Reactions to #Trump post, "If you go after me I'm coming after you!"
Weissmann: This is the kind of thing DOJ alerts court to w respect to any defendant out on bail (in this case, in 3 criminal cases, also is a threat in civil cases like E Jean Carroll). Not addressing this will only cause it to metastasize w undue deadly risks.
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đź‘€ Via Kyle Griffin:
Justice Elena Kagan has voiced her support for a new Supreme Court ethics code — taking a sharply different stance than Samuel Alito.
"It just can't be that the court is the only institution that somehow is not subject to checks and balances ... We're not imperial." #SCOTUS
Hotel entrepreneur Robert Bigelow, the biggest individual donor to a group supporting Ron DeSantis' presidential bid, told Reuters on Friday he will not donate more money unless #Florida Gov #DeSantis attracts new major donors and adopts a more moderate approach.
Drill, baby, drill redux. 🤦🏻‍♀️ Greed always trumps the health and well-being of GOP Fascists’ own children. #ProLifeMyAss #ClimateCrisis
“A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy
Project 2025, a conservative “battle plan” for the next Republican president, would stop attempts to cut the pollution that is heating the planet and encourage more emissions.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/04/climate/republicans-climate-project2025.html
#Trump waived his right to appear for his upcoming arraignment on a superseding indictment in the classified #documents case. #legal #TrumpIndictment
Via Nick Wooten:
An additional layer of fencing going up outside Fulton County Courthouse as. #TrumpIndictment watch in #Georgia continues
This. All day long this.
Via Andrew Weissmann:
BOP has them already: witness protection units and other facilities for folks subject to retaliation. No reason DJT can’t go to jail upon conviction (and potentially appeal).
Joyce Vance:
There is no reason a special housing unit can't be designated or built at an existing federal correctional institution that would be secure, safe & meet the Secret Service's needs. #Trump #TrumpIndictment
nostr:npub1v2sycpx32th4h4aude3jq4g0kgj0p2t5062059l0fx0vcn8njs8spcmqq5 the victors write the history, hence why American history is taught the way it is taught, rather than as being genocidal theft of land and resources.
The fact that the divide in America between left and right is such as it is, and centred around the issues which it is, at present, demonstrates - quite obviously - that history won't necessarily judge tyrants/fascists/whatevers harshly, because the victors write the history, and indoctrination is powerful
nostr:npub1sac955537xel5vs9a2r5knejhkq2l9vljj5agsgwa90pj20xf3xqhxapc0 Yes, good points, but my point is, history is not human. History is "the study of the human past as it is described in written documents left behind by humans," not something that makes judgments. ... it can''t judge. Only people can, based on that documentation/memory. The phrase annoys me.
The other point is that these morons don't care because they'll be dead once they're "history."
Via nostr:npub1fdvpst39k5h6xrd7p0gyndxtvjkux7hrevlw33mxt58g4fg75e0qu0m2hy:
New: #Giuliani's admissions that his smears of Ruby Freeman & Shaye Moss were false have too many "caveats and limitations," fed judge says.
She ORDERS him to clarify his "unsworn" statement with something more useful by Aug. 8.
That's only part of a lengthy & lacerating minute order about his "seemingly incongruous & certainly puzzling caveats" to his concessions. #legal
There is no underlying document, only a docket entry.
⚠️ #Cyberattack causes multiple hospitals to shut emergency rooms and divert ambulances
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/prospect-medical-cyberattack-california-pennsylvania-hospital/
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I do not care how history judges them.
I do care about how the present tortures them, and freely offer my services.
No one gives a shit about history judging them.
After all, Reagan is hailed as a hero. As are Bush, Cheney, and his spawn.
nostr:npub1ddpukxz4rkcadch7gu5hqre42lju5spyg2ph747yvgysathy4ulqye2tax Yes, that's def. one of my points.
The other is: History is not a person and cannot judge anything. I hate the phrase.
#RIP Clifton Oliver, acclaimed Broadway stage actor, dies at 47
Oliver starred as Simba in "The Lion King: on Broadway, and appeared in shows including "In The Heights" and "Wicked." https://thegrio.com/2023/08/04/clifton-oliver-acclaimed-broadway-stage-actor-dies-at-47/
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Via Mehdi Hasan:
To be clear, #Trump doesn’t want to be tried in a Black city by a Black jury and a Black judge for a crime allegedly committed in that Black city to try and deprive Black residents of other Black cities (Atlanta, Detroit, Philadelphia) from having their votes counted. That’s it.
Via nostr:npub17qms0ez6rmzpmtvcs8qp4vmneqs90nz5h3wc4sjxje7agua7qnfqvwpur3:
Trump: "It was also very sad driving through DC and seeing the filth and the decay and all of the broken buildings ... this is not the place that I left." (WTF is he talking about?)
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Post-polio syndrome? He should be getting care for that.
nostr:npub1asa7zhxq92arr7z3dqywvsh0ur24a9k6qmkg2zcthe0wshyu9pvsren9sr Who says he isn't?
"A GOP senator, quoted anonymously, told Vanity Fair, "The pain from #MitchMcConnell's polio leaves him totally paralyzed sometimes, like unable to walk or move or even speak because it hurts so bad…. The pain that used to be confined to his leg causes, like, a spasm up his spine that takes over his entire body." https://www.rawstory.com/mcconnells-health-fuel-talk-of-possible-replacement-as-gop-senator-notes-hes-totally-paralyzed-sometimes-2662755702/
#RIP Mark Margolis, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Better Call Saul' actor, dead at 83 - CNN
Thank you!
#Biden expected to create new Grand Canyon national monument to block mining, sources say
The Arizona monument would be aimed at safeguarding areas near Grand Canyon National Park that local tribes want to protect from #uranium extraction. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/04/arizona-national-monument-uranium-mining/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
"History will judge them harshly."
Do you really think that matters to them? They'll be long gone when History--which can't judge anything, it can only be recorded and people learn/remember what took place--"judges" them.
And it'll be too late by then anyway. And they don't care. At all.
Can we maybe choose a different phrase? Like, say, "These vile fascists are total assholes who are destroying democracy and need to be stopped STAT"? How's that?
You're welcome. #ImPissed
The Kremlin's most prominent critic, Alexei #Navalny, has been jailed for 19 additional years #Russia
⚠️🥵World's oceans set new surface temperature record of 20.96 °C : EU monitor #ClimateCrisis