Guess who said this:
"Anyone in my position not taking the Fifth Amendment would be a fool, an absolute fool. One statement or answer that is ever so slightly off, just ever so slightly by accident, by mistake, such as it was a sunny beautiful day, when actually it was slightly overcast, would be met by law enforcement at a level seldom seen in this country, because I've experienced it."
WELCH: Is there was a dispute involving Paramount, would you have a DOJ lawyer who owned $9 million in stock negotiate on behalf of the government?
BLANCHE: It depends. As long as there's no conflict ...
USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving.
Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free.
I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these."
"They just come with the table, man."
They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner.
This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat.
I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared.
"Did we…?"
"Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless."
Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined.
My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude."
Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man.
I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy.
Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived.
I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most.
Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?
TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded
BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.
FULL REPORT: Colombian public media reports that a U.S. military strike on a boat on September 15—the second attack on a vessel by the U.S. in the Caribbean that we’re aware of—was a Colombian boat and was in Colombian territorial waters.
At least one of the three victims extrajudicially killed in the strike was Colombian lifelong fisherman Alejandro Carranza. Alejandro’s identity is confirmed by his cousin.
The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure.
Prosecutor: we don't have to prove they committed an overt act. we don't have to prove they committed a predicate act.
Judge Farmer: you don't have to prove they did anything?!?!? this is a good time for a lunch break.
#LaVuelta25 press release claimed they support peaceful protest — but this is factually false, as they removed Palestine flags set along the race route.
Sadly, when you suppress peaceful protest, which falls under the right to free speech, you contribute to further escalation.
ICE smash windshield of Connecticut man with legal work permit—then he's chased, tased & shoved bleeding into unmarked car.
Despite demanding a warrant & explaining his daughter was bringing his papers.
Took him anyway—left wrecked truck in street for his daughter to deal with.
More than a dozen ICE agents had set up at the local police station—until they were kicked out by the local police chief.
Ricardo Chavez has a legal work permit—at least 6 other families were also separated during the same ICE raids in South Norwalk, Connecticut. #DemsUnited
ICE blindside tackles a peaceful protester from behind—he's a U.S. veteran who fought in Afghanistan.
Agents slam man to ground—then pin him down with their body weight engulfed in tear gas.
"Less-lethal" bullets were shot directly at a person's head from the roof—said witnesses trying to help the man.
"He's a veteran of this country. He's done more for this country than any of you."
The incident occurred outside the Portland ICE Field Office in Portland, Oregon. #DemsUnited
ICE is deporting a permanent legal US resident from Korea, a scientist researching a Lyme disease vaccine who has lived here since age 5, citing a minor pot possession charge 14 years ago for which he did community service.
My fellow Americans, this is absolute madness.