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Dave Tait
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Luckily, they have role models:

'David Laska, a New York Republican Party spokesman, [said] the state organization is under no obligation to pay off the club’s debts.

“The New York State Young Republicans are a separately incorporated legal entity,” Laska said. “That entity owes that debt.” ' /5
'Benedicte Doran, the former Onondaga County Republican Committee chair, said she tried to intervene and convince Giunta to pay up even though her group [wasn't responsible]…

“I did everything I could to get the guy to do the right thing, and he didn’t do it,” Doran said. “He’s just a bad guy.”' /4
“...the day before the event,...he said he was going to come with a check,” she said. “And then he had like 13 excuses: That somebody forgot the checkbook and he didn’t have it. Then there was a fraud. And their bank account was compromised. It was like this kid had every excuse in the book.” /3
“I’m not surprised you’re writing this story,” Neuser said when contacted by a syracuse.com reporter. “I just knew based on how he handled us that he was doing that in many different places. I think this kid is so full of BS and just was making up answers to kind of keep people at bay.” /2
How many versions of this 31-year-old "kid" are now in powerful White House jobs or senior Trump Admin posts? This is who they are:

"But after Giunta showed up without a check to pay for the weekend events from July 26-28, 2024, Neuser said, she sized him up immediately." /1
NY State Young Republicans stiffed Syracuse hotel for lavish party before racist chat ended their run
Embattled GOP group failed to fully pay bills for three-course steak dinner, luncheon and open bars at Syracuse hotel.
www.syracuse.com
Agreed. And Tom Cruise looking sharp, dashing and heroic as von Stauffenberg in Valkyrie wasn't the help it may have seemed...

It gave those boys a "good guy" they could imagine whenever they saw images of others in those same uniforms.

And to young-boy eyes, the Germans had the coolest stuff...
"What’s curious, then, is not Trump’s eagerness to degrade us, but his uncontrollable urge to defile himself and his office."

The term to search is "Disinhibition" ― it's a symptom, not a strategy, and we'll be hearing it lots in coming days (along with profanity, insults and the crudest "jokes").
Opinion | Trump Posted a Video of Himself Dumping Excrement on Our Cities. It’s a Glimpse of His Deepest Drives.
www.nytimes.com
These particular Americans and their version of what America is and should be...

They're like selfish thieves who break into Le Louvre to steal historic jewels that others in France do value and think should be preserved for all...
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@historyrage.bsky.social 'Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward', an 1874 oil painting by Luke Fildes.
The poor and destitute waiting outside a police station to be given a ticket for temporary admission to a workhouse for the night.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applica...
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Which country will win the World Series: Canada, or Japan
I think he may have an outdated idea of Argentina and extradition to the U.S., based on old movies...

The U.S. Senate ratified the treaty in 1998, so he's not necessarily buying himself the safe haven he may be counting on...
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This is the fucking most Canadian thing I have ever seen — controlled partying. I love this.
At Yonge & Dundas Jays fans are obeying the pedestrian scramble, as is the custom & returning to sidewalk each light cycle.
Absolutely this. I see ahead cracks in a subsiding floor, steps that don't have enough run room to be code, and drain pipes that slope up...

...and as for accessibility, well, forget it...

...all by July 4th.
Anyone else getting The Money Pit vibes?
"Belongs to the people..."?

Didn't Trump win it in some kind of contest last year...

You mean "E pluribus unum" doesn't mean "Winner take all"...?

This is all so confusing...
shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
Wait. I thought he won it in some kind of contest last year...

You mean "E pluribus unum" isn't Latin for "Winner take all"...?
Let's first ask him to clarify when "in the future" is supposed to begin. If it's next month, I need to make some plans. If it's "oh…someday soon, no really, I mean it" -- well, not gonna count on it.

But yes: we need to focus now on the threats, not the promised paradise. Don't get fooled again.
My first job as a teenager was working with kids for Parks & Rec on a little neighbourhood park surrounded by houses, many of whose owners made it VERY clear the kids' balls were NOT to come into their yards. We learned to play a…gentle…version of softball that looked like the real thing…but wasn't.
we should be in a home run derby of journalism right now as the incompetents in the trump administration keep lobbing these absolute whiffleballs over the plate, but only rarely does anyone even bother to take a swing

when they could be regularly knocking them out of the park like this
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...
My first job as a teenager was working with kids for Parks & Rec on a little neighbourhood park surrounded by houses, many of whose owners made it VERY clear the kids' balls were NOT to come into their yards. We learned to play a…gentle…version of softball that looked like the real thing…but wasn't.
Not an architect, but how could they possibly already have gone through the concept, design, blueprints, engineering and final costing stages to the point where they're knocking holes in the side of a heritage building? Or are they nowhere near ready, but want to push it past the point of no return?
Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
Goodness gracious me...

A terrific reading for both journalism and law schools...

...though even the most junior students would likely just go "Duh!"
EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...