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Nonilex

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… paring down time on social media … ?? Fully migrated to mastodon now that the bird self destructed. Though if you want to view my old posts, same username.

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TLcleanse fix

I found a wildlife org that can take him.

It’s going to seriously break my heart to let this little guy go, but it’s what’s right for him.

He’ll get to be w/other squirrels & be reintroduced to the wild properly 🤞🏻

He’ll have a life, not a domestic one.

Still 💔
I am bringing him tomorrow

After bath / subsequent bath, baby squirrel Ramone gets a massage.

Nonilex,
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This one of is pretty cute. His feet!

Baby squirrel Ramone morning wake-up call + I try to get Linus to eat breakfast; he’s picky

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Presidential awarded today to 19 recipients by

(In no particular order)

  1. , 93, was honored for his activism during the Civil Rights Movement. He’s a lawyer who provided legal counsel to Martin Luther King Jr. & helped write the opening paragraphs of the “I Have a Dream” speech that King delivered at the Lincoln Memorial at the 1963 March on Washington.

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  1. Medgar Wiley Evers received posthumous recognition for his civil rights leadership & work fighting segregation in Mississippi in the 1960s as the NAACP’s first field officer in the state. He was 37 when he was fatally shot in the driveway of his home in June 1963.

  2. Michelle Yeoh made history last year by becoming the first Asian woman to win an Academy Award for best actress for her performance in “ Everything, Everywhere All at Once.”

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  1. Jim Thorpe, who died in 1953, was the first Native American to win an Olympic gold medal for the United States.

  2. Judy Shepard co-founded the Matthew Shepard Foundation, named after her son, a gay 21-year-old University of Wyoming student who died in 1998 after he was beaten & tied to a fence.

  3. Katie Ledecky, the most decorated female swimmer in history.

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  1. Opal Lee, an activist who is best known for pushing to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. Biden did so in 2021.

  2. Ellen Ochoa, the first Hispanic woman in space and the second female director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center.

  3. Jane Rigby, an astronomer who is chief scientist of the world’s most powerful telescope. She grew up in Delaware, Biden’s home state.

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  1. Teresa Romero, president of the United Farm Workers and the first Hispanic woman to lead a national union in the U.S. The union has endorsed Biden’s reelection bid and backed him in 2020.

  2. Gregory Boyle, a Jesuit Catholic priest who founded & runs Homeboy Industries, a gang-intervention & rehabilitation program.

  3. Phil Donahue, a journalist & former daytime TV talk-show host. (This is an odd one)

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  1. Fmr New York mayor & philanthropist Michael Bloomberg,

  2. Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C.,

  3. Elizabeth Dole, a fmr Senator, transportation secretary & labor secretary & president of the American Red Cross. She currently leads a foundation supporting military caregivers.

  4. Climate activist & fmr VP Al Gore,

  5. John Kerry, Biden’s former climate envoy

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  1. Fmr Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., who died in 2013,

  2. Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic congresswoman from California, the first & only woman ever elected to the speaker’s post, putting her second in the line of succession to the presidency.

7/7

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@blogdiva IDF trains NYPD officers

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Start of today’s #TrumpTrial 🧵
It was another long one
(Friday, 3 May, 2024)

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112377312632977711

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🧵 Thurs, May 2

charges are falsifying business records to hide payments in lead up to 2016 election to electorate

just one Trump supporter at the courthouse draped in a Trump flag.

's lawyer, , to return to stand. He negotiated the hush-money payment at the center of the case, & is expected to lay out details of the deal.

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Prosecutor Colangelo asked further about Trump’s reaction to the WSJ article, specifically if was concerned about the campaign.

acknowledged that Trump was concerned about that & asked her how the story “was playing” — given this was only a few days before the election.

The testimony about Melania is what the Trump defense will seize on. It provides an alternative motive for the cover up.

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describes reaction to the WSJ article on the $130k paid to & says she can’t recall certain facts about this period.

Hicks said she believes she overheard , & talking as they were in a car at the airport on their way to a campaign rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Hicks said she heard Trump but doesn’t remember what was said.

Priebus is on the list of witnesses, expect him to be questioned about the conversation.

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testifies about her time at the , after was elected.

