Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Imagine the suspension of reality required to be involved in the defence team of Trump.

Donald Trump’s Lawyer Can’t Stop Going on TV and Making Donald Trump Look Ridiculously Guilty of the Crimes He’s Been Accused Of

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/donald-trumps-john-laura-technical-violation-of-the-constitution

#VanityFair #DonaldTrumpLawyer #TVInterviews #RidiculouslyGuilty #CrimesAccusations #ConstitutionViolation #Politics #News

I wonder how Jimmy Carter is doing?
I miss talking about decent people.

NYT’s opinion writer Paul Krugman is declaring #climate is now a culture war issue 🤔

I worked in the U.S. Senate ~20 years ago. Covered climate as a journalist. Cofounded an NGO focused on science policy issues during elections. Am finishing a dissertation on how Congress has made decisions about #science policy for the last 1/2 century - with climate as a central theme.

This isn’t new. #ClimateChange has *always* been a culture war issue.

@Badger_AF @_ohcoco_ @TonyStark Why the hell can't California and New York throw their textbook weight around a little, instead of the damned neo-Confederacy?

A quick minute order from Judge #Chutkan in the J6 #TrumpIndictment setting a quick hearing. Pity that she's waiving the defendant's appearance as it means no in-person bench-slap for #Trump.

At least not yet - it's still early days, and given Trump's pathological inability to control his emotional tantrums, there will be other opportunities for an ass-chewing, likely in the near future.

@RollingStone Oleg Deripaska is Mitch Mcconnells close "friend" who funneled big money into Mitches pocket. Oleg has bought lots of gop traitors.

@_ohcoco_ @TonyStark I'm hoping other states band together and reject any curricula from Texas or Florida. They may be the biggest states, but they're not the majority.

And, the Special Counsel has filed its reply: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149/gov.uscourts.dcd.258149.15.0_2.pdf

Klasfeld on #DOJ smacking #Trump’s lawyers down for their #legal BS:

#JackSmith's team:

"…quotes John Lauro's media tour over the weekend, on CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox. The defendant's proposed order would lead to the public dissemination of discovery material. Indeed, that is the defendant's stated goal; the defendant seeks to use the discovery material to litigate this case in the media." https://themessenger.com/politics/trump-attorneys-oppose-special-counsel-jack-smith-protective-order-2020-election

Judge Cannon asks about legality of using DC grand jury in Florida-based Mar-a-Lago case | CNN Politics

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/07/politics/cannon-mar-a-lago-grand-jury/index.html

#CNNPolitics #JudgeCannon #MarALagoCase #DCGrandJury #Florida #Legalities #Politics #News

It's science, not Santa Claus.

And, as predicted, Zoom has updated its terms of service to explain precisely that it’s not doing the thing people interpreted its ToS to say it was doing because Zoom wrote the ToS poorly—using our audio, video, and chat for ML training without permission—and didn’t consult with stakeholders, etc., etc. https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/7/23822907/zoom-train-ai-models-user-data-customer-consent

It’s not the lawyers. It’s the executives who should understand that lawyers are writing a licensing statement that the execs need to read with user-anxiety eyeballs.

4. BREAKING: COURTROOM CHRONICLE: Ex FBI McGonigal Charged with Deripaska Aid Has His and Shestakov Trial Set Now Guilty Plea Penciled in for August 15 - Inner City Press story:

Traitor Charles McGonigal to PLEAD GUILTY

REPUBLICAN TRAITOR!

“As a three-decade former state prosecutor in New York, I have never seen a defendant treated as leniently as defendant Trump. He has a rap sheet with 3 open felony indictments, 78-charges, in 3 separate jurisdictions.

In THREE separate jurisdictions. He has repeatedly #threatened #prosecutors, #judges, and potential #witnesses and has his own 757 jumbo jet at the ready to fly anywhere in the world and can abscond at any time. And the nature of his charges are among the most serious there are — he is accused of stealing our nation’s most sensitive secrets, trying to destroy evidence of his crimes, committing fraud in the oval office, and causing a violent insurrection in order to attempt to steal an election he lost, and our democracy. Imagine if he were Black or Muslim. There is no doubt he would be incarcerated pending trial.”

Criminal defendant conditions of release, pretrial.

#coup #plotter #conspiracy #crimes and #threats