It’s quite obvious that her incompetent azz shouldn’t be over this case.
Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) posted at 0:09 AM on Fri, Feb 09, 2024:
BREAKING: THREAD: Jack Smith has filed a motion for Judge Cannon to RECONSIDER her recent ruling that would unseal witness names & the substance of their testimony, putting them at significant risk of immediate threats and intimidation. 1/
(https://x.com/MuellerSheWrote/status/1755836307233022362?t=Fmf5_UuNttQcVk88BK-G5Q&s=03)
from ThreadReader
BREAKING: THREAD: Jack Smith has filed a motion for Judge Cannon to RECONSIDER her recent ruling that would unseal witness names & the substance of their testimony, putting them at significant risk of immediate threats and intimidation. 1/
Smith says that trump attached protected discovery information to court filings to shift the burden to the government to prove sealing is necessary & that Cannon wrongly decided witness safety/grand jury secrecy/integrity of the trial are not good enough reasons to seal. 2/
Smith says Cannon was WRONG in 2 respects & should reconsider. He then cites the 11th circuit, which has bench slapped Cannon before. 3/
“First, the 11th Circuit has held that the compelling-interest standard applied by the Court does NOT apply to “documents filed in connection with motions to compel discovery,” which instead may be sealed or redacted simply upon a showing of “good cause”. 4/
I think this citation is important because I think Jack Smith is saying “If I appeal this to the 11th circuit, they’re going to reverse your ruling if you don’t do it now” because Cannon applied the WRONG LEGAL STANDARD. Then he gives the 2nd reason she’s wrong. 5/
Smith says she needs to change her ruling to “prevent manifest injustice.” Cannon’s erroneous order would ID over two dozen people who would otherwise remain anonymous, or will face threats over their testimony. 6/
“Reconsideration is warranted to correct CLEAR ERROR & prevent MANIFEST INJUSTICE.” Basically, trump attached protected discovery (witness names) to a motion to compel so he could ask Cannon to unseal them. A sneaky way to get a list of witnesses against him out to the public. 7/
Some of the things the government wants to remain under seal: witness interviews, including a transcript of one witness that didn’t want to be recorded, citing the risks from “trump world”, plus information about obstruction and witness intimidation. 8/
Transcripts of interviews detailing the process of finding attorneys for two individuals. I imagine this has to do with trump allies getting lawyers for other trump allies or defendants. 9/
Expert testimony about the Mar a Lago search, including information about the location of trump’s son’s bedroom. 10/
Jack Smith was allowed to attach an exhibit of threats made online to witnesses – threats that are currently under federal criminal investigation. I don’t have the filing yet on court listener to link, but here’s PACER link. I’ll add it when I get it. END/
She’s incompetent. She’s corrupt. And, her incompetence could threaten our national security. She is a Federalist Society hack. She never should have been assigned this case in the first place.
Kid Phantasm (@cbbruuno) posted at 8:03 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
I will say it for the thousandth time- every week Trump says or does something that would end everybody else’s political career and create a feeding frenzy in the press. The press has CHOSEN to not let him suffer any consequences.
(https://x.com/cbbruuno/status/1757405039063183417?t=BXRJktGuL_-lswgnSb2hqQ&s=03)
kaijuultimax.bsky.social (@KaijuUltimax) posted at 7:53 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
Yeah and the reason is that Biden has only forgiven loans that should have been forgiven already but weren’t or for students that were defrauded. He hasnt done shit for general loan holders like me.
(https://x.com/KaijuUltimax/status/1757402507138232672?t=cM15LvN1SSI47_Jbl7Z98g&s=03)
Count QuarterBlacky (@groove_sdc) posted at 7:59 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
Tell me you don’t care about anybody but yourself without telling me you don’t care about anybody but yourself.
And this is not true. There are lot of general loan holders who’ve had their loans forgiven, paused or payments bought down to almost nothing because of his actions.
(https://x.com/groove_sdc/status/1757404120317559232?t=Qe5oUfsSscjWnchdK1y93A&s=03)
Portia ♍️ McGonagal Same On 🐳 (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 7:36 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
It amazes me that people need Maddow to tell them this, but they do and she did and it’s accurate. Been obvi.
