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BeckyDem's JournalBruce Bartlett @BruceBartlett: Excellent news! Congratulations to every person who left this church
https://twitter.com/BruceBartlett/status/1656305201454669830( Bruce Bartlett is a conservative turn coat who admitted participating in pushing trickle down economics and now recognizes the economic pain it caused. I admit I find these people of interest, not sure how many minds they can change but glad that they're trying.)
@NormOrnstein @Dahlialithwick has written most powerful & eloquent condemnation of Clarence Thomas
https://twitter.com/NormOrnstein/status/1655750709986377730
( It really is excellent, read and pass along if you agree. )
Closing arguments begin in E. Jean Carroll civil rape trial against Donald Trump
By Lauren del Valle, CNN
Updated 12:31 PM EDT, Mon May 8, 2023
New York
CNN
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The attorney for E. Jean Carroll told a federal jury in New York on Monday that no one is above the law, as closing arguments began in the civil battery and defamation trial against Donald Trump.
“In this country even the most powerful person can be held accountable in court,” said attorney Roberta Kaplan. “No one, not even a former president is above the law.”
Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleges Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the spring of 1996 and then defamed her when he denied her claim, said she wasn’t his type and suggested she made up the story to boost sales of her book. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.
Attorneys for Carroll and Trump rested their respective cases last Thursday. Carroll’s legal team put on 11 witnesses in her case including the writer herself over seven trial days. Trump did not put on a defense and ultimately opted not to testify, as is his right.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/08/politics/trump-carroll-closing-arguments/index.html
Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts NEW:gunman in Allen, Texas, kept a profile on a Russian social media
https://twitter.com/shannonrwatts/status/1655651420509724673
( We have seen similar profiles for how long now? grrrr. )
Video of Trump confusing E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples shown during lawsuit trial
Today 10 minutes ago
Jurors in the trial stemming from writer E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit against former President Donald Trump watched video Thursday of the moment Trump confused Carroll for his ex-wife, Marla Maples.
During the October deposition, Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan showed Trump a late-1980s photo of him, his then-wife Ivana, Carroll and her ex-husband John Johnson. Referring to Carroll, Trump said, "It's Marla," referring to his second wife, Marla Maples.
"That's Marla, yeah. That's my wife," he said, before being corrected, and told it was Carroll. The writer sued Trump for defamation and battery after he said she "made up" allegations that he raped in her a New York City department store in the mid-1990s. Trump has adamantly denied the allegations and claimed Carroll "is not my type."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/video-of-trump-confusing-e-jean-carroll-ex-wife-marla-maples-lawsuit-trial/
Int'l Criminal Court @IntlCrimCourt 🎥: The President of #Ukraine
https://twitter.com/IntlCrimCourt/status/1654078425827627008
( Totally awesome. )
Psychologist expected to tell Trump rape trial of harm to E Jean Carroll
Trauma specialist Dr Leslie Lebowitz likely to explain advice columnist’s behaviour during and after alleged attack
Chris McGreal in New York
Wed 3 May 2023 09.15 EDT
A clinical psychologist, Dr Leslie Lebowitz, was expected to tell a New York jury on Wednesday about the harm caused by Donald Trump’s alleged rape of the advice columnist E Jean Carroll.
Lisa Birnbach arrives to federal court to testify as part of a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump in New York, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist on Monday wrapped up three days of testimony in the trial stemming from her lawsuit against Trump. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
Carroll is seeking damages for the alleged rape in a New York department store changing room, and for defamation, after Trump accused her of lying when she went public in 2019.
Excerpt: “I am a happy person, basically. But I’m aware that I have lost out on one of the glorious experiences of any human being. Being in love with somebody else, making dinner with them, walking the dog together. I don’t have that.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/03/trump-rape-trial-leslie-lebowitz-testify-psychologist
( The jury will believe her, I think. )
Larger welfare checks lead to healthier brains, study finds
BY DANIEL DE VISÉ - 05/02/23 11:00 AM ET
Children in poverty tend to have healthier brains and fewer mental health problems if they live in states with more generous welfare programs, according to a new study supported by the National Institutes of Health.
The findings, from researchers at Harvard and Washington University in St. Louis, suggest that well-funded anti-poverty measures can improve both brain development and mental health in children.
Past research has shown an association between poverty and brain development. Specifically, children in low-income homes tend to have a smaller hippocampus, a brain structure associated with memory and learning. Impoverished children also suffer more frequent mental health symptoms.
Across the 17 states studied, impoverished children tended to have a smaller hippocampus than affluent children. But in states with robust welfare programs, the disparity was 34 percent narrower.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3983180-fatter-welfare-checks-lead-to-healthier-brains-study-finds/
Sheldon Whitehouse@SenWhitehouse: Did you think I'd show up to the hearing on Supreme Court
https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1653520218294034432( The very good very prepared, Senator Whitehouse.
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Why Is Inflation So Sticky? It Could Be Corporate Profits
By Paul HannonFollow
May 2, 2023 5:53 am ET
Some companies might have been raising prices faster than their costs have increased
Inflation has proved more stubborn than central banks bargained for when prices started surging two years ago. Now some economists think they know why: Businesses are using a rare opportunity to boost their profit margins.
Figures released Tuesday by the European Union’s statistics agency showed consumer prices in the eurozone were 7.0% higher than a year earlier in April, a pickup from March and more than three times the European Central Bank’s target. However, the core rate of inflation—which excludes food and energy prices—edged down to 5.6% in April from a record high of 5.7% in March.
Inflation rates also remain uncomfortably high in the U.S. and many other parts of the world despite interest-rate rises that have gone further and been delivered more quickly than at any time since the 1980s.
Excerpt:
According to economists at the ECB, businesses have been padding their profits. That, they said, was a bigger factor in fueling inflation during the second half of last year than rising wages were.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-is-inflation-so-sticky-it-could-be-corporate-profits-b78d90b7
( What a shock, huh? )
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