new zoom background just dropped

I have come around on this. I'm all for avoiding violence when we can, but these are ppl trying to bully the US into abandoning the fucking constitution. Nah.

https://www.salon.com/2024/02/07/booting-from-the-ballot-is-the-best-way-to-prevent-a-second-january-6/

#uspol

JFC these people are an embarrassment to the nation.

Trump’s House allies are sure of at least one thing: He didn’t do it.

#giftarticle

https://wapo.st/3SYFpOx

@Jezibaba whoo! 🔥

@Warpspeed1 yeah, that's the whole reason they split the trials--so they could each blame the other.

Looks like Marcy Wheeler thinks today's no-absolute-immunity decision was worth the wait:

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/02/06/dc-circuit-go-big-and-in-a-footnote-go-blassingame/

Here's hoping... 🤞

@realJanet yep, I believe it is--the account here is just providing ready access to it.

@BrentSullivan @Kellee for some reason this puts me in mind of the WY(?) town Joel & Ellie take refuge in in _The Last of Us_

@OldDude71 I'm just going to assume without clicking that this is a story about pickleball

@Warpspeed1 yeah, it'll be interesting if her conviction let's him convincingly argue "see! it was her fault!". She sure hit the whole "the gun was Dad's thing--he bought it etc." hard enough...

@WeThePeople LOL--the only downside of Cruz fighting with McConnell is that possibly one of them will win.

@th3j35t3r 😂

hope they nail these assholes to the wall

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/nh-attorney-general-says-found-source-fake-biden-robocalls-rcna137499

@Fellixe ach, condolences.

Glad you're semi-okay with it if I'm reading right.

@DevinY1 absolutely. Here's hoping they don't play into his delay delay delay gambit.

Good news everyone!

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-monitor-plus-a-new-tool-to-automatically-remove-your-personal-information-from-data-broker-sites/

oh girl--this is a bad look

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/06/taylor-swift-jet-tracking-legal-threat/

@JoyfullyDazed true. Very glad to finally see DC court of appeals rule that, no, POTUS does not have absolute immunity.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/06/donald-trump-immunity-federal-court-ruling-jan-6-election

I look forward to learning why the hell that took so long