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GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW THREAD STARTS HERE 🧵 1/...

Anna Bower:

Trump has returned to his seat in courtroom 1530.

Keith Davidson is back on the stand.

Here we go!

fulanigirl,

@GottaLaff LOL I had to search for the movie UP up to see what he was talking about. Funny.

Wileymiller, to random
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@GottaLaff
A story about my mom and Trump.

My mom was an executive assistant for two Jewish brothers who ran a construction company in the '80s. They were in competition with Trump on some real estate deal and lost out to him. For some reason they had to make a pilgrimage to Trump Tower to go on bended knee. When one of the brothers introduced mom, Trump his usual graceful manner said, “Which one of these two Jews did you have fuck to get your job?”.

fulanigirl,

@GottaLaff @Wileymiller If the mom is still alive...get her permission first 👍🏾

fulanigirl,

@Wileymiller @GottaLaff That is just horrific. But your mom's story so clearly shows what an immoral degenerate he is.

ktempestbradford, to random
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Didn't realize that by coming to this airport I was entering the 3rd circle of hell....

Oscar Mayer branded gummy bacon
Oscar Meyer branded gummy hot dogs. All of these candies look like the products they're based on, adding extra horror to the proceedings.

fulanigirl,

@ktempestbradford Is that real?

fulanigirl, to random

, , # BlackMastodon Those of you who have followed me for a while know I mostly post about the issue of abolition, information about webinars on community issues, and black cultural music and events. I comment on policing but don’t usually post on it. However, the university protests provide an excellent opportunity to highlight why abolition is needed in this country. 1/7

fulanigirl, (edited )

, , # BlackMastodon The police don’t even respond like that when there is a mass shooter on campus. It’s interesting listening to the white parents and the white residents of the neighborhood surrounding Columbia. The police have them under siege and they don’t like it. They don’t want their children in a sniper’s cross hairs. Well...welcome to the experiences of black and brown communities throughout the country. 6/7

fulanigirl,

@Mary625 It is unconscionable but what you saw is what all police departments aspire to be. They cannot be reformed.

fulanigirl,

, , # BlackMastodon When we say the police are militarized and don’t create safety, but come with their own levels of violence, many liberals will think, “not in our communities. For us they provide safety.” But that’s the thing, authoritarians NEVER stop with the people who are low hanging fruit. They get emboldened by going after the low hanging fruit when there are no sanctions. 4/7

fulanigirl,

, , # BlackMastodon The movement in support of abolition has been in process for decades although most people only learned about it when “Defund the Police” was chanted during the 2020 protests against police murders of black people. White folks (and Obama) threw their hands up in horrow at the notion of getting rid of the police. A video reminder of what defund means: https://www.vox.com/2020/6/26/21303849/what-defund-the-police-really-means
2/7

fulanigirl,

, , # BlackMastodon On campus after campus, the long valued tradition of freedom of white speech has come into stark confrontation with the militarization of law enforcement. You can see that the police do not come for “safety.” They came for and with violence. Under what circumstances would it have been appropriate to put police snipers on the roof of a college campus where students are demonstrating? What safety would that have provided? 5/7

fulanigirl,

, , # BlackMastodon While many whites were empathetic to cries to halt police killings of innocent people of color, their overall acceptance of the idea that police are a good thing for their communities did not change. You can use a free tool called the internet to look up some of those studies. Communities of color will always be the canary in the coal mine on the issue of militarization of the police. 3/7

fulanigirl,

, , # BlackMastodon Now you know, the police will kill your kids too! They don’t care about your kids. Our nation is addicted to policing. It is costing us lives and unbelievable billions of dollars that could be used to make our communities more stable (housing, education, healthcare) and therefore more safe. If you didn’t understand why abolitionists call for reducing and eliminating police where possible, maybe you can see now. 7/7

GottaLaff, to Michigan
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👀 “Google and Twitter recently provided hundreds of files to prosecutors for their 2020 election subversion probe, complying with search warrants that investigators obtained after CNN revealed secret social media accounts belonging to pro- lawyer Kenneth Chesebro, who played a major role in the fake electors plot.”

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/michigan-search-warrants-google-twitter-2020-fake-electors?cid=ios_app

fulanigirl,

@GottaLaff Oh I hope he is so screwed.

fulanigirl,

@GottaLaff Secret accounts which he denied having while he was under OATH.... I think he did not understand what cooperating and testifying truthfully meant. But he probably will find out 😆

ProPublica, to Health
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A at Cigna Said Her Bosses Pressured Her to Review Patients’ Cases Too Quickly.

Threatened to Fire Her.

Cigna tracks every minute that its staff spend deciding whether to pay for .

