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kpete's JournalWOW: Judge Amy Berman Jackson with extraordinary criticism of Trump.
ABJ on Young's action toward Fanone: "You can hear his screams on the video. Screams … while he’s begging ‘I have children,' you choose to join in. You aid the others around you and help to hold him down."
MORE ABJ: "It defies understanding that the presence of your 16-year-old son by your side on Jan. 6 did not inspire you to curb your behavior in the slightest.”
EVEN MORE ABJ: "You were not prosecuted for being a Trump supporter...You are not a political prisoner…You were trying to stop the singular thing that makes America America, the peaceful transfer of power. That’s what 'Stop the Steal' meant.”
WOW: Judge ABJ with extraordinary criticism of Trump.
"The judiciary … has to make it clear: It is not patriotism, it is not standing up for America to stand up for one man who knows full well that he lost instead of the Constitution he was trying to subvert."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trump-fan-assaulted-officer-fanone-jan-6-sentenced-7-years-prison-rcna49448https://twitter.com/lrozen/status/1574845489425616904?s=20&t=nYXFjyepZO8XhrBC5gJGfQ
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1574812685056843776.html
AL GOP Chairman - bonkers.
Most of Alabama GOP chairman John Wahl’s extended family have been blocked from voting because they won’t show photo ID.
In a 2016 deposition, his brother explained why: They consider photo ID the mark of the beast foretold in Revelation.
Crazy thread:
https://twitter.com/WarOnDumb/status/1574756696311963648?s=20&t=rxX4GvFwCJs040oouIT2XA
Trump -linked SPAC changes address to UPS Store as investors pull more than $130 million
The party is over.
Digital World Acquisition Corp., the blank-check company looking to take Trump Media and Technology Group public, has changed its listed address to a UPS Store in Miami.
The change from a Miami office building to a UPS address came with DWAC's regulatory filing on Friday disclosing that some investors pulled out tens of millions of dollars.
The company said it had lost $138.5 million of the $1 billion in financing from private investors in public equity, also known as PIPE, to fund Trump Media after the merger. The contractual obligation for those investors to contribute to former President Donald Trump's media company after the deal had expired last Tuesday, allowing them to pull their funding.
One of the former private investors told CNBC that it pulled financing from DWAC because of the many legal obstacles facing the company. The investor, who declined to be named due to the sensitive nature of the matter, was also underwhelmed by the popularity of Trump Media's Truth Social app as measured by Donald Trump's follower counts.
https://twitter.com/davidgura/status/1574605544576684032?s=20&t=K2QKoQZF3meI7vbSVfM0-Q
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/09/26/trump-linked-spac-changes-address-to-ups-store-as-investments-pulled.html
Heritage Foundation "a once-proud organization reduced to selling Trump Steaks to stay in business."
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Nine years and two Heritage Foundation presidents later, the patina of intellectual freedom at Heritage appears to have been completely scrubbed away. Earlier this month the Dispatch’s Audrey Fahlberg and Charlotte Lawson painted a disturbing picture of Heritage’s current situation. Under Heritage president Kevin Roberts, numerous Heritage staffers were essentially muzzled in an effort to stay in the good graces of Donald Trump:
Several former experts and researchers detailed limitations on their intellectual freedom beginning in the Trump era, such as being told to delete tweets and ignore areas of agreement with perceived political opponents. In almost every case, the restrictive measures served a partisan end.
“There were several instances where I was asked to scrub the phrase ‘President Trump’ from my pieces. I think it was to tamp down any suspected criticism,” said one former Heritage employee, speaking on the condition of anonymity to speak candidly about internal dynamics. “We were definitely discouraged from mentioning the Biden administration by name as well, unless we were attacking them.”
Another former employee said staffers were also told to avoid referring to incoming President Joe Biden as the “president-elect” until electoral votes were certified on January 6, 2021, to avoid lending implicit legitimacy to the 2020 election.
One former employee recalled being instructed by management not to quote or cite Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley because of his strained relationship with former President Donald Trump. Another former employee said Heritage leaders declined a request to conduct a public panel with Republican Sen. Mitt Romney for similar reasons.
