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Sympthsical's JournalMSNBC Banned From Rittenhouse Trial
Apparently, someone who claims they're a producer from MSNBC said his boss in New York told him to follow the jury bus after it left the courthouse last night.
Yeah, that's a no no.
The judge just banned MSNBC from the court for the rest of the trial.
Rittenhouse: Where people have no idea what basic technology is
This is painful. They're arguing over the drone video the prosecution is using to prove provocation.
A defense attorney just buried the prosecution about the fact the state did not give the defense the same video they possessed.
Now the judge wants a hearing and testimony under oath.
It's a 6th Amendment issue.
Here we go, judge is pissed . . .
This'll be interesting.
Edit: The prosecution was explaining why the Zaminsky's weren't on the stand, asserting they had a 5th Amendment privilege. However, it is untrue for the wife.
But when it came up, the judge looked furious. They argued a bit, the judge thought about it, and found a solution.
If he'd let the two sides to get into it, it would've allowed the possibility of giving the defense a rebuttal. The judge found a way to avoid it.
The Rittenhouse defense attempts to light the fuse
They've asked for dismissal with prejudice because of the prosecution's behavior.
With prejudice means there will be no second trial. It will be over.
The murder portion of the Rittenhouse trial is pretty much over.
I'm not sure if anyone else is listening. But this is the victim with the gun (so, third person shot?) on the stand. I don't know if it's prosecution or defense asking him the question.
Attorney: "It wasn't until you pointed your gun at him, advanced on him . . . now your gun is down pointed at him, that he fired, right?"
Witness: "Correct."
All done.
All that's left is to hash out what's going to happen with the weapons charges.
People should read NYT/Ross Douhat to understand the anti-CRT stuff
I've been trying to articulate this. That people simply perceive everything very differently from the partisan Left perspective. And the defenses have been terrible. "But we don't teach CRT in schools!" And that defense has more and more started to remind me of people who said (and many still say) "But Antifa doesn't exist." You're asking people to disbelieve their lying eyes. It's bad politics.
The meat of the Op-Ed:
The problem with the McAuliffe strategy is that it fell back on technicalities — as in, yes, fourth graders in the Commonwealth of Virginia are presumably not being assigned the academic works of Derrick Bell — while evading the context that has made this issue part of a polarizing national debate.
That context, obvious to any sentient person who lived through the past few years, is an ideological revolution in elite spaces in American culture, in which concepts heretofore associated with academic progressivism have permeated the language of many important institutions, from professional guilds and major foundations to elite private schools and corporate H.R. departments.
Critical race theory is an imperfect term for this movement, too narrow and specialized to capture its full complexity. But a new form of racecraft clearly lies close to the heart of the new progressivism, with the somewhat different, somewhat overlapping ideas of figures like Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo enjoying particular influence. And that influence extends into schools and public-education bureaucracies, where Kendi and DiAngelo and their epigones often show up on resources recommended to educators — like the racial-equity reading list sent around in 2019 by one state educational superintendent, for instance, which recommended both DiAngelo’s “White Fragility” and an academic treatise titled “Foundations of Critical Race Theory in Education.”
That superintendent was responsible for Virginia’s public schools.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/03/opinion/virginia-democrats-republicans.html?smid=tw-share
This stuff plays in our Bubble. The voters we need to win elections, the ones who are responsible when things shift fluidly between Red and Blue, don't like it. And when they say they don't like it, the response is, "They're all white supremacist racist poopy heads."
Now there's blood in the water, and Republicans have gotten a strong whiff of it. They're going to nationalize the strategy in Virginia. They're going to start going into school districts all over the country (even more hard core than they already are), and if there's even a whiff of this stuff, parent groups are going to start rebelling.
We're going to have to have a better response than "They don't teach CRT to children." As Douhat says, technically they may not. But CRT has become a shorthand to many - including independents and moderates - for what is described above.
Our side is framing all this as "racists vs anti-racists". Their side is framing this as "elites vs. average citizens". And all they need to do, to kick in that primal fear and get people into voting booths is, "They're coming for your children."
Worked a treat in Virginia. We need good responses to it, and not ones tailored to online spaces populated by people who already think exactly like us.
Potential storm could end California wildfire season early.
Good news, if true. We'll have to see. The last two winters have been almost nothing. This would be a big storm this early in the rainy season.
If a wet storm arrives as predicted, the National Weather Service's Climate Prediction Center said it could "quell ongoing wildfire activity, help improve drought conditions ... and replenish water resources throughout the West Coast."
It's difficult to nail down a forecast beyond seven days with accuracy, and this proved true earlier this month when a long-term forecast showed rain in the future, and in the end, there was mostly drizzle.
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The forecast from the Climate Prediction Center, which provides long-term outlooks, said models are suggesting up to 2 inches of rain across three days and "possible near record breaking precipitation for late October."
Gass explained records wouldn't be broken across the region, but some localized spots could see record-breaking rain.
https://www.sfgate.com/weather/article/storm-Northern-California-rain-end-wildfire-season-16529674.php?IPID=SFGate-HP-CP-Spotlight
Todd Akin legitimately dies
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1280680?__twitter_impression=true&s=09Former U.S. Rep. Todd Akin, a conservative Missouri Republican whose comment that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, died late Sunday. He was 74.
Akin had cancer for several years, his son, Perry, said in a statement. He died at his home in Wildwood, a St. Louis suburb.
“As my father’s death approached, we had people from all different walks of life share story after story of the personal impact he had on them,” Perry Akin said in a statement to The Associated Press.
Hmm. I bet.
Thank God Facebook is down
It is a shitty sink of misinformation, faux outrage, right-wingers, and partisan shit-mongering pushed by the algorithm.
Posted from my Twitter account.
Biden Loves Tea!
So there’s a walking path I use most days. As long as I’ve lived here, some right-winger (or edgy teenager) has been writing MAGA stuff all over it in colorful chalk. Others respond in chalk.
So there’s a brisk political debate whenever I go to the store.
Lately, “Biden Loves China” is everywhere. But this morning, I see some beautiful genius edited them all to “Biden Loves Echinacea!”
This caught fire, and now the entire mile long walk to Safeway is spotted with “Biden Loves Tea!”
Which, cool. I like tea, too.