Dr. Debby Day said her bosses cared more about being fast than being right: “Deny, deny, deny. That’s how you hit your numbers,” Day said.

https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-medical-director-doctor-patient-preapproval-denials-insurance?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

fulanigirl,

@StillIRise1963 @ProPublica Remember when the Repubs said under the Affordable Care Act the Dems would create death panels? Turns out only insurance company execs can do that.

fulanigirl, to random

I was accused of being argumentative today because I corrected a point of law in someone’s post. There’s very few conversations I get involved with because I get it that sometimes people are just expressing their intense emotions. EX: FASCISM!! But whenever I see a point of law being discussed that is wrong or misleading, I’m going to jump in for a couple of reasons. The offended person can block me, its OK. Short thread 1/5

fulanigirl,

Repeated violations can help demonstrate that the defendant intends to violate the speech restraints. The violations do not in any way relieve the prosecutor of his burden to prove all of the elements of the crimes in the indictment beyond a reasonable doubt. Nor, are they proof of the guilt or innocence of the defendant in the underlying case. Its not Trump’s case obviously, but you can be guilty of contempt and also not guilty of the crimes you were charged with. 5/5

fulanigirl,

In some cases like Trump’s, the defendant’s speech is restricted and violations can lead to fines and possibly a short imprisonment as Merchan pointed out. Sometimes despite warning defendants and/or their lawyers will violate the gag order. This will lead to another Order to Show Cause hearing. You’ll see that on Thursday when Merchan returns to the DA’s motion from last week. Repeated violations can lead to incarceration. 4/5

fulanigirl,


Gag orders although not routinely put in place are not that rare, particularly in high profile cases. Both lawyers and defendants can have their speech restricted. You may recall when the judge in the RICO case when ruling against the defendants request to have Willis removed said he would at some point consider a motion for a gag against Willis because of the speech she made at the church on MLK Jr. day. So, even lawyers have speech restricted. 3/5

fulanigirl,

@Eddiethebulldog I agree that he may not incarcerate on Thursday because he just gave the warning on Tuesday, and the show cause hearing is about things that happened before the warning. So it should be interesting. I would guess any violations coming after this week could push Merchan closer to "lock him up." Thank you for reading the thread.

fulanigirl,

One- so few Americans know or understand our legal system I think its important to help with their civic education. Two, we have readers who are not Americans and they may be baffled by how our system works. And finally, to help reduce the possibility of misinformation. Gag orders have come up quite a bit in the Trump cases so I’m going to say something about that. 2/5

venitamathias, to random
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You would think medical equipment would have advanced beyond the painful vice grip of a mamogram machine.

fulanigirl,

@ToniScott @venitamathias LOL Yeah I love it and they can tell older men that their testicles should be cut off when they go in for prostrate cancer because they are too old to make more babies so the testicles are useless...you know like how they tell women they shouldn't mind losing their uterus because they are too old to make babies anymore. Yeah...lets get some parity.

popcornreel, to random
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    fulanigirl,

    @popcornreel Can we agree now that maybe Merchan wasn't a fail? Also innocent people do violate gag orders because sometimes the orders are unjust and/or illegal. Do you remember when the Panther 21 were on trial in NY. They were all gagged, some actually physically gagged. This is not Trump's case. His gag order was deemed justified and upheld by higher courts, but judges DO unlawfully gag defendants. Continued violations demonstrate contempt of court - only.

    sfdb, to random
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    One of the things protesting UF students are being charged with, according to local media reports, is violating FSS 876.12, which makes it a crime for a person over 16yo to wear a "mask, hood, or device" to conceal their identity in a public area.

    I had no idea.

    fulanigirl,

    @sfdb This law was originally enacted to keep the KKK from marching with hoods that covered their faces. They could march and they could wear hoods, but not cover their faces. Look how well that has aged!

    darnell, to H5N1
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    I think this is a different #H5N1 strain, but I am shocked that it killed a #dolphin 🐬! #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 is investigating, but I am hoping that #America 🇺🇸 is not on the verge of experiencing another epidemic.

    👉🏾 Dead Florida dolphin was infected with highly pathogenic bird flu https://www.wfla.com/news/florida/dead-florida-dolphin-was-infected-with-highly-pathogenic-bird-flu/

    fulanigirl,

    @darnell Dolphins and now cats also:
    https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/04/concerning-spread-of-bird-flu-from-cows-to-cats-suspected-in-texas/

    gregggonsalves, to random
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    A short 🧵. This piece by @lpolgreen is extraordinary. So many people, including my friends who have very different perspectives on the conflict in the Middle East, are absolutely certain they know what’s going on on college campuses, including mine. Polgreen has done us all a service here, by doing some deep reporting on what is happening at Columbia. She also debunks one of the more serious accusations made here at Yale. 1/ https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/26/opinion/columbia-student-protests-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nU0.BjO_.bWl1YxNQ5kkI&smid=url-share

    fulanigirl,

    @gregggonsalves @lpolgreen The story in the NYT (posted by Gregg Gonsalves) also highlights what I was saying yesterday. The worse and most vile comments are not coming from the students at Columbia. This, in conjunction with the student apology shows that the anti-genocide protests at universities can go on with safety for Jewish students assured if the university administrators were interested in that happening. Most are not.

    fulanigirl, to Plants

    For the second year in a row, our japonica has announced the arrival of spring, even if the weather hasn't completely settled.

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