The accounts are largely based in countries that are suspected by many to be manipulating US public opinion (e.g.Russia/Israel) or from countries with lots of click farms, scam centers, and other “engagement” services.

It showed how much of the American right-wing social media sphere wasn’t legitimately American in origin.

IIRC, an indictment that’s thrown out for procedural errors has 6 months from the SoL expiration to fix the indictment, so long as the original indictment was made before the SoL expired.

With the question of whether or not the grand jury actually agreed to indict or just the foreman, the more interesting question is whether or not there even is an original indictment to be fixed.

As with many issues surrounding this administration, I don’t know if we have precedent on something like this. The way they stack up their fuckups on top of each other and make everything legally hazy means they’re either the worst attorneys in America or are really clever. Or, more likely, someone really clever knows how to use one of the worst attorneys in America in an attempt to buy 6 more months to come up with something to justify charging Comey.

Also, they can also now pretend he did something wrong but got off on a technicality. Now that it’s thrown out on procedural grounds, they don’t have to show their lack of evidence.

The main thing the Endangered Species Act does is limit development in the habitat of endangered species. The President of the United States is a developer. Of course he’s targeting the Endangered Species Act. He hates it with a passion.

Also, his felony convictions are related to the overvaluation of land he owns that can’t actually be developed due to a conservation easement that’s the result of the Endangered Species Act.

Good thing the social media, video streaming, and news platforms aren’t owned by billionaires that are bending the knee to fascism, right?

Did you not notice the part where Epstein committed suicide, Giuffre was hit by a bus, survived, and then committed suicide, and Maxwell was paid a closed-door visit by Trump’s personal fixer?

They have and will continue to kill to keep these secrets.

It’s really looking like a shitty week for the Trump administration.

How do you expect them to lash out? Invasion of another American city? Attack on Venezeula? Arrest of Pelosi?

Trump lost the last shutdown in one of the most humiliating political defeats of his Presidency. Did he think this one would be different?

I think a lot of people who do evil things don’t see themselves as evil.

I think the Bushes were evil people who did evil things and I’ll never forgive them.for all the damage they caused. But I also don’t think they were unpatriotic. They believed in what they did and thought they were making society better.

I think MTG is the really stupid, slightly more evil version of that. She really wants to make things better, but not for everyone. But when she clearly sees that the people she does care about (uaully right-wing racist trash) are being hurt, she wants to make things better for them.

These guys aren’t ICE. They didn’t volunteer for this bullshit. Guard members are mostly people wanting some extra cash to pay for college and shit that signed up to go to training a couple weeks a year and to help out following a flood or wildfire.

They did not sign up to occupy other states. But now they potentially face the death penalty for refusing to go.

Yeah, they can refuse illegal orders, but with so many Courts having been taken over by the fascists, they can’t depend on that to save them from the firing squad. So they suit up and go stand around for a few weeks. I’d honestly rather have them than ICE, since they aren’t guaranteed to be racist piles of shit.

Trump is essential for the fascists right now because he’s worshiped by idiots. But he doesn’t have an heir who is similarly loved by his fans, and his ego won’t allow him to pass the torch.

Right now the fascism is being propped up by a personality cult. Without that figurehead the movement may collapse.

Mental Healcare professionals have an entirely reasonable and necessary ethical requirement not to diagnose people who they haven’t examined.

It must be super frustrating right now seeing the President’s clear dementia, narcisissm, and sociopathy and having to stay silent.

Hegseth and Trump were treating it like a political event where people worship them.

But these weren’t their superfans attending a rally. They were professionals ordered to be there and to listen. And even if they were fans, you don’t fucking clap and cheer at a military briefing.

The Onion won the bid to buy it all, and then a judge stepped in and overturned the auction results.

Sovereign Immunity is often misapplied and used to keep you from suing them too.

I think it’s entirely possible to simultaneously be horrified by his murder, feel deep sympathy for his family, and be glad he’s no longer in the world.

It’s also a really slippery slope when the justice department can blanket declare entire swaths of people mentally ill. Soon, anyone who doesn’t vote would be banned from owning firearms due to their “Trump Derangement Syndrome” being classified as mental illness.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. Liberals need to consider arming themselves while they still can. Guns have caused a lot of harm, but right now 90% of the guns are owned by the fascists. I’m hoping I never need guns, but I know I don’t want to find out I need them after I can’t get them.

Mueller said in his report that he wasn’t allowed to prosecute Trump, but specifically said Trump wasn’t innocent of obstruction, and laid out multiple cases where he had committed the crime and directly said it was the duty of the legislature to impeach people who do what Trump did.

When he was asked in Congressional testimony if he’d have brought charges if Trump weren’t the sitting President, he said “Yes.”

Just because Barr lied about what the report said before it was released doesn’t mean Mueller didn’t do his job.

Fun fact about Texas special sessions.

The governor exclusively gets to determine the agenda, so they can only do shit he wants them to do.

And since the legislature only meets every 2 years for a regular session, he has sole.power over what can be legislated more than 3/4 of the time.

Th I s is horrif, but it isn’t impacted by the mail-in ballot bullshit.

Texas already restricts mail-in voting. During Covid, I had to go vote in-person at a crowded polling station.

Yeah. It was in the CNN article about it.