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@georgetakei So Gay AF, right?

Mike Davis: “We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious.”

Davis: “We're gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing - anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents.”

WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF
PUBLISHED 09/29/23 1:27 PM EDT

BENNY JOHNSON (HOST): Mike, I've never called for lava to rain down from the heavens, but maybe upon Washington, D.C. Would you be that sweet red hot lava for us?

MIKE DAVIS (GUEST): I've never been called sweet, and you called me sweet ginger. So, I think I am, Ben. But during my three week reign of terror as Trump acting attorney general before I get chased out of town with my Trump pardon, I will rain hell on Washington, D.C. We've talked about this, Ben. I have five lists, ready to go and they're growing. List number one, we're gonna fire. We're gonna fire a lot of people in the executive branch, in the deep state. Number two, we're gonna indict. We're We're gonna indict Joe Biden and Hunter Biden...
https://www.mediamatters.org/google/mike-davis-were-gonna-put-kids-cages-its-gonna-be-glorious

Raj Shah, Fox exec exposed in Dominion lawsuit, to lead House GOP comms

WRITTEN BY MATT GERTZ
PUBLISHED 11/01/23 12:28 PM EDT

Raj Shah, a former Fox Corp. executive who urged the network to stave off far-right competitors by promoting Donald Trump’s election lies, has been chosen to lead the communications effort for Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

As a senior vice president at Fox, Shah reportedly “worked closely with Tucker Carlson’s team and was trusted by the prime-time hosts as a vigilant defender against critics.” Indeed, his duties reportedly included launching and overseeing an internal unit aimed at discrediting Media Matters and other Fox foils. In his new job, Shah will serve as Johnson’s chief spokesperson and “help run messaging for House Republicans,” Politico reported Tuesday.

Shah is one of numerous apparatchiks to use the revolving door between Republican politics and its top propaganda outlet, having joined Fox after serving as a GOP...
https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/raj-shah-fox-exec-exposed-dominion-lawsuit-lead-house-gop-comms

Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters chant 'Guilty!' and smear red paint on the gates in front of White House

Katie Hawkinson and Kenneth Niemeyer
Nov 4, 2023, 5:23 PM EDT

Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in Washington, DC, on Saturday in support of Palestinians.

After hours of speeches in a downtown plaza, protesters marched several blocks to the White House, where they chanted "Guilty!"

As the sun set, protesters also smeared the White House gates with red paint, according to footage from journalist Steven Nelson.

Thousands of protesters came to the city on buses, many from out of state, including as far away as Georgia and Massachusetts.

Washington, DC, is the latest city to see large pro-Palestinian rallies. Hundreds of thousands of protesters around the world have staged demonstrations in the last week, including massive protests in London, Istanbul, and elsewhere. Major cities throughout the United States have also...
https://www.businessinsider.com/photos-thousands-march-in-washington-dc-to-support-palestinians-gaza-2023-11

@AnthonyJK I'm confused. Have conservative Democrats been pushing to get them removed?

@georgetakei Getting an error message when I click this link and I'm not sure why. I've been able to read comic sands articles in the past, so not sure what's happening.

ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR
7 influential accounts are warping Israel-Hamas news on X, researchers find

The University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public said that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news on the platform is “faster, more disorienting, and potentially more shaped by Musk himself.”

Oct. 20, 2023, 4:41 PM EDT
By Brandy Zadrozny

A handful of influential but unreliable accounts, some of which have been promoted by Elon Musk, are dominating the flow of news on X around the Israel-Hamas war and easily outpacing established mainstream news outlets, according to research published Friday by the University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public.

Researchers analyzed viral posts about the conflict during a three-day period starting from the beginning of the attack against Israel on Oct. 7. They concluded that the most popular posts about the crisis revealed how news on the platform is “faster, more disorienting, and...
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/7-accounts-warp-israel-hamas-war-news-x-musk-rcna121465

Thomas Fuller, Aaron Boxerman and Raja Abdulrahim

Here’s the latest on the war.

Diplomats were locked in frantic talks on Sunday to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as an Israeli ground invasion appeared imminent.

At the same time, the United States was deploying a second aircraft carrier to the Eastern Mediterranean amid fears of a wider war.

Capturing these concerns on Sunday was António Guterres, the secretary general of the United Nations, who said, “We are on the verge of the abyss in the Middle East.”

Officials from the United States, Egypt and Middle Eastern countries sought to ease what Israeli officials have called the “siege” of Gaza, which has led to dire shortages of food, water, gasoline and other essentials in the blockaded territory.

Video images on Sunday showed lines of trucks idling on the road to Gaza in the Egyptian city of Arish, about 30 miles from the...
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2023/10/15/world/israel-news-hamas-war-gaza?smid=url-share#hezbollah-israel-lebanon-border

Read PDF version here:
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:247aad4a-2caf-33ab-90fe-640dd49bd2a5

@georgetakei And the party of death.💀

So, just to clarify, we are talking about putting people in concentration camps here, right?

.... OK, just making sure.

DONALD TRUMP
Trump vows to invoke a wartime law to deport suspected foreign gang members and drug dealers
The former president also said he would expand his travel ban if elected to the White House for a second term.

Sept. 20, 2023, 11:11 PM EDT
By Vaughn Hillyard, Jake Traylor and Dan Gallo

DUBUQUE, Iowa — Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday that if re-elected, he would “immediately” invoke a federal law granting himself the unilateral power to detain and deport non-citizens in the United States who are older than 14 years old.

