I say YES. YOU say NO....Numero Tre! Enjoy!
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The R's in the TN House go by "voice vote" rather than the roll-call vote they're required to go by, allowing a committee or subcommittee chair the absolute authority to call a vote whichever way they desire, with no actual record of how the vote went. One chair was recorded calling a vote "nay" even before the votes were voiced. "I just call it as I hear it," was his reply. I really hope all they students marking on their capital buildings register to vote as soon as they can. Assuming there's even a voting system left in place by then.
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"The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
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Truer words and all that.
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from Call To Activism:
JUST IN: In a series of new bonehead decisions, Donald Trump has dug himself into massive legal jeopardy. First, during Trump's seven hour deposition, there's reports he may have admitted to committing fraud. Second, former prosecutor Dennis Aftergut says Trump's 500 million lawsuit against Michael Cohen is such a terrible idea, his attorneys should have stopped him. After Trump answered Letitia James' questions in NYC he took to Truth Social. In his message, he protested her suit and wrote, "my company and overall value is actually far stronger and higher than the so-called Financial Statement."But that's the thing. That's literally what Letitia James' case is about: Trump fraudulently inflating and deflating his assets on his financial statements. The Michael Cohen case looks to open Trump up to even more legal jeopardy. The discovery stage would allow Cohen to subpoena documents and testimony to show Trump's malfeasance in silencing his enemies through misuse of the law.One thing is certain. The more we allow Trump to talk, the deeper he gets. Anyone else love the fact that Trump is his OWN worst enemy?
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from Slate.
How Trump's Lawsuit Against Michael Cohen Could Backfire
Story by Dennis Aftergut • 13h ago
>On Wednesday, Donald Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit he may come to regret. He sued his former "fixer," Michael Cohen, alleging that Cohen breached his duty of confidentiality as Trump's one-time lawyer
Donald Trump sues his former lawyer Michael Cohen for $500 millio
It's the crescendo, stupid!
Our eyes are not lying when we look at Trump and see a vindictive personality demonstrating an obvious, retaliatory motive. The problem for Trump is that his quest for payback often lands him back in the crosshairs of his targets. His suit against Cohen is likely to do just that.
Trump just opened a pathway to discovery—and information for the public—that Cohen had sought in a different lawsuit which a judge reluctantly felt compelled to dismiss last November because of Supreme Court law limiting personal actions against government officials.
The backstory starts in May 2020, with William Barr's Justice Department and the Bureau of Prisons reincarcerating Cohen after he was paroled. (Cohen had spent a year behind bars for violating federal campaign finance laws at the behest of "Individual No. 1.") Trump's DOJ—of which the Bureau of Prisons was a part—claimed that Cohen, while in home confinement, had violated a condition of his parole by writing his anti-Trump memoir, Disloyal.
Manifesting pure retribution, they put Cohen in solitary confinement for 16 days. At that point, a federal court granted Cohen's habeas corpus petition, ordering him released on the ground that the reimprisonment was "retaliatory because of his desire to exercise his 1st Amendment rights."
Sound familiar?
In December 2021, Cohen sued Trump for orchestrating the reincarceration. In November 2022, federal Judge Lewis Liman lamented that Trump's status as a government official in 2020, when the reincarceration occurred, blocked courts from providing any relief against Trump.
In dismissing Cohen's suit, Liman wrote that it "alleges an egregious violation of constitutional rights by the executive branch—nothing short of the use of executive power to lock up the president's political enemies for speaking critically of him." Liman was a Trump appointee.
Here's the point: At the time of the lawsuit's dismissal, Cohen made clear in a statement that his primary loss was information about Trump subverting the rule of law: "Granting this motion prevents me from obtaining documents that would expose what happens when you have a corrupt president who weaponizes the DOJ through a complicit Attorney General."
Yet now, Trump is giving Cohen a clean second shot at exposing the same truth through discovery. As a defendant in the new suit, Cohen should be entitled to subpoena documents and testimony to show a jury that the action against him is part of a pattern and practice on Trump's part of silencing his enemies through misuse of the law.
Cohen may also have a countersuit to bring if he believes that Trump has retaliated against his right to voluntarily speak to prosecutors. In any case, neither party is likely to emerge unscathed in this latest legal battle between the two.
We do know this, however: When information about past abuse of the justice system emerges, the victor is the American people.
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When we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that's present--love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature, and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure--the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience heaven on earth.
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I do believe it will be the young people who will save us. Alabama and Kentucky in the last three or so days have been added to the list of mass shootings while Tennessee was just before. Those allowing this to happen by denying gun laws and regulations aren't being much impacted. they can no longer be trusted to do the WILL of the people and have made it so plain. Not only do we need different leadership in the government, we need to know how to reach people better so that they stop voting against their interests.
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To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation.
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Latest in the union battle - they had scheduled an all-studio meeting for today. Among the teasers was, "K will be at the meeting too." Which was weird, because K was the regional director who was named in the sexual harassment report (which went undocumented because HR refused to do their EEOC mandated job), and who we thought was no longer with the company. The fact that she's back and is being positioned around our studio is unexpected. Our Union organizer, Crystal (the other therapist who was terminated for organizing), and I were planning on meeting at a coffee shop near the studio to decompress and process whatever would be announced at the meeting.
They cancelled it at the last minute. My theory was that they were going to announce that D, the franchiser, had sold the studio to K. It is illegal to sell a business or declare bankruptcy during union contract negotiations. Then his lawyer decided to do his job for a change and told D that he couldn't announce the sale right now because it would initiate yet another NLRB complaint. So they cancelled until they could figure out another attack.
The normal organizing strategy is to keep things quiet to show good faith for the employers reputation. Ideally, this encourages the employer to work with the union to get a contract negotiated smoothly. But he's been delaying and stalling so long, our organizer is finally willing to start going public and shaming him back to the table. WellBiz Brands will not like the bad press, so hopefully they'll lean on D to get it done quickly.
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Argh! What a mess!
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So no one will think I'm a Republican.
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So true.
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Miriandra, Sorry to hear that. Hopefully, it will square up soon. Reminds me of the Loon. We win and get rid of him but for some reason the dregs get to hang around and annoy us and steal our peace and comfort when not expected.
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He believes in Mother, but I don't think she can get the Loon for forgive you.
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No, while the drumpf didn't nominate him the first sleaze ball Bush did. He should never have been confirmed and Anita Hill should have been listened to but as a black woman she was silenced and ignored.
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I'm no happier that both Bushes had their times in the WH. I liked both the wives and especially Barbara Bush who didn't mind being who she was. But those men were something else. Was a lot younger when Lyndon was there and I was okay most of the time with him. I also really like Ladybird. Not sure why so many rotten Reps. seem able to snag fairly decent wives. The other point is we have silenced black women way, way too long. Michele Obama, I really wish you would, but I understand completely why you might PERISH the thought. Wonderful that both the Obama's can proudly hold their heads over the excellent caretaking they did of the U.S. while they were our great representatives. We were so fortunate.
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I think he definitely needs to spend the rest of his time in Bakersfield and so something about it because a Speaker he is not.
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I think the Loon is truly 'sweatin' it this time. The rants on TS are something else.
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