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N.C., USA. Management consultant, but not the crappy kind. Old, sweary, and stabby when provoked. #Antiracist; #Antifa; #Resist; trying to be a good LGBTQ and BLM ally. Interests: #journalism #media #maps #dataviz #astronomy #management #leadership #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #uspol #ncpol #cats #mastocats #kittens #CatsOfMastodon.

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Nonilex , to random
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In a , secret recording, the justice suggests partisan funding is to blame for coverage of justices’ undisclosed luxury

In a new recording, Justice Samuel lashes out at the news organization , describing the news organization’s Prize-winning coverage of the as driven by animus, insisting: “They don’t like our decisions.”


https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/samuel-alito-supreme-court-recording-propublica-windsor-1235037796/

panamared27401 ,
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@Nonilex Malignant narcissists always play the victim.

GottaLaff , to random
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Unbelievable.

Via Rupar:

46 House Republicans voted to defund NATO two days before the 80th anniversary of D-Day

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Fuck me, but Republicans are incredibly stupid, incredible tools, agents of a hostile foreign government, or some combination of the above.

rbreich , to random
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Why are multimillionaires and billionaires like Peter Thiel, Rupert Murdoch, Travis Kalanick, Steven Mnuchin, and others are rallying behind Trump?

Yes, the tax cuts. But there's more.

The more Trump tears down democracy, the safer the oligarchy becomes.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich There's more to it than that. Thiel has said that freedom (as he understands it) is incompatible with democracy.

Nonilex , to random
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8 senators announced Fri they would boycott priorities & nominations as payback for ’s .
In a joint statement, the senators said they would not “allow any increase to non-security related funding for this administration, or any appropriations bill which funds partisan lawfare.”

panamared27401 ,
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@Nonilex So the Republicans will once again be keeping the government's business from being done. Go ahead, jackasses, because that's SO popular with voters.

futurebird , to random
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The verdict may not matter to Trump's base, but I do think there is a group of people it matters to who are being overlooked: the people who were already likely to vote for Biden.

A Trump acquittal would have sapped trust in legal systems and government further. It would fueled apathy. Hopelessness and apathy can reelect Trump.

panamared27401 ,
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@futurebird I think there's definitely something to that. I lost track of how many social media posts I saw last night that were variations on the theme of, "Holy shit, the system worked!"

molly0xfff , to random
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i may have picked a bad time to hit "publish" on that newsletter 😬

panamared27401 ,
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@molly0xfff Only if it contained good news. If it contained bad news, it was a perfect time.

GottaLaff , (edited ) to random
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#BREAKING 💥🔥 #WOMPWOMP #WOMPAGE

TO REPEAT, #TrumpTrial

#TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL COUNTS!!!!!!!!

panamared27401 ,
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@rabbijill Fuck Fox News sideways with a rusty, red-hot, shit-dipped pitchfork. @GottaLaff

panamared27401 , to random
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If you've got bad news you need to bury, hit send on that news release NOW.

panamared27401 OP ,
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@Npars01 I'm well aware of that.

panamared27401 OP ,
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@Npars01 Fair enough.

Nonilex , to random
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#TrumpTrial Thurs 30 May 2024 🧵#Deliberations continue

Justice #Merchan says he believes that the #jury wants him to repeat a significant portion of the #JuryInstructions.

He will read pages 6-35.

Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.

Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.

#criminal #law #Trump

panamared27401 ,
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@CharJTF @Nonilex @GottaLaff Hear, hear!

panamared27401 ,
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@Nonilex You and about 81 million Americans.

panamared27401 ,
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@Nonilex Same. This verdict says so much good about our justice system that I was afraid might not be said.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Same. I almost wish I were still on Twitter because I'm sure Legal Twitter is going nuts hilariously, but only almost. What a relief. @CharJTF @Nonilex

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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#TomCotton #Arkansas #NeverTomCotton #NoRepublicansEverAgain

Trump’s Apparent VP Contender Proudly Flies Jan. 6-Linked Flag https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-apparent-vp-contender-tom-cotton-proudly-flies-jan-6-linked-flag

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@DemocracyMattersALot Cotton is a traitor and should be indicted on Jan. 6-related charges.

DemocracyMattersALot , to random
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#GOP #DomesticTerrorism #GOPTerrorism #NoRepublicansEverAgain

Arizona secretary of state calls threats against US elections officials ‘domestic terrorism’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/24/arizona-adam-fontes-election-official-threats

panamared27401 ,
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@DemocracyMattersALot And he was right.

