Now i kinda feel bad that people are laughing at Eric when he asks for a half billion dollar bond
NOPE
I am laughing at him to and he didn't even have to ask me anything
Like Ken Buck. Mike Gallagher carefully timed his departure. Under Wisconsin law, congressional vacancies occurring "prior to the 2nd Tuesday in April" in an election year get filled on a faster timeline. An April 19th resignation will keep Gallagher's seat vacant until November
Mike Gallagher (R-WI) will resign early, & the GOP's majority will likely shrink to just 217-214 in May.
That would mean they'd only control the House thanks to two illegally gerrymandered districts in Alabama & Louisiana that have been struck down for racial discrimination & redrawn for 2024
Lock-up provision that prevents Trump from selling (or borrowing against) his $3B in shares in #DWAC (which will trade as #TMTG starting Monday for 6 months.
The lockup ends on the earliest of 3 dates:
a - 180 days from today (which is 9/18/2024)
b - the earliest day in the measuring period starting 150 days from today (8/19/2024) when TMTG stock trades above $12/share for at least 20 out of 30 days (which could be as early as 9/16/24)
(1/2) #politics
Trump claims he has almost $500 million in cash—enough to pay the NY civil-fraud judgment—he would just *prefer* to spend it on his campaign
I think the NY AG would rather seize the cash than properties to settle the Judgement
Maurice Jimmerson walked out of jail today. He spent nearly 11 years behind bars, never officially convicted of a crime. The woman in pink is his daughter. It’s their first hug in more than a decade
4.5 years ago Mike Pence had a Rally at the Coal power plant in Genoa Wisconsin.
Pence thanked essential workers, particularly those who have gone above and beyond to help communities in response to the pandemic and said he is going to fight hard for american workers
today they demolished it
I literally drove south past it today, and when I came back 2 hours later it was rubble
OH-2 congressional candidate
Derek Myers accidentally concedes before polls closed and brags about big party he is going to have tonight.
Immediately retracts.
#news from Lisa Rubin (MSNBC), and Gary Grumbach (NBCnews)
FL public records confirm that Trump used a Schwab brokerage account as collateral to obtain his $91.63 million bond through Chubb’s Federal Insurance Co. in the E. Jean #Carroll case
lists two debtors: the Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust (into which Trump’s assets roll up) and Donald J. Trump, Jr., one of the trustees
all “financial assets credited to the account” are part of the collateral
HE DON"T HAVE THE MONEY.
Court rejects appeal of Parents who lost custody of Trans kids who tried to commit suicide by starvation.
"The Parents have the right to exercise their religious beliefs but they do not have the right to exercise them in a manner that causes physical or emotional harm to Child.”
The mother said "The [Childs preferred name] is the bitch that killed my son"
Trump is having a bunch of bad legal thingy today
In the #ManhattenVsTrump Hush money case. Judge Merchan says Trump may NOT offer his proposed mushy "presence of counsel" defense in his upcoming NY criminal trial.
Judge notes that while Trump's lawyers twice cite an order from Judge Lewis Kaplan in the Sam Bankman-Fried case, they omit the fact that Kaplan ruled AGAINST Bankman-Fried's similarly mushy not-quite-advice-of-counsel defense
He told Proud boys to "Stand back and stand by" They made T-shirts that very day.
he then organized an attempted coup of the government
Now he is calling for a bloodbath if he is not elected.
This has got to stop. Every Media and organization, and Politician should condemn this
"There it is, just the way it came off the Founding Fathers' typewriter." Herblock, Washington Post, 3/13/1974.
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