Have you ever noticed that this usually doesn't go in both directions?
I doubt that CBS News highlights people who say I voted for Kamala last time but now I'm a Republican.
Texas resident and construction company owner Benny Melendez says he’s regretting his decision to vote for President Trump in 2024, in part because of ICE’s deportation efforts.
“He said he was going to go and get all the criminals,” Melendez told CBS News’ @camiloreports. “Our workers are not the criminals.”
Melendez says many of his workers are now scared to show up to work, fearing arrest and deportation.
I corrected this in a subsequent post. You're right, a grand jury isn't required in Minnesota. I believed Chauvin's attorney but he doesn't seem to know the law or he's using a very creative theory not grounded in the law. I'll correct mistakes I make here.
I have to correct this. My original post below stated that a grand jury is required in Minnesota. It isn't. It's only required for criminal cases where a life sentence can result.
What I wrote was based on what one of Chauvin's attorneys claimed in his petition. At best his legal theory could be seen as a stretch or what lawyers might call a creative interpretation.
Sorry that I was wrong about this. You might be able to argue that Chauvin deserved a grand jury. But it's incorrect to say that Minnesota law requires it for his case.
(Don't trust lawyers!).
It's pretty crazy that when Derek Chauvin was charged for the death of George Floyd in Hennepin County, a grand jury was not used (according to Chauvin's attorney). A grand jury is required by the US Constitution and MN state constitution for criminal cases (a grand jury is a group of citizens who are presented with evidence and they decide, based on the law, if enough evidence is present to try a defendant).
According to Chauvin's attorney, the grand jury is fundamental to our justice system, "going back to the days of the Vikings."
Instead of using a grand jury, Tim Walz first gave the case to a judge, and then to MN AG Keith Ellison (a man who is notorious for backing far-left groups, he once posted a selfie smiling and holding up The Antifa Manual).
The Chauvin trial was unconstitutional.
A French parliamentary study found there are three main groups who are responsible for the unrest:
- students and unionists - by far the biggest group
- radical anarchists, "black bloc" (Antifa), of which there are about 700 in France
- looters who just like the chaos and want to steal from looted stores
Source: The Economist
Minneapolis never did such a study, to my knowledge. So they don't know who the rioters were in summer 2020. But I strongly think that it's the same three groups. The protests against the death of George Floyd started off with students mostly protesting. Then it was joined by anarchists, including Antifa, some of which traveled from out of state, and then on top of that you have the looters that just like the chaos and wanted free sneakers.
A stolen car tears through a South Carolina neighborhood before slamming into a home, sending two teenagers running as deputies rush toward the wreckage.
Authorities say the 15- and 16-year-old suspects fled after deputies attempted to stop the vehicle. Both are now in custody, and miraculously, no injuries are reported.
But one neighbor reveals just how close she and her baby came to being outside when the car crashed.
See her account and the dramatic footage: https://t.co/xdsoaYOL3h
A Texas father who had lived in the U.S. for 25 years with no criminal record was finishing his night shift as an Uber driver when immigration agents detained him.
Without being able to speak to his lawyer or a judge, he was put on a plane and sent first to Ghana, a country where he had no ties. He was then sent to his home country, despite a determination by a U.S. immigration court judge that he could not be deported there due to likely persecution. https://t.co/2vMsbrSmr9
I have always loved how we will pay attention to stolen elections in developing nations, but not here when California counts votes for 38 days.
I’m in full support - but let’s add another chapter to The American War on Election Corruption.
Today is October 26, 2026 - the border is CLOSED, the streets are SAFER, we’re BUILDING things in America again, and Donald J. Trump is the President of the United States of America. 🇺🇸
Kyler Murray's QBR is 45 for 2026. That isn't nearly good enough to start in the NFL. A player needs a 62 to be considered a starter. A good QB will have an 85+ QBR.
Aaron Rodgers sat at that podium in Paris and said out loud what the corporate league office spends millions trying to sanitize.
The NFL talks endlessly about “player safety” and “expanding the global game.” But behind closed doors, owners scrapped player-friendly bye weeks, forced a brutal 17th regular-season game, and shipped franchises across oceans simply because there was another dollar to squeeze out of foreign TV markets.
While families and players navigate locked-down streets, civil tension, and grueling travel schedules, ownership sits in five-star suites counting international expansion checks.
Rodgers doesn't care about league fines anymore. He’s telling you the truth: in the modern NFL, the brand and the balance sheet come first. The humans on the field come second.
Jesse Ventura: “My whole family has fought at war for this country. Here’s the part that pisses me off Hasan: I did two tours, 17 months, so did my brother. Southeast Asia. That was at the same time Donald Trump was running and hiding like the coward he is. Why didn’t he join us in the Vietnam War?”
Hasan Piker: “He had bone spurs”
Jesse Ventura: “Never stopped him from golf, did it?”