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This is all beyond unfathomable. Now the DOJ says oops we made a mistake about making a mistake; in fact, the grand jury did review and sign off on the second indictment. Begging the Q who was with the grand jury when that happened since Halligan says not her.

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If you're trying to convince your friends to spend time on Bluesky rather than X, maybe show them this. X is not "the public town square" or about "free speech." It's "just what Elon Musk wants you to see." If you see stuff he doesn't like he'll step in to make sure you don't see it for long.

Mark Kelly: "He's talked about sending troops into more cities, he's talked about invoking the Insurrection Act. You don't have to go too far back to his 1st administration when he went to his Sec Def & said, 'Can't we just shoot these protesters in the legs.' That is an example of an illegal order"

1/ It should be forgiven. It should be forgotten. If she spoke of it again, the sins would be hers, she was told.

But she could never forget. And neither could the other girls.

This is the story of how her church enabled a child abuser for years 👇

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Second, these irregularities are accentuated by the government’s recent concession that it intends to rely on the CIOL testimony to prove charged Count Two. This disclosure and the resulting tension in the grand jury’s no-billed indictment and claimed agreement with respect to Counts One and Two in the current indictment further crystalize the concerns regarding the government’s grand jury conduct and how those concerns impacted the indictment and this case. 14 Once the grand jury found no probable cause that Mr. Comey’s statements regarding the September 2016 CIOL were false, that finding would naturally bear on whether the grand jury would have relied on those statements to find Mr. Comey obstructed Congress with “false and misleading” statements. For that reason, it is likely the grand jury only found probable cause as to Count Two based on the one false statement they apparently true billed. Regardless, with no legal instructions from an authorized, experienced government attorney to grapple with this nuance after the no billed indictment, and no opportunity for the grand jury to even consider and vote upon the revised indictment, how Ms. Halligan initially instructed the grand jury as to the obstruction count is critical and will determine whether either of the potential two legs for Count Two remains.

Here's part of how Jim Comey argues that, after GJers no-billed Count One (charging him with lying abt this CIOL), you can't just accept the 2 true billed charges w/o re-presenting.

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Today, after the Coast Guard lifted a ban on swastikas and nooses as symbols of hate, and after President Trump called for the execution of members of Congress, it is time for every American to decide. Who will you be?

Here is Burt Lancaster as Nazi era judge Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg.

Today we woke up to our public health allies telling the public that they can't trust CDC anymore More than a little demoralizing Because it's complicated The actual scientists at CDC - the ones you should trust - are not in control of public-facing webpages The conspiracy theorists are running the messaging And yet, most of us scientists... are still doing good science It's just not making it out We're still supporting local health departments We're still running our disease surveillance systems We're still on call for emergencies 24/7 Despite intense staffing shortages from multiple waves of RIFs And chronically being under-resourced Those of us left are still working hard to keep everything going We are proud of our mission And we persist, goddammit Yet We can also say... read the CDC webpages with skepticism Don't treat them as the gold standard. Corroborate the information with other trusted, independent sources. Many are still fine, but even we don't know when the political appointees are going to change their content And this is a painful thing for us to say So we just ask that, if you read or say "Don't trust the CDC!" You remember that we're here still trying to serve the nation, throw sand in the gears, and weather the storm

Hard day today
Here's what we think about trusting CDC

There’s no way this is real

✨ Nvidia crushed expectations with $57B in Q3 revenue — but look closer. Its inventories have nearly doubled to $20B in unsold chips, and its operating cash flow is falling fast. The growth story may not be what it seems.

Let us be clear: The Swastika and nooses are hate symbols. Period. Beyond disgusting that the Trump administration is changing policy to say otherwise.

Every one of their heroes is a total loser.
Fitting.

Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter Clifford “Buzz” Grambo patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe—and make federal agents uncomfortable.

Clifford “Buzz” Grambo, a Navy veteran, patrols the streets of Baltimore to keep his neighbors safe.

