Thursday, June 29, 2023

That illegitimate Supreme Court

I don't know what to say about the disgusting Supreme Court. I really don't. Let me start with a column. Before I do, disclosing, I have met Eugene R. Fidell -- C.I. knows him and I met him through her. Don't want to be a Jonathan Turley who fails to do disclosures, after all. This is from Fidell's column for THE HILL:

As the Supreme Court term draws to a close, attention is understandably focused on the big-ticket cases. Lost in the shuffle is Jones v. Hendrix, a habeas corpus case brought by a federal prisoner who was convicted 23 years ago, and who still has several more years to serve on his 327-month sentence, for being a felon in possession of a firearm and making false statements to acquire a firearm. Americans who pay attention to the Supreme Court need to be aware of this decision because it offers a disturbing perspective on the Court as currently constituted.

Lots of people who find themselves charged with criminal offenses claim they are innocent. Mostly, they mean they didn’t “do it.” They may claim it’s all a case of mistaken identity, or they may claim an alibi (i.e., they were somewhere else at the time). But sometimes — and it’s rare — the claim is that, whether or not they “did” what they are said to have done, it wasn’t a crime.

This kind of claim rests on the notion that the criminal statute, properly interpreted, simply doesn’t cover the defendant’s conduct. This is called “statutory innocence” or “legal innocence.” A person cannot be convicted based on conduct that is not criminal under some statute. But what if the correct interpretation of the statute is not handed down until after, maybe long after, the person is convicted and regular appellate review has been completed?

Enter Marcus DeAngelo Jones. At the time of his conviction, the case law in the Eighth Circuit did not require the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, as an “element” of the offense of being a “felon in possession,” that the defendant knew that he was disqualified from owning a firearm. In 2019, after Mr. Jones’s appeal was over, however, the Supreme Court ruled in Rehaif v. United States that the prosecution did indeed have to prove the defendant’s knowledge of his own disqualification. That decision is binding and has retroactive effect. As a result, far from having been properly convicted, Mr. Jones suddenly had a valid claim of statutory innocence.

And so Mr. Jones sought a writ of habeas corpus. An easy case, one might think. Not so, according to six members of the Supreme Court.

The conservative cabal -- the one Turley advises -- decided that it does not matter one bit if someone is legally innocent. Can you believe that? Is there anything more important in the world of justice than determining whether or not someone is innocent or guilty?

That's awful. It continues. AP notes, "The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down affirmative action in college admissions, declaring race cannot be a factor and forcing institutions of higher education to look for new ways to achieve diverse student bodies."

The Court is corrupt. We need term limits. We need impeachment -- impeachment especially on Clarence Thomas.

Clarence is feeling frisky -- warning to all women who work in his office -- and he's part of the cabal that just overturned affirmative actions. As President Joe Biden said after the verdict today, "This is not a normal Court" and he is 100% right.

Janet Lorin (BLOOMBERG NEWS) reports:

Harvard University was defiant after the Supreme Court effectively banned universities from using race as a factor in admissions, arguing the role of diversity and difference in education is essential to academic excellence.

In a letter signed by leaders from across the institution, including outgoing president Lawrence Bacow, the university said it would comply with the court’s ruling, but it would force change in how it ensures a commitment to diversity.

“We write today to reaffirm the fundamental principle that deep and transformative teaching, learning, and research depend upon a community comprising people of many backgrounds, perspectives, and lived experiences,” it said in the communication.

The Court is destroying the country. It is a corrupt and unaccountable Court. As Joy Behar asked on THE VIEW today, "What's next?" Overturning gay marriage?

No one knows what's next because the Court no longer follows rules or precedents. It is out of control and making a mockery of the law. If you're not getting that, please check out this video analysis of Noah Feldman explaining how radical the Court has become.

Julia Shapero (THE HILL) notes:

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.) referred to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as “Justice ‘Harlan Crow’ Thomas” on Thursday, as he called for the expansion of the court in the wake of its decision restricting the use of affirmative action in college admissions.

Thomas has faced public scrutiny in recent months over his close relationship with Crow, a Republican megadonor.

“Justice ‘Harlan Crow’ Thomas and five other MAGAs have just slammed the college doors on Black and Brown folks after declaring that we now live in a color-blind country,” Johnson said in a statement.

Crow funded several luxury vacations for the Supreme Court justice, paid for his great-nephew’s private school tuition and purchased properties owned by Thomas and his family, according to reporting by ProPublica.

Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson strongly disagreed with Crooked Clarence:

Jackson's own 29-page dissent is dedicated to explaining the "universal benefits of considering race" in higher education, arguing that such considerations are important due to the "intergenerational transmission of inequality" that originated with slavery and continued through subsequent government policies in the decades since then.

"Given our history, the origin of persistent race-linked gaps should be no mystery," Jackson wrote. "History speaks. In some form, it can be heard forever. The race-based gaps that first developed centuries ago are echoes from the past that still exist today. By all accounts, they are still stark."

She also defended the admissions process at the University of North Carolina, noting that applicants' disclosure of their race on admissions forms is involuntary while lauding the institution for embracing "its constitutional obligation to afford genuine equal protection to applicants."

And in a footnote to her dissent, Jackson responded to Thomas' lengthy arguments against her own opinion.

She accused Thomas of demonstrating in his opinion an "obsession with race consciousness that far outstrips my or UNC's holistic understanding that race can be a factor that affects applicants' unique life experiences."

"Justice Thomas ignites too many more straw men to list, or fully extinguish, here," Jackson wrote. "The takeaway is that those who demand that no one think about race (a classic pink-elephant paradox) refuse to see, much less solve for, the elephant in the room— the race-linked disparities that continue to impede achievement of our great Nation's full potential."

She concluded by arguing that proponents of colorblindness "prevent our problem-solving institutions from directly addressing the real import and impact" of racism and are "deterring our collective progression toward becoming a society where race no longer matters."

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Thursday, June 29, 2023. We look at the 2024 presidential circus.

Marianne Williamson is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. She spoke yesterday with Maebeagirl who is running for Congress. US House Rep Adam Schiff is leaving his seat to seek the nomination for US senator out of California. Maebe came in second to him in the race last time and she is running again. Marianne Williamson spoke with her yesterday.

