#Doonesbury - #Trump: “Why can’t I normalize ‘dictator’?”
Entire strip here: https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/02/11
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🧵via Elie Mystal: 1/…
All right, let's set up what to watch for in today's #SCOTUS #Trump ballot access argument.
The justices I'll be paying the most attention to are Gorsuch & Kagan.
Court is likely to keep Trump on ballot. But...
Neil is guy who is most willing to carry his logic through to bitter end, to hell with the consequences. And Neil's logic *should* exclude Trump. He once wrote an opinion that kicked other people off the ballot, b/c they failed a textual test in the constitution.
#Follow @JasonPerseus for live posting of #14thAmendment #SCOTUS #Trump arguments.
Via @emptywheel:
Gosh. This is like not recognizing your son -- or ex wife.
Ron Filipkowski:
#Trump pointing at Matt Gaetz while repeatedly calling him Rick Gates.
![From: Engoron To: [Trump's lawyers] RE: People v. Trump When | sent my straightfwd, narrow request for info about poss perjury by Allen Weisselberg in the subject case, | was not seeking to initiate a wide-ranging debate with counsel. However, your misleading response grossly mischaracterizes the letter that | wrote, and | feel compelled to respond. .. | have not taken, do not plan to take, and did not suggest or hint that | would take the Times article into consideration...However, if, tomorrow, Weisselberg publicly confesses to having committed perjury about a significant matter in the case before me, or if he pleads guilty to such perjury at any time before | issue my final decision, | will research and consider what the law allows...Indeed, Rule 3.3(a)(3) provides that “If a ...lawyer’s client...offered material evidence and the lawyer comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall take reasonable remedial measures, including, if necessary, disclosure to the tribunal.”..You and your co-counsel have been questioning my impartiality since the early days of this case, presumably because | sometimes rule against your clients. That whole approach is getting old. Your invocation of Cohen’s testimony and veracity is completely out of bounds. You have already submitted your post-trial briefs and made your final arguments. | am not reopening the case, but if someone pleads guilty to committing perjury in a case over which | am presiding, | want to know about it. Justice Engoron](/proxy/post_attachment/65608/7bd76e7821.png "From: Engoron To: [Trump's lawyers] RE: People v. Trump When | sent my straightfwd, narrow request for info about poss perjury by Allen Weisselberg in the subject case, | was not seeking to initiate a wide-ranging debate with counsel. However, your misleading response grossly mischaracterizes the letter that | wrote, and | feel compelled to respond. .. | have not taken, do not plan to take, and did not suggest or hint that | would take the Times article into consideration...However, if, tomorrow, Weisselberg publicly confesses to having committed perjury about a significant matter in the case before me, or if he pleads guilty to such perjury at any time before | issue my final decision, | will research and consider what the law allows...Indeed, Rule 3.3(a)(3) provides that “If a ...lawyer’s client...offered material evidence and the lawyer comes to know of its falsity, the lawyer shall take reasonable remedial measures, including, if necessary, disclosure to the tribunal.”..You and your co-counsel have been questioning my impartiality since the early days of this case, presumably because | sometimes rule against your clients. That whole approach is getting old. Your invocation of Cohen’s testimony and veracity is completely out of bounds. You have already submitted your post-trial briefs and made your final arguments. | am not reopening the case, but if someone pleads guilty to committing perjury in a case over which | am presiding, | want to know about it. Justice Engoron")
The live audio for the oral arguments can be found here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/live.aspx
They will begin at 10:00 a.m. EST, or for those who are more civilized folk: 9:00 a.m. CST.
Here we go … (in 30 minutes)!
#uspol #politics #uspolitics #trump #14th #insurrection #law #lawfedi #legal #supremecourt #SCOTUS
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment
#Trump to sign #ExecutiveOrder directing AG to prosecute flag desecration
Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Monday that directs #US AG #PamBondi to prosecute those who desecrate the American #flag, including by burning, according to a *fact* sheet from the White House.
#FreeSpeech #democracy #authoritarianism #autocracy #dictatorship #tyranny
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-sign-executive-order-directing-ag-prosecute-flag-desecration-2025-08-25/
Edited 120d ago
TY #JamieRaskin 🩷 Via Acyn:
Raskin: All we need from a special prosecutors is a decision…he didn't need to take the cheap shots & you could take the same type of shots @ #Trump who recently confused a woman he sexually attacked & lied about w 1 of his wives. It reminds me of the gender-based cheap shots they took @ Clinton & now all these age-based cheap shots @ #Biden. You can turn them around use them on Trump fumbling his way thru daily trying to figure out which criminal case he’s attending
Edited 1y ago
#Trump demanded on Wednesday that a #FederalReserve governor, #LisaCook, “resign, now!!!,” citing unconfirmed allegations that she *may* have engaged in mortgage fraud. It is the latest sign that the admin is ramping up its campaign to remake the #independent #CentralBank. Trump has pressured the bank to lower #InterestRates, which it has kept steady out of concern that his policies could cause #inflation.
#economy #law #tariffs #trade #immigration #labor #recession
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/us/politics/trump-fed-resign-lisa-cook-governor.html?smid=url-share
Edited 125d ago
Oh, but what is diss? 😁 
Eminem - Free America (Donald Trump Diss) ft. 50 Cent, Snoop Dogg, Lil Wayne, Ice Cube, Lamar, 2Pac
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrV-84fa50E&list=RDNrV-84fa50E
#KilmarAbregoGarcia is released from federal custody in Tennessee
Abrego Garcia walked out of federal custody for the first time since March, when he was deported to El Salvador in what the #Trump admin called an "administrative error."
