Catch 22 is real.
"In early 2021, Trump’s lawyers said during his second impeachment trial that there was no need for the Senate to convict the former president, because the matter was better left to the judiciary.
In early 2024, Trump’s lawyers said the former president’s alleged crimes can’t be left to the judiciary, because the Senate didn’t vote to convict."
Arizona matters
A small bit of good news in #Gaza
Some - not a majority - Palestinians blame Hamas for inciting and prolonging the war without concern for their suffering. Add these to Israelis - probably a majority - who blame Netanyahu for inviting and prolonging the war without concern for their suffering. There's a nucleus of rational people who would rather live in peace than kill one another endlessly.
In honor of Free Feral Cat Spay Day, a pic of Mama Cat with her clipped ear, indicating she has now been spayed. She had a litter under our porch this winter. We were able to catch her, have her spayed, and then released back into her world.
We were able to capture and tame two of her kittens and they are now cuddly members of our family.
This is not what I wanted to hear, but this judge has been correct most of the time.
“I’m profoundly disturbed about the apparent direction of the court. I now believe that it is unlikely Trump will ever be tried for the crimes he committed in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.” - former federal judge J. Michael Luttig
https://newrepublic.com/article/181059/luttig-trump-january-6-case
#scotus #politics
"The justices seem to think that the power they apparently just handed Donald Trump can’t be used against them someday."
https://newrepublic.com/article/181032/supreme-court-trump-immunity-sealed-fate
The Last Thing This Supreme Court Could Do To Shock U.S.
There will be no more self-soothing after this.
It isn't a surprise that many college kids support Hamas. They use platforms like TikTok, which are rife with disinformation, are primarily taught the bad things about what Western nations did, aren't given any boundaries, and quite honestly can't handle the least amount of criticism. It makes them very easy targets for propaganda campaigns.
As he's on trial for accounting fraud to disguise hush money payments as legal fees to undermine the 2026 election, how is Trump paying his legal fees? Seemingly by illegally disguising PAC funds laundered to his own use as legal fees, evading campaign finance laws to undermine the 2024 election. Well, it worked once so why not?
https://open.substack.com/pub/marytrump/p/is-donald-swiping-campaign-funds
To the simple lay person there is, at least, an APPEARANCE of conflict of interest, when THREE justices appointed by Trump, and one other justice who had a spouse urging the Trump coup, do not recuse them self from THE pivotal case about Trump.
The appearance of…
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/supreme-court-trump-immunity-04-25-24/index.html
The Lawyer Defending Idaho’s Abortion Ban Irritated the One Justice He Needed on His Side
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/04/idaho-abortion-ban-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett.html
@walterbays lol kinda is that
Also its completely filled with bad actors peddling bullshit talking points from Russia etc....
Along with influencers peddling their sole for cash
All while data harvesting users
BTW the Chinese version of TikTok is completely different to the wests version of TikTok
How China protects its children and makes ours stupid with the social network TikTok
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yes, that was part of the deal
national enquirer buys story, has "victim" them sign exclusivity, NDA, yada yada. David Pecker would tell Trump, bury the stroy, and Trump would use Michael Cohen and shell companies to pay David Pecker and the victim
There is an audio conversation that Cohen recorded where Trump thought they could wait until after the Election and not have to pay Stormy Daniels.
which kind of blows up the "Didn't want Melania to know" excuse
@Alfred What does it mean for an AI to be evil?
We should take bets on how many days people think Don Snoreleone's going to be able to sit in that courtroom without going completely ballistic no matter the consequences of it, which he will say don't apply to him anyway.
I give it 8 or 9 days so middle of next week May 1st. May Day....he fucking explodes like a gaseous supernova like Nicholson does in A Few Good Men and destroys himself.
$20 bucks goes to CoSo if he does it before or after that day.
..As soon as I installed it, it began asking for my contacts, which I refunded, thinking to test whether it was usable without such access.
Then I received a spam message - the only message I've received on the app. The scammer somehow found me in minutes despite my being listed nowhere and not using the app yet. I shudder to think what the spammers might do to all my friends if I turned over my address book.
What do you think? Is WhatsApp usable or is my best option to buy some Apple device?
Opinions on WhatsApp? I used it long ago but quit after Facebook acquired it because the app requested unnecessary information, particularly all your contacts. Facebook doesn't have a particularly good reputation with privacy.
I looked again because it and FaceTime are the only alternative for video calls with an elderly relative. No Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, or Webex. FaceTime is Apple only, which leaves only WhatsApp. ...
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