Everything posted by TwiceHorn
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Christopher Nolan's next film, The Odyssey
Nailed it.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
I've spent about half my career as a litigator and the most inevitable and unavoidable thing is delay. Sometimes, you get excited about a case and forget that it's gonna be 3-4-5 years until it's resolved. I fucked up and let myself get optimistic about the Trump prosecutions, because I thought they were righteous and Jack Smith did a great job. But apart from the "ah, well, nevertheless" component, the delay was going to sink those cases if he was elected in November 2024. They were going to end up exactly where they got -- dismissed. And even apart from Trumpkins' ability to rationalize any convictions along the way, the dismissals were going to swallow it all whole.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Just like the New York cases.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Truth is, though, if DOJ had acted on January 22, 2021, Trump wouldn't have been convicted or finally (appeal exhaustion) before November 4, 2024. And, even if by some miracle he had at least been convicted at trial, it wouldn't have made a single, solitary shit.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Guess he's never seen this, either. Or forgot.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Helluva news site you got there. I guess since you don't exit your echo chamber:
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The GOP Civil War
Like the FIST of an angry God.
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
Probably some truth to this. The one thing normal FBI agents are better at than your average cops, it's preparing evidence/a case for trial. Even the feebs, if not the DOJ lawyers, should know how to produce flattened or image pdfs with proper redactions. They may well have sandbagged.
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Charlie Kirk got ded, Erika Kirk grifts in place
Except question marks.
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Trump’s America
Shadow docket decision on application to stay the trial court's injunction. Unsigned opinion for the Court, Kavanaugh concurring in judgment. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf Alito and Thomas, of course, dissenting. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf#page=8 Gorsuch dissenting on separate grounds. https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25pdf/25a443_ba7d.pdf#page=24
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Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
It's a common lawdog rookie mistake when producing documents. Also don't send a redline version of a word doc to opposing counsel unless you intend to (the redlines really never go away unless you strip metadata). Once you've seen the mistake made, it sticks with you. Unless you're a bunch of fucktards hired by Trump.
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Media Bias Thread
Several sources said Trumpco was contacted and invited to comment/respond and nothing was forthcoming.
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The Leopards Eating Faces and Unlubed Dildo of Consequences Thread
Fortunately or unfortunately, those assholes long predated Trump. It is remarkable that all of them to a man Jack are all-in on Trump.
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Trump’s America
What godawful room is that? And does the Liberace estate know he has one of their pianos?
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
And they don't have a great record of accuracy in their determinations of who should be held or not. Funny thing, though. The detention request does say its only 48 hours. So, if that were routinely followed, this would be less offensive. https://immigrantjustice.org/for-attorneys/resources/form-1-247a-immigration-detainer-sample/
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Media Bias Thread
Fuck twatter for not letting you read threads without logging in.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
I don't think anyone's saying this guy shouldn't have been deported. That's not the issue here. The tweet implies that if they's just honored the immigration hold, he wouldn't have committed murder. So, people have offered legitimate reasons for not honoring immigration holds. People have also questioned whether the narrative that this guy is a dangerous criminal is accurate, apart from any other bases for deportation. And, if it's so important to deport criminals instead of making a public spectacle out of deporting otherwise innocent people, they could have sent a couple of guard people down from DC to pick this guy up. Or a couple of ordinary ICE agents.
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Trump’s America
Fuck the French nobility, but that horse shit is cruel, evil even.
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Epstein and Maxwell
Or, if the daily operation of the US Department of Justice was controlled by the President, which it has not been until this year.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Not every turn, but when it comes to criminal types of any stripe, he's a regular Bill Otis.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
That's a bit of a straw man. The premise is that this guy is a dangerous criminal and should have been detained by ICE, else he wouldn't have committed a murder. The first part is debatable until after he committed the murder. Whether an ICE detainer would have stopped it is also speculation. All of it an amazing application of hindsight bias, like most bail decisions that come under fire. And we're not talking about whether the guy should have been deported, vel non.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Immigration holds, by their very terms, are only supposed to last 48 hours. Not at all clear that this would have prevented it. Seems like he went home and shot a family member. A lot like second-guessing bail decisions. An interesting note not reported in that article, there apparently was a mental-health warrant issued for his arrest shortly after his release, but apparently last only eight hours.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
The real story on his prior charges, not filtered through ICE or right-wing Twitter. https://www.ffxnow.com/2025/12/19/man-charged-with-murder-for-fatal-reston-shooting/ According to online court records, Morales-Ortez had previously been charged with six different crimes, though the charges were later dropped in each case. Among other cases, he was arrested in June 2020 as a 17-year-old for the June 23, 2019 murder of Jose Lorenzo Guillen Mejia, a 24-year-old Reston resident whose body was found on the footpath behind Hunters Wood Plaza. After more than a year in jail, Morales-Ortez was ultimately released from custody and the charges against him were dropped in 2021 when “it became clear that he was ultimately not the perpetrator,” Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office spokesperson Laura Birnbaum says. * * * Most recently, Morales-Ortez was arrested on Sept. 14 on charges of malicious wounding and brandishing for an incident that occurred two days earlier, online court records show. The charges were dropped on Dec. 15 — the day before this week’s fatal shooting — because prosecutors had “insufficient evidence to move forward” with the case, according to Birnbaum. “The victim told police that they had moved out of the country and would not be coming to court to cooperate in proceedings, regardless of timing,” she told FFXnow. “Sadly, without the victim’s necessary testimony, we could not move forward.” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told WJLA that it had sought to detain Morales-Ortez prior to the incident, claiming that he’s a native of El Salvador illegally residing in the United States. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office told FFXnow that, without a court-issued warrant, the jail had no grounds to keep him in custody, but ICE could’ve picked Morales-Ortez up upon his release.
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Trump’s America
Yeah, the need for anything bigger than a DDG is highly questionable. The Ticonderoga class CG, now obsolescent, was originally considered a DDG and is to be replaced by more Burkes. Cruiser-class replacements have been canceled twice.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
Well, that tweet doesn't mention the guy's immigration status. If he has no status, he can be deported on that basis alone. No criminal charges or convictions necessary. If he has some status, depending on what it is, he can only be deported upon conviction of a crime. "He's been charged for seven crimes since 2020" . . , ok, where are the convictions? Now, I suppose you could argue that already deportable immigrants should be prioritized once they've racked up a few criminal charges, but as far as I know, charges alone are not the basis for deportation.