"Dear Sis, our vacation to the Island of Rhodes has been phenomenal. The food and sights have been outstanding, although it has been a little warm. Our hostel was evacuated, and we got to take a boat ride from the Coast Guard! Wish you were here!" #PostcardsFromTheAnthropocene #summer #vacation #greece #rhodes #travel https://m.ai6yr.org/@MiBaWi/110758463192331170
Trump spirals amid likely third indictment
Donald Trump faces the possibility of two more indictments before the end of the summer. His former personal counsel Michael Cohen joins Katie Phang to talk about Trump's deepening legal woes and how the former president and his MAGA crowd could react to the possible indictments.
#News #GOP #Politics #USA #Trump #MAGA #Republicans
https://www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/watch/trump-spirals-amid-likely-third-indictment-189065797656
Steep Cost of Ron DeSantis’ Vaccine Turnabout
A grim chapter he leaves out of his rosy retelling of his pandemic response
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/22/us/politics/ron-desantis-covid.html
In September 2020, with COVID-19 killing >600 Americans daily, White House coronavirus task force member Dr. Deborah Birx received a distraught call. It was Florida surgeon general Dr. Scott Rivkees.
Months before COVID vaccines would become available Gov. Ron DeSantis decided that the worst was over for Florida, he said.
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Georgia Prosecutor to Give Donald Trump the Label He’s Deserved for Years: Racketeer
#GeorgiaProsecutor #RacketeerIndictment #TrumpLabel #DevastatingIndictment #Racketeering #DonaldTrump #Politics #News
If Trump were innocent, he'd "walk over fire" for speedy trial: Swalwell
https://www.newsweek.com/if-trump-were-innocent-hed-walk-over-fire-speedy-trial-swalwell-1814659
#TrumpInnocence #SpeedyTrial #WalkOverFire #SwalwellStatement #NewsweekArticle #PresidentialTrial #Politics #News
BREAKING: President Biden has hit 140 federal judges confirmed — more judicial confirmations than Presidents Trump, Obama, and George W. Bush up to this point in their presidencies.
This is no accident. President Biden made judicial nominations a top priority before he was even sworn in as president. And since then, the President and Democratic leaders have moved swiftly to confirm a historic number of highly-qualified, civil rights attorneys and public defenders.
Infant deaths surge in Texas after abortion ban
The increase in deaths reverses a nearly ten-year decline.
The notion that slavery had good benefits for the enslaved people (gave them skills?) implies that the enslaved people who were kidnapped from their country of origin, or produced from rape of those same people, or from being trafficked after being stolen from their parents, were in fact ‘feral’ by nature and thus, were being ‘educated’ by White Masters. This perpetuates the “lesser value/less than fully human” mythology that has enabled racism from the beginning. #Shameful #Racist
Disgusting. The Republican Party is a diseased cult.
#politics #republicans
New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418
The SPAC that wants to merge with Trump Media committed fraud, the SEC finds. Just like everybody thought. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/20/trump-truth-social-merger-sec/
#MikePence is such an idiot!
Why don't we abandon our justice system entirely and put every infraction up for a national vote?
Did you go through the red light?
"Let the people decide"
Did you swindle someone?
"Let the people decide"
Did you murder that dude?
"Let the people decide"
Guess what? A trial by jury IS letting the people decide!
Pence: Judgment over Trump’s actions on Jan 6 should be left up to American people
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4104564-pence-judgment-over-trumps-actions-on-jan-6-should-be-left-up-to-american-people/
@JaneGray
So the 1 term, twice indicted, twice impeached , rapist, 30,000 time lying man baby, is about to be indicted two more times for good keeping.
Texas worker accused of being on drugs was actually dying of heatstroke
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/20/texas-construction-worker-death-lawsuit-greg-abbott
> Mother of Gabriel Infante, 24, sues employer for $1m, saying construction workers had no protections from extreme heat
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