One comment I heard was that Garland was playing chess while Trump plays checkers. Yep. It is tough to be patient, but I am confident that Garland will act when he has an open and shut case.

Hello, wonderful Buffistas!

Also, I am about to start my 26th year in the classroom. OMGWTFHOW

Okay, NO. I am willing to accept Gud's daughter is married and ltc is 7 (?!) but there is NO WAY you are old enough to have taught for 26 years. (In other words, damn, girl, you look good.)

Even though I haven't been posting, I have been trying to keep up with what's going on with all of you. Love and hugs and outrage all around, for whoever wants or needs it.

Laura, I continue to be baffled by your younger son's behavior. I just fundamentally don't get it, especially when the two of them were living with you and Brendan so happily for a while. You're in my heart.

Garland just threw down the fucking gauntlet. love it.

I know I'm revealing how dumb I can be about politics, and it's not that I don't want the warrant unsealed, but on what grounds does that get to be requested? Because Trump is a public figure? Because he is a former president? Because it's possibly national security and/or treason?

I suspect that the warrant was sealed prior to execution for confidentiality purposes. If Trump had not tweeted that the FBI "raided" Mar-a-Lago, we wouldn't know.

Unsealing the warrant also unseals the grounds for obtaining the warrant, which means that all of the evidence of Trump's misdeeds will be public if the warrant is unsealed. However, Trump can request that the warrant remain sealed, but then he will have to answer the question of what he has to hide.

Unsealing the warrant also unseals the grounds for obtaining the warrant, which means that all of the evidence of Trump's misdeeds will be public if the warrant is unsealed. However, Trump can request that the warrant remain sealed, but then he will have to answer the question of what he has to hide.

Expertise is sexy, ijs.

Because Trump was visited by the FBI's counterintelligence chief in June trying to get this stuff back, it looks like Trump has shit that he's showing to the Russians at Mar A Lago, with the latest implication being high level nuclear weapon info.

Not that his base cares, but Russia's greatest asset is still betraying his country.

That's a college prof thing. K-12 teachers don't get sabbaticals, alas.

Toronto public schools have/had a program where you could choose to have 80% pay for four years and take the fifth as a sabbatical paid with the withheld funds and maintain benefits and tenure. I knew a few people who did that. Not feasible for everyone but in a system that pays reasonably it always sounded so cool.

Because Trump was visited by the FBI's counterintelligence chief in June trying to get this stuff back, it looks like Trump has shit that he's showing to the Russians at Mar A Lago, with the latest implication being high level nuclear weapon info.

Heather Cox Richardson says it's more base and shittier than treason. Jared wants to sell nuclear technology to the Saudis in a deal worth billions. That's what this is about.

Ugh. I wouldn’t discount that. Though I also wouldn’t be surprised if they thought they could play Saudis, Russia and who knows else off one another.

I've heard that it's speculated that Jared is the mole who squealed about the nuclear secrets -- I wonder if he got ordered to negotiate and decided (or rather, Ivanka decided) that was a step that could get him serious jail time that FiL couldn't save him from.

I also wonder if some of those Top Secret documents are excellent blackmail material that Trump wanted to keep close to him to keep the screws going on McCarthy et al.

The speculation is fun, but the only thing that will really do is to see the former occupant convicted. Preferably in NY, and GA, other states, and Federal, with negotiation as to where he serves time first. Alas, I fear it won't matter at all what comes out with his loyal idiot followers. I hope it is a smaller number than we think that still are devoted, but they are so loud, and insane. I fear it will get worse before it gets better.

I think that we need to be realistic that he will not serve time. The DOJ will allow him to plead guilty and serve under house arrest, for security reasons. We will have to be content with him being disqualified to serve in federal office again. Which would not prevent him from running for governor of Florida, however. But, then, they deserve him.