Crow wing county jail detox
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2024.05.07 12:14 Ecstatic_Link_3587 ADHD borb
Hello everyone, I’ve got a fella who is roughly 8 months old and that i’m convinced he’s got ADHD 🤣. I’m laughing about it but is it going to last for long again? He’s been like that maybe since 5 months old… I would thought puberty, but since 5 months old, isn’t it a little early? He really gets enough time out of jail (his cage) and in rare occasions when he is in during the day, I make sure I interact with him. But I also think he might not get enough sleep time? Our lifestyle doesn’t allow us to put him to bed and wake him up for him to get 12-15h of dodo time in his cage under a blanket. He roughly get his 12h, but I know he sometimes naps during the day. And he even screams in the morning to be waken up and is mad when it’s cage time in the evening. He really can’t stay on my shoulder without climbing everywhere and biting my jewelries. Also, I’m the one who takes care of him since day one, but he seems to like my mom more than me lmao even though she rarely interacts with him. Always heart wings her, whistles to her (I thinks he has a little crush on her).
So yea, I was wondering if someone could help me or explain this behaviour because it’s really starting to be annoying…😅
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So yea, I was wondering if someone could help me or explain this behaviour because it’s really starting to be annoying…😅
2024.05.07 10:20 White-tigress Imagine, being so depressed about medical bills, you see this as your only option
Husband Murders Wife In Hospital Bed
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Husband murders wife at hospital because he said he couldn’t take care of her or afford her medical bills: CopsHere is another source in case you're interested.
DAVID HARRIS MAY 5, 2024 4:08 PM
A husband is charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly killed his wife at a Missouri hospital while she was getting a new port for dialysis.
According to a probable cause statement, staff at the Centerpoint Medical Center told detectives with the Independence Police Department that the woman was alert around 7:30 Friday. But when they checked on her about an hour later, she was unconscious. A “code blue” was initiated and she was taken to the intensive care unit. She had no pulse nor brain activity.
Hospital staff noticed she had “suspicious injuries,” specifically redness around her neck and a fresh wound on her throat, the affidavit said. Staff then contacted the woman’s husband, Ronnie Wiggs, about her condition but he said he didn’t have a vehicle to get to the hospital. They called the victim’s son who said he would pick up Wiggs, who is in his late 70s, and take him to the hospital.
While in the hospital room, Wiggs allegedly told the victim’s son and a nurse that he had killed his wife. He allegedly said “I did it, I killed her, I choked her.” Cops took him into custody. In an interview with detectives he admitted to killing the victim by choking her and covering her mouth to prevent her from screaming, the affidavit said. After killing her, he left the hospital, Wiggs told cops. Wiggs allegedly said he had previously tried to kill his wife on two other occasions. The first time he started but he couldn’t bring himself to carry through with the killing, detectives wrote. His wife woke up and told him not to do that again. The second time he didn’t do it because his wife was connected to several monitors.
“The defendant advised he was depressed and killed the victim because he could not take care of her anymore and he could not pay the medical bills that had been acquired” detectives wrote.
Doctors pronounced her dead around 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Wiggs with second-degree murder on Saturday. He is at the Jackson County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
2024.05.07 03:53 kaleviko [All] Our man in Columbia
Much of Return took place in Yankton Federal Prison in South Dakota. While there is a real town called as Yankton there, seen also on Mr C's map in P2, it doesn't have a Federal Prison, and the prison shown to us as the one allegedly in Yankton is actually in New Jersey. Why then choose such a specific but obscure location?
There is also another Yankton in the United States. This Yankton is a little village in Columbia County, Oregon, down the Columbia River from Portland. Coincidentally, Portland was where Cole called Agent Chester Desmond in Fire Walk with Me. A little further up the river, there would have been the imaginary Deer Meadow where Teresa Bank was found murdered, floating in one of the Columbia River's many tributaries, the Wind River.
Coincidentally, Columbia County in Oregon and Yankton in South Dakota are also connected by the early 19th century Lewis and Clark expedition that passed through both. This expedition got random attention when Wally paid his respects to Sheriff Truman in P4.
At this point, these observations would link to a strange confession Albert made to Cole in P3. Years ago, Jeffries had been in touch with him, asking for some "information" that he needed to pass on to Cooper.
As usual, to help us deal with the disbelief how steep these slippery slopes are, each blurry clue appears backed up by another that led to the same outcome. Thus, there would be another way how Yankton connected to Columbia, possibly revealing in the process what this South Dakota business was all about.
He found the man in Columbia.
In P2, on Mr C's map, as he zoomed out from Buckhorn and then in to Yankton, the oversized title DAKOTA got cut to its bottom right corner. The purpose in that probably was that what remained visible of the last three letters could just as well have been the same corner from COLUMBIA. Together with the other Yankton being in actual Columbia, this got us as close as possible to a conclusion that the place was the likely site where "our man" was before Albert got him killed, his whereabouts now showing up as the prison.
This would also come with the likelihood that what was going on in South Dakota was really about what was now going on in Oregon in Fire Walk with Me. Instead of direct narration or laborious flashbacks with digitally recreated characters, more of the past events would have been revealed by staging them in future settings, making that the future past, like seeing new dreams that were based on old history.
For this to have been figured out as intended, we should be able to identify "our man" in Yankton. A week later, that man was killed. The one man from Yankton who did get killed was Warden Murphy, shot dead with two bullets in P12.
Your man, right. RIGHT.
Earlier in P4, when the FBI arrived in Yankton Federal Prison and the Warden was still alive, they were first led to a separate room to have a look at some findings. There were six of them lined up in the room. On the left, Inspector Randy Hollister spoke.
Elsewhere in the story, the "information" that Albert let Jeffries pass to Cooper, leading to "that man" getting killed, would align with the coordinates that Mr C was after, trying to locate a certain place for an unknown reason. The place that the coordinates pointed at would have been where "our man" was to be found, presumably leading him to the Warden.
Following the information.
Both the coordinates and their counterpart - the information on a piece of paper from inside a metal tube left behind by Major Briggs - led to a small golden pond by a bare sycamore tree somewhere in the forest on the Blue Pine Mountain. The pond was also associated with the drawing on Mr C's Ace of Spades that he showed to Darya in P2, telling her it was what he wanted.
Murphies with two shoots.
The irregular blob on the card also resembled what looked like a potato escaping when the Experiment's vomited in P8, along with BOB's head. Another word for a potato is a murphy, and as Warden Murphy died after shot twice, that would link him to the drawing on the card that had two shoots on the possible murphy.
Murphy seems to have got his murphy cut off.
This potato would also have a link to Hastings's lawyer George who further connected to the Fireman. Accordingly, Cole commented Hollister's remark about "your man" with a reference to a George.
The last (and first) we saw of George was when he arrived in jail in P2, possibly hinting that in another storyline, he was still there, now as the prison Warden. While George was framed together with stacks of forms hanging on the wall, the first time we saw the Warden who was framed together with a wall sign saying, "You are required to fill out a form" in P4.
Fill in the custody forms, and we'll put you in the form of the Warden.
Last we heard of George hinted how he may have got his new "form". In P9, Detective Macklay left us wondering about George's fate.
If you are a fireman, then you must have a fire alarm.
Then in P7, the Warden stepped out of his office and was briefly framed together with a fire alarm on the opposite wall. In the next episode P8, the Fireman got some kind of an alarm that ruined his slow evening with Senorita Dido. He walked to his theater and checked some "security footage", freezing it to the moment when the assumed potato was just coming out of the Experiment's vomit. The Fireman floated up and fell asleep, seeing golden dreams that came out of his head.
Looks like mine.
As the loose potato also seems to be connected to the Fireman, the twist here may have been that somewhere in the universe, he had been decapitated by the Experiment. Now, his severed head showed up as the spud, possibly because he had been Warden Murphy and a murphy is a potato. On the fantasy dimension of the story, his head then turned into one.
Flying through the universe, the potato would have landed in the forest, leaving the golden pond where it fell. In P17, Mr C then followed the coordinates to the pond, apparently assuming that the "man in Columbia" would have been there, or at least his head.
These complicated schemes would then circle back to George. In the opening episode, Detective Harrison interrupted Hastings's interview.
Overall then, it looks like Albert got the Fireman killed. But who was he really?
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There is also another Yankton in the United States. This Yankton is a little village in Columbia County, Oregon, down the Columbia River from Portland. Coincidentally, Portland was where Cole called Agent Chester Desmond in Fire Walk with Me. A little further up the river, there would have been the imaginary Deer Meadow where Teresa Bank was found murdered, floating in one of the Columbia River's many tributaries, the Wind River.
Coincidentally, Columbia County in Oregon and Yankton in South Dakota are also connected by the early 19th century Lewis and Clark expedition that passed through both. This expedition got random attention when Wally paid his respects to Sheriff Truman in P4.
Wally: "From Alexandria, Virginia, to Stockton, California, I think about Lewis and his friend Clark, the first Caucasians to see this part of the world. Their footsteps have been the highways and byways of my days on the road."Wally appeared to further hint about the speculated connection. Alexandria, Virginia, is right next to District of Columbia while Stockton rhymes with Yankton.
At this point, these observations would link to a strange confession Albert made to Cole in P3. Years ago, Jeffries had been in touch with him, asking for some "information" that he needed to pass on to Cooper.
Cole: "What information did they want?" Albert: "I told Phillip who our man was in Columbia." Cole: "And?" Albert: "A week later, that man was killed."Neither of them returned to the discussion, leaving it for us to figure out what was going on. Naturally, there was nothing more about Columbia either, but we were left with the slim idea Albert's Columbia may have been associated with Columbia County, Oregon.
As usual, to help us deal with the disbelief how steep these slippery slopes are, each blurry clue appears backed up by another that led to the same outcome. Thus, there would be another way how Yankton connected to Columbia, possibly revealing in the process what this South Dakota business was all about.
