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Criminal indictment states Donald Trump took US nuclear secrets and stored files in the bathroom [Updated]

2023-06-09 /

The 49-page indictment against Mr Trump was unsealed today is extraordinarily damning.

BBC » Mr Trump has been charged with 37 counts of unauthorised possession of classified material, obstruction of justice, concealing documents and making false statements to law enforcement.

NY Times » “On nearly every one of its 49 pages, the indictment revealed a shocking example of Mr. Trump’s indifferent attitude toward some of the country’s most sensitive secrets — and of his persistent willfulness in having his aides and lawyers do his bidding in stymying attempts by the government to get the records back.”

The Economist » “The allegations are stunning.”

Mother Jones » “A Mar-a-Lago bathroom outfitted with two chandeliers, over 30 boxes of documents, and a box of Kleenex deserves specific recognition, for it singularly captures the stunning idiocy of our former president.”

MPGA

2023-06-09 /

Make Prisons Great Again!

Trump has lost the shield of the US Presidency that kept him and his friends safe while he was in the White House. Now the rule of law is coming for him, and, with a modicum of luck, everyone else involved in his crimes and misdemeanors.

Republican politicians cower [Updated]

2023-06-09 /

Since the time of Nixon, the GOP branded itself as the party of law and order, and national security. As Mr. Trump faces numerous serious criminal charges, and leads the country down the path to self-destruction, which Republican party candidate has enough integrity to stand up for country, and not for the party?

The Messenger » Former Vice President Mike Pence canceled his planned appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox propaganda program.

Ron DeSantis stated » “The DeSantis administration will bring accountability to the DOJ, excise political bias and end weaponization once and for all.” (via the alt right platform)

BBC » As Mr Trump is charged under the Espionage Act, conservatives on our panel are angry and shocked.

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) told Fox the federal indictment of Donald Trump will “disrupt the nation,” adding,  “And we’re not going to stand for it.”

The Messenger » Ari Fleischer, the former White House press secretary to George W. Bush » “I think every wise Republican should make a pledge they would pardon Donald Trump.”

The former US President indicted over classified documents case [Updated]

2023-06-09 /

Mr Trump, 76, is expected to surrender to the federal authorities in Miami, Florida at 3 p.m. ET on Tuesday, June 13.

At that point, the federal charges against him will be unsealed.

» BBC | The Guardian | The Guardian | The East African | Goal Zero | CNBC | Mother Jones

Meanwhile » Because, well you know, America »

  • Trump could still run for US President from prison (Political)
  • Two and a half years after the January 6 attack on the Capitol, an estimated 12 million American adults, or 4.4% of the adult population, believe violence is justified to restore Donald Trump to the White House. (The Guardian)
  • Speaker Kevin McCarthy falsely claimed that Mr Trump had been indicted by President Joe Biden (alt right platform)
  • Republicans rally around Trump amid reported DOJ indictment (The Hill)
  • Vivek Ramaswamy promises to pardon Trump (Political)

Connected »

  • George Takei via Mastodon » Happy federal indictment day to all who celebrate! And we should all celebrate.
  • Peter Baker, NY Times » There was a time, not that long ago really, when Donald Trump said he cared about the sanctity of classified information. That, of course, was when his opponent was accused of jeopardizing it and it was a useful political weapon for Mr. Trump.
  • Senior Fox executive Raj Shah has left the network; Shah, a former deputy press secretary under President Trump, had text messages exposed in the Dominion suit (alt right platform)
  • Trump’s Latest Campaign Strategy Looks Like a ‘Ponzi Scheme’ (The Daily Beast)
  • Philip Bump, Washington Post » Evidence grows that Trump hoarded documents — and showed them to people (Mastodon)

Governor Gavin Newsom also threatens Florida’s Ron DeSantis with kidnapping charges

2023-06-07 /

California Governor Gavin Newsom threatened the Florida Governor with kidnapping charges after South American migrants were flown to Sacramento as a media stunt.

Meanwhile

Salon » Texas sheriff files charges over DeSantis’ migrant stunt

In 2022, Florida paid the same contractor US$1.56 million with public funds to fly migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, and for a possible second flight to Delaware that never took place. (AP)

LA Times | NY Times | Axios | The Guardian | Texas Tribune

Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform economies, geopolitics, and everyday life

2023-06-03 /

The genie is out of the bottle. AI will be used and misused, a tool and a weapon. The threats and opportunities will grow. Many will be harmed in the name of progress.

