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LetMyPeopleVote's JournalAdd John Eastman to the list of DOJ/FBI's search warrants last Wednesday.
Eastman wants his phone back
https://twitter.com/petestrzok/status/1541536280076554241
Statement from the lawyer of the guy who patted Rudes on the back
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1541493568581296132Mike Luckovich-When's Independence Day?
https://twitter.com/mluckovichajc/status/1541488214116077569The hypocrisy of Christian 'religious freedom' rhetoric post-Roe
I am Jewish and the Dobbs case has ignored Jewish law and has adopt a warped christian view on this issue. Jewish law is clear that live begins at the first breath. These is a Florida synagogue which is suing over this issue
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1540945466464129025
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-banned-christian-freedom-what-about-n1296568?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Rabbi Samantha Frank, a rabbinic fellow at Temple Micah in Washington, D.C., confirmed to me that in Judaism, reproductive justice goes back to the Torah (the Hebrew Bible), specifically the book of Exodus, in which a differentiation is made between the life of a fetus and the life of a pregnant person. Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg recently summarized the story that this argument comes from in an essay for The Atlantic:
“Two people are fighting; one accidentally pushes someone who is pregnant, causing a miscarriage. The text outlines the consequences: If only a miscarriage happens, the harm doer is obligated to pay financial damages. If, however, the pregnant person dies, the case is treated as manslaughter. The meaning is clear: The fetus is regarded as potential life, rather than actual life.”....
“Banning abortion is a violation of our religious liberty and ability to fulfill even our religious obligations, the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Rabbi Ruttenberg told me in an email. “The Talmud [the text that serves as the primary source of Jewish law] considers the fetus ‘mere water’ for the first 40 days after conception and part of the pregnant person's body after that – as potential life until birth, not as actual life at conception. Enshrining one specific theology as law is a violation of the Establishment Clause.”
The hypocrisy of Christian 'religious freedom' rhetoric post-Roe
I am Jewish and the Dobbs case has ignored Jewish law and has adopt a warped christian view on this issue. Jewish law is clear that live begins at the first breath. These is a Florida synagogue which is suing over this issue
https://twitter.com/MSNBC/status/1540945466464129025
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/roe-v-wade-overturned-abortion-banned-christian-freedom-what-about-n1296568?cid=sm_npd_ms_tw_ma
Rabbi Samantha Frank, a rabbinic fellow at Temple Micah in Washington, D.C., confirmed to me that in Judaism, reproductive justice goes back to the Torah (the Hebrew Bible), specifically the book of Exodus, in which a differentiation is made between the life of a fetus and the life of a pregnant person. Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg recently summarized the story that this argument comes from in an essay for The Atlantic:
“Two people are fighting; one accidentally pushes someone who is pregnant, causing a miscarriage. The text outlines the consequences: If only a miscarriage happens, the harm doer is obligated to pay financial damages. If, however, the pregnant person dies, the case is treated as manslaughter. The meaning is clear: The fetus is regarded as potential life, rather than actual life.”....
“Banning abortion is a violation of our religious liberty and ability to fulfill even our religious obligations, the Free Exercise clause of the First Amendment,” Rabbi Ruttenberg told me in an email. “The Talmud [the text that serves as the primary source of Jewish law] considers the fetus ‘mere water’ for the first 40 days after conception and part of the pregnant person's body after that – as potential life until birth, not as actual life at conception. Enshrining one specific theology as law is a violation of the Establishment Clause.”
Digital World board members get subpoena over Trump's social media deal
These are DOJ subpoenas and are in addition to the SEC subpoenas. This will be fun to watch
https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1541436957347106817
https://www.reuters.com/technology/digital-world-board-members-get-subpoena-over-trumps-social-media-deal-2022-06-27/
The federal probe is the latest setback to Trump's efforts to take Trump Media & Technology Group Corp (TMTG), the creator of social media platform Truth Social, public. TMTG in October agreed to merge with Digital World and was expecting the deal to close by the second half of this year. .....