He found the man in Columbia.
In P2, on Mr C's map, as he zoomed out from Buckhorn and then in to Yankton, the oversized title DAKOTA got cut to its bottom right corner. The purpose in that probably was that what remained visible of the last three letters could just as well have been the same corner from COLUMBIA. Together with the other Yankton being in actual Columbia, this got us as close as possible to a conclusion that the place was the likely site where "our man" was before Albert got him killed, his whereabouts now showing up as the prison.
This would also come with the likelihood that what was going on in South Dakota was really about what was now going on in Oregon in Fire Walk with Me. Instead of direct narration or laborious flashbacks with digitally recreated characters, more of the past events would have been revealed by staging them in future settings, making that the future past, like seeing new dreams that were based on old history.
For this to have been figured out as intended, we should be able to identify "our man" in Yankton. A week later, that man was killed. The one man from Yankton who did get killed was Warden Murphy, shot dead with two bullets in P12.
Your man, right. RIGHT.
Earlier in P4, when the FBI arrived in Yankton Federal Prison and the Warden was still alive, they were first led to a separate room to have a look at some findings. There were six of them lined up in the room. On the left, Inspector Randy Hollister spoke.
Hollister: "That's your man, right?" Cole: "Holy jumpin' George."While we assumed they were talking about Cooper's disheveled mugshot, the actual idea may have been to indicate that the Warden, standing on the very right, was "your man".
Elsewhere in the story, the "information" that Albert let Jeffries pass to Cooper, leading to "that man" getting killed, would align with the coordinates that Mr C was after, trying to locate a certain place for an unknown reason. The place that the coordinates pointed at would have been where "our man" was to be found, presumably leading him to the Warden.
Following the information.
Both the coordinates and their counterpart - the information on a piece of paper from inside a metal tube left behind by Major Briggs - led to a small golden pond by a bare sycamore tree somewhere in the forest on the Blue Pine Mountain. The pond was also associated with the drawing on Mr C's Ace of Spades that he showed to Darya in P2, telling her it was what he wanted.
Murphies with two shoots.
The irregular blob on the card also resembled what looked like a potato escaping when the Experiment's vomited in P8, along with BOB's head. Another word for a potato is a murphy, and as Warden Murphy died after shot twice, that would link him to the drawing on the card that had two shoots on the possible murphy.
Murphy seems to have got his murphy cut off.
This potato would also have a link to Hastings's lawyer George who further connected to the Fireman. Accordingly, Cole commented Hollister's remark about "your man" with a reference to a George.
The last (and first) we saw of George was when he arrived in jail in P2, possibly hinting that in another storyline, he was still there, now as the prison Warden. While George was framed together with stacks of forms hanging on the wall, the first time we saw the Warden who was framed together with a wall sign saying, "You are required to fill out a form" in P4.
Fill in the custody forms, and we'll put you in the form of the Warden.
Last we heard of George hinted how he may have got his new "form". In P9, Detective Macklay left us wondering about George's fate.
Macklay: "Once we took Hastings into custody, his wife was murdered in their house, apparently by their lawyer, a man named George Bouncer, who is now also in custody."Being "in custody" has two meanings. One is imprisonment while the other is about being a custodian. Another kind of custodian is a warden.
If you are a fireman, then you must have a fire alarm.
Then in P7, the Warden stepped out of his office and was briefly framed together with a fire alarm on the opposite wall. In the next episode P8, the Fireman got some kind of an alarm that ruined his slow evening with Senorita Dido. He walked to his theater and checked some "security footage", freezing it to the moment when the assumed potato was just coming out of the Experiment's vomit. The Fireman floated up and fell asleep, seeing golden dreams that came out of his head.
Looks like mine.
As the loose potato also seems to be connected to the Fireman, the twist here may have been that somewhere in the universe, he had been decapitated by the Experiment. Now, his severed head showed up as the spud, possibly because he had been Warden Murphy and a murphy is a potato. On the fantasy dimension of the story, his head then turned into one.
Flying through the universe, the potato would have landed in the forest, leaving the golden pond where it fell. In P17, Mr C then followed the coordinates to the pond, apparently assuming that the "man in Columbia" would have been there, or at least his head.
These complicated schemes would then circle back to George. In the opening episode, Detective Harrison interrupted Hastings's interview.
Harrison: "Show Mr Hastings to his new room. He can meet with his lawyer there."We didn't see George visiting his client but we did see someone else there. Later in P2, Camera moved from Hastings's cell to show a strangely frozen Woodsman sitting nearby. The Woodsman faded away, but then his head reappeared, flying somewhere on its own. Regarding how the plot seems to have gone, that Woodsman would have been representative of George aka the Fireman, having just lost his head.
Overall then, it looks like Albert got the Fireman killed. But who was he really?
2024.05.07 03:49 Jbroussard221 Maine dui
Got a dui 1st in Maine. Seeing if anyone has any information especially in Penobscot county?
Aggravated offense: refusal and speeding (30+ over)
Have a lawyer and am going to guess typically even with aggravating offenses no jail time even though mandatory minimum is 96hrs (but that’s what lawyer is for right?)
So I guess my big question is what’s the odds they drop the refusal and possibly speeding and just pay the dui fine and speeding fine?
Secondly, I see Maine does not have ignition interlock requirements for first offense and doesn’t look like much if any probation. Can anyone elaborate?
Also I am not from Maine so can anyone tell me how this works. Will I basically have two dui’s or will everything be handled in Maine and then I just send everything to home state and done?
Thanks for the info.
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Aggravated offense: refusal and speeding (30+ over)
Have a lawyer and am going to guess typically even with aggravating offenses no jail time even though mandatory minimum is 96hrs (but that’s what lawyer is for right?)
So I guess my big question is what’s the odds they drop the refusal and possibly speeding and just pay the dui fine and speeding fine?
Secondly, I see Maine does not have ignition interlock requirements for first offense and doesn’t look like much if any probation. Can anyone elaborate?
Also I am not from Maine so can anyone tell me how this works. Will I basically have two dui’s or will everything be handled in Maine and then I just send everything to home state and done?
Thanks for the info.
2024.05.07 03:43 FrenchFields Richard Allen has been booked into the Allen County Jail
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2024.05.07 03:33 Natural_Nobody_6214 Angel
I had a dream about two weeks ago of an angel with black wings. I’m not religious by any means so it was interesting dreaming of one. He was very beautiful and had reddish brown long hair a little past his shoulders and his eyes were what I can describe golden brown. It wasn’t a long dream, he just flew in front of me and left a feather behind.
Before I had this dream I happened to find 2 crow feathers and put them in a vase. This could be why I dreamt of him?
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Before I had this dream I happened to find 2 crow feathers and put them in a vase. This could be why I dreamt of him?
2024.05.07 01:54 bstorm83 Airman Shot and Killed by local PD
Posted on the Hurlburt Page. Serious question, How can the same entity that shot this airman also investigate it…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, died Friday, May 3, following an incident at his off-base residence.
Fortson was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron. He entered active duty on Nov. 19, 2019.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is the lead investigation agency in this incident. To protect the integrity of the investigation, no other information will be released at this time.
The 1st Special Operations Wing’s priorities are providing casualty affairs service to the family, supporting the squadron during this tragic time, and ensuring resources are available for all who are impacted.
For those impacted by this incident and in need of support, please reach out to your nearest available helping agency.
Please contact 1st Special Operations Wing Public Affairs at 1sow.wpa1@us.af.mil or reach us at (850) 884-7906 for inquiries.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Roger Fortson, 23, died Friday, May 3, following an incident at his off-base residence.
Fortson was assigned to the 4th Special Operations Squadron. He entered active duty on Nov. 19, 2019.
Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is the lead investigation agency in this incident. To protect the integrity of the investigation, no other information will be released at this time.
The 1st Special Operations Wing’s priorities are providing casualty affairs service to the family, supporting the squadron during this tragic time, and ensuring resources are available for all who are impacted.
For those impacted by this incident and in need of support, please reach out to your nearest available helping agency.
Please contact 1st Special Operations Wing Public Affairs at 1sow.wpa1@us.af.mil or reach us at (850) 884-7906 for inquiries.
2024.05.06 22:38 BigcuzxVelloony 🔰34NBC #🔒FreePip
 | ASSAULT SUBJECT CHARGED AFTER FLEEING submitted by BigcuzxVelloony to stlchronicles [link] [comments] On Sunday, May 5, 2024, the St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office issued charges on suspect Epiphany Dismukes, 21 years of age, for Assault First Degree and Assault Second Degree. At 11:07 p.m., on May 4, 2024, after attending a parade in South St. Louis City, Dismukes drove both victims, along with several other people, to the 3200 block of S. Rider Trail in Earth City. An argument begins between Dismukes and victims. While outside at a gas station in Earth City, the women fight with their hands and the fight escalates when she gets into and drives her 2014 Dodge Dart directly at Victim #1. She misses Victim #1 but strikes Victim #2 with her vehicle. Victim #2 was subsequently pinned between them the vehicle and a gas pump. Victim #2 suffered injuries to her ankle, back, and face as well as subsequently going in and out of consciousness. Dismukes fled the scene and was stopped soon after by police. Police were able to identify her by her reported clothing. Dismukes was subsequently arrested. After Miranda, she admitted to using her vehicle to strike the victim and said the reason why she fled was because she wanted to see her kids one last time before she went to jail. Dismukes is being held on $100,000 cash only, no 10%, bond. |
2024.05.06 22:03 tillders An audit or entertainment? The Utah County Jail will be on reality TV’s ‘60 Days In’
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2024.05.06 21:39 strangelilgrrl 21 [F4M] Anywhere/USA/GMT+3/Moscow - shine a little light into my room.
feeling lost like a child left on a parking lot. i was never asking for much but to others it's always a lot.
time is portioned unproportionally and i'm outgrowing the distortion of that wonderful plan i had when i knew who i am.
ever since i was a little girl i questioned the meaning of life and most of the scenarios were scaring the shit outta me. the only things that have a stable calming effect on my mind are unpassing fancies of my heart. if i'm to except music and art, the thing that stays a faithfully sweet made-up medicine is love. i carefully unfold it in my mind and after taking in the sight, i put it back.
do you mind visiting the city of the mausoleum?
are you crafty and insane? do you casually put the blame for your raging despair on every living man, with no respect for their obscurity or fame?
do your eyes shine with a piercing glint of steel? perhaps they may be blue or green?
is your hair as dark as a crow's wing?
do you play, write things and sing with a voice that has a velvety tint?
if you do, please message me.
https://ibb.co/kyTwC6J
a song to listen to while you're reading this crap — the undertones - she's a runaround.
