“Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the breach was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily Republican Coffee County – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. 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.”

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Republicans

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"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 Donald Trump’s legal team to the early January 2021 voting system breach in Coffee County, sources tell CNN."

~ Zachary Cohen and Sara Murray

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Republicans

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https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump

“Trump appears to have given up on winning the cases against him on the legal merits and is instead trying to win by whipping up a political base to reelect him, or even to fight for him.”

~ Heather Cox Richardson

#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Republicans

https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/august-11-2023

"We talk a good deal about the Constitution, and almost everyone in political life claims to venerate it — but who reads it? You just have to get as far as the Fourteenth Amendment to see that Trump cannot be president...

[W]e cannot vote for oath-breaking insurrectionists such as Donald Trump. Such people are barred by the Constitution from running for president.

We can have the Constitution, or we can have Trump."

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #insurrection #Constitution

https://snyder.substack.com/p/we-can-have-the-constitution

Jimmy Carter's grandson Hugo Wentzel provides an update about his grandfather, who has, Hugo says, "been an amazing grandpa. He's an amazing person. I absolutely love him." Hugo states,

“At this point, we're just taking care of him, expressing love, as he gets older.”

#JimmyCarter #heroes

To think that the U.S. could be led by presidents like Jimmy Carter and then, down the road, the man now under multiple indictments with more to come. One of the two is heroic.

https://www.southernliving.com/jimmy-carter-grandson-hugo-wentzel-7629059

The school board member, Karen Lowery, is "on a crusade against supposed smut in school libraries" and has been reprimanded for her behavior by the school board president. Lowery has filed a criminal complaint alleging the high school is illegally harboring obscene books. She got herself elected to the board by campaigning against alleged smut in the school library. And she's convinced she's crusading against alleged evil in the library.

#BookBans #censorship #Texas

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As Michael Daly reports, in the Texas town of Granbury, it has come to this with folks determined to censor and ban books in school libraries: the assistant principal of the local high-school found two women, one a school board member, in the dark in the school library, which they entered at 8 A.M., switching off lights. They were using cell-phone lights to peer at books.

#BookBans #censorship #Texas

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/book-banning-fever-granbury-texas-school-trustee-karen-lowery-snuck-into-library

"And Israel’s national emergency medical and disaster service is for the first time segregating men and women during the academic part of paramedic training undertaken to fulfill a national service requirement, the Israeli news media reported last week. …

In a global gender gap report issued by the World Economic Forum in June that ranks 146 countries, Israel dropped to the 83rd place, from 60th place last year."

#Israel #Netanyahu #women #gender #discrimination #religion

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"Bus drivers in central Tel Aviv and southern Eilat have refused to pick up young women, because they were wearing crop tops or workout clothes. Last month, ultra-Orthodox men in the religious town of Bnei Brak stopped a public bus and blocked the road because a woman was driving."

#Israel #Netanyahu #women #gender #discrimination #religion

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Ultra-Orthodox members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right coalition want to expand the powers of all-male rabbinical courts, and to bar women and men from mixing in many public arenas. ...

The Israeli news media has been full of reports in recent months about incidents seen as discriminatory."

~ Roni Caryn Rabin

#Israel #Netanyahu #women #gender #discrimination

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https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/12/world/middleeast/israel-women-rights.html

nostr:npub1k9qecpkl6vwxjhtelyxhkuejfld0zey9d7tru0cljk9allusr55sk3j0yn Could well be.

nostr:npub19ecj9zpqxlpvd2e375mh6xdm6q6rv327ps74xycyasx0ghdpp2vspgfxlk Yes, that has definitely been my assessment of much of the media (as an outsider) in the UK. The one media outlet there on which I rely for good news coverage and commentary is The Guardian, which I read daily online. Otherwise, so much seems at the level of the National Enquirer, just as you say, or it's extreme right-wing rubbish, just as you say. This saddens me, since the British Isles have such stellar literary and journalistic traditions.

nostr:npub1satslgjc336dc7ykjq696flhm06juz736ssdlvxdgzm0elvjec8sce8vnx Nor I.

nostr:npub1rj4p6xvmu67qjh75zja2xyytpk365zl26f5jzcy3ypfzvfz3fh6qv7t2fy Thanks for educating me! I knew nothing about this. I appreciate knowing.

nostr:npub1fum8tqzk0mgxsjk35fqc3476ygm6yqphzjuzlhjgd80x0r2eq2kq02tws2 Thanks for this, too — I did post about it yesterday.

nostr:npub1pnmg5ywe4tkgfy2e22fyttwlscdhv7tdtf288hjwga3uq7e2vkgq5ny7gt Indeed. They have no option except to ratchet it up — and no checks against it.

nostr:npub1z02dyp4jwvk7aprcrwdzze9h0xphtkhld7k894zut2peq36x2tqsxlek0k So many people are vulnerable to disinformation and misinformation, and a lot of is directed to the elderly, who are by their very circumstances already vulnerable in many ways. I think of an elderly first cousin of my father, a retired first-grade teacher, who would shell out money when television preachers told her to do so, though she had meager resources, and who would believe anything those preachers told her. It appalled me, the influence they had over her.

nostr:npub1agua0nvwdckv9kv5uggc2am4du0jyuu5kdxcf7us7ja5g753qz5s39j0sk I suppose much depends on what's meant by "coup." Of course, they were not working the literal coup in the past. But from my perspective, they've long been engaged in a destruction of democracy that amounts to a coup of sorts.

nostr:npub1g4xg7dpd8uv5sukch6sump8vv9w9ac85r2rfgp625d5pwuxmzmpq99xug4 I agree.

nostr:npub18l6jhr7hj23j5mfxa9v8uza7q56ck0xqfy56zmw90r2u3jcg0kgqe6gmj2 Yes, I think Peter Wehner's commentary here is excellent. And shame on them, indeed.