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A moving company representative and lawyers were expected to be given access to Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment after he missed a deadline to turn over belongings to two former Georgia election workers who won a $148 million defamation lawsuit against him. Giuliani was ordered by a federal judge last week to turn over the apartment as well as sports memorabilia, luxury watches and a 1980 Mercedes. The deadline was Tuesday, but no property has exchanged hands yet. A court document says a moving company representative and lawyers for the election workers were to be let into the apartment Thursday to assess what was there and the moving costs.
I forgot who suggested this to me today, but I hope you see this:
Via USA Today opinion columnist Michael J. Stern on the hellsite:
Hey Mark Cuban, @mcuban, if you start a national newspaper with reporters from the LA Times snd Washington Post who want to maintain their journalistic integrity, I will subscribe. And I will get everyone I know to do the same.
Alarm bells are ringing loudly as the world's largest river, the Amazon River dries up:
"Never has so little rain fallen in the rainforest, never have dry conditions lasted so long, and never has such a vast region of the jungle been in drought"
#climatechange
Them: We're forcing you to go back into the office because we believe work is more meaningful when employees are together and have a shared sense of comradery.
Me: So, unionize?
Them: No, not like that.
Yesterday: The Los Angeles Times declined to endorse a presidential candidate this year.
Today: The Los Angeles Times's lead editorial editor resigned, saying the paper's owner blocked them from endorsing Kamala Harris.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/23/media/los-angeles-times-endorsement-harris-resign/index.html
Russia's largest explosives factory, the Sverdlov plant in Dzerzhinsk in the Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, is questioning whether a war with Ukraine was among Putin's best ideas.
Allegedly it was hit by 7 drones 900 kilometers from the Ukraine border and quite close to Moscow.
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