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time is portioned unproportionally and i'm outgrowing the distortion of that wonderful plan i had when i knew who i am.
ever since i was a little girl i questioned the meaning of life and most of the scenarios were scaring the shit outta me. the only things that have a stable calming effect on my mind are unpassing fancies of my heart. if i'm to except music and art, the thing that stays a faithfully sweet made-up medicine is love. i carefully unfold it in my mind and after taking in the sight, i put it back.
do you mind visiting the city of the mausoleum?
are you crafty and insane? do you casually put the blame for your raging despair on every living man, with no respect for their obscurity or fame?
do your eyes shine with a piercing glint of steel? perhaps they may be blue or green?
is your hair as dark as a crow's wing?
do you play, write things and sing with a voice that has a velvety tint?
if you do, please message me.
https://ibb.co/kyTwC6J
a song to listen to while you're reading this crap — the undertones - she's a runaround.
2024.05.06 21:13 Educational-Raisin69 Smaller bird chasing red tail hawk. No picture - north east Illinois.
I was driving in the north Chicago suburbs and saw what was definitely a red tailed hawk being chased by what looked a lot like another, but much smaller, bird of prey. Chaser was very aggressive and maybe crow sized. I could be convinced that it was a red wing, but it definitely looked to me more like another bird of prey. Would a kestrel or peregrine be so bold?
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2024.05.06 21:04 AverageIndividual508 Dimension 7yo was charged with similar threats in 2015 as daniel is(less counts) and got his internet restricted to this day by a judge.
There's alot of cope going around that danny will come back at some point
Daniel made 100s of threats over social media and they have what's called supervised release in the federal system and these kind of restrictions are common
https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/computer-internet-restrictions-probation-supervised-release-conditions
it seems pretty obvious from what the judge stated in his last court appearance that if she released him he would most likely go back on social media and make similar threats. MacDougall and the federal prosecutor has Daniel's number he's fully cooked.
This isn't some colorodo county court who rubber stamps daniel out the door because he's stealing chicken wings and missing court dates this is a federal court and felony domestic terrorist charges.
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Daniel made 100s of threats over social media and they have what's called supervised release in the federal system and these kind of restrictions are common
https://www.uscourts.gov/services-forms/computer-internet-restrictions-probation-supervised-release-conditions
it seems pretty obvious from what the judge stated in his last court appearance that if she released him he would most likely go back on social media and make similar threats. MacDougall and the federal prosecutor has Daniel's number he's fully cooked.
This isn't some colorodo county court who rubber stamps daniel out the door because he's stealing chicken wings and missing court dates this is a federal court and felony domestic terrorist charges.
2024.05.06 20:29 Firm_Rope_7958 What can I do?
So I’ve been on probation two weeks less than a year, I was sentenced to a year of misdemeanor deferred judgement probation. My old po that I had previously to my current one extended my probation three extra months even though I had no failed tests or anything because my po I had before that in a different county never had me sign N.A. meeting cards or sign a release of information for my counseling which are both requirements of my probation. I had been doing my best for so long to jump through all the stupid hoops and do everything to comply with probation, even though all it did was create issues in my life with work and in general, and two months before it was all over it got extended. It killed all my motivation to keep trying to appease them. I know it’s not an excuse but I have a lot of mental health issues from autism, depression, anxiety, and bpd. Meaning my actions depend very heavily on my emotions. I know I should be able to just get over it and keep jumping through the hoops but I can’t seem to get myself to do it. I don’t know how to explain it better. I’m probably just going to get a million lectures in the comments about how I’m making the issue worse and I know I am, but I can’t help it. Every time I even think about waking up that early or doing all the little stupid bullshit it just makes me shut down entirely. It’s overwhelming to the point of anxiety attacks to even think about the fact that I’m still stuck going through their bullshit after I did everything they asked for ten months straight. So I haven’t been. Which sounds like a choice and realistically it should be a choice but I just can’t bring myself to do it anymore. I know they’re not going to care about my mental health or my ability to comply due to my mental health cause they don’t see it that way but I’m thinking about just going into see my po and telling her to just let me sit it out. I’d much rather go to jail for however long than keep trying to deal with this shit. I just want to get it over with I’ll keep the charge gladly. But I can’t do this for another three months.
And before I get a million comments saying “you’re going to end up sitting in jail if you don’t just do what they say” I know. I’ve been on for a year and I’ve known many people who have fucked off all of their probation I know the consequences thank you. The question I’m asking is if there’s anything I can do legally to get this over with sooner. I have a lawyer if that’s useful information at all, I just can’t keep doing this shit.
Only useful genuine answers please, I would appreciate it greatly if we could keep the lectures to ourselves <3
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And before I get a million comments saying “you’re going to end up sitting in jail if you don’t just do what they say” I know. I’ve been on for a year and I’ve known many people who have fucked off all of their probation I know the consequences thank you. The question I’m asking is if there’s anything I can do legally to get this over with sooner. I have a lawyer if that’s useful information at all, I just can’t keep doing this shit.
Only useful genuine answers please, I would appreciate it greatly if we could keep the lectures to ourselves <3
2024.05.06 20:03 DaddyNoBux How I Got Through This Hell
I found myself in a truly horrific situation at the start of the year. If you want the full details, check out my post history however here is a brief recap
I walked in on my STBXW hiding a man in my son’s bedroom. It transpired that she had been having an affair with a work colleague.
This was a Walter White ‘crawl space’ moment for me. I kicked the guy out the house, walked up the stairs to my wife who was working the crocodile tears, hit the deck and let out a blood curdling scream.
Why did I scream?
It wasn’t because I had made this discovery. It was because I had been in a 2 year dead bedroom marriage. A marriage where I had been gaslit like an oil rig, made to think like I was as thick as sh*t on a daily basis, completely lost my identity as I tried to navigate a marriage and bring up 2 toddlers and constantly feeling like I was a terrible human being.
That moment made me realise there and then that the burden I carried was a fantasy created by a textbook narc wife. My gut was right all the time. Why didn’t I listen to it. Oh I know why. It was because I bowed down to the concept of a man sacrificing happiness for his marriage. That one turned out well.
Anyway fast forward 5 months later and I have had the separation agreement include…
50/50 finances and the coveted 50/50 custody.
But it wasn’t easy guys and this is why I am writing this post
Here’s what I did right and here’s what I did wrong
LAWYER UP ASAP
Lawyers are more expensive than Creed Aftershave however they take the sting out the game. They do the heavy lifting. Once lawyers are involved, you can do the next most important thing. Focus on you.
Combat sports require a deeper level of learning. This is going to rewire that brain which is now running on codependency software. You’re also going to sparoll which is a great release for that pent up tension.
The result? Her playing hardball with the custody arrangement. At this point I realised me not allowing her to do this was me trying to control her actions , thus giving her power over ME. What a dumbass move.
I eventually told her that she could as she pleases with the kids on her time. I had to let go as much as it was a kick in the balls however over time it allowed the healing process to truly kick in.
Realising that you only control YOU and internalising it will be the game changer
You’re going to have to do it at some f%kimg point so start now instead of moping about on here 5 years from now, talking about how you’re still crushed by the ex who has at this point, sat on more dick than the tears you have cried into your pillow
Even though you would probably light a cigar if she got hit with a bus, final destination 2 style, play the nice guy. Be amicable. This is business now and if you want things then you need to play nice.
People might disagree with this one however it changed everything for me and softened up the ex for getting what I wanted.
On the day I told her that I couldn’t control what she did with the kids, I ended it by telling her that I wanted custody set by law or I wouldn’t sell the family home. I told her I wasn’t budging on this. She knew I was serious. That was my daisy cutter. Find yours and stand firm.
I can see why the blindside, still in love with my high school sweetheart crew might struggle with this one however for team dead bedroom, get on an app, get some new clothes and just get talking to other women.
This will lift your spirits and take you away from the hell you’re enduring.
These were some of the strategies that got me through the most intense, brutal period of my life within 5 months. It won’t work for everyone and it’s all I can think of off the top of my head however I’m now about to move into a new house, I’m getting my dick wet and I have 50/50 custody of my kids so I thought it might help someone out there.
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I walked in on my STBXW hiding a man in my son’s bedroom. It transpired that she had been having an affair with a work colleague.
This was a Walter White ‘crawl space’ moment for me. I kicked the guy out the house, walked up the stairs to my wife who was working the crocodile tears, hit the deck and let out a blood curdling scream.
Why did I scream?
It wasn’t because I had made this discovery. It was because I had been in a 2 year dead bedroom marriage. A marriage where I had been gaslit like an oil rig, made to think like I was as thick as sh*t on a daily basis, completely lost my identity as I tried to navigate a marriage and bring up 2 toddlers and constantly feeling like I was a terrible human being.
That moment made me realise there and then that the burden I carried was a fantasy created by a textbook narc wife. My gut was right all the time. Why didn’t I listen to it. Oh I know why. It was because I bowed down to the concept of a man sacrificing happiness for his marriage. That one turned out well.
