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Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.​

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said; ‘I’ve got no problem with gruel’​


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“Among the last actions by former President Joe Bidenbefore leaving the Oval Office was commuting the death sentences of 37 convicted murderers.

Hours after President Trump took over, he ordered the life sentences of these men be made, in effect, a living hell.

With that guidance, officials canceled plans to transfer most of the inmates to mainline prisons. Instead, Emil Bove III, the acting deputy attorney general at the time, ordered all but a handful requiring specialized medical treatment be housed in the U.S. Penitentiary at Florence, Colo., the harshest institution in the federal system.

Inmates at the Colorado prison—intended for the nation’s most violent—typically spend 23 hours a day alone in their cells. At a meeting in May with Attorney General Pam Bondi for families of loved ones killed by the 37 convicts, some officials said they wished conditions at the prison, known as ADX, were even worse.

… While the president’s authority to grant clemency for federal crimes is virtually unfettered, the power to impose vengeance via prison assignments isn’t clear.

There are two arguments: After juries found the 37 inmates deserving of death, shouldn’t they suffer the harshest treatment short of execution? Or, is it unjust to make their conditions worse than those of other murderers serving life without parole?…”
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“… Biden once supported the death penalty, but he came to see it as needlessly cruel, as well as impossible to administer fairly. After Trump’s election win, activists pressed Biden to issue a blanket commutation for all 40 men then on death row before he left office.

Biden declined to spare three of those killers, men convicted of terrorism or hate crimes. But the president commuted the other 37. “In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted,” Biden said.

Trump was furious. He addressed a Christmas Day social-media message to the 37 men: “I refuse to wish a Merry Christmas to those lucky ‘souls’ but, instead, will say, GO TO HELL!”…

… Justice Department attorneys are separately lobbying to get Troya—and others commuted by Biden—tried, convicted and sentenced again to death under state law instead of federal law.…”
 
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Friday that the United States will host a Qatari air force training facility at an Idaho air base. Hegseth later said the air base itself would remain under U.S. jurisdiction, after his announcement triggered online backlash from those mistakenly thinking that the decision would amount to having a foreign military base on U.S. soil.


Qatar would not be the first foreign country to send its pilots to train with the U.S. military. Air force units from friendly countries such as Singapore and Germany are hosted at training facilities in the United States, while pilots from NATO countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Britain have trained in the United States for decades. …”

 
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Weirdly reminiscent of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was deeply repressive (to be clear, on a completely different level of authoritarianism than anything even Stephen Miller is trying here — insane oppression, fear and torture of Romanians) at home, but active in the world stage and bust self-enriching himself along the way.

Ceausescu initially positioned himself as a reformer, permitting some press freedoms and other rights when he took over, and showing a willingness to buck Moscow, which bought him a lot of contacts on the international stage. But he pretty quickly turned brutal on internal policy, creating an insanely invasive security surveillance state that enforced a cult of personality for himself and his wife that he based on what he saw in a visit to North Korea in 1971.

He and his many slavish admirers even referred to a golden era of Romania:

“… Thereafter ideological orthodoxy retained a tight hold on all intellectual life, and meaningful reforms failed to materialize. After assuming the newly established position of president of the republic, Ceausescu was increasingly portrayed by the Romanian media as a creative communist theoretician and political leader whose "thought" was the source of all national accomplishments. His tenure as president was known as the "golden era of Ceausescu." The media embellished all references to him with such fomulaic appellations as "guarantor of the nation's progress and independence" and "visionary architect of the nation's future." In 1989, Ceausescu functioned as the head of state, the PCR, and the armed forces; chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development, president of the National Council of Working People, and chairman of the Socialist Democracy and Unity Front.…”
 
nycfan said:
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🎁 —> The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Weirdly reminiscent of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was deeply repressive (to be clear, on a completely different level of authoritarianism than anything even Stephen Miller is trying here — insane oppression, fear and torture of Romanians) at home, but active in the world stage and bust self-enriching himself along the way.

