Sidebar: wouldn’t it be nice to have been born with the proverbial silver spoon in your mouth that allowed you to afford access to the freaking #Yale#ChiefExecutive leadership institute?
AG #MerrickGarland used an appearance on Capitol Hill on Tues to forcefully defend the #DOJ against “repeated attacks” from #Republicanlawmakers that have undermined investigations & put federal employees in #harm’s way.
#MerrickGarland’s testimony before the #House#Judiciary Cmte came as #GOP House leaders#threatened to hold him in #contempt in their efforts to gain access to audio recordings from special counsel #RobertHur’s investigation into President Biden’s handling of #classified materials. #Biden last month exerted executive #privilege …after Garland requested he do so over concerns releasing them could #harm future efforts to get ofcls to cooperate w/investigations & sit for taped interviews.
“It turns out that you can assault the criminal justice system and the rule of law, and call for defunding the police, as long as you are well dressed. Wear the right suit, and suddenly a phalanx of microphones appears. The cops are there to protect your criticism, not pepper-spray you.”
“The Brooks Brothers riot showed that occupying a building, threatening and even assaulting public officials could work wonderfully with the right gear. …
Radical messaging designed to reinforce social hierarchies, and protect the criminal acts of the politically powerful turns out to be more palatable than, you know, complaining about inequality or the deaths of civilians.”
"As Trump prepares to begin his first criminal trial on Monday in New York, the tolerance of his tirades is perhaps the most glaring sign of the judicial system’s Trump exceptionalism. But it’s far from the only example. Over the past year, in ways large and small, in criminal cases and civil ones, Trump has consistently been given more freedom and more privileges than virtually any other defendant in his shoes."
#Trump has 10 days to obtain the new smaller bond of $175M, & 2 people w/knowledge of his finances said he should be able to secure it by then.
Until the #court accepted the smaller #bond on Mon, Trump was on the hook to obtain a bond for the full amount, in order to avoid paying #NYAG James’s office the >$454M while he appeals.
To obtain a bond of such size, Trump would have needed to pledge a significant amt of collateral to the bond co — ~$557M, his attys said….
Amelia Mavis Christnot explains how men like Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh, and Brock Turner are made — and why they're allowed for so long by so many people to evade responsibility for their actions.
Heterosexual white male entitlement combined with overweening privilege due to wealth and social status: a formula for imagining that the world is there for your taking — as well as the women you assault.
Any "leftist" who tells you not to #vote isn't your fucking friend, and if they call you "privileged" or a "bootlicker" whatever bullshit, tell them to fuck off and gamble with the lives of minorities somewhere else.
I don't give a shit about your theoretical #revolution if you can't even be bothered to do basic fucking #harmreduction
One side things I'm a disgusting abomination, and if you tell me voting against them makes me a privileged bootlicker, you need to pull you head out of your ass and maybe think for one fucking second about the rights of others. #voting#elections#privilege#democracy
Where #ClarenceThomas Entered an Elite Circle & Opened a Door to the Court
The exclusive #HoratioAlgerAssociation brought the justice access to wealthy members & unreported V.I.P. treatment. He, in turn, offered another kind of #access.
Read #QuinnNorton about #whiteness:
"The great thing about the divide-and-conquer of creating white-skin #privilege is that you don’t have to give people thusly bought off anything more, and American power structures didn’t. In places with black #slavery, the whites suffered terribly.
"There is a simple truth to American history for the majority of people who have ever been American: the worse the black experience, the worse everyone else’s experience, including whites. Driving down (or eliminating) black #wages, while always agreeable to whites, drove white pay lower than their European counterparts for most of our history."