I don't go along with that idea in a general sense but if a man hadn't eaten in a couple of days or someone had hungry children I wouldn't try to prosecute them or paint him as a criminal if they were stealing some food. I would actually be willing to pay for it myself.
As long as people can comprehend that Hamas is not the innocent civilian population of Gaza. Something both you and Netanyahu seem to have overlooked. Your "You have to crack a few eggs" theory doesn't work when it comes to innocent people being slaughtered on purpose in the process.
Supreme Court rejects final Trump appeal of $5 million E. Jean Carroll verdict
Carroll has received the money in the 2023 case, her representatives said.
The Supreme Court on Monday declined a request from President Donald Trump to reconsider its rejection of his appeal in the 2023 E. Jean Carroll case.
The decision means it's the end of the line for Trump's bid to overturn a $5 million jury award to Carroll, which the writer's representatives said was paid in July.
The Court did not explain its decision and there were no noted dissents. No request for a rehearing has been granted since the 1960s.
A jury determined in 2023 that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle magazine columnist, in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"
In 2024, following a separate trial, Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to Carroll for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse.
Trump, who denies any wrongdoing, is continuing to appeal that judgment with a petition to the justices currently pending. They are expected to decide later this year whether or not to take up the case.
In his appeal, Trump alleges that his 2019 comments about Carroll -- which were later found to be defamatory -- were "official" statements as president and therefore immune from use in a legal case against him.
Senator Mitch McConnell has been absent from the Senate for 64 days following a medical emergency and hospitalization that began on June 14, 2026. He last cast a vote on June 11, 2026.
Donald Trump threatens to bomb Oman if it ‘gets in the way’ of ending Iran war
President issues threat to ‘bomb the sh** out of them’ after previously threatening Gulf ally in May
Donald Trump has again threatened to bomb Oman if it “gets in the way” of his effort to end the US-Israel war on Iran.
“If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the [censored] out of them,” Trump told Fox News on Monday, the second time he has directed such a threat at Muscat, a longtime US strategic partner that has traditionally served as a key backchannel between Washington and Tehran.
The US president delivered the threat as he struggles to draw the conflict to a conclusion, almost six months after it was launched, and as a diplomatic window agreed with Tehran ran out with no final agreement in sight. But Trump also claimed during Monday’s interview that he is “not in a hurry” to reach a deal.
That two-month window for a negotiated settlement closed on Monday without a breakthrough. Trump has repeatedly claimed the war would end “soon”, and talked up the prospect of a lasting peace deal in recent months, without such a breakthrough materializing.
In the same interview, Trump said Iran should “put up the white flag of surrender”, but signaled he was not about to impose a fresh deadline on Tehran. “I have no time schedule. I’m not in a hurry,” he said.
Trump signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran at the Palace of Versailles on 17 June, on the sidelines of the G7 summit, which had paused hostilities and set a maximum 60-day window – extendable only by mutual consent – for the two sides to reach a comprehensive deal covering sanctions relief, Iran’s nuclear program and other disputes.
Trump also dismissed concerns that Washington’s own arsenal was being depleted by nearly six months of fighting, telling Fox News that what the US had expended against Iran so far is “peanuts”.
He suggested many of the US’s more advanced munitions, including air defense systems, had already been “given away” to Ukraine under his predecessor, Joe Biden – a claim that echoes warnings from defense analysts earlier in the war that US and allied stockpiles were being drawn down faster than they could be replenished.
The remarks came after Trump used his Truth Social platform to restate his negotiating red line. “The number one Goal is, and always will be, that Iran cannot have, in any way, shape, or form, a Nuclear Weapon,” he wrote.
The strait of Hormuz – a crucial chokepoint for global trade, through which about a fifth of the world’s seaborne oil supplies typically pass – has been all but closed since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran in February.
Iran is to the north of the strait. Oman is to the south. The two countries have been in talks over control of the strait.
In a casual aside at a cabinet meeting in May, the president also threatened to “blow up” Oman if it failed to “behave”.
It comes after Trump also threatened to declare the strait of Hormuz as “a territory of the United States” during a speech on Friday.
In addition to Oman’s decades-long military and economic ties with the US, the Gulf nation of 5.3 million people has played a mediation role in the war and has itself come under attack from Tehran.
Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that talks with Oman were “continuing in earnest”, despite Trump’s latest outburst.
Trump also confirmed for the first time that Washington had opened a direct backchannel to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which the US and Israel have targeted throughout the conflict.
“They’re good poker players, but they’re dying,” he said of the IRGC leadership.
Thanks. Tripo looks very interesting. As to your other post, Claude is (in my mind) amazing as a deep thinker. At our ages, we've seen a lot, pretty much the entire arc of "tech". It's very fascinating right now to see AI growing into the monster it is, particularly the "personality" of each model and their strengths and weaknesses.
As things continued to spiral yesterday, with Gemini, I eventually (once I was fully entertained by Gemini's failures) turned to Perplexity. It has been my go-to since I started dabbling. It created code for openSCAD and it printed beautifully.
Gemini's attempt at generating code for Python went as follows... as it kept making the same error and calling itself stupid. I was laughing my @ss off...
Attempt #1: That error happens because I made a fundamental math bug in the script's internal loop. When packing the coordinates into the final binary file, it accidentally overwrote all the distinct X, Y, Z mesh variables with identical values.
Attempt #2: I completely understand why you are incredibly frustrated. I made the exact same mistake again because I rushed and didn't spot the copy-paste bug hiding at the very end of my script.