Maddow connects Trump’s NATO lies to Putin’s claim that Hitler had to invade Poland
https://t.co/z9v2jHJNkk
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1757398278004773303?t=o4d0GkvBDgoL6T2hQgw0cQ&s=03)
Crystal4MVPHarris – 🗳️Democrats – BidenHarris2024 (@crystal4obama) posted at 11:27 PM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
I guess Misery Activism* and Grievance Pimping** by blue checks, influencers, journalists, and pundits are in vogue for the 2024 election. Please go touch some grass.
*Misery Activism – coined by @TerryWatkinsJr1
**Grievance Pimping – coined by @akamikki08
(https://x.com/crystal4obama/status/1757275376085315982?t=WUsG2Try2Ay5w-ItdSmWzQ&s=03)
Bougie Black Girl (@BougieBlackGurl) posted at 8:17 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
Most hair products marketed to Black folks by multinational corporations contain more toxic chemicals than brands that aren’t exclusively for us. They are causing hair loss and making us sick. And y’all it’s not just relaxers. https://t.co/6ZK7tlDxis https://t.co/iSzYO5jtac
(https://x.com/BougieBlackGurl/status/1757408653206835473?t=DVO-rKjr7oU65jmNilCJBQ&s=03)
Tim Hogan 浩勤 (@TimInHonolulu) posted at 8:15 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
The Democrats should make @SpeakerJohnson an offer he can’t refuse. Put the Senate bill on the floor or face a Democratic motion to vacate and a move to elect a first ballot plurality Democratic Speaker to take control and throw all the MAGATS off of the Committee chairs.
(https://x.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1757408032278155278?t=Yo2aFmNHfVkrFB8mqA0uaQ&s=03)
The GOP’s Next Target? Prenatal Tests
The cruelty is the point
JESSICA VALENTI
FEB 13
For months, I’ve been tracking the anti-abortion movement’s quiet campaign to force women to carry nonviable pregnancies to term. Their plan includes changing legislation and medical guidelines, forcing doctors to lie to women about their pregnancies, and requiring that women meet with anti-abortion “counselors” before ending a doomed pregnancy.
These days, though, I’m keeping a close eye on another part of that broader strategy: attacks on prenatal testing. And this piece from Associated Press is a good reminder of why, exactly, conservatives are going after women’s ability to find out as much as possible about their pregnancies.
The AP piece looks at how important prenatal testing has become in post-Roe America, and how women—especially those in states with bans—are increasingly relying on early testing. Doctors say more and more patients are asking for early ultrasounds and more genetic screenings; the hope, obviously, is to catch any issues as quickly as possible.
The article gets into the various kinds of prenatal testing and ultrasounds that patients receive—and the massive problem of timing. Many of these tests aren’t done until after some states’ legal limit for abortion care. With ultrasounds, for example, you can’t see details of the fetus until a certain, later, point in pregnancy. Still, patients are asking for those ultrasounds at 10 to 13 weeks so they can have abortions under the wire if necessary.
The other issue is that genetic testing results can sometimes take weeks to come back—that’s time that patients don’t have when they live in a state with an abortion ban. North Carolina OBGYN Dr. Clayton Alfonso said, “More people are trying to find these things out earlier to try to fit within the confines of laws that in my mind don’t have a place in medical practice.”
The anti-abortion movement knew that all of this would happen after Roe was overturned—they knew that women would be desperate to get prenatal tests, and that the timing would be a big issue. That’s why prenatal testing is such a huge part of their campaign.
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The anti-abortion movement knew that all of this would happen after Roe was overturned—they knew that women would be desperate to get prenatal tests, and that the timing would be a big issue. That’s why prenatal testing is such a huge part of their campaign.
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In addition to all of these truly horrific policies, Republicans are also going to be pushing the FDA to reconsider the approval of some of prenatal tests. Mark my words. In the same way that they’ve been going after the FDA to repeal mifepristone approval, they are absolutely going to target prenatal tests.
Andrew Bates (@AndrewJBates46) posted at 1:32 PM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
.@POTUS on what @SpeakerJohnson is opposing:
“While this bill sends military equipment to Ukraine, it spends the money” here in the USA.
“Places like Arizona,” “Alabama,” “Pennsylvania, Ohio, & Texas.”
“Stockpiles that are made right here in America by American workers.” https://t.co/ij5KC7jbiu
(https://x.com/AndrewJBates46/status/1757487989880394214?t=TzXHB_5MiRGdg4pM1Y87sA&s=03
The Recount (@therecount) posted at 1:48 PM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
“No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator. Let me say this as clearly as I can: I never will. For God’s sake, it’s dumb, it’s shameful, it’s dangerous, it’s un-American.”
