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Hillary Clinton: The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understand

The Supreme Court's recent rulings were sadly predictable for anyone who understands the hard-right agenda. Their goal has always been to install Justices whose job is to turn back the clock on our freedoms, on decades of constitutional decisions, and on our continuing struggle to “form a more perfect union” that includes all of us.

Let's vote out their political enablers and rein in the dark, subversive money that supports them in their quest to reverse a century of progress.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/1674883903675310080

Posted by demmiblue | Fri Jun 30, 2023, 05:05 PM (35 replies)

Biden: "This fight is not over." Says he'll have "more to announce" later today.

Biden: "This fight is not over."

Says he'll have "more to announce" later today.

"I believe that the Court’s decision to strike down our student debt relief plan is wrong. But I will stop at nothing to find other ways to deliver relief to hard-working middle-class families."

https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/1674830049071988736

Posted by demmiblue | Fri Jun 30, 2023, 01:23 PM (4 replies)

LeVar Burton: Backyard barbecue with the crew...

https://twitter.com/levarburton/status/1674625174552068097

Posted by demmiblue | Fri Jun 30, 2023, 08:02 AM (44 replies)

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE REJECTS DONALD TRUMP'S BID TO DISMISS WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL'S ORIGINAL DEFAMATI

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE REJECTS DONALD TRUMP'S BID TO DISMISS WRITER E. JEAN CARROLL'S ORIGINAL DEFAMATION LAWSUIT -- COURT RULING

Reuters: JUDGE ALSO REJECTS TRUMP'S REQUEST TO ASSERT A NEW DEFENSE THAT HIS ALLEGED DEFAMATORY STATEMENTS IN JUNE 2019 WERE PROTECTED BY ABSOLUTE PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY

https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1674500482629238784
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1674503208503242769
OMG... presidential immunity?!

Posted by demmiblue | Thu Jun 29, 2023, 03:51 PM (4 replies)

Michelle Obama: I wanted to share some of my thoughts on today's Supreme Court decision...

https://twitter.com/MichelleObama/status/1674430722529169408

Posted by demmiblue | Thu Jun 29, 2023, 02:17 PM (43 replies)

How Van Gogh inspired his artist friends to exchange self-portraits

But Vincent was then shocked when Paul Gauguin’s painting arrived at the Yellow House

When Van Gogh suggested swapping portraits with Paul Gauguin he awaited the painting’s arrival with huge anticipation. What actually arrived proved to be a disappointment, with Van Gogh concluding that he himself was a better portraitist than his older and more experienced friend.

The story behind Gauguin’s Self-Portrait with Portrait of Emile Bernard (Les misérables)
(September 1888) is told in a new online catalogue of artworks collected by Vincent and his brother Theo and which are now at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum.

Joost van der Hoeven, a researcher at the museum, has published entries on self-portraits by two of Van Gogh’s colleagues, Gauguin and Emile Bernard, done when the pair were working together in Pont-Aven in Brittany. Van Gogh, then in Arles, initiated the exchange, asking his two colleagues to paint portraits of each other.

The pair in Pont-Aven took a slightly different approach, since young Bernard felt intimidated at the idea of portraying Gauguin, who was 20 years his senior. Instead of portraits of their colleague, they each produced self-portraits, but included small sketches of their colleague in the background.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/06/16/how-van-gogh-inspired-his-artist-friends-to-exchange-self-portraits

Posted by demmiblue | Thu Jun 29, 2023, 01:34 PM (2 replies)

DeSantis agency sent $92 million in covid relief funds to donor-backed project

Source: WaPo

Mori Hosseini, who donated a golf simulator to the governor’s mansion, championed a new exchange on Interstate 95 that feeds into his housing and shopping center project

The administration of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) steered $92 million last year in leftover federal coronavirus stimulus money to a controversial highway interchange project that directly benefits a top political donor, according to state records.

The decision by the Florida Department of Transportation to use money from the 2021 American Rescue Plan for the I-95 interchange at Pioneer Trail Road near Daytona Beach fulfilled a years-long effort by Mori Hosseini, a politically connected housing developer who owns two large tracts of largely forested land abutting the planned interchange. The funding through the DeSantis administration, approved shortly after the governor’s reelection, expedited the project by more than a decade, according to state documents.

Hosseini plans to develop the land — which includes a sensitive watershed once targeted for conservation by the state — into approximately 1,300 dwelling units and 650,000 square feet of nonresidential use, including an outdoor village shopping district. He has called the Woodhaven development, which has already begun construction, his “best project yet” and promised to pull out all the stops for its success.

“With or without the interchange, we would have built Woodhaven there, but it certainly helps,” he told the Daytona Beach News Journal in March 2019.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/06/28/desantis-hosseini-interstate-covid-money/

Posted by demmiblue | Thu Jun 29, 2023, 07:26 AM (18 replies)

'Uh-oh': Manhattan DA's Office seeks Melania Trump emails in hush money case

Between special counsel Jack Smith's 37-count federal prosecution for the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr.'s 34-count prosecution for New York State, former President Donald Trump is facing 71 felony counts. And his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results are the focus of two separate criminal investigations: one by Smith and DOJ, the other by Fulton County, Georgia DA Fani Willis.

According to Associated Press reporter Michael R. Sisak, the Manhattan DA's Office is seeking "e-mails exchanged among Trump Organization employees and the White House" as well as "e-mails between Trump's wife, Melania, and Rhona Graff, a longtime company executive."

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, former senior adviser to Melania Trump and author of the 2020 book "Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady," responded to AP's reporting on Twitter.

Wolkoff tweeted, "Melania Trump used several email addresses, texts, and Signal to communicate with me and others while working in the White House and prosecutors want to see them."

https://www.alternet.org/trump-hush-money-2661927816/

https://twitter.com/SWinstonWolkoff/status/1673454380119470081

Posted by demmiblue | Tue Jun 27, 2023, 07:53 PM (26 replies)

Fox has announced that Jesse Watters will be Tucker Carlson's replacement.

https://twitter.com/ronfilipkowski/status/1673356022638059520
I figured as much.

Posted by demmiblue | Mon Jun 26, 2023, 12:44 PM (12 replies)

Thaer al-Rahal was one of 750 migrants who boarded a trawler & ended up in one of the Mediterranean

Gutted. Thaer al-Rahal was one of 750 migrants who boarded a trawler & ended up in one of the Mediterranean's deadliest shipwrecks. He needed to get to Europe to earn money to save his 4 yr old Khalid, who has leukemia & needs a bone marrow transplant. Thaer did not survive. 💔

https://twitter.com/maitelsadany/status/1672723841049677825

Posted by demmiblue | Sun Jun 25, 2023, 03:07 PM (7 replies)

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