Under persistent questioning from Judge Cannon, prosecutors declined to divulge details & seemed caught off-guard by the inquiries. At one point, Smith dpy James Pearce said he was “not authorized” to discuss the level of communication.
Will Justice Roberts lift a finger to defend the Court’s legitimacy? How can you revere a democratic institution while taking no steps to protect it against corruption and ideological capture?
@xankarn
CAN I POINT OUT that this #RightWing extremist ideological shift in the Court is a perfect example of that happens when #Conservatives have an unchecked majority?
When #Democrats (briefly) had a "SuperMajority" (for 23 working days) in 2009, what did they do with it? They made sure everyone had access to affordable #healthcare.
What do Conservatives do? They abolish #Roe, repeal The #VotingRightsAct, codify discrimination against #gay & #trans individuals, and ban #books. 🤬
This wasn’t #Trump’s first appearance at the #Church; he also held a rally there w/ #TurningPointUSA in 2020.…it’s an ideal venue: A weekly attendance of around 21k believers makes this one of the largest churches not just in AZ but in the nation.
Dream City…is a mecca for special guests who blur the line between #religion & #politics.
The measure in #Louisiana requires that the #TenCommandments be displayed in each #classroom of every #public elementary, middle & high #school, as well as public college classrooms. The posters must be no smaller than 11 by 14 inches & the commandments must be “the central focus of the poster” & “in a large, easily readable font.”
The #legislation is part of a broader campaign by #conservative#Christian groups to amplify public expressions of faith, & provoke lawsuits that could reach #SCOTUS, where they expect a friendlier reception than in years past. That presumption is rooted in recent rulings, particularly one in 2022 in which the court sided w/a HS football coach who argued that he had a constitutional right to pray at the 50-yard line after his team’s games.
It will also include a 3-paragraph statement asserting that the #TenCommandments were a “prominent part of American #PublicEducation for almost three centuries.”
That reflects the contention by supporters that the Ten Commandments are not purely a #religious text but also a #historical document, arguing that the instructions handed down by God to Moses in the Book of Exodus are a major influence on #UnitedStates#law.
Having dissolved his #WarCabinet, PM #Netanyahu of #Israel will rely on an informal group of his closest advisers in making decisions about the #Gaza war.
Netanyahu created the war cabinet, a 5-person body, after the #Hamas attacks Oct7.
2 fmr military chiefs of staff, #BennyGantz & #GadiEisenkot, of the #centrist opposition to the #RightWing govt, joined, giving it an air of consensus & credibility.
@GottaLaff And in #Finland. Yesterday a previously convicted #nazi stabbed a immigrant looking 12 yo child and tried to stab other kids too. The stabbed child is alive but in critical condition. Our #fascist party's chairman and minister of finance tweeted that the #terrorist stabber was immigrant gang member again. She lied only to spread #racism and hate. It's all the party is about. And our previously moderate #rightwing party is ok with this and that we have literal #nazis in our government.
…the #judiciary is an equal branch of #government & congressional #Democrats have limited opportunities to enact concrete changes.…
#Republicans, who control the #House, oppose legislation to tighten ethical guidelines for the justices & have portrayed overhaul as a political effort to damage the legitimacy of a #conservative#SCOTUS that has delivered them major victories on #abortion & other issues [+ they worked decades to install this court].
“The importance of confirming judges is no excuse for his failure to exercise his committee’s #oversight authority to investigate the most serious #ethics & #corruption scandals in #SupremeCourt history, especially when the few judges #Durbin hopes to confirm before November would inevitably see their rulings shredded by the Court’s captured #RightWing#supermajority in service to its #billionaire backers,” Aronson said.
"…you can see at the 4 sec mark, 8/10 world leaders, incl Biden are looking towards the man on the right packing the parachute…Biden began saying something to him as the others had their attn shifted in the other direction….Once again, focusing on an edited 30-sec clip doesn't tell a full story. Stop being disingenuous,” Brian Krassenstein wrote.
#RNC’s #SocialMedia regularly churns out misleading clips of President #Biden intended to show that he is too old
NY Post headline <2hrs later:“What is Biden doing?”
NY Post front pg June 14:“Meander in Chief: Biden embarrasses US w/confused wanderings at world conference”
This past week, the #RNC feed has misleadingly called attention to 2 video clips of #Biden. One was so distorted that it resulted in a “community note” on the X platform calling out its dishonesty. But the RNC’s dismal track record has not stopped right-leaning outfits from echoing the RNC’s framing & reinforcing its narrative that Biden has lost a step.
An X community note was added to the video clip, saying: “Biden didn’t ‘wander off’. After viewing a skydiving demo with the other G-7 leaders, #Biden stepped aside to speak with one of the other skydivers who is kneeling on the ground packing away his chute. The video in the above post has been digitally altered to remove the skydiver.”
A few hours later, for undisclosed reasons, the X ‘community note’ was changed to simply say “the video was cropped,” w/a link to a 14-minute clip on the YouTube channel of #SinclairBroadcasting, another #conservative outlet. The new note does little to combat the framing of the post: “President Biden appeared to wander off at the G-7 summit in Italy, with officials needing to pull him back to focus.”
#LocalNews channels across the country used a nearly identical script to push coverage of a controversial @WSJ article questioning President Joe #Biden’s mental fitness.
Here is the supercut by #PopularInformation@juddlegum] in 2 parts. It gets old fast, remarkably it’s a full 6 minutes of #LocalNews anchors across the country saying the same thing.
#Alito’s ‘Godliness’ Comment Echoes a Broader #Christian Movement
Justice Samuel Alito’s secretly recorded remarks come as many #conservatives have openly embraced the view that American #democracy must be grounded in a Christian worldview.
They are #RightWing Catholics & #evangelicals who oppose #abortion, #SameSexMarriage, #transgender rights & what they see as the dominance of liberal views in school curriculums. And they’ve become a crucial segment of #Trump’s political coalition, intermingled w/the #MAGA movement that boosted him to the WH & that hopes to do so once again in Nov.
Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing at #Normandy, #France, where ~160k #Allied troops pulled off the largest invasion by sea in history. From that point on #America was in charge of #AlliedForces & it was the beginning of the end of #WWII
Donald #Trump had no idea about the #historical significance of the term "#AmericaFirst" when he first started saying it, believing erroneously that he'd thought up the slogan himself even though he'd no doubt heard it somewhere during his 77 yrs. Before the US entered the war the #AmericaFirstCommittee was the name of the #RightWing#isolationist movement & many of its members also happened to be just a little bit taken w/that #strongman fella from Germany.
#DonaldTrump knew EXACTLY what the historical significance of the term "#AmericaFirst" was the moment he started saying it, knowing FULL WELL the #AmericaFirstCommittee was the name of the #RightWing#isolationist movement. He is one of those that happen to be more than just a little bit taken w/ that #strongman fella from Germany.