After ABC reported #SpecialCounsel #JackSmith granted #MarkMeadows #immunity for truthful testimony in Trump’s federal #ElectionInterference case, #Trump responded by issuing a broadside not just against… #Meadows, but seemingly — by extension — allies who have cut deals in recent days in his other election interference case, in #FultonCounty, GA.
#law #WitnessIntimidation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/25/trumps-latest-attack-witnesses-is-one-his-most-brazen/
The most crucial thing to understand about Mike Johnson is that he's a lifer in an hugely wealthy far-right Christian activist sector dedicated solely to weaponize govt against people who disagree.
Johnson began his career working for the radical Christian supremacist group ADF.
Like most far-right groups, ADF has a misleading name, in this case it's "Alliance Defending Freedom."
But when they say "freedom," they mean the ability of far-right Christians to force their beliefs on the majority.
@chrisgeidner @bmaz Not at all. Not sure why some are spinning it that way. It's a huge loss. They are putting Coup players in important positions!! The Coup is continuing
Clarence Thomas didn't repay $267K luxury RV loan: Senate committee https://www.rawstory.com/msn-uk/clarence-thomas-rv/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
CHICAGO (AP) — A man accused of pepper spraying pro-Palestinian protesters who gathered near an Israel solidarity rally over the weekend has been charged with hate crimes and aggravated battery, prosecutors said Wednesday.
Zevulen Ebert, 33, of Skokie, Illinois, is charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery and two felony hate crime charges, according to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s office.
https://apnews.com/article/698b1c9dc575eb736ac2e88544641a7a
#israel #gaza #usa
@LALegault @stephanie FFS. I’m rewatching the 1978 series Holocaust, mostly out of curiosity as to how the subject was approached for American TV back then. I remember when it first came on how brutal the depiction was (relatively speaking, for the time).
I *just* watched the scene where a German family (Dorf’s) is talking about this really nice piano they got for free from a medical clinic around the corner… The former owners of the piano, and said clinic, “were some Jewish people” who “went away” 😕
If you're performing a “necessary evil," you're still evil.
(Standard disclaimers apply, this is not the only point of view I possess, I contain multitudes, and a minority portion of *any* group of people are assholes that most of us would wish behaved better. Let's all strive to not be in that minority)
In demanding Israel “free Palestine,” these apologists ignore Israel withdrew entirely from Gaza and has periodically attempted to trade land for peace. refusing to differentiate between bloodthirsty terrorists and the Palestinians doesn’t help the latter https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/10/24/palestinian-authority-share-blame-hamas-israel/
BREAKING: Turkish leader Erdogan: "Hamas is not a terrorist group but rather a group of fighters defending their homeland."
Bibi the butcher.
https://w.st/RMBGD
So, where are my fellow #Whovians? We've finally got air dates for the 60th - I am officially very, very excited. Saturday nights just got even better; the only question is will #DoctorWho be on before or after #Strictly? Hopefully before, so we can do away with that awful Alan Carr quiz 🤞
Flu shots may protect against the risk of Alzheimer's, related dementias - Vaccines are the great public health benefit of our age. https://news.yahoo.com/flu-shots-may-protect-against-140627221.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=tw&tsrc=twtr via @Yahoo #Health
While it's certainly accurate to call Speaker Mike Johnson an election denier, it’s also incomplete — because while he cast an indefensible vote on Jan. 6, that was hardly the only thing he did to undermine the 2020 results. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/spotlight-shines-johnsons-role-trying-overturn-2020-election-rcna122205
Watch as an estimated 100,000 Icelandic women go on a nationwide 24-hour strike in the biggest walkout since 1975. Women refused to cook, clean, or do unpaid care work, women took to the streets demanding greater gender equality and protesting against the gender pay gap, gender-based violence, and sexual violence.
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