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“Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl, two out-of-state conservative activists who pleaded no contest to orchestrating a series of robocalls aimed at suppressing the vote of Black residents in Detroit, were sentenced to one year of probation on Monday by a Wayne County judge.
Burkman and Wohl were initially charged with actions aimed at suppressing the vote during the 2020 general election. The no contest pleas and the subsequent sentencing agreement were hashed out by the defendants’ attorneys and the Wayne County 3rd Circuit Court.” https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/briefs/maga-robo-callers-sentenced-for-intimidating-michigan-voters/ |
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Wow. That was one fascinating read. I honestly don't care much about the guy's erotica habits (though he is an idiot for putting it on his Goodreads), but this story does make Jack Posobeic appear even more of an ass. |
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“Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration diverted more than $35 million in taxpayer funds — an amount far greater than previously known — as part of a brazen agenda last year to defeat two ballot amendments he staunchly opposed, a Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times investigation has found. Much of the state money was intended to assist needy Floridians, including children. Instead, it paid for political consultants, lawyers and thousands of advertisements that helped DeSantis and his supporters win at the ballot box.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article313630394.html#storylink=cpy |
More for Lombardo: “The U.S. federal workplace safety regulator has opened an investigation into Nevada’s state OSHA agency weeks after Fortune reported that three citations the state agency had issued against Elon Musk’s Boring Company were suddenly withdrawn, according to three people familiar with the matter. Nevada OSHA confirmed that the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration had received a complaint about the state agency and had opened a federal review into whether Nevada OSHA was at least as effective as the federal agency—a requirement for all state OSHA plans under U.S. law. The federal inquiry comes about one month after Fortune published an investigation revealing that Nevada OSHA had issued three “willful” and serious citations to Boring Company, the tunneling venture founded by Elon Musk that is digging an underground Tesla tunnel system below Las Vegas and the broader county. The citations were handed to Boring after two firefighters were burned by chemicals in one of its tunnels during a training drill. Shortly after the citations were issued earlier this year, Boring Company’s president called a member of Nevada Gov. Joe Lombardo’s office and set up a meeting with senior state officials, and the state agency rescinded those citations within 24 hours. The removal of the citations was not documented in the case file, and a line item in Nevada OSHA’s case diary that described the meeting was later deleted from a public record, Fortune found.” https://fortune.com/2025/12/16/elon-musk-boring-compan-citations-federal-probe-nevada-osha/ |
| This administration has completely blown up all of the procurement rules meant to prevent exactly what they are doing. the corruption is boundless. |
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I'm sure this deal would have happened no problem, if Trump wasn't President /s.
Truth Social Parent to Merge With Nuclear Fusion Firm in $6 Billion Deal https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/business/trump-media-tae-technologies-fusion-power-deal.html Trump Media & Technology Group, the social media and crypto company part owned by President Trump, said it would help develop a “utility-scale fusion power plant.” |