we are just cleaning up in this divorce https://t.co/RtCQEe05bv
— zeddy (@Zeddary) March 18, 2024
In the ‘national divorce’ the GOP loves to talk about, Dems already got ice cream, football, Taylor Swift…
Genuinely good news, assuming it happens:
🟡SCOOP: There's a deal for a clean one-year extension of the lifesaving PEPFAR program in next tranche of gov't funding bills, per two advocates connected to the effort and one source familiar with the decision. It was caught up in GOP-led abortion fight
Story TK
— Joseph Zeballos-Roig (@josephzeballos) March 18, 2024
… Aaand, another development from the Trump Crime Cartel:
According to the Washington Post, Paul Manafort was “criticized for Russia ties.”
Yes, 25 counts of criticism for Russia ties, for which he pleaded guilty & was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison pic.twitter.com/26umuVQpdQ
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 18, 2024
Anyway, I'm sure all the signals that the Trump world is sending that they'll do deals (bribes) have nothing to do with their desire to welcome foreign help.
— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) March 18, 2024
Omnes Omnibus
Not a good day in the NY courts for Trump. In the New York election interference case, the judge has ruled on the motions in limine. Trump did not do well.
SiubhanDuinne
Glad to see Teller and Penn saying good things about Democrats. Last I knew, they were raving Libertarians.
Baud
John Wilkes Booth was criticized for ties to the Confederacy.
Kayla Rudbek
Creepy, dangerous app: https://newrepublic.com/article/179397/evangelical-app-targeting-immigrants-surveillance
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
What does in limine mean? Yeah, of course I could look it up. Would rather have a BJ lawyer provide an explainer.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Motions about evidence and procedure that are decided before trial.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Ah, okay, thanks.
Anne Laurie
When even the Libertarians abandon the GOP as ‘too extreme’…
Urza
@Baud: Pretty sure he wasn’t convicted though, so both sides.
Matt McIrvin
I don’t know about Teller, but Penn seems to have had some kind of revelation when he realized that antivaxxers were assuming he was a natural ally.
dr. bloor
@Matt McIrvin:
Jillette is a long-standing libertarian. His response to COVID was the outlier in his politics.
He endorsed Yang last cycle. I hope Raskin took a long, hot shower after touching him.
Starfish
@Kayla Rudbek:
This article is weird. I have seen some concerns with the Christian app’s lately, but Gloo is not explicitly Christian and has an office where I live, and I knew people who worked there.
People need to take their concerns about data harvesting and generalize concerns about TikTok and some Christian apps to hammering out some privacy rights legislation out of them instead of saying “Be afraid of this app or that app.”
This app and that app collect as much of your information as they are legally allowed to. Their purposes are probably aligned with capitalism as opposed to aligned with some nefarious intent. All this tech is old enough that it should be regulated.
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@Matt McIrvin: Might also help that he legitimately was interested in a less authoritarian government and that is emphatically not on offer from the Republicans.
HumboldtBlue
Tish James and the soon-to-be-newly-named Trump Tower.
Trump is broke. Auction Time SOUND UP
This Dear, Dad political ad is perfectly terrifying.
Aaaaaaannnnnndddddd: BREAKING Supreme Court denied Peter Navarro’s last-minute bid to stay free from prison. Navarro has to report to Miami prison tomorrow. LAW AND ORDER!
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
@HumboldtBlue: See this guy earning a living at his parents’ house making pocket change from Uber Eats? I have more money than Donald Trump right now.
Starfish
@Starfish: Oh, I guess it is now. This is weird. I thought they were into education and B2B stuff. Wild.
oldster
When I first saw Manafort’s involvement with the Trump campaign back in 2015 — that’s when I knew that Trump was a Putin asset, or as good as one.
I had already watched Putin use Manafort to try to rig the elections in Ukraine, and if he couldn’t rig them, to disrupt them. Manafort is Putin’s guy, his fixer.
Jailed for being a Russian asset, and now he’ll go back to destroying democratic elections. Because Putin is still trying as hard as he can to destroy the United States, and the Republicans are helping him.
HumboldtBlue
@Matt McIrvin:
They’ve always been staunchly pro-vaccine.
Starfish
@Starfish: At its founding it was about churches and non-profits and its community building ideas felt less nefarious?
twbrandt
As this is an open thread, this is a pretty cool article: The neuroscientist formerly known as Prince’s audio engineer
She earned her PhD in her 50s.
danielx
@Omnes Omnibus:
So, begging your indulgence, that means…what? That the judge has already laid out the prevailing rules regarding evidence and procedure in his/her court and therefore a lot of SFB’s usual tactics of delay and obfuscation won’t fly?
