It Feels That Way
Especially since every other day it seems that we get an email from our director telling us x-number of additional employees have come down with it—despite all our masking/vaxxing/distancing protocols.
If You Wanna Ban Books, You Might Wanna Start With the BUYBULL
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The Tennessee School Board Starts Another Day
Me Too, Rat. Me Too.
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Right?
This Is What It's Come Down To
That Explains It
Agreed!
But unfortunately, I don't think this is going to happen—at least not this time and not with the current composition of the Senate. Though they've been agreeable to all of Biden's court appointments thus far, I don't trust Sinema or Manchin as far as I can throw them. And if it drags out beyond the midterms and the Republicans retake control of the House and Senate, all bets are off.
Oh, That It Were True…
It's No Wonder That Art Frightens Fascists
It's Not a Lie
Here in the Sand Kingdom of Arizanistan…
We hate Synema. She will be primaried and not re-elected. But she doesn't care. She has a rosy career ahead being a lobbyist for everything the Democrats abhor.
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Remind You of Anyone
Amen!
Yikes!
Ya Think?
And Corporate America, And FOX News…
Ya Think?
Amazing…
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Oh Snap!
We'll Never Learn
I Hope He's Right
From The Palmer Report:
Last month, in a leak that could only have come from the January 6th Committee itself, the New York Times reported that the committee was looking at referring Donald Trump to the DOJ for criminal prosecution on crimes including obstruction of Congress and wire fraud. Now, in a new leak that could also have only come from the committee itself, the Guardian is reporting that the committee is looking at also referring Trump for a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the election.
With these leaks, the committee is giving away a lot about what it's currently sitting on, and how it intends to play this. First, if you're a congressional committee, you don't leak you're even "considering" a criminal referral against the former President of the United States unless you already have more than enough evidence to make the criminal referral legitimate in the eyes of the law and in the court of public opinion.
Second, by leaking that different kinds of charges are being considered, the committee is laying the groundwork for demonstrating that Trump committed a broad swath of crimes in relation to January 6th. It's not simply a question of whether Trump, recklessly or intentionally, incited the Capitol attack. It's that the moment in question was part of an ongoing crime spree.
But the most intriguing part of these leaks may be the fact that the January 6th Committee obviously knows the Department of Justice is paying attention. While the DOJ has been very quiet about what if any criminal avenues it's pursuing against Donald Trump, the committee is now giving the DOJ a very blatant heads up about the kinds of criminal referrals it could end up receiving against Trump.
This is notable because even if the DOJ has been pursuing January 6th and/or Donald Trump from very different directions, it'll have to take immediate notice if Congress hands it a comprehensive criminal case against Trump from these specific directions. Now that the DOJ is aware that it could soon be receiving a criminal referral against Trump on the kinds of charges that the committee is leaking, the DOJ has time to steer its own efforts in those general directions. This doesn't guarantee the DOJ will bring charges against Trump. But if the committee hands over a complete criminal case that's likely to win at trial, the DOJ would have a hard time – from a legal standpoint and a perception standpoint – not bringing the charges.