Glenn Kirschner – Trump federally indicted! Here’s what we can expect in the coming days
The Lincoln Project – Our Flag
MSNBC – Jack Smith’s coup probe hits MAGA convict Steve Bannon
Thom Hartmann – You Won’t Believe The Power Behind The Most Corrupt SCOTUS Justice…?
Cat goes WILD for Trader Joe’s ciabatta!
Beau – Let’s talk about Ukraine, Kuwait, and supplies….
Yesterday, Pat Robertson died. He was 93. “I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good.” – Moms Mabley. You can read about it in lots of places (AP is one) but this Wonkette remembrance may be the most – satisfying. Also yesterday, it was dry enough to put the sticker om my car (and of course put a copy of the registration into the glove box). So I did. We’re expecting more rain, so I carped the diem. And one more thing: Trump** stated publicly that he has been indicted (in the documents case).
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Crooks & Liars – FL GOPers Panicking As Immigrants Flee Ahead Of New Law
Quote – Florida Republicans concerned about the state’s new anti-immigration law and its potential impacts on Florida’s economy… admit the bill is “100% meant to scare” immigrants and beg the crowd to “urgently” convince “your people” to not leave Florida since folks in the agriculture industry are mad workers are leaving.
Click through for story. Now that the debt ceiling is off the table for a while, the news stream is so fast and furious that I think I’ll have to do three a day for a while to catch up. Just for a while. I won’t be able to keep it up.
HuffPost – DHS Launches Major Effort To Stem Human Trafficking In Indigenous Communities
Quote – One of the “brutal realities” is that Native women command more money from sex traffickers, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who has been a leader in combating violence against Indigenous women, previously told HuffPost. “Native women, because of their looks, can be viewed as more exotic, more Asian, and apparently there is a higher market for women that are of Asian descent,” Murkowski said. “When I heard that, it just … It just sickens me.”
Click through for details. It’s no surprise that people who would profit from, or pay into, human trafficking objectify women. But this certainly brings that fact home.
Civil Discourse . Today in Trump
Quote – Venue, as a legal proposition, is the place or location where conduct that prosecutors want to charge took place—the judicial district where the crime was committed. Sometimes that’s obvious, like in a bank robbery. Other times, it can be more difficult to determine, and there may be more than one possible venue. Imagine a drug-dealing network that operates across a region of the country. There can be more than one proper venue for a case. Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 18 provides that “Unless a statute or these rules permit otherwise, the government must prosecute an offense in a district where the offense was committed.[“]
Click through for more explanation and the news which prompted it. As usual, click “no” or “continue” on the popup(s). Venue decisions may be the most important ones that DOJ must make in these cases. I don’t want anyone here to be crying “foul!” if Jack Smith ends up trying the documents cse in Florida. If that happens, it will be because it was legally necessary.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Mark Meadows testifies in grand jury about BOTH the insurrection & Trump’s classified docs crimes
The Lincoln Project – Last Week in the Republican Party – June 6, 2023
MSNBC – Lawrence: Mark Meadows could be second White House Chief of Staff convicted of crimes
Thom Hartmann – Are You Scared Of Woke?! Fox News Propaganda Exposed
Tiniest Abandoned Puppy Is Found In A Box On The Curb
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump, wokeness, and branding….
Glenn Kirschner – Trump’s lawyers meet with Jack Smith. Next stop – indictment!
Thom Hartmann – Is This The MOST Terrifying GOP Law For Women YET?
Rebel HQ – Newsom May End DeSantis’s 2024 Run With This
Parody Project – This Fits Him to a T – Parody of I’ll Never Find Another You
Cat Loves Jumping In And Stealing His Mom’s Baths
Beau – Let’s talk about Utah, libraries, and finding out….
Glenn Kirschner – Tape made by Trump’s attorney, Evan Corcoran, now in hands of prosecutors. Is any of this normal?
MSNBC – Trump’s ‘panic’ on display when asked about docs case audio tape
Farron Balanced – Roger Stone Caught On Tape Explaining How He Manipulates Donald Trump
Robert Reich – What a Vietnam War Riot Says about Today’s Culture Wars
Watch This Sassy Cleft Palate Puppy Argue With His Mom
Beau – Let’s talk about the debt deal and what’s in it…. (Since filming, it has sailed through the Senate and been signed, but the points made are still valid)
Glenn Kirschner – ANOTHER damaging tape in Trump case, but this one was made by his lawyer!
The Lincoln Project – You think Biden Could do That?
MSNBC – Biden has once again defied expectations from haters and his own party
Parody Project – The MAGA Song – Make Attorneys Get Attorneys
Cat Chronicles His Journey With Unrequited Love
Beau – Let’s talk about Paxton and turning Texas blue….
Yesterday, My drive was pretty uneventful except for some pretty heavy rain on the way down. It didn’t last long, but it gave the wipers a challenge on their highest setting while it lasted, and affected visibility. We played four games of Scrabble, not competetively, but with the aim of using allt he letters legitimately – and succeeded on all but thelast one. We were left with 8 vowels between us and the poard so tight that there was really no place to put any of them. He returnes all greetings. Today, both short takes are from substack – I apologize for that, but both of them include Tulsa (the Greenwood massacre) in their contents, and that anniversary is already a few days old.
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The Good in Us – Black Wall Street
Quote – Since the end of the Civil War, the thing most likely to incite white violence against emancipated Black citizens was their success. Giving Black Americans full rights, beyond the freedom that had so grudgingly been granted to them after the Union prevailed, proved to be a bridge too far for many whites—even Northern Republicans…. In retrospect, it seems self-evident that the driver behind the essential re-enslavement of Black people after Reconstruction was Black prosperity.
Click through for full column. Even before I realized how horribly many massacres there have been in the US, I had begun to realize that, although the impulse for anyone in a marginalized group is to demonstrate their own worth, that is often unsuccessful at best and dangerous at worst. But she says it better than I can.
Letters from an American – June 1, 2023
Quote – In other economic news, the Biden administration today announced actions designed to address racial bias in the valuation of homes. This sounds sort of in the weeds for administration action, I know, but it is actually an important move for addressing the nation’s wealth inequality…. Homeownership is the most important factor in creating generational wealth—that is, wealth that passes from one generation to the next—both because homeownership essentially forces savings as people pay mortgages, and because homes tend to appreciate in value…. There is a reason that the administration has centered its housing policies on June 1. This is the anniversary of the Tulsa Massacre,
Click through for full article. I’m very glad the Biden administration is doing this. I hope they stay on it when it comes to actually making it happen. For more than 150 years we have trusted people to do the right thing and, frankly, that doesn’t work.
Food For Thought
Glenn Kirschner – Trump can’t find classified document he stole; DA Willis goes all RICO; Pence cleared of wrongdoing
The Lincoln Project – DEE/DUH-Santis
Thom Hartmann – Did An 80 Year Old WWII Warning Predict America’s Descent Into Fascism?
Armageddon Update – Ai, Ai, OH NO!!!
Baby Owl Goes Everywhere With Her Family
Beau – Let’s talk about Trump’s Day 1 promise….