@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-16 02:26:00
When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) walked into the Georgia courtroom Thursday afternoon where lawyers were arguing over whether she would have to take the stand. It was the back half of the long day’s hearing on whether Willis should be removed from the sprawling election tampering case her office has brought against former president Donald Trump and his associates.
But the debate between t…
@pre@boing.world2024-04-16 10:04:47
Iran / Israel / Gaza
The radio is asking people what they think Israel should do, what Netanyahu should instruct his government to do.
Here's my suggestion: Take all the money you're thinking of spending on bombs and death and pain and instead give it to Iranian secular dissidents to fund their internal campaign to overthrow the Iranian regime and support it's Iranian victims.
Worried that the regime won't allow that kind of money transfer? Fair enough, that is what Bitcoin is for.
Do it secretly if you want, or tell the world that's what you're doing.
Bombs will just make the internal dissidents rally behind their leadership whereas funding the opposition well enough could cause the regime to fall.
I am not optimistic that this is what will happen though. They'll do the escalation which causes more escalation etc.
@protecttruth@mastodon.online2024-03-16 14:07:04
The Judicial Conference, led by John Roberts, wants to reduce political pressure on the courts by reducing judge-shopping.
But Fed Soc judges are openly saying they’ll defy any new policy.
The only solution for the courts is massive, transformational reform.
@blakes7bot@botsin.space2024-04-16 19:32:28
Series D, Episode 12 - Warlord
SLAVE: At once, Master. [displays crude schematic on screen]
AVON: Good. Now, what I would have done would have been to connect the neutron bombarder to the the air ventilators and reverse the flow. Instead of pushing air, it is sucking air, and the virus, into the whole system. Simple. [into comm] Tarrant, disconnect all north side ventilators and reverse the air flow. That way you will get fresh air coming in against the contamination.
B7BA
@cdarwin@c.im2024-02-16 02:26:00
When Fani Willis took the stand, her fury was precise and laser-focused
Fulton County District Attorney Fani T. Willis (D) walked into the Georgia courtroom Thursday afternoon where lawyers were arguing over whether she would have to take the stand. It was the back half of the long day’s hearing on whether Willis should be removed from the sprawling election tampering case her office has brought against former president Donald Trump and his associates.
But the debate between t…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-15 17:51:59
Donald Trump’s social media posts, that continue to attack witnesses and members of the court,
will soon be added into evidence.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has indicated it will push the court to 💥hold Trump in contempt 💥for violating the gag order barring those attacks.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who is inside the New York courthouse, tweeted on Monday morning,
“While arguing for the admission of tweets and social media posts evocative of Trump’…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-04-15 17:51:59
Donald Trump’s social media posts, that continue to attack witnesses and members of the court,
will soon be added into evidence.
District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office has indicated it will push the court to 💥hold Trump in contempt 💥for violating the gag order barring those attacks.
MSNBC legal analyst Lisa Rubin, who is inside the New York courthouse, tweeted on Monday morning,
“While arguing for the admission of tweets and social media posts evocative of Trump’…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-16 18:52:21
Today we focus on one of the most consequential developments in the 2024 election over the past few weeks - the collapse of the GOP’s case against Joe Biden. Consider:
• The economy is remarkably strong, not weak
• Inflation has come way down, not soaring
• Violent crime and murder rates are down across the US, not raging
• Domestic oil and renewable production is setting records, and US is more energy independent than in decades - there is no “war on energy” causing…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-05-16 06:22:15
Donald Trump has had his political cronies show up at his hush-money trial.
And it turns out
🔥he has been editing what they would say on his behalf,
🔥a seemingly obvious violation of his gag order.
One of the journalists covering the trial says the former president was “editing” and “making notations” to the speeches his allies made outside of the courtroom Tuesday.
“In court yesterday, actually, I was sitting close enough that I could actually look over Trump…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-16 20:23:18
The CIA’s former master of disguise tells her story
Jonna Mendez’s engaging and enlightening “In True Face,” is an important addition to the canon of nonfiction books about an institution encrusted in myths created by movies, television, novels, hostile intelligence services and, occasionally, the agency itself.
This book, written with Wyndham Wood, is filled with adventures and operations whose details, somewhat to my astonishment, have escaped the gimlet eyes of the censors at…