GottaLaff , to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ “During a marathon day of proceedings in the Mar-a-Lago classified case, a morning hearing in front of Judge Aileen devolved into a shouting match amongst the attorneys, and the afternoon series of arguments prompted the judge to wonder if the legal nuances of the case may be too difficult for jurors to understand” https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/22/politics/trump-documents-case-judge-cannon-hearing?cid=ios_app

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Translation: doesn't understand them.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Oh, I think she could be both evil AND stupid. 😉

rbreich , to random
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When Trump openly and repeatedly exclaims that migrants are “poisoning the blood of our country,” or shares a video calling for a “unified Reich,” he is literally echoing the language of Hitler.

Trump is not a “populist.” He’s not a “strongman.” He is a fascist.

Use the word.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich Call him a Nazi, Robert. Call all the MAGAts Nazis. Don't even call them neo-Nazis. There's nothing neo about them.

panamared27401 , to random
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14 African American district attorneys got elected in Georgia, and all of a sudden the (GOP-controlled) legislature thinks it needs to set up a committee to oversee district attorneys. #Maddow

GottaLaff , to random
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Biden slams 'outrageous' ICC warrant for arrest of Israeli leaders - AFP

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Oh, for fuck's sake. War crimes are war crimes. Crimes against humanity are crimes against humanity. As an American who supports Israel, I am beyond fucking tired of the attitude that American and Israeli leaders can do no wrong and should not be held to the same standards as everyone else.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff I'm gonna vote for him no matter what, but he's engaging as dishonestly with the subject as any Republican would. Netanyahu != Israel, and a good leader would find a way to make that clear. Republicans are going to criticize him no matter what he does, so he may as well do the right thing.

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We’re letting Trump distract us from his corrupt, anti-climate agenda

Donald Trump sat down with oil executives and told them that if he wins, he’ll scrap a slew of President Biden’s clean energy and other environmental regulations they don’t like
— as long as they raise $1 billion for him.

The response? Crickets.

Trump’s pay-for-play move was frequently described as
⭐️ “transactional.” The right word is
🔥“corrupt.”

Last weekend, at a rally in Wildwood, N.J., he pledged to halt offshore wind farms.
All of them.
Right away.
“We are going to make sure that that ends on day one,” Trump said.
“I’m going to write it out in an executive order.”

It was consistent with a remarkable statement he was reported to have made to the energy execs:
👉 “I hate wind.”

No investigative reporting is required to see what Trump would do.

His campaign website goes on and on about how he would “stop all Joe Biden policies that distort energy markets,” describing the president’s approach as “industry-killing, jobs-killing, pro-China and anti-American.”
👉The right’s propensity to deny climate change runs so deep that in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis and his fellow Republicans in the legislature have written their denial into law.

Last week, as Anna Phillips reported in The Post, DeSantis signed a bill that removes most references to climate change in state laws and, for good measure, bans offshore wind turbines in state waters and weakens natural gas pipeline regulation.

🌟There could hardly be a clearer contrast between Trump and Biden, or their parties.
You might think that the environment, and climate in particular, would be playing a large role in the 2024 debate. 🌟

Yet for all the good work reporters are doing on these issues, there is a strange, substantive vacuum in this campaign.

Citizens are getting plenty of information concerning Trump’s latest polling numbers and, yes, lots of news on his hush money trial.

About what he’d do if he wins again: not so much.
There’s a raging argument over whether journalists have a special obligation to defend democracy against Trump’s threat to it.

For the record, I think they do.

🫵But that debate understates the challenge Trump presents to political coverage of all kinds.
🔸By violating so many norms simultaneously while throwing out so much chaff in any given week, he dodges accountability.

🔸He is the only public figure in memory who dodges one scandal by getting enmeshed in a new one.

🔥Before the first scandal sinks in, the second sucks up all the oxygen, and then along comes a third. 🔥His $1 billion ask of super-rich oil guys was barely a blip.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/05/19/trump-climate-change-wind-energy-corrupt/

panamared27401 ,
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@cdarwin The problem is that SCOTUS, along with the many other gifts it has given us over the years, has made it almost impossible to convict someone for public corruption. Just Security had an article about this in April: https://www.justsecurity.org/94515/supreme-court-public-corruption-ethics/

futurebird , to random
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I don't know how my ancestors survived.

apex predator who could easily subdue and eat me in a tree

my brain: Kitty Cat! Little kitty cat! Let me hug it!

panamared27401 ,
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@futurebird Same.

luckytran , to random
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The US government is ending the program that provides free COVID vaccines to people who are uninsured and underinsured.

This is a public health failure that will further decrease already low vax rates, and puts marginalized communities at greater risk.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/4670459-cdc-ending-free-covid-vaccines-uninsured/

panamared27401 ,
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@luckytran Apparently it's not just the Republicans who want us dead.

GottaLaff , to random
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Via Kyle Griffin:

New: Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin is calling on Alito to recuse himself from all cases involving the 2020 election.

