NSLP has always included a provision that meals don't have to be made on-site to be eligible for recuperation. And those numbers were both from just before Covid. 10,000+ schools in the US aren't enrolled and they tend to be in poorer areas.
I hate so many of the people I share hobby space with.
Steve Bannon ordered to prison while he challenges his conviction for defying Jan. 6 committee
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, had previously paused Bannon’s four-month sentence while he appealed his conviction.
Steve Bannon: No prison or jail 'will ever shut me up'
A federal judge has ordered Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, to report to prison by July 1 for his conviction for defying a subpoena from the Jan. 6 committee.
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols, a Trump appointee, previously paused Bannon’s four-month sentence while he appealed his conviction. But on Thursday, Nichols ruled that the original reasons for the postponement no longer apply because a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled strongly and unanimously last month against Bannon’s position.
Bannon intends to continue appealing the case to the full bench of the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court. But unless one of those courts steps in to block Nichols’ decision, Bannon is unlikely to be able to stave off prison in the meantime.
If Bannon indeed heads to prison on July 1, it would put him behind bars until just before the November election. In addition to keeping Bannon — who hosts a popular far-right podcast — off the air for a crucial stretch of the election cycle, Nichols’ decision would also effectively pardon-proof Bannon’s jail sentence. (Trump pardoned Bannon on the final day of his presidency on federal fraud charges.)
Bannon was convicted in July 2022 of two misdemeanor counts of contempt of Congress for stonewalling a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
“I do not believe that the original basis for my stay of Mr. Bannon’s sentence exists anymore,” Nichols said from the bench of the federal district courthouse in Washington, D.C.
Bannon was flanked by his lawyers David Schoen — who once represented Trump in his impeachment proceedings after Jan. 6 — and Evan Corcoran, who is a key witness in the criminal case against Trump in Florida, where Trump is accused of hoarding classified documents after he left the White House.
Bannon is the second former Trump White House adviser headed to prison for defying the Jan. 6 committee. Peter Navarro, a former Trump trade adviser, is currently serving a four-month sentence in Miami for blowing off a subpoena from the panel. The appeals court’s rejection of Navarro’s bid to stay out of jail was a key factor in Nichols’ decision to revoke Bannon’s bail.
The Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed Bannon early in its investigation as part of an initial wave of outreach to key Trump advisers involved in his efforts to subvert the 2020 election. The panel cited reports that Bannon and Navarro worked together on what they called the “Green Bay Sweep” strategy to orchestrate challenges to the election results in Congress on Jan. 6. Bannon also warned on his popular “War Room” podcast the day before Jan. 6 that “all hell is going to break loose tomorrow.” And White House call logs obtained by the Jan. 6 committee showed Trump and Bannon were in touch at key moments in the run-up to Jan. 6.
Nichols also said his decision to revoke Bannon’s bond was based on the appeals court’s full-throated ruling in Bannon’s own case, which sharply rejected the key issues that Nichols once said might cause the appeals court to revisit the conviction.
“We’re going to go all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to,” Bannon said after Nichols’ decision. “There’s not a prison built or jail built that will shut me up.”
Schoen called on Speaker Mike Johnson to formally declare the Jan. 6 committee’s previous subpoenas invalid, contending this would add legal weight to Bannon’s appeal.
It’s unclear how receptive the appeals court or the Supreme Court will be to a plea from Bannon to remain free. Earlier this year, Navarro struck out at the appeals court and made a similar pitch to Chief Justice John Roberts, who oversees emergency matters arising in Washington, D.C.
Roberts turned down Navarro’s request without even referring it to his fellow justices, even though such a referral is the common practice in controversial or legally substantive matters. The chief justice did write a brief, solo opinion explaining his ruling, appearing to agree that Navarro’s lawyers “forfeited” certain arguments by not raising them at earlier stages of the litigation.
Having observed Navarro’s legal saga, Bannon’s attorneys may have a chance to avoid some of those pitfalls.