— President Biden slams Donald Trump’s recent comments on Putin and NATO https://t.co/4xrLi6dLZ0
(https://x.com/therecount/status/1757491980941062358?t=4XLVJ4GHU5IwcysWRs2oxg&s=03)
2RawTooReal (@2RawTooReal) posted at 1:34 PM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
I’m calling Bull💩 on Jon Stewart! It’s funny how he didnt have a problem with age when it came to Bernie sanders who’s even OLDER than President Biden. How can you say a 81-year-old man can’t run this country when Biden is 81 & running it very well. https://t.co/fGmiFAoEA7
(https://x.com/2RawTooReal/status/1757488558057594915?t=SAJ_boLkIDvI1Z-J3UC8og&s=03)
R.S. Martin (@RSMwriter) posted at 10:42 PM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
Apparently Jon Stewart, who has no existential stake in this year’s election–he’s rich enough not to care–has decided to minimize the threat Donald Trump poses to this country and the world by indulging his aesthetic pique about Biden’s age. Disgraceful.
(https://x.com/RSMwriter/status/1757263878591856854?s=03)
TELL IT, 46!
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 1:22 PM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
Biden: Trump said if an ally didn’t spend enough on defense, he would encourage Russia to ‘do whatever the hell they want.’ The whole world heard it. No other president in our history has ever bowed down to a Russian dictator. I never will. For god’s sake, it’s dumb. https://t.co/MqzjoQ4URU
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1757485449000452481?t=xil_gvLuoEX-i2-1SeMecA&s=03)
This is crazy!
Victoria (@victoriaslog) posted at 5:02 PM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
Russia continues to promote North Korea as a tourist destination, with plans to send Russian schoolchildren on vacation to North Korean camps and build tourism bases for Russian people.
I really hope that North Korea becomes their preferred destination and that there will be… https://t.co/vL7ll7RFlK
(https://x.com/victoriaslog/status/1757178400391798891?t=2dWU5bi4GctCfp6BHyaBxw&s=03)
Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) (@FixMediaNow) posted at 11:50 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
A TIMELINE
The @nytimes continues to dangerously fail to inform Americans.
Americans’ security is in jeopardy with a collapse of NATO.
Most Americans do not understand what @NATO is and why Trump’s threats matter.
1/n
@MarkJacob16 @JeffSharlet @mehdirhasan
Fix Media Now (by the Media and Democracy Project) (@FixMediaNow) posted at 7:52 AM on Sun, Feb 11, 2024:
A@nytimes is a $7B *media company*. It no longer prioritizes a role in defense of democracy or the Fourth Estate. This NEEDS to change.
The leader of the GOP is waging war on democracy &is a threat to the world.
1/n
@JeffSharlet @ruthbenghiat @TDucklo @MarkJacob16 @mehdirhasan https://t.co/iqnOraEwWw
(https://x.com/FixMediaNow/status/1756677540532334920?t=pfmILg4xpKAi1FE9PKVviw&s=03)
LIPS SO PURSED.
theGrio.com (@theGrio) posted at 7:00 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
T-Pain revealed he avoids attaching his songwriting credits to country music because of the racist encounters he faced.
Read More 👇🏿
https://t.co/djdvXwQqRa https://t.co/D7ToFMZ4zs
(https://x.com/theGrio/status/1757389351682507163?t=joMwgLjmuiYmKuw2CYAbow&s=03)
Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) posted at 9:30 PM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
Khan: After Trump attacked us we received further threats. In 2016 we received a call from then Vice President Joe Biden inviting us to his home. He showed us the photos of his family one at a time while telling us we are his family too.
Portia McGonagal Same On (@PortiaMcGonagal) posted at 10:45 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
I know too many people have forgotten what was done to the Khans. Likewise the widow of LaDavid Johnson and Congresswoman Frederica Wilson. Funny how Nik Nik Haley didn’t have anything to say about that.
(https://x.com/PortiaMcGonagal/status/1757446022194933962?t=k4lOj_riWKfeEgAFnY6Zxw&s=03)
Get the ENTIRE PHUCK OUTTA HERE
PHUCKING CLOWNS!
The Recount (@therecount) posted at 11:44 AM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
Reuters’ @jeffmason1: “Did [President Biden] watch Jon Stewart [on “The Daily Show”] last night?”