His goal is straightforward: He wants to make ICE agents uncomfortable.

Elon is such a pathetic loser.

Jeffries: "What's extraordinary to me is that Mike Johnson doesn't even have the decency to distance himself from Donald Trump's death threats leveled at patriotic members of Congress. Even John Thune had the decency to distance himself from Trump's remarks. But Mike Johnson couldn't say a thing."

This is a thread detailing a series of incidents where federal Judge Ellis rules that Gregory Bovino and his agents lied or misrepresented what was happening on the streets of Chicago. In this one, she says body cam footage suggests they brake checked to cause accidents

DOCS: Here's what federal grand jurors are looking into around Ed Martin and Bill Pulte: www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Young Girls Were Sexually Abused by a Church Member. They Were Told to Forgive and Forget. In Minnesota, leaders of an Old Apostolic Lutheran Church community enabled a child abuser by telling his victims that once the sins were “washed away in the blood of reconciliation,” they could never...

A child who was sexually abused was told by church leaders to forgive her abuser and then forget it. If she spoke of it again, she would be guilty of having an unforgiving heart and the sins would become hers.
“It was one of the worst things ever." w/ @startribune.com

The President publicly calling for the execution of Democratic members of Congress is not mentioned on the @nytimes.com front page.

After seeing the Cybertruck, one must assume that Elon has a very small dick.

Is Piggy referring to his attempted coup on January 6th?

Finally, the government’s position (at 7, 14) that Count Two may relate to Mr. Comey’s testimony that he did not recall being “taught” [sic] of “an investigatory lead from the intelligence community” regarding “U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s approval of a plan concerning U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump and Russian hackers hampering U.S. elections as a means of distracting the public from her use of a private email server” counsels in favor of requiring a bill of particulars. See Opp. at 7 (quoting ECF No. 138-14). This precise theory was presented to the grand jury, which found there was insufficient evidence to indict Mr. Comey for making a false statement. See ECF No. 3. And although the government purports to have probable cause to bring Count Two under this theory, it has since admitted that the grand jury did not even see the revised indictment. See ECF No. 195 at 48:16-23. A bill of particulars as to Count Two is critical because, as set forth in Mr. Comey’s Reply Memorandum in Support of Motion for Disclosure of Grand Jury Proceedings, the government’s reliance on this theory may be grounds for dismissal of Count Two.

Here's what Jim Comey says abt govt plan to rely on the no-billed allegation to prove existing count 2 (from reply on motion for bill of particulars).

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A federal grand jury is investigating the handling of the Adam Schiff criminal probe A spokesperson for the Justice Department declined to comment, citing the secrecy of grand jury investigations.

New: A federal grand jury is asking questions about Ed Martin and Bill Pulte…

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The High Cost of Targeting International Students in Texas - The American Prospect The Trump administration’s bans and airport detentions stop international students, and their hefty tuitions, in universities.

The administration is detaining international students with valid visas at airports, seizing their devices, interrogating them for hours, then holding some incommunicado for days or weeks, allegedly because of paperwork irregularities, traffic tickets, or old misdemeanors.

Police state stuff.

Looking forward to the Federalist reporting on how Trump today reposted a call for hanging Democratic members of Congress.

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...

'HANG THEM': Trump Boosts Message Calling For Executing Democrats In Congress In a series of unhinged social media posts, he also called it “punishable by DEATH” that lawmakers released a video urging military service members to disobey unlawful orders.

'HANG THEM': Trump Boosts Message Calling For Executing Democrats In Congress www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Just so we’re ALL clear: the President of the United States made death threats toward sitting Democratic members of Congress.

But they’re always claiming Democrats are the dangerous ones, right?

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The original signature page of the no-billed indictment, which incorporated the signature page from the filed indictment.

Folks: Lindsey did not just cross out the no-billed charge, tho she epically fucked up the docketing in another way.

There are actually THREE versions of document:

The no-billed indictment as originally docketed. (The fucked no-bill.)
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