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Didn't watch one second of the World Cup, but endured the tongue bath that Fox News gave it for a freaking month so I did hear and see some of what transpired. Look, DUmb-ass, President Trump ensured that the World Cup games in the U.S. went smoothly, and they certainly did. He deserved to stand out there as long as he damn well pleased. Had Kamala or Sharter Joe been in office (a scary thought), she would have made a "land acknowledgment" and Joe wouldn't have had a clue where he was nor the sport.
Stop making up shit to make yourself feel better
New York City, as the home of the United Nations headquarters, is hosting the U.N. General Assembly in the fall. And Democratic Socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani expressed during a recent interview with a New York Times interviewer that he's holding onto a deeply-held wish and campaign promise: to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested when the world leader arrives in his city to attend it.Quote“I believe that Prime Minister Netanyahu belongs in the Hague,” Mr. Mamdani told Lulu Garcia-Navarro this week on “The Interview,” a New York Times show, referring to the home of the United Nations’ International Court of Justice.
“He’s a war criminal who has been charged by the International Criminal Court,” Mr. Mamdani added. “And what you will find is that is an opinion that is held by many, purely because of what his actions have wrought over these last many years.”
Mamdani wasn't finished, though, admitting that he's not 100 percent sure "whether he has the legal authority" to do it, and to that end, he's still consulting with his administration's Law Department.
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Well, we do still have the First Amendment, so I say let him talk. Someone else with thoughts on Mamdani's empty threat was U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz, who only needed four bullet points to dispense with the mayor's obvious "political theater":QuoteMayor Mamdani: here’s why your threat to arrest PM Netanyahu’s in NYC during UNGA is not going to happen:
1. The U.S. is not party to the Rome Statute that underlies the ICC,
2. The UN Headquarters Agreement grants diplomatic protections to visiting heads of gov’t,
3. head-of-state immunity applies, &
4. federal authority trumps any local mayor’s wishes.
This is pure political theater.
Takket (23,913 posts)
HE DID IT AGAIN! drumpf wouldn't leave the stage!!!!!!!!!!!!
After they gave Spain the World cup trophy just now, drumpf went and stood next to them and would not leave. Infantino (sp?) ran over and beckoned him to leave but he would not, he was clearly confused, he thought the party was for him, Infantino kept beckoning him to leave the stage and he finally wandered off over to the side and then stood there with his back to the camera while Spain celebrated. The doddering old fool has NO IDEA what is going on around him
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100221387920
A new report from the State Financial Officers Foundation and Open the Books uncovered nearly 90 alleged fraud schemes involving roughly $225 million across American schools since 2019.
The report alleges that school districts have been embezzling funds, creating fake invoices and then pocketing the money, lying about student enrollment numbers to collect more aid, bid-rigging and receiving kickbacks.
The SFOF and Open the Books reviewed the U.S. Department of Education Office of Inspector General’s semiannual report to Congress between 2019 and 2026 — finding that fraud has taken place in 24 states and Puerto Rico.
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Indiana schools received $44 million more funding from the state than they should have by inflating their enrollment numbers between 2016 and 2018, according to the report. Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy faced fraud schemes from four individuals within the educational institution including the founders, a director of one school, the superintendents, and an operations manager.
The four directed millions of dollars to fraudulent companies controlled by the founder and they also fired an employee who attempted to inform the state education department about the fraud. ...
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In Florida’s Broward County, Public Schools Information Officer Anthony Hunter allegedly steered $17 million of taxpayer funds to a friend’s business without going through the required bidding process and then personably benefitted from the funds, according to the report.
From 2015 to 2019 Hunter allegedly guided the funds to David Allen, a Georgia resident, and his company Education Consultants, Inc, according to the report. A statewide grand jury indicted Hunter in 2021 for bypassing the bidding process for school equipment and giving business to his friend.
However, in 2024 a judge dismissed the indictment arguing that the state grand jury did not have the jurisdiction over the case because the alleged crimes only occurred in Boward County Florida, according to the report.
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Chief operating officer of Houston Independent School District, Brain Busby, and Contractor Anthony Hutchinson were indicted by the Department of Justice including five other school officials who pled guilty to conspiracy charges. The five individuals conspired with Busby and Hutchinson by accepting bribes, per SFOF and Open the Books’ report. Busby and Hutchinson attempted to interfere with the federal criminal probe when they heard it was happening. Authorities searched the two individuals’ homes in 2020 and discovered $186,000 in cash to be forfeited.
He said it was an excerpt that he originally posted, so probably something 'Orange man bad", out a whole piece that said "Orange man baaaaaaaaaaaad".