Marianne Williamson: Tell me how you see clearly -- we've got a targeted group in the United States, right? I mean, one of the things I've talked about is, if elected president, I will confer a special protection status onto the transgender community. You are transgender yourself. Tell me how you see the situation and what we need to do.

@Maebe_A_Girl: Absolutely. So, first of all, thank you for having this chat with me. I think it's so important -- especially considering that you're running for [sic] president of the United States. I think that people need to hear about your stances on these things and hear that you're having conversations with real trans people about this because historically -- or at least in the last five to ten years -- trans people have been left out of the conversation about trans legislation which is so twisted in my mind. As a good friend of mine always says, "If you are not at the table, then you are on the menu." And trans people -- queer people in general -- are very much on the menu right now. And we do not have nearly enough representation for people like me in governments all across the United States. So, for me, it's interesting because I've been running since 2019. The first election that I ran for was 2020 for the US House and, you know, during that time we were seeing a lot of anti-LGBTQIA sentiments and rhetoric. And, you know, I think with the election of -- going back to a Democratic president back in 2020, I think a lot of people thought that would ease up in a bit. But unfortunately, it's gotten worse. This has been an upward trend since about the mid-2010s. Pretty much since Trump was elected to office and it keeps getting worse because every year I find myself saying, "This has been the worst year in history for anti-LGBTQIA." 2023 totally surpassses 2022 which totally surpassed 2021, etc. There's over half-a-thousand anti-LGBTQIA bills moving across the US -- everywhere from state legislatures to also the federal legislature. We're seeing far right representatives like Marjorie Taylor Greene introducing legislation at the federal level which would severely restrict the rights -- and in recognition of queer people, you know, these are anti-LGBTQIA bills in general but, more specifically, most of them are anti-trans bills. There's been a number of anti-drag bills that have been introduced. What many people probably don't recognize is that anti-drag bills are also anti-trans bills. When you introduce a bill that requires you to dress according to your gender assigned at birth, that is not only going to effect drag performers but it's directly going to effect trans people. And as the famous drag queen and trans person from RUPAL'S DRAG RACE, Monica Beverly Hills, always says, "Drag is what you do but trans is who you are." So we are attacking not only people's occupations but we are attacking people's identities. And I think we have often think [. . .]. You don't even have to be gay or queer to do drag. Anybody can do drag. In fact, a number of trans people do drag. Me, myself, I discovered my trans identity when I started doing drag. Drag is oftentimes a sort of safe way to experiment safely with your gender identity in a way that doesn't feel so permanent. And, for me, I discovered that I was a trans person early on because I started to realize while everybody else was taking off the makeup and the hair and the costumes after a gig, I wanted to keep it all on because it felt -- it made me feel more like myself.

Marianne Williamson: Right.

@Maebe_A_Girl: And that's a realization that a lot of folks have.

Marianne Williamson: Okay, I have several questions I want to ask. You were talking about Marjorie Taylor Greene and anti-trans bills. I wanted to ask abou tthe anti-trans bills, I wanted to ask about the anti-drag bills and I also want to ask more about you -- your journey to this point. You just mentioned your journey -- how much being in drag shows had to do with it but I think all of us are more interested in what the personal story is there?

@Maebe_A_Girl: You should say that it is okay to be you as you are. We will love you and we welcome you to be you as you are. We're not saying, "Come to our side, come join us and be queer and trans." That's not the case. In fact, it couldn't even work like that. You know, I grew up in the late 90s, early 2000s. I graduated high school in 2004. And I remember what it was like to be a young queer person without any sort of queer representation in the media aside from WILL & GRACE and QUEER AS FOlK. And I remember how othered I felt and how different I felt and how afraid I felt to come out as a queer person at that time because of the fact that it felt so othered. I can't even imagine what it is like in 2023 for somebody who is in middle school or high school who is coming into their queer gay trans identity and looking around and not just seeing that there are some people that support but there are so many people that don't and the fact that there is legislation to try to erase us and to try to stop us from existing. When laws attempt to restrict gender affirming healthcare, they're trying to restrict the existence of trans people. And this is not just a legislative issue but it's also a social issue because when laws -- when bills are being introduced and when they're passed into laws particularly in states like Tennessee, Florida, Texas, it also gives a pass to people to then continue othering LGBTQIA people. So it's not just a legislative thing, but it's a social thing. And when people don't feel safe going out at their true authentic selves, is that freedom? No, it's not.

Marianne Williamson: You know, I was contacted a few months ago about a bill that was about to take place -- anti-drag show bill in Tennessee and I was asked to attend a protest the night before the bill was meant to go into effect at East Tennessee University and I went and it was very inspiring. And there was so much protest and there was so much energy around it and ultimately a judge did strike down the law which was, of course, a very, very good thing.

That's a little over half the posted video. We'll open with the second half tomorrow. We're not treating this as a one day thing. LGBTQ+ people are being targeted and have been for months now.

You have hate merchants expanding the targeting because it just starts with LGBTQ+, then it moves outward. They are the American Taliban. In Texas, for example, the GOP has moved towards definiing what a woman can wear and what a man can wear. This has nothing to do with lesbians or gays or transgendered people. This is about their hate and their need to control. I can not believe that Greg Abbott's regime thinks it can impose clothing choices on adults and get away with it but I also can't believe how mild the reaction nationally has been to this.

The GOP isn't afraid to trash LGBTQ+ people. In fact, outside of Chris Christie, they're all doing it as they run for the Republican Party's presidential nomination.

Elsewhere?

I see Joe Biden stepping up. I see Joe Biden ready for this fight. I've waited and waited to see others. Like Marianne, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also wants the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. He and Marianne have both argued that the party needs a televised debate on this nomination. Why?

Until today, I haven't seen a need. Marianne's demonstrated a need.

Mrs. Max Blumenthal is a hateful piece of trash and she's stupid. She thinks the issues above don't matter when they go to exactly who we are and what we do.

Don't kid yourself that we can other at home and not other overseas. Don't kid yourself that this othering isn't what forsters war. You've got get your own house clean to tackle other things.

Respect starts at home.

Marianne's ready for the discussion. Love Robert, but he's yet to show anything to demonstrate that he is.

And let's rope in Cornel West who is not a presidential candidate. He is running for the Green Party's presidential nomination and he may get it, he may not. But I don't want his garbage of 'brother and sister' nonsense where he preaches at length but never says a damn word worth anything.

