Glenn Kirschner – Has Mark Meadows flipped on Donald Trump? Here’s an important new data point
The Lincoln Project – They Would Be Ashamed of Him
Thom Hartmann – Russia Behind FAKE Hunter Biden Laptop Story? Shocking Revelations Revealed! [File under No s***, Sherlock]
Dog Obsessed With Water Goes to Waterpark (He’s a “yellow labmarine.”)
The Never Again Trump Song [parody of “Harrigan” by George M. Coham]
Beau – Let’s talk about Tupac….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump is a danger to the community. When indicted for Jan. 6, he should be detained pending trial
PoliticsGirl – For Those Who Think Their Vote
Farron Balanced – Trump Admits That Any Lawyer That Represents Him Is A Fool
Parody Projrct – Take It Easy
Adventure Cats Who Were Once Strays Have The Best Moms Now + Other Cat Rescues
Beau – Let’s talk about Biden’s new Dark Brandon ad…. [i had the MTG cli[ up here with “I approve this message” tacked on, but the one with the Biden/Harris visuals seems to be only on Twitter. Sorry.]
Yesterday, I ran across a story which just tugged at my heartstrings. I expect it will do the same for all who love both animals and justice. I fund it at Democratic Underground,, but the poster provided their original source, and it doesn’t appear to be paywalled, so that’s what I’m linking to.
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The New Yorker – Finally, the Trump Case We’ve Been Waiting For
Quote – And yet Republicans remain in such thrall to their Orange Jesus—the honorific that Party apostate Liz Cheney so memorably quoted one of his acolytes calling him during last summer’s January 6th hearings—that, with each new legal woe, his prospects of winning the 2024 G.O.P. nomination keep going up. Few if any of these cases are likely to be fully resolved before the start of next year’s Republican primaries. Trump’s campaign is now explicitly a race not just to retake the Oval Office but to save himself from criminal conviction. This convergence of campaign and courtroom is, as the former Republican National Committee counsel Benjamin Ginsberg said this week, “a toxic mix unprecedented in the American experiment.” Something’s gotta give.
Click through for article. I’m skeptical of the theory that additional crimiality increases his electoral chances, but I can’t dismiss it entirely.
Salon – Expert: Jack Smith can use “surprise” statute cited in Trump target letter for “enhanced penalties”
Quote – “The benefits for using Section 241 are three-fold,” Anthony Michael Kreis, a Georgia State University law professor, told Salon. “First, the statute isn’t novel in terms of applying it to election fraud. Second, is that the DOJ can go after the election fraud scheme and tie it to the insurrection for enhanced penalties. Third, the combination of the first two benefits allows Trump to be tried for January 6th without litigating whether his speech before the riots at the Capitol, which would be the basis of a free-standing incitement charge, is protected by the First Amendment.”
Click through for details. Yes, when conspiracy comes in at the door, many of the difficulties of proving direct participation or incitement fly out the window. The Insurrection Act may (may in the sense of “maybe” – IANAL) be able to be used to keephim out of office even if he isn’t directly charged with it, through conspiracy charges.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Judge Cannon slow-walks Trump’s Florida trial while Georgia DA Fani Willis goes for the RICO
The Lincoln Project – Abuser
Forbes – Debbie Wasserman Schultz And RFK Jr. Clash When She Confronts Him Over Anti-Semitic Statements {The voice is spasmodic dysphoria]
Robert Reich – How to Fix a Broken Supreme Court
It Took Years To Get This Feral Dog Inside A House
Beau – Let’s talk about more info on Trump’s letter….
Glenn Kirschner – Jack Smith’s TARGET LETTER to Trump identifies 3 crimes he committed. Why these 3? Here’s why
The Lincoln Project – Dark Money
PoliticsGirl – Critical Race Theory (not new, but still needed)
Family Finds Someone In A Taped-Up Box
Parody Project – Witch Hunt
Beau – Let’s talk about Michigan electors and what’s next….
Glenn Kirschner – Judge Aileen Cannon sets NO trial date – thus far – in Trump’s documents/obstruction/espionage case
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party July 18, 2023
Robert Reich – Amazon Is up to More Shenanigans
Armageddon Update – NATO You Didn’t!!
Woman Spends Days Trying To Rescue A Tiny Puppy In The Woods
Beau – Let’s talk about two minutes on Fox….
Yesterday, it was still cooler, cooler than the day before, and is expected to be even cooler today. But then it goes back up. The highest high predicted in the next nine days, however, is only 94°F. I’m actually good with that. My fans can handle that just fine.
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HuffPost – Why A Victim Of Police Brutality Chose Restorative Justice For The Cop
Quote – Teri Jacobs, a photojournalist, was working at a protest that went awry in Portland on Aug. 18, 2020. When police ordered that the crowd disperse, Jacobs, who identified herself as a member of the press, said she was trying to help a friend when an officer named Corey Budworth began to hit her repeatedly with a baton on the head, neck and back. Jacobs said she went to the hospital the next day with bruises on her face and bumps on her head…. Two years later, Jacobs and Budworth came to a new agreement: They would each participate in a restorative justice program managed by the Multnomah County District Attorney’s Office.
Click through for story. Not only is it about restorative justice, but it’s from Portland, OR. How could I not share it here? TomCat would have been sso proud.
Wonkette – Donald Trump Hoarding Jewish Artifacts At Mar-a-Lago, And We Don’t Mean The Club’s Members
Quote – It’s time for a new episode of our favorite show, “Hoarders: Mar-a-Lago.” What items might our former president Donald “Sticky Fingers” Trump be keeping somewhere deep in the towers of classified documents and old Steak ‘Um packages that line the musty halls in which he will one day die alone, in his bathrobe, muttering “Rosebud” and clenching satellite photos of an Iranian nuclear weapons plant to his chest just before a nurse rushes in for an unenthusiastic round of CPR capped off with a celebratory martini? If you guessed “ancient Israeli antiquities,” well, congrats. According to news reports, Trump has been keeping these antiquities at his home like some sort of 19th Century British lord, and Israel has not been able to get them back.
Click through for details. This is the first Wonkette story I have used since they migrated to Substack, so you may need to click something to continue reading – or you may not. Substack allowed Wonkette to keep its domain address so all bets are off. Becca had the same reaction I did – that this is a really Nazi thing for him to do (see FFT).
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Jack Smith informs Donald Trump HE IS A TARGET of the grand jury’s Jan. 6 insurrection investigation
The Lincoln Project – Trump’s TPUSA Speech in 91 Seconds
Thom Hartmann – Is Nationalizing Big Oil The Only Way To Stop Climate Change?
Liberal Redneck – Hollywood and the Summer of the Strike
Tiny Kittens Have Been Inseparable Since They Were Born
Beau – Let’s talk about bad headlines, Russia, and Ukraine….