The Political Thread

[Chris]

Defense Secretary Revokes Plea Deal for Accused Sept. 11 Plotters

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III assumed direct oversight of the case and effectively put the death penalty back on the table.

www.nytimes.com

Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on Friday relieved the overseer of the war court at Guantánamo Bay and revoked a plea agreement reached earlier this week with the accused mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and two alleged accomplices.

The Pentagon announced the decision with the release of a memorandum relieving the senior official at the Defense Department responsible for military commissions of her oversight of the capital case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his alleged accomplices for the attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York City, at the Pentagon and in a Pennsylvania field.

The overseer, retired Brig. Gen. Susan K. Escallier, signed a pretrial agreement on Wednesday with Mr. Mohammed, Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al-Hawsawi that exchanged guilty pleas for sentences of at most life in prison. In taking away the authority, Mr. Austin assumed direct oversight of the case and canceled the agreement, effectively reinstating it as a death-penalty case.

 

[Chris]

Maui Wildfire Plaintiffs Reach $4 Billion Settlement as Anniversary Nears

Hawaiian Electric is expected to pay the largest share — nearly $2 billion — but avoided a heftier price tag that could have forced the utility into bankruptcy.

www.nytimes.com

Nearly a year after a ferocious wildfire on Maui killed 102 people and leveled the historic town of Lahaina, Hawaii’s largest utility has agreed to pay the largest share of a legal settlement totaling just over $4 billion and compensating more than 10,000 homeowners, businesses and other plaintiffs.

 

[Bobby Barrows]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5676796/2024/08/02/olympics-women-boxing-angela-carini-apologizes-imane-khelif/

She apologized for getting mad and quitting mid-match, not for inciting a horribly international transphobic incident at the Olympics.

Tbh I'd take her apology and break her nose again for funsies.

Also I really really hope Khelif sues the fuck out of a lot of the transphobic commentators, like Rowling.

 

[Chris]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5676796/2024/08/02/olympics-women-boxing-angela-carini-apologizes-imane-khelif/

She apologized for getting mad and quitting mid-match, not for inciting a horribly international transphobic incident at the Olympics.

Tbh I'd take her apology and break her nose again for funsies.

Also I really really hope Khelif sues the fuck out of a lot of the transphobic commentators, like Rowling.

She's going to be too busy battling the lies they've put out there about her in her home country now

 

[Bobby Barrows]

She's going to be too busy battling the lies they've put out there about her in her home country now

From what I'm actually seeing a lot of Algerian media is taking this shitstorm as a joke. Like they're supportive of Khelif in general.

It probably doesn't account for the fucking weirdo extremists tho.

 

[Chris]

From what I'm actually seeing a lot of Algerian media is taking this shitstorm as a joke. Like they're supportive of Khelif in general.

It probably doesn't account for the fucking weirdo extremists tho.

Fair enough, calling someone born a woman and accepted as one to them a man is probably laughable regardless of their own trans beliefs, that's just a uniquely American brand of stupidity