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Ryan Paige@ryanpaige.bsky.social |
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Ryan Paige
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Aim a gun at a police officer in Texas, and the bond is set at $1 million for attempted capital murder. Physically try to drown a child in Texas, and the bond is set at $25,000 for the attempted capital murder.
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Ryan Paige
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Makes me wonder why Alvin Bragg didn't go ahead and get that adultery conviction on the record against Trump while he was doing the phony business records case.
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Ryan Paige
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The whole thing just makes me miss Raul Julia even more.
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Ryan Paige
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How small are people’s houses?
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Ryan Paige
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Nobody wants to put in the work anymore.
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Very Very Common Mike Dunford
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This is so perfectly on point, especially in a life+70 copyright term world.
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Ryan Paige
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Very much agree. The most I thought about Don Hill was that it seemed like there were some non-minority city officials who had engaged in very similar behavior who weren’t seeing the inside of a courtroom, but that in no way meant that Hill shouldn’t pay for his crimes.
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Ryan Paige
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Not JWP. He’s still on the county commissioner’s court and was acquitted of 16 of 17 charges he faced in 2017 (the AUSA decided not to retry on the 17th count). Don Hill and Dwaine Caraway were convicted as were some others. Al Lipscomb was convicted but it was overturned on appeal.
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Ryan Paige
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Well that's lame.
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Ryan Paige
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Texas 7ers? Are they named after the Texas 7 (the seven prisoners who escaped and murdered a police officer while on the lam?)
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Ryan Paige
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Probably not. Constitution just says a U.S. Senator has be an inhabitant of the state at the time of election. Given this Supreme Court, he would probably just have to move back to Florida by 2028 if he wanted to run for Senate again.
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Ryan Paige
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Whenever a police officer is accused of a crime, it's all, 'wait until all the facts come out' but for anybody else, it's 'how quickly can we arrest and charge someone on the flimsiest of evidence and/or our oft-misguided hunch'
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Oregon Rolled A 20
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"Police don’t solve serious or violent crimes w/any regularity, & spend very little time on crime control." They spend more "time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often wo reasonable suspicion, rather than 'fighting crime.'"
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
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Ryan Paige
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Ryan Paige
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I mean, I was a Republican until 2004 and a pretty staunch one in the '80s and '90s, and I don't really recall a whole lot of differences on freer trade. Perot was the anti-NAFTA guy in '92. Reagan/Bush were for it as was Clinton/Gore. George W. and Obama both pursued freer trade deals.
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Seth Cotlar
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Stories like this attest to the power of the “far right imaginary,” a largely evidence-free bundle of apocalyptic and gripping stories that quickly crumble as soon as one takes the tiniest steps outside that fabulistic, MAGA-cinematic universe. www.texastribune.org/2024/05/15/t...
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Ryan Paige
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She also once let her nephews talk her in to doing some Dukes of Hazzard-style jumps over some roadside levees in rural Arkansas. She said they made it over fine the first time, but she just didn't have enough speed on the way back. She vowed to try again once the car was repaired.
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Ryan Paige
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My aunt worked at a factory for many years, but they only let her drive a forklift once. Her forklift driving privileges were revoked after she came within inches of driving it straight into the river.
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Ryan Paige
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I assumed that my high school was build almost entirely without windows (and half underground) due to the tornado threat.
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Ryan Paige
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At my schools, the teachers would tell us to just stay in our seats if a nuclear bomb went off, but I did grow up near Pantex, so the idea of a nuclear accident seemed like it had higher potential of both happening and potentially being survivable. Though probably not.
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Ryan Paige
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I mean even the “Not unless round is funny” guy slays.
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We had a pit bull that my mother-in-law had adopted but couldn't handle, so we took the dog in to keep her from going back to the shelter. She got in a fight with one of our other dogs, so we found her a new home w/no other animals. It was like two years ago, and I'm still sad about doing it.
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Ryan Paige
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They said that about Caddyshack II and look how wrong they were.
