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A federal appeals court has tossed an Amarillo woman's death sentence after it found that local prosecutors had failed to reveal that their primary trial witness was a paid informant. With a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals last week sent Brittany Marlowe Holberg's 1998 murder conviction back down to the trial court to decide how to proceed. Holberg has been on death row for 27 years. In securing her conviction in 1998, Randall County prosecutors heavily relied on testimony from a jail inmate who was working as a confidential informant for the City of Amarillo police. That informant recanted her testimony in 2011, but neither a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals or a federal district court found that prosecutors had violated Holberg's constitutional right to a fair trial. The appeals court disagreed, saying that the informant was critical to the jury's determination of guilt and that the prosecution violated Holberg's due process rights by hiding information that, according to a landmark U.S. Supreme court ruling called the Brady doctrine, must be disclosed. Writing for the majority, judge Patrick E. Higginbotham cast Holberg's case as a blight on the criminal justice system. more at https://www.cbsnews.com/news/texas-death-row-brittany-holberg-conviction-reversed-federal-appeals-court/

i equate someone wearing a mask to conceal carry: it's a personal choice, it's their right, and it's not my business.

ICE Officials: 1,555 Suspected Gang Members Arrested U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials say they have arrested 1,555 suspected gang members since President Donald Trump took office in January. Federal authorities told CBS News that 44 of the arrests involved foreign fugitives, while 39 involved known or suspected terrorists. According to ICE officials, the agency made 32,809 total arrests during the first 50 days of Trump's second term, including 14,111 migrants with criminal convictions and 9,980 migrants with pending criminal charges. The overall figure also includes 8,718 migrants with no criminal record. more at https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ice-immigration-crime/2025/03/12/id/1202509/

paul joseph watson has an excellent video about this hypocrisy.

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reminds me of that phrase during the vietnam war, but in the above it would be "we had to destroy the forest in order to save it"

everything one needs to know about michael mann's research can be found in "The Hockey Stick Illusion: Climategate and the Corruption of Science" Paperback – March 1, 2010 by A.W. Montford (Author)

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US and Ukraine call for 30-day ceasefire following Saudi talks LONDON -- The United States and Ukraine are calling for a 30-day ceasefire, subject to the acceptance of Russia, following talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. The U.S. will also "immediately lift" its pause on intelligence sharing and "resume security assistance to Ukraine," the countries said in a joint statement. The U.S. and Ukraine "took important steps toward restoring durable peace for Ukraine," the statement said. "Ukraine expressed readiness to accept the U.S. proposal to enact an immediate, interim 30-day ceasefire, which can be extended by mutual agreement of the parties, and which is subject to acceptance and concurrent implementation by the Russian Federation," the statement said. "The United States will communicate to Russia that Russian reciprocity is the key to achieving peace." more at https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-ukraine-difficult-things-rubio-ahead-saudi-ceasefire/story?id=119659791

i just saw a news article about north korea sent about 12k soldiers to fight in ukraine and estimates are only about 3-4k are still living.

maybe they don't believe in monkey tech support?

A Portuguese container ship collided with a U.S.-flagged oil tanker while the tanker was anchored in the North Sea, on the eastern coast of England, with both ships catching on fire, according to officials. The U.S. ship was identified as the Stena Immaculate, while the Portuguese-flagged container ship was identified as the Solong. Both ships sustained significant damage and were abandoned by their crews. Thirty-six people between the two ships were safely brought to shore, with one person transported to a hospital, the U.K. coast guard said. One of the Solong's crew members remains missing in the wake of the collision, while the other 13 were brought safely to shore, according to Ernst Russ, the manager of the container vessel. more at https://abcnews.go.com/International/us-flagged-oil-tanker-collides-container-ship-north/story?id=119630008

Since Donald Trump took office, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been on a mission to fight waste, fraud, and abuse in the government. DOGE also has an X account highlighting the actions it is taking to allegedly help taxpayers save money. In late February, DOGE's X account sent out a message reporting it had ended a contract with a San Antonio non-profit called Family Endeavors, claiming that by having HHS terminate the contract, they’d saved taxpayers over $215 million per year. According to the DOGE post, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) was paying around $18 million per month to Endeavors to run a facility in Pecos, Texas, that was intended for use housing unaccompanied migrant children. However, at the time, the facility was sitting empty. more at https://www.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-doge-hhs-ended-140500912.html

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after reading the above, might i suggest

also the same day the most poo is thrown.

poo flinging, reported.

behold the chimp trying to be funny. someday, his sense of humor will evolve. sadly, today is not that day.....

A South Carolina man convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat in 2001 was executed by firing squad early Friday evening – a method used for the first time in 15 years in the U.S. Brad Sigmon, 67, was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. after being shot by three volunteer prison employees at the Broad River Correctional Institution in Columbia, according to the Associated Press. Sigmon, who previously admitted to killing the couple because his ex-girlfriend refused to get back to him, was blindfolded and strapped to a chair with a target on his chest. more at https://www.foxnews.com/us/convicted-double-murderer-executed-firing-squad-south-carolina

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yeah they sure are safe over there. i wonder if this is what the democrats mean when they say they want the usa to be more like europe.......... https://www.instagram.com/p/DGr6_Qaux-U/?img_index=1

the rest of us are here just to watch the trained monkey entertain us. it's like a virtual trip to the zoo.