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Joinfortmill
Joinfortmill's Journal
Joinfortmill's Journal
April 23, 2023
'Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate, one legal analyst stated the former president's legal woes have just grown exponentially worse...."What we have here is the unauthorized access to this privileged computer data. There is a conspiracy to acquire and improperly distribute that data. There is probably a crime of interfering with the rights of the people of Georgia to have a free and fair election."
"And this is a series of crimes, a pattern of criminal activity, then it could possibly violate the Georgia RICO statute, which criminalizes a series of criminal activities by the same person or group of persons, so there's a lot of stake here,"'
'Bombshell revelation of Trump election texts is 'more damning' than his Georgia phone call:'
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-georgia-election-interference/'Reacting to a CNN report that Trump operatives were making plans to use breached voting data to not only undercut the 2020 presidential election results but also to give the GOP control of the Senate, one legal analyst stated the former president's legal woes have just grown exponentially worse...."What we have here is the unauthorized access to this privileged computer data. There is a conspiracy to acquire and improperly distribute that data. There is probably a crime of interfering with the rights of the people of Georgia to have a free and fair election."
"And this is a series of crimes, a pattern of criminal activity, then it could possibly violate the Georgia RICO statute, which criminalizes a series of criminal activities by the same person or group of persons, so there's a lot of stake here,"'
April 22, 2023
Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
'I figured that I’d set my alarm for midnight to see how the Court would rule on...Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to overrule the FDA’s approval of Mifepristone, a drug proven safe and effective for abortions and miscarriage treatment for over 20 years....When the Supreme Court ruled, they stayed all of it. They preserved the status quo, so Mifepristone will remain available up to 10 weeks, and can be obtained via the mail and used at home while the courts are reviewing the case. But that’s a temporary reprieve.
The stay will last while the case is on appeal to the Fifth Circuit. Presumably the party that loses in that court will appeal to the Supreme Court. They are not required to hear an appeal in a civil case like this. If the Court were to refuse to hear it (“certiorari denied”), then the stay would end and the Fifth Circuit’s order would go into effect. If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the appeal (“cert granted”), the stay will continue until the Court enters final judgment. Because the case involves important issues, it’s very likely the Court will take the case.
Tonight’s decision keeps the current rules in place. That’s important beyond this case alone, because with abortion banned or limited in many parts of the country after Dobbs, ending access to Mifepristone, which is used for over 50% of procedures, has become the next frontier for those intent on putting a national ban on abortion in place. There will likely be additional efforts to restrict access to it and to its companion drug Misoprostol.'
'Not Quite Midnight at the Supreme Court'
https://joycevance.substack.com/p/not-quite-midnight-at-the-supreme?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=emailCivil Discourse with Joyce Vance
'I figured that I’d set my alarm for midnight to see how the Court would rule on...Texas federal judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s decision to overrule the FDA’s approval of Mifepristone, a drug proven safe and effective for abortions and miscarriage treatment for over 20 years....When the Supreme Court ruled, they stayed all of it. They preserved the status quo, so Mifepristone will remain available up to 10 weeks, and can be obtained via the mail and used at home while the courts are reviewing the case. But that’s a temporary reprieve.
The stay will last while the case is on appeal to the Fifth Circuit. Presumably the party that loses in that court will appeal to the Supreme Court. They are not required to hear an appeal in a civil case like this. If the Court were to refuse to hear it (“certiorari denied”), then the stay would end and the Fifth Circuit’s order would go into effect. If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the appeal (“cert granted”), the stay will continue until the Court enters final judgment. Because the case involves important issues, it’s very likely the Court will take the case.
Tonight’s decision keeps the current rules in place. That’s important beyond this case alone, because with abortion banned or limited in many parts of the country after Dobbs, ending access to Mifepristone, which is used for over 50% of procedures, has become the next frontier for those intent on putting a national ban on abortion in place. There will likely be additional efforts to restrict access to it and to its companion drug Misoprostol.'
April 19, 2023
''‘Lachlan’s in the mire’: Fox News case spells trouble for Murdoch heir''
“Lachlan is in the mire,” said David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio and author of Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires. “This is an incredible signal moment for him, and his fingerprints are not absent here – he is part of this.”...The “this” to which Folkenflik was referring is the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit that has been brought against Fox News Network (FNN) and its parent company Fox Corp – of which Lachlan Murdoch is executive chairman and CEO...
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, he (Lachlan) tried to belittle the scandal as so much “noise”, and stood by Fox News coverage of the 2020 election saying it had done its job “without fear or favour”'.
Well, how did that work out for you, Lachlan?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/11/lachlan-murdoch-fox-news-defamation-case''‘Lachlan’s in the mire’: Fox News case spells trouble for Murdoch heir''
“Lachlan is in the mire,” said David Folkenflik, media correspondent for National Public Radio and author of Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires. “This is an incredible signal moment for him, and his fingerprints are not absent here – he is part of this.”...The “this” to which Folkenflik was referring is the $1.6bn defamation lawsuit that has been brought against Fox News Network (FNN) and its parent company Fox Corp – of which Lachlan Murdoch is executive chairman and CEO...