#law #immigration #rendition #StateSponsoredAbduction
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/kilmar-abrego-garcia-released-federal-prison-rcna226511
"It is impossible to have a rational conversation about topics like lowering the political temperature and pushing back against the spread of political violence when the president of the United States is interested in those issues only as a cudgel against his political opponents."
~ Matt Gertz
I’m flooding every #MAGA feed with the "Trump assassinated Kirk to shut him up about the Epstein files" conspiracy theory to influence their algorithms.
If you're on any legacy social media, you should do the same.
It is actually starting to gain traction and overwhelm all the other rhetoric.
--COPY
#Trump killed #CharlieKirk for not shutting up about the #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinClientList #MAGA
--PASTE
#TrumpKilledCharlieKirk #TrumpKilledKirk #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles
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“Does U.S. want a "well-meaning elderly man," or one who means ill? Would rather have a POTUS who briefly confused Egypt for Mexico, or one who'd start a war on the border?
On the slow train wreck of democracy - it doesn't have to be this way.”
If @willbunch wrote it, you should read it.© & I 🧵 it. 1/… #Biden #Trump #media
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/biden-memory-trump-supreme-court-20240211.html
"#Trump: Russian drone incursion into #Poland ‘could have been a mistake’"
Popular conception: Trump is being played by #Russia
Reality: "SIM cards from Poland and #Lithuania found in downed #drones"
Meaning: #Putin specifically prepared to fly drones into Poland
Verdict: Trump is a fucking moron. The #USA is being run by morons
https://thehill.com/policy/international/5499609-trump-downplays-russian-drones-poland/
Edited 102d ago
https://youtu.be/WIoR0jqJjzk
⛔️🇺🇸Putin just proved Trump and maga Republicans are impotent cowards as he destroys Texas based American interests in Ukraine receiving no US response (Silicon Curtain VIDEO) #Ukraine #Paris #Rome #London #Berlin #Finland #Brussels #Denmark #Germany #Texas #UN #France #Italy #OSCE #PACE #SouthKorea #Press #News #Taiwan #Media #Japan #USA #US #UK #EU #NATO #UnitedStates #trump #maga #mastodon #UnitedKingdom #EuropeanUnion
#RussiaIsATerroristState #TrumpIsARussianAsset
Via Brandon Van Grack:
During the Super Bowl, DOJ filed a motion in Mar-a-Lago case requesting permission to reply to defs' reply to support their motion to compel discovery. DOJ alleges procedural error: defs improperly raised a new claim that discovery is warranted based on selective prosecution #TrumpIndictment #legal #documents #Trump
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1757015755504193768.html?utm_campaign=topunroll
"One day after Putin told Tucker Carlson he invaded Ukraine not because of NATO, but because of his commitment to pursue Greater Russia, Trump promised he'd help Putin pursue Greater Russia. …
At a time when winning the election is an existential necessity for Trump, one day after Putin made clear he is seeking not just Ukraine, but Greater Russia, Trump overtly promised to allow Russia to carve up NATO."
~ Marcy Wheeler
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/12/call-and-response-putin-is-demanding-greater-russia/
Via @emptywheel:
1 reason why #Trump's comments about abandoning #NATO matter are, 1st & foremost, bc he ordered GOP to abandon #Ukraine which virtually all near-Ukraine allies think makes them next
He is, in front of our faces, delivering Ukraine up to Putin as a gift.
But the other reason it matters is bc we SAW this call-and-response in '16 & '20, when Trump got help from Russian spies
This is more of same. Stop letting Trump play dumb. Stop playing dumb yourself. https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/12/call-and-response-putin-is-demanding-greater-russia/
Headline: "How #Biden botched the border"
But in the body: "Much of the current crisis is rooted in factors Biden's team has had little control over — including unprecedented global calamities that have pushed millions of migrants to the U.S., decades of congressional inaction, and the state of key agencies after the #Trump administration."
Update :
#Trump will support #NorthCarolina GOP Chair Michael Whatley to succeed Ronna McDaniel as the leader of the #RNC…
In addition to the Whatley nod, Trump will also support Lara Trump, the former president’s daughter-in-law, to serve as the RNC’s co-chairwoman.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/12/trump-republican-national-committee-chair-whatley-00141061
Actually, #Slavery Was Very Bad
Trump’s latest criticism of #museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase #Black #history.
In what looks to be an intensifying quest to reshape #AmericanHistory & scholarship according to his own preferences, #Trump this week targeted the #Smithsonian Institution, the national repository of #USHistory & #memory. Trump seemed outraged, in particular, by the Smithsonian’s portrayal of the Black experience in America.
Via Lisa Rubin:
Good morning. It's 10:22 a.m. here in New York, and the clerk of the New York Supreme Court has yet to enter judgment in the #Trump civil fraud case. Meanwhile, the U.S. Supreme Court has neither resolved Trump's stay motion nor decided Trump v. Anderson, the Colorado ballot case. And so we wait. #legal
🤦🏻♀️ Via Anna Bower:
NEW: #Trump's legal team wants Judge McAfee to consider addit’l evidence as he mulls whether #FaniWillis should be disqual. The proposed exhibit incl affidavit from private investig who analyzed N. Wade's cell phone location data
Trump's investigator says phone data shows in 2021 Wade twice arrived late in evening at Willis's then-home in Hapeville & left in early a.m. hours.
Willis & Wade testified that they did not begin dating until 2022, but defense disputes that #legal
#FaniWillis walked unaccompanied through the front door of a #FultonCounty courtroom on Thurs afternoon in a bright magenta dress & announced she was ready to testify. She was interrupting her lawyer, who at that very moment was trying to convince a judge that she should not have to testify at all.
- Richard Fausset, NYT
#GiftArticle #criminal #law #Trump
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/fani-willis-trump-georgia-testimony.html?unlocked_article_code=1.V00.hYXJ.qvFl1lSoIE5X&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb