Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

As #Colangelo describes the "#AccessHollywood" tape that he says turned the 2016 campaign upside down, he refers to this email chain. We learned it would be admitted as #evidence only last wk. It's really striking how much important #evidence in this opening was just allowed in, & emphasizes the importance of the judge's decisions.

When Colangelo said the "Access Hollywood" tape transcript depicted the defendant bragging about #SexualAssault, #Trump shook his head.

#criminal #law #TrumpTrial

@serge The response should be "Jews deserve to feel safe." There is a period at the end of that and nothing needs to follow it.

Columbia University students will attend classes virtually on Monday as school officials hope to deescalate tensions on the New York City campus after pro-Palestinian demonstrations led to mass arrests last week.

https://www.voanews.com/a/new-york-s-columbia-university-cancels-in-person-classes-after-pro-palestinian-protests/7579934.html #voanews

#Colangelo says that jurors will hear #Trump, in his own voice, urging the money be repaid in cash. This doesn't connect Trump to the actual #crime, which only relates to a payment to #StormyDaniels. But it suggests a pattern of behavior.

Colangelo is now describing the emergence of the "#AccessHollywood" tape on Oct 7, 2016, beginning w/ email outreach to Trump spox #HopeHicks. Colangelo reads aloud the worst of Trump’s language, bragging about grabbing women's genitals.

#law #TrumpTrial

#Colangelo says #Pecker will testify that $150k was more than The #NationalEnquirer would typically have paid for such a deal, & that Pecker had trouble being reimbursed. Crucially, Colangelo says, Pecker will testify that he spoke to #Trump about it.

Colangelo mentions an audio #recording #Cohen made between himself & Trump discussing the #McDougal deal.

#criminal #law #Trump #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference #HushMoney

A man convicted of burning a tiki torch while chanting white supremacist slogans at the Unite the Right rally in 2017 has reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors and has admitted to assaulting two police at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

https://lawandcrime.com/crime/unite-the-right-tiki-torch-man-pleads-guilty-to-assaulting-cops-on-jan-6/

@mcnado @GreenFire

No, just no. You don't get to blame Israel for antisemitism because that's antisemitism.

And as I pointed out, pro-Hamas sentiment is not the aberration here. The whole movement is.

As the saying goes "Lordy, there are tapes."

And of course there are. I told you Michael Cohen has tapes of Trump that will come out in this trial

Here Trump discussed David Pecker payment to Playboy Bunny Karen McDougal with Michael Cohen (& Weisselberg?). This tape establishes Trump guilt

Biden expands Title IX protections for pregnancy, trans people and sexual assault victims

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-expands-title-ix-protections-pregnancy-trans-people/story?id=109422988

@mcnado

The "pro-Palestine" movement is pro-Hamas. Always has been.

It's not a few bad watermelons. They're all bad.

Am not doing all Sandoval rulings but here's sample. This is so bad for Trump, he would have to be a total Giuliani to insist his legal clowns let him testify in this criminal trial

Any sane person would understand the cross-examination would be catastrophic

But when has Trump done the sane thing?
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112315206503098185

Your twice weekly reminder that the fight is between those who want to “Terminate the Constitution” and those who do not. Everything else is distraction. #Politics #USPol

https://abcnews.go.com/US/house-panel-obtains-texts-allegedly-showing-gaetz-setting/story?id=107126493

Matt Gaetz attended 2017 party where minor and drugs were present, woman's sworn statement obtained by Congress claims

The Ethics panel is questioning witnesses about allegations involving Gaetz.

By Will Steakin
April 19, 2024, 5:04 AM

Students Sue Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for Silencing Black History https://truthout.org/articles/students-sue-arkansas-gov-sarah-huckabee-sanders-for-silencing-black-history/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #leftistnews #news #VSN

Texas is an evil, evil place, Exhibit 63,005: "Emergency rooms refused to treat pregnant patients, leaving one woman to miscarry in a lobby restroom"

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2024-04-20/emergency-rooms-refused-to-treat-pregnant-patients-leaving-one-to-miscarry-in-a-lobby-restroom

#antisemitism is #racism

And just so there could be no doubt Cotton specified that he thought they ought to be thrown off of bridges and have their skin torn off and so forth.

Cotton has what you might call a zest for the murder of US citizens. For example, he wrote an op-ed in our increasingly fascist-friendly paper of record, The New York Times, calling for summary public military execution of the thousands of protesters against police brutality.

Pro tip: When you attack someone over their background, that's bigotry.

Nobody chooses their background and it doesn't matter.

So if someone's claiming that your background should be concealed because it's "provocative", they're siding with the bigots.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4n19j892neo

#politics #bigotry #antisemitism

It truly is as if we're living in two different nations: one where people understand the reality that more guns results in more gun violence, and one where state legislatures ignore the lessons provided by the rest of the civilized world and bow down to the well-founded gun lobby, giving their fear-addled constituents the toys of violence they demand.

ABC: Two shootings, two different responses — Maine restricts guns while Iowa arms teachers https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/shootings-responses-maine-restricts-guns-iowa-arms-teachers-109391124