Nero Wolfe

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Blanche also said the Justice Department is moving to insulate its attorneys from ethics complaints administration critics have filed with local bar authorities in various states and Washington, D.C., seeking action against those lawyers' bar licenses. "The D.C. Bar in particular is one of the most activist, obnoxious bars when it comes to going after conservative lawyers. It's out of this world," he said, appearing to reference a disbarment effort against former DOJ lawyer Jeffrey Clark, a key figure in Trump's bid to subvert the 2020 election.
Pam Bondi tweets #1 A single district court in Rhode Island should not be able to seize center stage in the shutdown, seek to upend political negotiations that could produce swift political solutions for SNAP and other programs, and dictate its own preferences for how scarce federal funds should be spent. #2 With hours to go before the TRO compliance clock runs, and the First Circuit waiting to deny immediate relief until minutes ago, we have filed an emergency stay application in the Supreme Court requesting immediate relief. #3 As our Supreme Court brief puts it: "The core power of Congress is that of the purse, while the Executive is tasked with allocating limited resources across competing priorities. But here, the court below took the current shutdown as effective license to declare a federal bankruptcy and appoint itself the trustee, charged with picking winners and losers among those seeking some part of the limited pool of remaining federal funds."
Jessica @la_PsyChiq I'm in. [photo of a bed with a dog plushie on the pillow and numerous toy guns with trigger locks installed] Sav Shawz @shawzsav HELL YEAH
Near the end of the meeting in Austin, Texas, Musk asked whether the xAI proposal had been approved. As someone started to explain the vote tallies, he interrupted, "OK, OK whatever."
Elon Musk, looking unnaturally smooth, speaking on stage in front of a background that says “Sustainable Abundance” in a Skrillex-ass font.
4 mins ago Lloyd Lee Robotaxi reporter Musk mentions the pain points of being a public company, but says maybe SpaceX should IPO at some point Musk says it's "very difficult" to operate a public company, citing the exposure to litigation. But after some thought, the CEO says "maybe" SpaceX should be a public company at some point. He says he does want to find "some way" for Tesla shareholders to participate in his space company.
6 mins ago Henry Chandonnet Musk predicts that there will be Teslas and Optimus robots on the moon one day Tesla vehicles and Optimus robots are a "natural fit" for building a moon base. The two products will also make it to Mars, Musk says, and will be a fit for a Mars city. The Cybertruck, too, he adds.
2 mins ago Henry Chandonnet Tesla FSD is nearing "text and drive" territory, Musk says Musk says that he is confident that, in the coming months, drivers will be able to text and drive simultaneously, thanks to FSD. Some drivers are now turning FSD off to text, Musk says, which is "less safe."
2 mins ago Henry Chandonnet Musk says that Optimus will be "bigger than cellphones" Elon Musk hypes up Tesla's Optimus robot. He says that everyone will want "their own personal R2D2." He expects tens of billions of Optimus robots "out there," and that they will "eliminate poverty." Safety is important, he says. He wants Optimus to be more "Star Wars" than James Cameron.
8 mins ago Steven Tweedie It's official: Musk's pay package is approved Over 75% of voters who participated approved Musk's pay package. The crowd broke out into cheers of "Elon, Elon!"
2 mins ago Steven Tweedie Spotted onstage: A Tesla Optimus bot If you look to the far right beneath some spotlights, you'll see a Tesla Optimus bot onstage. It's not moving, but Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot is onstage to the far right of the presenters.
1 mins ago Henry Chandonnet Proposal to amend the bylaws to repeal 3% derivative suit ownership threshold gets boos. In a pre-recorded presentation, one Tesla shareholder asked voters to consider repealing the 3% derivative suit ownership threshold, which they said "stops proper oversight" and "tells shareholders that the board no longer wants to be answerable to them." At the end, boos could be heard.
3 mins ago Steven Tweedie There's a cheer at the mention of Musk's pay package proposal from the audience. https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-shareholder-meeting-elon-musk-pay-package-vote-live-updates-2025-11
Trump Truth Social Post @realDonaldTrump • 12m Pass Voter Reform, Voter ID, No Mail-In Ballots. Save our Supreme Court from "Packing," No Two State addition, etc. TERMINATE THE FILIBUSTER!!!
WSJ live updates Mamdani Wins New York 1 hour ago Bill Ackman Predicts Cuomo Victory
JCPenney rifle ad. Prices range from $58.88 to $198.88.
In 1938, Hitler gave her a choice of four apartments in Munich. Mitford is reported to have visited one apartment to discuss her decoration and design plans while the soon-to-be-dispossessed residents, a Jewish couple, sat in the kitchen crying.
Before: Sidney R. Thomas, Senior Circuit Judge and En Banc Coordinator. Without objection from the panel, the court's October 20, 2025, order granting a stay pending appeal (Dkt. 61) is administratively stayed until 5:00 pm on October 28, 2025, to allow the completion of the pending en banc proceedings. This administrative order expresses no views on the merits of this matter and is not a reconsideration of the carlier stay order.
