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babylonsister's JournalJim Caviezel Calls Donald Trump 'The New Moses' And We Can't Let This Pass Over
Jim Caviezel Calls Donald Trump 'The New Moses' And We Can't Let This Pass Over
The "Sound of Freedom" star had biblical praise for the twice-indicted former president on "Fox & Friends."
Ron Dicker
Jul 20, 2023, 01:34 PM EDT
On Fox & Friends Thursday, actor Jim Caviezel claimed with a straight face that former President Donald Trump is the new Moses. (Watch the video below.)
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The movie has gotten some positive reviews, though Rolling Stone called it a vigilante fever dream and a QAnon-tinged thriller for the conspiracy addled boomer.
CBC Radios Radheyan Simonpillai called it a blandly competent thriller about a grave subject matter that has been tragically co-opted as a rallying cry for xenophobic, pro-Trump types.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jim-caviezel-donald-trump-new-moses_n_64b95009e4b09a3b48916bb0
Morgan Stanley Credits 'Bidenomics' for Economic Surge
https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/22/morgan-stanley-credits-bidenomics-for-economic-surge/
Morgan Stanley Credits Bidenomics for Economic Surge
July 22, 2023 at 7:28 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
As a result of these unexpected swells, Morgan Stanley now projects 1.9% GDP growth for the first half of this year. Thats nearly four times higher than the banks previous forecast of 0.5%.
That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming, Crying, and Throwing Up in a Mar-a-Lago Bathroom
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That Sound You Hear Is Donald Trump Screaming, Crying, and Throwing Up in a Mar-a-Lago Bathroom
On the same day that word came down racketeering charges are likely to come out of the Fulton County probe, Judge Aileen Cannon set a date for the classified-documents trial for well before the 2024 election.
By Bess Levin
July 21, 2023
Donald Trump received some no good, extremely bad legal news on Friday, when The Guardian reported that Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney criminally investigating his attempt to overturn the 2020 election in Georgia has developed evidence to charge a sprawling racketeering indictment next month, according to people familiar with the matter. Obviously, being charged with racketeering would be exactly as bad as it soundsand yet somehow, that wasnt even the worst news the ex-president received today.
Instead, it was likely the decision by Aileen Cannona federal judge Trump himself appointedto set a trial date of May 20, 2024, for Trump to face off with the federal government in the classified-documents case, that had staffers and aides hiding in hallways and coat closets to avoid Trumps ire (and whatever ketchup bottles he could get his hands on). While the spring date is several months later than prosecutors had requested, it is very much well before the postelection one Team Trump had been angling for in the hopes of putting it off until the ex-president could have won a second term and made all of his legal problemson the federal level, that isgo away.
Of course, just because Cannon issued a ruling that Trump will undoubtedly be very unhappy about today does not mean she wont, as many fear, blow up the case in his favor when the trial finally kicks off. (As The Washington Post notes, In her role, Cannon can have a significant impact on the case, including by ruling on what evidence can be included and deciding on any potential motions challenging the charges.) On the other hand, the governments indictment against Trump is said to be extremely strong: After the charges were unveiled last month, former attorney general Bill Barr opined: I was shocked by the degree of sensitivity of these documents and how many there were, frankly. If even half of it is true, hes toast. As one Fox News legal analyst noted, All the government has to do is stick the landing on one count, and he could have a terminal sentence. Were talking about crimes that have a 10- or 20-year period as a maximum. (Trump, along with his alleged co-conspirator, has pleaded not guilty.)
Incidentally, the documents case isnt even the first criminal trial that Trump will have to fit into his schedule next spring. His trial versus the Manhattan district attorneywho charged him in April with various crimes related to his hush money dealsis slated to begin March 25, three weeks after Super Tuesday. (Trump has also pleaded not guilty in that case.)
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/donald-trump-fulton-county-racketeering-documents-trial-date
Jim Hightower: Extremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans
http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/jim-hightower/107028/extremists-want-to-ban-discussing-their-abortion-bansExtremists Want to Ban Discussing Their Abortion Bans
by Jim Hightower | July 21, 2023 - 5:55am
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Unfortunately, its 1984 again in America.
