u/Gordopolis_II

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so."

"I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

"If you look at the story of how the deep-state took down Richard Nixon, its not all that different from what the same groups of people and institutions tried to do to Donald Trump during the first Trump administration..."

Marion County Sheriff Billy Woods, who was joined by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and Florida Highway Patrol Colonel Gary Howze snapped at a reporter during a press conference on Thursday about a recent operation his agency spearheaded.

Toward the end of the press conference, a reporter in the audience asked Howze and Uthmeier a question about another case.

That case is related to a lawsuit brought against FHP by a woman who said she was wrongfully arrested by troopers who accused her of being responsible for a fatal crash in October 2025.

NBC affiliate WESH reported that all charges were dropped against Lindsey Isaacs, but not before she spent 13 days in jail.

She is suing for emotional distress, humiliation, and reputational harm, among other things.

The unnamed reporter asked about Isaacs’ case, specifically how a meeting went between her attorney and Uthmeier’s office. He also asked if the woman deserved an apology for the situation.

“All right, so you just pissed me off,” Woods said before either Howze or Uthmeier could respond.

“Out of all this s*******, you want to ask him about some other case?” Woods asked.

The reporter responds, saying he had already asked a question about the topic at hand, but was cut off by the sheriff.

“It doesn’t make a difference. I’m not here to talk about what FHP did,” Woods said. “I’m here to talk about what they did. Nothing else.”

Uthmeier ultimately answered the reporter’s question, saying that sometimes mistakes happen, even if they shouldn’t. He said his office will announce something about the case soon.

"The Digital Fire website that many of you have probably used is having to close on June the 26th, for reasons outside of Tony Hansen's control.

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The Insight site and glaze tools are unaffected.

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He's asking people to post about this, both so that everyone is aware of what is happening, and also perhaps with enough support those responsible for forcing the closure will have a change of heart.

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For me, it was the discovery of his site and his (then Windows based) glaze software that got me interested in the technical side of ceramics, without which I would have probably dropped it years ago.

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He has built up an invaluable repository of technical information over the years, something that is becoming ever harder to acquire, with ceramics teaching, books and other sources treating it as an art whereas it is a deeply technical craft (I've heard rumours that one of the major glaze manufacturers is working on a painting by numbers kit).

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So please repost this, or post something about what a contribution Digital Fire has made to ceramics, and how important it is that it is maintained, both to you personally and for ceramics as a whole.

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In the meantime, you'll find the Internet Archive have a full copy of the site, but a year or so old. The volunteers at http://archiveteam.org/ , who make copies of important sites that are closing, have said that they'll do another full copy before it closes.

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I'm also looking into how best to make a copy of the site as a set of web pages, to hand over to Tony or to host as a public resource. This will preserve the content, but things like the search facility won't be working, and will need to be recreated. And it isn't an insignificant task, there are over 10000 web pages to process. But I'm just starting on this today, and don't yet know how feasible it is, so no promises. If any software engineers/web developers out there want to give me a hand, give me a shout."

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I think we're past that point.

Zeus tried to zap her but she said, 'Not Today!'