"The Court is in an ethical crisis of its own making, and Justice Alito and the rest of the Court should be doing everything in their power to regain public trust."

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Hey, Dick, Alito is going to ignore you. How about you hold some hearings and drag Alito and Thomas in and grill them?

MikeDunnAuthor , to random
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Today in LGBTQ History, May 17 is International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia (IDAHOBIT). This date was chosen to commemorate the 1990 decision to remove homosexuality from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO). In 2009, the WHO added transphobia to the name of the campaign, and organized activities that year to highlight and end. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness of violence, discrimination, and repression of LGBT communities throughout the world.

panamared27401 ,
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@MikeDunnAuthor I did not know this was a thing. Excellent!

rbreich , to random
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S&P 500 companies bought back $181B of their shares in Q1 to pump up their value.

Buybacks are projected to reach $925B this year.

In 2025, they’re estimated to hit over $1 TRILLION.

Why is this driving inequality?

It's simple: the top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich Stock buybacks should be illegal. I believe they once were.

luckytran , to random
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Republicans are trying to take away and criminalize the right to make decisions around our own health, whether that’s the right to wear a mask or the right to have an abortion. Unacceptable.

https://www.wral.com/amp/21433199/

panamared27401 ,
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@luckytran The purpose of the legislation is to prevent (constitutionally protected) public protests and prevent any future mask mandates. Sieg Heil.

futurebird , to random
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I know that people say it's unethical but I think it's good to let a cat use her instincts for mousing.

(She is such a little obstruction. Will NOT let anyone do ANYTHING but pet her, please help us she is a tyrant!!)

panamared27401 ,
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@futurebird Unethical to let a cat catch a mouse? In what universe? (EATING them, on the other hand, is a no-no. Kirby usually regurgitates his, half-eaten, given the chance. Take the mouse from kitty and toss it outside instead.)

GottaLaff , to random
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CNN hosts Jake Tapper and Dana Bash will moderate the first 2024 presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump next month, the network announced today.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Will they cut Trump's mic when he interrupts?

GottaLaff , to random
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Agree.

My take: This is not a debate, it's spectacle.

Via Jennifer Mercieca:

I mean, #Biden can debate him if he wants to, but authoritarians like #Trump don’t debate. Trump will be there for one reason: to humiliate Biden.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff As the old saying goes, it'll be like playing chess with a monkey. The monkey will knock all the pieces of the table, shit on the board, and then walk around acting like he won.

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@GottaLaff 😙

oatmeal , to israel group
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Israel's attempt to criminalize discussing the #Nakba, the displacement of Palestinians during its establishment in 1948, is deeply concerning. Labeling such discourse as incitement or support for terrorism poses a grave threat to acknowledging historical truths. For lasting peace in the region, there must be an open reckoning with the tragic events surrounding Israel's birth – events that by design led to the dispossession and suffering of the Palestinian people. This was not mere accident, but an ongoing mission that today’s neo-Zionist ideologues have molded into a [quasi-]religious crusade.

The path to reconciliation demands bringing these realities to light, especially among Israelis. Suppressing discussion of the 1948 violence and its enduring impacts will only entrench the injustices and prolong the conflict. True and lasting peace requires earnest dialogue, historical accounting, and a mutual understanding of the disproportionate losses borne by Palestinians. Silencing these narratives through criminalization is antithetical to the justice and healing that both peoples deserve.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-15/ty-article/.premium/israels-education-ministry-calls-in-teacher-after-being-photographed-at-nakba-march/0000018f-7bc4-d808-a9bf-fbd792050000 or https://archive.is/kSWpQ

@palestine
@histodons
@israel
@academicchatter

Image: https://todon.eu/@RadicalGraffiti/112445150829810026

panamared27401 ,
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@oatmeal Israel's U.S. defenders say we must stand up for Israel at all costs because it is the Middle East's only true democracy. Problem is, it is fucking well not acting like one. @palestine @histodons @israel @academicchatter

futurebird , to random
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Someone said it's important say this publicly in the US: so I will. (And I think each of us should, online and to friends)

This November I will vote for Biden.

I would regard not voting for Biden, particularly in: PA, OH, MI, WI, IN, IL,VA, GA, FL, AZ, ME, NC, NH, etc. as a huge error. I'd be disappointed to find out anyone I knew didn't vote. It's one of a long list of things we need to do. We can't skip it.

And still? We deserve better choices, and in the future we shall have them.

panamared27401 ,
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@futurebird Preach. N.C. voter here. I will be voting for Biden and working to get Democrats elected all the way down the ballot.

rbreich , to random
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Trump asked Big Oil execs to give him $1 billion for his campaign.

He promised lower taxes and a rollback of Biden's climate regulations and clean energy programs in return.

