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Bravo @ProPublica for this well deserved Pulitzer Prize, exposing the bribery and corruption that continues to destroy the legitimacy of the Supreme Court.

Congress? Your turn. https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/112395995734056656

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Remember in the Obama administration there was a fake scandal about the IRS “targeting” conservative nonprofits—and the press fell for it more or less wholesale?

Since then, it’s been hands off. So now we have a vast web of illegitimate right-wing nonprofits using tax-exempt dark money for influence-peddling, covert electioneering, and nest-feathering. Today’s case in point from the tireless David Fahrenthold. (Gift link.)

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/us/politics/trump-conservative-partnership-institute-funds.html?unlocked_article_code=1.p00.XVdY.eVg5Bv5MAA_P&smid=url-share

JamesGleick, to random
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Because who among us doesn’t get mixed up about whether or not we met Kim Jong-un?

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If you’re frustrated about what the online world has become, and you remember “the good old days” with nostalgia (rightly or wrongly), and you despair about our collective ability to find a way forward, this by @molly0xfff offers an important perspective. With reason for hope. She has become an essential voice, along with @pluralistic and Jaron Lanier.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

vpermar, to movies
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Paul Auster, writer of “Smoke” and many other masterful stories about New York, passed away yesterday. Overseas, it is one of the main headlines of the day.

In the US, not even The New York Times, could be bothered to mention it.

Paul Auster, a life in images - https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-05-01/paul-auster-a-life-in-in-images.html

#Film #newyork #novel

JamesGleick,
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@vpermar Why would you say that? The New York Times ran a beautiful obituary, with many photos, on PAGE ONE.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/books/paul-auster-dead.html

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Remarkable, the judge holding #Trump in #contempt says he knows $1,000 fines aren't enough—he wishes he could make it $2,500 or $150,000!

timfullerton, to random

FDR had WWII, LBJ and Nixon had Vietnam.

HERBERT HOVER HAD THE GREAT DEPRESSION!

This trying to cover for Trump is absurd.

RE: https://www.threads.net/@aaron.rupar/post/C6W5GxYApcE

JamesGleick,
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@timfullerton @aaron.rupar Using Trump’s failure to cope with the pandemic as an excuse for his failure to create jobs seems self-defeating.

JamesGleick, to random
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The criminal case against Trump in New York has many interlocking parts, and some people think it’s too technical, or too shaky.

It’s not. Bragg has organized a prosecution that is complex but strong—and it’s a case of the law doing exactly what it’s meant to do. @jaykuo explains.

https://open.substack.com/pub/statuskuo/p/the-conspiracys-the-thing?r=1zr8b&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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On the subject of Trump’s dementia, the press remains tongue-tied. Fortunately, Doonesbury’s veteran psychologist is here to help. He brings receipts.

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2024/04/28

JamesGleick, to random
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How bad is the Supreme Court now? It’s this bad:

“It’s a rogue court, a thoroughly corrupt one, one that is so far gone in its corruption that it feels free even from the practical obligation to clothe its corruption for the sake of appearances.”

(Josh Marshall, gift link.)

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/peering-into-the-corrupt-courts-pretensions-and-corruption/sharetoken/mODEiFEfA3a3

#SCOTUS

JamesGleick,
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@InternetEh That’s a ridiculous characterization of Josh Marshall. Apart from that, I despise posts that say, You Mustn’t Share That Person’s Insights About X, because I Disagree With That Person About Y.

JamesGleick,
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@InternetEh It’s not smart or useful to argue about the meanings of words, and that’s what this is. I’ve read a great deal of Marshall’s writing on Gaza and Israel, and I doubt that his horror at what Israel has done and is doing is any less than yours. Does he attempt to defend it or justify it? He does not.

JamesGleick, to random
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Here’s how an experienced reporter can provide added value: recalling a quintessential Trump lie from seven years ago.

I wonder if the jury will learn about it.

JamesGleick,
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@JoeStewart When a journalist does something good and you take the occasion to piss on them, you’re telling us something about yourself.

JamesGleick, to random
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In your worst nightmare, did you consider the possibility that Trump would at the last minute:

—toss out the laughable argument that it didn’t matter what crimes he had committed, it didn’t matter whether or not he was guilty, because he had been president, and presidents are allowed to break the law—they’re “immune”;

—and then, after all the lower courts had swiftly and irrefutably explained how absurd that was, (1/2)

JamesGleick,
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—be saved by the intellectually corrupt Supreme Court justices that he had himself appointed?

#SCOTUS (2/2)

JamesGleick,
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@markvonwahlde Did you listen to, or have you read, today’s oral arguments? This is not a hypothetical. I hope you will be proved right, but it doesn’t look like it.

JamesGleick,
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@markvonwahlde Very logical. Unfortunately reality intervenes. And btw your original reply was twitterishly rude.

JamesGleick, to random
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A modest proposal: indict the Unindicted Co-Conspirator.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/04/24/arizona-fake-electors-indictments/73184206007/

JamesGleick, to random
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Not sure the word “bachelor” means what Pecker thinks it means. https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/112321734734683254

JamesGleick, to random
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Telling detail from the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse (by Nate Schweber for the NY Times): The NYPD is working in the service of the defendant Trump, rather than the people of New York.

#Trump #NewYork

JamesGleick,
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@richard_merren I understand you have a general principle: paparazzi are bad and their subjects are victims. Certainly we can all think of famous examples.

But news photographers perform an important, skilled, and sometimes dangerous public service, and the public is entitled to candid photos of Donald Trump in public spaces. (As opposed to the artificial and posed pool photograph we get every morning.)

JamesGleick,
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@richard_merren I agree with you there. Most news photographers have better things to do. My point is that the NYPD also has better things to do.

JamesGleick, to random
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“You will hear his counsel refer to the defendent as ‘President Trump.’ He is not entitled to that honorific. He is not president, and he would never have been president were it not for the crimes for which he is now charged. But he is vain, and he insists that his lawyers always call him president.”

(What I wish the prosecutors would tell the jury.)

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When Medvedev calls for “a new civil war” in the U.S., who is he reaching out to? https://mastodon.social/@josephwelch/112310610461949874

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