#Trump: “he ruled against me before he knew anything about me, he ruled I was a fraud [knowing nothing] about me. He called me a fraud & he didn't know anything about me!" Trump’s voice rising.
"It's a terrible thing that you've done," Trump tells the judge.
"You believed that political hack back there,"
Trump says, pointing to NY AG Letitia James, who's sitting in the courtroom.
Given his repeated warnings earlier this morning, the judge has given remarkable latitude for all of this.
"djt told [the reporter] the 600 [number] so he will be happy if that gets printed."
#Trump conceded he was the "djt" his son referred to in the email.
(Lunch)
Trump posted this over the recess (pic)
Judge Engoron actually said (context above):
"I'm not here to hear what he has to say. He's here to answer questions" — Engoron was explaining Trump can’t just go off & expect them to allow it.
So, this was released today. My third stamp with Canada Post. Qarlinngua (The pants). And technically my second stamp with a family member in it, as the tiny figure in it is my son Travis. Now for one with Hilary in it.
I’ve very proud of all of these, beyond the cache. They are about my home, and family. And also my family has a long history with the Post Office, 101 years. My grandfather, father, and brother were all postmasters in Roblin. #Nunavut#Arctic#Stamps#philately#CanadaPost
I've always been a little uncomfortable with Black America's #Afrofuturism and its space age aesthetic, the way it reimagines Africa as this sci-fi landscape.
That's not us. What you're doing smacks of the kid who goes to school and claims his dad is an astronaut cos he's ashamed that he's really a plumber.
#Africa isn't perfect, but we're proud of who we are. If you care, you should be too.
(Please educate me if I've got it all wrong. I'm happy to learn.)
I think you have a point if the story is set in contemporary times in the world as it is. But if the story is set in the future then everything should be futuristic. And there is a long tradition of creepy all white cities of the future. See nothing wrong with a black one. If it's in the future.
There isn't enough ordinary modern Africa generally but that's just because there's so little Africa period.
It’s not about adopting an imperialist vision of the space age, but subverting that vision (which typically features a postracial imaginary of erasure) by writing and imagining from an African or Black diasporic positionality.
On European social media we often discuss American issues and talk to Americans on social media - but doesn't it make sense for us to talk more to Nigerians, South Africans and Kenyans, and about their news, because that's who's awake at the same time as us?
Let me know if you are from these time zones, in #Africa, and I will follow you.
In order to increase the diversity of Mastodon, it is essential to connect with accounts from the Global South and boost their content. Imagine a person from an African country joining Mastodon and not finding other people from their continent. This list is not very curated. Contains also some North African accs.
'There's a photo of #Prigozhin serving wine to George w. #Bush in the #Kremlin when he visited decades ago. And there's a photo of him at a meeting between President #Putin and various members of the #Russian military elite with representatives of #Libya , a country where #Wagner#mercenaries were believed to be active'
'Convicted in his youth for theft and robbery #Prigozhin spent 9 years in jail. So he easily clicked with the #prison crowd and once they joined his #mercenary group he could count on their loyalty. #Wagner fighters first appeared in #Ukraine in 2014. Not long after that, they were spotted in several locations in the Middle East too, which explains those pictures of Prigozhin with #Libyan officials. 4 ys ago Wagner backed renegade general Khalifa #Haftar 's attempt to take the capital, #Tripoli.
'French forces have left #Mali and the #Wagner#mercenaries are believed to have taken over some of their bases in the norther n regions. There has been an aggressive anti French anti UN forces campaign both in the Central African Republic #CAR and in Mali, Mali has called for the #expulsion of #UN#peacekeepers '
David Vitter is a lobbyist for Oleg Deripaska. Oleg Deripaska is part of the Voloshin clan. The Voloshin clan control American Ethane. Kyle Ruckert was David Vitter's chief of staff.
New video from @anderspuck about #Wagner forces in #Belarus & the chances they might attack #Poland & #HybridWar
And here I was half expecting a(nother) video from him about #Ukraine hitting the #Russia'n #Navy in the#BlackSea (again). Things are happening so fast #YouTube'rs can hardly keep up! 😄
I'd add that part of the issue here is that the aggressor state is never going to admit that they are waging an illegal war. They'll concoct some excuse, as Russia did here, and then act as if they have every right to start the war. So whether something is a target or not probably doesn't rely on how ethical the war is.
“My ex-husband wanted to go fight — he claimed it was his duty,” she said. “I said, ‘No, you have an 8-year-old daughter, and it’s a much more important duty to be a father to her.’”
“People are dying there in Ukraine for nothing,” she said.
He finally understood and stayed, she told me'
'a graphic from an opposition website illustrating the war’s toll showed that for every #Muscovite who dies in the war, 87.5 people die in #Dagestan, #Russia’s southernmost republic; 275 people in #Buryatia, and 350 people in #Tuva, the poorest region of Russia.
In contrast to all the recruitment billboards, whose images are almost exclusively of white ethnic Russians, a disproportionate number of those dying at the front come from Russia’s ethnic minorities, a pattern confirmed by Mediazona'
“Putin has been in power so long that children do not ask who the next president will be, they ask who the next #Putin will be,” he said. “That is not a good thing.”
'I asked who they were burying.
“Our grandson.”
How old was he?
“19”
What happened?
“ #Ukraine happened.”
The headstone read: Andrei Malykh, born May 4, 2003, died Oct. 31, 2022.
As I read it, their daughter approached, threatening to call the ubiquitous Federal Security Service, or #FSB , if the conversation continued.'
Tomorrow is the last day of Sun in town. (Technically another week but because of the topography we last see it Nov 5). Sun down all during this cabin trip. #Nunavut#Arctic#CabinLife
@bjb@Flux More than we used to, although it’s been cloudy a lot this year.
If you think about Aurora activity as being a big doughnut we were mostly in the hole when I got here. But as the north magnetic pole has migrated towards Russia it’s pulled the doughnut’s edge over us.
'Despite sanctions, the Kremlin’s war chest is still overflowing with cash, thanks to windfall energy profits last year and also to the adaptability of Russian commodities exporters, who have found new customers and who settle payments mostly in yuan' (cont.)
'Putin is banking on the fact that the Russian manpower that can potentially be mobilised is three to four times bigger than Ukraine’s, and the only pressing task is to be able to tap into that resource at will'
'Once an electronic draft notice is issued, Russia’s borders will be immediately closed to its recipient in order to prevent a massive exodus of military-age men like the one Russia witnessed last autumn.' (Cont.)
'The Kremlin hopes that the rapid rebuilding of the Russian army and gradual decimation of the Ukrainian economy and armed forces will result in growing western frustration and a decline in material support for Kyiv. To speed up this process and break the west’s will, Moscow is using threats of escalation, including expansion of the conflict towards Nato territory via Belarus with the help of Wagner mercenaries based there.' https://www.ft.com/content/861a8955-924e-4d3e-8c59-73a13403e191
@maelduin13@wombatDaiquiri Yeah are built with Soapbox / Mastodon but technically still Fediverse albeit its as if they are not on it. A fork can still be part of the Fediverse as many instance and different Fediverse platforms have varying degrees of shared code