Wolfe was seated at the table, sketching a fine picture of a bull Illustration from Some Buried Caesar by Rex Stout.
Everytown map falsely states “21 states have rejected this policy.” Examples include CA, CO, IL, NM, OR, VT, VA and WA, all of which have case law or jury instructions that make them “stand your ground” states.
The Raid The operation began with a confidential tip, officials said. Officials have not said who tipped them off, but records show that agents carried out the raid with the consent of the owner, and that they targeted apartments that they were told were not currently being rented and were presumably occupied by squatters. Several residents said that agents had left some apartments alone while bursting into others. Miyah Hill, 22, said some residents who peeked into the hallway during the raid were ordered to go back inside. One man who asked not to be identified because he was still living in the building, said he had found a floor plan of the building in the aftermath of the raid with some apartments shaded in green, others in white and some in red.
Provided, That such authority to transfer may not be used unless for higher priority items, based on unforeseen military requirements, than those for which originally appropriated and in no case where the item for which funds are requested has been denied by the Congress
Stephen Miller @StephenM • 4m Federal judge: protecting ICE officers from violent attack will only further motivate the violent attackers. QT: Picture of Judge Perry and tweet about her TRO enjoining the NG deployment in Chicago
Stephen Miller & @StephenM • 1h Pritzker is saying that if ICE officers are performing their duties in Chicago it is an incitement to violence against them. What is the correct term to describe this? QT: Governor JB Pritz... & @GovPritz... • 2h Donald Trump: Stop trying to incite Illinoisans into violence. Pack up and go home. Will Chamberlain @willchamberlain Nine letter word that begins with R 7:18 PM • Oct 9, 2025
The world's richest, in his view, think too little about their identities as billionaires and what will become of their treasures after death. That's how Thiel said he persuaded Musk. He said he looked up actuarial tables and found the probability of Musk's death in the coming year equated to giving $1.4 billion to Gates, who has long sparred with the Tesla CEO. "What am I supposed to do-give it to my children?" Musk responded, in Thiel's telling. “You know, it would be much worse to give it to Bill Gates." Such fortunes, Thiel said, could help counter an Antichrist, if global tax and sanctions machinery do not seize the money first.
Screenshot of Patel from WH video “They are an organized, systemic, international criminal enterprise.”
Indeed, many reports suggest that much of the violence and destruction caused by these riots can be traced to a few organizations funding the riots, see id., or individuals moving between the States encouraging this type of behavior, see Wiley, et al., supra, [FN] The pervasiveness of these coordinated attacks cannot be underestimated. They have resulted in the President declaring Antifa a domestic terrorist organization due to its explicit "calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law." Designating Antifa as a Domestic Terrorist Organization, 90 Fed Reg. 46317, 46317 (Sept. 22, 2025). To accomplish its goals, Antifa organizes and executes a campaign to "obstruct enforcement of Federal laws through armed standoffs with law enforcement, organized riots, violent assaults on Immigration and Customs Enforcement [ICE] and other law enforcement officers, and routine doxing of and other threats against political figures and activists." Id. [FN] Indeed, this type of interstate movement has occurred before. Take for example the riots that occurred in 2020. Destruction due to rioting occurred in at least 20 States, Jennifer A. Kingson, Exclusive: S1 billion-plus riot damage is most expensive in insurance history and rioters, AXIOS (Sept. 16, 2020), https://bit.ly/4q0xRcc, and some rioters moved between jurisdictions. After rioting occurred in Minnesota in 2020, arrest records showed that out of 18 people arrested in St. Paul, 6 were not from Minnesota, and out of 109 people arrested in Minneapolis, 16 were not from another state. Trevor Hughes, Protests in Minneapolis turned violent: Officials first blamed outsiders, but that's not what arrests show, USA Today (updated June 4, 2020, at 3:39 pm), https://bit.ly/3IZuZvw.
Think about it this way. Either what Trump is doing is legal, or it is illegal. If it is legal, then Trumpism must be defeated and there then must be a concerted effort to reform the law-and possibly even the Constitution-to prevent the next authoritarian attempt. If it is illegal, then eventually, someone has to go to jail for what this administration is doing to the country. If this story doesn't end with one of those two outcomes, then we will see it replayed again. And again. That is the reality we face. I hope you'll decide to face it with us.
WIKIPEDIA Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA) is a U.S law, passed in 2005, that protects firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with their products. Both arms manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible. However, they may be held liable for negligent entrustment if it is found that they had reason to believe a firearm was intended for use in a crime.
To the mainstream media's chagrin, there are no “indiscriminate stops" being made. The Supreme Court simply applied longstanding precedent regarding what qualifies as "reasonable suspicion" under the Fourth Amendment. What makes someone a target of ICE is if they are illegally in the U.S. DHS enforces federal immigration law without fear, favor, or prejudice.
