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N.C., USA. Management consultant, but not the crappy kind. Old, sweary, and stabby when provoked. #Antiracist; #Antifa; #Resist; trying to be a good LGBTQ and BLM ally. Interests: #journalism #media #maps #dataviz #astronomy #management #leadership #LearningAndDevelopment #learning #uspol #ncpol #cats #mastocats #kittens #CatsOfMastodon.

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RickiTarr, to random
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You are going to make love to a Cereal Mascot, who do you choose?

I'm going Snap, Crackle, & Pop.

panamared27401,
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@RickiTarr I thought they were minors. Or is it just that all elves look like minors.

panamared27401,
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@RickiTarr OK, but if you try that in real life it won't end well.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Welp! 🧵

Via Kyle Cheney: 1/...

: Judge has indefinitely postponed Donald 's trial date in Florida.

It may be months before we know the new schedule.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652/gov.uscourts.flsd.648652.530.0.pdf

panamared27401,
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@arisummerland No one. The judge is a Trump appointee and a huge Trump fan. She looks in the mirror and sees a Supreme Court justice thanks to him. @GottaLaff

panamared27401, to random
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panamared27401, to random
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There are tornadoes in Iowa and Oklahoma right now that are so powerful they are debarking trees. Y'all be careful out there.

StillIRise1963, to random
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The fact that this presidential immunity question is being discussed in SCOTUS makes this nation look like the land of morons. Seriously.🙄

panamared27401,
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@justafrog @StillIRise1963 Or a dictatorship.

panamared27401, to random
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This MSNBC special on today's court cases is depressing as hell. Any notion that the SCOTUS's Federalist Society wing is anything other than corrupt is now officially dead. And the bad guys are getting worse.

panamared27401, to random
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My take on Trump-immunity oral arguments: Trump's attorneys likely have successfully delayed the start of the J6 trial past Election Day. The justices are all over the map re private vs. public vs. criminal acts.

GottaLaff, to legal
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NOTE: I have stuff to do today. My live posting will be limited. So will my replies/reading your replies.

THREAD: 🧵 1/…

Klasfeld:

Now

Trump enters the courtroom and is seated at the defense table.

Photojournalists go close up in front of him, as usual, to take their photos.

"All rise."

Justice Merchan takes the bench and invites Trump's lawyer Emil Bove to put their email exchange from Wednesday on the record.

It's an evidentiary issue.

panamared27401,
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@GottaLaff Thank you for whatever you're able to do today, Laffy. It's a busy day in court and in life.

Teri_Kanefield, (edited ) to random
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If you read my weekend blog post, you know that I've been pointing out that the predicate crime in the Trump trial is not clear.

(For what I mean, see my weekend blog post).

Here is what the Washington Post reported.

See screenshots #1 and #2.

Here is the law: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ELN/17-152?utm_medium=email&wpisrc=nl-nationalpopup&utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=wp_the_trump_trials

To be clear: I have no idea how this trial will turn out. I cannot substitute my judgment for the jury because I am not seeing what they are seeing.

1/

panamared27401,
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@Teri_Kanefield I have no idea how the trial will turn out, either, for the same reasons plus I'm working so all I can do is read about each day's testimony after the fact. BUT: The prosecution's theory laid out in your two screenshots sounds ... plausible?

panamared27401,
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@Teri_Kanefield Fair enough. But they cite NYS Election Law 17-152. Does that not qualify in your opinion? Or am I missing something (always a possibility)? Thanks for your response!

panamared27401,
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@Teri_Kanefield So are you saying that falsifying business records isn't a crime if doing so is part of an otherwise-legal catch-and-kill?

GottaLaff, to legal
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1/…🧵

Let’s start with this, via @darthstar, because NY has laws that govern . I heard the Legals on TV say the same thing as Sean here:

https://mastodon.online/@darthstar/112320741962522803

panamared27401,
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@GottaLaff Thank you so much for your work this morning, Laffy!

panamared27401, to random
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"America's Plastic Makers" are running an ad that says, "Imagine a future" in which plastic is reused. In other words, they've been lying to us for the past 80-odd years.

panamared27401,
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@Pineywoozle Plastic makers, which is to say, oil companies, have lied as much about the health/environmental damages of their product as have cigarette makers. The cigarette makers have been kinda sorta held accountable for their fraud on the public. It needs to happen for the oil industry as well.

Green_Footballs, to random
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Trump keeps recycling this “argument” again and again without ever apparently realizing he’s saying that Joe Biden could throw him into a deep dark dungeon and keep him there and Trump would have no escape.

It’s another case of: either Trump’s that dumb or he thinks all his marks are that dumb.

panamared27401,
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@Green_Footballs Oh, it could be both.

panamared27401, to random
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Brandi_Buchman, to random
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A man convicted of burning a tiki torch while chanting white supremacist slogans at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and has admitted to assaulting two police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/unite-the-right-tiki-torch-man-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-cops-on-jan-6/

panamared27401,
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@Brandi_Buchman I hope his sentence for the 2021 offense was enhanced -- a lot -- because of the 2017 offense.

GottaLaff, to legal
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1/…🧵

Via Klasfeld:

Expected first:

The judge may issue his Sandoval rulings, determining what prior bad acts prosecutors can confront Trump with if he testifies.

A key question: "What's fair game?"

panamared27401,
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@GottaLaff Thank you very much, Laffy. On days when real life intrudes, it's good to know that you've got my back, summary-wise. 🙂 @CharJTF

FAIR, to random
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Among the terms the memo tells reporters to avoid: “Palestine” (“except in very rare cases”), “occupied territories” (say “Gaza, the West Bank, etc.”) and “refugee camps” (“refer to them as neighborhoods, or areas”). The memo discourages the use of the terms “genocide” (“We should…set a high bar for allowing others to use it as an accusation”) and “ethnic cleansing” (“another historically charged term”).

https://fair.org/home/action-alert-nyts-war-on-words-avoid-palestine-genocide-ethnic-cleansing/

panamared27401,
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@FAIR Genocide has a specific meaning under international laws to which the U.S. is a party. If the jackboot fits, Israel needs to wear it. If it doesn't, then no. But either way, this is not a judgment call.

RickiTarr, to random
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What kind of high-school experience did you have? Were you in a clique? Were you popular, unpopular, the coolest kid in your Homeschool? Did you have a sweet jean jacket with patches, or maybe a leather vest? Were you an evil villain or a Mary Sue?

panamared27401,
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@RickiTarr I was a nerd, but I also was in marching band and drama, both of which had the best parties. So it worked out.

GottaLaff, to random
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👀Via Emptywheel:

I'm with 'paw.

Not a single participant in a Trump-related case (or Hunter Biden's) has avoided life-altering threats. You can't do this to people serving their civic duty.

nycsouthpaw:

Another Lawfare editor has posted a thread—based on pool reports—compiling copious personal identifying information for all six seated jurors. It’s so dangerous, at least as I perceive the character of the movement, I don’t even want to link it. WTF are we doing?

panamared27401,
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@Lizette603_23 Ayep. Former longtime journalist here. Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you OUGHT to. @GottaLaff

panamared27401,
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@Lizette603_23 In fact, why do they think jurors' names are being withheld in the first place? @GottaLaff

panamared27401, to random
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I wasn't, dude.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I still can’t get over the fact that people discussed trickle down economics like it made any fucking sense.

panamared27401,
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@StillIRise1963 They still do in Hillsdale College ads that I can't seem to escape on FB.

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