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Louisiana Governor signs law making it a crime to get within 25 feet of a law officer working a crime scene, conducting an investigation or making an arrest. Advocates and defenders of increased police surveillance often chide liberal opponents with the canard, “If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear.” I’d like to hear the Thin Blue Line fanboys explain the need for this law then.
#GOPFail #Louisiana
#USPolitics
laaclu.org/en/press-releases/a

Alito ‘told Fox News that his wife hoisted the flag in response to… Baden’s vulgar insult. A text message and the police call — corroborated by Fairfax County authorities — indicate, however, that the name-calling took place… weeks after the inverted flag was taken down’

Republicans responded to De Niro's press conference by giving him all of their attention instead of Trump. And folks on the left applauded this loudly. We should always be on the offense, and we can never let Trump get airtime without a counter. Onward.

dworkinsubstack.com/p/de-niro-

#Steinglass discusses Jan 2017, the month #Trump was inaugurated. He describes a meeting between #MichaelCohen & #AllenWeisselberg who Cohen testified had made the arrangements to reimburse Cohen for the #HushMoney. “Right on the bank statement, Weisselberg & Cohen calculated all the money that was owed to Cohen,” Steinglass says.

[this IS literal. The notes are written by hand on the wire transfer statement, #exhibit35]
#criminal #law #TrumpTrial #CatchAndKill #conspiracy #ElectionInterference

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Here's Trump-o-phile Nikki Haley writing a message to Palestinians on a 155-mm artillery shell Israel will launch into Gaza. This seems...bad.

Closing arguments have concluded in the first criminal trial of a former US president. The jury is expected to begin deliberations tomorrow on the 34 felony counts Donald Trump is facing.

#Blanche addresses the 3 specific #CatchAndKill deals prosecutors allege #Pecker was involved in, all of which they say were designed to protect #Trump. Defense argues all 3 stories are false.

He characterizes the 1st, involving a doorman at a #TrumpOrganization bldg, as “literally a made up story designed to harm President Trump.”

Blanche talks about Playboy model #KarenMcDougal who sold the rights to her story of an affair w/Trump to The #NationalEnquirer's parent co, #AMI.

#law #TrumpTrial

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Some 60 rockets fired at northern Israel from Lebanon in 2 separate barrages this evening. Strangely, nobody seems to condemn these ongoing attacks 👇

bird.makeup/@israelwarroom/179

Here you can see buildings in Kiryat Shmona burning, the fires started by falling rockets launched by Hamas and their proxies.

There is no screaming or panic. Why would there be? Nobody would be able to function if there was panic in the streets every single time a missile fell from the sky.

You learn to become numb to the constant attacks and attempts on your life.

These rockets are constantly being fired at us. Many will be blown up by the Iron Dome, leaving the falling wreckage to do the damage. Some will misfire and land in Gaza instead, killing civilians there. Other times, it will manage to make its way into Israel if they can manage to overload the system.

Children in Gaza and Israeli towns close to Gaza constantly hear the explosions overhead. Most, if not all of them suffer from PTSD.

Nobody in this world deserves such violence to be the norm.

"'Not one mention of a fallen soldier who died for our country because Trump calls them losers. Just more grievance about him. Trump doesn’t care about you or the country.'

KTLA journalist David Lazarus said: 'The simple fact is that if we did away with the archaic Electoral College, a man like this would never again get within reach of the presidency.'"

#Trump #MemorialDay #LawandOrder
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Extending Trump's tax cuts would add an absurd $4.6 trillion to the deficit.

You probably didn't hear Republicans talk about this.

When we push for programs that will help people, the deficit hawks are
everywhere.

Now, they're nowhere to be found.

Funny how that works, huh?

In closing arguments Tues, Trump’s lawyers are expected to cast #AllenWeisselberg as the prosecution’s missing piece, an elusive central player…. They will likely try to argue to the #jury that the case depends on #MichaelCohen, whose testimony provided the only evidence that #Trump had direct knowledge of the plot to disguise the #HushMoney reimbursement as #legal fees

#law #criminal #TrumpTrial
nytimes.com/2024/05/27/nyregio

Perhaps it’s important to say, for those of you not in the same loop I’m in, that my friends & colleagues in Israel are in the streets demonstrating against the war and the corrupt Netanyahu government every day. The families of the hostages are also out in the streets demanding new elections. Every death - Palestinian and Israeli - is heartbreaking.

And for anyone thinking that trump is going to be a great friend to Israel, he’s not. Netanyahu and trump are bit from the same cloth. Both are dangerous.

“It’s not considered premeditated murder if it takes you 30 years to kill him with unhealthy food.”

To the next person who wishes me a "Happy Memorial Day" I'm going to reply "It is, indeed, a beautiful day for honoring those who gave their lives to protect us and our democracy." #MemorialDay #democracy #soldiers

If bootlicking was an Olympic event, Tim Scott would take home the gold.

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