#Trump has a huge posse today, including #KashPatel; #GerryKassar, a #conservative party leader in NY; #BernieKerik, fmr NYPD commissioner who was imprisoned for tax fraud & false statements; #AlanDershowitz, lawyer who defended Trump during his first impeachment, & #BorisEpshteyn, legal adviser who was #indicted in AZ for attempts to keep Trump in power after the 2020 election.
Journalists are still actively participating at exTwitter, thereby actively supporting Musk, who is helping extremists bring down democracy and, by extension, a free press.
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.
Writers I respect decided to stick with Substack despite arrogant, extremist-friendly investors and leadership.
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.
@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.
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!
@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...
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?
@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.
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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
@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
“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.”
@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'.
@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.