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If the bribe you’re soliciting is $1,000 in a paper bag, the FBI will arrest you. If it’s $1 billion in dark money, does that make it legal?

https://wapo.st/3UBf4Fy

JamesGleick, to random
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Sixty-year-old married man has his assistant ask a 27-year-old woman to his suite for dinner.

He greets her in his pajamas. She makes him put clothes on.

When she uses the bathroom, he surprises her in his underwear.

He tries to seduce her by saying she reminds him of his DAUGHTER.

Republicans! Party of “family values”! Here is your leader.

mastodonmigration, to random
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For those losing their heads over today's actions by Judge Cannon, take a deep breath. This was always going to happen. The writing has been on the wall since Judge Cannon was drawn for the case. Getting all worked up about it is only going to make you crazy and desperate. The way we will rid ourselves of this menace is at the polls in November.

For a sober discussion on this topic this exchange today between @Teri_Kanefield and @JonChevreau is highly recommended:

https://mstdn.ca/@JonChevreau/112401937598899929

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@mastodonmigration @Teri_Kanefield @JonChevreau Put me in the “losing their heads” camp. I’m not jaded enough to be satisfied by ‘it’s just how things go, always gonna happen, judges are unpredictable.’

Does anyone doubt that one barely competent judge, motivated by ideology or personal feelings or both, is perverting the course of justice in a case of great national importance? Must we be content with that?

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Trump’s lawyers have just demanded, and the judge seems to agree, that the following details must NOT be heard by the jury. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112400039910927227

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Bravo @ProPublica for this well deserved Pulitzer Prize, exposing the bribery and corruption that continues to destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Congress? Your turn. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112395995734056656

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Remember in the Obama administration there was a fake scandal about the IRS “targeting” conservative nonprofits—and the press fell for it more or less wholesale?

Since then, it’s been hands off. So now we have a vast web of illegitimate right-wing nonprofits using tax-exempt dark money for influence-peddling, covert electioneering, and nest-feathering. Today’s case in point from the tireless David Fahrenthold. (Gift link.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/politics/trump-conservative-partnership-institute-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p00.XVdY.eVg5Bv5MAA_P&smid=url-share

JamesGleick, to random
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Because who among us doesn’t get mixed up about whether or not we met Kim Jong-un?

JamesGleick, to random
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If you’re frustrated about what the online world has become, and you remember “the good old days” with nostalgia (rightly or wrongly), and you despair about our collective ability to find a way forward, this by @molly0xfff offers an important perspective. With reason for hope. She has become an essential voice, along with @pluralistic and Jaron Lanier.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

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Paul Auster, writer of “Smoke” and many other masterful stories about New York, passed away yesterday. Overseas, it is one of the main headlines of the day.

In the US, not even The New York Times, could be bothered to mention it.

Paul Auster, a life in images - https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-01/paul-auster-a-life-in-in-images.html

JamesGleick,
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@vpermar Why would you say that? The New York Times ran a beautiful obituary, with many photos, on PAGE ONE.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html

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Remarkable, the judge holding in says he knows $1,000 fines aren't enough—he wishes he could make it $2,500 or $150,000!

timfullerton, to random

FDR had WWII, LBJ and Nixon had Vietnam.

HERBERT HOVER HAD THE GREAT DEPRESSION!

This trying to cover for Trump is absurd.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C6W5GxYApcE

JamesGleick,
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@timfullerton @aaron.rupar Using Trump’s failure to cope with the pandemic as an excuse for his failure to create jobs seems self-defeating.

JamesGleick, to random
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The criminal case against Trump in New York has many interlocking parts, and some people think it’s too technical, or too shaky.

It’s not. Bragg has organized a prosecution that is complex but strong—and it’s a case of the law doing exactly what it’s meant to do. @jaykuo explains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/the-conspiracys-the-thing?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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On the subject of Trump’s dementia, the press remains tongue-tied. Fortunately, Doonesbury’s veteran psychologist is here to help. He brings receipts.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/28

JamesGleick, to random
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How bad is the Supreme Court now? It’s this bad:

“It’s a rogue court, a thoroughly corrupt one, one that is so far gone in its corruption that it feels free even from the practical obligation to clothe its corruption for the sake of appearances.”

(Josh Marshall, gift link.)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/peering-into-the-corrupt-courts-pretensions-and-corruption/sharetoken/mODEiFEfA3a3

JamesGleick,
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@InternetEh That’s a ridiculous characterization of Josh Marshall. Apart from that, I despise posts that say, You Mustn’t Share That Person’s Insights About X, because I Disagree With That Person About Y.

JamesGleick,
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@InternetEh It’s not smart or useful to argue about the meanings of words, and that’s what this is. I’ve read a great deal of Marshall’s writing on Gaza and Israel, and I doubt that his horror at what Israel has done and is doing is any less than yours. Does he attempt to defend it or justify it? He does not.

JamesGleick, to random
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Here’s how an experienced reporter can provide added value: recalling a quintessential Trump lie from seven years ago.

I wonder if the jury will learn about it.

JamesGleick,
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@JoeStewart When a journalist does something good and you take the occasion to piss on them, you’re telling us something about yourself.

JamesGleick,
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@JoeStewart I don’t understand your outrage about this detail. The story as written seems fine to me. No one can say it’s at all sympathetic to Trump. It conveys the horror of the situation.

As for the detail that upsets you, I think at the time the people had been arrested but not convicted. I’m sure some were later convicted. But I think she had to phrase it the way she did.

JamesGleick, to random
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In your worst nightmare, did you consider the possibility that Trump would at the last minute:

—toss out the laughable argument that it didn’t matter what crimes he had committed, it didn’t matter whether or not he was guilty, because he had been president, and presidents are allowed to break the law—they’re “immune”;

—and then, after all the lower courts had swiftly and irrefutably explained how absurd that was, (1/2)

JamesGleick,
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—be saved by the intellectually corrupt Supreme Court justices that he had himself appointed?

(2/2)

JamesGleick,
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@markvonwahlde Did you listen to, or have you read, today’s oral arguments? This is not a hypothetical. I hope you will be proved right, but it doesn’t look like it.

JamesGleick,
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@markvonwahlde Very logical. Unfortunately reality intervenes. And btw your original reply was twitterishly rude.

JamesGleick, to random
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A modest proposal: indict the Unindicted Co-Conspirator.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/

JamesGleick, to random
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Telling detail from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse (by Nate Schweber for the NY Times): The NYPD is working in the service of the defendant Trump, rather than the people of New York.

JamesGleick,
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@richard_merren I agree with you there. Most news photographers have better things to do. My point is that the NYPD also has better things to do.

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