Anyway fast forward 5 months later and I have had the separation agreement include…
50/50 finances and the coveted 50/50 custody.
But it wasn’t easy guys and this is why I am writing this post
Here’s what I did right and here’s what I did wrong
- For guys who have just had the nuke dropped into their lives, there are 2 options. You can go into survival mode which is going to increase the potential for a tailspin. You will waste vital energy trying to play 4D divorce chess and you’ll probably have paranoia levels that would put Putin to shame.
LAWYER UP ASAP
Lawyers are more expensive than Creed Aftershave however they take the sting out the game. They do the heavy lifting. Once lawyers are involved, you can do the next most important thing. Focus on you.
- Record every conversation from this moment on. You don’t want to end up getting passed about the county jail like a copy of hustler due to some false assault charge.
- Hit the gym and take up a combat sport.
Combat sports require a deeper level of learning. This is going to rewire that brain which is now running on codependency software. You’re also going to sparoll which is a great release for that pent up tension.
- You need to let go and realise the only thing that you can control is you.
The result? Her playing hardball with the custody arrangement. At this point I realised me not allowing her to do this was me trying to control her actions , thus giving her power over ME. What a dumbass move.
I eventually told her that she could as she pleases with the kids on her time. I had to let go as much as it was a kick in the balls however over time it allowed the healing process to truly kick in.
Realising that you only control YOU and internalising it will be the game changer
You’re going to have to do it at some f%kimg point so start now instead of moping about on here 5 years from now, talking about how you’re still crushed by the ex who has at this point, sat on more dick than the tears you have cried into your pillow
- Play the game with your ex
Even though you would probably light a cigar if she got hit with a bus, final destination 2 style, play the nice guy. Be amicable. This is business now and if you want things then you need to play nice.
People might disagree with this one however it changed everything for me and softened up the ex for getting what I wanted.
- Have a daisy cutter in your arsenal and use it wisely.
On the day I told her that I couldn’t control what she did with the kids, I ended it by telling her that I wanted custody set by law or I wouldn’t sell the family home. I told her I wasn’t budging on this. She knew I was serious. That was my daisy cutter. Find yours and stand firm.
- Get on a dating app and level up your wardrobe
I can see why the blindside, still in love with my high school sweetheart crew might struggle with this one however for team dead bedroom, get on an app, get some new clothes and just get talking to other women.
This will lift your spirits and take you away from the hell you’re enduring.
These were some of the strategies that got me through the most intense, brutal period of my life within 5 months. It won’t work for everyone and it’s all I can think of off the top of my head however I’m now about to move into a new house, I’m getting my dick wet and I have 50/50 custody of my kids so I thought it might help someone out there.
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2024.05.06 18:45 snotrocketscientist Oakland County woman accused of sexually assaulting 2 boys while working at juvenile jail - WDIV ClickOnDetroit
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2024.05.06 18:35 TokyoDiamond AITAH for giving my father tough love
Fo context, my father is 73 yrs old. I am 31 f. All my life, my daddy has been a drinker. Unfortunately he's gone from being a alcoholic to being a stone cold drunk. There has been times where he would stay drunk all day. There are instances where he would be sober for no more than 2 or 3 hrs. When my mom passed, his drinking got worse because in his mind, no one has the right to tell him no or slow down. Even tho the doctor told him he needs to slow down until he completely stops. Well, daddy sped up with the drinking. This time, it's gotten way worse than before. Friday, I got home from work and was in the process of preparing for my shower. I wasn't even home 30 mins before someone came to my door telling me to put my shoes on, my dad was in a car accident. Now I'm panicking, he's the only parent I have left. What is going on? And it happened right down the street from me. So that means the moment I got home, the accident happened. I get there to the scene and he's sitting on the ground. The truck was in the ditch, not to mention he hit a tree. The exact moment I heard his voice, I could tell he was drunk. Now, he claims a car drove into his lane and he was trying to dodge it.....but a witness said there was no other car. In which, I believe the witness. The truck is in fact totalled and before anyone asks, no, he didn't have any insurance on the truck. He stopped paying it a few months after mama die. His car and life insurance both lapped. (I think I spelled that right) The paramedic came, checked him out and left. The police came to direct traffic until the state trooper got there. State trooper arrives and want to do a sobriety test on him. And just like any other person that is guilty of hiding something, he declined to do the test and was handcuffed and put in jail. Well, I had had enough. I snapped and walked back home. I'm a pretty big plus size woman. And the fact that I walked all the way home shows how pissed off I was. I forgot to mention that his trailer and zero turn lawn mower was attached to the truck. My cousin who has a tracker unattached the trailer and took it to his home for the time being. Now on to what I have done. Clearly, I DO NOT trust my father to make decisions for himself without trying to buy alcohol. Dang it, I forgot to mention that they did the breathalyzer on him at the jail and it was 0.20. 3X over the legal limit. And he's telling me he only had 1 beer. Yeah right, and I'm Tweety bird. I don't believe that for a second. So I have access to his bank account. I took his money out and put it all in a private savngs account that I have access to and if he needs something, I will buy it for him. I will not give him any money to lie and say he needs something and he buys alcohol with. Another thing I've done is contact every store in our town and county and tell them if he comes in to buy alcohol, do not serve him. Please refuse service. My cousin will keep his lawn mower so he doesn't try to drive it to the store to beg the owner to give him alcohol. Where I live, you see things like this too many times. My daddy will not fall victim of doing this. Until I see some improvement, I will be in charge of his account and make sure his bills are paid from his check and the rest of the money will be in that savings. The improvement insists of him being sober for 2 years, rehab and therapy. After those 2 years, if he continues to be sober, he can be in charge of his account again. I'm trying to save the few little years he has left to live. He is killing himself. I wish I could show you all the picture of his truck, because I could've lost my daddy, and I'm not having it. So, am I being an asshole?
I also forgot to mention I am the power of attorney over his account. If anyone has any advice on how to help my daddy, I'm open to take anything. He needs help bad.
I'm going no contact. I'm tired of him lying on me when I just want a father that's gonna live a few more years. If he wanna drink himself to death, then so be it. I will go to his family to help cremate him.
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I also forgot to mention I am the power of attorney over his account. If anyone has any advice on how to help my daddy, I'm open to take anything. He needs help bad.
I'm going no contact. I'm tired of him lying on me when I just want a father that's gonna live a few more years. If he wanna drink himself to death, then so be it. I will go to his family to help cremate him.
2024.05.06 18:21 Quetzhal DIE. RESPAWN. REPEAT. (Book 2, Ch 35)
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The first thing I have to get over is the skill being immensely disorienting. It's worse than my first few tests of Warpstep — everything feels off and wrong in a way that's hard to articulate. Ahkelios also immediately falls through my shoulder and onto the floor, which is the only positive thing about this experience.
"Hey!" he complains.
"Sorry," I say. "Had to test out the skill." I lean down to pick him up again. Phaseslip seems to allow me to choose what I can and can't interact with, at least once I exert conscious control over it. It's basically an intangibility skill.
Which is... useful in so many more ways than just avoiding a punch, actually. Must be why it's a Rank A skill. I'm grateful it at least has the basic courtesy of not pulling me straight through the floor — losing a loop by accidentally falling into the planet's core would have been embarrassing, even for me.
There's something interesting about using this skill. Everything around me looks normal, at least visually, but it's a different story if I try to observe the world through my Firmament sense or using Firmament Sight.
Now if only I could express how different. It's difficult to describe the phenomenon. It's like seeing an overlay of the world that's about five degrees left of where it should be, except replace 'left' with a direction perpendicular to anything one might imagine in three dimensional space.
It's a little headache inducing. I have to squint against the effect — part of the problem is that there are multiple overlays, most of them just barely brushing against my Firmament sense. I can't do much more than tell that they're there. Maybe once I get a little more used to it, or once I fine tune it with Firmament Control or alter it with an Inspiration, I'll be able to do more.
I know what I'm looking for. I'm looking for anything that might be Integrator-related — any space they might be hiding in, watching us Trialgoers go about our Trials. Once or twice, I think I almost sense something against just the barest edge of my perception. It disappears as quickly as it shows.
I sigh and let the Phaseslip drop.
"You okay?" Ahkelios asks, concerned.
"I'm fine." I wave a hand dismissively. "Skill's just a bit headache inducing. I'll need to get used to it."
Though there's no way to get used to it without activating it again. At least it doesn't strain my Firmament in any significant way...
I finally realize that Virin has been staring at me this entire time, with a combination of bemusement and concern. I blink, then let out a short, embarrassed laugh. "I, uh... forgot you were there."
"Could tell," Virin says dryly. "You not hurt, yes?"
"I'm fine," I say. "Just got a new skill, is all. Need some time to get used to it."
"It look interesting." Virin gives me a keenly interested look. "You do it again? I want try something."
I blink, but shrug and acquiesce. I don't see any harm in it. This time, I'm prepared for the way the world warps around me; I take a deep breath and steady myself as my vision and my senses overlay shift out of sync once again.
Virin pokes me, and his finger goes straight through me. He cocks his head, and I can feel through my Firmament sense that he's funneling Firmament into his arm, trying to see if that makes a difference — it doesn't. Firmament or no, physical objects phase straight through my body.
It's strange seeing solid objects just move through my stomach.
Then he performs a quick imbuement on a stone and chucks it at me. I don't move, expecting it to go straight through—
"Ow," I say. The rock bounces off my forehead and onto the ground. It doesn't really hurt. Tough Body has long since rendered me mostly immune to things like a pebble being thrown at my head. It's just the principle of the matter.
"It work," Virin says proudly. He nods to himself, folding his wings over his chest. "You be careful, yes? Look at attack carefully." He picks up the imbued stone to me, and I finally pick up on exactly what he's done. There's a thin layer of Firmament hovering just above the surface of the stone.
"Huh," I say. That is something I'm going to have to watch out for. "Thanks."