Marianne demonstrated she can have the needed conversations to get this nation back on track. If Robert and Cornel think they're up to it, it's their move now.

Noted transphobe Jonathan Turley Tweeted a confession yesterday:

The Hill is out with my column on the Court's ruling in Moore v. Harper and "the coup" that never was......Liberal law professors and pundits have filled the media with dire predictions that the Supreme Court was about to carry out a long-planned “coup” and “power grab”--one even wrote that the court could be on the brink of establishing “one-party rule” in the United States.

The bigot of George Washington University must feel very comfortable at FOX "NEWS" is he's publicly copping to what we already told you: He's not of the left or liberal. You caught it, right, he Tweeted "Liberal law professors and pundits" -- he pointed the finger at them . . . from beneath his rock. Everyone let Lawrence Tribe know. He called it long ago. Thanks for finally confession, Swirley, but, no, thanks for lying in your Tweet. His analysis is wrong and he knows it. I can't speak until the Court decides on the bigot lawsuit out of Colorado -- one Turley was an 'unofficial' advisor on -- disclosure, Turley, try practicing it -- but after that decision is reached, I'll explain why things are actually worse. Don't let Turley's lies lull you into a false sense of security.

Let's wade back into the race for presidential nominations in various political parties. The Greens do not have a nominee yet. Cornel West wants to be that person and, thanks to Bri-Bri's misleading 'reporting,' some don't grasp that. Check out Betty's site where she noted replies to Bri's pimping of Cornel and the explosion that followed her trying to play the race card. (Betty is correct, I have long said Bri's not authentic to African-Americans because she came up the White side of the media. She's not a crossover artist because she can't crossover. MOTOWN artists, in the 60s, for example crossed over -- having success on the soul charts and -- this is the crossover -- on the pop charts. Bri can't get near the soul charts. She's basically this decade's Pat Boone with all that entails.

On the Republican side, we need to applaud the ones vying for the nomination for their stamina. See, they're not only running for the party's nomination, they're also running to see who can outcrazy the others. The crazy includes a large number but chiefly boils down to Donald Trump and Doo-Doo Ron Ron DeSantis currently. And it's a real mud wrestle for the boys. In fact, were Donald to say, "It's no big secret that Ron and I are no longer friends. Ron knows what he did," it would be perfectly in keeping with everything else about this tired reality TV show.

Emily Jacobs (WASHINGTON EXAMINER) reports that Donnie says Ronnie's immigration plan (to persecute immigrants) isn't that impressive and just copies his own. In addition to squabbling over who has the bigger one, the two are also fighting over a boy, Pedro Gonzalez. Donald had him first. But now he's Ron's steady. And, now that he's no longer in the safety of Big Don's arms, poor Pedro, group chats have emerged revealing what a disgusting and and racist twerp Pedro is. But who leaked them? Who would have leaked them? Who? Tracy Connor (DAILY BEAST) notes the Little Ronnie's camp is pointing the finger at . . . Donald:

DeSantis has not publicly commented on the story about Gonzalez’s messages, but Breitbart noted that the Never Back Down PAC, which backs DeSantis, called the messages “inexcusable.” Meanwhile, DeSantis’ campaign mouthpiece, Christina Pushaw, liked a tweet about how “nasty” the Trump-DeSantis feud has become.

“And to be clear I’m mostly talking about the Trump side,” the tweet read. “I’ve seen some comments from people on the DeSantis side I don’t care for too, but it’s consistently the Trump surrogates who seem to have no bottom to how low they’ll sink to support their candidate.”

Chronicles also had not commented publicly on the Breitbart revelations, but it’s worth noting that when Gonzalez was accused last year of antisemitism—after he made crude comments about the “physiognomy” of two prominent Jews—magazine executive editor Edward Welsch wrote a defense of him titled, “That Old Anti-Semitism Smear.”

On Tuesday, Gonzalez tweeted that he was grateful for the support he was getting, including from some Trump supporters. One backer of the ex-president, however, was not in that category: Donald Trump Jr. retweeted the Breitbart story three times Tuesday night.

Of all of them, Donald Trump will always stand the best chance of being declared criminally insane. That's why his never-ending list of complaints and whines include that FOX "NEWS" is out to destroy him, "The coloring, distortions, everything are just so bad. They must sit and look at 100 different shots, and then take the 10 absolute worst." He's accusing FOX "NEWS" of deliberately selecting and using the worst photographs of him. The big surprise there is that, after all this time, Donald believes that good photographs of him exist. He has looked in the mirror, right?

Meanwhile Oliver O'Connell (INDEPENDENT) notes that Paul Ryan (who at least takes an attractive photo) has declared nominating Donald for president again to be "a disaster" and that "anyone not named Trump" would be better. Do voters agree?

Ewan Palmer (NEWSWEEK) reports:

The public holds a less favorable view of Donald Trump's actions following his recent legal battles, according to one poll.

A survey of 1,500 voters, conducted by Redfield & Wilton Strategies exclusively for Newsweek on June 25, found that fewer people now believe the legal issues facing the former president are "politically motivated," compared to a poll from April taken weeks after Trump pleaded not guilty to 37 felony charges as part of the falsifying business records investigation in New York.

When those responding to the survey asked which statement they agreed with more, 47 percent said that the legal issues Trump is facing are "primarily the result of his own actions which appear to have been illegal"—a 13-point increase from the April survey (34 percent).

In the June poll, a further 38 percent believe the investigations are the result of "politically motivated attacks" by Trump's opponents, down 19 points from the April results (57 percent).

Jared Glans (THE HILL) cites a "poll from National Public Affairs released Wednesday [which] showed Trump with 41 percent support among likely GOP primary voters in the state, up from 39 percent last month. DeSantis came in second with 18 percent, a 5-point drop from the 23 percent he had last month. Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) came in third with 12 percent, followed by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R) with 10 percent. All other candidates included in the poll had support in the single digits." DeSantis dropped 5 percentage points in the poll?"

Doo Doo Ron Ron must be throwing another fit.

Did someone say DISNEY?

Isaiah's THE WORLD TODAY JUST NUTS "Ron's Disney World Tantrum" and, yes, Little Ronnie's battles with DISNEY continue.

