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GottaLaff, to Arizona
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Via Will Steakin:

NEW: Christina Bobb — the new RNC senior counsel for “election integrity” — has pleaded not guilty in #Arizona fake electors case:

Mugshot obtained by
ABC News, via Maricopa County Sheriff office.

mastodonmigration,
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@GottaLaff @KatM

Going for her Trump mugshot face.

Nonilex, to Law
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#TrumpTrial 🧵 Tues 21 May 2024

Testimony may conclude today in Trump’s #criminal NY #ElectionInterference trial, after 5 weeks & 22 witnesses.

Yesterday the jury was introduced to #RobertCostello, a #Giuliani associate & #lawyer who acted as a “back-channel” for #MichaelCohen to #Trump in the summer of 2018.

Yesterday, Costello behaved so atrociously on the witness stand that Juan Merchan cleared the courtroom to admonish him & the defense attorneys. Costello is due back on the stand

#law

mastodonmigration,
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@Nonilex

"unusual flexibility" ... WTF NYT 🤦‍♂️

mastodonmigration,
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@Nonilex

Excellent job today! Really helpful commentary getting us through the jury instruction arguments.

sludge, to random
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NEW: At a private Mar-a-Lago dinner, Trump asked oil executives for $1 billion for his campaign and promised to axe regulations. Now, the oil magnates are carrying out their part of the deal with high-dollar Texas fundraisers.

Our latest at More Perfect Union:

https://substack.perfectunion.us/p/trump-asked-oil-magnates-for-1-billion

mastodonmigration,
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@sludge

Perhaps we need more clean energy incentives. Wonder where we could fund such an initiative?

tiffanycli, to random
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What voice should OpenAI use now that ScarJo’s is off-limits? Wrong answers only.

mastodonmigration,
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@tiffanycli

Henny Youngman

CarlG, to random
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There must be some kind of mistake. The evidence phase cannot be over, because Trump promised us he would testify. And he is a man of his word, not a coward who chickens out. Right?

mastodonmigration,
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@andrew @CarlG

Those are "Jarts", an insane game they sold to kids in the '60s and '70s.

https://www.auctionninja.com/stevenp-cyr-auction-co/product/original-regent-jarts-lawn-darts-game-sold-as-a-collectible-not-for-use--3142.html

Seriously, heavy weighted metal flying darts, what could possibly go wrong? But they were hella fun.

mastodonmigration, (edited )
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@andrew @hobs @CarlG

No, not funny at all. Super dangerous.

Edit: Apologies if the comment could be misconstrued as an endorsement of lawn darts. As a 10 year old kid we spent many fun hours with them, but they were super dangerous, and we had several near catastrophes. Thankfully the worst to happen to us was putting a hole in the aluminum siding of one kid's home.

mastodonmigration, to random
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Classic NYT Maggie Haberman finger on the scale masgerading as straight news:

"The prosecutors’ proposed instructions, among other things, ask the judge to give the jury what legal experts said was unusual flexibility in determining whether Mr. Trump had a role in the creation of the false records at the center of the charges."

What "legal experts"?

This is NY law. How is it "unusual" to advise juries about the law?

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/05/21/nyregion/trump-trial-hush-money?smid=nytcore-android-share

So tired of this BS.

mastodonmigration,
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Great catch on this one by @Nonilex

https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112480386390058527

mastodonmigration,
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How about this...

'According to media experts it is highly unusual for the reporter implicated during the trial as being someone relied upon to favorably spin stories to be the lead journalist covering the trial for the New York Times.'

mastodonmigration,
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@mjf_pro

Just about as many as the legal experts in her story

mastodonmigration, to random
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Well, the day would not be complete without a good old New York Times 'both-sides' story.

knittingknots2, to random
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'Easily baited': Insiders tell of pleading sessions with Trump to stop him taking stand - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-testify-court-2668333008/

mastodonmigration,
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@knittingknots2

Nonsense. He was never going to take the stand. This is a complete crock.

mastodonmigration,
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@TCatInReality @knittingknots2

True, but in this case the judge had made it clear all of the subjects he would allow under cross examination. It would have been a 'blood bath.'