"Many imbued items like this," Virin says. "Especially bad imbuement! Bad imbuement leak. Lots of Firmament around object."
"Good to know." I'm already wondering if I can counter it in some way. Maybe if I use the Void Inspiration to modify Tough Body so that it peels the outermost layer of Firmament off of anything that tries to hit me...
Although even a second's mistake means I'm going to have a solid object embedded inside my body. I wince. That... won't be a fun technique to train, even if it does work.
"Anyway," I say, changing the subject. Virin looks up at me patiently. I'm only just now noticing how short the crows are compared to me — they aren't small, by any means, and I'm sure if Virin stretched to his full height he'd be taller than I am. But like most of the crows, he's slightly hunched over in a forward-leaning position. "You were saying something about making imbuement stones?"
"Yes!" Virin flaps his wings a little, clearly excited by the subject. It's almost loud enough to wake up his daughter, who grumbles in her nest; he immediately settles down, chastised. "You need flood stone with Firmament to make imbuement stone. Easy."
"Just... flood it with Firmament?" I ask, raising an eyebrow. "How's that different from a normal imbuement?"
"Watch," Virin says. He holds out an ordinary stone — not an imbuement stone specifically crafted to absorb Firmament, but a pebble he finds on the ground — and pushes his Firmament into it. "This imbuement. See?"
I can see the way his Firmament imbues into the natural Firmament of the stone. "Yes."
"Now, make imbuement stone." The amount of Firmament Virin is controlling suddenly flares. He doesn't use a lot of it, per se, but he does pack into an ultra-dense ball of energy that he fires into the stone. It reminds me of the few times I've watched a blacksmith at work — the Firmament he uses is burning with enough power to shove out both the natural Firmament and the imbuement he just placed into the stone.
Then I watch as he hammers the new Firmament into place.
Despite what he says, it's not at all easy. I can sense what he's doing, even moreso now that Phaseslip is active; I realize abruptly that the skill is making it a bit easier to peer down through the layers of Firmament. And with that insight, I can see what Virin is actually doing. He's not just hammering the shell of Firmament into place — he's peeling apart the inner structure of Firmament into distinct layers.
But there's a limit to what the rock itself can hold. If I stretch my senses as far as possible, if I push Phaseslip a little farther, pour more Firmament into the skill... I can almost sense the way Firmament bonds to the physical object. There's a physical limitation Virin is fighting with — the chaotic arrangement of compounds and atoms within the stone makes it so that the new Firmament struggles to bond with it. I can sense that the newly-created imbuement stone is weaker than it would have been otherwise, if Virin had used a purer stone or one that was more ordered structurally...
At least this explains the imbuement stones I've encountered so far all look like crystals of some sort. But if purity and structure are the only requirements for Firmament to bond easily with matter, then crystals are definitely not where the possibilities end.
My mind's already churning with possibilities — with new things to look out for. I'm not so arrogant as to believe I'm the only one that's thought of using other mundane substances as replacements for imbuement.
Virin exhales with relief as he finishes forging the new imbuement stone. It's not an enormously powerful one by any means; at a glance, it's maybe about as powerful as the Shallow stones I picked up from the Arena. But considering he's made it out of an ordinary rock and not a gemstone, I consider that impressive.
"There!" he says proudly. I eye the stone for a moment, taking it into my hands and studying it.
"Virin," I say. "Do people ever use objects other than gemstones? Things that aren't stones, even."
"To turn into imbuement stone?" Virin looks thoughtful. "I not sure. I think I heard before! But I never try. You have idea?"
"Some," I admit. I'm not sure now's the best time to try it out, partly because I don't have access to any of the materials I want to test this technique with, yet. "But before we get to that, can we try making imbuement stones?"
"Yes!" Virin nods. "You try. I want see how you do."
I grimace. That almost certainly means he expects me to fail, doesn't it?
Well, if I'm going to fail, let's get it over with.
—
Virin's prediction was... mostly correct.
Packing Firmament in as dense as Virin was able to is difficult even with my improved Firmament Control. Somehow the ability to move it around more effectively doesn't seem to translate into a similar ability to force it inward, though theoretically it's the same thing.
"Try fold Firmament," Virin insists. It's the same thing he's been saying for the past half hour or so. I try not to let a frustrated growl escape from my throat, though I'm pretty sure I make some sort of strangled, annoyed noise, considering the way Ahkelios is smirking at me.
"I am trying," I grunt. His idea of folding Firmament isn't literal, as far as I can tell. I've watched him do it a few times, and the process involves packing the Firmament layers on top of themselves — almost inverting it rather than folding it. The whole process feels to my Firmament sense like he's turning the Firmament inside out and causing it to shrink to half its size.
Which is very, very confusing, to be clear. I don't think I'm about to get this anytime soon.
"I'm going to take a break from this," I finally say. I don't like admitting defeat, but I've already made a lot of progress with imbuement, and I don't really want to stay here messing with Firmament when there's so much of everything else going on. I'm almost certain I've given both Mari and Tarin enough time to do... whatever it is they're doing, now. "I should probably go see what Tarin's up to. I think I have to head back to Isthanok."
"If you sure," Virin says doubtfully. "You come back before you leave, ok? I need you help remember imbuement testing!"
Right, right. Virin mentioned he wanted my help with more... destructive tests on imbuement that he wouldn't perform if not for the reality of the time loop.
"I'll try," I say. I'm not sure where my future loops are going to take me, but Virin's been patient with me and taught me a lot. Trying is the least I can do for him. "I'll come back before we leave."
Virin nods. He points a stick at me. "You better!"
I note, to my amusement, that he's practicing imbuement even in that act of picking up the stick. What a guy.
—
The curtain that functions as a door to Tarin's hut is thankfully open when I arrive, so I don't have to deal with the awkwardness of knocking on the wall and calling out for them. Mari is busy and energetically cooking — so energetically I'm almost certain she's doing it to distract herself — and Tarin is sitting in the corner, uncharacteristically silent.
"Uh... is everything okay?" I ask.
"Ethan!" Tarin jumps up almost immediately. "You ready? We go back Isthanok!"
I almost protest. I'm not sure that Isthanok is the logical next step — I still need to save Rotar and K'hkeri. But I think back to the battle in the Fracture, and... yeah, that's not happening anytime soon without Guard's help.
"More or less ready," I say instead. I glance at Mari — she still hasn't said anything, but I can hear her chopping getting more aggressive by the minute. In fact, I can sense that she's using Firmament to reinforce both her knife and the plank that functions as a cutting board. "Shouldn't we wait for Mari to finish cooking first...?"
"Oh! Yes." Tarin seems embarrassed for a moment. "We wait. We eat! Then we go."
At least the food looks good. I glance between Tarin and Mari. I don't think they're fighting, but there's a definite tension there that wasn't there before.
I sigh. "Do either of you want to tell me what's going on?"
"No," Mari says shortly.
"Later!" Tarin says.
...That'll have to do.
Now to see what Virin is up to before getting Tarin and heading back to Isthanok.
—
"Ah, Trialgoer!" Virin looks up excitedly. "Okay, you remember what happen if I do this, okay? This old imbuement stone. Made from old methods. I try activate."
He holds up an old, moss-covered rock. Ahkelios opens his mouth to comment, but as soon as Virin floods it with Firmament, the rock... bursts into flames. And then evaporates.
I blink. "...I guess that's why you wanted to use a time loop to explore this?"
"Yes," Virin nods, his expression almost concerningly earnest. "You better be telling truth about loop!"
"I am," I say. "I'll, uh... make sure to tell you about your rock."
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Author's Note: The title of this chapter is It's Just a Phase. I regret nothing.
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The first thing I have to get over is the skill being immensely disorienting. It's worse than my first few tests of Warpstep — everything feels off and wrong in a way that's hard to articulate. Ahkelios also immediately falls through my shoulder and onto the floor, which is the only positive thing about this experience.
"Hey!" he complains.
"Sorry," I say. "Had to test out the skill." I lean down to pick him up again. Phaseslip seems to allow me to choose what I can and can't interact with, at least once I exert conscious control over it. It's basically an intangibility skill.
Which is... useful in so many more ways than just avoiding a punch, actually. Must be why it's a Rank A skill. I'm grateful it at least has the basic courtesy of not pulling me straight through the floor — losing a loop by accidentally falling into the planet's core would have been embarrassing, even for me.
There's something interesting about using this skill. Everything around me looks normal, at least visually, but it's a different story if I try to observe the world through my Firmament sense or using Firmament Sight.
Now if only I could express how different. It's difficult to describe the phenomenon. It's like seeing an overlay of the world that's about five degrees left of where it should be, except replace 'left' with a direction perpendicular to anything one might imagine in three dimensional space.
It's a little headache inducing. I have to squint against the effect — part of the problem is that there are multiple overlays, most of them just barely brushing against my Firmament sense. I can't do much more than tell that they're there. Maybe once I get a little more used to it, or once I fine tune it with Firmament Control or alter it with an Inspiration, I'll be able to do more.
I know what I'm looking for. I'm looking for anything that might be Integrator-related — any space they might be hiding in, watching us Trialgoers go about our Trials. Once or twice, I think I almost sense something against just the barest edge of my perception. It disappears as quickly as it shows.
I sigh and let the Phaseslip drop.
"You okay?" Ahkelios asks, concerned.
"I'm fine." I wave a hand dismissively. "Skill's just a bit headache inducing. I'll need to get used to it."
Though there's no way to get used to it without activating it again. At least it doesn't strain my Firmament in any significant way...
I finally realize that Virin has been staring at me this entire time, with a combination of bemusement and concern. I blink, then let out a short, embarrassed laugh. "I, uh... forgot you were there."
"Could tell," Virin says dryly. "You not hurt, yes?"
"I'm fine," I say. "Just got a new skill, is all. Need some time to get used to it."
