Quinton Tellis, the man accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers to death, is set to return to Mississippi today via Federal Marshal extradition.

According to Fox13 – […]  Panola County District Attorney John Champion confirmed to FOX13 that Quinton Tellis will be extradited from Louisiana to Mississippi to be housed in the DeSoto County Jail in Hernando.  (link)

Baltimore officer Caesar Goodson has been acquitted of all charges in the death of Freddie Gray – Full ruling pdf included below:

(Via Baltimore Sun) The Baltimore Police van driver accused of giving a “rough ride” that killed Freddie Gray was acquitted of all charges Thursday by Circuit Judge Barry Williams.
Officer Caesar Goodson Jr., 46, had faced the most serious charges of any of the six officers indicted in Gray’s arrest and death last April, including second-degree depraved heart murder.
Goodson was also acquitted of three counts of manslaughter, second-degree assault, reckless endangerment and misconduct in office.
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Open Discussion Thread for anything related to BREXIT

Today is the big day for Britain’s vote to remain in the European Union or to declare its independence and take control of its own destiny.    Voting began at 7:00am in Britain (2:00am U.S. EDT) and will continue throughout the day until 10:00pm local (5:00pm U.S. EDT):
Update 6:30pm EDT:  With polls closed the totals are beginning to come in.  UK Telegraph has a Live Stream and Live Feed – AVAILABLE HERE

There is a great deal of media information and misinformation coming out in the early results depending on the political leanings of the reporting media.  At 6:43pm EDT it’s still too uncertain.

A Leave source tells me that, for what it is worth, the polls by the financial institutions are split on what the result is

— James Forsyth (@JGForsyth) June 23, 2016

♦ Island of Gibraltar (borders with Spain) has come in solidly for REMAIN but that was to be expected. Remain 19,322. Leave 823
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In an effort to keep the Daily Open Thread a little more open topic we are going to start a new daily thread for “2016 Presidential Politics”. Please use this thread to post anything relating to the Presidential Race and/or any of the candidates therein.

This thread will refresh daily and appear above the Open Discussion Thread.

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.
For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †

If you add the “not sure” group the ratio climbs to 80%.   Only 20% of republican voters have any confidence the Republican party leadership supports Donald Trump.
There is actually good news within the larger electorate understanding this dynamic.
THIS common understanding is why it is completely safe for candidate Trump to turn his rhetorical fire toward Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and the various agents within the leadership of the GOPe.
(Via Rasmussen) Despite Donald Trump’s record turnout in this year’s primaries, most Republican voters are convinced that their party’s leaders don’t want him to get elected.
Sixty-six percent (66%) of Likely Republican Voters believe that most top GOP leaders do not want Trump to be elected president of the United States. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 20% think most Republican leaders do want their party’s likely nominee to win the White House. Fourteen percent (14%) are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Sixty-two percent (62%) of GOP voters say it is bad for their party that top Republican leaders continue to criticize Trump. Only 15% feel that continuing criticism is good for the party, while 17% say it has no impact. (more…)

Ask yourself why anyone would vote for a candidate who announces his/her U.S. Senate reelection bid and in the same breath refuses to say they intend to fulfill the 6-year term such a reelection requires.
Then ask yourself why would any candidate run for a political office while simultaneously refusing to commit to the term they are campaigning for.
Those two questions simply begin the discussion now that Florida Senator Marco Rubio has stated he has reversed position and intends to run for reelection.
What’s ultimately behind this decision is an intentional construct of the Wall Street legislative priority constructionists (GOPe leadership) to create a dynamic of controlled failure.
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If you were paying attention early 2011 you might remember the Wisconsin “Fleebaggers“. The Fleebaggers were Wisconsin Senate Democrats who lost the November 2010 election and lost control of the Wisconsin Senate.  In an effort to avoid voting in the minority, the Democrats literally left the state of Wisconsin, and went to stay in hotels in Illinois, in an effort to shut down the legislative session.
The same mindset is applied today in Washington DC as national Democrats begin staging a sit-in in an effort to force House Republicans to bring up legislation on gun control measures.

The entire event is pure political nonsense.  Creating optics, and manufacturing false controversy, is the type of activity Democrats are famous for.  Pelosi and her team know very well how politics is “downstream from pop culture”, and a big part of their strategy is to use pop culture to manipulate politics in their favor.
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It was a story that drove Black Lives Matter advocates and the local media into a tizzy – Three young black women allegedly assaulted by 10-12 white men and women on a CDTA bus, all the while being barraged with racial slurs.
It even received national coverage when leading Democrat presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, tweeted this message of support for the story and the girls involved:

Except, it never happened.  They made it all up.
(Albany Times Union) Suspended University at Albany student Alexis Briggs tearfully apologized Tuesday while pleading guilty to her role in fabricating a story that she and two friends were victims of an alleged racial attack on a CDTA bus on Jan. 30. (more…)