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Well, the Guards tie up their series with the White Sox 2-2, with a 9-5 win tonight.

It all comes down to game 5 in Cleveland on Saturday evening.

I hate that these have been on TBS, because I don't have TBS on Fubo.

Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed
KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, ERIC TUCKER and CLAUDIA LAUER
Updated Thu, October 8, 2026 at 5:09 PM EDT


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WASHINGTON (AP) — The firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed, the Pentagon said Thursday, a stunning revelation about plans for the first military execution in more than 65 years after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had described it as being "public."

The Army announced this week that the execution would take place at Fort Hood on Dec. 3 after Hasan was convicted of killing 13 people and injuring 32 others in a shooting at the military base in 2009.

Hegseth, speaking to the conservative TV outlet Real America's Voice on Wednesday, said, "We'll make sure that people are able to watch it, that it's public." Officials in the Pentagon clarified Thursday that the execution would be livestreamed and that more details would follow.


The revelation from Hegseth about the public nature of the execution — let alone one as violent as a firing squad — has raised further questions about how the death penalty is carried out in the U.S., especially after the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike in Tennessee.

Experts offer mixed reactions on the plan

Hasan could choose to resist execution and file a habeas petition — a legal request to review the legality of a detention — in civilian court, which could significantly delay the execution, experts said.

"It frankly might outlast the current administration, and who knows if the next one will have the same penchant for executions," said Eugene R. Fidell, a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School specializing in military law.

Deborah Denno, a death penalty expert and law professor at Fordham University, said livestreaming an execution could make the process "much more transparent" and inform the public about all that capital punishment entails. Those are benefits that she said would be useful at a time when Pike's botched execution has raised fresh questions about the manner by which criminal defendants are put to death for their crimes.

"I think it could possibly be a good idea because it would be transparent and the public would be fully aware that it's happening," she said.

When many states have had difficulty carrying out lethal injections due to difficulty accessing drugs or finding medical professionals willing to participate in executions, firing squads are coming to be seen as a less inhumane alternative, said Brenner Fissell, a professor at Villanova Law and vice president of the National Institute of Military Justice.

"Firing squads can be a quicker, cleaner, more precise way to execute a prisoner," he said. "I don't think that's what's motivating this. There's a perceived masculinity and military-ness to firing squads that is part of the aura Hegseth is trying to emphasize — the 'lethality culture.'"

Elisabeth Semel, co-director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley Law, said Hegseth's announcement raises a host of legal and public policy questions, including concerns for the dignity of the defendant, who will be eligible to view the execution and what the Trump administration has in mind in opting for an unusual spectacle.

Though there has been long-running discussion about the idea of televising an execution, "I don't recall a situation in which it was instituted by the government. I think that also raises serious questions about what is the motivation of the government," she said.

"This is a president who's about spectacle and that's, I think, precisely the message that he intends to deliver," Semel said, adding that she was skeptical that the administration had given second thought to the legal and social questions being presented by the decision.

Trump has spoken out against public executions in Iran

Trump, who approved Hasan's execution, has previously been critical of public executions in Iran, at times using the possibility of protesters being killed by the Iranian government as a possible rationale for military action that preceded his ultimate choice to attack Iran on Feb. 28.

"We've been told that the killing in Iran is stopping," Trump told reporters on Jan. 14. "It's stopping, and there's no plan for executions."

In his State of the Union address just days before launching the Iran war, Trump reiterated, "We stopped them from hanging a lot of them with the threat of serious violence."

The White House on Thursday referred questions about the plans for the livestreamed execution to the Pentagon.

Hegseth was asked Wednesday if Hasan had made any final requests or reached out to the Trump administration. The Pentagon chief replied: "Don't care. We'll see him on Dec. 3."

It's not clear if Hasan will try to appeal

Hasan, an Army psychiatrist who held the rank of major, walked into a medical building on Nov. 5, 2009, where soldiers were waiting in long lines to receive immunizations and medical clearance for deployment. He shouted "Allahu akbar" — Arabic for "God is great!" — and opened fire with a laser-sighted handgun. He also shot at the backs of soldiers fleeing toward the parking lot.

Hasan said it was an effort to stop them from going to Afghanistan and killing his fellow Muslims. A military judge barred him from presenting that as a defense during his 2013 trial. Hasan was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back by law enforcement, and he now uses a wheelchair.

Hasan could seek a lengthy delay of his execution, though given his behavior at trial, he may not want to.

After firing his lawyers and representing himself, Hasan began his portion of the trial by telling jurors he was the gunman. He said little else over the next three weeks, which convinced his court-appointed standby lawyers that Hasan's only goal was to get a death sentence.

The military called nearly 90 witnesses, but Hasan rested his case without calling a single person to testify in his defense and made no closing argument. Yet he leaked documents during the trial to journalists that revealed him telling military mental health workers that he could " still be a martyr " if executed.

