January 11, 2023

What they found at Maralago: 33 BOXES vs. 11 pages

January 10, 2023

On Weisselberg's 5 month sentence

January 10, 2023

TFG fighting to keep Carroll deposition under cover

January 10, 2023

Classified issue: What we know so far

https://mastodon.cloud/@cathygellis/109666190933093009

Some Mastodon instances are not supported by DU and therefore require clicking a link. This is one.

January 10, 2023

6th-Grader Killed: Man "Thought" He Was "Trying" To Break Into A Car

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/karon-blake-dc-fatally-shot-13-years-old


A 13 year old Black middle-school student was fatally shot in Washington, DC, Saturday by a man who told police he thought the child was trying to break into a car. The child was identified by police as Karon Blake, 13.

The shooter has not yet been publicly identified or arrested, with police saying they are "currently working with the US Attorney’s Office to review the facts and circumstances for any potential criminal charges."

According to police, the man had been inside his home early Saturday morning when he "heard noises and observed someone that appeared to be tampering with vehicles. The male resident went outside, armed with a registered firearm, to further investigate," police said.

He then shot the 13-year-old, police said, who was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. The sole account of what transpired during the incident — including the shooter's explanation for why he fired his gun — comes from the shooter himself, and there is “no indication at this time” that the boy was armed, police told the Washington Post.

In a tweet Monday, DC Councilmember Christina Henderson hit back against any attempt at justifying the boy's killing. "Property is not greater than life. Karon should be alive today," she wrote.

January 10, 2023

Elon's jet ... that he doesn't want us to know about.

He’d probably be mad if you shared and followed this.

January 10, 2023

66 y/o White Man Shoots Unarmed 21 y/o Black Airbnb Guest

First claim to police was he was threatened. In court December 14th, his lawyer claimed he thought the victim was a thief.

https://nypost.com/2022/12/14/man-shot-black-airbnb-guest-because-he-though-he-was-a-thief-lawyer/amp/

January 9, 2023

Pardoned by Trump, convicted 2nd time funneling Russian $$

https://news.yahoo.com/gop-operative-pardoned-trump-convicted-044820477.html

Jesse Benton—Rand Paul's, Mitch McConnell's ex-campaign chief—purchased a $25,000 ticket to a September 2016 Trump RNC event. Russian operative Roman Vasilenko gave Benton $100k for the ticket.

John McCain once accused Rand Paul of colluding with Russia.



This is Benton's second conviction for campaign finance violations. In May 2016, he was found guilty of illegally facilitating the transfer of $73,000 to an Iowa state senator in exchange for endorsing Ron Paul during his 2012 presidential bid. Trump pardoned Benton in December 2020, soon before leaving office.

Prosecutors indicted Benton and Doug Wead, a conservative evangelical pundit involved in multilevel marketing, in September 2021. Wead, who died later that year at age 75, was accused of connecting Vasilenko to Benton.

Prosecutors disputed the idea that Vasilenko wasn't interested in Trump's political cachet, noting he was running for a seat in Russia's parliament at the time, and his photo with Trump helped get him on Russian television. And Benton, they said, clearly should have known he was violating federal campaign finance laws after his 2016 conviction.

January 7, 2023

Media focus reminder--they do or do not focus to benefit RepubliQans

January 7, 2023

How did we get here?

https://universeodon.com/@TomWellborn/109643904407630745

NOTE: This is a Mastodon source that, apparently, is from one of the “instances” that may not yet be supported here so the link has to be clicked.