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lesblazemore

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Seeking warmth in a cold universe

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GottaLaff, to legal
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NEW 🧵starts HERE.

Plz remember to use NFL (Not For Laffy, no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies while live-posting. TY!

1/... Tyler McBrien:

It's 2:09 p.m., Trump walks in with his defense team in tow.

Alan Dershowitz is still here as well.

All five members of the prosecution are already seated.

lesblazemore,
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@GottaLaff NFL LOLOOOLLLL!!! What a great troll of...um...us.

shit but he's right

Nonilex, to conservative
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🧵 Monday 20 May 2024

has a huge posse today, including ; , a party leader in NY; , fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; , lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & , legal adviser who was in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.

lesblazemore,
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@Nonilex I looked and found this, should have posted it at first, sorry

https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2023/08/16/trumps-total-charges-could-result-in-more-than-700-years-in-prison

lesblazemore,
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@Nonilex Is 4 years max correct? I thought it was 4 years per charge, but then the judge can decide if they all run concurrently or not.

So if that's correct, then I suppose it's likely 4 years max...

GottaLaff, to random
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Donald 's 'Glitch' During NRA Speech Raises Questions

“Trump sparked commentary on social media after he stopped speaking for more than 30 seconds during a speech.”
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-glitch-nra-speech-1902257

lesblazemore,
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@GottaLaff I've been thinking we need to find clips of him speaking, like 1 minute each, in real time, where you can see his lack of focus or otherwise bizarre speech. He benefits from the tiny clips the media goes for. He rambles for minutes and the media reports on the one coherent thing that comes out.

But this isn't it. It's just not clear enough. Unless it shows teleprompter problems, in which case it's a mild punk b/c he once said Obama needed his teleprompter.

dangillmor, to random
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Social media disappointments:

  1. Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.

  2. Reddit got away with stomping its volunteer moderators and users, and its execs are cashing in on an IPO that in a more just world would have flopped.

  3. Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.

lesblazemore,
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@dangillmor to me this is indeed quite sad.

It's behavioral stickiness, in my view. If I had a substack with subscribers, it would be heckin hard to get me to go to the trouble of switching. too technical, probably need some support (where's that gonna come from), etc. It's hard without a doubt.

for the journalists still on twitter, that's just really sad. they must get their endorphins, I suppose.

hopefully they will peel away but it's hard, tbf.

thepoliticalcat, to random
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Wouldja lookit that? ARMED THUGS STORMED GIULIANI'S 80th BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-served-with-indictment-at-his-80th-birthday-party?ref=home

Nah, he'd like to think it was drama, but some folks from AZ showed up at 11 pm, right before the old prevert's bedtime, and handed him a subpoena. Good. Watch him get dragged into court and try to LIE his way out of it!

lesblazemore,
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@thepoliticalcat they served him right after his happy birthday and the song lol, I'm sure it was fun standing there waiting, innocuous like. sliding closer...closer...

lesblazemore,
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@thepoliticalcat not very wrong, maybe a little ;)

lesblazemore,
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@thepoliticalcat Yup, no punishment is quite good enough, but we'll take all we can get.

To think he felt safe enough to troll them. And I am pretty sure his legal analysis there wasn't correct.

Lizette603_23, to random
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Some yahoo asked a question about when Bannon might go to jail. I looked up some suppositions by journos and his response? "I know. I could have looked that up myself......" What would YOU have answered?

lesblazemore,
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@Lizette603_23 Sorry i replied flippantly without having my coffee or reading downstream first. Now hopefully safely deleted ;)

He'll apply for a full hearing at the appeals level, I'm guessing that will be denied but who knows...then he'll apply to the S. Ct. and I figure that will be rejected just like Navarro's.

So, say 6 months max

GottaLaff, to legal
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New 🧵starts HERE.

REMEMBER: I can’t/won’t reply while live-posting. Please use NFL (Not For Laffy) so I can skip your reply, but NO hashtag on that. Thx.

Picking up after my "mistrial" thread/ 1/...

All via McB for awhile:

Counsel approaches, brief sidebar

"Binoculars down."

As I mentioned, courtroom rules strictly enforced. During sidebar, court security doesn't allow reporters to use binoculars they had brought to see exhibits and facial expressions better

lesblazemore,
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@GottaLaff FL thanks for your efforts! It's so helpful!!

SteveThompson, to nyc
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Guessing he knew he was going to delete it before he put it out there. Daring the judge with a kinda loophole. That's how he rolls.

Of course, there's a copy of his 'deleted' post included here...

"Trump Posts — Then Deletes — Rant About Stormy Daniels Testifying"

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-trial-stormy-daniels-testimony-1235016428/

lesblazemore,
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@SteveThompson publishing and then quickly deleting has become a common tactic of the right. The deletion doesn't matter, because it gets screenshotted and then shared

GottaLaff, to random
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💪🏼 Via Kyle Griffin:

A coalition of reproductive rights advocates say they've submitted the required number of signatures to get a proposed amendment to enshrine #abortion access in #SouthDakota's constitution on the November ballot.

