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Trump’s Justice

https://tomdispatch.com/trumps-justice/
Created
Fri, 01/03/2024 - 01:30

In 1868, British Prime Minister William Gladstone famously said, “Justice delayed is justice denied.” The phrase has often been repeated here in the United States, most famously by the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., who echoed it in his 1963 “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”: “Justice too long delayed is justice denied.” Sadly enough, justice delayed (and possibly denied) is once again front and center in America as we face the specter of Donald Trump and his insistence on eternally evading the reach of the law. What’s at stake isn’t just the fate of the former president, but an essential aspect of democracy. The Georgia Case Recently, the country was privy to attempts by Donald Trump’s lawyers to delay, if... Read more

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A Second American Revolution

https://digbysblog.net/2024/02/29/a-second-american-revolution/
Created
Fri, 01/03/2024 - 01:00
MAGA wanted a second Civil War? They wish. Once again the majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court has put its thumb on the scales of justice to preserve minority dominance and elite impunity. In what once seemed a stable democratic republic, the equal justice to which it once aspired, at least on parchment, hangs by slender threads. On Wednesday, the court announced in a one-page proclamation that it would review the D.C. Circuit’s ruling that, no, presidents may not assassinate political rivals (or commit other crimes) without legal sanction. Mark Joseph Stern at Slate: The Supreme Court has all but guaranteed that Donald Trump will not face trial for his efforts to subvert the 2020 election before this November’s presidential election. On Wednesday, after more than two weeks’ delay, the court issued an order refusing to lift the stay that’s preventing the Jan. 6 trial, prosecuted by Special Counsel Jack Smith, from moving forward. Instead, the court took up the case, scheduling oral arguments for the week of April 22—nearly two months from now. On this timeline, the justices will probably issue a decision near the end of June.

Rafah’s Dire Plight: Netanyahu’s Last Grasp for Victory

https://www.mintpressnews.com/rafah-dire-plight-netanyahu-last-grasp-victory/28…
Created
Fri, 01/03/2024 - 00:18

Israel hoped that Gazans would rush in their hundreds of thousands to the Sinai Desert. They did not. Then began speaking of “voluntary migration." Still, Palestinians stayed. Now, they've agreed to invade Rafah, a last-ditch effort to orchestrate another Nakba.

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When a Recipe Says It’s “Quick and Easy”

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/when-a-recipe-says-its-quick-and-easy
Created
Fri, 01/03/2024 - 00:00

Step 1
Go to your local specialty market that is more than five but less than twenty miles away to procure your ingredients.

Step 2
Stop by the meat counter and address your butcher by first name. If you are not on a first-name basis with your butcher, this recipe will not work.

Step 3
Maintain eye contact as you ask your butcher to cut your meat “Toledo style.” Any butcher even passingly familiar with the Toledo style of butchering will know what this means.

Step 4
Purchase a dozen farm-fresh eggs, a bottle of rye vinegar, one liter of cranberry oil, the expensive brand of beef broth, a bag of organic carrots, and a sprig of chervil. No substitutions.

Step 5
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.

Step 6
Beat your eggs using your Kitchenaid Stand Mixer’s bazooka attachment.

Step 7
When your eggs achieve a frothy consistency that resembles the breakers at Mykonos at magic hour, stir in the dry ingredients.

Outrage Farming

https://www.monbiot.com/2024/02/29/outrage-farming/
Created
Thu, 29/02/2024 - 21:37
What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 28th February 2024 Step back a pace to see how weird this is. Last week, the prime minister of the United Kingdom joined a protest against one of the UK’s four governments. Farmers had […]

City of Coffs Harbour GM talks council projects and performance

https://www.newsofthearea.com.au/city-of-coffs-harbour-gm-talks-council-project…
Created
Thu, 29/02/2024 - 16:13

THE COFFS Harbour Chamber of Commerce hosted a General Manager’s Update Breakfast last Thursday at Opal Cove Resort, with City of Coffs Harbour’s (CoCH) Natalia Cowley guest speaking. Eighteen months into the General Manager (GM) role, Ms Cowley shared details of what had been achieved by Coffs Harbour’s council and what lies ahead. To a...

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Just add water.

https://zeldman.com/2024/02/28/just-add-water/
Created
Thu, 29/02/2024 - 12:52

Quick, before everyone else thinks of it. Set the word “SUCCESSION” in Engravers Gothic and export it to a transparent PNG. Download photos of confederate general Mitch McConnell and Republican Johns Thune (R-S.D.), Cornyn (R-Texas), and Barrasso (R-Wyo.). Grab and burn Nicholas Britell’s main title theme from Succession. Import all files into Final Cut Pro […]

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