If you missed it, the tiny tot is said to be less than five feet and seven inches and possibly is actually so short that he was refused admittance on the It's A Small World After All ride, hence his war on DISNEY. Having destroyed Florida's economy with his corruption and incompetence, Little Ronnie needed something to distract Florida voters -- especially from the huge bills for his never-ending lawsuits. So he declared war on DISNEY.

He has since used that war on the campaign trail trying to portray himself as big and tall -- or taller than his shrimpy height -- but now . . . a twist.

Ted Johnson (DEADLINE) reports:

Attorneys for The Walt Disney Co. and Ron DeSantis are proposing very different timelines for the start of a federal trial over the company’s claim of retaliation by the Florida governor.

Disney proposed a timeline with a trial to start on July 15 of next year. DeSantis’ attorneys, along with those of other defendants in the case, want it put off to Aug. 4, 2025, after next year’s presidential election, according to a court filing. DeSantis launched his White House bid last month.

No, no, no, no. Ronnie's used his battle with DISNEY to prove he's fit for the presidency. Wouldn't be fair to voters for them to have to wait for the outcome. Ronnie's made it his own performative measure. America deserves to know what the court will find. He's wasted millions of tax payer dollars on this fiasco. Is he right, is he wrong? He's running for president now. He's no longer just defrauding Florida's population and leaving them deeply in debt while harming their tourist economy. He's trying to be in charge of all the states. So, sorry, he shouldn't be allowed to delay the hearing. It needs to happen before the presidential election so the American people can see what they might be in store for and vote accordingly. Of course, he could always drop out of the race if he wants. Then he can argue to push the hearing back. But having flitted back and forth across the country, singing his own praises while touting his fight with DISNEY, he's made this a criteria for judging whether or not he would be an effective US president.

As Joe Patrice (ABOVE THE LAW) observes," DeSantis decided to bolster his doomed presidential bid by launching a culture war against Disney over its pro-vaccine and anti-bigotry stances." Too late to back down now, tiny Ron.

Should we note polling? AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds Joe's approval rating to be 41% The poll has a margin of error of +/- 3.9. Most interesting finding in the poll? It's about Vice President Kamala Harris. Favorables are 37% while 50% have a negative opinion. That seems bad. It may be. But she's gotten nothing but negative publicity -- whether it's warranted or not can be discussed by others. The interesting factor is that 12% "don't know enough about her to say." She's in her third year as vice president and some are still withholding judgment. That's rather interesting. If she managed to enthrall all of the undecided she's be basically split down the middle in terms of positive approval and negative approval.

THE NEW YORK TIMES has a very poorly fact checked piece on Robert. If you want to read it, click here to read is on MSN and not at THE TIMES. I have neither the time nor the desire to repeat myself. We covered NYT and all their errors and lies -- Yes, it is a lie to credit someone in your piece with a title that they do not have, the title on the masthead is the title they hold, you can't explain that away. But the writer was a friend of the person he interviewed -- not disclosed in the article -- so his friend got whatever he wanted -- even a made up title. It's these basic lies -- not errors, these are lies, I've confronted them offline, they know it's a lie and they think it's funny and giggle -- that destroy the paper's reputation time and again. It's refusing to accurately report on Janet Jackson when you decide to wade in. If you're going to cover her, you better get her number of number one hits right, for example. But you just lie and we're all supposed to be okay with that. It's the lying, not just the errors. It's the scope. Coretta Scott King passes away -- a historical figure, an activist, someone most of us looked up to and admired. And? Gail Collins is writing unsigned editorials about her friend -- minor playwright Wendy -- passing away and featuring one column after another about Wendy. How many columns and editorials did Coretta get?

Zero.

Gail didn't figure Coretta warranted attention. And I'm at the end of my ropes on tip-toeing around this topic. If wehadn't shamed Bob Herbert, he never would have (briefly) noted her in a column many weeks after she died.

So not a fan of the paper, fully aware of it's racism, of it's new anti-trans spin, aware of so much. But I don't do greatest hits. This isn't a jukebox musical.

We'll note this and see if you can catch what a huge error it is:

“The New York Times, which is in this room today,” he said, as an audience member pointed down at the Times reporter’s seat, prompting a chorus of boos so angry, Mr. Kennedy’s campaign manager — the former Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich — told the audience member to stop it.

Dennis Kucinich was the Democratic presidential candidate?

Wow. I must have dropped acid that whole year because I'm pulling a blank on that.

Oh, wait, it's not an issue of acid, it's an issue of the paper getting it wrong again. Dennis tried to get the Democratic Party's presidential nomination -- in 2004 and 2008. He didn't. John Kerry and Barack Obama were the Democratic presidential candidates in those two presidential election years.

Again, NYT offers an error, a lie or just racism/transphobia or some other hatred for others that they try to dress up in a guise of sophistication.

NBC NEWS' Ben Kamisar has some potentially good news for Robert if he doesn't become the party's presidential candidate:

Forty-four percent of registered voters say they are willing to consider supporting a third-party or independent presidential candidate if President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are the two major party nominees in 2024 — and the group includes more Democrats than Republicans, according to new NBC News polling.

That could be good news for Robert. It's not good news for Cornel West. The real media's not interested in Cornel and the YOUTUBERS don't know the Green Party. Cornel's not a Green Party member and, as we knew it would, that is becoming an issue. Greens are also offend by Chris Hedges -- both by his recent insults of the Green Party made to the giggling Bri-Bri and by his backdoor and deceitful manuevers to get the Green Party's nomination for Cornel -- the same way he, weeks ago, secretly got the People's Party's presidential nomination for Cornel. In addition, I'm not the only one bothered by liar Jill Stein going on YOUTUBE and, desperate to sell Cornel for the nomination, and uttering the name of Dr Margaret Flowers. She thought she could get away with it and she did among the YOUTUBERS, you know, idiots who don't know a damn thing about the Green Party.

You think Donald ran with conspiracy nut job nonsense when he refused to acknowledge he was beaten fair and square in the 2020 election?

Meet Dario Hunter, Jill Stein, Ajamu Baraka and other nut jobs who insisted that Dario was robbed! Robbed! Lazy ass couldn't even Tweet once a week but there was a conspiracy, he insisted, and they conspired to steal the nomination from him.

Who did?

Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers!

Having spread lies about Margaret, Jill Stein has a lot of nerve trying to invoke Margaret to sell Cornel to actual Greens.

