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Major Development For the Raiders and Harbaugh Sweepstakes https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/major-development-harbaugh-sweepstakes

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Elizabeth Holmes
— who, not incidentally, stole hundreds of millions of dollars from investors
— is lobbying for a pardon from President Trump.
And why not?
Game knows game. Grift knows grift.
Of all the powers a president wields, few match his awesome pardon authority.
It is sweeping and life-changing. Idiosyncratic, resting wholly on personal whim, and irrevocable.
Once granted, it is impossible to reverse.
The power to pardon is also, like a…

After today's capitulation by the D-party Fox News is forecasting a total sweep by the R-party in November 2026.
Given that the D-party can't organize themselves out of a wet paper bag, and then sinks their own boat by elevating identity politics over pretty much everything else, I can see the logic in such a move by Fox News.
(And, no, Fox News did not really predict that total sweep.)

The CIVICUS Monitor has downgraded the United States of America’s civic space rating, reflecting a sharp deterioration of fundamental freedoms in the country. The People Power Under Attack report now rates the USA as “Obstructed” following a year of sweeping executive actions, restrictive laws, and aggressive crackdowns on free speech and dissent.
...
“The backsliding on rule of law and fundamental freedoms in the United States is truly alarming,” said Mandeep Tiwana...

United States of America - Civicus Monitor
USA downgraded by CIVICUS Monitor

Days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday,
a day after federal authorities used #tear #gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists
and state and local leaders #sued to fight the enforce…

Tensions flare in Minnesota as federal agents and protesters square off
Days of demonstrations against immigration agents and a new lawsuit have left Minnesota tense. Federal officers sprayed eye irritant and dropped tear gas at a swarm of activists Tuesday in Minneapolis. Students, meanwhile, walked out of a suburban school, part of the ongoing tension over the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement sweeps. Minnesota and its two largest cities are suing the government to try to halt or limit the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a woman…

WSJ: during a recent Washington visit, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump admin officials that if Paramount bought WBD, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN (Brian Stelter/@brianstelter)
https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1998206606857715774

Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) on X
New WSJ reporting: "During a December visit to Washington, David Ellison offered assurances to Trump administration officials that if he bought Warner, he'd make sweeping changes to CNN, a common target of President Trump's ire, people familiar with the matter said. Trump has

Broncos Player Grades From Sweeping Victory Over Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/broncos/onsi/news/broncos-player-grades-sweeping-victory-raiders-week-14

The US House has approved a sweeping defence bill
that bolsters Europe’s security,
in what appears to be sharp rebuke to Donald Trump’s mounting threats
to downgrade Washington’s ties to traditional allies and Nato.
The bipartisan vote came just days after the publication of a White House national security strategy
that said Europe faced “civilisational erasure”
and made explicit Washington’s support for Europe’s nationalist far-right parties
– rattl…

A federal court in Maryland has ordered the release of
Kilmar Ábrego García from ICE custody on Thursday,
and he will be advised on his release conditions in his separate Tennessee criminal case.
The case of Ábrego, a Salvadorian national who was a construction worker in Maryland,
has become a proxy for the partisan struggle over Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration policy and mass deportation agenda.
Trump administration officials have waged a relentless public …