When You’ve Lost The Cato Institute…: We’re talking yet another Koch Bros enterprise dedicated to their version of ‘libertarianism’, aka unfettered freedom for oligarchs:
Up until now, I’ve been hesitant to predict how the various prosecutions of Donald Trump are likely to turn out. But no longer. I believe yesterday’s indictment in Georgia sealed Trump’s fate, and it is now all but certain that he will be convicted of multiple felonies in one or more of the four pending cases against him. Here’s why.
The Georgia indictment is a bombshell—the equivalent of a Texas Hold’em poker player shoving their entire stack of chips into the middle of the table and declaring, “All in.” In sum, the Georgia indictment alleges that Trump orchestrated a sprawling criminal conspiracy (or “enterprise,” in the language of the indictment and Georgia’s state RICO statute) involving more than 20 named and unnamed co‐conspirators ranging across half‐a‐dozen states for the purpose of unlawfully changing the result of the November 2020 presidential election. There is nothing subtle or nuanced about this indictment—in effect, it accuses Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, John Eastman, Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell, and a dozen others of staging an unsuccessful coup. If the case goes to trial, which seems likely, the jury will either believe that characterization or they will not. I think they will, for three reasons.
What this really means is that the surviving Koch Bro is looking elsewhere for someone to protect and expand his ill-gotten gains. Interesting…
Free Speech Doesn’t Extend To Death Threats. The Feds should track down every single one of them, and throw these bastards in jail. One Texas woman has already been arrested:
A Texas woman was arrested and has been charged with threatening to kill the federal judge overseeing the criminal case against former President Donald Trump in Washington and a member of Congress.
Abigail Jo Shry of Alvin, Texas, called the federal courthouse in Washington and left the threatening message — using a racist term for U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan — on Aug. 5, court records show. Investigators traced her phone number and she later admitted to making the threatening call, according to a criminal complaint.
In the call, Shry told the judge, who is overseeing the election conspiracy case against Trump, “You are in our sights, we want to kill you,” the documents said. Prosecutors allege Shry also said, “If Trump doesn’t get elected in 2024, we are coming to kill you,” and she threatened to kill U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, a Texas Democrat running for mayor of Houston, according to court documents.
Trump is leading the threats. He, too, needs to be sent to jail b/c he’s not gonna stop, and I fear there will be inevitable violence as a result.
Montana Teens Win Right To Healthy Climate:
A healthy climate is included in your constitutional rights, at least if you live in Montana. On Monday, District Court Judge Kathy Seeley sided with the 16 young plaintiffs who sued Montana three years ago, arguing that its pro–fossil fuels legislation violated their right to a safe environment. Seeley ruled in the case, Held v. Montana, that “plaintiffs have a fundamental constitutional right to a clean and healthful environment, which includes climate as part of the environmental life support system.” She continued that “Montana’s emissions and climate change have been proven to be a substantial factor in causing climate impacts to Montana’s environment and harm and injury.” The case was only the third climate-related lawsuit ever to go to trial, and the first to focus on a state’s constitution.
And with Seeley’s ruling, Held v. Montana became the first ever lawsuit to link climate change to the constitutional right to a healthy environment. The magnitude of this ruling cannot be overstated. “I think this is the strongest decision on climate change ever issued by any court,” Michael Gerrard, the founder and faculty director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, told me this morning.
Poor Senator Feinstein Alleged Victim Of Elder Abuse. Not in control of her finances, but 100% capable of carrying out her Senatorial duties.
Just What We Need–Another Christian Radio Station. WJBR (‘Just Boring Radio’) to become part of a Christian broadcasting juggernaut. No local programming, just all Christ, all the time:
WJBR, one of Delaware’s most popular music stations, has been sold to a nonprofit Christian ministry radio network.
The deal, announced Tuesday, will mark the end of the station’s adult contemporary programming, capping a six-decade run that spanned multiple owners. The purchaser, VCY America, is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based nonprofit that hosts Biblical teachings and call-in programs on Christian issues and plays Christian music.
In an interview Wednesday, VCY America Executive Director Jim Schneider said his organization is thrilled to be entering the Wilmington and Philadelphia markets as it continues to fulfill what he described as its mission: to evangelize and affect lives. He has previously called VCY America, “God’s continuing miracle.”
My take? Radio is dead and will not be resurrected.
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