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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1h

WAY TO GO MAILBOX HEAD

norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1h

17 guardsmen died in what basically amounted to a private security service for rich West/South Texas patrons and he can still be re-elected until the heat death of the universe at this rate.

17 Guardsmen have died on Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border mission, soldiers speak out | Houston Public Media

Since Abbott's Operation Lone Star began in 2021, at least 17 Texas National Guardsman have died from a multitude of causes, including a drowning in an attempt to save migrants, negligent discharge of...

www.houstonpublicmedia.org

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1h

We can will this into existence. I'm willing to take the hit, I can go back to the Kids in the Hall macaroni and cheese with ketchup diet.

Bank of England warns of 'sharp market correction' if AI bubble bursts

The Bank of England has warned that risk of a sharp market correction has increased, amid stretched AI-related valuations.

www.cnbc.com

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1h

You thought she was off-putting in print, you ain't seen nothin' yet!

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1h

Nick Clegg sounds like a Pink Floyd villain (is he a corporal?)

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 1h

Our economy in a nutshell: POP HIM POP HIM POP POP POP, POP HIM POP HIM POP POP POP

Nvidia’s Huang says AI computing demand is up ‘substantially’ in the last 6 months

MST3K crew with Tom Servo having a balloon for a head and Joel pumping him up with a bicycle pump

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 2h

I mean read this, the Trump administration in an official document is saying that Americans won't ever pick crops and America won't have enough food to eat because of ICE raids!
prospect.org/politics/tru...

As a result, employers are facing significant economic harms, the filing claims. And incredibly, given the administration’s unceasing rhetoric to the contrary, the Labor Department definitively rejects the idea of Americans replacing the missing workers. “The Department does not believe American workers currently unemployed or marginally employed will make themselves readily available in sufficient numbers to replace large numbers of aliens,” the filing states, adding that agricultural work involves “a distinct set of skills and is among the most physically demanding and hazardous occupations in the U.S. labor market.” (For what it’s worth, nearly half of all agricultural workers are native-born, and significantly more than half are U.S. citizens, according to Department of Agriculture data.)

The Labor Department even claims that broadly advertising agricultural jobs, which is required under the H2-A rules, has not led to a boost in applications from U.S. workers. This is a bit of a fiction; workers who apply often do not receive jobs, and nobody is really checking to see if applications are coming in. “The system isn’t set up to prove that there’s a labor shortage of U.S. workers,” said Costa, of EPI.

In the end, the Labor Department concludes, the only way to protect agricultural employers from disaster and consumers from rising prices and food shortages is to slash wages in the H-2A program to make it more viable to bring in workers. This is an odd response to a workforce crisis, since cutting wages across the sector will likely drive existing workers to look elsewhere for jobs. In fact, farm employers in Florida fear that H-2A foreign workers won’t apply for these jobs anymore because the wages are so low. (There were 384,900 H-2A applications last year.)

But the filing states, “Without swift action, agricultural employers will be unable to maintain operations, and the nation's food supply will be at risk.”

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2h

Theoretically yes but given the numbers you need it's much less likely to happen, especially when factual insufficiency leading to mass incredulity has gotten us from two no-bills per year to two dozen in the last twew months, with others dismissed or kicked to another court. Just need one at trial.

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2h

Def Leppard's Animal

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2h

As a side note, hundreds of ICE fascists would be indicted for assault in a normal world, and there would be no "no-bills" because it's right there on video.

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2h

In jury nullification, you're stone cold guilty of what's charged but one or more jurors feel the law is unjust/punitive/unequally applied and declines to vote guilty, which usually happens at the trial stage.

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 2h

I *do* want to be a pedant here (based on the comments): declining to indict is not the same as jury nullification. In these cases the evidence is thin and ICE/the prosecutors are constantly lying, meaning the case has no chance of success at the jury stage to prove a crime beyond a reasonable doubt

Seth Stern @sethstern.bsky.social · 12h

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said, Megan Crepeau and @benjaminpenn.bsky.social report

news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

Grand Jury Declines to Indict Two Chicago-Area ICE Protesters

A federal grand jury declined to indict two people charged with assaulting law enforcement agents outside a suburban Chicago ICE facility, an attorney for one of the defendants said.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 3h

OK, but (using sports bromide) WHAT IF THE REMAINING PROSECUTORS REALLY REALLY WANT IT. THAT'S ALL LEGAL WORK IS, JUST WANTING IT MORE.

Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 4h

Prosecution of Comey looks headed to a dead end.

"Federal prosecutors ... determined that a central witness in their probe would ... likely prevent them from establishing their case to a jury."

abcnews.go.com/US/central-w...

Central witness undermines case against James Comey, prosecutors concluded: Sources

Ex-FBI Director James Comey is set to be arraigned Wednesday, but prosecutors investigating him determined that a central witness would prove "problematic," sources say.

abcnews.go.com

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 3h

Even our beloved human shields and props whom we discard when insurrectionists are involved have gone bilingual woke, I weep for our country.

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 4h

The Congressional Republican theme song: "Been Down So Long"

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norbizness @norbizness.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, thank you for telling us that the Trump Administration thinks up is down. Care to do any analysis or investigation or will every article excreted by your hollowed-out newspaper be a variant of "Trump Says"?

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