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panamared27401

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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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I just heard some asininity from someone who should have known better. A friend of mine, an editor not long out of some of D.C.'s biggest and most prestigious political-news outlets, claimed that Fulton County DA Fani Willis had disgraced herself and disqualified her office and that it was a huge story.

Never mind that we had two days' worth of fact-finding and came nowhere near any such conclusion. 1/

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Sure, what she did was very dumb and looks bad, but based on what we saw Thursday and today, she never lied to the court and never benefited financially from the arrangement, which are the grounds on which she could have been disqualified.

And a huge story? No, goddammit, there is NO moral equivalence, and the fact that so many national reporters seem to think that there is just shows that most of them are morally stillborn.2/

panamared27401,
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A HUGE story is treason. A huge story is inciting sedition/seditious conspiracy. A huge story is installing a Supreme Court that overturns a 50-year-old right and ignores the plain meaning of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. A huge story is illegally withholding aid from another country unless it helps out with political dirty tricks. 3/

panamared27401,
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A huge story is mid-9-digits fraud. A huge story is being adjudicated a rapist. A huge story is daily violations of the emoluments clause FOR FOUR YEARS. A huge story is Project 2025. A huge story is national vote suppression. A huge story is running the three branches of government like a GOT-damb crime family. 4/

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Doing all those things at once is a REALLY huge story. Next to that, whom Fani Willis once slept with barely rates a bulleted brief deep inside the B section. She shouldn't have done it, but for the love of all that is holy, can we please have even a modicum of perspective here? The only thing riding on it is the survival of democracy. 5/fin

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@colorfiend He was working for her. Absent things like lying to the court about it or her financially benefiting from the arrangement, there's nothing illegal or professionally unethical about it that I know of (IANAL), but in general it's not a good idea to sleep with someone who works for you, for a lot of reasons.

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@thepoliticalcat Sorry, but we are not just talking about two consenting adults, and this is not just a case of panty-sniffing. Criminal cases are frequently won or lost in the media, and this criminal case is against the most formidable defendant in U.S. history. Willis and Wade would have been wiser to avoid tainting the jury pool until after the trial. Also, it is just a good rule of thumb not to sleep with people who work for you.

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@thepoliticalcat Defendants didn't accuse Willis of sleeping with Wade. They accused her of 1) lying to the court about it and 2) possibly having benefited financially from the relationship, either of which would be legal grounds for the judge to remove Willis's office from the case. @colorfiend

panamared27401,
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@thepoliticalcat Not as much as it used to be. The movement has had some beneficial effect in that regard. @colorfiend

panamared27401,
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@Stinson_108 That may or may not be true. Keep in mind that the defendants are desperate to get Willis's office yeeted off the case because any replacement prosecutor likely would be chosen by Republicans and would make the charges go away. @thepoliticalcat

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@Stinson_108 IANAL, but I don't think defendants met their burden of proof (the standard is "more likely than not," not "beyond a reasonable doubt") that Willis did anything disqualifying. McAfee's a Republican, but so far he has been calling a good game, so I honestly have no idea what he's going to do. I do know what he SHOULD do. @thepoliticalcat

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@Stinson_108 I saw some of it, yes. I think part of that was the simple ineptitude of the defendants' attorneys, but part of it was that he was realizing that their allegations had zero evidence behind them. @thepoliticalcat

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I’m reading Judge Engoron’s opinion. Sharing some of my reactions in real time. So far, the best line of the opinion: “The Trump Organization keeps Weisselberg on a short leash, and it shows.” 1/

panamared27401,
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@floatybirb Oh, many times over. A campaign contribution that does that is one of the best investments, mathematically speaking, on the planet. @Npars01 @heidilifeldman

panamared27401, to random
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Biden just tore House Republicans a bloody, gaping new asshole for 1) refusing to fund Ukraine and 2) going on a two-week recess immediately thereafter.

