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junecasagrande

@junecasagrande@mastodon.social

Best-selling author, copy editor, grammar columnist, comedy fan. I expect my posts will be mostly about preserving #democracy, #writing, #editing and #punctuation, and immature jokes. #fedi22 #voteblue #StandWithUkraine #writers #copyediting #california #losangeles #pasadena #author

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lawfare, to random
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Tyler McBrien shares photos he took outside the New York Supreme Court following the announcement of the jury’s guilty verdict against former President Trump: https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-final-day-of-trump-s-new-york-trial--a-photo-essay

junecasagrande,
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@lawfare "Trump is looking out for me!" — The guy with the Trump hat and two different shoes, probably

RickiTarr, to random
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99.9% of jobs do not require urgency of any kind, really they don't. We've all had a boss who acts like someone will die if we don't hit some made up deadline by people who don't even do the job. No one needs their meal 1 minute faster or the paperwork before tomorrow morning. Your time off actually doesn't need to wait. Sometimes I think about how legitimately bad most businesses are at time management and hiring, and I wonder how they manage to exist at all.

junecasagrande,
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@RickiTarr The entertainment industry here in L.A. is the worst. PR firms act like they're curing cancer by sending a muffin basket to some celebrity.

profcarroll, to random
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Theocracy Alert: Alito has got to go. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.7gjA.O3KtP9fRE2GU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

junecasagrande,
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@profcarroll I bet Mrs. Alito has some seriously shredded triceps from all this flag-hoisting.

JoshuaHolland, to random
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There is no longer a fringe right in the US. The most bonkers extremism has become totally mainstream in today's

https://www.9news.com/article/news/local/next/next-with-kyle-clark/colorado-gop-kids-pulled-from-public-schools/73-e121fe9e-9a2b-498d-8a80-1efe2a179758

junecasagrande,
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@JoshuaHolland I see they've finally gotten wise to our "turn all kids trans" plot. Foiled again by brilliant Republicans!

junecasagrande, to random
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Our rights are currency to him. He'll trade them for political support, cash donations, business opportunities, favors at the first opportunity. He'll happily ban birth control if fascists make it worth his while. https://thehill.com/newsletters/health-care/4678254-trump-waffles-on-possible-birth-control-ban/?utm_source=press.coop

GottaLaff, to random
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FYI, ...

Via Katie Phang:

Court has resumed. Judge Merchan is back on the bench. All counsel are present and Trump is also present.

First jury instruction argument over FECA (Federal Election Campaign Act).

junecasagrande,
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@GottaLaff NFL: Trump's OWN justice department thought it was a crime when Michael Cohen did it. They threw him in prison. Then Bill Barr didn't think Trump should be investigated for same.

StillIRise1963, to random
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If anyone asks who did something, just say Mrs. Alito.

junecasagrande,
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@StillIRise1963 Mrs. Alito missed a typo in a document I proofread yesterday.

junecasagrande,
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@StillIRise1963 That is SO Mrs. Alito.

GottaLaff, to Arizona
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🙄 Former Donald Trump lawyer John pleaded not guilty in Phoenix on Friday on charges related to allegedly participating in a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election results in .

https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/17/politics/john-eastman-arizona-not-guilty-plea?cid=ios_app

junecasagrande,
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@GottaLaff Delicious.

GottaLaff, (edited ) to random
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Interesting reading: "...what everyone—literally everyone—is missing about the 34 felonies Donald Trump committed to win the 2016 presidential election. This will change how you understand the 2016 election cycle."

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787543910509666332.html

junecasagrande,
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@GottaLaff Dossier said Cohen traveled to Prague to coordinate w/Kremlin operatives for Trump campaign. Mueller concluded that no, Cohen did not. Mueller's source? Cohen's word.

Mueller never looked at phone records, passport, credit card charges. He never talked to the foreign intel agencies that picked up evidence Cohen was in Prague. Mueller just went with answer that best served his political party. From "Crime in Progress" by Glenn Simpson and Peter Fritsch. https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Progress-Inside-Dossier-Investigation/dp/059313415X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1EGGDE0JO0R53&keywords=crime+in+progress+inside+the+steele&qid=1578445044&sprefix=crime+in+progress%2Caps%2C354&sr=8-1

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

junecasagrande,
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@RickiTarr

You "make En's meat." En was some guy in olden times whose family needed to work hard to put food on the table.

