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@emptywheel.bsky.social

Coverage of January 6 and other legal investigations. An American-Irish in Ireland.

Legendary potty mouth!
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And it LITERALLY SAID, we added a guy just like Cannard for his gait long enough ago it would explain all the White House visits, even assuming those visits were about Biden.
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Or maybe just read the report from Biden's physical where it explained that movement disorder specialists exactly like Dr. Cannard were added to Biden's team in 2021? They literally link this report in the story ... and then never bothered to read it beyond searching for the word "Parkinsons."
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NYT: Dr. Cannard is a movement disorder specialist. LINKED report from physical: Dr. O'Sullivan explaining that he added movement disorder specialist to Biden's team for SOMETHING ELSE in 2021. NYT: Must be Parkinsons. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/u...
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There's an even more likely explanation: The gait disorder for which, the linked physical report EXPLAINS CLEARLY, Dr. O'Connor added a movement disorder neurologist to Biden's team in 2021.
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Keeping this for posterity bc it is nutty that journalists are now absolving themselves of the choice to ignore political violence by adopting the passive voice. "Biden's age" has agency, journalists and their editors do not.
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"Defiant Biden" Who is Biden defying, one might ask?
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Reid Epstein doesn't bother to mention Project 2025, which other outlets have been reporting on all weekend and which NYT had once led on. Because Epstein is the one choosing to ignore fascism. Not Biden and not even NYT's competitors.
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On top of the decision that felonies are cool when white men like Trump and Hunter commit them, Bannon's CONVICTION was on two misdemeanor counts. He was pardoned of a felony before trial, and now faces trial for analogous charges in NYS in September. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/06/u...
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Can someone tell me where NYT hid Trump's attempts to disown Heritage's fascist project? I mean, holy hell, that's the only reporting on Trump they do anymore?
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[email protected]: Project 2025 may be backfiring. Trump: I know nothing! I know nothing! www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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One other thing Mike Morell told HJC (aside from explaining how Trump's narcissism makes something like Jan6 more likely) is that the 2016 RU attack started in 2014, which I had come to believe, but didn't realize the spooks did too. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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I want to thank Jim Jordan for asking an intelligence expert (Mike Morell) to lay out how Trump has the personality of a dictator. www.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
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Huh. Apparently Brazil has discovered their coup plotter was taking $$ from Saudi Arabia. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Some of them are ALSO so far up Trump's network that we should read accordingly. NYT has now assigned Haberman to Biden stories. That's ... a confession.
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Fucking hilarious NYT put their "But her emails" correspondent on a Biden story, when they pay her a lot of money to maintain non-stop access to Trump's camp.
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This summary of Rahimi, from noted constitutional scholar @petersagal.bsky.social, strikes me as the only short term way out of the Immunity ruling. Once it became clear how nutball Bruen was, everyone but Thomas came around, somewhat. bsky.app/profile/pete...
I recommend reading through the Rahimi decision, concurrences and dissent. Decision: Bruen was fine, but let’s not get crazy. Gorsuch, Kavanagh: Bruen may be nuts, but originalism is good! Kagan, Sotomayor: We done told you Jackson: Look at the mess you made Thomas: DIE UNHAPPY LOSERS
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Imagine having invested SIX YEARS in colluding with Russia and David Weiss to insinuate Biden has a tinge of the corruption found in Donald Trump's pinkie or Jared's big toe, only to have Biden drop out just in time for the general election.
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I keep coming back to the passage of Washington's Farewell Address in which Roberts cloaked his bid for authoritarianism. Roberts took a passage warning against corruption, foreign influence, insurrection, and authoritarianism, & said, "sign me up!" www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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Meanwhile, the opinion folks continue to have a sense of the most important issues facing the country.
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NYT has absolutely no interest in serving as Paul Revere.
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I really want smart lawyers to unpack all the problems with this passage. I know the ethical problems with it. But someone walk me through the precedential problem with it. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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Sammy Alito is undoubtedly a Fox News consumer and I wonder how he imagines things work between Fox and Trump when he cuts them off for calling AZ in Biden's favor?
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This is a pic of where some of the documents charged against Trump were found (3 were in the leatherbound box in his office, 10 were found in Box A-73, not shown in picture. Box w/rectangle is where FVEY doc spilled in December 2021 was found.
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Trump chooses to remind his rubes that cheating on Melania with a porn star was morally wrong, on top of the cover-up of the cover-up of that fuck being a felony.
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First a seagull photobombs my Skellig pic and now the almost-full moon is killing my dark sky preserve.
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Thousands of puffins and gannets in sight and a goddamned seagull photobombs my best picture of Skellig Michael.
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Trump confesses he was always lying in his denials about Russia.
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From Trump's complaint abt FBI mishandling of search of MAL, a better sense of the classified markings on the documents he stole. cc: @pwnallthethings.bsky.social storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...