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senseandsensibility (26,885 posts)

OMG! They're not even trying and it's hilarious!

Rs are staying away from the "Trumpalooza" midterm convention in droves. In fact, only nine have confirmed attendance. And their excuses are downright comical.

Nancy Mace actually laughed and said "NOO!" when asked if she would attend. Randy Fine said he had to attend his son's game. But this morning, James Comer, a trumper outdid them all. When asked why he wouldn't attend, he said, "I had stuff already planned."

When your cult members can't even be bothered to come up with an excuse for ghosting you, you know something is amiss.

https://democraticunderground.com/100221483479

Cult members??? Look in the mirror ahole.

The dummy's can't see him as a threat because his agenda is the same as theirs!

Aristus
I was going to wait until tomorrow night, but I can't. I didn't pass my board exams.
I'm doing an after-action right now, and writing down the areas that need work. I feel like I failed you all as well as the exam.

I'm going to get busy studying again. I'm re-taking the exam December 4th.

I love you all...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10182350363

This is the same person that expressed joy at a bank branch VP getting stabbed and killed in NY a few days ago.

Wow: Maria Bartiromo Out at Fox

Surprising news on Thursday regarding Fox Business' Maria Bartiromo.

She has reportedly parted ways with Fox, according to a statement from the company.

The statement said she was "no longer with Fox News Media." “We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,” the statement concluded.

Can it get any briefer or more cold than that? What the heck happened? That's not the way you would usually treat someone who has been there for 12 1/2 years.

Vanity Fair's Aidan McLaughlin said he was told she was not leaving for a job in the Trump administration.

So she isn't going to be the new White House Press Secretary, if that report is right. I don't think she'd be interested in that in any event.

She joined Fox Business Network and Fox News in early 2014 after leaving CNBC.

https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2026/09/03/maria-bartiromo-out-at-fox-n2206469

No one knows exactly why. Even reached out to a fraternity brother who is a higher-up at Fox and he was clueless. While she isn't my favorite Fox Business host (those would be Larry Kudlow, Dagen McDowell, Brian Brenberg, and Stuart Varney), at least she was on the correct side of the issues, unlike Neil Cavuto and the still insufferable host Liz Clayman.

The NY Slimes has a hunch, which was mine as well (no link, paywall):

In July, Fox News was sued for defamation related to claims made on Ms. Bartiromo’s weekday morning show. A pair of Utah nonprofits and their founders claimed that Kevin O’Leary, the investor of “Shark Tank” fame, had spread defamatory accusations about them on the program after they opposed his plans for a 40,000-acre data center. Ms. Bartiromo boosted his claim, according to the complaint. (Mr. O’Leary later retracted his claim, and Fox News apologized.)

 

Washington professor who parodied university 'land acknowledgment' wins $600K settlement

https://www.fire.org/news/washington-professor-who-parodied-university-land-acknowledgment-wins-600k-settlement

SEATTLE, Sept. 3, 2026 — The University of Washington paid $600,000 after punishing Professor Stuart Reges for parodying a university-approved “land acknowledgment” in his syllabus.

The payout comes after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit held administrators liable under the First Amendment for retaliation and viewpoint discrimination.

Today’s settlement concludes the legal battle that began with a 2022 lawsuit by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression on Reges’s behalf. Besides the monetary settlement, the agreement stipulates that the university cannot take any further action against Reges. While Reges’s appeal was pending, UW also rescinded and replaced the vague antiharassment policy used to punish the professor for his speech.

It has become increasingly common in academia to encourage statements that formally recognize indigenous ties to the land. In December 2021, Reges criticized land acknowledgment statements in an email to faculty, and the next month he parodied UW’s model statement in his syllabus: “I acknowledge that by the labor theory of property the Coast Salish people can claim historical ownership of almost none of the land currently occupied by the University of Washington.” Reges’s statement was a nod to John Locke’s philosophical theory that property rights are established by labor, and a response to the Computer Science department’s recommendation that professors include the UW’s model statement in their syllabi. Reges objected to the political nature of the UW’s model statement and sought to demonstrate that there are competing views on the value of land acknowledgments.

UW was not amused. University officials censored Reges’s parody statement from his syllabus and created a competing class, so students could choose not to take a computer science class from Reges. The university also initiated a nearly year-long investigation of Reges under an “antiharassment” policy.

Just before Christmas last year, the Ninth Circuit delivered a decisive victory for Reges, holding that UW officials violated the First Amendment and directing the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington to enter summary judgment for Reges on his retaliation and viewpoint discrimination claims, and reversing the district court’s dismissal of Reges’s challenges to the antiharassment policy.

It looks like the 3-judge panel overturned the District Court's rejection of Professor Reges's motion for a summary judgment. The University of Washington could waste more taxpayer $$$$ by appealing for an en banc review, and failing there, to the USSC.