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They have released more than what the Trump admin released:

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/26/secret-alternative-mueller-report-goes-public-00035507

I doubt anything still being redacted is for the benefit of Trump. If they thought they had a criminal case they had a high chance of getting a conviction on, they'd add it to their two other on-going criminal cases and put the evidence in court to convict him.

While I share your frustration, "doj will do nothing" makes no sense. You're commenting on an article about the department of justice literally doing something, that's what the article is about. They're making more filings opposing her ridiculous questions. They made this one out of the blue, just demanding she make a decision on a bunch of pending questions she's asked so they can appeal her probably dumb decisions. And the department of justice is the one bringing this criminal case in the first place, what do you mean "do nothing?"

The problem is she's only telegraphed verbally and with the kinds of questions she's asking for arguments on that she's going to do something dumb to provide cover for Trump, but until she does the dumb thing and makes her decision there's nothing for the department of justice to appeal. And even if they want to get her kicked off the case, which I suspect they do at this point even though that's risky and delays things further, they need more evidence of her making dumb rulings to get that to happen. Until she actually makes the ruling and doesn't just hint at doing something dumb, they've got nothing though. Point is, save your hatred for the Judge Cannon and the many other judges rated "not competent" by the American bar association that Trump and Republicans in the senate pushed through.

The problem is she's not issuing actual rulings. She keeps asking for arguments from lawyers, telegraphs she's going to do something stupid, and then just let's the motion hang undecided, for months. No rulings so nothing to appeal. The fear being she won't make decisions until the trial is underway and they would essentially be not appealable at that time. Prosecutors/department of justice here are just demanding in legalese that she make some rulings so it would be appealable before the trial and they can have the appeals court shoot her down again like they always do, but ultimately they can't really force her to do so. I think some of her insane questions and continuing to ask for arguments and not issuing rulings is just general incompetence, at least based on other cases she's been involved in where she's making constant very basic mistakes and her extreme inexperience (rated not competent during her nomination by American bar association). But of course all of this has the effect of delays, delays delays, even more than the Trump lawyers themselves were hoping to delay it. And by the time she finally makes some (dumb easily overturnable) decisions on these things, and Jack Smith appeals them, well there's another delay waiting for the appeal, and then even more delay if they raise enough questions to have a new judge appointed. I think a lot of these dumb questions she's asking and entertaining from lawyers is because she legitimately doesn't understand the laws at play here and is having the lawyers explain it to her.

While she seems quite incompetent at her job, it certainly seems like she must be doing this deliberately at least to some degree too. It's just getting harder and harder to see this actually getting done by the time of the election, thanks to this judge's hard work to provide cover for Trump's criminal activities. She also provided a lot of delays before the trial proceedings with the initial investigation and the whole stupid search warrant challenge case before the appeals court told her stop this bullshit with no basis in law and dismissed the whole case out of hand. I think any objective observer looking at this situation would come to the conclusion that Judge Cannon is only interested in helping Trump politically however possible and couldn't give two shits about the law.

I agree with you and am frustrated too, just trying to point out where in the legal system all of this keeps falling apart. I have seen people state that Biden appointing Garland was the main problem, but Trump has two state civil cases, two state criminal cases, and two federal criminal cases ongoing against him right now. Prosecutors like in the doj launching cases against him isn't really the problem here, they've done that plenty, but there are tons of other problems and weaknesses in the legal system he's weaseling through. Mostly judges and especially the supreme court. Having four years in office to appoint his own judges and having one of the major political parties in the country providing constant cover has done a lot to help him in this regard too. In the end though, if people keep electing Trump and other Republicans the legal system won't be able to stop them no matter how flagrantly criminal they act, they'll use the power handed to them and keep warping the legal system around them.

I agree with your sentiment, but first of all you said department of justice, that's a federal agency. It's a state civil case the bond was for, the department of justice has nothing to do with that. A state appeals court lowered the bond. The new york attorney General office (state equivalent to the department of justice) was absolutely ready to start seizing if the court hadn't intervened.

The Department of Justice is pursuing two criminal cases against trump (the jan 6th case and documents case) that are already going to trial. They have been held up time and time again by judges and the supreme court providing cover for Trump and helping him to delay things.

If you try to blame everything on the department of justice incorrectly people may view your comment as a bad faith attempt to blame Biden for all of this. Be mad at the courts and judges that allow this crap.

As to getting loans from people from other countries, not illegal to the best of my knowledge. Certainly could suggest a conflict of interest, and if Biden had done that the Republicans would be screaming about it 24/7. If Trump tried to get a security clearance he would get denied time and time again, but this is an election so it relies on voters seeing his conflicts of interest. As to emoluments clause while he was president, courts again didn't let that happen. Campaign finance violations? Enforced by the FEC, basically powerless since there are three democratic commissioners, three Republicans, and the Republicans just veto anything relating to investigations of Trump. Not to mention they're severely underfunded and ineffective even when they do try to take action with only slap on the wrist penalties.

Anyways, plenty of people to get mad at, but I don't think the department of justice itself has much to do with why you're mad.

