Elliot Lake

[Medieval Military Medicine @MedMilMedicine]

Time for a wonderfully bizarre ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 14th century, Lyon. Bibliothèque municipale, Ms 742, f. 79v

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfare has preserved and posted it

https://t.co/NDPFbkTPlb

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The next time you pull up to a national park and pay the entrance fee, know this:

Our parks have $23 billion in repairs that have never been made.

But instead of prioritizing that our national parks are clean, maintained, and ready for your next visit, the President is spending some of the money on vanity projects like painting the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.
https://t.co/VMWYaT0UgB

[Daniel Twining @DCTwining]

The Chinese Communist Party’s persecution of Uyghurs constitutes a “systematic atrocity.” https://t.co/dypATg2Me7

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@kadamssl fundamentally dishonest.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@RpsAgainstTrump Like a toddler scribbling his name on his older siblings' belongings and then screeching when told no.

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@BillKristol That's totally inappropriate for a US governmental residence or office building, let alone a "ballroom". Or such a building in any nation.
How is it that the repubs in Congress are ok with him planning to drone US citizens?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So the "ballroom" will have a bunker underneath and a "DronePort" on top. It's not just a childish extravagance. It will be a kind of military encampment.

All the more reason, obviously, for Congress to stop it.

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@RpsAgainstTrump I'm not from Maine, but I have to ask (sadly): what yardstick is this measured against? He can't be the only Senate candidate or Senator who's got that sort of history. It's not even new.
Look at Idaho's Larry Craig for example, lots of stupid sex seeking behavior in the Senate.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

A reminder, all the big American influencers will be in Russia this week.

They say they're going to see the "beautiful churches". Nothing to do with the massive crypto payments they will recieve for promoting Putin's nonsense.

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@RpsAgainstTrump Thing is, his campaign is founded on attracting those with impaired judgment. I hope the economic and life quality issues get through to them, because dimb, tacky, trashy all seem to attract the hard-core maga.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CBS NEWS(Max): “Trump made time to visit with U.S. service members during his trip to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, but he did not see any of the 14 troops injured in the war he started with Iran who are also recovering at the hospital.” https://t.co/SxrzqXcn4e

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

With Friday's strike, over 200 people killed by U.S. military in alleged drug boat strikes.

The overwhelming consensus of law of war experts, myself included, assess these to be murder because no armed conflict (and a war crime if it were an armed conflict).

Two hundred killed in a systematic policy also raises serious question: crime against humanity.

https://t.co/p6QhXH7vfD

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@michaeljcoelho @steveschale @JoshKraushaar no. you can't pay dishonest ppl enough to make them honest. money isn't the problem, it's morals.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. A Popular Information reveals that two more "progressive" super PACs are linked to House Republicans and Speaker Mike Johnson.

They've worked pretty hard to cover their tracks, but not quite hard enough.

Follow along for details.

[Elliot Lake @Elliot_Lake]

@RpsAgainstTrump Like a scene from a really weird remake of that movie "The Bird Cage".

[Casper Dean @CasperVDean]

@washingtonpost Meanwhile...

https://t.co/tHSXYDNaYY

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

Russia has been at war with the West for years. The risk of escalation by Russia increases if we continue to fail to acknowledge that and don’t take action to inflict consequences on them for their Gray Zone operations. The Kremlin only respects strength.