Unsurprisingly, this kind of speech policing has lead to considerable turnover and a situation in which Heritage Action — the think tank’s lobbying arm — is now the tail that wags the dog. As Fahlberg and Lawson note, “scholars who have left say that Heritage Action’s ascendance within the organization has continued to muddy the distinctions between its research side and its lobbying arm.”
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Many liberals don’t want to hear this but back in the day Heritage had a solid reputation for producing quality policy analysis. Now… it seems to be the think-tank equivalent of Newsweek. As the weekly news magazine has faded away, some idea entrepreneurs have bought up legacy media outlets in an effort to free-ride off of old brands while pushing conspiracy theories. This certainly happened to Newsweek — a onetime rival to Time that is now a husk of its former self. One senses that Heritage is following the same path: a once-proud organization reduced to selling Trump Steaks to stay in business.
the rest:
https://danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-newsweek-of-think-tanks?sd=pf
THIS ONE IS FOR THE DINOSAURS
IMPACT SUCCESS! from #DARTMIssion’s DRACO Camera, as the vending machine-sized spacecraft successfully collides with asteroid Dimorphos, which is the size of a football stadium and poses no threat to Earth.https://twitter.com/CalmSporting/status/1574559484948582403?s=20&t=da9AB3MHwPROnQuNr2A1Ow
The DOJ is calling for seizure of materials from Navarro by US Marshals.
SIREN: Feds demand writ of replevin (!) against former Trump trade adviser and accused misdemeanant contemnor Peter Navarro.
There is no genuine dispute of fact that Dr. Navarro used at least one unofficial email account
to conduct official business, that those records are the property of the United States, and that Dr.
Navarro has refused to return the records to the United States. Indeed, his counsel has expressly
admitted as much. Because Dr. Navarro remains in possession of property that belongs to the United
States, this Court should issue a writ of replevin requiring Dr. Navarro to return what he wrongfully
continues to possess.
Doc: http://bit.ly/3foNxpR
Google: A Replevin case is a court action in which one person (the Plaintiff) seeks to recover possession of personal property wrongfully taken or detained by another (the Defendant), plus money damages (if any) for the Defendant's unlawful possession of the property.
https://twitter.com/joshgerstein/status/1574548722385551367?s=20&t=Tt7tKHNZXzhVXKagP7XBSQ
https://twitter.com/Cpo10za/status/1574552322960564226?s=20&t=zyRfpEt9-gOSIM3nVvW3qg
New details about the Jan. 6 rioter who received a call from the White House during the insurrection
The cell phone belonged to a 26-year-old Trump supporter from Brooklyn, New York named Anton Lunyk. The call last 9 seconds.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1574402159868727296?s=20&t=RUjvjYg23j6SO6xSngnwew
The cell phone belonged to a 26-year-old Trump supporter from Brooklyn, New York named Anton Lunyk, who traveled to Washington DC the night before January 6 with two friends, Francis Connor and Antonio Ferrigno, according to multiple sources familiar with the investigation, as well as a search of public records.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/26/politics/mysterious-phone-call-white-house-rioter-jan-6/index.html
The TIMING of the call is interesting. I think it's likely some people were informed directly that the Guard was being deployed.
9 seconds. "Get out of there"?
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1574422016425431041?s=20&t=RUjvjYg23j6SO6xSngnwew
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.232560/gov.uscourts.dcd.232560.39.2.pdf
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Docs seized by FBI at Mar-a-Lago may also incriminate Trump in NY fraud case
BREAKING: Documents seized by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago may also incriminate Donald Trump in the New York fraud case, as AG James indicates Trump hid subpoenaed docs at Mar-a-Lago.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22670328/not_assigned_people_of_the_state_of_v_people_of_the_state_of_summons___complaint_1.pdf
Page 198 of AG James complaint indicates docs seized at Mar-a-Lago include . . . “correspondence related to taxes, and accounting information,” and even though they were “responsive to OAG’s subpoenas,” “no such documents were produced” by Trump.
https://twitter.com/joncoopertweets/status/1574165228828463107?s=20&t=2Kd1ZXezrHZDbImkKVtrCw
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