Dario and that denial gang went all over the place and they'd hint in interview after interview that it was Kevin and Margaret. Then Dario went on air with Cindy Sheehan -- a nice person but a lousy interviewer and not real strong when it comes to facts. They went to conspiracy con and back again. And that was the last straw for me which is why we called them out.

Kevin and I were not friends and I never met him. He read Kat's site and I believe they exchanged e-mails. My only e-mails from him were to tell me I was too negative to the Green Party (Ava and I long ago dubbed them ineffective because they're too busy trying to be the kid sister to the Democratic Party instead of an actual political party). And that was fine, it didn't bother me one way or another.

But after I called out the nonsense Jill and company were pulling, the lies they were spreading, I got a very kind e-mail from Kevin thanking me for defending his wife. Kevin's no longer around to defend his wife. I will defend her on this until the end of time. Jill Stein is a nut job. She was a lousy presidential candidate -- see Ava and my ""Let the fun begin (Ava and C.I.) -- and I'm not about to let a lot of liars come along and rewrite history.

Cornel doesn't believe in democracy -- as his taking a presidential nomination from The People's Party without (a) being a member or (b) actually campaigning for the post. And he's not very smart because he was so eager to get the nomination Chris was negotiating that he never did the actual work required to find who The People's Party was.

They do grasp that, right, these idiots whoring for Cornel, that any sane person is asking how Cornel could be with one political party for nearly a week and then dump them while claiming he was qualified to be president? People who are qualified to be president don't end up with a political 'party' that is racist and has one sexual harassment claim after another against it.

BLACK POWER MEDIA interviewed Cornel yesterday. You can check that out at their YOUTUBE channel. If I stream it, we'll note it tomorrow.

We will wind down with this press release:

For Immediate Release

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DATE: June 27, 2023

CONTACT: Committee for Marshall – Not the Megasite

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Name: Regis Klingler, Glenn Kowalske, or Mark Robinson

Email: CommitteeforMarshall@gmail.com

Marshall Advocates Take Legal Action After

City Council Illegally Denies Referendum Petition

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Marshall, MI – June 27, 2023 – Marshall residents battling to stop the

Marshall Megasite took legal action in Calhoun County Circuit Court

against the City of Marshall today to compel the City to put the

Committee’s referendum on Ordinance # 2023-08, for which they collected

810 signatures, on the ballot. The ballot question committee, “Committee

for Marshall—Not the Megasite”, its members, and two additional

petitioners initiated a lawsuit seeking a writ of mandamus, a

declaratory judgment, and an injunction order after the Marshall City

Council denied a request for a review of the Certificate of

Insufficiency issued by the City Clerk on the group’s referendum

petition. To be clear, the referendum met every legal requirement of the

City Charter, and the City Council’s refusal to accept this violates the

law.

The Committee was required, according to the City Charter, to be the

committee to “commence . . . referendum proceedings” and be “responsible

for” circulating the petition and filing the petition in the proper

form, all of which the Committee did properly. The City Clerk, however,

invented a new requirement that ruled out counting any signatures on

petition sheets collected by circulators other than the five committee

members who filed the initial organizing paperwork. This eliminated the

voice of another 35 circulators, including City of Marshall residents

and Marshall Township residents. This was a direct violation of the City

Charter, State Law regarding petition format, the Michigan and US

Constitutions, and well-known court decisions affirming that every US

citizen has First Amendment rights to “core political speech.” Those

decisions and documents guaranteed that any US citizen at least 18 years

old may circulate petitions.

The petitioners also contend that the ordinance included an illegal

addition of a second subject, an appropriation of money, which was not

included in the title. This violated the City Charter’s single subject

title rule, as well as a restriction on passing appropriations via

resolutions only. Residents warned the City Council that the

appropriation provision was illegal at the May 1 and June 15 council

meetings, but those warnings were ignored.

The lawsuit asks the Court for an order to direct the City Clerk to

immediately issue a certificate of sufficiency on the referendum

petition filed on May 30, 2023, and to suspend Ordinance # 2023-08, as

required by the City Charter. Residents have requested that Megasite

issue be brought to a vote of the people on multiple occasions. The

petitioners feel that local elected officials in the City of Marshall

are now purposely blocking resident voices by declaring the referendum

petition insufficient. That ends today.

The Committee’s attorneys, Robby Dube and Mark Blando of Eckland &

Blando LLP, have decades of experience fighting illegal government

actions and protecting citizens’ rights. They feel that the Committee

has a clear and strong case and are confident the Court will put a stop

to the City’s illegal actions.

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023

The world reacts to fake ass Briahna Joy Gray

Brie-Brie you are in trouble (as Tootie used to say on FACTS OF LIFE). Oh, Briahna Joy Gray. She was the joke at work today. People were loving seeing her taken down on Twitter by one person after another. Let me start with her post 'ending' it all:

Telling a Black person whose community has been doing harm reduction voting for generations that this is really about a podcast & not the negative material effects of being ignored by a corporate duopoly bc of VBNMW is … a choice. But it’s a free country. That freedom includes the right to vote Green.

I'm reading that and thinking, "I've voted Green. And I'm Black. But Brie-Brie is only Black when she wants to play the race card to win an argument." Sure enough, people were on fire and they pointed that out and so much more. Here are some of the reactions she received.

And there it is. When backed into a corner, pull out the race card. So pathetic.

Oh so suddenly you’re black?

The community has been doing harm reduction not you. You support people who think race issues are a distraction. Don’t try to use your race to deflect from your grifting. You only wanna be black when it suits you.

Stop it! Your just a grifter and republican op

Weird how quickly you'll embrace so-called identity politics when you think it'll insulate you from being called out for your shitty political stances.

She’s getting ratio’d back into Twitter oblivion rtn on her own feed so all good

Brie Brie used to have her Patreon earnings public: $30K a month. That's a decent grift for a lady who lives in blue Manhattan, feeling safe and smug in telling her vast majority white, hetero, male followers "pay me to tell you it's a good idea to help Repubs."

You honestly need to stop pretending you care about fellow black folks or literally ANY minority for that matter when you’re on this site literally saying you do not care if Trump becomes president again. You’ve lost the ability to claim you’re speaking for anyone BUT yourself.

Voting isn’t Harm Reduction. Harm Reduction is a movement for Justice and safety, voting is nothing like that.