Hicks described how she worked in the "outer " in a small vestibule along w/ Madeleine Westerhout, Trump's ofcl WH exec asst.

This could lead to testimony or evidence concerning Westerhout's role in Trump's receipt & signing of checks to .

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was Trump's WH communications director when sued to be released from her contract that barred her from speaking about her relationship w/ .

Hicks testifies Westerhout, Trump's exec asst, texted her, "Hey - the president wants to know if you called David again?"

She adds that when she spoke to Trump after McDougal was interviewed on CNN by Anderson Cooper, she didn’t “recall him mentioning Mr. Pecker in those conversations."

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testifies that the morning after told The NYT that he had paid w/o Trump’s knowledge, told her Cohen made the payment to protect Trump from false allegations & did it “out of the kindness of his heart”.

Hicks is asked what she made of what Trump said.

Hicks says, “I’d say that would be out of character for Michael. I did not know Michael to be an especially charitable or selfless person; he is a kind of person who seeks credit.”

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2X defense tried to object to the prosecutor asking whether it would have been in character for to have paid the w/o telling . The judge overruled the objections.

The testimony goes directly to Trump being behind the payment to , not Cohen.

Then, Hicks bolsters another part of the state's case, saying that it would have been bad if the scandal came out before the election.

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The direct examination concludes & Emil , one of Trump's lawyers, stands up to cross-examine Hicks.

just suddenly began to cry when Bove asked about her time at the .

, who had been avoiding looking at Hicks, locks his eyes on her when she broke down. He’s furious.

Bove asked if the court should take a break & Hicks answered, "Yes, please."

She appeared to start crying when Bove brought up that Trump gave her opportunities.

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cross-examination resumes.

Bove, the defense lawyer asks about her relationships w/the family & employees of the .
The questions may be designed to remind Hicks of her fondness for the family or that she owes them somehow.

Bove asks about not having an ofcl role w/Trump's 2016 campaign.

“He would try to insert himself at certain moments," she says, feeding into the defense's argument that Cohen was freelancing.

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builds on the was freelancing angle, he gets to agree that Cohen "went rogue" & did things that were “unauthorized."

Hicks helps the defense out by saying, "He liked to call himself a fixer, or Mr. Fix-it, & it was only because he first broke it."

Bove, moves on to when Hicks worked on 's 1st campaign saying the work she did for Trump, & the work done by , ( ) was all standard operating procedure for a candidate.

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predictably asks about 's concern over how his wife would react to the tape.

Hicks says, “President Trump really values Mrs. Trump's opinion, & she doesn't weigh in all the time, but when she does, it's really meaningful to him. He really, really respects what she has to say. I think he was just concerned of what her perception of this would be."

This goes w/defense's laughable "family man" argument.

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asks his last question of :

"While you were focused on your job at the White House, you didn't have anything to do w/the business records of the 200+ miles away in NYC, did you?"

Hicks said she didn't.

This brings attention to the fact that the actual charges of falsifying business records have yet to be discussed.

Hicks is excused & leaves the courtroom.

doesn't look at her as she leaves.
Neither does she look at him.

Nonilex,
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Testimony & jurors are done but court isn’t. Prosecutors have asked whether they can question #Trump, if he testifies, about his 9 violations of his #GagOrder.

Todd #Blanche, defense, asks Justice Merchan to bar such questioning.

🤣Blanche slips & calls Trump "Mr. Trump," before correcting himself & using Trump's preferred label: "President Trump."

#TrumpTrial #law #CitizenTrump

Nonilex,
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, the prosecutor, responds, saying the judge’s findings that Trump violated his are directly relevant to Trump's if he takes the stand & points out there is case supporting his argument.

Justice Merchan has responded well to - - in the past & has expressed frustration w/the defense when they don't cite any.

But Merchan agrees w/defense, saying it would be too prejudicial for a jury to hear that he held Trump in .

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This part of the testimony is more significant than perhaps it reads.

is having his official assistant check on contact w/ the ’s publisher David right when is trying to get out of part of her deal payment — her contract w/ parent company .

Which signals she wants to break the deal, basically she’s looking to talk, shortly thereafter is her Anderson Cooper interview.

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