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(I don't think Taylor Swift is bad for the climate. I don't think private jet use is something we should curb either.)

 

Someone either is or hired a smart lawyer. No more depositions. They'll still be chasing conflict of interest and financials, but the easiest way they saw to get Fani Willis on the witness stand was just shut down.


Prosecutor in Trump Georgia case settles divorce, heading off testimony

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/01/30/nathan-wade-divorce-case-settled/

 

Texas Supreme Court pauses depositions in Paxton whistleblower case

 

LOL.

Holy shit, I had a real LOLOL at this stuff. Probably should
cry instead, but OMG the MAGAts are such a clown show.
Even way back in 2016, as that linked story shows ...

Every demographic chooses a pop icon. Gay men worship Cher, black women love Beyoncé, and neo-Nazis worship Taylor Swift, a skinny, blonde Pennsylvania girl that they have labeled an "Aryan Goddess." Nazis and members of the "alt right"—an Internet subculture that is best described as the venn diagram of hipster culture and white supremacy—have been spreading a conspiracy theory that Swift is a covert Nazi. They claim Swift's songs "red pilled" America into believing a conservative, racist agenda. ...

"Firstly, Taylor Swift is a pure Aryan goddess, like something out of classical Greek poetry. Athena reborn. That's the most important thing," explains Andre Anglin, the writer of the white supremacist blog the Daily Stormer. "It is also an established fact that Taylor Swift is secretly a Nazi and is simply waiting for the time when Donald Trump makes it safe for her to come out and announce her Aryan agenda to the world. Probably, she will be betrothed to Trump's son, and they will be crowned American royalty."

 

But what about the alt left that came charging at as you say the alt right? Do they have any semblance of guilt?

 

It's the 21st century. Using current technology, shouldn't developing nations be able to leapfrog the worst of the coal-fired, steam-driven part of their industrial revolution?

We could even help them do it.

 

Taylor Swift and the Super Bowl? It has to be a conspiracy (thestar.com)

 

You would just shake it off, shake it off.

 

It's amazing the slack being a good person otherwise will give you. Maybe Fox News/the Republicans should learn from this.

Also, how many "rules" -- legal, moral, ethical -- have the Republicans broken, again?

 

You know, that really would be a good thing to have happen.

(That post with Trump claiming he's more popular than Taylor Swift made me laugh).

 

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Activist who led ouster of Harvard president linked to ‘scientific racism’ journal

Rightwing activist Christopher Rufo has links to a self-styled “sociobiology magazine” that is focused on the supposed relationships between race, intelligence and criminality, and which experts have characterized as an outlet for scientific racism.