"Today, Donald Trump issued what can only be construed as a shot across the bow, after the Magistrate Judge Moxila Upadhyaya admonished him during arraignment yesterday that he must not commit any new crimes while on a pre-trial bond—the thing that’s keeping him out of jail before trial—and that efforts to influence or intimidate witnesses, jurors or others involved in the case were illegal."
~ Joyce Vance
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection
"Prosecutors from the office of Special Counsel Jack Smith tonight alerted the court to Trump’s threat when they asked the court for a protective order to stop him from publishing information about the materials they are about to deliver to his lawyers. They expressed concern that publishing personal information 'could have a harmful chilling effect on witnesses' or taint the jury pool by telling potential jurors too much before the trial."
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder ##insurrection #BigLie
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"After yesterday’s arraignment on charges that he conspired to defraud the United States, conspired and attempted to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspired to overturn Americans’ constitutionally protected right to vote, Donald Trump today flouted the judge’s warning not to try to influence jurors. He posted on social media: 'IF YOU GO AFTER ME, I’M COMING AFTER YOU!'”
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection
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>Helena Horton's opening sentence in this report is a model of how journalists should write about climate change, informing us not only of what's happening, but why it's happening
Not sure I agree that's what she has done?
Those are symptoms of our actions so they deserve some mention of course but if she'd said the ocean is heating from the deliberate policy choices of governments the majority elected (poor acess to public and alternate transport etc) and the everyday high emitting lifestyles of the worlds wealthiest 10% then I'd say yes, that's how journalists (not scinetiests) should write about it.
It's NOT being communicated that this destruction is wrought by deliberate policy choices and the actions of a small minority. To have any chance we have to leverage action againt them by how you vote to force them to stop destroying us all. The top 1% have double the emissions of the bottom 50%, that's who is causing this!
nostr:npub1fk2jyjkty3uqe9mz4seppedsvgzrsutztj0favz0u5gxrhlypehs4v5l0c As Helena Horton says clearly and succinctly to open and frame her report, “The surface temperature of the world’s oceans has hit its highest ever level as climate breakdown from burning fossil fuels causes the oceans to heat."
Would that all journalists reporting on global warming state clearly that “climate breakdown from burning fossil fuels causes the oceans to heat."
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 The (more) insane part is that he hasn't figured out that the Supreme Court doesn't want an authoritarian dictator because, oddly enough, then they would no longer be Supreme.
I can just (unfortunately) picture him in some Ebenezer Scrooge nightshirt, wandering the dark streets screaming, "MAGA! MAAAAAGAAAA!!!"
nostr:npub1ljl4q50p2hqu7dg2su3frhnwz058drqs8xga6n3h2zj4fnve2gyqjcd8c8 Very good points.
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This was one of the sweetest moments for me. Once Judge Chutkan takes the reins, I will need insulin shots.
nostr:npub1p0ycaundq55puyhhtqrpxgfrrqw8nfxzpuvxw68ffu95amfsxakq6yrz7w 😀 I'm buying in a supply of popcorn!
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They will probably understand too late that they have already lost this battle.
In Germany, they have already lost a lot.
People here do not want to and cannot accept what happened there with children without subsequent justice.
If they are not open...for many things...the people are the ones who should go the right way.
But with abuse of children is also the state to blame.
nostr:npub14yagc4k97qumnh8qmjr7pw3h33rw350sh2yc3cqw0wml3n5lpjesxcrz3r I suspect they count on reversing their loss. They have managed to ally with anti-LGBTQ forces in eastern Europe, and have exported homophobic hate abroad to Africa. Right now, they're funding anti-LGBTQ initiatives in Ireland, seeking to reverse the Irish support of same-sex marriage.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 The indictment specifically acknowledges that Trump was free to tell whatever lies he wanted about the election. That's not what he's charged with. He's charged with taking actions that are illegal and would still be illegal even if he never opened his mouth.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 with all the scrutiny of Americans at large, 5 attorneys as co-conspirators, this will be tricky for FPOTUS to overcome. Federal court is a serious place and he was warned already to leave witnesses and jurists alone. All throughout his presidency he harassed and threatened anyone who stood up to him, (a lot of courageous women).
