Colin Jost: "Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the United States at an event that doesn't begin with a bailiff saying 'all rise'?"
Hypothetically say my contract is to look up the final daily price for a stock & send it for analysis.
Suddenly, Google stops showing Bloomberg as the top result because Bloomberg stops paying Google for SEO.
Searches for the Bloomberg web site fail to appear in the 1st 100 pages of results.
Allowing members of Congress who were part of Trump’s armed insurrection to remain in Congress is about as insane as allowing terrorists to return to work in the same building they tried to blow up.
Who knew killing puppies and tossing them into a gravel pit was a constituency worth campaigning for? I'm sure we'll get polling on this in short order.
A little reminder for all those who, strangely enough, always think it’s a good idea to interview him: Bill Barr was the Attorney General Donald Trump wanted because Jeff Sessions wasn’t servile enough.
His toot has been living rent-free in my head ever since.
I had ranted a few times before how "content" is a corporate-y way to devalue art. How "user-generated content" is a term designed to make it easier to deny the significance (not just monetary) of the amazing stuff people create online.
Contrasting this with "AI art" is jarring, and spot-on. 👀
Kristi Noem has survived a infidelity scandal, a nepotism scandal, a superspreader pandemic event scandal, the misuse of the National guard scandal, civil rights violations scandals, and campaign finance scandals.
Fascist movements are extractive by their very nature. It's a system designed to steal the assets of the many and place them in the hands of the favored few.
Fascism doesn't grow economies, improve the quality of human life, or innovate.
The US Constitution and common law are rooted in pre-18th century English legal jurisprudence and traditions.
And the "presidential immunity" bullshit is an attempt to rewind the clock to before 1649, when Parliament got fed up with the King's bullshit, put him on trial, and beheaded him.
Y'all: Trump wants to revive the divine right of kings.
You know who pulled the German equivalent of that stunt? Hitler.
(I will summarily block anyone who raises Godwin's law.)
When billionaires fund anti-democracy movements around the globe in response to climate action, it's appropriate to add taxation to billionaires in response.
When billionaires have less free cash, they have less money to spend on far-right political parties, anti-democracy media outlets like Fox News, and on buying decisions from publicly corrupt Supreme Court Justices.
Like anything related to climate action, taxes are only part of a solution.
The survival of democracy is one aspect. The legislation & agency support for the EPA is also part of a solution. Ending tax subsidies & access to public lands.
People voluntarily reducing their fossil fuel use is part of it.
Listening to that exchange with Trump’s lawyer about the crimes a president should be able to commit with total immunity, and he says MURDER and COUPS could be “official acts” and warrant immunity even after leaving office, and I’m getting that stuck in a really bad timeline feeling again.
Anthony Melchiorre, who owned Chatham Asset Management, AMI, & National Enquirer, encouraged support for Trump & disinformation on Hillary Clinton, for monetary gain.
He's been indicted for insider trading.
Begs the question, are the owners of the NYT also angling their coverage for the same reasons?
All GOP megadonors:
The New York Times Company (US:NYT) has 818 institutional owners and shareholders. Largest shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc, BlackRock Inc., ..
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Farallon Capital Management Llc, T. Rowe Price Investment Management, Inc., Stockbridge Partners LLC, Wellington Management Group Llp, Darsana Capital Partners LP, IJH - iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF, VTSMX - Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund Investor Shares, and State Street Corp .
Republicans and Fox News were paid to wage a malign influence campaign promoting the concepts of "let grannie die", "covid only affects POC", snake oil treatments, sacrificial labor, "bailouts for corporations, not people".
Don’t you dare say that voting doesn’t matter. In late 2022 in a recount Kris Mayes (who announced indictments of Rudy Giuliani and co today) won her election race for #Arizona atty general by 280 VOTES.
🚨BREAKING: Arizona Grand Jury INDICTS more than a dozen people, including fake electors, for conspiracy, fraud and forgery. Donald Trump named unindicted coconspirator.
#Arizona AG Kris Mayes announces the State Grand Jury has returned indictments in the state's 2020 fake electors scheme.
The following individuals are named as defendants, per the AG: Kelli Ward, Tyler Bowyer, Nancy Cottle, Jacob Hoffman, Anthony Kern, James Lamon, Robert Montgomery, Samuel Moorhead, Lorraine Pellegrino, Gregory Safsten, and Michael Ward.
Charges include fraud, forgery, and conspiracy – class 2, 4, and 5 felonies. #legal
Prosecutors in Trump’s #criminal trial say he has violated a #GagOrder barring him from attacking #witnesses, #jurors & others close to the case. Testimony is set to resume later Tuesday morning.
