Ryan Burns

Lost Coast Outpost reporter, undead.

[Ryan Burns @RyanBurnsy]

@KBarr1989 @Cooked_nerd @OwenShroyer1776 You’re citing a trade group with a vested interest in deregulation. Plus, the majority of renters aren’t in single-family homes. You’re also ignoring wage stagnation and the disappearance of America’s middle class.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Smith: For nearly three decades I have been a career prosecutor. I have served during both Republican and Democratic administrations and I've been guided by those principles in every role I've held. I continued to honor those principles when I was appointed to serve as special counsel in November of 2022.

The decision to bring charges against President Trump was mine, but the basis for those charges rests entirely with President Trump and his actions, as alleged in the indictments returned by grand juries in two different districts.

Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power.
Our investigation also developed powerful evidence that showed that President Trump willfully retained highly classified documents after he left office in January of 2021, storing them at his social club, including in a ballroom and a bathroom. He then repeatedly tried to obstruct justice to conceal his continued retention of those documents.

I remain grateful for the counsel, judgment, and advice of my team as I executed my responsibilities. I am both saddened and angered that President Trump has sought revenge against career prosecutors, FBI agents, and support staff simply for doing their jobs and for having worked on those cases. These dedicated public servants are the best of us, and they have been wrongly vilified and improperly dismissed from their jobs.

I made my decisions in the investigation without regard to President Trump's political association, activities, beliefs, or candidacy in the 2024 Presidential election. We took our actions based on the facts and the law, the very lessons I learned early in my career as a prosecutor. We followed Justice Department policies and observed legal requirements.

The timing and speed of our work reflects the strength of the evidence and our confidence that we would have secured convictions at trial. If asked whether to prosecute a former President based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether that President was a Republican or a Democrat.

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@randal_olson @FiveThirtyEight We flew too close to the sun.

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@zoerosebryant Gah! I loved this moment in the film but I wince whenever I see it posted on this site. The scene's impact depends largely on the slow build and context of the movie to that point, not to mention (hopefully) a screen bigger than those on a smartphone.

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@alexarriaga__ Real life atrocities.

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@pixelpreaching Wow, lots of competition, but yes please!

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

By far the most disturbing ICE video I’ve seen from Evanston, IL today.

An ICE agent points his gun at unarmed citizens. Twice.

Then, he goes around the SUV, drops to his knees, and presses his full weight onto a man’s back. Moments later, that same man’s head is beaten into the pavement while the agent holds his head down.

When they finally pull him up, his face is swollen and dazed… clearly concussed… and then they slam his head into the SUV and pin it there with their shoulder.

You can’t watch this and call it law enforcement. This is excessive force and criminal assault.

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@StaceStracener @DannyDrinksWine Who doesn't love this?

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@ThomasonTown Days of Heaven

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@DamonStrong @R0BERTDENlR0

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@TonsOfTendies @CinemaTweets1 Over the course of the film they find a very unconventional path to emotional intimacy. Reynolds is a control freak who can only accept love when he’s been incapacitated and rendered fully vulnerable. Alma makes that happen.

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@TonsOfTendies @CinemaTweets1 That is so totally not their dynamic. The film is a love story.

[Annalea 🪷🐝🌻 @citizengatsby]

“It was a shitpost.”

This is very insightful analysis.

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@SurvivorPenner I wish you’d been picked. My favorite confessional-narrator of the game.

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@BudManStream @flyhighdivelow Ah yes, the oppression of the white male. It’s a scourge.

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@DannyDrinksWine Pretending to drink coffee from obviously empty cups.

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@DannyDrinksWine https://t.co/wjrG5Qyac8 Since 1994, forever synonymous with Pulp Fiction.

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@Nostalgia150360 @DannyDrinksWine That's not true. The video played hourly on MTV.

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Excellent reporting here by @ShomikMukherjee, formerly of the @eurekaTS.

[Shomik Mukherjee @ShomikMukherjee]

NEW: Spent the past few weeks trying to verify key details of some weighty allegations lodged by Oakland mayoral candidate Renia Webb against her former boss, Sheng Thao.

It's a strange story. And the facts don't seem to add up.

(free link, no paywall): https://t.co/1aNT9xUK58

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@DannyDrinksWine