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 "Dashtgard said that talking about “the gun access problem is too late” — and instead, more focus needs to be put on what is driving men to pick up guns and use them in violent ways."
This, fight right wing extremism, reach out to youths, and deal with the racism, stalking and domestic violence that often proceeds massacres.
I would like to know their methodology on how the people that were surveyed were found.
Because data is showing the fastest rises in gun ownership is among lgbt and racial minority people, and women. Guns being the purview of straight white guys is fading away.
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Geez, what a pathetic, feckless lot. Being a man means being a mensch. I bet they never tried that. Guns do not equal character, dummies
nostr:npub1p0ycaundq55puyhhtqrpxgfrrqw8nfxzpuvxw68ffu95amfsxakq6yrz7w I agree. And the folks who subscribe to these ideas would likely not even know what the word "mensch" means, sadly.
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The promotion of dogmatic “sky daddy” beliefs from so many people & organisations in the USA doesn’t exactly help to promote a population that values evidence based facts.
#atheist
#theist
nostr:npub1n2p2x95yptslsata5x4prnev729q6ccaqgwghja2h2kkw4anlt6qmcz9ad That might be said. Then there's the example, very timely, of Americans whose religious belief motivates them to take evidence-based facts very seriously and to act on behalf of progressive causes. Religion is cleary a multifaceted phenomenon with diverse applications.
As Regina Rodrigues, a professor of oceanography, states,
“When scientists say this is ‘shocking’—we knew this would happen, but the difference is that we thought it would be a little bit later, not so quick. But these extreme events are coming really hard, and really quick.”
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #oceans
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"It’s difficult to describe the insanity of what’s happening off the coast of Florida right now. A sensor in the Keys last week recorded water temperatures of more than 101 degrees—about the same as a hot tub—in what could be one of the highest ocean temperatures ever recorded;"
~ Molly Taft
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #oceans
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https://newrepublic.com/post/174818/boiling-oceans-will-life-land
"at this time of year, they should be in the 70s and 80s. Corals are bleaching and dying at previously unheard-of rates, thanks in part to the water’s steamy conditions.
And it’s not just Florida. Across the world this summer, heat waves are gripping the world’s oceans—and marine experts are sounding the alarm."
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #oceans
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"It’s difficult to describe the insanity of what’s happening off the coast of Florida right now. A sensor in the Keys last week recorded water temperatures of more than 101 degrees—about the same as a hot tub—in what could be one of the highest ocean temperatures ever recorded;"
~ Molly Taft
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #heat #oceans
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https://newrepublic.com/post/174818/boiling-oceans-will-life-land
Pasha Dashtgard, the director of research at PERIL and an expert on male supremacy and online radicalization, says that many white men are feeling unsure of how to articulate themselves as men in current society, and, as a result, younger white men are "turning to guns as an 'unimpeachable access to masculinity.'”
#guns #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #misogyny #youth
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"Young Americans who identify strongly with gun use and gun ownership often hold male supremacist beliefs and racial resentment."
~ Jennifer Gerson
#guns #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #misogyny
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https://19thnews.org/2023/08/young-americans-gun-culture-male-supremacy-research/
"The young people who are most closely associated with guns are more likely to be White people who have worse symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to new research conducted by Everytown for Gun Safety, American University’s Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) and the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)."
#guns #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #misogyny #youth
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"Young Americans who identify strongly with gun use and gun ownership often hold male supremacist beliefs and racial resentment."
~ Jennifer Gerson
#guns #MaleSupremacy #WhiteSupremacy #racism #misogyny
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https://19thnews.org/2023/08/young-americans-gun-culture-male-supremacy-research/
"Free media got Trump elected in 2016. Now the cable shows are doing it all over again. ...
The Trump Show is going to be enough of a circus in the coming months without all the cable channels and newspapers and websites erecting a big-top for Defendant Trump to perform under."
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #crime #criminal #RuleofLaw #media #MediaFail
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https://luciantruscott.substack.com/p/free-media-got-trump-elected-in-2016
"No more free media for the biggest skinflint who ever ran for president or any other office, for that matter. Report on the indictments, tell us what the charges are and what they mean, report on the trials whenever they happen, and make Defendant Trump pay for every other minute of time he gets on TV or anywhere else."
#Trump #crime #criminal #RuleofLaw #media #MediaFail
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