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Vaughn’s confession contradicted the facts of the crime, but the judge sentenced him to life in prison anyway, commenting, “I’m sure that some governor somewhere down the road will reduce the sentence or commute it to a term of years.”

It's awful at every step.

The minimum that will happen here is the $250 million fine. That's because he's already been found guilty of the top count. The current trial is to determine if he's guilty of the other counts, and how much more Trump will be fined. He could also lose his ability to operate any of his businesses in NYS (this may have already happened, I can't remember.)

This is also a bench trial, since his attorneys forgot to ask for a jury trial. That means the judge will decide if he's guilty of the further counts, and what the punishments will be. The same judge that he's been screaming at from the stand, threatening on social media, and whose staffers trump has also been threatening and doxxing.

That's OP's headline.

I don't see what the city prosecutor has to do with it. This is similar to a FOIA request, just based on Kansas law, which is pretty clear:

The law states: "Public record" means any recorded informations, regardless of form, characteristics or locations, that is made, maintained or kept by or is in possession of: (A) Any public agency; or (B) any officer or employee of a public agency pursuant to the officer's or employee's official duties and that is related to the functions, activities, programs or operations of any public agency.

This guy's cell phone is clearly "kept in the possession of an officer or employee of a public agency." The city is arguing that asking for the cell phone is an "undue burden" efficiency is ridiculous on its face.

The reason that records acts like this are put in place is because the way you described it working would be a clear conflict of interest: the city prosecutor suing the city to turn over the records of an official, with an attorney hired by the city working to keep those records from being public.

Yes, my city has a housing crisis, a looming income tax crisis, thanks to WFH suburbanites, and multiple empty office towers in prime downtown real estate. There were already two of these projects underway, and it would be nice to kickstart another two.

There were already multiple projects like this underway in my city, with several more buildings that would be good candidates for this kind of thing. We had lost a lot of office rentals before covid, and now with even more suburban people working from home, we have the double whammy of lost city income tax from the WFH people. We also have a housing crunch in my city, with a serious lack of available units in desirable areas driving up rents.

So, my city has a looming cash flow problem, an already established housing crisis, and shitloads of square footage of real estate in pri) me locations sitting empty. Seems like a ready-made solution to all of these things is available, right?

However, as you pointed out, converting these old office buildings can be trickier and more expensive. That's where these programs come in. I suspect that the Biden admin has looked at all these factors in cities across the country and seen that giving an incentive to developers (who were already interested in such projects) to move forward.

Is it perfect? Hell no. I hate the idea of giving public funds to private developers just for them to be able to charge rents. I would also like at least some of these units be available for purchase as condos. That said, that's the kind of system the US has for solutions to every problem: put taxpayer money in the hands of private middlemen so that they can take a profit.

Conservatives have been trying to kill public schools since integration was forced on them. Notice that this was a "virtual" school?

Well, they do have some sort of crypto integration in that browser, so it makes sense why they come off that way.

He's using every trial to fundraise.

I'm not. Jack Dorsey is a piece of shit.

It's internalized misogyny.

Any R with remaining moderate leanings is worried about being primaried by a Freedom Caucus type. This threat is how desantis has gotten the Florida legislature to do anything he wants.

A lot of people are saying it. Very smart people.

You think most dairy cows are fed on naturally watered grass?

We have a skip button on the jukebox remote; somebody played Nickelback two separate times during one of my shifts last week, and I just skipped it both times.

This kind of thing happens periodically and you have to skip certain songs for the greater benefit of the bar. If somebody complains that I skipped Monster Mash or whatever I'll give them a dollar back.

I don't think there were ever that many of us who read Adbusters every month, but it's likely even fewer now.

I think that reality TV and social media influencers have had as much to do with people embracing conspicuous consumption as a culture as much as advertisers have.

IMO, abortion restrictions are about reducing women's independence, and keeping society patriarchal. That and keeping white people the majority.

It's just a happy coincidence that it could result in more poor people who are desperate to take any job, although infant mortality is up in abortion restricted states post Roe, so it may not quite work out that way.

This is also the real reason why conservatives are again pushing to do away with child labor restrictions in the US. If a child is allowed to do the job for a lower wage, it lowers the wage for adults, too.

Boy, the museums are really just the very tip of the iceberg for the Brits.

The biggest difference that I've noticed between lemmy and Reddit is that your comment would've been downvoted to oblivion by the modi fan boys over there.