Although there are no suspects in the shooting at the empty Jewish girls school two days ago in Toronto, Premier Doug Ford this morning wrongly blamed immigrants for the rise in antisemitism in Ontario.
Once again the Conservative Party flaunts their racist rhetoric and tries to deflect from their own Trump-style home-grown rage farming that is dividing Canadians at a time when we need to be united to solve our problems.
HAPPENING NOW: The jury says it wants Merchan to begin the instructions with the part about how they are supposed to consider the evidence and draw inferences -- including the metaphor about how if the ground is wet in the AM, you can infer it rained over night.
@arstechnica
If extracting the lithium is more environmentally friendly than dumping the wastewater (or whatever they do with it now) I'm all for this.
But if it's not better for the planet's health, and mainly an excuse to frack more, I'm against it.
Rep. Jamie Raskin & Sen. Richard Blumenthal have intro’d legislation to enforce the Constitution's explicit language banning foreign #emoluments by prohibiting the President, VP, Cabinet officials and Members of Congress from accepting payments from foreign governments without first obtaining the consent of Congress.
Officials would be prohibited from accepting foreign payments without Congressional approval during the entire time in office and for two years after leaving.
Plz remember to use NFL (Not For Laffy, no hashtag) so I can ignore those replies while live-posting. TY!
1/...Tyler McBrien:
Trey Gowdy again...
Per Trump's campaign, this is today's Greek chrous: Don Trump, Jr., Matt Whitaker, Pam Bondi, Sen. Eric Schmitt, Rep. Daniel Webster, Rep. Dan Meuser, Rep. Ronny Jackson, Rep. Troy Nehls, Rep. Dale Strong, Rep. Maria Salazar, Sebastian Gorka, Chuck Zito, Joe Piscopo, Bill White
#RFKJr said Sunday the U.S. should be sitting down with foreign adversaries for negotiations, including Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — who hasn't been in office in Iran for more than a decade.
@GottaLaff
Sad news for her family. But boy, will she have to answer for the people - Huckabee, Santorum, Cruz, etc. - that she worked to keep in power.
She might be finding Heaven to be a little hotter than she expected.
"Surprisingly, our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless."
@matthewskelton
This should surprise absolutely no one involved in software development, unless they are a Coder Bro, in which case they will be shocked and also deny this!
@JustFrank Because I love your profile pics so much, I'll tell you a story:
When I was much much younger, I saw Groucho sitting in an aisle seat at a movie theater. I approached him, told him I knew he hates when people approach him, but I just had to tell him that I loved him.
He said, "Well I love you too." and he kissed me smack on the mouth.
Trump's attorney Susan Necheles hands over "a stack of news articles" by legal commentators like Jonathan Turley, others. She says Trump wants to post them, but she wants to make sure they do not violate the gag order.
"We think that they are perfectly fine."
Prosecutor:
🤔👉🏼"It seems odd that they're asking the court for an advanced ruling" on these sorts of things.
Blanch literally said "He (tRump) understands the gag order" LAST WEEK.
But now they have a bunch of posts that they want the judge to rule on because...
apparently now nobody on the defense team, including the defendant, understands the gag order?
Seems like they're just trying to get the judge homework.
Interestingly: Eric Trump has accompanied his father to court today. Perhaps Trump’s legal team heard all of the chatter about the appearance to the jury with no family members being present?…
My brain decided to bring up this memory for no reason today. Cereal box records. Back in the day, kid cereals would add cardboard records on the back of their boxes. You could cut them out and play them on any normal record player. The grooves were made with thin plastic and songs were pretty short.
@box464 Thanks for reminding me. This was an epic marketing ploy by the cereal makers.
And those "records" probably caused a lot of people to buy new needles for their record players!
So at 11:00 a.m. ET, #Trump posts on Truth Social calling Judge Merchan's courtroom a "kangaroo court" and calling on Merchan to recuse himself. Trump also assails the gag order, (falsely) claiming that he cannot defend himself.
This while we await a ruling from Judge Merchan on Trump's 10 violations of the #GagOrder... #TrumpTrial#legal
