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Nebraska forbade cops from stealing cash from motorists, but a loophole let them carry on doing it
Seward County has become Nebraska’s capital of “civil forteiture,” in which Sheriffs deputies pull over out-of-state motorists, confiscate any cash they find, and send them on their way without charging them with crimes. Though the state banned the practice years ago, a loophole in the law’s wording effectively nullifies it and there’s little point fighting to get the money back because local courts won’t give it to you.
In the past decade, Seward has seized money in at least 90 state civil forfeiture cases, nearly double any other Nebraska county. In those cases, they initially seized a total of $2.2 million from motorists. Drivers rarely fight to get their money back. Those who do rarely win, according to court records. The $2 million kept by the county was split. Half went to a state fund for schools. Half went to a county fund overseen by a board of police chiefs, the Nebraska State Patrol, the county attorney and the sheriff. Records from meetings of that board, held at a Pizza Kitchen in Milford, detail how they decided to spend the seized dollars.They bought stun guns and bulletproof vests for the Seward and Milford Police Departments. They bought a sheriff’s cruiser with the words “Paid for by drug proceeds” emblazoned on the back. They bought an $18,000 drone for the Nebraska State Patrol. And they recently spent $15,000 on two ballistic shields, bought after the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas.
Thieves, plain and simple. The deputies doing it, the Sheriffs running it, and the judges rubber-stamping it all know what they are up to.
Let’s talk about Hunter Biden’s charges….
Newsom utterly RUINS Fox host in NEW devastating segment
Let’s talk about Esper talking about Trump….
The roads to cultural shifts and change….
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Next on the chopping block.. mandatory wheelchair ramps.
Bootsie sees “diversity inclusion” as a threat to his white heterosexual male, Christian dominance. He must have very low self esteem, a fragile sexual identity and feel inferior to race, gender, ethnic and religious identities that don’t mirror his own. Bootsie is an insecure little tyrant and I bet he’s 🤏
In a separate article, Florida Politics notes that DeSantis also vetoed funding for the arts and even playgrounds in blue counties. Yesterday DeSantis vetoed funding for repairs and maintenance of public broadcasting stations.
Not vetoed by DeSantis yesterday: $108 million for his new private army.
They make LGBT children’s lives miserable by indoctrinating their parents to hate them, and then when their parents throw them out of the house these monsters complain that there’s someone there to help them. It doesn’t get more evil than that.
Never before has a presidential effort invested in doors in the way the DeSantis machine is doing. By Labor Day, Never Back Down aims to have about 2,600 trained canvassers in the 18 early nominating states, many with hotel rooms and rental cars, iPads and evolving scripts, not to mention a paycheck from working in a position that is now advertised on job boards as between $20 to $22 an hour.
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“We want our army out in the field to be able to provide a concierge type of service,” the group’s chief operating officer Kristin Davison said. “There are people that don’t make it through the school. We are not going to graduate someone who is not up to the standards of what we want at the doors.”
Sounds kinda groom-y.
Just don’t try shoving an agenda down my throat.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/06/18/trump-trial-classified-rules/
How government rules for classified papers could help Trump delay his trial
Graymail, ‘Goldilocks rule’ and silent witnesses could help the former president put off case until after 2024 election
The law created a series of pretrial steps that must be taken to decide exactly what classified information will be used in court, and how. Lawyers who have worked such cases view the law as a time-consuming and difficult set of procedures that can be extremely beneficial to any defendant seeking to delay a trial.
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OH THIS IS GOOD!! A Pennsylvania Republican lawmakers lawsuit against a local newspaper just backfired spectacularly, exposing DAMNING 2020 election emails between top state officials and the Trump administration.
State Senator Dan Laughlins defamation lawsuit against “The Erie Reader” opened him up to discovery, and ended up revealing a series of emails pertaining to Trump’s pressure campaign on Pennsylvania Republicans to illegally overthrow the election in 2020.
High level communications between far-right gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, and member of Trump legal team Christina Cobb, is part of the information that’s been released. In those emails, Mastriano expressed his concern that Trump’s proposal to overturn the election was “illegal.”
The emails also detail how Trump PERSONALLY called Mastriano and pressured him to overturn the election, and even furnished false documents about Dominion Voting Systems “rigging the election against Biden” in an effort to do so.
“We’re not saying a word on this crap,” Laughlin said in an email after he got word of the plan, worried about his own parties attempt to unlawfully overturn the election. It seems like the emails implicate Trump in yet another crime. Unreal.
Before that, Fine appeared on JMG when he called for felony charges after Florida Democrats staged a sit-in over the racist US House map submitted by DeSantis.
And before that, he appeared here when he threatened to defund a Florida Special Olympics event and called a local school board member a “whore” because she’d been invited its fundraiser gala and he was not.
Fine was a sponsor of the bill that stripped Disney’s self-governing status. His family owns annual passes to the “woke” theme park giant.
He recently arranged for a Florida town to honor a war criminal who was convicted of executing four Iraqi prisoners. He last appeared here in April 2023, when he declared, “Damn right, we ought to erase” LGBTQs.
Fine is also a sponsor of Florida’s bill criminalizing drag shows in view of minors. Of note, his wife runs a self-described “sultry” burlesque show that would violate her husband’s law.
So…. The zoo goes “neutral” and that’s “woke”?
To fascists, anything that doesn’t directly support them is the enemy.
Anything that is not exuberant support of them is going woke. Expect attack if you fail their purity test.
(((GC))) – End the filibuster! Ed B2 days ago
While the haters loudly call on companies to remain “neutral” in the “culture wars” (rather than acknowledge the existence and equality of LGBTQ+ individuals, and of many kinds of healthy relationships and families).