Sure Lurkalot
Washington Post…canceled them last year! Vying to be as clueless, bothsidesy and malevolent as the FTFNYT. We’re at the point that no news they believe is fit to print is fit to read.
Villago Delenda Est
Rebo and Zooty are on our side! This is excellent news!
Eolirin
@SiubhanDuinne: Penn was always a quite bit less crazy than your median Libertarian, and Trump and then COVID opened his eyes on how insane the rest of them really were so he jumped ship completely.
Teller afaik has never really been as ahem, vocal, about politics.
Omnes Omnibus
@danielx: The Trump people asked for a bunch of things to be excluded from evidence and the court basically said no to all but one. They can’t use Stormy Daniels’s lie detector results. It was a sweeping loss for the defense. The trial should go forward in April.
Pete Downunder
@danielx: I was never a New York lawyer but on the left coast motions in limine (at the threshold) were used to dispose of procedural issues and anticipated evidentiary problems so as not to have issues in front of the jury
RedDirtGirl
@dr. bloor: Here is a recent article about Jillette from Cracked of all places. He has renounced his libertarianism and has good things to say about Biden.
Jackie
@HumboldtBlue: I hope it’s televised LIVE. Navarro is almost as big a baby as TIFG. I also hope he leaves prison aged by four years+ in the four months he’s incarcerated. And TIFG sees it and really goes off his rocker!
Eolirin
@HumboldtBlue: Yeah, and pro science and staunch atheists. The current GOP is entirely anathema to their worldview. They really detest conspiracy theories. Right now only the Democrats are pro-reality and that’s done a lot of work.
Anoniminous
I am thinking we are looking at the same kind of shift in politics that happened with the societal shift in Gay Marriage. A number of factors came together in 2011 in a Black Swan Event that decisively flipped public opinion from Anti to Pro.
NotMax
@Eolirin
“It doesn’t seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.”
– Richard Feynman
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Matt McIrvin
@Eolirin: Years ago they were giving a platform to anti-environmentalist hacks like Steven Milloy and were case studies in the infection of the skeptic movement with libertarian politics. Penn Jillette already expressed regret for doing that years ago and also seems to really hate Donald Trump on the basis of having met him. So he’s been evolving.
NotMax
@NotMax
Or, more succinctly,
“[I call myself] an atheist. Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this.”
– Richard Feynman
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Marmot
@Matt McIrvin:
Off to look that up!
Anoniminous
@NotMax:
Sapolski’s lecture on “Biological Underpinnings of Religiosity” is deadly.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
I saw an interview with Penn Gillette a while back where he discussed his conversion to reality. I do not remember exactly what it was that triggered it but he realized that libertarianism was just stupid and cruel. And he didn’t want to be stupid or cruel. Now he’s a total liberal.
Marmot
@Matt McIrvin:
Aw man, now that I’ve looked, I just want a conservative / libertarian to join Good without it being about some personal impingement.
(I don’t know this source, the Review-Journal.)
rikyrah
@Kayla Rudbek:
That shows you just how they are losing followers. That was creepy as phuck
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Omnes Omnibus: Wow. That’s some lengthy list of losses for Trump.
rikyrah
@HumboldtBlue:
is it a REAL prison, or a Club Fed?
rikyrah
@oldster:
No lie told. It’s quite obvious.
MagdaInBlack
@NotMax: ❤️
NotMax
There was a front page post about Jillette back in January.
Matt McIrvin
@HumboldtBlue: Yeah, even when they were claiming secondhand smoke wasn’t bad for you, they were opposed to most alt-med bullshit.
Melancholy Jaques
@SiubhanDuinne:
Literally it means on the threshold. The almost always involve evidentiary issues. A movant wants the court to order before the trial starts that certain evidence will or will not be permitted (most often the latter) and if the latter, that such evidence not even be mentioned. The phrase is, can’t unring the bell.
Elizabelle
@NotMax: Thanks for finding that. Reading up on all of this.
Kristine
@twbrandt: Thanks for posting that. Great story.
karen marie
@Omnes Omnibus: That was the most delicious read! OMG, I was screaming with laughter and rolling on the floor with glee.
vigilhorn
@HumboldtBlue: We went to Vegas to see them in Jan ’21 but the show was cancelled by (guess what) …Covid.