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OHMYGOD…

A team of FBI agents raided former President Donald Trump’s oceanside Florida estate of Mar-a-Lago on Monday.

Trump himself confirmed the news in a statement on his social media network, Truth Social.

“These are dark times for our Nation, as my beautiful home, Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, is currently under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents,” his account posted. “After working and cooperating with the relevant government agencies, this unannounced raid on my home was not necessary or appropriate.”

“They even broke into my safe!” he added.

An FBI spokesman from the bureau’s Miami field office did not immediately respond to a request for comment. And no publicly available federal search warrants filed in South Florida recently shed light on why agents were there.

However, Trump has been the target of an ongoing Justice Department investigation that is probing how he illegally made off with dozens of classified and sensitive records when he left the White House in 2021. Prosecutors have been reviewing whether his conduct violated the Presidential Records Act.

In his statement, Trump—without a hint of irony—referenced the last time a president engaged in criminal behavior that took him down: Richard Nixon.

“What is the difference between this and Watergate, where operatives broke into the Democrat national committee?” he asked on Truth Social.

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I might be having an orgasm.

Karma’s a bitch, isn’t it?

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Oh Boo Fucking Hoo

To be filed under: He fucked around and found out.

Lawyer: Arbery shooter fears he’ll be killed in state prison

SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP)

The white man who fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery after chasing the running Black man in a Georgia neighborhood says he fears he will be killed by fellow inmates if he’s sent to a state prison to serve a life sentence for murder.

Travis McMichael, 36, faces sentencing Monday in U.S. District Court after his conviction on federal hate crime charges in February. His defense attorney filed a legal motion Thursday asking the the judge to keep McMichael in federal custody.

Attorney Amy Lee Copeland argued McMichael has received “hundreds of threats” and won’t be safe in a Georgia state prison system that is under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department amid concerns about violence between inmates.

On Feb. 23, 2020, McMichael and his father, Greg McMichael, armed themselves with guns and jumped in a pickup truck to chase Arbery after he ran past their home just outside the port city of Brunswick. A neighbor, William “Roddie” Bryan, joined the chase in his own truck and recorded cellphone video of Travis McMichael blasting Arbery with a shotgun.

The killing of Arbery became part of a larger national reckoning over racial injustice amid other high-profile killings of unarmed Black people including George Floyd in Minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.

In Georgia, the McMichaels and Bryan were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of Arbery’s murder in a state court last fall. They have remained in a county jail in custody of U.S. marshals.

In Georgia, the McMichaels and Bryan were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of Arbery’s murder in a state court last fall. They have remained in a county jail in custody of U.S. marshals since standing trial in February in federal court, where a jury convicted them of hate crimes. Each defendant now faces a potential second life sentence.

Once the men are sentenced Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Lisa Godbey Wood, protocol would be to turn them over the Georgia Department of Corrections to serve their prison terms for murder.

That’s because they were first arrested and tried by state authorities.

For Travis McMichael, “his concern is that he will promptly be killed upon delivery to the state prison system for service of that sentence,” Copeland wrote in her sentencing request. “He has received numerous threats of death that are credible in light of all circumstances.”

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What Do I Need?

From Greg Fallis:

What do I need?

I need some relief from the heat. I need a rain shower. I need a thunderstorm. I need to feel that storm. I need thunder and lightning. I need to go outside in the storm in all my clothes, outside in the wind and the rain, and get soaking wet. I need to run around and around the house barefooted in the thunderstorm, like I used to do as a kid (to my momma’s horror). I need to be able to run again, run like I could when I was 16 years old and still had knees that worked. I need to run and jump like a pagan in a storm. I need to run through the woods at night. I need to be alone in someplace very big and very wild. I need to feel the tension of being near a large, wild animal, holding my breath, trying to be still so it won’t know I’m there. I need to leap over bonfires. I need to leap over stone fences. I need to run and scream in wild delight and know that I’m still part of a natural world where wonderful and awful things can and will happen.

Right there with ya, buddy. Right there with ya.

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It’s Pathological

But oh, the schadenfreude!

I cannot wait for the J6 Committee to get their hands on Jones’ texts.

As the latest defamation trial of Alex Jones wound down to its conclusion, an old saying seemed to become more and more apropos.

How can you tell Alex Jones is lying? His lips are moving.

In the trial that concluded Thursday in Texas, the jury only needed to decide how much Jones owed Sandy Hook parents Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis—parents of 6-year-old Jesse Lewis who was murdered in the 2012 school shooting. Sandy Hook victims in Texas and Connecticut already won a default judgment against Jones for defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress.

As such, it would behoove Jones to only tell the truth while on the stand, under oath. Instead, the InfoWars founder and host was caught in several lies including one about the judge presiding over the trial—Texas District Court Judge Maya Guerra Gamble.

The still grieving parents’ attorney Mark Bankston asked Jones’ directly if his InfoWars website and program repeatedly shared a meme depicting Judge Gamble on fire.

On the second day of Jones’ testimony, Bankston asked:

“You’ve been broadcasting repeatedly a picture of our judge on fire, haven’t you?”
Jones’ lawyer immediately objected, but Jones still answered:

“No!”

After Jones’ first day of testimony, Bankston called for sanctions against him and his lawyer Adino Reyal for knowingly presenting lies to the jury to influence the ruling.

Judge Gamble chastised Jones for lying and not answering the questions he was asked.

The judge provided explicit instructions and guidance on telling the truth then dismissed the parties for the day.

You can see Judge Gamble’s excoriation of Jones here:

In response to being told not to lie, Jones told Judge Gamble:

“I believe what I said was true.”

The judge—appearing exasperated—replied:

“You believe everything you say is true. But it isn’t. Your beliefs do not make something true.”

She later added:

“Your belief that something is true does not make it true. It does not protect you. It is not allowed.”

“You are under oath. That means things must actually be true when you say them.”

https://twitter.com/BettyBowers/status/1554874601112469505

On Jones’ second day of testimony, plaintiffs’ attorney Bankston questioned him about using InfoWars to further defame his clients—Heslin and Lewis—during the trial.

Bankston said Jones also used his platform to try to discredit Judge Gamble, but on the stand, under oath, Jones denied it.

Bankston asked:

“In fact, Mr. Jones, you’re telling the world not to believe what happens in this courtroom because the judge worked with Child Protective Services, who you say is involved with pedophilia and child trafficking?”

Jones replied:

“No, that’s not what I’m saying.”

After Bankston shared more damning evidence…

…Jones justified his answer by claiming he didn’t direct or produce the InfoWars segment.

He also suggested it might be taken out of context which Bankston disputed.

Bankston responded:

“Is there anything before and after that that will make it great to show pictures of our judge on fire and tell the world that she’s involved with pedophiles?”

“Tell the context that comes before or after that makes that great.”

Despite being told the day before about the difference between truth, opinion and conjecture, Jones once again chose to lie then backtrack.

People were astounded at Jones’ hubris.

https://twitter.com/AnnOkla/status/1555638766433345536

https://twitter.com/ChafedCharlie/status/1554989631535398912

https://twitter.com/ChafedCharlie/status/1554989631535398912

 

On Thursday, the jury awarded Neil Heslin and Scarlett Lewis $4.1 million.

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While Planetary Formation is Unlikely…

…around any star in a globular cluster, can you imagine what the night sky would look like on one? I mean hundreds of thousands of stars packed into a sphere 150 light years across, with upward of 100 stars jammed into an area 1 light year in diameter. (For comparison, the sun’s nearest neighbor is a bit over 4 light years distant.)

See: Isaac Asimov’s Nightfall.

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