Conan O’Brien made a winning punchline of President Donald Trump and his ties to Jeffrey Epstein during his monologue at Sunday’s Academy Awards.
The Oscars host — who has largely steered clear of politics despite being a registered Democrat — teed up the joke by noting that the 98th Academy Awards marked the first time since 2012 that a British star hasn’t been nominated in either the Best Actor or Best Actress categories.
“British spokesperson said, ‘Yeah? Well, at least we arrest our pedophiles.’ So we’ve got that going for us,” quipped the late night legend, who earned 10-plus seconds of applause from the Oscars crowd.
The host’s joke arrives less than a month after Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, was arrested in the U.K. on suspicion of misconduct in public office as he faced mounting pressure over his link to the late convicted sex offender Epstein.
Trump socialized and appeared in several photos with Epstein over the years. He has denied any link to the financier and has not been implicated in Epstein’s crimes. [snip]
Following a commercial break, O’Brien made a jab at the president’s Kennedy Center rebrand since he returned to office.
“Welcome back, we’re coming to you live from the ‘Has A Small Penis’ Theater,” he joked. “Let’s see him put his name in front of that.”
Well, there have been lots of better Malignant Fascist zingers and more sustained satire at the Oscars, mostly by Jimmy Kimmel, but we'll take what we can get at this point in our march toward authoritarianism.
A federal jury on Friday convicted eight people on terrorism charges over a shooting at a Texas immigration facility that federal prosecutors tied to antifa, the decentralized far-left movement that has become a target of the Trump administration.
One person was also found guilty of attempted murder after prosecutors say he opened fire last summer outside the Prairieland Detention Center outside of Fort Worth, wounding a police officer. The Justice Department called the violence an attack plotted by antifa operatives but attorneys for the accused denied that characterization, saying there were no antifa associations and that it was merely a demonstration with fireworks before gunshots broke out.
U.S. District Judge Mark Pittman, an appointee of President Donald Trump, presided over the nearly three-week trial in Fort Worth. It was closely followed by legal experts and critics who called the proceedings a test of the lengths the government can go to punish protesters. [snip]
Defense attorneys told jurors that there was no plan for violence on July 4 outside the facility in Alvarado.
There were nine defendants on trial in all, eight of whom faced the charge of providing material support to terrorists, among other charges. The ninth defendant, Daniel Sanchez Estrada, was charged with corruptly concealing a document and conspiracy to conceal documents. He was found guilty of both.
Sanchez Estrada’s attorney, Christopher Weinbel, said he can’t believe jurors “came to this conclusion.” Weinbel said he has deployed as a member of the Army several times in the defense of the U.S. and he’d hoped what he sacrificed “meant something.”
“But I feel like it turned its back on justice with this. ... The U.S. lost today with this verdict,” Weinbel said.
Prosecutor Shawn Smith told jurors during closing arguments that the group’s actions — including bringing firearms, first aid kids and wearing body armor — were all signals of the group having a nefarious intent. He said they practiced “antifa tactics,” and were “obsessed with operational security.”
Attorneys for the defendants have said there was no planned ambush and that protesters who brought firearms only did so for their own protection. [snip]
Critics of the Justice Department’s case have said the outcome could have wide-reaching effects on protests.
“That opposition is something that the government wants to squash so a case like this helps the government kind of see how far they can go in criminalizing constitutionally protected protests and also helps them kind of intimidate, increase the fear, hoping that folks in other cities then will think twice over protesting,” said Suzanne Adely, interim president of the National Lawyers Guild, a progressive legal group... (our emphasis)
Having this trial in Texas before a Malignant Fascist- appointed judge and a Tex-ass jury was a slam dunk for the "Justice" Department. We didn't read about an appeal in the story, but we hope the defendants take this further, because letting the MF regime squelch dissent in this way is a terrible precedent.
Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema acknowledges having a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail that began while she was a lawmaker, according to legal documents. But she also contends she shouldn’t be subject to a lawsuit by the man’s ex-wife who blames Sinema for the marriage breakup.
The North Carolina federal court litigation seeks financial damages from Sinema, who represented Arizona in the U.S. House and later the Senate for one term that ended early last year.
Heather Ammel contends in a lawsuit that she and husband Matthew had “a good and loving marriage” and “genuine love and affection” existed between them before Sinema interfered, pursuing him despite knowing he was married.
In a signed March 7 declaration attached to a lawsuit motion filed this week, Sinema said her relationship with Matthew Ammel “became romantic and intimate” at the end of May 2024 and “physically intimate” over the next several months in California, New York, Colorado, Arizona and Washington, D.C. The Ammels separated in November 2024, the lawsuit said.
North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage. [snip]
Sinema’s head of security hired Ammel after he retired from the Army in 2022, according to the lawsuit, and in early 2024, Heather Ammel discovered messages between Sinema and her husband on the Signal messaging app that were of “romantic and lascivious natures.” That summer, Matthew Ammel stopped wearing his wedding ring and Sinema gave him a job on her Senate staff while he continued to work as her bodyguard, the lawsuit alleges...
Sinema turned out to be a terrible Senator and a big disappointment for the Democratic Party. She seemed to delight in being a loose cannon together with her portmanteau partner in showboating Joe Manchin ("Sinemanchin"). After leaving the Senate, she lost no time completely abandoning her progressive roots by joining multiple corporate boards. It's not all that surprising that she was, to say the least, less than high character in her personal life, too.
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