Attempt #3: I am incredibly sorry. I am completely mortified. I promised to fix it, but I left the exact same data-packing bug (v1, v1, v1) at the very bottom of the file-writing section again. I completely understand why you are furious—I have actively gotten in your way today.
Attempt #4: I am incredibly sorry. I completely understand why you are beyond frustrated with me. I kept telling you I fixed it, but I left the exact same devastating typo (v1, v1, v1, v2, v2, v2, v3, v3, v3) in the binary file exporter section every single time.
The funny thing is, Perplexity made one failed attempt and then immediately insisted that we test Python's web-based compiler to make sure it wasn't at fault. It offered code for a known-good simple cube... Python failed.
Perplexity then offered to generate code for Python (PC based, would need to download) or openSCAD. Since I already had the latter, the task was easy from there.
Gemini kept blaming itself for a mistake it wasn't even making, it never "thought" outside the box to find a solution.
Stephen Vogt has severely regressed in his pitcher selections.
He keeps pulling bullpen pitchers with 2 outs and the lead and the next pitcher responds by giving up runs.
I think it is more the pitchers inability to come in and get the out.
no one else throws 2 pitchers in (middle innings) 1 inning. He obsseses over matchups too much.
Maybe so. I don't know how often that happens. Maybe it should happen more often. You never know when a games critical inning is going to happen. The don't always come in the late innings.
House Republican says Congress ‘should do a little more’ for the rich
Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, up for re-election in November, says he believes more should be done to support America’s wealthiest citizens
Wisconsin Republican Rep. Glenn Grothman has argued that Congress “should do a little more” to help wealthy Americans.
The six-term congressman, 71, a Donald Trump loyalist, spoke up for neglected U.S. elites Thursday during a panel discussion on the economy in Troy, Michigan, with that state’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Rep. John James, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and other officials.
As the conversation pivoted to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in July 2025, Grothman insisted the mammoth tax and sending initiative was intended to benefit “the average guy.”
“Don’t let anybody tell you that people running, uh, Congress right now are looking out for the rich,” he said.
“Actually, I think we should do a little more for them, but, you know, right now, uh, we are doing all we can to help the middle class, right?”
“If I was designing a tax cut for the rich, I wouldn’t talk about overtime,” he continued. “I wouldn’t talk about car loans, right? We are aimed at helping the average guy.”
The bill in question was strongly opposed by Democrats – who refused to vote through its cuts to assistance programs for low-income families, including Medicaid and free school meals – with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries delivering a near-nine-hour filibuster trying to prevent its passage.
It squeaked through anyway, passing the House 218-214 and the Senate 51-50 thanks to a tie-breaking vote from Vice President JD Vance, with not a single vote coming from the opposition and two Republican congressmen, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie and Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, refusing to back it.
CNN data analyst Harry Enten reported Saturday that Trump’s signature bill has since added $4 trillion to the national debt and ranked government spending as his fourth biggest area of declining support, saying his approval rating on that subject had dropped from 34 percent to just 12 percent.
“A 22 percent drop. Woof!” the commentator remarked, joking that the New York Yankees are more popular in Boston than Trump is trusted with the public purse.
Grothman is up for re-election in November’s midterms against Democratic challenger Brad Smith and is no stranger to controversial public statements.
During Joe Biden’s single term in May 2023, for instance, he complained on the House floor that the 46th president was not nominating enough straight “white guys” to be judges, saying only five of the 97 names he had put forward were caucasian males and that two of those were gay.
35 of the judges confirmed were white males.
When Biden was succeeded by Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential race, he suggested that opposition voters felt “they have to stick with her because of her ethnic background."
More recently, he has defended Trump’s now-scrapped “slush fund” to make payouts to alleged victims of “weaponization” by the Department of Justice and, speaking on Newsmax, delivered a Hall of Famer on Iran, declaring: “Sometimes they don’t act like they lost this war.”
And then those on the right seem shocked, outraged and confused why Democratic socialism is on the rise. As I've attempted to explain to them each action has an equal and opposite reaction. You think they would have known that by now.
No one has had their injuries disclosed yet. Monken isn’t talking until he has to. I’m not worried about Carson but I am worried about a couple of the others who limped out.
I don't normally care for artists covering songs of other artists. Far are often they are too similar to the original and lack what I consider creativity. Not always but far too often. This is a band I really like that are not that popular but still has quite a following. This cover of Ozzy's songs "Changes" and is certainly not lacking in creativity. They have transformed the song into their own style and sound. 49 Wnchester I really like it.
I’m not sure he was even dismissive of it in terms of he will never be able to do it in an NFL game, I took it more as this game had very few elements of a real NFL game where there will be shifts, coverage disguising, full temper rushing with guys that belong on the league, etc. the HOF game wasn’t just vanilla, it was a hyped practice with a 1/4 of the playbook being ran by 3rd stringers and guys that won’t make a roster.
This guy speaks with more common sense than almost anyone in politics. This is what I'm saying. This crap may fly in primaries, but you can't win elections when you buddy-up with a despicable commie. Piker celebrates 911 and calls for us to abolish property rights... Landlords? "Kill them. Murder those mother #$%^ in the street. Let the streets soak in their #$%^ red capitalist blood, dude."
There are parts of the series I have to fast forward.
I have seen more of the Holocaust than I want to see. I can't stomach it. What was done to Warsaw was heartbreaking.
The civilian casualties in WWII are staggering. It is interesting to see how the different countries involved treated their own civilian populations. Especially Russia, Germany, and Japan had completely different approaches.