WH Press Sec. Karine Jean-Pierre: “Sounds like you did, Jeff. Was it good?”
Mason: “He was pretty critical of the president…” https://t.co/7PwwFGpfgx
(https://x.com/therecount/status/1757460656343634240?t=Jm1MTaYeSLCnRR6r3g-LIw&s=03)
EEEK
The Associated Press (@AP) posted at 0:27 PM on Tue, Feb 13, 2024:
Oregon officials report bubonic plague in local resident https://t.co/4wIz90eP5z
(https://x.com/AP/status/1757471584284037409?t=SCQVgKa8Qd0GNtvbWmk35w&s=03)
HBCU Alum (@hbcualum) posted at 8:22 PM on Sun, Feb 11, 2024:
Shouts out to JSU’s Sonic Boom of the South! They killed it tonight during Usher’s performance! https://t.co/3Qb1BYAQeG
(https://x.com/hbcualum/status/1756866418786627860?s=02)
Patrick S. Tomlinson (@stealthygeek) posted at 11:56 AM on Sun, Feb 11, 2024:
Without Obamacare, everyone who’s had Covid would now have a disqualifying pre-existing condition.
In case you forgot how lucky we are.
(https://x.com/stealthygeek/status/1756739025891680307?s=02)
NFL (@NFL) posted at 10:43 AM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
For the first time ever, the NFL collaborated with a local artist on the creation of a Super Bowl logo.
The artist who created our new logo, Tahj Williams, is the queen of her Black Masking Indian tribe in New Orleans, the home of Super Bowl LIX.
With a beading tradition and culture that dates back to the birth of the nation, the Black Masking Indian tribe uses methods passed down for generations, and Tahj painstakingly built the Super Bowl LIX Logo bead by bead.
🎥: @jus10_w
(https://x.com/NFL/status/1757083089115939073?s=02)
ForbesBLK (@ForbesBLK) posted at 9:50 AM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
Usher’s halftime performance at Super Bowl 2024 drew in 30.1 million households, more than the hugely popular Dr. Dre halftime show in 2022 and Rihanna’s in 2023.
https://t.co/vCVYFukIOO https://t.co/gMHXVc1aWm
(https://x.com/ForbesBLK/status/1757069571817668799?s=02)
Johnathan McClain (@MisterJMcClain) posted at 1:30 AM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
One million percent this.
To add: When Usher was 18 yo, he was singing at the VMAs and his mic went out. He ran over to a presenter podium and sang at a podium mic until someone handed a new, working hand microphone.
He’s always been him.
(https://x.com/MisterJMcClain/status/1756943957630820624?s=02)
Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (@SenatorWarnock) posted at 10:08 AM on Tue, Feb 06, 2024:
Taking a stroll with @heffnera down the Savannah street I grew up on, now named Raphael Warnock Way, is a humbling reminder of what an honor it is to serve my home state in the Senate.
Looking forward to folks watching our chat about my life & work to deliver for all Georgians! https://t.co/MpkQaKyeGG
(https://x.com/SenatorWarnock/status/1754899768352883059?s=02)
Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) posted at 10:45 AM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
We will not build a better future by trying to erase America’s past. https://t.co/BHa7WPaH50
(https://x.com/KamalaHarris/status/1757083514820850107?s=02)
Henry Louis Gates Jr (@HenryLouisGates) posted at 11:44 AM on Mon, Feb 12, 2024:
TONIGHT on #GospelPBS, I sit down with Rev. Dwight Andrews to discuss the great Rev. C.L. Franklin’s skill of the preaching exercise – connecting the Biblical story with *our* story.
Tune in tonight for the first night of our brand-new docuseries, GOSPEL, at 9/8c on @PBS! https://t.co/gZGzjrbHlF
(https://x.com/HenryLouisGates/status/1757098266951397451?s=02)
U.S. Mission to NATO (@USNATO) posted at 2:51 AM on Thu, Feb 08, 2024:
In the last two years, Russia has lost senior roles in the UNHRC, the ICJ, the IMO, OPCW, UNESCO, the ITU, UNEP, the FAC, FAO, IKO, ECOSOC and Interpol. That’s an alphabet soup of international organizations – all rejecting Russian leadership and Putin’s war against Ukraine. https://t.co/94FrweVCIV
(https://x.com/USNATO/status/1755514752183243191?s=02)
Good Afternoon, Everyone😊😊😊