>Trump's team is reportedly expecting yet another indictment, this time in Georgia. CNN reported Wednesday evening that sources close to Trump believe he will be indicted at least one more time, and that it will likely be in Georgia for his purported role in a scheme to overturn the election in 2...
"The [Georgia Republican] party’s new first vice-chair, conservative talk show host Brian Pritchard, has claimed the 2020 election was 'stolen' even as he faces charges of voting illegally nine times while serving a felony sentence. He’s said he's done nothing wrong."
#Trump is speaking at the #Georgia#GOP convention -- first time after his federal indictment.
@atrupar is covering it at the hellsite (I won't share), but suffice it to say, he's very upset over the #TrumpIndictment, is mocking it, and sounds like the utter idiot he is, spewing word-slaw, and getting cheers from his equally idiotic base.
RT: Right Wing Watch
Kandiss Taylor, who ran for governor in 2022 and recently became a Georgia GOP district chair, is a flat earther: "Everywhere there's globes ... and that's what they do to brainwash."
“#Atlanta-area investigation of #Trump & his allies has broadened to incl activities in DC & several other states — a fresh sign that prosecutors may be building a sprawling case under #Georgia’s racketeering laws.
"Today, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided a house in Atlanta and arrested three of its residents. Their crime? Organizing legal support and bail funds for protesters and activists who have faced indiscriminate arrest and overreaching charges in the struggle to stop the construction of a vast police training facility — dubbed Cop City — atop a forest in Atlanta.
The arrests are an unprecedented attack on bail funds and legal support organizations, a long-standing facet of social justice movements, according to Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.
“This is the first bail fund to be attacked in this way,” Regan, whose organization has worked to ensure legal support for people resisting Cop City, told me. “And there is absolutely not a scintilla of fact or evidence that anything illegal has ever transpired with regard to Atlanta fundraising for bail support.”
In five to ten years from now, a documentary will be released stating how the #Atlanta Mayor, #Georgia Attorney General and other officials were getting kickbacks or coerced into shoveling #copCity forward
But by that point, it'll be too damn late for justice!
The arrest of the Atlanta Solidarity fund organizers is one of the most important escalations in the country. If #Georgia gets away with this, it will set a precedent for activists across the country.
Such overt authoritarianism can only be met by increased resistance and organizing.
Yurchak on how not to understand Russians' popular support (or lack of, or ambivalence towards) the war on #Ukraine.
"It’s not my job to comfort you. In fact, this is a catastrophe, including a moral one, we are all participating in a moral catastrophe. The catastrophe is not that everyone in Russia is fooled and supporting the war, but that people are simply powerless, they cannot mobilize against it, at least not yet."
It is a catastrophe, but it’s almost entirely self-inflicted. I was in #Russia plenty of times since Putin got into power: I was there during second war in #Chechnya, war in #Georgia, I was there when the first Internet censorship laws were introduced, during Bolotnaya protests, during #Euromaidan, war in #Donbass etc. All I heard from majority of Russians was continued justification of Putin, continued contempt and hatred towards everyone who dared to disagree and, most importantly, continued excuses for continued limiting of their own rights. They are powerless today because they wanted to be powerless in 2011-2012 when they happily delegated all their lives to Putin and childishly believed he will take them to the stars.
Irakli Garibashvili, the Prime Minister of #Georgia from the so-called Georgian Dream party, joins Russian propaganda in blaming NATO for Russia's attack on #Ukraine.
GA Escalation of Gang Prosecutions Boosts Gang Power in Prisons (filtermag.org)
Despite Gov. Kemp's interest in targeting gang-related violence, he seems to misunderstand how it works and how he's exacerbating it.