River Road restaurants losing business due to construction https://www.byteseu.com/844375/ #blankenbaker #business #Community #construction #customer #Davis #GregWortham #kingfish #LouisvilleWaterCompany #park #people #RiverRoadRestaurant #WaterTreatmentPlant #week #zorn
Now playing Miles Davis - Water Babies 1968 
LP 96kHz Analog version 
I'm paying attention to the incredible double Bass!!!
Musk and his advisers — including #Steve #Davis, a cost cutter who worked with him at X and other companies
— did not want to create a commission,
as past budget hawks had done.
They wanted direct, insider access to government systems.
They realized they could use the digital office,
whose staff had been focused on helping agencies fix technology problems,
to quickly penetrate the federal government
— and then decipher how to break it apart.
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https://www.europesays.com/1750093/ Duke Energy preparing for winter storm – WSOC TV #amy_davis #blunt's_pretzels #channel_9 #channel_nine #Charlotte #dave_faherty #Davis #davis_country #Energy #eyewitness #Florida #God #helene #james_thomas #kristen_hicks #local #new_york #News #old_fort #swanna_noah #swannanoa #swannaoa #video #western_north_carolina
Two prisoners who are among the 37 federal inmates whose death sentences were commuted last month by President Joe Biden
— a move that spares them from the death chamber '
— have taken an unusual stance:
They're refusing to sign paperwork accepting his clemency action.
#Shannon #Agofsky and #Len #Davis,
both inmates at the U.S. Penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana,
filed emergency motions in federal court in the state's southern district on Dec. 30
seeking an injunction to block having their death sentences commuted to life in prison without parole.
The men believe that having their sentences commuted would put them at a legal disadvantage
as they seek to appeal their cases based on claims of innocence.
The courts look at death penalty appeals very closely in a legal process known as #heightened #scrutiny,
in which courts should examine death penalty cases for errors because of the life and death consequences of the sentence.
The process doesn't necessarily lead to a greater likelihood of success, but Agofsky suggested he doesn’t want to lose that additional scrutiny.
"To commute his sentence now, while the defendant has active litigation in court, is to strip him of the protection of heightened scrutiny. This constitutes an undue burden, and leaves the defendant in a position of fundamental unfairness, which would decimate his pending appellate procedures,” according to Agofsky's filing
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-death-row-inmates-reject-bidens-commutation-life-sentences-rcna186235
Elon Musk’s deputy #Steve #Davis has spent more than 20 years helping the billionaire cut costs at businesses such as SpaceX, the Boring Company and Twitter
— making the engineer by training a natural choice for his new role at Musk’s "Department of Government Efficiency", or DOGE.
Davis is helping recruit staff at DOGE, in addition to his day job as president of Musk’s tunneling startup, the Boring Company.
Davis’ interactions with the government weren’t always positive.
Boring, which must navigate a morass of national,
state and local rules to build its tunnels, has run into major regulatory challenges
— particularly around environmental requirements that dictate when and if the first shovel can hit the ground.
Neighbors have also been a challenge.
At one point, Davis was on track for a proposed project in Los Angeles,
but nearby residents got wind of the project and sued
— successfully scuttling the endeavor.
Working in Las Vegas created its own set of regulatory run-ins for Boring.
Tunnels the company built to connect the convention center in Las Vegas to two nearby hotels, the Wynn Encore and the Westgate, still aren’t open to the public, more than a year after their completion.
The Nevada Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration fined Boring $112,504 after an investigation into conditions during construction. Complaints from workers included toxic muck falling from overhead conveyor belts and an overloaded bin collapsing and disgorging its contents across the work site.
Chafing at government rules has been a recurring theme for Musk, whose net worth recently surpassed a record $400 billion.
Aside from Boring’s challenges, SpaceX and Tesla have had their own issues with regulators,
ranging from launch approvals to mask mandates.
Critics of DOGE have speculated that the billionaire and his associates could use their influence to, say,
lower budgets for regulatory bodies that have put up road blocks for his companies.
Asked about Musk’s potential conflicts of interest, Donald Trump said that Musk will put the interests of the country first. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-12-27/who-is-steve-davis-elon-musks-go-to-cost-cutter-is-working-for-doge
#Mike #Davis, the man who many expect to be Donald Trump’s attorney general, appeared on Benny Johnson’s podcast The Benny Show on Thursday to outline who exactly is on the president-elect’s hit list.
Davis told Johnson he has five lists ready to go, but appeared to name only four.
“I will rain hell on Washington D.C.,” he said.
“I have five lists ready to go and they’re growing. 
List number one—we’re gonna fire. We’re gonna fire a lot of people in the executive branch of the deep state.
Number two—we’re gonna indict. We’re gonna indict Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and James Biden and every other scumball sleazeball Biden, except for the 5-year-old granddaughter who they refused to acknowledge for five years until political pressure got to Joe Biden.”
“Number three—we’re going to deport. We’re going to deport a lot of people,
10 million people when growing, anchor babies, their parents, the grandparents.
We’re going to put kids in cages.
It’s going to be glorious.
We’re going to detain a lot of people in the D.C. Gulag and Gitmo
and list number five—I’m going to recommend a lot of pardons.
Every January 6 defendant is going to get a pardon, especially my hero horn man (Jacob Chansley aka the QAnon Shaman) he is definitely at the top of the list,” he said.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-likely-ag-mike-davis-were-going-to-put-kids-in-cages/
Leonard Leo, an influential conservative lawyer who advised Donald Trump during his first term forcefully pushed back Friday on talk that one or more conservative Supreme Court justices might retire after Trump again takes office in January.
Leo, who helped the president-elect select three Supreme Court picks during his first term, said in a statement that discussions of Justices #Clarence #Thomas, 76, or #Samuel A. #Alito Jr., 74, stepping down are unseemly.
The comment drew a rebuke from #Mike #Davis, a Trump aide who is advising him on potential judicial picks this time around,
while #Leonard #Leo appears to be keeping his distance.
“No one other than Justices Thomas and Alito knows when or if they will retire, and talking about them like meat that has reached its expiration date is unwise, uninformed, and, frankly, just crass,” Leo said in the statement.
“Justices Thomas and Alito have given their lives to our country and our Constitution, and should be treated with more dignity and respect than they are getting from some pundits.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/08/trump-supreme-court-leonard-leo-mike-davis/
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Miles #Davis, Birth of the Cool.
Vor ein paar Tagen hatten die schwarzen Ballerinas von #davis auf dem Plakat am Babelsberger Bahnhof in #Potsdam für die Ausstellung im #dasminsk noch Gesichter. Es beginnt immer mit kleinen Grenzüberschreitungen. #niewiederistjetzt
Hey #FoxNews, Tim Walz ins't the only #WhiteGuy not afraid to support a #StrongBlackWoman
Watch how it's done when Tara #Davis-Woodhall claimed her first #Olympic medal
SOLIDARITY with striking UC Workers!
The UAW Strike against the University of California and its attacks on student workers protesting genocide by Israel is expanding from UC Santa Cruz, to also include strikes at the UCLA and UC Davis campuses.
Yesterday, police again violently attacked student protesters setting up a new encampment at UCLA. Protesters also barricaded themselves around UCLA’s Kerckhoff Hall.
