Wayne Patterson

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50+ male educated white voter with a pulse. Finally proud again to be an American.
Elon Musk's Machine for Political Violence - emptywheel

Just a week after Elon Musk used Xitter to sow political violence in the UK, Donald Trump returned to Xitter.

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The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/08/15/the-saudi-payments-to-trump-are-more-important-than-the-suspected-egyptian-one/

The Saudi Payments to Trump Are More Important than the Suspected Egyptian One - emptywheel

Given Trump's ongoing Saudi business deals, we literally do not know whether Trump would enter the White House as a business partner, an employee, or an unregistered foreign agent of the Saudi state. That makes questions about his Saudi ties more urgent than questions about the suspected $10 million payment from Egypt.

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Imagine if the president called repeatedly the US Attorney General trying to weaponize the DOJ, by demanding an investigation into a political rival's child, to the point that the AG had to yell at the president that it was wrong to have that conversation.

Oh wait, that happened. And it was Bill Barr, yelling at Trump, who was pushing Barr to investigate Hunter Biden. As all laid out in Barr's book.

h/t @emptywheel

In the new issue of my OUR LAND newsletter, I examine the strong reactions of social media Biden stans to calls for his exit, the unbalanced press coverage of Trump and Biden, and the need for Kamala Harris to go after Trump damn hard.

https://link.motherjones.com/public/35991474

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And now, with mandamus spelled correctly.

Jack Smith to Aileen Cannon: Treating Non-Lawyer Tom Fitton's Theories as Law Will Lead to Mandamus

https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/04/03/jack-smith-to-aileen-cannon-treating-non-lawyer-tom-fittons-theories-as-law-will-lead-to-manadamus/

Jack Smith to Aileen Cannon: Treating Non-Lawyer Tom Fitton's Theories as Law Will Lead to Manadamus - emptywheel

Jack Smith has now formally informed Judge Aillen Cannon that she has been chasing a whack theory spun up by someone, Tom Fitton, who doesn't even have a JD.

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Jim Jordan, the leading GOP candidate for House speaker, was a key co-conspirator in Trump's plot to steal an election. Read the new issue of my OUR LAND newsletter for all the sordid details.

https://link.motherjones.com/public/33022855

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One of the most spectacular coronal mass ejections from the Sun ever captured by NASA's SDO spacecraft.

Credit: NASA​/​SDO
Widescreen 4K version on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NkQmnuCsGM

Sun Launches Spectacular Coronal Mass Ejection in 4K 60fps

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Rudy Giuliani facing DISBARMENT in DC as he spills the beans to Jack Smith under a proffer agreement, Alina Habba is fired from Trump's most important legal cases, DOJ appeals a bizarre ruling from a MAGA judge and more! Watch Legal AF at 8p ET/5p PT! https://www.youtube.com/live/gJjP5WnZd8U?feature=share
LIVE: Trump MASSIVE LEGAL LOSSES Pile Up as Jack Smith CLOSES IN | Legal AF

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The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden's Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019

https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/07/08/the-laptop-everyone-knows-as-hunter-bidens-appears-to-have-been-deleted-starting-february-15-2019/

The Laptop Everyone Knows as Hunter Biden's Appears to Have Been Deleted Starting February 15, 2019 - emptywheel

In January 2019, the Gmail account Hunter Biden used to contact sex workers took over his iCloud account and ordered all his content for download. The next month, the data on the Hunter Biden laptop was deleted.

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Elon Musk, who claimed to be a "free speech absolutist," is censoring tweets in Turkey ahead of critical elections at the request of the autocrats currently in power