55,000 signatures were collected — far more than the 35,000 needed.

lesblazemore,
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@GottaLaff if Ohio can do it then South Dakota certainly can

JoshuaHolland, to acab
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“I have been reporting on political dissent and violent policing for 15 years, particularly in New York City. Compared to Tuesday night, I have never witnessed, at the scene of a protest, the use of police power so disproportionate to the type of demonstration taking place.”

https://theintercept.com/2024/05/01/nyc-gaza-college-protests-police-outside-agitators/

lesblazemore,
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@enoch_exe_inc Just one example, my friend. The US goes over the line a lot, and we should complain 100%. Prisoners are treated poorly, illegal workers are exploited. We also know the bad history of the FBI, reporting on internal dissent and much worse.

But all of that is far and away different from countries like China and many others, where the law is a joke and a tool to be used by the powerful.

May I ask where you are from? Just as to your perspective on world politics.

lesblazemore,
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@enoch_exe_inc I think what you should understand is that America's dirty laundry is out for everyone to see. If someone makes a video, we see it, the local police can't suppress it.

And that's the important note, that with the US we get to see everything, bad and good.

China has thousands of political prisoners, from Uighur professors to labor organizers. Any protest leads to long jail sentences for the 'organizers'.

Here's just one example, a scientist suppressed:

https://apnews.com/article/covid19-scientist-virus-sequence-protest-laboratory-eviction-b54e2a88610e813c9383833f2c9a2379

lesblazemore,
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@enoch_exe_inc yes it's frustrating, that's actually why I left the US, in part. I still pay attention but prefer not to be inundated with the bs.

But the comparison is stark today about where you are free and where you are not. Russia has zero freedom of speech, as does China.

The rich keep there money in western countries, why? Safety. They are not the same tbf, rule of law does matter.

lesblazemore,
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@enoch_exe_inc Over the last decade, rights for Chinese have gotten worse. They held up blank pieces of paper in Shanghai to communicate that they don't have any rights.

Of course the propaganda is nicer, meanwhile labor rights barely exist in China. People do protest and they get long jail sentences. I could go into detail.

It's great that we criticize the US when it fails to hold up its standards, but in China no one believes there are any standards.

https://www.newsweek.com/china-white-blank-paper-a4-revolution-covid-protests-1762736

lesblazemore,
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@enoch_exe_inc @GreenFire wait you're happy with the HK police approach to the protests Enoch?

yes Kevin there are those trying i agree.

ai6yr, to random

Based on the amount of stuff on the curb today, it's apparently spring cleaning weather. Dressers, desks, shelves, coffee tables (many coffee tables), TVs... Typical of our middle class neighborhood. Although, better that it can be scavenged off the curb than directly into the trash!

lesblazemore,
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@sysop408 @ai6yr and spray them for fleas as I learned once

lesblazemore, to random
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Berliner's piece attacking is a joke. The evidence he uses is all debunked.

"But when the Mueller report found no credible evidence of collusion"

This is FALSE. The Mueller report found multiple contacts between the campaign and Russia (i.e. credible evidence), but "“the investigation did not establish such coordination”

Next is Hunter Biden's laptop, which supposedly showed:

"his connection to the corrupt world of multimillion-dollar influence peddling"

We all know how that went

lesblazemore, to mastodon
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I just remembered one of the essential things Mastodon has to do, thread replies so replies show up in the thread chain properly.

Again, etc

lesblazemore, to mastodon
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I feel that really needs to fix I don't want to see the reply without the leading for context.

Social networks are about the reply without the original post is all but useless, but with the it could be gold

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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I got hit with a wave of this:

💠 It's also the fault of the Democrats
💠People who think that we have time for slow progress are privileged
💠Voting doesn't help. We voted in 2020 and 2022 and the Democrats Did Nothing.

They seem to come out in election years, almost like a stealth campaign to elect Republicans.

I assume that there are people in that wave who are genuinely confused, but ignorance can also be dangerous.

It worked in 2000. Blaming the Dems helped elect George W.

I block them.

lesblazemore,
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@Teri_Kanefield ah, the Purists, aren't they a riot

lesblazemore, to random
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@DrALJONES @maggiejk sorry the threading here sucks, I was complaining about Maggie's comment about the migrants sent from Texas or Florida to northern states

augieray, to random
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4 years ago today, Dr. Li Wenliang warned of a suspected SARS patient in a Wuhan WeChat group. It went viral, becoming the earliest warning of what we now know as .
Days later, he was arrested for “making false comments on the Internet about unconfirmed SARS outbreak.”
He returned to work, contracted COVID from a patient, and died on February 7, 2020.
People were punished & died trying to keep others safe. Four years later, we still can't get people to care, mask, or protect each other.

lesblazemore,
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@augieray It's even worse than that, from early November or even October the government (local government at that point) was already in suppression mode.

lesblazemore, to random
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The sad thing about Elon Musk being bullied as a schoolboy is that there isn't any video

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