If your theory of tokenization is "this is 100% a regulatory arbitrage and not at all a technology thing," you will naturally spend less time on building technology and more time on building, uh, regulatory relationships. Anyway here's this: Zach Witkoff would like to make the Trump family's real estate portfolio available as tokens on blockchain, giving access to a wider pool of investors. "The Trump family has one of the most exciting real estate asset portfolios in the world," Witkoff said in an interview at Token2049 in Singapore, speaking alongside Donald Trump Jr. "What if I told you that you could, you know, go on an exchange and buy one token of Trump Tower Dubai?" Witkoff is the son of US special envoy to the Middle East Steve Witkoff and co-founder of World Liberty Financial, started together with the Trump family last year.
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The Shell USA Company Foundation helps employees boost their charitable giving to non-profits. A Shell USA spokesperson wrote via email that the company's workers make the initial decision to donate "to non-profit (tax exempt) organizations of their choice".
3 minutes ago Tyler Pager White House reporter When pressed on which individuals his administration might be targeting, Trump mentioned Reid Hoffman, who co-founded LinkedIn and is a prominent Democratic donor. "I hear about him, I don't know," Trump said. 4m ago Maggie Haberman White House reporter Attorney General Pam Bondi, asked about a possible indictment of James Comey, the former F.B.I. director, said, "We can't comment on that."
5 minutes ago Maggie Haberman White House reporter Trump called various officials forward to speak about the memorandum on domestic terrorism. Attorney General Pan Bondi praised the president for taking the "handcuffs" off law enforcement and said the point was to go after "any organized group" - a remarkably vague description. 10 minutes ago Maggie Haberman White House reporter Trump signed a presidential memorandum against "domestic terrorism" and "organized political violence," aiming to create a whole-of-government response. This relates to efforts to crack down on Democratic-aligned groups.
Diagram of a cartridge’s components
Photo from https://www.fox4news.com/news/anti-ice-engravings-shells-casings-dallas-ice-shooting.amp Rifle cartridges, one of which is engraved “ANTI-ICE.”
Post by Palm Bay City Councilman Chandler Langevin @ChandlerForPB Know Thy Enemy. IS ANTIFA TRAINING AT YOUR RANGE/SHOP? LEFT WING AND ANTI WHITE TERRORISTS TRAINING RANGES AND GUN SHOPS TO ARM AND ORGANIZE FOR POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND IT'S OUR JOB TO PREVENT THEIR NEXT ATTACK. LOOK FOR THESE SYMBOLS: Antifa Iron Front Black Power Anti White [Swastika being discarded] Armed Trans Communist Militia [YPG??] LOCAL ANTI WHITE MILITIAS INCLUDE: OR PHRASES LIKE: PUNCH NAZIS MAKE RACISTS AFRAID AGAIN UNDER NO PRETEXT IF SPOTTED: Take photos - Record Names/Info - Trespass from the premises Contact law enforcement and turn over any photos/video
Kenvue stock chart showing the stock down 7.47% at the close and up 4.48% after hours (meaning investors thought the stock dropped too much relative to the concern raised by the government).
What is the Trump Corporate Gold Card? The Trump Corporate Gold Card is issued to a corporate sponsor for one or more of the sponsors employees. To apply, the corporate sponsor must pay a nonrefundable processing fee per employee. Corporate sponsors may apply for multiple employees at once. A $2 million per employee gift upon completion of the employee's vetting is evidence that the employee will substantially benefit the United States. The advantage of the Trump Corporate Gold Card is that corporate sponsors may cease sponsoring one employee and use the gift contribution tied to the prior application as a basis for sponsoring a new employee without a new $2 million gift. The Trump Corporate Gold Card is subject to a small annual maintenance fee and a transfer fee.
https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/spotlights/2025/silicon-valley-enabled-brutal-mass-detention-and-surveillance-in-china-internal-documents-show/
Satellite view of the area showing the Katy Police Dept Gun Range near TheRac.
Insurance law Halligan was a partner at Cole, Scott and Kissane in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and handled residential and commercial insurance claims. Halligan was second chair to another lawyer defending an insurance company at a two-day trial against three Miami homeowners who had suffered damaged roofs. A judge would not award her attorneys fees because he ruled that her team did not act "in good faith."
As codified in 8 U.S.C. § 1182(f), (4) the section reads, 15) in part: Whenever the President finds that the entry of any aliens or of any class of aliens into the United States would be detrimental to the interests of the United States, he may by proclamation, and for such period as he shall deem necessary, suspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens as immigrants or nonimmigrants, or impose on the entry of aliens any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.
Can Trump Gold Card status be revoked? The Trump Gold Card is a visa; therefore, national security and other risks are a basis for revocation.
Why is there a waiting list for the Trump Platinum Card and why should applicants apply now? The Trump Platinum Card has not been released yet. Applicants should join the waitlist now, as they will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis.
What is the Trump Platinum Card? The Trump Platinum Card will allow individual applicants to reside in the United States for up to 270 days per year without being subject to tax on non-U.S. income. No more travel visas.
What is the Trump Platinum Card? The Trump Platinum Card will allow individual applicants to reside in the United States for up to 270 days per year without being subject to tax on non-U.S. income. No more travel visas.