nostr:npub1573ewn9fnjvffmq8u5k7cus3g9z22k7dzf3xlzcrm8a73eyqay4q9lkmev I find him interesting, because he's a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson who has fought his white cousins for a long time to make them recognize their cousins descended from Jefferson by Sally Hemings, something they have resisted mightily.
nostr:npub1p0ycaundq55puyhhtqrpxgfrrqw8nfxzpuvxw68ffu95amfsxakq6yrz7w Addicts is a good word for them, for sure.
"Lee wasn't just a pastor who happened to have a political affinity for Trump. He actively misused his authority as a minister to try to gain access to [Ruby] Freeman against her will -- and to dissuade police from intervening."
Lee drove to Georgia from Chicago and targeted election worker Ruby Lee, attempting to intimidate her, and is now facing charges for that reason.
#StephenLee #Lutheran #MissouriSynod #insurrection #Georgia #indictment
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"A Federal Judge in Georgia, Judge Sarah E. Geraghty, has blocked a gender affirming care ban in the state from taking effect. The bill responsible for the ban is SB140, a bill passed in March of this year."
~ Erin Reed
#Georgia #trans #gender
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https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-judge-blocks-trans-care-ban
"In hearing a challenge to the ban, the judge evaluated the constitutionality of the law as well as evidence for and against gender affirming care to make a final decision. In blocking the law via temporary injunction, the judge assigned low weight to the anti-trans experts and rebuked common talking points used to justify such bans."
#Georgia #trans #gender
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"A Federal Judge in Georgia, Judge Sarah E. Geraghty, has blocked a gender affirming care ban in the state from taking effect. The bill responsible for the ban is SB140, a bill passed in March of this year."
~ Erin Reed
#Georgia #trans #gender
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https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/federal-judge-blocks-trans-care-ban
Jill Filipovic says that as "pro-life" abortion bans force child rape victims into giving birth, "the 'pro-life' movement looks an awful lot like a pro-rape movement. …
By definition, these pregnant children are rape victims. By definition, their health and their lives are imperiled: Pregnancy is the leading killer of adolescent girls worldwide."
#abortion #rape #ProLife
https://jill.substack.com/p/abortion-bans-force-child-rape-victims
Commenting on the refusal of Alabama senator Tommy Tuberville to stop blocking military appointments — he has tripled or even quadrupled the appointments he's blocking, she says — Joyce Vance concludes,
"Republicans have already relinquished their claim to being pro-law enforcement. Now, it’s the military."
#Tuberville #Republicans #military #Alabama
nostr:npub1573ewn9fnjvffmq8u5k7cus3g9z22k7dzf3xlzcrm8a73eyqay4q9lkmev Absolutely. It has to be rotting his socks that he's under the authority of Judge Chutkan, and that it was a stellar Black female attorney in Georgia, Fani Willis, that indicted him and his co-conspirators.
But above and beyond that, the way that Green works in slurs against not only Hunter Biden but "Biden Inc," and insinuations about the Biden family profiteering from Biden's political career — evidence for this? — are disgusting. Especially when they constitute part of an article supposedly addressing the latest indictment against Trump.
#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #RICO #insurrection #conspiracy #Guardian
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"It’s about the central role that race is likely to play not in the federal case but in the state case, from the race of the prosecutor, to the focus on Black election worker Ruby Freeman, to the essential nature of the race-baiting bogus voter-fraud charges in Georgia that formed Trump’s basis for falsely claiming that he was the rightful winner."
#Trump #Republicans #crime #LawandOrder #BigLie #RICO #insurrection #conspiracy #race #racism #Georgia #FaniWillis
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nostr:npub179gttppqd74cxtsfw3qdp7f6lrmdala7ug45mg9wekfjnpal2jys2hc9ls I think her point is that, though they may proclaim thei r respectability, decent people see right through that false claim.
nostr:npub1lzz05275zkk6zwuzel45jusr74ftyyuah8zll8vl09k98w8smy7qedjhl3 I generally won't read daily kos because I dislike it with a passion, but that article was on point and savage.
nostr:npub1fanu7z8znh0rg86pcjh69w7tyg07r3d7g4xnvs40ssrvs9an75xs2guxnz I do like his commentary.
The Georgia indictment, however, is different. It involves real people with respectable lives who suffered serious harm. …
[T]his case exposes the Big Lie for what it is: a massive projection from Trump’s disturbed mind, which pathologically accuses everyone else of things that only he and his allies had the audacity to do."
~ Kimberly Wehle
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #Georgia #FaniWillis
https://plus.thebulwark.com/p/this-indictment-hits-different
And it implicates scads of people including large numbers of highly placed Republicans ….
And many beltway media types have long played the game of pretending that there are "good" and "bad" Republicans, and they themselves, or their friends who vote Republican, are the "good" types….
The mainstream media are one of the biggest reasons the U.S. is facing a serious possibility right now that a multiply indicted criminal will be elected president.
#Trump #crime #LawandOrder #MediaFail
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"Press coverage intended to fairly represent 'both sides' of an issue runs a high risk of failure when one side is dominated by bad-faith actors. In such cases, creating the impression of balance can lead to drawing false equivalences, elevating unserious positions, and minimizing serious crimes."
~ Joe Perticone
#Trump #crime #criminal #LawandOrder #BigLie #insurrection #MediaFail #BothSidesism
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https://presspass.thebulwark.com/p/reaction-to-hunter-biden-news-a-clinic
"The Georgia prosecution will interact with Jack Smith’s ongoing investigation in interesting ways. To explain how, I want to first show that the indictment is, fundamentally, about protecting the integrity of Georgia’s government and elections. To see that, it helps to read counts 2 through 41 before reading the RICO charge, which is laid out in 70 pages describing 161 overt acts, many of which took place outside of Georgia."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #RICO #Georgia
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/15/the-various-kinds-of-georgia-crimes-in-the-rico-indictment/
“Georgia on My Mind” — John Legend singing as votes were counted in the 2029 election.
#Georgia #Trumo #indictments