While I'm not saying we don't need to do more to fight income inequality, something they highlight in the report is that economic gains are more evenly distributed under democratic administrations.

Household income growth (adjusted for inflation) was faster on average and far more equal during Democratic administrations, and the Democratic advantage shows up for every group.

I'm sorry, I thought this was America Scotland

They have a financial monitor watching the Trump organization holding company. I believe Trump Media group is a distinct company, 58% owned by Donald Trump, probably not a part of that monitoring. Unlike the Trump organization, it's also not incorporated or headquartered in New York (it's headquartered in Florida of course).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trump_Organization

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_Media_%26_Technology_Group

Someone please correct me if I'm wrong on any of this though.

Seems possible. Also this SPAC deal injected somewhere from $200-300 million in cash into the company. They could continue to operate with this level of losses for quite a while unfortunately, years of runway before running out of money now even losing $58 million a year. If there's enough buying activity in the stock it could be used to effectively transfer wealth to Trump when he begins selling whenever his lockout is expired (or gets removed early). Even if he's not selling and the price is propped up, could be used as collateral for loans as a way to benefit without generating a taxable event.

As someone relying on pslf, I was terrified under Trump the whole thing would be scrapped.

The Trump administration also called for ending the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, which cancels student debt for eligible public-sector workers who have made 10 years of qualifying monthly payments. It was eliminated from Trump’s proposed federal budget all four years he was in office. Congress never adopted the proposal.

Biden has expanded PSLF eligibility and is conducting a recount of past payments to fix any past servicing errors and make sure borrowers get credit for every payment they’ve made.

Republicans will surely try to get rid of pslf again if they return to power.

Gotta pay for priority one:

https://www.cnn.com/world/egypt-new-administrative-capital-spc-intl/index.html

An enormous built from the ground up new capital out in the desert, and far from any pesky protestor that may ever try to overthrow the corrupt military's stranglehold over the country and economy.

I encourage everyone to go read the full article this piece is referencing:

Griner first said Mulkey encouraged gay players to hide their sexuality and “keep your business behind closed doors,” Griner wrote in her memoir.

“Kim Mulkey is an amazing coach; the reason I went to Baylor is because of her,” says Kelli Griffin, who played for Mulkey from 2007 to 2010. But, Griffin says, “She made my life hell,” by drawing attention to Griffin’s clothes and issuing a suspension that ultimately ended the player’s career. And she believes it started after Mulkey found out she was gay.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/03/30/kim-mulkey-lsu-griner-reese/

In the US this could be done with a short term variable loan called a construction loan that releases money in stages as the build progresses. Once finished if it's not being paid off it would be refinanced into a more traditional mortgage. Mortgages are often pretty different in the US vs UK, most US mortgages are for fixed rates for 30 year terms whereas most UK mortgages are fixed for a much shorter period and then go to variable rates. So you'd be hard pressed to get a bank to agree to a fixed rate 30 year mortgage for a house that doesn't exist yet.

This is just chat gpt rephrasing the comment above me. Don't worry though, when chat gpt is wrong it's quite confident sounding and even cites sources that don't exist but look quite convincing!

I don't think it's particularly gpu intensive like you'd expect for a graphically intense game, there's a heavy cpu bottleneck due to Npc calculations, some have suggested due to a lot of physics calculations with npcs. The npcs also have severe pop in issues in the city. For most people playing this the gpu isn't going to be the issue. Even the most powerful gaming cpus are only able to take it so far in its current state though.

Hold on let me have chat gpt rephrase that for you.

I'm not exactly sure of the source, but there was a statement suggesting that language models offer three kinds of responses: ones that are too general to be of any value, those that essentially mimic existing content in a slightly altered form, and assertions that are completely incorrect yet presented with unwavering certainty. I might be paraphrasing inaccurately, but that was the essence.

Apparently capping interest for people in financial hardship while they're making regular payments to prevent a loan that spirals out of control from accumulating interest is "a bailout for the wealthy." According to Republicans.

Very upsetting because the new SAVE plan is a big improvement over the prior repayment options in a lot of ways. Imagine if due to a court order everyone who just got restarted on student loan repayments suddenly has their payment plan forcibly and suddenly switched back resulting in higher payments and all the confusion and people who would blame Biden and, oh I think I just explained why Republicans are doing this.

Though she did also have to go through 6 years of appeals and hearings, legal costs, and spent some time in jail too. While she was in jail for a few months I believe she almost lost her house. She went through a whole trial and a jury even convicted her, it took an appeals court to over ride the jury verdict saying the jury erred. It's pretty ridiculous that all that happened after just a provisional ballot was cast and the election worker told her she was eligible. Prosecutors obviously had a political agenda here.

I agree, tech companies are better than most in providing equity as a part of compensation, even for lower level workers. I wish it were that way across the entire economy though.

Absolutely, and I did not mean to imply you were asking with any agenda, just trying to be helpful. The articles about this are bascially clickbait and implying things that aren't true in the headlines for more outrage. I think it's unfortunate because there is so much to be outraged about in the process of ipo's, how equity in companies is distributed in general, and who profits, and the clickbait distracts from the things we should truly be outraged about with some false controversies.