6/ NOW! 👉🏼👉🏼#BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
#legal
THIS IS HUGE, PEOPLE. A BFD.
MORE: All defendants but PEZZOLA also guilty of conspiracy to obstruct Congress. Jury appears deadlocked on Pezzola for both of first two counts.
However ALL defendants, including PEZZOLA, guilty of actual obstruction of Congress.
7/NOW! 👉🏼👉🏼#BREAKING *partial* #VERDICT #ProudBoys
#legal
Via Scott MacFarlane:
Tarrio was NOT at Capitol on Jan 6
A conviction on charge of seditious conspiracy is a huge win for Justice Dept. 👉🏼👉🏼And a potential piece of enormous leverage for any future defendant who wasn’t at Capitol on Jan 6 … but is considered part of the conspiracy👈🏼👈🏼
The week before Thanksgiving Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, Facebook fires 11K workers, and Disney plans thousands of layoffs—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳
A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers.
Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
Twelve GOP senators voted today in favor of marriage equality, overcoming the 60-vote filibuster threshold:
Roy Blunt (MO)
Richard Burr (NC)
Shelley Moore Capito (WV)
Susan Collins (ME)
Cynthia Lummis (WY)
Rob Portman (OH)
Dan Sullivan (AK)
Mitt Romney (UT)
Thom Tillis (NC)
Lisa Murkowski (AK)
Join Ernst (IA)
Todd Young (IN)
I wrote about why I don't like this bill, and why it absolutely needed to pass.
I'm glad it did. Read my piece on it here:
https://charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/i-hate-the-senate-bill-and-we-need
Listen now (13 min) | It sucks. And it's our only real option. We have to pass it.
Good write-up by @emptywheel on the #DOJ #sentencing memorandum for Matt #Gaetz associate (accomplice?) Joel Greenberg. With some juicy details about how Greenberg "kept criming even as he realized the government was hot on his trail."
"It all feels like a Coen Brothers movie. Sex with minors, ecstasy, rat-fucking, and flaming cryptocurrency servers."
The Joel Greenberg sentencing memo reads like a Coen Brothers movie: Sex, ecstasy, rat-fucking, and flaming cryptocurrency servers. But the dispute over how much credit Greenberg should get for his cooperation provides important insight into press coverage about Matt Gaetz' ties to Greenberg.
I've been tagging #MarkHamill repeatedly on multiple platforms & promoting #Mastodon
So many are scared to break the hold of the dark side (corporate algorithm).
But Jedi are strong and influential, he'll bring many with him when he decides to ride the bantha and leave the bird behind.
Laffy
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
Shannon
Jeremy Schnittman
Charlotte Clymer
JB Emmons
Lord Palpatine
C-rich
Rabon 🦣