‘Venue matters’: Trump charges could come from Florida federal grand jury
by Rebecca Beitsch - 06/08/23 1:32 PM ET


The late-stage presentation of evidence to a Florida grand jury is the latest sign that former President Trump may face trial in Miami as prosecutors work to insulate the Mar-a-Lago case from legal challenges stemming from the location of the proceedings.

Special counsel Jack Smith has for months been calling witnesses before a Washington, D.C., grand jury on the matter, but a recent flurry of activity in the case — just days after Trump’s attorneys met with Justice Department prosecutors in D.C. — has instead been in Florida.

This week, a handful of witnesses have been appearing in Florida, including Trump aide Taylor Budowich, who tweeted Wednesday that he was compelled to answer questions in the probe.

The move is a sign Smith is weighing filing charges there in addition to or instead of D.C., as defendants have a right to face trial where the alleged crime took place.

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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4040729-venue-matters-trump-charges-could-come-from-florida-federal-grand-jury/

Breaking: Biden sending fire fighting assets to help extinguish Quebec wildfires.
Thursday, June 08, 2023 at 9:40:05a EDT


Scripps news service:



The White House said 600 firefighters and support personnel have been sent to Canada.

Vedant Patel, spokesperson for the U.S. State Department, said the over 600 personnel came from the U.S. Forest Service and the Department of the Interior. He said this is in addition to several states sending help to Canada.

“The U.S. is supporting Canada as it faces extreme wildfires, which based on our assessments is on track to be one of the largest natural disasters in Canadian history,” Patel said.

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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/6/8/2174036/-Breaking-Biden-sending-fire-fighting-assets-to-help-extinguish-Quebec-wildfires

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/07/house-republicans-in-conflict/

House Republicans in Conflict
June 7, 2023 at 6:53 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

“We Were Very Stoned” Pete Davidson Learns A Hard Lesson About Online Shopping After Buying That Staten Island Ferry Boat
You might say he has a boatload of regrets.

By Kase Wickman
June 6, 2023

We would say it happens to the best of us, but like…most of us don’t buy entire boats on the internet. Pete Davidson and Colin Jost, however, do. And it seems like they’re finally ready to admit that maybe buying a decommissioned Staten Island ferry boat wasn’t a well thought-out plan.



Some people have oopsie eBay moments buying Beanie Babies under the influence, or VHS tapes of old favorite movies, forgetting that they don’t have VCRs while others spend over a quarter of a million dollars on what Davidson has called “the windowless van of the sea.” The pair paid $280,100 for the vessel as part of a group that bought the ferry in a bit of online shopping tomfoolery last year, and though there was initially talk of turning it into a sort of floating entertainment venue, Davidson now appears to be praying for its demise, no longer cherishing his role as captain.

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https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/06/we-were-very-stoned-pete-davidson-online-shopping-staten-island-ferry-boat

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mark-meadows-has-testified-before-grand-jury-in-trump-probe-report


Mark Meadows Has Testified Before Grand Jury in Trump Probe: Report
SPILLING THE TRUMP TEA
Matt Young
Night Editor
Published Jun. 06, 2023 7:36PM ET

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/epa-trump-clean-air-act-plastics-advanced-recycling-gasification-pyrolysis/

5 hours ago
EPA Ends Trump-Era Bid to Kill Pollution Rules for Plastics Recycling
“This is a big deal,” says one nonprofit clean air expert.
James Bruggers
This story was originally published by Inside Climate News and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.

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“This is a big deal,” said James Pew, director of clean air practice at the environmental group Earthjustice. The abandoned proposal “would have reversed the regulatory definition that has been in place since 1995,” he noted, “and its effect would have been that pyrolysis and gasification incinerators do not have to install pollution controls, meet emission limits, or monitor or report their pollution.”

“They wouldn’t be accountable to the communities where they operate, or anyone else,” Pew said. “That is why the industry was pushing so hard for this redefinition.” Even the state laws that have been passed with a goal similar to what Trump’s EPA was seeking do not supersede the Clean Air Act, he added.

Jane Williams, executive director of California Communities Against Toxics, an environmental group, said the EPA’s decision would be an important safeguard as pressure for chemical recycling grows.

“The fossil fuel industry will have to get permits and follow an emission speed limit if it wants to polka dot the country with a new fleet of plastic incinerators,” she said.

https://politicalwire.com/2023/06/06/how-bidens-policy-wins-impact-your-community/

How Biden’s Policy Wins Impact Your Community
June 6, 2023 at 6:32 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/mary-trump-humiliation_n_647d84dfe4b0b4444c7fb422

Mary Trump Shows GOP Wannabes How To Give 'Loser' Trump A Lesson In 'Humiliation'
The niece of the former president urged 2024 GOP candidates to stop going easy on her "thin-skinned baby" of an uncle.
Ed Mazza
Jun 5, 2023, 03:56 AM EDT


Mary Trump, estranged niece and longtime critic of Donald Trump, said the 2024 Republican hopefuls are too afraid of her uncle’s loyal supporters to take him on directly ― but urged them to do so anyway.



She even suggested a stunt a candidate could pull at a debate: Show up with a bowl of mashed potatoes.

Ouch. She fancies herself like Jackie O, but that's another story.

Casey DeSantis Is the Walmart Melania
TRYING TOO HARD
She’d better hope that pleather is pudding-proof.
Katie Baker
Executive Editor
Updated Jun. 04, 2023 4:03PM ET / Published Jun. 04, 2023 3:58PM ET


The First Lady of Florida showed up on the campaign trail in Iowa this weekend wearing a ghastly black leather jacket—American flag on front, an alligator and the silhouette of her state on the back, with the sneering words, “Where Woke Goes to Die”—that brought to mind nothing so much as the racks of a Red State big-bin store where it would be retailing for $24.99.

To be fair, Casey DeSantis wore the bomber to a charity biker rally and I’m sure the campaign intended it to be a viral moment, like Melania Trump’s infamous “I Really Don’t Care” coat that the former First Lady donned to check out the border crisis.

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By contrast, Casey DeSantis’ coat is just like her husband Ron DeSantis’ campaign: Crude. Grasping. Saying the ugly part out loud. Whereas Trump would wink-wink at the fascists—who can forget his dog whistle to the “very fine people on both sides” at Charlottesville—DeSantis wants to peel off Trump’s base by being even more explicit about who he intends to target. You can see it right there on his wife’s jacket: DeSantis’ Florida is where the woke go to die—and a lot of other people die as well.
https://twitter.com/CaseyDeSantis/status/1665157857413570560
Florida under DeSantis has had one of the highest COVID death rates in the nation, even as he’s exulted in his anti-mask policies. And as the governor whips up anti-LGBT sentiment and bans books on race, Casey’s jacket and its message of death also bring to mind the horrific Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, not to mention the state’s shameful history of Jim Crow-era lynch mobs and the Rosewood massacre. But of course, DeSantis and his cronies want to prevent kids from learning about any of that by censoring their library books and AP curricula.

The jacket, then, is a warning: Watch out, America.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/casey-desantis-is-the-walmart-melania-trump?ref=home