For those interested in the (relative) moment-by-moment events of today's #TrumpTrials in #Manhattan, I came across a really thorough running update by #cnn.
📰 Testimony in the #Trump #HushMoney #trial wraps for the week
#news #law #accountability #fraud #ElectionInterference #CookingTheBooks #CleanupOnAisle45
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-hush-money-trial-04-26-24/index.html
📰 King Charles III has cancer and is receiving treatment, Buckingham Palace says
"... The palace says the cancer is not related to the king’s recent treatment for a benign prostate condition. It did not say what form of cancer the 75-year-old monarch has."
#news #uk #KingCharles #RoyalFamily #cancer
🔗 https://apnews.com/article/king-charles-iii-cancer-britain-e0408a7c9bb86ad2af8754ce4b37d65e
📰 What if Jan. 6 happened again, only much, much worse?
//In a new Sundance documentary, 'War Game,’ politicians and military leaders simulate another contested election, in January 2025, and take it to the extreme.
#JadaYuan #WashingtonPost #news #January6Insurrection #documentary #movies #Sundance
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/movies/2024/01/24/war-game-jan-6/
#WashingtonPost #giftarticle
#DinoGrandoni
📰 Learning to sleep like a bear could save your life // Blood clots, bed sores, bone loss — there is a whole host of ailments bears and other hibernating animals appear to avoid. So doctors and veterinarians are probing their deep-sleep ability.
#news #breaking #defamation #damages #FAFO #Schadenfreude
📰 Rudy #Giuliani ordered to pay $148 million for false 2020 election claims
// Jury finds former Trump attorney and N.Y. mayor must pay damages to two #Georgia poll workers he defamed by falsely accusing them of election fraud
#Texas
📰 Members of Texas #Republican party free to associate with #Nazi sympathizers / Executive committee rejects banning members who ‘espouse or tolerate antisemitism’ and deny Holocaust, arguing clause is vague
... In a 32-29 vote, the party’s executive committee decided against excluding from their organization those "known to espouse or tolerate antisemitism, pro-Nazi sympathies or Holocaust denial”.
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/04/texas-republican-party-vote-antisemitism
📰 Choosing not to speak up as ‘good friends’ make #racist comments
Q: My husband & I are good friends w/a couple who often make racist comments. I don’t know how to respond since I don’t agree w/their perspective. But I don’t want to offend them by speaking up [....] — Friend
Friend: Oh, for fox’s sake, please offend these monsters with gusto. Then find better people to be your friends.
#Advice #WashingtonPost
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2023/11/30/carolyn-hax-friends-racist-comments/
#news #politics #Elections #2024Election #MSM #Trump #DemocracyIsOnTheBallot
📰 With the world on fire, a cowardly, timid news media is a threat to U.S. democracy / News organizations are using cowardly words to describe killing abroad, fascism at home — downplaying the danger to democracy.
🔗 https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/journalism-free-press-gaza-extremism-20231105.html
#news #economy #GDP
Okay, why is THIS:
>>The US has the highest post-pandemic #growth—and the lowest #inflation—of any country in the G7, which includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK, and European Union.
Not the headline and lede everywhere!!
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/us-economy-surges-in-3rd-quarter-of-2023
#news #WashingtonPost #MichaelRuane #CarolynYJohnson #AaraLYarber #giftarticle
📰 Old African American cemetery yields DNA links to 41,000 new ‘relatives’
//DNA from 27 enslaved people buried near a #Maryland iron forge was also tied to regions in #Africa / Researchers studying the bones of people enslaved in Maryland find clues in the #23andMe database.
#genealogy #slavery #history #BlackHistory #Catoctin #CatoctinFurnace #Harvard #Smithsonian #science #dna #iron
#WashingtonPost #giftarticle #news
#JenniferRubin #opinion #DarkBrandon
📰 Biden’s underrated deal-making prowess strikes again / Recall where the debt ceiling negotiations began and it's hard to conceive of an outcome more favorable to the president
Well, well, WELL! #WashingtonPost #giftarticle #news
📰 Mike #Lindell’s firm told to pay $5 million in ‘Prove Mike Wrong’ election-fraud challenge / The #MyPillow founder and #ElectionDenier offered the money to anyone who could disprove his claim about data he said showed #China manipulated the 2020 U.S. #election.
By Chris #Dehghanpoor, #EmmaBrown & #JonSwaine
📰 #Minneapolis City Council unanimously approves sweeping plan to #reform policing / agreement plots new future of Minneapolis policing
#giftarticle #StarTribune #PoliceReform #Police #PoliceBrutality #GeorgeFloyd #PhilandoCastile #news
#news #WashingtonPost #giftarticle
📰 Opinion: This element is critical to human flourishing — yet missing from the news
Awesome piece with a bunch of internal links I plan to explore!
#WashingtonPost #giftarticle #news
📰 World’s oldest bar? Archaeologists find a nearly 5,000-year-old tavern / Archaeologists excavated a site in Iraq dating to around 2700 B.C. in the ancient Sumerian city-state of Lagash that might contain the oldest-known tavern.
#news #government #politics #Arizona #legislature
I hope constituents melt the phone lines of their #Republicans legislative members w/complaints over this.
📰 Arizona Republicans exempt lawmakers from the state’s #OpenRecords law / #GOP #legislators, stung by the public scrutiny of #GinniThomas’s emails and the work of the #CyberNinjas, retreats into secrecy.
#oversight #transparency #accountability #citizens #indivisible
#news #Iran
#WashingtonPost #giftarticle
📰 The price paid by this generation of #Iranian #StudentActivists is rising by the day. And as the repression deepens, their demands are becoming more radical.
#world #freedom #humanrights #protests #WomanLifeFreedom
#WaPo
#news #Ukraine #BreakingNews from #WashingtonPost
📰 #Canada raises $500 million loan for Ukraine using government bonds
WAY TO GO, CANADA!! 🇨🇦 🍁 💪
#WaPo #SlavaUkraini #СлаваУкраїні
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