This statement by #MAGAMike is disqualifying for the 2nd in line for the presidency. The rule of law is sacrosanct in America. House Dems shouldn’t save his speakership again. Speaker Johnson is lawless, & not worthy of serving in Congress. Ditto for the other traitors in the Senate & the House.
"TFG becomes first ex-president convicted of felonies in election fraud case."
-D Rothkopf
Jury in Donald Trump hush money trial has reached a verdict. No matter which way this goes, we can conclude one thing - Donald Trump has received a fair trial - No one in the Free world is above the law ...
The #UnitedStates is actively weighing whether to lift one of #POTUS#Biden’s longest-held precautionary measures of the #Ukraine war: a ban on the use of #US provided #weapons for offensive strikes inside #Russia.
The reassessment is a byproduct of Russia’s renewed cross-border assault on #Kharkiv, a chorus of pressure from #EU ofcls & a visit to Kyiv by Secy of State #Blinken that reinforced the peril facing Ukraine….
The TX AG is a fascist bigot, he endangers many vulnerable Texans:
TX AG Paxton repeatedly uses laws meant to protect against fraudulent or deceptive practices to target hospitals, pharma cos. & LGBTQ+ groups.
State AGs have increasingly used their powers to also pursue investigations targeting orgs. whose work conflicts with their pol views. Paxton, an R, is among the most aggressive. “He’s laying out kind of like the blueprint about how to do this-."
In an interview with Steve Bannon, Texas AG Ken Paxton, who's been under FBI investigation, called for dismantling the FBI, & described the agency as "the gestapo" & a "criminal organization." He also said what he would do on day one if he is #TFGs AG🚨.
Join the Workers Circle and the Center for Common Ground for this month’s training on how to be an effective citizen advocate. No experience is necessary!
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During the first 30 minutes of "How to be an Effective Citizen Advocate," we review pending legislation.
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#Tradwife influencers are a sentinel, and we laugh at them to our peril.
These increasingly popular figures give polish to #patriarchy frequently with underlying elements of white supremacy.
They are emblematic of America’s retrograde swing. Algorithms pump their content, which is especially alluring to a breed of men drawn to the idea of wifely submission and #rightwing#extremist#politics
Each page yesterday took him just a little more than a minute, so this will take >30 mins.
Between that & the testimony readbacks, also expected to take >30 mins, there will likely be >1 hour this morning w/the jury in the courtroom, not actively deliberating.
"Fourteen pro-democracy activists were convicted in Hong Kong’s biggest national security case on Thursday by a court that said their plan to effect change through an unofficial primary election would have undermined the government’s authority and created a constitutional crisis."
#InformationAccess#PublicGoods#Democracy#Libraries: "Democracy means public, open spaces where civic workers are there to help members of the public navigate to and make sense of information that they need. Democracy means connected communities where people work with one another to understand the world around themselves. A search engine can be a useful tool, but Google's irrelationality goes back at least to their conception of their mission as "organiz[ing] the world's information and mak[ing] it universally accessible and useful." As Hoffmann and Bloom convincingly argue, the very framing of that goal as something that can be achieved by one company, with impersonal technology, is inconsistent with meaningful access for many (most?) of the people in the world.
So, as we look for ways to repair our information ecosystem in the wake of the depredations of the current AI hype-driven deluge of synthetic media, a key step should be shoring up support for library systems and learning from the practices, traditions, and current research of librarians and library and information scientists."
Honestly
The #Republican#Party (the #GOP)
the 'Conservative-Law&Order etc.
is dead
It doesn't exist anymore
has been replaced by #QAnon#MAGAs...
who are> Anti-American Anti Law & Order and are NOT conservative
a bunch of psychopathic fascists .
Verdicts in Hong Kong’s biggest trial against democratic opposition come >3 yrs after police arrested 47 #democrats in raids at homes across the city. They were charged w/ #conspiracy to commit subversion under a #NationalSecurity law imposed by #China.
#Sentencing will come at a later date for those found #guilty, w/ #prison terms ranging from 3yrs to life for this offence. 31 defendants pleaded guilty, & 4 of them have become prosecution #witnesses.
The #US & some other countries have criticised the #trial as politically motivated, calling for the accused to be immediately released.
…The defendants are accused of a "vicious plot" to paralyse #government in the fmr British colony & to force the city's leader to resign through a pre-selection ballot in a July 2020 citywide election. The #democrats maintain it was an unofficial attempt to select the strongest candidates in a bid to win a historic majority in #HongKong's legislature.
Beijing in 2020 imposed the sweeping #NationalSecurity#law that led to a spate of #arrests of democratic campaigners as well as closures of #liberal#media outlets & #NGOs. Hong Kong's democratic opposition had sought for decades to pressure Beijing to allow full #democracy in the city.