Speaking at a Morgan Stanley conference, he (Lachlan) tried to belittle the scandal as so much “noise”, and stood by Fox News coverage of the 2020 election saying it had done its job “without fear or favour”'.
April 18, 2023
Please take a few minutes to read. It's a bit frightening, but very enlightening. (my words)
'What’s Behind the GOP’s War Against Democracy? And are rightwing billionaires who want more, more, more money willing to make common cause with bigots, fascists, and wannabee killers to get it?' Thom Hartmann
'...The Republican rhetoric about the queer and Black communities — and, often, about Jews — is startlingly similar to that of the Nazis and the Vichy French about Jews. Donald Trump...is openly calling Alvin Bragg an “animal.”..Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula...and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election...Thus, a minority party that never took more than a third of the national vote before seizing power began a process that inevitably led to the death of 73 million human beings.'
Holding bullies to account for their crimes and their intimidation tactics is really and truly difficult, as the German Social Democrats discovered in 1933 and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is realizing today. Typically the only thing that stops bullies is to punch them in the face, which can reduce one to their level...There are signs that a few of the billionaires funding the modern neofascist wing of the GOP’s rise to power are having second thoughts...Billionaire DeSantis backer Thomas Peterffy...told The Financial Times last week:“I have put myself on hold. Because of (DeSantis’) stance on abortion and book banning ... myself, and a bunch of friends, are holding our powder dry.”
So far, Peterffy is the outlier. The billionaire-funded movement to pass anti-voting, anti-trans, anti-Black history, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, and anti-public school legislation and policy is roaring down the track, as is the billionaire-owned media campaign to promote fascism.'
'Democrats, meanwhile, face the same crisis the Social Democrats did in Germany in the 1930s...'
https://hartmannreport.com/p/whats-behind-the-gops-war-against?utm_source=substack&utm_mediumPlease take a few minutes to read. It's a bit frightening, but very enlightening. (my words)
'What’s Behind the GOP’s War Against Democracy? And are rightwing billionaires who want more, more, more money willing to make common cause with bigots, fascists, and wannabee killers to get it?' Thom Hartmann
'...The Republican rhetoric about the queer and Black communities — and, often, about Jews — is startlingly similar to that of the Nazis and the Vichy French about Jews. Donald Trump...is openly calling Alvin Bragg an “animal.”..Once the Nazis took power they banned books, outlawed drag shows and homosexuality, changed school curricula...and rewrote election laws so they’d never again lose an election...Thus, a minority party that never took more than a third of the national vote before seizing power began a process that inevitably led to the death of 73 million human beings.'
Holding bullies to account for their crimes and their intimidation tactics is really and truly difficult, as the German Social Democrats discovered in 1933 and Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is realizing today. Typically the only thing that stops bullies is to punch them in the face, which can reduce one to their level...There are signs that a few of the billionaires funding the modern neofascist wing of the GOP’s rise to power are having second thoughts...Billionaire DeSantis backer Thomas Peterffy...told The Financial Times last week:“I have put myself on hold. Because of (DeSantis’) stance on abortion and book banning ... myself, and a bunch of friends, are holding our powder dry.”
So far, Peterffy is the outlier. The billionaire-funded movement to pass anti-voting, anti-trans, anti-Black history, anti-gay marriage, anti-abortion, and anti-public school legislation and policy is roaring down the track, as is the billionaire-owned media campaign to promote fascism.'
April 17, 2023
'A longtime adversary to Donald Trump could be the secret weapon in the Manhattan district attorney's case against the former president...Matthew Colangelo has aggressively pursued Trump for years, first for the New York attorney general, then at the Department of Justice and now for district attorney Alvin Bragg's team of prosecutors, and his lengthy experience will be instrumental in proving the charges against the first ex-president to face felony charges, reported The Daily Beast.
His team sued to dissolve the Trump Foundation in June 2018 in a case they eventually won after proving the then-president used the charity to fund then-Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, and Colangelo fought against many of the Trump's right-wing initiatives for the state attorney general's office.
"Indeed, Colangelo’s record in court reads like an entirely separate indictment — against Trump for nearly every policy imaginable," The Daily Beast reported. "And it dates back to the former president’s very first day at the White House."'
Longtime Trump nemesis joins Manhattan DA's case
https://www.rawstory.com/matthew-colangelo-trump-2659865557/'A longtime adversary to Donald Trump could be the secret weapon in the Manhattan district attorney's case against the former president...Matthew Colangelo has aggressively pursued Trump for years, first for the New York attorney general, then at the Department of Justice and now for district attorney Alvin Bragg's team of prosecutors, and his lengthy experience will be instrumental in proving the charges against the first ex-president to face felony charges, reported The Daily Beast.
His team sued to dissolve the Trump Foundation in June 2018 in a case they eventually won after proving the then-president used the charity to fund then-Florida attorney general Pam Bondi, and Colangelo fought against many of the Trump's right-wing initiatives for the state attorney general's office.
"Indeed, Colangelo’s record in court reads like an entirely separate indictment — against Trump for nearly every policy imaginable," The Daily Beast reported. "And it dates back to the former president’s very first day at the White House."'
