Trump defense lawyer John Lauro faced unusually testy pushback from co-panelists & DOJ alums attending ABA conference.
Lauro praised Trump DOJ for being in a "better place" now that Jack Smith isn't victimizing the president.
"You're a clown," someone yelled.
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Steve Brodner
How the Hell Did We End Up Here?
From the failed ethno-nationalist revolt in the early 1990s to the triumph of MAGA extremism - A history of the Republican Party, Part II.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
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I love Behind the Bastards. Their Steven Seagall episode had both of us roaring with laughter & replaying segments “he did WHAT?!?”.
This is what happens when you create a bubble in which tech reactionaries with fancy degrees & big heads who never took a humanities course can sit around huffing Yarvin's brain farts and end up convincing themselves that Trump is the Emperor God who will save western civilization from the wokes.
Here we learn that in 2012 it made far more sense to believe that there was widespread anti-Republican voter fraud than it was to believe that THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE FOR THAT CLAIM DESPITE MILLIONS OF HERITAGE FDN DOLLARS SPENT TO PROVE IT. www.unqualified-reservations.org/2012/11/ador...
The “Rob Malley” thing is a common Yarvin move. Cite an obscure thing that your audience won’t know about (putting them in awe of your erudition), and imply that if they knew their entire world view will shift on its axis. The oldest intellectual charlatan trick in the book. bsky.app/profile/seth...
Looks we’re in the beginnings of yet another Red Scare, and this Texas jury just handed the government the keys to prosecute us
Plan accordingly, and don’t let this deter you from doing good antifascist work. Solidarity with the Prairieland defendants
RFK Jr. recently repeated his administration’s announcement that Tylenol use during pregnancy causes autism on the Joe Rogan podcast. The response isn’t even ambiguous, it’s dead wrong. The strongest available evidence rejects that idea convincingly.
youtu.be/QF5x5t5qmwI
Not wrong.
Sadly.
WASHINGTON-Before the U.S. went to war, Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told President Trump that an American attack could prompt Iran to close the Strait of Hormuz. Caine said in several briefings that U.S. officials had long believed Iran would deploy mines, drones and missiles to close the world's most vital shipping lane, according to people with knowledge of the discussions. Trump acknowledged the risk, these people said, but moved forward with the most consequential foreign-policy decision of his two presidencies. He told his team that Tehran would likely capitulate before closing the strait-and even if Iran tried, the U.S. military could handle it. Now, two weeks into the war, Iran's leaders have refused to back down, and the Strait of Hormuz has emerged as Tehran's most potent leverage point.
How Trump alone got the US - and the world - into a crisis in the Middle East. From the WSJ.
Wanna know who is behind all this? www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hegseth’s Pentagon Axed a Program Meant to Save Civilian Lives one.npr.org/i/fis-452538...
Mark my words--- Polymarket and other predictive market schemes have the potential to become a serious threat to press freedom/journalists.
Putin is already supplying intelligence to Iran to help them target US bases and service members in the Gulf region.
Now that Trump has announced that the US will suspend sanctions on Russian oil for as long as the Strait of Hormuz is closed, look for Putin to help Iran keep it blocked.
Idiocy.
Now, I can say I’m a “borked gull” & you’ll know I’m a knackered lass.
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Context: April 20, 2023
"Companies run by a former professional wrestler received “sham contracts” in Mississippi and misspent millions of dollars of welfare money that was supposed to help some of the neediest people in the U.S., according to a new federal indictment."
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Iran has killed over 1.2 million Americans.
No, sorry, that was the number of Americans *Donald Trump* killed with his incompetent response to COVID.
Vyvanse lets you drink more without passing out. So, about the same thing as the Nazis. I swear the rise of meth in rural America is connected to at least some of this. It makes you crazy. These people are crazy.
Inside the Drug Use That Fueled Nazi Germany | HISTORY share.google/0nt0C5dMuLbO...
Pathocracy =
A form of government where power is seized and held by a minority of people with severe personality disorders, particularly psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism
Just a reminder that the Democratic Party enables Republicans to do whatever damage they can when they’re in power and then cleans it up while telling everyone that they really wish things could change but it just isn’t time to do it yet. Because of the messes, of course.
the country is at war and the president is leaving DC this afternoon for a weekend at his private club in Florida that he'll spend with his paying customers
Still true.
Trump’s DOJ is still concealing Epstein documents pertaining to the accusation that he battered and sexually assaulted a teenager. But FBI files are FOIA-able, and in this case the EFTA should supersede FOIA privacy exceptions other than to protect the accuser’s identity. So I’m giving it a shot.
The US “will be expected to restore freedom of navigation in the Gulf. But that would be wildly expensive, putting U.S. Central Command on a permanent war footing.”
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@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk “Is Ian Dunt right? Is the answer to the question not anything vaguely intelligent nuanced or detailed?”
“It’s as if a computer had created a creature consisting entirely of greed and appetite - what if that’s the answer.” open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...