Navarro reported to a federal prison in Miami the day after Roberts’ ruling. He remains there serving his four-month sentence.
Nichols emphasized that the issues in Navarro’s case were distinct from Bannon’s because Navarro was working in the White House on Jan. 6 while Bannon had departed the administration years earlier.
Navarro’s case turned on whether Trump had invoked executive privilege to bar Navarro from speaking to the Jan. 6 committee, a claim that the judge in his case rejected.
Bannon, on the other hand, said his decision to refuse the Jan. 6 committee’s subpoena was based on the advice of his lawyer — at the time, Robert Costello — who said Bannon was immune from the panel’s demands.
However, Nichols rejected that claim, citing the 1950s case of mobster Peter “Horseface” Licavoli, who was held in contempt of Congress despite a lawyer’s advice that he decline to appear for testimony on organized crime. The D.C. Circuit held that witnesses who “willfully” refuse to comply with valid congressional subpoenas can be punished, regardless of the excuse.
Nichols signaled during Bannon’s trial proceedings that he disagreed with the decadesold decision but said he was bound by it because district court judges are required to apply the decisions of the appellate courts. His decision to initially postpone Bannon’s sentence was rooted in part on his belief that the appeals court might signal a desire to reverse the Licavoli ruling. But when the panel sharply rejected that argument, Nichols said his view that the decision might be reversed no longer applied.
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What's SBI? Google brings me State Bank of India, which probably isn't relevant.
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Ah, thanks, that seems vaguely familiar. Too many stupid new things popping up to remember.TLDR: consultancy agency specialized in inclusivity/diversity became enemy of the week of the anti-woke crowd.Sweet Baby Inc. - Wikipedia
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The school has to be enrolled in NSLP for the kids to be able to get benefits from P-EBT. So republicans doing away with P-EBT isn't causing any needy kids to not get school lunches.
Sweet Baby Inc. They're a narrative consultancy company that more or less specializes in diversity. They've been involved with several recent games that were...not well received. A while back someone created a steam curator that listed games that used that consultancy and marked them "Not Recommended" called Sweet Baby Inc detected and the whole fucking internet had a shit fit over it.
Classic coming of age arc: finally building your own far right militiaA group of far-right media figures is using social media to recruit for its newly formed militia
The group is recruiting on Instagram, despite Meta’s previous crackdowns on militias
CitationMolly Butler / Media Matters
A group of far-right media figures has announced the formation of a militia group that is dedicated to “mobiliz[ing] to DEFEND this Republic from any enemy.” The newly formed group includes Rumble streamers Pete Santilli and Stew Peters, who have both called for political opponents to be killed. The militia has established several social media accounts with the apparent aim of recruiting members, including an account on Instagram.
On June 3, podcaster and alleged January 6 participant Jake Lang announced a “NATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL MILITIA” called the “North American Patriot and Liberty Militia,” or “NAPALM” for short. Lang claimed that NAPALM was “organized and ready to mobilize to DEFEND this Republic from any enemy. Forgien or Domestic.” Lang — who wrote that he would serve as “national chairman” of the militia group — “faces multiple charges of assaulting law enforcement officers” and has been held in jail ahead of his September trial for his alleged crimes and what a judge called “a continued willingness to engage in violence.”
The militia’s site, which was linked in the announcement post, claims that the militia already has “over 20,000+ members across all 50 states,” including “active Sheriffs, military, veterans, emergency responders, doctors, farmers, entrepreneurs, and blue collar Americans.”
Besides Lang, the site claims that several far-right figures are allegedly involved with the militia:
The militia’s site also mentions the involvement of Richard Mack, a former Oath Keepers board member and founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and Police Officers Association (CSPOA), which falsely claims that sheriffs are the highest law of the land, superseding any federal or state authority. Santilli has suggested that CSPOA will be working “in collaboration with” the militia.
- Ann Vandersteel, the apparent “national vice chairman” of the militia, is a QAnon-supporting podcast host who has promoted sovereign citizen ideology — a movement which the FBI has labeled a domestic terror threat.