Why don't you talk about your former cohost?

You are insufferable.

Thought you hated identity politics lmao riiiiiight.

Stop embarrassing yourself.

Lol you know you've lost an argument and can't come with a sensible retort when you have to invoke "blackness" ! How convenient .

Bri taking the Jimmy Dore arc has been fascinating to watch.

You were disinvited from the cook out long ago because you DAF about harm reduction to our community, and our community knows this. All kinfolk ain't skinfolk. Stop trying to gaslight folks.

Accuse Democrats of being racist while kissing Tucker Carlson’s ass. Nice. You can stop pretending you’re trying to “challenge the duopoly.” You are intentionally helping to get Republicans elected, because you prefer having the GOP in power.

You are a charlatan and everybody on this app except the rubes know it. Keep on getting your money selling out your community to the cruelty machine, it's a free country. For now.

You are a queen of gaslighting and playing the victim when you are the aggressor. A true abuser!

Harm reduction? There's one specific party making it harder for black people to vote. There's one specific party banning books by black authors because, "CTR". There's one specific party weaponizing black vernacular (Woke, Cancelled) against black people.

It also includes being a Self Hating, Absorbed and Ignorant person who just happens to be Black! Good Luck with the rest of your, I guess, Life

@briebriejoy

?! #sad

Cheese-Cheese is acting like she hasn't been laid since the last time Bernie had an erection - like 20 years ago?

You are a grifter. This list is undeniable and you are teamed-up with the fascists.

You're so intellectually vapid.

We traded you in 2016 dumbass

You can not be this dense. And yet here we are.

There were some other goods ones but they had the f-word, for example, in them.

Oh, Bri-Bri, they have caught on to you. C.I. pointed out long ago -- we're talking two years at least, that Bri-Bri was for White audiences. She didn't come up on the Black side. She's a media creation from the White side. And you can tell them anytime you watch her interviews.

"Iraq snapshot" (THE COMMON ILLS):

Wednesday, June 28, 2023. John Stauber and Marjorie Taylor Greene lead the fright wing in circulating another lie, a number of MPs resign in northern Iraq, noted transphobe Jonathan Turley struggles with pop culture references, and much more.

June 26, 2023

Statement from President Joe Biden on the Anniversary of Landmark Marriage Equality Rulings

Today marks the anniversary of three landmark Supreme Court cases which were consequential in affirming the basic truth that every American should have the right to marry the person they love. Ten years ago today, the Supreme Court rulings in United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry made significant strides laying the groundwork for marriage equality in our country. They were followed two years later, to the day, by the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, finally allowing millions of LGBTQI+ Americans to marry who they love.

These monumental cases moved our country forward, and they were made possible because of the courageous couples and unrelenting advocates in the LGBTQI+ community who, for decades, fought for these hard-won rights. Last year, I was proud to build on their legacy by signing into law the Respect for Marriage Act – guaranteeing the rights and protections which LGBTQI+ Americans are entitled to – surrounded by many of the plaintiffs from these cases. But more work lies ahead, and I continue to call on Congress to pass the Equality Act, to codify additional protections to combat the increased attacks on the rights and safety of those in the LGBTQI+ community.

As we conclude Pride month, we’re once again reminded that we must never stop fighting to reach full equality for all LGBTQI+ – and all – Americans.

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So the White House issued that on Monday. Those are actual words and the fright-wing seemed distracted and uninterested. Instead, egged on by chief bit of trash Marjorie Taylor Greene and deceptive editing, they were focused on three days earlier when US President Joe Biden met with India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- focused on lying about what took place. Joe made a joke and identified it as such -- see White House transcript. Marjorie and others cut it off before he identifies it as a joke and claim outrage. All the fright wing participated -- you know that means John Stauber too -- not for nothing did Rebecca note earlier this year "john stauber is the 21st century david horowitz."

This dishonesty involved it appalling. From the official White House transcript:

PRESIDENT BIDEN: Okay. We — I was just thanking the — anyway, I started off without you, and I sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things that we shared. (Laughter.)

Now, all kidding aside — look, we’re teaming up to design and develop new technologies that are going to transform the lives of our people around the world. And together, we’re lifting the private and public partners to make this possible, including launching a new program between India and America — American astronauts, Indian astronauts, and entrepreneurs, scientists, students.

Aila Slisco (NEWSWEEK) explains:

Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is one of several online touting a deceptively-edited video of President Joe Biden supposedly "admitting his crimes out loud."

The video, first shared by the Republican National Committee (RNC) Research Twitter account, shows the president saying at a press briefing last week that he had "sold a lot of state secrets and a lot of very important things" during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The clip was edited to end just before Biden clearly said that he was "kidding" about his comments. Modi and others present during the briefing can also be seen and heard laughing in the extended version of the video.

Marjorie, as Josh Marcus (INDEPENDENT) notes, thinks she can move for impeachment (as long as people are too stupid to know the video's edited), "Nonetheless figures on the right like the Republican party congresswoman Ms Greene spread video of the exchange on social media, with Mr Biden’s disclaimer he was kidding edited out."

"Figures on the right." Oh, look, Johnny Stauber! You finally got mentioned in NEWSWEEK! They didn't mention you by name, but they acknowledged you so, for a day or two or maybe even three, you can feel just a little less impotent.

AP does the fact check on the nonsense here.

This is the garbage the country has to deal with. And it needs to be called out. Lying and repeating lies for political gain is the game of hucksters and con artists. They revealed themselves to you in the last 24 hours if you paid attention. There is no reason to trust a word out of Marjorie or John's mouths. They're liars and they exposed themselves as such. They insult you by trying to trick you. They insult you be assuming you're too stupid to catch on.

You really need to grasp what just took place.

By the way, while we're discussing Marjorie, she came up in a discussion we had yesterday with a college group. It was pointed out that she and fellow hate merchant Lauren Boebert preact to others about 'family values' but both of their marriages collapsed after only one term in Congress. Let's again note Chelsea Handler on MTG.

Marjorie Taylor Greene: I have people come up to me and say crazy things to me out of the blue in public places that they believe because they read it on the internet.

Chelsea Handler: Well if that's not the pot calling the kettle QAnon. This woman thought 9/11 was a hoax, that the Clintons killed JFK Jr. and that Jews are in charge of space lasers. But please, don't come at her with some crazy ideas -- she might believe them.

