Durham is not the only game in town.
Durham is not the only game in town.
Durham is not the only game in town.
Durham is not the only game in town.
Durham is not the only game in town.
Durham is not the only game in town.
https://twitter.com/SpeakerPelosi/status/1274065639368425472
We have a moral duty to oppose injustice wherever it appears. In honor of #Juneteenth
, the portraits of four previous Speakers who served in the Confederacy were removed from display in the U.S. Capitol. There is no room in these halls for honoring men who embody racism & hatred.
>was the picture evidence?
https://af.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idAFKBN23P2VH
Former Pope Benedict leaves Vatican to visit ailing brother in Germany
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Former Pope Benedict travelled to his native Germany on Thursday to visit his ailing older brother, the Vatican said.
Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said Benedict, 93, flew to Regensburg to visit his brother Georg Ratzinger, 96. Benedict was accompanied by his long-time secretary Archbishop Georg Gaenswein, a doctor, a nurse, a police official and a personal assistant.
It was the first time that Benedict has left Italy since 2013, when he became the first Pope to resign in six centuries.
The Vatican said that Benedict would remain in Regensburg “for as long as necessary.”
L'OREALY
https://globalnews.ca/news/7086674/dead-puppies-toronto-pearson-airport-ukraine/
Dozens of dead dogs arrive at Toronto Pearson International Airport from Ukraine, CFIA says
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it’s investigating after 38 puppies arrived dead at Toronto Pearson Airport on Saturday.
The flight, which arrived from Ukraine, was carrying about 500 puppies, many of which were sick on arrival, according to the CFIA, a federal agency that is responsible for regulating the importation of animals into Canada.
“Upon arrival, many of the dogs were suffering from dehydration, weakness and/or vomiting,” a CFIA spokesperson said Friday.
“CFIA officials are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding this incident and will determine next steps once the investigation is complete.”
On Friday, Ukraine International Airlines released a statement on its Facebook page saying it offers condolences for the “tragic loss of animal life” on its flight.
“UIA is working with local authorities to determine what happened and to make any changes necessary to prevent such a situation from occurring again,” the Facebook post read.
On Friday, Abby Lorenzen told Global News she was picking up her friend’s cat at the airport on Saturday, June 13, when the shipment of about 500 puppies arrived. The cat was to be shipped to her friend in Western Canada the next day.
Lorenzen said she was told there were several veterinarians inspecting the animals that had arrived, but CFIA didn’t confirm to Global News how many veterinarians attended the scene prior to publication.
When Lorenzen was finally able to pick up her friend’s cat, she said he appeared “fine” and “healthy”
“I brought him home for the night, and then I had to return back to the cargo,” Lorenzen said. “I had to connect him on the flight to go to western Canada the following morning.”
When she arrived the next morning, Lorenzen said she smelled “death.” And as she was leaving, she said she saw puppy paws protruding out from the garbage outside the building.
“You could just smell death and kind of feces, urine,” Lorenzen said. “That was overwhelming.”
Lorenzen took to Facebook to report what she saw and heard. On Tuesday, Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) released a statement over Facebook in response to the information that circulated on social media, however the statement has since been deleted.
https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/592106367961440256
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/education/ny-charter-principal-assault-charge-20200306-hzk6tec5srdlrpchitywrocgoy-story.html
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2020/03/10/harlem-hebrew-language-academy-jason-epting-patricia-laforey/
https://twitter.com/irishrygirl/status/1272613252296511491
This letter makes me feel sexy.
>https://twitter.com/Comey/status/1274429402202419201
https://outline.com/JydxHb
James Comey: Geoffrey Berman upheld the finest tradition of the SDNY office
In 1906, reform-minded President Theodore Roosevelt wanted to change the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York. That office, which in its original form opened in 1789, was older than the Department of Justice itself. The court in which the office’s prosecutors worked was known as the “Mother Court,” because it began operating weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court. The Southern District of New York had been around since the founding of the country, and Roosevelt didn’t like what it had become — a place of political patronage, uninterested in troubling the powerful.
Roosevelt changed that with a single appointment, of Henry L. Stimson, a young, Harvard-educated Wall Street lawyer, who would go on to serve as secretary of state and secretary of war for four presidents of both parties, including a brand-new chief executive, Harry Truman, who needed to know about the atomic bomb. (“I think it is very important that I should have a talk with you as soon as possible on a highly secret matter,” Stimson wrote his new boss.)
As the new U.S. attorney, Stimson immediately fired people. They were all hacks, in his estimation, careerist or corrupt or both. He replaced them with recent graduates from top law schools, whom he wanted only for a few years, after which they would go work for fancy law firms and be replaced by other idealistic and talented young lawyers.
There are few moments of true pivot in the lives of institutions, but the Southern District of New York pivoted in 1906. In the words of one of the district’s judges, “Henry L. Stimson changed the office of United States Attorney. He created the model of competence, integrity and professionalism that has set the standard for prosecutors ever since.”
With Stimson, a culture was founded. Politics were disdained. Academic achievement was prized. The office’s lawyers were known for being better — smarter, more principled, harder-working — than those in other federal offices, especially at the main Justice Department in Washington. There were 11 other federal prosecutors’ offices with “Southern District” in their names, but only one the world knew by that shorthand alone. (Sorry, Southern District of Alabama.) Some of the snobbery was fact-based. On average, its lawyers wrote better, worked harder, and thought more creatively and aggressively about complex cases than those in other places. On average. Of course, there were duds in the Southern District and plenty of great federal prosecutors in other offices, and many of those had their own proud traditions of independence.
But it really is true that the place disdains politics and prizes the independence of 1906. It is drilled into you during the application process, reinforced by your supervisors, and policed by the many federal judges and powerful law firm partners who are alumni. Stimson left a bequest, held in trust, and our job was to protect it. Every United States attorney appointed by a president was an alum of the office — known for decades with a capital letter, “the Office.” They had all been steeped in the culture and then appointed to protect it.
And the most important way to preserve and protect was to never forget that Washington was political and that was bad. People in D.C. always asked, “How will this look?” before they ever asked, “What is true?” That world was one of appearances, spin, damage control, popularity, politics.
There has always been a tension — much of it healthy — between Washington and the Southern District, but the attempt to fire the current United States attorney feels very different. Geoffrey Berman’s office is apparently handling cases very close to the president. In 136 days, there is an election that the incumbent appears likely to lose. The attorney general, surely not acting on his own, tries to bump the well-regarded head of the Office on a Friday night, in the middle of a pandemic. Something stinks.
The country is well-served by the independent spirit and reputation of the Southern District of New York. It has long been the place where hard cases could be done in a way Americans trusted. It was where Bill Clinton’s 11th-hour pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich could be credibly investigated. It is also the place with jurisdiction over so much of this president’s complicated life.
And it is a place that follows the facts alone to reach conclusions, without regard to politics, just as Stimson wanted. Maybe that’s why William P. Barr tried to knock off Berman on a Friday night and announced President Trump’s intention to replace him with someone who has never worked there. And maybe that’s why Berman, in the finest traditions of the office, stood up.
>James Comey
James Comey was U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from January 2002 through December 2003
>comey endorsement
>So, how many old popes does the Vatican still have sitting around?