"It look interesting." Virin gives me a keenly interested look. "You do it again? I want try something."
I blink, but shrug and acquiesce. I don't see any harm in it. This time, I'm prepared for the way the world warps around me; I take a deep breath and steady myself as my vision and my senses overlay shift out of sync once again.
Virin pokes me, and his finger goes straight through me. He cocks his head, and I can feel through my Firmament sense that he's funneling Firmament into his arm, trying to see if that makes a difference — it doesn't. Firmament or no, physical objects phase straight through my body.
It's strange seeing solid objects just move through my stomach.
Then he performs a quick imbuement on a stone and chucks it at me. I don't move, expecting it to go straight through—
"Ow," I say. The rock bounces off my forehead and onto the ground. It doesn't really hurt. Tough Body has long since rendered me mostly immune to things like a pebble being thrown at my head. It's just the principle of the matter.
"It work," Virin says proudly. He nods to himself, folding his wings over his chest. "You be careful, yes? Look at attack carefully." He picks up the imbued stone to me, and I finally pick up on exactly what he's done. There's a thin layer of Firmament hovering just above the surface of the stone.
"Huh," I say. That is something I'm going to have to watch out for. "Thanks."
"Many imbued items like this," Virin says. "Especially bad imbuement! Bad imbuement leak. Lots of Firmament around object."
"Good to know." I'm already wondering if I can counter it in some way. Maybe if I use the Void Inspiration to modify Tough Body so that it peels the outermost layer of Firmament off of anything that tries to hit me...
Although even a second's mistake means I'm going to have a solid object embedded inside my body. I wince. That... won't be a fun technique to train, even if it does work.
"Anyway," I say, changing the subject. Virin looks up at me patiently. I'm only just now noticing how short the crows are compared to me — they aren't small, by any means, and I'm sure if Virin stretched to his full height he'd be taller than I am. But like most of the crows, he's slightly hunched over in a forward-leaning position. "You were saying something about making imbuement stones?"
"Yes!" Virin flaps his wings a little, clearly excited by the subject. It's almost loud enough to wake up his daughter, who grumbles in her nest; he immediately settles down, chastised. "You need flood stone with Firmament to make imbuement stone. Easy."
"Just... flood it with Firmament?" I ask, raising an eyebrow. "How's that different from a normal imbuement?"
"Watch," Virin says. He holds out an ordinary stone — not an imbuement stone specifically crafted to absorb Firmament, but a pebble he finds on the ground — and pushes his Firmament into it. "This imbuement. See?"
I can see the way his Firmament imbues into the natural Firmament of the stone. "Yes."
"Now, make imbuement stone." The amount of Firmament Virin is controlling suddenly flares. He doesn't use a lot of it, per se, but he does pack into an ultra-dense ball of energy that he fires into the stone. It reminds me of the few times I've watched a blacksmith at work — the Firmament he uses is burning with enough power to shove out both the natural Firmament and the imbuement he just placed into the stone.
Then I watch as he hammers the new Firmament into place.
Despite what he says, it's not at all easy. I can sense what he's doing, even moreso now that Phaseslip is active; I realize abruptly that the skill is making it a bit easier to peer down through the layers of Firmament. And with that insight, I can see what Virin is actually doing. He's not just hammering the shell of Firmament into place — he's peeling apart the inner structure of Firmament into distinct layers.
But there's a limit to what the rock itself can hold. If I stretch my senses as far as possible, if I push Phaseslip a little farther, pour more Firmament into the skill... I can almost sense the way Firmament bonds to the physical object. There's a physical limitation Virin is fighting with — the chaotic arrangement of compounds and atoms within the stone makes it so that the new Firmament struggles to bond with it. I can sense that the newly-created imbuement stone is weaker than it would have been otherwise, if Virin had used a purer stone or one that was more ordered structurally...
At least this explains the imbuement stones I've encountered so far all look like crystals of some sort. But if purity and structure are the only requirements for Firmament to bond easily with matter, then crystals are definitely not where the possibilities end.
My mind's already churning with possibilities — with new things to look out for. I'm not so arrogant as to believe I'm the only one that's thought of using other mundane substances as replacements for imbuement.
Virin exhales with relief as he finishes forging the new imbuement stone. It's not an enormously powerful one by any means; at a glance, it's maybe about as powerful as the Shallow stones I picked up from the Arena. But considering he's made it out of an ordinary rock and not a gemstone, I consider that impressive.
"There!" he says proudly. I eye the stone for a moment, taking it into my hands and studying it.
"Virin," I say. "Do people ever use objects other than gemstones? Things that aren't stones, even."
"To turn into imbuement stone?" Virin looks thoughtful. "I not sure. I think I heard before! But I never try. You have idea?"
"Some," I admit. I'm not sure now's the best time to try it out, partly because I don't have access to any of the materials I want to test this technique with, yet. "But before we get to that, can we try making imbuement stones?"
"Yes!" Virin nods. "You try. I want see how you do."
I grimace. That almost certainly means he expects me to fail, doesn't it?
Well, if I'm going to fail, let's get it over with.
—
Virin's prediction was... mostly correct.
Packing Firmament in as dense as Virin was able to is difficult even with my improved Firmament Control. Somehow the ability to move it around more effectively doesn't seem to translate into a similar ability to force it inward, though theoretically it's the same thing.
"Try fold Firmament," Virin insists. It's the same thing he's been saying for the past half hour or so. I try not to let a frustrated growl escape from my throat, though I'm pretty sure I make some sort of strangled, annoyed noise, considering the way Ahkelios is smirking at me.
"I am trying," I grunt. His idea of folding Firmament isn't literal, as far as I can tell. I've watched him do it a few times, and the process involves packing the Firmament layers on top of themselves — almost inverting it rather than folding it. The whole process feels to my Firmament sense like he's turning the Firmament inside out and causing it to shrink to half its size.
Which is very, very confusing, to be clear. I don't think I'm about to get this anytime soon.
"I'm going to take a break from this," I finally say. I don't like admitting defeat, but I've already made a lot of progress with imbuement, and I don't really want to stay here messing with Firmament when there's so much of everything else going on. I'm almost certain I've given both Mari and Tarin enough time to do... whatever it is they're doing, now. "I should probably go see what Tarin's up to. I think I have to head back to Isthanok."
"If you sure," Virin says doubtfully. "You come back before you leave, ok? I need you help remember imbuement testing!"
Right, right. Virin mentioned he wanted my help with more... destructive tests on imbuement that he wouldn't perform if not for the reality of the time loop.
"I'll try," I say. I'm not sure where my future loops are going to take me, but Virin's been patient with me and taught me a lot. Trying is the least I can do for him. "I'll come back before we leave."
Virin nods. He points a stick at me. "You better!"
I note, to my amusement, that he's practicing imbuement even in that act of picking up the stick. What a guy.
—
The curtain that functions as a door to Tarin's hut is thankfully open when I arrive, so I don't have to deal with the awkwardness of knocking on the wall and calling out for them. Mari is busy and energetically cooking — so energetically I'm almost certain she's doing it to distract herself — and Tarin is sitting in the corner, uncharacteristically silent.
"Uh... is everything okay?" I ask.
"Ethan!" Tarin jumps up almost immediately. "You ready? We go back Isthanok!"
I almost protest. I'm not sure that Isthanok is the logical next step — I still need to save Rotar and K'hkeri. But I think back to the battle in the Fracture, and... yeah, that's not happening anytime soon without Guard's help.
"More or less ready," I say instead. I glance at Mari — she still hasn't said anything, but I can hear her chopping getting more aggressive by the minute. In fact, I can sense that she's using Firmament to reinforce both her knife and the plank that functions as a cutting board. "Shouldn't we wait for Mari to finish cooking first...?"
"Oh! Yes." Tarin seems embarrassed for a moment. "We wait. We eat! Then we go."
At least the food looks good. I glance between Tarin and Mari. I don't think they're fighting, but there's a definite tension there that wasn't there before.
I sigh. "Do either of you want to tell me what's going on?"
"No," Mari says shortly.
"Later!" Tarin says.
...That'll have to do.
Now to see what Virin is up to before getting Tarin and heading back to Isthanok.
—
"Ah, Trialgoer!" Virin looks up excitedly. "Okay, you remember what happen if I do this, okay? This old imbuement stone. Made from old methods. I try activate."
He holds up an old, moss-covered rock. Ahkelios opens his mouth to comment, but as soon as Virin floods it with Firmament, the rock... bursts into flames. And then evaporates.
I blink. "...I guess that's why you wanted to use a time loop to explore this?"
"Yes," Virin nods, his expression almost concerningly earnest. "You better be telling truth about loop!"
"I am," I say. "I'll, uh... make sure to tell you about your rock."
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2024.05.06 17:58 thinkingstranger May 5, 2024
In 1776, as British colonists in North America were contemplating how to construct a new nation, Massachusetts lawyer John Adams famously wrote to friends about the relationship between government and the law. A republic, he wrote, “is an Empire of Laws and not of Men: and therefore…that particular Arrangement…which is best calculated to Secure an exact and impartial Execution of the Laws, is the best Republic.”
In 1787 the framers of the Constitution set out to create a nation built on the rule of law. The next year, the states ratified their new framework, and in 1789, the Constitution went into effect. One of the first acts of the newly seated Congress was to establish a federal court system. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set out the different courts and their jurisdictions. And in 1868, with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans explicitly wrote into the Constitution the principle that all U.S. citizens must be equal before the law. Two years later, they established the Department of Justice to make sure that principle would be honored across the country.
In the past three years, the Biden administration has worked to confirm that the U.S. is a nation of laws. That work has borne fruit. In the past few days, several cases have jumped out in which the administration has used the law to protect ordinary Americans.
