As of today, we have just 6 months for “We the People” to prevail over “I Am Your Retribution.”

Who’s competing with nature?

An artist for the ages: #FrankStella
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“Mathematicians have learned to not make a bold claim that something is impossible because we’ve been embarrassed over the years too many times by doing that.”
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And so it begins. . . .

“Mounting efforts from left and right suggest a new mood is emerging that courts need to be unrigged. It is no longer just fans of the opposing team who are shouting at the referees. Soon, it seems, Mr Kacsmaryk will be compelled to turn more of his attention back to the slice of…

Right, Stephen Jacoby

Here’s yet another smoking gun:

Yup!

Dreeben’s argument on behalf of Jack Smith “that attorneys general can immunize presidents appears to have been designed to persuade the justices to rule against immunity here by showing how future presidents could easily obtain its equivalent by consulting the Justice…

“Across Europe, the far right is becoming the right, absent any compelling message from traditional conservative parties. The parties of an anti-immigrant right have seen the barriers that once kept them out crumble.” A scary development for sure.

nytimes.com/2024/05/05/wor…

If you agree with me in opposing a proposed federal law equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism, please consider signing and circulating this letter from concerned Jewish faculty at any U.S. university ⬇️

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“Hope Hicks will be Trump's last Hope. If there is another Trump administration, it will be populated with the likes of Michael Flynn, Steve Miller, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Lindell (the “My Pillow Guy).
Regardless of the jury’s verdict, the criminal trial for election…

Challenge faced by defense attorneys with certain kinds of clients . .
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“If Trump returns to office, he will not shoot democracy on Fifth Avenue. He and the people around him will paralyze it, limb by limb. The American public needs to get better at imagining what that would look like.”
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Anybody who believes Trump’s BS claim that the gag order prevents him from testifying is beyond help. The judge and the DA would be only too delighted to have Trump testify. It’s only his own defense lawyers who would probably go ballistic.

“To give a high-level summary, awareness practices and focused attention and concentration practices mostly affect systems in the brain that are concerned with the regulation of attention. The deconstructive practices are going to affect the default mode of the brain. This is the…

“Trump asks us to look at a Constitution that’s silent on presidential immunity, that refuses to grant the powers and privileges of royalty to the nation’s leadership, and declare that even the most heinous and brutal official acts are immune from prosecution unless the president…

In the immunity argument, “Barrett focused on the here and now, and seemed to be searching for narrow grounds, not deciding more than was required by the case at hand. That shouldn’t be saying much — but with this aggressive conservative majority, it is.”
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The stakes as I see them: my op-ed with Dennis Aftergut in Salon :”AS HE SEES FIT” ⬇️
salon.com/2024/05/03/as-…