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May 14, 2024

Steve Bannon Given Two Days to Respond to Feds' Jail Demand

Source: daily beast




Edith Olmsted Published May 14, 2024 12:07PM EDT



The judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s case has given him until Thursday to respond to federal prosecutors who are pushing for the MAGA mastermind to finally begin his four-month prison sentence. In a new filing Tuesday, prosecutors wrote, “there is no longer a ‘substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an order for a new trial,’” after a three-judge panel ruled that Donald Trump’s former strategist had no basis for appeal. The right-wing engineer behind the MAGA movement was originally sentenced for contempt in October 2022, after he failed to comply with a subpoena for the House’s Jan. 6 committee. Bannon received a stay on serving his sentence while he appealed the court’s decision, but since his efforts failed last week, federal prosecutors are arguing that Bannon’s time has finally come. ABC News reported that Bannon responded to the filing saying, “I’m shocked they want to silence the voice of MAGA.”


Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/doj-says-its-time-to-send-maga-mastermind-steve-bannon-to-prison?ref=home






https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1790433365952270382


May 14, 2024

Tuesday: Speaker Mike Johnson is outside Trump's trial offering a stream of lies.......

Look at the second tweet==there Johnson is nodding and smiling at Trump as Trump walks into courtroom


Speaker Mike Johnson is outside Trump's trial offering a stream of lies
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1790384604458762522



https://twitter.com/Sky_Lee_1/status/1790373890855670271

May 14, 2024

The ID Divide: How Barriers to ID Impact Different Communities and Affect Everyone...............





The ID Divide: How Barriers to ID Impact Different Communities and Affect Everyone


https://www.mapresearch.org/id-documents-report

Movement Advancement Project

Identity documents (IDs) like driver’s licenses are keys that unlock virtually every aspect of daily life, but there are many barriers to obtaining ID, affecting everyone but impacting different communities in different ways. A complicated patchwork of policies, combined with unnecessarily high fees and ongoing discrimination, means that millions of people are unable to access some of the most basic needs and services or to participate in everyday life, simply because they don’t have a valid ID. Click on the links and see below for additional details................................



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Overlapping barriers to getting and updating ID include:

Complicated and circular documentation requirements
Needlessly expensive fees
Limited availability of ID services
Confusing patchwork of state policies
Discrimination
May 14, 2024

Tesla's Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot





https://twitter.com/StrictlyChristo/status/1790112596609347862




https://twitter.com/StrictlyChristo/status/1790174075878572077


Tesla's Storing Unsold Inventory In An Abandoned Mall Parking Lot
The electric automaker is renting parking lots to store thousands of vehicles

https://jalopnik.com/tesla-is-running-out-of-room-to-store-unsold-cars-1851473377?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_twitter


By Ryan Erik King
Published Yesterday

........................According to its own figures, the electric automaker produced 46,561 more vehicles than it delivered to customers during the first quarter of 2024. Where are all these cars going? Parking lots at its factories, malls and airports.

The Chesterfield Mall, about 20 miles west of St. Louis, has become an overflow lot for Tesla. Emblematic of American retail’s current state, the mall is slated to be demolished and replaced with a $2 billion mixed-use project. The Staenberg Group, the mall’s owner, is eking out the last drops of revenue before the mall’s remaining tenants have to move out on August 31. Tim Lowe, a Staenberg Group senior vice president, told KTVI:

“We put a plan together to try and create alternate uses that would kind be able to use some of the remaining life left in the mall before we tear it down. One of those uses was allowing people to use the parking lot for different things.”
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Lowe estimates that there are at least 300 Tesla vehicles parked at the Chesterfield Mall. However, Tesla isn’t slowing down production, Recent drone footage from the automaker’s Fremont, California factory shows that cars are still rolling off the assembly lines at a high rate to fill the site’s lots
. Things aren’t different on the other side of the Atlantic. Neuhardenberg, a small town in Germany of less than 3,000 residents, is complaining about the noise Tesla transporters are making as the company parks cars at the nearby regional airport.



May 13, 2024

Tommy Tuberville: I'm disappointed in the courtroom. I'm hearing Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump. He is former

Hey Tommy--respect has to earned!!

With Tommy Tuberville & JD Vance behind him, Trump shows up in court this morning and reads another article from Fox commentator Gregg Jarrett that the case should be dismissed.
https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1790010495555997950




Tuberville: I'm disappointed in the courtroom.

I'm hearing Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump. He is former President Trump. Give him some respect.



I wonder when Elsie will show up in court in support of trump?????

https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1790035345985228933





https://twitter.com/WUTangKids/status/1790011633273544739




https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1790048964860870669

May 13, 2024

Trump will stump in Minnesota, traditionally blue state he insists he can win. Is it really in play?

