Congressman, and constitutional scholar, Jamie Raskin

“Section 3 of the 14th Amendment presents a clear and unequivocal statement that anyone who has sworn an oath of office…who engage in insurrection or rebellion…can never serve again in federal or state office”

Here’s hoping the constitution still matters.

Via Scott MacFarlane:

!! Judge #Chutkan: Neither of the proposed trial dates is acceptable

Judge Chutkan: "Setting a trial date should not depend on a person's professional obligations. Mr Trump will have to make this work.. regardless of his schedule"

#TrumpIndictment #legal

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

I hope that Mastodon folks who like to scold newcomers will realize how off-putting -- and damaging -- that behavior is.

Please be helpful, not scornful. Let's reduce the genuine risk of poisoning fediverse growth, and thereby giving social-media oligarchs indefinite control over online discourse.

Having said that, Mastodon/fediverse could/should do more to make users' experiences more gratifying.

Read this essential post from @kissane to understand more. https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

Trump just “ReTruthed” a meme saying J6 was staged by the government

Trump was in power during J6

Is this an admission of guilt or is he the dumbest president of all time or…?