Notices by Marv Clowder (marvclowder@mstdn.jp)

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-transition-news-11-17-24#cm3lmlt1300003b6mdwza9gtb

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Pressed on the allegations against Gaetz of sexual misconduct, Miller replied, “I put the allegations aside. He’s never going to get confirmed. I’m looking at him as a member of Congress and the job that he has done here, and it has been abhorrent.”

Despite saying Gaetz’s actions should be disqualifying for the position, Miller was clear he wouldn’t break with Trump over the decision.

Rep. Austin Scott, another House Republican who has criticized Gaetz in the past, said the former Florida congressman would not have been his choice, naming Rep. Trey Gowdy and former Rep. Doug Collins as potential alternatives. But, he added, “I’m not Donald Trump.”

“It wasn’t my decision to make,” Scott said.

@br00t4c

The old conspiracies are the best!

(Or should I say what is old is new again!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_controversy#Communist_conspiracy_theory_(1940s%E2%80%931960s)

@persagen

“We will build new pipelines, oil and gas facilities, petrochemical plants, hydrogen plants, and more because Alberta is an energy superpower, and we will not apologize for it,” said the premier, who was defiant against the federal government and any attempts to regulate energy and greenhouse gas emissions.

@Daojoan

We could just start over.

@amaditalks @Bellison22

Mitch McConnell enabled Trump every step of the way, refusing to convict him in impeachment — twice – creating and then immediately disregarding a rule to help him pack the same court that is blocking the effort to hold him accountable for his crimes. Nothing he has to say about Trump, short of an apology to the American people and an endorsement of Kamala Harris, is worthwhile. He is complicit In every Trump crime.

@JuliusGoat

They don't call it Jupiter for nothing.

@JuliusGoat

The money quote, as it were:

"What's extraordinary about this is that it's all just assumed. Republicanism or American Nazism or white supremacy or whatever you want to call it is normal because it has to be normal, because if it wasn't normal than we'd have to say it wasn't, and then we'd have a lot of things to unpack and fix and solve, and that might get us into time and money."

@WarnerCrocker @pbump @davew

You have, of course, seen this:

(Could we email it to every ""undecided" voter?)

https://open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p/autocracy-and-poverty

@br00t4c

And what you’re saying is, it can just be a matter of filing it in Matthew Kacsmaryk’s court. It doesn’t have to be the way it was in the past, when it was achieved through tiny, incremental wins...

@br00t4c

Lithwick:

So you’re trying to respond to a concerted, sprawling decadeslong effort by the Leonard Leos of the world, the Federalist Society, the Heritage Foundation, to turn the courts into the thermonuclear device that blows up pluralistic, tolerant, broad-based democracy in service of special interests.

@br00t4c

Also in Project 2025 is the plan to use enforcement of the Comstock Act to restrict medication abortion nationally, and we’ve seen that start to appear in legal filings in various lower courts.

@br00t4c

Dahlia:

"The first Monday of October is the traditional start of the Supreme Court docket-harvest festival..."

@br00t4c

Steve Perryman:

"Project 2025 is not just a document about the next presidential administration—or what could be the next presidential administration. It’s a manifesto that reflects actual things that are happening in our courts today. For those of us that have the privilege of being lawyers or court watchers, part of our work is to look this extremism in the face and not blink or deny it, but to understand that it is here and that we all have work to do to combat it."

Liz Cheney:

“And as a conservative, as someone who believes in and cares about the Constitution, I have thought deeply about this, and because of the danger that Donald Trump poses, not only am I not voting for Donald Trump, but I will be voting for Kamala Harris,” she continued.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/04/politics/liz-cheney-voting-kamala-harris/index.html

@MisuseCase @HistoPol @Free_Press

According to high-ranking officials within the U.S. Department of Defense, intelligence reports indicate a significant mobilization of Iranian military assets and allied groups, including Hezbollah in Lebanon and various militias in Syria and Iraq. The sources, speaking on the condition of anonymity, disclosed that these preparations suggest a coordinated offensive aimed at multiple targets within Israel.

@MisuseCase @HistoPol @Free_Press

Everybody's citing CNN, but I haven't found anything on its website, so probably it was an on-air report.

The Zimbabwean Mail has the following:

entagon officials have issued a stark warning that Iran and its allied forces are poised to launch a large-scale attack on Israel within the next 72 hours.

This alarming development has heightened tensions in the Middle East and prompted urgent diplomatic and military responses from both regional and global powers.

@MisuseCase @HistoPol @Free_Press

The Israeli government has been alerted to the impending threat, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for an emergency session of the Israeli Security Cabinet. In a brief statement, Netanyahu emphasized that Israel is prepared to defend itself against any aggression. “We will respond with full force to any attack on our sovereignty,” he declared.

@MisuseCase @HistoPol @Free_Press

One senior official stated, “We are seeing unprecedented levels of activity and coordination among Iranian forces and their proxies. The scope and scale of the planned attack appear to be larger than any previous engagement.”