Gov Kemp WILL NOT approve a commission to remove Fani Willis as DA.

McConnell/GOP enjoy privileges/benefit of the doubt they would never extend to Democrats.

Wow - The front page of tomorrow's Daily Tar Heel

I shed many tears while typing up these heart-wrenching text messages sent and received by UNC students yesterday. Our campus was on lockdown for more than three hours.

Beyond proud of this cover and the team behind it.
https://twitter.com/caitlyn_yaede/status/1696678904683970574?s=20

Holy shit! Trump-appointed judge holds 1/6 rioter IN CONTEMPT & jails him for 5 months

Holy shit! A trump-appointed judge just held a 1/6 rioter IN CONTEMPT and jailed him for five months for his behavior during trial.

That’s five months JUST for his conduct during trial!

Update to this: Judge McFadden held #Jan6 #CapitolRiot defendant Brandon Fellows, who insisted on representing himself, in CRIMINAL CONTEMPT and sentenced him to five months in jail for his conduct during the trial, per docket. He also awaits jury verdict.

https://twitter.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1696643294145437935?s=20

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A Jan. 6 defendant who represented himself in court after being accused of smoking marijuana in a senator’s office during the Capitol attack was held in criminal contempt on Tuesday, with the judge overseeing his trial smacking him with a five-month jail sentence before jury deliberations in the case were even set to begin. Brandon Fellows, 29, has been in custody since June 2021 on a federal felony charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting, as well as a number of other misdemeanors. As his trial, which began last week, wrapped up on Tuesday, Fellows took the stand. Asked about sitting down in the office that belonged to Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Fellows remarked, “I didn’t know it was a senator’s desk. It felt very comfy.” He also insisted that the rioters “had the right to overthrow” the government on Jan. 6. Later, as U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden explained to Fellows that he had forfeited his right to a rebuttal, Fellows replied, “I would expect nothing less from a kangaroo court,” according to NBC News. His contempt sentence was first reported by a Politico journalist. The jury is expected to begin deliberating on Fellows’ charges on Wednesday morning.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/jan-6-rioter-brandon-fellows-held-in-criminal-contempt-ahead-of-jury-decision

Conservative groups draw up plan to dismantle the US government and replace it with Trump's vision

WASHINGTON (AP) — With more than a year to go before the 2024 election, a constellation of conservative organizations is preparing for a possible second White House term for Donald Trump, recruiting thousands of Americans to come to Washington on a mission to dismantle the federal government and replace it with a vision closer to his own.

Led by the long-established Heritage Foundation think tank and fueled by former Trump administration officials, the far-reaching effort is essentially a government-in-waiting for the former president’s return — or any candidate who aligns with their ideals and can defeat President Joe Biden in 2024.

With a nearly 1,000-page “Project 2025” handbook and an “army” of Americans, the idea is to have the civic infrastructure in place on Day One to commandeer, reshape and do away with what Republicans deride as the “deep state” bureaucracy, in part by firing as many as 50,000 federal workers.


https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-conservatives-trump-heritage-857eb794e505f1c6710eb03fd5b58981?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark

I'm sorry, but Joe the Plumber was one depraved person.

Joe the Plumber, who just died at age 49 of pancreatic cancer, had this to say in an open letter to the parents of children in CA who died in a 2014 gun massacre

“I am sorry you lost your child. I myself have a son and daughter and the one thing I never want to go through, is what you are going through now,” he wrote. “But: As harsh as this sounds ― your dead kids don’t trump my Constitutional rights.

"This powerful photo of Rep. Angie Nixon is all of us."

Black leaders built a vigil today to honor the three Black lives lost in Jacksonville to gun violence yesterday.

Gov DeSantis took advantage of THEIR space after banning Black history, banning diversity, and more.

https://twitter.com/eunicortiz/status/1695944766758809828?s=20
https://twitter.com/mikefreemanNFL/status/1695976310156165299?s=20
https://twitter.com/ritaresarian/status/1695892555747983512?s=20

Trump, co-defendants to be arraigned in Georgia on Sept. 6

& WE CAN WATCH!

Trump’s arraignment has been set for Sept. 6 at 9:30 a.m., the first of all the defendants, who are charged in a sweeping racketeering case alleging they joined a criminal enterprise bent on keeping Trump in power.

All the defendants’ arraignments were set in 15-minute increments by Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.

At their arraignments, the defendants will formally hear the charges brought against them and enter their pleas. In Trump’s other three criminal cases, he has pleaded not guilty to all charges.

Here’s when each defendant is scheduled to be arraigned on Sept. 6 in the Trump Georgia case:

Donald Trump: 9:30 a.m.
Rudy Giuliani: 9:45 a.m.
John Eastman: 10 a.m.
Sidney Powell: 10:15 a.m.
Mark Meadows: 10:30 a.m.
Cathy Latham: 10:45 a.m.
Scott Hall: 11 a.m.
Kenneth Chesebro: 11:15 a.m.
Trevian Kutti: 11:30 a.m.
Harrison Floyd: 11:45 a.m.
Jeffrey Clark: 1 p.m.
Stephen Lee: 1:15 p.m.
Jenna Ellis: 1:30 p.m.
Shawn Still: 1:45 p.m.
Ray Smith: 2 p.m.
David Shafer: 2:15 p.m.
Michael Roman: 2:30 p.m.
Bob Cheeley: 2:45 p.m.
Misty Hampton: 3 p.m.


https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4174548-trump-co-defendants-to-be-arraigned-in-georgia-on-sept-6/?utm_source=hill_app&utm_medium=social&utm_content=share-link

Trump's prison jumpsuit

And they're off -by Tom Tomorrow