Nordstahl @Nordstahl@qoto.org

The corruption of the Roberts court expands and expands. There's no longer even a tiny pretense -- what Donald Trump and his Republican apparatchiks and lackeys want is what the court will approve.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-just-okayed-one-neat-trick-to-illegally-gerrymander-your-state

Trump's Own Mortgages Match His Description of Mortgage Fraud, Records Reveal

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-mortgage-fraud-florida-principal-residences

https://www.palmerreport.com/politics/twenty-house-republicans-gone/62067/

If you love freedom but don’t care if it applies to everyone, what you actually love is privilege.

The University of Oklahoma has removed a second instructor in connection with a controversy that erupted after a student was given a zero grade for a paper on gender that cited the Bible as its primary source.

This time, the university said it removed a teacher for encouraging students to support a campus protest over the earlier suspension.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/us/oklahoma-university-removes-instructor-protest-bible-gender.html

Bondi fired Reuveni for telling a different court that deporting Kilmer Abrego Garcia to El Salvador was a mistake. https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/04/06/doj-suspends-lawyer-argued-case-kilmar-abrego-garcia/4601743959183/ Now at Democracy Forward, Reuveni has also blown the whistle on the Trump-Vance administration’s failure to follow court orders and its attempts to undermine the judicial process. https://democracyforward.org/updates/veteran-career-doj-immigration-litigator-erez-reuveni-joins-democracy-forward-to-bolster-team-addressing-threats-to-people-and-the-rule-of-law/ 2/

This puff piece will air opposite the following:

The LA Bowl on ABC
College basketball on Fox
Dateline reruns on NBC

All of them more compelling than softball questions and ass-kissing on CBS.

I have such contempt for the lickspittles in the WH press corps who sit by passively while he does this to their colleagues. And for what? The privilege of allowing him to lie to you every day?

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:nsttbhhihov4y5yejsri2zlr/post/3m7iztucwbc27

David Gentile - convicted of defrauding thousands of investors of billions - will no longer required to pay $15.5M in restitution after #Trump’s commutation

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/03/david-gentile-fraud-restitution-trump-00674963

War for New Eden: Minmatar Panther Black Ops Battleship.

Instead of trying to reproduce its complex camo pattern, I settled for a sponge-stipple of Uniform Grey and Rough Iron over a Spaceship Grey base coat. Probably my favourite spaceship mini to date.
#eveonline #miniatures #miniaturepainting #boardgames

8 December 1911 | French Jew, Michel Marcu, was born in Paris.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from #Drancy on 11 February 1943. He did not survive.