Attorney John Galligan, a former military judge who had represented Hasan in several civil matters following his criminal trial, spoke with Hasan on Wednesday but is barred from offering much detail about that conversation. He is not representing Hasan in his criminal case but said he's worried about his physical health under the plan laid out by officials, and that Hasan has not yet had access to legal counsel.

Galligan said that according to Hasan, the commandant of the facility brought a chaplain but no attorney from either the Trial Defense Service or from his civilian defense when he was notified that Trump had signed off on his execution. Galligan called that a breach of Army regulations.

A spokeswoman for the Army said Thursday that multiple attempts were made to contact Trial Defense Service attorneys, saying they made every reasonable effort and adhered to policy.

"The civilian counsel was not reasonably available to be physically present for the notification on the 5th," the spokeswoman said, adding that counsel was located in Virginia but did not provide a name.

The spokeswoman also said Hasan has not been kept from contacting and communicating with his counsel.

Hegseth said the military hasn't executed a service member by firing squad since World War II. The last military execution took place on April 13, 1961, when Army Pvt. John Bennett was executed by hanging.

Amnesty International said in its report on executions in 2025 that it knew of at least 17 public executions — 11 in Iran and 6 in Afghanistan.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/pentagon-says-firing-squad-execution-210940574.html

Pit I hope it was made clear to your neighbor that he did a very bad and unforgivable thing.

It happened to me and for legal reasons, even though I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations would cover it, I won't discuss the details of the aftermath.

Great posts guys.
Kudos to both of you.

My neighbor kills my dog; he'll be apologizing duck taped to a wheelchair while I'm rolling it out towards the pool.

The only thing that has moved to the past is that he is playing better instead of like dog crap. If your neighbor kills your dog you don't just get past it. And if you're ever going to get past it the neighbor would at least have to apologize first. As long as we're clear on that part of things.

Ever since DW arrived anytime he spoke to the press. It looked like he was so uncomfortable.

Almost a haunted look like he was expecting to be knifed.

After this last victory I have never seen this happy in Cleveland. He had a genuine smile on his face. Like he is actually enjoying playing football in Cleveland.

Maybe after all that was has moved to the past and he is now healthy and is the starter of the team. He can get into the groove of preparing and playing football.

I didn't watch him in Houston. But I remember when he played at Clemson. He was a winner for real. He made plays all over. Whatever needed to happen to win. He would do it.

I don't know where this all will go. I was ready to look at the draft thinking the season was dead on arrival.

I love to win so being 3-1 with a chance to win this week. Hell yes

No real time for an in-depth post right now, but thanks. And sorry for overreacting. Seems like a lot of you recent posts were meant to poke and prod; that's probably just me. And definitely my fault for just ignoring for months and then unloading.

There's a lot of good substance in your posts (always). Some I agree with, some not so much. Substance is a breath of fresh air though. And truthfully, I feel like we've seen a lot more from everyone here, even my "adversaries". Both Pit and Mgh have penned some good stuff lately.

Hindsight can be a bitch, especially when the time has passed for any more foresight. GM was a humble man that just called it like he saw it and never stomped all over the opinions of others. P was right. Maybe we all need to take a breath, or whatever we need, to be a bit more like him. And trust me, by "we", I mean me. I'll try harder.

"Something a dictator would say for $1000 Alex."....................

Trump declares anyone who uses the term Artificial Intelligence to be ‘The Enemy!’

President Donald Trump on Thursday opened up a new front in his ongoing war against commonly-used terms and geographic place names by warning that anyone referring to Large Language Models such as OpenAI's ChatGPT or Anthropic's Claude as "Artificial Intelligence" would earn themselves a place on his enemies list.

Writing on Truth Social, he declared that the White House "considers anyone that uses the term, 'Artificial Intelligence,' as opposed to the highly accepted new and more accurate term, 'Super Intelligence,' THE ENEMY!"

The president's outburst-[censored]-veiled threat landed just over a week after he signed an executive order directing executive branch agencies to begin referring to artificial intelligence, which is now embedded across the federal government, as "super intelligence" following a lunch with leaders in the AI industry, including Elon Musk, Sundar Pichai, Dario Amodei and others.

That widely-mocked directive followed bizarre remarks to the U.N. General Assembly in which he declared that the U.S. "totally rejects any attempt to construct a globalist scheme" for regulating AI and declaring that the technology would be "hereinafter officially called superintelligence" because "use of the word artificial makes intelligence fake."

"It makes it sound fake, and it is not fake. It's actually amazing," said Trump, who the week before had launched a poll in his Truth Social feed over the weekend asking respondents to vote for either "SuperIntelligence," "Superior Intelligence," or "Extreme Intelligence."