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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The defense on the Trump election fraud trial has rested. Many will discuss what a terrible final witness Robert Costello was, and he was a disaster, but maybe more relevant to the outcome will be what the defense did not do.

Trump's team offered no defense that in any way contradicticted or shred doubt on the key physical hard evidence, the Cohen bank statement with Weisselberg's "grossed up" notes.

more...

mastodonmigration, (edited )
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continued...

If there were any other explanation for doubling the amount than the payback being disguised as income, the defense would certainly have brought someone forward to provide the explanation. Weisselberg or some other witness could have explained it, but they can't because there is no other explanation. So they are stuck with trying to impeach Cohen by bringing a crony liar up on the stand. It's all they had.

dangillmor, to random
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Meet the "private equity" people who did so much to drive Red Lobster into the ground -- the top executives at Golden Gate Capital.

https://goldengatecap.com/team/?_sft_function=operating-executives

They sold off the restaurant real estate to help pay for the buyout, and leased it back at what the bankruptcy filing describes as "priced above market rates."

mastodonmigration,
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@dangillmor

Foolproof!

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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Thanks to Charlie Stross @cstross for posting Idle Words: The Lunacy of Artemis, or why the Artemis moon program is incoherent, badly designed bollocks that will probably kill astronauts: https://idlewords.com/2024/5/the_lunacy_of_artemis.htm

Pretty depressing. It certainly seems that NASA's plan to go to the moon is completely messed up, and never going to work.

Link to Charlie's post and good discussion of the article: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112473373430375576

shoq, to random
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Did you know that repeated earbuds use leads to increased production of cerumen (ear wax?). I only developed the problem when I started using them after years of only using over-ear headphones. Two doctors have told me to go with the bone condenser AfterShokz headphones. Anyone had success with those?

mastodonmigration,
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@shoq

Did not like them at all. Got a splitting headache from them and felt woozy.

SteveThompson, to random
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‘Stole from the Trump Organization’

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/stole-from-the-trump-organization-michael-cohen-admits-to-yet-another-lie-under-cross-examination-and-stealing-30000-after-rigging-online-polls-for-trump/

"Michael Cohen admits to yet another lie under cross-examination — and stealing $30,000 after rigging online polls for Trump"

mastodonmigration,
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@SteveThompson

This is going to matter to the jury not one iota. It's not a popularity contest. The only thing that matters is if the jury thinks Trump finagled the books to disguise the hush money payment whose purpose was to influence the election.

PamelaBarroway, to Bloomscrolling
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Just sharing because this is so gorgeous, and we all need reminders that there is indeed beauty in the world: a maple tree in my neighborhood.

mastodonmigration,
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@PamelaBarroway

Gorgeous maple tree. Grew up in NJ. Deciduous forests are really spectacular.

Cdespinosa, to random
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Someone please ask the rock-ribbed, law-and-order, God-fearing evangelical Conservatives of America if they stand four square with (checks notes) the mobster-affiliated head of the Hell’s Angels and a convicted tax cheat in their moral support of the ex-President on trial for fraudulently hiding hush money payments to the adult film actress he bedded in a hotel when his third wife was caring for their newborn 3000 miles away

mastodonmigration,
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@Cdespinosa

They say yes they do, because he is absolutely consistent with their values.

Nonilex, to politics
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‘We’ll See You at Your House’

Fear & Menace Are Transforming #Politics

#Public ofcls from Congress to City Hall are now regularly subjected to threats of #violence. It’s changing how they do their jobs.

Rep #JamieRaskin, D-MD, played a leading role in #Trump’s 2d impeachment. He said he receives ~50 menacing calls, emails & letters every month.

#law #extremism #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #NationalSecurity
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/us/politics/political-violence.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

mastodonmigration,
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@Nonilex

Important issue, but NYT frames it with their typical 'both sides' nonsense.

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken — or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/spacex-repair-hubble-space-telescope-nasa-foia

mastodonmigration,
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@benjaminherrin

Fine. Agree that this is an unproductive conversation and acknowledge your opinion.

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