Not the year. The book. George Orwells classic novel tells of a far-right totalitarian clique that uses newspeak and doublethink to impose their rigid, anti-democratic doctrine on society.
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To their amazement, however, the great majority of Americans including many Republican voters think abortion ought to be generally available, with each woman deciding whats best for her. Moreover, the idea of Big Brother imposing a federal ban is massively unpopular.
No problem, say todays Orwellian newspeakers, well just ban the word ban from our PR campaigns. Thus their harsh abortion ban has magically morphed linguistically into a pro-life plan. There feel better?
Doubling down on their propaganda ploy, the abortion truth twisters are also plotting to ban reporters from using what one called the big ban word. Anti-abortion agents are now barraging news outlets with warnings that any use of that verb will be considered proof of political bias.
Sure enough, rather than risk right-wing fury, some scaredy-cat reporters are already caving in, meekly describing bans as restrictions on procedures. How nice a kinder, gentler tyranny!
To keep up with the 2023 version of Orwells Thought Police, follow journalist Jessica Valentis diligent tracking of anti-abortion trickery at Jessica.substack.com.
Biden Picks Female Admiral to Lead Navy
https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/21/biden-picks-female-admiral-to-lead-navy/
Biden Picks Female Admiral to Lead Navy
July 21, 2023 at 4:53 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
Finally, the Trump Case We've Been Waiting For
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-bidens-washington/finally-the-trump-case-weve-been-waiting-forLetter from Bidens Washington
Finally, the Trump Case Weve Been Waiting For
But, with 2024 looming, is it already too late?
By Susan B. Glasser
July 20, 2023
One word came to mind when I heard the news this week that Donald Trump had received a target letter from the Justice Department special prosecutor Jack Smith, indicating that an indictment is likely of the former President on charges connected with his effort to overturn the 2020 election and remain in power: Finally. This, in the end, is the heart of the matter, a long-delayed reckoning with an offense against the constitutional system so great that it is without historic precedentno President before Trump ever did such a thing.
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Republicans used to revel every four years in their self-proclaimed status as the party of law and order. Now they follow Trump into attacks on federal prosecutors, on the Justice Department, on the F.B.I. Its anyones guess how far down this road McCarthy may be willing to go, as the former President combines his legal defense with a political campaign of vengeance, retribution, and personal survival. It was surreal to see pictures of the Speaker as Joe Bidens guest at the annual White House congressional picnic this week, grinning and chomping on an ice-cream bar, even as he seemed all too willing to light the place on fire if thats what his restive pro-Trump majority were to demand.
The prospect of Trump returning to the White House is an existential one for American democracy, a political test from which there is no escaping. If this wasnt clear before, it must be now. A reëlected Trump would be a President subject to no constraints at allhaving twice dodged congressional impeachment, and either beaten back the Justice Department and the courts or delayed so long that he could seek to use his regained executive powers to nullify the cases against him. Trump, in his ever-more-apocalyptic rhetoric surrounding his effort to retake the White House, has taken to calling his 2024 race the final battle. I have increasingly come to believe that he is correct.
Given the stakes, theres much to anticipate about what Smiths latest case against Trump might look like. According to the Times, his target letter indicated that Trump could be prosecuted under three criminal statutes: conspiracy to defraud the government, obstruction of an official proceeding, and even a law enacted after the Civil War to give federal agents a means of prosecuting Southern white supremacists, including Ku Klux Klan members who resorted to terrorism to prevent newly freed Blacks from voting.
But knowing what he will be charged with does not mean there is nothing left to learn about this unprecedented plot against America. For that, we must wait for the indictment: Will there be new details showing that it was the President himself who orchestrated the conspiracy to overturn election results in battleground states? New examples of Trump pressuring officials or government agencies? Damning evidence in his own words that he knew he had lost the election and proceeded anyway? Will there be a turncoatMark Meadows, perhaps?to provide revelations from inside Trumps fevered quest to stay in office after the voters had spoken? I hope and expect so after more than two and a half years of waiting. And yet somehow those questions still seem subordinate to the one that the indictment will not and cannot answer: Did it come too late? ?