The president's latest linguistic ultimatum is the most recent example of his ongoing effort to change the minds of voters — including many of his own supporters — who've increasingly soured on the industry that has tied itself tightly to his unpopular administration.

In recent months, that souring has shown up in nearly every poll that asks about AI. A Quinnipiac University survey of 1,032 registered voters taken late last month found 73 percent oppose "the building of an AI data center in your community," including 55 percent of Republicans, and 79 percent said safety matters more than keeping the United States at the forefront of AI development. Just 25 percent approve of Trump's handling of the technology against 58 percent who disapprove, and 71 percent said they'd be more likely to back a candidate who supports "stricter guardrails" on it — a figure that includes a majority of Republicans, at 52 percent, and nearly three-quarters of independents.

A separate Fox News poll of 1,211 registered voters conducted earlier in September put overall opinion of AI at 37 percent favorable to 60 percent unfavorable, a net rating of minus 23 that has worsened from minus 11 in April and minus 9 in July. The same survey found voters trust Democrats over Republicans to handle data centers by 14 points, and that among those who oppose the facilities anywhere, Democrats lead the generic ballot by at least 19 points.

Trump's demand for widespread adoption of "super intelligence" in lieu of AI comes just over a month after his last attempt at linguistic coercion, an executive order directing the executive branch to rename Lake Ontario as "Lake America."

The order to rename one of the five Great Lakes along the U.S.-Canada border came in a fit of rage over his ongoing trade war with Ottawa and echoed a similar move from early in his second term when he attempted to unilaterally rename the Gulf of Mexico as the "Gulf of America."

While the president does have the authority to direct how the government recognizes the names of places and landmarks, he cannot force Canada or individual citizens on either side of the border to follow his preferred naming conventions.

The same goes for use of the term "super intelligence." He can direct the government to use it but he cannot force Americans — or anyone else — to use his preferred terminology.

The Independent has reached out to NVIDIA, Palantir, Meta, OpenAI, Google, Tesla and Anthropic regarding whether the companies have any plans to use the president's new terminology in promotional materials or other customer communications; none responded.

But the White House has touted a short list of tech CEOs who'd used the phrase, including Elon Musk and NVIDIA's Jensen Huang.

Complicating the matter, the word superintelligence already means an AI system that surpasses human intellect and ability across multiple domains in couding reasoning, social skills and scientific research — a step toward the kind of rogue AI that many fear, sparking the calls for guardrails and kill switches.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/trump-declares-anyone-uses-term-165314716.html

Who could possibly read all of the ignorant and idiotic things that spew from this mans mouth every day and then ask the question "Why Democrats"? Because those running for office give Trump carte blanche for thing like this and the dems are the only other legitimate choice left as sad as that is to say.

Trump makes late Nobel Prize pitch: ‘Not bragging ... but I settled eight wars’

Donald Trump on Wednesday reiterated his call for the Nobel Prize committee to award him with its Peace Prize as he leaned back into talk of his peacemaking efforts.

Those peacemaking efforts, which he claims to tally at eight thus far, are ongoing, he says, and will soon include "another one" — even though there's no sign yet of meaningful progress in talks between the U.S. and Iran regarding another ceasefire. Setting aside that it would come amid a war he himself started.

The president spoke to reporters at an announcement on his "Trump accounts" for children, after returning to Washington briefly amid his near rally-a-day spree of campaign appearances across the country.

"I've done stuff that nobody else has ever done. I'm not bragging, I'm just telling you the facts," the president told reporters on Wednesday. "No president has probably ever settled any wars. I settled eight wars."

He then went after his first-term predecessor, President Barack Obama, whom he accused of not knowing why he'd received the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. They gave the peace prize to Obama, then less than a year into his presidency, for his diplomatic efforts to reestablish ties with the Muslim world after nearly a decade of warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan led to a perception held by some that America was at war with the entire Muslim world.

The 47th president insisted on Wednesday that he was more deserving of the prize than Obama.

"Look, Obama got it, and he didn't do anything-- he still doesn't know what he got it for," said Trump. "He got it when he was elected, right? Right at the beginning."

"Whether I get it or not, I have done far more," the president said.

The president frequently cites the "eight wars" statistic as a reference for his supposed peacemaking abilities, but the figure is not true. Several of the "wars" on Trump's list were not wars at all, such as disagreements between Serbia and Kosovo which never escalated to real armed conflict during either of Trump's two presidencies. Another one of the eight is the conflict between Iran and Israel, which very much remains ongoing as part of a three-way conflict also now involving the U.S. — that conflict has been ongoing for nearly eight months.

Still, the Iran war he unilaterally launched has largely shattered Trump's image as a steward of global affairs, even in the minds of his own supporters, who embraced that depiction of the president during his 2024 campaign for a second term as he hammered Joe Biden and Kamala Harris over Israel's relentless strikes against Gaza and the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine, both of which he pledged to end.

