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Don’t blame me, blame my wife.
—Sam Alito

JamesGleick, (edited ) to random
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James Fallows, who should know, explains why presidential debates are WORSE than useless.

There’s one more reason this year. By sharing a stage, Biden will normalize the idea that it’s all right for Trump to be a free man, as opposed to an incarcerated criminal.

https://fallows.substack.com/i/143279747/a-no-debates

JamesGleick,
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@cherold While Trump’s many criminal trials are pending, as you know he has already been found in civil courts to have committed rape and several varieties of fraud. It would be reasonable for him to be shunned and shamed.

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Another crime committed in plain sight. It will never be prosecuted:

In contemptuous violation of his gag order, Trump coordinated with a team of “surrogates” (his own word)—including the House Speaker and and US Senator—to attack witnesses, the judge’s family, and the jury.

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One is so often reminded of Stringer Bell. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112436640655210112

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“Consulting jobs” = bribes. They’re all so corrupt they don’t even bother hiding it. https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112435518216632263

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HENCHMAN: You never know what he’s —

CRIME BOSS: Maybe he gets hit by a truck.

HENCHMAN: Correct. So, I’m all over that.

[recording of Michael Cohen and Donald Trump played this morning in the case of The People of the State of New York v. Donald J. Trump]

JamesGleick,
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@dmandl Yes, that’s correct.

bookish, to random
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Should the chopping block be used on the owners' necks or the copywriter's?

JamesGleick,
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@bookish The sentence is replete, for sure.

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The Biden administration closed a loophole and capped “junk fees,” to protect consumers from gouging by banks and credit-card companies.

Now a federal judge reverses the the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in behalf of the banking industry.

The NY Times doesn’t say who appointed the judge. Can you guess?

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/business/credit-card-fee-limit-blocked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.SIt5.1jlKXK5FVswD&smid=url-share

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A portrait of an IRS that has been made helpless to collect taxes owed by the very rich, no matter how blatantly and shamelessly they cheat. Super reporting here by the NY Times and @ProPublica.

(Case study starring a grifter who has never earned an honest dollar in his life.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/us/trump-taxes-audit-chicago.html?unlocked_article_code=1.rE0.Qvx1.36AkJGklXwtz&smid=url-share

Nonilex, to Law
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#TrumpTrial Friday 10 May 2024 🧵:

Madeleine #Westerhout testimony resumes

A fmr White House aide who worked closely w/ #Trump returned to the stand to testify about a significant meeting between Trump & #MichaelCohen his personal lawyer that is at the center of Trump’s #criminal trial.

Cohen is expected to testify Monday.

#law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney #MobTactics #GagOrder #StochasticTerrorism #StormyDaniels #KarenMcDougal #NodFarter

JamesGleick,
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@Nonilex Plus let’s not forget that Judge Engoron has ordered Weisselberg to disgorge $1 million of the severance payments as ill-gotten gains.

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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

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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.

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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

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

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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

#Film #newyork #novel

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 #Trump in #contempt says he knows $1,000 fines aren't enough—he wishes he could make it $2,500 or $150,000!

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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.

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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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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 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.

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