4/ “These are Hitler tactics and something has to be done,” Joan Meyer, who had worked in journalism since 1953 — those heady democracy days after World War II — told a reporter. She was too upset by the raid — which seemed a violation of existing law, not to mention First Amendment principles — to sleep or even eat. On Saturday afternoon, the nonagenarian Meyer — who’d been in good health — abruptly died, the latest casualty in a cold Civil War already ripping America apart."
3/ "5 members of the Marion Police Dept executed shocking raid on the newspaper’s office — seizing its computers, cell phones, notebooks, other reporting materials. The raiding officers even fanned out to the home of the Meyer family, which has owned the Record for decades. Co-owner Joan Meyer — age 98, mother to current publisher, Eric Meyer — was stunned, in tears as cops seized her computer and the router for her Alexa device, a lifeline, while sifting through her son’s banking records.."
The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer
They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.
If nostr:npub1muxuf2ky9slp7ghht6j8qjsenmf3mykp775ws3gc9juec2v2hersa6xcur wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵
2/ "The increasingly dire, near-death experience of American democracy has felt like the proverbial frog in boiling water, as the heat of a shockingly popular U.S. brand of authoritarianism gets turned up one degree at a time. But in 2023 the far right’s embrace of autocracy has finally reached full boil. And the splatters of this dangerous caldron are burning our fundamental moral values in unexpected ways and the most unlikely places."
The new U.S. majority isn't just young, tolerant and diverse. They vote. The right hates that, and it hates what it sees when it looks at something like U.S. women's soccer
They hate America AND democracy, and it's devolving toward violence.
If nostr:npub1muxuf2ky9slp7ghht6j8qjsenmf3mykp775ws3gc9juec2v2hersa6xcur wrote it, you should read it.© & I thread it. 1/...🧵
nostr:npub17a93lvl79m9crvwkkcglmgwqghdxzmkrllvyma7jdhl32k0th3fq4lmv9a LOVE! Oh, and mine too! Meet Hammy (Hamilton):
nostr:npub17a93lvl79m9crvwkkcglmgwqghdxzmkrllvyma7jdhl32k0th3fq4lmv9a I just melted. I'm now a puddle.
Please, sir, threaten to hang me again! I just can’t get enough of it!
Former VP Pious McKissAss, ladies and gents:
Via nostr:npub17qms0ez6rmzpmtvcs8qp4vmneqs90nz5h3wc4sjxje7agua7qnfqvwpur3:
CHUCK TODD: Do you consider yourself a MAGA Republican?
MIKE #PENCE: You better believe it.
Via Andrew Weismann:
Garland DOJ will not look into this….
Citizens for Ethics (CREW):
We're still waiting for an investigation into Ivanka Trump's business with China while working in the White House
👉🏼👉🏼“#Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in #Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of #Trump’s legal team to early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County #FaniWillis #legal
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump
2/ “They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation.”
👉🏼👉🏼“#Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in #Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of #Trump’s legal team to early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County #FaniWillis #legal
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump
UM…
😳Via Michael Beschloss:
Standing next to Trump at #Iowa State Fair, #Gaetz today says, “We know that only through force can we make any change in a corrupt town like Washington DC.”
Anyone have a reaction?
There was only one correct answer to this, and it's only one word: YES.
Via Acyn:
Question: Do you plan to comply with judge’s order…
#Trump: We’ll have to take a look at the order.
#TrumpIndictment #FlopsweatTrump
Child dies on way to Chicago as part of racist #Texas governor Greg #Abbott’s migrant busing program
👀Via Kyle Griffin:
A federal judge has temporarily blocked an #Idaho law requiring public school students to use the restroom corresponding to their assigned sex at birth, in a lawsuit brought by the family of a #transgender middle school student. #LGBTQ #legal
Toodles! 👋🏼 #ClusterFox
“#Fox Corp chief legal officer, Viet Dinh, is departing, the company announced on Friday, in a major shake-up at the company after the landmark $787.5 million settlement it paid to #Dominion Voting Systems in April. #legal
👀 "Pro-#Trump att'ys & a #Michigan lawmaker enlisted private investigator to collect 2020 voting machines that were later "manipulated" during testing in hotels, per newly disclosed allegations by a special prosecutor.
In court filing, special prosecutor alleged the group — sprearheaded by att'ys Matthew DePerno, Stefanie Lambert (Junttila) & then-state Rep. Daire Rendon – kept some of the illegally obtained election equipment for mos" #legal #Jan6 https://www.bridgemi.com/michigan-government/records-michigan-voting-machines-exchanged-mall-manipulated-hotels
Never fails.
Via Aaron Fritschner:
Half of the House Republican conference wrote to #MerrickGarland last year asking him to appoint a special counsel in the #HunterBiden case. Now that he's done it they are acting mad, including many who signed this letter
#Russia’s economy ended four quarters of contraction with a bigger growth spurt than forecast, putting it on track to return to its pre-war level as soon as next year as it adapts to the impact of international sanctions
And now, can I finally go jump in the shower? That was the longest thread in the history of long threads.
See you soon. I have read none of your replies yet. I’ll get to them later.
Meanwhile, via Politico:
BREAKING: Illinois Supreme Court upholds Illinois law banning the sale of assault rifles, high-capacity magazines and rapid-fire modifications.