January 23, 2021

How can anyone doubt Donald incited violence, when he f%*king paid for it?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214988027
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-22/trump-campaign-paid-organizers-of-pre-riot-rally-2-7-million
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/trump-capitol-riot-funding-20210122.html

January 23, 2021

Let the Russians Know - The world is watching

WATCH THIS: An elderly woman approaches police in St. Petersburg asking why they are detaining a protester. The officer responds by kicking her in the stomach with such force that she falls to the ground.
How shameful.
https://twitter.com/DavidCornDC/status/1353011957129949184?s=20

MORE:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/23/europe/russia-navalny-oposition-demonstrations-intl/index.html
https://twitter.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1353011682608623616?s=20

January 23, 2021

The strut of a woman who has fulfilled the terms of her contract

“If ‘ain’t got to do this shit anymore’ was a person” was the biting verdict of one user who posted the footage of Melania apparently at last on the way to life as a golf widow and – she seemed to a watching world to hope – relative obscurity, out of the public spotlight.

VIDEO:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/22/melania-trump-photo-snub-florida-white-house

January 23, 2021

Federal prosecutors already have Don's tax records

Trump’s tax lawyers cut ties as he leaves office and reports say federal prosecutors already have his records

Donald Trump’s legal troubles began mounting before he could even step foot out of the White House on Wednesday.

Reports indicated early in the morning on Inauguration Day that federal prosecutors in New York had obtained some of his financial records amid an investigation into the former president and his private business.

Those records were obtained despite the Supreme Court having not yet made a decision on whether Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr can demand eight years of Mr Trump’s tax records from his accounting firm, Mazars USA.

While the district attorney’s office was still waiting for an order from the nation’s highest court on its subpoena powers, Bloomberg News reported the new developments meant investigators can begin verifying criminal allegations against the Trump Organization and former president.

Ah, the Trump ‘IRS audit’ con job is coming to an end.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-20/trump-investigators-have-tax-records-even-before-court-ruling

January 23, 2021

Spot on

January 23, 2021

My favorite meme from the Inauguration.

https://twitter.com/Ricksta6/status/1352656524368359424?s=20

January 22, 2021

Graphic Bombshell - Follow The Dark $$$ Behind 1/6/21

NEW: former President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign disclosed paying people & firms behind the January 6 rally before rioters stored the US Capitol *OVER $2.7 MILLION*—but secretive shell companies & "dark money" hide details of Trump ties to those protests
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/01/trump-tied-to-dc-protests-dark-money-and-shell-companies/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=twitt_trump-ties-dcprot-012220

Multiple individuals listed on the permit granted by the National Park Service worked for Trump’s presidential campaign, as first reported by the Associated Press over the weekend. That raises new questions about the Trump campaign’s lack of spending transparency and the unknown extent of the event’s ties to Trump aides.


And this isn’t even capturing all of it >

Trump’s top 2020 campaign vendor was American Made Media Consultants LLC, a firm created by Trump campaign aides to act as a clearinghouse for its spending. The firm routed more than $759 million of the campaign and its joint fundraising committee’s spending, hiding information about the identities of some individuals being paid by the campaign, how much money changed hands and when those payments took place.

https://twitter.com/ItZmeKatherine/status/1352648022413484037?s=20

January 22, 2021

FOX Chyron: "Biden's Disastrous First Week"

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https://twitter.com/sjdemas/status/1352457102804070403?s=20

January 22, 2021

"Breachheads" (2021) 14" x 11" pen and ink on paper, digital color

Breachheads, Noah Fischer 2021

more art and commentary:
https://hyperallergic.com/615843/why-the-art-world-needs-populism/

January 22, 2021

"Stand Back & Stand By! - Await Orders From Our Commander In Chief"

Empthywheel breaks it down:
https://www.emptywheel.net/2021/01/22/stand-back-and-stand-by-the-proud-boys-node-of-the-january-6-attack/

BUT THIS PIECE OF EVIDENCE STOOD OUT TO ME:

In Goodwyn’s case, the government shows him adopting Trump’s avatar on Twitter and repeating Trump’s own line from the debate, “Stand back and stand by.”



This route is one of the most likely ones via which the government will tie the violence to those close to Trump trying to undermine the election and — with Trump’s “Stand back and stand by” comment — possibly even Trump.


https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Daniel%20Goodwyn%20Statement%20of%20Facts.pdf
https://twitter.com/emptywheel/status/1352611288409636864?s=20