#Tiktok in 2022 tried to offer the White house a deal. It would let federal officials pick its U.S. operation’s board of directors, would give the government veto power over each new hire and would pay an American company that contracts with the Defense Department to monitor its source code
The problem was it would still remain a chinese owned company
Also it would become a political tool open for corruption
(WaPo archive)
https://archive.is/FYL8V
A former sheriff from Florida has received political asylum in Moscow, and is now a key player in Russia's disinformation operations against the West, the NYT reports.
"Working from an apartment crowded with servers and other computer equipment, Mr. Dougan has built an ever-growing network of more than 160 fake websites that mimic news outlets in the United States, Britain and France."
#politics
(NYT archive)
https://archive.is/GWRzR
.#Nasa and #BoeingSpace teams polled “go” to proceed with plans to launch the agency’s Boeing Crew Flight Test to the International Space Station at 12:25 p.m. EDT Saturday, June 1. During a Delta-Agency Flight Test Readiness Review Wednesday at #KSC in Florida, leaders from NASA, Boeing, and #ULA (United Launch Alliance) verified launch readiness, including all systems, facilities, and teams supporting the test flight.
No. I won't tell you my jokes about ghosts having sex with owls
Going to cry about it?
Well boo fucking hoo
Justice Sam #Alito refuses to recuse himself from Jan. 6 cases or Trump cases in letter to Congress.
"My wife is fond of flying flags. I am not," he writes. "I asked her to take them down and she refused"
Waiting for her to fly a swastika and union jack next.
Trump outside after #ManhattenVsTrump jury begins deliberating
"This judge contributed to Joe Biden and far worse than that. But I'm not allowed to talk about it 'cause I have a gag order,” Trump whined.
"It'll be talked about in the history books. What's happening here is weaponization at a level that nobody's seen before, ever. And it shouldn't be allowed to happen."
Lol sounds terrified and trying to set himself up as a marytr. Obviously doesn't think he has a jurist on his side
Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s husband is representing Fox Corporation — Fox News’ parent company — in a defamation lawsuit
*Me at Hotel, pushing all the tables together at the Continental breakfast*
Hotel staff: Sir, could you please not-
Me: PANGEA BREAKFAST!
Former Trump attorney has Colorado law license suspended for attempting to overturn 2020 election results
Jenna Ellis, has agreed to have her law license suspended for three years in Colorado for her role in attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results
such a bad lawyer that when fired as a traffic lawyer, she was able to collect unemployment because they assumed her education was the problem
So the basics coming out of the #Alito upside down flag story. is that a Neighbor put up a sign condemning the #jan6th attack. and Martha-Ann Alito decide to put up a sign in support of #jan6th after confronting the liberal neighbors about their sign she saw as offensive
And Altio had nothing to do with it, and doesn't share the same political beliefs of his wife and has no control over her
(NYT archive)
https://archive.ph/891Uc
Pair of ex-FBI employees targeted by Trump, Lisa Page & Peter Strzok, settle privacy invasion claims v. DOJ over release to media of texts the two exchanged. Page's suit would end, but Strzok's broader case over his firing to proceed
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/feds-settle-page-strzok-00160300
Prosecution ends closing remarks in #ManhattenVsTrump
"The name of the game is concealment and all roads lead inescapably to the man who needed it most, the defendant, former President Donald Trump."
Jury instructions and jury deliberation starts tomorrow
No..You do not need to reply to that and explain more nuance
It a normal world Nikki Haley autographing an Israeli bomb and adding the words "finish them ❤️" would end her career
Not going to share a link to that news or pictures
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