“Imagine if John Wilkes Booth had killed Lincoln now, in Trump’s America. He would have been captured alive, obviously, because he’s a white man. He’d be given the Mike Flynn treatment: Out on bail, free to spew his bullshit counter-narrative. He’d be a regular guest on Fox News, and Jeff Zucker’s CNN would book him regularly to give “equal time.” He’d launch a podcast…”
https://open.substack.com/pub/gregolear/p/trump-and-punishment-reprise

For the first time in, probably, their entire history, Ukrainians are celebrating Christmas according to the Western calendar, no the Orthodox. Putin has driven them away from the old Byzantine sphere with his genocidal war.

"The Government Accountability Project (GAP), a nonprofit whistleblower protection and advocacy organization, Thursday urged two US Congressional Committees to continue reviewing Twitter’s suspension of several journalists’ accounts."

https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/12/congress-urged-to-investigate-twitter-journalist-suspensions/. #news

Festivus for the rest of us.

"Netflix unveils huge $905M plan for N.J. production studios at ex-military base"

https://www.nj.com/monmouth/2022/12/netflix-unveils-huge-905m-plan-for-nj-production-studios-at-ex-military-base.html

Save our Republic! #J6

I love that the vast majority of the #J6Committee investigative material: deposition transcripts, other evidence, will be public.

Thank you to the committee for their important work.

And, to the fine team at #PBSNewsHour, whose coverage has been my primary source of watching the televised #hearings

#politics #law #elections #lawenforcement #Trump #January6 #January6Insurrection #January6Committee

"The fight to guarantee paid sick leave for rail workers is not over and we will not back down until we win...We are committed to aggressively pursuing further action.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/dec/16/railroad-workers-unions-congress-biden-working-conditions

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The Lincoln Project has come up with their own version of Trump trading cards

Stairs and open windows ... the most prolific killers of ruzzian oligarchs.
#politics #russia
https://www.ilmessaggero.it/mondo/francia_oligarca_russo_morto_caduto_dalle_scale-7119594.html

Barbara Starr leaving CNN after more than two decades https://trib.al/0JE2Y0Z

I saw a commercial for an Energy company today. They were trying to sound like they were on our side, claiming they were going to raise production to help us.

Do people by this bullshit? Do people not know that it was the energy companies that raised prices? That they saw the word inflation and jumped on it as an opportunity to gouge us even further?