RickiTarr, to random
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How do you feel about physical touch? I mean this is the broad sense, not necessarily in a sexual way, but you can answer however you wish.

Personally, I enjoy it a lot, and find it comforting, but only from really specific people. If strangers or people I don't know well want to hug me, it's okay, but I won't seek it out. I think handshakes are weird. Hey, you want to hold hands with a stranger for a short amount of time for some reason?

panamared27401,
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@RickiTarr I like to give and receive physical touch from friends and family to whom I am close. For strangers I'm meeting, I prefer handshakes, even though the practice originated as a medieval way of showing that one was unarmed.

panamared27401, to random
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I'm not sure of the larger significance, if any, but MSNBC's Katie Phang, covering the Fani Willis disqualification hearing in Fulton County Superior Court, is wearing a scarf decorated with skulls.

StillIRise1963, to random
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I find the Super Bowl Christianity ads to be EXTREMELY OFF PUTTING.

panamared27401,
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@StillIRise1963 I'm not surprised. One of the big funders behind them is the Green family of Hobby Lobby fame, per NPR and the Religion News Service.

GottaLaff, to legal
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Via Roger Parloff:

“Quick update on tense dispute between Judge & govt in USA v (MaL): ln trying to persuade Cannon to reconsider her order last week to unseal identities of >24 “participants” in probe, including some witnesses & their statements ...”

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1756321342515769532.html

panamared27401,
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@Just_Tired I'll tell you what she's thinking. She's thinking that Trump can get re-elected and then appoint her to the Supreme Court. @GottaLaff @dbc3

panamared27401,
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@GottaLaff Yeah, the idea certainly isn't original with me. It's been pretty obvious ever since she was assigned the case. @Just_Tired @dbc3

countcol, to random

Home is the only place you don't go "to." You go "to work." You go "to school." You go "to the shop", but you don't go "to home." You just go home.

panamared27401,
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@BlippyTheWonderSlug "Dis MAH pie! U get ur own, hooman!"

@FiveSeventeen @StarkRG @Fragarach @migriverat @HighlandLawyer @countcol

jerzone, to animals
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When the cat's radar picks up something above the ceiling.

panamared27401,
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@jerzone We occasionally have a mouse in our living-room ceiling. Kirby goes nuts when that happens.

appassionato, to palestine
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Snipers shoot at every moving object around Nasser Hospital, killing medical staff, evacuees, and those trying to get to the hospital for treatment. These people have been killed at the gate of the hospital and even inside the complex.
About 300 medical staff in the hospital are overwhelmed and exhausted. There are also 450 patients and wounded people inside. 10,000 evacuees – who cannot leave since the Israeli ground invasion started – are sheltering inside the facility.
@palestine
@Hospitals

panamared27401,
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@dbattistella Oh, but Biden called Israel's behavior in Gaza "over the top," so I guess we're supposed to stop worrying now. @appassionato @palestine @Hospitals

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"There isn't a Democrat anywhere in the United States who can be kept off the ballot as was done with Donald Trump under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution." -- Lawrence O''Donnell, dismissing Chief Justice John Roberts's expressed concern earlier today that if Trump is disqualified, Republicans will attempt to disqualify Democratic candidates in a tit-for-tat

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MSNBC's Alex Wagner on the Supreme Court after today's oral arguments on whether Trump can be on the ballot: "They're not textualists. They're not literalists. ... This court takes into account politics when it makes its decisions."

panamared27401,
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@ramsey @lisamelton Even though it's their job. Look, I'm sure they're not happy about it, but this issue is going to keep coming back before them until they deal with it one way or the other. That's why they get the big bucks.

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Joy Reid is pointing out that SCOTUS has said that abortion has to be decided by the states, when the Constitution is silent on the issue, but elections can't be decided in the states, where the Constitution calls for them to be.

panamared27401,
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@luv_wins Not dementia. Hypocrisy. They have weaponized it.

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