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.
#Trump allies are demanding #retribution, & calling on #Republican prosecutors to go after #Democrats. One of Trump’s close allies, the influential #RightWing#ChristianNationalist#CharlieKirk, wondered on X how many Republican AGs & DAs “have stones.” “We aren’t a serious political movement until we are ready to fight fire with fire,” Kirk wrote. “Indict the left, or lose America.”
#GOP elected ofcls are at it too. Rep Mike Collins of Georgia: “Time for Red State AGs & DAs to get busy.”
The #Brevard#schoolBoard is choosing to follow badly worded laws, written vaguely on purpose, massive in scope, to follow a #ChristianNationalist agenda to #indoctrinate#students, while ignoring that these same laws would ban virtually every book from our classrooms and libraries.
There's something seriously wrong with these #ChristianNationalist lunatics. Nothing will ever be enough for them when it comes to imposing oppressive, draconian laws related to #reproduction. They'll just continue going further and further for as long as they're allowed. The only answer is to stop them now. Opposition to #IVF is pure insanity, and out of touch with the views of the vast majority of Americans. And they know this, which is why they also oppose #democracy.
Right-wing authoritarian politicians dominate Israel's government, but far-right Jews are also strong in the Republican party because they help shield its #ChristianNationalist power elite from accusations of antisemitism.
Ben Shapiro does this on a daily basis.
He made his own #antisemitism clear in a 2014 interview he did with a pro-Nazi podcast host in which he bashed "Jews in Hollywod" for conducting a "war on Christianity."
Spearheading the effort is #RussellVought, president of The Center for Renewing America (#CRA), part of a conservative consortium preparing for Trump’s return to power
An influential think tank close to Trump is developing plans to infuse #ChristianNationalist ideas in his 2nd admin should he return to power.
Oregon Republican #EWernerReschke is a #ChristianNationalist who is openly advocating for turning the #UnitedStates into a #Christofascist theocracy. He doesn't believe #atheists, #Muslims, or adherents of any other religion should be allowed to participate in government. This guy is obviously a pair of mismatched clown shoes, but the #Christian desire for domination is no joke. We could lose our republic if we don't stay vigilant.
Christian Nationalists Team Up on Illicit Push to Get Churches to Campaign for Trump
During a weekend broadcast of his podcast, the influential Christian nationalist “apostle”
♦️Lance Wallnau ♦️unveiled a new collaboration with
🔸Turning Point USA 🔸that aims to get “civically enlightened” pastors to turn out their faithful for the “America First agenda.”
The effort will be primarily focused, Wallnau said, in the purple states of Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia.
For weeks, Wallnau has been dropping hints about a swing-state effort to turn out coreligionists for Trump.
And during the Saturday broadcast of the Lance Wallnau Show, he announced that he’s joined forces with Charlie Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, a powerful conservative group that has recently embraced Christian nationalism, including by promoting a 50-state prayer tour at the nation’s state houses.
Both Wallnau and Kirk have been calling on pastors to throw caution to the wind, with Kirk explicitly offering resources to pastors who seek to 👉 “challenge the IRS.”
On his podcast, Wallnau insisted, “We’ve got to see the courageous churches come together. We’re encouraging the churches to stand with us.”
According to Wallnau, TPUSA has already recruited 2,500 churches “to stand with an America First Agenda.”
It is not clear from his description if all of those congregations are in swing states.
During his podcast, Wallnau insisted that the "Courage Tour" will also be working with right-wing women’s groups including
🔹Moms for America🔹 — which touts “truth, family, freedom and the Constitution” — and 🔹Concerned Women for America🔹, a group dedicated to “Biblical values and Constitutional principles.”
Wallnau insisted: “We’re creating a broad net.”
Christian nationalism is an ideology that insists that Christians hold a place of privilege in the stewardship of America, which adherents assert, ahistorically, was founded as a Christian nation.
Christian nationalists often literally demonize their opponents, seeing them as under the sway of satanic forces.
QThe movement poses a danger to democracy because it “sees no room for compromise,” Andrew Whitehead, author of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States, has told Rolling Stone.
I have seen two news stories in the past 6 months about Jackson, Mississippi.
The white state government is removing the locally-elected judiciary of the majority black city and replacing it with unelected, white-appointed courts.
Hundreds of bodies have been found buried behind the jail, many of people never charged with a crime who were reported by families as “missing”.
@alexwild
Meet Mississippi's governor, Tate Reeves, narrowly reelected in 2023.
"In early 2020, he closed schools, declared a state of emergency, and told people to trust in the "power of prayer", but did little to combat COVID-19 transmission."
"In August 2021, Reeves argued that Mississippi Christians were 'less scared' because 'when you believe in eternal life—when you believe that living on this earth is but a blip on the screen, then you don't have to be so scared of things.' That month, Mississippi had the nation's highest rate of COVID-19 cases and deaths per capita."
"These guys usually have some kind of kinky sexual sin they are guilty of. I'm anxious to find out what Mikey's is!"
Mike Johnson, delivering the keynote address to a far-right #Christiannationalist group Tuesday, likened himself to Moses and declared God had charted his path to become the #Republican Speaker of the House, after telling him in his #prayers to prepare
Trump's NSC aid Robert C. O'Brien's testimony may be the last puzzle piece. Any other witnesses may be targets. Specifically, the people who knew force or violence was contemplated & agreed to it because they were going to be placed in high-level positions in the dictatorship.
When this was happening my first thoughts went to "what's the plan? If they stopped the count that might jam up Jan 20 but it would not create a basis for Trump and Pence to remain in power. Their terms would end at noon and nothing could stop that. So what was the plan?
I am as convinced today as I was then this was the plan: VP Pence was removed from the Capitol. Grassley tipped his role in the coup that was reported the day the planning was complete.
Then the coup leaders made him change his story less than 24 hours from the execution of the coup.
Al Assad base in Iraq that seriously injured over 100 US personnel.
Trump and Pompeo are both still fearful of Iranian revenge and that is possibly a reason he stole US intel on Iran and made the effort to publicly flash it to let them know was so he could use it as another peace offering to get off the IRGC hit list that would predictably have resulted from his acknowledgement of his Soleimani assassination.
Pompeo is the Koch network's boy. When he left the Army and completed his Harvard law degree, he practiced for a short time and then Pompeo and two close Army associates started a firm in Kansas funded by Koch. He's their boy and Koch reaffirms family loyalties by continuing to do business in Russia. Unless the indictments take down the Koch network and its long connection to the Russian state that the Koch family wealth was derived from during the Soviet phase, the threat to the Nation is active.