A year and a half after coming to power, Trump has made little to no progress in his efforts to negotiate an end to the war between Russia and Ukraine. A ceasefire exists in the Gaza Strip, where the majority of fighting has died down, but most Gazans remain in appalling conditions with much of the region's infrastructure and housing destroyed. Israeli strikes continue to be carried out on camps of refugees, with continued civilian casualties.

The president's touting of his diplomatic credentials also ignore one truth about his 2024 campaign: his promise to stop getting the U.S. into endless wars with murky objectives. His critics, both within and outside of the Republican Party, now accuse him of doing just that as the war in Iran has shifted from an effort to dislodge the Iranian government and take control of its remaining nuclear materials to ending disruptions over shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

Obama has long been a fixation of Trump's, however, and the president attacks him nearly as frequently as he attacks Biden, who defeated him in the 2020 election. On Wednesday, he warned that his allies wanted to see the Justice Department wielded against Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton, but claimed that he was respecting the sanctity of his office by declining.

"I could've done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could've done very very bad things to Joe Biden. I could've done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama," said Trump.



As he departed the White House for a campaign rally in San Antonio, Texas, the president reiterated his confusing claim that the war in Iran was already "won", but not yet "over".

"It's a war that's been won from the standpoint of what we have to do. We have to get rid of-- no nuclear weapons for, as you know, for Iran," said the president.

"We've taken away their nuclear power. If they would have had nuclear power, you would have had problems like you've never had before. So we did this for that reason. We've essentially accomplished that. Their military is now wiped out. Their whole country right now is wiped out. It'll be over very quickly. And when it does, and when it does, oil prices will come tumbling down."

If you accomplished your goal why are we still there? So gas prices will come "tumbling down" right after the GOP wins the house and the senate in the upcoming election and you send everyone their checks for 5k as their reward money, right?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/trump-makes-nobel-prize-pitch-180827943.html

Thanks all.

Got one of those. Had to use it to build up after chemo.

And that's the bottom line. The NFL is his profession. Don't blame the fans for expecting some accountability when you are sucking at it. As anyone can see it's not happening now that the Browns are winning games.

HAHA, that's what I looked like last night M&M!!!

Hoping to play it on repeat tonight and get it back to CLE!

Man, that is a rough period, but it sounds like GM is pulling some strings for ya up there and you're getting some good news, now.

Prayin' for ya.

I completely agree. Many of us never wanted him here, but the team does what it is going to do. We wouldn't have like him because of who he is and what he's done, but he doubled down on those sins by coming here and absolutely stinking up the joint after getting a quarter BILLION dollar guaranteed contract that has hung around this team's neck like an anchor. If he can at least play like the guy that was given that contract, we can cheer for him because we're cheering for the team - same as we all would have done Day 1 if he hadn't played like absolute ass since being here. We don't have to like him, he doesn't have to care if we do.... he just needs to play worthy of that paycheck.

Game of the year tonight

Guardians Still alive.

Braves finished.

Please win. Not ready for baseball to be over.

We're back........for another day!

Hey Memphis,

I know you don't read my posts, but I wanted to put this here anyway. It probably does appear that I rage quit. I think I gave reasons as to why I took time off in my last post, but I do have to say, it becomes difficult to perpetuate a dialogue with someone who does have you on Ignore. I did commence my hiatus during the Charlie Kirk discussion when I did make an earest attempt to bridge the divide and felt I got burned for it. That's where my reference that discussions are dead is born from. That's pretty much why I had given up on it.

Like I said in that thread, whatever I did to make you ignore me, I apologize. You and I used to get along pretty well on here before all the craziness. If you ever do want to go back and engage in actual policy discussion, or just shoot the breeze, I'll still check in from time to time. Anyhow, hope you do well and that the Crosstown Shootout this year still favors the Muskies

Thanks Fate. I hope you had a great summer, too.

It does take two to roll in the mud, wasn't just blaming you. You weren't the only one who was responsible. I never absolved myself for doing it. I even said it was dumb on my part. I think I let the best of my struggles during this admin get the best of me at times. I think it took my time away to realize that I was part of perpetuating the problem. Who I have become as part of this administration and who I have become when I more regularly give into the own rage bait that I protest against in this forum is not truly indicative of who I am, so I think it's best for me to limit myself, and that's what I think it comes down to.

I started coming around after P told me about GM's passing and how much he united everybody on here and it got me to self-reflecting. I think most of the rage I experience comes from valid qualms I have toward the admin, but I can't let it consume me as it did. I poured my frustration in my work and everyday life into this forum during the hellscape that 2025 become and I probably unnecessarily took it out on you, and I apologize for that.

I hope you're doing well.