Good day. I survived the civil suits (so far) and just received a check from a Super PAC’s Super PAC’s Super PAC’s Super PAC. And now I’ve been engaged to be Trump’s criminal lawyer’s criminal lawyer’s criminal lawyer’s criminal lawyer. I think that’s it. I might be his criminal lawyer’s criminal lawyer’s criminal lawyer. I might be his criminal lawyer’s criminal lawyer. I might be his criminal lawyer. I might be a criminal. I might just go home and listen to Fiona Apple’s “Criminal” on repeat while I scrutinize my life choices.
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Russell T. Davies' ominous tease about Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special Three: "The Giggle" has left us feeling more than a bit concerned.
It’s ultimately up to the American people During the 2016 presidential campaign Donald Trump repeatedly said that the electoral process was rigged. After losing the Iowa primary caucus he declared that Sen Ted Cruz had stolen it and tweeted, “based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.” That was just the beginning. Throughout the general election campaign he refused to say if he would accept the results , even in a televised presidential debate in October. He finally told his followers that he would accept the vote count — but only if he won — and they responded with rapturous adulation. Even when he won the electoral college he refused to accept the popular vote results and formed a commission to prove that the numbers were fraudulent. (It came up empty, of course.) So, it was no surprise that he spent most of the 2020 election casting aspersions on mail-in voting and planting the suspicion that the election was going to be stolen from him. It’s not like he kept it a secret.
This week, yet another Quran was burned in Stockholm, Sweden. As before, the criticism is mostly directly aimed at the Swedish government. What authoritarian regimes seem to fail to understand is that in Sweden, it is the police that makes decisions regarding permits, and Sweden has a constitutionally protected freedom of speech. Quran burnings are […]
Jeffrey Clark was an obscure government lawyer when he nearly seized control of the Justice Department to help the ex-president overturn the 2020 election results.
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Jeffrey Clark was an obscure government lawyer when he nearly seized control of the Justice Department to help the ex-president overturn the 2020 election results.
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“This offer is doing even better than the Trump N.F.T.s,” a campaign spokesman said.
The MintPress podcast, “The Watchdog,” hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey, closely examines organizations about which it is in the public interest to know – including intelligence, lobby and special interest groups influencing policies that infringe on free speech and target dissent. “The Watchdog” goes against the grain by casting a light on stories […]
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Gov. Brian Kemp, whose commission will oversee local district attorneys, signed the law shortly after a prosecutor said she would pursue a Trump indictment.
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Gov. Brian Kemp, whose commission will oversee local district attorneys, signed the law shortly after a prosecutor said she would pursue a Trump indictment.
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“If we get this right … a safer and more secure” world After Tuesday’s monumental third indictment of the immediate past president, perhaps a palate cleanser. Over the weekend, President Joe Biden, the president actually chosen by the America people in November 2020 visited Maine to talk about his administration’s progress on the economy. But it wasn’t his public remarks you need to read, it’s Heather Cox Richardson’s account of Biden’s remarks at a private reception in Freeport. Biden views change as a challenge, not something to run from but to embrace: Biden talked again about the world being at an inflection point, defining it as an abrupt turn off an established path that means you can never get back on the original path again. The world is changing, he said, and not because of leaders, but because of fundamental changes like global warming and artificial intelligence. “We’re seeing changes… across the world in fundamental ways.
Trump indicted for efforts to overturn 2020 election “You’re too honest.” Then-President Donald Trump (the Defendant) berated Vice President Mike Pence on a January 1, 2021 phone call for resisting his plan to seek a court ruling stating that “the Vice President had the authority to reject or return votes to the states under the Constitution.” So alleges special counsel Jack Smith’s 45-page indictment (gifted article) of Trump on three conspiracy charges and one for obstruction of an official proceeding. Along with Trump the indictment references six unnamed co-conspirators. Unnamed because they have not yet been charged, several are obvious from details in the indictment, Co-Conspirators 1 through 4 being Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Sidney Powell, and Jeffrey Clark. The Washington Post identifies appellate attorney Kenneth Chesebro as Co-Conspirator 5. The sixth is described as a “political consultant” involved in helping implement Trump’s fake electors scheme. The Smith indictment draws heavily on the work of the House January 6 Committee but includes more detail than was public previously.
A few months before Mary Austin Speaker moved away from New York, her city of many years, she started writing poetry on her train commute across the Manhattan Bridge. The result, called The Bridge, is emblematic of Speaker’s buoyant, radiant poetry, at once involved in a community—in this case the community of commuters in a given random subway car—and full of the lonesome individuality of a restless traveler. Speaker, who is well known for her design and editorial work over the last decade, gathered these train-born lines and arranged some of them into a sequence of poems, or maybe it’s a single long poem, that must rank as one of the most interesting, sustained poetic meditations on the rails in English. A tradition that includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, C.S. Giscombe, Kai Carlson-Wee, and many others. And in Speaker’s case it’s a lyric of public transportation, too, in the vein of another great New York poem, “Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.” Commuters, caught in the “diurnal wretchedness” of repetitive laboring days, are in Speaker’s work rendered as fragments of consciousness in a mosaic of the daily intensities of living.
The British National Party – currently £205,000 in the red – relied on the Government's furlough scheme
While journalists debate whether or not a purge of left-wingers is taking place in the Labour Party, those of us in the tightly-packed constituency of Wolverhampton South West are at the centre of something that couldn’t be referred to as anything but that. The historic constituency is probably most well known nationally for being a […]
Look at me! No, don’t look at the lollipop in my hair—look me in my unblinking dilated pupils. This nasty skin rash, which I probably got when Ella stuck her finger in my nose at preschool, is the greatest thing to ever happen to me. Because the doctor hooked me up with a little steroid called prednisone, street name “Pow Pow Juice,” and now I feel invincible. I’m indestructible. I’m a halfway-potty-trained God. And you will never stop pumpin’ those glorious medicine-filled plastic syringes down my throat. Got that, Mommy?
Actually, fill my Bluey water bottle with the stuff. Forget the syringes. I’m macro-dosing this junk. I can get so much done. I built a fort by flipping over the couch. I took apart my Frozen sing-along microphone and put it back together again. I finally got around to glittering the dog. I stabbed my dolly with my fairy wand for looking at me funny. I did a backflip off the table, landed on my head, got up, and just ran outside to do some laps.
Too many voters are insufficiently informed and reflective to vote other than tribally or self-interestedly in exploitable ways due to failings in how we conceive of 'education', writes AC Grayling
Caroline Slocock – director of think tank Civil Exchange – explores how politicians' respect for our democratic institutions has shifted since she was the first female private secretary at No. 10 under Margaret Thatcher
For a brief moment, America is refusing to be an accountability-free zone. Will it last?
I’m on Comic News Insider! Comic News Insider Interview I’m interviewed by the great Jimmy Aquino on episode #1418 of his Comic News Insider podcast, alongside Dean Haspiel, one of many interviews Jimmy conducted on the floor at SDCC. It’s a great listen, and I brought a goose! Con and On #2 is Out Next Wednesday […]