April 17, 2023
ENOUGH! I don't see how we go on like this. We need a Nation-Wide March Against Gun Violence or a National Stay At Home Boycott Against Gun Violence. We need to force our country to stop for a day and listen to the silence of all these poor dead people we have lost (my words).
'DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama law enforcement officers Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting that killed four people and injured 28 others during a teenager’s birthday party...Among those killed was a high school senior who planned to play college football and was celebrating his sister’s 16th birthday. The shooting erupted Saturday night at a dance studio in downtown Dadeville...
Keenan Cooper, the DJ at the party, told WBMA-TV that the party was stopped briefly when attendees heard someone had a gun. He said people with guns were asked to leave, but no one left. Cooper said when the shooting began some time later, some people took shelter under a table where he was standing, and others ran out.'
'Shooting at Alabama birthday party kills 4 people, wounds 28' - When is it Enough?
https://apnews.com/article/dadeville-alabama-shooting-party-137935e7cbc5b2470571eaee7febb161ENOUGH! I don't see how we go on like this. We need a Nation-Wide March Against Gun Violence or a National Stay At Home Boycott Against Gun Violence. We need to force our country to stop for a day and listen to the silence of all these poor dead people we have lost (my words).
'DADEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Alabama law enforcement officers Sunday were imploring people to come forward with information about a shooting that killed four people and injured 28 others during a teenager’s birthday party...Among those killed was a high school senior who planned to play college football and was celebrating his sister’s 16th birthday. The shooting erupted Saturday night at a dance studio in downtown Dadeville...
Keenan Cooper, the DJ at the party, told WBMA-TV that the party was stopped briefly when attendees heard someone had a gun. He said people with guns were asked to leave, but no one left. Cooper said when the shooting began some time later, some people took shelter under a table where he was standing, and others ran out.'
April 15, 2023
Chris Hayes: Justice Thomas' real estate deal with billionaire Crow & Interview with ProPublica
April 15, 2023
Chris Hayes: Justice Thomas' real estate deal with billionaire Crow & Interview with ProPublica
April 14, 2023
'How to Invest as a Debt Ceiling Crisis Looms
The risk of a federal debt ceiling breach later this year has increased. Steel yourself for trouble, our columnist writes. But remember: This, too, shall pass.'
'Doug Spratley, who heads the cash management team at T. Rowe Price, said debt ceiling imbroglios have become so frequent in recent decades that he has a regular playbook that he will now start using again....A panic, however, is exactly what can happen if there is a Treasury default. Some money market funds froze up in the financial crisis of 2008, and bond funds came under pressure in the market panic near the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Both types of funds could easily be disrupted again.
I hold both, and consider them safe under the rules of the game as they have been played — until now. But if the debt crisis isn’t settled well before “the X date,” I expect to stash more money than usual in a federally insured high-yield online account at a reputable bank..
For those worried about the Looming Debt Ceiling...I found this helpful
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/business/debt-ceiling-crisis-investing.html'How to Invest as a Debt Ceiling Crisis Looms
The risk of a federal debt ceiling breach later this year has increased. Steel yourself for trouble, our columnist writes. But remember: This, too, shall pass.'
'Doug Spratley, who heads the cash management team at T. Rowe Price, said debt ceiling imbroglios have become so frequent in recent decades that he has a regular playbook that he will now start using again....A panic, however, is exactly what can happen if there is a Treasury default. Some money market funds froze up in the financial crisis of 2008, and bond funds came under pressure in the market panic near the start of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Both types of funds could easily be disrupted again.
I hold both, and consider them safe under the rules of the game as they have been played — until now. But if the debt crisis isn’t settled well before “the X date,” I expect to stash more money than usual in a federally insured high-yield online account at a reputable bank..
April 12, 2023
'The lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship with Trump by revealing his "confidences" and "spreading falsehoods" in books, podcasts and media appearances.
It says Cohen wrongfully called Trump "racist" in his 2020 book, "Disloyal," and fabricated conversations with Trump.
"The timing of Disloyal's release, just prior to the November 3, 2020 Presidential Election, suggests that Defendant intended to improperly disclose Plaintiff's confidences when it would be most lucrative to do so — and while Disloyal would be sure to have the most damaging reputational effect," the lawsuit said.'
Trump sues Cohen for 500 mil for breaching attorney/client privilege and a bunch of other bullshit.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-sues-his-former-lawyer-michael-cohen-more-than-500-million-2023-04-12/'The lawsuit accuses Cohen of violating his attorney-client relationship with Trump by revealing his "confidences" and "spreading falsehoods" in books, podcasts and media appearances.
It says Cohen wrongfully called Trump "racist" in his 2020 book, "Disloyal," and fabricated conversations with Trump.
"The timing of Disloyal's release, just prior to the November 3, 2020 Presidential Election, suggests that Defendant intended to improperly disclose Plaintiff's confidences when it would be most lucrative to do so — and while Disloyal would be sure to have the most damaging reputational effect," the lawsuit said.'
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