Source: bjdailynews.com



Former President Donald Trump’s planned campaign visit to Minnesota will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state he has long argued he could carry

By STEVE KARNOWSKI - Associated Press May 13, 2024 Updated 2 hrs ago


ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump's planned campaign visit to Minnesota on Friday will mark his return to a traditionally Democratic state that he has long argued he could carry.

Trump will take a break from his hush money trial in New York to speak at the Minnesota GOP's annual Lincoln Reagan fundraising dinner. Tickets start at $500, ranging up to $100,000 for a VIP table for 10 with three photo opportunities with Trump. The dinner coincides with the party's state convention.

Trump’s new state campaign chair is House Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota, who's supporting Trump even though the former president and his allies were instrumental in blocking Emmer’s attempt to become speaker last fall.

It’s unclear whether the Trump campaign will get any of the money raised. The campaign did not respond to an emailed request for comment, and Emmer declined an interview request. His co-host for the dinner, Republican Party of Minnesota Chairman David Hann, also did not respond.

Trump came close to taking Minnesota and its 10 electoral votes in 2016, when he fell 1.5 percentage points short of Hillary Clinton in a state that no Republican presidential candidate has won since Richard Nixon in 1972. He returned to Minnesota several times in 2020, but Democrat Joe Biden beat him by more than 7 percentage points when he tried for a second term..............................

Read more: https://www.bgdailynews.com/news/politics/trump-will-stump-in-minnesota-traditionally-blue-state-he-insists-he-can-win-is-it/article_bc5c13f4-f6c6-58b8-937e-a15063295671.html






................Trump was announced Monday as the featured speaker for the Republican Party of Minnesota’s main fundraising dinner. The Lincoln-Reagan Dinner is being held in conjunction with the Republican Party’s state convention in St. Paul, which begins on May 17.


https://www.mprnews.org/story/2024/05/06/trump-in-minnesota-for-first-campaign-visit-of-latest-presidential-run


https://twitter.com/moonbreeze2/status/1790043327913398592
May 13, 2024

BREAKING: The newly released tape below reveals the majority of the attendees at the Trump rally actually left prior to

I had seen a clip saying people were leaving early but not this video.
At first I thought--this can't be real.

There still are some folks standing still listening but not many.



BREAKING: The newly released tape below reveals the majority of the attendees at the Trump rally actually left prior to or while Donald Trump was speaking. Retweet so all Americans know Trump is weak.

https://twitter.com/BidensWins/status/1789664791616729271


Hard to determine what words Trump is saying but I see his face up on the big screen when I fast forwarded.


@waltermasterson

Here is 35 unedited minutes showing thousands of MAGA walking out on Trump while he’s still talking.

https://twitter.com/waltermasterson/status/1789888020599988464


Still droning on about Pocahontas! That’s hilarious! Next comes the Snake story, a “Sir” story and then the crowd size at his inauguration!
https://twitter.com/nannanna4/status/1789901252689539186








https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/12/trump-rally-speech-hannibal-lecter?CMP=share_btn_url


May 12, 2024

JoyceWhiteVance: The whole world is jaw dropped in horror at what is happening here,,,,,

Well, Joyce--maybe the world is appalled --but not the MAGA cult


Joyce Alene
@JoyceWhiteVance
The whole world is jaw dropped in horror at what is happening here
https://twitter.com/JoyceWhiteVance/status/1789499510642655573


@atrupar
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Trump: "Russia and China we can handle. But these lunatics within our government that are gonna destroy our country, and probably want to -- we have to get it stopped.
@atrupar
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Trump vows to deport pro-Palestinian college campus protesters
Aaron Rupar
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Trump is now reading "The Snake,"
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Trump: "Carried aite by raite!"
@atrupar
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12h
"Fat Alvin" -- Trump calls Alvin Bragg fat

@atrupar
Lawrence Taylor is apparently MAGA. You learn something new every day.


https://x.com/atrupar/status/1789438495368323429


Today the the GOP nominee for president gave a speech in New Jersey.

He bought a registered sex offender on stage with him.

MAGA!


https://twitter.com/SwissWatchGuy/status/1789452644043346186


May 12, 2024

Saturday night and people across Israel are calling for Netanyahu to go. Enough. This is Tel Aviv.....



Victoria Brownworth
@VABVOX
Saturday night and people across Israel are calling for Netanyahu to go. Enough.
This is Tel Aviv.
https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1789400411671060592



Forget #Eurovision2024 there are riots in Tel Aviv as Israeli's demand a Ceasefire deal.

https://twitter.com/BladeoftheS/status/1789393999653986803



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