MattBinder, to random
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mister free speech just openly pondering about deporting anyone, including American citizens, who does free speech

junecasagrande,
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@MattBinder Proposed law: If a naturalized US citizen advocates for denying the rights of the US citizens who graciously welcomed him, we kick his fucking fascist ass back to South Africa.

junecasagrande, to random
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In a sane country, every American would be up in arms at the idea of a president trading the powers of office for favors that are also felonies and also massive national security threats.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/22/politics/nauta-classified-documents-trump-pardon-second-term/index.html

junecasagrande, to random
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"Totalitarianism"

Honestly, people who think that any slight erosion of their privilege is the biggest injustice in the history of humankind. I mean ... ugh.

junecasagrande, to Russia
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Nothing to see here, folks. Just agents of the Kremlin plotting terrorist attacks against US military targets.
https://www.politico.eu/article/germany-authorities-arrest-two-suspects-alledged-russia-spying-sabotage-attacks/

orci, to random
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Linus trying to be majestic.

junecasagrande,
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@orci And succeeding.

GramrgednAngel, to edibuddies
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"He held the bottle up" is the wording. The character is holding a bottle of whiskey.

Word's editor, in its infinite wisdom, tells me to consider "bottled" instead. I suppose that's because "up" follows it.

NO, Word. You're still an idiot. Let me do my job. You're good for finding double words, but that's about it these days.

@edibuddies

junecasagrande,
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@GramrgednAngel @edibuddies I don't know about you, but I'm getting less worried all the time about AI taking my job anytime soon.

GottaLaff, to Russia
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Via Anne Applebaum:

It's one of the most successful influence campaigns of all time. And it wasn't even particularly secret.

Jake Tapper:

RepMikeTurner tells me it's "absolutely true" that Russian propaganda has "infected" a portion of the GOP base, calling out "anti-Ukraine and pro- messages, some of which we even hear being uttered on the House floor."

junecasagrande,
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@GottaLaff I think they envision a future like the one Putin envisions, where the powerful few can be corrupt AF and accountable to no one. Undermining democracy is a multinational group project, and every hater of democracy has their role to play.

junecasagrande,
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@GottaLaff I keep coming back to then energy secretary Rick Perry trying to appoint cronies of his to the board of a Ukrainian energy company. That's very similar to how Putin and his little thugs got their start — bleeding Ukraine dry.

pbump, to random
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Not that I am normally in the habit of moderating my views, but I was completely unable to treat RFK's statement on Jan. 6 as anything other than ridiculous. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/05/rfk-jr-jan6-statement/

junecasagrande,
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@pbump

"The campaign quickly clarified that this presentation, one that echoes the views of his ostensible opponent Donald Trump, was an error introduced by “a new marketing contractor.”

It's time to start asking about who Kennedy's "marketing contractors" are. His previous oopsie in Cyrillic raise the possibility that he's receiving illegal foreign in-kind campaign contributions from foreign entities with their own agendas.

https://news.yahoo.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-posts-002159477.html

junecasagrande, to random
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Some eclipse glasses labeled ISO-compliant are not. LA Times has tips on how to test whether they're safe. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-04/preparing-for-the-solar-eclipse-what-you-need-and-how-you-can-watch?utm_source=press.coop

GottaLaff, to legal
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👀👀

Via Lisa Rubin:

You know that corrected bond has filed today? Well, Tish James’s team has now made a filing of their own, asking, under a NY law, for a justification of the surety. What does that mean?

https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/ViewDocument?docIndex=s4dpZ_PLUS_u0rxLM_PLUS_xsccBGwbw==

junecasagrande,
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@GottaLaff I hope in means they're looking into the lenders' Russian mob connections.

GottaLaff, to TeslaMotors
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Lol

“It appears that Elon ’s X, formerly known as , has restored blue check marks to popular users overnight — and some of them are taking to the platform to clarify that they didn’t pay for the perk.”

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/elon-musk-restores-blue-checks-x-influential-users-1235960188/

junecasagrande,
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@stefan @GottaLaff Ashley Madison ... for a while.

junecasagrande, to random
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One of the guys who pleaded guilty today in Trump media-related insider trading charges that date back to 2021. He's a resident of Sunny Isles Beach, FL, which Trump helped turn into "Little Moscow" by selling condos with less-than-normal ownership transparency. Anyhoo, feds a few years ago accused him of running a club funded by the Russian mafia. https://www.ft.com/content/38fdc2e1-bd36-4da9-bbd7-bb33e3fcfab1

junecasagrande,
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Aaaand in today's news ...

"Trump Media managed to go public last week only after it had been kept afloat in 2022 by emergency loans provided in part by a Russian-American businessman under scrutiny in a federal insider-trading and money-laundering investigation."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/03/trump-media-es-family-trust-2022-loans?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

junecasagrande,
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Also, I find this tidbit in Guardian Trump story unsettling:

A suspected criminal with possible ties to the Russian mob runs a bank known for providing financial services to "porn industry." Russian org crime has a history of trafficking people & forcing them into sex work. Some turn up dead. And it's unclear why anyone in the "porn industry" couldn't just bank with a legit financial institution rather than one that operates opaquely offshore with less legal scrutiny.

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