Mary Ann HornCargo magnate Dick #Uihlein
was the No. 1 donor for Republicans in 2022. He now appears to be trying to conceal his giving.
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Steve SilbermanHow the neo-Nazi group Moms4Liberty crawled out of the anti-vaxx/anti-mask sewers of Florida. https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/moms-for-liberty-birchers-in-heels
Meet @mollyhf.bsky.social at @WashingtonPost.com, who smeared Vaseline over her ethical lens so she could render this puffery on Mike Johnson while barely mentioning he was an architect of the 9/11 coup who believes marriages like mine are like marrying pets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/10/29/mike-johnson-louisiana-hometown-house-speaker/
SkalyMany things can be said in different words. You can say, I don't like the way this war is fought. You can say, a war is unjust. But one word you should never disrespect is the word genocide. When this word is misplaced a lot of things go blurry. A lot of lines can be crossed. For the Jews and the Native Americans, for the Kurds and every other group in history systematically slaughtered. Do not misuse the word genocide.
Thomas ZimmerReactionaries won’t stop because of an epiphany they shouldn’t go *that* far. They will either *be stopped* - or install a system in which only they and those who reflect their image back at them are entitled to rule and recognized as equal.
I tried to synthesize my thoughts on all of this a while back: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/one-year-on-from-dobbs-the-dangers
M.S. Bellows, Jr.Re: Jack Smith's motion for a protective order limiting Trump's efforts to influence the jury pool, including by "polling" potential jurors:
About a hundred years ago I used to work for a big law firm that represented a major aerospace contractor being investigated by a grand jury for possible procurement fraud.
My boss told our client, as a throwaway thought at the end of a long strategy discussion, to think about maybe buying some TV ads about how their company and its cool, high-tech new military aircraft were keeping our country safe.
After about a week, I saw exactly that ad nearly every time I turned on the teevee. Zoom! Military aircraft! Noble music! American flags! For weeks. Over and over and over. Millions and millions of dollars, hoping to catch just one or two grand jurors' eyes, in the longest of long shot gambles that it might have some impact.
Now imaging the "potential juror" push-polling Trump and his backers would do in D.C. absent a restraining order.
Often in life, two good principles come into conflict. Friends sharing wine is good! And laws against drunk driving are good! So we compromise – we balance the two interests – by setting a blood alcohol limit that serves both interests while fully indulging neither of them.
Free speech is good. Fair trials are good. Proper protective orders like the one Jack Smith is seeking today, allowing criminal defendant Trump to proclaim his innocence but without prejudicing jurors and witnesses, is just such a compromise, protecting both interests while fully indulging neither. But conservatives like Trump can't tolerate the cognitive dissonance inherent in such compromises.
Tony, Pretty MuchAnd so comes another opportunity for CJ Roberts to show some integrity and exert some leadership by pressuring Alito to recuse, as a belated step toward imposing an externally enforced code of ethics on SCOTUS.
Chances of that happening are zero.
Justice Alito rejects recusal in major tax case:
https://www.npr.org/2023/09/08/1198531562/justice-alito-tax-case
PACPurdue96**Gift article
Alabama goes too far (again) — even for Trump-nominated judges https://wapo.st/3Pe1AwX
Alabama goes too far (again) — even for Trump-nominated judges https://wapo.st/3Pe1AwX
ShoqMy friend @jodotcom has been a friend online since early AOL days. We bicker like siblings sometimes, but in the end, we always have our backs. She has a wonderfully diverse field of vision, and her posts reflect that. I highly recommend her as a good follow for any decent person (you know who you are). #FF
