Janan Broadbent

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Works with people. Also enjoys solitude. Chocolate addicted. Opti-tist* (*optimistic therapist)
DJ Khaled built his empire by shouting his name in the middle of songs, but when I shout my name all I get is "Who the f*ck is Alice?" or "Mam, this is a funeral."
Trump is claiming that Biden tried to have the FBI murder him. This is a lie, of course. But it’s not Trump’s usual sort of lie—it’s a dangerous escalation in rhetoric. What sort of retaliation do people regard as morally appropriate for attempted murder? What might Republicans do to defend Trump from Biden, especially in light of January 6? https://wapo.st/4bscOHV
Trump email falsely says Biden was ‘locked & loaded’ to ‘take me out’ in Mar-a-Lago search

A former president falsely accusing his successor and rival of posing a threat to his life is without precedent in modern U.S. history.

The Washington Post

The Tories have introduced voter id to UK elections on the flimsiest evidence and with limited docs allowed for id.

The Veterans Minister asked for the new Veterans Cards to be allowed as voter id, but the Gov refused.

This leaked doc from the minister shows clearly the reason: the Tories are trying to stop young people from voting because the evidence is that young people tend not to vote Tory in great numbers.

#politics #ukpolitics #votersuppression

A landmark legal decision this week has received no media attention

In 1871, Congress passed the Ku Klux Klan Act, which allowed people to sue law enforcement officers who violated their Constitutional rights. In 1967, the Supreme Court FLIPPED THE LAW ON ITS HEAD, using it to protect law enforcement officers who abuse their power by creating a new doctrine: qualified immunity.

A federal judge is calling on the Supreme Court to acknowledge its mistake and end the doctrine of qualified immunity

https://popular.info/p/an-extraordinarily-important-legal
An extraordinarily important legal decision just dropped, and no one is talking about it

On February 13, 2020, Nicholas Robertson was shot in Jackson, Mississippi. Wounded, Robertson knocked on the door of a nearby home. But by the time the police arrived, Robertson was unresponsive and died before he could be transported to a hospital.

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U.S. Senate Dems tie state abortion bans to fewer beginning physicians • Florida Phoenix

WASHINGTON — Bans or severe restrictions on abortion access enacted by Republican state lawmakers have led to a downturn in medical students seeking to practice in those states, and a handful of Democratic U.S. senators said Tuesday those laws must be reversed. During a press conference just steps from the U.S. Capitol, the lawmakers and […]

Florida Phoenix

@peterbrown @tadbithuman @DrALJONES @the_Cornflower @LALegault

It would be the best move for the US to do that, but I don't think they'd stop even if we did tell them to.
(They've never listened in the past, why start now? They are beyond caring what the world thinks about them.)

They are too close to their goal of purging all Palestinians, or enough of them that the remaining ones will be no threat to them.
A goal they've been working on for decades now.

We should have stopped payments to them long ago, but definitely now, and immediately.

Thanks to the magic of low-fat peanut butter, I now know what despair tastes like.

Dear New York Times et al,

“We now see that almost all of 2023 was dominated by a legal/political story that was not only bogus but — according to prosecutors’ filings and the discredited source’s own admission to federal authorities — was a plant by the Russian intelligence services. That’s real. That requires an explanation as to how that was ever allowed to happen. It requires some effort to prevent it from happening again.”

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/can-dc-reporters-overcome-their-trumper-shock-training/sharetoken/R1iJBpGI5cVE

Can DC Reporters Overcome Their Trumper Shock-Training?

As I noted yesterday, the Alexander Smirnov news is either confirmation of what we already knew or else spurs a kind of mass outburst of incredulity about how it is we're still as a country…

TPM – Talking Points Memo
NEW: The Hunter Biden story has done a total 180 but the MSM is in denial https://presswatchers.org/2024/02/the-hunter-biden-story-has-done-a-total180-but-the-msm-is-in-denial/
The Hunter Biden story has done a total 180 but the MSM is in denial | Press Watch

The new story is that the ludicrous Republican impeachment investigation has now been exposed as a Russian intelligence op.

Press Watch