We got it, xtians. You’ve been appointed by god to judge everyone. Everyone is going to hell but you. You’ll all fly up into the sky. Now go the fuck away.
Wintercat Jamieboy Highballs2 days ago edited
One thing that Worf mentioned once, Klingons do not have gods. They did, but they were so troublesome that they killed them. Kahless is just a sort of warrior Buddha, a real person who lived with honor that they try to live up to.
I like that.
A common statement from the religious side of this issue goes something like this “stop shoving your gay agenda down our throats”. In the same breath, they go on to say, “You don’t see us shoving our religion down your throat”.
Well then…
Have you ever had a homosexual knock on your door (usually around dinner time) asking if you have found Elton John?
Have homosexuals ever passed laws that make the government print “In Homosexuality We Trust” on your money?
When was the last time homosexuals passed laws that rewrote the Pledge of Allegiance to say, “One Homosexual Nation”?
Have homosexuals erected a monument with Marc Jacobs’ top 10 fashion rules at your local courthouse?
Have any homosexual groups spent millions trying to pass laws to outlaw marriage between a woman and a man?
Have homosexual activists worked to pass laws limiting birth control, abortion, etc?
Did a homosexual ever prevent you from buying liquor or a car on Sunday?
Is there a book promoting homosexuality in almost every hotel room in the country?
Have homosexuals pushed for laws to make the missionary position illegal?
Have homosexuals tried to pass a law allowing them to legally refuse service to Christians?
Right, they have never shoved their religious agenda down our collective throats.
Do the homosexual children beat up the straight ones while the teachers pretend not to see?
EdmondWherever Doug1056 days ago
Do we idolize a book which calls for their deaths?
Have the police raided churches and arrested all of the congregants?
Within your lifetime, praying in the privacy of your home been a felony punishable by several decades in prison?
Raymond Neal Doug1055 days ago
You’re right it’s practically all they do. They’re hell bent on converting the world to their toxic religion.
The march of the rabid right terrorists continues, threatening corporations and businesses with everything up to and including potential violence unless they capitulate. Sickening.
IIRC Anheuser Busch fired some marketing executives before Targer capitulated to them. These “wins” only emboldened them more and now Starbucks.
I am going to Pride this year (I haven’t always) and will encourage everyone to get out in the damn streets. I am hearing sooooo much of this insidious “but not in front of the children” far-right /
Russian / Nazi propaganda, wnich was tired nearly 50 years ago when Anita Bryant called her organization SAVE THE CHILDREN”. In my generation the number of self-identified queer people was 2% – for Gen Z, it’s 20% – we need to be counted!
Woken by my Apple Watch as I was dying in a dream
Hello everyone. I have put off writing this all day. First I have not felt well and second I wanted to do it without sounding overdramatic. But Ron’s panic when he saw the EKG’s and his insistence that if it ever happens again I must wake him right away, I think a little drama is warranted.
Last night, I had a dream unlike any dream I have had before. Something to keep in mind is that other than my nightmares about my childhood abuse, I have the ability to gain superpowers in my dreams. Even in dreams dealing with my adoptive father lately I have seen my self trying to stand up to him, even if I am unable to get the words out that I want to shout and instead being woken / waking up with Ron trying hard to help me and telling me I am either shouting or making guttural sounds at a large volume.
Last night was different, I had no powers, and in my dream I knew I was about to die. The dream took place in the front yard facing the street in a home we use to own. One of my favorite homes. It was very dark, no moon, and was slightly raining. We also had rain last night. In my dream as I twisted and danced to avoid stepping in a large puddle on our walkway to the street, (I did not have and did not seem to need my ever present canes) a black car pulled up in the street next to me. A woman was in the car and gesturing to me, I could see this because she had the inside car dome light on. As I approached the street she pulled up to the curb in the next door home.
As I walked toward the car she pulled into the driveway of the home. I was not sure what to do so I stood there in the yard. The woman got out of the car and had a large double barrel shot gun and pointed it at me as she walked towards me. I turned to run but tripped and fell on the ground.
As I rolled over she was less than five feet from me with the gun pointed at me. In my mind / dream I knew she was going to shoot me. In the dream I remember thinking she is going to kill me and I cannot do anything to stop her. Then I woke up with my Apple watch buzzing like crazy on my wrist. Unlike Ron or James, I wear my watch all night. The watch was displaying a red alert saying I was in AFIB. I really couldn’t process what the watch said as I did not have my glasses on and I was struggling to breathe.
After a while I calmed down and got my glasses and ran an EKG from my phone. That also came back bad with AFIB. I laid in bed for another 45 minutes cuddling with Ron before doing it again. The reason I did it again was I was again having shortness of breath. It again came back with AFIB. My chest hurt so I got up.
When I did so I woke Ron and that is normal. He asked what was going on and I stupidly said my heart was in AFIB and I stupidly told him the truth, that I was having trouble breathing and my watch was saying I was in AFIB. Ron worked 16 years in the Open Heart ICU and I don’t think I have ever seen him out of bed that quickly. He demanded to see the EKGs, so I gave him my phone. That started a morning of checks, repeat checks, lots of me being told to do this, don’t do that, and being watched like a toddler around open live electrical wires. After I had my coffee and breakfast, my heart rate returned to sinus rhythm. It has stayed that way all day. The breathing problem is much worse at night when I am laying down in bed. Anyway, that is what happened. I was not scared until Ron seemed to be so upset. I never had a dream where I was in danger and couldn’t save myself that was not related to my childhood abuse. This time I knew she was going to shoot me and I was going to die. Weird. Hugs
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