- Pete Santilli, the apparent “strategic operations director” and self-described “legal liaison” for the militia, is a right-wing radio host who has repeatedly threatened public officials with violence. Santilli wrote that the militia was “prepared to … lay our lives on the line if necessary” against “tyrants.” He has previously called for the entire Bush family and former President Barack Obama to be “tried, convicted and shot” for “treason,” declared that he wanted to shoot former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and called for violence if a trucker protest failed. Santilli also urged his listeners to flock to Cliven Bundy’s ranch during a standoff with federal officials, urging them to “fight to the death,” and he has called for “100 million people to take up arms to defend our nation.” Santilli has also lauded the QAnon community, admitting that he “used to actually pull from the Q boards.”
- Stew Peters, the apparent “national communications director” for the militia, is a white nationalist podcast host who has repeatedly pushed conspiracy theories, including those related to QAnon. Peters has repeatedly called for violence, demanding “potential punishments” including death sentences for “these traitors that have stolen our country,” and telling viewers that “guns are going to have to be used to save our country” against the government. His calls for violence have included calling for Anthony Fauci to “hang from a length of thick rope,” calling for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Taylor Swift, NFL player Travis Kelce, journalists who promoted COVID-19 vaccines, and FBI agents who supposedly targeted former President Donald Trump to be “indicted, tried and fried,” and calling for violence against Catholic Charities workers.
- Couy Griffin, the apparent “New Mexico state commander” for the militia, was removed as county commissioner for Otero County, New Mexico, after a judge barred him from holding public office for participating in the January 6 insurrection. He has said that “the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat” and addressed certain Democratic governors by saying, “Either go before a firing squad, or you get the end of the rope.” Griffin has also promoted QAnon.
- Rochelle Richardson (commonly known as “Silk” of “Diamond and Silk”), the apparent “national recruiting coordinator” for the militia, is a right-wing commentator and former Fox Nation host.
- Maureen Steele, the apparent “national secretary” for the militia, previously served as an organizer for the anti-vaccine People’s Convoy trucker protest.
In addition to those featured on the site, Lang also claimed that several other right-wing figures are involved, including:
To promote and recruit for the militia, the group established public, state-specific Telegram groups for people to join and then be vetted for more private chats. The militia urges people to “make your Telegram account anonymous before joining,” and a message in the public groups details next steps “to get you placed in your Vetted County Militia chat where you
- Mindy Robinson, the militia’s apparent “Nevada state lieutenant commander,” who is a former QAnon-supporting congressional candidat
- Anthony Sabatini, the militia’s apparent “national legal counsel,” who is a former QAnon-promoting Florida state representative
- James Brett, an alleged January 6 participant
- Jeff Crouere, a Louisiana-based right-wing radio host and Real America’s Voice host
- Jim Price, a Kansas-based right-wing radio host
- Jeff Wagner, a former right-wing radio host from Wisconsin
A subsequent message from a group administrator further details the vetting process, noting that “after everything checks out” people will get an “orientation” on “expectations, emergency protocols, and order of operations” for the militia. The message also promised to “ensure tyranny never takes a foothold in this AMAZING COUNTRY OF OURS” and to “Make Militias Great Again.”
CitationA message from an administrator in one of NAPALM's state Telegram groups
The militia also has an Instagram account — despite Meta previously banning certain militia groups from its platforms — that encourages people to join the militia and shared how to join its Telegram groups.
Next time someone doubts there is a God, show them this.Lol. Lmao evenAlex Jones to liquidate assets to pay Sandy Hook families
The move is necessary for Jones to cover the $1.5 billion in damages he owes families of victims.
We're not just talking about pandemic-era EBT; we're talking about the raft of expansion measures. Under which, more schools were receiving recouped funding than before. That's simply a fact.
A lot of people believed Obama was the anti-christ, and went to work as normal. Not sure how dissimilar this is.
What are you talking about, it's just the pandemic era policy.