Ceausescu initially positioned himself as a reformer, permitting some press freedoms and other rights when he took over, and showing a willingness to buck Moscow, which bought him a lot of contacts on the international stage. But he pretty quickly turned brutal on internal policy, creating an insanely invasive security surveillance state that enforced a cult of personality for himself and his wife that he based on what he saw in a visit to North Korea in 1971.

He and his many slavish admirers even referred to a golden era of Romania:

“… Thereafter ideological orthodoxy retained a tight hold on all intellectual life, and meaningful reforms failed to materialize. After assuming the newly established position of president of the republic, Ceausescu was increasingly portrayed by the Romanian media as a creative communist theoretician and political leader whose "thought" was the source of all national accomplishments. His tenure as president was known as the "golden era of Ceausescu." The media embellished all references to him with such fomulaic appellations as "guarantor of the nation's progress and independence" and "visionary architect of the nation's future." In 1989, Ceausescu functioned as the head of state, the PCR, and the armed forces; chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development, president of the National Council of Working People, and chairman of the Socialist Democracy and Unity Front.…”
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“… Trump’s own White House website values the “major investment announcements” this term at “$8.8 trillion,” around half the “$17 trillion” and “$18 trillion” numbers Trump used out loud this week. And an item-by-item CNN review of the top 10 items on the White House’s list shows that even the “$8.8 trillion” number is itself a big exaggeration.

… White House spokesperson Kush Desai said in an email that the media is doing “pointless and pedantic nitpicking” and said, “The President is right: industry leaders have committed to investing trillions to make and hire in America, with trillions more to come.” He added that the media would be “beclowned” when Trump’s “policies take effect and investment commitments materialize into new factories and facilities.”…”

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This fact check is a good read for high level details of the alleged “commitments” to “invest” in the United States.
 
nycfan said:
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🎁 —> The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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Weirdly reminiscent of Nicolae Ceausescu, who was deeply repressive (to be clear, on a completely different level of authoritarianism than anything even Stephen Miller is trying here — insane oppression, fear and torture of Romanians) at home, but active in the world stage and bust self-enriching himself along the way.
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The comparison to Ceausescu is interesting, at least for me, because Ceausescu was used as the basis for the Antichrist by LeHaye & Jenkins in the Left Behind series.
 
dukeman92 said:


I thought MAGAts were against vaccines?
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Many regular MAGAs are definitely against such things, but the plutocratic GOP elite isn't that dumb. Even Trump knows better than to not take his vaccines and meds. It's a real Social Darwinist, Survival of the Fittest mentality - the GOP elite will privately continue to take vaccines and depend on the latest medical research, while their base will be left to suffer and use quack remedies like Ivermectin to try and survive covid and other diseases and health problems. It's worth noting that even some wealthier Republicans have complained about RFK, Jrs. war on mainstream American medicine and medical research, because they privately know better. Of course they can always fly anywhere in the world for the best medical care, which is why they're probably not too concerned about RFK, Jrs. war on medicine here. They'll gladly let their base suffer and die while they still make sure to get their necessary booster shots and vaccines every year.
 
SnoopRob said:
The comparison to Ceausescu is interesting, at least for me, because Ceausescu was used as the basis for the Antichrist by LeHaye & Jenkins in the Left Behind series.
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It's somehow fitting that is the case - the very people who keep warning everybody else about the Antichrist are now blindly following a man who fits that term so well in so many ways. Just another example of how easily conned these self-proclaimed tough, shrewd MAGAs are.
 
Mulberry Heel said:
Many regular MAGAs are definitely against such things, but the plutocratic GOP elite isn't that dumb. Even Trump knows better than to not take his vaccines and meds. It's a real Social Darwinist, Survival of the Fittest mentality - the GOP elite will privately continue to take vaccines and depend on the latest medical research, while their base will be left to suffer and use quack remedies like Ivermectin to try and survive covid and other diseases and health problems. It's worth noting that even some wealthier Republicans have complained about RFK, Jrs. war on mainstream American medicine and medical research, because they privately know better. Of course they can always fly anywhere in the world for the best medical care, which is why they're probably not too concerned about RFK, Jrs. war on medicine here. They'll gladly let their base suffer and die while they still make sure to get their necessary booster shots and vaccines every year.
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“… The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”

“Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” with increased funding for immigration enforcement from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Labor Department said in the Federal Register, which is the place where all proposed rules are recorded for the public to view and comment.

