Here's a bi-partisan issue most Americans would agree on: Increasing the penalty on scam calls.

The a-holes behind the Car Insurance Scam got busted (again) -->

FCC slaps $300M fine on “largest illegal robocall operation” it’s ever seen

The US based "Robocallers were already banned for life and unable to pay previous fines."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/08/fcc-slaps-300m-fine-on-largest-illegal-robocall-operation-its-ever-seen/

I bet Bezos could take them both.

Until now they only fought in the who could pay less taxes arena.

now do Chuck Todd!

Settling takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the cash to carry me
And soon I will be free

Fantasy, it gets the best of me
When I'm settling
All caught up in the strategy, every word is a testimony
Won't you believe me?

Settling takes me away to where I've always heard it could be
Just a dream and the cash to carry me
And soon I will be free

Is EdgeGPT content restricted?

Well, it's not far down to justice, at least it's not for me
And if the case is right you can settle away and find security
Oh, the lawyers can do miracles, just you wait and see
Believe me

It's not far to never-never land, no reason to defend
And if the case is right you can find the joy of innocence again
Oh, the lawyers can do miracles, just you wait and see
Believe me

Seeing a lot of "Fox won" type sentiments here.

As true as it might be re the coffee stirrer budget for a huge corp like Fox, lets be clear paying the better part of a billion dollars is a loss no matter how you clock it.

Dominion is private-equity-owned, they ran the numbers and scored it as a win.

Salary for propagandists:
20+ million

Settlement for treasonous libel:
787 million

Successful undermining of democracy:
Priceless

My wife, god bless her, reminded me that this not the SDNY case, as that's coming later, she points out it's the Manhattan DA bringing the case.

I worried if its a NY city court the jury could be a bunch of Staten Islanders... No ,turns out that's Richmond county, different DA. This is the "NY" county court.

The Jury is going to be made up of Manhattanites only.

Good f'n luck getting a sympathetic jury. Assuming they do run out of Juror challenges at some point.

Toast.

In the case I served, that was what made the difference, the defendant caught red handed colluding to lie.
I'm sure the defense will be more competent than the case I heard, but I can't imagine what the theory will be that makes the defendant's communications to the CFO of his own company explicitly telling him to lie about the nature of the payments shine in any light but guilty as charged.

They have notes showing conspiracy to lie about the nature of payments including paying the lawyer extra to cover his taxes so he can be made whole while falsely claiming the money as income. In my case the brother of the defendant, and co-conspirator pled guilty, a lot like what's happening here.

I've read the Statement of Facts for the indictment and as a recent Juror on a conspiracy fraud + conspiracy money laundering case in SDNY, it looks pretty tight. <thread>

I was a juror in a trial in SDNY last month (we found guilty on all charges btw, conspiracy fraud + conspiracy money laundering.)
I enjoyed the experience but now I feel like I really lost the lotto by one digit on being at the right place at the right time.

Record scratch, "Spam risk Egypt."

Thinking of legally changing my name to John Mastodon.

I love getting a box from Harry and David every x-mas.

But I'm still on the Peppers and Onion relish from two years ago vs the Moose Munch which barely makes it through the weekend.

@Klaatu_Veratta_Nectarine
No paranoia req'd, it is pretty obviously examples of influence ops paying off for our enemies.

Successfully tricking folks into fighting the USA. Thanks FÖX news.

Fusion solved!!!

On the one hand, It requires a 5+ Billion dollar investment to build the machine to generate enough power for ~7000 homes and it only works once as the process eats itself.

OTOH, The Wright brothers only flew 852 feet.

#fusion

A few weeks ago the 140 million US COVID catching # equaled the entire Russian population (, thanks FOX news!) ->140 million Americans have had coronavirus, according to ...https://www.washingtonpost.com › health › 2022/02/28
Feb 28, 2022 — More than 140 million Americans have had the coronavirus, according to estimates from blood tests that reveal antibodies from infection ...

What if we gave UA all our f-14,15, 16s, oldest first, and replaced them all with f-22, 35s?

BBA

Nat Review is now openly calling 45 delusional.