Earlier this month, the company reported that the U.S Securities and Exchange Commision (SEC) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which have been probing its deal with TMTG since late last year, had also sought more information
Boy Scouts being part of gay pride month
This makes me smile. I had to deal with this issue when I was on the board of my temple and was the Charter Organization Representative for my temple's boy scout troop. In 1980, the SCOTUS ruled that the BSA could exclude a homosexual leader due to that leader wearing his uniform at a gay pride event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_v._Dale The board of my temple instructed the troop that we could not comply with the BSA ruling and we nearly lost the troop over this. Informally there was a don't ask, don't tell policy in effect for most regional scout councils and Dale blew it by wearing his scout uniform to a gay pride event.
BSA is organized with a number of large regional councils covering a large area and each council having districts that included a good number of troops. The council for the Houston area used to have over 100,000 scouts back in my day. In my district there were good number of gay leaders at different troops who complied with the don't ask, don't tell policy. A good number of these leaders earned one of the highest scouting awards (the Silver Beaver) and I was at a leader training camp out with a number of these leaders.
We have two Jewish scout troops in Houston and the temples that sponsor these troops had over one-third of the members of the local United Way. The scout master and I had to meet with the senior leadership for the council for our region to make the board of my temple happy. We sort of mentioned the names of some of the members of the United Way board who were members of the two temples causally and the Council was happy to agree that the two troops would have no trouble so long as we complied with don't ask, don't tell. I had the fun job of discussing this with the board as I had become a member of the board.
This picture makes me smile. Time have changed
https://twitter.com/JewishResister/status/1541207394100957185
BTW, things have changed. One of the reasons why BSA appears to have changed policy is that that BSA has become co-ed and the Mormons formed their own alternative to BSA.
https://www.deseret.com/2019/7/17/8936741/church-announces-replacement-for-boy-scouts-personal-progress-children-and-youth#:~:text=The%20new%20initiative%20to%20replace%20the%20Boy%20Scouts,Personal%20Progress%3A%20%27Children%20and%20Youth%27%20-%20Deseret%20News
Before this group was formed, all Mormon boys were expected to participate in Boy Scouts and a good number of these children were not happy. While Mormons made up about 3% of the population, they account for 15% of the scouting population. My troop went to summer camp the week after all of the Mormon troops had been at that camp and there was a ton of damage left behind by kids who really did not want to be at summer camp.
I am happy to see scouting troops participate in gay pride events
Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
Sanctions work
https://twitter.com/business/status/1541200657155342341
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-26/russia-defaults-on-foreign-debt-for-first-time-since-1918?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business
For months, the country found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed.
It’s a grim marker in the country’s rapid transformation into an economic, financial and political outcast. The nation’s eurobonds have traded at distressed levels since the start of March, the central bank’s foreign reserves remain frozen, and the biggest banks are severed from the global financial system.
But given the damage already done to the economy and markets, the default is also mostly symbolic for now, and matters little to Russians dealing with double-digit inflation and the worst economic contraction in years.
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Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt for First Time Since 1918
Source: Bloomberg
Russia defaulted on its foreign-currency sovereign debt for the first time in a century, the culmination of ever-tougher Western sanctions that shut down payment routes to overseas creditors.
For months, the country found paths around the penalties imposed after the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. But at the end of the day on Sunday, the grace period on about $100 million of snared interest payments due May 27 expired, a deadline considered an event of default if missed.
It’s a grim marker in the country’s rapid transformation into an economic, financial and political outcast. The nation’s eurobonds have traded at distressed levels since the start of March, the central bank’s foreign reserves remain frozen, and the biggest banks are severed from the global financial system.
But given the damage already done to the economy and markets, the default is also mostly symbolic for now, and matters little to Russians dealing with double-digit inflation and the worst economic contraction in years.
Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-26/russia-defaults-on-foreign-debt-for-first-time-since-1918?utm_source=twitter&utm_content=business&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_medium=social&cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business
The Lincoln Project-Remember what was done. Consider what could have been.
This is a tough video to watch
https://twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1541126318116507649
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