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With special thanks to the empathy-challenged wing of the political spectrum:

For those unfamiliar with the lore, the “Dark Brandon” meme originated out of a conservative insult lobbed at the president during a NASCAR race in 2021. Racegoers yelling “Fuck Joe Biden” were misheard by a reporter as saying “Let’s go, Brandon,” and thus, a new slogan for Donald Trump supporters was born.

But over the course of the last two years, the GOP’s beloved anti-Biden rallying cry has morphed into a boon for the president’s reelection campaign. Biden staffers and voters online embraced the joke to communicate that, yes, the 80-year-old was the bogeyman conservatives believed him to be, if only because he was successfully pushing through an agenda they hated.

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Excellent point. Thank you.

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(1) Unlike Trump, I really don’t think Biden wanted to run a cult - for the same reason that humans with empathy would never want such a thing. (2) I seem to recall that Trump found many in his cult to be quite creepy - referring to them as ‘disgusting’ for instance.

www.nytimes.com/2020/10/…/trump-supporters.html

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Exactly - thank you.

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MAGAs shivving each other:

The court document filed on Tuesday says Mr Taveras changed lawyers after special counsel Jack Smith, who is overseeing the case, notified him he was being investigated for perjury.

And further below:

“Immediately after receiving new counsel, Trump Employee 4 retracted his prior false testimony and provided information that implicated Nauta, [Carlos] De Oliveira, and Trump in efforts to delete security camera footage, as set forth in the superseding indictment,” the court filing says.

This is so special! This is HILARIOUS! Somebody help me, I’m dying. LMAO

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The RICOing has begun. It’s so sweet!

And RICO author, Ghouliani, getting RICOed is leopardic.

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You are brilliant! I love all of these titles! LOLOL

Thank you so much!

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This is not a feel-good story, folks. But I’m stating the obvious.

The picture of the OB-GYN doctor standing in her garage with her packed belongings made me quite sad. And for pregnant mothers having only the support of a midwife in a region of small towns totaling 50k people - while adequate care is hours of driving away - is unfathomable.

Further in the article, there’s this interesting line:

But the women of Sandpoint are clear about one thing they want others to know: this can happen anywhere in the post-Roe United States. Nowhere is as safe as you might believe and the battle won’t stop at state borders.

This point appears to be inaccurate considering there are a number of States that proceeded to enshrine abortion rights in their own constitutions (or otherwise protect abortion access by law). Some have even expanded abortion care. The Center for Reproductive Rights makes this clear:

reproductiverights.org/…/abortion-laws-by-state

I’m gathering that is why the aforementioned doctor is moving to Oregon. (See how Oregon is depicted in the above map…) I would imagine other OB-GYN doctors are doing the same.

It’s been fun watching the MAGAs crash and burn in recent years and Trump getting arrested every few weeks. But the damage that the Christofascists have done to women - and other marginalised communities - is grave indeed.

Trump 2026 trial date in election case should be rejected, prosecutors argue ( www.theguardian.com )

Special counsel prosecutors sharply objected on Monday to Donald Trump’s request for an April 2026 trial date in the case involving his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results, arguing his lawyers’ reasons were disingenuous and denied the American public’s right to a speedy trial....

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The prosecutors argued that Trump’s lawyers were not obliged to look at each page and could use filters, “all of which services, and more, are offered by the defendant’s e-discovery vendor, according to its own website, and are tools that courts appropriately expect legal professionals to use”.

Smith and team schooling Trump lawyers.

Trump prosecutor Fani Willis faces racist abuse after indicting ex-US president ( www.theguardian.com )

Fani Willis, the Fulton county district attorney in Georgia who is prosecuting Donald Trump and 18 other allies over efforts to overturn the 2020 election, is facing a flurry of racist online abuse after the former president attacked his opponents using the word “riggers”, a thinly veiled play on the N-word....

Live updates: The latest news on Trump and the Fulton County, Georgia, election case ( www.cnn.com )

The Fulton County grand jury that is hearing the prosecution’s presentation of evidence ahead of potential charges against Donald Trump and others for 2020 election interference appears to be moving faster than initially anticipated....

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While the House January 6 committee didn’t come across this, it would seem Mr. Jack Smith has the goods yet again.

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I think this is hardly surprising, but important to be aware of nonetheless.

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