GOP Pushes Disastrous Environmental Plan As The Planet Bakes
GOP Pushes Disastrous Environmental Plan As The Planet Bakes
House Republicans want to turbocharge the very industries chiefly responsible for the accelerating climate crisis.
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Jul 19, 2023, 05:45 PM EDT
House Republicans on Wednesday advanced an appropriations bill for federal environmental agencies that would boost development of the same fossil fuels driving the myriad disasters that have ravaged the Northern Hemisphere this year.
The legislation includes sweeping funding cuts for the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department and the White Houses Council of Environmental Quality. It would mandate numerous additional oil and gas lease sales, both on- and offshore, and would advance mining development, including in an area near Minnesotas iconic Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness where the Biden administration has banned such extraction.
The legislation would also torpedo and stonewall protections for wild animals, and would rescind more than $9 billion provided by the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Bidens signature climate law that Democrats passed last year.
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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-environmental-plan-climate-change_n_64b810c2e4b0dcb4cab6c1fe
Florida Schools to Teach Blacks Benefited from Slavery
https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/19/florida-schools-will-teach-how-blacks-benefited-from-slavery/
Florida Schools to Teach Blacks Benefited from Slavery
July 19, 2023 at 5:28 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard
This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting.
Tallahassee Democrat: After more than an hour of public comment, with a majority of speakers opposed, the board voted unanimously to approve the social studies standards for African American history for kindergarten through 12th grades.
Chris Christie Suggests Jared Kushner May Not Have Been Entirely Truthful When Testifying...
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/07/chris-christie-jared-kushner-donald-trump-grand-jury-testimony#intcid=_vanity-fair-verso-hp-trending_4947dbcb-340a-4fd2-8651-134c1c3feb1d_popular4-1Levin Report
Chris Christie Suggests Jared Kushner May Not Have Been Entirely Truthful When Testifying About Trumps Failed Election Coup
He doesnt want to be disinvited to Thanksgiving.
By Bess Levin
July 17, 2023
Last week, The New York Times reported that Jared Kushner had testified before a federal grand jury investigating Donald Trumps attempt to overturn the 2020 election, and that when he did, the former first son-in-law apparently suggested that Mr. Trump truly believed the election was stolen. Such a claim is significant because federal prosecutors, led by special counsel Jack Smith, appear to be trying to determine if Trump knew his attempts to stay in power were based on a lieand while the feds do not need, like, a video of Trump saying, Look at me, breaking the law to indict him, their case would be made significantly stronger if, as the Times notes, they can produce evidence that the defendant knows there is no legal or factual basis for a claim but goes ahead with making it anyway. In other words, in testifying that it was his understanding that Trump truly thought the 2020 election was stolen from him, Kushner did a major solid for his father-in-law, and any potential defense said father-in-laws attorneys might mount. But at least one person has suggested Kushners testimony may not have been entirely aboveboard.
In an interview with ABC on Sunday, former Trump ally turned 2024 GOP rival Chris Christie told George Stephanopoulos, [Trump] doesnt believe he won. He was concerned before the election that he was losing, and I know that because he said it to me directly. So, you know, he knows he didnt win. But his ego, George, wont permit him to believe that hes the only person in America, outside the state of Delaware, to ever have lost to Joe Biden. And so his ego is running that. And am I surprised that Jared Kushner would say that? He doesnt want to be disinvited to Thanksgiving, George, so he said what he needed to say.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1680596661393825793
Trump Won't Return Israeli Antiquities
https://politicalwire.com/2023/07/18/trump-wont-return-israeli-antiquities/Trump Wont Return Israeli Antiquities
July 18, 2023 at 6:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Among the antiquities are ancient ceramic candles which are part of Israels national treasures collection. They were sent to the U.S. in 2019 with the approval of then-Director of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, Israel Hasson, on the condition that they be returned within weeks, yet almost four years later, they have yet to be returned.
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