Trump is literally willing to take bribes in exchange for the destruction of the planet.

Be warned.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich I'm glad you're using the "L" word. I noticed that neither the Times nor the Post could be bothered.

rbreich , to random
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Ron DeSantis signed a law that prevents municipalities in Florida from requiring that employers provide shade and water breaks for outdoor workers.

A study found that heat-related deaths in FL shot up by 88% between 2019 and 2022.

Folks, this is the GOP's vision for America.

panamared27401 ,
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@rbreich #RepublicansWantYouDead

GottaLaff , to random
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

panamared27401 ,
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@arisummerland No one. The judge is a Trump appointee and a huge Trump fan. She looks in the mirror and sees a Supreme Court justice thanks to him. @GottaLaff

GottaLaff , to random
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🤦🏻‍♀️Marjorie Taylor Greene says she's moving ahead with effort to oust Speaker Johnson

Her plan seems doomed to fail as Democrats said they would help save Johnson.

https://trib.al/69nPMbV

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff If the House could hold an anonymous vote on this, I wonder how close to the required two-thirds majority they'd get to expelling MTG from the House.

panamared27401 , to random
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Lawyers for Hunter Biden plan to sue Fox News 'imminently, according to a letter sent to the network and obtained by NBC News. -- MSNBC https://breaking.iavian.net/article/363041

panamared27401 OP ,
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@zachvat I'm sure some billionaire would set up Fox's successor inside of three months, but it would still be a helluvan object lesson.

GottaLaff , to random
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NOTE: I have stuff to do today. My live posting will be limited. So will my replies/reading your replies.

THREAD: 🧵 1/…

Klasfeld:

Now

Trump enters the courtroom and is seated at the defense table.

Photojournalists go close up in front of him, as usual, to take their photos.

"All rise."

Justice Merchan takes the bench and invites Trump's lawyer Emil Bove to put their email exchange from Wednesday on the record.

It's an evidentiary issue.

panamared27401 ,
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@GottaLaff Thank you for whatever you're able to do today, Laffy. It's a busy day in court and in life.

Teri_Kanefield , to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

1/

In the Trump case, prosecutors have often been vague about what, exactly, is the underlying crime that was allegedly being concealed or furthered in the hush money case. But on Tuesday, prosecutor Joshua Steinglass said the statute in question is New York State Election law 17-152 — conspiracy to promote or prevent an election. That law makes it a misdemeanor when “any two or more persons who conspire to promote or prevent the election of any person to a public office by unlawful means.” Steinglass said the entire prosecution theory “is predicated on the idea that there was a conspiracy to influence the election in 2016.”

3. PROSECUTORS REVEALED MORE ABOUT THEIR UNUSUAL STRATEGY Prosecutors are employing an unusual legal strategy in this case: They are attempting to tie the alleged doctoring of financial records to the more salacious election-related conspiracy for which Trump is not facing charges. Under state law, charging Trump with simply falsifying business records would be a misdemeanor, but alleging that the falsification was done to conceal or further another crime makes it a felony. (Trump faces 34 felony charges in the case.)
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    panamared27401 ,
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    @Teri_Kanefield I have no idea how the trial will turn out, either, for the same reasons plus I'm working so all I can do is read about each day's testimony after the fact. BUT: The prosecution's theory laid out in your two screenshots sounds ... plausible?

    panamared27401 ,
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    @futurebird Not to my knowledge, and I would imagine prosecutors were not eager to pursue that because it raises a tough legal question: How is what Pecker did different from what Fox News does? @Teri_Kanefield

    GottaLaff , to random
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    1/…🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal

    Let’s start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern #GagOrders. I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:

    https://mastodon.online/@darthstar/112320741962522803

    panamared27401 ,
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    @GottaLaff Thank you so much for your work this morning, Laffy!

    panamared27401 , to random
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    "America's Plastic Makers" are running an ad that says, "Imagine a future" in which plastic is reused. In other words, they've been lying to us for the past 80-odd years.

    panamared27401 OP ,
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    @Pineywoozle Plastic makers, which is to say, oil companies, have lied as much about the health/environmental damages of their product as have cigarette makers. The cigarette makers have been kinda sorta held accountable for their fraud on the public. It needs to happen for the oil industry as well.

    GottaLaff , to random
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    1/…🧵 #TrumpTrial #Trump #legal

    Via Klasfeld:

    Expected first:

    The judge may issue his Sandoval rulings, determining what prior bad acts prosecutors can confront Trump with if he testifies.

    A key question: "What's fair game?"

    panamared27401 ,
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    @GottaLaff Thank you very much, Laffy. On days when real life intrudes, it's good to know that you've got my back, summary-wise. 🙂 @CharJTF

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