On Tuesday, April 30, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenged more than 300 junk patent listings for drugs that treat diabetes, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and that help people lose weight, including Ozempic. Bogus patent listings prevent generic drugs from entering the market, keeping brand-name drug prices high. The FTC gives the manufacturer 20 days to withdraw or amend the listing or certify, under penalty of perjury, that they are correct. In November the FTC successfully challenged junk patents on asthma inhalers, reducing their price to $35.
FTC chair Lina Khan said: “By challenging junk patent filings, the FTC is fighting these illegal tactics and making sure that Americans can get timely access to innovative and affordable versions of the medicines they need.”
On Thursday, May 2, Yvette Wang, the chief of staff to Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire businessman who works with Trump associate Steve Bannon (in 2020, law enforcement officers arrested Bannon on Guo’s yacht on charges of fraud), pleaded guilty to conspiring with Guo in a massive fraud scheme that involved wire fraud and money laundering and netted more than $1 billion. Wang personally will forfeit $1.4 billion to the United States and faces up to ten years in prison. The trial for Wang and Guo is scheduled to start on May 20. Guo has pleaded not guilty.
On Friday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the auditing firm for Trump’s social media company and its owner with “massive fraud.” The SEC called BF Borgers a “sham audit mill” and said it “deliberately systemically failed to conduct” audits and reviews that were filed with the SEC between January 2021 and June 2023. Those reports are supposed to inform investors about the value of companies. The SEC fined the company $14 million and banned it from practicing accounting. Its owner, Benjamin Borgers, did not admit wrongdoing but accepted the judgment.
Also on Friday, the Department of Justice released a grand jury’s indictment of Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, Imelda, alleging that beginning no later than 2014 and until at least November 2021, they accepted close to $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil and gas company and a Mexican bank and then laundered the payments through Imelda’s company. In exchange, the indictment says, Cuellar agreed to adjust U.S. policy toward Azerbaijan, especially its oil industry, and to oppose laws that would curb money laundering and regulate the payday lending industry.
On Friday, at former president Trump’s fraud trial for interfering in the 2016 election by paying $130,000 to buy the silence of adult film actress Stormy Daniels and falsifying business records to hide the payment, former White House aide Hope Hicks established that Trump had indeed intended to silence Daniels in order to stop voters from hearing her information before the election. Appearing reluctant to testify against Trump, Hicks nonetheless described a conversation with Trump in 2018, after Daniels’s story became public. Trump told her that “it was better to be dealing with it now, and it would have been bad to have that story come out before the election.”
The rule of law protects ordinary Americans and defends their right to elect a government of their choice. But in 2024, it is under attack.
Trump continues to insist that the stories about his extramarital affairs are false, but his main strategy for addressing his many legal troubles is to insist that the justice system is rigged against him. This continues a pattern he began as soon as he took office, when he unsuccessfully pressured FBI director James Comey to drop the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s interaction with Russian operatives. Although FBI directors are supposed to be virtually untouchable during their ten-year term, Trump fired Comey and then spent the rest of his term accusing the FBI of persecuting him.
That attack on our judicial system expanded to sweep in all the judges who ruled against his campaign operatives and his extremist policies on immigration. He called the courts a “joke” and a “laughingstock” and attacked the Justice Department as a whole and judges personally.
Those attacks increased after Trump left office and was indicted for his efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. An analysis by NBC News of more than 14,000 Trump posts and reposts from April 2022 to January 6, 2024, showed that in some periods he attacked the judicial system more than he promoted his campaign. He aimed his attacks most often at special counsel Jack Smith, as well as New York attorney general Letitia James; Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over Trump’s Manhattan fraud trial; Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg; and Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis—all of whom are in charge of cases against Trump.
Reporters Dareh Gregorian and Jasmine Cui wrote: “The posts generally portray Trump as the victim of a Democratic scheme designed to derail his presidential bid, with an array of judges and prosecutors working against him at the behest of President Joe Biden, and all part of a partisan ‘witch hunt,’ a term he used about 250 times during that time period.”
At a meeting for donors at Mar-a-Lago Saturday, Trump complained about the criminal charges against him, calling Jack Smith a “f**king a**hole,” and accused President Joe Biden of running a “Gestapo administration,” a reference to the German secret police that crushed opposition and rounded up Jews, Roma, LGBT individuals, and other targeted groups during World War II.
Trump has vowed to take control of the Justice Department and make it serve his interests. Chris Geidner of Law Dork noted today that the federal courts already favor Republicans, and a second Trump presidency would allow him to fill multiple court vacancies, probably including some on the Supreme Court, with his extremists. They would cement the ideology of MAGA Republicans into our laws for the foreseeable future.
Trump’s war on the Department of Justice over his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has already progressed into an attempt to delegitimize the results of the 2024 election, suggesting he does not believe he will win in a free and fair election.
Yesterday, Charlie Spies, the Republican Party’s top lawyer, resigned after Trump turned on him for his public statements that the 2020 election was not stolen. Spies was one of three lawyers the Trump team hired in March after it took over the Republican National Committee (RNC). An establishment Republican lawyer, Spies was paired with MAGA lawyer and former right-wing One America News Network anchor Christina Bobb to oversee the RNC’s so-called election integrity unit. Now Spies is out and Bobb, who has been indicted for election fraud for her participation in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, remains.
In an astonishing exchange on Meet the Press this morning, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who is angling to become Trump’s vice presidential pick, refused six times to say he would accept the results of the 2024 election if Trump didn’t win. Host Kristen Welker asked: “Will you commit to accepting the election results of 2024?” Scott responded: “At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump.” Welker followed up: “Yes or no, will you accept the election results of 2024 no matter who wins?” Scott answered: “That is my statement.”
When Welker continued to push the question, Scott accused NBC of working for the “Democrat Party” but refused ever to agree to the peaceful transition of power, which, as Welker noted, is the hallmark of the democratic republic people like John Adams established in 1789.
—
Notes:
https://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/view/PJA04dg2
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/federal-judiciary-act
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/03/trump-media-auditor-charged-by-sec-with-massive-fraud-permanently-barred-from-public-company-audits.html
https://time.com/6974644/bf-borgers-charged-fraud-trump-media/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/who-chinese-mogul-who-owns-boat-steve-bannon-was-busted-n1237511
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exiled-chinese-businessmans-chief-of-staff-pleads-guilty-us-fraud-2024-05-03/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/exiled-chinese-businessman-guo-wengui-must-face-us-fraud-indictment-2024-04-02/
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gkpldnoolpb/05032024wang_plea.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/04/trump-rnc-spies-election-fraud/
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republicans-prepare-a-new-wave-of-legal-attacks-on-voting/
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-expands-patent-listing-challenges-targeting-more-300-junk-listings-diabetes-weight-loss-asthma
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24636508-cuellar-indictment
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hope-hicks-breaks-down-on-stand-after-giving-damaging-testimony-against-trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/03/trump-hush-money-trial-hope-hicks-testimony/
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/his-own-words-presidents-attacks-courts
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trials-attacks-judges-rcna131916
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/04/trump-indictments-attacks-democrats-gestapo/
📷Law DorkSix months out: The dangers to — and from — the courts in a second Trump administrationElection Day is six months away. Donald Trump’s election to a second term would, at its least harmful, lead to the appointment of scores of more, younger, and potentially even more extreme judges. It would lead to the end of his federal prosecutions and arguments that remaining state prosecutions cannot proceed while he is president. And, Trump would, yet again, wield the powers of the executive branch…Read more14 hours ago · 42 likes · 4 comments · Chris Geidner
Twitter (X):
RpsAgainstTrump/status/1787167295288008745
kylegriffin1/status/1787137740900913154
Timodc/status/1787123517546226014
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-5-2024
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In 1787 the framers of the Constitution set out to create a nation built on the rule of law. The next year, the states ratified their new framework, and in 1789, the Constitution went into effect. One of the first acts of the newly seated Congress was to establish a federal court system. The Judiciary Act of 1789 set out the different courts and their jurisdictions. And in 1868, with the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, Americans explicitly wrote into the Constitution the principle that all U.S. citizens must be equal before the law. Two years later, they established the Department of Justice to make sure that principle would be honored across the country.
In the past three years, the Biden administration has worked to confirm that the U.S. is a nation of laws. That work has borne fruit. In the past few days, several cases have jumped out in which the administration has used the law to protect ordinary Americans.
On Tuesday, April 30, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) challenged more than 300 junk patent listings for drugs that treat diabetes, asthma, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and that help people lose weight, including Ozempic. Bogus patent listings prevent generic drugs from entering the market, keeping brand-name drug prices high. The FTC gives the manufacturer 20 days to withdraw or amend the listing or certify, under penalty of perjury, that they are correct. In November the FTC successfully challenged junk patents on asthma inhalers, reducing their price to $35.
FTC chair Lina Khan said: “By challenging junk patent filings, the FTC is fighting these illegal tactics and making sure that Americans can get timely access to innovative and affordable versions of the medicines they need.”
On Thursday, May 2, Yvette Wang, the chief of staff to Guo Wengui, an exiled Chinese billionaire businessman who works with Trump associate Steve Bannon (in 2020, law enforcement officers arrested Bannon on Guo’s yacht on charges of fraud), pleaded guilty to conspiring with Guo in a massive fraud scheme that involved wire fraud and money laundering and netted more than $1 billion. Wang personally will forfeit $1.4 billion to the United States and faces up to ten years in prison. The trial for Wang and Guo is scheduled to start on May 20. Guo has pleaded not guilty.
On Friday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged the auditing firm for Trump’s social media company and its owner with “massive fraud.” The SEC called BF Borgers a “sham audit mill” and said it “deliberately systemically failed to conduct” audits and reviews that were filed with the SEC between January 2021 and June 2023. Those reports are supposed to inform investors about the value of companies. The SEC fined the company $14 million and banned it from practicing accounting. Its owner, Benjamin Borgers, did not admit wrongdoing but accepted the judgment.
