Below, you will find some headlines we may have missed and some interesting video clips on several subjects. Please feel free to share anything you may have run across; just make sure it’s not from a McMAGAt infested shithole.
Updates:
Appeals court upholds Rick Wilson win over Michael Flynn in defamation case
Flynn wanted $50M. Instead, he’s forced to pay Wilson’s legal fees.
Retired Lieutenant General Mike Flynn flopped after filing a defamation suit against Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson for $50 million. Now, an appeals court is upholding the lower court decision in favor of Wilson.
Judges Susan Rothstein-Youakim was joined by Judges Darryl Casanueva and Morris Silberman ruling in favor of Wilson on Wednesday in the 2nd District Court of Appeal. Flynn at the lower court level said two social media posts — one in which Wilson called him “Putin employee Mike Flynn” and another in which Wilson retweeted a post saying, “FYI, Mike Flynn is Q” — constituted defamation and asked for a massive sum in damages.
That case failed almost before it began, with Wilson winning on a motion for summary judgment by arguing the statements were opinion or rhetorical hyperbole and did not exhibit “actual malice,” a standard required to be met when a public figure alleges defamation.
The Fascist Guy and His Brownshirts:
Fact-Checking What Donald Trump Said in His 2024 Person of the Year Interview With TIME
TIME has published the transcript of that conversation. In addition, below is a review for facts and context of several of Trump’s statements from the interview.
Return-to-office mandates are associated with an exodus of high performers, research finds
- DOGE has proposed eliminating remote work for federal employees. But new data from University of Pittsburgh business administration professor Mark Ma suggests RTO policies tend to push out the most talented employees—and they are harder to replace than entry-level workers.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s dream of eliminating work-from-home options for 94% of federal employees—in hopes of encouraging workers to quit, thus shaving trillions from the federal budget—may backfire, new research from the University of Pittsburgh suggests.