However, the U.S. based Council on Foreign Relations is leaving that question open »

 

 

Some experts believe this increasingly powerful technology could lead to amazing advances and prosperity. Yet, many tech and industry leaders are warning that AI poses substantial risks, and they are calling for a moratorium on AI research so that safety measures can be established. But amid mounting great-power competition, it’s unclear whether national governments will be able to coordinate on regulating this technology that offers so many economic and strategic opportunities.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia was sentenced to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6 to keep Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election

2023-05-26 /

“You, sir, present an ongoing threat and a peril to this country, to the republic and to the very fabric of our democracy,” Judge Amit Mehta told Stewart Rhodes, adding, “For years, its clear that you have wanted the democracy in this country to devolve into violence and you have thought that violence is an acceptable means of accomplishing your ends.”

CBC | BBC | Politico | NYT | WaPo | NPR | NBC

A Year after Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas

2023-05-24 /

19 students and 2 teachers lost their lives at the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, a year ago, on May 24, 2022. May these innocent lives rest in peace.

Not much, if anything has changed for the better. More guns. More mass shootings. Americans, as a whole, appear to have become desensitized to mass killings that occur with alarming regularity. In the year since 21 people were killed at Robb Elementary School, the US has seen at least 600 other mass shootings.

NY Times » How grief has warped the lives of the Uvalde shooting victims’ families and friends.

Mother Jones » The Uvalde Massacre Could Have Been Prevented had it not been for the disastrous police response

Axios » Politicians have expanded gun access in the US since Uvalde

Axios | NPR | NPR | The Guardian | BBC | Axios

An investigation into child sex abuse by the Catholic clergy in Illinois found at least 1,997 children across the state were sexually abused

2023-05-23 /

Rockford Register Star

Before Raoul’s investigation, the Catholic dioceses of Illinois publicly listed only 103 substantiated child sex abusers. By comparison, Raoul’s report reveals names and detailed information of 451 Catholic clerics and religious brothers who abused at least 1,997 children across all of the dioceses in Illinois.

Why does the GOP want more religion in schools?

USA Today | Forbes | NBC Chicago |

As of 26 April, 13,386 people died in gun violence incidents in the US in 2023

2023-04-27 /

BBC »

Mr Bryant, a self-described data nerd, started the Gun Violence Archive in 2013, having spotted a “big gap” in the availability and accuracy of up-to-date statistics. He sought to do something about it.

“When we got this thing started we thought this was going to just be five years, but we just kept growing and kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger,” Mr Bryant says.

So did American gun violence.

Between 2016 and 2021, the number of deaths from gun violence increased by 6,000, or almost 40%; the number of teens killed or injured by guns was up 47%; the number of children killed or injured by guns, was up 60%.

Tracking these gruesome statistics has taken a toll on Mr Bryant, who says he sleeps about six hours a night, going to bed at 05:00 and waking up at 11:00.

What the Donald Trump rape trial has already revealed

2023-04-27 /

Ruth Marcus, Washington Post »

“I’m here because Donald Trump raped me, and when I wrote about it, he said it didn’t happen.”

That is the testimony of E. Jean Carroll, searing and raw nearly three decades after the alleged attack in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in New York.

It is important — no, it is imperative — not to sanitize Carroll’s testimony this week in a Manhattan federal courtroom. We have become so inured, so numb, to stories about Trump’s behavior that it is tempting to minimize the case.

Also » CNN / Axios / Mother Jones / NPR / The Guardian / UPI / The Guardian / France 24 / BBC / Salon / Politico / NY Times

Elizabeth Holmes is still not in jail

2023-04-27 /

The Guardian » Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes again delays start of 11-year prison term

From November 18, 2022 Wall Street Journal »

Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes reportedly told a Walgreens consultant that “They don’t put pretty people like me in jail,” according to a government filing ahead of the sentencing hearing Friday.

The remark came after a consultant for Walgreens Boots Alliance had warned Ms. Holmes that she could be responsible for killing someone if her lab produced bad test results, the filing shows.

According to Kevin Hunter, the Walgreens former lab consultant, Ms. Holmes made the remark to a group of Walgreens representatives during a video conference in the late summer of 2010. The Walgreens team had just finished a visit to Theranos’s facility in Palo Alto, Calif., Mr. Hunter said in an interview Friday with The Wall Street Journal, adding that he raised concerns about the technology during the call.

Also » Mercury News / BBC / Ars Technica / The Register / NPR

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