Also on Friday, the Department of Justice released a grand jury’s indictment of Representative Henry Cuellar (D-TX) and his wife, Imelda, alleging that beginning no later than 2014 and until at least November 2021, they accepted close to $600,000 in bribes from an Azerbaijani oil and gas company and a Mexican bank and then laundered the payments through Imelda’s company. In exchange, the indictment says, Cuellar agreed to adjust U.S. policy toward Azerbaijan, especially its oil industry, and to oppose laws that would curb money laundering and regulate the payday lending industry.
On Friday, at former president Trump’s fraud trial for interfering in the 2016 election by paying $130,000 to buy the silence of adult film actress Stormy Daniels and falsifying business records to hide the payment, former White House aide Hope Hicks established that Trump had indeed intended to silence Daniels in order to stop voters from hearing her information before the election. Appearing reluctant to testify against Trump, Hicks nonetheless described a conversation with Trump in 2018, after Daniels’s story became public. Trump told her that “it was better to be dealing with it now, and it would have been bad to have that story come out before the election.”
The rule of law protects ordinary Americans and defends their right to elect a government of their choice. But in 2024, it is under attack.
Trump continues to insist that the stories about his extramarital affairs are false, but his main strategy for addressing his many legal troubles is to insist that the justice system is rigged against him. This continues a pattern he began as soon as he took office, when he unsuccessfully pressured FBI director James Comey to drop the investigation into his 2016 campaign’s interaction with Russian operatives. Although FBI directors are supposed to be virtually untouchable during their ten-year term, Trump fired Comey and then spent the rest of his term accusing the FBI of persecuting him.
That attack on our judicial system expanded to sweep in all the judges who ruled against his campaign operatives and his extremist policies on immigration. He called the courts a “joke” and a “laughingstock” and attacked the Justice Department as a whole and judges personally.
Those attacks increased after Trump left office and was indicted for his efforts to overthrow the results of the 2020 presidential election. An analysis by NBC News of more than 14,000 Trump posts and reposts from April 2022 to January 6, 2024, showed that in some periods he attacked the judicial system more than he promoted his campaign. He aimed his attacks most often at special counsel Jack Smith, as well as New York attorney general Letitia James; Judge Arthur Engoron, who presided over Trump’s Manhattan fraud trial; Manhattan district attorney Alvin Bragg; and Fulton County, Georgia, district attorney Fani Willis—all of whom are in charge of cases against Trump.
Reporters Dareh Gregorian and Jasmine Cui wrote: “The posts generally portray Trump as the victim of a Democratic scheme designed to derail his presidential bid, with an array of judges and prosecutors working against him at the behest of President Joe Biden, and all part of a partisan ‘witch hunt,’ a term he used about 250 times during that time period.”
At a meeting for donors at Mar-a-Lago Saturday, Trump complained about the criminal charges against him, calling Jack Smith a “f**king a**hole,” and accused President Joe Biden of running a “Gestapo administration,” a reference to the German secret police that crushed opposition and rounded up Jews, Roma, LGBT individuals, and other targeted groups during World War II.
Trump has vowed to take control of the Justice Department and make it serve his interests. Chris Geidner of Law Dork noted today that the federal courts already favor Republicans, and a second Trump presidency would allow him to fill multiple court vacancies, probably including some on the Supreme Court, with his extremists. They would cement the ideology of MAGA Republicans into our laws for the foreseeable future.
Trump’s war on the Department of Justice over his attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election has already progressed into an attempt to delegitimize the results of the 2024 election, suggesting he does not believe he will win in a free and fair election.
Yesterday, Charlie Spies, the Republican Party’s top lawyer, resigned after Trump turned on him for his public statements that the 2020 election was not stolen. Spies was one of three lawyers the Trump team hired in March after it took over the Republican National Committee (RNC). An establishment Republican lawyer, Spies was paired with MAGA lawyer and former right-wing One America News Network anchor Christina Bobb to oversee the RNC’s so-called election integrity unit. Now Spies is out and Bobb, who has been indicted for election fraud for her participation in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, remains.
In an astonishing exchange on Meet the Press this morning, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), who is angling to become Trump’s vice presidential pick, refused six times to say he would accept the results of the 2024 election if Trump didn’t win. Host Kristen Welker asked: “Will you commit to accepting the election results of 2024?” Scott responded: “At the end of the day, the 47th president of the United States will be President Donald Trump.” Welker followed up: “Yes or no, will you accept the election results of 2024 no matter who wins?” Scott answered: “That is my statement.”
When Welker continued to push the question, Scott accused NBC of working for the “Democrat Party” but refused ever to agree to the peaceful transition of power, which, as Welker noted, is the hallmark of the democratic republic people like John Adams established in 1789.
—
Notes:
https://www.masshist.org/publications/adams-papers/index.php/view/PJA04dg2
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/federal-judiciary-act
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/03/trump-media-auditor-charged-by-sec-with-massive-fraud-permanently-barred-from-public-company-audits.html
https://time.com/6974644/bf-borgers-charged-fraud-trump-media/
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/who-chinese-mogul-who-owns-boat-steve-bannon-was-busted-n1237511
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exiled-chinese-businessmans-chief-of-staff-pleads-guilty-us-fraud-2024-05-03/
https://www.reuters.com/legal/exiled-chinese-businessman-guo-wengui-must-face-us-fraud-indictment-2024-04-02/
https://fingfx.thomsonreuters.com/gfx/legaldocs/gkpldnoolpb/05032024wang_plea.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/04/trump-rnc-spies-election-fraud/
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republicans-prepare-a-new-wave-of-legal-attacks-on-voting/
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/04/ftc-expands-patent-listing-challenges-targeting-more-300-junk-listings-diabetes-weight-loss-asthma
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24636508-cuellar-indictment
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/doj-expected-announce-indictment-texas-democratic-rep-henry-cuellar-so-rcna150567
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hope-hicks-breaks-down-on-stand-after-giving-damaging-testimony-against-trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/03/trump-hush-money-trial-hope-hicks-testimony/
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/his-own-words-presidents-attacks-courts
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-trials-attacks-judges-rcna131916
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/04/trump-indictments-attacks-democrats-gestapo/
📷Law DorkSix months out: The dangers to — and from — the courts in a second Trump administrationElection Day is six months away. Donald Trump’s election to a second term would, at its least harmful, lead to the appointment of scores of more, younger, and potentially even more extreme judges. It would lead to the end of his federal prosecutions and arguments that remaining state prosecutions cannot proceed while he is president. And, Trump would, yet again, wield the powers of the executive branch…Read more14 hours ago · 42 likes · 4 comments · Chris Geidner
Twitter (X):
RpsAgainstTrump/status/1787167295288008745
kylegriffin1/status/1787137740900913154
Timodc/status/1787123517546226014
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/may-5-2024
2024.05.06 17:47 Smallseybiggs Husband Murders Wife In Hospital Bed
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Husband murders wife at hospital because he said he couldn’t take care of her or afford her medical bills: CopsHere is another source in case you're interested.
DAVID HARRIS MAY 5, 2024 4:08 PM
A husband is charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly killed his wife at a Missouri hospital while she was getting a new port for dialysis.
According to a probable cause statement, staff at the Centerpoint Medical Center told detectives with the Independence Police Department that the woman was alert around 7:30 Friday. But when they checked on her about an hour later, she was unconscious. A “code blue” was initiated and she was taken to the intensive care unit. She had no pulse nor brain activity.
Hospital staff noticed she had “suspicious injuries,” specifically redness around her neck and a fresh wound on her throat, the affidavit said. Staff then contacted the woman’s husband, Ronnie Wiggs, about her condition but he said he didn’t have a vehicle to get to the hospital. They called the victim’s son who said he would pick up Wiggs, who is in his late 70s, and take him to the hospital.
While in the hospital room, Wiggs allegedly told the victim’s son and a nurse that he had killed his wife. He allegedly said “I did it, I killed her, I choked her.” Cops took him into custody. In an interview with detectives he admitted to killing the victim by choking her and covering her mouth to prevent her from screaming, the affidavit said. After killing her, he left the hospital, Wiggs told cops. Wiggs allegedly said he had previously tried to kill his wife on two other occasions. The first time he started but he couldn’t bring himself to carry through with the killing, detectives wrote. His wife woke up and told him not to do that again. The second time he didn’t do it because his wife was connected to several monitors.
“The defendant advised he was depressed and killed the victim because he could not take care of her anymore and he could not pay the medical bills that had been acquired” detectives wrote.
Doctors pronounced her dead around 8:30 a.m. Saturday. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office charged Wiggs with second-degree murder on Saturday. He is at the Jackson County Jail on a $250,000 bond.
2024.05.06 17:44 StarrySkiesGuy Right-Wing Politician Anthony Granata trying to sneak on Lake Central School Board as a "concerned parent" (Lake County, IN)
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2024.05.06 17:39 StarrySkiesGuy Right-Wing Politician Anthony Granata trying to sneak on Lake Central School Board as a "concerned parent" (Lake County, IN)
| | Just a heads-up. This guy ran (and lost) republican campaigns for the Illinois House of Representatives in 2014 and 2018, and now he has crossed the border and is trying to mess with the School Board at Lake Central. He is pretending to just be a non-political concerned parent as he has a kid starting elementary school in the district this year, but in reality he is a self-described political consultant (as seen on his LinkedIn page). I'm starting to get his ads on Facebook so I edited one with more accurate info. If you see them too, I would love to see it shared in response there. We can't let this kind of person on the school board- his type might be fine for the rest of Indiana, but not here! submitted by StarrySkiesGuy to Indiana [link] [comments] https://preview.redd.it/dczazvgfstyc1.png?width=526&format=png&auto=webp&s=ed16da050c80b090a9b3a70742a9a5a1e1d9b28d https://preview.redd.it/ym84wrjgstyc1.jpg?width=653&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2999491128fedb572b3e2d9144c316e5a2d0083 |