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Ryan Paige
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When I was a teenager in the long-ago 1980s, we had a car stolen out of our garage. Thankfully, it was dumped without damage, though it did take the police three days of neighbors complaining about an abandoned car with its lights on for the police to find it.
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Ryan Paige
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My most-recent CPA firm automatically filed extensions for whoever was in our system come extension time unless they had expressly told us not to. It usually didn't cause problems, but every once in a while there'd be a situation similar to yours that would cause some panic.
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Ryan Paige
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He died from esophageal cancer.
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Ryan Paige
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And Kim was in the Paris Hilton orbit during some of Hilton's prime media exposure years.
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Ryan Paige
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"Take the Money and Run" Steve Miller Band. Just Dreadful. Three people named in the song, and two of them are named Billy. Rhyming 'Texas' with 'What the facts is' and gives up the entire rhyming scheme for the next line presumably because he couldn't a way to mangle the word 'justice' to fit.
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Ryan Paige
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I’m so often on automatic pilot and was so tired after my kids were born that I absolutely could have seen myseen myself forgetting my kid in the backseat at some point. Thankfully didn’t happen, probably at least partially because there was a wide spread campaign to raise awareness of the issue.
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Ryan Paige
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West Texas A&M. As a former WTAMU student, I want their bigotry properly credited.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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responsibility ≠ guilt. no one should feel guilt for something they had no part of, but as members of this society with a responsibility for its well-being, i think we do incur an obligation to remedy the contemporary effects of past injustice
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Ryan Paige
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Terrorism
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Ryan Paige
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The ‘former’ part is how I know he’s worth listening to.
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Ryan Paige
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I used to tell customers at my previous job that I hoped they were happy with the service, but if not, it turned out I got paid the same regardless.
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Radley Balko
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These people make me wish there was a hell, just to see the surprise on their faces when they arrive. “Oh, you mean imprisoning people and ruining their lives because they tried to help troubled kids was wrong?”
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Ryan Paige
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Dem states like Texas, I guess?
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Ryan Paige
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My wife (a teacher) and I wouldn't be able to live in the town where we live if we tried to buy today. Our house is currently appraised at three times what we paid for it in 2005 and almost all of that gain in value has come since 2020 (as recently as 2015, it was worth less than we paid for it).
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Ryan Paige
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If I stop, people will have to work harder to discover I'm an insufferable dickwad, and I feel that is unfair to them.
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Ryan Paige
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I totes sign my shit that way.
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They should move to Texas where the prosecutor having a secret affair with the judge is mostly okay with the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals (though the Court did eventually reconsider and order a new trial after first rejecting it in a death penalty case).
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Ryan Paige
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It would be a violation of my First Amendment rights to limit what I can write on a check to the amount I have in my checking account, therefore prosecuting someone for writing bad checks is unconstitutional.
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Ryan Paige
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NCIS investigates Marines-related crimes, too.
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Ryan Paige
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My former boss died in September after being diagnosed with colorectal cancer when he was 48.
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Ryan Paige
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My 4th and 5th great-grandfathers were very active Democrats during their time. Unfortunately, that time was the 1860s.
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Ryan Paige
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Now they need to decide that firing someone for reporting that you’re not following health insurance or 401k rules is retaliation even if you come up with some pretextual garbage to justify the firing.
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Ryan Paige
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TEA finally said, "you can't do that" but then the district just turned around did it again. As long as there are no real consequences, there's no incentive to follow the law if you just don't want to.
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Ryan Paige
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I don't know how you take Trump out of it, but staying home in 2016 and in 2000 didn't get us anything but Biden now and five Supreme Court justices who are actively dismantling progressive gains made since Roosevelt plus the pain along the way.
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Ryan Paige
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My dumbass book is free for Kindle through February 5th.
www.amazon.com/dp/B09X9XTNV2
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Ryan Paige
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A drink? He's a cocaine man.
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Ryan Paige
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There were, for example, about 1.2 million people on the waiting list for immigration visas from Mexico and about 4,600 issued per month. At that rate, it would take 21 years to get through the current waiting list.
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