In remarks at a campaign stop, Trump pledged to use the Alien Enemies Act — part of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 — to target suspected gang members, drug dealers and cartel members.

“I’ll...invoke immediately the Alien Enemies Act to remove all known or suspected gang members…the...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-alien-enemies-act-travel-ban-deport-drug-dealers-gang-members-rcna108121

@georgetakei Much of the blame has to do with gerrymandered districting. As Dr. Cox Richardson pointed out in yesterday's blog post, many of these Republicans at the U.S. and state level can do and say whatever they like because they know they're safe. Their reelection is assured, leaving them free to cater to all the worst elements in our society and to the wealthy donor class. They are simply not accountable to the majority of state's voters. The fight has really come down to the judicial system, which is why many believe the battle for democracy will be won or lost in the courts.

@georgetakei There's something just really wrong with these people.

https://youtu.be/4GbM_1YSnXQ?si=RKv7hcj6sMKHFC4P

https://youtu.be/gX7tVRWSX8A?si=EZszcn8aZKqUT7pf

@georgetakei Wait. They're saying Musk spoke with Russian officials prior to making a decision to turn off Starlink? So, how can he claim Starlink was not meant to be involved in wars when he just involved himself in the war to help the Russians. WTF??
https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/07/politics/elon-musk-biography-walter-isaacson-ukraine-starlink

Civil Discourse with Joyce Vance
"Get a Great Effing Criminal Defense Lawyer"

Sometimes, you should take the advice, even if it was intended for someone else

JOYCE VANCE
AUG 23, 2023

Count on Jeffrey Clark, the Trump-era Assistant Attorney General for the Environment and Natural Resources Division who wanted to be Attorney General, to file the strangest motion so far of any of Trump’s co-defendants in Georgia. Mark Meadows and at least one additional defendant, David Shafer, who was among the Georgia fake electors, want to have their cases moved from state court to federal court. But Clark takes the cake.
https://open.substack.com/pub/joycevance/p/get-a-great-effing-criminal-defense?r=fyvv4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

@georgetakei So, basically this whole thing is being driven by hate and bigotry.... OK.

U.S. NEWS
Top librarian calls 'Marxist lesbian' tweet backlash 'regrettable'

GOP lawmakers in several states have called for defunding the American Library Association because of Emily Drabinski's identity and political beliefs.

Aug. 7, 2023, 6:00 AM EDT
By Tyler Kingkade

LOS ANGELES — Emily Drabinski took over as president of the American Library Association in July with plans to tackle the pressing issues facing her profession, such as shoring up funding and fighting a record number of book ban attempts nationwide.

She said she wants to make sure that the LBGTQ community and Black people see themselves reflected in the books on their library shelves. And she’s planning to prepare libraries for the consequences of climate change, pointing to the severe flooding this summer in the Northeast.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/american-library-association-president-marxist-lesbian-rcna98254

I ran across this ruling yesterday, it was in a link from an article about how it's very unlikely the court (as well as the jury at his trial) will consider that Trump's "sincere belief" that the 2020 election was stolen will protect or exonerate him. This defense was actually ruled on in one of the Jan6 rioter's cases. That defendant tried to argue he joined the crowd attacking congress because he believed the election had been stolen. The judge in that case wasn't having any of it, as you'll see in these screenshots from his ruling. I've included a link to the judge's ruling as well.
https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:c1b95b92-4695-32c8-9d78-6e92994655b3

AS XITTER’S LAWYER STALLED DOJ, ELON MUSK MET WITH JIM JORDAN (TWICE!) AND KEVIN MCCARTHY

August 17, 2023/51 Comments/in 2020 Presidential Election, Hunter Biden, January 6 Insurrection /by emptywheel

Elon Musk has been eerily quiet about being held in contempt by Beryl Howell since the DC Circuit opinion was first released on August 9.

It’s not like him to pass up the opportunity to make an obnoxious comment.

Which is why I’m interested in what Musk was doing during the period when Xitter’s counsel was stalling on the DOJ request — including a visit to Kevin McCarthy on January 26.

Beryl Howell approved the warrant on January 17. After several failed attempts, the government served it to the official portal on January 19. But then Xitter’s senior-most legal person stalled for 12 days, until she told DOJ that Xitter was going to make a First Amendment challenge so Trump could invoke executive privilege.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/08/17/as-xitters-lawyer-stalled-doj-elon-musk-met-with-jim-jordan-twice-and-kevin-mccarthy/

The Hartmann Report

DAILY TAKE
Trump's Crimes Against Democracy Tower Way Above His 4 Indictments

There’s a deeper truth here: the Trump/MAGA faction of the GOP hasn't just committed electoral crimes -- they've declared war on democracy itself...

THOM HARTMANN
AUG 17, 2023

While it may be satisfying to call Trump and his enablers “fascists,” there’s a deeper truth here, with which America must come to terms: the Trump/MAGA faction of the GOP has declared war on democracy itself.

Funded by rightwing billionaires who, themselves, view democracy as an inconvenient pain-in-the-ass and — when Democrats talk about them “paying their fair share” — an actual threat, these MAGA Republicans have also joined forces with wealthy international elements dedicated to ending democracy all around the world.
https://hartmannreport.com/p/trumps-crimes-against-democracy-tower?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

@OGjester It's true. And the GOP is stoking the fuck out of this fire.

@georgetakei Well, that's the only way any of this makes sense. They're saying one thing publicly and something else in private.