Liveblog - ICYMI: January 03, 2025

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.

Breaking News:

Judge orders Trump to be sentenced in hush money case on Jan. 10, but says he won’t be incarcerated

Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motion to dismiss the case against him, and said he could appear in person or remotely for the sentencing.

The judge presiding over the hush money case against President-elect Donald Trump on Friday denied his bid to dismiss the case and said he’ll sentence him on Jan. 10, ten days before his inauguration as the 47th president.

Judge Juan Merchan said Trump can appear in person or virtually for the sentencing, and that he won’t order Trump jailed.

“While this Court as a matter of law must not make any determination on sentencing prior to giving the parties and Defendants opportunity to be heard, it seems proper at this juncture to make known the Court’s inclination to not impose any sentence of incarceration, a sentence authorized by the conviction but one the People concede they no longer view as a practicable recommendation,” the judge wrote in his ruling.

The First Felon to become ‘President!

President Biden/Biden Administration:

US blocks Nippon Steel's bid to purchase U.S. Steel finance.yahoo.com/news/us-bloc…

Yahoo Finance (@yahoo-finance.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T14:56:06.077Z

The Clown House:

Chip Roy on Steve Bannon's show makes clear that the Republican plan is "overall mandatory spending cuts," including "reforming Medicaid and cutting SNAP and all that."

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-01-03T22:18:45.960Z

The Felon Guy/’President’ Elect, the Wannabe ‘President’ Elect Elmo, and their Brownshirts:

A stretch of I-85 in So. Carolina has been shut down after a trucker told an officer who pulled him over there was a bomb in his truck. Too early to know if it's a true threat or a copycat but either way, we need to regain some sanity here & its only the 2nd day of 2025 www.wyff4.com/article/inte…

Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T00:16:40.477Z

The Worst People in the World:

Payette police arrest suspect after IED found near train car

Payette police officers were dispatched to the 600 Block of North 8th Street on Wednesday around 5:54 p.m. regarding a suspicious individual trying to light something on fire near a parked railroad car.

Officers found fresh footprints in the snow and tracked them to a train car. They located a suspected undetonated Improvised Explosive Device (IED). Officers followed the footprints to a camp trailer parked near a residence.

The suspect, identified as 40-year-old Brent Sharrai, fled from the camp trailer on foot but surrendered after a short pursuit.

Craven Assholes:

Rep. Steve Scalise blamed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies for the New Orleans attack but failed to provide evidence when pressed. The attacker, a U.S. citizen from Texas, had no ties to immigration.1/2

tomwellborn3 (@tomwellborn3.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T14:57:20.000Z

Scalise’s claims lacked proof, highlighting the GOP’s trend of scapegoating diversity efforts without factual backing. www.alternet.org/ste…2/2

tomwellborn3 (@tomwellborn3.bsky.social) 2025-01-03T14:57:25.000Z
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