I love that part. But note the start of the MTG section, MTG talking about how hard it is to be in Congress and how you're away from your family -- guess she took of that absence with her affair, didn't she. What's the Bible say about adulterers? Stone them. Stone them. "Both the man and the woman must be put to death." It's Leviticus, the book the hate merchants love. So remember that the next time Marjorie's trying to take her 'moral' high ground. She's not just a hate merchant, she's a fake ass.

That's Kylie Minogue's latest world wide hit "Padam Padam." She's been charting since the 80s. Kyle credits her gay fans for helping her through the rough patches.

And that's how you use a pop cultural reference -- to transition, to get people to relate, any number of ways. It can be confusing for some. Such as?

Jonathan Turley is so hopelessly out of it. I let it pass when he cited "One" this month. Most would cite Harry Nilsson, singer-songwriter, who wrote the song and released it as a single in 1968. Others would cite Aimee Mann to show some sort of indie cred. He went with Three Dog Night. A long forgotten band. I had a flat tire in southern California in 1990. I'm in the middle of nowhere and walking around looking for something -- a gas station, anything. I end up walking onto a field where . . . Three Dog Night is giving a mid-day concert. No security. Apparently an open concert -- I wouldn't have recognized them but they were performing their hit of Laura Nyro's "Eli's Coming." I'd quicker recognize Grand Funk Railroad -- and have more respect for that group. But whatever, right? There were about forty people lying on the ground (some sitting) in front of the band as it played.

Who really needs a Three Dog Night pop reference? At least he got that one right, unlike this:

...Nevertheless, it is now portrayed as “a story of a father’s love for his son.” In other words, it is just like “On Golden Pond” if the father and child were working together to extract millions in actual gold from the pond.

Does he think that's funny? I think most people reading it will get stuck on how wrong he is. Henry Fonda plays the father in ON GOLDEN POND. Doug McKeon plays Billy, he does not play the son. Because Henry's character Norman has no son. He has a daughter, Chelsea, played by his own daughter Jane Fonda. As the film ends, Chelsea reveals that she married Bill Sr. Billy is not Norman's son.

Has senility set in? Is this just another example of how Jonathan can't get the facts right on anything? No one asked the transphobe to mention ON GOLDEN POND. He made that decision all by himself -- clearing thinking he had the perfect analogy for Hunter and Joe Biden. He didn't. Again, is it senility? Next up, Jonathan pays homage to the recording 'triumphs' of Wayne Newton.

He remembers a commercial and wrongly cites it "Ten minutes and ten cases to go . . . "Anticipation . . . it is making me wait"" -- that's a catsup commercial using Carly Simon's song "Anticipation" and she never sings "It is making me wait." She does sing, "Is making me wait."

What an idiot. Can you imagine if one of his students was that sloppy. Again, no one forced him to note the song but if he's going to note it, he needs to get it right. It's a radio classic that is among the most played songs of its era -- Carly gets huge royalties from that song every year because it's a radio evergreen -- like the Beatles' "Yesterday" -- that is been played constantly. (As Trina noted Monday, Carly wrote it while waiting for Cat Stevens to pick her up for a date.)

Back in the real world, Raquel "Rocky" Harris (THE WRAP) reports:

Cynthia Erivo, Elliot Page and more are among more than 200 signatories of an open letter GLAAD and the Human Rights Campaign put together to push social media platforms to clamp down on hate speech, harassment and misinformation directed at the LGBTQ community.

"True allies do not profit from anti-LGBTQ hate," GLAAD's letter read, which was released on Tuesday in partnership with HRC. "There has been a massive systemic failure to prohibit hate, harassment, and malicious anti-LGBTQ disinformation on your platforms and it must be addressed. The very content you profit from is in violation of your own terms of service, which assert that you do not allow hate speech."

The letter comes after social media platforms' earned "low and failing grades" on GLAAD's third annual Social Media Safety Index, which evaluates the five major social media (Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, Instagram and YouTube) platforms regarding LGBTQ safety, privacy and expression. Instagram had a score of 63%, Facebook scored 61%, TikkTok scored 57%, YouTube earned a 54% and Twitter had the lowest score of 33%.

Just jokes -- that Uncle Fester looking Matt Taibbi would insist. No. And no. Fan Chen (WOMEN.COM) explains:

Jokes can also unfortunately normalize harmful stereotypes about the LGBTQ+ as well as forms of prejudice. One study from back in 2007 found heterosexual people experienced negative feelings about gay individuals after hearing homophobic slurs used.As the world celebrates Pride, it's important to remember one of the most impactful ways to be an ally and support the LGBTQIA+ community year-round is to call out homophobia as you see it. However, the process isn't always easy. In fact, it can often be uncomfortable and intimidating, especially if the jokes are coming from your friend. "Someone who is uneducated regarding the community can hold a lot of fear in their ignorance," Kollyn Conrad, founder and executive director of Publicly Private, a nonprofit organization that advocates for the LGBTQIA+ community, exclusively tells Women.com. "This can make the situation dangerous and more hostile," he continues. But there are ways to make a difference and take a stand

Conrad exclusively tells Women that it's important to assess the level of threat before making the confrontation. "Before addressing the homophobia, transphobia, or biphobia, ensure your safety."This can come in the form of a temperature check of the room - How is that person's mood? Do you know them well enough to where you can know for sure they won't retaliate in a violent manner? Is there a safe place to exit if things go wrong? These are all important things to look out for.Once you feel safe and comfortable enough, it is crucial to let the person know that you found their joke or statement offensive as soon as possible. Being direct is often the most effective way to guard your boundary. Phrases like "Wow, that's not cool," "I don't agree," "I find that offensive," and "What you just said makes me feel uncomfortable," can work to quickly shut down someone who has started making the jokes before they go further.

BUZZFEED has an article where parents of non-binary and transgender children offer some suggestions:

2."If you’re uncomfortable or struggling with some aspect of your child’s exploration of gender — name or pronoun change, self-expression, whatever — that’s for you to address with your support, NOT YOUR CHILD. Ideally an LGBTQ+ therapist, but partners and friends who are allies can be good sounding boards, too."

"Your kid isn’t going to feel supported and accepted if you complain that you don’t like their new name or ‘just don’t understand’ nonbinary pronouns to them.