Also, contradicting comments made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins that the U.S. farm workforce will become “100 percent American” as a result of mass deportations, the Labor Department noted that Americans are not willing to step into farm work and lack the skills to fill agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants are abandoning.

“The Department concludes that qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers,” the agency said.…”
 
nycfan said:


“… The Labor Department warned in an obscure document filed with the Federal Register last week that “the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers.”

“Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow,” with increased funding for immigration enforcement from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Labor Department said in the Federal Register, which is the place where all proposed rules are recorded for the public to view and comment.

Also, contradicting comments made by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins that the U.S. farm workforce will become “100 percent American” as a result of mass deportations, the Labor Department noted that Americans are not willing to step into farm work and lack the skills to fill agricultural jobs that undocumented immigrants are abandoning.

“The Department concludes that qualified and eligible U.S. workers will not make themselves available in sufficient numbers,” the agency said.…”
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The Labor Department made this case in paperwork documenting a new rule that took effect Oct. 2 that effectively lowers pay for seasonal migrants working in agriculture under the H-2A visa program. The move is aimed at giving farmers easier and legal access to foreign workers “to avoid imminent widespread disruption across the U.S. agricultural sector,” the agency said, and is expected to cut farmers’ labor costs by $24 billion over the next 10 years.

President Donald Trump is “strengthening the farm workforce and improving H-2A and H-2B visa programs — such as through the Department of Labor’s new Office of Immigration Policy, which will help farmers have the legal workforce they need to succeed,” a senior administration official said in an emailed statement, adding that the president “is enforcing the law and prioritizing fixing programs farmers and ranchers rely on to produce the safest and most productive food supply in the world.”

… The changes to the seasonal guest-worker program offer farmers a reprieve that it says will create a bigger pipeline to migrant workers, while other industries lack such a pathway.

At the same time, the agricultural industry is getting squeezed by Trump’s tariff policy. China, which has traditionally purchased agricultural crops like soybeans, corn and wheat, has stopped buying soybeans and some other crops, hurting U.S. farmers.…”
 


Border Tensions Rise: 'Heavy Clashes' Against Pakistan On Border Areas With Afghanistan, Says Taliban; Calls It 'Retaliation For Air Strikes'​


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Border tensions rise: 'Heavy clashes' against Pakistan on border areas with Afghanistan, says Taliban; calls it 'retaliation for air strikes' - The Times of India

The Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology, Health & Fitness news & opinions from leading columnists.
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Taliban blame Pakistan after explosions in Kabul, amid outreach to India​

The attacks come amid rising tensions with Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of sheltering anti-Pakistan armed groups.
www.aljazeera.com

Taliban blame Pakistan after explosions in Kabul, amid outreach to India

Attacks come amid rising tensions with Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of sheltering anti-Pakistan armed groups.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
 
nycfan said:


Border Tensions Rise: 'Heavy Clashes' Against Pakistan On Border Areas With Afghanistan, Says Taliban; Calls It 'Retaliation For Air Strikes'​


timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Border tensions rise: 'Heavy clashes' against Pakistan on border areas with Afghanistan, says Taliban; calls it 'retaliation for air strikes' - The Times of India

The Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology, Health & Fitness news & opinions from leading columnists.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com timesofindia.indiatimes.com

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Taliban blame Pakistan after explosions in Kabul, amid outreach to India​

The attacks come amid rising tensions with Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of sheltering anti-Pakistan armed groups.
www.aljazeera.com

Taliban blame Pakistan after explosions in Kabul, amid outreach to India

Attacks come amid rising tensions with Islamabad, which accuses the Taliban of sheltering anti-Pakistan armed groups.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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