I agree with your statement here though. She had all the momentum and tools to win and flubbed it through actual choices, not some inherent insurmountable challenges.

If only our opponent hadn’t made a choice detrimental to us!

Another recent change was Trump pushing for the filibuster to be removed. The establishment could just claim it was because they need it to stop him so they should never stop him enough that he would make Republicans do it, but it could also be seen as a freedom they don’t want to have should we get a Democratic trifecta in the future. Being able to say “I want to do good things, but shucks the system stopped me” is a valuable tool for elected officials.

So it’s the caviest of caves, without even giving the Democrats anything. Are they worried that they were winning too much?

No, I mean he could raise way more than his defense will cost. He’s kind of one of the mythic figures of the resistance.

When the early revolution is recorded to history, we’ll remember such luminaries as the Portland Frog, Polka Dot Lady, and Sandwich Guy.

If he hasn’t crowd funded his legal expenses it’s because he’s actively choosing not to. He could be grifting this so hard.

I keep worrying that he’s going to use authoritarianism and a violation of the rule of law to do good things and people will normalize those things as ok, but he seems devoted to never helping anyone who isn’t rich or armed.