I struggled a lot with my child’s use of the word ‘deadname’ to describe the birth name we chose to honor a beloved relative who has since passed. It felt hurtful and disrespectful to their memory, but those conversations were for my therapist and a friend of mine who also has a trans child. It’s okay to have feelings about changes to your child’s identity, but it’s not your child’s job to help you work through them."

—Anonymous, parent of a nonbinary 16-year-old

[. . .]

10."Read as much as you can about non-gender conforming people from their own perspectives. I wish I'd had a better understanding of what it means to be trans when my child came out in his teens."

"I tried to be supportive, but I questioned a lot of his feelings because I didn't understand. What he needed most was to be heard and understood, not challenged. If we knew then what we know now, he would have started gender-affirming care much earlier, and it would have saved a lot of heartache. He receives trans care now and is so much happier.

It's so difficult to see new attacks every day on the trans community. Verbal attacks are nonstop, and these bills and laws across the country that strip their rights and freedom to live as they see fit are soul-crushing. But I want every nonbinary and trans person to know that they have allies across the nation who love and support them in spirit, at the ballot box, and every way we can."

—Anonymous, parent of a 23-year-old

Those are two of the thirteen, read the article in full for all thirteen.

In last Thursday's snapshot and Friday's snapshot, we covered the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled "Protecting Pride: Defending the Civil Rights of LGBTQ+ Americans." Bryan Metzger (BUSINESS INSIDER) notes:

As the Senate Judiciary Committee kicked off a hearing on LGBTQ+ rights last week, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sought to draw a clear distinction between same-sex marriage — once at the center of the culture wars — and the Republican Party's recent targeting of civil rights for trans people.

"You mentioned that eight years ago, the Obergefell decision created a constitutional right to same-sex marriage," said Graham. "We're not talking about that here — we're talking about other things here."

Since the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges Supreme Court decision, same-sex marriage has largely faded as an issue targeted by Republicans, at least at the national level. Instead, most have redirected their fire to transgender women's participation in sports, gender-affirming care for minors, and drag performances.

Kind of reminds you of Clarence Thomas, doesn't it? In his DOBBS decision, remember, he was against ROE and all the privacy rights cases . . . except one. LOVING V VIRGINIA, where the Supreme Court finds laws against interracial marriage to be unlawful. He listed all the other privacy rights cases. Not that one. Clarence did marry an African-American woman, yes. Then he left her for his current wife who is White. Hmm Wonder why Lindsey wants to attack trans but not gay men. Wonder why. Wonder.

Elaine Ayala (SAN ANTONIO EXPRESS) notes:

The Ku Klux Klan isn’t discussed in the same breath as today’s organized domestic terrorism groups, among them the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who led the siege on the U.S. Capitol in 2021.

But like them, the Klan remains a threat to democracy, civil rights and the voting rights of people of color, especially that of Latinos.

Once you’ve confronted such sinister forces, you never forget.

This week in 1983 the KKK came to San Antonio promising “to clean San Antonio of cockroaches,” using a hate-filled term to describe people of Mexican descent.

Antonio Cabral remembers. A former Marine and retired federal employee, he’d been involved in the anti-war movement and advocated for farm workers.

When a Klan leader announced a march in San Antonio, he waited to see if activists would organize, but “no one else was responding,” he said.

Cabral, now 83, was among those who started planning a counter-protest. Other activists of the day got involved, including Teresa Gutierrez, Ramon Mata, Margaret and Daniel Moreno, and Eliosa, Nicolas and Demetrio Aguirre, he said.

They formed the ad hoc Anti-Klan Committee, a largely Mexican-American effort to protest the KKK march in San Antonio that year.

Cabral was reprimanded by family members. “Me regañaron,” or scolded, he said.

On Sunday, he spoke to me about that episode half a lifetime ago, about how much has changed since then — and how much hasn’t changed at all.

The counter-protesters met regularly in a little house on the city’s West Side. They planned. They left nothing to chance.

They studied the march route, noting side streets they could use to get away should things turn sideways.

They were armed only with signs and slogans. They brought cameras and saw others in the crowd taking pictures, too.

His wife Mary Cabral recalled how she tried to engage in conversation with those who were taking pictures, hoping they’d share images. But they had little to say.

The Anti-Klan Committee identified them as FBI agents or informants conducting surveillance — not of the Klan but of the protesters, especially leaders like Cabral.

Everyone, it seemed, was against the counter-protesters. City Hall. The San Antonio Police Department. Even the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Then Archbishop Patrick Flores asked people to instead pray.

You read that today and think, "How could that have been the case?" The same shock you have today is what future generations will have when they look back on the Matt Taibbis, the Tucker Carlsons, the Glenn Greenwalds, etc.

Meanwhile . . .

Apparently, no flowers if you're in the state of Florida.

If you're going to Naples, Florida, be sure to wear your hatred on display . . . If you're going to Naples, Florida, you're going to meet some questionable people there

Some really strange people:

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) issued a travel warning to socialists or communists headed to Florida.

"If you're a socialist, communist, somebody that believes in big government, I would think twice," Scott said in a video message posted to Twitter. "Think twice if you're thinking about taking a vacation or moving to Florida."

First they try to purge the drag queens and drag queens, the transgender and African-Americans, the LGBQ+ were next and now a sitting state senator is threatening -- publicly threatening -- Socialist, Communists and anyone who "believes in big government."

Florida, you really need to take a look at the bigots you've elected to office. A strong look.

But it is proof of what many of us said months ago, they were just starting the purge and they would expand it. And now they're doing that. But don't worry, Matt Taibbi and his old Uncle Fester f**ked up face will be making jokes about it and USEFUL IDIOTS will be just that as they ignore reality and how many people are being harmed.

Remember today Marianne Williamson, a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, is supposed to be a major fireside chat responding to the war on LGBTQ+ members with a specific focus on the attacks on transgendered persons.

We'll wind down with this from Salar Salim and Abdulrahman Zeyad's AP report:

More than 50 members of the local parliament in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north have submitted their resignations to protest a court decision that deemed as unconstitutional the legislature’s postponement of elections by a year.

Jihad Hassan, an MP with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which holds the largest number of seats in the autonomous region’s parliament, said Tuesday that all 45 members of its bloc had resigned the day before from the 111-member parliament, along with nine MPs from other parties.

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